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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophecies of THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Dec. 18, 1953
Dear Co-Workers in Christ:
I must now report to you the most important situation you
and I have ever faced together. I must RUSH this emergency letter
to you---there is not time for many words.
You and I have been called together, by God, to the most
important mission of our time on earth---a most SPECIAL mission,
actually foretold in Bible prophecy---the very WORK OF GOD for this
time or world-crisis.
And this most important work on earth now is in the very
midst of the most severe trial and test we have ever faced---the
gravest, most important CRISIS we have ever had to meet. So far we
are weathering this crisis---but once again the alarming drop off
in mail the past six days has driven me constantly to my knees
before God, that His glorious and all-important work may survive!
Here is what has happened: first, let me say we did
receive an encouraging response from my last urgent letter for just
one week. I can't explain to you the heartfelt GRATITUDE I felt,
and all of us here at the headquarters office. Words can't
properly THANK YOU, dear Co-Workers---but God will bless you in
ways that can't be measured in money---and, I pray, bless you
financially also. But after that one week of good response, the
financial support for God's work suddenly seemed to drop way down,
and now again the situation is ALARMING---and I have to ask you to
go to God in prayer with me, and pour out your heart EARNESTLY, and
believingly, that God will hear and move on the minds and hearts of
more co-workers to respond generously and continuously.
But here is the all-important fact f the situation.
Read carefully! I must make PLAIN the situation. Based
on the 1950 census, there were in the whole United States 150
million people (it is about 160 million today). But 84 MILLION OF
THESE PEOPLE---56%---more than HALF OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED
STATES, are living in states and sections of the country that COULD
NOT HEAR the broadcast of God's Message, except the scattered few
that heard it on station XERF.
By that I mean that there was no listener reception from
XEG and XELO in these states and sections in which more than HALF
of all the people live. The greatest density of population, where