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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
December 13, 1963
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
I am having to send this urgent letter to you AIR MAIL.
Once again the stores are jammed--people are indulging in
almost frenzied SPENDING--the biggest Christmas shopping splurge of
history--people exchanging gifts back and forth between themselves!
They THINK they are preparing for Christ's BIRTHDAY--a
big birthday party for CHRIST! But are they giving their presents
to CHRIST?
NO, they are NEGLECTING Christ and HIS WORK--they are not
presenting their gifts to HIM--they are trading them among
themselves!
Isn't this custom a little strange?--that is, wouldn't it
seem strange, if you were not so accustomed to it that you just
take it for granted?
Jesus Christ is ALIVE! Christ is active--He is BUSY--He
is, right now, directing the MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY ON EARTH, the
WORK OF GOD. And this living Jesus has called YOU, and me, to be
Co-Workers with Him in this greatest Work on earth. This Work
needs the GIFTS of YOUR PRAYERS, and YOUR TITHES AND GENEROUS
OFFERINGS, as we come, now, into the very last years of this
present world's existence!
Yet right now people seem so intent on this "spirit of
Christmas"--engendered and kept alive by COMMERCIALISM for making
PROFITS out of the Christmas SHOPPING SPREE!--that CHRIST'S WORK is
neglected.
Who NEEDS this Christmas-shopping money the most--the
stores and mail order houses waxing rich right now, OR JESUS CHRIST
FOR THE WORK OF ALMIGHTY GOD?
Let me tell you something! Fifteen years from now THERE
WON'T BE ANY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. The END OF THIS WORLD shall have
come! CHRIST shall have come! But ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD
PREPARED TO MEET HIM? NO!!! And the time is short and getting
shorter! It is LATER THAN YOU THINK! WE are Christ's instruments
in preparing the people for His soon COMING!