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Herbert W. Armstrong Post Office Box 431, Tucson, Arizona 85702
Pasadena
September 20, 1981
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Jesus Christ:
Another month has almost rolled by, and I have GOOD NEWS for you. Of
course, there is the usual "good news and bad news." You get all the bad news in
your newspaper and on your TV and radio newscasts.
For the three years Jesus Christ, the living Head of this worldwide Work
of
God, has been working through His servants to get His Church back on the track
and ready for His comparatively soon return to earth. The Church will be His
BRIDE--meeting Him in the clouds as He comes--and His Church shall have
made herself READY (Rev. 19:7). But will each one of us in the Church be ready?
Thank God, we are getting ready! And God is PLEASED. I have found in 50
YEARS in Christ's ministry, that when we please Christ, He BLESSES US! And He
is blessing His Work now!
The September issue of The PLAIN TRUTH has brought its circulation to
the highest point in history, climbing toward FOUR MILLION COPIES--now
3,792,171. As of two days ago, income for the month to date is 33.7 percent
above
a year ago. This brings the year-to-date increase up to 19.2 percent.
New radio and television stations are opening to us. The powerful CBS
Seattle, Wash., station KIRO has opened to us, the time, 7 a.m. Sunday mornings.
Only one other religious program is accepted on that station--a Seventh-day
Adventist program.
As a result of a religious broadcaster being unable to pay his bills, we
have
been offered the half-hour slot beginning 9 a.m. Sundays on the leading
Cleveland, Ohio, independent station, WUAB.
Just this morning, I viewed a most pitiful religious program. It was an
entire
half-hour desperate appeal to the public for money. The program was having to go
off the air. The program repeated a segment of a similar appeal for money some
three weeks before. It had brought a slight response but not enough. The
television evangelist had done everything in his power. He had cut all expenses
to
the bone. He had beseeched GOD. He had prayed his heart out for financial help.
It had not come. And now, he said to the PUBLIC of this world, "You people are
now my last resort."
It is certainly true--God does not always answer prayer. "And," He says,
"whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and
do those things that are pleasing in his sight" (I John 3:22). This minister was
not
keeping all God's commandments.
Let me tell you two personal experiences. They may help you receive