Page 8 - Roderick Meredith

Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

1960s
1960: June 1960 PT announce his upcoming London campaign.
An announcement of him being en route to England may be seen
in p. 3 of the June 1960 Good News. LCG's booklet 'God's Church
through the Ages' mentions this in an attempt to bolster
Meredith's authority:
'The June 1960 Plain Truth magazine carried a special
announcement from Mr. Armstrong to the British readership,
announcing a series of campaigns in Britain by Mr. Meredith. Mr.
Armstrong wrote: "Mr. Meredith is fully consecrated, utterly
sincere.… He is going to tell you things you can’t hear from any
other source… you’ll be shocked, surprised—you’ll hear more
real truth in one night of these meetings than most people learn in
years of the preaching of our day!"'.
This quote is used to bolster his authority. If Meredith truly was
so great why is it that it was Garner Ted Armstrong who would
emerge as the main, and eventually sole, presenter of the World
Tomorrow? If Meredith has the right to lead why does he have to
resort to quoting obscure announcements of some evangelistic
campaign? He is simply trying to make it appear that HWA
greatly respected him to make himself appear legitimate to his
Armstrongite followers. This is also used to obscure and dilute
any negative information about Roderick C. Meredith the
potential recruit may come across.

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