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ministers with losing their jobs if they revealed to me what was going on in my
absence.
The broadcasting program went down, beginning 1968, until most stations
had been
canceled and replaced with short five-minute announcements. From being the
biggest user
of radio power on earth, we went down to lowest, even in the religious field.
Other programs
promptly grabbed our time. I had spent years traveling to all parts of the
United States,
to SELL our program in person to station managers coast to coast. It all went
down the drain.
A little over three years ago--in August, 1977--I suffered complete heart
failure. My
heart stopped completely. It was discovered, and a nurse and my sister-in-law
worked furiously
over me with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for more than a minute and a half, and
brought
back breath and heartbeat. It left me too ill to do much in the Work for several
months.
But now for the past 2-1/2 years, I have once again taken over full day-
to-day
administration and complete direction of the Church Jesus Christ built through
me.
We have had a 2-1/2 year drive to put the Cnurch and God's whole Work BACK
ON THE
TRACK!
Changing policies Christ inspired, changing doctrines God's Word teaches,
changing
procedures that built His Work 30 percent a year for 35 years, was DISPLEASING
TO THE
LIVING JESUS CHRIST AND to GOD THE FATHER! For 13 lean years, the Work of the
Christ stood still. IT DID NOT GROW during those years. But it held about even.
Those who were perverting Christ's Gospel and God's teachings in His Word
are gone
from us now--no longer members of God's Family. When our performance pleases God
the
Father and Christ His Son, they BLESS THE WORK AND IT GROWS!
Brethren, we have been getting back on God's track! And now His Church is
beginning
to SHOW REAL GROWTH ONCE AGAIN!
Just today I have had a meeting with our Festival directors. Last fall, in
this 1980
Feast of Tabernacles, we had about a 10 percent increase in member attendance.
Baptism of new
members is coming in at a rate, they tell me, there will be at least a 19
percent increase
in attendance this next Feast--1981! Reports are for increases all over the
United States.