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LETTER TO MEMBERS CONCERNING
FEAST OF TABERNACLES
Pasadena, California,
September 3, 1947
Dear Brethren:
GREETINGS! in Jesus' name: It is now less than a month
before the FEAST OF TABERNACLES! There isn't much time left, and
I don't seem to be able to get time to write the full and complete
GOOD-NEWS LETTER I wanted to send you, so will rush out this brief
letter without further delay.
We have had the busiest two months of our lives, nearly
all of which has had to be spent here in Pasadena, getting every-
thing in readiness to start AMBASSADOR COLLEGE on October 8--two
days after the Feast of Tabernacles ends.
Just as God started the children of Israel out of Egypt
with miracles from Him, and then let them come suddenly to the Red
Sea, so He started us out with miracles in a marvelous way, in a
property for the college which far surpasses what most of you
suppose--(if the expressions of those who have come here and seen
it is a criterion)--and then let us come suddenly to our "Red Sea".
We have had to stand still and let God perform another miracle, as
He did for the Israelites at the Red Sea. The reconstruction work
on the main college building has now been in progress more than two
weeks, and is going forward at a rapid pace. The grounds are being
renewed--new lawn, new shrubs, hedges, etc.,--and all the permanent
fixtures, the fountains, pools, retaining walls, trellises, arbors,
etc., repainted made like new again. We still do not have enough
money on hand or pledged to finish the great task--but we have
enough to carry us two or three more weeks, and by faith I know God
will provide the remainder in due time.
Brethren, I am really grieved and sorry that some of you
are standing back in this most critical crisis hour the work God
has committed to us has ever faced, apathetic, skeptical--deciding
that, instead of DOING YOUR PART and HELPING to the very utmost,
you will stand back and see whether God pulls us thru or lets the
work down. Most, I know, are standing loyal, backing this work God
has started with constant earnest prevailing prayer, and generous
offerings, as well as their tithes. God bless you for your faith
and confidence in HIM and in that which He has started, and has
PROMISED He will never stop. GOD HAS NOT LET US DOWN! This
project HAS NOT FAILED! Crews of electricians, plumbers,
carpenters, etc., are working rapidly. The College is GOING AHEAD!
And if all stand loyal, and intercede with real earnest heart-
rending PRAYER, it will continue going ahead until, on October 8,
it becomes a glorious reality!
The Word of God says the "without VISION the people
perish." The work of God, like faith, and like the KINGDOM of God,
of which it is the forerunner, begins like a mustard seed in the
smallest possible manner. But it GROWS and GROWS until it expands
around the WHOLE EARTH and becomes the BIGGEST. This is the POWER