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up this Special Fund for NEXT year's Tabernacle expansion--for the
contractors will want to START on it shortly after this fall's
Festival.
PRAY with me, Brethren, that God will intervene in our
behalf and prosper many of our Brethren, so that they may have more
to contribute for this great purpose. If we are PROFITABLE
servants, God will prosper us and bless us.
But I must, now, by authority of Jesus Christ, ask every
member who has not done so in the last few months, to send in one
of these conditional pledges. So far, 1,077 members have pledged
ONLY $10,352.27 per month. That is $10 per month per member, on
the average. That is a good average--but we NEED $35,000 per month
in this fund. If the other nine-tenths of you will pledge as much
as this first tenth or our members, we would have $100,000 per
month. IF a thousand of us can pledge $10,352.27 per month, the
other 10 or 11 thousand of us can do as well. This proves that,
small as we are, God's Church today has the ABILITY to pledge over
$100,000 per month for the Building Fund.
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Brethren, we CAN easily raise this Special Fund to the
needed $35,000 per month. REMEMBER, this cannot come out of God's
TITHE, or out of your regular offerings. It must be IN ADDITION to
them. This is an EXTRA offering. I am fully aware of the "burden"
of adding this to 2nd and 3rd tithe accounts, government income
tax, etc., etc. Yes, we could gripe and grumble, and say we can't
afford it. But more than a thousand of us ARE ALREADY MANAGING TO
DO IT, and the other 10 or 11 thousand of you CAN MANAGE IT ALSO--
IF your hearts are in God's Church--IF you are PROFITABLE servants!
If you think this burden is heavy, PRAY OVER IT--and remember
Christ said He will make our burdens light--God can and will
prosper us to make possible everything He expects of us! And it is
a JOY to respond!
We are hard at work over here in England, getting ready
for the opening of college here in October. I expect, God willing,
to fly home for the opening of college at Pasadena. THANK YOU,
Brethren, for this added sacrifice I have to ask you to make.
With LOVE, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong