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PLACE TO WORK IN?
And could YOU -- just one person -- read 3,500 letters every
day, answer them, do all this printing, and mailing carload after
carload (I mean large freight cars) of literature every month --
alone by yourself?
Evidently some few think I do all that alone by myself. Well,
I did, ONCE -- with only Mrs. Armstrong's help. But then only a
FEW people heard the broadcast -- only a FEW wrote in -- we printed
only a FEW copies of The PLAIN TRUTH -- and it was then a little
homemade few sheets of mimeographed paper.
RIGHT HERE AT PASADENA HEADQUARTERS, we have to employ
HUNDREDS -- many hundreds -- of people to do all this work, helping
to PREACH THE GOSPEL! They have to have rooms, offices, printing
plants -- BUILDINGS to WORK IN -- TO PREACH THE GOSPEL!
And in twenty years, on this Pasadena campus, we have only
built TWO new buildings!
Co-Workers, it's about time you come to know some things YOU
HAVEN'T KNOWN about GOD'S WORK!
It is emphatically NOT a matter of wanting unneeded finer
things -- or a matter of unwise planning or extravagance. I know
of no other work or activity on earth as efficiently conducted
or where every dollar accomplishes so MUCH!
I want you to know the TRUTH!
I want you to SEE, as far as cameras can show you, just how
jammed up, packed in, and crowded we are, crawling all over one
another trying to do God's Work with insufficient space here at
Headquarters. And the situation is just as bad at the other two
campuses. The space we now have may be sufficient to have conducted
a Work the size this Work was, five or six years ago. What we had
then was not sufficient -- THEN. Of course we have acquired
additional property and some houses or old buildings since then --
but not nearly enough, because THE WORK expands faster than our
property and building expansion program does.
This great WORK OF GOD actually DOUBLES in size and scope every
two years and nine months - just a trifle under 30% every year. It
has been growing at that unheard-of rate for 33 1/2 years!
Started the Smallest
As I have said many times, when GOD Himself does something,
solely by His own great power, He does it in a stupendous, mighty,
and perfect way. Like, for instance, the creation of the sun, the
earth, the vast universe. But when He does something through
humans, if it truly is GOD'S doing, the humans must start the very
smallest -- like the grain of mustard seed -- but it continues to
grow, and grow, until it becomes the GREATEST.
That is the way God's Work, to which He has called us, was
started, and it now is becoming comparatively very great!
It started on one smallest-powered radio station, with 100
watts of radio power per week. It has now grown to some 45 MILLION
watts per week, more than any other radio program on earth!
The PLAIN TRUTH started a tiny homemade mimeographed
"magazine," with not more than 250 copies circulation, but has
grown into what many readers term the world's finest magazine, and
one of the comparatively FEW magazines on the whole earth having
more than A MILLION copies circulation!
And what about office space for the conduct of the Work? Mrs.