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And -- that big building was partly financed ON MY
SIGNATURE ALONE! The United California Bank granted us a loan,
based on their knowledge of the way we conduct this great Work;
their FAITH IN ME AS AN INDIVIDUAL, without any security, so we
could complete the building!
I sometimes MUST PLEDGE to banks, to builders, that we
will PAY them when due! THEY WILL HOLD ME TO MY PLEDGE! But this
pledge I ask YOU to make I do NOT HOLD YOU TO! It is a statement
of your INTENTIONS -- a promise of WHAT YOU FEEL YOU ARE ABLE TO DO
-- NOT a legally BINDING contract.
But it was only YOUR pledges that helped me keep mine --
and so helped this great Work of God take one more big step
forward!
These banks and lending institutions are not CARELESS
with their money! They know this Work is budgeted CAREFULLY, that
it is handled WISELY! I wonder if you can realize HOW THANKFUL I
am for the kind of helpers God has sent me in this Work? Our
business office is MOST efficient! God's money is handled with
SAFETY, with CAREFULLY-LAID PLANS! Each PENNY coming in for this
Work is placed where it will do the MOST good! And a tremendous
GOOD IS BEING DONE!
Meanwhile, the REGULAR, MAIN INCOME of tithes and
offerings has been falling off! And that is SERIOUS! In a work of
such MASSIVE SCALE as this has grown to be, we dare not fall ONE
SINGLE DAY behind! Even PART of ONE DAY'S INCOME might mean radio
bills would not be paid on time, or needed literature could not be
printed and mailed! We do need your DAILY PRAYERS, and your
REGULAR, STEADY, CONTINUAL financial support!
Co-Workers, the need for the very WORK OF GOD for this
time is URGENT! Are your HEARTS in it? Are you so completely
absorbed in God's Work it is YOUR VERY LIFE? It IS MINE! NOTHING
else is remotely so important -- EVERYTHING else will soon PERISH
-- fade away and vanish! We are literally engaged in PREPARING THE
WAY for the very real RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST! We are doing HIS
Work, not our own! It is HIS commission, HIS BUSINESS we are
carrying out.
And it is in HIS name, and as HIS DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE
for HIS Work I call upon you to GIVE so the living Christ can
continue to GIVE HIS LIFE-GIVING WORD to this sin-ridden world!
And what a real BLESSING it is to know there IS some
really LASTING GOOD being accomplished! To know this is NOT a
shallow, on-the-surface "religious work" of HUMAN BEINGS -- but to
know GOD ALMIGHTY and JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH are back of it!
The need is so URGENT right now I am sending this letter
by FIRST CLASS MAIL. I hope you can send your largest possible
offering back AIRMAIL -- but if not, then by return regular mail!
So JUST NOW, according to what GOD has given you, and BEFORE YOU
FORGET, BEFORE you become absorbed in any physical care of THIS