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OUR CO-WORKERS'
BULLETIN
Published every little while, to keep our Co-Workers
informed of the progress, the problems and future
plans for carrying on God's work in these closing
days of this age;---broadcasting "The WORLD TOMORROW;"
publishing The PLAIN TRUTH, and other Gospel liter-
ature. HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Box 111, Eugene, Ore.
VOLUME VII, Number 3. Galveston, Texas August 13, 1946
Dear Co-Workers for Christ:
The BULLETIN is three weeks overdue. My wife, two sons
and I are now on the summer baptizing tour of the country, and I
simply have not had an opportunity to write the BULLETIN---or, for
that matter, as yet, The PLAIN TRUTH.
It seems every moment is taken---we must rush, just every
moment. We are meeting many of our Co-Workers scattered over the
country, visiting and baptizing many who have been converted thru
the broadcast. I find we are unable to spent as much time as we
would like with each one, but must hurry and keep moving, in order
to see and baptize a larger number.
So I am pausing here in Galveston just one extra hour
this morning before we take the ferry across to the highway leading
to Lake Charles, La., Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, with
people waiting for us at each place to be baptized yet today. In
this one hour, till the next ferry, I'm writing you this brief new-
letter to tell you just a little of our trip so far, and the
MARVELOUS, wonderful progress of God's work, under His guidance,
and His blessing.
I have been baptizing people almost every day, and most
days several, often at different points. It has been one of the
greatest JOYS to me---one of the greatest encouragements and
sources of inspiration---of my life. Just yesterday or day before
Mrs. Armstrong was remarking to me that she was so happy every
single one baptized so far has been really and thoroughly repentant
---wholly surrendered to God, just like a little child. They have
had that spirit of the "first love," and it has been a precious
thing for us to see. We have known SO MANY who came at first to
Christ in that meek spirit---so CHANGED from their former selves
---and yet who later permitted worldly interest or associates, self
desires or temptations of the flesh to come in and choke off that
sweet and lovely spirit with which God had filled them at the
first. Remember, dear friends, you can RETAIN that yielded, meek
spirit and that first LOVE, only if you grow DAILY spiritually by
being fed daily on spiritual food---prayerful study of God's Word,
and private prayer and communion with God---that is, getting CLOSER
to God, and separating yourself from companionship and fellowship
with the world. That is the BASIC ESSENTIAL to you ultimate
salvation, for he that endureth unto the end shall be saved, and
one can endure in the spiritual life no other way.
After leaving New Orleans we have people, or groups of
people coming from surrounding points, awaiting baptism at Gulf-
port, Hattiesburg, Jackson, and other points in Mississippi, then
back down from northern Mississippi thru Alabama, into Northern
Florida, then up thru Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. In
the interest of the growth of the work we then must go north to
Washington, New York and Boston. Then back in the middle west are
many more awaiting baptism. We expect quite a large group to meet
us at Tulsa, Oklahoma to be baptized. Then we must hasten on back
home, for both our sons will be seniors in high school this fall
and we must be in Eugene by the time school starts.
Now about the future of the work. On this trip I am also
laying plans for a greatly expanded campaign for this coming fall,
winter, and spring. I have to tell you, however, that at Del Rio,
Texas, the agents for our largest Mexican Super-power station
demanded a 75% increase in the already tremendous charge for the
time we use on that station---XEG. I spent one whole day there
with them fighting every way possible to avoid such a great in-
crease in cost---almost double! But to no avail. Here is the
situation: We have the very MOST VALUABLE time of the entire 24-
hour day, EVERY NIGHT except Saturday, on that station, which is
the most powerful in the Northern hemisphere. More people listen
at that hour, 8:PM (Central Standard Time), than any other half-
hour period. It is utterly impossible to get any really GOOD time
on any super-power station in the United States---the big net-work
programs have all the best time under contract. I learned that
three other large users of radio time were trying to buy our time
away from us on XEG---offering the station this very high increased
rate---even offering to pay for one year advance, spot cash---and
for a year that would run into a great many thousands of dollars.
Under the circumstances I was unable to hold this valuable time for
a cent under the large increased price they quoted me. I told the
station agents it was problematical whether we would be able to
keep paying such a high rate. They were perfectly willing for me
to give it up, and leave them free to accept a check running into
many thousands in advance from one of these others who want the
time. It was a hard decision to make. I prayed for wisdom, and
for God to work it out. And I believe He did.
We have been having the program re-broadcast, each night,
at 11:30 PM on this station. Our mail indicates that very few
people are listening at that late hour---nearly ALL the mail is
from the 8:PM broadcast. I find that a large percent of farmers,
as well as more than one might imagine in towns, are up by 5:30 in
the morning. Most radio stations do not come on the air until
6:AM. Between 5:30 and 6, a LOT of people are trying to get some-
thing on the radio while they get dressed and get breakfast. At
that hour, radio waves go out with less static, reach farther than
at any other time---just before dawn. These agents managed Dr.
