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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION - WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophecies of The WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing: November 4, 1946
The P L A I N T R U T H
A Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
Dear Co-Workers:
Again I must write you an EMERGENCY Letter.
For ten days this work has faced the most desperate crisis
of the nearly thirteen years since it was started. For a few
nights, now, the program has been off the air on our two most
powerful stations---XEG and XELO. Letters by the hundreds---even
telegrams---have been pouring in asking what has happened.
I can't very well go into detail explaining just how the
devil has tried to stop this most important work on earth, further
than to say that he has used the greed of one or two men involved
who were apparently attempting to put over a fast financial deal
whereby they could get the immediate use of more than $50,000 into
their hands to finance their own private enterprises. This doesn't
make it very clear to you, I know---but I cannot state the facts
plainly for obvious reasons, because where there is crooked work in
this world those guilty of it would not stop at anything to gain
their ends.
This whole matter burst like a bomb shell, suddenly and
unexpectedly. It came at a time when I could not leave Eugene to
go to Mexico and try to straighten it out in person. Consequently,
I have had to stay right on the long distance telephone almost
constantly for days. It has been the most baffling problem I ever
was confronted with, because for days I was unable to find out WHY
we were off the air, WHO was responsible, or how to cope with the
situation. All I could do was PRAY, trust God to take care of His
work, and to keep trying to ferret out the real trouble. Even now
I couldn't prove what has become self-evident. All I can say is
that the man responsible is a man I feel quite certain would not be
alive today, had not our God healed him when he was at the doors of
death with pneumonia several months ago---when I earnestly
interceded with God in his behalf. Even as David prayed to God in
his times of trial and trouble, our enemies are often those we have
helped and treated the kindliest---returning evil for good! God
have mercy on such a world!
Nevertheless, we have God's PROMISES that He will never
leave us nor forsake us---that He will not stop the work He has
begun---that He will deliver us from our enemies---that He will
deliver us from every trial, and will prosper those who serve and
rely upon Him! And God never breaks a promise! Dark tho things
may look for a time, GOD'S PROMISES CANNOT FAIL!
So I have known all through these dark hours the past
several days that if I just kept doing, with determination, every-
thing I could do---and continue to trust God for the result, that
everything would in the end work together for GOOD, and not for
harm. Always before when such calamity threatened the existence of
the work, it has in the end proved a BOOST---and the work has
plunged on to GREATER scope and power. By faith I have known, and
still know, it will turn out that way this time. Satan cannot stop
God's work! This is the work of the Almighty and no human or
satanic power can stop it! At this writing, I can only tell you
this: I have the promise of the manager of XELO that the program
will go back on XELO, 800 on the dial at the same time 8 o'clock
every night except Saturday---within a few days---I hope by this
next Sunday night. Keep tuning in, till you hear it. The manager
of XEG promised by long distance the program would be back on XEG
---1050 on dial---next Sunday night, and continue at least Sunday
nights and also at 5:30 every week day morning. I had contracted
for this and also week nights Monday thru Friday. Whether or not
we will be able to hold the program on XEG at 8 o'clock (Central
Standard Time) week nights is still unsettled. I am surely content
to leave the result of this in God's hands, because the price they
demand for this time this year is almost double what we have been
paying up to now.
Now, in addition, I tentatively contracted for, by long
distance telephone this morning, a broadcast EVERY DAY except
Saturday, on the super-power KWKH, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1130 on
the dial, at 11:15 every Saturday nite, and also at 5:30 every
morning, Monday thru Friday. I hope to have the program start this
coming Sunday night, so tune in---though the early morning programs
will probably not get started on KWKH for two or three weeks. We
also expect soon to have the program on super-power 50,000-watt
stations KVOO, Tulsa, 1170 on the dial; WCKY, Cincinnati, 1530 on
dial; and KFAB, 1110 on dial; and either KFEL, Denver, 950 on dial,
at 6:15 A.M. Sundays, or a better Sunday morning time over KVOD,
Denver, 630 on dial.
