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Belfast, and then from the bus to the hall all in the rain! It was
a historic meeting, for I feel sure it was the first time that the
WARNING of impending captivity and destruction of Great Britain and
America had ever been publicly proclaimed in the British Isles. We
were in the land---Ulster---perhaps the very spot, where the
ancient prophet Jeremiah had come with the Princess to the throne
of David 2600 years ago. After the meeting the people crowded
around us asking Bible questions. After the janitor forced us to
leave the Hall, several still clung around us out on the sidewalk,
asking for explanation of various Bible passages, until nearly
midnight.
On Thursday night, at Glasgow Scotland, we had a smaller Hall
and corresponding smaller crowd, but somehow it seemed to us even
a still warmer, deeper, more sincere interest if that were
possible. Perhaps a letter from a brother in Edinburgh, mailed to
me in care of the St. Andrews Hall, where I spoke in Glasgow, will
give you some idea of the interest and the feeling of these people
of Scotland toward the Work of God in these closing days: I will
copy his letter for you:
"Dear Brother Armstrong: I received your kind letter and
invitation to come and see you when your are speaking in Glasgow.
I believe it is the chance of a lifetime, and after long and
careful consideration of every point and angle, it will be
impossible for me to do so. I am working up till 6 o'clock every
evening packing china and glassware for Canada, America, Australia
and all over the world. By the time I get to a bus, 6:30 or 7 PM,
and it takes two hours on the journey, your meeting will be nearing
its end. Then I would have to rush immediately for the last bus,
9:15, back to Edinburgh. No doubt God will in His divine wisdom
arrange our happy meeting another time. I feel it is all my loss
not to meet the one inspired prophet for our time, the one only of
whom it can be truly said, 'Never man spake like this.' No one
else speaks with such power, or can reveal with such accuracy the
workings of God, and the tremendous events taking place before our
very eyes. The Lord will bless you mightily in the use of your
gifts and revelations. My prayers will go with you and our dear
family, everywhere! Someday you may come to Edinburgh, and I will
be waiting to thank you very much." Just one correction I must
make in his letter: Jesus Christ spoke these same things, and so
did all the apostles and true evangelists of that early TRUE
Church, before the great apostasy set in. But this letter will
perhaps show you, better than I could in my words, how these people
over here in the British Isles seem to feel about God's Message,
which they know they have never heard before! To them it is the
most WONDERFUL, precious thing that ever happened in their lives!
They are in that first flush of LOVE and ENTHUSIASM for God's
TRUTH!
Last night we had a completely packed Hall with extra chairs
brought in here in Manchester. And the interest and enthusiasm
seemed to mount to still greater pitch. There was enthusiastic
applause when I first appeared---a most unusual thing at a
religious or church meeting, but their enthusiasm carried them away
and they forgot conventions, and spontaneously applauded. Their
faces glowed, wreathed in smiles. Their eyes simply sparkled with