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telephone. I made, on sheer faith IN GOD to move on the hearts of
the rest of you brethren, a new and altered proposal. Instead of
binding us to monthly payments of $15,000 per month, I now proposed
payments of $12,000 per month between now and the Festival next
October, with a $65,000 payment now at the start, and $18,000 per
month payments beginning with November, and with a $30,000 payment
which we must raise during the Festival for the month of October.
We have enough cash in the bank, set aside for this Tabernacle
fund, to pay this initial $65,000 down payment, and leave us a
$25,000 cash reserve, as a guarantee in case the full amount does
not come in during any future months. And I might add, the
architect's fees are all completely PAID IN FULL, already. The
plans are completed. That part of the cost of the Tabernacle is
already fully paid.
While this proposal must be finally approved by the president
of the construction company in Nebraska, the representative who is
handling this for us felt sure it would be acceptable; so, I gave
them the "green light" to go ahead immediately, so that the new
Tabernacle will be built, completed, and ready for us before this
coming Feast of Tabernacles!
I have been encouraged to make this new proposal partly
because actually more money is coming in from members for the
Building Fund than is being pledged. But I KNOW it is GOD'S WILL
to go ahead. God commands us to assemble at the place where HE has
chosen to place His name, and KEEP the Feast of Tabernacles! We
cannot do this without a place in which to assemble. The Bible
shows it is always God's will to provide a BUILDING for such
things, just as He did under Moses and under David and Solomon.
Solomon's Temple was the most extravagantly COSTLY building
ever constructed on earth! It was decorated with solid gold,
silver, precious stones, choicest marble, finest woods. And GOD
HIMSELF planned it, designed it, and gave the plans to David! It
was His will!
Today, we are constructing this Tabernacle of the LEAST costly
method and material of construction known, planned to cut down
every possible dollar of cost. It will not even be insulated on
the inside--no inside finish at all--just the hollow shell of the
aluminized steel walls and ceilings--even eliminating the cost of
supporting structural beams, made possible by this new type of
construction. And still, we who are SO MANY in number as to make
necessary so large a building, have only been willing to pledge SO
LITTLE as to make impossible its construction, UNLESS GOD NOW MAKES
MORE HEARTS WILLING!
Time is short. We have not many years to use this Tabernacle.
Perhaps 12 or 13 more. That's WHY we are building it at the very
LEAST possible cost! THAT'S WHY we must not delay another year!
Brethren, LET'S NOW WAKE UP!--I mean all but the 381 who
already have made pledges, and the few others UNABLE to make one.
LET'S NOT LET THIS STIGMA REMAIN AGAINST GOD'S CHURCH ANOTHER WEEK!
I'm praying and asking God to lay this burden so heavily on your
hearts you'll now LEAP to action. Last Sabbath I spoke very