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expressions that all our listeners and Co-Workers who have met her
this trip feel the same way.
What I started out to say is this: I have just completed
three weeks of daily broadcasting from Des Moines--we are now on
our way back home--expecting to stop off this evening a few hours
in Kansas to visit a man and wife who were converted by the
broadcast, and whom I personally baptised last August. And, after
being at my office in Eugene for a short time, I feel I must return
soon to Hollywood to broadcast another daily series of Bible
studies over station KMTR, to our listeners throughout Southern
California. And then, if we can get the time from 11:05 PM,
following an 11 PM news broadcast, over station WOAI, I hope to be
able later to return to San Antonio for a daily series there--and
if not available over WOAI, which reaches the entire HEMISPHERE at
that hour, from the tip of South America to the North Pole, then at
least to conduct a daily Bible-lecture series over one of the local
San Antonio stations, or possibly a Texas net-work, for our many
interested listeners in that section.
And in connection with that I hope soon, now, to be able
to prepare, print, and have ready for free distribution, the series
of articles I have had in mind SO LONG, taking the reader thru a
THOROUGH course in Bible study, going much DEEPER into vital
spiritual subjects than I can over the air or in The PLAIN TRUTH.
I have a heavy burden on my heart for this series of articles--but
it means much more work and effort and expense than one would
realize, and will take a little time.
In these DAILY broadcasts I can start on a series of
subjects and go into them much deeper than I can on the Sunday
programs. But of course, while it does a TREMENDOUS AMOUNT of
good, all this costs added money, and reports from the office in
Eugene indicate very little money coming in again the past ten
days. The PLAIN TRUTH is all printed, and half mailed out, but
this sudden let-down in tithes and offerings received has prevented
my staff from being able to mail out the remainder. The postage
ALONE for this issue costs $350.00. The fact is, there are about
20,000 copies yet to be mailed, and for this we need at ONCE an
additional $200.
I wonder if our co-workers realize one vital DIFFERENCE
between our work and that of other broadcast programs. In the
first place, we have no denomination or organization back of us to
finance this work and guarantee the bills. All must come, as it
has from the small beginning, by FAITH. Secondly, we NEVER ASK FOR
MONEY, or even make known our need, over the air, or in The PLAIN
TRUTH, or in ANY literature we send out, except in the BULLETIN, or
a very rare letter such as this one, which goes only just to those
who have VOLUNTARILY, and without solicitation, become one of our
co-workers. NONE other of our listeners or PLAIN TRUTH readers
ever receive ANY request for money from us, in any form whatsoever.
The Gospel MUST NOT BE SOLD. We cannot put a PRICE on any Gospel
literature. Of the 35,000 who receive The PLAIN TRUTH, more than
33,000 of them have NEVER received any request or solicitation for
money from us in any form whatsoever! I'm afraid some of our Co-
Workers never realize this. In every religious or gospel broadcast