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copies. But the orders for the book began flooding in in such
volume additional paper stock was ordered immediately, and the
first edition increased to 250,000 copies. THAT'S A QUARTER
MILLION COPIES OF THIS BOOK! That's enough to completely fill, to
the roof, almost FOUR LARGE FREIGHT-CARS just with this printing of
the book!
That will give you some idea of the magnitude of this
undertaking. Did you ever hear of anyone GIVING AWAY, without any
price, so much of anything so valuable?
But then, if we were to put one single month's issue of
The PLAIN TRUTH in freight cars, it would more than fill TWO WHOLE
FREIGHT CARS! And there is no subscription price! And no follow-
up requesting money or contributions!
The only unrequested literature we ever send out --
except where one without solicitation voluntarily desires to become
a regular Co-Worker in God's Work -- is a letter like this, once or
twice a year, offering something we feel is both valuable and
wanted by you, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Maybe you'd like to know just HOW we are able to do this
-- when no commercial corporation, or business, or interest or
church denomination sponsors this Work of God. We have no money of
our own. No one subsidizes this Work. I have been offered big
financial sponsorship and backing -- but I should have been
required to COMPROMISE WITH GOD'S WORD AND HIS TRUTH! All such
offers have been instantly declined. Never have we compromised
with GOD'S WORD!
But we have been persecuted. We have been falsely
accused -- called names -- slandered, and evil spoken, against --
just as Jesus was! But we have never answered back. Jesus didn't.
We have always remained FREE and UNMUZZLED -- free to thunder to
the world GOD'S TRUTH, straight from the shoulder, never pulling
our punches!
I might take space just to tell you this much, in this
letter.
Over 31 years ago, I was employed in the ministry on a
very small salary. The men who paid me the little salary demanded,
in August 1933, that I preach and act contrary to God's Word.
Immediately I rejected the salary. I had learned, then, that he
who relies on MEN for salary, or financial backing, must serve
those MEN! Whoever pays one money to work for him always demands
that he be served AS HE DICTATES!
If I am to serve God faithfully," I said to my wife, "I
shall have to look to GOD, in faith -- and not to MAN -- to supply
every physical need!" I was serving the living God -- the God who
demands not only obedience, but who DOES THINGS FOR those who serve
Him and rely on Him!
Likewise, I realized, if GOD supplies the material need,
then HE will demand that I serve Him faithfully, as HE dictates, or