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NOW LISTEN! It is absolutely necessary that you
understand how this has HURT THE WORK! We have had to dip into
cash reserves, set apart for PREACHING THE GOSPEL, BY BROADCASTING,
and PUBLISHING, until we are now several hundred thousand dollars
SHORT!
Dear Brethren, IT IS A SHAME! It has HURT THE WORK!
I have to ask you, now, to SEND IN STATEMENT OF INTENTION
cards, for this vital special BUILDING FUND. I have had to
postpone TELEVISION broadcasting ONE WHOLE YEAR because of this!
MILLIONS of people who WOULD HAVE heard Christ's last Message, are
not going to get to hear it! I ask God to FORGIVE those of you who
got careless and let us down! I think YOU'D better pray earnestly,
TOO!
These DIRELY NEEDED BUILDINGS are a VITAL part of GOD'S
WORK! We have just finished the two new class buildings here at
Pasadena -- and this at last, after 21 years, COMPLETES our needs
for-classroom and lecture room space in which to teach students.
These new buildings combine with Ambassador Hall, and the fabulous
formal Italian sunken garden which multi-millionaire Hulett C.
Merritt built (and we obtained the entire fabulous property for
less than the iron fence along the front would cost) -- to form our
new Academic Center -- and the whole complex is now named the "LOMA
D. ARMSTRONG ACADEMIC CENTER" in memory of my beloved wife of 50
years. God used her to bring me to His truth, and into His Work.
He used her to START His Work. She labored loyally and diligently
as my helper until death. This fine new Center is being dedicated
Wednesday of this week.
But we do NOT have needed classrooms at the Texas and
English colleges. THE NEED IS STILL GREAT! And we MUST continue
to meet these $150,000 per month payments!
Brethren, there are many thousands of us, now -- and, with
all of our Co-Workers, upwards of 100,000 families to support this
Work. There are enough of us to do it -- IF WE PUT OUR HANDS TO
THE PLOW AND DON'T TURN BACK! I know that to some it may be hard
to grasp the magnitude of God's Work -- some might be tempted to
say: "My small part that I can contribute is too small to help
in such a BIG Work." But THIS WORK ONLY GREW BIG BECAUSE GOD HAS
USED HUNDREDS, AND THEN THOUSANDS, JUST LIKE YOU, to make it BIG!
There is strength and power in NUMBERS! Remember, Jesus Christ
said, "This Gospel of, the Kingdom shall be preached IN ALL THE
WORLD for a witness unto ALL NATIONS" (Mat. 24:14). He did not say
it shall be a LITTLE work, preaching to 36 people, like I did 35
years ago. It is because a FEW Co-Workers, like YOU -- people of
small means -- joined with me, and with me became Christ's own
Co-Workers, that I was able to go on radio and reach HUNDREDS,
instead of 30 or 40. It is only because more and more kept joining
us, as Christ laid it on their hearts, that the Work grew, and
grew, and GREW, and GREW! The smallest amounts HELP!
The living Jesus Christ would not be opening doors before
us -- sending more full-time LABORERS to be trained at Ambassador