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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION-WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophesies of The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing:
Box 111, Pasadena, California
The P L A I N T R U T H
A Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
September 9th, 1953
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:
This is a last-minute letter of URGENCY about the
FESTIVAL OF TABERNACLES.
Letters are pouring in, asking many questions. I will
try to answer every question so far as possible, but first, news
about the building of the Tabernacle and the entire work.
Mr. Roy Hammer, his helpers and the contractor and his
crew are doing all they can to get the Tabernacle far enough along
so we can hold services during the Feast of Tabernacles. The large
auditorium is now TWICE as large as it was for Passover and
Pentecost festivals, and they are now putting up the room to the
rear of the auditorium which will serve as dining room at
festivals, and as school and local church room the rest of the
year. The large lounge room at the front will not be started until
after the fall Festival. The entire building will be totally
unfinished as it was last spring---but there will be enough more of
it to take care of the larger attendance.
But, special offerings for the building of the Tabernacle
have come in so small we have not been able to even start to erect
the housing districts of little booths. We are still going to TRY
to get one or more of these sleeping booths built just to show
those coming what is planned for the future. We will lost some
$12,000 or more, which now will have to be spent by our people at
motels, cabins, and hotels, which could have been paid in to us to
help pay for the building of our own housing districts, IF we had
had funds to finance the building of these districts. The
contractor could have put on a large crew and could have built it
all in time, had we had sufficient funds. As it is, he has had to
work a small crew---but they are doing their very best to at least
get the big Tabernacle far enough along to hold services.
So, as it now is, we shall have to just rough it---make
out the best we can for this Festival, and look forward to having
it completed by another year. "Rome wasn't built in a day," they
say. It will take more TIME to finish God's beautiful Tabernacle
and sleeping booths for His Festivals---but by faith we know it
will be finished in His due time.
Several are coming with house trailers or tents. We are
making frantic efforts to provide electricity for trailer houses,
and toilet and sanitary facilities enough for a limited number---