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Good News 1978 (Prelim No 25) Dec 18
Good News 1978 (Prelim No 25) Dec 18
nant, etc.
In fact it might be of passing
interest to know that my first
"sermon ," if it could have been
Shortly after most of you receive this issue of the tabloid Good News you will be receiving your first copy of the
new Good News magazine, reborn alier a two-year absence. It will be filled with encou raging and timely articles
as well as a number of new features to give all of you a
rich diet of spiritual food . We hope it is as inspiring to you
as it was to us during its preparation.
You will also be receiving The Worldwide News on a
regular biweekly schedule beginning Jan. 2. We look
forward to serving you through both publications and
welcome your comments.
Dexter H. Faulkner
Managing editor
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I read the article in The Good News on
" How the Worldwide Church of God
Came into Being." It has helped me 10
become inore familiar wflh God's Church
and how ' it i~ recorded in the book of
Revelation . ] hope there will be more anic1es on this subject as they are very helpful to me 10 learn about Gocr?Work.
Michael Grimes
Nashville. Tenn.
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Let me take the lime to thank you and
all those who make it possible for us to
receive The 'Good .,\leW!. Wc ~ait patiell1ly for tbe next i ssue as they are very
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By Herbert W , Armstrong
HA V, HEARD many small
religious groups, usually
following . one human
leader, speak of "our
Group," fully believing
that their little unit or as.semblage is A,.PART of the
BODY OF CHRIST, THE
CHURCH OF GOD.
Some have left God's
Church saying, "I have not
left Christ -I've only left that
organization. I worship Christ
in my own way."
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name - oy His authority Jesus did not say they shall enter
God's Kingdom. He merely said,
"Let them alone." Now put this _
together with other scriptures on
the same theme . Ag~in Je sus
said, '~Let them alone," in
Matthew 15:14. But He also said
(verse 13), ".
Every plant,
which my heavenly Father hath
not planted, shall be rooted up.
Let them alone: they he blind
leaders of the blind. Arid if the
blind lead the blind, both shall
fall into the ditch."
And again, Jesus said, "He
that is not with me is against me;
and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad" (Matthew
12:30).
Again, "He that is not with me
is against me: and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth "
(Luke 11:23). Those not WITH
Christ, WHERE HE LEADS IN
HIS CHURCH, are scattering and
against Him.
, But consider FURTHER:
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Monday, Dec:
18, 1978
SEVEN PROOFS, OF
TH'E TRUE C-H URCH
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SEVEN PROOFS
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' liesaheadofallhuinanswillingto
BEUEVE. when ' called! :
-. :. ~HAT WONDERFUL - TRUTH
' Gpd has revealed to His one arid
only true original Church, small
and persecuted. yet . vigorously
ALIVE
TRUTH!
VISITOR, .t o put it
T ,HEmildly,
was astonished!
WHY unique
Ie
"Bible
form
of
or~anjzati6n"
news of the coming worldwide
puBlished at their national head;
the opportunity of getting the
more wattage ' of radio time than
Kingdom of God, had lost its
quarters, Stanherry, Mo.
/
Gospel going out into a modern . -for the ,Church and now
claimed Jerusalem as world
any program on earth using
momentum, due to the Roman
Oregon members began urgcomplex world in real power.
headquarters - even though
radio and TV ,slaio.ns worldwide
ing Mr. Armstrong to speak hemilitary invasion and Roman
By now convinced the call to
there
was
not
a
member
there
~
more than 50 million watts
persecution. That , w'orldwide
fore them. He had refused, s~y
the ministry had truly 'come
of power weekly reaching an es
- and Salem as U.S. headquarWork of God continued to ebb
ing he had found revealed in the
from God, Mr. Armstrong was
ters.
'
timated 100 million listeners .
through the 'centuries to scarcely
. Bible that the ministry is a proordained.
The PkJin Truth magazine,
Those in ' the newly raised-up
a trickle,
fession n9 man is free 10 choose
A new era, new life
Church of God at Eugene, Ore., , monthly, developed into one' of
- The Roman Empire, in coop- he must be c1early .called to
/
knew that the Dugger '''Bible
the fin~st quality magazines in
eration with the Babylonian
it by the living Chris!.
It was under his leadership
the world, with a circulation of
fonn of organization" was NOT
mys,t ery religion (Revelation
However. discovering what
that a new era of the Church of
the
biblical
form
at
all,
But
more than three million" copies,
he knew would he "new light"
17:5) had SUPPRESSED the true
God was entered, revitalizing
in'
five languages. Ambassador
most
of
the
Oregon
Conference
Gospel. The true Church sufon the Sabbath question
the Church, injecting into it new
College was founded in
brethren fell for it - at fIrst to these people, Mr. Armstrong,
fered great persecution and marlife and vigor by the Spirit of
Pasadena', Calif. , in 1947, as
and wante~ to -go into it. Mr.
tyrdol1),' It had heen forced to
at last, had feU impelled to
God to, get Christ's Gospel the educational arm 'o f the
Armstrong and the Church at
speak, revealing it to them. /
His MESSAGE - going OUt with
continue a~Semb1ing sec'retly,
'Church - for producing .an
Eugene, now growing rapidly,
"edu.cat,ed ministry ,and training
. 'were providentially restrained
from joining.
"many people for administrative
';The Spirit of God, dw~lIing in the human body of Jesus, had
.
personnel.... "
However,
they
did
want
to
started the Work of God. After Christ's ascension to heaven, this
continue fellowship with the
The Church founded the Amsarrie Spirit of God energized the collective body - the Church.
Oregon Conference brethren. " bassador lntemational Cultural
Mr. Armstrong, who 'had heen
Foundation (AlcF), through
The Church thus became the 'Body of Christ. '"
"nominated" by the new Dugwhich it carries on many 'chariger organization as :"'one of. the
table and humanitarian projects
underground 'in the main.
Then in November, 1930,
power to the whole world.
70 leading elders " (although
in many parts of the world.
The Church continued asMr. and Mrs. Armstrong had
Much more than human ex. In ' 1.968 the living Christ
there never w"ere anywhere near .
sembling, but more than the
. heen invited to attend a business
perience and know-how was rethat number of ministers In it)
opened a NEW DOOR to Mr.
meeting being held in a
regular assembling Qf memhers,
quired .
conse~ted to cooperate with Armstrong through which to
it had been given a JOB to do - " _ member's hOme near Jefferson,
Once again God was sending
the Salem people:" NEVIER
carry Christ' s Gospel message'
proclaim the message to the . :.Ore. This meeting was' called !o
forth and infusing into His
JOINING and never receiving
into many countries . By invitaorganize Oregon members into
worl,d in PoWER. And i~ had not
Church His Spirit of POWER.
"salary or money in any 'form
tion, Mr. Armstrong came to
been getting the job done!
. a separate Oregon 'Conference
have very cordial personal meetThe time had come for the
from them. This cooperation
That vital POWER of God's _ of the Church of God,
ings with emperors. kings, prescontinued until late 1937. But
final message of God for this
Spirit that had worked dynam-. ,<,. Immediately division among
meanwhile, GOO'S WORK,
idents, prime ministers and
present world to go with great
!Cally ill Christ and ill the fIrst-! _" the members surfaced. It was
others in high office in Asia,
through the Eugene 'Church,
impact. 'The time had come for
century ajJostles , hid scarcely",::;.,fIl~Qbably a majority of the
Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa,
God' s Work to prepare the way grew until it absorhed all of Mr.
been workmg In the Church""""':~~regon members wpo wanted to
for ,tbe 50on-coming Messiah 10
Armslrong's time. HE DID NOT ' Central and South America .
That Work, by the early 20th . split off fromtlle Stanberry
supreme power aDd glory aod the
EVER LEAVE THAT CHURCH or
Since 1968 Mr. Armstrong has
century, had become virtually
headquarters and incorporate in
wonderful WORLD TOMORROW!
the one at Stanberry - he had
visited ~6re than 70 countries
dead (Revelation 3:1).
