1 Dave Havir interviews publishers Linda and Dixon Cartwright 1 In a 1997 reprint Molly Hammer remembers Ambassador College 5 Darlene Warren notes that reading THE TheJournal JOURNAL has been a valuable education 37 See three pages of highlights News of the Churches of God of 202 issues of THE JOURNAL Vol. XXII, No. 1 Founded 1997 Issue No. 202 (Jan 31, 2018)

Dixon and Linda met on the Back issues way to the Redwood Building available ack issues of THE JOURNAL The writer, who has written an edi- Reasons.” Since the Cartwrights have are available as printed cop- torial column in every issue of THE rarely written articles about them- ies for sale. OURNAL except one and who regular- B J selves, many people have been curi- See pages 37-39 of this issue for ly helps with the layout of this news- ous about them as people. a listing of highlights of all 202 paper, cited his loyalty to the paper to What are some facts about the two issues beginning with No. 1, convince the publishers to participate publishers who have produced this which appeared in February 1997. in an interview for this the last issue. paper for such a long time? A limited number of copies are Here is an interview this writer had available first come first served. By Dave Havir with its two publishers. The listing of articles on pages IG SANDY, Texas--In the Sep- Dave Havir: Where did you spend 37-39 is not comprehensive. It tember-October 2017 issue of your childhood? highlights one or two or three arti- THE JOURNAL, the publishers (Dixon Linda Cartwright: I grew up on a B cles in each of the 202 issues THE and Linda Cartwright) announced that small farm in Arkansas in the foothills JOURNAL has published in the last they had made the decision to cease of the Ozarks. My home was built by printing the newspaper. The news came my grandfather in 1918, and we didn’t 21 years that we think might pique in an article by Mr. Cartwright on the have electricity or running water in your interest. front page of that issue. my house during my childhood. The price is $3 for each back issue, which includes postage. “After 21 years of publishing THE Dixon Cartwright: I was born in Just let us know the issue num- JOURNAL: NEWS OF THE CHURCHES OF Atoka, Okla., and grew up in Kelly- 21 YEARS SINCE 1997—Dixon and Linda Cartwright, publishers of THE GOD, we plan to shut down this news- ville, near Tulsa. My dad was a JOURNAL, pictured in their house, which doubles as their office, in Big Sandy, ber(s) or issue date(s) and send a paper after three more issues,” wrote teacher, then high-school principal Texas. The Cartwrights complete 21 years of producing their newspaper with the check or money order to THE Mr. Cartwright. and superintendent and eventually current issue, No. 202, dated Jan. 31, 2018. THE JOURNAL began with the JOURNAL, P.O. Box 1020, Big Sandy, Issue No. 1 was published in Feb- mayor for four terms of the small February 1997 issue after another independent Church of God newspaper, In Texas 75755, U.S.A. Because of ex- ruary 1997. The issue you’re reading town we lived in. Transition, ceased publication. In Transition, published by John Robinson, was pensive postage to other countries, at this moment (No. 202) shows the Dave: Where did you meet? the inspiration for THE JOURNAL, but THE JOURNAL is a separate publication, not a copies sent outside the United States continuation of Mr. Robinson’s newspaper. See Mrs. Cartwright’s article, date of Jan. 31, 2018. Linda: At Ambassador College, are $6 each in U.S. funds. “JOURNAL Publishers Say Good-Bye,” below on this page. [Photo by Jamie Payne] Many people have expressed their Big Sandy. appreciation to the Cartwrights for Dixon: While walking from the publishing this newspaper, which is not Field House to the Redwood Build- sponsored or controlled by any particu- ing. That was in 1967, Linda’s fresh- lar branch among the Churches of God. man year. I had arrived in 1966. Journal publishers say good-bye after 21 years: It is natural for people to wonder Dave: How would you describe why the newspaper will no longer be your experience as a student at Am- published. bassador College? Thanks, readers and writers, for the memories On page 5 of the Nov. 30, 2017, Linda: Well, it’s the only college issue of the paper (issue No. 200), Mr. I’ve ever attended so I can’t compare The writer, along with her husband, Upheavals of doctrine our readers when we published articles Dixon Cartwright, is publisher of THE they disagreed with. Our premise was if Cartwright wrote an editorial titled it to any other college experience. But Publishing THE JOURNAL has been JOURNAL. you read only things that you agree with “THE JOURNAL Shutting Down: Some See IF WE WERE 20, page 36 our effort to keep the avenues of com- munication open between us and all of how do you ever learn anything new. By Linda Cartwright our brethren in the Churches of God Most of the groups that were in exis- IG SANDY, Texas—The best tence or came into existence after the after the doctrinal upheaval in the various breakups of the WCG had their way to describe our feelings Worldwide Church of God. about our religious affiliation own publications to promote their B We have also wanted to provide a when Dixon and I began publishing tenets and beliefs and would never forum for people to air their points of Molly Hammer Antion THE JOURNAL is to quote from Charles publish anything that wasn’t sanc- Dickens’ book ATale view on doctrinal issues who would tioned by their particular organization. of Two Cities: never have been able to while in our We were not that way. It was our remembers Ambassador “It was the best of former affiliation. newspaper. We couldn’t be compelled times, it was the worst You have not needed to have min- to print something by any organization. The writer, the former Molly tened to him for a couple or three of times, it was the age isterial credentials or approval to get Of course we lost subscribers now Hammer, is the sister of the late Buck months, and one day he walked of wisdom, it was the an article published in THE JOURNAL. and then, and we were vilified from Hammer, who donated the land that in and said to my mother: “Pearl, age of foolishness, it We didn’t have to agree with your the pulpits of some organizations eventually became the I’m going to California. was the epoch of be- article. Our basic requirement was because, and I quote, “no one controls core of the campus of Am- Do you want to go lief, it was the epoch civility in your presentation. THE JOURNAL” (which we considered a compliment). bassador University in with me?” of incredulity, it was Linda Learning can be hard Texas. Mrs. Hammer is a She was in the car the season of Light, it Cartwright Egg-sized tumors member of an independent almost before he was. was the season of Darkness, it was the Members in and out of the World- congregation in Pasadena They came out here to spring of hope, it was the winter of wide Church of God had been study- We were labeled a divisive publica- that her husband pastors check out this man Her- despair, we had everything before us, ing their Bibles for years. They had so tion by some and were cursed by oth- and that is associated with bert W. Armstrong. we had nothing before us, we were all much to say it was almost over- ers. (We used to regularly receive the Church of God Inter- That was in the late going direct to Heaven, we were all whelming. faxes from someone who said he national. THE JOURNAL part of November or early going direct the other way . . .” Sometimes it was hard for some of See WE PRINT, page 36 thanks Harry Curley for December. When my fa- his assistance with this ar- Molly Antion ther returned from the trip ticle, which first appeared he was certain that he had in issue No. 4 of THE JOURNAL, dated found “the truth,” and that was the May 30, 1997. beginning of a total change in the State funeral honors Church of God pastor lives of the Hammer family. By Molly Antion In our family of eight children INGSTON, Jamaica—Few of people who turned out at the Na- couraged?” while strolling down the ASADENA, Calif.—We are Christmas was a big thing every Church of God pastors are tional Indoor Sports Centre for his aisle towards the podium to deliver sad that Ambassador College year, and my dad was a big part of K honored with a government- funeral on Jan. 14, 2018. the eulogy. P in Big Sandy is closing [in Christmas. He always bought the sponsored funeral According to reports in The “Dad,” she said, “you said I was 1997]. As a family we have so many biggest tree he could find. He set it service. Gleaner and Jamaica Observer the star of your TV show, but you memories. up. He would do the decorating. An exception to (jamaica-gleaner.com and jamaica were the star of my universe.” Much of the property there origi- the rule was Church observer.com), both of which relied Speakers included Prime Minister nally belonged to our family—pri- Memorable Christmas of God International on Mr. Boyne as a staff member and Andrew Holness, who noted that Mr. marily my brother Buck. My hus- Mother and Daddy had just re- member Ian Boyne, journalist, his family, friends and associ- Boyne was “the only public servant band, David, and I were married turned from California. It was late pastor of the Church ates honored him with five hours of trib- that could criticize the government there. My youngest brother and my December, and we were getting of God International utes and “soul-stirring renditions” and would get away with it.” father both died in the home you see ready to set up the tree. My father congregations in his after the service began at 10:30 a.m. Gov.-Gen. Sir Patrick Allen said Mr. on the right as you enter the just sat and watched us decorating country, who died George Ramocan, a CGI pastor Boyne’s passing leaves a deep void. grounds. There is a long and won- the tree. As we finished he cleared Dec. 18, 2017. Ian Boyne who serves in Toronto, Ont., Canada, Many others from government and derful history with our family and his throat and said: “I have some- Because of Mr. and is consul general to Toronto for industry commented as well. the church and college. thing I have to tell you all. We’re not Boyne’s celebrity, the 60-year-old Jamaica, delivered the sermon. THE JOURNAL reported Mr. Boyne's My father first heard Mr. Herbert going to keep Christmas anymore. journalist and radio and television Mr. Boyne’s daughter Kelly Ann death and published his obituary in Armstrong in about 1947. He lis- See LONGTIME, page 34 personality was honored by hundreds Boyne sang “Why Should I Be Dis- issue No. 201, dated Dec. 31, 2017. 2 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Letters from our readers

Discrepant views You might be what? lay member is the publishing of arti- Last cartoonist standing he valedictory issue of THE The New Testament cles from various sides to explain the Sadly, this is the last cartoon I’ll JOURNAL is now a reality. Its ar- emphasizes giving to the big events that shook the WCG. mail to you. [See page 3.] It has been Trival provokes a flurry of mixed poor, not giving to head- Please keep any outstanding sub- fun. It is said that all good things emotions. quarters. If you think scription payments and use as you eventually end. We appreciate your having promot- you are the future see fit. To my knowledge THE JOURNAL is ed openness, transparency and truth- God of a universe, My best wishes to you and your the only religious publication that has telling at the cost of popularity. It was you might be an ego- family in your future endeavors. had cartoons. a novel approach in COGdom when d-maniac. Pallant Ramsundar You’ve performed a great service to you started and, sadly, it was too radi- Gary Wilson Chester, Va. serious COG folks when you started cal to catch on. Such qualities are still Wylie, Texas What does God require? THE JOURNAL after the WCG broke up. noted for their absence in official Stay together I will miss THE JOURNAL. I am sorry It let us know where the splinter COG media outlets. A word of acknowledg- you will have to cease its publication. groups went, also it gave us COG his- We also feel gratitude and appreci- ment is called for now as I have subscribed almost from its tory and let us express our independ- ation for your having provided a we look to the future. beginning and have all my copies pre- ent opinions. forum for diverse and discrepant We are very grateful to served the best I can in large ziplock I know that you folks have put a views, without the abusive and vulgar polyethylene bags. From time to time great amount of time and effort into expressions of disagreement or misol- are no current watchmen when this Dixon and Linda Cart- last issue itself contains the fulfillment wright for their brilliant idea in pro- I actually go back and reread parts of THE JOURNAL, and I know you re- ogy one finds in many other sources them and sometimes cite certain refer- ceived little if any profit. of information about the Churches of of that prophecy on page 20 from the viding a newspaper over the last 20 watchmen of Ephraim. years that would rise above the differ- ences in them. I wish you and Linda the very best. God. That equanimity owes a lot to Your publication has been a source Earl Cayton you as the benevolent albeit opinion- Gerald Kirby (ozwitness) ences and arguments that brethren Dunsborough, Australia were experiencing following the col- of news and information as well as a San Francisco, Calif. ated curator and editor. sounding board for us. I thank you for We concurred with some views, Broken heart lapse of the Worldwide Church of Newspaper delivery This is a belated E-mail of regret God as we knew it. your tireless efforts over the years and disagreed with others and found a few for your intent to maintain the website. We should have written sooner, but to be disagreeable. about THE JOURNAL. I am sorry. You It was entirely natural that people would jostle for influence and control I understand your reasons for ceas- we want to thank you both for your We will miss you, weirdness in- and John Robinson performed a valu- hospitality that August weekend at able service to all who have been in an attempt to give the brethren sta- ing publication. I totally agree with cluded (which regularly gave us what you have concluded in your sec- your home. We could talk to you for something to gently poke fun at). As involved in the then Worldwide bility again, but there was a need to rise above it. ond reason: You do not think that hours (and in fact we did) and still you wind this era down and embark Church of God. I know it has been a want more. labor of love. All I can say is thank THE JOURNAL fulfilled a vital role in Christians have to get everything upon new trails, may the wind be exactly right to have salvation. If that Congratulations on your JOURNAL always at your back. retirement. It will be sorely missed, Thank you. but it is a good thing, a credit to you Reg Killingley both that folks will miss it so much. Big Sandy, Texas ‘The belief that salvation is easily lost if an individual That means you delivered for 21 years, Worth a good laugh that you succeeded in your mission! Hope this is not too late. I kept does not adhere strictly to what his group leader or Bob and Connie Gerringer meaning to say something and then denomination prescribes is a means of maintaining control.’ Altadena, Calif. forgot, repeatedly. Comparing teachings Please do not refund any subscrip- Thanks for your service to the tion money to me. Your service has were the case, not a one of could have Church of God. It has allowed us to been priceless! We could never give you. You have always been impartial giving the brethren focus for their keep up with old friends, compare you enough for all of the hard work spiritual growth and for their sense of eternal life! and professional. I came to the same conclusion sev- teachings and give both sides of many and dedication you and Linda have Concerning any issues I’ve paid belonging to the Body of Christ, disputes. The church needs a free press. given to us with THE JOURNAL. I am beyond individual groups. eral years ago: God does not require for, I wouldn’t think of asking for a us to get everything correct to be His. I hope someone will step in to fill going to miss, so much, news of the refund. THE JOURNAL has given us a shared the gap that your retirement will people in the Churches of God. I agree with you that sadly it’s prob- identity and an opportunity to learn to I noted that some Christians by what- The other was interesting and many ever name they apply to themselves or create. ably time to end publication for sundry think outside the box for thoughts and Leonard Jacobi times very enlightening and instruc- reasons. It will be missed but regret- feelings that had been suppressed over their affiliation have Jesus living in tive. Some was worthy of a good tably not enough. People have gone many years. We have benefited, for them through the Spirit of God. They Enid, Okla. laugh! We need that too. their own ways. Many are not that example, from Dave Havir’s pointed have the fruit or the evidence of the Book idea Spirit (Galatians 5:22-26). Cledice Decker concerned anymore about what others articles. HE OURNAL I have observed that Christians affil- Sorry T J is ceasing publi- Pasadena, Calif. believe or are doing. Others have died. THE JOURNAL gave Kathleen the cation. You did an excellent job. Ever None of us are young anymore. iated with many organizations and hav- Over the years sublime opportunity to express her consider writing your autobiography? What Herbert Armstrong said or thoughts with freedom. In the nature ing diverse, sometimes contradictory, Thank you for printing my “here- beliefs and theological notions, people Warren Greiling did 30 years ago or what the ministers of THE JOURNAL, brethren could bene- Greenwood, Ind. sies” over the years in ads and letters said or did back then is no longer con- who have differing practices, likewise including a letter in the first issue. fit from what she wrote, but they sequential as it once was. never had to agree with her! exhibit the evidence of the Spirit of Looked forward David Rydholm God and are in union with Jesus. I remember John Robinson coming Lewis took on distribution of THE Thank you very much for your work Olympia, Wash. Those affiliated with the COGs are up to me I think in the fall of 1995 at JOURNAL from David and Barbara with THE JOURNAL. We always looked Ezekiel evidence a conference (my memory of that time Fenney in January 2001. It has given no different from other groups in this forward to reading it, and we will miss Sister Kathleen McCann writes in is fading) and in a heartfelt and sincere him great satisfaction to do something regard. Some of them, but not all of the previous issue [No. 201, page 3] statement to me (a relative nobody) like this, mostly for the U.K., that those affiliated with the COGs, have the See MORE LETTERS, page 35 that Ezekiel’s message is only for the tell me that it broke his heart to see the would help to keep the brethren togeth- Spirit of God. In my opinion the less Israelites of his day when it is clear Worldwide Church of God split into er and involved. Together we have had controlling the group, the greater the number of affiliates in whom God lives. from several chapters—e.g., 20:33 on- so many parts and go so many differ- the privilege to distribute THE JOURNAL wards especially verse 40—that the ent ways. not only in the U.K. but to the scattered The mistaken belief that salvation is TheJournal house of Israel has yet to return to the I didn’t say it, but I was thinking brethren in Argentina, Australia, the easily lost if an individual does not News of the Churches of God yet-to-be-holy land, and that, like much the “church” wasn’t going to go back Central African Republic, Finland, adhere strictly to what his group leader together. or denomination prescribes is a means P. O . B o x 1020, Big Sandy, Texas 75755 of prophecy, the message of Ezekiel is John Sash France, Italy, Kenya, Norway, Spain dual and has application for the future. and Switzerland. of maintaining control over the flock THE JOURNAL:NEWS OF THE CHURCHES Olean, Mo. and is blatant misuse of the Scriptures. Thus chapter 34 is well known with It needs to be remembered that OF GOD is published by JMC Associates. Online archive God cares more if we get one thing application to what has occurred within many of these brethren have nowhere Telephone (903) 636-4779. God’s church in this era, and it is obvi- I really appreciated your sharing else to go for fellowship and they will right: recognizing the lordship of HWA’s views on the calendar—what POSTMASTER: Send change-of-address no- ous that Judah/Israel still face another personally feel the loss of THE JOUR- Jesus Christ and accepting His won- fall and captivity, for we have yet to be he assumed was the right position, drous sacrifice for our redemption tices to THE JOURNAL, P.O. Box 1020, and I agree with his position 100 per- NAL. A number of brethren have writ- united as one people in a holy land. ten to us. One, for example, feels the from sin. Big Sandy, Texas 75755. As for Kathleen’s suggestion that cent. [See “Godly Hierarchy Ex- Thank you again for your tireless plained by Herbert W. Armstrong,” loss of “all threads” of the WCG. THE JOURNAL is an independent publica- “there is no evidence of the Israelites They feel the loss of “really good arti- effort in publishing THE JOURNAL, appointing anyone besides Ezekiel to be issue No. 200, Nov. 30, 2017.] which has benefited so many of us in tion not affiliated with any church organ- Too bad he was uninformed that the cles” and “spiritual food.” ization. a watchman, either then or in the We both wish to acknowledge the so many ways. Thank you for being a future,” it was God who made Ezekiel a post-Talmudic calendar does not fol- reporter and not attempting to advocate Printed in U.S.A. © 2017 JMC Asso- low the explanation he gave for the hard work and foresight of Dixon and watchman (3:17) as he made Jeremiah, Linda Cartwright and to wish them one belief or position above another. ciates. All rights reserved. No part of this who wrote of the “latter days” (Jere- biblical calendar. Very informative My best wishes to you and your and instructive. well in their “retirement”! And may publication may be reproduced or trans- miah 30:24), in which time in 31:6-7 we, the ordinary church members, faithful wife, Linda. mitted in any form or by any means, elec- God predicted that “the watchmen upon Also, I wish to add my comments Robert Macdonald to those who have expressed regrets stay together and help each other into tronic or mechanical, including photo- the mount Ephraim shall cry . . . the future. Lebanon, Mo. “For thus says the LORD; sing about shutting down THE JOURNAL. We copying, recording or any other informa- have really appreciated it. I have sub- Lewis and Kathleen McCann Through the years with gladness for Jacob, and shout Milton Keynes, England tion-storage-and-retrieval system without among the chief of the nations: pub- scribed for only a short time but have Thank you for the time and effort the written permission of the publisher. lish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD enjoyed each issue and look forward Best wishes you have put into THE JOURNAL. We EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Dixon Cartwright save your people, the remnant of to your publishing all the archived I would like to thank you for pub- have enjoyed it and have learned Israel” (yet to fall). articles online so we can read them. lishing THE JOURNAL over these years. much from it through the years. Please CONNECTIONS EDITOR: Linda Cartwright It is ironic that Sister McCann, her- Keith Slough It is helpful in many ways, but one don’t bother to refund any leftover CONTRIBUTORS: Ewin Barnett, Ian Boyne, self an Ephraimite, insists that there Kannapolis, N.C. that has been most useful to me as a subscription money. Trey Cartwright, Earl Cayton, Dave Havir, Bill and Sally Rollins Elk Horn, Iowa Reg Killingley, Edward Malone, Kathleen McCann, Mac Overton, Jamie Payne, Sensing uncertainty Linda Moll Smith, Eric Snow, Ellis I want to thank you for your years Stewart, Bill Stough, Wesley White Please notice of service as publisher of THE JOUR- CIRCULATION: Linda Cartwright iews stated in any article, letter, editorial, essay, cartoon or other feature in NAL! I sense that the future of the THE JOURNAL are those of the writers or sources quoted by the writers and COGs is a bit uncertain at present WEBSITE: Alan Ruth, [email protected]

should not be viewed as the official position of any group or organization, nor time, but your publication fostered THE JOURNAL will not knowingly print Vdo they necessarily reflect the views of anyone on the staff of THE JOURNAL. Articles, let- thought and helped many maintain inaccurate information. THE JOURNAL will ters and features are presented in the interest of furthering communication and dis- some level of connection with other groups. Special hello to Linda, and if run corrections if notification of errors is cussion among readers of this newspaper. JOURNAL readers are invited to submit letters you’re ever up this way let us know! received within a reasonable time after and articles of response to JOURNAL articles they agree with or disagree with. Susan Blumel-Berg publication. Dubois, Wyo. Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) THE JOURNAL 3

Cartoon by Earl Cayton, San Francisco, Calif. Columns and commentary Rod of Iron succeeds in pulling off impossible Dr. Mondschein is the author of deeply engaging and profound tale of quantum mechanics, classical phys- Life at 12 College Road published by spiritual self-discovery, with a satisfy- ics, free will, the inside story of Too Something or Other Publishing, a col- ing ending. Big to Fail, its relationship to Babylon lection of short stories about growing Where could he go from there? the Great, the identity of the Beast and up in America in the ’50s and ’60s. My “impossi- the fulfillment of the most important He resides in the Adirondack Moun- ble” comment biblical prophecies are those I can but tains of upstate New York with his wife, above refers to mention without spoiling anything for Ginny. They have two grown children, Wade’s effort to the reader. Adam and Emily, a son-in-law, Kamal, tie the creation a daughter-in-law, Yaani, and grand- of space-time to Forcing reevaluation children Annie, Nathanael and Eli. religious history, Perhaps most astounding of all, from the dawn however, is how he weaves so many By Eric S. Mondschein of civilization at threads into an intoxicating tale that UEENSBURY, N.Y.—This first- GöbekliTepe leaves the reader astonished, forcing a time author has audaciously and the Tower of reevaluation of much of what the read- “Lord, please help me to be as nice as my puppy thinks I am.” Qwritten a trilogy that seeks to Babel right down er may have thought to be true, with- accomplish what many think impossi- Eric Mondschein to the moon land- out any sense of preaching or pressure. ble. But I believe Wade Fransson pulls ing and the crisis facing us as de- There is certainly no lack of proof, it off. scribed in the book of Revelation. but also no tedious excess of detail. I have followed this author’s ambi- Using the Bible as a primary lens, He does not lecture, and there is no tious journey since we met at a 2007 indigenous prophecies, scientific jour- pushy call to action, just a com- lecture series I gave in Los Angeles on nals and political history are all mixed pelling flow of exploration, facts and Read and use the Bible ancient Israel in history and the Bible. and blended into a stew and seasoned the real-time events of a fascinating Kathleen McCann lives in Milton cal, theological and communicative. At the time, although I was familiar with the music of the Beatles. life recorded in a way that Keynes, England, with her husband, By communicative they mean with Herbert Armstrong and the World- In short, nothing is off-limits as Mr. feels entirely fresh, new Lewis. They have been in God’s “What is this scripture com- wide Church of God, I knew little about Fransson synthesizes his and different. church since 1975. Mrs. McCann re- municating to us today?” either, but I was fascinated by the dra- prior travels around Unlike anything else cently graduated with a B.A. honors matic insider’s view Wade offered in the world and now degree from The Open University. She Divine inspiration? his first volume, The People of the Sign. searches for the an- I’ve frankly never receives mail at 100702.2766@ Spurgeon’s spend time consider- The deeply personal story of his swers in logical, histori- read anything like compuserve.com. ing narrative be- involvement in a “sect” that kept the cal and scientific, yet Wade Fransson’s trilo- cause so much Sabbath and Jewish holy days, from a prophetic and theological, gy, and I am glad I By Kathleen McCann of the Bible is New Testament perspective, was inter- nooks, crannies and many could join him on ILTON KEYNES, En- stories. You’re esting to me, coming from a Jewish a deep dark abyss that are his wild and exotic gland—We often think we taught how to heritage. In short, I was intrigued by it, remote, difficult to navigate journey. M would like to study the analyze a story though it left me hanging. and indeed treacherous. What will you Bible better than we know how to at using the four That Mr. Fransson is doing discover? present if only we had good tools! principles and Hardness sequel this exploration from inside Each reader Therefore, I write this article now so ask the sig- I had to read the sequel, The Hard- the economic meltdown of will no doubt take for THE JOURNAL to encourage every nificant ques- ness of the Heart. Its dramatic tale of 2008 makes for a rip-roaring something different one of you to take up the tools nec- tion: Does di- baptizing tours and humanitarian read. The satisfying outcomes of away from The Rod of Iron. essary to study the Bible. vine inspira- Kathleen McCann tion depend on efforts in backwater India didn’t dis- his personal struggles provide a The real magic of the book, I believe, THE JOURNAL closing: What next? whether the appoint. suitable finale to the unbelievable is that Wade’s own personal journey With THE JOURNAL: NEWS OF THE stories are fully accurate? On the human level a disintegrating events of the first two volumes. of discovery and understanding will CHURCHES OF GOD terminating now, marriage and the realization that the enable readers from all walks of life to The Christian dilemma What is revealed? we will find ourselves on our own Bible calls the hierarchical rule of reflect on their own experience and with regard to discovering what the The course looks briefly at the men over men and women a curse that Unveiled are frankly astounding therein discover what is most impor- different groups are doing and teach- issue of Old Testament law, saying was never intended form the basis of a discoveries on subjects as diverse as tant to them. ing. So this seems like a good oppor- that it was given to the Israelites out tunity to be forward-thinking. of God’s love, but, while it has not been abolished, in New Testament Spurgeon’s College, London times we are guided by our relation- Recently I enrolled with Spur- ship to Jesus Christ. geon’s College in London to work The course raises the dilemma of This leg of the journey comes to an end towards its certificate in theology. I how can we possibly obey God’s got started with Spurgeon’s module law fully. One of the most important The writer pastors the Church of people to defend their views or if need submitted advertisements that were Reading and Using the Bible. points made is that the OT points God Big Sandy and is a regular col- be to change their views based upon rejected. For the record, the rejected Firstly, Spurgeon’s takes you forward to Christ and the NT points umnist for THE JOURNAL. He also new information coming to light. advertisements were due to the tone of through the issue of different Bible backwards to Him and forwards to writes a weekly article that appears at the article as opposed to the ideas that commentaries and then guides you the future. Two-person review team towards certain books you should churchofgodbigsandy.com. were presented. Dixon and Linda did Letters and Wisdom books It is my perspective that the Church not want name-calling or slander. also read. By Dave Havir of God organizations do not come Studying the genres I found the section on New Testa- IG SANDY, Texas—As Dixon close to performing such a service. My involvement ment Letters fascinating, using and Linda Cartwright an- Their church publications are church Someone could ask: What was your More than 12 lessons take you again the four principles to under- through the stand them. Bnounced in the 199th issue of organs, designed to give the offi- involvement with THE JOURNAL? basics neces- There was THE JOURNAL, dated September-Octo- cial views of their hier- My answer: My role was two- sary to get a also much food ber 2017, they decided to cease pub- archy. Sometimes fold. First, I was invited to good grasp of Structure is examined, along for thought in lishing this newspaper after 21 years. their articles have write a monthly editorial col- what the Bi- the issue of While I have at times heard com- to proceed through umn. Second, as time passed ble is as a col- with imagery and symbolism. the poetry of plaints about this newspaper, I can a rigorous review I became involved with the lection of books. prophecy and be counted as one of its biggest sup- process involving physical layout of the Although vision, where porters. many people. newspaper. God Himself gave the messages, the structure is examined, along with Like a number of people, I have not Recently Dixon Cart- Someone could ask: Scriptures were written by humans. imagery and symbolism. always appreciated some of the doctri- wright wrote that his friend How did you become I found it interesting to realize that Spurgeon’s also looks at the nal ideas that I saw published within John Robinson used the ser- involved? there are many genres of writing in Wisdom books, Proverbs, Ecclesi- this paper. But allow me to give you vices of Ron Dart and Leon My answer: I was the Bible, and each has its own astes and Job, and considers the two reasons why I valued the role of Walker as a review team for a news- taught journalism princi- implied rules for expression. The importance of the Psalms. THE JOURNAL In Transition. genres may be narrative, prophecy, in providing doctrinal paper called ples during my years at Ambassador Relevance to ordinary people interpretations from various writers. THE JOURNAL did not operate that College. poetry, prayer, wisdom, proverbs, way. Dixon and Linda were the re- Here is a brief history. I had the letters or law, and we understand Finally, Spurgeon’s makes the Two reasons view team for THE JOURNAL, although opportunity to be hired as a student for better what we are reading when we module relevant to ordinary people First, I believe the general purpose their review did not include tests for a church newspaper called The World- can identify the rules being used. by examining how the Bible is used of the newspaper was threefold. I doctrinal accuracy. wide News. I worked for John Robin- Translation types in different settings, for example in believe that the paper provided an son and with Dixon Cartwright. private study, church, outreach and Print everything? Spurgeon’s also explains about small-group study. avenue for (1) news among the When John started In Transition he translations and something I didn’t churches, (2) historical and Chris- Someone could ask: Did Dixon and asked me to help him. The course even has you examine realize before, that there are three a medieval painting online to see tian-living items and (3) doctrinal Linda print everything sent to them? When Dixon and Linda started THE types of translation: literal, dynamic discussion. My answer: Of course not. Many JOURNAL they asked me to help them. how art can be used to express un- and free. derstanding and feelings towards Second, I believe the specific pur- more articles were submitted than Other sources A literal translation might be for pose of doctrinal discussions was to space would allow. your own Bible study, while a religion. provide a place where people could Someone could ask: If Dixon and As my headline suggests, the leg of dynamic one might be useful for The personal challenge write without the rigid censorship of Linda were not inclined to print an our journey involving THE JOURNAL is reading in public. A free translation any particular church organization. article due to space, could those indi- coming to a close. adopts a more-contemporary rele- In conclusion, the challenge for I believe the publishers (Dixon and viduals submit their article as a paid Our journey as members of the vance. You might use different types me with Spurgeon’s is to benefit Linda) shined a light on many ideas. advertisement? Body of Christ is not ending. We will of translation for different uses. from what others can teach me while continue upon that journey until we using spiritual judgment to establish Sometimes they printed a rebuttal per- My answer: Absolutely. That was a Responsible interpreting spective in the following issue. At good way for a writer to be able to die or until we see Christ returning in issues I might not agree with. other times they printed contrasting promote his ideas. the clouds. Spurgeon’s is also concerned that I intend to continue studying with ideas within the same issue. Someone could ask: Did Dixon and I believe Dixon and Linda did we should interpret responsibly Spurgeon’s College in this way, and I believe they wanted people to Linda publish every article submitted much to help the Body of Christ. Now, when studying the Bible, and gives I urge JOURNAL readers to study the learn to think and to analyze their as a paid advertisement? with their retirement, you will have four principles: the literary, histori- Bible too. views. I believe they wanted to help My answer: No, there were some See 21 YEARS, page 6 4 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) We can open up to the reality of life, the world, everything The writer is a former member of theological and sociological glasses specially called souls but to a large Currently a Mennonite who were contacting some kind of the Worldwide Church of God who and try to see the world afresh, would I and vibrant community of people who alien life out there. I met people with psychic gifts who attended Ambassador College 1971- be bollixing my relationship with God? regularly exchanged and debated the I mean, what do you do with that? 1974. She holds a Ph.D. in religious Or would I be walking through a door results of their research into the hun- knew things that they could not possi- bly have known. I had a colleague This man held the purse strings at a studies from Duke University. A that God had opened for me? dreds—the thousands—of facets that major university. Did it really make book based on her dissertation, The I reaffirmed (with some trepida- together make up that jewel we com- who told me quickly, in a hushed voice, that he remembered a lifetime sense to think he was lying to a mere Lure of the Edge: Scientific Pas- tion, I will admit) a position that I monly call religion. temp worker, just for kicks? sions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pur- had begun to adopt during my penul- Ultimately, I chose religious studies he’d lived before his current one as a suit of UFOs, is published by the Uni- timate Worldwide years: Any faith as my major and forged ahead to get a Mennonite. Safer space A spontaneous past-life memory of versity of California Press and that could not withstand honest, open Ph.D. in that field. I may have been rather bold in my available at Amazon. and deep examination from time to my own popped up the first time I Getting realer tried to meditate. I smelled things like choice of dissertation topics, but I time wasn’t worth much to begin was tapping into the kind of truth that By Brenda Denzler with. I forged ahead. While I was busy going to school, roses that no one else could detect and I could trace to no source. is often acknowledged only among ITTSBORO, N.C.—I more or working part time and raising my the more-respectable members of less raised myself in the World- Far out boys, I was also slowly putting togeth- I “remembered” things that had not wide Church of God, from the Having by this time sampled gener- er a new understanding of reality—or, even happened yet—but did a few mainstream society late at night, P when the lights are low, alcohol has time I was 14 ously from the far right, I decided to perhaps I should say, Reality. weeks later. until I turned 29. see what reality looked like from the The academic milieu played a I knew the contents of letters before loosened a few inhibitions, and a safe At that point the far left. large role in shaping who I was be- opening them. The Universe/God be- space for admitting the “impossible” church and I had I didn’t have to spend much time coming, helping me to understand gan to “talk” to me in synchronicities: has been created: a parting of the there before realizing that it sounded a what Life, the World and Everything coincidences meaningful only to me These things happen to everyone. ways. whole lot like reality from the point of looked like and how it operated for and individually dismissible (to a They are not rare. They are Reality. Who rejected view of the far right—just with differ- people who had not been stuffed into skeptical outsider) as mere hokum, The Harry Potter series of books whom is proba- ent bogeymen and different ideas a fundamentalist conceptual strait- but too numerous and often too strik- was so popular, I’ve decided, because bly a matter for about exactly what would precipitate jacket from an early age. ing for me to dismiss. it is basically true. It is a modern some debate, myth, a story whose particulars may but suffice it to be fiction but whose essential message say that I left via is decidedly nonfiction: Life, the the good (if Brenda Denzler I had to admit something Real seemed to be World and Everything is not as it unofficial) appears on the surface. offices of a popular right-wing politi- happening. This unconventional topic wasn’t all just Reality is weird. It’s like an iceberg. cal newspaper and its various adver- hoaxes, misidentifications and nutcases seeking attention. Only 10 percent of it shows on the tisers, many of whom were purveyors surface. But at random times, when 3 of far-right-wing political and reli- you wander onto Platform 9 ⁄4 (or 3 gious propaganda—and some of Platform 9 ⁄4 wanders into your path), whom were noteworthy dissidents the massive worldwide apocalypse I was learning to live in that world, These two tracks in my post-WCG you catch a glimpse of something(s) from the Worldwide Church of God. that, it seems, everyone said—in fact, and very comfortably at that. exploration of what Reality looked that cannot be . . . but nevertheless are. On the day of my exit/ouster, I 50 years later everyone is still say- like converged in my dissertation, swear the tectonically stable Kansas ing—is just around the corner. Again, Irrefutable suggestions which was on UFOs and alien ab- Still working on it ground weaved and buckled just for a I forged ahead. The trick was, at the same time I ductions. I’ve spent the last 35 years of my moment under my feet. I knew my Back to school was embracing (and being embraced The rigor of the mainstream life more or less quietly exploring world had changed. Reality as I had Reality. I have yet to figure out its ex- known it was gone. As my marriage succumbed to the by) a more-mainstream take on Life, Though I handled this unconven- pressures of our personalities and the the World and Everything, I was being tional topic with all of the mainstream act nature. New specs intractable expectations that World- confronted by hints, allegations and academic rigor that I had been taught At this point I tend to agree with the I decided to see what Life, the wide had infused, I decided to go back downright irrefutable facts suggesting to use, I also had to admit, privately, famous geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, World and Everything looked like to school and chart a new career path that there was more. that something Real seemed to be who is reputed to have said, “Now my without the glasses that had been so for myself. Just as I was learning what it felt like happening. It wasn’t all just hoaxes, own suspicion is that the Universe is thoughtfully provided to me by the I filled my elective hours with to be a part of mainstream society, I misidentifications and nutcases seek- not only queerer than we suppose, but WCG for what had amounted to my classes on religion, and it felt like I found myself having to try to make ing attention. queerer than we can suppose.” whole adolescent and adult life. was home—back in a world where sense of things that didn’t quite fit into A high-ranking administrator in Or, as another thought leader 2,000 I had already determined that my God and faith mattered, although in mainstream patterns of thought. I found the university where I worked told years ago observed, “For now we see relationship to God was not contingent the academic world they mattered in a myself wandering, often stunned and me one day, in a very quiet voice, through a glass darkly.” on my membership in any given organ- very different way—and I liked it. amazed, in (to borrow an apt metaphor about his experience with major That should not, however, keep us ization. If I dared to take off the WCG’s It made sense, and not just to a few from J.K. Rowling) Diagon Alley. Department of Defense researchers from trying to see as much as we can. O for the Feasts when we had those little green stickers At the risk of embarrassing Trey Not that I didn’t like the minis- “Am not!” I’ve always loved the Feast of schooled for the last three years of Cartwright, who nowadays is the se- ters or the handicapped, but in the “Are too!” Trumpets. They always played the high school. nior media producer for Stephen F. immortal words of my then-7- Good times. cool song with the “trumpets be- I love Feast gifts, especially Austin State University, THE JOUR- year-old sister, “we’re just as tired Insert gratuitous plug here: fore each stanza.” As a child I was since my parents started letting me NAL reprints a little article Mr. Cart- as they are.” You’re reading THE JOURNAL: always hypnotized/mystified by pick out my own presents, and wright wrote for THE JOURNAL’S is- How many of you fellow green NEWS OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD, the trumpets and often wondered then they just pay for them. I’m not sue No. 31, dated August 1999. stickers plotted to get a red or and I do hope you’re a subscriber. why they always got to cut in sure what I want this year. Maybe Here’s the article’s original biogra- orange sticker through devious Remember, that’s THE JOURNAL: front of the “stanza,” whatever I’ll ask for something extrava- phical blurb for Mr. Cartwright: means? I know I did, but I was too NEWS OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD. that was. gant, like a pony. You know, “The writer is a sophomore at timid ever to do anything more “If we don’t print it, who will?” Away with words as a child I never could Tyler Junior College. He drives a than plan it out, and at that young This year I’ll be going to the figure out how Mr. Tkach brown 1980 Cressida his friends age I didn’t have enough money to Feast with my family in San An- I’ve decided to tell all. could fit down our chim- have dubbed the TreyMobile.” bribe anybody anyway. tonio, Texas. It’ll be a nice little I’ve become an antise- ney. Parking insurance drive down to the southern part of mantic. I have decided to I think that maybe, as a By Trey Cartwright the state, with the multiple external hate words. I have to IG SANDY, Texas—You I can joke about it now, but the final farewell to my cargo carriers and the frequent rest write way too many youth (I’ll be 20 years know what I miss? I miss green bumper sticker always en- stops. When you gotta go, you of them to fill this those little green and red sured us of a parking space— old at next year’s B gotta go (you’d bladder believe it). space up. Feast), I’ll spend at and orange bumper stickers with somewhere. I’m not sure what the theme of I hope this least one sermon of the Worldwide Church of God seal Those mile walks were good for the congregation we’ll be attend- news doesn’t on them. this Feast on a you, though. They built character. ing with is. I’m going down there change any- fuzzy little blan- one’s views ket in between about me. It’s a the aisles of chairs. I love the packing, the multiple external cargo carriers bit of a hardship In fact, I think we on the roof of the car, the in-depth conversations with my family: being the member of this type should all do that this Feast. of hate group and a journalism Who’s with me? Anybody? ‘She’s looking out my window!’ ‘Am not!’ ‘Are too!’ Good times. major at the same time. It takes a ______rather extraordinary type of person with lots of characters to do it. I [Editor’s note written in 2018: hoping for something along the think I’m up for the job. At a 1999 Feast observance with I miss the little seal too. I re- As did the hard, backless, bleacher lines of “a Feast without chairs.” seating. Jeff Booth, Ken Westby and many member one year I got to go up to So who’s ready for the Day of Try to remember other friends in San Antonio, the front of the congregation and But I love going to the Feast. I Atonement? I’ve been stuffing my Texas, Mr. Booth made an unex- throw it a fish or two after it had fin- Does anyone besides me re- doubt there’s anybody alive who’s cheeks for the past week or so. You pected announcement: ished tossing the beach ball around. been to one who hasn’t loved it. The member coming back to school never can start too early with the “Would Trey Cartwright please But, seriously, folks, back to the trip to the Feast site is a great part of preparations for Atonement. from the Feast and being two bumper stickers. the whole feasting experience. The Feast of Trumpets is a good months ahead of the rest of the come to the front of the room?” My family was always a green- I love the packing, the multiple day too. I’ve got some friends who class in your schoolwork? [Mr. Booth then presented bumper-sticker family. Like most external cargo carriers on the roof are having a Rosh Hashanah party. And this is all work you did dur- young Mr. Cartwright with a small of you, I’m sure, I always felt a lit- of the car, the in-depth conversa- There’ll be singing and dancing ing church, mostly on the first day blanket inspired by Trey’s com- tle envious of the ministers and the tions with my family: and food and the blowing of the too. God bless the American pub- ments two months earlier about handicapped, and in some cases “She’s looking out my win- shofar. And, as we like to say lic-education system. fuzzy little blankets in the above the handicapped ministers. dow!” around here, shofar shogood. That’s part of the reason I home- article.] Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) THE JOURNAL 5

