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College NOW are starting to do---this LAST WARNING MESSAGE from GOD
to a world SOON TO END! You, and your children, will not be living
here in America 25 years from now!! Your only HOPE of protection
from frightful catastrophies coming on the world is THE PROTECTION
OF ALMIGHTY GOD! I call on you to give not only your heart---but
your WHOLE LIFE---to Jesus Christ NOW before it's too late! I call
on you to PRAY, and pray earnestly and continually, not only for
yourself, your family and children---but also FOR THIS WORK OF GOD,
which now must be MULTIPLIED IN POWER AND SCOPE IN THESE VERY LAST
DAYS OF THIS WORLD!! I do NOT request or solicit financial help
except from those who have voluntarily become regular Co-Workers---
but to the question so many ask: "Would you be offended if we sent
a contribution---or became a regular Co-Worker?"---WELL, DEAR
FRIEND, LISTEN!!---wouldn't it be absurd to become offended because
one more precious life wanted to BE A PART of the VERY WORK OF GOD
---and to HELP warn this world---and to get CHRIST'S GOSPEL OUT TO
A DYING WORLD? I'm sure it would be WELCOMED and BLESSED by the
GOD whose work this is---and every single dollar in this work
reaches HUNDREDS of precious lives with Christ's GOSPEL. Also,
many HUNDREDS are being brought to Christ---their lives CHANGED---
receiving God's Holy Spirit, by this great work every year! Not
merely a profession or a routine acceptance of Christ! To receive
Christ means to make an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO GOD---to receive
Christ as a LIVING SAVIOUR, who literally, IN SPIRIT, comes within
you,and LIVES YOUR LIFE FOR YOU---as He lived! It means a totally
CHANGED LIFE, living the BIBLE WAY---by EVERY WORD of the Bible in
every thing you do. A hundred such converts are worth THOUSANDS of
the ordinary kind!
Truly this has been from the start a WORK OF FAITH! Not
merely in name, but in FACT! Of course our faith has been sorely
and frequently TRIED! It seems it is ALWAYS tried in a very
special way, at the Christmas season now once again approaching.
For years the month of December was our most difficult
month of the year, in the struggle to meet the financial needs of
this great work. It seems that at this season most people,
apparently not realizing what they are doing, FORGET any gift for
CHRIST and His work! It does seem strange and paradoxical, doesn't
it? And yet people become SO ABSORBED in exchanging Christmas
presents with their friends and relatives, they seem to overlook
CHRIST entirely! They SUPPOSE they are celebrating CHRIST'S
birthday, yet their presents are not for Christ---but for business
customers, friends, and relatives!
Did you ever stop to think about that? At this season
people seem to have a very GENEROUS spirit---for all except Him
whose birthday they think they are celebrating! They spend
lavishly for Christmas presents. Ask people WHY they do this, and
they reply, "Why, to follow the example started by the wise men who
gave their gifts to CHRIST!"
But does anyone ever stop to realize that those wise men
did not exchange presents back and forth---they gave their gifts to
CHRIST! And few people know that the wise men were not giving the
Christ child birthday presents at all---for they presented their
gifts actually weeks after His birthday! It was simply an eastern