, order to keeJl their own tithes in
NEVER BEEN A MEMBER OF
The time when by the act of
around the world and has reEITHER!
ceived special honors from
I\y 1927 in the United States, '
Oregon. They were dissatisfied
God His government will he reBut the raising up of the
members continued to assemble
that the Church was doing virstored on earth, ruling all naJ"an, Israel, Jordan, the
tionS' w-ith WORLD pOVERN!
regularly in their local congrelUally nothing to carry -out the
Church at Eugerie, and the start
Philippines , South Africa,
MENT! It will he a world Of-PEACE,
gations scattered over the coungreat commissio'ri to the world. .
Kenya , Liberia and others.
of the radio broadcast Jan. 8,
GOn
dead
knowledge
and .fa lse
cially during the 1960s) who forced
pose, for the estabfishmept o~ this
materialism.
revisions .that actually tended to
college.
imately 3,000 colle.ges and uni ver.. The development of the man
downgrade educ..ation.
.
A~bassador opens its doors
Richard Berendzen, provost of
himself, h~s character, right sense of
sities in the United States. Does
America. and the world, need Am- .
values, knowledge of the real pur
An;terican University in Washington,
Amba'Ssador College first opened
pose ofHfe and the law s that govern
D.C;., recently summed up the dibassador? What can this unique colits doors in the fall of 1,947. Many
lege offer that other institutions of
happiness, pe,ilce and abundant
lemma in modern .education:
trials beset the college from its-incephig~er learning do not give"to their
.. Academic standards in higher eduwell:being is neglected. Modern
tion . But under the courageous, unstudents'?
cation have been declining in the past
education commits the crime of decompromising leadership of its foundThe founder and chancelfor of
veloping the machine while failing to
few years. /1' sa naiional disgrace."
er, Mr. Armstrong, Ambassador
Ambassador College, Herbert W.
develop the man.
And quite .recently, some of the
weathered all of those storms.
.. At Ambassador College, stu- Armstrong, answered this question:
big universities (like Harvard Uni
Speaking of the early years of
dents find the true values. They learn
"I was never called to engage in
versity and the University of CaliforAmbassador, Mr. Armstrong re ,the real purpose of human life. Life
the college bf4siness. But in 1947 the
cently sa id:
nia) are encouraging students to a~
takes on true meaning. Emphasis is
need had become imperative toestab"During the first three years of
quire a broadly. based, liberal arts
The dilemma of modem education
upon characler b~i1ding. Students
lish an educational arm of the Church
Ambassador's life I personally," education. They are 'beginning to-acquire a well-rounded, broadening,
on the college level.
fought and bled and died, so to
realize that many. students tend to
Mr. Armstrong aptly described the
balanced education. There is not only
"It definitely was not because this
speak, to keep this leaven [Of secspecialize in one narrow field of endilemma of modern education. He
mind development, but also that of
world needed another college. There
deavor and fail to get a liberal 'arts
. ularism and materialism) out - to
said:
personality. true culture, poise and
.~ere too many ofrhis world's institumake it truly God's own college" _ education. This fact recently I~d
.. Something is criminally wrong
emotional maturity.
Harvard officials to revise its curtions of higher education already!
(The Good News. _July 3).
in education .today!
. "The Ambassador policy is based
"B ut the living God had caused
. riculum so that studen fs wi.J1 be
~rom the inception of Amb~s
.. Ambassador College came on
upon the recognition thaI true educame 'to real ize the serious need for a
sador, there were many who opposed
forced to take more courses in the
the world sc.ene free from the shacktion is not of the inlellect alone but of
college to train an educated ministry
area of I) literature and arts, 2) hi s-_
the way the college was being run.
les of materialism <!nd the errors of
'the whole personality - not alone of
for His Church and other personneL to ,
They didn't want it to be run God's . tory. 3) soc ial and philo sophical
tradition . Ambassador has dared to
technologies, sciences and ' arts, but
fill the increasing need for adminisanalysis, 4) science and mathematway.
but
wanted
to
introduce
the
recapture the Irue values - to blaze
an understanding of the purpose of
'its, and 5) foreign languages and
trative offices.
worldly concepts of education into
new trails, while retaining all that is
life
,
a
knowledge
of
the
spiritual
laws
For this purpose it had to be
culture.
