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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
July 31, 1967
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
This letter should have been written yesterday. Things are
happening so fast these days, and I have so many things on my mind,
that I completely over-looked the fact this letter was due.
And here it is, the 31st of July. For me it is a very
important day -- a day of mixed emotions. May I be real personal
in this letter? I had intended to write what I am about to say as
a Personal from the Editor column for The PLAIN TRUTH. But our
production manager just told me The PLAIN TRUTH is going to press
-- already late -- and they already have an editorial for this
number. So I'll say briefly a few of the things that were
uppermost on my mind in this letter.
Today is a day I had been looking forward to. It was to be
the 50th wedding anniversary of Mrs. Armstrong and me. But she is
no longer here to share it with me.
I could not help, this morning, thinking back fifty years
ago today. I was living in Chicago. I had been engaged to marry
a girl from Iowa. That very morning I disappointed her. I arrived
late at the railroad depot to meet her. And there she was, a girl
who had never before seen such a big city, alone in the metropolis
of Chicago!
But right there one thing happened which was one of the
REASONS why we shared fifty HAPPY years together, lacking
three-and-a-half months! We were really in love. And love is
UNSELFISH. Love is an OUTGOING CONCERN. This time it was I who
had been negligent. This time it was SHE who had the outgoing
concern. Of course there have been plenty of occasions when it was
my turn to be considerate.
Many young ladies would have ended the engagement then and
there. They would have become angry, resentful, unforgiving.
Because most young brides are in love, most assuredly -- but with
their own selves! Not with the man they are marrying. And most
young bridegrooms also are in love -- with their own precious
selves!
As soon as the other becomes inconsiderate, or does
something, or says something, that "steps on the other's toes," the