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themselves, like people do today!
Some might say -- "Yes, but Jesus was living then." WELL
ANSWER ME THIS: IS NOT THAT SAME JESUS ALIVE TODAY? Did He not
RISE from the dead? You have a LIVING Christ to whom to GIVE YOUR
GIFTS -- and ALL ought to go to HIM, for HIS WORK, which HE is
directing, and blessing, using US as His instruments! And I tell
you, dear Co-Workers, if many of us SNUB HIM again this year giving
gifts to friends, relatives, and PEOPLE instead of to HIM, it will
be a TERRIBLE setback to HIS WORK. You have a LIVING Christ to
give your gifts to!
Today, in this commercial frenzy of Christmas, people
embark on an ORGY of spending! Dollars flow by the multiple
MILLIONS in payment for gimcracks, plastic, tin and tinsel, while
the precious Work of Jesus Christ in SAVING LIVES must suffer
serious setbacks!
What a SHAME that is! And think of THIS. In this urgent
international monetary crisis it is being once again made plain
that our DOLLARS are in potential jeopardy.
Co-Workers with Christ -- BEFORE these world-shaking
tragedies occur, the most important place on this earth you can
place your dollars is in the hands of JESUS CHRIST'S OWN WORK, to
be used in spreading this last-minute WARNING to a war-sick,
wretched world!
With this new advertising campaign, ANOTHER MILLION
PRECIOUS LIVES ARE BEING DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THE WORK OF CHRIST!
We're able to give them the TRUE gift of a lifetime -- GOD'S TRUTH
-- only as YOU give liberally of the gifts of the mammon of THIS
world!
Last month I gave you a report on just HOW MUCH every
dollar placed in this Work accomplishes! WHY? Because this living
Christ is the HEAD of this Work -- I'm not! HE directs it! HE
opens doors before it. HE blesses it with TREMENDOUS results.
Many THOUSANDS have been converted, just this year, through this
Work -- their lives CHANGED - to be saved FOREVER!
Do I sound like I'm a bit emotionally aroused? Well, I
AM! That was a REAL TRAGEDY that happened last December! I ask
you to go to your knees and PRAY with me it won't happen like that
again this year!
In the semiannual letter going to nearly a MILLION AND A
HALF subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH, I have explained the
TREMENDOUS INCREASE in the power and scope of this Work that has
come in the past six months through this worldwide advertising
impact.
I will have to CANCEL these ads -- and many radio stations
-- if we fail our living Savior and HEAD of this Work again this
December. We are reaching MILLIONS of people now we never reached
before.