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Originally Posted by Ohio
I never heard this information about Brother Hope. We in Greater Ohio were informed by LSM publications that the real “Leader of the Rebellion in the Southeast” was Bill Mallon. Because of his subversive activities in cahoots with John Ingalls, he was rightly quarantined. Recently I was informed again of the "tactics" which Bill Mallon employed, such as returning to the "pure word" of God.
The official line on Hope which I was told was that he moved to NC and got "swallowed up by the world," thus leaving the door open for this "backslider" to repent and be restored.
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Brother Hope,
This post of mine above was never intended to correct or dispute anything you have written, rather it was posted to provide you with the kinds of misinformation which floated around the LC's in the aftermath of the first quarantine. If I heard it, then others did too. I heard it from the local elder. In those days we were encouraged to believe the worst about anyone who left.
Things have changed over time. Perhaps the coveted "leadership" role passed from Bill Mallon to you. Perhaps some in SoCal initially had the impression that he was the "leader" because he was a SE regional worker before you moved there. Perhaps you inherited the title after the Texas folks took over LSM. Perhaps ... perhaps ...
I do find it a little troubling that Cleveland would invite your church and specifically disinvite you in the invitation. To cite ongoing regional tensions and suspicions is somewhat absurd. If they were worried about that, there's a thousand other things they would never have done. Cleveland always prided itself as those in the Recovery free from politicking, but ... then again ... so did Anaheim.