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It is too far for the people of the Middle West, the South, and
points east of the Rocky Mountains, to come clear out to Pasadena
twice a year for these festivals God has enjoined. It seems
necessary to hold the Festival of Tabernacles every fall in
Southern California near Pasadena. Nearly everyone at this spring
Festival at Gladewater this week is planning to come to California
for the Feast of Tabernacles this fall. But two such trips a year
are, for most families, utterly impossible.
Therefore God has made it plain we MUST HAVE an adequate
place, the most centrally located possible, so that the largest
number can attend, for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and for
those able or close enough, even the Day of Pentecost, and regular
or occasional Sabbath services.
GLADEWATER, TEXAS IS THE MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED PLACE,
closest for the largest number. Now God always supplies every
need. WHEN that need arises. During this festival, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hammer, Buck Hammer, who owns a farm about seven miles
west of Gladewater, offered to donate and deed over to us several
acres of the most beautiful sloping, wooded land we ever saw, for
this purpose. On this property is a perpetually-flowing spring of
crystal-clear water. We would also need to have two narrow strips
of land adjoining. A larger spring on one of these is the source
of a creek which flows thru the beautiful wooded land Buck is
giving us. These two adjoining strips are exactly the same kind of
land,--sloping, with great large, majestic and beautiful trees.
All of us who went over this land agreed it is one of the most
beautiful spots of God's nature we ever saw--so restful, tranquil,
BEAUTIFUL! This wooded area begins about a quarter mile back from
the highway. The county will build us a private road free of
charge. It just so happened--or did it just "happen?"--that both
these adjoining strips of property went on the market for sale two
or three days before the Festival, and for years neither had been
for sale, nor could it have been bought!
Here is the most centrally-located place, right on, yet
back away from and totally secluded from in privacy, the main 4-
lane highway, #80, easy of access, yet absolutely private from the
world. With these two adjoining strips we will have the entire
wooded area, some 40 or 50 acres total, so secluded that no one
could ever build within sight or hearing of our site for the future
tabernacle and dwelling places for these festivals. Often God
reveals things in such an unmistakable way I KNOW He has spoken and
shown me His will. There is no doubt about this place in the mind
of any of those of us there who inspected it. I have authorized
Brother Hammer and his son Buck to negotiate for the adjoining
strips of property (we MUST control the source of this beautiful
stream flowing thru these grounds, so it can never be polluted),
and make a reasonable offer for their purchase. It is necessary to
act fast, before these properties are sold to others. I might add,
incidentally, that these properties are in the greatest oil belt in
the United States, and might prove to have fabulous oil wealth
underneath. However, we would never want to disturb the beauty,
quiet, and seclusion of this rare and unusual garden-spot. A small
dam in the right place will quickly provide us with a beautiful
LAKE in the middle of the property, with swimming, boating, and