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A PUBLICATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD VOL. V I, NO. 25 D EC . 18 , 1978

THE PLAIN TRUTHABOUT'THE COVENANTS

Dexter H. FaulknerManaging editor

Shortly a fte r mo st of you receive th is issue of the tab­loid Good News you w illbe rece iving yo ur first co py of thenew Good News magazine , reborn after a two -year ab­sence . It will be filled with e nco u ra g ing a nd timely articlesas well as a number of new fe at u re s to g ive all of you arich die t of s p iritual food . We hope it is as inspiring to youas it was to us during its preparation.

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ByHerbert W. Armstrong

One o f the most impor­tan t doctrines Jesu s

Christ has put in His Churchis th a t of the "Old" a nd"New C ovenants . " WHYsho u ld these be misunder­stood? For that matter, WHYs ho u ld the Sabbath truth , thean n ua l H ol y D a ys a nd festi­vaIs , tithing , he aling or e vens a lvat ion? Y et the y aremisunde rstood.

God has mad e a nu m ber ofcovena nts , amon g them th eNoachian covenant, the Abra­h am ic cove na nt , w ha i w eca ll the o ld covenant wit h thenati o n Israel. the se parateSabbath covenant o f Exodus31 :12 -t8 , the Davidic cove­nant, etc.

In fact il might be of passinginte rest to kno w thai my first" sermo n:' if it co uld have beencalled that, was a message toCh urch of God people near Jef­ferson. Ore . , on a covenant thatappeared to be new s to them ­the se parate Sabbath co venant ofExod us 3 1: 12 -1 8 . Wh etherworth y to be called a ser mon ornot . it was enthusiastically re­ceived with jo y - for those peo­ple loved the Sabbath and re­joiced in receiv ing new light con­cerning it.

However. I am concerned hereonly abo ut the " O ld Covena nland the New Covenant: '

Co venant defined

Let me first define covenant.Web ster define s the word as " ausually formal. solemn and bind­ing agreement: compa ct. " In (hebiblical usage a cove nant is a con ­tract or agreem ent , so lem nlybinding, under which God prom­ises certain rewards or blessings,

co nditioned on man ' s promi se ofperformance.

A grave mistak e very oftencareless ly made is to confu se theword co venant with testament.We speak of the New Testamentand the Old Testament Scrip­tures .

A testament is not a co venant,and a covenant is not a testament . .Yet common usage seems to con­fuse them . It is important, at theoutset, to understand the differ­ence .

The word testamen t is definedas an ac t or written instru ment bywhich a perso n bequea ths or willsce rta in of his possessions toanot her. It may or may not be aconditioned will. It is not neces­sari ly payment o r rew ard fo rwork or obligation perfo rmed .

The old covenant between Godand the nation Israe l was NOT atestame nt or will . It wa s anagreement by which the c hildrenof Israel covenanted with God toobey Him , and God promisedmaterial and national blessingsand dom inance. BUI H e did NOTgive - or promise to give - theHoly Spirit and eternal salvation .

Be for e proce eding further,let' s get everythin g in its propersetting .

Adam had 10 choose

The first man , Adam, was re­quired to make a choice . T hesuper archa ngel Lucifer, havingbecome Satan the devil , an im- "mortal spirit being of tremend oussupernatural power , was therew he n Ada m and Eve werecreated . In order to QUA U FY torece ive God' s Holy Sp irit ­symbolized by the tree of life ­and also to restore the govern­ment of God 10 eart h , Adam hadto make tbe choice of whether 10

rejec t Satan and Satan' s attitudeand way and choose to obey Godand the government 'of God.

But Adam chose 10 reject Godand believe Satan . He made thefateful decision - for himself andhis posterity, which is the wholeworld . God drove out the manfrom the Garden of Eden and shutmankind off from access to theHoly Spirit - excep t such asGod should spec ially call .

We need the ab ov e bac k­ground 10 understand . Too oftenpeopl e start v iewing bi blica lteachin g in a manner comparab le(0 tun ing in a movie two- thirds oftbe way through . We need thisbackground of what went before .

BUI God had called Noah andsaved humanity alive through hisfa mily . God had call edAbraham, tsa ac and Jacob (Is­rael) , fathers of the PROM'SES.One of the prom ises 10 Abraham"was multiple " seed" - nations"the promised land -material na-tional greatness. .

Four hundred thirty years afterAbraham God called the descen ­dent s of Abraham , Isaac and Is­rael , to be a special people of Godand to inherit the promised land .Other nation s were still CUT OFF

fro m God . God had spec iallypre pared and ca lled Moses.Through Moses God made tbepropo sition to the Israelites . Hegave them their choice .

God 's proposal to Israel

God proposed to the Israe lites:"Ye have seen what I did untothe Egyptians ... Now, there­fo re, IF ye will obey my voiceindeed , and keep my cove nant,then ye shall be a peculiar trea­sure unto me above all people. . ." (Exodus 19:4-5).

There was a very large IF inthis cove nant agreemen t. But thepeople glibly ag reed . " . . . Allthat the Eternal hath spoken wewill do . . ." ' hey promised .

So the covenant was ratified byblood (Exodus 24:4-8) . It wasalso a marr iage co venant bywhich Israel promised to obe yher Husband . It made them ase parate NA n ON . .l ts basic lawwas the spiritual Law - the TenCommandme nts . He gave themHis ci vil law o f stat utes andjudgmen ts to govern them as anation. He also gave them . as aCH U RCH o r Congregation , thelaw of Moses - a sac rificial lawas a substitute for the sacrifice ofChrist to remind them of sin and ace remonial law of physica l work s(Greek , ergon in New Test a­ment) , rituals, and things to domornin g" noon .and night - a

temporar y subst itute for the HolySpirit. .

But something was wrong withthat coven ant. Religioni sts gen­erally seem to blame the wrongon God. What was wrong was theflagrant d isobedi ence of the peo­ple.

. New covenant prophesied

The prophet Jeremi ah summedir up: " Behold the days come,saith the Eternal, that I will makea new cove nant with the house o fIsrael , and with the hou se ofJudah: Not according to the cov­enant that I made w ith thei rfathers .. . which my covenanttbey brake, altho ugh 1 was anhu sband unto them , sa ith theEternal: but this shall be the cove­nant that I will make with thehouse of Israel; After those da ys ,saith the Eternal, I will put mylaw in the ir inward pans, andwrite it in their heart s; and will betheir God . and they shall be mypeople" (Jeremiah 31:31-33).

Thi s prophec y was inspired byone of God ' s holy prophets tobecome pan of the FOUNDAn ONof the C hurch of God under theNe w Testa men t. An d so , inteac hing the C hurch. th is wasquoted in Hebrews 8:6-10 .

Most Pr ot est ant c hurc he sleach thaI the fault with the oldco venant was God ' s law, and thatas the old cove nant was madewith Israel the new will be madewith GENTtl ES- and as the oldhad law, the new abolishes God ' sTen Commandments and is basedwholly on PROMISES . Our minis­ter s need to know how to meetthat erroneo us teaching.

The new co venant is made alsowith the house of Israel and thehouse of Judah (Hebrews 8:8) . ASpirit-bego tten gentile becomesone of Israel spiritually. of theho usehold of GOD (Ephes ians2:19).

It will remedy the fault of theold covenant (disobe dience of thepeople) and will be made withthose in whose heart s is thespiritual law of God , as the sescriptures say.

Old covena nt a marriagecontract

T he old cove nant was madewith the carnal children of Israeland was a marriage contract inwhich Israel eng aged in whore­dom exceed ing individual humanharlot s.

The old covenant was madewith it people on their PROMtSEto obey. The y d isobeyed. The

new shall be made only with aSpiri t-born Church , a peo plewho, in thi s mort al li fetime ,thr ou gh C hris t and the Hol ySpirit, have OV ERCOME Satan (asJesus d id , and as the first Adamfailed to do), have been begottenof the Holy Spirit , have alreadyPROVED their obedience. The oldcovenant was made with sinningmortals . The new will be madewith righteous immortal s!

Now , where are we, today?Both Israel and Judah violated

their solem n agreement with God(actually who became C hrist) , Asa wife, they spiritually ran off .Finally God gave Israel a bill ofdivorce . Yet, even after that Heentreated Israel to return to Him- but she wou ldn't.

To make that Old Testamentmarriage finally end, Christ, herHusband . died , so tbat she mightbe cleansed of her sins and be­co me party to the New Testa­ment. In Rom ans II we read ofhow converted gentile s are likebra nches of a wild olive tree ,broken off and grafted into thenatura l olive tree of Israel. But itshows how the natural branche sbroken off beca use of sin mayalso be grafted back into the Is­rae l tree .

What are we under TODAY?

The n W HAT ARE W E UNDER

TODAY?

The old cove nant is EN DED .

Th e apos tle Paul sa id , " .. .God; Who also hath made us ableministers of the new testament;not of the letter , bUI of the spirit:for the letter killcrb, but the spiritgiveth life" (II Cor inthians 3:6).

Yet the ne w cove na nt HA S

NOT YET BEEN MADE! Its termsand co ndit ions have been re­vealed 10 us through Christ . Weminister s preach it. And eve nthough as a fi nal M ARR I AG E

COVEN AN T it has not been made- that is , in co ntract language,s igned, sealed and delivered .those whom God has called areprivileged to have God' s lawwritten in our hearts . to have thelife- bege tting sin-overcomingHoly Spirit to ope n o ur minds tospiri tual U N D ERSTAN DI NG, toguide us in God ' s ways, and .within us, to EMPOWE R us 10

ove rco me Sa ta n and DO TH E

WORK OF GOD!

Some have misunderst ood

BUI so me have serio us lyMISUNDERSTOOD - hopefull ynot any of our ministers. Seeing

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.How to watch world news

to the southwest and Iraq to the north .'The other Persian Gul f states cri ticalto Western oil supplies - Kuwait,Bahrain and Qatar - are even morevulnerable to communist pre ssurethan Saudi Arabia . '

Nea rl y aU ·of the re gio n's oilwealth passes.down through the Per­sian Gulf, past the narrow Strait ofHormuz. The Iranian navy keep s thissea-Jane open - and holds the Sovietfleet at bay. -

Thus , an enormous stake for thefree world rid es on Iran and itsPea coc k tbro ne . The Telegraphar ticle quoted earlier emphasizesha n' s pivotal position . " Where Gulfoil is concerned , Persia is the key .

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Since Britain withdrew from the areathere is no other mil itary power toensure its. stability . Neither ~Saudi

Arabia nor the smaller Gulf slatescou ld begin to fi ll this role . If Persiachanges sides only massive Ameri ­can mi lit ary intervention could savethe rest. '

•'The country called Jran has neverbeen a nation . It is an empire; an

. ~ empire made up of Persian-speaking ,T urk ish-speaking, Arab-speak ing,Kurdish-speaking and Ba luc h­speaking peoples . All except for thePersian-speaking elem en t hav e aclose kinship with 'peoples across theborder in the Soviet Uni on , Af­ghanistan .and lraq. . Iran has onlybeen held together by allegi ance tothe Peacock throne . If the shah wereoverthown the empire co uld well

. break up into its component pan s; atworst to become one or more Sovietrepublics ; ' at best to be partitioned _sc~

between East and West." ". -r-. 'The prospec t of the Soviet Union

having its own warm-w ater ports ­and wor st of all in Iran where tbe Rednavy could bottle up the free world ' sprime energy sources -.- is sending:strategic planners back to the draw­ing board in many We stern capitals ,tryin g to figu re out wbat 10 do if thevery worst happen s in the post-shahera.

Even a unified but neutralizedIran, no longer desirou s of sell ing itso il wealth in quanti ty to the We st: nolong er capable of acting as the"policeman of the Gu lf, " wouldleave a dangerou s political vacuumin this most geopolitica lly sensitiveregion of the world .

than anyt hing else , women havestarted to wear the veil again in pub­lic - even though the thin shroudoften reveal s blue jean s underneath . .

What next?

The big question, of course, iswhat kind of government would Iranhave if the shah is forced out, Wouldit be a cons titut ional monar chy ; wiihperhaps the shah stepp ing down infavo r of Crown Prince Re za Pahlavi,now 177 Or would the political op­position . if it emer ged victo rious in afree election, demandthe scrappingof the Peacock throne altogether?

Whether the Pahlavi dynasty goesor stays will have grea t impact onMidd le Eastern and world affairs .According to the Associated Press,Dec . 11: •' The Caner Admi nistrationhas given full backing to the shah ofIran without exp laining why hi s sur­vival jsso ImportantJ9 U ~ .$ , nat ionalsecurity. The reason, one officialsaid. . is s im ple : Some o f thealtern atives to the shah are so bleakthat public discussion of them co uldalarm the Amer ican people .

" The princ ipal concern is·that theent ire Persian Gulf could be up forgrab s if Iran . the most populo us andmilitarily powerful country in thearea , falls into unfriendly hands . Onepossibil ity in the post- shah era is theemergence of a staunchly Mos lemregime close ly identified with radical ,Arab slates such as Libya . Thoseslates have made the shah's ousterpart of their struggle against Israel,which now receive s a subs tantial por­tion of its oil imports from Iran ."

Chief Moslem opposition leaderAyatullah Khomaini warned from hisexile in Paris Dec. II that when anIslamic government takes over itwo uld never recog nize Israel andwould stop aU sales to Israel and allco untrie s that had suppo rted theshah' s regime.

Israel is heavily dependent uponIranian o il. The United States iscommi tted to make up the differenceto Israel sho uld this so urce dry up.we stern' Europe and Japan are farmore dependent upon Iranian oil thanis the United States.

Another scenario hasthe shah ab­dicati ng with a militar y governmenttaking over . Unable to control thesocial chaos, a pro-Soviet junta nextassumes power , similar to what 're­cently. occu rred in neighboring Af­ghani stan . The Afgha nistan exampl eis part icularl y frightening with theannouncement last week that the Af­ghan leaders signed a 20·year ••peaceand friendship" treaty with theSovie t Union .

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The !'el 10 the Gulf

.A ,leftist Iran would cause sbud­ders throughout . the Persian Gulf,

_particularly in. Saudi Arab ia, whichhas alway s looked to Iran as a bufferagainst Moscow . The Saudis ate al­most encircled by pro-Sov iet regimesas it is;..:o..i. Etblopia' andSourb'Yenien '

I read the article in TIlLGood News on" How the Worldwide Church of GodCame into Being." II has helped me tobecomemorefamiliarwith God's Churchand how'it i!. recorded in the book ofRevelation. I hopethere~win bemoreani­de s on this SUbject as they are ...ery help­ful to me to learn about God' s Work.

Michac:l Grimes

Nashville. Tenn.

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Dre a m fini shed

As far as force goes, raw militar ypower still rests with the shah and hisfiercel y loyal 430 ,OOO·man military .Yet, underneath what is increas inglya facade of power. the fabr ic of mod- ­ern Iranian life is crumbling rapid ly .

The shah has appa rently aban ­doned his dream oftuming Iran into arust -rate industrially deve loped na­tion and major military power by1990. Orders for billions of dollar sworth of sophi sticate d weapo ns fromthe United States and Europe havebeen can celed, as have plans -foreight nuclear power plants . . _

Strikes have crippled Ir an ' s .economy . The trea sury lost over $1billion in oil revenue dur ing the re­cen t IS-day strike . T he shah hasgiven in to demands for more equaldistributionof'oil wealth . Some gov­ernment workers have had theirsa lariesr doubled overnight,fueling .the nation ' s inflation rate, which intum has harm ed the peasants and

.tower-ctass workers, intensifyingtheir frustration with the shah's gov­ernment.

At the root of the strife is Moslemanger over the shah' s drive to west­ernize Iran. In this he un wittinglyplayed into the hands of the Moslempriesthood , the ayatollahs (hi ghpriests) and the muUahs (rank-and­file priests) . 'Writing in the London/Telegraph, British Minister of Parlia­ment Julian Amery asserts that .. theayatollahs and mullahs are in a desper­ate mood. Unless they stop Persia [theBritish press often uses the ancientname for the country ] becoming a sec- .ular and western-type soc iety their

. 'GN ' .rtid~s apprectatedThank you very much for your recent

articles in TIlL Good News: I always iook·forward 10 reading !hem, and I must leU·you how much Iteam . It is sure good 10

have good strong spiritual meal in thepages ofThe GoodNews. I never realizedhow much 1 missed it ."

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PASADENA - The situation in authority and wealth will be under-Iran is becoming more cri tical by the, mined irreversibly."; -day r Dec . 10, hundreds of thousands The religious leaders have sue- .

-of Iranians surged through the streets ceeded in transmitting their fears to aof Teh ran, the capital , in a mammoth significant segment of the Iraniananti- shah protest. The "next day , a public, who up until this year hadShiite Mos lem high day , more than a rather enjo yed the materialistic fruit smillion turned out , many shoutin g, of Iran' s moderni zat ion . . . ." Death. to the shah ." Rema rkably, All this has now come to a screech-the " referendum in the stree ts" ing halt. In Teh ran 108 of the city 'sended without the blood shed many 115 theater s c-. symbols of We sternfeared would erupt. . " decadence" (and some were show-

TIle two-day Tehran outburst was ing mild ly pornographic films) -the biggest street dem on st rati on have been gutted by fire o r sma shed

.' against Shah Mohammed Re za be yond repai r . Re staurants havePahlavi since his foes - both or- swi tched ,off their neon signs andthodox Mos lem leaders an d the stopped selling alc oh ol , . bannedlef t-w ing political opposi tion - under Korani c law . Out of fear morebegan the curre nt campa ign to ousthim 11 months ago . A key politicaloppo sition leader . Kar im Sanjab y,said it was " the best evide nce thatfo rce ca nnot ' stop this nationalmovement ." ..

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printed medi a. We simply cannotrely on 'television news to watchworld event s.

As far as publicat ions are con­cerned, there are many differentways of eval uating them . For ex­amp le, there is the reputable orqualit y press. T his include s the

_ New York Times , TheWaliStreerJourna l, The Chri stian ScienceMonitor, the Wa shington Post ,Time , U.S ; New s and Newsweek .These are trustw orth y source s of

./ news although they may exhibit. some bias and have a totallysecular

perspective .

SPecialized publica tions

Other news sources specializein variou s topics . There are finan ­cial publicati on s, such asFortuneor. Busin ess Week . which reportimpo rtant events in the state oftbeeconomy . The re are publicationsthat are devo ted to various geo­graphical regions, such as Asia,Africa , Canada or Japan . Exam­ples are Asia Week (Asia), To thePoint - (A f r tca) , " Ma cleans(Canada) and Pacific Community(Japan) . There are evenspecialized publicati ons on theMiddle East (Middle EastMonitor ) a nd the EuropeanCommon Market (E uropeanCommunity) . Most of these will befound in the periodicals section of agood library .

