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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION-WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophecies of THE WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing
Box 111, Eugene, Oregon
The P L A I N T R U T H
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
July, 1947
Dear Co-Worker Friend:
GREETINGS! in Jesus' name: Again I have to rush to you, air-
mail, a most URGENT special letter. The past three days my heart
has been heavy as lead. During the years I have faced crisis after
crisis in this work---each one, with a few exceptions, larger and
more severe than any before.
But now we have come to the place where this work of God faces
the SUPREME TEST---it very possibly is the one greatest crisis we
shall ever be called upon to meet, because it is the turning point
that will determine whether the program to which God has committed
us shall keep going ahead, or whether this entire great and
glorious work is to crash head-on into a unthinkable sudden END!
God has prospered and blessed His work incredibly. He has caused
it to grow from virtually nothing to a great nation-wide work for
souls. He has led the work into a program, to which we are now
committed, and from which there is no turning back. Either it must
go forward in its great cause for good, or STOP---and that's
unthinkable! THE NEXT TEN DAYS OR TWO WEEKS HOLDS THE FATEFUL
ANSWER!
I have just gone thru a three-day ordeal. I have SUFFERED!
Such an ordeal is plain agony---the hardest kind I know to bear.
Now I have to appeal to you for the help of YOUR PRAYERS! I must
beg of you to go immediately to a private place, alone with God, as
soon as you have read this, get down on your knees and join me and
hundreds of other co-workers in sending up a mighty wave of united,
earnest, believing, prevailing PRAYER! God will hear us, and if
we'll put our HEARTS into our prayers, He won't fail us.
Let me bring you direct to this supreme crisis of the moment.
When Mrs. Armstrong and I were called suddenly to Europe in mid-
February, the January-February PLAIN TRUTH was already rolling off
the press. A BULLETIN was written to be mailed out to our
co-workers. The work was in good financial condition, especially
assuming that with The PLAIN TRUTH and The BULLETIN going out the
financial response from our co-workers should greatly increase.
But it didn't. Every letter showed nothing but enthusiasm for the
new twice-as-large PLAIN TRUTH, yet for some unexplainable reason
our co-workers almost stopped sending in money. We returned from
Europe late in March to find that in our absence this work had gone
$18,000 in debt. I was simply stunned! But I prayed, trusted God,
and did what I could. I sent out an emergency special letter, as
I'm forced now to do again. For three weeks the response was
gratifying, and the indebtedness was reduced to $8,000 besides