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closing days IS IN YOUR HANDS. This has been the most serious
crisis we ever faced, and we're not out of it. I know you won't
fail!
SPECIAL TOKEN OF APPRECIATION
I wonder if you'd like to read a lot of interesting side-
lights of our recent trip to Europe?
If you would like to read it, we are getting together a
special little booklet, composed of excerpts from the personal,
intimate letters Mrs. Armstrong and I wrote during our journey to
our own children and family back home. A trip such as we took is
a real EDUCATION. So many of the things we saw, and experienced,
were so interesting, so thrilling, and educational, we have felt
the record of them ought to be preserved and made available to all
our Co-Workers who wish to read about them.
You, too, are a part of our FAMILY. We just feel that
all of us---all our Co-Workers---form one big, intimate, loving
FAMILY. Somehow Mrs. Armstrong and I feel that we know you---
even tho we've only been privileged to meet a few of you---and we
feel that we know and love all of you. So, if you'd like to read
our personal letters written just to our FAMILY---of which we want
to feel you are a part---we'll get together these letters in the
order in which they were written, and illustrate the little special
booklet with a number of pictures we took along the way---including
thrilling pictures of a HURRICANE in mid-Atlantic---60-foot giant
swells in a 65-mile-an-hour gale. The Associated Press grabbed
these pictures in the press-room of the Queen Elizabeth as we
docked in New York, and developed and printed them for us.
Then, with it, we will send you a reprint of "AN
EXPLANATION" as published in The BULLETIN three or four years ago,
explaining how this work started and grew---the story of our life,
and history of the work briefly stated. And if you'd like to have
it, we have one thing more to include. We have a file of a few
hundred letters, I think it must be, requesting a picture of your
radio pastor, Mrs. Armstrong, or both of us. I hope none has been
offended because those requests have never been filled. Somehow
I've always felt I was called to send out the Gospel, not things
about myself. And I never had a photograph taken since I was a
boy---before I was married,---until Mrs. Armstrong and I were
forced to have photographs taken in order to get Passports for our
trip abroad. Many of our co-workers have been rather persistent,
demanding that they have a RIGHT to see what a man looks like that
they listen to every day---and arguing that when a minister
preaches in church he doesn't hide his face, and shouldn't over the
air. Well, the photograph studio in Washington had a good salesman
who used these same arguments, and urged us to order photographs,
now they were taken, in large lots which they were prepared to
furnish, just as they do the president's official photograph. So
we ordered a limited number---all original large-size 8 x 10
photographs, unmounted, but they will fit standard folders or
frames. If you really want one, we will send it, along with these
other booklets---of myself alone, or of Mrs. Armstrong too---each
is a separate photograph, so if you want both, please request them.