Some publicat ions take a forth­right , political stand :' Th is means l-~'that their interpretation o f events 'is colored by their own, often nar­row, polit ica l outlo ok . Often,(hey . do not repo rt new s, butmerely !interpret it. . However ,they too can be valuable for spot­ting some important events . Forexample , extre me lefti st public a­tions, such as The Nat ion or NewTimes (no t to be confused with themagazine that appear s on manyAmerican newsstands - this oneis put out by the government ·ofthe Soviet Union itself) do agoodjob of report ing nee-Nazi activ­ity, espec ially in West German yand Latin America . On the otherhand , right- of-cen ter periodica lssuch as Conservative Digest do agood job of reporti ng the decline'Of the Israelite people s and (hemoral decay in modem S?ciety.

Finally , there are foreign pub ­lication s . The mos t reputable anduseful fo r followi ng propheticevents are the London Time s. theLondon Daily Tele graph (an ex­cellent so urce of news on Europeand Afric a) , th e Lond onEconomist (one of the mos t com­plete news weeklie s in the world) ,the Jerusalem Post . die Weir , dieZeit , and the Frank euter AlIeg­neine ZRitung .

No one secular new s source is.entirely sat is fac to ry. For thebudge ts of most of us, a subscrip­tion to.a big-city dail y is probabl ythe best that we can do or afford .

We also should not neglect theWork' s own publications . Worldevent s of tru ly propheti c signifi­cance - whether it be the blow ­by-blow decline of modern Israelo r the election of a new pope­get reported in our own publica­tions., -

As vital end-time proph eti cevents happen with increasingfrequency it becomes ever moreimportant 10 watch world events:

Whe n Jesu s Chri st said ," Watch ye therefore and prayal­ways, that ye may beaccou ntedworthy to escape all. 'theSethings ," Chri st meant watchwor ld 'events-fulfill ing prophecy... But how ?

One way. of course, is to bethere on the scene . For exam ple,those who will be in Jerusalemwhen.tbe abomination of desola:tion is set up ( Matthew 24:15)will be able to witness prophet icevent s firsthand. .

But seeing event s foretold inBible prophecy with your owneyes is no t practical for most of

' us: We must rely 'on ' secondarysource s such as newspapers andmagazines.

The all-important key to watch ­ing worldnews is knowing wha t tolook for:

Most of today' s newspapers.:re so filled with useless news,social happenings and triv ia thatsignificant items may be buried inan obscure corner or - as hap­pens often with televi sion news- aren't reported at all.

:,Two types of prophecies

There are two types of Bibleprophecies. The first con cern songoing social and wor ldwideconditi ons . These include the ful­fillment of the first four sea ls ofthe book of Reve lat ion (war ,famine , disease and death ) andongo ing social ills that the bibli ­cal prophets said would be extantin our day . Such condi tions in­c lude . ram pant immorality(Jerem iah 5:7-8); juvenile delin ­quenc y ' (Isaiah 3:12); economictroubles (I saiah 1:22, HaggaiI:6); secularism (Il Peter 3:3 -5);and c ri me (E ze kie l 7:23 ) .

The , second type of prophecyinvolves the specific movem entof men and nation s . There are atleast seven such movem ents thatwe sho uld be watch ing for:

1. The decline of the Israelitepeoples . This includes the incred­ible retreat of Britis h and Ameri­

'can strength around the world .2. The. rise of a united Europe .3.1be rise of a beast persona l­

ity to head the united Europe:.. 4 . The rfseof the false prophe t .

5. The invasion of the MiddleEast by the forces of a unitedEurope . .

6. The moving of the Vaticanto Jerusalem and the involvementof the papacy in the region.

7. The preparation for physicaldestructi on of modern Israelitepeople s. This e nta ils , amo ngother thing s, the militar y poten ­tial of any European union .

-But knowing what to watch foris useless if we don' t know whichnews sources are likely to reponit. .'

Radio and televi sion news canbe useful in helping us to hear andsee what is going on , but actualcov erage of impo rta nt new sevents is limited by time . Further­more . television news rep:nting ·is often superficial and biased infav or of political l iberal ism.Tele vision and radio give only . a.sma ll fr action of the range ofnew s tha t is co ve red by the

This iss ue' s co lumn waswritten by Jeff Calkins, ·vet·eran ne ws analyst fo r th eW('rk ·.! N£l~'S Bureau,

Monday, Dec. 1 8 , 1 9 7 8 The G OO D N EWS 3

IS GOD'S CHURCH COMPOSED.OFMANY SEPARATE 'GROUPS'?

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There are many individual and separate ­'Groups' differing in belief and organiza­tion, yet supposing they are a PART of

the BODY' OF CHRIST. Are they?

Christ organized Church

An d C hr ist organized thatBody - tbe bego tten ch ildren of

.God, and therefo re " . . . thehousehold of God . . . built uponthe foundation of the apos tles andprophets , Jesus C hrist him selfbe ing the chief co mer stone ; Inwho m all the bui ld in g fit ly'f ramed toge ther groweth unto anholy temple in the Lo rd "(Ephesians 2:19-2 1). This is theTEMPLE to which Christ is com­ing (Malac hi 3: I) . Tbe Church ishere called a 'TEMPLE - fit lyframed toger ber and com pacted- closely knit TOGE!HER ;

T he o n ly PURPOSE of theChurch is to CARRYONTHEWORKWHICH CHRIST STARTED! It isnow tbe BODV in which the HolySpirit is worki ng . And God set inthe C hurc h , to ORGANIZE it,apost les , prophets: pastors andteac hers .

The CHURCH is rbe BODY OFCHRIST . And Jesus pictu red Him­self as .THE VINE, and we of HisChurc h are the BRANCHESon thatvine . Neric e it - study it - inJohn 15:' Jesus is not SEVERALSEPARATED VINES - He is onevine! The members of the BODYOF CHRIST are the BRANCHES!­but not separated , isolatedbra nches . ALL ARE JOINED TO

(See SEPARATE, page 8 )

\ -'--;, in . H is ap o stle s a nd in Hi sChurch..

The Holy Spirit had WORKEDin Jesus ' -body. No w it wo rked inth e collective BODY o f t he

.Church . T herefo re the Churchnow beca me the BODY of C hrist- the BODY in wh ich God'sSpir it was " do ing the work . "thinking on this sober que stion .

Often it seems God puts things in .my mind on firs t awake ning inthe morning .

T his mornin g God was leadingmy mind in think ing about tbeBODY OF CHRIST, which is the one ;and only TRUE Church of God .

WHY is the Chur ch called "theBODY of Christ"? God tbe Father.sent Jesus into this wor ld with aMESSAGE frornoo n.That messageconcerned the now .soon-comi ngKINGDOM OF,GOD. Je sus taught it·to His original apostles - Heproclaimed it in the synagoguesand in public. Jesus said, " I canof mine ow n self do nothing. ' . . " (John 5:30) -,But " . . . tbeFath er that dwelleth in me , .he doeth the work s" (Jo h n14:10).

Jesus ca me tono SOMETHING!. Every one God has ever called

since Adam has been call ed for aDUTY - to OO_SOMETHING ­and that something always hashad to do with PREPARING FORGOD'S KINGOOM .

Jesus taught the KINGDOM OF_~-!!._~~~l!s .d~.l:IoJY _~P.ir i ~.)N

Him that did " the works ." AfterHe had finished the work theFather had assigned Him, per­sonally , to do in Hi s human life ,He was cr uci fied , resurre cted andthen ascended into heaven . ThenHe sent the SAME HOLY SPIRITthat had worked in Him , to work

formin g mi ra cl es in C hrist'snam e - by Hi s au thority ­Jesus did not say they shall en terGod 's Kingdom. He merely said," Let them alone. " Now put this _toget her with other sc riptures onthe same theme . A gain Je su ssai d, "Let them a lo ne, " inMattbew 15: 14 . But He also said(verse 13) , " . . . Every plant ,which my heavenly Father hathnot planted , shall be rooted up .Let them alone: they be blindleader s of the blind . And if theblind lead the blind , both shallfall into the ditch ."

And again, Jesus said, " Hethat is not with me is agai nst me;and he that gathe reth not with mesca tte re th ab road" (Ma tt hew12:30) .

Again , " He that is no t with meis against me : and he that

.gathe reth not wit h me scattere th"(Luke 11:23) . Tbose not WITHChrist, WHERE HE LEADS INHIS CHURCH, are sca ttering andaga inst Him .

, But co nside r FURTHER:

( Bod y of Christ is united-.i'Yesus·C hris t i~- going' t~':maITy -

GOD 'S CHURCH - ca lle d THEBODY OF CHRIST. Now is thatBod y united , o rga nized on auni ted and firm FOUNDATION, oran assort ment of " loner" indi­viduals and various "groups" ?

I was awak ened t~i s mo rning

Spiri tual organism - all speak ­ing the same thing - all jo ined tothe one Vine and bear ing fruit ­all in the orga nized Chu rch builtupon the FOUNDATION of theapostles and the propbets, withJesu s Christ the chief corner­s to ne, hav in g grown int o aBUILDING - a Hol y TEMPLE, inthe Lor d , f itly FRAMEDTOGETHER and compacted inthat which every joint suppliet h?OR, will it be a cong lomera tion ofdi sunited : ' GROUPS" and de­nominations and a number of iso­lated indi vidual " C hristia ns, "wbo have followed C hrist in theirown way ?

T hos e who have go ne off ,either alone or in a small isolatedgroup, will. say: ' ~We have notgone awa y from CHRIST - wehave only left that organization.We no longer have a pan in whatit is do ing , but we wo rship Christin our ow n way." .

T hey mi gh t re fer 10 Mar k9:38 -40: " And John answeredhim , saying, Mast er , we saw onecastin g out demons in thy name ,and be followeth not with us: andwe 'forbad Iiim: 'liedu'se he ' fol ­loweth not us. Bu t Jesus said,Forbid him not : for there is noman which shall do a mi racle in

. my name , that can lightly speak. ev il of me . For he that is not

aga inst us is on our part ."

Notice, these people were per-

By HerbertW . Armstrong

I HAVE HEARD m any smallre ligio us groups , usually

fo llowing .. one humanleader, speak of "our

Group," fu lly bel ievingthat their little unit o r as ­

semblage is k PART of th eBODY OF CHR IST, T HECHURCH OF GOD.

S ome have le f t G o d ' sChurch say ing, "I have no tleft C hris t - I've o nly left tha io rga nizat io n . I worshi p Christin my own way ."

Are they reaUy IN 'C hrist?

Time isnow sha n . We are in thevery last d ays ! ·:C hrist iscoming soon - to MARRY God'sCh urch. In Revelation 19:7 theCh urch is ca lled " His WIfE ."Thi s verse says, " Let us be gladand rejoice, and give honor tohim: for the marriage of theLambis come, and HISWIFE hat h madeherself ready."

We are in soberi ng times ­the last day s wben " HIS WIFE"must be MADE READY for Christ 'scoming.

Willtbese "loner" individual"Christians," or these many lit­tle isolated "GROUPS " consti tutepan of the wife made ready?

In Matthew 2S it is written," .. . the brjdegroom came ;· andr&y'iiiiitwere ';:e~y went in withhim to tbe marriage: and the doorwas shut" (Matt hew 25:10) .

The very eterna l LIFE AND

DEATH QUES TION right now is:.. Just WHAT is the wife that hasmade herself ready? Is it oneunited, organized, compacted,

CHRIST.IS THE LIVING·HEAD OF ONL Y ONECHURCH~NOTTWO

ByHerber t W . Armstro ng

I n an effort to mislead a nddraw away God's people

and tithes, jhe misleadingidea is no w being circulatedtha i this MAN (not C h urch)also preaches the G o s pel.So, why no t divide yo urtithe, sending half to theman and half to God'sCHURCH - or else se nd italternate ly to each.

Satan is subtile, and he do esdeceive even the ' greatest ofmen . Let 's ho nestly considerthat crafty suggestion .

I) The tithe is GOD'S tithe, notyours . and is to be sent to oon'sCHURCH, where C hrist , alive andwell, is actively wo rking, direc t­ing and blessing .

2) God has only ONEChurch ,and tha t C h urc h has a fewhundred local co ngregationsworldwi de. all a PART - and anintegral working pall - 'of theONE spiri tual organism. theWorldwide C hurc h ot yod, .

w hich is " b u ilt up on th eFOUNDATION of tbe apostles andprophets, Jesus Christ himselfbeing the chief comer stone ; Inwhom ALL THE BUILDING [withits man y local congregat ions]FITLY FRAMED TOGETHERgrowe th unto an holy temple inthe Lord ." Its whole body (withits ma ny local c ongre gat io nsworldwi de) " FITLY JOINED TO­GETHER ANDCOMPACTED by' thatwhich every jo int supplieth, ac­cording to the effectual workin g[together ] . . . of every par t. . . " (Epbesians 2:20-21, 4:16).Je su s Christ does not HEAD,guide and work in any competi ngma n or c hurc h . Christ IS NOTDIVIDED!Christ's Body is led oneart h, UNDERHIM, by Hi s c hose napostle whom HE appointed andused in BUILDING His Church inour time . Goo 's TRUEC hurch is

.perform ing the FUNCfION of theCh urc h - ca rryi ng C hristsGospe l message to 0/1rhe world .

3) The man who wants hal f ofGod ' s tithe does not speak thesame thing. On tbe one hand heattempts .to draw your', suppo rt

sayi ng, " 1preach the Gospel too- so give me half the tithe."(The Bapt ists, Lutheran s ,Catho lics , all profess to preac hthe Gos pel - but it's not tbe sameGospe l.) The n on the other handhe contradicts himself - speaksout of the other side of his mouth- sayi ng he does not agree withGod's Church about C hurch eras,about this and about that!

No , bre thren , he doe s NOTpreach the same Gospel. He wasattempting to wate r down God' strue doctrines and oppose its doc­trines and its apos tle and to be­come the self-appointed bead ofGod' s Church .

T hat's wh y he was D1S­FELLOWSHIPPED fro m God ' sChurch. He WAS NOT speakingthe same thin g. GOD'S CHURCHca nnot speak wit h an UNCERTAIN.SOUND!

4) This man is NOTa Church ofGod . A man can inco rpo ratehimsel f, under man ' s law. usin gthe NAMEof a Church:"" and heca me as cl os e to the name"Worldwide Church of God" aspossible, TO. llECEIVE and mis-

lead brethren into thinking he isTHE SAME CHURCH. Any "Tom ,Dick or Harry" can incorporatehimse lf, with the signatu res of aco uple other men as " direc tors "in the name of a church . BUTTHAT DOES NOT mak e him achurch! Thi s effort to dece ive, byusi n g a name so close to"Worldwide " Church of God, ispossi bly subjec t to civ il pros ecu­tion as an attempt to defra ud andrecei ve money under false pre­tense s .

Of course, God' s Church willre ly on . Ch rist fo r protec tion.Howe ver , since he intentionallyinco rpor ated under a na me soclose to "Worldwide Ch urch of ,God ," and it tend s to confuse andharm God' s Church , steps havebeen taken to prohibit his incor- .po rating or operating under thar :name in any other states . . ..-

5) This disfellowshipped manis not preach ing any "gospel"into all the world for a wit nessunto all nations . Hi s pre ach ing isa imed o nly at yo u in God ' sCh urch, to draw you away fromthe C hurc h head ed by Jesus

C hris t. He docs not preach anygospel to tbe world to teach tbosewho know not Christ ' s Go spel.He seeks only to unsettle youw ho ha ve al read y acceptedChrist's true Gospel. His wholeefforl is a resentful and ,bitter oneto "G ET" - not to "GIVE .". O ne mem be r wrote, stating

clear ly which is GOD'S Church . Itis:

I) Where God:ST RUTHis . Notwith one di sfell owshipped fortrying to water down that TRUTH.

2) Where God'S true Wo"rk isgoing o ut to the WHOLE WORLD.. : 3 ) Wh ere Christs ch osenapost le is . ~

God's tithe is to be PAID toGOD'S Church , wh ere CHRIST iswor king . Jesus C hrist doe s notwork .i n two! "churches," oneco mpe ting agai nst and tryi ng todraw ' mem bers from the other.Ch rist is NOT DIVIDED!God doe s not have two c hurches

- only the ONE C hurch tha tJesus Christ fo unded in A.D . 3 1and raised up to carry on in OURtim e through His ow n chosenapostle .

The GOOD NEWS Monday, Dec : 18, 1 978

SEVEN PROOFS 'OF .. .

T'ME TRUE C·HURCHWHERE is the one and only true Churchtoday - the Church founded by Jesus

Christ in A.D. 31? Seven major eye­opening proofs identify it unmistakably;

ava ilable in booksto res . begin­. ning spring, 1979 .

When ALL shaIl he ca lled

The one original true Churc h of ­God is UNIQUEin the -knowledgethat THIS WORLD HAS BEEN CUTOFF FROM GOD- its inhabitantswho were uncalled are the reforeNOTBEINGJUDGED-YETfTheyhave been neithe r " saved" nor" )ost. " But THEY HAVE BEENDECEJVED!

As Jes us said , many wo uld goout claiming to represent Him .proclaiming that Jesu s was theCHRIST (Me ssia h) ye tDECEIVING THE MANY! (Matthew24:4·5, 11Co rinthians 11:13-15) .

Mill ion s have been decei vedinto a FALSE SALVATiON. Wha tabout all these sincere people ­are they " LOST"? Of cou rse no t.

. But neither d id they receive the"' salvation" they were deceivedinto ex pec ting . They simply werenot - YET - j udged : THEYSHALL BE- all who have died ­in the resurrection of the GreatWhi te Throne Judg ment (Revela­tio n 20 :11-13) .

Salvation shall surely com e toall w ho ·- once the T RUT H

is revealed, and they are unde­ce iv e d - are as wi ll ing asthe y tho ughltbey were inthe false 'salvation they were deceived intoacce pting! Thi s will include manywhom our rea der s may have sup­posed were ''' los t. ' ' It is aGLO RIOUS HOPE !

No w noticeMatthew25:310n.

" W hen the Son of man shallcorne in his glory, aod all the bolyangels with him, then shall he siton the throne of his glory ." Com­bine that with other scrip tures al- ·ready covered . When Je su sco mes in His g lory , He will co meas He wen t to heaven - in clo uds.The dead shall rise - in a resur­recti on - first, then the livi ng inChrist shall be instantly changedto spi ri t im mor tality a nd becaught up in the air with them tomeet the descend ing Lord . Hisfeet shall stand that same day onthe Mo unt of Olives . The resur­rec ted and c hanged saints shall becontinually fro m the n with Hi m .The n He shall sit on the throne of

. His glory - in the City of David,Jeru salem.

All theholy angels will be withHim. In Revelation 12 we findthat a third of the angel s followedLuci fer into rebellion. But wha tabout all the se HOLYange ls- theother two-thirds? I have said ange lcreation was not COMPLETE untilby the ir own decision CHARACTER- ei ther righ teo us or evil - hadbeen formed in them . What aboutthis two-thirds of angel s , here

. called HOLY!God does not revealHow their character and thereforetheir creation, was completed,But, in some mannernot revealed,it is apparent the two-thirds hadformed holy arrd righteou s charac­ter , fo r here they are called HOLYangels. and in many part s of bothOld and New Testaments the y are

J S,. SEVEN PROOFS~page 51

desti nated . And in every instancethe call ha s bee n to a definiteDUTY, and also in every case thatdut y ha s been one PREPARINGFORTHE KINGDOM OF GOD.

