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The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of Understanding
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Editor
November 19, 1969
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
Just a few hours ago this afternoon, as I write personally
to you as a subscriber, I watched a foot step down on the moon for
the third time by a human being. I'm writing in my study on our
English Campus of Ambassador College.
This second moon landing started a train of thought.
That's why I'm writing now.
I simply have to reflect -- HOW TREMENDOUSLY GREAT is the
human mind! Not only can it devise and produce the means of flying
to the moon -- but think of all the marvelous and intricate
mechanisms the mind can produce. Your name and address is one of
more than two million subscribers listed on the $2,500,000 computer
at the Data Processing Center on our Pasadena Campus. The things
that computer can do are almost beyond belief!
Think of It! Man can accomplish all these marvels -- yet
he cannot solve his own problems here on earth! This moon landing
made me realize, as never before, the REASON for the fantastic
growth in the circulation of this magazine!
I felt I simply had to sit down to my typewriter this early
evening to tell you about it -- and THE REASON for that amazing
growth.
A year ago I told our subscribers that in six months an
additional quarter of a million people had subscribed to The PLAIN
TRUTH. Then six months later, May 27th this year, I informed our
subscribers of another whopping quarter-million subscribers added
-- making a half-million new subscribers in one year.
But now, in another six months since May 27th, this year,
more than a third of a million new subscribers -- 386,000 -- have
been added. The November number had a circulation of 2,136,000
copies. The PLAIN TRUTH today is one of the largest mass-
circulation magazines in the world. In just 18 months its
circulation has almost doubled -- growing from 1,225,000 to
2,136,000 copies -- with an actual readership of more than six
million people!
But the important thing is the REASON!
I stated, just above, that man can accomplish all these
marvels, yet he is unable to solve his own problems here on earth!
And today people are becoming more and more concerned over these
conditions -- their own and humanity's serious problems.