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February 12, 1952
Dear Friend and Loyal Co-worker:
Again, I'm happy to acknowledge with thanks and deep
appreciation the tithe (and/or offering) you most recently sent in
for God's great work.
Even as God permits us to be tried and tested for our
strengthening, so He permits His mighty work which He is carrying
to the world in its supreme crisis thru us to be put to the test.
Right now this mighty work is facing the most critical test of the
eighteen years of its existence.
For some four years the work of broadcasting and
publishing the Gospel to America and the world was forced to mark
time, while so much of our energies went into the founding and
establishing of Ambassador College. We suffered birth-pangs that
this college might be born, and survive its infancy---pain and
suffering which no other human can know or understand. But the
college survived, and grew. Small as it still is, our professors
---experienced educators---tell me that our growth has been more
rapid and steady than that of many other colleges when they
started. We are all very happy over its success---success granted,
and really produced, by the Eternal our God.
But last summer I knew we had reached the time when the
great Gospel work must go out in constantly increasing and
multiplying POWER. On sheer faith, but knowing I was guided by God
and following His will, I contracted for radio time on additional
super-power stations. This past fall and winter more than twice as
many people have been hearing God's last warning Message. Now,
with additional stations added during the very middle of the
winter, The WORLD TOMORROW goes daily and weekly into every nook
and corner of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is broad-
cast regularly over the three most powerful stations covering the
entire U.S.A.,---the only three 150,000-watt stations right at the
border covering all America---stations three times as powerful as
the largest big-city United States stations! It is broadcast
regularly---daily---over another three 50,000-watt stations, equal
to the most powerful United States radio stations. Then it is
being broadcast regularly---daily or weekly,---over six powerful
stations in key cities in the United States---Los Angeles,
Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, San Antonio
That is TREMENDOUS power! It makes the WORLD TOMORROW
one of the most listened-to---perhaps the MOST listened-to---
program in the nation today. Three different systems of checking
up and measuring indicate a weekly audience of not less than ten or
twelve million people! People are being stirred---aroused--
awakened---as never before in this nation! It's the most powerful
true Gospel program since the days of Christ and the Apostles! But
now we face the BIG TEST, as we near the end of the mid-winter
season,---the BIG TEST whether this great enlarged program can stay
on the air. It COSTS MORE MONEY. A let-up of just one week might
prove fatal. I want YOU to know how VERY important your own
personal sacrifice and financial help, and encouragement, and
prayers for the preservation of this work are. GOD BLESS YOU for
what you have done! It's shaking the nation! THOUSANDS are being
converted---CHANGED! I know you'll PRAY, and SACRIFICE thru this
testing period, that we may survive it. THANK YOU!
Herbert W. Armstrong
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