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have to put about three times as much life and energy into that
mike as you hear coming out of your radio. Otherwise it would be so
dull and lifeless we would have few listeners. I feel that I do
need to be back on the air, at least part time, even though my son
and co-speaker is now so experienced after many years of constant
broadcasting, and has grown to such maturity and power spiritually.
I telephoned my son at Pasadena headquarters that I was
going to stop everything, right where I was, stay right here, and
go on a fast. During this past two weeks of fasting, I have tried
to continue writing the book. I know how seriously thousands of
you want it -- and NEED it. It is, more than you may realize, a
tragic need. But, in fasting, one's mind is not operating on full
power. Much of what I wrote had to be re-written. And I have
simply lacked the strength, without food, to push it on to
completion. I am in Chapter Four -- it is a good start -- but I am
now forced, to my great disappointment which I feel deeply, to tell
you I shall have to postpone offering you this book until next
summer.
Yet, in spite of this, I am overjoyed -- once again
really THRILLED! I have just received word from our Ambassador
College Press, in Pasadena, that they can now produce VOLUME THREE
of the much-wanted BIBLE STORY book. We have not published a
volume of this in book form, now, for a year and a half. About
150,000 of our readers requested a free copy of Volume Two,
eighteen months ago. Thousands have wanted this next volume.
Two and a half years ago, we published the first volume
of this BIBLE STORY. It was the first time in 27 1/2 years I have
been able to GIVE something so fine to so many thousands of people
-- and absolutely FREE -- even postage paid! It came about, then,
as a rather dramatic happening. We had found that by having it
printed in LARGE VOLUME -- 100,000 copies or more -- the cost per
book could be reduced low enough that we felt we could offer it as
a gift from us.
Then a year later, we offered Volume TWO. These two
volumes included the first 30 chapters -- or, the first 30
installments as they first appeared in The PLAIN TRUTH. THIS
VOLUME THREE, now to be offered, will include the installments
beginning with Chapter 31, up to the installments published about
May or June, 1962.
But if you have only started reading The PLAIN TRUTH
since May 1961, this new book will bring you portions of the story
you missed.
Let me tell you, just briefly, about this book -- The
Bible Story. NEVER has there been a Bible Story book like this.
There have been many, many Bible story books -- TOO many, of a
kind. But they seemed to me to have no mission, except to
entertain children. They seemed to try to compete with the
exciting fiction of violence which youngsters saw on television, or
read in cheap novels or comic books.
These children's Bible story books were a disconnected