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are interested in YOU and YOUR welfare--but we are also interested
in the welfare of all of God's people, and even in THE WHOLE WORLD,
by getting to them GOD'S MESSAGE of HIS WAY that will bring THEM
happiness, and peace, and joy, and abundance. And we expect YOU to
be interested in them WITH US--and to have your heart in wanting to
HELP and to SERVE, along with me and all those God has set as
leaders in His Work.
Do you ever think about it THIS way? Our brethren, and our
family of Co-Workers send money to ME, as God's chosen Minister,
FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of proclaiming Christ's final and last Message
to THIS dying world--of PREPARING THE WAY for Christ's soon-coming
to CHANGE and RULE the WORLD! If I do not use that money for THAT
purpose, I am taking it under false pretenses. Now when I use some
of it to pay YOUR salary, I do want the understanding that YOUR
time is spent in HELPING to fulfill that purpose.
WE ARE NOT LIKE THE EMPLOYES OF A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS! Unless
we are DEDICATED people, whose whole hearts and interests are in
GETTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, and in MINISTERING TO THOSE GOD
GIVES US AS BRETHREN, then we don't belong in THIS Work, and ought
to resign and go get in a selfishly motivated and operated work in
the commercial world!
I want every one of you to read, carefully, this present
Co-Worker letter. Realize how, IF your whole heart is in it, YOU
are devoting FULL TIME to helping CHANGE THE WORLD!
Now of course I know that many--I hope MOST--of you DO have
your hearts fully IN THIS GREAT MISSION. As I said, I have taken
grateful PRIDE in the fine, painstaking, conscientious work so many
of you are doing. Look at the carpenter and cabinet-making shop.
Originally there was a partnership shop off campus, run by Mr.
Hegvold and Mr. Hoops. They did conscientious painstaking work.
Their hearts were in their work--AND IN GOD'S WORK. Do you think
they would both be God's Ministers today, if they had been
SELF-centered? Mr. Hegvold served a while in our cabinet shop, and
Mr. Bill Rapp was head of it for quite a while. Is it not BECAUSE
their hearts were so conscientiously in WHAT they were doing,
thinking about it while they were doing it, that they became
Ministers? I have said that our cabinet shop is a stepping stone
into the Ministry! Yes, and there was Mr. Bill Swanson!
The men at the top in God's Work are ON THE BALL--night and
day! Look at the MANY responsibilities carried by my son, Garner
Ted Armstrong--by Mr. Meredith, Dr. Hoeh, Mr. Portune, Mr. Hill,
Mr. Norman Smith. They are all ABLE men, but they would NOT be if
they had their hearts and minds as HALF-heartedly in their jobs as
SOME of you. Those whose whole hearts are IN THE-WORK AS A WHOLE,
and also in their particular jobs, are the ones who advance to
BIGGER responsibilities.
Let's ALL get "ON OUR TOES!" There's no room for drones, or
the careless, the indifferent, in THIS GREAT WORK. If our
Co-Workers who contribute only their tithes, offerings, and prayers
are having a part in changing and saving the whole world, as I
wrote in the Co-Worker letter, HOW MUCH MORE you who are full-time