Cartoon by Jamie Cartwright, reprinted from THE JOURNAL, July 30,31, 19991997 Columns and commentary Reading The Journal is a valuable education The following column is reprinted myself meditating on things I haven’t Can two walk together and not be from issue No. 76, dated May 2003. thought about in years or—more often agreed? I’m not sure about that, but than not—have never thought about. they can certainly read THE JOURNAL By Darlene Warren That’s why it is so important to read and not be in agreement. IG SANDY, Texas—“In the this humble publication every month. Should women wear makeup? sweat of thy face shalt thou eat Do you know that if it weren’t for the Does wearing high heels make you a Bbread, till thou return unto the information I get out of THE JOURNAL I lower-class citizen? Is the women’s ground; for out of it wast thou taken: would still think that voyeurism lib (lip) movement really destroying for dust thou art, somehow pertained to the American the church? Will Dean Neal even- and unto dust space program? I’m constantly tually make peace with the ministry? shalt thou re- amazed at what you can learn Look for the answers turn.” By most to these questions in from these pages. future issues. people’s stan- dards this pas- Thank you both The funny cide sage from the I’m a firm be- of prophecy Bible wouldn’t liever in the im- Church of God be considered one portance of enjoying people have al- of God’s great your work. The great- ways had a fasci- Sally discovers the Mark of the Beast. pep talks for man- Darlene Warren est part of my job is nation with pro- kind. He may being able to get to phetic events de- just as well have said, “You blew it, know so many differ- scribed in the sucker, and, boy, are you going to ent people from around Bible. I mean, who pay.” Which brings me straight to the world without hav- wouldn’t? A quick Who is your brother? today’s subject: working for THE ing to leave my home. reading in the book of Revelation JOURNAL, and, more specifically, Of course, I sure wouldn’t mind depicting the four horsemen could The author grew up in the Father in heaven is My brother and CONNECTIONS. getting out once in a while and meet- send chills up the spines of even the Radio/Worldwide of God. He and sister and mother.” his wife, Linda, regularly attend It does not say you can be a broth- Really important issues ing people in person. On the other most hardened nonbelievers. hand, I’m not naive enough to believe Church of God people have studied Church of God fellowships where er only if you attend XYZ Church of What a great job! I’ve had a variety those same people would like to meet these scriptures for years and tried to they can appreciate godly messages God, Inc. and fellowship with the brethren. Unfortunately, the past and pres- of jobs over the years, but few have me. With every issue of CONNECTIONS devise their own ways of escaping the challenged me the way this one does. ent culture of the Churches of God I try to share my newfound knowledge impending disastrous times to come. By Morris W. Foster has lacked in acknowledging broth- I find myself growing intellectually by with my readership via this column. And who can blame them? We have LADEWATER, Texas—Who ers and sisters who attend other or- the minute (and, believe me, that’s a And let me say I appreciate both of to keep trying to figure things out. It’s is my brother? We live and ganizations. Lacking as well in our chore in itself). I often wonder where you very much. in our nature. Glearn. I will begin by apolo- culture is reconciliation. I would be today if I didn’t have To the reader I offended, let me Will we be spared the horror to gizing to those who have attended access to the stimuli associated with commend you for your astuteness (I come? Should we prepare a place of various Church of God groups who Expected to shun being in contact with the brethren guess I am pretty worldly at that) and safety for ourselves, or does that show were shunned by those of us still Five years ago I had some work from all the different Churches of apologize for the offense. a lack of faith? Does Funny Cide have attending the done on our property at home by a God, and working with THE JOURNAL And, for my other loyal reader, what it takes to win the Belmont Stakes WCG 35-plus kindhearted man I have known since makes it all possible. what can I say? Thanks, sis. You’re and therefore be the first horse in 25 years ago. high school 48 years ago. He and his I get to deal with the really impor- always there when I need you. years to capture the Triple Crown? I also apolo- family attended the WCG. tant issues of the day, real mystery-of- (Excuse me, that part about the horse- gize to those who Because he visited another group the-ages questions. How many Gods More really important issues men made me lose my concentration.) may no longer one Sabbath after a split 40 years attend anywhere ago, he was fired from his job, lost are there? Did Jesus preexist? Should We’ve addressed so many subjects The point is, it’s all in THE JOURNAL. because of hav- all of his friends, who were expect- women play a role in church services? THE JOURNAL You don’t have to agree with every- over the few years has ing been mis- ed to shun him, and nearly lost ev- How often does Mr. Armstrong roll been in existence that it’s virtually thing, and sometimes what you read over in his grave? treated and erything he and his family had. impossible for anyone to complain may upset you for a while, but that’s shunned in the That painful experience hurt him The stimulation continues without about a lack of diverse views shared okay. Sometimes it’s good to get upset. past. Morris Foster and his family so badly that standing lapse, day after invigorating day. I find within its pages. Speaking of upsets, go Funny Cide! We thought under our carport 35 years later, re- we were doing the right thing, but lating the story to me, he had tears we were so wrong. We let some very streaming down his cheeks. close friendships die on the vine by Unfortunately, the default setting neglecting our brothers, who were of some of the leadership and min- Friend of Basil remembers the toon man only in search of doing the right istry of the past has been: thing. I am so sorry. You don’t agree with me so I kick The following article is reprinted here Never apologize for it. Never. Express it, aid.” He spoke frequently of his “gout” It is my objective to speak the you out of the church and you are no from issue No. 12, dated January 1998. and use it every chance you get.” and old age. In 1974 Basil wrote: “We truth in love. To do this, I must longer a brother. You attended with Mr. Knowles for several years many years Years later, when I was working for were happy to learn of Mr. Hill’s return address the elephant in the room in another group one Sabbath so you ago was a columnist for THE JOURNAL. David Jon Hill on church publications, it from abroad. His distant trips are worri- some of the are no long- fell my lot to cor- some, especially when he goes fourth Church of God er my broth- By Brian Knowles respond frequent- class in the landing-gear recesses.” RCADIA, Calif.—The other day ly with Mr. Wol- Basil’s visual depictions often came organizations. Dogfights are an appropriate er. You lose I noted that the cover of a recent verton over “The in for criticism from literalists who were That elephant analogy of what happens in your job, all AMad magazine featured a cartoon Story of Man,” unable to stretch their minds to encom- is the desire of your income, by the late Basil Wolverton, author of which we were pass his interpretive illustrations. In one some COG or- a church-organization split. your church “The Story of Man” (later called The running serially letter he spoke of withdrawing an illus- ganizations to and all of Bible Story), so long a staple of World- in The Plain Truth. tration to head off the brickbats: discredit others, your friends! wide Church of God literature. Basil is It was the most “The reaction would be something claiming they are not brothers You no longer have God’s Spirit. gone. He died the last day of 1978. But delightful editori- like that to one of my Bible Story illus- and sisters because they do not Really? Seriously? his work lives on. al task I ever per- trations at a conference years ago. ‘Eve attend their man-made organization, I first met Basil back in the mid-’60s formed. didn’t look like that!’ one elder ex- thus denying their brother and treat- Spiteful authority at the Feast in Squaw Valley. I walked Brian Knowles Basil Wolver- claimed as a sort of spokesman. I knew ing them (God’s children) in an As good as misguided intentions up to him and said, “Hi, Mr. Wolverton. ton, one of the she didn’t because I couldn’t remember ungodly way. that some may have had, it seems we My name’s Brian, and I’m an artist too.” first elders in the Radio Church of God, back that far. But neither could the oth- Twenty-two years ago our son unwittingly became a tool of Satan’s He gave me a blank look and said lived in Oregon. In his letters to David ers. Sometimes things are never printed had a rottweiler dog. At the same by denying our brother. A lot of pain something like, “Big deal.” I didn’t Jon Hill and me he portrayed himself as for lack of accuracy that would have time I was given a cute little puppy. was caused. Where does a loving know how to take him. “waiting by the mailbox” for our corre- been impossible. The Adam and Eve I didn’t know until later that the Heavenly Father who gave the very The next time I ran into him at that spondence, even in the pouring rain. drawing was used, even though one fel- puppy was a pit bull. At one point life of His Son for us give anyone same Feast, I smiled and he responded, Basil had created a low thought Eve one dog took the other dog’s bone. that kind of spiteful authority? “You again.” cast of semi-imagi- had on too much Still later we ran into each other nary characters who lipstick. And in black That’s when the fight started. The apostle Paul addressed this again. “We can’t go on meeting like frequently cropped Basil and white yet.” Until we got rid of both dogs a issue in Romans 8. Please read the this,” he informed me. up in his letters. [See Wolverton One of my fav- couple years later they would get entire chapter. Following are some My next encounter with the man who one of them on page orite Wolverton cor- into fight after fight and literally try excerpts: drew people with spaghetti hair was at a 40, the famous Lena respondences be- to kill one another. “As many as are led by the later Feast, by which time I’d been the Hyena]. gins like this: “Hav- Those dogfights are an appropriate Spirit of God, these are the sons of ordained an elder. I was troubled about In one letter, un- ing managed to analogy of what happens in a church- God.” the way some higher-ups in the ministry dated, the world’s soak the cancella- organization split. It likely started “If God is for us, who can be viewed the profession of artist. They most spiritual car- tion marks off an- with one leader taking another against us?” seemed to believe it was a sordid one toonist wrote, “This other stamp, I will leader’s “bone.” And the fight’s on. “Who shall bring a charge reserved mainly for effeminate men, manuscript is being now take time out What should have happened is for against God’s elect? It is God who hippies and drug addicts. All artists, they delivered by one of from my marijuana- the splitters to have taken Philip- justifies.” opined, were degenerate in some sense. the Watergate gang, leaf shredding to pians 2:1-4 to heart and repented. “Who is he who condemns? I counseled with Mr. Wolverton, who set whose initials are M.W. (More Water- peck out a note to you, using my usual To answer the question of who is It is Christ who died, and further- me straight. gate).” Of course, he was really referring typewriter ribbon, which has been our brother, let’s read the words of more is also risen, who is even at the “Listen, my friend,” he said, with no to his son Monte. soaked many times since 1920 to keep Jesus in Matthew 12:50. right hand of God, who also makes small amount of heat, “the people who A 1973 letter included a postscript: “If my gemlike words sharp (and wet). “For whoever does the will of My look down on artists are ignorant. Being you ever run across Monte, I’d appreci- After the ribbon is retired in 1980, it will See SOME GROUPS, page 6 able to draw and paint is a gift of God. ate it if you’d park and go give him first See HE TERRIFIED SOME, page 40 6 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Some groups see acknowledgement of brotherhood as liability Continued from page 5 self as a “fellow worker” for “their Lord. If your enemy is hungry, feed disgusted with the splits among the had created nailed Him to a stake and intercession for us.” joy” (2 Corinthians 1:24). him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; various church organizations over the beat, mocked and crucified Him? Did “Who shall separate us from the That attitude is the correct one for for in so doing you will heap coals of years, my wife and I started putting on He threaten to sue them or proclaim love of Christ?” the “ministry” and organizational lead- fire on his head. Do not be overcome the annual Barn Dance each year our- that they would “burn in hell for this”? ers. They properly are fellow workers by evil, but overcome evil with good.” selves, with the help of friends. No! He mercifully prayed, “Father, The sacrifice wasn’t cheap of our joy, not our lords and masters. The above words are the exact We invite everyone of the Body of forgive them, for they know not what Christ accepts us as brothers if we opposite of denying your brother and Christ to attend, regardless of what they do.” (1) do the will of the Father, (2) walk Treating each other suing him. Church of God organization he at- The very definition of being Chris- according to the Spirit and (3) if God’s Let’s consider the good fruits that Pray for your friends who have tends or doesn’t attend. It’s always tians means we must follow Jesus’per- Spirit dwells in us. are to be produced in our lives. Gala- mistreated you and do good to them. heartwarming to see brothers and sis- fect, merciful example of forgiveness. We have only one Savior, Jesus tians 5:22-23 says the fruit of the In Job 42:7-10 I find it interesting, and ters who attend six or seven Church of Christ. He is the One who sacrificed Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffer- quite fascinating, that it was not until God organizations, who believe the Let’s inspire future love stories His life for our sins. That sacrifice did ing, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, after Job prayed for his friends who truth, all come together in peace and Among the Church of God organi- not come cheap to Jesus, or to the gentleness and self-control. had mistreated him that God gave Job enjoy one another’s company, and no zations, unfortunately, there have been Father. Jesus is the One who is the James 3:17-18 says the same thing: twice as much as he had before. one has to die so that we have the a lot of war stories. Head of God’s church, the Body of “The wisdom that is from above is A wise friend of mine commented a opportunity to be together. These have been on my mind a lot Christ, a spiritual body. It is He we first pure, then peaceable, gentle, will- few years ago that “some organiza- Here are words from Jesus Christ the last few years. must obey. ing to yield, full of mercy and good tions worry too much about what they that have become our inspiration for Let’s replace war stories with love In Matthew 18:20 Jesus Christ said fruits, without partiality and without fear they might lose by counting those these Barn Dances. stories. Let’s have a heart to follow “For where two or three are gathered hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteous- in other groups as brothers, instead of John 13:34-35: “A new command- Christ’s example and the instructions we together in My name, I am there in the ness is sown in peace by those who considering what they might gain.” ment I give to you, that you love one have read in Scripture and in this article. midst of them. It’s important to note that make peace.” That’s an astute observation. Can another; as I have loved you, that you Let’s meditate, and follow through, Jesus Christ did not say “two or three So how are we to treat our brother you imagine what could be accom- also love one another. By this all will on ways we can love our brothers. gathered together in my name who are or, for that matter, our sister? plished if the Church of God groups know that you are My disciples, if you Let’s pray for our brothers. Let’s do sitting in ABC Church of God.” “Let each of you look out not only worked together with no concern for have love for one another.” random acts of kindness to them. In Matthew 7:15-16 Jesus warned for his own interests, but also for the who got the credit? Sometimes you can simply wear peo- us to beware of false prophets who are interests of others” (Philippians 2:1-4). What are we without love? ple down with kindness. attired in sheep’s clothing, but inward- A section of the Bible I highly rec- Unintentional idolatry I highly recommend reading the en- Let’s let God use us to give the love ly they are ravenous wolves. How do ommend reading is Romans 12, the The only church organization that tirety of 1 Corinthians 13, the Love Chap- of God to our brothers. Let’s build real you know who are the sheep and who entire chapter. counts is the Body of Christ. No others ter. Let’s read about “the greatest gift”: love stories that will just melt the are the wolves? Romans 12 is packed full of the matter. If we collectively followed “Though I speak with the tongues of hearts of our brothers. You will know them by their fruits. godly way we should treat each other God’s clear instructions, we could begin men and of angels, but have not love, I Let’s inspire love stories that will so each of us can fulfill our God-given setting a much better example and be a have become sounding brass or a be repeated for decades—and genera- We’re off to see roles in the church. much better light in this dark world. clanging cymbal. And though I have tions. I lay in bed several years ago, But how can you love a brother I am persuaded that there is a cer- the gift of prophecy, and understand all Let’s resolve to maintain our rela- sleepless night after sleepless night, tionships with our brothers, wherever pondering the subject of organiza- they may attend or not attend. tional leaders abusing the members, Who can you reach out to and God’s children. Can you imagine what could be accomplished rekindle a friendship with? Maybe My wife and I were severely suffer- reignite a friendship that has dwindled ing the consequences of that abuse. It if the Church of God groups worked together on the vine? occurred to me to get up and see if I Seriously, who? I’m asking you to could find a video clip on YouTube with no concern for who got the credit? write down their names right now and from The Wizard of Oz. contact them, love them, do random I found a 60-second video clip. It acts of kindness to them. richly portrays the control that some who denies that you’re his brother? tain amount of unintentional idolatry mysteries and all knowledge, and Maybe you will regain a brother organizational leaders, over the de- Shamefully, leaders of some organ- among some who have been called, though I have all faith, so that I could and restore a treasured friendship. cades, have tried to wield over the izations even bring lawsuits against those who unwittingly idolize an remove mountains, but have not love, I Maybe you can begin a treasured new Body of Christ: claiming to represent their brothers in other organizations, organization or particular leaders. am nothing. And though I bestow all friendship. God but in reality misguided and and even their own members. This is I came to recognize that I was my goods to feed the poor, and though Reach out to him this week. Send speaking for themselves. strictly forbidden in Scripture. Read 1 guilty of the same for most of my life. I give my body to be burned, but have him a kind note. Tell him you miss To watch the video just go to Corinthians 6:1-8. A certain percentage, totally unwit- not love, it profits me nothing. Love him and love him. Maybe take him YouTube.com and type into the search Do these men believe that if they tingly, still are. Many, many others, far suffers long and is kind; love does not some firewood or use one of your gifts box “wizard of oz pay no attention to deny their brother, and convince their more than organizational leaders may envy; love does not parade itself, is not to help in a need that he cannot do that man behind the curtain.” Enjoy. membership to do the same, they are realize, have awakened to the reality puffed up; does not behave rudely, himself, or help him with something therefore justified in suing him? that we are to worship God, not the does not seek its own, is not provoked, he is able to do. Fighting division with division What shallow thinking. Try ex- organization or the men who lead it. thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniq- It’s interesting that the very people plaining that to God. That ungodly uity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all Sons of God who claim to be so adamantly against reasoning flies in the face of God’s Our fellow humans aren’t God things, believes all things, hopes all Almighty God, Creator of all that division are the ones most adamantly inspired Scriptures. Shameful! No minister or organizational lead- things, endures all things. Love never is, gives us clear instruction in His determined to maintain it. They are er was God, who came to earth, lived fails. But whether there are prophecies, Word on how we must treat a brother. unwilling to reconcile with their Instruments of peace a perfect life and then gave that perfect they will fail; whether there are Never be afraid to do the right thing. brother unless he comes crawling Jesus had much to say about how life for me. Only Jesus Christ did that! tongues, they will cease; whether there Never! Regardless of any man who back to their organization. we must treat others. In Matthew 5:9 We have all been bought by the is knowledge, it will vanish away . . . may try to sway you otherwise. God’s Where is the peacemaking and love He said blessed are the peacemakers, blood of our Creator and Savior, “And now abide faith, hope, love, Word is clear! of God in that? for they shall be called sons of God. Jesus. It is to Him, and His Father these three; but the greatest of these is Let’s all be peacemakers, for they Jesus said the rulers of the gentiles So, if we are to be the sons of God, only, that we belong. love.” will be called the sons of God. lord it (exercise great authority) over we cannot disparage or bring reproach I am thankful there are loving, I’ll ask it again: How can we love a If you would like to contact the them. “Yet it shall not be so among upon our brothers who happen to godly ministers too. brother who denies that we’re his author directly, you may do so by you; whoever desires to become great attend another fellowship. brother? E-mail at: [email protected]. among you, let him be your servant” Back to Romans 12:9-21: “Repay Barn dancing I’ll tell you how: We can pray for ______(Matthew 20:25-28). no one evil for evil. As much as de- Until recent years about the only him. We can find ways to do good to To view or print an expanded ver- Paul set the example of not think- pends on you, live peaceably with all time we got to see estranged brothers him and do it. We can overcome evil sion of Mr. Foster’s article “Who Is ing of himself as having dominion men. Do not avenge yourselves. Ven- and sisters and friends was at funerals. with good! That’s how! Your Brother?” go to www.tinyurl. over the brethren, but described him- geance is Mine, I will repay, says the Six years ago, having become totally What did Jesus say when people He com/morrisfoster777. 21 years ago columnist asked: Is your love waxing cold? ______Continued from page 3 Certainly there is plenty of iniquity the people of God are falling back into Will you make a difference in the the opportunity to find other sources hroughout the years disciples of in this world. We don’t even know the the habit of labeling others. What a lives of other people? of news, history and Christian-living Jesus Christ have been interest- half of it. Can you imagine what God shame. Iniquity will continue to rise. Love and doctrinal discussions. Ted in understanding prophecy. sees when He looks down into the The time is coming when Chris- will continue to fade. The only thing I encourage you to find blogs and During Christ’s physical ministry on lives of mankind? tians will need more fellowship with that will allow Christians to avoid this Facebook accounts that help you to earth, the disciples specifically asked What is more alarming is that iniq- other Christians. prophecy is an active dose of God’s continue proving all things. Please Him about some of the events sur- uity is increasing among the people of Is your love toward people waxing Spirit. don’t be afraid to read a variety of rounding His “coming” and the “end God. Although it is difficult to under- cold? Or will you battle through this Since the Church of God is identi- material. We are expected to be of the world” (Matthew 24:3). stand all of the ways that the people of human reaction to sin? fied by God’s Spirit within a person, mature in handling a variety of ideas. members of God’s church will draw Fear should not be a part of your closer to one another. life. However, a shortage of your time The people of God will need the may be the largest impediment to Too many of the people of God are becoming polarized power of God’s Spirit to survive your selecting what to read. prophesied events. However, it won’t in their corporations and living rooms. hurt to have the loving support of fel- As we began low Christians. I would like to conclude this article In fact, there will continue to be with a reprinted version of my original Jesus proceeded to give some God are falling short in our love for The Pharisees practiced a religion times when the love of God will be editorial (under the headline “Is Your details about what would eventually God, it is becoming increasingly obvi- of form. They participated in religious directly transmitted to us through the Love Waxing Cold?”) in the first issue occur. Let’s take a quick glance at ous how the people of God are activity, without the true concern of life of other Christians. of THE JOURNAL, published in Feb- verse 12. becoming more lax in our love for their Maker. In the coming years we will appre- ruary 1997. It was prophesied that iniquity each other. On the other hand, Christ practiced ciate the people of God who share May God bless you in your study would abound. Also, it was foretold Too many of the people of God are the religion of His Father. God’s love with us. And we will have and in your living toward the King- that this lawlessness would influence becoming polarized in their corpora- What about you? Will you please the opportunity of making a difference dom of God. a loss of love. tions and living rooms. Too many of your Father in heaven? in the lives of other Christians. Connections: MMeemmbbeerr ttooMMeemmbbeerr Issue No. 202 PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNAL: NEWS OF THE CHURCHES OF GOD Jan. 31, 2018

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Test your knowledge. Select the answer you think Resources Obituaries Obituaries is correct. Miss Emmett Koppe is a college student The New Testament emphasizes giving to the poor, not Jerry Dale McClenagan, 82, died Feb. 2, 2018. ¶ (daughter), Jennifer Brunner (granddaughter) and giving to headquarters. ¶ If you think you are the future Memorial services were held Feb. 6 in the Christian Gerald’s brother and his wife from Washington state. ¶ who creates Scripture quizzes to motivate fellow God of a universe, you might be an ego-d-maniac. Church of God, Amarillo, Texas, with Jeff Booth officiat- William Schuler, Judy’s brother, was unable to attend due believers to open their Bibles. ing. ¶ Jerry was born March 23, 1935, in Guymon, Okla., to ill health. The End Time Church: from the Cathedrals to the to Dale and Phyllis McClenagan. Catacombs—text/audio series. Latest chapter—King, He grew up on a farm southeast Randall “Randy” Ray Hooser, 73, died peacefully Jan. 7, Prophet, High Priest https://danlwhite.wordpress.com. of there. He graduated from Har- 2018. After a memorial service Jan. 14 at Wade Family 1. His life was threatened at birth. He healed and led many. desty High School in 1953. He Funeral Home in Arlington, Texas, Randy will be placed Obituaries attended Panhandle A&M and with his wife Tina at the Dallas- (a) The Messiah, (b) Moses, (c) Samuel Apostolic Faith Bible College. ¶ Fort Worth National Cemetery, Audrey Ray Williams was born in Bienville Parish, La., on He married Martha in 1955 and awaiting their resurrection. ¶ 2. He was a firstborn, raised by a priest and became a prophet May 27, 1923, to Carl and Lydia W. Williams. He passed they pastored churches in Ros- Randy was born in Dallas and away on Jan. 8, 2018, after a long illness. ¶ Funeral ser- well, N.M., Hardesty, Okla., and grew up in Hughes Springs and a who anointed kings. vices were Jan. 12 at Southern Funeral Home in Winnfield Liberal, Kan. ¶ Left to cherish his suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, with with Dr. Donald Ward officiating. memory are his wife, Martha, four brothers. ¶ Randy was pre- (a) Elijah, (b) Samuel, (c) Nathan Interment followed in Antioch and their four children (Deryl and ceded in death by his loving wife, Community Cemetery in Brewton’s family of Eureka, Calif., Don and Tina, and two brothers, Roddy Mill. ¶ Mr.Williams grew up in and family of Smithers, B.C., Canada, Jerry McClenagan Hooser and Jeff Hooser. Randy is 3. He was mistreated by his family, put to hard labor, and around the Saline and Pine Ridge LaFonda and family of Celina, survived by his son, Oliver communities. In 1944 he married Texas, and Rick and family or Amarillo, Texas), 12 grand- Hooser, and wife, Clarissa de then he healed an entire nation. Campos; daughters, Eleanor (El- the love of his life, Edna Hattaway, children and 13 great-grandchildren. ¶ Jerry touched Randy Hooser (a) Solomon, (b) David, (c) Joseph and they raised four children in many people with his friendliness and humor and with lie) Hooser; Lorraine (Lori) Holla- Winn Parish. ¶ He was preceded in his passion in writing and speaking. day and husband, Mark; and death by his parents, Carl and Elizabeth (Liza) Hooser; two brothers, Don Hooser and 4. This king lost over half of his constituents because he raised Lydia; his son-in-law John Ray Donald Hunter (who made Herbert Armstrong’s early Jim Hooser; and six grandchildren, Andrew, Luke, Liam, Koonce; and his brother Vester; recordings from his studio in the Caleb, Abigail (Abi), and Joel. the taxes too high. Audrey Williams basement of his home in Eugene, and close friends Gilbert and Violet Scott Smith passed away Jan. 8, Palmer. He is survived by his devot- Ore.) died at his home in May (a) Governor Brown, (b) Herod, (c) Rehoboam 2016 at the age of 101. ¶ Hunter 2018, of cardiac arrest.. A ed wife of 73 years, Edna; his daughter Patsy Gayle Koonce memorial service was held Jan. of Alexandria, La.; his daughter Lisa Williams and Michael was also an accomplished pho- 5. This person became a ruler and saved a nation. tographer and was giving slide- 20 at the Living Church of God’s Chevy Castranova of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; his daughter meeting hall in Garland, Texas. Vonda and James Oliver of Bay City, Mich.; his son Reggie show presentations with sound (a) Joseph, (b) Esther, (c) The Messiah and Cele Williams of Atlanta, La.; and many friends. added in, often about the Oregon Allen Hasie “Al” Donahue, 80, landscape, before the term “mul- of Big Sandy, Texas, passed 6. This man was encouraged by Paul to not let others Retired WCG/GCI pastor, Carlton Smith, 88, died Jan. timedia” had even been invented. away Feb. 16, 2018, at his 16, 2018. Carlton graduated from Ambassador College Toney John Schmidt passed away home. Al was born July 12, despise him for his youth. in Pasadena, Calif., in 1956, where as a student he par- 1937, in Hampton, Miss., and ticipated in two U.S. baptizing on Jan. 16, 2018. Toney was born in San Diego, Calif., and was Donald Hunter was the son of William Earnest (a) Barnabas, (b) Silas, (c) Timothy tours. Carlton then pastored and Margaret Hasie Donahue. Scott Smith WCG congregations in Colo- adopted at 18 months by Henry “Hank” and Leila Schmidt of Havertown, Pa. Toney was ¶ He was an United States Air 7. A youth who was taken captive; stayed true to his faith rado, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Force veteran. He spent his entire career in the aircraft New York, Pennsylvania, Ore- preceded in death by both par- ents. ¶ Toney graduated a industry as a pilot and aircraft tech. He was a member of and got promoted to governor. gon, Washington and California. the Church of God Big Sandy. ¶ Al was preceded in death Following retirement, he resided Wildcat from Big Sandy (Texas) High School in 1986, most by his parents; a son, Marshall (a) Daniel, (b) Shadrach, (c) Meshach, (d) Abed-Nego in Visalia, Calif., then most re- Donahue; brothers Jay, Will, cently in Solvang, Calif. ¶ recently residing in the Dallas area. ¶ Toney never met a Charles and “Buzz”; and sisters Carlton is survived by his wife of Patsy Foster and Frances Wright. 59 years, Beverly, his son Doug- stranger, loved to tell a joke and Answers: (1) a&b: Matthew 2:12, 16; 4:23; Exodus 1:22; 2:3; Numbers 16:46- was known for his smile and He leaves to cherish his memory las Smith, his daughter Aletha his daughters Marcia Ferguson Mann (wife of GCI Assistant ability to make everyone around 50. (2) a: 1 Samuel 3:1; 16:13. (3) b&c: 1 Samuel 16:10-11; 17:17, 28; Carlton Smith him laugh. ¶ Toney is survived and husband Mike of Tyler, Pastor Brad Mann), his daughter Texas, Marsette Donahue of 2 Samuel 2:7; Genesis 42:6; 37:28. (4) c: 1 Kings 12:8, 14-17. (5) a&b&c: Carlene Jones and three grand- Toney Schmidt by his son Christopher Schmidt, Allen, Texas; his daughter Jade Quitman, Texas, and Maruitta daughters. ¶ Mr. Smith was also a combat veteran who Brown and husband Jeff of Tyler. Esther 7:3-6; Genesis 42:6; 50:20; John 3:17; Luke 22:69. (6) c: 1 Timothy served in the Army during the Korean War 1950-1952. Schmidt, Bozeman, Mont., his granddaughters Chloe and Ariana; his siblings Karen Weese, Nancy White and Also a son, Marc Donahue of 4:12. (7) a: Daniel 1:17; 6:3. ¶ Cards may be sent to: Beverly Smith, 1651 Laurel Tyler; brothers Raymond Dona- Ave., Solvang, CA 93463. Chip Schmidt of Big Sandy, Donna Schmidt-Dickinson of Plano, Texas, and David Schmidt of Long Beach, Calif. hue and wife Mary of Horn Lake, Al Donahue Miss., and Harold Donahue and A graveside funeral service was held for Judith Ellen wife Faye of Batesville, Miss.; 12 Schuler Chapman, 74, Feb. 7, 2018, at Mountain View grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. ¶ Burial was Cemetery in Altadena, Calif. ¶ Elder Earle Reese, a close in Southside Cemetery in Inverness, Miss. Online condo- friend of the Chapman family, officiated. ¶ ¶ Family lences may be shared with the family by visiting burton- An Open Letter to All Husbands in the Church of God included Gerald (husband), Ben (son), Susan Brunner funeralhome.net. Husbands, Do You Appreciate Your Wife?

