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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
July 31, 1959
Dear Brethren of GOD'S Church:
Again GREETINGS! Here is another month ended--we had to send
another $18,000 payment to the Behlen Manufacturing Company eleven
days ago for the July payment--yet all of the members of the Church
of God in the United States, now several thousand of us, have only
SENT IN ONLY $11,190 for the whole month up to the 30th.
Meanwhile, WORK IS PROCEEDING RIGHT AHEAD on the 50%
enlargement of the giant Tabernacle at Gladewater, Texas.
THINK OF IT! We have now completely paid for the present
Tabernacle which we used for the Festival last Fall. It cost a
little over $350,000. We started paying for it in June of last
year. In just 13 months--one month over a year--WE PAID THEM THIS
ENTIRE AMOUNT! Of course we members started sending in the money
a few months before June of last year.
But isn't that something to praise God for? There has never
had to be a mortgage on the property. Because of our splendid
record of meeting every payment on time promptly, the Behlen
Company did not require the mortgage we had previously agreed to
give them. Because of this and their confidence in me, personally,
and on my PERSONAL SIGNATURE making me PERSONALLY liable for the
entire amount, THEY HAVE SIGNED THE CONTRACT for the big addition,
to cost $172,000, without requiring a mortgage!
But--we must go on paying the $18,000 monthly payments! I am
held personally liable for that $18,000 EVERY MONTH! We cannot
meet it, Brethren, when you send in only $11,000 a month! After my
last letter, two months ago, you all responded and sent in $20,000
in the month. But when I didn't prod you this month, because I was
in Europe, many of you let down.
BRETHREN, WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN, AND THIS IS A TEST OF
CHARACTER! We have shown we CAN do it! We MUST put in this
$18,000 EXTRA over and above tithes and regular offerings, for the
special TABERNACLE FUND every month! I am going to pray and ask
God to LAY THIS RESPONSIBILITY ON YOUR HEART SO HEAVILY you cannot
neglect it! I have made myself personally liable! You are not
going to let me down, or let personal disgrace come on me, and
bring discredit on GOD'S Church are you? OF COURSE NOT! I HAVE
FAITH IN GOD--THAT HE WILL PROSPER AND PROVIDE FOR YOU, AND LAY
THIS BURDEN ON YOU IN SUCH POWER YOU WILL RESPOND.