Page 1619 - Church of God Publications

Basic HTML Version

The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG
Proclaim to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
December 10, 1968
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
TODAY I can ANNOUNCE THIS BIG NEWS AT LAST! Now It's
OFFICIAL! I have said before I expected to announce it soon.
But TODAY something else happened. Mr. Portune, our
business manager just now came to my office and said, "TODAY THE
BOTTOM DROPPED OUT!" He was talking about the income for God's
WORK.
So I have to rush this very URGENT letter to you AIRMAIL.
And further I feel it necessary to do what I have done only twice
before -- enclose a return envelope ALREADY STAMPED WITH AN AIRMAIL
STAMP! It is urgently necessary to RUSH this to you AIRMAIL, and
have your return AIR-SPEEDED back, because the mails are now
clogged with the Christmas rush.
In my last letter I explained how this month of December is
OUR BIG PROBLEM! It's almost a question of the survival of the
WORK! So many of our Co-Workers, it seems, are spending all their
money buying gifts to be TRADED back and forth with relatives and
friends. They suppose they are buying BIRTHDAY PRESENTS FOR CHRIST
-- but they don't GIVE their gifts to the living CHRIST -- they
exchange gifts back and forth with OTHER PEOPLE!
Jesus Christ IS NOT DEAD -- He ROSE from the dead -- HE IS
ALIVE right now, actively directing THIS WORK OF GOD -- and THIS IS
THE SEASON MORE THAN ANY OTHER, when HE needs these gifts FOR HIS
WORK! He has blest us by drafting us as HIS CO-WORKERS. We have
OUR PART to do!
And speaking of Christ being ALIVE! That is what this big
announcement is all about! And even though I need to get this
urgent letter off to you immediately, I feel I MUST take time to
tell you WHAT HE HAS JUST DONE FOR HIS WORK!
I have just returned from my second visit to Jerusalem in
approximately four weeks. Four weeks ago all the preliminary
discussions took place, and this trip IT WAS MADE OFFICIAL! It's
one of the most important things that ever happened for GOD'S WORK!
Let me give you the background facts first. God originally