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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
March 19, 1958
Dear Brethren in Christ:
GREETINGS, in Jesus' name! This special letter contains
important instructions about the Passover and Days of Unleavened
Bread that are drawing near.
I will be at the tabernacle building near Gladewater, Texas,
again this year, God willing, with Mrs. Armstrong for the entire
eight days. We will probably have the largest crowd yet during
this Church age for the Passover! I had wanted desperately to have
the construction ALREADY STARTED on the big NEW tabernacle by this
Passover season--but, unless an overwhelming response comes in from
my last letter about it, this will be impossible!
My son, Garner Ted Armstrong, and Mr. Norman Smith, ordained
ministers, will go to the tabernacle with me. The Pastor of the
Gladewater Church, Mr. Kenneth Swisher, will be there, and I
anticipate that two other ministers from south Texas will be at the
tabernacle for part of the Days of Unleavened Bread.
The Passover always begins on the evening of the 14th of
God's first month, Abib (or Nisan), which commences this year on
the evening of the 3rd of April on our Roman Calendar. The Pass-
over services will be held at 7:00 P.m., Thursday evening, April
3rd. This is not a regular preaching service, but the most solemn
gathering commemorating our Savior's death. There should be NO
VISITING on this solemn occasion. Each person should enter the
building quietly, in reverence and humility---finding a seat as
quickly and noiselessly as possible. Immediately after the
service, all should leave in solemnity and reverence, reserving
visiting and joyous greeting of friends for the following day.
The next evening marks the beginning of the first annual Holy
Day, which is the first day of Unleavened Bread. A meeting will be
held in the tabernacle, at 10:00 A.M. and at 7:30 P.M. This is the
"night much to be remembered," and it is a FEAST! God, as you
know, reckons the beginning of a day at SUNSET, and not according
to a man made watch. And so this evening service precedes an all-
day meeting the following day, which is the daytime part of this
Holy Feast! It is also the weekly Sabbath, as it happens to work
out this year, making it a DOUBLE SABBATH!
Services will begin at 10:00 A.M., and again at 2:30 P.M.,