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August 21, 1944
Eugene, Oregon
Dear Friend and Co-Worker:
Mrs. Armstrong and I have just returned from two weeks
complete rest at the beach, where we spent eleven days in fasting
and prayer. We had both been hitting a pretty hard pace, and
sometimes one just has to stop and take time out and recuperate.
We return now, greatly refreshed and renewed, not only in body, but
in mind and spirit, for the heavy tasks that lie ahead.
Our office staff is preparing another BULLETIN. With it
I plan to include, this time, a special full article I hope will
prove of real interest and profitable and helpful to our
co-workers. However, there is more work involved in getting out an
issue of The BULLETIN than our co-workers probably realize, and it
will be two weeks or more before it can be mailed.
In the meantime, I find that there has been a serious
slackening in money received the past week or so, and this suddenly
brings on a very serious condition in the work. I have to send out
several hundred dollars every week to keep this great work going,
and this week we just don't have it to send out.
Consequently, since the situation is too serious to wait
until the BULLETIN is out, I am sending this short letter today to
just a few of our loyal co-workers on the Pacific Coast only, to
acquaint you with the situation and ask all of you who possibly can
to come to the rescue by return mail to tide us over. We need
several hundred dollars by return mail, and there is not time to
get letters to the other parts of the country and back.
I have just learned of the possibility of securing a good
night time on a station in Mexico, on the border--a station of ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND WATTS POWER--twice as powerful as the biggest
stations in the United States--twice the power of our super-power
station, WOAI, which is 50,000 watts, the largest power permitted
in the United States. I am leaving for Hollywood next Sunday after
the broadcast from Portland, and so now I plan to contact this
station and see if we can arrange to secure a good night time on
it. It will cover the whole North-American continent, perhaps even
better than WOAI--tho that is the best United States station for
this purpose. If God opens the way, it will virtually double our
total listening audience! And the cost is comparatively low.
To our Southern California co-workers let me say that I
want to arrange for about four weeks of every-day broadcasting
while there if I can work it out, bringing you a new, fresh series
of messages utterly different from anything you ever heard before,
yet basically fundamental to understanding of the Bible, of
redemption, of God's plan, and of the purpose and significance of
God's people ISRAEL. You'll want to listen in EVERY DAY, because
you can't afford to miss a single one of these vital subjects.
Each forms a necessary link in a wonderful chain.
You dear co-workers have stood with me so loyally, and