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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
Pasadena
August 22, 1983
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
As we approach the 50th Anniversary number of The PLAIN TRUTH (next
February issue), I'm thrilled to announce circulation has now topped SIX
MILLION COPIES!
But that's only the tip of the iceberg. God has opened tremendous new
doors for great expansion of PLAIN TRUTH circulation. Four thousand
supermarkets all across the United States have opened big prominent
good-neighbor boards displaying and offering free copies of The PLAIN TRUTH.
But not only that. Most major airline terminals have opened space for
giant
display islands offering free copies of The PLAIN TRUTH. These display islands
are illuminated. They stand 8 feet tall, clear above the heads of customers.
They
have four sides like a tall cube, each side 3 feet wide. They stand out big from
four directions. Each side will have two stacks of PLAIN TRUTHs at the proper
height for picking off a copy. These will be pictured for you in full color in
the
December issue of the GOOD NEWS magazine.
Among the major airline terminals already open for these giant display
islands are Kennedy in New York, O'Hare in Chicago--busiest in the world,
Atlanta, third busiest, both Dulles and National terminals in Washington, D.C.,
Dallas-Fort Worth, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Cincinnati, Boston, Seattle, St.
Louis. Also, these huge display islands have been placed in Grand Central
Station
and Pennsylvania Railroad stations in New York and in the World Trade Center,
New York.
Many passengers will plck up a copy of The PLAIN TRUIH to read in flight
or on the trains.
All these new "doors" Christ has opened for his Work should increase
PLAIN TRUTH readership almost faster than we can handle the responses. Of
course it will cost a great deal. It gives all you brethren multiplied
opportunity to
be involved, yourselves, in your areas and to pray more diligently for the Work
and make additional sacrifices to support the fast-growing Work financially.
Brethren, I have seen for some time that God has had reasons for HOLDING
BACK the progress of the world in its downward plunge to the END of this world
and its civilization--and to the beginning of the WORLD TOMORROW under the
KINGDOM OF GOD, ruled by Christ and his Church then born into his
KINGDOM.
We have already been a very few years into the prelude of the GREAT
TRIBULATION. That is virtually upon us now. Immediately after the Great
Tribulation (nuclear World War III) will come the earth-shaking PLAGUES
leading to the Second Coming of Christ to RULE THE WORLD!