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ever you are able to contribute over and about your REGULAR
offerings for God's work, for this down payment.
Then, to meet the monthly payments, I will not ask for a
definite binding pledge, but I do ask you to write me at once and
tell me how much EXTRA, beside your tithes and regular offerings
for the work, you believe you will be able and will try to send in
as long as able, MONTHLY, to meet these payments. God bless all
you dear people, I know you'll see at once that this is of God, and
respond generously and PROMPTLY. Write me by return mail if
possible.
Yes, this opens up AN ENTIRE NEW PHASE of God's great
work. This will provide a place for annual great conclaves of
God's people, where many who cannot come as far as Pasadena can
meet together at God's great festivals. What has happened assures
that in a year or two there will be several hundred attending.
WHAT A BLESSING THIS WILL BE! We who are co-workers together need
to MEET TOGETHER as often as possible. The United States is a
great nation, and we live long distances apart. We cannot all meet
together every Sabbath. But most of us can, and WILL, meet and
feast together in these SPIRITUAL feasts which God has appointed,
and where we have HIS VERY OWN INVISIBLE PRESENCE with us! Write
me about it, sending what you can for this down payment, by return
mail.
And now let me tell you about the progress of the work as
a whole.
Many time I've repeated, every dollar put into this work
carries Christ's own GOSPEL to more than TWO THOUSAND PRECIOUS
SOULS! One way of measuring the scope and power of this work, and
the GOOD it does, is by the number of dollars required to carry it
on. It started the smallest of all, and like the grain of mustard
seed it is growing great. The other day I got out records of past
years to measure the growth and development of this great work. I
inspected the records of that first year. There was only Mrs.
Armstrong and myself, then. We were on one little tiny 100-watt
radio station once a week. The PLAIN TRUTH, in its first year, was
being mimeographed, circulation a few hundred. We held
evangelistic meetings six nights a week. Total cost, so little you
wouldn't believe it. Nine years later, the half-way mark up to
now, the work was going out Coast-to-Coast--seven radio stations,
but still one broadcast weekly. The PLAIN TRUTH was being printed,
with a few thousand circulation, going into every state and many
Canadian provinces. The work had multiplied THIRTY TIMES in that
nine years. Now another nine years has passed. This work is in
it's 19th year. And today it is just THIRTY TIMES as great as it
was nine years ago! Yes, 900 times larger than it was during that
first year!
Today active plans are being laid soon to carry the
Gospel to BRITAIN and to ALL EUROPE! To gain further information
and help lay plans we are sending two of our men, now both college
graduates, to Europe for the summer. They will speak to you on the
program, direct from Europe by tape recording. They will report to
you what they see and find ON THE SPOT.