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At Santa Monica, California, and the RAND Corporation was the first Pentagon’s think tank. Where they played war games at lunch that might continue all day, in various battle scenarios. The math genius John von Neu- US Suicide Part 10 mann consulted there and determined what height the atomic bombs should be exploded and which Japanese cities to get the maximum kill rate of civilians on the ground. He is con- Brotherhood of Darkness (2000) erty now by US-based economic groups.] Bolsheviks. The funds aided those starving as sidered the father of modern computers. y Stanley Monteith: “This book is the Jews as Nathan Rothschild controlled Euro- a result of Communist takeover, of terror and ARPA was authorized in 1958. Its first mis- result of 38 years of travel, study and pean financial markets in 1844, though later murder of millions. Before, the land sustained sion was to test an Electro-Magnetic Pulse research. It is a story of mass murder, Catholic and Protestant bands challenged and enough for itself and plenty for other nations. (EMP) bomb to fry the electronics of incoming B eclipsed their power. The Brotherhood has Western technology aided the Soviets to Soviet missiles. Using atomic bombs exploded cruelty and inhumanity, yet it offers hope . . .” When Manly Hall died the Scottish Rite concealed its power by claiming Jews lead the develop. “Westinghouse, Henry Ford, Averill in the atmosphere, but found to have a short- Journal referred to him as Masonry’s Greatest world [to some extent true] and this idea pro- Harriman, Armand Hammer, Exxon and other lived effect. And the nuclear test ban treaty soon Secret Teachings of All motes Anti-Semitism against them. American firms built the infrastructure that followed. Yet the US conducted low-yield tests Philosopher. In his allowed the Soviet Union to survive. In 1983 Ages he traced Freemasonry back to the Mys- CFR rules US government claiming the Soviets would do the same. Later, tery Religions of antiquity. John Lehman Secretary of the Navy told the the test ban treaty failed as the US and USSR The poem Locksley Hall appears in vol. 17 Admiral Chester Ward (was CFR member graduating class at Annapolis: Within weeks, conducted banned tests, which partly led to the of the 1966 edition of Encyclopedia Ameri- 16 years) quote: “The most powerful clique in many of you will be looking across just hun- Cuban missile crisis. One US test was conduct- cana. The author gave an analysis and claimed the elitist groups have one objective in com- dreds of feet of water at some of the most mod- ed in space. “Firing off nuclear weapons in the it prophesied of “universal peace by means of mon—they want to bring about the surrender ern technology ever invented in America. middle of a nuclear standoff is tempting fate.” a league of nations.” The ancient goal and of the sovereignty and the national independ- Unfortunately, it is on Soviet ships.” ARPA’s Ballistic Missile Early Warning Sys- continued objective today. ence of the United States.” In 1982 Senator William Armstrong spoke tem was tested in 1960. It detected thousands of John Ruskin taught at Oxford University, Many well-informed people believe Council to Congress telling about US economic woes missiles coming to the US. Fortunately, a US teaching his students that they had a moral of Foreign Relations members in high places being severe because we aid the Soviets, Air Marshal aborted the nuclear response. It obligation to spread English culture and unite run the US. As the Federal Reserve chairman including militarily, so we are paying for our was found that the moon was causing the glitch, the world under British rule. Many went on to since 1953 was CFR, most all Secretaries of own defense and much of the Soviets since the system was better than anticipated. It dominate the government. They created and State, CIA director and 5 of 7 last presidents. Freemasons—have controlled much of the was just coming up over the horizon. prolonged WWI. Why? So people would real- CFR members dominate the executive branch. US. Many in high office, too, as 5 of our last 7 William Godel was head of a US military ize the world’s nations need to unite for peace. Senator Barry Goldwater wrote that “Their presidents were Masons. US federal buildings group and he lectured US war college students. And thus the League of Nations came about. goal is to impose a benign stability on the have a Masonic plaque each. Most of our state Claiming the US would be fighting wars as in Though it was rejected by the US, and took quarreling family of nations through merger governors, judges and legislators are Masons. In Vietnam, because it already was secretly. Also WWII for the United Nations to come about. and consolidation. They see the elimination of the US Supreme Court 1941-71 they dominated funding others doing the fighting as the French Much carnage so peace could ensue?! national boundaries, the suppression of racial and rejected God and prayer from public schools. there, 80% of the bill. The US would train local Rich men favor Socialism, as Andrew Car- and ethnic loyalties as the most expeditious Because they worship the Great Architect of the fighters, supply weapons and tactics. negie. The government controls men’s lives avenue to world peace.” Universe (Lucifer). Trying to change the US Godel later headed the use of Agent Orange and rich men and big corporations rule. Carne- The Bilderbergers are powerful people who from Christianity to a secular nation (actually of by Monsanto destroying hiding vegetation and gie liked Lord Tennyson’s vision in 1893 in his meet in secrecy and get the media not to report Satan). While most Masons may profess Christ, crops of the enemy. Destroying enemy food book Triumphant Democracy telling of the re- on what they do. They are not heads of state but according to Manly Hall there is a fraternity supplies was not against the rules of war. JFK union of Britain and America, the British- give orders to them, as kingmakers. The group within a fraternity whose plans are ultimately ordered more defoliant spraying. About 2-5 American Union. was begun to determine the best way to establish carried out. He told that the US Great Seal was millions of gallons of the toxin. South Viet- During the Korean War, General MacAr- a world government. Maurice Strong actually inspired by secret societies and pictured the namese got sick and their rice crops destroyed. thur was relieved of command by Truman for heads the UN and he said “Frankly, we may get Secret Destiny of America (New Atlantis). They were urged by the US into strategic complaining he was not allowing him to win to the point where the only way of saving the Skull and Bones—elite club where initiates hamlets for their protection. But they com- it. Even General Lin Pinao whose army at- world will be for industrial civilization to col- are picked and must lie in a coffin and tell of plained of leaving their ancestral homes and tacked the US there claimed he would not lapse.” He owns a big area of Colorado land where sexual acts. Despite small, two members ran for had trouble growing crops in the new soil. have allowed his forces to fight and lose by world spiritualists meet, as devotees of Vedic US president together (Bush, Kerry) and did Also that the Diem government promised MacArthur cutting off his supply and commu- mother goddess, Buddhists and native American not want to talk about the club. So US citizens them wages, food and material to build the nication lines, if he had not been informed that shamans. Promoting a one world government had the ‘choice’ of electing one of its members. structures, but they were forced to provide for would not happen. and world religion replacing Christianity. Only an elect are chosen to learn the real se- themselves. Most did not have time to plant Truman brought Communism to China by Communist Mikhail Gorbachev and Capi- crets of the Craft. Supreme Court Justice Wil- their own crops while working elsewhere. halting General Chiang Kai-shek’s armies that talist Maurice Strong are Club of Rome mem- liam O. Douglas, a Mason, spoke to the Amer- They were subsistence farmers, only barely were winning the civil war. The US placed an bers and joined to co-author the Earth Charter, ican Bar Association and bragged how he and getting by one year at a time. Besides, the Viet embargo against the National forces so they a world plan. While most people think Com- his fellow justices ruined the Constitution. Cong just dug tunnels underneath the perime- could not get weapons or supplies from any munism and Capitalism are opposites, they re- In Britain, the Royal Institute of Internation- ter fences to enter the hamlets! where. Which led to Chairman Mao coming to ally have the same goal, have the same spiritu- al Affairs was formed to establish the Com- The US sent a pair of researchers who knew power. Stanley quotes from a long-suppressed al force. And why David Rockefeller praised monwealth nations and the CFR is the US ver- the language and people and reporting their Senate report that is available to researchers, Communist China under Mao as a social exper- sion of it. complaints. But the US ignored them and sent in the Institute of Pacific Relations Report, tells iment (despite killing over 40 million Chinese, Professor Quigley told that the Round Table others who did not even know the language, who of the embargo. Truman carried a copy of Lord and his Bank has the highest status there). Group supported Hitler to power. Quigley found reported what the US wanted to hear, so contin- Tennyson’s poem in his wallet throughout his Nikita Khrushchev announced before a US that the House Un-American Activities Com- ued the hamlet program. The first pair found out life (highest Mason president and only leader TV audience that their grandchildren will live mittee searched and noted that a senior partner that most Vietnamese did not know what Com- to drop atomic bombs on another). under Socialism and not to be afraid of that. of J.P. Morgan and Co. sponsored over ten ex- munism was! They just wanted their own land Men who tried to unite the world were Nim- They will wonder why their grandparents did treme groups, including the Communist Party. back that the French had taken, then the US. And rod, Nebuchadnezzar, Genghis Khan, Alex- not like the idea. Former CFR member Admiral Chester they were against the US puppet Diem’s corrupt ander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hit- Socialism is one of the four top most pow- Ward wrote that the CFR goal is “disarma- government. They wanted to return to their land. ler, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Though Cecil Rhodes erful groups in the world. Both US major par- ment and submergence of US sovereignty and Chemists developed dangerous chemical did more to unite the world than them, planned ties support it, but keep that quiet. Republicans national independence into an all-powerful agents to cause many effects as vomiting, skin under Anglo-Saxon rule He was taught by even seem to oppose it publicly. The Pittsburgh one-world government.” Regarding the two injury or temporary paralysis. But these were Ruskin. Rhodes wrote Confession of Faith in Press quoted former chairman of the American major US parties, he wrote that CFR members mostly designed for war protesters! Tear gas and 1877, to recover the US, adding to British Em- Communist Party Earl Browder: “America is in concert write their platforms. And that Da- riot control agents were prepared for demonstra- pire. He was rich from his gold and diamond getting socialism on the installment plan through vid Rockefeller as chairman of the board of tors, though tested on the Viet Cong. One of the minds in Africa and set up the Rhodes Trust the programs of the welfare state. There is more directors of CFR directs the group worst was phosgene oxide causing temporary and Scholarship Fund. Rhodes Scholars work real Socialism in the United States today than Masons vow ghastly oaths to punish by tor- blindness, lung lesions and rapid local tissue in key positions in government and corpora- there is the Soviet Union.” ture and death other Masons who reveal death used in crowd control. Much work went tions around the world. Socialists control most labor unions and secrets. Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma into delivery systems to launch the chemical Senator Barry Goldwater—“The Trilateral their dues help fund its cause. Francis Schaef- admits on page 29 “that Rite raises a corner of agents from a distance, up to 750 feet. Loud Commission . . . is intended to be the vehicle fer studied the decline of Western civilization the veil, even in the Degree of apprentice; for sound could also be used as a deterrent, but pref- for multinational consolidation of the com- and he concluded secular humanism is at fault, it there declares that Masonry is a worship.” erably not to cause permanent damage to ears. mercial and banking interests by seizing con- advocating abortion, homosexuality, Social- Though many Masons deny it is a worship. Police SWAT teams came into being from re- trol of the political government of the United ism, world government and denies God exists. The Pentagon’s Brain (2015) search and development from the Vietnam war. States.” Its logo has three 6’s or 666. After Communists took over China in 1950, About 2/3 of the use of the supercomputer (Stalin was US ally in WWII despite killing Congress investigated and found why the US By Annie Jacobsen about DARPA, Defense ILLIAC IV at the University of Illinois was used millions, and claimed nations would not join State Dept. put an arms embargo on Nationalist Advanced Research Projects Agency (or for the Dept. of Defense weapons programs. all at once, but would join smaller blocs of na- Chinese and placed Mao in power. The Rock- ARPA). It created the Internet (ARPANET), And used for climate modeling, weather modifi- tions, then the blocs finally unite.) efeller Foundation and Ford Foundation did this. Global Positioning System (GPS) and stealth cation schemes and nuclear weapons. In 1970, Bankers create money out of nothing (so mon- Many US big foundations promote Communism technology. Admirers call it the Pentagon’s students there found out that the U of I was try- ey becomes inflated and we have to pay more for and Socialism. They funded Alfred Kinsey’s brain. Critics claim it is the heart of the mili- ing to hide its involvement from the students. goods. In Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope he flawed human sexuality study to undermine tary-industrial complex profiting off of war. Nixon announced he was drafting 150,000 more wrote that ordinary people will not like the fact moral standards. They used their grant-making While most DARPA projects are classified, for the war. This sparked massive protests that bankers can and do create money out of power to control US schooling. Many of their some information comes to light over time. around the country, and 4 students at Kent State nothing, so control the destiny of people. leaders were Rhodes Trust Scholars, and re- In 1954 at the Bikini Atoll the hydrogen University in Ohio were killed by the National FDR wrote that “a financial element in the larg- sponsible for failed wars in Korea and Vietnam. bomb was tested. More powerful than both Guard. Then 2000 U of I students protested, so er centers has owned the Government ever since The Hierarchy is a leading global group but atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The blast ILLIAC IV was moved to California. the days of Andrew Jackson.” As J.P. Morgan. hardly heard about. Lucis Trust of the UN does was predicted to be 6 megatons but it was 15 Back in 1967 Secretary of Defense Robert When WWI began, US newspapers started print- mention them as “world servers, mediating which pulverized coral in the ocean and dis- McNamara had RAND write a classified project ing fake stories of German atrocities as the hands between Hierarchy and humanity.” Robert persed it as dust, carrying radioactive fallout recording everything regarding the war, and it of Belgian boys cut off and women’s breasts sev- Muller of Lucis Trust represented the US in over the entire globe through the jet stream. was later exposed. “Revealed in [the Pentagon ered, to incite US citizens to join the war. the UN and promoted World Core Curriculum The wind just before the blast changed so Papers] were specifics on how every president On 2-9-1917 Congressman Oscar Callaway to world schools teaching occult ideas. Alice many humans were in harm’s way, including a from Truman to Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson had inserted into the Congressional Record that Bailey began Lucis Trust channeling her spirit Japanese ship. Those onboard stared at the and Nixon had misled the public about what was the J.P. Morgan interests gathered 12 men high guide. Also Madame Blavatsky’s writings aid- bright light and got radiation poisoning. Nearby really going on in Vietnam. Land mines which in newspapers to select a sufficient number of ed this New Age thought. islanders were dusted with fallout, too. This test formed part of the electronic fence had caused influential newspapers to direct US policy. Illuminati still exist. Renewed under Weis- was just one of many US hydrogen bomb tests. terrible wounds to Vietnamese civilians. Critics They started with 179 and ended up with 25 to haupt on May 1, 1776, the year date on the US Labs in Livermore, California, had the idea charged that those involved should be tried as agree on directing US policy to enter the war. Great Seal. of a 10,000 megaton bomb capable of wiping war criminals.” The electronic fence was made On 6-28-1998 the Washington Post report- In Anthony Sutton’s books he tells that out an entire continent, but the idea was shelved. of gadgets to detect enemy movement, but they ed that the Bank for International Settlements Lenin was given $1 million by the US State The US claimed the need to have advanced Re- found means to confuse the system. controlled by 13 people shapes the world’s Dept. Lenin nationalized every Russian bank search and Development to stay ahead of other After the war DARPA tried using an x-ray economy by controlling its money supply. To except the Rockefeller one of National City nations bent on destruction. To maintain its laser to knock out any Soviet nuclear missiles. set up global feudalism. [Globalization of Pov- Bank which continues to provide funds for the position as the greatest military power. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Even rabid anti-US nations trade much with the US, as Venezuela. [The US has vast trade with Communist China.] “In times of war, the Constitution’s checks US Suicide and balances are crippled. Secrecy trumps transparency. Legal transgressions escape pros- ecution and punishment in the name of nation- al security.” Truman deceived Congress claim- CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE million who served there. Wars in general have breed men wanting to retaliate against the tor- ing his war was a police action, then after There was concern about telling the public it was always had these injuries, but recently more due ture afflicted there. Korean response, it was a reaction. The Korean powered by nuclear explosions. Instead, of being to modern weapons and IEDs. DARPAclaims its USA Today 9-30-2008 reported that the US war was unconstitutional but the US public and called bombs, they were called nuclear events. research into brain damage will help prevent or was claiming it was trying to prevent terrorism in Congress did not protest. Leap forward to In the 1st Gulf War so-called Patriot missiles cure brain troubles, but its main concern is for Africa by setting up a task force there. But many Bush’s war against Iraq. Before the invasion of were used to hit Iraqi Scud missiles, and were war. The Pentagon says “mental disorders are critics there see it as a ploy to take over resources. Iraq in 2003, he was asked by a reporter about touted as very accurate. But a classified inves- the leading cause of hospital bed days and the The First Amendment guarantees the gov- his power to start a war. Bush claimed “I’m the tigation found that the Scuds were of poor qual- second leading cause of medical encounters for ernment will not suppress free speech, which person who gets to decide, not you.” ity so fragmented into many parts. The Patriot active duty service members.” DARPA also re- routinely happens under US Empire to control A president’s lawlessness might be excused if missiles interpreted each individual part as a searches artificial limbs as a robotic arm, but vets dissent against its policies. it benefited US citizens, but they have not. warhead so Patriot accuracy was low. still use the Captain Hook arm. British Edmund Burke wrote about the Truman’s Korea war, the Vietnam war and the The Iraqi army was overwhelmed by US Regeneration is studied, and mouse digits British Empire: “I dread our own power and Afghan and Iraq wars have resulted in thousands forces and retreated en masse from Kuwait in have been regrown. So perhaps a soldier’s leg our own ambition. I dread our being too much of US troops dying and more maimed. President what was called in the international press the might be regrown. During the defoliant spraying dreaded.” The British East India Co. attacked Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin Resolution should Highway of Death. They and many civilians in Vietnam, people exposed to it, including US any nation that defied its might, so others have been grounds for impeachment. By 1965 were caught fleeing for their lives. US leaders soldiers and innocent Vietnamese, developed would learn the lesson against defiance. he admitted that the second attack on US naval were concerned about the negative press as if mutations. All cells communicate with each US troops in coffins killed in the Afghan war warships may have been imaginary “For all I “we engaged in slaughter for slaughter’s sake.” other. While salamanders will grow new limbs if were not allowed to be viewed by the public, by know, our navy was shooting at whales out But the bombing continued another day. injured, we just grow scar tissue. Salamanders presidential decree and Congress allowed it. So there.” [The first claimed attack was bogus, too.] Various kinds of robots are used for combat. are very resistant to carcinogens so avoid cancer. the real horrors of war would be less noticed. Nixon lied to Congress, denying his bomb- Enhancing soldiers’ performance as with Trans- Recently, other institutions other than DARPA US Founding Fathers tried to create a ing of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. He humanism is worked on so they will have little (which is secretive) have announced they have Republic that would help its citizens to thrive, tried not to give war protesters any more to physical limitations. Bioweapons or contagions grown human organs as the uterus, or parts as without meddling in foreign wars. Washington protest about. Half a million tons of ordnance are developed. A group making bioweapons can nose, ear, blood vessels and windpipes using spoke in his farewell address against entangling were dropped on a neutral nation. hide better than those working on nuclear weap- stem cells. There is no treaty for the US to ban alliances that would force the US to fight. In- President Clinton tried to fool Congress into ons. Missiles can be detected from satellites or cloning of humans, so is likely to be done. To stead, later the Republic became a “a global mil- allowing US troops to enter Bosnia, claiming it aircraft, not diseases as weapons. Generally, though, develop a super solider. Physicist Stephen itary behemoth.” While more recent US policy is was necessary for US national security which they are fragile and cannot withstand temperature Hawking sees cloning as natural, but develop- claimed to defend other democratic nations, he was ludicrous. He defied Congress and sent extreme changes as onboard an airplane. ing artificial intelligence is dangerous. A robot- knew that the Revolutionary war was fought them into harm’s way. ics expert testified that “Weapons systems against the greatest democratic nation of Britain. The Bush administration claimed there were Total Information Awareness should not be allowed to autonomously select Though in the Republic period (1798), the definite links between the 911 attacks and Iraq. In Nov. 2002 the New York Times told of their own human targets and engage them with US passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which But even he admitted on 9-18-2003 “No, we’ve DARPA recording personal surveillance data lethal force.” Other experts cite many errors suppressed the media. So 25 primarily editors had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was in- on Americans claimed to fight terrorism. The that can occur in hunter-killer robots. of opposition party newspapers were arrested volved with September 11th.” Since the link was logo of Total Information Awareness angered Erasing fear of soldiers is sought so the mili- and several newspapers had to close. When nil to none, Cheney and others claimed he did people, of a pyramid and triangular Eye (as on tary-industrial complex can continue warring Jefferson of the opposition party was elected have WMD. And torturing of detainees proved it, the US $1 bill) watching the world. Private data against other nations for profit, at the expense of president, those for the Acts let it expire so he but they confessed anything to stop the torture. was gathered without a warrant, such as credit the soldier. In just one example, 50 persons serve could not use them. He did pardon those arrest- Many years of economic embargoes had left Iraq card use, email and medical prescriptions. Out- on the boards of defense contracting giants as ed and Congress did apologize for trampling on crippled economically and militarily. cry against the program was so great that Con- Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop the Constitution, and the Acts were later shown The NSA flouted US law and spied on US cit- gress eliminated its funding, but it secretly con- Grumman, Bechtel, Aerospace corporation, Tex- to be unconstitutional. James Madison wrote izen emails and phone calls. Later, the CIA tinued in NSA, DHS, CIA and military servic- as Instruments, IBM, Lawrence Livermore Na- that the executive branch is the one most in Inspector admitted that the illegal acts did not es. Edward Snowden leaked about this in 2013 tional Lab and other such labs. [Spread of the favor of war and most prone to it. thwart even one terrorist attack. Torture contin- so had to flee the US. military extends to the police. That are supposed In the War of 1812 against Britain, the US ues on detainees despite campaign promises of “Is the world transforming into a war zone to Serve and Protect, now brutalize citizens.] declared war and fought to defend its land, not Obama. US rendition flights carry them to other and America into a police state, and is it Ike warned “We have been compelled to cre- to conquer others for greed. When the US nations that do torture for us, without any ac- DARPA that is making them so?” ate a permanent armaments industry of vast Empire was at its apex, Bush did not allow his countability. Bush and Cheney boasted of en- proportions.” It has only gotten bigger since. advisers to appear before Congress to answer hanced interrogation techniques, such as water- Improvised Explosive Device DARPA’s most guarded secrets will remain so questions about his wars. boarding bringing detainees very close to IEDs exploded once every 48 minutes in Iraq until revealed in battle, while this book only The Federal Reserve spends trillions of dollars drowning many times. Though the US prosecut- 2005. These makeshift bombs exploded when reports the unclassified ones. Its killer-robot without congressional oversight, despite Obama’s ed the Japanese after WWII for doing the same. triggered remotely or sensing nearby movement. program in 1983 had the motto “The battlefield campaign promises of transparency. Members of Upon entering office, Obama claimed such And amounted to double the US troop deaths is no place for human beings.” Congress and private military suppliers chronical- torture was illegal. But later continued the prac- ly demand more military spending, with much of than direct fire as guns and grenades. DARPA American Empire before the Fall tices of Bush and did not pursue Bush for infrac- developed a jamming device for a vehicle cost- it for things even the Pentagon does not want. tions of US law. Present politicians are afraid if ing $80,000 each for 500 jammers in Iraq but By Bruce Fein (2010): After 911 Bush and [Fein lauds the Republic but it had its flaws, another attack as 911 occurs they will be con- were not too good. Later, better detection meant Obama “claimed unchecked authority to assas- as excluding women from voting and allowed sidered soft on terror, so continue the torture. the chemical vapors could be detected up to two sinate any American suspected of creating a slaves.] Obama executes by drone strikes any suspected miles away. IEDs shred parts of the body. constant and imminent danger to US interests Emergence of Manifest Destiny ruined the terrorists in any country. Imagine Russia doing Insect-size drones get into tight areas and are abroad. President Bush was advised by the Republic for Empire. The Mexico-US war that to US citizens. This constitutes war crimes. less noticed, and might act with a hive mind. Dept. of Justice that his Commander in Chief (start 1846) was hyped as Mexico invading the The New York Times reported on two experts Real bees were trained to locate bombs, better powers enabled him to massacre civilians in the US, but Texas was not US land until after the who claim the strikes only have an accuracy rat- than dogs, but not deployed in a war zone. alleged war on international terrorism.” war. Also, the US gained California land and ing of 2%. The drone strikes increase the num- Obama announced in May 2013 that “This Lawlessness abounds in US government. In more. The US President for the first time de- ber of people who hate the US, and those who war, like all wars, must end.” And quoted James 2002-2006 the FBI invoked bogus terrorist ceived Congress for declaring war. John want to become terrorists against the US. Madison who warned in 1795 that “no nation threats to gain access to US citizens’ telephone Quincy Adams called it a most unrighteous Obama promised transparency in govern- could preserve its freedom in the midst of con- records from phone companies. Fear is hyped war. General Ulysses S. Grant called it one of ment, but as president he denied access to citi- tinual warfare.” But he continued the war men- to make the gullible masses take any measure the most unjust wars ever waged by a stronger zens using the Freedom of Information Act who tality of Bush. He was criticized for using drones in the name of safety. country against a weaker one. wanted to see the photos of tortured detainees. to target a suspect and strike him with a missile, The Iraq war was started to stop WMD, then The US entered WWI after the RMS Lusi- Obama’s address after receiving the Nobel without due process of law. While news reports when they were not found, democracy was tania was sunk with some Americans onboard Peace Prize conflicted with his actions later. claimed he was curtailing them, he kept on, offered. Then to oust Saddam’s tyranny, but by Germans. But it carried much munitions, and The supposed retaliation against the perpetra- only more quietly. He even had a US citizen tyrants do not seem to bother the US if they are Canadians that were going to join the fight for tors of the 911 attacks that caused about 3000 killed in Yemen as a supposed terrorist. [Drone in its favor. The US has spent $1 trillion for the Britain. Germans had warned the US of attack deaths led to killing of 5000 US troops in wars. pilots are far away from the kill zone and do not war and will spend $2 trillion in war debt, to despite its so-called civilian status, because it witness the carnage up close.] replenish military supplies and to treat US vets. was aiding the British war effort with military A race to the bottom Future wars will be fought by remote control And the US troop suicide rate has escalated. equipment. [See Wikipedia article about it, with The US warred against native Indians to take using drones more. Fly, swim, crawl, walk or run, [US government shutdown is a chronic prob- so much ammunition on board it is a hazard for their land. The relative few left were detained from outer space down to the lowest ocean lem, barely staved off each time.] salvage crews. Though it was set up with no in ‘concentration camps’ or reservations. The depths. Some of these will be cyborgs, part ma- The US began as a Republic with laws speci- escort on purpose to get the US to join for car- US committed torture in unethical human chine and animal. In Lafayette Square, a public fying a minimum of restrictions against citizens. rying US passengers.] The US entered WWII experiments on US citizens for decades most park across from the White House, many war While US Empire reverses that. Congress and after the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack [but it too without their consent, as radioactivity, bacteria, protesters congregate. In 2007 many protesters the Supreme Court have relinquished their power was a setup to get the US into the war]. even mind control. Most tests forced on them, witnessed up close mechanized dragonflies. They to the executive branch, though a few times have Britain gained land, much as other coloniz- as the armed forces or the mentally ill. behaved in unison. Drones are planned to be used asserted it. Congress did stop US troops from ers, but was better at it and gained for the sheer Toxins in air and water continue because of for assassinations carrying tiny bombs. While going to Thailand as Nixon wanted. Its ‘Church’ pleasure of domination. greed, particularly the ground water table with- most use batteries, some will be able to continue Committee disclosed 40 years of FBI, CIA and Two myths of US Empire: US must spread in two miles of military bases. Unsafe Gene- indefinitely by using sun or wind power. NSA abuses of spying on US citizens. democracy and human rights globally. And tically Modified food is allowed without being DARPA’s hypersonic stealth drones will be General MacArthur after WWII noted “Our military bases were essential in maintaining labeled. An attempt to genetically modify hu- able to fly at Mach 20, so could fly New York economy is now geared to an arms economy control and the global market. But the Soviet mans. Over 60 nations demand labeling of GM to Los Angeles in 12 minutes, or strike any tar- bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war Union was one of the allies of WWII. The allies food, but not the US which produces it. get in the world in one hour. The humanoid hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.” of the US during WWII were the USSR, Britain Top US companies outsourced jobs over- robot Atlas can traverse most any terrain, and [As President Ike warned when leaving office, and France, themselves oppressive empires. seas. And hide their money in offshore ac- will even wear clothes! A cheetah robot can run of a military-industrial complex run amok.] Wars of aggression: Besides the Mexican one, counts to avoid paying taxes. As outsourcing to 28 miles an hour and jump over obstacles. Fein quotes Nazi Herman Goering’s speech, war with Spain to gain its land, North Korea, Communist China, so cheap products have led Many robots are planned to be autonomous or that leaders can easily sway the people by North Vietnam (carrying on where France left to the US a trillion dollars in debt to China. run automatically without human intervention. claiming they are being attacked and those op- off), Afghanistan and Iraq. War on Terror means Combine this with US-based economic groups Told to kill a certain human target whose pic- posed to the leaders’ actions are not patriotic. war on the world, US predator drone strikes on as the World Bank ruling the world so earning ture it is shown, will go on mission and not re- US actions against terrorism actually breed anyone, executing them without trial, including $1 a day is not considered in the poverty level. turn until the target is dead—Terminator. more of it. US veteran Mathew Alexander more collateral damage of civilians. Real terror The world is in a race to the bottom. The During the Iraq and Afghan wars, 300,000 US wrote about the blow-back, claiming the abus- from above in the countries struck, with any pub- return of Jesus to end the suffering is close. soldiers returned home with brain injuries of 2.5 es of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo lic group subject to being fired upon. —Mr. Jan Young

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“This first time author has audaciously written a trilogy that seeks to accomplish what many think impossible. But I believe Wade Fransson pulls it off. ... an intoxicating tale that leaves the reader astonished, forcing a re-evaluation of much of what the reader may have thought to be true, without any sense of preaching or pressure. …no lack of proof …no tedious excess of detail … no pushy call to action. I’ve frankly never read anything like Fransson’s trilogy.”

And other outsiders agree with Dr. Mondschein’s assessment. Wade Fransson’s work invites readers of all backgrounds into the theology and inner workings of the COG movement, leaving them with a deeper appreciation for the Bible, truth, and God’s active engagement on earth, right here, right now.

Insiders from all ends of the COG spectrum are equally amazed, citing Fransson’s ability to help them process the past with an eye to sorting out what is real, true, and important for them to reach satisfying answers to previously unanswered questions.

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‘Under the Law’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Under the Penalty of the Law’

omans 6:14 tells us “ye are not under divorce a wife if she was unfaithful once the covenant of the LORD, saying: “Take this respect. Mat 19:17, “. . . But if you want to the law, but under grace.” Galatians (Deu 24:1-4). This is unacceptable to Christ, Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of enter into life, keep the commandments.” R5:18 also says believers are not the High Priest to whom believers look the covenant of the LORD your God, that it Believers in Christ are not under the “under the Law.” Herbert Armstrong (Mat 19:3-10). Christ taught a return to may be there as a witness against you.” ’ authority of the Levitical Priesthood or explained that this meant we were not what was from the beginning. The tribe The Law was not written until about 39 under the Law administered by them. under the penalty of the Law. Most of the of Levi and The Law they administered years after the time of Exodus, just before Christ is their authority and High Priest. churches of God continue to teach this. were not from the beginning. Israel went into the Promised Land. He set a higher standard and seeks to However, Galatians 4:4 uses the same The Law required someone who re- Moses gave The Law he wrote to the Le- raise His followers to His standard. He phrase. If we apply this interpretation pented and wanted to be forgiven of vites. It was set outside the Ark of the teaches His believers to eliminate sin consistently we must believe that Christ transgression against the Creator to go Covenant of the Lord. The Levitical Priest- from their mind rather than to seek for- to a Levite and arrange to make a sacri- hood did not exist as of Exodus 20-24. giveness after the offense. However, if was “born under the penalty of the Law.” fice (Lev 1-7, Deu 12:5-14, Deu 18:1-2). The Covenant of the Lord confirmed in they fall short and truly repent He will Christ being born under the penalty of The Law allowed that this would cover Exodus 24 was not the Law. The Cove- forgive without animal sacrifice. He is the Law makes no sense. In any case, if the his sin. That is not how a believer in nant of the Lord did not expect a partic- not bound to the Law either. penalty doesn’t apply, a law is meaningless. Messiah atones for sin. He goes humbly ular tribe to be the priests (Ex 19:5-6). Don’t wait for someone ordained of The King James Bible tells us in He- to his Savior, Christ, and asks for mercy, Popular opinion has it that The Law men to look into this for you. Examine brews 7:11 that The Law was received determining never to transgress again (I was received in Exodus 20 with the Sinai the record yourself and develop your own under the Levitical Priesthood. Actually, a John 1:7, Col 2:13). Christ pleads their Covenant. The firstborn were the priests relationship with your Savior through an better translation is found in the NASB: cause with the Creator and the believer at that time (Ex 13:2, Num 3:10-13). The in-depth study of His word. Herbert “Now if perfection was through the Levitical can be forgiven without animal sacrifice. Levitical priesthood didn’t exist in Exodus Armstrong explained Romans 6:14 to the priesthood (for on the basis of it the people Believers look to Christ, their Savior, as 20. So The Law was not received in Exo- best of his knowledge, but his explanation received the Law) . . .” (see also NIV, ALF, their High Priest. They don’t look to the dus 20. A very important law was received doesn’t take into account a careful reading NLT). The Law was actually based on the tribe of Levi as required by The Law. in Exodus 20, but it is not the law to of the record of Moses and the New existence of the Levitical Priesthood. It Deu 31:24-26: ‘So it was, when Moses had which Hebrews or Romans 6:14 refer. Testament. This just highlights one area administered The Law. The Law can’t completed writing the words of this law in a The law received in Exodus 20 was from of misunderstanding holding back the function without the Levites. book, when they were finished, that Moses the beginning (I Chron 16:15-18). That is churches of God. CreatorsCovenant.org Under The Law, men in Israel could commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the law Christ expects His followers to lays open what others have missed. ★ www.creatorscovenant.org or .com ★ PO Box 1002 • South Pasadena, CA 91031

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Reward: $100 per Early Charles Dorothy Tape

Dr. Charles Dorothy was a GREAT speaker! His ser- mons were unforgettable. I am looking for recordings of any of his sermons or speeches! They were often recorded on reel-to-reel and cassette tape for “shut-ins” and others at the Big Sandy and Pasadena campuses. He also spoke at local church meetings in Houston and at Feast sites. Do you know where any of these tapes could be? I would like to hear them again, and I am willing to pay $100 for each Charles Dorothy tape you can find. They must be tapes recorded BEFORE 1980. The earlier the better. Email me at [email protected] or call 713 540 8670 anytime day or night. Thank you. Phil Arnold, Ph.D. AC Class of 1970

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Keep the Dream Alive

t’s been twenty-three years since the breakup of the WCG. We have to keep the Idream alive. We have to show ourselves approved by holding fast to the Truth once delivered. At Pursuit magazine we hold to the Truth of God as revealed to Mr. Armstrong. We explore Sound Doctrine from the Bible. We dig deep to give you something worthwhile to think about. Pursuit magazine is dedicated to those Brethren who desire an experience with the Living Jesus Christ. Those who adhere to the Truth have the best opportunity to experience Him. Pursuit is a FREE quarterly magazine devoted to preaching the Gospel, equipping the Saints and Keeping the Dream Alive. Call us or email us or postal-mail us at an address below for your FREE subscription.

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Celebrate the 2018 Feast of Tabernacles in Jackson,Tennessee, like never before. Celebrate the Coming Kingdom of God with Great Joy.

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e have to reprint so are organizing the 146 books many books, so that, into 25 volumes so they will with each printing, look good on your bookshelf. we edit again and We will try to have all volumes againW so New Christians will have only The Truth. We are the same size and in new beauti- combining our earlier single ful blue covers. Please give your books into volumes. Now, we Art Mokarow old books to Goodwill or friends.

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Lost in a World Without Mokarow

Song Written By Bob Williams

I was in the house on Lakeshore the night I heard God’s Spirit. Art passed away. And how that’s all I’ll ever need. I guess I thought he’d live forever. He helped He spent his life studying the Bible . . . spent his shape my thoughts each day. money to publish and send. Now, the world looks somewhat different than it God said: Where your heart is goes your did before this tune. treasure. He was my greatest inspiration, and that’s why He was faithful to the end. I’m telling you. If I had one last tough Bible question, I’d want He taught me from The Bible how to learn and discern the truth. Art to sort it out, Sometimes he talked too loudly. I guess he didn’t An honest voice of reason who just wanted to want to see me lose. serve God. He made me humble in the realization that we Still, I’m kind of lost in a world without were just two clumps of dust. Mokarow. But he was my greatest inspiration ’cause he Who will now expound what’s truth to me? taught me who to trust. Then I remembered what he told me about God’s So I am kind of lost in a world without Mokarow. Spirit Now who will expound what’s truth to me? And how that’s all I’ll ever need. Then I remembered what he taught me about And how that’s all we’ll ever need.