So, dear Co-Workers, LET US HAVE FAITH! I have been under
the darkest cloud of my life these past several days. It has been
a terrible ordeal---the entire work threatened---the thought of
millions of you all over the United States being unable to hear the
broadcast any longer, and just when I have the most important
things to say, that MUST be forcibly proclaimed, without fear, to
this nation! Yet through FAITH in God's promises, and years of
EXPERIENCE with God in keeping His promises, and delivering us time
after time from lesser calamities, there has been no fear---just
the ordeal of going thru it and doing my part to the very utmost of
my ability, depending on God for wisdom, guidance,---and the
RESULT!
The forces working against us have not yet given up.
Unless God intervenes they would even now be able to throw God's
program off these two most powerful stations in the Western
hemisphere, even yet. But God IS intervening in our behalf, and
His work cannot be stopped!---it must continue in ever-increasing
POWER!
CO-WORKERS, I have to appeal to you to STAND BY ME IN THIS
SUPREME GRAVE CRISIS! I ask everyone of you to PRAY---go to some
private place where you can pray ALONE with God, and pray
earnestly, asking God to PROTECT HIS WORK,---to intervene in our
behalf---to turn back those who would harm His work and bring their
efforts to naught---to give us grace and favor in the sight of
those whose favor we need---to give me WISDOM to know His will, and
GUIDANCE in all I do. Ask Him to DOUBLE the power of His work---
the vast number of people reached and helped, thru this coming
season. Pray as you never did before---claim God's PROMISES, then
BELIEVE!
And STAND BY ME in this dark hour with more liberal
offerings than ever, in addition to your tithes. When the program
is off the air, hundreds stop sending in money. If the money
stops, the work stops. MONEY is the only thing that TALKS, in the
final analysis, with some of these radio stations, and without it
I could never continue this great and glorious work! So try to
stretch to a larger offering than usual, and rush it air-mail!
Again, while most of our co-worker family are people in common and
poor circumstances and cannot send very large amounts, some of you
are in better circumstances and CAN, if you permit God to make your
heart willing, put into God's work a real sizeable contribution at
this time. I have to pray, earnestly, that God will touch several
hearts at this time to make a sacrifice for His work and send in a
considerable sum to help carry us thru this crisis. Some have
money laid away as SECURITY for the FUTURE---but money is very poor
security for so uncertain a future as this world stares in the face
today! The only SECURITY for our future, now, is THE PROTECTION OF
THE ETERNAL GOD. Let us put all our trust in HIM---not in mammon,
for we cannot serve both God and mammon, and if we lay up treasures
in heaven by putting our money into God's work, our reward shall be
great in the kingdom! I hesitate to make such an appeal, because
usually some in poor circumstances will be the ones who will take
this to heart, and make a greater sacrifice than God would expect
them to make, even bringing real hardship upon themselves in order
to do it. I ask you not to do that. God does not expect one of us
to give more than he is able. This appeal is directed at those who
have not given what they could with God---and to all such, if you
will let God get hold of your hearts and your pocketbooks as well,
this is the very best time to make up for some of the past by
putting into God's work a really sizeable sum.
This great work has grown until its expenses are now
several thousand dollars every month. I have assumed personal
responsibility for this, yet I have NOTHING, but faith in God and
our co-workers, with which to keep meeting these very large
obligations. A contribution of several thousand dollars this time
would help God's work as never before---and there are a few who are
able to make such contributions. Frankly, Mrs. Armstrong and I are
the only ones who have ever made a contribution for this work
larger than a thousand dollars---which we did by selling our home
for the works' sake. We have not home now---merely rent a
furnished bedroom. We are happy in it---GLAD to do it because we
know what is in store for this world---how short our time is to
warn this nation and the world, and carry on the commission God has
raised us up for---and our hearts are wholly in that work, not in
material things. I only mention this that you may know I do not
ask others to do what I have now proved willing to do myself,
setting the example. But there are others in our co-worker family
who could match or exceed, maybe several times over, what we did,
and without making any such sacrifice---and I most certainly would
not ask anyone else even to think of sacrificing their home for the
work. I don't want hardship to come to any---but I do know the
blessing that will return to you if you make reasonable sacrifice,
to the very limit, and send in whatever is the largest amount with-
in YOUR means for God's great cause. And this I DO earnestly ask
every co-worker whose heart is in God's work to do---AT ONCE---and
remember AIR MAIL is only five cents now, so RUSH IT AIR MAIL in
the enclosed reply envelope.
May God bless you all! I will write you again as soon as
I have definite news.
Sincerely, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong
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