":::This one is hard to figure out the nature of. What we do know is that he did have some enemies  within the Church whom he put out, and that he worked long past retirement (into his mid-nineties), traveling repeatedly to speak in foreign countries with political and common business leaders who had nothing to offer him except a chance to fulfill two scriptures he felt his office was commanded to fulfill (Rev 10:10-11, Matt 24:14, ""preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom around the world before many peoples and Kings."") With that in mind, it becomes more plain that such a charge by his critics is not worthy of our limited space or an encyclopedia in general because it is woefully out of context at best, and silly at worst. In other words, of course he wanted to get access to those leaders! So the question is his motives and the world leaders, etc. (Also note that most were not subject to needing money for campaign contributions because they were not democratically elected or were merely business leaders who he was asked to lecture on the laws of success to (Japan, etc). They may have liked the charity functions, and thought it had legitimacyhe fought illiteracy and such.

  Jebbrady
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