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Then finally it opened again. This time I TRUSTED GOD.
We started, and God supplied the need in ways I never could have
devised. Then He opened another radio door---in Seattle; then
another--Los Angeles. As we TRUSTED GOD--as we remained FAITHFUL
TO HIS WORD, daring to preach HIS TRUTH--more and more stations
opened up.
In time, Christ's Gospel was being heard coast to coast
in America. Then, early January, 1953, the mighty door of Radio
Luxembourg swung open to us, reaching EUROPE and BRITAIN. Then
more and more stations--AROUND THE WORLD.
The little hand-duplicated Plain Truth grew in
circulation from some 150 copies in 1934 to more than 300,000
copies today, in three editions--U.S., British, and Australian.
The very next number will go up to 40 pages--8 more than it has
been for the past year or so.
As soon as we learned the lesson--to LOOK TO GOD for the
supplying of OUR NEED---to ask Him on our knees instead of begging
for money over the air, or putting a PRICE on His priceless TRUTH
--He began to expand and enlarge the power and scope of HIS WORK.
He has blessed us with unselfish, loyal co-workers in HIS ministry
of love. Yes, we have found it is more blessed to GIVE than to
receive!
For more than 27 years now we have been enabled in this
way to GIVE Christ's precious Gospel FREE! We never ask for
financial support on the air--we don't even hint at it. This
entire work is DIFFERENT! NO WONDER it does seem STRANGE to some!
God's ways are not men's ways! We have never put a price on any
literature. We have always been able to send out full year's
subscriptions to The Plain Truth ALREADY PAID--you simply cannot
pay for your own!
NOW! My SURPRISE for you!
In the past two or three years we have begun to realize
that the time is coming when we must begin publishing something
more than our many attractive booklets. The time has come when
there is a need for complete BOOKS on certain subjects.
The first need seemed to be a totally new and different
kind of BIBLE STORY book for children. I could see that our
ministry was neglecting the children. Yet all the Bible story
books I had seen contained a series of totally disconnected blood-
and-thunder stories of violence. They missed entirely GOD'S
MEANING. They dramatized the incidents of David killing the giant
Goliath, Daniel in the lion's den, and others. There was no
connection between them, nor with the Gospel, nor with God's
PURPOSE here below.
For years I wanted to produce a Bible Story book that
would have the intended Bible MEANING--even more thrillingly
interesting than any I had seen--actually instructing, in an
interesting manner, in God's Message.