Date Posted:15:05:35 04/07/05 Thu Author: PECAS Subject: Lee's speeches In reply to:
Chris
's message, "The UBF favorite hymn" on 05:43:13 04/07/05 Thu
>By the way, I have put “impromptu” in quotes because I
>don’t think Lee’s speaches at conferences were
>impromptu. He orchestrated every little detail of
>these conferences, so I assume that his speaches
>(which were considered the most important parts of the
>conferences by the hardcore members and himself) were
>mostly prefabricated as well. They just were not
>printed on the program, because Samuel Lee wanted to
>demonstrate that he was the (only) one who was
>standing above the pregiven program and did not have
>to follow it. But he certainly had already cleverly
>devised what and when to speak. I also noticed that he
>held the same „impromptu“ speaches at the European and
>Russian conference.
All of the UBF leaders outwardly praised Lee's lengthy, impromtu closing announcements at the 2001 ISU Summer Bible Conference. My chapter director said that Lee gave long impromtu announcements because Lee was 'full of spirit' and wanted to encourage the missionaries. I found his long announcements to be burdensome to sit through. After listening to a long message, Lee would talk for another thirty minutes. I barely could understand him and therefore, did not pay attention to what Lee was saying. I do not remember hearing Lee say "write a testimony or I will kill you!" because I was either sleeping or daydreaming of when the meeting would end.
