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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Longview, Texas
October 24, 1957
Dear Co-Workers with CHRIST:
It's mighty seldom that I am taken ill, but just now I'm
making the second attempt this afternoon to get out of bed long
enough to write you this letter.
It simply must be written and mailed to the Headquarters
office in Pasadena yet this afternoon. The office reports to me
that receipt of tithes and offerings for the support of this great
work of God has been dropping off the past two weeks.
The WORK OF GOD is far more important than I. When God's
WORK is getting sick, then, my brethren and fellow workers, you and
I can no longer consider whether we are sick---we have to spring to
action FAST, and get the precious work back on its feet!
I'm having a touch of this flu epidemic, resulting from over-
exertion in preaching at a meeting over here in Texas combined with
damp, chill, humid Texas weather I am not used to. But, tho I
still have some temperature, I've been anointed by three of our
ministers, and God will heal me and raise me up out of this in His
due time as He has promised. I think I have mentioned before that
in our family we have not had a single penny of doctor or hospital
bill for sickness in over 30 years---since we learned of God's
promises to heal, because Jesus Himself took our infirmities and
bore our sicknesses by being beaten with stripes before He was
crucified.
This is the second time in many years that I have even been
put to bed by any illness. The other time, three and a half years
ago, I was kept in bed, fasting as I always do at even the approach
of any sickness, for several days. For some days I could not
understand why God did not heal me immediately. Then I learned He
had a purpose. My two sons, Richard D., and Garner Ted (they are
DicK and Ted to us), were forced at that time to step into my shoes
and preach for me, carrying the entire responsibility of a large
meeting. It was that experience which brought out the dormant
preaching ability in them. By the time I was out of bed, they were
both preaching like experienced veterans.
This time, I was badly in NEED of another period of fasting.
I would not have felt I could spare the time. Yet I was not