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there is no subscription price to The PLAIN TRUTH--no charge for
any booklets offered, and NO FOLLOW-UP with anything to sell, or
any request for contributions--well, most listeners, we know, are
skeptical. THEY JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
Well, YOU, too, did request free literature--and YOU FOUND
IT WAS FREE, didn't you? There was no solicitation of
contributions. Thousands of you have renewed your subscription to
The PLAIN TRUTH for two, three, five or more years. And NO SUCH
SOLICITATION FOR MONEY HAS EVER COME!
Was there ever such a program, purely and unselfishly in
the interest of the listening public, with no axe to grind, no
sponsor or wealthy philanthropist or Foundation back of it--
starting out with NO MONEY--never begging for funds over the air or
in literature offered free--ABSOLUTELY NO VISIBLE SOURCE OR
ASSURANCE OF FINANCIAL BACKING, yet growing constantly for 33 years
until it becomes the MOST POWERFUL PROGRAM ON RADIO--WORLD-WIDE?
Sounds incredible. UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE! Yet it has happened!
HOW? WHY? You have a right to know--and I want to tell you!
There is something that makes it tick! And that is the FAITH
and the POWER of GOD! These very FACTS about this utterly
different program offer PROOF that this is the VERY WORK OF GOD--
thundering His GOOD NEWS of THE WORLD TOMORROW over all five
continents of the earth--using 37 MILLION WATTS of radio power
weekly.
If you know your Bible, you know that when the Eternal GOD
starts anything through human instruments it starts the very
smallest, like the proverbial grain of mustard seed--but it grows--
and GROWS--and GROWS, until it becomes the GREATEST!
This work started in Eugene, Oregon, January, 1934,
WITHOUT MONEY, on faith, on one little radio station of the very
smallest power--100 watts, in a comparatively small community. Its
growth has been gradual and steady. Today thirty-seven MILLION
watts of radio power shout Christ's Gospel to the whole world--to
more than forty-five million people every week!
But HOW did it start?
I have explained in these semiannual letters before, the
facts about how I was challenged and angered into the first real
study of the Bible, in the fall of 1926. I had been reared as a
child in a respected denomination--brought up to assume what most
fundamentalist denominations believe, in general--though like most
church members I never did really know much about the doctrines of
the church.
But I was shocked to learn, in this first real study of
the Bible, that it did not say what I had been taught as
"Christianity" in many basic points of popular belief! But when I
saw, with my own eyes IN THE BIBLE, the REAL TRUTH as "once
delivered"--I had to face squarely the question, what would I do