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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, March 13, 1980
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When I tell them that EVERY TROUBLE, EVERY EVIL IN THIS WORLD HAS
COME FROM PEOPLE LIVING BY THE ATTITUDE OF "GET"--and that in the world
to come, which world-famous scientists say (with a single world govern
ment) is our only hope of PEACE, we shall all have to turn around and go
the way of "GIVE," they UNDERSTAND. And I have preached not only the
GOOD NEWS (Gospel) of the coming Kingdom of God, but I have also shown
that all must REPENT--turn from the way of "GET" to the way of "GIVE."
Some in Peking the next day were overheard saying they never thought of
that before--but turning from "GET" to "GIVE" is our only hope!
In every way the Work of GOD is leaping ahead once again.
Booklets that BUILT the Work during the 1950s and up to about 1967,
which were either "killed," or, like the U.S. in Prophecy booklet, greatly
reduced and the LIFE cut out of it--during a conspiracy to abolish every
thing I had ever written, and substitute new LIBERAL doctrines following
the "STP" line--all those booklets are being brought back into print.
The TRUTH of God, not a watered-down liberal and secular teaching, is
once again going out IN POWER!
I have today gone thoroughly into the state of the Spanish work with
Mr. Leon Walker and we have new advertising plans for pushing forward the
Spanish Work, though it showed a big increase in 1979 over 1978.
Advertising in newspapers and magazines, and increasing numbers of
radio and TV stations will be continued.
As long as we PLEASE JESUS CHRIST, God's Work will forge ahead. And
as we increase in the fervency and earnestness of PRAYER in the right
attitude, the Work will prosper!
FROM MINISTERIAL SERVICES
News From the Netherlands
Responses to the recent offer of Mr. Armstrong's book, TOMORROW, WHAT
WILL IT BE LIKE? to all the 14,071 subscribers to "Echte Waarheid,"
the Dutch edition of the Plain Truth, have been received at the Utrecht
office. Three hundred and twenty-seven people requested the book. This
may not seem like many, but remember it was an offer of a publication in
a "foreign" language to the Dutch.
Although Holland gives many a visitor the impression that many Dutch
people speak English, the responses to English literature offers
indicates that the vast majority of our readers are non-English speaking.
The Good News circulation of 140 supports this.
A winter advertising campaign continues offering, in three newspapers,
"Why Were You ·Born?" and over 330 responses have so far been received.
Church attendance in Utrecht and Tilburg is near 200 each week, up 19.5%
over 1979, and income is up 16.1% year to date.