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The PLAIN TRUTH
A Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Herbert W. Armstrong,
Editor and Publisher
560 4th Avenue, West
EUGENE,
OREGON
December 20th, 1934
My Dear Friend:
I am overjoyed to be able to make a most wonderful and
important announcement.
The Lord has very graciously blessed the work of the
RADIO CHURCH OF GOD during the year now closing---the FIRST radio
church in the world having the Bible name "Church of God." He
has blessed the PLAIN TRUTH magazine, and it has grown
marvelously in circulation and influence. He has blessed the
evangelistic campaigns conducted by the writer in Eugene, and at
Alvadore. Many souls have been led to Christ, a large number
baptized, many have been healed. And at one time or another
during this year, the TRUE GOSPEL has been proclaimed to upward
of fifty thousand people!
And now he has opened the way for far greater influence
during 1935!
It is now possible for The RADIO CHURCH to go with
multiplied power during 1935!
A wonderful opportunity has come for The RADIO CHURCH to
go on the air in PORTLAND! This may be done by a hook-up between
our present station, KORE in Eugene, and KXL in Portland. The
broadcast will originate in studios of KORE as at present,
broadcast simultaneously over the thickly-populated Portland area
thru wire hook-up with KXL. KXL is one of the most popular
stations in Portland, particularly for religious programs. This
station recently has increased its power two and one-half times.
But there is one fact I want you to realize. It has been
said that if a minister would DARE to stand before his congregation
and preach the PLAIN TRUTH OF THE BIBLE, he would not have a dozen
members left. That is about true, for God's Word is profitable for
REPROOF, for CORRECTION (II Tim. 3:16), and the minister who will
use it to REPROVE and REBUKE (II Tim. 4:2) as God commands, will
find the time has come when people have adopted FABLES!
We have DARED to preach the TRUTH! We have not minced
words, nor toned down the Word of God. And but FEW will SUPPORT
such preaching.
Yet we have found a peculiar paradox. We have learned
that people WILL LISTEN, over the radio, to the straight truth that
would cause them to get up and walk out if their own ministers
preached it in their own church! They will LISTEN, over the radio,
but they WILL NOT SUPPORT SUCH PREACHING! We cut ourselves off
totally from their financial support---yet they LISTEN! And do you
know, there are MILLIONS over the United States who will never