God ca lled Abr aham .. All thePROMISES of ou r eternal salvationwere given to Abra ham. and weinher it them fro m the fact Ab­raham is the " father of the fait h­ful." T his revea ls that Abr aha mwill have higher position in theKingdom than Dav ia. He will be .NEXT UNDER CHRIST. '

The n aga in, the Scriptures usethe phra se " Abraham, Isaac andJacob ," grou ping them togetheras a team . All the PROMISES wererepromised also to Isaac and toJacob . Th is ind icate s the y shallbe ,a headquart ers TEAM - ne xtunde r Ch rist - over both Churchand stat e, with Ab raham chair­man of the team. InLuke 13:28 ,Jesus sa id definitely th at Ab­raham,lsaac and Jacob shal l be inthatglorified Kingdom .

On~ governmen~ over aU

When tbe KINGDOM- the di ­vine FAMlLYof God - reigns on .earth; it shall be the ONE GOv­ERNMENT over ALL nations .There shall beoxs God , ONEgov­ernment, ONE religion .

In the . tran sfigur ation vis ion,Peter, James and Jo hn sa w Chri sttran sformed into the GI~ORIF1EDChri st , His face shining as the sun(Matthew 1} :1-7) , and with Himin the Kingdom Moses and Elij ah .The se - two , in the vision , rep- .resent ed the offices of Ch urc h andstate .

Both Moses and Elijah, in theirhuman lifet ime , qu ali fied fo rchief position s in C hurch andsta te, respe ctively , next underAb rah am , Isaac and Jacob ­Moses over all na tion a lGOVERNMENTS - Elijah ov erChurch . 11 was Elijah who re­sto red KNOWLEDGE of the wor ­ship of the true God .

All the se me n , who we reCALLED "to specia l mission s byGod during their physical humanlife , were prepa red and qual ifiedfo r these po s it ion s in th eKINGDOM -.

Actually, the preaching of theGos pel and spread of religion INTHE KINGDOM, will be primar ily.REUGIOUS EDUCATION - sinceALL shall be called , and the deci ­sion will be made individually by .each person . It is significant thatElijah had fo und ed THREECOLLEGE·S (11 Kings 2 :3 , 5 ;4 :3 8) at Bethel , Je richo andGilgal, teac hingGod' sTRuTHinaworld corr upte d by fal sepagani zed education .

For further detail s of the or­ganiza tion in the KINGDOM OF

con.see our boo k, Tomorrow ­Whar/tWiIl Be.Like. This willhe ..

The livi ng CHRIST is co ming toRULE WITH DIVINE FORCE! And

- one of His fir st acts will 'be todepose Sat an! The CAUSE of theworld' s evils will be remo ved!

Jesu s, after His resurrecti on,asce nded to heaven, in clouds tak­ing Him up out of sig ht. He shallretur n in clouds .

The mighty Lord shall desce ndwith a SHOUT!- witht he voice of,the archangel and the trumpet ofGod . The de ad in Chri st shall ri sein a glorio us resurrection to SPIRITIMMORTALITY! Th e li vi ng inCh rist shall then be caught up intbe air"with' them , changed tospirit immorta lity - 10 MEET thedescending Lord in the air (I

' The ssalonians 4:16-17) .Christ' s feet shall stand that

sam e day on the Mount of Oliv es,e as t of Jerus al em (Zec ha ri ah14:4) . The immortal sa ints shal lbe co ntinually with the Lord ­re igning with and under Him fromJerusalem ove r allnationsl

With Satan gone , the KINGDOM·~· OF -GOD·-Shall bese t upinpower. ,".

Every one whom God has calledout of thi s world of Satan's hasbeen called to a spec ial missionpreparing for this Kingdom! -.

The GOVERNMENT OF GOD willbe restored , worldwide !.The hu­man s left on earth will be ru ledover. No mortal hum ans will -rule- only those who PREPARED andQUAIJFlED to rule during theirearthly life after receiving God' sSpi rit. . .

The government organization

God hasnot revealed in speci ficdet ail bow His government willbe organized . He does reveal thatit shall be government from theTOP down. Chri st will be KING ofkings over all nat ions. It is specif­icall y revealed that King Davidof ancie nt Judah , resurrected,shal l be king ov er tbe nation s de­sce nded from the 12 tribe s of an­eient Israel (E zek ie l 34:23 ;27:24-25 ; Jeremiah 30:9) . JesusHimsel f rev ealed that the 12 ori g­inal ap o stl e s sh all s it o n 12thrones, e ach ruling one of the senat ion s (Matthew 19:28; Luk e22:30) .

As a theocracy, with govern­men t from the top down , it also isrevealed that God the Father is thesupre me LAWGIVER, and I headov er Chri st and there fore ABOVEALL. T he Kingdom of God is theFAMILYOFGOD- and the Fatheris supre me head over His f amily!

Je sus Chri st is coming as KINGof kings and LORDof lords , so theKingdo m of God shall combineChurch and state, as did ancientIsrael- with Chri st earthly Kingand LORD.

NOTEWELLTHISPRINCIPLE: Ina world CUI off from God , God hascalled o ut o f the wo rld tbose pre- .

sha ll soo n have the magic push­button century 21 - wit h such anarray of gad getry produ ced by .techn ology that human labor willbe all but eliminated , and theworld shall be entranced and be­da zzled by material technology.But, of course , this would not ridus of human nature. Crime wouldescalate, famil y life wou ld breakdown completely, mor als wouldsink even lower -r-: if possible!

2) We shall have more andmore ev ils, a nd , with nuclearpower and 'other means of massdestru ction , humani ty will soo nbe erased from the earth.

3) Some say the world' s onlyhope , now , to escape cos mocideis to form one gig antic world gov ­ernment , ' contro ll ing the only"military powe r and weapon ry ­yet in the same breath they admitthe impossibilityofit. WHOwouldsit on the thr one RULING theworld? The United States andEurope would nev er accept -aCommunist in supreme co m- >mand.rTbeCommunl sts" woLld 'nev er ac ce pt an Am eri can or

"Weste~ Eur opean. ...- . WHY? - yes, WHYshould wehave a world where more than half

. of all its peopl e live in illiteracy,abject poverty, filth and squalor,racked with diseases and pain sand without bope ?WHY?"":'whe nthe human mind can produce themarvels of techn ology , the corn­puter , send men to the moon andback , transmit photographs fromtbe surfac e of Mar s to the earth?

Can'i we real ize there has to bea CAUSE for all these evils - andthat the GREAT MAJESTIC GOD haspower to eradicate the ca uses andusher in a REAL utopi a? Don 't sellGod short!

. The two alternatives

Let ' s face it! Righ t now ther eare two alterna tives . Either theredoes e xist the living almi ght y GODof supreme mind and pow er, whowill very soon inter vene and SAVEHUMANITY FROM ITSELF. o:r elseHUMAN EXTINCTION is now im­mine nt!

T here is no other alternative!But thank God , there is the

GOOD NEWS of the soon-comingPEACEFUL, HAPPY WORLDTOMORROW!

When the supreme C re­ato r · RULER co mes again toearth, already crowned as KINGofkings, in supreme POWER andGLORYand all the holy angels withHim , the gentile nation s actuallywill FIGHT to resist Him !

But ". . . their fle sh shall co n­sume away while they stand uponthe ir feet , and their eyes shall con ­sume awa y in their hole s , andtheir ton gue shall con sume awa yin thei r mouth" (Zec har iah14:) 2) . ... ' . .• , ..

The first six proofs of thetrue Church appeared in TheGood News, Nov. 20 andDec. 4. Thi s installment'concludes with ProofNo. 7.By HerbertW •Armstrong

PROOF NO.7­THE REIGN OF THEKINGDOM OF GOD

H OW INCONGRUOUS! Thechurches calling them­

selves " Christian" do notknow that the true Gospel isthe GO OD NEWS OF TH EKI NGDOM OF GOD . Theyknow nothing of what theearth will be like under therule of the KINGDOM OF GOD!

T hey know nothing o f theo nly GOOD NEWS in today ' sworld - of the WORLD 'SONLY and SURE HOPE!

Don ' t laugh at the wordUTOPIA! II is rega rde d in toda y' stro ubled wor ld as an impract ical ;

. imposs ible JOKE! Webster ' s d ic­tionary defines it :." an imaginaryand indefinitely remote place; aplace of ideal perfection , espe ­cially in laws, government andsocial conditions; an impractic alscheme for social improv eme nt .••

Je sus Chri st wasnoimpracncaldre amer . . Hi s Gospel was theGOODNEWS that a coming UTOPIAis REAL - it is SURE!

StopandTHlNK!WHYshould itbe impossible to have ideal per­fection - in laws, governmentand social condi tion s? WHY?

••Human nature , t. yo u an­swer? Yes, but as shown earlier,human nature was NOT c reated inus by GOD - was NOT born inu s.It has been inje cted into humans'by the " prince of the POWER OFTHE AIR," Satan , who is so pow ­er ful that he surc harges the air ­with his morbid attitude of gloo m,resentment, rebellion . selfis h­ness . va n ity . stri fe . Sa tanbroadcasts in self-cent ere dattitudes. and the " human' spir itin every hum an is tuned in on hiswave length! Th us Sat an is nowactual ly WORKING IN the peopleof this d isobed ience (Ephesians2:2) .

But when the glo rified CHRISTcomes in supreme POWER andGLORY to rule all nat ion s, Satanwill be to tally restr ained fromhum anit y . ALL will be called tosalva tion and eternal life "":'"":""* and,as God 's people now are , willbecome pa rtake rs of the DI VINENATUREf ( II Peter 1:4) .

" Hum an nature " will beGONE! The earth will be as fullof the knowledge oflhe Eternal asthe oce an bed s are full of water(Isaiah 11:9) .

Science's postulateorthe FUTURE ·

World- famo us sc ie n tis ts 'forese e three possibilities for tbefuture . .

J) : .S~nJ~ .:.op.t.imisl~ . think .we.

Monday , Dec. 18, 1978 The GOO D NEWS 5

SEVEN PROOFS(Conti nue d from page 4 )'

described as definitely hol y and inGod' s service. -.

All nations ga thered

No w co nti n ue, Matthew25:32. "And befo re him [Chri st]shallbe gatbered all nations . . ."Thi sc an refer only to the people inall nations still remainin g alive atthat time - all MORTAL, human .flesh-and-blood people.

Rem ember . many who hadbeen called ' and truly conven edwill then be sittin g with Chri st inHis throne at Jeru salem . Con-

tinue : " . . . and he shall separatethem one from another . . ." (re­member the dead and living INChrist had already been sepa­rated and risen to mee t Christ in .the air . Thi s separ ation :refers tothe still-liv ing MORTALS - whohad not previously been called ­who had; up to now, been cut offfrom God and from salvatio n. Butnow, withChristonthethroneandSatan gone , ALL are spir itually.called! Now co ntinue. still verse32: " . . . as a shepherd dividethhis sheep from the goats. And heshall set the sheep on his right

hand. but the goats on the left.The n [ve rse 34] shall the King sayunto them on his right hand.Come. ye blessed of my Father .inherit the kingdom prepared foryou from the foundation of theworld ."

All then still living will becalled . Those who decide forGod ' s Kingdom - willi Satanthen out of the way- will lNHERlTthe Kingdom of God - be BORNINTO IT! . . - ~

"Then [verse 41] shall he sayalso unto them on his left hand .Depart from "me , ye cursed, intoeverlasting fire . prepared for thedev il and his angels [demons] ."That fi re has been described

above -,- the face of the eanh' hell . Often I have illustrated thisbecoming ·3 molten inferno - before audience s .by placing aburning up the mortal incorrigi- small piece of paperin a metal panble . However, this file will not and lighting it. I say to the audi-take place until the end of the ence, " Now watch !This file shallmillen nium . ' ., not be quenched!" Then I Put the

Verse 46 , "And these shall go ~~ remaining ash on the floor, stepawa y into ever1asting 'punish:~jF: ?" .,~l~ and quote Malachi 4:3,merit: but the righteous into life < ._:"" they shall be ashes underetern al. " That " ev erlast ing the soles of your feet . . . 'punishment" has been construed . WHAT AFABULOUS POTENTIALby the dece ived to mean " ever- ' Iies ahead of all humans willing tolasting pun ishtNG - ' but it is BEUEVE. whencalled!pun ishMENT - and the wages of - . ..'-':HAT WO NDERFUL -TRUTHsin is DEATH (Romans 6:23). ' Gpd hasrevealed to His one aridTrue . some few scriptures speak only true original C hurch. smallof the fire NOT BE_ING QUENCHED and persecuted , yet , vigorou sly- and the deceived misconstrue ALIVE with GOD'S WONDERFULthis to mean an eternally burn ing TRUTH!

··' C h ur c." empowered bySpirit of God -

He cam e with the tremend ou sannoun cement of the Kingdomof God . He came also to con­quer the god of this world.Satan the devil . and thu s qualify

(S&e T HE WORLDWtOE ;·iiag&61 •

broaden s and e xp an ds o ne's "hori zon s. Self-cen ter ed ne ssconstantly shrinks one ' s mentaland spiritual outlook inwardl y.

It is, to man toda y, astonish­ingjn learn that Jesus , Peter,Paul and all the fi rst -centuryapostle s taught obed ience tothisinexorable spiritual law - theWAY OF LOVE. It is surprising tomost to learn · that the Bibleplainly sho ws that the religi onof Chri st is A WAY OF LIFE aswell as a living FAITH.

Thi s spiritual law was set inliv ing 'motion as the loving giftof humanity' s Maker to 'CAUSEevery desired GOOD.

Pin poi nt Church hista'ry

Jesu s Christ was sent into .this" world as a messe nger bearing

the'<most "Vital and "importantmessage ever sent from acid tomankind . This was fore told by

.the prophet Malachi . His mes­sage was th e gre ate st NEWSANNOUNCEMENT ever to fall onhu man ears . It sh ould haverocked this world and shaken itto its foundati on s , The wordGospel mean s good NEWS! It

. was news of an e arthshakingfiuure event.

Jesu s' Gospel-e-ctbe messageHe brought to humanity fromGod - was the good NEWS ofthe Kingdom o f God - - thesoo n-co ming WORLD GOVERN·MENT of the almighty GOD torule all nat ion s and , brin gus PEACE at last ! 'Also , Hi s

-stupe ndo us anno unce me nt in--cluded the fact thathumans, onrepentance and >faith , could be­co me actua l begotten childre nof God . could be BORN AGAIN- horn of God. enterin g thatKingdom when set up.

Tha t me ssag e was LIGHT'shining in a dark world , But itis recorded ; " And thi s is thecondemnation that light is comeinto the world, and men love ddark ness rather than light. be­cause their deeds were evil " ­(John 3:19).

Jesu s Chri st was sent into thisworld , the Son of Gnd , born ofthe virgin Mary in the likenessof hum an fles h , to sta rt th is ­WORK 'OF GOD .,

scattered around the world . shall not live by bread alone,but by every word of God ."

WHY unique The Bible is the Word of God inThese people are members of writing. Its ent ire teachings are

the Church .of God, known il\) based.on.thisGod-centered .wayour da y as the ·'Wo rl d:- ofHfe - the spirit ual law.wide Ch urch of God . Th is - The Church of God knew . inChurch is unique in practicing the da ys ·of the f irs t-century.C hristianity as A WAY"OF LIFE apostle s - as itknowstoday -as well as a faith - even as it that the God-centered way ofa id origi nally in the da ys of the LOVE is an inexorable spirit ualfirst-cent ury apostles . LAW in active moti on . It is 'a

Its member s are moti vat ed law as real - as infle xibly re-wi th PURPOSE, in spired by lentle ss even though as invisible

. know ing the tr anscendent - as the laws of gravi ty and in-human potentia l. The y know the ,en ia , It is a law that governs antrue values . The y 'have found relationships between man andTHE WAY that makes life truly man and between man andmean ingful , rewarding, abun - God .

dant ! Th is law o f ' LOVE is sum· "It is 'the way tbe whole world marized scripturally by the Ten

ought to be living . And what is Commandment s. It may be .di-that WAY OF LIFE? vided into the tw o " Grea t

It is the WAY of LOVE- the Laws" _ love to Goa and lovewho leso me WAY of "outgoing toward man", It was set in livingconcern for the good and wel- motion by our Mak er as thefare o f others equal to se lf- CAUSE of all GOOD. Its tran s-con ce rn . It is the way of eress ion is -the CAUSE o f allcooperating, serv ing , he lping , EVILS!sharin g - o f consideration and .Th is God-centered way of lifepat ience . _ the way of o utgoing co ncern

More important, it is the WAY ~ inspired and empow ered byof humil ity , ' and of obedience the indwelling of the Holy Spiritto,re.liance on and worship sole- of God - is the CAUSE of thely toward God . It is the fre sh , sparkl ing happ iness theGOD-centered way . visiting professor sensed at the

Th e other road tra ve ls the Chu rch convention in Canada,SELF-ce ntered wa y of vanit y , It does not produce a temporaryselfishness, greed , lust, uncon- "and artificial ex hilara tion orcern for ot hers, competit ion , ' pseudo-spiritual jag, but a per-env y , jealo usy, strife, resent- manentinner peace , and a faithmen t 'against autho rity, bitter - that is a unique confi dence , "ness, even hatred. It seeks self- and stab ility. which reassure sadvantage in every deal. , when there are trials and even -'

The Chur ch of God has be- persecutions . Thi s is a so re ly'-. lieved, from the da ys of Chri st' s need ed but sadly scarce com -"

ori ginal apo stles . that the Chr is- . rnodit y in this confused worl dtian religion is that of Christ - toda y. Thi s WAY OF UFE is pay-of His teachings and of the ex- ing off among Church of Godample He set. Jesus taught this people in joyous happiness:giving way . He said, " It is successf ul living and abundantmore blessed to give than to re· well-being!ceive.' ? Also..He said,'....Man.. . · This con-centered way '- \

We have covered seven major proofs toident ify the one and only true Churchfou nded A.D. 31 by Jesus Christ. We

come now to the true story of that ChurchTODAY - . the only voice in the wilder­

ness of today' s religious Babylon giving ahopeless world its ONLY and SURE HOPEI

gratifying experience . We don ' tpreach a gospel of DOOM _ butof joyous HOPE - . coming" inour generation! "

The story or a iiniq~commission

The true story o f rodaysWorldwide Church of God ·isthe story of the .appearance ~nearth of the real Jesu s Christmore than 1.900 years ago . It' sthe story of His message fromGnd to mankind . And it's thestory of God ' s rejuvenating Hispeople with His Spirit and vital­ity to carry tha t message ' ofSURE HOPE to this world ' s lastgeneration.

It is axiomatic that for everyeffect there has to be a cause .

