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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION-WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophesies of THE WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing Box 111, Eugene, Oregon
PLAINTRUTH
Magazine of UNDERSTANDING April 7, 1947
Friend and Co-Worker:
Mrs Armstrong and I have returned from a most necessary and
fruitful trip to Europe, where we not only laid the foundation for
the establishment of the European unit of AMBASSADOR COLLEGE, but
also laid the foundation for carrying God's last warning Message,
and the true GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM to Britain and to all Europe.
God Himself brought about circumstances making a quick,
hurry-up trip over there necessary. On the way over, and on the
way back He performed miracle after miracle for us. The thrilling,
amazing account of this will appear in the "Heart-to-Heart Talk" in
the next PLAIN TRUTH. TIME IS SHORT! World events are moving at
a terrific pace. Already the movement has started and is well
under way in Europe that will bring the prophetic "BEAST" of the
Revelation out of "the bottomless pit." We have much that must be
done BEFORE that time! God says it WILL be done. He has given us
the vision, it is opening and preparing the way before us. We have
just a very few years at most---not one year to delay! The time
has come when this work of God must expand into other nations.
Jesus' commission was: "Go ye therefore and teach ALL
NATIONS." "Go ye into ALL THE WORLD and preach the GOSPEL to every
creature." And prophetically of our time, NOW, in this mid-
twentieth century, Jesus said: "This Gospel of the Kingdom shall
be preached in all the world for a witness UNTO ALL NATIONS; and
then shall the end come."
He was speaking of the END of this AGE---the END of this
CIVILIZATION---the END of all these human-formed government of man-
kind! Friends, Brethren, Co-Workers, you must realize we are only
a few years now from that END! No man knows how many---but both
prophecy and world events indicate somewhere between five and
twenty-five, and most probably between seven and fifteen. We must
lay our plans to be prepared to carry out this grave world-wide
commission WITHIN FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS! God Himself will make it
possible for the commission to be accomplished in time, if we set
ourselves with full submission to Him with purpose and
determination, and in FAITH, to do our utmost at ANY SACRIFICE, as
He makes possible. It is a huge accomplishment! Ministers and
evangelists must be trained, prepared, taught the languages of
foreign nations. They must learn these languages, and the customs
and ways of the people WHERE these people live!
At Columbia University in New York, at the University of
London, and other places, they told me we have set out to do some-
thing never before done in the world of education---to establish a
European branch of a college, where students study part of the time
in America, part abroad. Everywhere educators are AMAZED, and say
it is a WONDERFUL idea. We were interviewed by reporters of daily
newspapers in London, where this was regarded as NEWS! The Gospel
cannot be carried to Britain and Europe and other parts of the
world IN THE SAME WAY we do it here. There we shall not have the
facilities of radio. But God is showing us HOW, and the people of
those nations WILL BE WARNED, and they WILL BE REACHED WITH GOD'S
MESSAGE! Yes, powerfully, and effectively! God is showing as HOW.
The ground-work is laid. But TIME IS SHORT. Soon it will be too
late. The day is here, but the "night" is coming when NO MAN CAN
WORK for God.
But now LISTEN CAREFULLY! We have returned from this most
important, vital, fruitful trip to find the work here in a
financial crisis that threatens its very life! It is in the most
serious and critical emergency it ever has faced. It is a LIFE-
AND-DEATH test!
I have to tell you candidly and frankly, that every
APPEARANCE---every visible circumstance---says the work is doomed,
and we will be shut off the air on our two most powerful and
important stations, XEG, and XERB, by the 15th of this month,
April! In fact, there is no visible hope that anything can now
save the work. GOD MUST PERFORM A MIRACLE!
But LISTEN! Our God whom we are serving is a miracle-
working God. Nothing is too difficult---nothing is impossible,
with God. Circumstances, appearances, have absolutely nothing to
do with FAITH, or the working of God. And God has PROMISED He will
not stop, but will finish the work He has begun. He has PROMISED
to supply all our need. He has PROMISED He will never leave us nor
forsake us. And HE CANNOT BREAK A PROMISE!
I don't know how it happened. We left here with everything
in good financial condition, the outlook excellent. God opened the
way for us with actual miracles repeatedly at every turn---was with
us throughout our entire journey. I've come back with just what I
needed for the broadcasts---for future articles in The PLAIN TRUTH.
Yet, before we had hardly boarded the ship it seems our co-workers
---most of them (perhaps not YOU, but most of them)---seemed to
delay or forget to send in their tithes and offerings. This
delayed the mailing of The PLAIN TRUTH. And, for the first time,
our office staff was unable to pay the heavy radio bills. I
returned to find two months piled up. Such a situation never has
existed---ought not to exist---CANNOT continue, because the radio
stations will not keep the program on the air unless they are paid
up completely by the 10th or 15th of this month. For several weeks
money almost stopped coming in. This has grown to a great work,
costing thousands of dollars a week. And a slump of four or five
weeks like this puts the work in a DESPERATE condition! Now, we
MUST have an added $15,000 within the next ten days, or this vital
program will be taken off the air---right when I have the MOST
SERIOUS, IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY WHICH I LEARNED ON OUR TRIP
ABROAD!
Co-Workers, I have to ask you to sacrifice as never before.
If you could see what we saw in Europe---how people shiver and go
cold, how HUNGRY they are, how thread-bare their clothes---how
TERRIBLE is their plight---you'd realize that ANY sacrifice you
make for GOD'S CAUSE is as NOTHING compared to what has been laid
on them! We and we alone in all this world bask in the sunshine
of PLENTY---of LUXURY! We, too, can go without some things we had
planned to get. It won't hurt us as much as we think. GOD'S WORK
IS AT STAKE! Now, as never before, the work needs generous
offerings from some who can---if their heart is yielded to God and
made willing---put five or ten thousand dollars into GOD'S WORK.
We need many offerings of a hundred dollars or more. But---most
important---those of you who do not have such amounts, DON'T THINK
THAT BECAUSE OF THE GREAT NEED THE WIDOW'S MITES WILL DO NO GOOD
---there must be a quick, air-mail SHOWER of WIDOW'S MITES if this
need is to be met. Just send QUICKLY---by air-mail---and if a
larger sum, by WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH, the largest sum YOU can,
whether a dollar or ten thousand. And then JOIN ME IN EARNEST,
BELIEVING, PREVAILING PRAYER, that God will move on those who are
able to send in QUICKLY enough to meet this vital emergency and
save this most important work in this world! Nothing but believing
PRAYER for a MIRACLE, and utmost generous sacrifice on the part of
each one can save the work now. It MUST be saved! God is able,
and WILL---if we do our utmost.
God bless you, in this deepest crisis I know you won't fail.
Herbert W. Armstrong
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