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CO-WORKERS, I have to appeal to you to STAND BY ME IN THIS
SUPREME GRAVE CRISIS! I ask everyone of you to PRAY---go to some
private place where you can pray ALONE with God, and pray
earnestly, asking God to PROTECT HIS WORK,---to intervene in our
behalf---to turn back those who would harm His work and bring their
efforts to naught---to give us grace and favor in the sight of
those whose favor we need---to give me WISDOM to know His will, and
GUIDANCE in all I do. Ask Him to DOUBLE the power of His work---
the vast number of people reached and helped, thru this coming
season. Pray as you never did before---claim God's PROMISES, then
BELIEVE!
And STAND BY ME in this dark hour with more liberal
offerings than ever, in addition to your tithes. When the program
is off the air, hundreds stop sending in money. If the money
stops, the work stops. MONEY is the only thing that TALKS, in the
final analysis, with some of these radio stations, and without it
I could never continue this great and glorious work! So try to
stretch to a larger offering than usual, and rush it air-mail!
Again, while most of our co-worker family are people in common and
poor circumstances and cannot send very large amounts, some of you
are in better circumstances and CAN, if you permit God to make your
heart willing, put into God's work a real sizeable contribution at
this time. I have to pray, earnestly, that God will touch several
hearts at this time to make a sacrifice for His work and send in a
considerable sum to help carry us thru this crisis. Some have
money laid away as SECURITY for the FUTURE---but money is very poor
security for so uncertain a future as this world stares in the face
today! The only SECURITY for our future, now, is THE PROTECTION OF
THE ETERNAL GOD. Let us put all our trust in HIM---not in mammon,
for we cannot serve both God and mammon, and if we lay up treasures
in heaven by putting our money into God's work, our reward shall be
great in the kingdom! I hesitate to make such an appeal, because
usually some in poor circumstances will be the ones who will take
this to heart, and make a greater sacrifice than God would expect
them to make, even bringing real hardship upon themselves in order
to do it. I ask you not to do that. God does not expect one of us
to give more than he is able. This appeal is directed at those who
have not given what they could with God---and to all such, if you
will let God get hold of your hearts and your pocketbooks as well,
this is the very best time to make up for some of the past by
putting into God's work a really sizeable sum.
This great work has grown until its expenses are now
several thousand dollars every month. I have assumed personal
responsibility for this, yet I have NOTHING, but faith in God and
our co-workers, with which to keep meeting these very large
obligations. A contribution of several thousand dollars this time
would help God's work as never before---and there are a few who are
able to make such contributions. Frankly, Mrs. Armstrong and I are
the only ones who have ever made a contribution for this work
larger than a thousand dollars---which we did by selling our home
for the works' sake. We have not home now---merely rent a
furnished bedroom. We are happy in it---GLAD to do it because we
know what is in store for this world---how short our time is to
warn this nation and the world, and carry on the commission God has
raised us up for---and our hearts are wholly in that work, not in