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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 2, 1986
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Therefore, in order to avoid confusion on this point, and to assure that
we all speak the same thing,
Mr.
Tkach has now consented to your
confirming this fact to the brethren, preferably in a sermon.
Literature
Revisions
When it becomes necessary to reprint a piece of our
literature, it is standard procedure to reedit it as instructed by
Mr.
Armstrong years ago. This ensures a regular review and updating.
Editing includes everything from typographic errors to further
elaboration and explanation of a passage that seems unclear, as indicated
by readers' questions. Changing circumstances may also require new
edits. For example, with the death of
Mr.
Armstrong, every publication
had to
be
edited to reflect a change in leadership.
Though editorial changes are usually minor,
Mr.
Tkach would like for you
to be informed of them
so
that you do not have to reread a booklet or
brochure every time
a
new edition is printed. The latest printing date
of
a
booklet appears at the bottom of the address page at the end of the
booklet. For example, 'The World Won't End This Way' booklet has this
numeric code on its address page: 302694/8609. Reading from right to
left to the slash, this booklet was printed in September of 1986. The
remaining figures are computer numbers assigned to that particular job.
We will
give
you these updates in the 'Pastor General's Report'
as
they
are available. Please review them. The first installment follows.
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'The Early Years'
In the previous edition the copy under the subhead on page 6,
'A
Spanking
in School,' contained no reference to spanking. The subhead therefore
has
been replaced by the one now found in Volume 1 of the 1986 edition of
the 'Autobiography.' The booklet has been repaginated
so
that the new
subhead, 'Those Important First Years,"
is
found on page 3. This subhead
change highlights how Herbert W. Armstrong edited his 'Autobiography,"
for he was concerned how his life and office would affect others. If you
compare pages 18 and 19 of the 1973 edition, in which the story of the
-spanking occurred, with pages 13 and 14 in the new 1986 edition, you will
notice how he shortened and improved the copy.
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'Does
God
Exist?'
In response to a scientist's comments, the beginning of the paragraph at
the bottom of page 4, which explains the decomposition of uranium, has
been reviewed by the Science Department of Ambassador College. The new,
slightly expanded text reads:
'So
notice carefully what this now
disclosed FACT of science means: Uranium-238
is
a radioactive isotope of
uranium with a mass number 238. In decomposing, it first gives off an
alpha particle (which is the nucleus of a helium atom). This
is
followed
by two beta-minus emissions, then by two more alpha particle emissions.
The substance left is an isotope of radium with
a
.mass
number of 226.
Radium, then, is simply the end product of uranium-238 after this
disintegration process.m
This new wording adds just enough information to satisfy more
knowledgeable readers, while not losing the attention of general readers.