There has to be a CAUSE forall the evils in the world today- the wide spread immo rality, .the revolt of yo uth. the trendtoward drugs. the broken homesand rising divorce "rate , ihe es-.calating crime, the almost gen­eral unrest. the rioting , vio-lence, wars. "

By the same token, there hasto be a CAUSE for the cond ition

" 'of peace , harmony and generalradiant happiness the visitingprofes sor experienced. '. Isn't it pertinent to ask WHY

science and technology seemunable to point the way to sucha desired state for all humansocie ty? To ask WHY educationdoe s not teach THE WAY to abetter life - .WHY religion hasfailed so dismal ly to make this abetter world - WHY govern­ment s . committed to betteringthe . lot o f their pe oples .have never found T HE WAY topeace?·

The"re has to .be a cause!The re is a cau se . Th ere is

something refre shingly differ­ent . And it sh ines forth frommult iple thousands ·oU hom es·,

THE-WORLDWIDE CHURCH 'OF GOD -'TODAYT H E VISITO R, .10 put it

-rnildly, w as astonished!He w as witnessin g so m e­

th ing ·he had onever hopedto se e. .

He was professor of Com­parat ive Religion s at o ne o fthe wo rl d' s g reat uni ver­sitie s . visiting a C anadianFestiv a l site of .the world ' slarge st an n ual Church con­clave. Thi s . howe ver . .w a sone of the sma ller of scoresof suc h co nvention si tes en­co mpassing the earth . Seven .tho usa nd we re : he re assem­bled fo r the ei ght -d ay Fest i­val.

At once the visitor was ' im­pres sed by an ,attll0sph,ere re­fr.shingly dijfefe~i . And he'lia{j'vis ited man y church co nven­tions in many countries .

Had these people bee n odd orfanatical it would have been nonew e xperience. He was wellaware of religious group s whogen era ted a tempo rar y em o ­tio nal fervor in meetings . Hewas fa miliar , too , with tho setha t were stiffly form al - . andunhappy . But here he was ex­periencing somethin g unique tohis knowledge .

T he professo r happen ed to besitting next to one of the minis­ters of the Worldw ide Church ofGod.

" These members ," he vo tun­teered, " obv io usly are stableand solid peop le. and they seemto radiate an inner happine sstha t is ge nuine . Life to themsee ms to have purpose ' andmeaning . It' s an enjoy able andhealthy ex perience I can' t quitefind words to descri be ,"

" Yes," smiled the minister," life does have meaning to ourpeople . And they do radiate theinner joy you have obse rved,bec ause their lives have beenchanged by God ' s Holy Spir it.and they are partici pating in andprayerfully backing the spread­ing worldwide of Chri st's trueGospel message - . the samemessage originally proclaimedby Christ Himself.

" But," .continued the mini s­tel', "we now are living in thevery generatio n that shall seetha t message ful f illed . It isGod's time for that message ofworl d HOPE to be again pro ·

'claimed in power , world wide.Whe n one know s he is having a "part in giving a dying world itsONLY HOP.f; i!Js; indeed, ' a

6 The GOOD NEWS Monday, Dec. 18, 1978

THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF·GOD TODA Y

"The Spirit of God, dwelling-in'the human body of Jesus, hadstarted the Work of God. After Christ's ascension to heaven, thissame Spirit of God energized the collective body - the Church.The Church thus became the 'Body of Christ.."

underground in the main . Then in No vember , 1930 ,T he Church co nt inued as- Mr. and Mrs . Armstrong had

sembling , but mo re than the .been invited to attend a businessregular assembling of memhers, meeting being held in ait had been given a JOBto do - . _memher' s home near Jefferson,procl aim the me ssage to 'he" ...:.:Ore. This meeting wascalled toworld in PoWER. And it had not "organize Oregon members intobeen getting the job done! . , a separate Orego n 'Conference

ThaI vital POWER of God 's : of the Church of God. .Spirit ,that h?d worked dynarn- •. '- Immed iately divi sion amongically m Christ and m the first-... ': "the members surfaced , It wascen tury apostles, had scarcelY~,( ,..i p:robably a majority of thebeen working 10 the Church '"'·:,::;preson members who wanted toT hat Work , by the early 20th - sptn off from the St anb erryce ntury, had become virtually headquarters and incorporate indead (Revelation 3:1). .order to keep their own tithes in

By 1927 in the United States, ' Oregon . T hey were dissati sfiedmember s continued to assemble that the Church was doing vir-regularly in their local congre - tually nothing to carry 'out thegations scattered over the coun- great commission to the world.

' . "The time had come for God's Work to'p rep are the ,way for ' the soon-cominqMessiah to supreme power and glory .andthe wonderful WORLD TOMORROW/"

1!134, and publishing The PlainTruth , Feb . I, soon were ab­sorbing all of Mr. Armstrong' stime ._' It finally hecame clear that 'the Stanberry Church of Godhad been tbe , remnant of the" Sa rd is" era 'of the Church(Revelati on 3:1-6) and that the ­parent Church at Eugene wasthe start of the " Philadelphia"era (Revel ation' 3 :7-13) . Thi swas the era when "Chri st, livingHead o f the Church, wasOPENIN"O DOORS , for proclarna-"

,tion of His Gospel. '

Phenomena! growth .

God now began o peningdoor s for a Spir it-emp oweredWork to leap forth (Revelation

, 3 :7 -8). The Work fr om th ispoint grew ' in power and scopeat 'the rate of 30 percent per yearover the next 35 years,

T he first week in 1934 The 'World Tomorrow program wenton the air. It met with an irn­medi ate res ponse , consider ingthe small pow er and limited

.coverage of the station. It wasthen of the very smallest watt­age for com mercial broadcast­ing - 100 walls , Gradually tbeprogram went on mo re andmore stations , By 1942 tbe pro'gram had gained national c~ver·

; age in the United States and .by1945 it became a daily program.

It grew until it 'purc hasedmore wattage 'of radio time thanany prog ra m on e arth us in gradio and Tvstaions worldwide- more than 50 million wattsof power weekly reachin g an es­timated l00 million listeners .

The Pla in Tru'ih mag azine ,, monthly, developed into one' of

the finest qualit y magazines inthe world , with a circulation of ,more than three million ..copie s,in five language s. Amba ssadorCollege was founded inPasadena, Cali f. , in 1947, asthe educat ional arm 'o f theChurch ,- for producing a n

"educated mini stry and traini ng. many People for adminis trativepersonnel . '

The Church founded the Am­bassador International CulturalFoundation (AICF) , throughwhich it carries on many chari­table and humanitaria n projectsin many parts of the world ., In ' 1.968 the living Chri stopened -a NEW DO'OR to Mr .Arm stron g thro ugh which tocarry Christ' s Gospel messageinto many co untries . By invita­tion, Mr . Armstrong came tohave very cordia! personal meet ­ings with emperors, kings , pres- #

idents , pr ime m inisters andothers in high office in Asia,Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa,

' Ce n tra l and Sou th A me ric a ,Since 1968 Mr. Armstrong hasvisited more than 70 countriesaro und the world and has reoceived s peci al hon or s fro mJ" an, Israel , Jord an , thePhilippines , South Af ri ca ,Kenya, Liheria and others ,

of HAPPl 'l'fESS , JOY in abundanceand plenty, under the living all­powerful and glorified Jes usChristl ' ,

In thesummer and aut umn of1933; Mr .' Arm strong gave aseries of lectures in and aroundEugene, Ore. , proclaim ing thetrue Gospel of the KINGDOM OFGOD 'and T HE WAY OF LIFE thatproduces peac e', true successand real happiness . Th e reosponse was sponta neo us andheyond expectation , This raisedup the parent Church of the pres­ent era of God 's Ch urc h ­known today as the WORLDWIDECH URCH 'OF GOD . An invitationfollowed to speak on Radio Sta­tion KORE, thenEugene' s onlyradio outlet. Frank Hill , owner,

suggested a weekly half -hourprog ram to give "this missingdimension in education , expo­sure to a wider audience . He~;

himself , contributed substan­tially to its cost .

Meanwhile, the Church ofGod , Seventh Day, beadquarter­ing at Stanberry , Mo . , hadousted Mr. Dugger from .leader- :

, sh ip in a political str uggle(which never belongs in GOD'S

Church ) by one vote . Mr . Dug­ger then teamed with a C .O "

, Dodd of Salem , W,Va, In aneffort 10 "draw away follower safter him" (Acts 20 :30) , Mr.

. Du gger ann ounced a new. ' ''Bible form of organization"

for the , C hurch and nowclaimed Jeru sa lem as worldheadquarters - even thoughtbere was not a member there~ and Salem as U.S . headquar-ters. .

Those in ' the newly raised- upChurch of God at Eugene , Ore .,knew that the Dugger " Biblefonn of organization" was NOT

the biblical for m at all, Butmost of the Oregon Conferencebrethren fell for it - at first ­and wanted to go into it. Mr.Armstrong and -tbe Church atEuge ne, now growing rapidly,·were providentially restrainedfrom joining. ,

However, the y did want toco nt inue fellowship with theOregon Conference bre thren. 'Mr . Armstrong, who had been" nominated" by the new Dug­ger organization asvone oftbe70 leading elders" (altho ughthere never w'ere anywhere near .that number of ministers In it)co nsented to cooperate with 'the Salem pe ople: NEVERJOINING - and never receiving'salary or money in any 'fo rmfrom them . This cooperationcontinued until late 1937 . Butmea nw hile , GO D'S W ORK,

through the Eugene Church,grew until it absorbed all of Mr .Armstrong's lime . HE DID NOTEVER LEA VE THAT CHU RCH orthe one at Stanberry - he hadNEVER BEEN A MEMBER OFEIT HER!

But the rais ing up of theChurch at Eugene, and the startof the radio broad cast Jan . 8,

power to the whole world.Much more than human ex- ,

perience and know-how was re­quired .

Once again God was sendingforth and infusing inl o Hi sChurch His Spirit of POWER.

The time had come for thefinal message of God for thispresent world to go with greatimpac t. The time had come forGod ' s Work to prepare tbe way 'forme soon-coming Messiah 10supreme power aod glory and thewonde rful WORLD TOMORROW!

The time when by the act ofGod His government will be re­stored on eart h, ruling all na­tion s' with WORLD GOVERN~

MENT ! It will he a world of PEACE,

But almos t half of the memohers were very vocally follow- :ers o f A .N . Dugger and theStanberry church. The disputeover Stanberry polit ics enteringthe Church and Mr. Dugger'sfitne ss for office , was heatingup toward a fistfight. .

Mr, Armstrong leaped to hisfeet , ....saying, "Brethren, "I'm ­on ly an invited guest ---:. butmay I say a few words ? 'You allknow , as recorded in the firstchapter of Job, that when thesons of God came together,Satan "came also. Yo u knowalso that in the 12th chapter ofRevelation it is revealed that thepeople satan is most angry withare those who keep the corn­mandments of God. SATAN ISHERE! I am going to drop to myknee s right ,here and ask God torest rain Satan and giveiisPEACE , It' s up to you whether togo on fighting or kneel with meas I pray ."

On aris ing. there were weteyes , bu t no angry voices.These people were sincere .

, They had just allowed emotion s10 rise . The state conferencewas agreed , to and immediatelyincorporated as a separate body .

This Orego n Confsre nce wasanxious to ••get things movingin procl aiming the Gospel. "The . S t a.nber~y ministers haddone almost nothing, and effec ­tiveness had been nil.

Now they urged HerbertArm strong to 'co me into theministry full time and lead themin ••getting things moving ."Realiz ing Mr. Armstrong haCt ·the backg rou nd, the bus inessexperience, the education, vision,know-bow and energy , the y sawthe ' opportunity of gell ing theGospel going out into a modemcomplex world in real power .

By now convinced the call tothe ministry had truly comefrom -God, Mr. Armstrong wasordained.

A Dew era, new life /

It was under his leadershipthat a new era of the Church ofGod was en tered, rev italizingthe Church, injecti ng into it newlife and vigor by the Spirit ofGod to. get Christ' s Gospel ­His MESSAGE - going out with

try . The local co ng regationswere small , in most case s notmore than 35 to 50 . There wasat that time a limited eva ngelis­tic effort, thoug h mostly inef­fective . But now God' s timehad come for His last warning

' message to go to the wholeworld ,

The great commissio n be­comes a far more comple x "and'sizab le operat ion today than ' itwas in the fir st century . Thewor ld 's pop ulation has multi­plied many times over , We live

' in a different, far more mecha n­, ieal and complex world today.

In 1930 the Oregon memhers ,ih order to revitalize the Workof God , incorpor ated under the ,narnevJ'Oregon Confere nce oft!?eChurch of God ."

New leadership d ra fted

Mea nw hile, the co nversionof Herber t W. Armstrong hadoccurred in the spring of1927.

Mr. "and . Mr s . Arm strong,wo ndering " ' W here is God 'sonejrue Church?" had heenmeeting with these breth ren inOregon - but 'NOT joining asmembers'.

Having been a magazine andne wsp aper 'writer , Mr. Arm­strong had , from the spring of '1921 , been writing in ·articleform much he had heen so en­thusiasticallyIearning from theBible. : ./

Mrs . Arm strong had shown'Some of these manuscript sto ladiesof the Church of God . They hadbeenImpressed. Many of them[manuscripts] appeared on thefront page of the Church ' s weeklypaper, The Bi ble Advo cale,published at their national head­quarters, Stanberry Mo. /

Oregon members began urg­ing Mr . Armstrong to speak be­fore them, He had refused, say­ing he had found revealed in theBible that the ministry is a pro.fession no man is free to choose- he must he clearlycalled toit by the living Christ.

However, discovering whathe knew would he " new light"o n the Sabbath questionto these people , Mr. Armstrong ,at last, had fell impelled tospeak, revealing it to them. r

IContinued fro m page 51to become the King of theworld-ruling Kingdom of God. " .He came also in the humanflesh for the suffering of death '- to pay by His shed blood thepenalt y of human sin - for allhaV'e smneds-c th us reconcilingrepent ant believers to God andmaking possible ,the giftof eter -"nal li fe " through His resurrec-tion . .

Jesus said that, of Himself,He could accomp lish nothing ­it was the POWER OF GOD - theHoly Spirit of God within Him- that accomplished the work .

Before Hi s ascension in tohea ven after His res urrection.from the dead, Jesus corn­mand~d His disciples, whom He

, hadtrained and taught this mesosage , to rema in- in Jerusalemuntil this Same ' Holy Spirit ofGod entered withi n them, toempower them . The Spirit ofGod , dwelling in the humanhody of Jesus , had started theWork of God . After Christ's as­cen sion to heaven , this sameSpirit of God energized thecollective body - the Church.The Church thus became the" Body of Christ ."

. Under thos e ap ostles, theChurch of God , during the nextseveral years , was imbued withvita lity and power . It s ini tialgrowth was phenomenal. Then,after two years, " There was agreat pe rsecution again st theChurch which was at Jeru salem ;"and they were all sca tteredabroad , . ."

Work had ebbed

Before' A.D. 70 the real Workof God of procla iming the goodnews of the coming worldwideKingdom of God , had lost itsmomentum. due to the Romanmili tary invas io n and Romanper sec ut ion . That .worldwideWork of God cont inued 10 ebbthrough thecenruries to scarcelya trickle .- The Roman Empire, in 'coop-­e rat io n with the Bab ylonianmystery re li gion (Revelation17:5) had SUPPRESSED the trueGospel. The true Church suf­fered great persecution and mar­tyrdom .: It had been forced tocontinue a~sem~ling secretly,

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Monday, Dec . 18, 1978 The G00D NEWS 7

AMBASSADOR COLLEGE-IS UNIQUE!By Raymond F. McNair

PASADENA- There are approx­imately 3.000 colleges and univer­sities in the United States. Doe sAme rica , and the world , need Am- .bassador? What can this uniq ue co l­lege offer that othe r institutions ofhigher learning do not giveto the irstudents? .

T he fo under and chance llo r o fAmbassador College , Herbert W.Armstrong, answered this question:

"1 was neve r called to engage inthe co llege business . But in 1947 theneed had become imperative 10 estab­lish an educational arm of the Churchon the college level.

" h defin itely was not because thi sworld needed ano ther co llege . Therewere too many of this world's insti tu­tions of higher educatio n already!

" But the living God had causedme to realize the serious need for aco llege to train an educ ated mini stryfo r His Church and other per sonnel to .fill the increasi ng need for adminis ­trative offices.

" Fo r thi s purpo se it had to beGod ' s kind of co lleg e - utterlyunique in the. world . No co llege ortheo logica l seminary extant fille dthis purpose " (The Good News . July17).

But exactly what kind of a co llege"would God want for the trainin g ofjhose to be used in His Church andHis world wide Work?

After muc h thought and prayer ,Mr . Armstrong was forced -to theconcl usionthat God did not want himto fou nd a " Bible co llege" or somekind of a " rheologica l semin ary ."God wanted the students of His co l­lege to rece ive a broad, gene ral type .of .instruction, a libera l arts ed uce­tion, not a narrow, restr icted Bibleeducation o nly. It became clear thatGod did n'twant the kind of co llegethat would graduate :" Bible:q uo~~ng

fre aks." But He wanted to train

• well -educ ated stude nts who would ­be taught a wide variety of subjects ,which would give them the breadthand depth of knowledge necessaryfor them to becom e leaders , bothtoday and tomorrow !

11 was cl e ar th at t he ' large ,assembl y-line colleg es and univer­sities were missing the mark . The ywere turning o ut to be institutions ofhigher learnin g where God and Hisway of life were ne ither recognized­nor taught , where large numbe rs ofstude nts lost their ide ntities .

The dilemma or modem education

Mr . Armstrong aptl y described thedilemma of modern education. Hesaid:

.. Something is criminally wro ngin education joday!

.. Amba ssador College came onthe world scene free from the shack­les of material ism and the errors oftradi tion . Ambassador has dared torecapture the true values - to blazenew trails. while retaining all that issound and that has been proved goodin educational experience .

" Educational institutions, gener­~UY" have grown so large mat reg­imented ass embly-line proce sseshave replaced individualized instru c­tion . The student has lost his identit y.Development of personality and ini­tiative is largel y sacrificed .

" Moral bars have toppled .. .Stu ffin g mind s with c ra ssmater ialism, wh ile moral, spiritualand emotional devel opment is ne· ·glec ted, produces lopsid ed , unbal­anced education and is criminallydangero us .

. " T here ca n be no well -balanced ,broade ning and worthwhile educe­tion where the Irue values have be- ~

co me obscured from view, where .: characterbuilding is a lost and dis­

carded art and mind s are filled with

dead knowledge and falsemateri al ism .

" . .. The development of tbe manhimself, his character , right sense ofvalue s , knowl edge of tbe real pur­pose of life and the law s that governhappine ss , peace and a bunda ntwel l-be ing is neg lect ed . Mod erneducation commits the crime of de­veloping the machine while failin g todevel op the man .