Do Not Keep the Old Covenant — Here’s Why

or Your Information: For Four Thou- widows and the truly poor doing good works sand Years, The Old Covenant was to each and every day—harming no one. Min- be kept by The People of God (Feast isters are to have their own job and Local F days, tithing and sacrifices). But this Elders (Sixty-Five and over) are to help with never worked and did not bring The Twelve any problems The Christians might have. Tribes “To God.” So, God annulled The Old There is no tithing because there is no Covenant and sent His “Son” with The New Levitical Priesthood, there is only Christ (As Covenant. The Ten Commandments are now Melchizedek). The One Hundred Forty-Six embedded in your heart. Books Art Mokarow has written will reveal When God sends His “Holy Spirit” to all this to you—but, remember, after you have you—you do not, even, think of lying, steal- read them, you will still only know “in part.” ing, murdering or dishonoring your parents or Why? Because God is so great and man- your God. The Sabbath is, now, each and kind is so small. every day and you are to help the orphans, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE got a few of your books from literature. It has given me a whole your reach to a lot of lost and con- preaching from pulpits all across a friend and got a lot of clar- new look at life and an understanding fused souls. America? I am understanding God’s ity and a better understand- of the purpose Our Father has planned Your books have been a great Truths and His Plan, thanks to you ing of The Bible and some of for me. inspiration and have strengthened and His Spirit. its translations. I was hooked I am in the infancy of my both my Faith and my walk with I have been blessed by your Iand wish to continue reading your Spiritual walk and pray your books God. My knowledge of The Bible book GOD’S PUZZLE SOLVED. books. The fact your books are free is will help me better understand our has been enhanced, as well. There is no doubt in my mind your awesome and bless you and your God. Bless all you Saints who make I recently read GOD’S PUZZLE ministry is powered by God’s Spirit. staff for making literature of this cal- it possible for those of us thirsting for SOLVED and found it to be extreme- I use the books you provide and share iber available to any and all. God to be quenched with His “Bliss- ly helpful and the knowledge I have them with others. I came across your Volume 10 and ful Word.” gained from it has been profound. I love to read these books. They my eyes were opened and my faith I was amazed at how Art lays out Your ministry is truly a blessing to me. have opened my heart to understand renewed. Everyone should read from the puzzle pieces of God’s Word. We Thanks so much for the effort God. I believe you have a gift from Mr. Mokarow. I thank him very much seem to be on the same page of com- and love you put into your studies God. for his knowledge and for sharing it prehension and understanding of The and for providing literature to others. The books you have written pro- freely with anyone who cares to listen. Bible. Your book SPIRITUAL GROWTH vide excellent information of “the I want to thank you for sharing I read your books as quickly as I has been my favorite so far. truth” of Scripture. your amazing gift of knowledge and receive them and they have brought I totally agree with the lessons, Having just read REVELA- in-depth dissection of The Word of so much delight. God’s Word is what information given on our Lord and TION UNCOVERED by Art Mo- God in such a way that has increased I live my life by and I want to share the abundance of Truth you have karow, I am truly impressed with the my understanding “ten-fold.” Your His “Word” with others. Your books given through Faith. Thank you. knowledge he gives in his books. kindness and generosity in the way will help me to share and I will pay it I am very impressed by how I was a skeptic about your book you publish these valuable learning forward. your books are able to open my eyes GOD’S STORY until I read it and I guides (Tools) and the humility it re- Your books will remain a part of to see The Bible as a whole and not must be very honest, it was an flects in the mere presentation of my Christian studies. I truly thank just The New Testament and The Old absolutely great Spiritual food. facts, backed entirely by Scripture and you for your services. Testament. Amazing. I recently received three of your showing no bias of religious indoctri- Your books give me hope, faith, I was richly blessed with Twenty books on revelation and GOD’S nation, are very much appreciated! joy and peace knowing I have a bright of Art’s books. I find great aid and STORY and boy was I impressed and I am learning more every day future ahead with Jesus Christ as my Spiritual direction supported with immediately fell in love with your from your books. I want to thank you Lord and Savior. I get so much inspi- Scriptural facts. This inspires me work (writing). for making these books available for ration from reading your books. with fresh insights as I learn. I am a 56 year old handicapped free. You have to be the smartest per- Thank you for your time and patience. I am still like a child at Christ- adult and read several of your books— son in The Bible that I have ever I want to thank you for making mas when I receive a new book in the “excellent” each and every one. I com- known. your books available. Upon reading mail. I have really learned so much mend you on a wonderful job of work- Thanks to you I have a whole GOD’S PUZZLE SOLVED, I was reading your books. manship, I understood every topic and new outlook on Christmas and un- hooked by the amount of informa- I would like to thank you for taking statement. Because of these books, I derstand the true meaning of this spe- tion provided. You certainly are a the time to write your books for other am able for the first time in my entire cial day. I am so grateful for your blessed man with the knowledge of people to understand God’s Word. life, to understand more of these Bible material and how much it helps me God’s Wisdom. Your understanding of The Bible Scriptures than ever before. You made grow Spiritually. I pray that your ma- The breadth and depth of the is immense. I pray for The Lord to it clear, plain and simple to understand terial continues to help new believers material in your books is immensely help me increase my knowledge of and I thank you more than you could like myself grow Spiritually. beneficial to enable growth, develop- The Bible and your books make that ever imagine. By the Grace of God your books ment and maturity as a Christian. possible. What you do is unparalleled. I was loaned a copy of Volume are inspiring. They have me reading The material in your books is The selection of books and what 17B and was amazed by what I six hours a day and they just grab informative and helpful in develop- you have to offer is fantastic. They learned after reading it. It was so in hold of my heart and mind. ing, growing and maturing as a are enjoyable reads and filled with depth yet it simplified so many things Your books contain great materi- Christian as well as nourishing to a excellent information. about The Bible. al. The information is so intriguing I Believer’s Faith. I pray you and your organization Upon reading your book THE just cannot put them down. I cannot express what an unbe- will forever be blessed. You are ORIGINAL BIBLE it stirred my I want to thank you for the books lievable enlightenment has come doing an amazing job and I can see spirit causing me to seek more you have sent. They are excellent in from reading GOD’S PUZZLE how God is moving through you. I knowledge. I want to thank you for helping me to understand God’s Word. SOLVED. I need you to know how have learned so much through your your words of encouragement. The message and information I appreciative I am of your ability to books and am very thankful Jesus A friend loaned me three of your have received from your books is a articulate so many questions that I has sent you my way to become the books and I was amazed how much I unique blessing. You have great didn’t even know I had. person I have always wanted to be. consumed from them. I am able to insight on Spiritual and Biblical con- I always enjoy reading and study I have a burning inside of me for understand The Holy Bible so much tent. I want to continue to grow The Word of God with your books God and the books you provide help better. You break down the parables Spiritually and enhance my knowl- and sharing them with others. me to learn how to “Grow—In Christ.” and direct your readers to the proper edge of The Truth. Your books give me inspiration The studies you provide in The scriptures. How do I thank you for all you in this place of despair and mental Scriptures are phenomenal! I wonder Thank you for all you have been have done for me with your Spiritual oppression. God bless and multiply why we cannot get this teaching and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE of Art Mokarow are astonishing. The your organization. Thank you all very much. This vol- doing through your books. I find a lot way he breaks down Biblical litera- Thank you for your ministry ume cleared up a lot of my studies for of good study in getting to know ture is pure genius. I have always helping others in need of material to me. It was very easy to read and very God’s word better. thought that God’s Words should be help benefit them become more spir- informative. I read GOD’S PUZZLE SOLVED told and not sold so I truly admire itually enlightened. God bless your I read a few of your books I from the library here and find it very what you are accomplishing through ministry and enlarge your scope and found in The Chapel and was really helpful while I battle with strength- Christ Jesus our Lord. hand in reaching those not fortunate delighted to read them and I enjoyed ening my relationship with God. Your books will be inspirational to be able to pay for books on their them very much. I must say after all my studying and motivational “tools” for me to own. Thank you. It is people like you who give in The Word of God, I had come to a reference for years to come. Again I I am so blessed by studying your expecting nothing in return but pay it roadblock until God placed one your thank you and your organization for books. They have opened my eyes to forward and grow never turning books in front of me. When I what you do in support of enlighten- “the truth.” away a chance to give and not be received REVELATION UNCOV- ment and better understanding of The Thank you for your kindness and concerned with earning credit but ERED from the library I jumped for Living Word of God. compassion given through your rather to give praise. joy that God answered my prayer for I am writing to show apprecia- amazing writings and books. I stumbled upon your address further enlightenment. tion for your incredible contributions A friend of mine lent me your and list of books that you have avail- Thank you for being faithful to to Christian learning material that Volumes 10 and 13 and I was thor- able as yet one more powerful confir- your calling, writing these books and acquaints those who choose to follow oughly impressed with the gift you mation to me that God is directing making them available free of charge. our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ as have to instruct The Word of God. I me and guiding me towards His I am aware beyond a shadow of a doubt I have been called to teach. My The Living Word of God Almighty— thank you and your staff for printing many messengers. Amen. constant prayer, literally every day is our Heavenly Father and Creator. books that are “well-captioned” on I have completed reading and for truth. Jesus said “the truth” shall Thank you sir for what you do in the black, larger font and the overall studying your book GOD’S PUZ- set you free.” The more I learn the your Spiritual Gift of breaking down care and fortitude of an “overeager ZLE SOLVED. I will share this book freer I become, the freer I become the Biblical Truths into a digestible serv- beaver” is how you are exiting “old” with fellow clients here who have closer to God I feel, the closer to God ing; or serving, that do not overwhelm classroom and entering the freedom been asking to borrow it when I am I get the more I love him. Your writ- the palate. The Holy Spirit has guided to have reference materials that you done with it. I am writing to tell you ings have been a great part of my me patiently to you via your incredi- supply to others like me. It is recog- how much I learned and enjoyed this growth and I am thankful that I came bly astute, yet compressible writing nized and greatly appreciated. book and today I am asking you to across your office through THE style of simple font and Scriptural ref- Once again I am writing to thank bless me with more of your books. JOURNAL. I had forgotten what I erence the likes of which I wish I had you for your books. You have a great Thank you for the books, they ordered from you but when I removed known of Twenty Years ago. gift for revealing God’s Truth. Your have helped me to understand The your books out of the package on the First let me say thank you for the books have given me a great under- Bible and how to think more clearly. good work that you have done. The standing of “the word” along with top was THE GREAT APOSTASY I cannot wait to get the new ones. service you provide to so many who some knowledge of our history. Your something I had brought up in our I want to express my gratitude need Biblical Books to read Stories books have been a blessing from God Bible study. I have a complete set of for sending me your book GOD’S of God. and I greatly thank you. Volume 1 Puzzles and have read them PUZZLE SOLVED. Not only is it all taking extensive notes. Know this I would just like to thank you so I find your works fascinating and simple to read but also it cleared up sir, I will be referring to your books at much for your dedication to breaking to really be some excellent mental many Biblical topics—I was con- this time as well as when I come into down The Bible, its truths and hidden stimulation for theology. I share your fused about. I am ready to order more the fullness of my ministry. meanings. I have never had the priv- books with as many people as I can. I want to say thank you for help- ilege of learning from anyone who Thank you for reaching out to books and cannot wait for their ing me learn more about God’s love. REALLY understood The Bible at me and showing me that Spiritual arrival. I am very impressed by the The more I learn of the life of His Son, the level you do. You and the help fullness is—“In Christ.” variety and quantity of books and Jesus here on Earth and His “Sacrifice” you provide are truly a blessing. I have been reading The Bible DVDs you have to offer and amaz- to save us for our sins, I cannot help First and foremost I would like every day and it was really hard to ingly they are free of charge! You are but feel compassion and rejoice in a to express my gratitude of thanks and understand until I ran into your book changing a lot of lives and bring peo- God who loves as much as He does. of appreciation. Words cannot FAITH WITH WORKS. It really ple closer to God. Thank you so I want to take time out to honor describe the overwhelming flow of helped me in my Bible Studies. much for everything you do and may your ministry. Your free books have emotions and gratitude my heart I have already read Volume 1-B God bless you, people who work been a blessing. The collected works pours forth. It is sooo really cool, and thought it was really great. with you and your family.

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t is sad that this is the last issue So, I am thankful that The go out from Jerusalem, after the of The Journal for it has played Journal will live on, online. Maybe, angel of Revelation 14:6-7 delivers a vital role in reaching God’s finally, God’s words in the past his miraculous message, but it will people scattered abroad. When messages of ozwitness in The be too late for most of God’s I Journal’s archive will Iozwitness began to advertise in The Journal years ago, Dixon warned me be believed by some of that remaining anonymous would God’s people—words not be ideal—that people may mis- which could still change trust the lack of a named person. your future, Jeremiah However, I had seen the idolatry in 31:6-7: ‘ “For there will the Church of God, where so many be a day when watch- have been led to look to a man, or men on the hills of men, rather than our Lord and I Ephraim call out, ‘Arise, wanted people directed to Him and and let us go up to His word, without the distraction of Zion, To the LORD our any personality. God.’ ” For thus says the LORD, unprepared Church to participate, It is not my words, or any other “Sing aloud with gladness for Ja- for they have followed a misun- man’s words, that count, and fortu- cob, And shout [broadcast] among derstanding about the timing of nately I have no desire for a follow- the chief of the nations; pro- the First Resurrection and will miss claim, give praise and say, ‘O LORD, their chance to obey while inter- ing, or your money, in order to pres- save Your people, The remnant of national travel is still possible. ent God’s words, and I have no need Israel” (Jeremiah 6:17, 19). ‘ “And I May God grant those whose of a jet or a stately home to provide set watchmen over you, saying, hearts are still open, the faithful- a worldwide witness. During the last ‘Listen to the sound of the trum- ness to plan to obey! few weeks people from over 100 pet!’ But they said, ‘We will not lis- Ezekiel 34:3-4: ‘And if he sees countries have visited ozwitness.net. ten’ .... “Hear, O earth: behold, I the sword coming upon the land Sadly, most of them were from am bringing disaster on this people, and blows the trumpet and warns Gentile nations. Israelite nations The fruit of their plans, Because they the people, then if anyone who remain relatively deaf to God’s word have not listened to My words ....” hears the sound of the trumpet these days, but the words of God are God will bring disaster upon does not take warning, and the true even if they are ignored, and the Britain and America first and the sword comes and takes him time remaining is now short, per- remnant will take courage on away, his blood shall be upon his haps less than a decade. hearing that broadcast which will own head.’

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Acknowledging the Kindness

By Alton B. (Don) Billingsley wife, Doris, were married. Though I He was very thoughtful concern- borrow $1500 to buy new furni- n this closing letter to appear had served 16 years under others as ing my wife at the time who had ture and pay it back $25 each in The Journal, I want to ac- a local elder, having been ordained some health problems and made month. He graciously said, “Sure.” I knowledge the kindness shown by Mr. Armstrong in 1958, Mr. Cole decisions that were favorable to And it was done. to my family and me in past years laid hands on me ordaining me as a her and me. When the Church Knowing Mr. McCullough as I by all we came to know and serve preaching elder in Big Sandy, Texas, pastors came together to meet came to know him, I learned he in the Worldwide Church of God in early 1975. To Mr. and Mrs. with him in Akron, Ohio, he and had a caring heart for all others during the lifetime years of Mr. Cole—my sincere thanks for your his lovely wife, Molly, always under his care and responsibility. Herbert W. Armstrong. friendship and all you did for me. made it a very friendly and caring Too many men who had the kind Having been blessed by God to Mr. Norman Smith—Always experience. Thank you, Mr. and of responsible offices as he had at be a member of God’s Church for a compassionate and caring man Mrs. Antion, for making the time AC would probably have had almost 66 years and serving as both as made known by his being very we served under you a memorable their heads so swollen in pride a local elder and a Church pastor easy to show tears. We were there and rewarding experience. and authority their hats would for almost 60 years, there were to see him and his lovely wife, Mr. Leslie McCullough—In have no longer fitted; not so with many members in the Churches Charlene, get married during the 1969 we were transferred to Big him. He was the kind of man any- where we were blessed to serve who Feast of Tabernacles in 1953. He Sandy, Texas, to serve on the visit- one would have been blessed to showed thoughtfulness and caring came to see me in the hospital ing program. Though I was serve under his offices of respon- concern for my family and me. right after my accident with Mr. directly responsible to another sibility. To you, Mr. and Mrs. Mc- There are too many to mention Dick Armstrong in 1958—a most pastor, Mr. McCullough, as the Cullough, my sincere thanks with by name in this one writing, yet I difficult and trying time for me. I chancellor of Ambassador Col- great gratitude for all you did for think fondly of them with sincere served under Mr. Smith while he lege, was also in authority over my family and me. I could not appreciation for their friendship was our regional director. In 1975, the visiting program as well. have asked for better. during those years. he saw to it that I was given the Upon our arrival we lived with Looking Forward in Time However, I do intend to men- office of a senior pastor. I truly a family for almost two weeks tion the early surviving four evan- appreciate the kindness that was that we had known for some years While thinking of those many gelists who went over and beyond always shown to me by Mr. Smith. who formerly lived in Long years and the happiness experienced to see that our needs were met in My sincere thanks and gratitude Beach, California. This was nec- with such a peaceful environment the areas over which they had the to both Mr. and Mrs. Smith. essary due to the housing short- on the campus of both colleges, responsibility of those serving un- Mr. Albert Portune—I served age for rental in Gladewater, Pasadena and Big Sandy, including der them as ministers. Whether under him as a co-pastor in the Texas. However, a home was all of the Churches we were graced they will have cause to read this let- local Church in San Diego, Cali- found available for rent shortly to be a part of each one, I often have ter, or not, I do want to acknowl- fornia from 1960 to 1964. We had before we arrived under the aus- feelings of nostalgia, with a senti- edge each one before the readers in a very close relationship during pices of Mr. McCullough, but mental wistful longing and affection The Journal and make known each those years. He and his wife work on the inside with painting for those happier times. one was a very caring man. remained overnight in our home and carpenter work was needed Then I consider God’s Won- at times. I will never forget the and he saw to it those needs were derful Master Plan in which all of Four Early Surviving us will come together with far Evangelists brotherhood we had and his con- met by men who worked for AC. tinued thoughtfulness shown to Two years later we were able to greater peace, unity, and happi- Mr. Wayne Cole—I came to me and my family. My sincere have a home built in Gladewater. ness that we experienced only in know Mr. Cole while he was a senior thanks and gratitude to God for We had help from the College part during those years. A time student on the Pasadena campus. the brotherhood we had with with the preliminary needs before when we will live forever while This was after we had moved there both his lovely wife and him. and after the home was built. serving under the government of in 1953. He was always very friendly Mr. David Antion—While Having gone through several our wonderful Father and Jesus to me and would have helped me in serving under the local pastor in moves, our furniture was worn Christ with caring love for one any way he could. My deceased wife Pittsburgh-Uniontown, Pennsyl- out. I approached Mr. McCul- another that will be beyond our and I were present in the Lower ania, Mr. Antion was our regional lough early one morning and highest expectations. Gardens when he and his lovely director living in Akron, Ohio. asked if it were possible I could Thy Kingdom come!

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s a supporter of P.F. Lazor, I tence. The State ignored same. A of society in many ways. He was a illnesses; 1982 was his first year of plan, knowing he wanted a life of am making available the fol- lawyer has now filed a Habeas pilot and skydiving instructor, a normal health. To this day he still lofty achievements for the good of A lowing to you for possible shar- Corpus appeal for a hearing after licensed Realtor, the author of has a condition known as MCS society. He became outspoken ing with contacts in the media or with the last Parole denial detailing the numerous books, including poetry in (multiple-chemical sensitivity) that against drugs, crime and purpose- politicians who may become interest- fact that no California prisoner has hardback at age 20, a songwriter has caused him extreme pain and lessness. He values every moment ed in his case. I am sending it out to a ever served that length of time for a and composer of hundreds of songs, retaliation due to where he has had (his and others’) and used his time long list of media outlets and govern- similar crime. No response so far had his own renowned band doing to live for the past more than 30 for constructive purposes. On more ment contacts. I am Ken Masat, 903- from this judge. a tribute performance of Buddy years, a place where he has no con- than one occasion he risked his own 258-2682, [email protected]. I can provide a copy of the unbe- Holly and became known world- trol over his food, drink and other life to save someone else’s. This is a desperate appeal for lievable affidavit a fellow inmate wide as “Buddy Holly Jr.” He had environmental factors. P.F. founded a small corporation publicity to reverse a most serious wrote in his behalf prior to the last patented inventions with many Despite his health issues, P.F. with 10 small businesses he operat- case of injustice. P.F. [also known as Parole Hearing. The Board then other patents pending. worked labor jobs as early as age 8 ed for 12 years. All of these busi- Free Lazor] Lazor is a California delayed the hearing for five months Throughout P.F.’s growing up and began early in life as an entre- nesses served the purpose of help- State inmate who has been lan- for an “internal investigation.” This years he was often ill and bedridden preneur. ing others. He lived close to the only resulted in the Board disregard- with bronchial and toxicity-related At age 16 P.F. laid out his life See URGENT, page 23 guishing in prison after killing a ing the affidavit because they don’t home invader 34 years ago. He was believe the guy was educated well sentenced 17 years for 2nd-degree enough to write it, although he murder, and he has continually tried signed it. (Lazor admitted to helping to prove his innocence against a him write what he saw and believed.) All of us at Common Faith Network extend best stacked-deck prosecution. He should To establish credibility, I am a have been out in eight years but has retired Continental Airlines pilot who wishes to The Cartwrights and say thank you for now been there for 34 years with spent six years as a Navy fighter pilot 21 wonderful years of publishing. yet another denial of parole on Nov. with service in Vietnam. This case is 16, 2017.The system repeatedly cre- ripe for a lawsuit against a corrupt ates some sort of “rule violation” cadre of prison insiders determined Common Faith Network Feast of Tabernacles The 22nd just prior to any parole hearing to to grind this guy down until he no Emerald Coast Convention Center Lexington “justify” denial. 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The Two Witnesses and the Elijah’s ULTIMATE MISSION

By Michel Danis green olive tree, fair, and of goodly candlesticks which you saw are Churches represented by candlesticks. here are many interpreta- fruit: with the noise of a great the seven churches.” These two groups of Witnesses will tions regarding the iden- tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, Here again, the symbolism of a have the power of Elijah and Moses tity of the Two Witnesses. and the branches candlestick refers to a group of indi- altogether. The Two Witnesses will Some believe Elijah and of it are broken. viduals. So far, we see the Bible then be two groups of people. They Moses are going to return from heav- For the LORD of defining the Two Witnesses’ symbols will indeed perform the miracles of T 1 en to preach during the last 3 ⁄2 years. hosts, that plant- as two groups of people. Elijah and Moses to bring back God’s Others believe they are the Old and ed thee, hath What about the word “wit- people to Himself and bring new con- New Covenants. Others think they pronounced evil nesses”? Could it be referring to verts to salvation. Mal. 4:5: will be two men from their own against thee, for groups of people? Isa. 43:1: “Behold, I am sending you Elijah organization. But is there a way to the evil of “But now thus says the LORD that the prophet before the coming of really know who the Two Witnesses the house of created you, O Jacob, and he that the great and dreadful day of are? As many know, but don’t always Israel and of the formed you, O Israel ...” Jehovah.” follow this principle, the Bible house of Judah, Verses 10, 12: “All of you are my As proven by the Bible’s own sym- interprets its own symbols. We will which they have witnesses, says the LORD, and my bolism, the Two Witnesses will then examine what the Bible teaches Michel Danis done against servant whom I have chosen: that be two groups of people. about these symbols. themselves to all of you may know and believe me, Their ultimate mission will be Also, what about Elijah? Mal. 4:5: provoke me to anger in offering and understand that I am he: before about making known the True “Behold, I will send you Elijah the incense unto Baal.” me there was no God formed, nei- God, who is the Father alone, and prophet before the coming of the God clearly identifies this olive ther shall there be after me . . . I His true Son, Jesus Christ. Rev. 14:6: great and dreadful day of the LORD.” tree as the houses of Israel and of have declared, and have saved, and I “And I saw another angel fly in the Is this verse referring to Mr. Judah. In fact, they were referred to have showed, when there was no midst of heaven, having the everlast- Armstrong as many have thought ,or as the two olive trees of God. Paul strange god among you: therefore all ing gospel to preach unto them that is it referring to somebody else, or refers to the two houses of Israel and of you are my witnesses, says the dwell on the earth . . . Saying with a even to a group or groups of people? Judah as two olive trees, the Wild LORD, that I am God.” loud voice, Fear God, and give Is the Elijah ministry related in some glory to him ... and worship him sort to the Two Witnesses? Though I that made heaven . . .” cannot discuss it here for the sake of The Lord calls Israel His Witnesses The day is at the door where the limited space, please see the end of Two Witnesses of God (Ezek. 9:4) this article for links of a complete and His Servant. will team together to do what is study on this subject. Let’s figure out now what the going to be one the most fantastic Bible has to say about these two Works done by God. God bless His intriguing witnesses, Elijah, and their and Natural ones. Rom. 11:24: Here again, the LORD calls Israel Witnesses. mission during the last days. “For if you were cut out of the His Witnesses and His Servant. ★★★ As I mentioned, the Bible reveals olive tree which is wild by nature, As they became two when Israel split I would like to hear from you. the identity of the Two Witnesses. and were grafted contrary to nature apart, they are then referred to as Please email me at: MDanis7@ Let’s read in Rev. 11:3: into a good olive tree: how much God’s Two Witnesses: the House of “And I will give power unto my more shall these, which be the natu- Israel and the House of Judah. outlook.com. Here are the links for two witnesses, and they shall proph- ral branches, be grafted into their This is when the Elijah a complete study of the topics: esy a thousand two hundred and own olive tree?” Ministry comes into the picture. Visit my Facebook Page and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. As we can see, God refers to his Elijah was a man sent by God to look under Files for the complete These are the two olive trees, and Two Witnesses as two olive trees, rep- Ahab and Jezebel. Afterwards, John study about The Two Witnesses of the two candlesticks standing before resenting two groups of individuals. the Baptist came on the scene. He Revelation, and In the Spirit and Power the God of the earth.” What about the two candle- was a type of the future Elijah who of Elijah: www.tinyurl.com/danis701 Here we indeed have three ele- sticks? Actually, we don’t need to go will face the Beast and the False To listen to or read my pre- ments to identify them; even in verse far to find out what they represent. Prophet, pictured by Jezebel and her sentation on the Two Witnesses 10 we have a fourth one where they Rev. 1:20: false prophets. In the Old at the One God Seminar: are called prophets. “The mystery of the seven stars Testament, God used to work www.tinyurl.com/danis777 Let’s start with the two olive which you saw in my right hand, and through single people like Elijah, Visit/subscribe to my trees. In Jeremiah, God refers to the seven golden candlesticks. The Moses, and Jesus. YouTube channel where you can Israel as an olive tree. Jer. 11:16-17: seven stars are the angels of the But, since the New Covenant view videos on different topics: “The LORD called thy name, a seven churches: and the seven began, God works through His www.tinyurl.com/danis703

Urgent Help Needed for P.F. Lazor

Continued from page 22 of second-degree murder and sen- pened. I and the people who know the police, with the aid of P.F.’s own yet he continues to hold a kind and poverty line so he could reinvest his tenced to 17 years in prison. More P.F. know that he was framed and attorney. P.F.’s attorney was the loving, forgiving, appreciative atti- money into his big dreams in the than 30 years later he is still in wrongfully convicted. P.F. is not a main person who covered up the tude towards most everyone. His music, film and invention industries. prison, more than 20 years past his criminal, never has been and never misconduct. love for our Heavenly Father is what He also volunteered his aeronauti- mandatory release date, which with would be. His case was one of self- One year after his conviction, Cali- has given him the courage and cal skills for emergency and rescue good time credits was May 1992. defense and there shouldn’t have fornia enacted the Home Protection strength to withstand the unbear- needs, on call at any time, despite He has watched career criminals, even been a trial, let alone a convic- Self-Defense Bill, Penal Code section able and unjust experiences he has his full schedule. sentenced to exactly his same sen- tion. His trial was full of misrepre- 198.5. which recognizes that P.F.’s had to endure. In his late 20s a terrible tragedy tence, who came to prison years sentations and misinformation, act was not a crime, but it cannot be If you have spare time or if you or occurred that basically took away after he did and who have already much of which (I am sad to say) is applied retroactively. anyone you know of (especially an P.F.’s life and put a stop to all he was been released on parole and gone still being presented as the truth P.F. has become, in essence, my attorney) could help in any way this doing. In January 1983 a man who home years ago. through sources on the Internet and adopted son and I have been in con- deserving man (or financially, even had been threatening to kill P.F. vio- The people of the jury never got in court records. tact with him, almost daily, for many just $10 or so), please contact me, lently broke into his home and came to hear the truth of the case. He was clearly railroaded. We years. He continues to amaze me Gayle Travis, 21736 Orange Ave, at him with a gun and a meat Tragically, they think they did. You have 100% proof that dozens of with who he is inside, as well as out- Castro Valley, CA 94546. E-mail cleaver. In self-defense he shot the see, P.F.’s attorney would not allow pieces of trial evidence were falsi- side. He has been through torture [email protected]. Or phone me man. Shockingly, P.F. was convicted him to tell his side of what hap- fied by the prosecution team and and hell for 30-plus years in prison, at 510-356-5113 or 510-507-2087.

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His coworkers, the International Bible Armstrong taught that the vast majority of all OUSTON, Texas—From 1870 to 1920 Students. mankind will die without being called. And all this great “Work of God” spent millions of After his death in 1916, his great Work fell into these will have their first real chance at salvation H dollars in media outreach, both printed the hands of others who betrayed him. They mutat- later after they are resurrected from the dead and and electronic, announcing the coming Kingdom ed it into something he never wanted, an authori- stand before the Lord in the Great White Throne of God as a worldwide witness. tarian sect now headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y. judgment of Revelation 20. This Work revealed “true The congenial “Pastor Russell” never dreamed his Did Billy Graham preach this message? Did doctrines” about the soul, the freedom-loving autonomous groups of open-mind- Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody preach this doc- resurrection, heaven and hell, ed Bible Students would scatter after his death, and trine? What about John Calvin or Martin Luther? the Millennium, the second the property and presses fall into the hands of his Does the Catholic Church teach it? The answer is resurrection, the Hundred rivals and usurpers, the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He No. They don’t. Nor do the thousands of sincere Year Period, and the Great was never one. missionaries who risk their lives trying to convert White Throne Judgment. Charles T. Russell built from scratch his amazing pagans in African and Asia! It is contrary to the This mighty Work railed Work that preached the Kingdom of God as a wit- very essence of their mission and purpose. against “Christendom,” the ness to all nations. Millions of his books were Even the Church of God (7th Day) and immortal soul, eternal torture everywhere. CTR taught MANY truths that HWAdis- Seventh-day Adventists reject Mr. Armstrong’s J. Phillip Arnold in hellfire. This Work boldly covered over 50 years later. Some of these doctrines teaching that a “fair chance” after death will be taught new truths to the “daughters of Babylon.” are so identical that an honest person must wonder given the VAST MAJORITY OF MANKIND, with most of This Work proclaimed the Mystery of the if HWA got them from Russell and his circles. mankind being saved after death in the World Divine Plan of the ages by declaring in its many Did HWA cherry-pick from Russell’s books Tomorrow. Remember how shocked you were publications that only a “little flock” is called NOW. major doctrines that made the Radio Church of when you first heard of this idea? The vast majority of mankind is blinded. Their first God (WCG) radically different from mainline This unusual doctrine radically separates the chance at salvation will come AFTER the return of churches? Did Armstrong get “Armstrongism” WCG from all of Christendom. It is this unique Jesus Christ. Then most humans will be saved. from the brilliant Charles T. Russell? and radical doctrine of “Fair Chance” or “Future As early as 1881 this great Work insisted that Let’s look at two key doctrines to unveil the Probation” or “Wider Hope” that made the WCG the meaning and purpose of life was to become connection. We know HWA taught two major doc- church so very different from all these other members of the Family of God, to be “partakers of trines that are alien to all Catholic and Protestant churches on the corner. Don’t you agree? the divine nature.” churches, but nearly identical to Pastor Russell. Look how this doctrine played out to make the This Work taught that the WCG so different from other main purpose of the church Christians in other churches (I today is to develop charac- From about 1870 to 1920 a Work boomed out the controversial am not criticizing the doctrine; ter so that in the Millennium message about being born again into the God Family! Millions I am examining some of its resurrected Christians could and millions were warned and thousands converted! effects.) rule as kings and priests in The WCG did not try to the wonderful Age to Come! “convert” others to Jesus Yes, from about 1870 to 1920 this Work What are these two alien doctrines? Christ. HWA said God had to “call them” before boomed out this controversial message to a disbe- Not the Sabbath Day. Because there are mil- they could possibly be “converted.” lieving world. Millions and millions were warned lions of Saturday Sabbatarians in the world. It did not send “missionaries” into remote and thousands converted! Not the Feast Days. Because millions of Jews regions of the world to convert the unsaved. BUT WAIT! observe these annual days. It said that most people in the world were Mr. Armstrong was not yet born in 1870! He Not the “lost tribes” as USA and Britain doc- supposed to be blind now so that they could be was not even a Christian till about 1927. How trine—there are many Anglo-Israel groups since called later AFTER Jesus Christ returns. They had could there be a great Work as early as 1900 teach- the 1700s. hard lessons to learn now. ing all these things? Even the doctrine that there is no immortal soul But members knew they were “called” now What “Work” having all these “Armstrong doc- and the need of a resurrection is not unique to because we UNDERSTOOD these truths and had the trines” reached millions over 50 years before Arm- HWA. Many churches agree with that. Holy Spirit. We few had truly repented and were strong knew these doctrines? What about the Kingdom of God on the earth given these truths taught by HWA. How can this be? during the Millennium? Is that alien? Again, no. We felt that we were a “special” group of Obviously, it was not the tiny “Sardis era” of the Because there are dozens of churches that teach it. called out people who walked around knowing key Church of God. They were small and never taught Same with Bible prophecy, name of church, clean Bible truths to which the rest of mankind were God’s Mystery of the Ages or a Divine Plan of the and unclean. blinded. Ages in which most of mankind would be saved. What are THE two special “Armstrong doc- We believed that God had predestined us to Their Bible Home Instructor written by A.N. Dug- trines” that no Protestant or Catholic church teach- be called now long before we were born. Others ger denied that doctrine, and their statement of es or has ever taught? These two doctrines are con- were predestined to be blinded now, but would be faith denied it. HWA says Sardis did not know trary to all those churches. And would be hated and called later after Christ returns, after they had died. these new truths in his sermon of 6/5/82. rejected by them as ALIEN to them. Both of these Even good members of Christian churches So why have you never heard of this great Work doctrines are alien to even the Churches of God were “blind” and were NOT predestined to be called of 1870-1920? Why has it been hidden? and the Seventh-day Adventists. now. They had a “false salvation.” We “knew” they This stupendous Work was run by an amazing The FIRST of these two unique “Armstrong” were not true Christians because they were “blind” man, a businessman with advertising skills who doctrines so alien to all other churches is: This is to the truths that God had revealed to us through Mr. produced attractive publications with huge circula- not the only Day of Salvation. God is not now try- HWA. They could not agree with us because they CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Protestants and Catholics have traditionally years BEFORE Mr. Armstrong did. No other church were blinded. But these deceived and blinded so- taught that hell will be very crowded and heaven not taught it when Russell first taught it. To prove this called Christians would get their first real chance at so much. Augustine called mankind a “damned instantly, you may type these terms and topics into salvation in the next life during the Great White mass.” John Calvin taught that God predestined the the search engines at: Throne judgment period of some one hundred years. elect for salvation and those not called are predes- http://www.ctrussell.us/ctrussell.nsf/Dedication? As members of the church, although it was tined for hellfire. Non-Calvinists rejected this kind and http://www.biblestudentarchives.com/links.html. not our duty to try to convert blinded people, it of predestination, but insisted that human freedom Don’t get me wrong. I am not rejecting or de- was our duty to support Mr. Armstrong in getting to choose God ends at death. For most churches, fending these unique ideas. I am explaining only out the gospel as a “warning” message to “wit- there is no hope for nonbelievers after death. WHERE they came from. And when and how. And ness” to the world. Not to change or trying to figure out why we were never told where convert anyone, but to bear witness to they came from. the truth. This meant in practice that So where from and how did HWA get these two we kept our true identify as God’s unusual doctrines? He was not born with them as a chosen few with his special truths Quaker. And his good Methodist wife, Loma, did “undercover,” even “secret” from our not teach them to him. We know that the Church of neighbors. After all, they had not yet God (7th Day) and SDA did not teach them. been called to salvation. They were Before we find out just how HWA got these blind as bats. alien doctrines, it is helpful to first ask WHEN. This meant that only a chosen WHEN did Mr. Armstrong BEGIN teaching the few were invited to local church serv- first of these two unique doctrines, the one we ices. Only those who showed some affectionately call “Fair Chance” and “Future evidence that they were being Probation”? If we can locate WHEN, it may give us “called” were allowed to attend serv- a clue as to HOW and from WHERE he got them. ices. So this alien doctrine caused us Do you assume HWA taught it as soon as he to downplay the existence HISTORICAL THEOLOGY—Dr. Arnold on opened his mouth to preach in the late 1920s? Do of our local churches so a visit to Israel (upper right). Above and you assume that his powerful voice boomed out the lower right: Books by Henry Dunn and only the elect would discov- Charles Taze Russell. See Dr. Arnold’s article “Fair Chance” doctrine over the radio in the early er their existence. on these pages for information about the writ- Plain Truths ers of the two books. [Courtesy photos] 1930s in Oregon? Did the very early This led to ministers and coworker letters teach that the vast majority of and members often looking at nonmembers as if This led to people are predestined to be blinded by God, but they were unholy “outsiders” who were incapable of Garner Ted Arm- that God has predestined a chosen few to be called understanding God and the Bible. Not that they were strong’s famous NOW to be members God’s church? just “sinners” in need of repentance, as Billy Gra- question: “If a Or is it more reasonable to believe that HWA ham might say, but that they were “walking dead” missionary has a preached for years and years the traditional doc- unable to repent, unable to understand, unable to flat tire and fails to trine taught by most Protestant churches including come to Christ. Their turn would come later. For reach people in the Church of God (7th Day) that the church’s mis- now, they do that which is natural to carnal man. China before they sion is to “save lost souls”? If so, this would mean An effect of this alien doctrine was that mem- die, are they des- that from about 1930 to 1940 Armstrong would bers could “relax” and have less anxiety about the tined to roast like have preached something like this: eternal fate of their loved ones, knowing that they a marshmallow in hell?” “Greeting, friends, this is Herbert Armstrong would not likely go to hell but would one day bow These points show that the effect of this first with the plain truth about today’s world news and the knee to God and accept the truth and be saved. alien doctrine was profound on Mr. Armstrong the prophecies of the World Tomorrow! Friends, In fact, those of us called now would one day min- and members. It changed his entire approach to you need to blow the dust off your Bibles and find ister these truths as “kings and priests” to the evangelism, and it ricocheted his church into a out what the Bible really says. It is time for you to unsaved after Christ returned. different direction, knocking it out of the orbit of repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior! This distinctive doctrine also gave Mr. HWA all other churches. Now! Today! Before it is too late! This radio pro- and the church a “big picture” of God’s divine Plan. The SECOND doctrine that is radically dif- gram is calling you now to give your heart to Jesus Most churches taught that Satan destroyed God’s ferent from what you hear preached in churches Christ, to repent and believe the gospel. Today you plan in Eden by turning Adam and Eve against every Sunday is the ultimate destiny of the can pray the sinner’s prayer and begin to live a life God, enticing them to sin. Most churches said that saved: to become members of the “God Family.” of obedience and faith. If we as a country repent God was now in the business of trying to save a few This is the mystery hidden for ages. It is the very and accept Jesus, our nation can escape from of mankind from this disastrous “fall.” But HWA purpose of human life. So said Mr. Armstrong. God’s end-time wrath. It is your free choice. I urge used this alien doctrine to teach the Mystery of the We are to become, not angels, but “partakers in you to come to Christ today. And I urge you to tune Ages where the Divine Plan allows God to save in daily to this radio program as we spread the almost all human beings. Adam and Eve and their the divine nature.” gospel to lost souls everywhere.” descendants are in the process of learning through It is rather shocking to our brains to discover their suffering and disobedi- In this imaginary talk, I have recreated what I believe ence that there is a better It is shocking to discover that Charles T. way. After death, this better HWA preached at the very way will be revealed clearly Russell had been teaching two unusual ‘Armstrong’ beginning of his ministry. It is to them, and the vast majori- doctrines before HWA was born in 1892. based on reading his earliest ty will repent and convert letters and the early Plain once their minds are truly Truth magazines. A quick opened. With the guidance of the glorified Elect that Charles T. Russell had been teaching both of search of the words “born again” and “souls” in who have been called in this life, they will be saved. these unusual ideas before HWAwas born in 1892. early issues of the PT, his coworker letters and his For Mr. Armstrong, this doctrine shows that, Crack open Russell’s books and you will see that articles in the Bible Advocate and the Messenger of in the end, God wins and Satan loses. Most humans he taught these alien ideas of Fair Chance and Truth in the 1930s will show that HWA preached a will be saved. becoming part of God’s divine family over 50 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL 26 ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) When Did HWA Change Two Doctrines? CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE time for God to bring his way. No mention of a said to represent a 100-year period when 99 per- highly evangelical gospel warning the nation of “soul saving” mission. That had been dropped a cent of all humans who ever lived would have their dire prophecies due to their sins and calling upon year before. In fact, he writes on page 8: “All Israel first real chance at salvation! them to repent and accept Jesus Christ and his truth ... shall be saved. The Gentile nations who have So now we know 1943 was the year WHEN Mr. to get their souls “saved.” not heard Christ’s name will then hear and have Armstrong first began to clearly publish this idea There is no evidence found that HWA preached their chances....” Herbert Armstrong has a new so alien to traditional Christianity. But why that the two “alien doctrines” in the late 1920s or 1930s. bold voice. It is the first distinct echo of CTR. year? What happened about that time? Where did His writings from those years never mention either of What do we conclude from this review of the he get this new alien idea from? Did he meet some- them. In fact, he says the opposite. For example, a how the PT went from saving souls in the 1930s to one new who had these ideas? close reading of the PT for June/July 1934, page 9, preaching as a “witness” from 1942 on? Seems Don’t assume that he made it all up from his shows that he believed there were no Gentiles or sin- most likely that HWA for a few years had been own personal study, as if it suddenly dropped from ners alive after the close of the Millennium to be con- absorbing Russell’s alien ideas either through read- heaven. As we saw, Charles Russell had taught verted and saved. During, yes. But not any in the sec- ing “Pastor Russell” or being persuaded by some- similar ideas. ond resurrection after the thousand years. That door one familiar with Russell, or both. A few hints Even though traditional Christianity did not to salvation closed when the thousand years ended. appear in the mid ’30s; they begin to germinate by teach this alien idea of Fair Chance and divine des- Further, the HWAof that period writes in the PT 1940 and take root by August/September 1942. But tiny, there were a very few mavericks who did of November 1934, p. 1, that the lost must be “born when do they fully blossom for HWAinto the alien teach it. They were in Charles Russell’s circles of again” by receiving the holy spirit. Then in doctrines we are tracking? “Bible Students.” In fact, I am convinced that Mr. December 1938, p. 5: “Being truly ‘born again’— Can we determine WHEN he clearly switched to Armstrong got this idea, and the “born into the -thru real broken-hearted repentance and faith in the two alien doctrines of Fair Chance and “partic- Family of God” idea, from either Russell’s publi- Christ” is the first step.” HWA is on an evangelis- ipation in the Divine” that you and I know he was cations or from these maverick students of the tic mission to get people to be “born again” and to clearly preaching when we met up with him? Bible. As we have seen, they did not originate in “save souls.” Since you and I know that he eventually began Church of God (7th Day) circles. In the PT of August 1934, p. 7, HWA writes of to teach them, all we have to do is to keep reading Let’s look at them and their founder Charles the “lost, helpless, dying souls.” chronologically his publications until he plainly Russell more closely. We know that he started a In the November 1934 PT, p. 8, he speaks of tells us about one or both of them. Right? At some “circle” that taught the alien idea of Fair Chance and bringing “many souls to Christ.” point in the PT, he must begin to teach them! Future Probation during the Age to Come (World In the December 1938 PT, p. 5, he says “and But when? And why? And who taught him? Tomorrow). It was a great Work teaching that at the that souls may be saved.” What caused this major shift? resurrection the elect would be born again into the In the January PT, 1939, p. 5, he writes “and Prior to 1943 I see no evidence that he preached Family of God to partake of the divine nature. Even souls may continue being saved.” this new alien doctrine of Fair Chance, certainly though HWA taught nearly identical doctrines, By August 1939, p. 6, his wording changes to: not becoming divine. Do a search of the HWA Russell was never mentioned as an earlier source. “We praise God for the salvation of scores and library at http://www.herbert-armstrong.org/index2.html The impression was given that God was the only scores of souls.” for those very early years and try to find these two source for these “truths.” But HWA knew about In November 1939 on p. Pastor Russell. In fact, he wrote 3 it changes to “We praise one article mentioning Russell, God for the salvation of Prior to 1943 I see no evidence that Mr. Armstrong while denying that he was a hundreds of souls.” preached the new doctrine of Fair Chance or member of one group associat- But then, in the August/ the doctrine of being born again into the God Family. ed with this “circle.” September 1940 PT, p 4, he In the July 1953 PT Arm- begins to sound different. strong wrote: “No! I Was He now says readers should support his work so major doctrines of what became “Armstrongnism” Never a Jehovah Witness. . . .” He did not lie. It that “this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached later. You will come up empty. was true; he was never a member of the JWs. But to all the world for a witness!” And “PRAY, as never But, out of the sheer blue, in The Plain Truth of notice that he says on page 6 that he had “read before, for a continued great harvest of souls.” This November/December 1943, p 8, BOOM, there it is! some of their writings and their books.” He also remains the same for the November/December He boldly proclaims this new truth: a full-blown admits having knowledge of “Pastor Russell” and 1940 issue. And it continues the same through the article, “Predestination, Does the Bible Teach It?” his “people.” Notice HWA correctly uses the term issue of September/October 1941. The article is not just about predestination but “predecessor” to refer to Russell and his circles in Although the call to pray for a great harvest of about WHY God predetermines some to be “called” a way that distinguishes them from the later JWs. souls appears in the March/April 1942 issue, there now and others to remain “blind” as bats until they This shows that HWA knew more than most any- is now a personal appeal from the HWA to support die and are later resurrected for their first real one does about the exact relationship between the his work that preaches the gospel as a “witness” to Work of Russell and the JW usurpers who came the world. HWA writes on p 4: chance at salvation. He lays it out clearly: Those called now will be “born again” at the Coming of later. But, still, HWA goes so far as to claim: “God has a great work for us to do. ‘This “I have never belonged to, attended any meet- Gospel of the KINGDOM shall be preached in all the Jesus Christ and will serve as kings and priests dur- ing the Millennium. They will then teach those ing of, or had any remote semblance of fellowship world for a witness and then shall the end come.’ with the ‘Jehovah Witnesses’ predecessor, the unsaved dead who are made alive in their physical Yes, we have WORK to do!” ‘Pastor Russell’ people 1 did not learn any of bodies to get their first real chance at the Great Finally the change is clear. In the August/ God’s TRUTH from the ‘Jehovah Witnesses’ sect. I White Throne Judgment. Clearly, HWA has September 1942 issue there is no mention of saving have, of course, read some of their writings and souls, nothing about praying for a harvest of souls. thought this idea out carefully over time and now their books, and 1 have been glad to find that they Instead there is a strong article “What Is It All booms it out clearly. But never any mention of why have certain truths, as all sects and denominations About?” on page 7 where he sounds very much he changed. Or where he got it. have (though mixed with dangerous errors), but like Charles Russell! This new idea was expanded in following arti- God had already revealed these truths to me long Here in 1942 he claims that the world order is cles until the full-blown doctrine was fully formed. before I read of them in their literature.” falling apart, and that we are on the verge of the By the early 1950s it and the idea of becoming Stop and think. If I could show you proof that the final thousand years in God’s seven-thousand-year divine were firmly in place, with the biblical festi- Russell circle(s) taught these two exact doctrines Plan. Like Russell, he writes that Satan has had vals said to picture this “plan of salvation.” Even over 50 years BEFORE HWA, would you be willing 6,000 years to push his way on the world; now it is the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles was CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE not just leave the wicked in their graves? majority will be called later after the resurrection to consider that HWA may have gotten these ideas As Storrs was pondering these issues about of the dead and given their first real chance at sal- from Russell’s circle one way or the other? 1870, he came across a book by Henry Dunn, an vation. Those called now in the Body of Christ If he did, it would mean that the two MOST DIS- educated Englishman, titled The Destiny of the will be transformed into Spirit and serve as TINCTIVE doctrines that HWA taught were taken Human Race, first published in 1863. From a administrators and ministers to physical humans from the Watch Tower circles! Something he never sickbed Storrs spent months studying this book. In during the Millennium and thereafter. But, now, admitted publicly. Something he denied. Some- it Dunn argued that there would be a future chance only a few are called in this “church age.” The un- thing that may have been covered over saved dead will be granted their first real chance by that first generation of ministers and of salvation after Christ returns. Russell shocked Ambassador graduates—if they even Christendom by declaring: knew. It would mean that HWA’s debt “We can imagine for instance, Nero, the mur- to Russell was never admitted or paid. derer of his own mother, the murderer of many of Today that debt has come due. the Lord’s faithful disciples, coming forth .... Of course, this does not mean that Nevertheless the great atonement sacrifice in there is anything “bad” about taking redeeming the race included Nero, and he must truths from Russell. A good doctrine can have a share, an opportunity, for profiting originate from offbeat sources. But it is thereby. Whatever measure of light and knowl- bad not to give credit where credit is due edge he lacked previously he will surely get in the or acknowledge the people who gave it world to come, in the Millennial age, when he shall to you. Nowhere will you find Mr. have been awakened under the favorable condi- Armstrong admitting where he got these tions then prevailing. And his shame and contempt, alien ideas from. He just states it as a thank God, may gradually be lifted, until he will be fact of the Bible, as if one day free from them provided he CHURCH RESEARCH—Above right: Dr. he woke up and there it was Arnold conducts a seminar of his Reunion shall be responsive to the clear as a bell. Although he Institute in Houston. Above: Charles Taze blessed conditions of that Russell is pictured with an issue of his Zion’s confesses that he read their Watch Tower newsletter. Lower right: A vol- time. He will have a hard literature, he does not admit ume of six sermons by George Storrs. See the accompanying article by Dr. Arnold about road to travel because of his that these major exact doc- Mr. Russell and Mr. Storrs. [Courtesy photos] miserable use of opportuni- trines were taught by Russell ties in the past; but his shame and his Bible Student movement. Never any men- for all those who and contempt will culminate tion of Russell’s great Work that taught the Hundred had died without either in his full acceptance Year Period and becoming “divine” as early at hearing the Gos- of the Divine blessing of 1900! Charles Taze Russell left out in the cold. pel of Jesus Christ. restitution to perfection or to As we said, Charles Russell was the leader of There would be a his utter destruction in the this great Work from about 1870 till his death in “Fair Chance” for second death ....” 1916. Russell was a prolific writer on Bible topics, infants, the “re- (http://www.heraldmag.org/ publishing millions of pages. As a wealthy busi- tarded” and those who never heard. This opportu- olb/contents/russell/HG3.pdf). nessman from Pennsylvania, he paid for his nity would come after the first resurrection Russell also taught the second of these “alien numerous publications on the Bible himself as when Christ’s kingdom would be set up on doctrines” that HWAevidently also picked up from well as the cost of a very popular early “movie” on earth. This is very much like HWA taught be- him years later: the Bible called The Docu-Drama of Creation, ginning in 1943. “As we thus get before our mind’s eye the glory costing millions in today’s dollars, shown in cities Storrs took Dunn’s alien idea and polished it which God hath in reservation for them that love throughout the U.S.A. and Europe. He did not and pushed it in his monthly magazine The Bible him, the Church, the body of Christ, and that we demand tithing to a “headquarters.” Like HWA, Examiner. The young Russell read the Examiner shall not have a resurrection to flesh, but be CTR knew how to get an audience’s attention and and met Storrs and the two became mentor and changed by resurrection power, in a moment, in a hold it. He challenged all churches to rethink their friend. Russell went on to convince others of this twinkling of an eye, to be spirit beings, glorious, doctrines and return to the first century church as Fair Chance doctrine and published his own mag- powerful, divine .... The reward of the Church portrayed in scripture. azine called Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of on the contrary will be incomparably higher; not Russell was a young man in his 20s when he Christ’s Presence from 1879 to 1916. only will the first resurrection bring these to the first heard of the idea of “Fair Chance” from a Before Russell’s death in 1916, he had pub- spirit plane and grant them joint-heirship with Bible researcher named George Storrs. Storrs was lished and distributed millions and millions of Christ in his Millennial Kingdom, but we are Charles’ elderly mentor in assured that it will signify to the late 1800s. Storrs had Charles Taze Russell was a young man in his them the attainment of the divine been through the Millerite 20s when he first heard of the idea of ‘Fair Chance’ nature, which is far above angels, movement of 1844, but from a researcher named George Storrs. Storrs was principalities and powers. The did not become a Sev- Charles’ elderly mentor in the late 1800s. high condition to which the enth-day Adventist after- Church is to be elevated is not ward. He continued to described in the Scriptures preach the Second Coming of Christ and Bible tracts explaining this alien doctrine. His greatest because it is beyond the power of the human mind prophecy. He came to believe in a literal kingdom work is the six-volume set Divine Plan of the Ages to appreciate” (http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/ of God on earth during the Millennium. (Studies in the Scriptures). contents/russell/HG3.pdf). In his Six Sermons, he boldly taught there was no In it he first shows the evidence for a Creator Russell’s books were everywhere and are still immortal soul, and that the resurrection from the God, then shows the inspiration of the Bible, and available online and in stores. Groups of his original dead was when the dead would return to life. He then explains the mystery of God’s plan for Bible Students continue to meet in cities everywhere. also denied an eternally burning hellfire. For a while humanity. He clearly says that Satan did not ruin It appears that Mr. Armstrong became acquaint- he was puzzled over why God would resurrect the God’s plan in Eden, nor is Satan winning the bat- ed with Russell’s ideas prior to 1943. These two lost only to cast them into the lake of fire where they tle for souls. Instead, God’s plan is to call a few major doctrines clearly do not appear in his publi- would be returned to unconscious extinction. Why now to be the “Body of Christ,” but the vast CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL 28 ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) HWA Added the Teachings 1938–1943 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE identical plan of salvation. Although Russell did ideas. Now that we are aware of HWA’s knowledge cations in the 1930s, but we have seen hints of his not observe the Sabbath, he respected it as an of Russell, we have to consider the possibility that growing familiarity with them. And, of course, important symbol of the Christian life and taught during the 1930s he was introducing some of these after 1943 we see them and slightly modified ver- that communion should be taken once a year on ideas in his sermons, especially during the feast sions of them everywhere in WCG publications, Nisan 14, Passover. He wrote about the feasts and days regarding the Plan of Salvation. Opposition especially in the early 1950s in articles and in the taught that Tabernacles represented the time when arose perhaps more due to these ideas rather than Bible Correspondence Course. God will set his hand to save all mankind. keeping the festivals. You may ask: “Could it be that Mr. Armstrong Although Russell was ambivalent on the identity of For certain, by 1943 he was preaching and pub- simply came up with the same ideas independently the “lost tribes,” some in Russell “circles,” such as lishing Fair Chance to Sardis whether they wanted through his own personal study without any use of George Storrs, identified them with the US and to hear it or not. Old-timers still living could shed Russell’s books?” No, this does not wash. BC, as HWA would. valuable light on this sudden “switch.” One wishes Look at this: Can you find anyone anywhere In my opinion, HWA began to integrate CTR’s John Kiesz was still alive since that Church of God in the world at any time in history who taught Divine Plan of the Ages into his teachings between minister worked closely with HWA up till about that Isaiah 65:20 proves that there will be a 1938 and 1943, studying it closely. Even earlier, 1945 when HWA dropped him “like a hot potato,” “Hundred Year Period” during which the resur- his studies in the Portland library may have intro- according to Kiesz. If this split was over Kiesz’s rected unconverted will live “out their days”? duced it to him, or even an encounter with some- “holy ghost” altar calls (http://www.giveshare.org/ You will name only HWA and his many publica- one in Russell’s circles. Possibly he came across library/hwa/hwabio.html), it may support the theo- tions, such as Is This the Only Day of Salvation? articles hinting at these ideas in the various publi- ry that HWA broke with “Sardis” in part due to And in the Bible Correspondence Course edited cations that he read. Although the Church of God his teaching Russell’s ideas that only those predes- by Dr. C. Paul Meredith. (7th Day) taught against Fair Chance, an occasion- tined to be called now can come to Christ at this But, I can show you that Charles Russell and his al article may have mentioned it in refutation. The time; there were no pleading invitations to the altar trusted associates said the same thing over 50 years Bible Advocate of 1928 number 37, page 377, has in WCG services. earlier in his ZWT, Food for Thinking Christians a W.J. Davis commenting that God had predestined An indication that Fair Chance was a problem and the Divine Plan of the Ages. For example, here a few in this age to be the Bride of Christ and teach for Church of God leaders at that time is found in is just one of dozens of references to the idea: others during the Millennium. the fact that the Salem, West Virginia, branch (as “Any who sin wilfully, against full light and Learning about the Divine Plan of the Ages and did Stanberry) denied Future Probation/Fair ability, will perish in the second death. And should other writings of CTR, I believe, convinced HWA Chance as early as 1933, and again in 1936, and any one, during that age of trial, under its full blaze by 1943 that the alien idea of future probation and listed as one of its important doctrines that: of light, spurn the offered favors, and make no a Fair Chance for all was scriptural. So, in the “The wicked dead are resurrected to final judg- progress toward perfection for a hundred years, he November/December PT of 1943 article on “Pre- ment, with no probation but will be eternally will be reckoned unworthy of life and will be ‘cut destination,” for the first time in print HWA ex- destroyed” (http://www.originofnations.org/HRP_ off,’ though at a hundred years he would be in the plains that families should not worry about Papers/Historic%20CoG%20Fundamentals.pdf). period of comparative childhood. Thus it is written whether their lost love ones fighting in World War This shows that the idea of Fair Chance was of that day: ‘As a lad shall one die a hundred II died lost or saved. He shows that only a very few affecting the Churches of God in the 1930s from years old; and as a sinner some source. Since HWA is shall be accursed he who known to have emerged from dieth at a hundred years Charles Russell and his trusted associates wrote about the them with that doctrine on his old.’ (Isa. 65:20—Leeser) ‘Hundred Year Period’ 50 years earlier in his Zion Watch Tower, lips, it may well be that he was Thus all must have at least Food for Thinking Christians and Divine Plan of the Ages. the source of the problem. one hundred years of trial; Perhaps he had not fully and, if not so obstinate as to formed it during those years refuse to make progress, their trial will continue are predestined to be called now to be part of the and kept it on the low, since HWA cooperated throughout the entire day of Christ, reaching a cul- body of Christ, but that most will have a fair with the Salem group during this time. In fact, it mination only at its close.” (Divine Plan of the chance after Christ comes. Future articles over the is clear from the 1938 doctrinal statement of the Ages, Studies in the Scriptures, p. 144). years would flesh out the details, including the Radio Church of God that at least the church at The Divine Plan of the Ages is an amazing work Hundred Year Period and the “third resurrection” that time as a whole did not accept Fair Chance or as it broke new ground in 1886, opening up possi- to the lake of fire for the recalcitrant wicked. divine participation. Although he does stand apart bilities that HWA and the WCG could modify and No doubt these 1943 “new truths” caused divi- from Sardis by using the Russell code words expand upon. sions in his church in Oregon and with the “Sardis” “called” and “character” in the document, the We should acknowledge that there is a very real churches. Could Armstrong’s attraction to Rus- statement is clear: connection between HWA and CTR—not only on sell’s ideas have been one of the factors, other than “. . . There shall be a bodily resurrection of the the Hundred Year Period and the Fair Chance idea, “feast keeping,” that caused the evangelical just and unjust—the just to eternal life as spirit but also in many other ways. Both men focus on Church of God leaders to be suspicious of him all beings upon earth, the unjust to receive the second prophecy, the truth of the “soul,” the annual Pass- and final death in hell (Gehenna) fire in which they along, leading to a final break? We have always over for the Lord’s Supper, the earthly kingdom, and shall perish in eternal punishment” (http://www. heard that “feast keeping” was the issue that drove the need for a fair chance for humanity. It also jumps originofnations.org/HRP_Papers/Historic%20Co out at you in how Russell lays out his Divine Plan of a wedge between HWA and the Church of God in G%20Fundamentals.pdf). the Ages. Much like HWA in his approach, Russell Stanberry and later in Salem. But several of their As his understanding of Russell’s Fair Chance starts with the existence of God, the proof of the ministers attended feast sites in the 1930s, and became clearer to him in the early 1940s, and as he Bible, and then the mystery of the divine Plan of some continued it after HWA went his own way. It associated it with the feast days, the rift with Church God. Like Russell, HWA used similar terms for it, may be the way in which HWA“taught” the feasts, of God (7th Day) widened. By 1947 Mr. Armstrong such as “Mystery of the Ages,” and “this Master not the fact that he had church services on those left Oregon behind for Pasadena, California, to Plan of the ages,” PT, March 1961, p. 3. days, that caused an uproar. spread his “alien” doctrines to the world. But wait. There’s more. Future research may show that he taught that When looking for early connections to Russell Russell respected the Old Testament and used it the feast days revealed the Plan of Salvation in as a source for Armstrong’s adopting Russell’s to clarify the New Testament constantly. He used which a Fair Chance would be given to the doctrines, one could speculate that much earlier Temple symbolism to explain the plan of salvation, unsaved dead! If so, that would have caused a real HWA and wife Loma saw the movie produced by much like HWA used the feasts to show a near stir—mixing Russell’s ideas with Church of God CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ 29 C. Paul Meredith Hungered for Truth CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE “live and let live” on these special “truths.” If you In it we see that Dr. C. Paul Meredith was about Russell in 1915, since his The Docu-Drama of did not receive these truths, he exorcized you to 40 when he first had contact with the 50-year-old Creation was showing in Chicago during the time Satan’s camp. Some might diagnose that as uncon- HWA about 1942. The eulogy clearly says that C. when the Armstrongs were living there. The movie genial behavior for a person who himself is switch- Paul and Herbert spent much time writing letters to highlighted the Fair Chance doctrine and caused a ing doctrines rather often. one another and also on the telephone across coun- sensation when it was shown. Returning now to our sleuthing, can we find a try, from Missouri to California. Clearly, this was a From the Autobiography of HWA, we learn that clue that someone very special came onto the mature and educated doctor that Mr. Armstrong the Armstrongs were avid moviegoers. But about scene about 1940 who influenced and, possibly, took seriously about the very time HWA began to this time Loma had a religious impression that they even convinced HWA of the Fair Chance doctrine? switch to the alien doctrine of Fair Chance. were attending too many secular films. Thus she Who could that masked man be? What was As a lifelong student of the Bible, Meredith read would be ripe for viewing Russell’s magnificent his/her name? And why don’t we know more about widely and hungered for truth. The eulogy says that Docu-Drama. If she drug HWA along to the show, that significant figure, if he exists? C. Paul researched many churches until he settled perhaps the seed for Fair Chance and a sense of If HWA was moved to accept Russell’s Fair into the WCG. He had a mind for details and was God having a Divine Plan were sown in the cre- Chance doctrine by someone else very familiar the best in the “Work” at using scripture after scrip- ative mind of the young Armstrong as far back as with them, then that unknown person would need ture to build powerful arguments for his conclu- about 1915, long before his conversion in the late to meet the following criteria: sions, as seen in his Bible Correspondence Course 1920s—but would not bear fruit till years later. He must be very knowledgeable about the lessons and his publications on Jesus’ resurrection This may or may not be true, but what we do know Bible to persuade Mr. Armstrong. and his fascinating Satan’s Great Deception. is that by 1943 HWA taught these two highly He must be very familiar with this Fair No wonder HWA respected his views and took unusual doctrines preached only by those intimate Chance doctrine. him seriously. He was formidable, but posed no with Russell’s circles. He must be himself fully aware of Russell threat to other leaders since he was a writer, not a Now that we know when, can we answer how and this circle of “Bible Students.” public speaker. So, Dr. C. Paul was Armstrong’s did Mr. Armstrong get so committed to Russell’s He most likely would be a mature person of “resident expert” on Fair Chance, as well as a lead- Fair Chance doctrine about 1943? Why then? What some stature, not a teenaged Herman Hoeh or Rod ing exponent in the early 1950s of the idea that we pushed him to put it all together so coherently at Meredith, for example. would become members of the God Family. that time? Not someone, like Dugger, from the Church Look at the vectors: If you want to try to harmonize his 1953 denial of God (7th Day), where that doctrine was denied. In or about 1943 HWA switches from the tradi- of learning from Russell, perhaps you could He most likely would be someone who con- tional view of salvation to the alien view of Fair stretch a bit and blame it on an intermediary who tinued with HWA and not someone who momen- Chance, going so far as to claim that God blinded brought HWAthese alien doctrines without telling tarily crossed paths with HWA. the vast majority while calling only a very few peo- HWA that they were taken directly from Russell. If he continued in the WCG, this person ple to his church on this side of the resurrection. Maybe it is a combination of both. HWA may would likely have continued to write on the topic This was so contrary to his Quaker roots, Church have read Russell in the ’30s and also had discus- of Fair Chance, perhaps as its major and best expo- of God (7th Day) and any church “on the corner.” sions with someone he What a maverick idea! respected who had been in And, then, in or about 1942, Russell’s circles and be- Since we know that HWA did not often credit Mr. Armstrong is in contact lieved these doctrines. other authors, such as J.H. Allen, for ‘truths’ he published in with Bible expert Dr. C. Paul Since we know that HWA the PT under his own name, we should not think it strange Meredith and begins very did not often credit other that he would not credit Charles Russell. lengthy correspondence and authors (such as J.H. Allen, phone conversations with him author of Judah’s Sceptre nent in the WCG. He would likely over time insert that eventually lead to Dr. C. Paul moving to and Joseph’s Birthright) for “truths” he published more and more of Russell’s ideas into Arm- Pasadena, writing ingenious articles and course in the PT under his own name, we should not strongnism. lessons on Fair Chance and our divine purpose. A think it strange that he would not credit Charles Who could he be? careful reading of his other publications shows a Russell. I believe the answer is staring us smack in the face! familiarity with several of Russell’s ideas. What appears to secular eyes as near plagiarism Just look at the name of the author of the WCG Also, in or about 1971, I personally, while at or lying appears differently to the religious zealot. article “Is This the Only Day of Salvation?” Whose Ambassador College, Pasadena, was told by Mr. The man convinced that he has a special “calling” could easily deny that any other human taught him name is there? Lawson Briggs, a top researcher who had worked because that man is so consumed with the semi- And who is the editor of the Bible Correspon- closely with Dr. Meredith, that Dr. C. Paul mystical impression that God is leading him. He dence Course in 1965 for Lesson 39, which covers Meredith had once been in Russell’s circles. Law- could honestly perceive his use of others’ ideas as in minute detail this alien doctrine of Fair Chance? son was a brilliant man with humility and kindness God’s leading him to correctly pick and choose new Who is he? and spoke highly of C. Paul Meredith. These cir- truths from the trash heaps of theology in Satan’s The answer is Dr. C. Paul Meredith. cles could include Bible Students, Dawn groups, world. God leads him, and no other, in recovering Yes, Dr. C. Paul Meredith (1902-1968), early and Layman’s Home Missionary groups, JWs or and polishing these “truths.” So such a person actu- Evangelist-ranked minister and uncle to the others related to Russell’s Work. ally would walk around thinking that he did not get younger Rod, wrote “Is This the Only Day of I was surprised to hear that our famous Dr. C. these truths from any man, but from the Spirit of Salvation” in the 1958 PT, August, p. 19, explain- Paul Meredith, author of our prestigious Ambassa- God Almighty. Historians would word it differently. ing that this is not the only day of salvation. He also dor Bible Correspondence Course, had been influ- This sense of “mission” also allowed Mr. Arm- wrote the carefully argued Bible Correspondence enced by the Jehovah’s Witnesses or Russellites of strong to do what you or I would never do: bully Course Lesson 39 in 1965, marshaling in detail the some kind. Then I recalled that I had also found in other ministers as “ministers of Satan” when they best defense of this alien doctrine, and wrote other the Ambassador College library in Pasadena a very taught doctrines that he thought were wrong. Yet articles on being born at the resurrection into the large collection of Russell’s early Zion’s Watch he can switch to a new doctrine without consider- Family of God. This man was a walking Bible. Tower newspapers, from about 1880 to 1916! ing himself as having been one of those minions Most importantly, read his “obituary and eulo- At the time, I wondered why they were in our of Satan when he had preached differently gy” written by his nephew, Rod, in 1968 (http: library and who would have ever thought to have months before! //www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa. them there. This unusual discovery means that For some reason, Mr. Armstrong was not able to cgi?action=getmagazine&InfoID=1387723682). CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL 30 ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) How Did HWA Find ‘Fair Chance’? CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Dr. C. Paul Meredith discussing how Russell “salvation shall come to the millions.” someone with some authority had placed scores of brought much “truth” to light. Here, in 1942, for the first time HWA states copies of Russellite papers in the AC library. With Probing this question by Grace Communion strongly, as did CTR, that one is “born again” at Lawson’s identifying C. Paul as a former member International would be a generous contribution to the second coming of Christ when the elect become of Russell’s circle, I would wager that he knew all thousands of those whose lives have been touched spirit beings. For the very first time HWA publish- about that collection of Watch Towers in our library. by these ideas. It could help free up many to re- es that God is not trying to save the world now! He His writings indicate that he was very well versed think these issues more clearly. says on pages 8-10: “It will astonish some, but the in circles that taught the Fair Chance doctrine and To review, the growing influence of Charles truth is that the six thousand years of human histo- the idea of “partaking in the divine nature.” Russell’s ideas on HWA appears to take the fol- ry so far on earth have NOT constituted the period And now it makes perfect sense. With his vast lowing shape: in God’s Plan set aside for saving the whole knowledge of the Bible, Dr. Meredith was able to In the May/June 1938 issue of the PT, p. 5, world.... The purpose of this present dispensation make a very strong case to HWAfor “Fair Chance.” HWA writes an article attempting to show that is to fit spirit filled Christians, through trial and test He may have discussed by letter and phone this God has a “Plan” that he is working out through through development of Christian character . . . for alien doctrine with Mr. Armstrong months before history. The way the article is written strikes me as a position as king or priest in the Kingdom.” Not Armstrong wrote the 1943 article on Predestina- an indication that he has begun to appreciate some to save the world now is his point. Never before, tion/Fair Chance. It seems likely that Mr. Arm- of the writings of Russell, but only on the surface. to our knowledge, had Armstrong published such strong had already read some of Russell’s works, He uses terms familiar to Russell, such as “plan,” unique ideas, doctrines so alien to the church on like the Divine Plan of the Ages, and was edging “vindication,” “object and purpose” (Russell’s the corner! This point is pure Russell. closer and closer to Fair Chance. The encounter “object and manner”) and “called” and “blinded.” Then suddenly in 1943 HWA booms out the with Dr. C. Paul Meredith would have then con- And he is clear that the Millennium will be a time teachings of CTR on Fair Chance. It is in the firmed him in his convictions and sealed the deal. where those who live over into it will have a November/December issue of the PT on page 8ff. In this view Dr. Meredith would have over chance at salvation. And we know he knew of the A full-blown article detailing it all: “Predesti- time collaborated with HWA in modifying Russell circles because in the August/September nation, Does the Bible Teach It?” It is not just Russell’s ideas so as to create their own “Arm- PT for 1940 on p. 7 he shows familiarity with the about predestination, but about WHY God prede- strong brand” within a broader Russell “circle.” JWs by writing, “A certain religious sect has been termines some to be “called” now and others to They would have transferred into the Russell much in the news recently because its members remain “blind” as bats until they die and are res- “circle” while discarding his outdated prophetic refuse to salute the flag ....” urrected for their first real chance at salvation. views and adding OT law-keeping. In recent But it is not until the 1941 PT of May/June that Those called now will be born again at the times, Bible Students themselves have discarded he uses more and more of Russell’s terms and con- Coming of Jesus Christ and will serve as kings some of Russell’s ideas on prophecy but main- cepts. In that issue he writes of “God’s Divine and priests during the Millennium and will then tain the two major identifying signs of Rus- Plan,” “Restitution” and “harvest of souls” and teach those unsaved dead who are made alive in sellism: Fair Chance and “participation in the waxes much on the topics familiar to Russell, such their physical bodies to get their first real chance divine nature.” as restoration of Israel to the land of Palestine, the at the Great White Throne Judgment. Don’t misunderstand. HWAdid not consider need to be “overcomers,” the 7,000-year plan, the This is revolutionary! No other Armstrong arti- Russell as his mentor or cle or letter or publication teacher. But he was influ- boldly proclaimed such an enced by Russell’s views as Wonder what the Eugene, Oregon, church alien idea! Wonder what the mediated to him by Dr. C. members and those in the Church of God (7th Eugene, Oregon, church mem- Paul Meredith, especially Day) circles thought had happened to HWA! bers and those in the Church of the major doctrine of Fair God (7th Day) circles thought Chance and our destiny as had happened to HWA! divine sons of God. “appearing” of Christ to rule on the earth, and of But, there it is for all to see to this day. A Over the years Mr. Armstrong polished and immortal Christians over mortals who will gain huge SWITCH. True, for a few years the leaven of tweaked Russell’s views so as to better fit his own salvation then during the Millennium. Russell had been rising in Armstrong’s teach- views on prophecy and the Sabbath, and even on By September/October 1941 HWAsounds even ings, but now it was there for all who had eyes “pyramidology.” Armstrong was impressed with more like Russell as he discusses God’s Plan to to see. Of course, HWA salted it with his own the biblical message possibly contained in the build “character” (a favorite point of CTR). Like ideas by insisting it would be commandment Great Pyramid as Russell had published, but wise- Russell, he refers to Satan having 6,000 years to keepers who would form the elect of God and ly chose to keep it backstage, unlike CTR. He and rule mankind, but the seventh thousand years will that the unsaved would arise at the end of the Meredith and others would continue to adopt and thousand years, not during it as CTR thought. adapt Russell’s views. be the time of God’s saving mankind. He argues that God is “fair.” And, like Russell, he says there Conversations with Church of God folk who The fact that Mr. Armstrong switched from try- knew HWA in these early years indicate that, ing to “save lost souls” to the Fair Chance doctrine are two classes of Christians now, those worthy of until shortly before 1943, Armstrong taught that of Russell about 1943 shortly after meeting Dr. C. the “high calling” who will escape the Tribulation the unsaved dead would be resurrected “dur- Paul Meredith, a student of Russell’s ideas, indi- and those who will have to go through it. He refers ing” the Millennium, exactly as Russell cates that a causal connection exists. to “Jehovah” at one point. But, still, there is no believed. This is a telltale sign that he had been Of course, with more research this can be further mention of the Fair Chance for the unsaved dead clarified. Perhaps surviving members from the Ore- and no hint whatsoever of our divine destiny as studying Russell. Richard Nickels reveals: gon churches of about 1940 could be quickly consult- members of God’s family. “The Conns and Bobbie Fisher cite a 1940s ed. Old Bible Advocates could be searched in case Finally, HWA makes the leap. In 1942 in the PT incident that they vividly recall. Mr. Armstrong discussions of Fair Chance were circulating. Missing of August/September he writes “What Is the Purpose had at first thought that all of the dead would be publications by HWA, if found, could help too. Being Worked Out Here Below?” and “Hitler’s resurrected during the Millennium. A woman Also, access to the papers of Mr. Armstrong Thousand Year Plan.” Both of these articles are flush named Belle Rogers set Armstrong straight when held by Grace Communion International would with Russell’s ideas and expressions. For example, she pointed out the scripture in Revelation 20 surely reveal the extent of the Russell connection. he writes that some are “called during this dispensa- about the resurrection after the Millennium” One imagines that among the personal papers of tion,” “vindication of God’s laws and ways,” “the (http://www.giveshare.org/library/hwa/hwabio.html). Mr. Armstrong are Charles Russell’s books and object and purpose of his Plan,” the “Christian life is Over the next 10 years Fair Chance and the Watch Towers, as well as letters between HWAand a training ground . . . a high calling,” so that later CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ 31 Why Did HWA Not Tell Us? CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE At all cost, he would wish that connection to is claiming that we are divine beings—hence all “divine nature” would be more and more clarified remain hidden. No credit is given to Charles T. such are Gods. Thus we have a family of Gods, and explained. As early as 1944 and again in 1946, Russell in WCG literature. No mention of his great Jehovah being our father, and all his sons being The Plain Truth expressed a higher and higher Work forming truth-seeking Bible Students in the brethren and joint-heirs: Jesus being the chief, or understanding of the purpose and destiny of late 1800s and early 1900s. Not even a “thank- first-born.” Christians. These articles asked “Why You Are you” to Dr. C.P. Meredith for his role in helping Once Dr. Meredith is on staff in the late 1940s, Alive?” and answered that God is creating the HWA with these new doctrines appears thus far in the PT and Good News teach this idea of becoming highest possible beings, those with spiritual char- my research. “divine” more and more clearly as the years go by. acter, and that these immortal beings will be much In 1953 HWA feels it is necessary for him to Dr. C. Paul Meredith played a key role in elevating higher than the angels. publish an article denying that he had gotten his this doctrine to center stage. In the Bible Corre- By the early 1950s this idea will rise to the level special truths from Russell. Obviously, some sus- spondence Course, Lesson 8, p. 16, we read in of what Charles Taze Russell proclaimed way back pected a connection. I must conclude that Mr. words so similar to Russell: in Zion’s Watch Tower of December 1881: Armstrong wanted to hide his profound connection “When God’s Spirit emanating from the very “Thus we have a family of Gods, Jehovah being to Russell’s circles, even though he clearly bor- person of God enters into a man, it IMPREGNATES that our father, and all his sons being brethren and rowed the Fair Chance doctrine and the Hundred man WITH the VERY LIFE OF GOD—it plants within that joint-heirs: Jesus being the chief, or first born.” Year Period idea from Charles Taze Russell’s pub- man or woman the divine nature of God, to develop Compare Russell’s words above to those below lications or followers. the very character of God, until we, through His from HWA in the PT of May 1957, p. 19: Stop and think. HWA always explained how he Spirit, BECOME LIKE GOD—until we THINK AS GOD “In the God Family there is the Father. Jesus came into the Sabbath and Feasts. He explains how THINKS—until we see things with the same attitude Christ is called the Son of God, and we can become he was baptized. How he found out about the as God sees them, and we act as God acts—yes, Sons of God. There is a Father and a Son-a family Church of God (7th Day). It is just plain odd that until WE BECOME GOD, even as Christ is now very relationship .... That is the very purpose of God, he never once tells us HOW he found the Fair God—born MEMBERS OF THE GOD FAMILY WHICH IS to reproduce Himself.” Chance doctrine! He never discusses how he came THE KINGDOM OF GOD .... being ‘born again’!” The Good News and Plain Truth magazines in into this “truth.” The one doctrine that is so very Other remnants of Russell’s ideas are sprinkled the 1950s–1970s hit this topic often with such important to him he never gives us even a HINT at in WCG literature. A careful reading will find the statements as: “We are to become God” and when and how it was given to him. The silence is use of Russell’s favorite terms like “ransom” for “Teach other people how to become God” (The so deafening that one could conclude that Mr. the sacrifice of Christ and “vindication” and “plan” Good News, October 1964, pp. 16-18). Armstrong thought that Russell was so brilliantly and building “character” throughout Meredith’s But why did Mr. Armstrong and Dr. C. Paul persuasive that he must deliberately conceal any and Armstrong’s writings. Russell believed that the Meredith want to keep this connection to Russell trail that could lead people to his works, since they body of Jesus disappeared in the tomb, and that secret forever? It could be that Dr. Meredith never also contain “dangerous errors,” as HWA wrote in Jesus was raised as a “spirit” who could put on dif- told HWA that he got Fair Chance from reading 1953 (similar terms are used in the PT by others ferent clothes and “looks” but was not flesh and Russell, but this seems unlikely because the when hinting that there are circles that have similar bone. Dr. C. Paul Meredith conveys very similar Divine Plan of the Ages was too well known for truths on Fair Chance). ideas in his article “What Will You Be Like in the Mr. Armstrong to have Resurrection?” in the May missed it in his studies. 1957 PT, p. 21, The Good Surely Dr. Meredith and he Out of the blue in 1943 Mr. HWA reverses his position News, May 1952, p. 3; and in discussed the book. on salvation and switches to Fair Chance. See it for the PT of March, 1957, p 21. Clearly, HWA admitted yourself in the PT of November/December 1943. Look at these unique ideas in the 1953 article that he taught by Charles Russell that had read Russell’s ideas. Dr. Meredith and, perhaps, Also, it seems Russell’s grand vision of God’s But one red flag could not be deleted. Out of the HWA and others inserted into WCG publications: Divine Plan influenced HWA to write in similar blue in 1943 Mr. HWA reverses his position on Jesus is the son of God, but that sonship terms of God’s having a great plan as found in his salvation and switches to Fair Chance. See it for began at his birth in Mary by the holy spirit, not Mystery of the Ages. yourself in the PT of November/December 1943. before his birth in eternity, although he then was No, it appears to me that the connection to That fork in the road could not be hidden because preexistent as the Logos. Russell was kept very quiet because by 1943 Jesus was raised in a spirit body. His human Russell was long dead, and his Bible Student the PTs before 1943 preached “saving souls.” It body was completely transformed into spirit. It Movement was eclipsed by the infamous Je- flags you to a stop. could appear as a human, but, like our glorified hovah’s Witnesses headquartered in Brooklyn, Future researchers of this topic will uncover New York. There was no way that HWA wanted more about the influence of good Dr. C. Paul future heavenly body, it was not flesh and bone as to be associated with that group under the firm Meredith on WCG doctrine. But even now we can mainline Christianity teaches. control of usurpers who had mutated Russell’s find more clues to his peppering the church with We are saved NOT by the death of Jesus. We autonomous Bible Student groups into an author- Russell’s creative ideas. We have noted that, over are saved by the LIFE of Jesus. Romans 5:10 was itarian dogmatic sect. 50 years before the PT started, Russell writes of the emphasized. We are justified by his death, saved by Plus, these were not Sabbath commandment destiny of true Christians to become partakers of his life, meaning that the resurrected Jesus lives in keepers like the Church of God (7th Day). Mr. the “divine nature” and to be like Christ “for we us, enabling us to qualify, and meaning that Jesus Armstrong would not recognize them as part of the shall see him as he is.” As we saw earlier, Russell himself qualified by living a perfect human life. line of the “true church” stretching back to New writes in the ZWT of December 1881 that Chris- Very low Christology when speaking of Jesus. Testament times as he thought Dugger and Dodd tians will become Gods in the Family of God! The Logos emptied itself fully. Jesus had no divine had laid out in their History of the True Church. Read this and marvel: power of his own. The Father who dwelled in him See Armstrong’s dilemma? How could he admit “Our high calling is so great, so much above did the works. In fact, Jesus could have sinned but that he got the two most important doctrines in the the comprehension of men, that they feel that we he yielded to God and overcame so that he could entire church, in the entire Bible, from circles are guilty of blasphemy when we speak of being qualify as the future King, be resurrected, etc. around the JWs? Sure, Russell was never a JW, “new creatures ‘—not any longer human,’ but Adam was not made immortal. Adam would but, once Armstrong got tainted with that connec- ‘partakers of the divine nature.’When we claim on have died naturally. He could have eaten of the tree tion, he knew that the WCG would be branded for- the scriptural warrant, that we are begotten of a of immortality, but did not. We all die as Adam, ever as a radical “cult.” divine nature and that Jehovah is thus our father, it CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

