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driving on toward its second hundred. As I have had to report to
you, one team which included my elder son, Richard D. Armstrong,
met with tragedy which cost us the life of my son who had developed
into one of our most valuable men in God's Work. We need not only
to PRAY for angels to go along with us and protect us when we
travel, but also to pray earnestly that God will STAY the hand of
Satan and his demons from striking at us, for God can restrain him.
This is a terrible loss to the work, a major set-back--but I know
it has spurred me on to far more sober realization of the
seriousness of this time, and to greatly increased DRIVE and ZEAL
for God's precious work--and I hope and trust it has had a terrific
AWAKENING effect on thousands of you Co-Workers!
GOD HELP US to WAKE up and realize that there is
absolutely nothing in this world worth living for, except our part
in the precious WORK OF GOD, and the building of spiritual and
Godly CHARACTER in our lives, through complete surrender and
submission to God, FAITH in Christ, OVERCOMING the self, the world
and the devil, GROWING in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and
Christ, and ENDURING unto the end, so that we may achieve our only
worthwhile GOAL, to be BORN OF GOD in Christ's glorious KINGDOM at
His Coming!
Co-Workers, it is a supreme comfort and source of
gratification to Mrs. Armstrong and me, and to our daughter-in-law
Lois, to know (by the many and abundant fruits) that our son Dick,
even in his short life-time, HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED the PURPOSE
for which he and all of us were put here on earth--as stated by the
Apostle PAUL in Philippians 3:11-14--to attain the resurrection of
the dead, in the FIRST resurrection to ETERNAL LIFE IN THE KINGDOM
OF GOD! Dick had grown and developed spiritually, in these last
two years especially, and even more especially during the past
six months. He had acknowledged faults and shortcomings, fought
the good fight with God's power from earnest prayer in OVERCOMING.
Many lives were changed and started toward everlasting life in
God's Kingdom by his labors and his faith. A cripple was healed in
a miracle as great as that of Peter and John recorded in Acts 3--as
a result of his prayer and the faith Christ gave him, proving again
that Christ and His healing power is still the SAME today as He was
yesterday and will be forever! A mother and a baby were saved from
certain death by his faith and prayers and refusal to doubt or give
up, even after the physician said there was absolutely NO HOPE, but
certain death! Yes, my son, who was God's gift and actually born
as a result of a miracle, did yield and surrender himself to allow
God to develop him and train him for an important responsibility in
GOD'S KINGDOM, and the far GREATER work we shall be called on to do
during the millennium under Christ's world-wide RULE! We are now
deprived of one of our top-most ministers--but in his next second
of consciousness he will be raised immortal, GLORIFIED even as
Christ is now glorified, his eyes as flames of fire, his face
shining as the sun, in great POWER in the work of God's KINGDOM!
So it is rather for us to spur ourselves on with
INCREASED EFFORT, RENEWED CONSECRATION, MORE COMPLETE DEDICATION to
the WORK God has given us to do NOW! Life is unsure. THIS life is
but for a little while at best. Let us spend every minute of it
furthering the glorious work for this time, to which God has called