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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
C/W BULLETIN FOR NOVEMBER
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
November 29, 1954
Dear Friend:
I want to tell you how much I appreciate your interest.
Probably I have never written you before, but now I want to write
a special letter to you and all our Plain Truth readers. I want to
tell you a few things about this important work of God, which I
hope will answer questions many of you have asked.
Many write me and ask such questions as: "With what
denomination are you affiliated?" "Who sponsors and pays for your
broadcasts?" "How can you publish a magazine without subscription
price, and give literature without charge?" "What is your reason
for offering this free?"
I shall give you, as briefly as I can, the frank and
straightforward answer. And then if you have any other questions
you would like to ask, please feel free to write to me. Perhaps
later sometime I can publish in The Plain Truth a more complete and
detailed account of my call from God to His work, and its
development, for those who would like to read it.
Briefly, however, let me say that I, like Jonah, tried to
run away from the call of God. As a young man, the very last thing
in the world I wanted to be was a minister of Jesus Christ. I had
been reared by Christian parents, in one of the old respected
denominations, the Friends, or Quakers. But about age 18 I became
so absorbed in preparing my future business career that religious
interest was almost totally lacking, and I dropped almost
altogether out of church attendance. In my twenties I was quite
successful in the newspaper and magazine field. I was ambitious---
but only to achieve business success and make money. At age 25, a
week or two after marriage, God revealed to my wife in an extra-
ordinary dream or vision (verified by subsequent events) that He
was calling us to warn the world of the end of the age and the
second coming of Christ. But I did not understand it, tho awed,
and was embarrassed and tried to put it out of my mind. At age 30
God struck me down as surely, in principle, (tho differently in
method), as He did Saul of Tarsus who became the Apostle Paul.
This ordeal and experience brought me to complete surrender
to God, to definite proved knowledge of the existence, nature,
purpose and plan of God, as He opened my eyes thru His Holy Spirit
to His revelations and Blessed TRUTH in His Holy Word, the Bible.
After three and a half years of yielded communion with Christ and