This page is part of CONNECTIONS: MEMBER TO MEMBER, the advertising section of THE JOURNAL 32 ★ ★ ★ THIS PAGE CONTAINS PAID ADVERTISING ★ ★ ★ Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Major Ideas Traced to Charles Russell CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE HWA’s Autobiography, such as Dugger and Dodd. those churches that did. need the holy spirit to gain eternal life. God uses This circle was much like evangelical Protestantism, So HWA took Fair Chance and “hardened” this the holy spirit to beget us and will resurrect us by except for its observance of the Sabbath and doc- doctrine, and in the process over time created a means of that spirit. trines of no immortal soul and a “low” Christology. church where members could say to one another, These terms and ideas played a major role in Its mission was to take the gospel and the command- knowingly, “When did you come into the Truth?” Russell’s theology and publications. It appears that ments to the world and convert souls to Jesus Christ. His “true church” became a very, very small group they were introduced by 1952 when most of them A personal relationship with Jesus was emphasized. of “Armstrongites” who got in and maintained were in place. At times one wonders if this quiet But, within 15 years, Armstrong and his church- their “in status” by acknowledging the truths that studious Dr. Meredith is salting the literature with es began to morph into something quite different he preached. a few of his choice Russellisms. from the Church of God (7th Day). There was a The type of WCG that emerged by the 1950s is But do not misunderstand. Both HWAand C. Paul different “feel” to his approach and a different not the kind of Christianity found in the original rejected some of Russell’s key ideas. Neither agreed “atmosphere” in the “texture” of church life in his circle that HWA began within the Church of God with his terribly flawed interpretation of prophetic WCG. The “alien” doctrines of Fair Chance and (7th Day.) Doctrinally it now included these two chronology with its invisible “presence” of Christ. “divine nature” created a different kind of “alien ideas” found in the circles around Russell They also did not agree with Russell that the unsaved Christian experience for members. The “circle” of and tweaked by HWA, Dr. C. Paul Meredith and dead would be resurrected to get a Fair Chance dur- Charles Taze Russell and his Divine Plan of the later the young Herman Hoeh. Unlike congenial ing the Millennium. The WCG taught that the Fair Ages had touched HWA, producing a different Russell, these early “Armstrongites” hardened the Chance comes AFTER the Millennium, not during it. “ambience” in the WCG from the ambience in Both disagreed with Russell’s belief that those con- more-evangelical churches. contours of the circle by demanding that all true verted after death would remain forever as immortal The year 1943 represents when HWA fully Christians by definition must be called to confess physical human beings. Unlike Russell, Armstrong moved into this new circle that would have lasting the same “truths” “revealed” to HWA. This warped and Meredith did not believe that Jesus was the first consequences on the church. As this circle closed the circle into a new and constricted shape. of God’s creation, but believed that he had existed around HWA, the WCG mutated into something Soon it came to pass in the WCG that it is not the forever with God. However, they agreed with Russell unrecognizable to the Church of God (7th Day) members’ job to witness to the unsaved about Jesus that he became the Son of God after his conception folk. Flushed out into the open by his 1943 article Christ since only God can call people to these many in Mary, not before. on Fair Chance, HWA now publicly preached that “truths.” The uncalled are blind as bats and cannot A careful look at WCG literature and sermons most humans would be saved AFTER death when respond UNTIL by special miracle God opens their shows that HWA, Meredith, Dr. Hoeh and even resurrected to a Fair Chance—a Future Probation. carnal minds to the “truths.” Nor should members Marion McNair were well aware of these subtle Thus God Himself had actually blinded most all focus merely on their own personal relationship to differences they had with the Russell/JW doctrines. humans so that they could not possibly repent now Christ. Instead, they should see the big picture of McNair and Hoeh show how familiar these early in this age. This was different! God’s Plan to save all peoples, first by supporting PT writers were with Russell’s ideas in The Good It becomes clearer now that Armstrong deviat- the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom to all the News of May 1952, p. 12, and the March 1957 PT, ed from what many would consider to be a core world as a “witness,” and second by qualifying to be p. 18, by correcting them on an obscure, but impor- Christian belief that we can identify true Chris- “kings and priests” to rule and teach those on this tant, point on Revelation 20:5. McNair writes: tians by whether they have faith in Jesus Christ, good earth during the Millennium and afterward so “Will the Dead Be Resurrected During the not whether they have special “knowledge.” But that they, too, get a “Fair Chance” to be born into the Millennium? Some groups Family of God. It felt to mem- know that the millennium bers that the Great Creator God will occur on this earth. Even though Armstrong did not give Russell credit for these new had chosen them to fulfill this But they teach that there truths, no doubt Russell would welcome HWA and the WCG to master plan of the ages. will be resurrections dur- the Russell Circle and salute him as a student who did well. So, Armstrong would contin- ing the entire period. Is this ue Russell’s Work of teaching true? . . . It is after the mil- Fair Chance and “divine na- lennium (Rev. 20:1-15) that the rest of the dead HWAidentified the “truly called” by whether they ture.” As Russell had reached millions for some 50 are raised.” had been called to understand “the truths” that he years with these two key “truths,” so now Armstrong All these men had specific knowledge of the was revealing! would pick up the baton and reach millions more for teachings in these “circles” and were willing to It is one thing to believe that only a few are another 50 years with these same two revolutionary separate the wheat from the chaff. But they do not “truly called,” but it is another to claim that we “truths.” Russell would have to believe that God used explain publicly that these ideas originated within know who they are by whether they agree with us Armstrong to proclaim the two major “truths” of Fair Russell’s circles. They never even hint that HWA on specific “truths” that we believe in. If we iden- Chance and “divine nature” long after he was gone. took these alien doctrines from Russell’s circles. tify true Christians as those who have true doc- Surely, thousands of Russell’s “followers” recog- They seem united in making that indebtedness fade trines and disown those who disagree with those nized and rejoiced that God had found a man who like the smile of the Cheshire Cat. doctrines as “uncalled,” then we are saying that it would continue these two precious “truths.” Perhaps You may or may not agree with the Fair Chance is primarily knowledge that defines who is a some of them became “co-workers” and members of doctrine or the idea of becoming divine, but now Christian (almost a Gnosticism). This emphasis on the WCG sitting beside us every Sabbath as fellow you see where they came from and how HWA dis- knowledge of truths rather than faith in Christ is “Bible students.” No doubt, Russell would welcome covered them. The legacy is clear: From Henry crucial to understand what the experience of being HWA and the WCG into the “Russell circle,” and Dunn about 1860 to George Storrs 1870, to Charles a member of the WCG “felt like.” would salute Armstrong as a student who did well. In fact, even Charles Russell did not go that far! Russell in 1880 to the Bible Student Movement, ______then to C. Paul Meredith and to Herbert W. Russell never said that you know who is called Armstrong, 1943, and finally to you and me. For now by whether they accepted Russell’s “new The preceding serves as a sort of “my testi- those who believe in this gracious alternative tra- truths.” No, Dunn, Storrs and Russell said that mony” to what life in Mr. Armstrong’s church dition of God’s mercy to all, it is wonderful to anyone who truly repented and accepted Christ meant when one stands back from it all. Looking see that it was rediscovered from the pages of the could be considered “called,” even if they were in through a glass darkly, but looking. Feel free to Bible, over 150 years ago. other churches. Truth was extremely important to write me at [email protected]. As we ponder these changes and influences, we Russell as part of “sanctification,” but the idea of ______are struck with a final observation regarding the “justification by faith” still played a role in his cir- nature of the WCG and how it should be described. cles. Since the doctrine that a believer has good The Reunion Institute’s site address is Mr. HWA began within the circle of the Church of works and all knowledge imputed to them in Christ reunioninstitute.net. A link to “My Spiritual God (7th Day), which produced the Bible Advocate by means of faith was not preached by HWA, the Journey” videos is thereunionministries.com/ and was led by those ministers we read about in “ambience” of the WCG was much different from my-spiritual-journey-videos/.

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suppose this was an appropriate ical lives. Do we really look forward to opening She used to tell us about the time her father title, since, unless you happen to de- our eyes and knowing we are suddenly free of all died. She missed him terribly, but she always said cide to check out my blog at www. the issues that beset us in this life? Do we believe if she had the power to bring him back to this didhereallysaythat.wordpress.com (a shame- God when He says there will be no more tears; life, and she did, he’d be so mad at her for taking less self-promotion), this is the Last Word that we cannot know the wonders that await us him away from the place he always looked for- you will read from me. as members in His family? ward to being he would probably hit her. II chose this because of a troubling belief I Do we really believe what we say we do? Do we I am continually amazed because I do not see this fear far too many of us have. Us being Christians really believe God’s kingdom is better than any- attitude in our people! In every issue for at least the both in what we believe to be God’s Church, and thing we have in this life? If you do, then why are last two years, there is at least one ad by sincere those outside the WCG family who also believe you so interested keeping this body alive and people who tell their readers they must be in the they are Christians. breathing? Why are you so interest- right church to save their lives at the end. Why do As all of you should know, I have been mar- ed in making sure you get to they write this? Being cynical, I say it’s ried multiple times. Yes, I have sinned. As has the Place of Safety? because it sells. Meaning people believe it. every human who has walked the earth, other More than one of the There is a good-sized organization in than Jesus The Christ. One of the situations I WCG offshoots make Oklahoma basically saying the same was exposed to was to learn from multiple a big deal about thing. And another in Ohio. Other extended family members. choosing the right WCG offshoots are not quite so church. Typically obvious in their statements that One wife came from a devoutly Catholic fam- they will tell you their members must follow their ily. Because of that I was able to attend more theirs is the one church or suffer torture and than one family funeral. During the services, true church. They death in the tribulation, but many times the family members didn’t appear to tell you if you their members know that’s the think they would see their loved ones again. aren’t in the right teaching. That legacy of HWA There was tremendous wailing and gnashing of church then you follows all of us in the back of our teeth during and after the service. might not make it minds. Given they were so upset about the person to the place of safe- If we believe life in God’s family dying, it would seem perhaps they didn’t really ty! Gasp!! Why is this is what we claim it is, then why are take seriously the teaching about spending eterni- so important to old we so interested in staying here, in this ty in Heaven with their family members and Jesus. WCG members? Was it fallen world, no matter how attractive we Humans don’t normally want to die. God put because that was a central may think it is now? Are we not capable of in us a desire to continue our existence. So want- part of the early WCG preaching? the same attitude my mother-in-law had? ing to live is normal, and from God. But when Yeah, I believe so. Doesn’t the fact we are so attached to this life lit- does it become more than we should strive for? See, if you really believed God, then, assuming erally scream at us we have a long way to go I had a friend in the PCG who told the story of the Day of the Lord actually starts with hail of before we are willing to give up this world? his mother. She was in a long-term care facility, nuclear-tipped missiles, why wouldn’t you pray to Please don’t take this as a call to give up on because caring for her was more than he and his be at ground zero, outside gazing up at the sky? life or engage in jihad. There are no 72 virgins wife could do at home. His question to me was, If God wants me to go through the tribulation waiting for us on the other side. We should not “Can we thwart God’s plans for us?” for some reason, then so be it. But, if I had my actively seek to end our lives. But, if we are so druthers, I’d rather be vaporized in a thousandth focused on doing all we can to extend this life, His mother had suffered from a sudden trau- of a second, and, next thing I know, I’ll be in a aren’t we putting too much emphasis on this ma. I don’t remember what it was, but, whatev- world so wonderful I could never have imagined it. life?? Maybe because we have not focused on our rela- er it was, she was rushed to a hospital and was Assuming you might see things my way, then tionship with God?! revived using the latest technology of the day. what is so different about leaving this life in any Are we more interested in being taken to the But she never recovered. She never came back other manner? The worst thing I fear is suffer- ‘Place of Safety’ than we are in developing our to the life she had lived before. She was active pre- ing, whether by evil humans, or by disease and character and relationship with God? “For viously. After, she was basically a vegetable, unable medical practices. The death of our physical whosoever will save his life shall lose it and to care for herself, or even engage in mental activ- body will happen to all of us one day, whether whosoever will lose his for my sake shall find it” ities with those around her. (Matt 16:25, KJV). Going on Her case and millions like her in the ASV, verse 26: “For are the reason the medical pro- When people would ask my mother-in- what shall a man be profited, fession now offers people the if he shall gain the whole right to sign a DNR order. Do law how her health was, her response world, and forfeit his life? Or Not Resuscitate. Signing one what shall a man give in means you want no medical in- was, ‘I’m just waiting.’ Meaning exchange for his life?” tervention if you collapse. Some waiting to leave for a better place. Yes, this verse has almost people choose to sign a DNR so universally been linked to the they know they won’t end up like fallacy of seeking worldly my buddy’s mother. goods over Godly character. But I would add what good does your physical life His regret was they did intervene and doomed before Christ returns, or when he returns. One way or another, the body you have right now is here do if you place your focus on maintaining that her to years of life in the state she was in. Not not going to be the one you will have. (Assuming life over your focus on God and developing his char- because he was selfish, but because it’s impossi- you have overcome.) So why fight so hard to acter? This life is but a puff of smoke to the Eternal. ble to know if those people actually are mental- keep it alive? Why fight so hard to get to Petra by I leave you with this: As good as HWA was, and ly active. Some have come back from comas and being in the right church?? as much as we learned from him while in the told how they could think, see, hear, and knew My mother-in-law set a fine example for my WCG, do not let yourself become fooled into wor- everything going on around them, but could do wife and me. She was over 90 when she died. shiping men or a church who hold the threat of nothing. His fear was he may have trapped her She had endured two hip replacements, had to being ‘marked,’ disfellowshipped, or excluded from in that condition. move from the home she shared with her hus- protection during the tribulation over your head. So what about us as Christians? Are we seek- band, and deal with the reality of not being in Matt 10:28, Young’s Literal: “And be not afraid ing to extend our lives as long as possible? Should total control of her life anymore. She knew she of those killing the body, and are not able to kill we seek out as much length of life as possible? was headed for a better place. When people the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both Have we told our family to use every means pos- would ask her how her health was, her response soul and body to destroy in gehenna.” sible to bring us back from the edge? was, “I’m just waiting.” Meaning waiting to leave Do not trust human leaders. No human can I wonder how much we really value our phys- for a better place. save you!

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THE ANTIONS AND HAMMERS—Photos show Molly Bible Learning Center. Top right: David and Molly Antion. Melba Hammer (wife of Bob), Bob Hammer, David Antion and David Antion at home and work as well as Mrs. Above right: The Hammer family and spouses on Pearl (husband of Molly), Molly Hammer Antion, Jeanne Ham- Antion’s brothers, sisters and parents. Upper left of page Hammer’s 80th birthday in Dallas, Texas, in 1985. Mrs. mer (Buck’s wife), Buck Hammer, Natalie Hammer (Tony’s 35: Roy and Pearl Hammer in the mid-1950s. Mr. Hammer Hammer is seated in the center. Others, from left: Garner wife, seated), Tony Hammer, Norma Hammer Davis. [Ham- died in 1960. Above left: Mrs. Antion at her desk. Top left: Ted Armstrong (husband of Shirley), Shirley Hammer mer photos courtesy Buck Hammer; Antion photos by Mr. Antion with tapes he recorded for the International Armstrong (seated), Guy Carnes, Jackie Hammer Carnes, Harry Curley] Longtime member recalls history of Big Sandy, WCG

Continued from page 1 To the rescue Be Observed dinner for everyone, That building started off in bits and what they were helping. In their eyes This is the last year it’ll be kept in our and there were so many people that pieces. I can remember attending they were helping the Hammer fam- house.” But in late 1949 (as I recall) Mr. Mother enlisted all of our neighbors. church there when there were no sides ily, not a church. You can imagine what a disap- Armstrong sent out an SOS because She had baked potatoes in some on the building. The air just blew At one point my dad and Buck pointment that was to a 9-year-old girl “the work” was in financial trouble ovens and turkey and chicken in through, and everybody came wrapped were asked to donate their back and a family of eight that had always and about to lose the new property the other people’s ovens. It was really a in blankets. wages, which came to more than a made Christmas the biggest part of work had bought along South Orange community affair. The property was wooded, with year’s worth of salary, and they did. their year. Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. The next year we had totally out- lots of pine trees and much under- We just all pitched in and helped. Four men came to the rescue: Bill grown our house, and we started hav- growth. There was no money for But Daddy was true to his word. Family tree That was the last year we ever kept Homberger, Ray Jantzen from Kansas ing Passover in other locations. equipment to clear the property. There Christmas at our house. and another man from Kansas (I don’t That was the beginning of the was no money to pay anyone. So my By 1953 Big Sandy had become The next year, I think this was remember his name) and my dad. feast days in the Gladewater–Big brother rounded up some local men. the second headquarters of the church, 1948, Daddy, Mother and my brother Daddy sold our beautiful home, florist Sandy area. We depended a lot on the community with all of the feast days being kept shop, orchards and all. With the to help us with a lot of things. There there. Also, our entire family (includ- Buck and his wife all went up to Visit from the Armstrongs Oregon and attended the Feast there, exception of $4,000 to put down on a was a church member, Joe Williams, ing in-laws and grandkids) was at Belknap Springs. They came back little house in Gladewater, he sent it Somewhere around 1950 or 1951 who with a couple of local men donat- involved with the church. to Texas filled with excitement and all to Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong came to our ed his time with my dad and Buck, My sister Shirley had met Ted commitment. Armstrong at the Feast in Siegler At this time my parents owned a Springs in 1952. They were married skating rink, swimming lake and what in 1953. we called a sandwich stand, a place Buck donated the original property that includes My sister Norma, who had an out- standing job at Sears in Houston, had where we sold hamburgers and hot the original tabernacle building, now the Roy been asked by Mr. Armstrong to come dogs. We also had a jukebox, and kids to California to head up the coworker came from all around. We danced Hammer Library or the Redwood Building. department. She remained head of that there and had a great time. This, our department until she went to Texas to family business, was in Big Sandy, 10 work in the Feast department in the miles west of Gladewater, and it was a Most of us in our family cried our home in Gladewater. They stayed in and they started clearing that property. mid-1960s. wonderful place for a large family. eyes out, but we didn’t question our house, as tiny as it was, and dur- It was a monumental job. If you My brother Tony and I both came Another big change was about to Daddy’s decision. ing their visit my brother Buck men- know anything about Texas, the to Ambassador College in 1956. Tony take place in our lives. We had to sell By 1950 or 1951 people began tioned that he had some property undergrowth of berry vines, thickets, became a pastor-rank minister and that business, because our busiest coming to our little home every Sab- between Big Sandy and Gladewater nettles, trees: All had to be pulled out served in Australia, San Antonio, San times were Friday night and Saturday bath, from South Texas, West Texas, that he would donate to the church if of there. Francisco and Nashville. night. Kansas, from all over. We never knew Mr. Armstrong wanted to build a They worked and worked, usually My brother Bob remained in Texas Because of the Sabbath it was no church there. from daylight to dark, and finally it and worked on the campus. He laid longer feasible for us to keep the busi- who would arrive that day, but we the stone for the beautiful streams and knew we would have a houseful every So, with Dad and Buck and the was agreed that these men should be ness, so my dad, Roy Hammer, sold Armstrongs, we all went out and paid. But the problem was there was many other landscaping jobs. the whole thing. Sabbath. showed Mr. Armstrong the property. never any money to pay them with. My sister Jackie married Guy We also had a beautiful two-story Also that year we started having the He got very excited about it, and he A local businessman, Red O’Brien, Carnes. They remained on the Big home with 90 acres of property in Passover. My mother and my dad pre- said, “Oh, yeah, this’ll be a great piece was kind enough to allow these men to Sandy campus, where Guy was super- White Oak, which is east of Glade- pared everything, and Pasadena sent of property,” and a plan was con- charge their groceries, sometimes car- intendent of Imperial School. water along Highway 80. out a letter inviting anyone on the ceived for the church. At that time rying them for months at a time until I married David Antion, and we We had a large orchard, 300 florist- mailing list in our area, and we ended there was no thought of a college. they could get enough money together served in the field for 10 years before quality rose bushes, two fish ponds, a up with a group. I can’t remember the Buck donated the original property to pay their grocery bill. being transferred back to Pasadena, big red barn where Daddy kept two number, but it was more than a house- that includes the original tabernacle Many people in the Gladewater where David assumed many jobs, cows and chickens, a wonderful gar- ful of people there for the Passover. building, now the Roy Hammer area really helped as the church was from Garner Ted Armstrong’s assis- den. My mother even had a florist shop. My mother prepared the Night to Library or the Redwood Building. being formed, but they did not know See LONGTIME, page 35 Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) THE JOURNAL 35 Longtime member recalls history of Big Sandy, WCG Continued from page 34 wedding. Then we were sent to lege, and people were vying for School. Our whole life was the We feared that we might lose the tant, deputy chancellor of the college, Oregon, where we were for nine power. We were aware that there were church. We were so totally devastated. home we had purchased two years head of pastoral administration and months, working with Raymond many problems in the church, but our All of our friends were forbidden before we were kicked out, since we many other duties. Cole. From there we went to Okla- support was still absolutely with the to talk to us. We never got to under- had no income. But after about three months David was hired by St. John’s Hospital. Later I got a job, and David began working on his doctorate. He has now [in 1997] been in private practice for 18 years. In a way his practice is an exten- sion of the ministry and he loves it. He can now use the knowledge he acquired to help so many people with personal and family problems. Our son went to UCLA and Ber- keley and is a corporate lawyer with a large Los Angeles firm. We have two granddaughters, ages 3 years and 1 year. We lead a happy, busy and full life. David has just finished a 20-hour course on video for the International Bible Learning Center called Mar- riage and the Family. It is a course about human relation- ships, whether mate, children, parents HAMMER SISTERS—Three daughters of Roy and Pearl Hammer of Big Sandy pause or coworkers. for a photo at a family event in 2003. From left: Shirley Hammer Armstrong, Molly I have often been asked if I feel Hammer Antion and Jackie Hammer Carnes. [Photo by Dixon Cartwright] angry or bitter over the past. I do not. My years connected with the WCG Worldwide Church of God. stand what or how they thought or felt were great learning experiences. One Sabbath morning there were or let them understand how we felt. Do I regret that most of the Hammer Moving to Pasadena homa City for five years and then to quite a few people here from the field. We were caught in the eye of a torna- family’s inheritance went to the church There were many good years Akron, Ohio, for five years. The district superintendents were do. To say we were devastated is an instead of to us? with fabulous memories, and we just During the early part of the history here, and we had gone out to break- understatement. But that was the way No. And I don’t think any other hate to see those memories coming to of the campus in Big Sandy, we were fast with a number of them. it was. Every friend we had was in the members of my family do either. a halt! in the field. We came back to campus to go to church. Our job was here. But we Money is not the important thing. I had come out here to Pasadena David was ordained an evangelist church but we couldn’t find a seat in found out that David no longer had a I can honestly say I never heard my in the mid-1950s. My sister Norma while we were in Akron, still in the the auditorium. Everything was really job. There was no severance pay. We mother complain once about it. She was living in Pasadena, and she was field. It was very unusual for the packed that day. didn’t get paid for our vacation time loved the church. She was absolutely single, and in late 1955, at the Feast devoted. She was never paid for all of of Tabernacles, my sister Shirley the donated time she gave. and Ted arrived and they said, And our family’s been very, very “Why don’t you go back to Cali- blessed. We’re all doing well today. fornia with us?” At the end of the church service they disfellowshipped Wayne I was still in high school, and I Cole, Ben Chapman, Robert Kuhn and David Antion. A few regrets said, “Yeah, sure.” However, there are some things I But, as a girl of 16, all of a sudden regret. I feel my father (and many others) I decided, within about two days, that died needlessly. He was only 64 years I would like to do that. So I came out, old. The church doctrine at that time did and I finished my senior year at church to ordain a field man to that We had the services piped into our that we had accrued. We did not re- not allow us to go to doctors, and we Imperial School. rank. David was district superintend- home. We could sit here and hear it ceive our last paycheck. never knew what my father died of. Imperial didn’t have seniors at that ent of the Akron area, and we had the just like we were in church, so we We had bought our house two My sister was never allowed to time, only students up to freshmen or fastest-growing district in the United came back home and we were sitting years earlier, and all of a sudden with remarry, though she was married only sophomores. So I took college class- States at the time. That must have here in our family room listening to no income we thought we were going a short time and divorced before com- es, which they gave me credit for. been 1963 or 1964. the services. to lose our house. We were at a des- ing into the church. The doctrine on I finished that year, then officially Then David was transferred back in At the end of the church service perate point in life. D&R (divorce and remarriage) made entered Ambassador the next year, in to Pasadena and became Mr. Ted they disfellowshipped Wayne Cole, We were desperate not only finan- her a widow in her 20s, along with 1956. Armstrong’s executive assistant for a Ben Chapman, Robert Kuhn and cially but emotionally and hit terribly many others, and it made many chil- My brother Tony also came out in short while, and from there he as- David Antion. I’m still not sure how by the loss of everything that we con- dren orphans. 1956 and began college. So about half sumed many other duties, head of the or why that could have happened. We sidered near and dear in our hearts. The misuse of excommunication of our family then lived in California, press, deputy chancellor of the col- were never spoken to personally and separated so many of us from family the other half in Texas. lege, head of pastoral administration, were never allowed to ask why. Plan B and friends and precious fellowship. My husband, David, came to Pasa- then he was over college relations and We were devastated. We had no My husband went back to school, We can never retrieve those many dena the same year I did, 1956. He had many different responsibilities. idea. It was just like a bomb had been eventually getting his Ph.D. He’s a years of lost contact and fellowship. had had a year of college, so we fin- dropped on us. Everything I had ever marriage and family and child thera- These are the things I regret. These ished in three years and married and Out of the blue known since I was 9 years old had pist and a clinical psychologist. He’s are what I can never regain. Although went to the field, as we called it. We spent the remainder of the ’60s been Worldwide Church of God. It director of Affiliated Counselors. He we mourn the loss of memories of We were married in Texas during a and most of the ’70s here, and then had always been what my family did. has offices in Downey and Pasadena. family fellowship and good times on baptizing tour David conducted. We came the tumultuous time in the Our entire family was always in- He considers his job as another form the property of Ambassador Uni- were married on what is now the church in the late 1970s. volved; it was everything David and I of the ministry. He loves it because versity, we are happy that God is campus down by the stream. His fam- By January 1979 there were vari- had ever done. Our son had been what he does is help people. That’s greater than even all our memories, ily came from Pennsylvania for the ous factions in the church and col- reared in the church, gone to Imperial what he’s all about. hurts and histories.

