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FIVE OF OUR LAST 19 YEARS HAVE ALREADY SPED BY! Only 14 more short
years remain! We have now passed the 24th anniversary of the MASS
EVANGELISM CAMPAIGN OF THE CHURCH!
It seems like just no time at all since we first launched
this work on the air--24 years ago! And 14 years ago seems like
only yesterday! That was 1944. We had already been going NATIONAL
--the broadcast being heard coast to coast, even in a scattered
way, for over a year, at that time. THESE NEXT 14 YEARS WILL SPEED
PAST US BEFORE WE KNOW IT. It's a mighty short time! AND OUR WORK
IS FAR FROM FINISHED!
During this past year, God has been speeding up the work--
especially in foreign fields in the far-flung corners of the earth.
We are going on more and more radio stations AROUND THE WORLD. We
are starting, this year, for the first time in South America. Just
this past week, two more radio doors are opening to us--in Liberia,
Africa (about half way along Africa's west coast) and in Panama
(Central America).
Also WORK MUST BEGIN ON THE TABERNACLE AT GLADEWATER, TEXAS,
THIS MONTH! Architect's drawings are now about complete. The
construction company must start work immediately. They want to put
it up at once, during their off-season. We get a better price and
financing arrangement this way. It is going to give us a new
Tabernacle seating about 5,500 people.
BUT SPECIAL OFFERINGS FOR THE BUILDING FUND HAVE FALLEN OFF
TO A MERE TRICKLE! We have to start sending the construction
company several thousand dollars a month, beginning NOW!
Brethren, WHAT ARE WE TO DO? We can't go ahead with this
Tabernacle unless YOU MEMBERS SEND IN THE MONEY! We cannot take
regular tithes and offerings away from the GOSPEL WORK around the
world--WE CAN'T STOP GOD'S GREAT GOSPEL WORK--and put that money
into the Tabernacle.
WHY, dear brethren, is it that unless I send out urgent
appeals, most of you forget all about this great need, and QUIT
DOING YOUR PART? W H Y ? Don't you realize that GOD is noting all
we do--or fail to do? Don't you know we are to be rewarded
according to our works?
WE MUST WAKE UP! We must raise from $8,000 to $10,000 every
month, by SPECIAL and extra offerings, over and above all regular
tithes and offerings, OR ELSE WE CANNOT BUILD THIS TABERNACLE!
Now it's true, we still have in the bank the $27,000-plus
raised at the last Feast of Tabernacles for this purpose, and some
more beside that we have laid aside in this special PROPERTY FUND.
But I don't want to take out more than a tenth of that each month,
so as to spread it over a ten months' period, and not have this
reserve fund depleted at the very start. We still need to raise
close to $10,000 a month additional, as we go--BEGINNING NOW. Only
a very tiny fraction of that has been coming in.
LET US EVERY ONE RE-DEDICATE OUR LIVES TO GOD'S WORK! Time