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was just a few hundred dollars less. The two years just about
balanced out.
The BIG PROBLEM is, our regular income is all taken for the
regular routine daily administering of THE WORK. It leaves nothing
over for property and new building--for providing the PLACE in
which to do the Work. GOD'S WORK cannot continue to expand unless
we have a place for these people to work. Even if the buildings in
which our growing staff must DO the work should be bombed out of
existence at the time when our work is finished. THAT WORK OF GOD
CANNOT BE CARRIED ON AND FINISHED, U N L E S S the trained workers
who DO the work have room and facilities with which to do the work!
I say this, because some unthinking Co-Worker is bound to find
fault and say we are putting up buildings we may not be able to use
after nine, ten, or twelve short years from now.
The point is, the BIGGEST part of GOD'S GREAT WORK remains
yet to be done, dear Co-Workers. This is the MOST IMPORTANT thing
on earth today! Sure, I keep telling you, with emphasis, we may
have only another nine or ten years in which to do it. We are near
THE END of this world. TIME IS SHORT! Well then, shall we lay
down on the job, and FAIL to let Christ do GOD'S WORK through us,
because the few buildings we must have to do it in might be of no
further use to us after our work is done? We are not concerned,
now, with what happens to these buildings AFTER the finishing of
GOD'S WORK, which Christ started 1935 years ago and now is
finishing through us. WE ARE TO BE CONCERNED, above everything
else in our lives, WITH GETTING THIS STUPENDOUS JOB DONE, BEFORE IT
IS TOO LATE!
This is no longer a little one-man work. Soon it will
require a hundred trained men to open, read, and channel some 3,500
letters received every day seven days a week. I can't do all that
myself, nor can Garner Ted Armstrong. Soon it will require fifty,
and then later, a hundred called, consecrated and trained ministers
to give personal reply to thousands of people who write me about
personal problems, asking advice, or Bible questions. It takes a
lot of people to put names and addresses on 400,000 copies of The
Plain Truth every month, sort them according to towns and states
for the post-office, put them in mail bags and transport them to
the post-office. It takes bigger and bigger printing facilities
employing many men to print the tons and tons of literature we mail
out to hundreds of thousands of people. DO YOU REALIZE WE ARE NOW
REACHING SOME TWENTY-TWO MILLION PEOPLE, every week, with Christ's
dynamic Gospel Message, on every continent ALL AROUND THE WORLD?
All this takes HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. These people have to be
specially trained--so to train them WE HAVE TO HAVE OUR COLLEGES.
To have colleges, we have to have classrooms, dormitories, dining
halls, assembly halls. To open letters, read them, answer them, we
have to have ROOM and FACILITIES for these hundreds of trained
workers. To print and mail out literature we have to have new
buildings, machinery, equipment to work with and ROOMS to do it in!
These needs are a serious part of GOD'S WORK. You know,
when you stop to think about it, the great St. Peter's Basilica at
the Vatican in Rome, if built today, would cost billions of