the college. Mr . Armstrong withsound and that has been proved ggod
which. govern our lives, our God"The trouble is not simply that the
stood all attacks and continued guidGod ' s kind of college - utterly
in educational experience.
relationship 'and human relation
sciences have djsplaced the
ing Ambassador along the path . of
unjq~e in the. world. No college or
"Educational institutions, generships, Not a memorizing of knowl- .
humanities . The humanities, as cuitheological seminary extant filled
God"s way. God continued to be the
~lly, _ bave grown so large that reg
edge alone but a thorough training in
rently taught an4 stu<i;ied, are as
center of every class and activity in
this PUIJX>se" (The Good News, July
imenJed assembly line processes
self-discipline, self-expressi9n, cuI17).
the college. And Ambassador Colmuch ' addicted to specialized scOOIhave
replaced individualized instrucBut exactly what kind of a college'
Jural and ~haracter development . Not
lege l!.Qt only survived - it thrived!
'" arship as are ' the scientific departtion . The student has lost his identity.
bQok learning Qnly bui broadening
would God want for the training of
ments to highly specialized research.
Development of personality and iniToo much specialization
those 10 be used in His Church and
trave}, and .experience; not only hearThe trouble rather is that the broadly
tiative .is largely sacrific.ed.
His worldwide Work?
ing and learning but doing.
In today's educational morass,
educated generalist {the man with a
.. Moral bars have toppled
" In other words," concluded Mr. - many are coming to see that modem
After much thought and prayer,
liberal arts education] has become an
Stuffing
minds
with crass
Armstrong, "the curricula are
education is in deep trouble. There is
Mr. Armstrong was forced to the
endangered ~pecies. The ev~r
materialism.
while
moral,
spiritual
planned to give students a broad, culconclusion'that God did not want him
far too much specialization, and pre'i-'creasing spe( ialization of knowland emotional development is ne- '
ciOl;lS little being taught in the field of '
to found a "Bible college" or some
tural background - a foundation for
edge in all fields has almost comglected, produces lopsided, unbalgeneral education to equip young
the art ofliving happily, usefully, SI)(>
pletely displaced the generalist."
kind of a " theplogical seminary."
is
criminally
anced
edu'cation
and
cessfully.
abundantly
.
Hence
the
students
to
cope
with
the
serious
So stated Mortimer J . Adler, chairman
God wanted the students of His coldangtrous.
emphasis upon character building
problems they will soon face in a
lege to receive a brofld, &eneral type .
of the board of ed itor s of the
. "There can be. no well-balanced,
and spirit ual development -is aptly
complicated world.
Encyclopaedia Britannica (NfwSof -instruction, a liberal arts educabroadening and worthwhile educastated in the Ambassador motto: 'ReIn America, and in much of.
tion, not a narrow, restricted Bible
week. Aug . 21).
tion where the true values have be- ..- capture TpJe Values' ," (Bulletin of
educ~t ion only. It became clear that
today.'s modern world, academic
The bas.ics at Ambassador .
come obscured from view, where
God ~i~n't ~want the, kind of college
~~
stan(fa
rd
s
have
been
lowered
Ambasst;lfi,!r C;:ollege, 1 ~6~~7)1 .
that would graduate ~, ' Bible-quotlng
, These words clearly express the n partly-due to the pressures of militant
But at Ambassador College, the
: character :b'Uilding is a lost and disfoundational paltcy, the ve ry purfreaks." But He wanted to train
(See UNiQUE, page 11)
carded art and minds are filled with
student s on many campuses (espe
well-educated students who wouid..be taught a wide variety of subjects,
which would give them the breadth
and depth of knowledge necessary
for them to become leaders , bpth
today and tomorrQw!
It was clear that the "large,
assembry-Iine colleges and universities were missing the mark. They
were turning out to be institutions of
higher learning where God and His
way of life were neither recognized'
nor taught, where large numbers of
students lost their identities.
.CAMPOS NOTE-S
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE ACTIVITIES
followed the ;pen house. Later in the
evening a Walt Disney movie, The
Apple Dumpling Gang, was shown.
. The open house had a western
theme , and participants were encouraged to wear appropriate costumes,
Explorer-adventurer John Goddard addressed the Ambassado.r College. faculty and student body in an
assembly Dec. 5 in the Ambassador
. . . Auditorium.
