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actually in fit physical shape for the big fall and winter radio
campaign on all these new and additional stations we are now on.
So God has FORCED me to stay in bed and rest. Ted can carry the
broadcast until I return. I am grateful to God that He forced this
on me. Now I shall rise up out of this present enforced fasting
period in much better shape, and YOU will, I feel sure, hear much
better broadcasts than I could otherwise have done.
Co-WORKERS! I have written you how we have added greatly to
the POWER of this work. The better time on WLS (at higher cost),
the addition of super-power WLAC Nashville, at 7:00 every week-day
evening; the additional stations in Australia, and additional
broadcast in South Africa; and full page Gospel Messages being
published in every issue of Prairie Farmer, twice a month---all
this adds GREATLY to the POWER of the work. But IT ALSO ADDS
GREATLY TO THE COST OF THE WORK!
The big full-page Messages published in Prairie Farmer are
bringing in more letters requesting literature than any one radio
station! And WLAC is bringing in MORE letters from NEW listeners
requesting literature than any United States radio station---more
than any, except XEG, although WLS, on the new time, is almost
equal to it.
These additions to the power of this work are going to mean
HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of additional lives SAVED in the glorious
KINGDOM OF GOD for all eternity! How much is just ONE such
precious life worth?
Also, in another year, those hundreds of thousands of
additional listeners and readers will result in a substantial
addition of Co-Workers to HELP US finance this great work. But,
until they become Co-Workers voluntarily, of their own free will,
without being asked, WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT ASK A SINGLE ONE OF
THEM FOR A SINGLE PENNY! Meantime, you and I have got to tighten
our belts a little tighter, try to give a little more each month,
and carry this added expense until these additional Co-Workers do
join us.
GOD'S work keeps GROWING---it can NEVER STOP!
GOD'S work is threatened with SICKNESS---financial sickness!
I've gotten out of my sick-bed this afternoon to call on YOU to
PRAY about this very seriously---take it with me direct to the
Throne of Grace, and implore God earnestly to lay this burden SO
HEAVILY on so many Co-Workers, that there will be a sudden FLOOD of
tithes and offerings pouring on the office. The first time I got
out of bed to write this, earlier this afternoon, I felt I couldn't
make it, and went back to bed. But I couldn't rest. This letter
HAS to go. This time God has given me the strength and purpose to
stay with it. Now I shall go back and PRAY---will you pray very
seriously about it, too? God bless you. What a PRIVILEGE God
gives us to be used in His work!
With deep love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong