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But it seems always that the harvest is so very plenteous, but the
laborers---especially those who put their labor in the form of
MONEY into the work---are too FEW! God commands us, therefore to
PRAY the Lord of the spiritual harvest to send us MORE LABORERS.
WON'T you pray harder to this end?
The work was getting alarmingly behind financially.
Actually the response of the first 11 days of this month has helped
us partly catch up---but not NEARLY enough yet! And now the
response has begun to drop off again. CO-WORKERS---let's take
heart and encouragement that the response did begin to increase in
this most difficult month---let's join unitedly in PRAYER, and in
each doing whatever God has made possible, and we can save this
Television program yet!
It is not that the work has been going down, as I think
some may have thought. On the contrary, 1955 has been by far the
biggest, most effective year of the history of this work---the
harvest reaped, the number of people reached with the GOSPEL---yes,
even the money income---has been the biggest in our history. But
we've simply been FORCED by circumstances up into a far MORE
POWERFUL MEDIUM for reaching people---and it also is a more costly
medium---and it takes TIME for it to really take hold, and bring in
more fellow-laborers as Co-Workers to help us pay the way. THAT'S
why we've been having such a tight squeeze. TV is the thing, now
---and we have to use it, or the work will die!
And the situation I had to face, at the beginning of this
month, was just this: HERE IS THE STARK TRUTH: Either we had to
have a good percentage of INCREASE in financial income to support
the work during December---an increase which would be MAINTAINED on
thru January, and February, and even gradually INCREASED month
after month thru next year, or else we have to GO OFF TV, and
SEVERAL RADIO STATIONS.
With the most difficult month of the year coming up, THAT'S
the hard, cold fact I saw staring me in the face! I dreaded
telling you. But we were going behind---unable to keep paying for
TV, and we could not survive another month. I couldn't tell you
just HOW serious it was until now---I was afraid I would discourage
you. But I myself had to face that grave situation.
The fate of the work was in His Hands! It was now or
never! Well, God did hear---He did answer---and enough Co-Workers
did respond to give us a barely sufficient increase to save the
work, up to NOW! But yesterday it began to fall back down to the
old normal level, and today it's still down. Unless we bring the
income right back up again IMMEDIATELY---and keep it up from now
on---we shall still have to go off TV by the end of the month, and
this filming of programs tomorrow will be our last!
Brethren and Co-Workers, THAT SIMPLY MUST NOT HAPPEN! Our
God is able to save the work---IF WE'LL SACRIFICE AND PRAY! But
God will not just rain down the money from heaven, while we get
careless, neglect our own part, neglect prayer. It's for OUR good
that God expects each of us to take HIS WORK TO HEART,---to
sacrifice---to earnestly, passionately, PRAY for its salvation, as