Me. Goddard, who has addressed
asSemblies at all three Ambassador
camp,qses in 'past years, narrated a
film of hi $ recent trip 'to the
Galapagos Islands and mountaineer
'" fr
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-,
'I
to
to
SEPARATE GROUPS
Responsibility demands
accQUDtability
unity~
~ut
THECOVENANrrs
.~ REAI?'y! . .
The
GOODNEWS
Herbert W. Armstrong
EVANGELISTS
Dibar Apartian, Pasadena; Calif.
(French Work); Frank Brown, Great
Britain; Leslie L. McCullough,
Canada; Dean Wilson, Australia~
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
(Photos below)
Colin Adair, the Philippines ; Dibar
Apartian, . France; Stan Bass, the
Caribbean; Martin Bode and Frank
Schnee, German Woll<; Frank Brown,
Great Britain, Scandinavia and Black
Africa; Abraham de Bree, the Netherlands ; Walter Dickinson, Central ' and
South America; Roy McCarthy, South
Africa; Leslie L. McCullougti, Canada;
Bob Morton, New Zealand; Dean Wilson, Australia and the Far East.
PASTORS
Colin Adair, Manila (Metropolitan),
Philippines; Charles Bryce, Regina, Sask.;
Harold Jackson, Enugu and lagos, Nigeria;
Robert Morton, Auckland, New Zealand.
George E. Patrickson, Calgary (North),
Alta.; Richard R. Pinelli, Toronto (West),
Ont.; Frank Schnee, Pasadena , Calif.
(German Work); Colin Wilkins, Montreal
(FrenCh), Que.
PREACHING ELDERS
. COLIN ADAIR
WA LTER DICKINSON
C. Miller, Saskatoon, Sask.; Robert J . Millman, ~~mloops ~nd Salnl0l"! Arm, B.C. 1 + PaCifico Z. Mirto, Camarrnes Sur and
OIBAR APARTIAN
STAN BAsS
MARTIN BOOE
FRANK BROWN
ABRAHAM DE BREE
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Monday,
NOVEMBE R SOCIALS
The women of t~ LAKE OF THE
OZARKS, Mo., church worked with the
YOU members to present a Thanksgiving
celebration Nov . 25 . Turkey with all the
trimmings was served family style by the:
YOU girls to Church members dressed in
costumes depicting the ftrst Thanksgiving. Of the many games for the children,
including musical chairs to'lhe theme from
Star Wars, the children panicularly enjoyed the critter race. where each had to
call his entry to rac~ out of the circle. The
black beetle won fust place. completely
outdistancing the cricket, ~ the worm : the
cockroach and the turtle (who had stage
fright). Some oftlle ladies panicked when
the winning critler co uldn 't be
mediately located. Mrs. Ray Roberts.
About 350 brethren of the
im-
tember, 1968.
dinator . visited CAPE TOWN, South Africa. Oct. 31, conducting a Bible study for
the Retreat and Cape Town congregat ions,
who combined for the event. He discussed
his impressionsof his travels through West
and East ! Africa, relating present conditions to the world tomorro:w . The next
night local elder Peter van der Byl held a
barbecue at his home so Mr . Atlas could
get to know more of the brethren. Three
weeks previous. evangelist Gerald
Waterhouse visited the church, painting a
glowing and inspiring picture ofllle world
tomorrow in a marathon 3% -hour sermon.
Henri }'orluin.
Tht IDNSDALE, Ill.. congregation
(Chicago Southwest) held a farewell tea
Nov. II in honor of Carl Gustafson . who
has been the church's pastor for seven
years. The G ustafsons and their four children are returning to their nalive state of
Wyoming, where they plan to settle in the
area of Centennial, near Laramie, close to
the aging parents of Mrs . Gustafson. Preceding the lea the congregation presented
the Gustafsons a gift certificate. and the
Hinsdale Women's Forum gave them a
decorative wall clock. Paul P. Dzing .
