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precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple and
silk, and scarlet." etc. etc. (Rev. 18:12). NEVER have we seen
such dazzling riches and treasures, and yet in every one of a
certain type of object used by the cardinals or the pope in mass,
I think called the "host," was a dead man's bone inside a little
window covered by a curtain of velvet. It brought to mind Matthew
23:27-28!
Everywhere we have seen the RUINS of a once-proud
SPLENDOR of HUMAN effort, without GOD! It has all come to naught.
Temples, Palaces, Shrines built by men who hoped they would endure
forever, soon lost their shiny new and dazzling brilliance. They
faded, they decayed, they toppled over in ruins. MANY of these
pagan places of worship and adoration were destroyed by EARTH-
QUAKES!
The MATERIAL things man devises and builds do not last!
ONLY the spiritual things of GOD are permanent and everlasting!
All the glory of MAN soon fades, rots, decays. It becomes dismal,
musty to smell, depressing to the eye. Yet everywhere we have seen
people still worshipping and glorying in these decayed RUINS.
Everywhere the guides wanted to take us to see TOMBS! TOMBS!
TOMBS!!! Everywhere people seem to have nothing but DEATH to
adore, to exalt, to bow before! Also we drove down to see the
ruins of Pompeii---more death, destruction, and ruin!
THANK GOD! WE HAVE A RISEN, LIVING CHRIST TO WORSHIP!
I can't begin to tell you of all we saw and learned on
our Middle-East trip. I must now get back to the state of the
WORK, and its future.
It is absolutely NECESSARY to the work that I get away
from Pasadena, and even from the United States, occasionally, to
get the true perspective, and see this WORLD-WIDE work in its true
aspect.
When I'm in the daily grind and routine in Pasadena,
England and Europe, and South Africa, and Australia, and the rest
of the world, seem so far away that they sort of FADE in my view,
and the local and home problems in America get all my attention.
But over here, this work in Europe and in the British Isles looms
up in its TRUE IMPORTANCE---and it is MIGHTY IMPORTANT!
Here ia what I find: We are only reaching people over
here once a week, and that between 11:30 and midnight on Monday
nights. No other or better time is available on Radio Luxembourg.
No other radio station is available for reaching people in Britain
---and no TV station. Now we learned long ago in the United States
that a once-a-week broadcast IS NOT SUFFICIENT to really carry the
Message to people so they GRASP IT thoroughly.
That's why we have temporarily gone off TV. The once-
a-week telecasts just were not enough to "GET THE MESSAGE OVER."
We MUST find a way to reach the people over here DAILY, or every
night. It cannot be done by radio, or by TV. The medium of buying
large display space in mass-circulation newspapers is now opening