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churches to promote the crusades and get out the crowds, basically
from their own memberships, which, in turn, attract additional
non-members.
But God is opening doors, where there are few or even
virtually none professing the Christian religion. And through the
approval and cooperation of highest government officials, we are
getting the TRUE GOSPEL MESSAGE, for the first time since the first
century, to thousands of those at the very top who are responsible
for the spiritual welfare of their respective nations.
There NEEDS to be more than a dozen of me, but I'm only one,
and no one else can carry on this new dimension of God's Work,
which I have been called to GET DONE! I am working hard and
energetically on it. I need your intensive, heart-moving PRAYERS
that God will, even more, RENEW MY YOUTH AND STRENGTH, and give me
the dynamic POWER, through His Holy Spirit, that I need to FINISH
HIS WORK. I actually do seem to get a year younger every year. I
need YOU to back me, and to encourage and inspire me to push on,
with increased zeal and drive.
Twelve days ago, just as I was leaving on the present 'round
the world trip,' a member wrote me a letter starting out with: "I
feel moved to write to you . . . . You are right; the idea doesn't
often occur to me that we (members and co-workers) ought to
encourage and buoy up the ministry. We just normally expect the
ministry to buoy up and encourage us but I do feel very strongly
for you, and I want to do my best to encourage you."
I DO need YOU to encourage and inspire me -- by your urgent
and persistent PRAYERS, and even by writing and telling me how
strongly you are behind me in this MAJOR THRUST of God's Work.
This same letter said, further, of the time of trouble we
had some five months ago: "Remember the day you called a special
assembly in the College gym, in the middle of the ministerial
affair? There wasn't even time to set up chairs, so we all stood
on the floor. The room was filled with Headquarters employees, and
was I ever anxious to hear what you had to say! You strode into
the room, addressed the audience in its thunderous applause, and
asked point blank, 'Brethren, do we have FAITH?' And with one voice
your brethren yelled out, 'YES!!!' I had never wanted to yell
something as much as I wanted to yell out that assurance to you at
that time, and I did it with every cell in my body excited! You
asked whether we thought you were a tottering old man and wanted
you out of the picture. The crowd again roared 'NO!!!' You asked
a couple more questions about our confidence in the Work, and
determination to get it done. Again, the whole assembly unitedly
shouted, 'YES!!!' to each question. Mr. Armstrong, if you have a
recording of that event, I wish you would go and play it once
again, because I still feel that way about the job you are doing
and the determination with which you are doing it. I'm sure the
rest of us do, too. I know you are doing THE WORK OF GOD!"
You have no idea how much a letter like that does ENCOURAGE
and INSPIRE me. It is simply WONDERFUL to know that there are so
many THOUSANDS of you back of me in full confidence and enthusiasm!