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OUR CO-WORKERS
BULLETIN
VOL. II. Number 1. February 14th, 1941
Published every little while, by your radio-pastor
editor, Herbert W. Armstrong, Box 111, Eugene, Ore.,
to bring spiritual edification and encouragement to
our little family of co-workers who make possible
the RADIO CHURCH OF GOD and The PLAIN TRUTH.
LISTENING AUDIENCE GROWS
GREETINGS! Co-workers! And GREETINGS to you who are NEW
Co-workers since the last Bulletin, especially those who listen in
from our Seattle station, KRSC.
Our listening audience grows! More people are listening
to the TRUE Gospel of the Kingdom as it is broadcast by The RADIO
CHURCH OF GOD, every Sunday. Listeners are enthusiastically
telling friends and neighbors, and they, too, become enthusiastic
when they listen.
Our heavy mail indicates a listening audience in excess of
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE every Sunday! Think of that vast
interested audience! And yet, that is only a starter. The Eternal
willing---and His Word says it SHALL BE DONE---the true Gospel of
the coming KINGDOM shall now quickly go to the entire world! More
and more radio stations must be added! We plan to add a Los
Angeles station next. With YOUR sacrifice and help, it shall be
done.
I have been really surprised, and gratified, at the
enthusiastic interest shown by thousands in The PLAIN TRUTH
magazine. I have come to realize as never before what a POWER it
is, and can become, for spreading the TRUTH and bringing worldly
people who have not been interested in religion to an interested
knowledge of the true Gospel. This has sobered me, for I realize
the responsibility this imposes. God has placed in our hands a
marvelous instrumentality for REACHING THOUSANDS WHO ARE NOT BEING
AND CANNOT BE REACHED THRU ANY OTHER CHANNEL. Business men,
professional men, even, are interested in The PLAIN TRUTH. And so,
Co-workers, it must come out more often---regularly EVERY MONTH.
It must be increased in size. Just as soon as you make this
possible for me, this shall be done. Circulation is now up to
4,000 copies, and growing RAPIDLY. Constantly we are having to
organize new methods and facilities for getting it out.
For our new Co-workers, just a word about our method of
financing God's work. We do not ASK for money or contributions
over the air. We do not CHARGE for The PLAIN TRUTH or anything
we have to send out. The Gospel must go FREE---not sold with a
price on it. We say very little about offerings for the support
of this work in The PLAIN TRUTH. We want none to feel obligated
to contribute, else many would be discouraged from receiving the
precious TRUTH of God. Our work is a work of FAITH. We ASK, when
we need money---and we ASK God on our knees. We trust Him to put
it in the hearts of those He has made willing to voluntarily become
one of our Co-workers. And when we have SPECIAL NEED, we make it
known ONLY to our Co-workers. And this little Bulletin is just for
our little family of Co-workers, whose hearts are in this work for
God and souls. Where our treasure is, THERE our heart is, also.
And so again GREETING new Co-workers, and GOD BLESS YOU. We
welcome you to our family.
BIBLE STUDY QUARTERLIES TO BE PUBLISHED
Beginning with the next quarter, available for
distribution by March 15th, we plan to publish BIBLE-STUDY
QUARTERLIES. These will be suitable for the Church-school, or for
special mid-week Bible study classes, for Young People's meetings,
or for private home study.
They will fill a long-felt need. Some of our listeners
and readers have written What they are using The PLAIN TRUTH as the
basis for lessons in Sunday-school classes. We hope to make these
quarterlies better adapted to such purposes. The lessons for the
coming quarter will all be on the subject of "The TRUTH About
ISRAEL," following the trend of the articles in The PLAIN TRUTH on
"The UNITED STATES in Prophecy." This truth is so FUNDAMENTAL, so
necessary to an understanding of the prophecies, and even the Plan
of salvation, and there has been such a demand for it, we have
decided this should come first. Quarterlies to follow will contain
lessons on the basic prophecies, basic doctrines, lessons on
Christian living, and subjects specially helpful to real spiritual
Bible Christians and those who wish to be. According to our
settled policy there will be NO PRICE on these quarterlies. We are
proceeding in FAITH God will lay it on the hearts of enough of His
children to pay the printing costs that these, too, may be sent out
FREE. If you want one, write for it. If you wish to use them in
an organized class, or if you can organize a special class for this
purpose, write and tell me how many copies you will need.
We also have a VERY LIMITED number of copies of
mimeographed special lessons on the origin of the earth and the
devil.
A N N O U N C E M E N T
Mrs. Armstrong and I announce that our daughter, Beverly,
is to be married to Mr. James A. Gott of Eugene, on Friday morning,
February 28th, at ten o'clock, in the little church at the end of
West Eighth Street, in Eugene.
Beverly is the soprano in the Radio Church quartette,
whose beautiful singing of the old hymns is so familiar to our
radio audiences. She will, of course, continue to sing with the
quartette. "Jimmy," as we all call him, is a Christian young man,
converted during the meetings held at the little Church last Fall.
A general invitation is extended to all our friends to attend the
wedding.
