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What does it mean? WHAT is the solution? First of all---
let's FACE IT, or God's work will DIE---look at fact number ONE,
stated above: Never have so many NEW Co-Workers been joining us
every week and every month as NOW, YET INCOME FOR GOD'S WORK IS
DROPPING UNDER THE SAME WEEKS A YEAR AGO, when very few new
Co-Workers were starting! Now that means only ONE THING. Many of
our regular established Co-Workers are NEGLECTING their interest in
GOD and HIS WORK!
Second, then, WHY? Dear Co-Workers, isn't it obvious? Are
you Co-Workers not human, too? Are most of YOU not being ensnared,
drugged, made careless and neglectful of that which means YOUR OWN
ETERNAL SALVATION by this same new temptation which has come to TRY
us---TELEVISION? Yes, let's face it! LET'S WAKE UP! Many of you
dear Co-Workers, perhaps not realizing what is actually happening
to you, are getting SO WRAPPED UP in the mystery murder stories,
the panel programs, and the comedy shows or movies put on TV to
sell more tobacco, liquor, cosmetics and other products, that, when
it's time for GOD'S PROGRAM, "The World Tomorrow," to come on the
air, you are just too strongly TEMPTED to turn on TV and PASS AWAY
TIME pleasantly under the magic spell of the commercial interests
of THIS WORLD! So, once in a while at first, then more and more
often, many of YOU CO-WORKERS whom GOD has called to HIS WORK, have
fallen for the devil's subtle temptation to NEGLECT hearing GOD'S
WORD on His programs and instead have been DECEIVED and pleasingly
(to your SENSUAL appetites) been lulled to sleep by fascinating TV
programs that HAVE NOT BENEFITTED YOU, but which are a CURSE in
your life! Yes, they MAY be cheating you out of ETERNAL LIFE!
Night before last, my son Ted came to our house, lugging in
his TV set.
"Dad, he said, "may I store this thing in your basement, or
attic, or some-place? It's begun to prove a CURSE---taking
precious TIME away from my BIBLE studies and college work, and I've
decided to put temptation out of my home." That's the way my
younger son has licked this problem. Our other son, Dick, is
unmarried and still living with us, but if TV happens to be on, he
invariably goes upstairs to his own room to STUDY. These boys of
ours have given their lives to GOD in the service of Christ---they
have overcome tobacco and other habits, and now, as young ordained
ministers of Jesus Christ, have realized they also must meet and
overcome the TV HABIT if their lives are to be USED in God's work.
The same is true of Herman Hoeh, Roderick Meredith, Dr.
Meredith, Raymond Cole, Raymond McNair, and our other young
ministers in God's service in this work. They know they can't
serve GOD and the interests, entertainments, and ways of THIS
WORLD. Now the liquor industry, the tobacco manufacturers, and the
commercial interests of THE WORLD are getting THEIR tempting
entertainments right into YOUR HOMES, by TV! And I know well that
SO MANY of our Co-Workers have carelessly been deceived by this
clever and alluring device that they are NEGLECTING their own
salvation and the GLORIOUS PRIVILEGE God has given them---(does
this mean YOU?)---in His work!
That's WHY the funds needed for God's work in this crisis