U At Ambassador Co llege, stu-"dents find the true values . The y lea rnj be re a! purpo se of human life . Lifetakes on true meaning . Empha sis isupon character building . Student sacquire a well-rounded , broadening,

\ balanced edu cation . There is not onl ymind de velopm ent, but also that ofpersonality . true culture , poise andemotiona l matur ity.. "The Amba ssador pol icy is basedupon the recogniti on that true educa ­tion is not of the intellect alone but of'the whole personal ity - not alone oftechnologies, sciences and ' arts , butan unde rstanding of the purpose oflife , a knowl edge of the spi ritual lawswhich , govern our live s, our God­relationship 'and human relation­ships . Not a memorizing of know!- .edge alone but a thorough tra ining inself -discipline , self-expressio n , cul ­Jural and eharecter devel opment . Notbook learning onl y but broadeningtravel and expe rience; not onl y hear ­ing and learning but doin g .

" In other words ," concluded Mr ..Arm strong , "the c urr ic ula areplanned to give students a broad, cul­tural backgr ound - a foundation forthe art of living happil y, usefully, sue­ces sfully, abundantl y . Henc e theemphasis upon character build ingand spirit ual de velop ment · is aptlysta ted in the Am bassa dor motto : ' Re­capture True Values" ." (Bulletin ofAmbassador College• .1 966~67) 1

. The se "word s clearly ' ex p~e ss- the

found ation al poljc y , the very pur-

pose, fOI the establ ishment of thisco llege . .

A~bassador ope ns its doors

Ambassador College first openedits door s in the fall o f 1_947. Man ytrials beset the college from its-incep­tion . But-under the cour ageou s, un­compromising leader ship of its found ­er, Mr . Armstrong , Amb assadorweathered all of those storms .

Speaking of the earl y yea rs ofAm bassador , Mr . Arm strong re­ce ntly said :

" During the first three years ofAmba ssador ' s life J per sonally ,fought and bled and died, so tospeak, to keep this lea ven [of sec -

. ular ism and mater ial ism ) o ut - to .make it truly God' s ow n co llege" •(The Good News"July 3).

From the inception of Ambas­sado r, ther e were many who oppo sedthe way the colle ge was bein g run .The y didn ' t want it to be run God ' sway , but wanted to introdu ce thewor ldly co ncepts o f educa tion intothe co llege. Mr. Arm strong with ­stood all attack s and continued guid ­ing Amba ssador along the path .ofGod ' s way . God continued to be thecenter of ever y clas s and activity inthe college. And Ambassado r Co l­lege J!Qt only survi~ed - it thrived:

Too much specialization

In toda y' s ed uc ational mora ss.many are coming to see that mode rneduca tion is in deep tro uble . Ther e isfar too much specializatio n , and pre­cio us little being taught in the field of ' .'ge neral educat ion to equ ip yo ungstudents to cope with the ser iousproblems the y will soon face in aco mplicate d world .

In America, and in much ofroday' s modern , wo rld , aca de mic

i ~ sta ndards have been lowered ­n partl y due to the pressures o f militant

stude nts on man y camp uses (es pe-

cially durin g the 196Os) who forcedrevi sion s ,t hat actuall y tended ( 0

downgrade education. , .Richard Berendzen , 'p ro vost o f

American Universit y in Washington,D.C ., recentl y summed up the d i­lemma in modern .ed ucatio n:"Academic stan dards in higher edu ­cation have been decl ining in the pastfew years: It' s a national disgrace ."

And quite .recentl y. some of thebig universities (like Harv ard Uni­versity and the University o f Cal ifor ­nia) are encou rag ing students to ac­quire a broadl y. based , liber al artseducation . They are beginning to?"realize that man y, stude nts tend tospecialize in one narro w field of en­deavor and fail to get a liberal artseduc atio n. Th is fact rece ntl y ledHarvard o ffic ials to revise irs cur-

, riculum so th at students will beforced to take more cou rses in thearea of I) lite rature and arts . 2) his-.

, tOIY, ' 3) soc ial and phil osoph icalanalysis, 4) science and mathemat­ics , and 5) fo reign languages andculture .

" T he trouble is not simpl y that thesci ence s have displaced thehumanitie s. The hum anitie s, as cut­rentl y taught and stud ied , are asmuch addicted to spec ialized scbol-

• arship as are ' the sc ientific depart ­ment s to highl y spec ialized research.The trouble rather is that the broadlyedu cated generali st {the man with aliber al arts educ ation] has become anendangered species . Th e e ver­I ~cre asing spe cializatio n of kno wl­edg e in all field s has almost com­pletely di splaced the ge ner alist. "So stated Mortimer J. Adler , chairmanof the board of e di tors of th eEncyclopaedia Britann ica (NfwS·week. Aug. 2 1).

The basics at Ambassador

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WEEKEND IN THE WOODS "':' ,Studenls and members of theirch.aperons' families pose ,for,a shot at their Dec, t to 3 .weekend. retreat,'

.CAMPUS NOTE·SAMBASSADOR COLLEGE ACTIVITIES

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The Amb assador 'Colleg e studentbody presented The Bong ShOw, ·atakeoff on TV' sGong Show" before apacked house of Pasadena C hurchmembers in the Ambassador CollegeRecital Hall Dec. 9 . .

Masters of cerem onie s were stu ­.dents Dave Myers and Paul Wil ·Iiams with Dean of Student s Greg

. Albrecht and mini sters David An ­tio n and Bernie Sc hnipperl se rv­ing as judges for the students' acts .

First place went to a band calledTohuski and Bohusk i and wor st placewent to a ski t entitl ed " Q uee n Tut ."After the show banan a splits wereserved in the co llege Student Center .

Highl ight s o f the weeke nd werewalks and drives aro und the area,f ilms of so me of Herbert W .Arm stron g' s early telecasts, dances,table games and discussions with theministers and their wives .

who d iscussed " What Is a Mini s­ter? " At the Nov . 8 meetin g Stanl eyR. Rader wa's gue st speaker, relatin g 'some of his personal experi ences anddiscussing charac terist ics of success­fu l peo ple he has know n at ' man yle ve ls of business a nd society .Raymond McNair , deput y chancel­lor of Ambassador College , spoke atthe meeting Nov. 22, speaking abouthis 30 years in the ministry.

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Despite heav y fog and icy mountainroads , about 35 Ambassador Collegestudents spent Dec. I through 3 in arented house at the Lake Arrowheadmoun tain resort area 30 miles east of .Pasadena .

The students are members of themen ' s " Monday Night Live " cluband the women' s Monday night cluband were accompanied by sabbaticalministers Steve Smith and VincentSzymkowiak andtheir familie s.

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left, and participate jn a discussion with sabbatical minister Steve Smith .. and his wif.~ , f i9ht:.lP.h~IOS .~y. Dennis Go~zal0 J:. '..' ..

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During the past semeste r the Sab ­batical Ministers Club in Pasadenahas had several guest speakers at itsbiweekly luncheon meetings . Thefirst speaker was C. Wa yne Cole ,

ing ex pedi tion s o n Mt. Hood - inOregon and Mt. Ran ier in Washing.ton . He also showed film s he hadtaken whi le pil oting o ne o f theGoody ear blimp s, flying some of theAir Force's most adva nced fighteraircraft and a bot-air balloon , forma- .tion skydiving and hang-gl iding .

Mr . Goddard, a resident of LaCanada, Calif., stressed the impor ­tance o f setting and achieving goalsand described how he, at age 15.listed 127 goals he wanted to eccom ­plish ' in life . He has accomplishedover 100of the se to date , although hecommented that he adds to the list asnew activitie s and 'adventures cometo mind .

followed the open house . Later in theevenin g a _Walt Disney movie , TheApple Dumpling Gang, wa s shown ., The open hou se had a westernthem e, and partic ipant s were encour­aged to wear appropriate cost umes.

E xplorer-adventurer John God­. dard addressed the Ambassador Col­

lege. facult y and stude nt bod y in an~ assemb ly Dec . 5 in the Amb assador. Aud itorium .

Mr. Goddard , who has addressed'assemblie s at all three Ambas sadorcampuses in past yea rs, narrated afilm o f hi s recent trip 'to theGalapagos Islands and mountaineer -

Headquarters Ch urch members gota taste of college life when the studentsof Ambassador College held an openhouse Nov. 5. Mayfair , Terrace Villaand Grove Terrace, all student dor­mitor ies, were opened for visitors .

A country-style roast-beef dinner

EXPLORER - Explorer-ad­venturer John Goddard ad­dresses.lhe Ambassador Collegefaculty and student body in Am- ,bassador Auditorium Dec : 5.(Photo by Scott Ashley],

Rumors'and their mongers

SEPARATE GROUPS

THECOVENANrrs

Monday, Dec. 18, 1978

be ing the c hie f cornerstone!Much of the Church's doctrine

a nd teac hi ng tome s from theproph et s , as their w ritings are re ­cor ded in wha t today we call OldTest am ent Scripture s.

The Old Testament Scripturesrec ord for us, tod ay, all the his­tory of ancie nt Israel , the o ld cov ­enant and God ' s deal ings underthat covena nt.

Th e Wo rldw ide C hurc h ofGod is base d on THE WHOLEBIBLE. ·

Tho se CA LLED of God a repri vileged to live accord ing to theconditions o f the NEW covenant,though the actual covena nt ha snot be en . as we m ight sa y to day ,

yet "signed, sealed and deliv­ered . , . T hose NOT called spe ­cially by God are , as we re all'outside Isr ael in Old Testamen ttimes, cut off from God - notbeing now judged - nei ther lostnor saved . Their time is ye t toco me !

con vey the love and respect due abrother in Christ. 1am not suggesti ngwe all become Pollyannas . ·You candisagree with someone respectfully.(The British have developed this intoan an form . For the Fre nch, it is aduty of civilized men!) TIle key is toassume that if he were present hewould put forwa rd sound reasons forhis action s or words that are at leastas valid as yours .

Next , the supply of news from of ­'ticial sources must come closer to thedem and . Not (hat the supply willever equal the demand . T hat is im­possible . But for year s there has beenroom for improvemen t.

Many rumors involve finan ce ,Stanley Rader ansi even Mr . Arm­strong him self. So Me.Rader, as Mi.Armstrong 's assis tant and treasurer 'for the Work, is holding forums fo rempl oyees at Pasadena. He asks forany question on any subjec t from thefloor. The enquirers have been can­did in their questions . Mr. Rader hasbeen equ ally cand id in his replies .

So that everyone can benefit fromthese forums, the transcripts are pub­lished ,in The Good News. Regularforu ms of this type are planned forthe future . Th is open ness and candorwill help to stop the rumo r mill .

Keep divis ion out

Finally , the sed itiou s practice offracturing into camps ' wit hin theC hurch must stop. That is what Satandid ; he got all those around him toview with suspicion and malice thosetha t we-re no t me mbe rs of . the ir" sphere" group!

Ther e ; should not be " we" and"they" with in the Body of Christ.We should all be " us: '

Christ gave clear commands tokeep d ivision out of His Church . He .said , "if your brot her shall trespassaga inst you" (Matthew 18:15) or if" thyb rother has ought again st thee"(Matthew 5:23) , go to him directly

. and get it. solved . That instruction. wasgivenby Christ persona lly . . - ~

How many reaso ns can most of us. give for not doing it? Regard less of .

the excuse , we are not doi ng whatGod. says . Disunity is the result .

God' s Church has gone thro ugh anextremely trying , sorrowful time. Ifwe can learn and grow from it, as aBody, God can use us more effec­tively.

.w oros, conversations , fellowshipwill alway s be a part of the Church ofGod . If those words are of a spirit thathelps Christ's fiilal prayer to be ful­filled, God can put us in a position tobring light to all who are in the house. Hnot, we deserve to be hidden under abushel. .

Words can bringus together

If word s have divided us, words ,coming from a right spirit, can helpbring us together. .

To begin , every membe r of the'Body of Christ should let the honorof his fellows be as dear to him ashis own .

. When someone' s name comes upin conversa tion, make your words

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th at the o ld covena nt has e ndeda nd -sup po sing the o ld covenant

. and the o ld testament are one and' the same thing, they rejec t, forex am ple , Malachi 3:8-12, whic bmakes failure to PA Y the titheeach OWES to Godthe StN ofSTEA LIN G ~ and the HEINOUS

StN of steal ing fro m GOD at that !In the days of Je sus' mini stry ,

the wri ting s we now ca ll " theOld Te stament," were norcalledthat , In fact the ol d COVe na nt wasN OT A T ESTA MENT AT ALL !

Those writing s then were cal led"the law, the proph ets and thewritings, " o r the "Psalms. "

Wh en Je sus said , ," T hink notthat I have come 10 de stro y thelaw or the prophets , " 'He wassa ying that He did not co me toend the OldTestament (as wenow call them)Scriprures. God' sCHURCH ·is built on the veryFOUNDATIONof the apostles AND_T~E r~OPH ETS, Jesus. ..Chri st Cl'

brotherl y rel at ion s is found inLev iticus 19:1 8: " Thou sha lt not

\. avenge, nor bear any grudge against, the children of thy people, but thou

s1uilJloverhy neighboras thyself: I amthe Lord: '

T he Je wish sc ho lars ex po undthe famo us last phrase by say ing ," Let the honor and the property ofyour fellowman be as dear to you asyour own." Frankly, the honor andname of our brothe rs hasn't bee n as" dear" to us as God ' s law says itsho uld be. And that is the basic yard­stick He uses in jud ging us in hum anrela tions. That should be a soberingthou ght . .

Jesus pra yed for unity.

Jesus C hrist's last night e n earth asa hum an bein g was an emot io n­etched event. He kne w He would notbe phys ica lly pr esen t with HisCh urch till Hi sreturn . He knew theweaknesses , sins , faults , power strug­gles and selfish attitudes of thosearound the table with Him - and ofthose who would come later . He alsoknew they all had pride. that ancientadvers ary of peace and .harmony inthe Church of God . So He prayed .

If you examine the theme of thatprayer in John 17, yo u will fmd it isun ity . " . .. Hol y Fath er , keepthrough thine own name those whomthou hast given me , that they may beone . . . ,. He asked for Ged 's specia lhelp to keep us together . That thewills, want s and pride of the mem­bers of C hrist 's Bod y would notca use d isharmon y. And -in case any­one wanted to argue abo ut what unityis (as surely many wou ld) He added" as we are ." As close and mutuallyrespect ful as the Father and the Son .Tbere is no finer example or standardfor measuring unity. .

With all that has happe ned ove r thelast several years , the answer to JesusC hrist ' s prayer is probably the mostpressing need for the Chur ch toda y.We should all be:praying for oneness- e speci ally now.".~~ . . .

Most thing s take action as well asprayer before they are accomplished .Unity is no exception. It takes posi­tive action to produc e unity - byever ybod y.

The GOOD NEWS'

Responsibility demandsaccountability

Wh e n so me thing' o r so meo neneeds correcting, He can and doesco rrect. He waits. He is criticized fordelay. He acts . He is censured fo rseveri ty . Pan of the "living by fa ith"

. is trust ing Him to gove rn Hi s ow nBody. Especia lly the leadership whobear the respon sib ility of their office .Responsibi lity demands acco untabil ­ity.

If we bel ieve He is the Head, ourwords should show it. If we do not ,there is no reason to belo ng to thisChurch.

Remem ber , the C hurc h is Hisbride. With all our flaws, He is mak ­ing us into a clea n, righteous andfaultless bride to marry forever at Hisreturn . You would not view withfavor .anyone who besmirched thereputat ion of yo ur bride-to-be . Nordoes He. Revelation l 2:9-11.

Our think ing should not be dete r­mined by the hostile , wrathful , dis­trustin g and unfor giving world inwhich we live . We have been calledout of it. Our minds must be trans- .form ed into th e truly co nverte dChristian mind that in an open andhonest way follows Chri st and thel ea~ership He puts over us.

Perhap s the greatest problem is theway many feel free to speak about orItstento critical words about abrother in the Church or in the minis-

~ ~ ' JfY".:,! he .~ilS ~C Bibl e reaching .Qrt .

in the wrong. Together they creat e. ru mor 'and spread it. . AU to satisfy

both their quests for self-esteem . .Chri st ' s prophecy that" he that exa ltshimself shall be abased " seems tohave bee n overlooked. Their goal isto be exa lted in the eyes of thosearo und them . Tha t may be their onlyreward .

Or" it may not. When the blindlead the blind in this way, it is notonly they who fall into the ditch .Hundreds may fall with them, be-­cau se the conclusions they arrive atand spread usually have an uglin essand a viciousness about them thatco uld make a " little one" stumblevIfthat happens, another rewardmay bethe promi sed millstone . .

People appear to have an ungodl yfascination with the negativ e and ig­noble. The worse the rumor , the fast­

.er it travels. Presumabl y more wantto hear it and tell it, .

To God , builder s and suppliers ofugly rumors reveal more about them­selves than they do about the truth ofthe people and events they seek toreport. He said He will have a littlechat with them about it in the future .Matthew 12:36, '

The age of cynicism

Ther e' is still another reason . T his .is the age of cynic isrrr.. So manycover-ups have been uncovered, somany " facts" have bee n provedfraudulent, so many stories de m­onstrated to be specious, that we ofthis age are force d 10 view everythin g .with doubt and disbeli ef. There is noinnocence .

But that outloo k does not belong inthe Church. If it is, we are not over ­coming the world , it is overcomingus. We would be 'accepting the at­titude s of a dying society instead of

-q- the w~y ,of God that leads to life . Ifwe infer tha.t Church leader ship issuspec t or evil , that they willin glydece ive us and are selfi shly moti­vated, we are actually saying thatChris t is not ruling His Church as Hesh~uld . . .

Chri st pictured Himself to John(Revela tion I ) as standing in themiddle of His chur ches with theangels co mpletely in His controlc--.totall y involved ! He wanted theChurch to know that He" is aware ,active and in charge . .

And the apostles had been taughtby CHRIST,

Apostles held responsible

But the various individuals didnot decide for themselves whatto say, believe or speak - nordid the y individually receive thetruth s from Christ. But Godtaught the apostles , and HeHOLDS THE AP.OSTLES RE ·

SPONSIBLE for the d o ct rines· given to the Church, that the re be

no di vi sion s . We mu st all spe akthe SAME THING, but God bolds

· th e apostle re spo ns ible that w hatthey all spea k, and believe is the ,RIGHT thing !

Bu t the re was no " DoctrinalCommittee " no r group of o the rminister s or lay members whovo ted o n doctrine .and prac tice .Ch rist gave all thaI to Hi, ChurchTHRO UGH HIS APOSTLES!

When ChrisI co mes - SOONNOW - His WIFE sha ll hav em ad e herself re ad y and w ill enterin with Him to the marriage ­the NEW COVENANT - and theDOOR WILL THEN BE SH UT(Matthew 25 :10), Others whowe re .alone , or various"gro ups "will then come and kn ock o n thedoor-butChristwill s~y, " .. ,t " NOW YOU NOT" (verse 12),

Gods Church ha s so re lyneeded a spiritual reawakeningand revival. But the rec ent Feastof Tabernacles 'ga ve e v ide ncethat the needed revival is -we llunder way . IT MUST CONTINUE ,

for ,very soon, now, the Churchwill have to have MADE HERS ELF ·

- REAI?.Y! . ;

have found that people deprived ofauthoritative new s tend to speculate.Either individually or with other in­.terested parties, they IX'0.1 what in­formation they have to form reason­able est imates of the whole story.

