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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
March 28, 1955
To the Brethren in Wyoming
and in Colorado:
GREETINGS! in Jesus' name: I am happy to announce a Passover
service at which Richard D. Armstrong will officiate, at the home
of:
Mrs. Cecil B. Mattix
655 North Cedar St.
Laramie, Wyoming
I'm sorry for the necessity of this hurried last-minute
announcement. We here at headquarters did not think about the
fact there were so many who could assemble at one place, but who
would not be able to go to Gladewater, and had made no plans for
a service there. Just an hour ago I learned that some thirty of
you brethren there, without consulting God's ministers or letting
us know of your actions, had taken it upon yourselves to do exactly
what we had shown you in two articles in The Good News, (issues of
June and July, 1954) you must NOT do---hold services yourselves
without a Pastor. I am much grieved to think any of you brethren
would thus DISOBEY GOD, and His government in His Church, and His
INSTRUCTIONS in THE BIBLE, both by example and command, as made
very plain to you in these articles. Also this had been explained
and made very plain more than once at the Tabernacle at Gladewater.
It had happened once before in this very district. Brethren, it is
my solemn duty as God's called and chosen minister thru whom He
works and governs His Church, to rebuke those who took any
initiative in this matter, or even those who, like sheep, were
willing to go along in THIS WAY that is contrary to the WAY OF GOD,
and which has been clearly explained to all. This sort of thing
lays an added burden on the shoulders of those whose lives are
devoted to SERVING YOU, feeding you with the true spiritual food,
leading you in the way that you ought to go. It illustrates once
again WHY it was necessary for God in His wisdom, to set GOVERNMENT
in His church---AUTHORITY, which must be enforced!
I realize, of course, this was done only with the best
intentions, even tho it is inexcusable. Therefore I have moved
swiftly to STOP this unscriptural and wrong way of holding the
solemn Passover that certainly would have taken away all the
blessing of it from those attending, and to arrange to send an
ordained minister of evangelist rank to take charge and officiate.