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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
August 5, 1958
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
"The Eternal gave, and the Eternal has taken away; blessed
be the name of the Eternal!" WHY does God allow some things which
seem utterly contrary to anything we can understand? "My thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the
Eternal." He often does not act as we think He ought.
"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him," said Job. Can
you and I TRUST Him, whether we understand or not, as yet? God
called on Abraham to be willing to sacrifice his son. God was
willing to sacrifice His Son for you and me. I have had to give up
my son. Richard David Armstrong died Wednesday morning, July 30,
as the first real martyr for God's cause in these latter days just
before the RETURN of Christ in all power and glory.
In the days of Christ and the original apostles, Satan could
generate angry, murderous crowds to stone God's true ministers to
death or otherwise cause their martyrdom. The best historic
records tell us all those apostles were martyred because of the
Message they preached.
Today, God has provided different methods of reaching a far
more vast earth population,--by radio, television, printing press--
AND AUTOMOBILE. Today we preach the SAME Gospel Message that
angered and riled up mobs to kill Christ's ministers just after He
went to heaven. Today Satan and those of this world and this
world's false religion HATE that Message and those who dare to
preach it just as bitterly. This summer we were sending out four
baptizing teams, into all parts of the United States, visiting a
total of nearly 2,500 people who have written us that they have
REPENTED, and ACCEPTED CHRIST as personal Saviour, and want to be
baptized. These men travel by automobile. We have fourteen other
ministers who travel thousands of miles every week in this work.
Dick Armstrong and Don Billingsley were on such a tour,
proceeding north through California. On these tours they call on
one or two candidates at a time. Satan cannot stir up a blood-
thirsty mob against men on such a tour. Satan is cunning. He CAN
strike at them thru the instrumentality God has provided to be used
in reaching people over such great distances. He CAN use an
automobile wreck to kill those who proclaim the Message he hates.