There are other reasons. Eventsare .discussed for purely entertain­me nt value . Just to keep life and theconversation intere sting.

Another common reason is to be­stow status on the teller. But thespecialists who study the se thin gs tellus that people who give inform ationoutside of officia l channels usuall ydi stort the new s by distill in g it(" level ing" in rumor argot) becauseof I ) time considerations (long dis­tance calls are costly), or 2) the con­versation is on a tact that onl y in­volves the news in part (on a tangent)

· or 3) the bits that support the teller ' sown ' opinion are highlighted whilethose that conflict are dimini shed

Shak y at best.

An ego trip for some

For some it is an ego trip to know..something others don't. Of cour se, ifthose around " them are unaware oftheir ignorance , the joy of knowing is

· d iminished. SO, ·a bit of baitin g isca lled for. The techn iques vary fromsilly to stupid. They are never sophis­ticated. T his bait becomes the wholemorsel to the one who receives it;unless he can pump more out. But ifnot, that will have to be his meal forthat day. He will add that piece toothers from different s ources in anattempt 10 form a more com plete pic­ture . In doing so , bewill share his bit(a kind of barter) in di scussion s withothers . The more " others" the bet­ter. Additional pieces of infcrrna­tion are added or discarded as seemsbest.

Both the ba iter and the baited are

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TH E ONE VINE - the BODY OF

CHRIST.

Separated " C hris t ia ns , " o r.. groups" .are branches brokenojf f rom the VINE - the BODY OFCH RIST,!

The Father is the Husbandman- the Vinedresser. Every branchof this grapevine (the Church)that does not bear fruit for theKingd om , the Father prunes it­cuts it off - that the organi ze d ,uni ted v ine m a y be ar MORE

FRUIT.

When there are so me in th eC hurc h who ca use division o r so wthe seeds of d iscord, God says,"' ... mark them . .. a nd AVO ID

THEM" (Ro mans 16:17; see alsoII Thessal onians 3:6, 14-1 5),The Church will bear mo re fru itwhen the 'd issidents , tbo se wboobey not tbeWork , tbose ' wbocause division and di scord. arePRUN ED OFF! #

Also branches of a grape vinecut off cannot bear fruit. The yDIE SPIRITU ALLY . ..

To the Church of G od atCori nth, the apostle Paul wrotethat al l in the Church mu st SPEAK.

T HE SAME THI NG , th at there be nod ivisions among us (se e I Corin­thian s I :10),

Now FROM WHERE does theC hurc h receive the doctrinesand teachings they must allspe ak? THINK ON THIS! TheC hurc h , as Christ o rga nized it ,RE CEIVE'D ITS BELIEFS AND

TEACffiNOS AND EVEN ITS cus­TOMS FRO,", THE" MOSTLESI

By Bob FabeyPASADENA - Talk about rumor

is usually too simplistic. Com muni- ._cation people know that rumorcan be; '.a good sign because it shows inte rest . .Somebody cares abo ut the per son ­

"being discu ssed. His actions are im­pon ant and significant .

People talk about what is of in­terest to them . We have given ourlives to this Work. We are concernedabout 'every facet of its operations.We care about the triumph s and thetrou bles . We di scu ss the m both . Wewant to kno w part icularly abo ut theleadersh ip - what they are doing,thin king, planning or eve n dread ing .Because those activ ities will affectthe Work and us.

We do not d iscu ss what is of nointerest to us.

Ifour hearts (and trea sure) are inthe Work, we will surely talk aboutit. A nd so we should . The problem , ofcourse, is how we talk about it. AsHerbert Armstrong .has. said abo uteverything from shotguns to sex, it isnot the thing, but the misuse of thething, that-is wrong.

And talk ing about the Work andthe people in it has been mis used -badly. '

Why?

The demand for news

First we must reme mber the oldmarketplace princi ple of supply anddeman d. Ifdemand for news exceed sthe supply in normal chan nels , in­terested partie s begin to rely on eachothe r for information. So any barri ersthat hinder the rapid d issemination ofnews such as censo rship (In agov­ernmen t or a boardroo m) or physicalbarr ier s aris ing in catas trophies(earthq uakes , war , etc .) encou ragerumors.

Invest igators , in studying rumors,

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Monday, Dec. 18, 1978 The GOODNEWS 9

Worldwide Church of God full-time international ministryPASTOR GENERAL

Herb ert W._Armstrong

EVANGELISTS

Dibar Aparlian , Pas adena; C al if .(French Work) ; Frank B ro w n , G reatBritain; ' Leslie L. ' M cCUllough ,Canada; Dean W ilson , Austra lia.

REGIONAL DIRECTORS(Photos belo w)

Colin Adair, the Philippines; DibarApartian, .France: Stan Bass, theCaribbean; Martin Bode and FrankSchnee, German Wo r1< ; Frank Brow n, 'Great Britain, Scandinavia and BlackAfrica; Abraham de Bree, the Nether­lands ; Wa~er Dickinson, Central ' andSouth America; Roy McCarthy, SouthAfrica; Leslie L. McCullough, Canada ;Bob Morton, New Zealand ; Dean Wil­son , Australia and the Far East.

PASTORS

Colin Adair , Manila (Metropoli tan ), 'Philippines; Charles Bryce, Regina, Sask.;Harold Jackson, Enugu and Lagos, Nigeria;Robert Morton, Auckland, New Zealand,

George E. Patrickson. Calgary (North) ,Alta,; Richard A. Pinelli, Toron to (West),Ont. ; Frank Sch nee , Pasadena , Ca lif.(German Work) ; COlin Wilkins , Montreal(French), Que.

PREACHING ELDERS"John Adams,Ottawa and Pembroke, Ont.;

Craig Bacheller, Moose Jaw and Swift Cur­rent, Sask.; John Bartholomew, Durban(European and Non-European)" South Af-rica. .- -,..'.. ' . .".L • .-

Stan Bass, Castries, St. Lucia, Kingston,Jamaica, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St.Georges, Grenada ; David A. Bedford, Bris­tol, England; Robert H. Berendt, Edmonton(North), Alta. . . •

Robert C. Boraker , Bricket Wood andChannel Isles , England; Daniel Botha,Cape Town (European) and Retreat, SouthAfrica; Etienne H. Bourdin, Angers , Nancyand Paris , France .

A. Barry Bourne, Lancaster and Man­chester, England; Jean Carion , Brussels ,Belgium ; John S. Comino , Cairns, Mackay 'and Townsville, Australia ; F. JackCroucher, Auckland , New Zealand .

Gavin N. CUllen, ' Sydney (South ) andWollongong , Australia ; Alan Dean, Sydney

(West), Australia ; Bruce Dean, Bundaberg,Emerald , Maryborough and Rockhampton,Australia .

Rodney Dean , Frankston and Melbourne(South) , Austra lia ; Walter Dickinson,Pasadena , Calif . (Spanish Work) ; Willia mT. Dixon, Devenport, Hobart and Launces­ton, Australia; Neil Earle, Calgary (North),Alta.

Thomas Ecke r, Toronto (West) , Ont. ;John A. Elliott, Chilliwack, B.C.; Robert El­liott, Peterborough, Ont. ; Mark A.B. Ellis,Ballymena and Belfast, Northem Ireland .

R. Kent Fentress , Grande Prairie. Alta.:Kenneth Frank Jr., Brandon , Man., andMoosomin , Sask .; Lyle J . Greaves.Kelowna, B.C.; Lawrence Greider .Jr., Bar-rie, Ont. .

Kerry W. Gubb, Morwe ll, Austra lia; GaryR. Harvey , Palmerston North and Welling­ton, New Zea land ; Sidney M. Hegvold,Dubin , Ireland; Ei e Hofer, Victoria, B.C.

David House , Gada lming, Lewes . Read­ing and Southampton. England; Ronald L.Howe , Winnipeg (East), Man. ; Col in J .Jackson . Perth (North), Australia .

John A.Jewell , Plymouth, Engiand;GregB. Joh nson, Afha basca and Westlock,Alta.; S. Doug ias Johnson, Thunder Bay,Ont.; Terry Johnson , Kings ton and SmithsFalls,Ont.

Robin G. Jone s, London (North ,and ;South ), Maidstone and Orpington, En­gland ; John B. Karlson, Frankfurt andStuttgart, Wes t Germany; Colin Kell y,Christchurch, New Zeala nd.

Clyde Kilough , Winnipeg (North) , Man.;Rodney G. King, Toowoomba, Wandoanand Warwick, Australia ; Kenneth -B .Kneebone , Hali fax, N.S .; MichaelKneebone , Roseau, Minn ., and Winkler ,Man.

A.Paul Kneebone, Fredericton, Monetonand St. John , N.B.; Sam Kneller . Paris,France; Jack Kost, London, Ont.; JonathanKurnik, Pentic ton, B.C., and To nask et ,Wash. ' .

H. John Larkin, Grafton and Newcastle,Australia; Dennis Lawren ce, Evansb urg,Alta.; George W. Lee, Vancouver, B.C.;Kenneth S. Lewis . Bunbury and Perth .(North and South), Austrafia.

Kev in O. Lulnarn, Melbou'rne (East),Australia ; Cecil E. Maranville , Lethbridge,Alta .; Kingsley D. Mather, Na ssau ,Bahamas; Rodney . H. Matthews, GoldCoast, Australia.

Roy V. McCarthy, Johannesburg, SouthAfrica ; John McLean, Grafton, Austraila;Peter D. McLean , Caboolture and Gympie,Australia ; Rodney A. McQueen , Brisbane(East), Australia.

John Meak in , Aberdeen, Edinb urgh,Glasgow and Kilmamock, Scotland; PieterMichielsen, Calgary (South), Alta.; Ronald

C. Miller, Saskatoon , Sask.; Robert J . Mill­man, ~~mloops ~ndSaln.v~ Arm , B.C. {_­

Pacifico Z._Mirto , Caman nes Sur and- L aquna, Philippines ; Robert J. ' Mijchell,

Sydney (East), Austra ila ; Owen B. Murphy, .Uoydminster and North Balt leford, Sask .;Peter Nathan, East Rand, South Africa.

David K. Noller , Brisbane' (South andWest), Australia ; Alvin Nordstrom , Cour­tenay, B.C.; Brian W. Orch ard, Melbourne(North and West), Austraiia; Pedro S. Or­tiguero, Pampanga, Philippines ; RoystonPage, Winnipeg (South), Man.; Stuart Pow­ell, Bricket Wood, England; Will am Rabey,Cornwall, On t., Lake Placid, N.Y., andMonfreal (English), Que.; Jose Raduban,Cebu, Iloilo Cily and Negros Occide ntal.Philippines;Charles Hanchie, Red Deer andWetaskiwin, Alta.; Robert Regazzoli, Bal­larat, Bendigo and Shepparton, Australia;Fran Ricchi, Sarnia, Ont.; T. Victor Root, ­Hamburg and Hannover, West Germany :Terrence Roth, Prince Albert and Tisdale,Sask.; S. Rainer Salomaa. North Bay, SaultSte. Marie and Sudbury ,Ont.; Roland Samp­son, Hamilton, Bermuda; Bob Scott, QuebecCity and Trois-Rivieres, Que.

Peter Shenton, Aarhus. Denmark, Basil­don, Ipswich and Norwich, Engiand, Oslo,Norway , and Stockho lm, Sweden ; Lyle V.Simons, Kitchener , Ont .; Douglas E. Smith,Toronto (Easf), Ont.

David M. Stirk ; Hull , Leeds, Newcastle­on-Tyne and Sheffie ld, England ; NormanT. Strayer, Vancouver, B.C.; Arthur Suck-

• ling, Birmingham, .Northampton and Not­tingham, England.

Paul R. Suckiing, Bricket Wood, En­gland; Colin Sutcliffe, Canberra, Temoraand Wodonga , Australia ; Gordon A. Ter­blanche. Pretor ia (European and Non ­European ), South Africa ; Edward C. Tup­per, Adelaide, Austra lia.

Thomas D. Turk , Mexico City , Mexico ;Bruce C. Tyler, Ballarat and Gee long,Ausfralia; Andre E. van Belkum, Johannes- >burg (Eu ropea n and No n-E uropean) ,South Africa; 'Dennis'Van' Deventer; Re-~

gina; Sask .Anthon y Wasilkoff; Hamilton, Ont.; Glen

Weber;- Prince Geo rge', B.C.; DennisWheate rott, Didsbury, Alta .; A.John White,East London, King Williamston and PortElizabeth , South Africa.

Peter Whitti ng" Sydney (North); Aus­tralia; Richard Wilkinson , Trail, B.C.; WillWooster, Edmonton (South) ,Atta.: MauriceYurkiw, Dauphin, Man., and Yorkton, Sask.

LOCAL ELDERS

Bernard Andrist, Geneva and Neuchatel ,Switzerland; Bernard Audoin , Bordeaux , .Nimes and Toulouse. France ; Ross Beath,Bathurst and Blackheath, Aust ralia.

Encardio Benitez, Don Carlos, Klara andMisamis Orien tal, Philippines; Francis Ber­gin, Bncket Wood . England; Mart in Bode,Bonn and Duesseldorf. West Germany ;Chuck Boehme. ,Comwall, Ont. .

Adriaan Botha , Durban (European andNon-European), South Africa ; JonathanBuck, North Battleford, Sask.; Percival Bur­rows, Toronto (West), Ont.; Gilbert Carbon­nel, Martinique, West Indies; Abraham deBree, L1trecht, Holland; Glenn Ooig, PrinceAlbert and Tisdale, Sask.; Erick S. Dubois,Basse Terre and Point-a -Pit re, . Guade­loupe; William Duncan, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Robert Flores II, Mor.terrey , Mexico;Richard Fork un, Toronto (East), Ont.;Pablo Gonzalez, San Juan , Puerto Rico; I.Toluta Ha'angana, Tonga; Gordon Harry,San 'Juan, Puerto Rico.. Alfred Hellemann, Salzburg, Austria ;Bernard Hongerloot , Mont real (French),Que.; Sydney J. Hull, Johannesburg (Euro­pean ' and Non-European), South Afr ica ;David Hulme , Johann esbu rg, South Africa ;Mohan Jayasekera, Colombo , Sri Lanka.

Walter S. John son. Vancouver, B.C.;Karl Karlov, Hamilton and Taur anga, NewZealand; Gary King, Sault Ste. Marie , Ont .;Paul Linehan, Dauphin, Man ., and Yorkton,Sask .

lloyd H. Longley , Perth (North), Aus­traaa: Bienvenido Macaraeg: Benguet andPangas inan (East and West ), Philipp ines ;Edmond D. Macaraeg. Davao Del ,Norteand Davao Oriental , Philippines.

David Magowan , Liverpool and Stoke­on-Trent , England; Bryan Mathie. Johan­nesburg, South Africa ; Don Mears, Win­nipeg (So uth) , Man .; Alfredo Mercado,Gua dalajara , Mex ico : James Muir ,Geneva , Switzerland, and Lyon, France .

Frank W. Nelle , Pietermaritzburg, SouthAfr ica ; Carlos Nieto, Bridge town , Bar­bados ; Laurie Nyhus, Edmonton (South),Alta .; Dona t Picard, Montreal (French).Que. .

Alan Redmond, Red Deer and Wefas­" . klwm, Alta.; John W. Reedy, Windsor, Ont.;

.Thomas Root, Bern and Zuerich, Switzer­<land; David A. Sheridan, St. John 's, Nfld.

Philip Shields. Edmonton (North ), Alta.;David J: Silcox, London (South), Maidstoneand Orpington, England; Victor Simpson ,Bridgetown, Barbados.

Adrian Smith, Halifax, N.S.; H. Guy Stil­born , Moosomin, Sask .; Ronald J. Stod­dart , Bulawayo and Salisbury (European) ,Rhodesia ; Henry C. Sturcke, Sherbrooke(English and French ), Que .; Leo D. VanPelt, St. Cathar ines, Ont.

Kenneth B. Webster, Salmon Arm. B.C.;Bill Wh itaker. Cape Town (European).South Africa ; Owen Willis , Nairob i, Kenya;Chin Gee Yong , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ,and Singapore.

CO LIN ADAIR

WALTER DICKINSON

OI BA R APARTIAN

ROV McCARTH Y '

STAN BASS

. : . •' LESLIE L. McCUl(;OU GH '

MARTIN BO DE

.l' ····S OB MOR TON

FRANK BR OWN

FRANK SCHNEE . :

ABRAHAM DE BREE

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LOCAL CHO:RCH·NEWS

Reports for " Lo calChurch News" must bepostmarked no la te r than 14

days after the date of theevent reported on and be nolonger than 250 words . Re­ports lacking the date of theevent cannot be published.

Monday, Dec. 18, 1978

were recognized and new office rs an­nounce d . Darla Wil son was appoin tedpresident; Susan Culpep per, ...ice presi­dent; Cindy Norris , secretary -treasurer;and Tra cy Detter , sergean t at arms.

The Athen s girls' volleyball team re­-ce ived a troph y for its fas t-place win indistrict co mpet ition, and local YOU coer­dinator Do ug McC oy and his wife Trace ywere given .a plaque in appreciation forthe ir service and dedication . After the pot­luck meal, wh ich was orga nized by Su sanC ulpepper, several teens perfo rmed musi­ca l -and vocal pieces . E nte rtainmentchairma n was Susan lassiter . Darla Wi/ ­son.

Theca mp fire girls of tbe headquarters,churche s in PASADENA co mbined the irefforts Nov . 24, eac h donating gi ft­wrapped , used toys in goo d condition toneed y childre n. The girls plan 10 " adopt"some of the c hildren by contin uing to saveused toys and clo thes for them and invhing .them 10 several outing s . The project is incoo peration with the headquarters O ut­reach progr am . Caro l Nelson,

. Tbe culminarionofa week of daily YESco lori ng and dra wing co ntes ts at theANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feast of Taber :naeles was another co ntest to see who hadthe best pictures . The Anchorage YESchildren me t Nov . 4 to share their lmpres­

. sions of the Feas t, the n the judges award edprize s to the winners. The children hadco lored and drawn more than 900 Bible­oriented pictu res . W inners from the An­chorage church were Sama ntha An n El­ledge (fo r ages 9 10 I I) , Danny Frank s(ages 6 to 8). Knsre l Phear s (ages 3 to 5)and Mikey Pickett (crea tive drawing s).Winners from other church areas wereRachel Rob inson ofFon w orth, Tex. (forages 9 to II) , Ana Ment or ofldaho (ages 6to 8) and Stephen Robinson of Fort Worth(ages 3 to S). Milc.~ Pickett,

During Sabbath Services Nov . 18 at theCiNCiNNATI (O hio) East church. 56childr en receiv ed Ce rtificate of Anen­dance awards for completing their lustyear in the YES program . Th e children aredivide d into four age-groups for the cla ss­es, which are held every othe r Sabbat h.Twel ve of the children were promo ted tothe ne xt level, and five from the o ldes tgroup were adva nced to the chu rch' s YOUBible-study gro up that meers Friday eve ­nings et the home of Cincinnati East pastorReinhold Fuessel. Mike Brandenburg.

