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promise to reveal it. For some agonizing hours I couldn't see what
to do---didn't know how God would speak to me. Then, in the late
afternoon yesterday, while kneeling with my Bible before me, I felt
impressed to just open the bible, with my eyes closed, to a random
Scripture. At times God has given me the answer I sought by this
method---though I do not say He always will cause us to turn to the
exact answer we need by this process.
What I opened to was this: "TRUST IN THE ETERNAL, and do
right; be loyal to Him within His land; make the Eternal your
delight, and HE WILL GIVE YOU ALL YOUR HEART'S DESIRE. Leave all
to Him, rely on Him, and HE WILL SEE TO IT; He will bring your
innocence to light and make THE JUSTICE OF YOUR CAUSE clear as
noonday. LEAVE IT TO THE ETERNAL AND BE PATIENT. Fret not,
... cease your anger, give up raging, fret not---it only leads to
evil." (Psalm 37:3-8).
Well, that certainly was God's answer. I had been fretting.
I had to confess it and repent. God told me, then, to TRUST IN HIM
---leave all to Him---rely on Him, and HE WILL SEE TO IT---He will
give us all our heart's desire. What about this CAUSE---and I had
been using that very word---should I give it up, and abandon that
wonderful cause? The answer is, "HE WILL MAKE THE JUSTICE OF YOUR
CAUSE CLEAR AS NOON-DAY---HE WILL GIVE YOU ALL YOUR HEART'S DESIRE
---HE WILL SEE TO IT!" Just leave it with Him, be patient, cease
fretting---HAVE FAITH!
That evening I told our little group at prayer meeting of the
experience, the trial I was facing, and we all prayed earnestly
together. And all these earnest brethren KNEW God had given His
answer. Present were two girls planning to attend the college. If
it should fail, their faith might be shattered and perhaps that of
many other fine young people planning on attending. No, it's a
RIGHT cause---God Himself LED us into it---He has performed miracle
after miracle to make it possible to start it this very year. No,
this is merely ANOTHER SEVERE TEST OF FAITH. This road God has
called us to travel is not easy---it is not smooth---it's hard,
rutty, DIFFICULT! God permits us to bog down into many a tight
spot where we have to implore Him to pull us out---for our own
strengthening and development. GOD WILL SEE TO IT! But God works
thru those human agencies He has called to the task---and in this
case He has called ALL YOU DEAR CO-WORKERS WITH ME TO THIS GREAT
COMMISSION! His plan for financing His work is thru the tithes and
offerings of HIS PEOPLE. God will never fail us---but SOME OF YOU
HAVE BEEN FAILING HIM. I feel, therefore, impelled to rush to you
this urgent special letter---to ASK EVERYONE OF YOU TO GO NOW TO
YOUR KNEES AND JOIN ME IN BELIEVING PRAYER, that we may TRUST GOD
together to supply this great need. GOD'S WORK MUST NOT BE IN
DEBT. I will not permit it to go on that way. God has blessed it,
incredibly. Tons and tons of literature are going from this office
all over the United States and Canada---several mail-sacks full,
printed in our own printing department, go out every night. I
can't print another PLAIN TRUTH until we finish paying for the last
one and have enough to print the next. HUNDREDS are waiting for
that article on divorce and re-marriage---waiting to know what to
do---yes, WAITING ON YOU CO-WORKERS! Brethren, co-workers, MUST
such a work stop? Must we stop sending out the Gospel in print