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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, January 25, 1980
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Although I am a Catholic and have been all my life (58 years) it is
enlightening to hear the truth. Keep telling it like it is.
--James Wright (Williamsville, NY)
I wanted you to know what you in this Work have done for me. I'm
still a "young man in high school," but since I began requesting
your literature I'm reading and understanding God's Living Word.
I've been growing and learning, but I'm not baptized. This growth
is rather limited. I've gone through parental scorn (still present!)
but I find everything is better!
--J.D. (Monroe, LA)
I'm seventeen years old and going through a pretty rough time. The
high school I go to now has many atheistic teachers and students who
sometimes put you to hard tests trying to convince you that there is
no God. Some say that God is just what you want to make Him in your
mind and many other perverted ideas. Many of them you can't even talk
to because of their ability to twist the Bible itself and other things
around.
I know it's not the biblical way to argue about the subject, but I
wish I could take things like this into an open-minded discussion and
make some of the critics think on both side-s-
.�
--K. P. (Green River, WY)
This is our first tithe. I am coming into the Church, though my
husband is not, and together we give to God's true Work. It feels
like I am now completing one more law and it's wonderful.
--Mrs. C. D. Anderson (Mocksville, NC)
I'm so happy. I have been baptized and I am so glad that I can be
just a small part of God's great Work. I pray for you and the Work
every day.
--Diann Hull (Dover, AR)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
STRAUSS'S UPHILL BATTLE: The question is often asked:
"How is Franz Josef
Strauss doing in his quest for the West German chancellorship." The answer
is: "Not too well at the moment. But don't count him out this early."
Things have not been rosy since the Bavarian strongman was selected on July
2 by the CDU/CSU coalition to be their chancellor candidate in the national
election scheduled for late this year. He has found it difficult to build
a solid base outside of his native state.
He's made a number of public
mistakes and misjudgments and got involved in a few very unpleasant cir
cumstances.
For example, at political rallies last September in Essen in the Ruhr and
Cologne on the Rhine, Strauss was pelted with eggs and jeered with boos by
hundreds of vociferous leftist demonstrators. He had to abandon his Essen
speech after 20 minutes.