A week later, Nov. 18, the NANUET,
N. Y . brethren said farewell to Edna Demarest, deaconess and one of the area's
pioneer members. She wasgivenacorsa~e
by A udrey Reynolds and a gift by Gerald
Backhus on behalf of the Nanuet .and
Woodbridge, N.J., churches. Mr. and
Mrs. Demarest, who have lived for 37 .
years in the small town of Old Tappan, _
N.J., and have battled many health problems during the last 10 years, are moving to
Pennsylvania to live with their son. Three
o( their children have graduated from Ambassa<k>r College. each from a diff~fe.nt
campus. Mrs . Demarest was among the
original membe'rs of the lust New York
CLUB
MEETINGS
YOUTH
ACTIV ITIES
'LOCAL
CHURCH NEWS'
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for "Local
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ANNOQNCEMENTS
Ast\eville. N.C. boy, Cfint Edgar. ,NC!v. 19. "'p.m.,
5 pound. 4112 ounce,. now 2 boy.,.
BIRTHS
A CV AREZ, Da vid and Louise (Orlega) 01
Albuquerque, N.M., girl. Isabelle Ilene, NOli. 27,
10 a .m., 7 pounds 1 ounce, Hisl child.
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8 pounds 1 l ounces, first child.
~~~q~;~~,o~~M.~nt!y~S~I~ejo~~,U~~~I~1 ,o~
p.m., 9 pounds 2 ounces, now 1 boy, 1 girl.
~::C~:n:Fg~~~~ ~,J~i~lr8em(E8:~~~,O~~~~
5:50 p.rn " 10 pounds, now 3 boya.
HUNTLEY , Mark Ind Laur. (Bloom), 01
3:30
ENGAGEMENTS
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Pasadena. _
planned in
UNIQUE
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Mrs. Hendricks' family extends its appreciation for the encouragement, cards,
letters and prayers for Mrs, Hendricks
throughout hei illness ,
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Mrs. Hendricks is. survived by her husband Phil and three children.
WEDDINGS
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NANUET; N,Y . - Betty Ann' Hendrick.sdied Oct. 24 after a long battle with
cancer . She i~ fondly remembere4 by her
brethren, especially for her contributions
to special music .
BIRTH A:NNOUNCEMENT
'THE GOOD NEWS'
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PASADENA, CALIF., 91123, U.S.A.
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" This is the first seminar presented to the deaf. butit is hoped that
.it will open the door and provide the
foundation so that the entire Human
Potential seminar series can be pre
sented to the deaf community. ,. said
Mr. Hampt~n .
AlcoholiSm seminar
While in the area , Mr. Hampton
conducted an Alcoholism Awareness
Seminar follOWing. Sabbath services
in the New York Church on Dec.
2.
Dec. 18,
1978
Monday,
. RRST ELDER - Lateef Edalere, shown here wtth his wWe and
four
childrW!, is the first black African to be ordained into the ministry
in the ,
modern history of the Church. [Photo by Elbert Atlas]
Mrs. Edalere is trained in commer
cia! secretarial science ahd worked
for the BBC radio and TV for more
than seven years.
Two deacons were also ordained at
the same services. They were Elijah
Letters
TO TJiE EDITOR
.*
Back to magazine .
I was glad to read thai Th~ Good N~ws
is going back to magazine style, We
Church members need the spiritual meat
that will be in The Good N~ws.
Calvin Lashway
Las Cruces, N.M,
We're eagerly looking forward to seeing a '"meatY;:"bib lkal Good News as
well . as a biweekly Worldwi(k N~ws to
. keep us informed and up to date on news
of the Work, Both should prove to be
..... valuable in keeping the flock fed.
David W. Bruno
Duluth , Minn.
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opening up this section is very commendable indeed : There was a time when we
did not know whal was happening in the
Church but were afraid to ask lest we be
branded as nosy. And otbers were reluctant to tell what they knew lest they be
accused of rumolTl!ongering, Now your
very timely "Forum" has totally eliminated Ihe system of gelting ' news fromheadquarters through gOS$ips, rumor~ and
whispers. Your sincerity, candidnes~ and
humilily are very evide!1t in all your videotaped interviews and your answers .
Paul B. Salibad
Honolulu , Hawaii
We appreciate the new changes in
TI:te