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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
February 1, 1965
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
This is SERIOUS. This is URGENT! We face an EMERGENCY, and
I have to ask you to read carefully every word, take this matter
seriously, take it on your knees to GOD, and then to ACT on it!
During the early years of this great Work of God, to which we
have been called, I was forced to write often to our Co-Worker
Family of serious emergencies. Frequently the very existence of
this Work was threatened. It took living FAITH. It took real
SACRIFICE. But the living Jesus Christ is the HEAD of this Work.
He directs and guides it -- HE BLESSES IT -- and He never did leave
or forsake us. Always we pulled through. The tests of faith were
not pleasant to experience -- at the time. But they have borne the
rich fruit of patience, trust in GOD, and a constantly growing Work
thundering forth Christ's true GOSPEL in power to ever-increasing
MILLIONS around the world. They have borne the rich fruit of
thousands of changed, Spirit-begotten, happy lives for GOD'S
KINGDOM and for joyous eternity!
A little over two years ago I bound this Work to a year of
austerity -- cutting every expenditure to the bone, curtailing
radio broadcasting expansion -- to bring this Work into a sound and
stable financial condition. We made great progress in that
direction -- but one year was not enough. We held ourselves to a
second austere year. The living CHRIST led us into this and
through it -- and He blessed us with greatly improved financial
stability, while at the same time real spiritual fruit borne by
this Work continued to increase 30% each year! The Work itself did
not stop or slacken -- it leaped on forward, even while we
"tightened our belts" as it were, on expenditures.
Now we see plainly that we must continue the austerity in
budgeting and appropriating expenditures -- we must ask you
Co-Workers to do the same with your personal expenditures, and to
SACRIFICE where possible, that we may INCREASE with real generosity
our financial offerings for the support of this great Work.
Now once again God's Work has reached a critical CRISIS!
Let me make it PLAIN. It's necessary that you UNDERSTAND THIS
-- or else God's precious Work cannot go forward!