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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:
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
The PLAIN TRUTH
BRICKET WOOD, ST.ALBANS
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND
29th November, 1966
Dear Co-Worker with CHRIST:
I am having to rush this most URGENT letter to you. In a few
days I am posting to you the general semi-annual letter which I
like personally to write to ALL PLAIN TRUTH subscribers. December
issue circulation, over 850,000! Of course there will be 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. 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!
We in Britain and America are blessed as NO OTHER NATIONS were
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 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, "Labourers together
with God"--or, as in the Revised Standard Version, "We are
FELLOW-WORKMEN" with God. (I Cor. 3:9).
Yet, at this season, when the Living Christ needs our GIFTS
the more urgently, for HIS WORK which He actively HEADS, DIRECTS