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CW BULLETIN
Box 111
Pasadena, California
August 15, 1949
Dear Co-Workers in Christ:
In a few days I must leave for Washington D.C., and New
York, on an important mission for the work. But before I go, I
find it necessary to write a most serious, urgent, and hurried
letter to you and our other Co-Workers on the condition of God's
great work at the moment.
Never has God blessed this work so greatly as this year.
Never has it been so productive. Never has it produced so rich a
harvest of souls. Yet, regardless of how God lavishes spiritual
blessings upon us---regardless of growth and advances and abundant
accomplishments, it seems there are always periodic slumps on the
part of our goodly and growing family of Co-Workers, and once again
this most blessed and important work on earth IS THREATENED, and IN
URGENT NEED.
When our Co-Workers either grow careless or forgetful of
God's Work, I wonder if you realize the criticism it heaps on me,
and the desperate predicament I find myself in? When we begin to
fall behind in paying the bills for carrying on this work---bills
that have to be paid for carrying the true MESSAGE OF CHRIST to
millions---bills for that which has resulted in HUNDREDS of
precious converted souls and changed lives---you know, I am sure,
what those we must do business with in the world for God's cause
think of me, and say to me and about me. And all the more, because
we are CHRIST'S representative. They persecuted Christ. Just let
a known representative of Christ get behind in paying a bill to a
worldly man, and can you imagine the condemnation that man heaps on
God's servant, the names he calls him? It becomes a reproach to
the cause we are devoting our very lives to promoting. But not
only that---when I have to send out urgent appeals to our
Co-Workers, then even many of our perhaps less-Spiritual Co-Workers
point a finger of accusation against me personally---and begin to
PUT THE BLAME ON ME, or imagine that in some way it must be my
fault.
These occasional lapses on the part of our Co-Workers ARE
IN NO MANNER A CASE OF IMPROPER BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IN OUR OFFICE.
The truth is, it requires just so much every week, and every month,
to conduct this great work; it is MOST carefully managed, and is
geared to a fixed rate of expense well UNDER the normal income of
the work. We cannot reduce expenditures without upsetting or
completely paralyzing the work. But when, at times, our Co-Workers
grow careless and FAIL TO KEEP UP THEIR PART, and the income drops
to around HALF the normal rate, we find ourselves heading for
financial trouble, getting behind in current payments which we try
to keep paid PROMPTLY, or even in advance, we get telegrams from
radio stations threatening to put the program off the air. TODAY
I RECEIVED SUCH TELEGRAMS FROM TWO OF OUR THREE BIGGEST STATIONS!
Beside all this, I have to raise an additional $3,000 in