Called Across the Waters
The Chosen People | May 1938 | Joseph Hoffman Cohn
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Dearly Beloved Friends:
And then for many of our dear friends, again have come trials
and afflictions, unemployment, perplexity, until our hearts have
cried out to God as we have read some of the letters that our
beloved fellow laborers have sent to us, letters telling of such
disappointments, such losses, so many needs. So widespread
now is this confusion and darkness that we wonder whether we
are not on the very brink of that cataclysm toward which the
whole world seems to be reeling headlong; and if that be so then
our Lord’s instructions to us are “Look up, for your redemption
draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28). This is the only bright spot for the
child of God in these days; world nations are indeed tottering,
despotism is making startling progress throughout the world,
democracy seems to be on the verge of collapse, and what a day
may bring forth, no one knows. It is just this sort of a background
that must prepare the way for the coming of Him whose
appearance shall consume that wicked one and, “Shall destroy
him with the brightness of His coming” (2 Thessalonians 2:8).
And now, dear friends, while the little paper will not come to
your home during the next four months, the great work that
the Lord has committed to your hands and to our hands will
continue just the same, and even more intensified, because we
are earnestly seeking to buy up the opportunity, for the time
is short. For myself, as I intimated in April, I feel the urgent
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