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among advertising men that this station brings the heaviest mail
response from listeners of any station covering the United States.
Next to it are stations WCKY, XEG, WLAC, and WWVA. We now
broadcast over all of them.
However there comes some apparent bad news. We have had
to go off one of the two stations we were using six nights a week
in Sydney, Australia--but immediately another station opened to us.
We are going to have to go off powerful WABC, New York---but a
trans-Atlantic telephone call from our advertising agency informs
me our chances appear excellent of obtaining a BETTER time on
either of two other leading 50,000-watt New York stations. Also
one of the big 50,000-watt Chicago stations, to replace WLS. When
WLS was sold, some months ago, we had to go off. We were not at
the time able to get the program on any of the major 50,000-watt
stations, unless we would compromise with the Gospel and reduce the
program to a human-interest, newsy, folksy, program with NO
religion, and NO mention of or quoting from the Bible. This, of
course, we could not do.
So every apparent set-back is like the cocking of a gun--
it only shoots the work ahead faster than ever!
Mrs. Armstrong and I have been in England most of the
summer, getting the new college ready to open in October. While
things move at an aggravatingly slow pace over here, we started far
enough in advance, and we believe everything will be ready. Our
new college grounds over here are BREATH-TAKING in beauty! The
rose garden, the English sunken garden--both dazzling with color--
and the unique Japanese garden, beside the great expanses of
beautiful lawns, and the stately cedars of Lebanon and deodar
trees, make this seem to be a veritable Garden of Eden. It does
equal our Pasadena campus in tone and character. Applications have
been coming in from exceptionally promising students.
Two of our ministers have just returned from baptizing
tours, with the largest harvest we have had, by far, in all parts
of the British Isles. Mr. Roderick C. Meredith, Associate Editor
of The PLAIN TRUTH, with his evangelistic team, has held two very
fruitful evangelistic campaigns in England this summer--one in
Bristol, and one just completed in Birmingham. He is now in a
third campaign in Manchester. Many have been brought to real
repentance, faith in Christ, and conversion in these meetings.
Four in five baptizing teams in America have covered every part of
the United States and Canada this summer, and have baptized many
hundreds who have been truly converted as a result of the
broadcast, The PLAIN TRUTH, the Correspondence Course, and other
literature sent from our headquarters in Pasadena. NEVER before
have we had such a bountiful harvest!
Just ONE precious life begotten of God, to be BORN of
God--born into HIS KINGDOM, with eternal life--is worth all the
effort and time and money expended on this entire great world-wide
work! But THOUSANDS are being converted. Some 12 to 15 MILLION
people, in all six continents around the world, HEAR the precious
Gospel that Christ brought from God, every week. In Australia the
work has grown so rapidly we have had to DOUBLE our office space in