T he EVANSVILLE (lnd .) EaglesYOU basketball team took its uniformso utof summer storag e 10 play the first game oftheseason Nov , 18. The player s and cheer­leader s travele d to Bow ling Green , Ky. ,where they look on the Build S. The gamewent into two overcimes, throwingthe fan sinto hysteria . The Ea gles , however., flewon high-powered oct ane to the very end ,co nque ring the Bull et s 65 -60 . WilmaNidamp.

'LOCALCHU RCH NEWS'

DEADLIN ES

ATHENS, Ge ., teen s, the ir fam iliesand friend s attende d their annual YOUaward s banquet Nov. 18. Mark louder ­milk and Darla Wilson were name d asdelegates to this year,"s YOU conference inPasadena, and last year's club officer s

OPE N HOUSE - Members of the Manila, Philipp ines , church helpthemselv es to chicken sandwiches, canapes and pineapple juice duringthe Manila Office 's open house Nov . 5, From left are Bessie Lim, EvaTagaca , Artena Baguio and O.B. Pangmnan. (See "Church Activ~ies:' this

page.) [Photo by Jun Rustia] .

YOUTHACTIVITIES

Spykerma n. Clive Walrus .It was role -re ver sal night for the

LAUKEL, Det ., Spokesman Club Nov.18 as the men cooked a potluck din ner andthe wome n delivered tbe speeches. Thetheme for-the evening was " What EveryWife Wishe s Her Husband Knew AboutWomen;" with Ann Hampt on. Bobbi Rut ­ter . Janet Frank, Barbara C ulp and PalLarrim ore speaking on the topic . Baby­sitl ing durin gthe pro gram was provided bythe YOU members under the direct ion ofVannena Cha se . Etain e Walka .

The Amba ssador Women' s Associat ionof the HOUSTON (Tex .) West church'sponsored .an exciting evening of food , .fun . fellow sh ip and dancing Nov. 18 toco mmemorate its first year as a club . T heguest s were membersof the Famil y Co-o pClub, the Houston West Spokesman Cluband Ed Mar rs, pastor ofthe chur ch , and hiswife. A profe ssional dancer demonstrated

. the tripl e Latin hustle , the newest discodance to be released in New York, to tho seatten ding . Sharon Johnson . _

The: Women' s Club of the SARNIA,Ont ., church met Nov. 9 for a roller ­skating party, followed by a potluck meal .Plans were made for the next meetin g,which will center around macrame . TheSpok esman Club also held its first meetin gof the season . Robert Maru schak is thenew president . Iva Ma~ G~~s.

The GOOD NEWS

busy with relays and gam es. Julie Hopkin swent home with the doo r prize . Cindy

_Hopkins. _The T RENTON, N.J. , mem bers post­

poned their regu lar socia l-snack ho ur afterserv jcesNov , 18 inordertoenjoyapotluckluncheo n anda Bible study. Thomas Oak - .ley, Trenton church elde r, inspired par­ticipation from alt , first answe ring ques­ticn s from the children and gradually 'working through the ent ire congregationpresen t , also answerin g written question s .l im Stokes,

The f lr st fall soci a l of th eVANCOUVER, B.C . ,· church Nov. 18featured 21entert ainm ent skits by childrenages 3 to 12. The progr am incl uded songs,dance routin es , recitations and Instrumen­tal music . The evening , which began witha potluck meal , ended with movie s for thechildren and dancing for the adult s toprere corded di sco and big-band music .Lama 1\. Lukinuk .

The WATERTOWN, S .D ., .churchsponsored a potluck socia l Nov. 19 towelcome the visit from thechurch's previ­ou s pastor and his wife, Art and LindaDyer , and the ir son Wes ley . Tabl e game sand lots of conversat ion accompanied thesevera l game s of volleyball . Mr. Dyer ispresentl y pastoring the Indiana and Al­toona, Pe. churc hes , Dianne Skar seth,

CLUB 'MEETINGS

Eightee n men wh o atte nd theTILBE RG and BILTHOVEN,'Netherlands," churches held their firstmeet ing of the ne w Tilb urg Spok esmanClub Nov . 13. Bram de Bree, pastor ofboth churches, is club director, and offl ­cers are Jan Blaauw , president ; Martin vanZanten , vice preside nt; Paul Ursern , sec­retar y•. Frans Peeters, trea surer; and BenBruning , sergeant at arms . Meetings areheld ever y two weeks in the Dutch Ian­guage f'Club member s have a completel ytranslated version of tile manual availabl eto instruct them in goa ls of the clu b andtbeirspeecbes . The men are' also lookingforward to a community-serv ice projectduring the 1978-79 session . Paul Ursem,

The BRIGHTON, Engl and , chur chalso has a SPokesman C lub now , di rectedby Peter Noon . The club 's sixth meet ing,Nov. 15, was a ladie s' night, with top­icmaste r Keith Hartrick' s th ought ­provok ing subjects ga inin g en thusiasticrespon se from most of those prese nt, es pe­cially Mary Noon and Jenn y Tompsen.Afte r a half-hour break for coffee, biscui tsand mints , toastma ster John Ward intra.

- duced rbe speakers : Michael Or am. RojBe au mont , Joh n Ives and Stephe n

BOTILE BRIGADE - Toledo , Ohio, members take time out from sorti ng broke n beer bonles and assem bingeight-pack cartons. (See "Church Activities: ' this page .) [Photo by Gene Davis] , .

The women of the LAKE OF THEOZARKS, Mo ., church worked with theYO U member s to present a Thanksgivingcele bratio n Nov . 25 . Turkey with all thetrimm ings was served Iemlly style by theYOU girls to Church members dresse d incostumes depi cting the first Thank sgiv­ing. Of the many game s for the chil dren ,including musical chairs tc tbe theme fromStar Wars. the childr en particularl y en­jo yed the critter race, where each had tocall hi s entry to race o ut of the circle . Theblack beetle won first place , comp letelyoutdistanci ng the cricker.a be worm,' thecockroac h and the turne (who had stagefright) . Some of the ladie s panicked whenthe winning critter co uld n' t be im­media~ely located. Mrs . Ray Robe rts ,

Ab out 350 brethren of theROC HE ST ER and SYRACUSE, N.Y.,church es gathered at the Airport HolidayInn for Sabbath service s and the secondann ual YOU Thanksgi ving Ball . DeaconHarold Maybu ry of Syracuse gave thesermoneue , speak ing to tbe teens -en theproper way to have fun. Specia l music ," The Lord ' s Prayer: ' was sung by Syra­cuse YOU me mbers Charlotte Mayburyand Alvin Hazelwood . Then Dan Bierer ,pastorofthe Buffalo , N.Y., church ; deliv­ered the sermo n o n the ' importanc eYOU to the Church .

That evening about 85 teens fro m theBinghampton, Buffalo , Rochest er . andSyracuse churches dan ced to the music ofDownt own Connection. The theme of thedan ce was "This One's for YOU, " and tbehall had been decorated , under the direc ­tion ofKenandDiane Witter , wuhltvetreesand fall harvest items such as corns talks,squa sh and pumpk ins . lakL Hannold .

One-half hour after Sabbath servicesNov . 18 mem be rs of th e TE RREHAUTE, Ind ., church mel for their firstsocia l. Pasto r Stev e Nutzman later an­nounced tha i thesoci al was attended by 95perce nt of the co ngregatio n . After a pot­luck dinner , Jeff Osborne was master ofceremoni es for the afte r-dinn er entertain ­ment, then the adult s played ta ble games ,the teen s and young adult s danced andAo yd and Ruth Spencer kept the childr en

NOVEMBER SOCIALS

memb er and driver -sale sman for GreatLake s Distribu tors , co nceive d the idea andmet with pester George Kacko s and Jame sAyers Jr .• sale s manager for Pabst BlueRibbon , to work out arrangemen ts .

Out of 80 volunteers , 3Swere selectediowork on Sunday, Nov . 19, openingcases of broken beer bottle s ; sorting thegood from the brok en , washing the goodbottl es and mak ing eight-pack cartons .The group finished twice the number ofcartons Mr . Ayers thou ght possible foroneday 's work . The bo ttle brigade nett ed $600for the local chur ch fund . Jean Cox .

NINE DECA DES - Lucy Turn­bull , who celebra ted her gOthbirthday Nov . 18, was presented abouquet of nine red roses , one foreach decade of her life, and whitecarnations from the Bricket Wood ,England , church by pastor PaulSuckling .Mrs .Turnbullhas been aCh urch member since Sep­tember, 1968.

VARIED A CTI VITIES

dinaror . visited CAPE TOWN, South Af­rica , Ocl. 31 , co nduct ing a Bible study forthe Retrea t and Cape Tow n congregations ,who combined for the event . He discussedhis impress ions of his tra vels through Westand East ' Af rica , relating present con di­tions to the world tomorr ow . The ne xtnight local e lder Peter van der Byl held abarbec ue at his home so Mr. Atlas co uldget to know more of the brethren . Th reeweeks pre v lou s ev en ge fis t Geraldw eternou se ...isited the church, paintin g aglo wing and inspiring picture of the worldtomorro w in a marathon 31,4 -bo ur sermo n.Henri Fortu in ,

The lONSDALE, Ill ., congr eg ation(C hicago Southwest) held a fare well teaNov , II in honor of Carl Gu stafson , whohas bee n the c hurch's pastor for sevenyears . The G ustafso ns and the ir four chil­dren are returnin g to the ir nativ e state ofWyoming, wher e they plan to settle in thearea of Centennial, near Laram ie, clo se tothe aging paren ts of Mrs . Gustafson . Pre­ced ing the tea the congreg ation prese ntedthe Gustaf sons a gift certificate, and theHin sdale Women ' s Forum gave them a .decorat ive wall cloc k. Paul P. Dzing .

A week later , Nov. 18,the NANUET,N. Y., brethren said farewell to Edna Dem­arest, deacones s and one of the area ' spioneer members. She was given acorsageby Audrey Reynolds and a gift by GefaldBackhus on beh alf of the Nanuet andWoodbridge, N.J . , churches. Mr . andMrs . Demarest, who have lived for 37 .years in the small town of Old Tappan , .N.J . , and have bauled man y health prob­Iemsduring the last 10 years, are moving toPenn syl vania to live with their son . Threeo( their children have graduated from Am­bassado r College , eac h from a diffCfentcampus. Mrs . Demarest was amon g theorigi nal members of the fllS! New YorkCitychurch,whichwaspastor.d byCarl·Ion Smith , and has &uendcd most o f theNew Jeney cha d les. Lyrln Sandiilnd .

Too many volunteers came forwa rdwhen a request was made for a TOLEDO,Ohi o , churchmoney-makingproject, sort­ing broken beer bottle s at Great LakesDis lribu tors in Toledo . Frank Kle tt ,

The Amba ssad or College Agen cy ae,gional Office in MANILA. Philippin es,held anopen bousefor the Man ila brethrentheafternoon of Nov . S . Aboul200 peoplecarne to see the new office facility, whichwas acquired last August. The office oc­cupies halfef the aimhf'loc r of'tbe FedmanSuites building. located in l....egaz pi Vii·tage. 'M akali, a burgeoning busine ss andcommercial metropoli s in the country .Gue sts were guided thr ough the adminis­trat ive office s and given refreshm ent s.The Manila Office was es tablished in1962 . Johnn y Logrono ,

Elbert ,Atlas. New York area coo r-

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.Mail you r announce­merits to: Announcements ,The Good News. Box t 11,Pasadena, Calif ., 9 1123 ,U.S.A.

NANUET. N.Y. - Betty Ann' Hen­dricks died Oct. 24 after a long battlewithcancer. She j~ fondly remembered by herbrethren. especially for her contributionsto 'special music.

Mrs . Hendricks is survived by her hus­band Phil and three children.

Mrs. Hendricks' family ex tends its ap­preciation for the encouragement, cards.letters and prayers for Mrs. Hendricksthroughout her illness.

To Mom and Dad (MI. and M,• . H. Fleming):Hap py fo urt h an ni...alSa IY. No -e, 27 . I ;hopesome day I .cao gl~ my chil dren the exa mple you~rh~:~:~:~ ~;n.t,~t. thr~a short years . l o...e.

Happy 25th anniversaIY. MI. and Mrs. Marion F.Wyatt J r.• Irom all your kids, with loIs 01 love.

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KELLOGG , Minn. ---: Melvin D .Edelbech , 74, died Nov. 12. A membct ofGod' s Church since 1958, Mr. Edelbachis remembered for hisexamplesof " nevergive up no mailer what the odds ."Richard Shuta; pastor of the La Crosse,Wis., and Rochester. Minn., churches.officiated.

Mr. Edelbacb is survived by his wifeWilma. six sons, four daugh ter s, 45grandchildren. 11 great-grandchildrenand two sisters.

CHICAGO, Ill. - Stella Makarura.65 , died No v. 11 after a heart attack, Shewas a member of God' s Church for 10yeers. RogerAbels. ministeroft beChicagoSout:heast church, o fficiated at the funeralservices Nov. 13.

Mrs. Makatura is survived by six chil­dren: Stephen. Ronald , Louis. JulieBenef ield , Mary Marurane and FranSheets; and 19 grandchildren.

To Mom and Daddy : l ynn. Bob, April and Donwish you e happy anniversary . You have shownus th. t marri age is nolltla end 10 a lile. bulthesharing of two sep arate people . We love 'jQUbolh . · .

