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to these every-night broadcasts has been overwhelming! It
indicates this precious Message is being heard by an interested
audience of at least ONE MILLION souls EVERY NIGHT--a great, vast,
nation-wide and international audience. The response shows
thousands and thousands are HUNGRY for GOD'S PRECIOUS TRUTH. It
keeps a large and growing staff in our office busy every day
mailing out FREE Gospel literature to thousands and thousands of
people who are writing in for it! And remember it goes FREE. I
can't put a PRICE on the Gospel! Some are bound to write in, after
this appeal, and urge me to CHARGE for it--but THAT IS NOT GOD'S
WAY, and WE CAN'T DO IT! You know I never ask for money over the
air. You never heard me mention this, or ask for it BEFORE, and
even tonight I'm saying this only to our regular co-workers who are
listening,--and only because circumstances FORCE me to say it, as
a last resort! I've never put out an appeal for money over the air
before! Why, every day I receive letters like this one that just
came this afternoon, saying, "If you will accept an offering, I'll
be glad to send one to help spread the Gospel." Thousands of
listeners do not seem even to know whether I'd be willing to ACCEPT
an offering, or their tithe! That's because THIS broadcast is
probably the ONLY ONE you have ever heard on the air--that is, of
RELIGIOUS broadcasts--that does not continually beg for money over
the air. No, I do not, I WILL NOT, and there is NO REQUEST FOR
MONEY WHATSOEVER in any of the Gospel literature we send to
listeners who respond to the broadcasts--except our Co-Workers
BULLETIN, sent ONLY to those who have first voluntarily taken
financial part in this work by sending in money UNSOLICITED! So,
this once, I state the FACTS, as I must.
Now, of course, out of the thousands of NEW LISTENERS now
writing in for our FREE GOSPEL LITERATURE, a small percent have
been sending in small offerings for the work with their requests,
even tho it was not solicited, nor expected. The plain facts are
that had it not been for these offerings from NEW LISTENERS, I
could not have continued this great campaign this far.
I owe you an explanation of the FACTS: Twelve years ago I
started this work in a country schoolhouse near Eugene, Oregon,
without a dollar of money--nothing but God's TRUTH, a rich
experience, and PURE FAITH! A man at that time said to me, "I'd be
willing to BET you that you can't go on preaching these PLAIN BIBLE
TRUTHS and succeed--it can't be done!" He said "People won't
support it, and no denomination will pay you a salary. People
don't love or WANT the TRUTH. They want, and will support, only
the soft and smooth things--the deceits--the FABLES. You'll STARVE
to death if you keep preaching the TRUTH!" Well I want to tell
you, my friends, I took that man up on his challenge. We didn't
bet--but I've kept right on preaching the PLAIN BIBLE TRUTH to
constantly increasing audiences ever since! At that time, 12 years
ago, I preached to a nightly audience averaging 36 people.
Tonight, and every night, if you Co-Workers stand with me and make
it possible to continue, I'm preaching to a great, vast,
INTERNATIONAL audience in THREE NATIONS of A MILLION or more
people! And I'm still not pulling my punches, no matter WHOM it
hits or hurts--I'm not preaching to please MEN, but to PLEASE GOD
--and, God helping me, I'll go right ON preaching His TRUTH boldly,
and fearlessly, as long as God Himself gives me the opportunity and
the breath to preach it. God hasn't called me to entertain, amuse,
or please the people with soft and smooth things and popular