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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
April 24, 1981
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:
It is the next to last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I'm writing
you
from my "office" in our G-II aircraft, in flight to New York, where I plan to
speak
to the combined churches of that area tomorrow on the last Holy Day of this
Spring Festival. With me is Robert Fahey, my executive assistant. He will speak
at
the morning service, and I in the afternoon.
Returning to New York with us is Mr. Lew Gillenson, manager of Quest/81
magazine and of Everest House, our book publishing firm. He had flown to
Pasadena for a conference with some of us yesterday. I have given him firm
instructions to either sell or close out Quest magazine within 90 days. Although
Quest is probably the finest quality of secular magazines in the United States,
it
has been wholly secular. I agreed to start it originally with the understanding
that
it would contain at least one article by me per issue, carrying Christ's Message
of
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in each issue. But its editors were entirely
hostile to the idea of any such articles appearing. When finally I insisted on
an
article I wrote about the Mt. Sinai Peace project, the three or four top editors
resigned. We then appointed Mr. Gillenson as managing editor.
Quest has been a high quality secular magazine. But God has not called us
to enter the commercial magazine business in the secular world. I'm sure many of
our people will be very happy that we are getting rid of it.
We are in the Work of GOD--the most important operation on earth. At the
beginning of this year we started on a final "homestretch" drive to increase the
power of carrying Christ's Gospel Message to this last generation of this
present
world. Additional television stations are being added. We are stepping up
methods of increasing Plain Truth circulation. This had been preceded by 2 l/2
years of getting God's church and His Work BACK ON THE TRACK!
Forty-seven years of this Work has demonstrated clearly that when WE
please God, He blesses the Work. We have been striving to PLEASE HIM these
past 2l/2 years--and now HE IS BLESSING HIS WORK. Everywhere, worldwide,
the Work is showing NEW LIFE and VITALITY. It is growing in new converts.
God is adding to His Church. It is expanding in the power of proclaiming
Christ's
Message. All that in our day costs money, and God is increasing the income for
His Work. Most facets of the Work are increasing in the United States well above
20 percent, and this year even the increase is increasing, until I think we soon
will be back on a 30 percent increase each year over the preceding year once
again. In some of the other countries--Canada, Britain, West Germany, France,
Holland, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, the
Philippines, the increase is even running over 30 percent.