Herbert W Armstrong

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - The more I travel around the earth, the more I see the sickening conditions in the world today, and the more I glean from history, the more convinced I become that the real root cause of all of humanity's troubles and evils may be summed up in six words: "T ...

GREETINGS from the Headquarters office in Pasadena. Mrs. Armstrong and I returned from England nearly three weeks ago, and this letter was due then—but I have been literally snowed under, even in the very warm Southern California September weather. But there is BIG NEWS! Since returning, I have had ...

HAVING taken Saul's spear and canteen while the Israelite king was sleeping with his encamped army, David stood on the top of a hill and loudly lampooned Saul's chief officer for not watching over his leader. (I Samuel 26:5-16.) When it was discovered that Saul's spear and canteen were missing ...

The signs of disintegration are everywhere. Something dreadfully WRONG is happening to our peoples. We're rapidly losing character - losing our ability to blush, our sense of shame. Perhaps most sickening of all, we're learning not to care. Our society is sick. We are no longer a "great" society ...

My wife, sons and I have just returned from a wonderful trip to Australia and New Zealand, combining the visit to four Feast sites with acquiring first-hand knowledge of that part of the world for future Plain Truth and Good News articles. We greatly enjoyed meeting the brethren in both countrie ...

Here's an article written for the first issue of The Plain Truth, seven years before the magazine was finally born in the depths of the Great Depression. Now, in 1982, we think our vast audience of new readers would find this article highly informative. Longtime readers of The Plain Truth will rem ...

We recently received this letter from one of our readers in England: Could I make a suggestion prompted by my own personal experience? When I came into the unique knowledge of the Worldwide Church of God, I wondered how different in other respects this organization might be. We are suspicious of the ...

Almost none knows the TRUTH about how today's system of higher education developed- its RECENT DRIFT and why the system is even now becoming obsolete. Students all over the world make final decisions about COLLEGE every year THAT WILL VITALLY AFFECT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! The WRONG decision may mean ...

This is an emergency letter. I am having to RUSH it AIR-MAIL!! Here we are, in the very midst of the most furious Christmas shopping spree of all time. Many of our Co-Workers are spending lavishly, buying presents — (as they suppose) — for CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY! But are they giving their birthday pres ...

Along with the Festival season come many opportunities to meet new friends and to renew old acquaintances. In this article you will not only learn how to strengthen these friendships, but how to build and develop all your relationships with others. "You always hurt the one you love." So goes th ...

GREETINGS! Here we are again, racing the test of the Christmas shopping season. Just as our revitalized Television program is beginning to take hold on the public — just as we enter the stiffest crisis of this financial tight squeeze, we come to the season when people FORGET their gifts for Christ a ...

"Beware of 1985!" warns Boardroom Reports magazine. Why? More and more the world economy demands careful attention. High interest rates, crushing Third World debt, high unemployment levels, slumping core industries such as automotive and steel, a U.S. debt topping $1,000 billion, the chron ...

Conferences are being held to assess the role of the U.N. in its first 40 years. ON OCTOBER 24, political leaders from around the world will assemble at the United Nations headquarters in New York to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the official beginning of the world body. The celebration is par ...

CONQUEST OF BETHEL AND AI, God's promise ro Joshua to help in a second attempt to conquer the Canaanite city of Ai swiftly brought Israel's leader out of his State of discouragement. Joshua immediately chose thirty thousand soldiers for the strategy he had in mind. Well-Planned Strategy. "I ...

PROMISED LAND OCCUPIED, THE end came for Jabin, king of Hazor, only minutes after he ordered the gates closed. The thousands upon thousands of Israelites swarmed up to the walls with their triple-hook ropes, hurled the heavy hooks over the walls and surged up and into the city in such numbers and fo ...