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Herbert W. Armstrong
Box 431
Tucson, Arizona 85702
February 24, 1979
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
HALLELUJAH!! God is still on His throne! He has given us victory
in a major battle--BUT THE WAR IS NOT YET OVER! It is a WAR to determine
WHO is LORD--Jesus Christ or Caesar.
The Superior Court in Los Angeles has now removed the Receiver,
but the lawsuit is not over. More about that later.
But first let me summarize what actually happened on January 3rd.
We are running a full page advertisement in the Los Angeles Times, the
Pasadena Star-News, the three newspapers in San Francisco, and, in such
other newspapers as the Sacramento Bee, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlanta
Constitution, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Kansas City Star, and
others. THIS ASSAULT BY GOVERNMENT AGAINST JESUS CHRIST, AND AGAINST
RELIGION GENERALLY, MUST BE MADE KNOWN TO THE NATION!
The headline of the ad, in big type across the newspaper page,
will be:
"ALL CHURCH PROPERTY IN CALIFORNIA
HAS BEEN CONFISCATED BY THE STATE"
The advertisement then will say to the nation:
This startling proclamation of the State of
California was made by Deputy Attorney General Lawrence
Tapper. In open court he was compelled to reveal, perhaps
prematurely, the confiscatory plot of his office. The
Deputy Attorney General was forced to do so in order to
sustain a little-expected retaliation by the Worldwide
Church of God in contesting the State's attempt to claim
ownership of all of its churches, administration
buildings, records and all contributions. The circumstances
giving rise to the confiscatory proclamation are as follows:
MORE THREATS
Shocked Church personnel were told Mr. Herbert W.
Armstrong, leader of the Church, and Stanley R. Rader,
Mr. Armstrong's personal advisor were fired and the Church
was in receivership. The State, they said, was now in
control of bhe Church, its finances, property and personnel.
Any resistance by any Church employee would be met with
immediate dismissal.
In this gestapo-type raid the deputies took possession
of innumberable cartons of Church documents, records
and confidential material, which have not been returned
or accounted for.