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God's time has come! More TV and radio stations will cost more money.
The Wall Street Journal full-page ads are the best and most effective I have
ever written. God is helping me now to do the BEST WORK OF MY ALMOST
89 YEARS OF LIFE! I am working harder, more energetically than ever before.
I NOW NEED YOU TO WORK HARDER, MORE ENERGETICALLY AND AT
GREATER SACRIFICE IN PRAYERS AND EXTRA FINANCIAL OFFERINGS
THAN EVER BEFORE!
A few months ago I wrote you a warning that we must prepare to tighten
our belts, and reduce our living standards! This whole nation is going to have
to do that! The nation's economy is in DEEP TROUBLE. It's a national emergency!
Worse, says the President, than ever before except the Great Depression
following
1929! The President is asking for a 10 percent cut in income taxes across the
board. Congress may not give him that much. But his plan is for people to
SAVE what they gain by it. I know most won't but will go out and spend it,
causing still more inflation.
BUT I ASK YOU, BRETHREN, IN JESUS' NAME, TO PUT WHATEVER
CUT YOU GET--AND MORE--INTO GOD'S WORK IN THIS CRISIS HOUR BEFORE
THE GREAT TRIBULATION THAT WILL CUT OFF OUR WORK--AND THE
SOON-FOLLOWING COMING OF CHRIST AND THE WORLD TOMORROW.
Let's now set our hearts and whole interest on the SOON-coming KINGDOM
OF GOD, when we shall shine as the sun in brightness and find happiness FOREVER!
We--you backing me up--are preparing the way before Christ's soon coming
and His KINGDOM! What else now counts in this world? I ask you to SACRIFICE --
go without some things you might want--put all you can spare into this GREAT
SURGE FORWARD IN GOD'S WORK!
Just over two years ago, Satan struck what he thought would be the FATAL
BLOW to DESTROY God's Church and Work. It only drew us closer together
in UNITY!
Before January 3, 1979, we had to borrow, every year in January, $1
million
or more at the bank, and pay it back out of spring Holy Day offerings. Then
we had to borrow another million or more in July and pay it back out of Feast
of Tabernacles offerings. The January, 1979, assault by the state RUINED
OUR CREDIT SUDDENLY. We couldn't borrow. GOD WAS WITH US! We didn't
need to!
From that day we have not had to borrow a cent at the bank. And God
has made it possible to keep the budget BALANCED! FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Just THINK how God has blessed us! This is HIS Work!
We could not borrow now, although I think our credit is reestablished --
because of the excessive high interest rates! God has so blessed us we haven't
had to! We have a balanced budget WITHOUT BORROWING! PRAISE GOD!
But now His Work must surge forward in tremendous POWER! I have
to ask you to sacrifice and make possible more TV and radio stations, and more
advertising space in TV Guide and Reader's Digest. We need to build the
circulation of The PLAIN TRUTH! I ask YOU to finance this now--and in due time
this extra-pressure Gospel lunge will bring in new co-workers to help finance
the Work!