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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
Broadcasting
The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishers of
The PLAIN TRUTH
September 17, 1958
Dear Brethren in Christ:
THINK OF IT! Less than two weeks, until we should all be
gathered together in God's huge new Tabernacle!
I shall certainly expect to see you there! Remember God
commands our presence there, unless we are prevented by
circumstances beyond our control.
I believe the big new aluminized-steel Tabernacle will be
completed on time. It is proving to be a race against time. At
best they will get it completed only on the very last work day
before the Festival opens.
The entire aluminized-steel building is now completed, and
scores of workmen are working ten hours or more a day to finish up
all the interior conference rooms, restrooms, speaking platform,
mothers' room, children's room, and acoustical insulation on the
inside walls of the large auditorium. Other workmen are hard at
work completing two new sanitary buildings in the enlarged camp-
site area. A whole car-load of new folding chairs is on the way
from the factory. Bricklayers are now starting to lay the face-
brick facade over the front of the Tabernacle.
Our own electrician from Ambassador College has arrived at
the Tabernacle grounds to supervise final electrical work. The
dozens of big light fixtures in the big auditorium are about half
installed. Great progress is being made. Work proceeds at a fast
pace.
Rains would have caused delay and prevented completion on
time. But this is GOD'S Tabernacle! God controls the weather.
There were rains to the north of them--rains to the south of them.
There were rains to the east and the west of our grounds. BUT NO
DELAYS BECAUSE OF RAINS ON OUR GROUNDS!
There was one terrible tragedy--but God's healing power is
rapidly rectifying that. One of our own church members, who was
working for the Behlen Manufacturing Company on the building, fell
off a movable scaffold 30 feet to the cement floor below. At first
they thought he could not live. The first report to me was that he
had almost exactly the same injuries my son Dick had--fractured
pelvis, right arm broken at the elbow, head concussions, possible