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Box 111, Eugene, Oregon
December 28, 1945
S E R I O U S and U R G E N T !
Dear Friends and Co-Workers:
A most UNEXPECTED emergency has arisen. I forced me to do
something DRASTIC--something I've never done before--something I
hated to do more than you can realize--It forced me to put out an
urgent emergency appeal over the air last night on the two great
super-power stations that cover the entire nation and continent.
Never before in twelve years of broadcasting God's Gospel
Message have I asked for money over the air. I did it for the sake
of A MILLION PRECIOUS SOULS now listening to the Message EVERY
NIGHT--and the many THOUSANDS now interested and writing in for
spiritual help, and our free literature carrying to them the BIBLE
TRUTH.
Here is what I was forced to say, at the close of the broad-
cast last night--it is self-explanatory:
....and now, may I have just a word with our CO-WORKERS who
are listening tonight. What I'm going to have to say for the next
two or three minutes isn't intended for most of our great vast
radio audience---this is just for our regular co-workers ONLY.
But I have to report to you dear Co-Workers who are financing
this great work of God that we may be forced off the air SUDDENLY,
in less than a week! Co-Workers, LISTEN! I can hardly bear to say
it, but most of our regular co-workers who have so loyally
supported Christ's work and kept it going--yes, and GROWING until
it's become an international POWER for GOD--have simply been
letting the work down, since the beginning of the Christmas
shopping season! Only about a fourth of our usual co-workers are
remembering CHRIST and His glorious work at this time! Almost none
of the usual larger offerings--or tithes--in amounts of thirty,
fifty, a hundred dollars or more, are coming in now,--and just as
we are STARTING this nation-wide INTENSIVE campaign of EVERY-NIGHT
BROADCASTING! It seems about the only Co-Workers who are
remembering CHRIST at this season are those of meagre circumstances
--many, old people living on old-age pensions, who STILL are
faithful and loyal with their widow's mites, given at real
sacrifice! --GOD BLESS THEM!
Now just at this time God opened the opportunity, and I've
launched out--ON SHEER FAITH--with the biggest, most powerful
campaign BY FAR we ever were privileged to conduct. This program
is going out every night except Saturday over the two MOST POWERFUL
radio stations in North America--at the VERY BEST HOUR--8 o'clock
in the middle-west, 8 o'clock in the Mountain States and beginning
next week it is scheduled to go out, unless we are stopped, also at
8 o'clock on the COAST! Now this has multiplied expenses THREE
TIMES OVER! Unless our family of co-workers comes to the rescue,
we'll be forced off the air in less that a week!
I can't keep this valuable radio time another week unless a
LARGE NUMBER of our co-workers all over the country hear, and HEED
this appeal, and come to the rescue not only with a veritable
DOWNPOUR of widow's mites, but also with a real shower of the
larger sums of fifty, a hundred dollars, and more,--and by RETURN
AIR-MAIL! Please DO NOT send it special delivery--but use
AIR-MAIL, or even better yet TELEGRAPH THE MONEY BY WESTERN UNION!
Now listen: I want you to know the FACTS! The mail response