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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, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Ambassador College in England
November 21, 1960
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
I have to write you about a situation so URGENT that I am
having to dictate this letter over transoceanic telephone from
England to our Headquarters in Pasadena, California, so it may be
typed there yet today and mailed immediately to you.
Over here in England, the Christmas decorations are out
already in many of the shopping streets. People are beginning to
pour in vast throngs into the stores on the annual shopping spree.
I know this is happening also in America.
Once again we have reached the time when most people forget
all about CHRIST so far as supporting His work is concerned--they
are SO ENGROSSED in shopping for presents to exchange back and
forth among themselves that they forget to send any gift to keep
CHRIST'S work going! And right at the season when HIS work is in
the most desperate need!
Wouldn't it seem funny if a certain group of people planned
for a whole year ahead, a great birthday party for the leader of
their group--planned it as the greatest occasion of the year--and
then, when the day came, all of them came to the big party and
totally ignored their leader whom they had planned to honor, and
instead of giving their birthday presents to him, started
exchanging them among themselves? If people ever did that to a
human friend, everyone would think they were crazy! And yet,
without realizing it, that is what people are doing to Jesus
Christ!
Not only that, December 25 is not Christ's birthday! No one
knows exactly when Jesus was born, except that it was some time in
the early autumn. But it is definitely known it was not in
December! Have you read our astonishing booklet, "The TRUTH About
Christmas?" If not, be sure to write for it immediately. You can
check up on the facts it contains in any public library. You need
to know the TRUTH!
The wise men did not reach Bethlehem until many days after
Jesus' birth, and they presented their gifts to HIM--they did not
exchange them among themselves. It has always been the custom to