Obituaries

.ANNIVERSARIES

MR . AN D MRS. GEOFFREY BERG

MI. and Mrs. C1illord Hilt happily announce the

~~~W~~~~:~g~J~~~i~;~~~a.~E~~r:Lundberg. Marilyn Jen ison, Sue Hlx and Lori Hlx.aU sistars of the brid e, were alt endenl s. Thecouple new reside in Nalchez. Miss.

Wendy C. Brownson. daughler ' of Mr. and Mrs.Vernon C. Blow nson of Sanla Rosa . Cali f.. andGeolt rey S. Barg, son 01MI. and Mrs. Wdbur Berg01 Red ond O Beach. C alif .. wera unit ad inmarriage oct . 3 in t~ Amb aSSador CofIeoe FineArts Recital Hall W~bUf Berg. copas1Ot of thel ong BeKh. Cali!. . ch ur ch . offici ated. Besl manwas Joh n Stryker. and ma id of hon or wa sChris tine Brownson. The c;:ouPl&now resida at 99Topeka, Irv lna. Ca~l. , 92714.

MR . AN D MRS. GEORG E L Y L E

Gerald Knott 01Wmard. Dh ~. a~ Nancy Muncy. 01Dingass. w .va .! were unil ed In marriaga Nov.

11 al 4 p.m, w, th Stne BOlh~ , p asior 01

:::2:~ =;:::s::Je~.,: .~Oh io. 44 890 .

Palsy Ann Mofle " . daughter 01 Mr. and Mrs.George A. Ross ol Baltimor e , Md., and Dell Mark

• Annis , son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar T. Annis 01Alcova , Wyo.. .....ele united in marri age Sapt. 30 alWhea nand, Wyo . Jamas E. Jenitin s. pastor ollhaWhaatlan d and Casper. Wyo.. chu rch es.

~ perfo rmed the ceremo ny. Rose Annis was maidof honor and F. Da...id Annis was best man.

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ENGAGEMENTSMr. and Mrs. Allen Hun'ar 01Jefferson, Ga.• arehappy 10 an.nounce Ihe enga gemenl of th.1rdaughla r. Shirley . 10 Edg ar J. Hardaway 01Gary .Ind . Bo ln Sh ir l. y and Edg lf al a lo rma rAmbas sador Colleg e sludenls. The wadding isplanned lor May.

.... are . gAmbassado r Col lege . Th. wedding "- planned foreartynext lall .

MI. and Mrs. Charles Clark Sr., of Memphis.Tenn.. ara ha~y 10 ilnnoWlOB the Iorthco mingmarrlage of Ihetr daughter , Mona l isa. to Edgar •Bland , son of Mr. and MIS. James Bland Sr.. 01:dge,. Mias. Tha .....eddlng is planned lor Dec .

Mr. and MI S. Glen Klrkpalrick 01 Portales. N.M.•

E~=:J3ir~E:~·~"E~~£M~:~~~:J:;"e~ r~ A Juty wad ding is pla nned in

WEDDINGSBruce ~len Hard and Deborah Ruth Morganwera unil ed in marriage Nov . 23. George .....kel .paslor of the Springfield . Mo.• church. performedtha ceremony . Michael Fosle r served as best

=P:"t:S~e:K~:'rI~'~~ :/~not.. J he

~ennilal Knowles and Roger Fowler were unitedtn marr ia ge in Mldh urs t. Eng land. Aug . 13.Parenls 01'he couplll ar. Helen Kno.....les and thatata Peter Kl"IOWle s of Mlclhurst, and Violel Fo.....lar

~onNd~c~:~p~~n'D~~~~a~d~u~e~ ~e;:t~~nlf ~~:Godalm lng. England. church. Tha couple no.....reside al Kendal ia Collage. Th e Brickf~lds.

Radtett.HIItts.• England.

TRANQUADA , Martin and Nancy (Do rman), ol

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VARNADO. Maurice and Be" y (Rogers). 01 Naw •Orlea ns. l a., girl. Anna Elizabeth. No.... 11 . 2:17a.m., 7 pounds 2 o~ces. now 1 boy, 2 gJfls.

WEB$ TER. Ken and Kill (Griswol d). 01 sa lmonArm. B.C.• boy. Zachary Chad . Nov. 23 , 7:38a.m.. 7 pourds 1 OU"lCe, now1 to y, 2 gftl.

ZERBE. To m and linda ( Re inoehl), 01Harrisburg . Pol.. girl , Tammy Lea. Nov. 10, 8pounds 14 ounces, now1 boy, 1 girl.

TANNERT, Waller and Ann . 01 Tucson . Ariz .•boy. Mark Willi am. No.... 24, 11:10 a.m .• 10pounds , now 2 boys .

SKO RSETH, Kanneth and Dianna (Oarding), 01Wataflown, S.D., girl Glenda Lee, Oct. 11. 10:20p.m.. 7 pc:H.lnds 7 ounces, now 1 boy, 2 girls.

Sl OTS VE. l ouis an d Malie. 01 Sask atoon .Sask.. girl. KriSlin l ee . OCt. 3. 11:23 p.m.• 6pounds 9 ounces. now 2 g..is.

~=S~'. ~~,~~~~;;:J~~i~. ~1:33 p.m .• 7 poWlds 4 ounces. no..... 3 girls .

SHEVlANE, Tony and Cheryl, d 8ricket Wood. ­England. boy . Mlcn ael Benjamin. Nov. 18, 3 :05a.m., 9 pounds 15 ounces, now 3 boy~.

Asheville. N.C.• boy,Clnt Edgar. Nov. 19. 1-p.m.•5 pounds.~ ounces . now2 boys .

KAPLAN . Mark and Uncia (Martin). 01'Midland .'re x., girl. Rachel El zabeth, 5e pt. 22. 8:25 a.m.. 7pou1ds 11 ounces, now 2ge.

RICHARD SON, Mike and Barbala {l amb), 01l aFayelle . Ala .• girl , Barbara Michelle. OCt. 12,3:59 p.m., 8 pounds 5'h ounces. now 1 boy. 1 gh1.

RISIN G. Stu art and Jill . 01 Dun lon Gra en ,Englarld. gWl. Abigail Elzabeth. No v. 14, 6:24a.m., 6 pc:xM'lds 13 0Uf'lCes, row 2 girts.

LAR AB V. J,ames and Mar ia (Gas ser t) . ofApple ton . WIS., gIrl. Nicole Ann. Ocl. 19. 5:56a.m.• 7 pounds 14 ounces . now 1 boy . 1 gn-I.

lEIKER. Curly and Tamy, of Hays: Kan., boy,Shad TY$OI1. No.... t, 4:11 p.m.• 8 pounds !WIoun:::es.l'IOIIIt 1 00y . 2 gifls.

Our coupon bab y tn.s iss ue is Jo anr.aOCttmaflOWlcz. daulj'l lfll 01 Joe and [):)rothy0Ctma1'lOlllt1cZ of Waman.N.Y.

'. PURSLEY. Herbe rt and Stephanie (Parker) . ofSan Jose . Calil .• boy, Herbert John. Nov. 4. 9pounds 4 ounces, no..... 1 boy. 1 girl.

u st name Father's f Irst nama IMO,th a, ' s first name

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HUNT LEY . Mar k and Lau ra (Bloom) , of

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JACQUES , Dann y and Denise (Edgar) . 01

~'~;~U:~~~M~n:'y?gt:I~ejJ~.U~~.I~, .0~p.m.• 9 po~ 2 ounces. l'lOW 1 boy. 1 gIrl.

GRIFFIN, Gene and Nant y (Wi ndom). 01Jacksonville , Ark., boy. James Allen , NOli . 22,10:45 a.m.,8 pounds 12 ounces. now 2 boys

HAWKER, Ge orge and Gw en (Allison) , 01Durban . Soulh Al rtea. ;.1, Rayleen Gwen, Nov.13, 11:29 p.m., 7 pounds 8 ounces, flrsl child.

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main emphasis is still on genin g agood. broadl y-ba sed . liberal · ar tseducation . Here , onl y a few cou rsesare tailore d toward helpin g stude ntseam a livin g. Most co urses , how·ever , are designed to he lp stude ntslearn how to live ""':' how to live abun·dant , full , happy, producti ve lives .

At Amba ssador . we not only stre ssthe developme nt of the intellect , butare eq ually conce rned wit h de velop­ing the personality and character ofthe stude nts . Thi s is far more impo r­tan t than mere mind develop ment .

In o rd e r .to develop a well ·rou nded . truly educa ted, happy_stu­dent , we rea lize it is neces sary forstudents to have many di ffere nt typesof experiences,. Most .or-the studentsat Am6assador are working their waythrough co lJege, and most o ft -his stu­de nt employment is prov ided by theco llege .

Also , during the college year , vari·'ous trips are planned for the broaden ­ing of the student' s life . A number ofs tude nts ann uall y . take trip s toEu rope. the' Midd le East or to o therpart s of the woild to further broadentheir know ledge of this planet and ofits peoples. .

Curre ntly, we are planning to'senda num ber ofAm~dor stude riis towork durin g the summer of 1979 onan impo na nt archaeologic al site in

. Jerusalem. ' . .

Am bassado r 's ideal location

Amba ssador Collegc is ideally lo­cated in bea utifu l. sunny Sout hem

j Califurnilt=...h. n; temper:rt= are

agreea ble to mental and physical ac­tivity most of the year .

With in only minutes fro m the co l·lege . students can be at o ne of South ·

. ern Ca lifo rnia's beache s, cl imbing inthe mountains or exp;-riencing beau- .tiful desert life .

And Amba ssado r is ideallysituated from a cultu ral stand p:>int.Mr . Annstrong has long stressed theimpor tance of students learn ing toappreciate goodm\l.sic, art and otherforms of culture . Wi thin easy reachof the college are a num ber o f in·te resti ng mu seu m s, librarie s andco nc e rt halI s . A mbassador Au ·ditor ium is the fine st '(fo r its size ­sea ting about 1.250},' aud·jtor ium inthe wor ld and reg ularly plays host towell· known performe rs such as An urR uben stein " Vl adimir Ho ro witz ,Pearl Baile y 'and Gene Kell y.

The stude nt body ' of Ambassado rCollege, a coeducationa l institution , isjust ove r 300. Last year . it soared toabo ut 1,200 , but with thai num~r thefam ilylike atmo sp here. at Am bas·sade r all but d isappeared. Currently,admi ssions are restric~d to an unde r­grad uate enrollment o f about 550.

Unde r the present program, theAmb a ssador s tude nts are livin ghap py lives filled with purpose· and'determ ination . T here are man y in­tere sti ng e" trac urric ular activi tie s(spons eve nts. dance s, talent shows, 'sin g·along s', fo'rums , asSemb lie s,speci al lect ure s and top- rank c~n- .

cert s) to fill the lives'o f Amba ssado rstudents with interesting variety .

We at Ambassador Colleg~ sin­cerely believe we are blessed with themost 'beaut ifu l ca mp us on e arth !Amb assador has twice bee n given theaward for having the most beatidfm '

camp us in Ameri ca. With beautifully When studen ts are given intensivelandscaped gro unds' and an artful perso nality, and charac ter tra in ingblen d of newl y designed and ar- (along with proper mind de velop- 'chit,ec turally pleasing co llege build · ment) they are head and shouldersings (A mbassador Auditor ium, the above the average gradua te . WhenStudent Cente r , Am bassador Hall , they are caught to be honest , mo ral ,

. the Adm inistrat ion Building) and the temperate, to wo rk hard and be dili-olde r bUl architecturall y pl.easing gent in everYthing they do , when theydo rmi tor y build ings. wh ic h once are taught to live and respecr not onlyserve d as sta tely homes for multi- God , but their fellowman, then theymilli onaires , Am bassa do r students are bound to be successful citizens ofare truly privileged to work and study this planet.in the mostbeauliful and uplift ing Because of the fine exa mple of~nv iro n rnen t to be fo und on any many graduates of Amb assador Col ·cam pus in the world . lege. their emplo yers have oft en said

The world needs Ambassador that they will hire as man y graduatesof Amba ssador as they ca n get.

Why doe s the world need Ambas · Ambassador Co llege is already ;sado r Co llege? back on the track! We have already

Sim ply because Amba ssado r is the recaptured the true values . whic h areonly place o n eart h where God ' s gener ally overlooked by the insti tu-

/ Wo rd (not s9 me den om inat io nal tions ofhigber learni ng of this wo rld .creed o r ' the atheis tic co ncept o fevolution) is taught faithfu lly . Here Course listing .the Word of God is truly the founda~ The fo ilowing -are p rop o sedtion of every cl ass. every activity - course s for the Fall 19.79 semesterof e verything . Thi s doesn ' t mea n that and four-year progra m .,students act religiou s or speak in a Four.year program requiredsanctimonio us manne;r. They do not th eolo gy courses: Prin ciple s of Liv .tty to act rel igiou s. but they do try to iog . life and Teachin g of Je sus.live a tru ly God -like way . Early C hristian History.

Inscr ibed over the doo r o f the Old Testame nt Sur vey 1 and II ,beaut iful Amb assador Hall (fonn er Doctr ines o f the Worldwide C hurchhome of multim illionaire , Hulett C . - of God , and Bibl ical Scholarship IMerri tt) are these words: " The-Wo rd and II.o f God Is the Foundat ion of Knowl- . And 18 units selec ted from: Epis-

.edge ." ties of Paull and ll. General Epis tles ,At many of this worl d 'S instit~. M ino r Prophet s. Old Te stame nt

tion s o f higher learning . little culture Prophecy.is be ing .taught and , no,thing abou t : New Testam ent Pro phecy , In ·God' s way ..,But at Ambassador, Iec~ ' tra duct ion to O ld Te stamen t He·tures are given co ncerning proper eti· brew ' 1 and II , Introdu ction to Newqueue and cu lturc. We wa..lt to make Test3mcnt Greek I ar.d II. Ancient Is:sure that all ,graduates- 01 Ambassa· rael . Ho milet ics. '. . '

,r" dot ! re ' tHJ1y' ~Jh~';ta\ tIi Cii ~;dJan~: i I! ': \' 8 fl.) 'Otien t! 'tion · i c{ ·' Se r'v ;c e~ l'n~ ine

Church, C hurch Ed ucalio nal Pro ·gram s for Children and Youth.-andHistory of Chr istian Thou ght.

Additional required co urses : ­Engli sh Com position and Fundamen~

tals of Speech .Two semesters of Greek/La tin lit­

eratu re in Translation , Ameri ca n Lit­erature , Eng lish Litera ture o r Historyof Western Civil ization .

Two semesters o f Introduct ion toAnthropology!Archaeology, Interna­tio nal Relatio ns or General Psychol ·ogy.

Tw o seme sters of either Matbemai.ics in the Modem World o r Funda·mental s of Physical Scie nce and foursemest ers 'of physical education.

Ele ctive cou rses: S urvey of theArt s. Painting, Princip les of Man·ageme nt. Personal and Fam ily Fi. _nance , Classical Ci v il iz ation :Greece , C lass ica l C i vil izat ion :Rome . .

Introduction to Computer Science.Co mputers and Programin g. Prep­aratory Engl ish, Eng lish as a Sec­ond l anguage .'-;: Ele'nient ary Fr~nch . History of theUnited Slates , Ancient Israel. BasicCloth ing Construct ion , IntroductoryTe xtiles, Fashion Analysis. BeginningClothing. .-:."Nutrition, Basic Food SlUdy, In·tradu ction to-Mass Co mmu nications ,Repo rting 'and New swr iting , BasicMimo , Basic Vo ice , Amb assad o rChOrale . Introduction to' Logic .

Camp Leadership . Child Growthand Deve lopment, Ado lescent De·velopment , Cou nseling and Int er·viewing .

Psych{'Iogy o f leadership. Mar­ria se and the: Family, Elementary 'SPimish"' liha pUblk' :Speaklrig; ': ' j , "

First tuuioe Nigerian ordainedMonday, Dec. 18, 1978

In o ur Dec. 4 issue , ThL .GoodNews release d a list of date s whenAlcoh olism Aware ness Sem ina rswould be conducted in a num ber of .ci ties by the w ork ' sHuman Potent ialCen ter. .

Acco rding to Dale Hampton, di­rector of the alcoh oli sm Section of theHum an Pote ntial Cente r, the listprinted is act ually tentative and sub­ject to cha nge .

Mr. and Mrs. AshSalem . W .V a.

We apprec iate the new changes in T~Good News and we like the " Forum" byMr. Stan Rader very much. We look for­ward to The Good News each month. alsoThe Plain Trush.

Good News , Your tho ughtfulness inopening up this sectio n is very commend­able indeed : Ther e was a time when wedid not kno w what was happening in theCh urch but were afra id to ask lest we bebranded as nosy. And othe rs were reluc ­tant to tell what they knew lest they beaccused of rumormongering . Now yourvery time ly "Forum" has totally elimi ­nared the syste m of getting news fromheadq uaners through gossips , rumor s andwhisper s . Your sincerity . candi dness andhumility are very evi del)t in all your vid­eota ped interviews and yoer answers .

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Chukw udi (pronounced Choo-koo­de) of tile Lagos, Nigeria , church andLaza rus Ekwebelem (p rono uncedEequib-a-Iem) of the eastern congre­ga tion of Oguta, Nigeria, in lmo -state. ' .

Correction

Mrs. Edalere is trained in commer­cial secretarial science and workedfor the aBC radio and TV for morethan seven years .

Two deacon s were also ordai ned atthe same services . They were Elijah

CHALLENGE OF ALC OHOLI SM - Dale Hampton , left, holds a semina ron the problems"of alcoholis m in New Yorl<Dec, 2, Just days earlier heheld a similar seminar in New Yorl<, but this lime for the deaf. MaryMosleh, above left, interprets Mr, Hampton 's message through sign

. language, [Photos by Norman Champagne and James Capo) •

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• A RST ELDER - Lateef Edalere, shown here wtth his wffe and fourchildrlpl , is the first black African to be ordained inlo Ihe ministry in the ,modern history of the Church , [Photo by Elbert Atlas]

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, VICTORIA ISLAN[), Nigeriac-.At the Feast . of Tabernacles here.

. Lateef Edalere was ordained as alocal elder in the ministry of Jesu sChrist. He is the first black African inthis era of God ' s Work to be ordainedto the mini stry .

The ordination was conducted byHarold Jackson, director of the Workin that area of Africa , and EIbenAtlas. a visiting area coordinatorfrom the United States .

Mr . Edalere is a 39-year -oJd,nativeNigerian "who 'left home in 1962 topursue an edu cation in Great Br itain .He suecess fuUy completed his col­lege training . majoring in manage­ment acco unting and computer sys­tem s analysis. He worked in thesefields while in college .

When he left Britain in 1974 forthe purpose of serving as 'chief ac­coun tant in the Nigerian office of aninternat ionall y known British firm.he was acco unting systems managerfor four large firms and was serving21 other comp anies in computer ser-vices . .

Mr. Ed alere has been a membe r ofGod ' s Chur ch since 1974 . He wasordained as a deac on in 1975 and washired by the Church in 1976 . Hisrespon sibil ities included han dlingmail .and business matters. His lin­guistic ability (pe speaks at least sixlanguages) . business acumen andknow ledge of his country and its cus­toms have been of immense help toMr. Jackson in est abli shi ng andmaintaining the church in Nigeria .

Mr. EdaJere and his wife Yvonne,a native of Jamaic a. have been mar­ried for 12 years. The y have twodaughters, Athena , II, and Alli son ,8; and twin sons , Paul and Peter. -7.

, York affiliate of the National Councilon Alcoholi sm , also spoke.

A panel of professional s was onhand to answer questions on youthand adult drinking problems .

.. Alcoholi sm is a famil y affair ,"said Mr. Hampto n . His advic e tothose attendin g the seminars is to findout what they can do to help the per­son the y love who drink s too much ." Because you care . become awa re , ..he said. '

,Workshop for ministry

. New York area coo rdina tor EI­ben Atlas invited Mr . Hampton toaddres s some 40 mini ster s and theirwives here Dec . 3. Mr . Hampt onsaid he conducted a work shop for theministe rs on how 10 dea l with theproblem of alcoholism in their localchurche s. •

"The ' prob lem of alcoholi sm isgoi ng unch all en ged, " sai d M r.Hampton . who sees the thrust of theseand other seminars as meet ing thatchallen ge. '-

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PASADENA - Ministerial Ser­vices has released the name of thefollowing man recentl y ordained aslocalchurch elder, JosephE. Pope ofColumbu s, Ga . •

"This is the first seminar pre­sented to the deaf. but it is hoped thaijtwill ope n the door and provide thefoundat ion so that the ent ire HumanPotential seminar ser ies can be pre­sented to the deaf community," saidMr . Hampton .

AlcoholiSm seminar

While in the area , Mr . Hamp tonconducted an Alcoholism AwarenessSeminar following. Sabbath servicesin the New York Church on Dec .2.

Some 250 people, half of whomwere mem bers. half nonmembers, at­tended the seminar held in the -NewYork So ciety for Ethical Culturebuilding . Mr. Hampton and otherstalked about the symptoms of al­cobolism, teenage alcoholism, how tohelp a loved one who drinks too muchand community resources available 10

coalcoholics (fam ily members of al­coholics). Dr. Ross Fishman , directorof educational training at the New

Ambassador Auditorium Jan . 4.The performance is sponsored by

Dolo res Hope with KathrynCrosby and the Ambassador Poun­dation for the benefit of the BingCrosby Youth Fund .

Thi s is the fourth network tele ­vision special to ori ginate in Amb es­~dor Auditorium. The first, in 1977, .was Bing: Subsequent shows wereGen e Kelly - An American inPasaden a, and la st August , FordMotor Co.' s 75th anniversary show.

On Feb . I, the Pearl Bailey showwill be taped at Ambassa~or .

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PASADENA - The year of 1978was ., a period of accomplishmentand achievement; " acc ording toRichard Rice, d ire ct or of theWork 'sMail Proces sing Cente r here :

According to figures from his de­partment. from Janua ry to November7.6 mill ion Plain Tnah magazineswere mailed and an additi onal ninemill ion wer e-distr ibuted throughne wsstands in the United State s .Also 1.1 million copies of The GoodNews, nine million letters, 730,000Correspondence Cour se lessons andfour million other pieces of literaturewere mailed out to reques ters andsubscribers .

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Pasadena Some da ys before theministerial conference scheduled forJa n. )5 to 18, according to C. '.Wayne Cole, director of ChurchAdministration . . .

The preconference planningmeetings . which will include discu s­sions on manpower, will be heldJan.10 to 12 : '

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PASADENA- A fire in an officein the Hall of Administration causedthe bu ild ing to be ev acuate d themornin g of Dec. 7.

Be cau se of unu sually coldweather, empl oyee s had moved aportable heater into the office , and itsex te ns io n cord appa re nt ly ove r.heated, igniting wiring. draperiesand credenz a. '

Richard Sedliacik, Corte s­pondence Course director, was visit­ing the office about the time the firewas di scovered and managed toquench the blaze before firemen ar­rived . The build ing was evacuated asa precaut ion. Thebuilding' s insurerpresen ted Mr. SedJiacik with a $100check Dec . 14 for his quick action• .which prevented potent ially majordamage Ie: the office and building .

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PASADENA - A gala benefi tperformance of The Bob Hope Showtelev ision special (NBC) with gueststars Debbie Boone, Pat Boone andSammy Davis Jr. will take place in

NEW YORK - An Alcoholi smAwareness Seminar for the deafwascalle d a landmark for the Work ' sHuman Potential Out reach Programby Dale. Hampton, director of the al­coholism section of the Human Po­tentia l Center in Pasadena .

Ma ry Mosle h, a Ne w YorkWorldwide Chur ch of God member,

, interp reted the entire seminar, whichincluded the movie, Ij You Left Me.the story of a family affected by al­coho lism.

The program was presented Nov.26 in the SI. Jean of the Bapti st Au ­ditoriu m here and was cosponsoredby the Lex ington School of the Dear.Speakers in addition to Mr . Hampt onincluded Bill Bum stine , di recto r ofchild care at Lexing ton School of theDeaf , a representative of AlcoholicsAnonymo us World Service and amembe r of At-Anon.

"The seminar was video taped withplans to produce a 16:mm . film ford istr ibution to deaf communitie saro und the world .