The RADIO CHURCH broadcasts are reaching out. Recently we
have received letters from listeners in Canada, Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, and California. How I wish I had space in this issue of
The BULLETIN to reprint many of the splendid letters we are
receiving, so you could enjoy them with us and come to realize
better the mighty power for God this work is becoming. We have
just received a letter from a man who said he was just about to
"end it all" in his discouragement, when, by accident, or, as he
suggested, the will of God, he heard last Sunday's broadcast. It
made him realize that what he needed was not suicide, but CHRIST,
and he wrote a heart-touching appeal asking us to help him find his
Saviour and salvation. Of course we are giving every personal
attention to this man's case. I ask you to pray for him. Almost
every day we receive letters asking us to PRAY for those in serious
trouble or need. Will YOU join me in praying for them? God knows
who they are. By this our family of Co-workers will be a PRAYING
family. The Eternal can use us as a mighty POWER! Results beyond
our dreams can be attained if we yield ourselves wholly into His
hands.
TEN DAILY QUESTIONS
1) Did I awake spiritual, in happy prayerful attitude, and was
I watchful to keep my mind from wandering this morning?
2) Have I this day kept my mind clean, my thoughts and
contemplations on "the things above," in continuous happy,
positive, prayerful attitude?
3) Have I, as a "babe in Christ," partaken three times today of
spiritual food, by submissive Bible study and earnest prayer ALONE
with God? Have I grown closer to God? Have I GROWN today in grace
and knowledge?
4) Have I walked by FAITH, asking God for wisdom and guidance in
all things, committing every little problem to Him, trusting Him
with it?
5) Have I exercised self-discipline, denying impulse, doing what
God's Word shows I ought to do instead of what I WANTED to do?
6) Was my speech and conversation today kind, cheerful, soft?
7) Have I exercised patience today? Have I been charitable toward
others, showing tolerance and love, or resentment, jealously,
anger?
8) Have I, while putting spiritual interests FIRST, been diligent
in performing regular material duties today, doing my VERY BEST?
9) Have I made the most of my time, or been weakened by
unwatchfulness?
10) What have I done for God's work and for others? Have I spent
anything today to please self that might have been saved for God's
cause?
"Wherefore, let a man EXAMINE himself."
SPECIAL--- AND VERY URGENT!
TO MY CO-WORKERS: Again I find it necessary to acquaint you with
the problems that now confront us in this great and fast-growing
work.
Since the November-December PLAIN TRUTH was issued, a
number of NEW readers, listeners to the SEATTLE broadcast, have
sent in offerings, thus becoming part of our Co-worker family---
just as I knew by faith, they would. However, we still are in the
"in-between" period, when our special fund for the Seattle broad-
cast is exhausted, and the number of new Co-workers from the
Seattle broadcast, and the amount being received, is still far
short of making the new station self-supporting. As our new
listeners get to know us better, learn more of the glorious TRUTH
God has called us to proclaim, they will make the Seattle broadcast
more than self-sustaining, helping us add other stations. But this
will take another six weeks or two months.
I want to start the LOS ANGELES broadcast within two or
three months---did want to start it by this time. But FIRST I find
another preparation must be made. In order to handle the
increasing correspondence, the growing circulation of The PLAIN
TRUTH (now 4,000 copies), issue tracts and booklets on needed
subjects, publish Bible-study Quarterlies, etc., we must
immediately increase our facilities here in the office. We are
very seriously handicapped by lack of office equipment. We even
had to get along with card-board filing cabinets. I have no
secretary or stenographer. Mrs. Armstrong and I have been working
almost night and day trying to keep up this whole vast job
ourselves without needed help or equipment. It has now grown
beyond our capacity to handle it. Correspondence is having to be
sadly neglected. Radio listeners are becoming offended because
letters are not answered. We are doing our very best, but now,
before adding another station and increasing the office work still
more, we must add office equipment and hire at least one
stenographer. We have no money on hand for this purpose.
People already are writing in asking why they are not
receiving the next PLAIN TRUTH. There is no money on hand to print
it. I never turn a line of copy over to the printers until making
an advance payment to apply on the printing cost, and the printing
bill is always paid in full before we accept the printed copies.
WE RUN NO BILLS.
So we need IMMEDIATELY $50 for office equipment, $135 to
publish and mail the next PLAIN TRUTH, besides enough added weekly
income to hire a stenographer in addition to the present week-to-
week expenses. And, besides this, we need now to begin raising a
special fund of at least $750 to start and establish the LOS
ANGELES broadcast.
This seems like a large need. But our God knows the need.
It is for HIS work, and He has promised to supply every need. Dear
Co-Workers, He is able to supply every cent of this need---and He
WILL, if you join me in BELIEVING EARNEST PRAYER, and each does his
VERY UTMOST, sending the largest offering you possibly can, even at
great sacrifice. Our work is God's work. We must not slacken or
let down. We must press forward harder now than ever! TIME IS
SHORT! We are near the END! Soon the true Gospel will be BARRED
from the air. Millions are offering to sacrifice their very lives
for Hitler, or a worldly government that is DOOMED, and shall soon
be replaced by THE KINGDOM OF GOD at Christ's coming. Are WE
sacrificing, striving as hard in GOD's cause, as they for a doomed
worldly cause? Let us press on with MORE zeal than worldly
politicians and soldiers. Let us throw ourselves at this task as
INSPIRED people---inspired of the Spirit and Power of the living
God!
There have been very few of the larger offerings of $25,
$50, $100 lately. While the larger number of smaller offerings are
the backbone of this work, and even the smallest offering helps
more than the giver may realize, yet it is these larger offerings
which really meet these emergencies and give the work the impetus
to push it over every obstacle. The need now is serious and
URGENT. The work must not stop or let down---it must leap ahead!
With your HELP, and your PRAYERS, under God's power IT WILL! Won't
you send the largest amount you possibly can, even by giving up
something you had planned, by return mail? God bless you, I know
you will!
Herbert W. Armstrong
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