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with the half of the Salem people who had refused to remain with the
Dugger group. For a while I refused. But it left only a small
membership still with the Dugger division, and finally agreed to
organize them and serve as their pastor--although the Stanberry brethren
kept their membership and sent tithes to Stanberry, while the Henion
family and others, including the Coles, counted their membership
with the parent church of the Worldwide Church of God--and Mr. C. Wayne
Cole is still with us in the very important capacity of Director of
Pastoral Administration, Worldwide.
I continued to pastor the Stanberry--based group in the Willamette
Valley until--probably in 1942 when I spent some months in Hollywood
starting the DAILY radio broadcasting, and speaking Sunday afternoons to
a packed house at the Biltmore theater. I had GIVEN them my time
and service freely, at my own and Eugene church expense. I sought none
of their members and none came with us--though as brethren we still
had love one for the other.
And I did not start out by incorporating myself pretending to be
a church. We, in the growing Church of God--then Eugene-based-
finally had grown to a size where incorporation became a necessity.
IN NO WAY is Garner Ted doing as his father did, and any claim that
he is, is a point-blank lie resorted to, to DECEIVE God's people,
and present the REPREHENSIBLE things Garner Ted is now doing in a
good light. It is Satan who tries to make us believe that wrong is
righ�.
But now what about the seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3?
I have always said, and still affirm, that these seven messages
to the seven churches are picturing in advance the seven CONDITIONS
to be found in the ONE CONINTUING TRUE CHURCH--but with the Ephesian
condition dominant during the first era or years of time, the Smyrna
condition becoming dominant in the next period of time, and so on
with the Laodicean condition outstanding in the same true Church
at about the time of the Great Tribulation, and climaxing with
Christ's second coming.
To expound that fully requires more space than I have here.
It will be covered later.
But the crux of the whole matter is simply THIS: Where, in all
this effort at persuading God's people to follow Garner Ted Armstrong,
a man DISFELLOWSHIPPED, who did, and is continuing now from without,
to sow the seeds of discord among brethren--in all their arguments,
W H E R E IS G O D? WHERE IS JESUS CHRIST, living HEAD of the Church?
One thing I can say definitely and with aut)1ority, GOD and our
Head, JESUS CHRIST have NOT left God's one and only TRUE CHURCH.
These dissidents are LOOKING AT MEN! They are leaving GOD out
of their thinking. For FOURTY-FOUR YEARS the living JESUS CHRIST HAS
BEEN HEADING, LEADING, GUIDING, AND BLESSING GOD''S ONE AN� ONLY
TRUE CHURCH!
He has not forsaken it. HE is not in ANY effort to pull members
out from Goo-rs-church, where CHRIST is working. HE is NOT following