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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
September 30, 1954
Dear Co-Workers:
This letter is a matter of LIFE or DEATH -- far more
important than any human life -- the very life or death of GOD'S
GREAT WORK!
Read this carefully and prayerfully. I am on the Atlantic
racing home. I have just received word by long distance that the
work is in an ACUTE CRISIS. I do not know at the moment whether we
are still on the air.
I received a long distance call from our advertising
agent. His office is alarmed over the situation. He placed a call
for the vice-president of the ABC Network. I do not know the
result of his conversation with the vice-president.
Later the same day a call came thru from our business
manager at Pasadena. We are four weeks behind in payments with the
ABC Network and unable to pay the fifth week's expenses. I
instructed him to contact the vice-president and urge him to keep
us on the air, and to tell him that I would rush home immediately
and cable this letter to all you co-workers concerning the ACUTE
CRISIS.
That is the last I have heard.
I am confident that you will come to the rescue!
In the last bulletin I have reprinted many letters from
listeners the world over and from you co-workers. I must now quote
from two letters I have received since the long distance phone
calls. In the first letter, Mr. Mattson, our business manager,
wrote: "The income during the past week dropped off alarmingly. I
am holding back all salaries. The ABC Network may have to be
dropped."
The second from my son and executive secretary, Ted: "I
am sending a financial report from the business office. I guess
you received our cable about the crisis. Yesterday I read some
figures on the expenses of the work to the students here at the
College. Many are fasting. I am sure most are praying very hard
for the work. Things are really coming to the crossroads. We
either stop or continue forward. I know the reason--lack of prayer
and not taking prayer seriously enough. I told the students that