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TRUTH" which was received in my office upon my request to you.
Thank God, for men like you who still give the full Gospel in
these times of great need."
SPECIAL AND URGENT
This is important---of special urgency.
The year now closing has seen this work of God go forward in
an amazing manner. It has doubled and quadrupled in scope and
power. In every way it has had God's blessing. It is marvelous,
and it fills us to overflowing with gratitude. In every way it
is developing and being blessed just as God's true work would be.
It started small---from nothing, with nothing---as everything God
starts thru human agencies always has started. It has borne
abundantly the Fruits which only GOD'S BLESSING could produce.
And now that God's Time has come, this work is leaping forward,
multiplying in power, in a manner which would be impossible by
human efforts alone. Last Spring it still was a more or less
LOCAL work, confined mostly to the Pacific Northwest. We then
were going out on only three radio stations, in Eugene, Portland,
and Seattle. Then a 5,000 watt station in Spokane was added.
Then, about six weeks later, station KMTR in Los Angeles, which
actually reaches out on an equivalent of about 40,000 watts of
power. A month later, station KFMB in San Diego was carrying
"The WORLD TOMORROW" Message. And by the last of August our
first super-power 50,000-watt clear-channel station, WHO, Des
Moines, was carrying this message in great power to the entire
North American continent---from the Panama Canal zone to Northern
Canada, in a night-time broadcast. And now the way has opened to
DOUBLE the power and listening audience in the Pacific Northwest.
With station KXL, Portland's most powerful station sending the
programs out on 10,000 watts---with KGA, Spokane now double its
former power---now 10,000 watts---with the new later Sunday
morning time, our listening audience will be DOUBLED in the North
Pacific. And negotiations are now under way to add super-power
50,000-watt KWKH, Shreveport, La., WJJD, Chicago, and KFRC, San
Francisco. In a few months we hope to be on the MUTUAL
Broadcasting System, Coast to Coast.
But this would not BE God's work if all were smooth and clear
sailing. Just as God's people must encounter trials and tests,
hardships and obstacles in their private Christian lives, so must
we expect to encounter severe tests in carrying on the work God
has committed to us.
This work has now hit a CRISIS---a most serious one. IT'S
VERY EXISTENCE IS THREATENED! This test is not sent to discourage
us, but to TRY us, to STRENGTHEN us by coming thru it. I was led
to speak to our local congregation (composed mostly of our own
converts) from the Book of James. "My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations (margin, TRIALS), knowing
this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." And Peter
says, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial
which is to try you." It is for our strengthening. It is to teach
us faith. I accept this present crisis as such. I am committing
it to God. I ask you, dear Co-Workers, to JOIN ME IN EARNEST