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The Theocrat
Zion, Lake County County, Illinois
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Leland Barton, Elder in charge in Arizona, shares encouraging missionary reports from Overseer Lee, reflects on the biblical hope of the Lord's second coming from Thessalonians, and urges greater sacrifice for the expanding Zion Mountain View Chapel, noting 118 Bible school attendees and needs for teachers and transportation.
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Having just finished reading the March issue of Leaves of Healing. I must say that the missionary report given at the watch night service by Overseer Lee, and reported in this number, was most encouraging and enlightening. We are privileged in having a part in God's work during the closing days of this age. What a great power the hope of the coming of the Lord should have in our lives.
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NEWS FROM ARIZONA
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In the study of the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians we read over and over again the reference which was made to the coming of the Lord. Having turned from the worship of idols, which they could see and feel and cling to, to the unseen God there had been a miraculous change come into their lives. In the midst of persecution and trial these "young" Christians were standing firm in their testimony before the world and were continuing in their labor of love. "Faith is a venture which trusts in the first coming, and waits for the second."
May we be true to the giving forth of the message of His second coming as well as His first.
We rejoice in the work as we are encouraged by increased attendance at the services in the Zion Mountain View Chapel. Our best Bible school attendance was experienced last Lord's Day with 118 present. Some of our nine Bible school classes are overcrowded and we will have to add two or three new classes as soon as possible. Our need now is for more teachers and added transportation as we have a number of children who are unable to come because of the distance from their homes to the chapel. We had 30 children in the station wagon, last Lord's Day, in one load.
What a need there is, as Overseer Lee pointed out in his missionary address, for additional sacrifice. The neglect to do a thing we ought to do is just as much a sin as the doing of something we ought not to do. What about you and me? Are we actually giving, beyond a point of convenience, the means God has entrusted to us in order that His Word may go forth? I believe we can do more, especially in the light of His soon coming.
Pray for us and the work here.
Leland Barton,
Elder in charge.
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Leland Barton, Elder In Charge
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encourages believers to actively participate in god's work and make sacrifices for missionary efforts and church growth in arizona, inspired by the hope of the lord's imminent return as described in thessalonians.
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