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Continued from page 2 missed, but realize all things come to HWA on Ephraim in this reminiscence, nor acknowledge days come, that all that is in your it. We wish you God’s blessings and an end eventually. Interesting question re HWA’s teach- His part in any of the proceedings. house, and that which your fathers good health in your retirement. Our best wishes for your health and ings about Ephraim on this 32nd memo- She did display admiration for the have laid up in store to this day, Joe and Joan Lango happiness. rial of his death (16 January 2018). crown jewels and gave some ac- shall be carried into Babylon: noth- Dade City, Fla. Del and Phyllis Holste Watching and hearing Queen Eliza- knowledgment to some of the human ing shall be left.” Santa Maria, Calif. beth discuss in The Coronation (the participants in that real-life and histor- Even heretics God’s Judgment on Assyria: Thank you for your years of “Assyria, the rod of my anger, and the Christian service to the Churches of staff in their hand, is my indignation. I God. THE JOURNAL has been a Holy will send him . . . to tread them down Spirit–inspired work of God. ‘No work is perfect, but you gave all like the mire of the streets.” No work is perfect, but you gave all (even some heretics) their say.’ By the queen allowing the whole (even some heretics) their say. world to see close-ups of the British Bless your family and staff for tol- crown jewels, where they were secret- erating rude and even foolish com- ly hidden in World War II; and the Ever eager ments of some. 14 January BBC One documentary of ical event, though with no references content and hiding place of the royal John R. Whalen Many thanks for your labor over the her crowning), I couldn’t help notice to her ethnic and royal lineage back to coronation anointing oil (symbolic of Orchard Park, N.Y. last 21 years. I’ve always eagerly that, for someone whose private King David and to the ceremony’s heaven’s involvement in the Coro- Varied information awaited my next issue. I’ve been asso- thoughts have rarely been heard, Her biblical origin. nation); has the queen done a similar Thank you for your many years of ciated with various COGs for 50-plus Majesty several times repeated nega- Nor did she reveal any evidence of thing to what Hezekiah did? publishing THE JOURNAL and provid- years. I appreciate your unbiased tive aspects of an occasion that Britain prophetic insight about her kingdom. And will the king of Assyria steal ing the source for receiving such a reporting. All the best. May God bless! and much of the planet had thought This reminds me of several things: Britain’s crown jewels? I wonder. variety of information. Ray Flippo was spectacular. Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Geoff Neilson THE JOURNAL will certainly be South Daytona, Fla. I don’t recall her giving God thanks the word of the LORD. Behold, the Cape Town, South Africa 36 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) We print many opinions but don’t necessarily endorse them Continued from page 1 The problem with trying to thank every- costs of publication. ing to help us with our publication Lewis and Kathleen McCann have asked God to curse us with tumors as one is invariably someone will be left We’re thankful for all the many writ- layout, which he’s good at. been our European distributors for big as hen’s eggs on our faces.) out. If we accidentally do leave you ers who submitted their manuscripts to Alan Ruth has been steadfast and many years, and, before the McCanns, Over the years I think we finally got out, please know that that was not our us and for our columnists over the invaluable for his help in maintaining David and Barbara Fenney. it across to our readers that, just be- intention. years: John Warren (who our website. Thank you, Alan! And, In Australia, New Zealand and cause we printed something in THE was responsible for looking back, Don and Carol Walls South Africa we had help from Bruce Advertisers and helped us in our early years with the Porteous, Walter Steensby, John and JOURNAL, that did not necessarily writing many of our his- thankless task of proofreading. mean that we were endorsing it. We subscribers torical articles), Brian Rosemary Morton, Craig White, Co- And who can forget the wonderful lin Moffat, Pieter Voges, Chris Water- were just giving readers a chance to First, we would like Knowles, Melvin Rhodes, and humorous columns written by read it and decide for themselves to thank our sub- Bill Stough, Kathleen man, Denise Sostaric, Wade Cox and Darlene Warren, who was also our ad- Geoff Neilson. whether they agreed with it or not. scribers and readers. McCann, Mac Overton, vertising manager for many years? And, judging by the mail and Without your interest Ellis Stewart, Ed Ma- Speaking of humor, we mustn’t for- George, Ron and Rich E-mail we have received since we get to thank our cartoonists who tick- and loyalty there lone, Ray Daly, Trey I would also like to mention how announced we would be shutting wouldn’t have been a and Jamie Cartwright, led our funny bone over the years: Greg Radtke, Jim Robbins, Jamie thankful we are for the help and sup- down, we were successful. We feel as JOURNAL. Some of you Ken Westby and, last but port we have received from George though we have friends all over the have been with us since not least, Dave Havir. Cartwright and Earl Cayton. Earl is a professional cartoonist, and he sent us Crow, Ron Masek and Richard Masek world because we have subscribers all our first issue. We owe a special over these 21 years. over the world. I wish we could meet many, many cartoons, all of them ab- We also want to thanks to Dave because solutely free of charge. Publishing THE JOURNAL has been a all of them. thank our advertisers he’s always been will- I mustn’t forget to thank the friends roller-coaster ride. Shutting it down was THE JOURNAL would never have who were responsible PAPER ROUTE—Linda Cartwright accompanies bundles who helped us with our international a difficult decision to make. We will lasted these 21 years without the help for us to be able to con- of THE JOURNAL from the printer (Longview News-Journal) subscription distribution for no remu- miss you, our readers and supporters, so and support of many, many people. tinue to survive the to the mailer (Country Mailer). [Photo by Dixon Cartwright] neration except a thank-you. much. Thanks for the memories! If we were 20 years younger, maybe we’d retool and regroup Continued from page 1 new church, the Church of God Inter- He shut down in January 1997. Linda decided to cease publication of THE people was a major experience not only the best part about it was all the national, when it started in 1979. and I started THE JOURNAL the next JOURNAL? in my JOURNAL career but my life. friends I made. Linda: Jerry and Anita Gentry had month. Linda: Because we are 21 years older Linda: I really enjoyed the series of A big factor in my coming to Am- started their Annie’s Attic company, John graciously allowed us to insert and we’re tired, and we’d like to spend angel stories that we ran. bassador College was at that time you which was a needlecraft operation they a reply postcard into each copy of his more time with our children and grandson Dixon: Linda’s referring to the time could come with no money and still grew from a home business to having last issue, which was a major factor in while we are still active enough to do so. a few years ago we asked readers if attend college and work your way customers all over the world. obtaining subscribers for the launch of As an aside, our readers have prob- they had had any memorable experi- through. our newspaper. ably noticed from some of our articles ences with miracles or possibly angels. Taught at AC/AU a while in THE JOURNAL, we’re very proud of Several of them sent us their stories. Positive memories Dave: Did you take steps to further Visions and purposes our son, Trey, his wife, Brandi, our Linda: I’ve also liked the history Dixon: I remember my AC experi- your journalism education? Were you Dave: How would you describe grandson, Cater, our daughter, Jamie, articles we’ve run. ence as positive. I also attended other able to return to your alma mater (AC) your original vision and purpose of and her husband, Rob Payne. Dixon: Those included Ken West- colleges and have a master’s degree to teach journalism? THE JOURNAL? Because of the passing of time, a lot by’s memories of the East Coast Re- from what is now called Texas A&M Dixon: I had started a master’s pro- Linda: To me it was an instrument of our original subscribers are gone, and bellion of 1974 and histories of the Commerce. gram in journalism in the 1970s, which to help keep people in touch with each the new generation coming along in the church and colleges and personal his- My AC experience compares favor- I had let lapse. But in 1991 I was other because, with the major doctrinal Churches of God doesn’t have the same tories of people, through interviews. ably with the other colleges. In fact, offered a job on the AC Big Sandy fac- changes that the WCG was going paradigm, background or memories that Several of those were the result of when I began my master’s program the ulty if I would finish my master’s, through, there were so many groups we have. For example, many of them interviews by John Warren. university where I studied for my mas- which I did in the summer and fall of and individuals leaving that organiza- have only a vague idea of who Herbert Of course a big memory for me is ter’s accepted all my Ambassador 1991. I ended up teaching Intro to tion that we felt THE JOURNAL could Armstrong was. when Bill Stough and I were kicked credits. Mass Comm, advising The Portfolio help them stay connected. Dixon: Also, advertising sales are out of a United Church of God general At AC I learned printing, typesetting, and teaching desktop publishing. Plus up until this time we weren’t down. People have migrated to online conference in 1998 in Louisville. newswriting and the layout of pub- Dave: How did you become in- basically allowed to consider anything news sources rather than the print Other memorable coverage: lications. Those were valuable for me. volved with a church newspaper called different concerning doctrine unless it medium, and it’s become difficult to In two cases involving a new pol- In Transition? came from a church headquarters. This make a living publishing a niche-mar- icy by the United Church of God to Newspaper work Dixon: First, John Robinson was a was a way to get out ideas and research ket newspaper. allow suspended or disfellowshipped Dave: Did you become involved in good friend, and he was the founder from other people that you could read If we were, maybe, 20 years younger members to appeal their suspension, journalism at Ambassador College? and publisher of In Transition. This and consider and decide whether it perhaps we would try to retool and make we covered the efforts of Dan Cafourek Linda: I worked all four years of my was 1995, and the United Church of made sense or not. THE JOURNAL strictly a website or blog or and Tim Lindholm to have their sus- college program in the print shop, first God was planning its organizational It was a way to disseminate ideas and YouTube channel. But for us I think it’s pensions removed. Neither suspension in the bindery and then as the printing- conference in Indianapolis. John asked information that didn’t have to come a good time for a change in our lives. was rescinded, and THE JOURNAL is not department secretary. When I was in me if I’d go with him to Indianapolis from some organization with a head- aware that any subsequent efforts to high school I was on the staff of our and help start the paper, and I would be quarters. It was feasible for people to No regrets rescind a suspension were successful. school newspaper. listed in the paper as editor. read and study and think for themselves. Dave: Looking back, do you have A Church of God member, Jeff Dixon: For some of the years of my That was about a year after I had any regrets associated with publishing Maehr, appealed his court case arguing A forum in print AC work program I set type for The resigned from Ambassador University, THE JOURNAL? that the U.S. income tax is illegitimate Portfolio, the student newspaper. I also mainly because of philosophical and Dixon: As I mentioned a month or Linda: No. From the letters we have all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. worked in the printing department in doctrinal disagreements, although it two ago in our announcement about received since we announced our shut- The court decided to add the case to its prepress and, beginning in 1973, moved was also because I discovered that I THE JOURNAL, our mission was similar down we are finding out just how “docket” but at the last minute changed to the staff of The Worldwide News for didn’t particularly like working for but not identical to In Transition’s. One much we meant to a lot of the brethren its mind. that paper’s original five years. One of the largest, possibly the The last year was in Pasadena before largest, congregation affiliated with the Mr. [Herbert] Armstrong shut the paper THE JOURNAL from its start has been a forum for discussions, UCG was informed its pastor must be down because in his mind it was one of transferred or lose its affiliation with Garner Ted’s projects, and Mr. Arm- not exclusively a source of accepted dogma; that is, the UCG. That resulted in the United strong wasn’t thinking kind thoughts doctrines that somebody has decreed are valid. Church of God Big Sandy leaving the about Garner Ted in those days. affiliation of the United Church of God an International Association. That was The WCG’s member newspaper someone else. Linda and I had been difference was that John’s original idea over the years. a big story for us in 1998. Dave: What was your role with the mostly self-employed since 1978. was to have two trusted friends, Ron Dixon: There are specific articles I Later the Big Sandy group, pastored church newspaper called The World- But typography businesses were Dart and Leon Walker, check every might handle differently were I able to by Dave Havir, dropped “United” from wide News? going out of style right and left in the doctrinal article before its publication go back and start over. But overall I’m its d/b/a and since then has operated as Linda: I worked for a while setting late 1980s because people were ac- for doctrinal accuracy. glad we’ve had this particular 21-year the Church of God Big Sandy. type for The Worldwide News in Big quiring personal computers and were I decided, for THE JOURNAL, that experience. We also had groundbreaking ar- Sandy after I graduated and was a col- under the impression they could set would not be the direction I wanted to Dave: Looking back, what do you ticles about sex from John Sash, Lon- lege employee. their own type. take our newspaper. Rather, THE JOUR- consider to be some of the paper’s nie Hendrix and Michael Harris. For Dixon: I began with The Worldwide For a couple of years starting in NAL from its start has been a forum for greatest accomplishments? example, John’s headline was “We’ve News setting type, then worked as an 1994, after leaving the employ of Am- discussions, not exclusively a source of Linda: To me I think we were able Misunderstood the Bible on Sex.” editor and proofreader. My final job bassador, I became a stockbroker for accepted dogma; that is, doctrines that to show people that you can disagree In 2010 THE JOURNAL played host description when Mr. Armstrong shut Edward Jones. But when John started somebody has decreed are valid. with someone doctrinally and yet, most to a debate of Art Mokarow arguing for the WN down was senior editor, what- his newspaper, In Transition, I decided As Linda just said, we believed it of the time, still be friends. the divine inspiration of the Bible and ever exactly that means. It really meant I would rather return to newspaper was a good idea to encourage people to Dixon: Or at least be civil to each Dennis Diehl arguing against it. I was on the staff and helped do what- work than sell securities door to door. think for themselves. Yes, that does other. Somewhat related to the debate ever needed to be done. involve human reason, but so what? was our series of articles about the Churches in transition Dave: How would you describe Memorable experiences Bible canon I began in 2011 and then Back to Texas Dave: How did THE JOURNAL begin? how your vision and purpose for THE Dave: Looking back, what are some printed several reactions, most rebut- Dave: After The Worldwide News Dixon: When John shut down In JOURNAL changed through the years? of your fondest memories associated tals, to what I had written. was discontinued in 1978, what were Transition after 22 monthly issues, from Linda: Mine hasn’t changed. with publishing THE JOURNAL? Dave: How would you like THE your business endeavors in journalism the spring of 1995 through January Dixon: My vision for THE JOURNAL Dixon: I’m not sure fondest is the JOURNAL to be remembered? and printing? 1997, I tried to talk him out of ending it. is it’s still a forum and a link to people, best word here, but I definitely have had Linda: As a publication that always Dixon: In 1978, with the closing of Then I tried to get him to sell or give it Church of God people, that aims to memorable experiences. For example, tried to be accurate and fair and a forum The Worldwide News, we moved back to to me, anything to keep it going. cross the boundaries of the many in March 2005 I traveled to the Mil- for all kinds of people to present their Big Sandy. We still had a house here. We I think for a while we both thought groups. My personal opinions about a waukee area after a Living Church of ideas and opinions and as a way for started a typesetting business. For our that would happen, but then John decid- lot of things have changed. But that’s God member opened fire during a people to stay in touch with each other. first customers we typeset Feast bro- ed not to allow anyone to continue it. not what you’re asking. Sabbath service, shooting 12 people and Dixon: It would be nice to be re- chures for the WCG’s Feast department He became determined to shut it down. killing eight, including himself. Visiting membered as a friend to people on Passing of time and for Jerry and Anita Gentry’s busi- So I started THE JOURNAL because with and interviewing those people and many sides of questions and doctrinal ness and for Garner Ted Armstrong’s John would not continue In Transition. Dave: After 21 years why have you trying to be a positive force for those See DAVE QUESTIONS, page 40 Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) THE JOURNAL 37 The Journal lists highlights from 202 issues

No. 1, Feb. 1997—Welcome to THE and others. ¶ Garner Ted Armstrong whether Jesus preexisted. No. 33, Oct. 1999—John Trechak’s to discuss similarities and possible JOURNAL. ¶ Calendar conference in starts another church, the No. 21, Oct. 1998—Some WCG peo- death means end of Ambassador cooperation of the two groups. ¶ Alan Dallas. ¶ Melvin Rhodes asks what Intercontinental Church of God (ICG). ple (for example, in Greenville, S.C.) Report, billed as “for two decades the Ruth links to other ministries’ sites would the WCG have been like if The ¶ Connections starts with the don’t want to change their worship only independent publication regularly but some won’t link to him. ¶ The Worldwide News had freely reported February 1998 issue, exactly a year day to Sunday. monitoring the Worldwide Church of Lindholm family’s suspension is unset- actual news. ¶ The WCG sues the PCG after THE JOURNAL began. ¶ Mac Nov. 22, Nov. 1998—Rod Meredith God.” tled and unsettling after three years. to stop Mystery of the Ages. Overton writes an article about David and a church he founded, the Global No. 34, Nov. 1999—CGI cofounder In June 14, 1997, the UCGIA ordered No. 2, March 1997—Vance Stinson: Hulme’s and the UCGIA’s alleged mis- of God, separate when Global’s direc- Guy Carnes dies, one of three them not to attend services. The Why we take bread and wine early on treatment of its Dutch managing edi- tors terminate Dr. Meredith an as founders: Garner Ted Armstrong, UCGIA started a policy of allowing the 14th. ¶ Gary Fakhoury: God’s peo- tor, Jan Zijderveld. ¶ Ken Westby talks employee. ¶ Phil Arnold says the 1993 Benny Sharp and Mr. Carnes. suspended members to apply for ple should not let calendars divide about the East Coast Rebellion of Waco holocaust involving the Sabba- No. 35, Dec. 1999—The Milwaukee, attendance privileges but the policy them. ¶ UCGIA elders vote to move 1974. tarian-Christian group known as the Wis., UCGIA congregation splits over did not work for the Lindholms. HQ from Arcadia, Calif., to suburb of No. 13, Feb. 1998—UCGIA treasurer Branch Davidians was avoidable. governance and rules of association. ¶ No. 42, July 2000—President Cincinnati, Ohio. Steve Andrews refuses to apologize No. 23, Dec. 1998—THE JOURNAL inter- The 9th Federal District Court of Raymond McNair resigns from Larry No. 3, April 1997—Former AU presi- and retract after council reprimands views Ron Dart and Jim O’Brien on Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., heard the Salyer’s church and moves back to the dent Don Ward starts a new church him. ¶ Ian Boyne writes about gover- Mr. Dart’s uninvitation by the UCGIA appeal of a verdict against the WCG Living Church of God. organization called the International nance and authority in answer to a after Mr. O’Brien’s congregation had granted in favor of the Philadelphia No. 43, Aug. 2000—Lawrence Gregory Bible Learning Center. ¶ Some inde- Ron Dart article that was itself an invited Mr. Dart to speak. Mr. O’Brien Church of God. The WCG sued the PCG announces his dream that the groups pendent congregations, headed up by answer to a Boyne article. had asked for and received permission after the latter printed and made avail- could forget about their differences a Lawrence Gregory, meet in Wagoner, No. 14, March 1998—Dixon to allow Mr. Dart to speak but the able free copies of Herbert Armstrong’s while in an effort to do the Work. He Okla. Cartwright and Bill Stough are ejected UCGIA uninvited Mr. Dart anyway. Mystery of the Ages. book. wants to “jointly mount a major effort No. 4, May 1997—The last graduation from the fourth general conference of No. 24, Jan. 1999—John Trechak, pub- No. 36, Jan. 2000—The CG7 denomi- to preach the gospel.” The result was of Ambassador College/University. ¶ Churches of God Conference 2000. Molly Antion remembers Ambassador THE JOURNAL was there, as were Jeff in the old days. ¶ Linda Smith inter- Booth, Wayne Cole, Ken Westby, views John Ritenbaugh of the Church he listing of JOURNAL articles on these number(s) or issue date(s) and send a check James Russell and many more. ¶ The of the Great God. ¶ Don Ward PCG plans new campus in the spirit of announces he’s leaving the IBLC. three pages is not comprehensive. or money order to THE JOURNAL, P.O. Box Ambassador in Edmond, Okla. ¶ Plans another organization, called the It highlights one or two or three 1020, Big Sandy, Texas 75755, U.S.A. Be- ALERT officials say their new campus Center for Biblical Learning. T (the former AC Big Sandy campus) is No. 5 June 1997—CGI elder Ian Boyne articles in each of the 202 issues THE JOURNAL cause of expensive postage to other coun- being harassed since taking posses- argues that central authority is bibli- has published in the last 21 years that we tries, copies sent outside the United States sion of property. cal. ¶ THE JOURNAL interviews several No. 44, Sept. 2000—Colleen Bailey organizers of CGOM in Wagoner, think might pique your interest. are $6 each in U.S. funds. Be sure to let us sues the WCG because of alleged Okla., about the organization’s plans We have a limited number of back issues know your name and the address to send peeping Tom Don Mears. and purposes. No. 45, Oct. 2000—THE JOURNAL visits No. 6, July 1997—Jamie Cartwright’s available. The price is $3 for each issue, in- the issue(s). They are available for a limited 10 Gulf Coast Feast sites from article about the Pinecrest camp, cluding postage. Just let us know the issue time on a first-come first-served basis. Panama City, Fla., in the east to Foley, sponsored by the UCGIA. ¶ Major Ala., in the west. Accompanying interview with Jill Gully about Waco JOURNAL publisher Dixon Cartwright and more. ¶ Brian Knowles names 11 were Ed, Cindy and Natnee Burson. memorable mentors. ¶ Mark Gully, elders, meeting in Louisville, Ky. ¶ lisher of Ambassador Report, falls ill. nation based in Denver, Colo., quotes Robert Roenspies denied THE JOURNAL pastor at Waco, resigns rather than be Diane Rhodes writes about Dixon He suffers a massive infection and is its president, Whaid Rose, saying entrance to a St. Petersburg site. transferred. Offers to pastor for free Cartwright’s and Bill Stough’s ejection hospitalized because of a foot injury. Churches of God should not let their Through a spokesman Mr. Roenspies but the UCGIA says no. from the Louisville UCGIA general No. 25, Feb. 1999—Dave Havir and distinctives separate them from other said THE JOURNAL was not welcome to No. 7, Aug. 1997—Paul Kieffer history conference. ¶ The UCG Big Sandy’s Dixon Cartwright interview Gerald members of the Body of Christ. ¶ Jeff attend. article about Ora Runcorn. ¶ Two new building underway. ¶ History of and Stephen Flurry during the Flurrys’ Booth notes we’re still here even after No. 46, Nov. 2000—Leon Sexton’s Waco leaders on different sides in a 1995 Passover with Dave Havir and speaking engagement in Tyler, Tex. Y2K. ¶ An article gives a history of Legacy Institute seeks volunteers to split tell what happened: Don Hooser Doug Winnail. ¶ John Warren defends No. 26, Mar. 1999—Mark Graham Bible Sabbath Association, organized serve in Myanmar (Burma). and Ben Mauldin. ¶ This issue publish- Mr. Cartwright and Mr. Stough announces his new hymnal. ¶ The originally in Fairview, Okla. ¶ The CGBS No. 47, Dec. 2000—JOURNAL writer es photos Leo DuBry took at the Feast regarding the ejection in Louisville UCGIA council reverses itself regard- adopts new bylaws written by a con- Mac Overton credits God and a knife of Tabernacles in Big Sandy in 1956. ¶ and says the general-conference ing conferences being closed to gregational committee and changes its for his lack of injuries when run into Ian Boyne, an elder in the CGI in session was not “closed.” reporters. This was a direct result of name. It adopts the d/b/a Church of by a pickup truck driven by a man Jamaica, asks, “Has the centralized No. 15, April 1998—Samuele Dixon Cartwright’s and Bill Stough’s God Big Sandy while retaining United with impaired eyesight. church organization had its day?” ¶ Bacchiocchi calls David Hulme “outra- ejection in Louisville in 1998. UCGIA Church of God Big Sandy as its corpo- No. 48, Jan. 2001—An earthquake in Ralph Levy reviews David Albert’s geous” for comparing his split with the president Les McCullough recom- rate name. As a result, the UCGIA in El Salvador kills at least eight church book Difficult Scriptures, which is a UCGIA to Abraham and Lot. ¶ Heather mended to the council that the church Big Sandy refers to its location as East members. ¶ David V. Barrett publishes defense of the WCG’s new doctrines. van Doorn says THE JOURNAL helped her change its policy. Texas rather than Big Sandy. his first book that includes informa- No. 8, Sept. 1997—Aaron Dean con- to have an open mind. ¶ Steve Elliott No. 27, Apr. 1999—Dan Deininger No. 37, Feb. 2000—Ron Dart is tion about the Church of God. His ducts Q&A that includes questions advises: “Do not read THE JOURNAL.” advises churches on how to cybercast queried about his use of Christmas publisher is Oxford University Press. about Herbert Armstrong’s alleged No. 16, May 1998—The largest and make the best use of the music at the Feast of Tabernacles No. 49, Feb. 2001—The WCG incest. ¶ Ellis Stewart interviews Dixon UCGIA-affiliated congregation (in Big Internet. each year. announces nontraditional Feast of Cartwright about THE JOURNAL. ¶ Brian Sandy) splits over governance. Journal No. 28, May 1999—UCGIA officials No. 38, March 2000—A women’s con- Tabernacles dates. Only one full Feast Knowles remembers Mr. Armstrong. coverage includes a transcript of a Larry Greider, Tom D’Amour and ference is sponsored by the Inter- site this year, in Myrtle Beach, and it No. 9, Oct. 1997—Jamie Cartwright’s major meeting between the congre- Richard Pinelli defend the church’s national Bible Learning Center, said to will not follow the regular Jewish article about the 1997 Feast in gation and UCGIA HQ officials. ¶ suspension of Garry Pifer over “bla- be the first one done by women for calendar. Colorado Springs. ¶ Nice history arti- Barbara Fenney’s account of the tant heresy” after Mr. Pifer preaches women no men involved. Linda Hardy No. 50, March 2001—An essay by cle quoting Richard Nickels. UCGIA blow-up in the U.K. Notes that that the Bible doesn’t command White was organizer. ¶ Ambassador Mitchell Smith argues for a Sunday- No. 10, Nov. 1997—Diane Rhodes’ a minister from the Kent church tithing, even though Mr. Pifer says he campus sells to Hobby Lobby, which morning resurrection. ¶ United interesting open letter to the church. seems to call anyone who reads THE agrees with every word of the will lease it to the IBLP ministry, headed Christian Ministries and the Church of ¶ Dave Havir wonders if there’s a JOURNAL pigs, dogs and misfits. At UCGIA’s official statement on tithing. by Bill Gothard. One of his 50 ministries God Big Sandy agree to swap guest proper time for revenge. least one lady walked out. ¶ A split of No. 29, June 1999—UCGIA chairman is ALERT., which will operate on the for- Feast speakers in 2001. No. 11, Dec. 1997—CGI ministers’ the David Hulme church has already Bob Dick upholds suspension of Garry mer AC campus in Big Sandy. No. 51, April 2001—Ken Ryland is council votes to remove church occurred in the Philippines. David Pifer after Mr. Pifer preaches that the No. 39, April 2000—A Sunday-observ- named editor of Sabbath Sentinel founder Garner Ted Armstrong. ¶ Hulme supporter George Delap com- Bible doesn’t command tithing, even ing church in Little Rock, Ark., switch- magazine, published by the Bible UCGIA elder Ellis Stewart writes that plains about THE JOURNAL. though Mr. Pifer says he agrees with es its services to the weekly Sabbath. Sabbath Association. an article by UCGIA official Bob Dick No. 17, June 1998—The United every word of the UCGIA’s official No. 40, May 2000—Melvin Rhodes’ No. 52, May 2001—The Church of about church government is “terribly Church of God Big Sandy, after its statement on tithing. last JOURNAL column. He blames “pres- God International’s headquarters flawed.” ¶ Bill Stough interviews split with the UCGIA, votes to No. 30, July 1999—The Bloomington, sures of work” but tells Dixon property sells to Schambach Revivals. Joseph Tkach Jr. in person about WCG embrace a congregational form of Ill., congregation of the UCGIA splits Cartwright privately the real reason No. 53, June 2001—Eight elders with doctrine changes. government. over Garry Pifer situation. ¶ Tom was he was being “leaned on” by his Larry Salyer’s Church of God a No. 12, Jan. 1998—Samuele No. 18, July 1998—Series starts on Justus’s independent congregation in fellow UCGIA elders to stop writing Christian Fellowship resign in protest Bacchiocchi writes about the soul and the nature of Jesus, with the first arti- Arkansas provides printed materials for THE JOURNAL. ¶ Robert Kuhn of the apparently imminent merger of whether there is consciousness after cle by Eric Snow. The series will for free for groups and individuals to launches his Closer to Truth public-tel- the CGCF with the UCGIA. death. ¶ Brian Knowles writes a trib- include essays by Mr. Snow, Gary assist in their ministries. evision series. ¶ Elders of the new No. 54, July 2001—The Church of the ute to “the toon man,” Basil Fakhoury, Sir Anthony Buzzard, No. 31, Aug. 1999—The Living Church Church of God a Christian Fellowship Eternal God forms from the breakup Wolverton. ¶ Garner Ted Armstrong Charles Hunting, Wade Cox and of God forms after a split of the meet in Fort Worth May 28-31. Larry of the Church of God a Christian and the Church of God International Herbert Armstrong. Global Church of God. Salyer tells THE JOURNAL it is not wel- Fellowship (Larry Salyer) because the are parting and regrouping. ¶ Dixon No. 19, Aug. 1998—Rod Meredith No. 32, Sept. 1999—John Trechak come to attend. This was after Global CGCF merges with the UCGIA. interviews an anonymous UCGIA offi- reassures the Tulsa brethren no dies of a heart attack after his foot kicked out its founder, Rod Meredith. No. 55, Aug. 2001—ALERT, the new cial about why the UCGIA council takeover of the Global Church of God infection. ¶ Garry Pifer is notified by No. 41, June 2000—Leaders of two owner of the old AC Big Sandy cam- removed Hulme from the presidency. is in the offing. letter that the UCGIA has removed church groups begin a dialogue. Larry pus, says the library is unexpectedly ¶ The big “Footsteps” conference in No. 20, Sept. 1998—Gary Fakhoury him from the general conference of Salyer’s COG a Christian Fellowship missing some books. ALERT says the Oklahoma organized by Mitch Smith and Anthony Buzzard write about elders. and the UCGIA appoint committees See LIMITED NUMBER, page 38 38 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Limited number of Journal back issues available

