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fishing, beside adding greatly to the beauty.
Now what we feel led to do at the present time is, first,
buy the two adjoining strips and receive deed from Buck, so that
the Radio Church of God is in ownership of the land. Second, the
Hammers will supervise the work of clearing off the property of
underbrush and excess growth, leaving just the beautiful trees and
such shrubs, plants, and flowers, as add to its beauty. Then we
can lay out a plan, build the dam and create the lake. We shall
have to build a tabernacle--not a costly one, but one large enough,
--with dining area for our festivals, and plan the kind of housing
to be provided for all who come--perhaps well-planned but
inexpensive cabins. However, we do not feel it wise to try to
erect any buildings during the first year. For the festival next
spring we will rent large tents, to provide a meeting place and
dining facilities, and a large number of small tents which can be
rented to each family. We will "rough it" our first year on the
place next spring, and then try to have at least temporary
buildings erected by the year following.
The proper place for meetings of this kind is not an
expensive brick or stone or concrete church building on a main
corner of a city in all the traffic and noise of the world--but to
get CLEAR AWAY FROM THE WORLD--out into God's own open beautiful
nature, utterly secluded from the world!
Next spring, we shall plan a full eight-day festival, to
last thru the entire seven days of unleavened bread following the
Passover, and all who plan to come are urged now, with a year ahead
to plan, to start laying plans to come for the entire eight days.
The one original part of the ground is to be donated.
Much of the labor will be donated. The two adjoining strips will
not be too costly, but each has a small house in front of it on the
highway for which we shall have use, so they will cost us a few
thousand dollars--but not a large sum.
I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE A DOLLAR OUT OF THE GOSPEL WORK FOR
THIS PURPOSE! I believe that there are enough of you in these
middle-west and southern states who will come to this place, to
finance it, without having to take money out of the Gospel work.
I will know in two or three days on what kind of terms these
properties can be bought, but it appears now that it will require
a down payment of some $3,000, and then small payments monthly for
three or five years.
Therefore, since we much act AT ONCE, and I have
authorized Mr. Hammer to proceed and immediately bind the deal if
the owners accept a reasonable offer and I have guaranteed it, I
now send out the call to all brethren who understand God's truth
about His holy days to DIG DOWN DEEP, and to send in at this time
an EXTRA offering, over and about your tithe--over and above the
offerings you could and would send in for the regular Gospel work,
so as not to rob the regular work, to help us make up this down
payment. If one or two of you can put a thousand dollars into this
down payment, I know God will bless it greatly. If you can send
one, or several hundred dollars, do so--or if not that much, what-