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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
March 23, 1955
Dear Co-Workers for Christ:
I'm writing you with a heavy heart. I'm just human, like
you, and sometimes I wonder how many men could shoulder the burdens
and responsibilities God has laid on me, without being crushed down
and giving up---how many could still keep FAITH, and keep pressing
on!
If you knew the staggering load I have to carry---the
discouraging, frustrating situations I have to face---the very fate
of this greatest work on earth hanging perilously in the balance,
you'd certainly realize YOUR part in God's work is not as difficult
as mine.
Co-Workers, I NEED YOUR PRAYERS DESPERATELY! God's work
now faces a situation to try the stoutest heart---a situation
beyond mortal ability or power to solve. Literally, I'm at my
wits' end. All I can do is take it to God in prayer---and ask you
for your earnest prayers!
In my last letter I said that God, in working out HIS
PURPOSE, never intended our lives, or our work for Him, to be a
soft "bed of roses." He ordained that we should be confronted with
trials, ordeals. The road that leads to LIFE is not broad, smooth
and easy. Jesus taught that we have to learn to ENDURE unto the
very end. Co-Workers, I know all this is true---but as I said I,
too, am only human, and now I not only have to take it to God and
ask Him to give us a real "Lift," lighten the ordeal a little, and
give us wisdom and HELP that we may fight our way on through---but
also I feel I must lay the crucial problem before you, my
Co-Workers.
COULD this great and most vital work on earth be STOPPED?
By faith I know it can't, yet at this discouraging moment every
appearance shouts at me that it can and soon will---unless God,
thru you Co-Workers, quickly and permanently intervenes.
Here's the situation. I have to lay it before you in all
candor. I'm at my wits' end to know what's WRONG! On the one
hand, I can tell you that never before in the history of this work
have NEW Co-Workers been joining us so fast! The total mail
received from the broadcasts is now WAY UP. Every month now there
are hundreds of thousands of NEW LISTENERS. Every week more and