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May 14th, 1941
Dear CO-WORKERS in the services of Christ:
GREETINGS! in Jesus' name. Here is your copy of The
PLAIN TRUTH.
With it I feel I must send this heart-to-heart letter,
just to the comparative few of you who are co-workers with me in
the Master's work. The time has come when I must take you into my
confidence about some conditions and problems in this work. It has
grown till we face a grave crisis.
The past two months our radio audience, especially over
KRSC, Seattle, has doubled and tripled. When we were forced to
change our time to 8:30 Sunday mornings, it proved a great blessing
in disguise. Truly, ALL things work together for GOOD to those who
fear and love God. This new time has made it possible for me to go
to Seattle every Sunday, broadcasting in person from the KRSC
studios each Sunday morning since the change in time,--then driving
to Portland in time for the 4 o'clock afternoon broadcast. These
long 640-mile trips every week-end have been arduous and tiring,
but they are bearing rich fruit for God's kingdom. Letters are
coming in by the hundreds. The mail response indicates our radio
audience has grown to more than a QUARTER OF A MILLION SOULS over
these three North-West stations alone!
The work has now completely out grown our present
facilities for handling it. We are faced with a serious problem.
To solve it, I feel I must take you into my confidence concerning
certain phases of the work.
Eight years ago Mrs. Armstrong and I came to realize, by
experience, that any man must SERVE the man or organization who
pays him his salary. We found that if we were dependant for
livelihood on some denomination or religious organization, we would
be FORCED to preach doctrines we knew to be false and contrary to
God's Word;---and to be silent where we know God speaks. We
learned there was but ONE WAY we could be FREE to preach the whole
Truth as God reveals it, honestly, truthfully, fearlessly,--and
that was to look to the One we serve for financial needs, as well
as every other need. Then and there Mrs. Armstrong and I solemnly
pledged our Father in heaven we would henceforth look only to HIM,
in living FAITH, for every need. Men told us it could not be done.
No man, they said, would DARE preach the plain truths of the Bible
---the WHOLE truth---for people would never support it. But we saw
in the Bible where God PROMISES to supply every need. "Seek ye
FIRST the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness," is the
instruction, and the PROMISE is that all material needs shall be
added. Well, we believed God was able, and we took Him at His
Word.
The first Sunday in 1934 The RADIO CHURCH OF GOD went on
the air on sheer FAITH. God opened the way, and the small expense
then required was supplied. Often it came in strange and
unexpected ways---often at the very last minute---but it came!
Gradually but surely this work has grown until a quarter of a