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free booklet on the subject of Christmas? It gives you the PLAIN
TRUTH about it. I have not offered that booklet, I believe, for
some years now. I don't believe the TRUTH really hurts anyone --
do you? Why not request your copy?
I do have to tell you that at this season of the year the
Work of the living CHRIST always suffers -- because instead of
giving their offerings to CHRIST for the Work which He actually
heads, directs, and blesses, they exchange presents with other
people, and FORGET ALL ABOUT A GIFT FOR CHRIST!
Dear Co-Workers, I have to tell you, this has been a very
trying year in Christ's Work. Last year a substantial part of the
money used to conduct this great worldwide Work came in the form of
LOANS. They had to be put on our books as demand loans, and that
hurt our financial statement. It could have hurt our credit
standing, had I not virtually stopped accepting loans and urging
our Co-Workers who had loans of larger sums on our books to either
1) Cancel the loan by turning it into a donation (deductible on
your income tax) or 2) Changing it into a 5-year loan binding us
legally to repay not more than 20% in any one year. I have given
my word that with all 5-year loans we will consider it a moral
obligation to repay more than 20% -- even up to the entire amount
-- if for any reason you find it necessary to ask for It.
Loans are not real INCOME. This year has been a hard year.
We have had a normal year in real INCOME this year, but so few
loans, compared to last year that total funds made available have
gone down from the usual increase.
So -- IMPORTANT! -- now, as we face the final month of the
year, I have to make an EMERGENCY request -- a MOST URGENT request
-- that every Co-Worker, according as you are able, send in the
largest offerings for the Work you possibly can -- and even every
week if that is possible. But, IN ADDITION, I have to say to those
who have a larger sum not now being used, but which you are not
free to give as a donation at this time, I do invite MOST URGENTLY
the largest sums possible as LOANS. Please send them as 5-year
loans unless they are of small amount.
We are now coming in on the HOME STRETCH for this year --
and even so far as the whole Work is concerned. We may possibly
have only two more years to do GOD'S Work which Jesus Christ
started in Person more than 1900 years ago -- and which He,
personally, heads and directs today!
I cannot set dates. I know that events in the world, the
Biblical prophecies, and what is happening in this Work all COMBINE
to indicate that time is now VERY SHORT!
Contrast the commercial aspects of this holiday season with
THE DIRE NEED to disseminate the vital LIVING KNOWLEDGE of THE TRUE
VALUES OF LIFE around this unhappy world!
Remember CHRIST -- the living CHRIST -- at this season.
This year we have REACHED with His Message FAR MORE