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The GOOD NEWS
Letter
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Number 2
April 20, 1943
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A personal letter to all the brethren of The
Churches of God, from your pastor, co-laborer, and
fellow-servant in Christ, Herbert W. Armstrong,
Box 111, Eugene
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GREETINGS! brethren, in the name of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ! Again I am writing the Good News-LETTER on the
train, in the very heart of the awe-inspiring and magnificent
Canadian Rockies.
We are on our way home, again filled with JOY and reverent
GRATITUDE for the continuing blessings of God's grace! If we
sincerely dedicate our lives to HIM, keep our hearts honest toward
God, and strive to do His will and those things that are pleasing
in His sight, then it seems that even the Eternal Creator cannot do
enough to bless us! I am reminded of those passages in the first
chapter of Ephesians I have loved to read to you so often,---how
God bestows upon us every spiritual blessing within the heavenly
sphere!
He has certainly been with us, and blessed us,---and
protected and preserved and prospered His work, on this trip! We
faced the gravest crisis that has yet confronted this work. It
appeared that the work had been set back at least a year. No
human effort could have saved it. But God heard our prayers. He
answered and saved it not only, but gave it a great leap forward,
until now we are on TWO of the nation's eleven nationally-cleared
channels over super-power 50,000-watt stations at 9:00 P.M.
Sunday nights (Coast time), and the Message now goes out over
NINE stations---two of the nation's most powerful 50,000-watt
exclusive channel stations; two 10,000 watt stations, one 5,000,
two 1,000-watt stations, and two 250-watt local stations!
I found it necessary to come home by way of Minneapolis, on
one of the northern routes, so I could see the manager of the
50,000-watt station of Minneapolis. For some time I have been
wanting to see some of the Canadian stations, looking into the
possibility of adding them later on---and so when I found we could
just as well return via Minneapolis, and then Canadian Pacific,
through Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, and Vancouver, and at no
increase in train fare, I had our tickets rerouted and we are
making the journey home through Canada. For a day and a night we
traveled over the flat prairies of wheat land, but today we are
winding through the marvelous, majestic, thrilling Canadian
Rockies. We have passed Banff and Lake Louise, and are now back
into Coast time and west of the Continental Divide. The
spectacular thrills of these scenic mountains, revealing some of
the Creator's matchless handiwork, provides a fitting climax to the
thrill of gratitude we have experienced as the result of God's
intervention and great blessings He has bestowed upon us this trip.
How grateful and thankful we are! How we praise Him for His