bring this world PEACE, happiness, abundant well being, and eternal
life! You and I have VOLUNTARILY accepted His call. I did not ask
YOU for any contribution UNTIL you had voluntarily begin
contributing, as God, through His Holy Spirit, had laid on your
heart.
But now, following the teaching and way of Christ, the
apostles, and the Bible, I do HAVE TO tell you Christ's Work IS IN
SERIOUS NEED! We have been falling behind our usual increase in
recent months. It is now SO SERIOUS I have to ask you to do more
than rush to us the most liberal offering your circumstances make
possible. I have to ask you to join me in earnest, prevailing,
believing PRAYER--and even in FASTING and PRAYER! If all of us who
are Co-Workers would simply go without any food for the next 36
hours, and devote ourselves to really getting under this burden in
deep earnest, asking God to lay this necessity heavily on the
hearts of all Co-Workers, the result would be miraculous. Let us
ask God earnestly, beside, to put it in the minds and hearts of
many who are not Co-Workers, but who will receive the semiannual
letter, to voluntarily become Co-Workers--even though I have not
asked them to do this or so much as hinted at it in my letter. And
again, if you happen to have a larger sum that you are not free to
give outright at this time, but could LOAN so that the Living
Christ could be using it in His Work until you need it, it has
never been more sorely needed than now.
Dear Co-Workers, every department of this Work is going ahead
at the usual 30 per cent increase over a year ago--except the
income of funds to keep it going. NEVER has our Living Saviour,
High Priest and Leader blessed this Work so greatly. Thousands of
precious lives are being CHANGED--turned to Him--receiving HIS
SPIRIT--every year. MILLIONS are hearing Christ's message every
week. Two and a half million are reading Christ's last message to
a dying world every month in The PLAIN TRUTH and other free
literature.
THIS IS THE WAY you and I can have part in CHANGING the
pitiful condition that we have seen the starving masses living in,
in China, India, the Middle East, Egypt, and many parts of Africa.
More than half of all tho humans on earth are living in such abject
poverty, misery, filth, stench and ignorance. This terrible blight
on humanity can be cured only by the almighty power of GOD--by the
driving RULE of FORCE by Jesus Christ, ruling all nations with a
rod of iron, and by enforcing universal right education, and by
changing human nature--bringing these pitiful wretches of humanity
to repentance and faith in Christ, and putting within them God's
own new nature!
SOON--a very few more year--and we shall have a world of
PEACE, of HAPPINESS, of JOY, of ABUNDANCE and of SALVATION. The
Living CHRIST is right now directing, guiding, and blessing THIS
VERY WORK in preparing the way--in speeding the day when this
world's sorrow will be turned to JOY--its poverty to ABUNDANCE--its
sickness and disease to radiant, vigorous HEALTH--its ignorance to
COMPREHENDING, UNDERSTANDING and EDUCATED MINDS--its filth and
physical blight, wreckage, and squalor to CLEANLINESS, BEAUTY, and
PROGRESSIVE NEW FACILITIES--immorality, degenerate carnality into