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building, or its appearance. IF they could do this, we could yet
start construction this early autumn after all.
Brethren, I think God WANTS US TO BUILD HIS HOUSE! I think
He moved to make this possible, just when it looked like we would
have to give it up! Maybe He was just testing us to see whether we
would be WILLING to give it up! And we were -- so now, IF you
Brethren are willing to make some REAL SACRIFICES for it -- IF you
want this more than some other things you may have wanted -- we can
yet break ground and get this beautiful HOUSE FOR GOD under
construction by perhaps this coming September.
BUT REMEMBER -- the fact we have this financing does not
mean the insurance companies and banks are going to PAY FOR IT
while we do nothing. Although our bank will ADVANCE on a short-
term basis the progress payments, WE HAVE TO BIND OURSELVES TO
MAKING DEFINITE HEAVY PAYMENTS EVERY MONTH! The 50% long-term
insurance company loans will go to our bank at the time of
completion of the building. But the other HALF of the cost must be
paid back to them by us, on monthly payments that will pay it off
in two or three years.
So, Brethren, in order that we may know whether to go
ahead, I have to ask you once again to send in STATEMENTS OF
INTENTION, of special, extra, additional offerings -- IN ADDITION
TO TITHES and regular offerings for the Gospel WORK. I do not ask
for any binding pledge. It is neither a pledge nor a vow. If the
circumstances change, and you find you are not able to keep it up,
YOU Wall NOT BE BOUND. We will TRUST GOD to help you keep it up --
and if you are not able, God will provide someone else to pick up
that part . But we DO NEED statements of intention to show the
amount you believe, as of now, you will be able to send monthly for
the next two years.
I ask you to PRAY about this! I know we can do it -- IF
our hearts are in God's Work -- IF we are not dropping into the
Laodicean condition -- IF we are not putting our minds on earthly
things and throwing away our inheritance in THE KINGDOM OF GOD!
Please pray over it, and let me know by return mail.
With love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong
P.S. With graduation coming on, and the rush to get away on the
present trip to Jerusalem, with FIFTY of our students going there
to work on the Archaeological Project for the summer, I did not get
this letter completed. Have had to finish it here on the English
campus. Am sending it today, June 5, to be mailed to you from
Pasadena.