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Garner Ted Armstrong, who resorted to a conspiracy�o water down God's
TRUTH--to SECULARIZE God's Church and college--to literally PUT GOD
AND CHRIST OUT OF THE COLLEGE AND CHURCH! HE is not! Will YOU?
Some were leaving Jesus when here in the human flesh (John 6:66-68).
"Many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with Him". Would
YOU have been one of them?
ANSWERING SMEAR STORIES
by Herbert
w.
Armstrong
Since 1972 God's Church and Work have come in for some un
favorable publicity in the public press.
Jesus said, "If they have persecuted me, they will persecute
you". I counted this cost almost 52 years ago, when I gave my life,
for whatever it was worth (which was less than nothing in my es
timation as I gave it) to the wonderful Christ who had bought
me (and you) with His life's blood. I was willing to suffer what
ever He allowed.
And I have tried not to answer back. You have not heard or
read a word from me in self-defense since this ugly publicity began
appearing in 1972. Prior to that there had been persecutions,
oppositions, and some limited public comment of an unfavorable
nature.
But recently more defamatory stories have appeared in the
public press, some of a nature I simply cannot let go unanswered.
One, which went out over the wires to many newspapers and
news magazines, called Mr. Stanley Rader the "heir apparent", and
another speaks of speculation that he will be the next Pastor
General of the Church. This latter, in a national magazine, quotes
my son Garner Ted, as saying that Mr. Rader "has already succeeded
my father as head of the Church".
I want to say, 1) that Mr. Rader is a most valuable assistant
to me in many ways--even beyond the capacity of words to describe-
as personal assistant and advisor, as administrator in areas de
legated to him, as financial advisor to the Church and Work, and
as legal counsel teamed with Mr. Ralph Helge. There have been
dozens of lawsuits filed against the college, the Church and often
including myself, in trumped-up cases seeking to get money. Mr.
Rader and Mr. Helge have won every suit--like a shield against
unjust attacks upon God's Work--and few if any of our brethren
have known of this INVALUABLE service to God's'"Work.
2) Mr. Rader has worked tirelessly, much more than eight hours
a day, in the service of the Work. He hai!suffered slander, de
famation from within the Church (mostly emanating from Garner Ted)
yet has remained loyal. He has broken off all past social re
lationships in Beverly Hills and similar areas, to devote himself
wholly and exclusively to God's Work, as my assistant. He never
takes credit for accomplishment, but always gives full credit to
me as Christ's Apostle.