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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
December 12, 1971
Dear Co-Worker in the
Most IMPORTANT Work on Earth!
I had hoped it would not be necessary to send you a
mid-December letter this year. But it has become URGENTLY
necessary!
As I wrote you two weeks ago, the MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON
EARTH is in its most difficult month -- financially -- of the year.
Christmas shopping apparently is proving to be, as advance head-
lines said, "BIGGEST EVER!" But the income for this great Work
is far from "biggest ever." It is proving just the opposite.
It seems many of our Co-Workers are forgetting gifts for
CHRIST -- for the very Work the living Christ HEADS, directs, and
blesses -- and are spending lavishly exchanging gifts with friends
and relatives. I mentioned, before, the "wise men" gave their
gifts to CHRIST -- they did not give them to one another among
themselves. Shouldn't the BIG gift be given to Christ for HIS
WORK? Especially when so many others overlook HIS gift altogether?
If you do not understand all of the plain truth about
Christmas -- and most people do not -- why not write in for our
special FREE booklet about Christmas. If you haven't read it,
you'll be surprised!
I do have to tell you candidly that I am terribly
distressed and sick at heart, to realize that so many Co-Workers
are forgetting the living Christ and His Work at this critical
time. The income for the Work is down -- and we need a big BOOST
this month so very badly.
This great Work has made great strides this year. For
the first time, we are now reaching four great nations we had
not gotten into before -- Japan, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. We
have now gotten the great Message -- the GOOD News -- into EVERY
NATION ON EARTH, except a few very small countries. We have added
many important television and radio stations. The circulation of
The PLAIN TRUTH and TOMORROW'S WORLD have taken significant
increases. They will both be issued from now, in all five
languages -- English, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch.
Thousands of additional lives have been changed -- a big
harvest has been reaped this year. I have explained before how