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The program has never gone off the air since, but has grown to a worldwide
program on both radio and television.
During January, 1934, I prepared the first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH. It
had to be printed on a borrowed mimeograph. The stencils were cut on a
borrowed typewriter. About 350 copies were the total press run of the first
issue.
Today The PLAIN TRUTH is one of the great mass-circulation magazines in the
world, now well past five million copies monthly in six languages.
The new church was incorporated later as the Radio Church of God, and
then again later the name was changed to Worldwide Church of God. The
broadcast was renamed The World Tomorrow.
Nothing could have started smaller. But God's Church and its work grew at
the rate of approximately 30 percent a year for 35 years.
Now we have completed our 49th year in the Philadelphia era--A RECORD
BREAKING YEAR.
One million two hundred thousand new subscribers were added to The
PLAIN TRUTH subscription list. THINK OF THAT!
ONE MILLION AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND people have subscribed
for The PLAIN TRUTH in just this one year--added to FOUR MILLION other
subscribers! That means about 20 MILLION people are reading The PLAIN
TRUTH! Those readers are not only all over the United States and Canada, all
over England, Germany, France, Holland and all Europe. But they are scattered
all over Asia, Africa, islands of the Caribbean Sea, islands of the Pacific like
Fiji
and Samoa--all over the far outreaches of the uttermost parts of the world.
Six hundred thousand people have telephoned to Pasadena in response to
having just viewed a World Tomorrow telecast!
NEVER since Jesus started God's Church has SUCH TREMENDOUS FRUIT
BEEN BORNE!
God's prophecy is, "This Gospel of the KINGDOM shall be preached in
ALL THE WORLD for a witness unto ALL NATIONS," and then (SOON NOW)
shall the END of this world come (Matt. 24:14).
NO OTHER CHURCH--NO RELIGION--CAN MAKE THAT STATEMENT!
DO YOU REALIZE WHAT THAT MEANS?
But because of additional TV and radio stations recently added--because
of the big increase in PLAIN TRUTH circulations, which costs so much more
money, WE MUST HAVE AN INCREASE IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS this
coming month and all through this coming GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF
GOD'S WORK!
Please FAST AND PRAY for this! Pray for all brethren in this tremendous
Work of CHRIST! Pray for me, as I pray for you--DAILY--FERVENTLY! Let's not
faint in well-doing, but strive on in greater urgency and zeal!
With deep LOVE, in Jesus' name,