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which he will have to carry until Dick's return. BUT even these
little incidents should serve to show you all that WE NEED TO KEEP
PRAYING FOR THIS NEW LITTLE FLOCK---THE CHURCH OF GOD IN LONDON!
Don't forget, or neglect, brethren---PRAY EVERY DAY for this
work over here in general as a whole, and for this new flock in
particular. They are in that "first love." Their faces show how
happy they have been to receive this TRUTH, new to them. There is
joy written all over their faces, and it comes from their HEARTS.
But remember the parable of the sower and the seed---how many
endured but a little while. THESE PEOPLE NEED YOUR PRAYERS! They
will now meet persecution and real temptation for the first time.
Yes, this wonderful news of a new Church over here brings
along with the rejoicing and the joy of it a STERN RESPONSIBILITY
to all of us---for they are now fighting a new enemy, and they are
not experienced in meeting his cunning wiles---SATAN the devil!
They are now OUR BRETHREN overseas. It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY to
hold them up in our prayers---to earnestly and incessantly INTER-
CEDE for them---to pray constantly for their protection and
spiritual growth.
I hope it is not disappointing to any of you that we didn't
have a large crowd here. We didn't plan for a large crowd---in
fact didn't want it. If we had advertised these meetings,
attracted a large crowd, I should have had to avoid the subjects
that resulted in this new Church, and in this amount of time could
not have accomplished anything at all. OR, we should have had to
carry on the campaign for not less than six weeks, and better, two
months or three months---and even then, without the preliminary
work done by the radio and The PLAIN TRUTH and literature, probably
would not have wound up with any larger harvest than this. By
planning it this way---inviting ONLY those already well along in
truth and in interest, so I could get immediately into what
normally would have been the LAST TWO WEEKS of a public campaign,
we were able to harvest the FRUIT of a normal two months' every-
night campaign. So I'm sure you see that God does give His
servants wisdom, and there is great cause for rejoicing---and for
A NEW RESPONSIBILITY IN PRAYER FOR THIS CHURCH. God is moving His
work forward---and blessing it!
With much love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong