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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, October 10, 1980
Page 15
Brethren Thankful for Mr. Armstrong's Bible Study Tapes
We want to thank you for the tapes of the Bible studies you give.
They are very interesting and are such a blessing for us. My
husband and I really enjoy hearing them. We feel we can never take
the attitude--"Oh we've heard that before," because we want to let
God use every opportunity to teach us. There is always something
that can be learned.
Thank you for having the Bible studies taped for all the churches--it
means a lot to many of us to hear from you. We want to continue to
learn from God's Apostle!
Gary & Roberta Lashua (St. Petersburg, FL)
I've just come home from the Bible study of your tape on Galatians
three and four. It is wonderful to have you conduct these studies
all over the country via these tapes and to experience again for
ourselves the loving and patient way you teach your children in God.
Mrs. Katherine Hill (Anchorage, AK)
Last Sabbath we heard a tape you made on Galatians. It was wonderful
to hear your voice so loud and strong. I am sure God will give you
the strength to carry on until the end. We all love you and are one
hundred percent behind you.
Miss Sue Popple (Concord, NH)
--JOE TKACH, MINISTERIAL SERVICES
ON THE WORLD SCENE
ON THE SPOT IN BONN: NOT YET TIME FOR STRAUSS--Unwilling to take politÂ
ical risks in an increasingly uncertain world, West German voters, on
Sunday, October 5, returned Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to a new four-year
term of office. The electoral challenge of Franz Josef Strauss was
decisively turned back.
I was at the Christian Democratic Union headquarters in Bonn when the
first election results poured out over the television monitors shortly
after polls closed at 6:00 p.m. By 6:45, the sophisticated computers
employed by the two key television networks had already clearly and
accurately projected the outcome--bad news for the CDU and its Bavarian
sister party, the CSU (Christian Socialist Union). A few minutes later,
as I was standing near the entrance to the CDU building, a caravan of cars
sped up. Out from the first one stepped a lively Herr Strauss, smiling
graciously, though he already knew his electoral fate.
The "Wahlparty" (Election Party) that evening at CDU headquarters was not
to be a particularly happy one. But as Wolfgang Thomsen (from our Bonn
office) and I walked into the Social Democratic Party building just down
the street, we noticed that the mood there among the party faithful was
strangely subdued. Their champion had won, but the German electorate had
hardly given the slate of SPD candidates a ringing endorsement. The SPD
made only fractional gains over the last election in 1976.