Brinkley's famous station several years ago, and told me he found
more people actually listening at that hour than any other, except
8:PM, or between 7 and 9:PM. Yet the station cannot charge much
for that early time because no one realizes how good it is and they
can't find anyone who will buy it. So I make them a proposition
that I would pay their increased rate for the 8:PM period, and
transfer the 11:30 PM re-broadcast to the 5:30 AM time, at the same
additional charge I have been paying for 11:30 PM, which is not
heavy. They telephoned the owner, and it was approved. So I
believe God worked it out where, although we will have to pay just
DOUBLE what we have paid for the 8:PM broadcast, for these two
half-hours every day, yet we ought to have about DOUBLE THE
AUDIENCE, and thus I believe the way is opened so that we still
have to pay only about the same rate PER THOUSAND LISTENERS. We
will pay DOUBLE---but I am praying this will give us twice as many
listeners. I ask you to pray, too. And if our Co-Workers will
stand by me loyally as you have in the past, and PRAY with me, I'm
sure God will work it out where this apparent obstacle that looked
as if it would be a fatal blow to the work will prove to be only a
blessing and lift the work up to still greater power for good.
Yes, ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD to those that love the Lord!
Now I have made tentative arrangements to have the
program go out over the powerful 50,000-watt San Antonio Station
KABC at 8 o'clock Sunday mornings, and also either a good Sunday
night time, or the 5:30 AM period six mornings a week over
Shreveport's great super-power station KWKH, beginning October. I
hope, on this trip, to arrange to send out the Message over at
least two or three of the following great super-power stations in
other parts of the country: WWVA, 50,000 watts, West Virginia;
WCKY, 50,000 watts, Cincinnati; WJJD 20,000 watts, Chicago; KSTP,
50,000 watts, St Paul; and a 50,000-watt station in Omaha. We also
have plans for more stations on the West Coast.
At Los Angeles I made definite arrangements for having
The PLAIN TRUTH printed REGULARLY, at least bi-monthly and later
EVERY month, a brand-new 16-page magazine, twice as large as now,
in two colors, and much more attractive than formerly. It will
have to be mailed out from there, but details have been worked out
so we can send the material down from Eugene, and it can be handled
for us in Los Angeles by the same publishing house that prints the
Pacific Coast editions of TIME and LIFE.
Now I had intended to reveal to you in this BULLETIN, now
overdue, the GREATEST SURPRISE I have ever had for you---news of a
truly WONDERFUL development for this work. But I will still have
to keep you in suspense until another BULLETIN, as space does not
permit me to explain it here. GOD IS WORKING IN THIS WORK! He is
guiding it---BLESSING it beyond the wildest bounds of our
expectations! Friends and Co-Workers, YOUR TITHES and OFFERINGS
ought to be WORKING where GOD is working---where God is blessing it
with abundant fruit in a great spiritual harvest of souls.
And that great spiritual harvest and blessing from God is
more and more apparent in this Work as time goes on. How we thank
and praise God for what He is doing, in and thru us, and for us
all!
People we are visiting tell us it seems almost everybody
in their towns and neighborhoods is listening to "The WORLD
TOMORROW" broadcasts. People are being stirred up. Some have told
us that many preachers are listening, LEARNING, accepting more
TRUTH and preaching it to their local congregations. Those we have
met tell us they NEVER HEARD THESE WONDERFUL THINGS---these
precious TRUTHS---before; that "The WORLD TOMORROW" is so utterly
DIFFERENT from anything they ever heard. People are ASTONISHED,
just as when Jesus preached they were astonished at the SAME Gospel
in that day. Most of the people being reached are not church-goers
but people who never had an interest in religion. This powerful
broadcast is awakening, stirring THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS into an
interest---and hundreds are being converted---GIVING them-SELVES to
Almighty God, accepting Jesus Christ as personal SAVIOUR!
You'd be THRILLED if you could go along with us and see
and hear what we are learning about the tremendous national and
international influence of this work---its growing POWER---of how
it is changing lives by THOUSANDS. And I know, more positively
than ever, that MILLIONS are listening!
We expect, with God's blessing, to DOUBLE the power and
usefulness of this work this Fall and Winter.
But, again, our Co-Workers are FORGETTING, becoming lax
---MONEY IS FALLING OFF. Fellow Co-Workers, I have personally
obligated myself to very great expense---thousands of dollars a
month---to carry on this great work. I have done it in sheer
FAITH---faith that God will, thru YOU back me up in this
increasingly powerful campaign for souls, and supply every dollar.
PLEASE get under the burden with me---remember YOU HAVE
YOUR PART. God will hold us all responsible together. My office
has just told me over long distance the financial situation at the
moment is SERIOUS. Those of you who are able, I will count on you
to send in AT ONCE, by air-mail or BY TELEGRAPH MONEY-ORDER, the
very LARGEST offerings for God's great cause you can possibly send,
even at great sacrifice. Such wonderful results---those precious
souls I am burying in baptism into Jesus---this harvest of precious
souls---the proclaiming of the TRUE Gospel to MILLIONS---is worth
ANY sacrifice on your part. You'll be laying up treasure in
heaven. So far Mrs. Armstrong and I are the only ones who have
ever made a sacrifice larger than a thousand dollars for this work.
There are SOME of you who could, if willing, send in an offering of
one or perhaps several thousand dollars for this work. If you are
one, will you pray earnestly over it, and act as God directs? Most
of you are only able to send in the widow's mites---and we need a
great downpour of those as we never needed them before. Whether it
is a dollar or two, or several thousand dollars, I'll go
confidently along on this present mission trusting you'll let God
prompt you to RUSH to my office, the largest offering you can make
at this time. And now I must rush to catch that ferry. God bless
all of you!
With love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong
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