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is coming in our time! It means the days of WORLD PEACE---
universal good health, prosperity, happiness and joy! It means the
WORLD TOMORROW!
But now to answer the questions.
You'll read the detailed story in the autobiography now
appearing in The PLAIN TRUTH---of how GOD ALMIGHTY did call me, and
set me in HIS SERVICE, and opened the mighty doors of RADIO--world-
wide---and television---and the printing press---to proclaim GOD'S
LAST WARNING MESSAGE---Christ's OWN GOSPEL of the soon-coming END
of this world, and the fast-approaching KINGDOM OF GOD.
And LISTEN! Read this TWICE! Realize this! NO ONE ELSE
ON EARTH, EXCEPT THIS VERY WORK OF GOD, IS PROCLAIMING THIS TRUE
GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD, PRECISELY AS JESUS SAID IT WAS
TO BE PROCLAIMED IN MAT 24:14 and MARK 13:10!!!
This is the most important activity on earth today!
It is NON-denominational! It is GOD'S OWN WORK---not ours!
HOW IS IT FINANCED? Way back in the fall of 1933, God made it
plain to me that if any denomination or organized church sponsored
me or paid my salary, I would be muzzled---forced to preach as
commanded by MEN, not the plain TRUTH of Christ's original Gospel,
and the Word of God! Men ordered me to baptize contrary to the
Bible instruction. Those men paid me my salary. I told them to
keep their salary---that henceforth my wife and I would SERVE GOD,
and look to GOD ALONE as Employer---trusting Him IN SHEER FAITH for
all financial support.
We had no automobile. I hitch-hiked to get to meetings to
preach. My wife climbed cherry-trees to pick cherries to help earn
enough to keep our children from starving. BUT WE DID NOT DENY
GOD'S WORD! I was offered a good salary to team up with a
nationally known evangelist---provided I would quit preaching
certain vital TRUTHS of the Bible, and preach what MEN wanted
preached. I ordered the men who brought the proposition out of my
home. I preached in a one-room country school house---walking all
over the countryside inviting neighbors to attend.
Later that fall opportunity came to take over the "Morning
Devotional" program for 15 minutes Monday thru Saturday on a little
100-watt radio station, KORE, in Eugene, Oregon. Listeners began
to send in letters. The radio station manager called me to his
office.
"You have a radio voice," he informed me, "and have evoked
quite a public interest. Why don't you work out a half-hour
program for every Sunday morning?" He agreed to sell me the time
at bare cost of operating the station---$2.50 per program.
I wrote to friends. They pledged half of it---$1.25 per
week. I took the rest of it on faith, and the program started the
first Sunday in 1934---and has never missed a week on the air
since. I always paid Sunday morning in advance. Several times we
did not have the money an hour before broadcast time---but always