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to all this THE ABC NET-WORK, COAST-TO-COAST,---and TWO broadcasts
now going out over the world's most powerful station, RADIO
LUXEMBOURG, to ALL EUROPE, and THE BRITISH ISLES---with all this,
The World Tomorrow becomes probably THE MOST POWERFUL RADIO
BROADCAST ON EARTH TODAY!
That is as it should be---for GOD'S WORK IS THE GREATEST
WORK ON EARTH!
What WONDERFUL things our God is doing for us! What
MIGHTY and POWERFUL DOORS The Supreme Creator-RULER of the universe
is opening to His called and chosen servants for carrying HIS
MESSAGE to this dying world in these very last days!
But did not God also forewarn us, thru His prophet
Daniel, that in these very SAME last days when JESUS said this same
GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM which HE preached should go to ALL NATIONS,
---to ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS---that also "Many shall be
purified, and made white, and TRIED."
We are now in that time of TRIAL and TEST, which God
allows to make us, His people, purified and WHITE---spiritually
WHITE! We are now in that supreme TESTING TIME!
Even now, in the beginning of the second 19-year time-
cycle when God has OPENED THE DOOR to broadcast His Message to all
Europe---and to open a publishing office over there to PUBLISH His
Message by printed Word for all Britain and Europe---and the door
has opened on the great ABC Net-Work, Coast-to-Coast---even NOW, we
are entering a time of economic readjustment---a MILD DEPRESSION IS
ON US, and many, whose hearts are not fully aroused to the
importance and need of GOD'S WORK are going to either cut down the
amount they spend for God's Work, or stop sending in altogether!
MORE THAN THAT,---we are now once again into the
Christmas SHOPPING SEASON, when so many forget all about CHRIST and
HIS work, and CEASE giving gifts to HIM, in order to EXCHANGE GIFTS
among their relatives and friends! Every year at this time MANY
withhold their gifts from CHRIST, in order to TRADE gifts back and
forth with fellow-humans!
THINK! Consider carefully! People buy presents lavishly
at Christmas time, SUPPOSING they are following the example of the
wise men in giving gifts to Christ. YET WITHOUT REALIZING IT, THEY
ARE DOING JUST THE OPPOSITE! Notice this carefully:
Here is THE PLAIN TRUTH!
From the Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 12, pages 153-155, I
quote: "The interchange of presents between friends ... must have
been adopted by Christians from the PAGANS." The fact is, the
custom of exchanging gifts at Christmas time has not a single trace
of Christianity about it! Did you ever attend a birthday party,
where all the guests spent lavishly for BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, and then
traded all their gifts among themselves, GIVING NOTHING TO THE ONE
WHOSE BIRTHDAY THEY WERE HONORING? Wouldn't that be silly? Yet
that's what nearly everybody is doing! And Christmas does NOT