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reaching MILLIONS around the earth--because those being used now
had but little strength (same verse)--BUT they "KEPT HIS WORD"
faithfully (same verse).
That door of radio and the printing press opened the first
week in January, 1934. Then a time-cycle later, first week in
January, 1953, "a door" was opened (Radio Luxembourg) to carry the
last warning Message to Europe, and on around the world!
Today, there is not much time left--just a few years!
Prophecy no longer "marches on"--it literally streaks past, in
dynamic rapid fulfillment! We are very near the END of this
world--and the coming of the happy, peaceful WORLD TOMORROW!
This is the very WORK OF GOD, empowered by HIS SPIRIT.
Christ utilizes HIS BODY as His instrument in proclaiming His
Message to all the world as a witness, just before the END of this
world--as Christ said (Mat. 24:14). The great and living Lord
Jesus Christ has called together many whose hearts He has made
willing, who voluntarily and without any solicitation have joyfully
become Co-Workers with Him, as His collective BODY, carrying on
GOD'S WORK in these last days, proclaiming His last Message in all
the world with POWER!
And, as at the beginning in 31 A.D., we do not solicit
financial support from the public to whom we GIVE the precious GOOD
news! This is the WORK OF GOD, conducted GOD'S WAY. There is no
other work like it on earth!
Now I have a happy ANNOUNCEMENT to make!
Beginning the very next number, the January, 1963, issue,
The Plain Truth is again increased in size--this time, we feel, to
its ultimate number of pages-52. It will blossom out with the new
year in a heavier cover!
I dreamed of such a magazine, 'way back in 1927. I had
publishers in Portland, Oregon, make up a few blank-page dummies.
Then I had a professional letter-artist design and letter in the
front cover page. But it was seven years before I was able to
produce the first issue of the real magazine itself.
And even then, it was a small, home-made-appearing
mimeographed "magazine." There was no money for anything better or
larger. BUT THERE WAS NO SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, and no solicitation
for funds!
For the next seven years it came out--and not even
regularly--as a mimeographed "magazine"--if it could be called
that. Then it became an 8-page printed magazine, bi-monthly.
Little by little it grew, slowly. After some time it went to 12
pages, then 16, then 24. On up it climbed, to 30, 36, 42, 48
pages. Now it steps up to 52, with a full magazine-weight heavier
cover. This is the ultimate in SIZE, so far as we envision now.
But we do hope for one more final improvement--to come out in FULL
COLOR (it is appearing in two colors, now)--like the finest of
the large-circulation commercial magazines.