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Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

1930s
1930: born in Joplin, Missouri, according to Wikipedia's article
on Roderick C. Meredith, H. Carl Meredith and Mildred Kohane
Meredith (born 1902). He would later have two sisters, Kathryn
who is the wife of Richard Ames and Patty who never accepted
Armstrongism. The Merediths are Methodist.

1940s
In his teenage years he came to learn of Herbert W. Armstrong
through his uncle C. Paul Meredith. He gives this account of how
he became involved in Armstrongism in his 1962 booklet The
Inside Story of the World Tomorrow (my comments are [in
italics]):

'A little over fifteen years ago, I was highly impressed by
Mr. Armstrong's understanding of the Bible and of prophecy
in particular, but I wasn't by any means sure that this was the
very work of God. But I desperately wanted to know. I first
became interested in the Work and broadcast through the
encouragement of my uncle Dr. C. Paul Meredith--now
Director of The Ambassador College Correspondence
Course. He had already been listening to the broadcast for
many years--since about 1943. He had always been a
student, and he took careful notes on Mr. Armstrong's
prophetic sermons. As time went on, he compared these
notes to the events that were taking place--and to what other
preachers had said--and soon came to realize that Mr.

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