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schedule, and have completed most of SIX programs in these two
days!
I'm getting used to it, beginning to feel just like I
always have felt before a live audience. Everyone says these six
programs are much better than the first two. Among the 14 crew
members (camera men, sound men, technicians, electricians, etc.)
and five or six others required to photograph and record these
programs, are Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and those of no
religion. But they are all getting tremendously INTERESTED! A Jew
and a Catholic held me a few moments after we were thru tonight,
wanting to ask questions. The Jew wanted to know more about Jesus.
WHY, he asked, didn't his rabbi tell him about Jesus? And WHY did
the rabbi preach in Hebrew, a dead language, when the Jews today
all speak Yiddish? The Catholic wanted to know why the priests
speak in Latin, so the congregation can't understand. They said
they could UNDERSTAND my preaching on these TV programs, and it
MAKES SENSE---and they're becoming tremendously INTERESTED. A Jew
took home a copy of "United States in Prophecy" last night, and
this morning happily told me he knew now that WE are not gentiles,
but actually brothers of his!
The first two programs "shot" on our first try have now
been completed, and shown at the college on our movie screen. I
have been greatly encouraged by the reception. I've never seen
such unbounded emotional enthusiasm from any radio program. They
all said that if they had seen these programs instead of the first
radio programs they ever heard of "The World Tomorrow" they would
have surrendered to God thru Christ a lot sooner.
One TV station had been skeptical about approving and
accepting a religious program for their station. Our advertising
agent flew to this city with the first two films. When the station
officials auditioned them, their skepticism turned to enthusiasm.
The top officials of the CBS Television Network in Hollywood have
auditioned the first two TV programs, and our director's report to
me that they were enthusiastic, and said this is by far the best
program so far in its field.
Co-Workers, I'm putting my whole heart and soul into
TRYING to do my very best---and at the same time RELYING SOLELY ON
GOD for strength, guidance, and results, merely as His instrument.
But it does take my utmost effort. It is a terrific ordeal.
Are we going to have to quit, and give it up, after all?
We can't start on these TV stations, Coast to Coast, two weeks from
next Sunday, unless ALL of you Co-Workers yield YOURselves into
God's hands, as I'm doing, and let God use YOU to your very utmost
of sacrifice, to provide the funds to make it all possible.
I can't do it all. I can only do my own part---and when
money doesn't come in, it seems MY part is so very small and
insignificant, compared to YOURS! It certainly is discouraging,
and makes my ordeal much more difficult this week. I know many of
you are back of me to your very limit---doing all you can do---GOD
BLESS YOU! But too many others are neglecting God's work in this
hour of crisis when we are at the very CROSSROADS. This is the