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goodness and His wonderful works toward men!
How tragic that there are enemies who fight this work---
would break it up if God permitted---would even sow the seeds of
discord among brethren and divide us and tear up God's work in
every possible way to satisfy their personal aspirations and to
vent their jealousies! Such mis-directed and destructive effort is
truly tragic at a time of world-crisis such as this. But I thank
God, I have never had to take time away from the work to which He
has called me to fight back, or try to protect myself from enemies
---I have always been able to leave them to the Eternal, who fights
all our battles for us, and to devote my entire time to the great
CONSTRUCTIVE work of warning this nation of impending judgment, and
to proclaim the GOOD NEWS of the coming KINGDOM OF GOD, and to the
saving of souls and the UPBUILDING and strengthening of the
brethren! And it is indeed encouraging inspiration when GOD
BLESSES THE WORK OTHERS CONDEMN AND WOULD DESTROY! Somehow, after
receiving these almost unbelievable blessings, I cannot believe God
is nearly as angry with me as some of my enemies. Yes, we are
grateful beyond words, and filled with praises and with JOY!
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
And now, since this is just an intimate and personal letter
to our own inner-family of brethren, I want to tell you what has
happened.
We had just arrived in Hollywood and I had started broad-
casting daily, Monday through Friday at 5:15 P.M., over KMTR. Two
days after we arrived Dorothy called up from the office to tell me
she had very bad news---a letter had just arrived from WHO,
cancelling our contract on two weeks' notice!
It was indeed bad news---almost FATAL news! It would have
set the work back a year, reduced it to a local work again. It
caught us at a time and under circumstances such that I do not
know how or when we might have managed to get started again on
another super-power 50,000 watt station. We would have lost all
contact with a national audience of hundreds of thousands, and how
we might have re-established contact with them I do not know. The
situation is this: it always takes six to eight months before any
new station becomes self-supporting financially. We had been on
WHO just over six months. We were not yet receiving enough from
our new WHO listeners to pay the expense of broadcasting over that
station. Among these hundreds of thousands of listeners are many
who will, if we continue to have contact with them, become regular
co-workers within the next thirty, sixty, or ninety days---and we
had been expecting a decided and sorely-needed "LIFT" from that
source as soon as the current PLAIN TRUTH is completely mailed out.
To be cut off, and lose all contact with them just now, would hit
us an almost fatal financial blow.
When we started on WHO, the last of August, we were
prepared to absorb the additional expense of station charges for
time, even though this was very heavy. What we had not
anticipated, and were NOT prepared for, was the expense of handling
the amazing mail response we have received. The very success of