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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
November 21, 1966
Dear Co-Worker with CHRIST:
I am having to rush this most URGENT letter to you AIRMAIL.
Today I am mailing you, under separate cover, a copy of the general
semiannual letter which I like personally to write to ALL PLAIN
TRUTH subscribers. December issue circulation, over 850,000!
That bigger general letter will have to come by the much
slower and lower cost bulk-mailing rate. We simply cannot afford
to send out this big mass mailing either first class or airmail.
Of course there is no request for contributions in this general
letter--because, as you know we never ask any but our own family of
Co-Workers for financial help.
But to YOU, as one the living Christ has privileged to be a
Co-Worker in His Work, I must rush this short letter airmail. The
Work is faced with an URGENT problem--and an annual test of faith!
It comes every year at this time. Already the stores are getting
out Christmas decorations!
NOT ONLY does the receipt of tithes and offerings take a nose
dive the latter half of almost every month, but at this season most
people have their minds and interests so much on Christmas shopping
--exchanging gifts AMONG THEMSELVES--that many seem to ignore or
FORGET the living CHRIST and His Work!
Right now we are coming to Thanksgiving Day -intended to be a
day for GIVING THANKS TO GOD for blessing us so abundantly. We in
America are blessed as NO OTHER NATION was ever blessed before. At
this time, we ought to read the first chapter of Ephesians, and
REALIZE what we have to be THANKFUL for!
Here is a small portion of it, so beautifully rendered in the
Moffatt Translation: "BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual
blessing within the heavenly sphere! . . . destining us in love to
be His sons through Jesus Christ. . . . SO RICHLY has God LAVISHED
upon us His grace, granting us complete insight and understanding
of the open secret of His will, . . ." (Emphasis added.)
How THANKFUL we should be! Not only for understanding, for
being called to be God's SONS, for His GRACE--but also for being
PRIVILEGED to be, as the Apostle Paul said, "Laborers together with