Continued from page 37 Australia’s council kills a 2002 issue No. 87, April 2004—Feature about TV. ¶ The independent Church of God and sermons that minister Tom Kerry seller of the campus, sold the “most of The Good News because of two JOURNAL cartoonist Earl Cayton. ¶ The Big Sandy (CGBS) will sponsor seven compares to the old Ambassador valuable” books at auction before articles it disagrees with. ¶ A survey in UCGIA headquarters suspends elder sites for the 2005 Feast of College Bible Correspondence Course. turning the contents of the library Jamaica names CGI pastor Ian Boyne Jim O’Brien from speaking. ¶ An open Tabernacles. ¶ The CGBS sponsors a Cub Scout over to Hobby Lobby and ALERT. as second-most-influential journalist letter from Michael Harris to brethren No. 100, May 2005—Former AC food- pack. No. 56, Sept. 2001—Church of God in the nation. regarding plight of homosexual service director Carlton Green writes a No. 116, Nov.-Dec. 2006—The member Adrienna Johnson escapes No. 72, Jan. 2003—A Terre Haute, church members. The letter agrees book on methods to success. UCGIA in a split loses about half its the World Trade Center blast. ¶ Pam Ind., congregation votes to suspend with standard church doctrine but is No. 101, June 2005—Daughter of membership of a congregation in El Dewey starts her isitso.org website. for three months its affiliation with critical of what Mr. Harris sees as the A.N. Dugger recalls her dad’s ministry. Salvador. ¶ UCM, the ministry of Ray No. 57, Oct. 2001—UCG Australia and the UCGIA. lack of compassion and love and No. 102, July 2005—Churches of God and Peggy Wooten, moves its main UCGIA suspend elder Ken Murray in No. 73, Feb. 2003—John Warren good manners that gay church mem- help with disaster relief in the wake office from Birmingham, Ala., to Australia for running for state parlia- writes that sports were a big part of bers perceive from their heterosexual of Hurricane Katrina. Roanoke, Ind. ment. ¶ Suspicious envelope shuts AC-WCG history in East Texas. ¶ THE brethren. No. 103, Aug. 2005—The WCG in Big No. 117, Jan.-Feb. 2007—The UCGIA down THE JOURNAL’s commercial print- JOURNAL publishes Trey Cartwright’s No. 88, May 2004—The UCGIA lets Sandy no longer meets on the plans move from Ohio to Texas. (The er (The Gladewater Mirror). This is a photo of a piece of the space shuttle Jim O’Brien go when he disregards its Sabbath, only on Sunday. move never happens.) month after 9/11. Challenger in Nacogdoches, Texas. The gag order. No. 104, Sept.-Oct. 2005— No. 118, March-April 2007—The No. 58, Nov. 2001—Article about the shuttle blew up over Texas on Feb. 1. No. 89, June 2004—Cincinnati con- Thejournal.org site has had one mil- Church of God 7th Day based in Likeminds forum. Dixon Cartwright No. 74, March 2003—The WCG and gregation trustees disband Cincinnati lion of its articles requested in a sin- Meridian, Idaho (not to be confused doesn’t join Likeminds because it PCG settle after six years of bitter North corporation, divvy up assets gle year, announced webmaster Alan with the CG7 based in Denver, Colo., admitted it would kick him out the battling over a book by Herbert between Cincy North and a new con- Ruth. and many other independent CG7s), first time he called somebody “Mr.” Armstrong. gregation pastored by Jim O’Brien, No. 105, Nov.-Dec. 2005—John decides to develop a systematic-theol- No. 59, Dec. 2001—Article about No. 75, April 2003—Darryl Henson, who pastored UCGIA Cincy North Robinson, publisher of In Transition, ogy project to help in the training of Darryl Henson and followers moving pastor of A Congregation of God a before its recent split. ¶ Two elders 1995 to 1997, dies Jan. 5, 2006. its ministry and local eldership. to Utah in preparation for the Second Free Church, buys 110 acres in sponsor a conference on COG evan- No. 106, Jan. 2006—The PCG clarifies No. 119, May 2007—UCGIA elder Coming. Arizona and offers to lease it to his gelism, Guy Swenson and Bill Jacobs, its disfellowship policy. Founder Ellis Stewart thinks the hundreds of No. 60, Jan. 2002—Two congregations parishioners. ¶ The UCGBI (British so the UCGIA sends a letter to minis- Gerald Flurry in a benchmark sermon elders of the UCGIA should have been merge: Harrisburg, Pa., congregation Isles) announces that the corporation ters to announce that the church’s emphasizes that members of the more involved in the lead-up to the of Associated Churches of God and called World Tomorrow Media Ltd. administration does not support or church must shun disfellowshipped decision to move its home office from Harrisburg congregation of CG7. reverts to UCGIA control after a dis- approve of the conference and recom- and Laodicean church members, even Ohio to Texas. (The move never hap- No. 61, Feb. 2002—The CGBS begin pute over its ownership with former mends that people not attend it. As a if they’re closely related. ¶ John pens.) providing church sermons via its web- UCGIA elder John Jewell. result, the two elders resign from the Robinson left his journalistic mark. No. 120, June-July 2007—SDA site in Realaudio format. No. 76, May 2003—Copies of THE UCGIA. No. 107, Feb. 2006—The WCG will author Samuele Bacchiocchi claims No. 62, March 2002—Frank McCrady, JOURNAL go to subscribers in 53 coun- No. 90, July 2004—Norman Edwards soon have a new name. The first that officials of Pontifical Gregorian a UCGIA elder, is directed to apolo- tries. ¶ Pam Havir writes a tribute to names staffers for his new school for choice, Grace International University of Rome, Italy, are libeling gize to the UCGIA’s East Texas con- her friend Linda Hardy White, who young Sabbath keepers: Sabbatarian Communion (GIC) changes to Grace him and demands an apology. gregation for saying something concil- died May 9. Educational Environment, or SEE. Communion International (GCI). ¶ No. 121, Aug. 2007—CG7 Meridian’s iatory about another Church of God No. 77, June 2003—Cindy McLendon No. 91, Aug. 2004—Bill Stough writes Tom Geiger’s new book about the camp meeting 2007 carries half a congregation and its pastor, Dave organizes an event called Titus 2 an article about the Swenson and Milwaukee massacre tells an insider’s century of family tradition. Havir. Camp at the CGBS for young ladies, Jacobs conference. ¶ Ray Dick, a fre- story of tragic events of March 2005. No. 122, Sept. 2007—Michael James No. 63, April 2002—A chess club preteen to late teenage, for one quent writer for THE JOURNAL and ¶ The Genesis Flood’s coauthor, Henry tells what it’s like to be both a Church reschedules a chess tournament week. father of UCGIA official Bob Dick, Morris, dies. of God member and a CIA employee. match to accommodate Sabbath No. 78, July 2003—The WCG’s Joseph dies. No. 108, March 2006—AC pioneer ¶ Tom Adams writes a rebuttal to Mac observer Nathaniel Burson. Mr. Burson Tkach Jr. says church members must No. 92, Sept. 2004—The WCG phases Kenneth Herrmann dies. Overton’s earlier review of Greg takes first place. ¶ President-elect of abandon Sabbath and annual days, in a plan to allow some local congre- No. 109, April 2006— Doudna’s book about AC Big Sandy. UCGIA Roy Holladay announces he etc. He admonishes his pastors to gational autonomy. headquarters will Disfellowshipped elder Dan Cafourek No. 123, Nov.-Dec. 2007—A will not serve as president and council cease seeking peace at any price with ask that 20 percent of donations go requests an apology from the UCGIA. Michigan lawsuit lurches to an unex- member simultaneously because of lay members by accommodating their to headquarters and, if you want your The church informs him that his pected end. The suit involving Norman conflict-of-interest concerns. ¶ Church variations of belief. Only by forsaking pastor to be paid, you must pay him appeal is denied and his disfellow- Edwards and Terry Williams may at of God U.K. elder John Jewell fires the traditional beliefs and practices yourself. shipping is justified. ¶ Brian Knowles’ last be over. David and Barbara Fenney. such as Sabbath and feast observance No. 93, Oct. 2004—The WCG will resigns as a columnist for THE JOURNAL. No. 124, Jan. 2008—UCGIA members No. 64, May 2002—Ken Westby’s first “can Christ’s peace prevail in the move its headquarters from Pasadena, No. 110, May 2006—Dueling newspa- move into their new building in Big of 13 One God conferences takes church,” Mr. Tkach says. Calif., to Glendora. per advertisements discuss the sev- Sandy. That makes two sizable Church place in Seattle. No. 79, Aug. 2003—Nancy Vandemark No. 94, Nov. 2004—Herman Hoeh enth-day Sabbath. When a of God buildings in town, the first No. 65, June 2002—The WCG sells and Scarlett Stough publish a maga- dies. ¶ THE JOURNAL’s distributor in Gladewater, Texas, church pastor runs housing the Church of God Big Sandy the Orr, Minn., property that had been zine titled Women in Christ for New Zealand, Bruce Porteous, is an ad in a local newspaper criticizing and the second the Big Sandy congre- used for the Summer Educational Church of God women. ¶ The UCGIA issued an ultimatum by his pastor, Sabbath observance, the Church of gation of the UCG (UCGIA) based in Program. ¶ Dan Cafourek is disfellow- enforces policy of no applause after Kinnear Penman, to either stop dis- God Big Sandy decides to respond Ohio. shipped by the UCGIA. His violation: special music at Tabernacles services tributing THE JOURNAL or stop attend- with an ad of its own defending No. 125, Feb. 2008—In rare and He mentioned in a private conversa- except for music made by children. ing Sabbath services. Mr. Porteous has Sabbath observance. repeated use of the words vote and tion with a deacon an opinion about No. 80, Sept. 2003—Garner Ted distributed this newspaper since its No. 111, June 2006—The king of voting, UCGIA council members the feast-day calendar the church Armstrong dies. This issue has several beginning in February 1997. Mr. Thailand invites Church of God mem- conferring in San Antonio, Texas, judged to be heresy. ¶ Legacy School tributes to GTA. ¶ John Warren’s his- Porteous decides to continue distrib- bers to the celebration of his 60th condemn the practice of “bloc opens in Chiang Mai, Thailand. tory of the Big Dig and Big Diggers in uting THE JOURNAL. anniversary as monarch. voting” among UCGIA ministers. No. 66, July 2002—WCG attorney and Jerusalem. No. 95, Dec. 2004—The tsunami that No. 112, July 2006—The WCG settles The UCGIA hardly ever says vote evangelist Stanley Rader dies. ¶ The No. 81, Oct. 2003—A four-part series hit on Dec. 26 spares most Church of into its new headquarters in and voting. It customarily says ballot ICG and Garner Ted Armstrong dedi- about David Jon Hill starts that never God members, but there may have Glendora, Calif. and balloting apparently because of cate a new headquarters building in is completed because he dies after been casualties among the WCG No. 113, Aug. 2006—The AC Big the old WCG’s teachings against Flint, south of Tyler, Texas. the first two parts. Mr. Hill’s son finds membership. Several WCG members Sandy class of 1976 has its 30-year voting in worldly political elections No. 67, Aug. 2002—The UCG in the second part on his dad’s comput- are missing in Sri Lanka. ¶ THE JOURNAL reunion in Winter Park, Colo. and referendums. ¶ Organizers of a Britain reverses disfellowshipment of er and sends it to THE JOURNAL. publishes several tributes to Dr. Hoeh. No. 114, Sept. 2006—An evangelist symposium sponsored by Art Barbara Fenney and reinstates the No. 82, Nov. 2003—Death of Buck No. 96, Jan. 2005—The CGBS spon- leaves one Church of God, then Mokarow and Al Carrozzo shoot for ministerial status of her husband, Hammer and death of David Jon Hill. sors its annual Family Fellowship “marks” a member of another Church “something new” at a major confer- David. ¶ Part 1 of John Warren’s his- No. 83, Dec. 2003—The Westbys and Weekend in Big Sandy. ¶ Wayne Cole of God. Sydney Hull of Johannesburg, ence in a hotel in Dallas. tory article concerning the Feast sites Cartwrights go to Israel. ¶ The second announces his retirement, gives South Africa, marks Bob Thiel of No. 126, March 2008—The UCGIA in Oregon and East Texas. Elders went installment of David Jon Hill’s series. advice. Arroyo Grand, Calif. Mr. Hull has council censures elder Aaron Dean for to jail in Texas after a close encounter No. 84, Jan. 2004—The ICG splits. No. 97, Feb. 2005—Guy Swenson recently left the Living Church of God delivering a sermon and answering with grumpy lawman. Exiters included Tom Kerry, Phil announces a new publication called and joined the Restored Church of questions at a Church of God group No. 68, Sept. 2002—Gerald Flurry Dunagan, Earl Timmons and George Faith Networks. Jim O’Brien is editor. God. Before marking Dr. Thiel Mr. Hull in Huntsville, Texas. makes the charge that THE JOURNAL Trent. ¶ Kurdish freedom fighters kid- The Cincinnati congregation, pastored said Mr. Thiel’s error is having his own No. 127, April 2008—Joel Meeker never prints the word “Satan.” Or at nap member Marvin Wilson. by Jeff Osborne, handles printing and website dedicated to Church of God takes to task the UCGIA’s general least when he looked for it in this No. 85, Feb. 2004—Marvin and mailing. ¶ Late-breaking news about matters. ¶ Greg Doudna revises his conference for reelecting Aaron Dean newspaper he could not find it. Renetta Wilson plan to lead a Bible- the massacre in a Milwaukee suburb book Showdown at Big Sandy: as a council member and for reversing No. 69, Oct. 2002—Bill Stough writes related tour of Greece and Turkey that in a congregation of the Living Youthful Creativity Confronts a decision to move the church’s home that the WCG decides to republish may include a visit to what some peo- Church of God. ¶ The UCGIA chooses Bureaucratic Inertia at an office from Ohio to Texas. Mr. Meeker disputed literature because of “histor- ple believe is the resting place of not to affirm (that is, the council Unconventional Bible College in East says the general conference has dis- ical value” but some suspect it is real- Noah’s ark. They founded and operate chooses to remove) Roy Holladay as Texas. The first edition came out in graced itself for affirming the legiti- ly to make it difficult for the the Biblical Archaeology Foundation. church president. 1989, the new one in 2006. The book macy of Mr. Dean’s standing in the Philadelphia Church of God to publish ¶ Bill Stough interviews David Antion No. 98, March 2005—Extensive cov- is an affectionate, critical look at the church and “I for one am ashamed to and distribute articles and booklets by about his WCG history including the erage of the murder of several Living AC of the 1970s. be part of this general conference of Herbert Armstrong. dark days of 1979. Church of God members in a Sabbath No. 115, Oct. 2006—A Louisiana con- elders.” Mr. Meeker later apologizes No. 70, Nov. 2002—John Warren No. 86, March 2004—Ian Boyne service in Brookfield, Wis. gregation, the Church of God for his remarks. writes a historical article about AC’s announces that rebuttals are needed No. 99, April 2005—CGI pastor Ian Ministries International, launches a No. 128, May 2008—Servants’ News, return to East Texas. to the “one-God” theology some min- Boyne in Jamaica expands his nation- program for preaching: a series of published by Norman Edwards, enters No. 71, Dec. 2002—The UCG istries are presenting. al Religious Hardtalk radio program to videos on DVD featuring Bible studies See THE JOURNAL, page 39 Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) THE JOURNAL 39 The Journal lists highlights from 202 issues

Continued from page 38 No. 141, Aug. 2010—Longtime Dennis Mouland decries inappropriate Armstrongism blogs on the Internet. No. 182, March 2016—THE JOURNAL its 12th year of publication. Church of God elder Bill Glover chal- beliefs about race and genocide he No. 166, Sept.-Oct. 2014—Shirley investigates Bobby’s Fischer’s claim No. 129, June 2008—Ken Westby’s lenges Church of God leaders to meet says he perceives in the Churches of Hammer Armstrong, widow of that he was tortured in the Pasadena one-God seminar plays host in Seattle him on Mount Carmel, in a manner God. Garner Ted, dies. ¶ THE JOURNAL runs jailhouse. ¶ Church of God Ministries to a Trinity-Unity debate: Unitarian of speaking. No. 154, Aug. 2013—Would-be an update of the history of the International near New Orleans con- Sean Finnegan vs. Trinitarian Brant No. 142, Sept.-Oct. 2010—The church reformer Ken Westby recalls structs a multifaceted streaming and Bosserman. Hammer Family. broadcasting studio. UCGIA eliminates its regional-pastor his efforts to revise seven WCG doc- No. 167, Nov. 2014—Dwight No. 130, July 2008—Raymond McNair hierarchy. trines. Mr. Westby’s 1974 efforts got No. 183, April 2016—A new women’s Armstrong’s daughter, Deborah, dies. ¶ Author David V. Barrett No. 143, Nov. 2010–Jan. 2011—A him marked, disfellowshipped and conference is sponsored by CEM and releases her father’s unpublished requests help with his study of the recent split from the UCGIA, the new cast into outer darkness. ¶ Darlene the CGI. WCG offshoots for his Ph.D. disserta- Church of God a Worldwide Warren, editor of the Connections hymns into the public domain. ¶ The No. 184, May 2016—A Supreme Court decision springing conscientious tion, which will be published by Association (CGWA, or Cogwa), tells section of THE JOURNAL and a longtime Oklahoma-based Philadelphia Church objector Muhammad Ali from prison Oxford University Press. a reporter from THE JOURNAL he is not JOURNAL columnist, resigns from the of God acquires the Wootton Wawen in 1971 prompted the release of No. 131, Aug. 2008—The Big Sandy welcome to attend its organizational staff. The staff is sorry to see her go. estate to serve as its new British congregation of the UCGIA votes to headquarters. Church of God member Steve conference. A website alleges and Jim No. 155, Sept.-Oct. 2013—About Andrews (now pastor of the Tulsa transfer ownership of its new building No. 168, Dec. 2014—The Bible Franks denies that new church 160 members and former members of Church of God) on a similar charge. ¶ in Big Sandy to the congregation’s (Cogwa) was preplanned. the Big Sandy WCG congregation Sabbath Association publishes its parent organization, the United Longtime JOURNAL contributing writer Mac Overton dies. Church of God an International No. 185, June 2016—UCGIA elders Association, based near Cincinnati, vote down measure that would have Ohio. JOURNAL publisher Dixon he listing of JOURNAL articles on number(s) or issue date(s) and send a check made it easier to make important Cartwright, in attendance at the con- doctrinal changes. HE OURNAL gregational meeting, advised the par- these three pages is not compre- or money order to T J , P.O. Box No. 186, July 2016—Wayne Cole ticipants that splits are inevitable and hensive. It highlights one or two or 1020, Big Sandy, Texas 75755, U.S.A. Be- recalls a memorable Tucson, Ariz., when the next split happens they will T meeting with Mr. Armstrong. wish they had not deeded over their three articles in each of the 202 issues THE cause of expensive postage to other coun- No. 187, Aug. 2016—A museum in building to the church’s headquarters. JOURNAL has published in the last 21 years tries, copies sent outside the United States East Texas displays a replica of the No. 132, Sept.-Dec. 2008—Samuele Ezekiel airship. Bacchiocchi, prominent advocate for that we think might pique your interest. are $6 each in U.S. funds. Be sure to let us No. 188, Sept. 2016—Living Sabbath observance, dies. ¶ Former We have a limited number of back issues know your name and the address to send University in Charlotte, N.C., cele- CG7 Denver president Robert Coulter brates its 10th-anniversary year. gives his understanding of the history available. The price is $3 for each issue, in- the issue(s). They are available for a limited No. 189, Oct.-Nov. 2016—Church of of the Churches of God and Herbert cluding postage. Just let us know the issue time on a first-come first-served basis. God member Leon Sexton remembers Armstrong. his friend the king of Thailand after No. 133, Jan.-March 2009—CEM the king’s demise. begins Sabbath services in its head- No. 190, Dec. 2016—Would-be quarters building in Texas. Speaker is No. 144, Feb.-May 2011—UCGIA meet on the former Texas campus for annual director of Sabbath-observing church reformer Ken Westby dies. ¶ Popular blogger and church critic John Reedy. ¶ Former Plain Truth leaders at conference in Cincinnati a 60th-anniversary reunion. groups. Gavin Rumney dies. managing editor Sheila Graham wants discuss the causes of its recent split, No. 156, Nov. 2013—American con- No. 169, Jan. 2015—The UCGIA to talk to women in and out of the changes the name of its flagship No. 191, Jan. 2017—THE JOURNAL which prompted the founding of the gregations and churches are not reprints David Antion’s memories of WCG for a book she’s writing that magazine, The Good News, to Beyond CGWA, also known as Cogwa. legally required to organize as non- the so-called 1974 rebellion in the will tell her story of life in the church No. 145, June-Sept. 2011—Cogwa profit corporations. They can accept Today. as well as stories of other female Worldwide Church of God. ¶ Richard announces Jim Franks as its first presi- tax-deductible donations from U.S. cit- No. 170, Feb. 2015—Floyd Griffiths reviews Hacksaw Ridge, a church members. dent. ¶ JOURNAL publisher Dixon izens even if they’re not registered Kielczewski publishes a book, movie about a Sabbatarian pacifist No. 134, April 2009—The WCG has a Cartwright recovers from “widow- with the IRS as 503(c)3 nonprofits. Wilderness Son, about the old WCG’s who won the Medal of Honor in new name so people will not confuse maker” heart attack. ¶ THE JOURNAL No. 157, Dec. 2013—David Hulme September Educational Program sum- World War II. it with Armstrongism: Grace reprints an article from In Transition disfellowships his chief financial offi- mer camp in Minnesota. No. 192, Feb. 2017—Reprint of article Communion International. ¶ The by John Robinson of his recollections cer, Steve Andrews. No. 171, March 2015—Church histo- in which Jeff Booth recalls the time Philadelphia Church of God buys the of the Radio/Worldwide Church No. 158, Jan. 2014—Leroy Neff dies. ry: The events of 1994-95 church Mr. Armstrong fired him seven times sculpture Swans in Flight from the of God. No. 159, Feb. 2014—Ray Wooten, upheaval traumatized Big Sandy during a meeting. current owners of the AC Big Sandy No. 146, Oct.-Dec. 2011—Two hun- United Christian Ministries founder brethren. No. 193, March 2017—AC alumni campus. dred eleven former students, employ- and a principal founder of the United No. 172, April 2015—Church history: meet for a big reunion of the three No. 135, May 2009—Female Church ees and guests attend a reunion of of God an International Association, Did the WCG leaders have a doctrinal campuses in Las Vegas. of God pastor Dianne McDonnell of Ambassador College students and dies. agenda? This is an updated reprint of No. 194, April 2017—Ambassador Arlington, Texas, battles GCI’s “new other personnel near Dallas. ¶ JOURNAL No. 160, March 2014—Lawrence an article from the late 1990s in In Report staffers reunite in Las Vegas a truth.” publisher writes his opinion (in an Gregory, pastor of the Tulsa Church of Transition by Mac Overton, John day after the big reunion of AC alum- No. 136, June-Sept. 2009—The gov- editorial, “The Elephant in the God, retires and Steve Andrews takes Robinson and Linda Moll Smith. ni in the same city. ernment of Jamaica will honor CGI Room”) of the Bible canon. his place. This Steve Andrews is not to No. 173, May 2015—WCG leaders No. 195, May 2017—Rod Meredith pastor Ian Boyne for his achievements No. 147, Jan. 2012—Cogwa sets up be confused with the Steve Andrews Joseph Tkach Jr. and Greg Albrecht air dies. ¶ Evangelical Christians back as a journalist. ¶ Phil Arnold reveals its headquarters near Dallas. ¶ who was recently disfellowshipped by their doctrinal views on Hank away from Hank Hanegraaffe because of his conversion to Eastern the plain truth about Herbert W. JOURNAL readers weigh in on the dis- David Hulme. ¶ THE JOURNAL interviews Hanegraaff’s radio program The Bible Orthodoxy. Armstrong’s middle initial. What’s the cussion of the Bible canon that start- Don Billingsley. Answer Man. The article is reprinted No. 196, June 2017—Crockett Grabbe W stand for? ed in issue No. 146. No. 161, April 2014—Phil Arnold from In Transition in 1996. writes of his early life in the old RCG No. 137, Oct.-Nov. 2009—Church of No. 148, Feb. 2012—UCGIA member writes about his experiences in No. 174, June 2015—Charles Groce, and WCG. God member Scott Sherrod jumps into Tina Engelbart says the Bible doesn’t attempting to talk David Koresh into chief execute officer of the CGI, No. 197, July 2017—THE JOURNAL Lake Superior to rescue a drowning prohibit women elders, including ending his standoff with the FBI and retires. Succeeding him is Vance updates a history of JOURNAL cartoon- man, receives federal bravery award. Stinson. preachers. She expresses her views to ATF in 1993. The FBI unwisely ignored ist Earl Cayton. ¶ AC/AU donor Bo No. 138, Dec. 2009–Feb. 2010—THE the UCGIA hierarchy. Dr. Arnold’s advice, leading directly to No. 175, July 2015—The Hall of Pilgrim dies. JOURNAL prints a never-before-pub- No. 149, March-May 2012—Mike the deaths of more than 80 Administration on the former AC and No. 198, Aug. 2017—Allie Dart dies. ¶ lished interview with Brian Knowles Wallace dies. Mr. Wallace, of 60 Sabbatarian Christians, including chil- WCG HQ campus in Pasadena is Joseph Tkach Jr., GCI president, by Bill Stough and Dixon Cartwright. Minutes fame, cited WCG evangelist dren. scheduled for controlled demolition. announces plans to retire on Jan. 21, The interview took place in 1998. It Stanley Rader in 1979 as one of his No. 162, May 2014—Fred Coulter No. 176, Aug. 2015—A JOURNAL guest 2019. ¶ CEM and the Ronald L. Dart includes Mrs. Knowles’s opinions of most notable interviews. denounces THE JOURNAL. He is pictured editorial prompts a divorce-and- Evangelistic Association to carry on the “pod” (his name for the WCG No. 150, June-July 2012—THE JOURNAL specifically criticizing JOURNAL publish- remarriage and law-and-grace discus- the Darts’ ministry splits) and the history of the WCG and interviews WND news editor Joe er, Dixon Cartwright, while holding up sion with the editorialist, Patt No. 199, Sept.-Oct. 2017—Larry its splits. Kovacs about what he says is the a copy of THE JOURNAL and pointing at McCarty. Watkins is named general manager of No. 139, March-June 2010—The main point of the Bible and the it. He suggests a new name for The No. 177, Sept.-Oct. 2015—A church- Christian Educational Ministries Great Debate. The debaters are Art Obama birth-certificate controversy. Journal: Heresies to Deceive Those history article on the founding of (CEM). ¶ THE JOURNAL announces that Mokarow and Dennis Diehl, with Ron No. 151, Sept.-October 2012—The Who Are Trying to Be Faithful. CEM. ¶ A Feast sermon by Daniel in January 2018, after a run of 21 Moseley assisting Mr. Mokarow. The U.S. Supreme Court “dockets” a COG No. 163, June 2014—A reunion of Botha, “A Refugee Problem,” prompts years, it will come to an end. topic of the discussion: whether the member’s challenge of the IRS and students from Ambassador College, criticism and praise. No. 200, Nov. 2017—LCG president evangelist Gerald Weston announces Bible is the inspired Word of God. the income tax. At the last minute the Bricket Wood, England, takes places in No. 178, Nov. 2015—THE JOURNAL there will be no regional accreditation Messrs. Mokarow and Moseley court decides not to hear the case. Watford, England. interviews a Church of God member for Living University. ¶ The godly hier- defend the inspiration of the Bible; No. 152, Nov. 2012—March 2013— No. 164, July 2014—THE JOURNAL pub- who is an official of Homeland archy is explained in a letter to a Mr. Diehl defends his unorthodox view David V. Barrett’s book, published by lishes a brief history of Church of God Security. church member in 1979 by Herbert of the Bible. ¶ Dorothy Armstrong Oxford University Press, documents 7th Day patriarch and matriarch John No. 179, Dec. 2015—Some brethren Armstrong. Mattson dies. She was the last living “fragmentation” of the Worldwide and Katherine Kiesz, who were friends organize as the United Christian No. 201, Dec. 2017—Ian Boyne dies. offspring of Herbert and Loma Church of God. ¶ Some say the old of Herbert Armstrong in the old days. Church of God in effort to carry on ¶ THE JOURNAL updates and reprints a Armstrong. AC campus in Big Sandy is haunted. No. 165, Aug. 2014—Dennis Mouland the ministry of recently deceased Ray report on the Jerusalem dig of the No. 140, July 2010—The crisis in the THE JOURNAL checks with an official of says he is unhappy with God for let- Wooten. late 1960s and 1970s by John UCGIA is the latest in a long line of ups ALERT, the current occupant of the ting friends suffer and die. ¶ THE No. 180, Jan. 2016—Ron Dart dies. Warren. and downs since the church’s founding campus, who verifies that’s what its JOURNAL publishes a cartoon by Earl No. 181, Feb. 2016—Article by Noel No. 202, Jan. 2018—That’s all, folks. in 1995. ¶ John Sash writes “We’ve students are saying. Cayton depicting Barack Obama that Rude asks if the virgin birth can be Turn out the lights. The party’s over. Misunderstood the Bible on Sex.” No. 153, July 2013—Arizona preacher prompts criticism from anti- the mother of all heresy. And thanks for the memories. 40 THE JOURNAL Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Notes and quotes The Journal’s grandchild arrived in ’09 Church-news site moving Murrey, Mr. Ruth, Eric Snow, Les By Dave Havir lived in Kellyville, Okla., until his Cater of the Potawatomis Turvey, Margaret Vidal IG SANDY, Texas—THE JOUR- death in 1996. The Church of God news site at and Clay Willis. Cater, through a lineage that in- 7th-day.info is moving because NAL’s first official grandchild, a The second Dixon is publisher of cludes his great-grandmother Martha Microsoft will no longer provide the The Edwardses on the move boy, arrived in the Texas capi- THE JOURNAL. hosting of websites. B Clement, grandmother Pam Kurr and tal, Austin, on June 17, 2009, weigh- Dixon No. 3, or Trey, is Cater’s 29- The new news address is 7thday- PORT AUSTIN, Mich.—Norman mother, Brandi Cartwright, is a citizen web.wordpress.com. and Marleen Edwards will move from ing 7 pounds 3 ounces. year-old father. the Port Austin Bible Campus in Cater has or had four great-grand- of the Potawatomi tribe of American G.G. Rupert and a search for Michigan to Nashville, Tenn. Family history Indians. pre-1970 bulletins Jeff and Judy Kramer and their parents: Dixon “Cater” Cartwright IV is Helen Cartwright, widow of Specifically, he is an enrolled mem- SYDNEY, Australia—Church of five children arrived at the campus in God historian Craig White is looking 2017 and will take over the running the son of Trey and Brandi Cart- Dixon Sr., lived in White Oak, Texas. ber of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, of the PABC. based in Shawnee, Okla. More than for pre-1970 WCG ministerial bul- The Edwardses, who had wright of Austin. He is the grandson Ruth Isom, widow of Louis, letins and other publications. For of Dixon and Linda Cartwright of lived in Clinton, Ark. 10,000 Potawatomis live in Oklahoma. more information write Mr. White at reached retirement age, have set surfer11@iprimus. com.au. up a Facebook page for their new Big Sandy and Ray and Pam Kurr of Harold and Martha Clement live What kind of name is Cater? Not only that, Mr. White ministry, Do His Works. Mounds, Okla. Cater is also Mr. and in Mounds, Okla. announces he has a history of HWA Impossible dreams Mrs. Kurr’s first grandchild. Cater’s aunts and uncles are Rob Dixon IV’s nickname, Cater, is an antecedent Greenberry Rupert avail- Cater is the fourth Dixon Cart- and Jamie Payne, Tyler, Texas; Brid- old word—an English word that still able on his website. For the fascinat- ARCADIA, Calif.—Sarah Sneider ing story go to tinyurl.com/rupertlink. announces an “inspiring” docu- wright. Once upon a time there was get Kurr and Brittney Kurr, Tulsa, appears in some dictionaries—that mentary film called Impossible his great-grandfather, Dixon Sr., who Okla.; and Raymond Kurr, Mounds. means “four.” Possible new publication Dreamers that features her and her KANNAPOLIS, N.C.—Keith late husband, Harry Sneider, avail- Slough is thinking about a new able at Netflix and Amazon. publication to help Church of Mrs. Sneider first heard Herbert God brethren stay in contact with Armstrong when she was a young each other. teenager over Mexican superpower “Our publication will be totally station XEG, across the Rio Grande new and not a continuation of from Del Rio, Texas. THE JOURNAL,” he said. Will the circle be completed? For information E-mail cfmcog @aol.com or call (704) 938-6415. POWDERLY, Texas—Calendar “Article submissions will be wel- researcher Michael Turner has comed,” Mr. Slough said. a new post, “Calendar Circle Completed,” on his blog at http://the- Ambassador Christian College calendarwar.blogspot.com. Write him 1 2 3 4 at thedailywarrior@ CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Keith Slough gmail.com or 2111 CR 45080, is making information available about Powderly, Texas 75473. Mr. Turner his Ambassador Christian College, and Lawrence Maayeh were orga- near Charlotte. nizers of the big calendar conference ACC is in its 15th year, he said in Dallas in 1997, reported in THE and a Bible (not liberal-arts) school. JOURNAL’s first two issues. “It is approved by the State of North Carolina to confer degrees all Understanding Revelation the way up to the doctoral level and is accredited as a theological ROCKWALL, Texas—Longtime institution,” he said. Church of God member and elder The school is looking for “new Daniel Botha, originally of South leadership” to help out with the Africa, has a new book out. It is curriculum, he said. Understanding the Book of For more information write Revelation, and it’s 500 pages. 5 6 7 [email protected] or call (704) It’s available for $49.95 from 938-6415, or visit the website Rockwall Publishing, P.O. Box 2288, ambassadorchristiancollege.us. Rockwall, Texas 75087. Mr. Botha CATER AND COMPANY—Here are pic- and aunt Bridget Kurr. Photo 7: Cater with has two other books as well, about tures of Cater Cartwright and members of aunt and uncle Jamie and Rob Payne. Early doctrinal strife the Second Coming. his family. Photo 1: Cater with his mom and Photo 8: Cater as part of four generations dad, Brandi and Trey. Photo 2: Cater with of Cartwrights. He’s looking at the camera HOUSTON, Texas—Bob Wood- Big Sandy and Dead Sea Scrolls burn’s new book, Theology Outside aunt Brittney Kurr. Photo 3: Cater with along with his father, Dixon “Trey” Cartwright the Box: Understanding the Logos, SEATTLE, Wash.—Speaking of great-grandfather Harold Clement. Photo 4: III; grandfather, Dixon Cartwright Jr.; and books, the 2006 edition of Greg Incarnation, and Preexistence in Cater relaxing. Photo 5: Cater with grand- great-grandmother, Helen Cartwright (Mrs. 8 Ways That Make Sense, “attempts to Doudna’s Showdown at Big Sandy parents Pam and Ray Kurr. Photo 6: Cater Dixon Cartwright Sr.). [Photos by Brandi and solve a theological puzzle,” Mr. Wood- can be found at lulu.com. Written in with great-grandmother Martha Clement Trey Cartwright] burn says. Here’s his summary: 1989, it’s subtitle is Youthful “Despite disputes over issues like Creativity Confronts Bureaucratic circumcision, and Christological con- Inertia at an Unconventional Bible 11 flicts in later centuries, there is little College in East Texas. New Testament evidence of early Mr. Doudna has another book strife over Jesus’ divinity and eternal available as well, 4Q Pesher Nahum: preexistence. A Critical Edition, which is an 836- “Is that because Jesus’ followers page tome on one of the Dead Sea once understood those concepts in Scroll texts. See links for both books simple, intuitive ways in tune with at amazon.com for information. their Hebrew monotheism, that they Life in prison for murder could embrace without question? If so, those ways have been lost. MILFORD, Ohio—The United “Can they be rediscovered? They Church of God an International 9 10 12 can, this study suggests, proposing Association announced that the mur- simpler, clearer biblical views of the der trial of a former UCG minister has logos, incarnation and preexistence. led to a verdict of guilty in the first CATER AND MORE—Here are more pictures of Cater Cartwright mother Linda Cartwright explaining a giraffe to a skeptical Cater. Unlike ‘unfathomable’ traditional degree. He was sentenced on Feb. 2, and members of his extended family. Photo 9: Cater being cute. Photo 12: Grandfather Dixon Cartwright walking Cater. [Photos by views, these do comply with Hebrew 2018, to life in prison without parole. Photo 10: Uncle Raymond Kurr holding Cater. Photo 11: Grand- Brandi Cartwright and Bernie Monsalvo] monotheism—and do make sense.” The trial determined that Stephen For more information including on Allwine murdered his wife, Amy Zutz availability, write rewoodburn@ Allwine, who was found dead of a The above photo spread announced in 2009 the birth of that year. The above article, photos and cutlines document ymail.com or 9822 Cedardale Dr., gunshot wound in the Allwines’ resi- Dixon “Cater” Cartwright IV. (“Cater” means four.) Cater Cater’s first few weeks and his close relatives including his Houston, Texas 77055, U.S.A. dence in Minnesota on Nov. 13, 2016. made his first appearance in Austin, Texas, on June 17 of parents, Trey and Brandi Cartwright of Nacogdoches, Texas. The presiding judge told Mr. Team of Christian volunteers Alwine, who had reported his wife’s FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.—Alan death as a suicide, that he was Ruth announces that his Barnabas “incredibly cold and incredibly Ministries, via BibleStudy. org, calculating.” handled 1,732 E-mails that asked a The master key wide range of questions in 2017. Dave questions He terrified some of us into conversion This is the greatest number of MONTREAL, Que., Canada— E-mails received by the site since Yves Péloquin has an article avail- the Cartwrights Continued from page 5 to anything else, you’d be Were- 2003, when Barnabas began. able for distribution speculating on make a stunning black-lace nightgown Wolvertons.” Mr. Ruth is assisted by a the date of the establishment of the dedicated team of Christian volun- Kingdom of God. Continued from page 36 for some very thin bride.” His contributions were many and teers he calls the E-mail evangelists. See Mr. Péloquin’s article and positions. For example, the calendar. Basil Wolverton was one of the major. In the world to come I hope he They include Rick and Eileen Beltz, extensive other information at great characters in the history of the and we can continue our dialogue as Charlotte Grantham, Al and Debra ezekielmasterkey.com. The feast calendar can be such a Worldwide Church of God. His “Story he completes The Story of Man. At contentious issue, yet in my opin- of Man” made an in- that time he’ll un- ion we’re in danger of being more delible impression on a doubtedly have a better concerned about calendars and generation of children, picture of what Eve crescent sightings and new moons including my three looked like. than God is. sons. His drawings in Since many of Basil’s Prsrt Std So I think a worthy idea to booklets like 1975 in letters included a P.S., TheJournal US Postage transmit, overtly or subtly, is, one, Prophecy and others I’ll tack one of them on News of the Churches of God Paid our differences don’t have to be terrified some of us in- to this article: P. O. Box 1020, Big Sandy, Texas 75755 Permit No. 88 that big a deal and, two, we could to conversion. His hu- “P.S.: If you run 75602 morous illustrations in across Monte (except be wrong and the other guy could Mad magazine (and Miss Lena Hyena trafficwise), please re- be right. other publications in- mind him that I’m wait- Dave: If we were to erect a cluding Playboy) provided laughter ing for his part of the alimony payment tombstone for THE JOURNAL, what for tens of thousands continuing to this to my third wife, even though my first would you want it to say? day. He was a lovable, larger-than-life one was his mother. The third one Linda: I would just say hyphen former vaudevillian who was never helped him get through Ambassador 30 hyphen. Thirty is an old newspa- without a quip, cartoon or word of en- College from her earnings at the perman’s term for end of story. couragement. shrimp cannery.” From 1973: “Unless my steam-driv- Basil really had only one wife, the Dixon: Interesting idea: a tomb- en typewriter runs out of Prestologs, former Honor Bonita Lovette, Monte’s stone for a newspaper. We do have chapter two will be mailed shortly.” mother, a terrific lady in her own right a file cabinet of back issues we call In 1974 I wrote to Basil, “If you and and a great partner for the irrepressible a morgue, so I guess that fits. Monte were to change your last names Basil Wolverton. Issue No. 202 (Jan. 31, 2018) Please rush!