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signal UNLESS there is a dramatic INCREASE in income WITHIN TWO
WEEKS!
If many who did NOT return a statement of intention card will
NOW do so -- or if many who did could just write me that you can
INCREASE it; that might save the situation.
It appears, in any event, I shall have to again make drastic
cutbacks in the power and scope of God's WORK.
Will you PRAY EARNESTLY FOR THIS WORK?
Two things MAY help the situation. I have been working the
past several months on a REVISED EDITION of the "New Morality"
book, to come out immediately under the NEW title: "The Missing
Dimension in SEX." We are going to offer this revised edition
for our semi-annual letter in May. But we are mailing out,
IMMEDIATELY, 40,000 letters to P.T. subscribers, offering the book.
The response will tell us approximately how many books will be
requested when the BIG mailing goes out in May -- so we may know
how many books to print. And, although I did not ask for it, this
letter MAY bring a financial response that will help at this
crucial time. The revised edition will omit all the first seven
chapters, and I have written three NEW chapters in their place.
This time the book will be reduced in size, and printed on less
costly paper.
One other thing that will help -- a little later. We are
starting a new series of BIBLE LECTURES, inviting all who have
received TOMORROW'S WORLD for one year or longer. Our trial
lecture series will be held in Anaheim, California, where leading
ministers from Headquarters may be the speakers. About 1300 have
answered our invitation saying they want to attend. We plan, now,
to hold these lectures once a week. I feel that experience may
dictate they ought to be held five or six nights a week. I feel,
based on response from subscribers in the Anaheim area, this will
soon result in the LARGEST GROWTH IN CHURCH MEMBERSHIP we have ever
had. And THAT will result in bringing increased income. But it
may be six months before this helps to any extent in the financial
needs. I hope we may get these lectures going ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
-- in dozens of areas at the same time -- very soon.
Brethren, GOD is doing GREAT THINGS for His Work. He is
showing us in many ways that TIME IS SHORT. It does not now look
likely that our part in His Work will be finished early in 1972 --
yet it COULD! Jesus said His coming will be at such an hour as we
least expect. And this Work will be cut off at least 3 1/2 years
before that!
Can't we realize that NOTHING is important in our lives, now,
but GETTING GOD'S WORK DONE? WON'T you PRAY MOST EARNESTLY FOR IT?
Brethren, if ALL of us would pray EARNESTLY for it, really PUTTING
OUR HEARTS INTO OUR PRAYERS -- the results would be ABSOLUTELY
ASTOUNDING! The very state of the Work simply SHOUTS out to us
from God that as a CHURCH we are NOT putting our whole hearts into
it -- and that MANY OF US NEED A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING!