Herbert W Armstrong

Now that worldwide literature counts are available, we have been able to determine the total number of publications mailed worldwide during the past five years. We thought you'd find this information eye-opening as well as inspiring. The following list gives each major category and the number of copies sent from 1980 through 1984:

Type of Publication - 1980-1984 Worldwide
PLAIN TRUTH - 242,176,947
GOOD NEWS - 9,418,434
YOUTH magazine - 3,256,691
WORLDWIDE NEWS - 6,163,229
Letters - 65,083,289
Booklets, books, etc. - 23,022,752
CC Lessons - 6,123,556
Other - 6,316,685
Total - 361,561,583

This huge amount of literature would fill to capacity a train 6½ miles long with 624 boxcars as follows:

PLAIN TRUTH - 526
GOOD NEWS - 15
YOUTH magazine - 4
WORLDWIDE NEWS - 5
Letters - 41
Booklets and books - 22
CC Lessons - 7
Other - 4
Total - 624

God Heals Many Who Express Faith in His Promise to Heal

Every week, dozens of people write to the Church seeking help and counsel for their illnesses and afflictions. As a result of their contact with "The WORLD TOMORROW" program and our literature, they recognize that God is working through Mr. Armstrong and the Church.

Requests come from members, co-workers and regular subscribers of nearly all ages wanting God's deliverance from their sicknesses and injuries. A large percentage is from elderly people suffering from long-term diseases. Increasingly the requests are coming from WATS callers, some of whom are contacting God's Church for the first time.

Personal Correspondence sends letters of encouragement and literature on faith and healing. Anointed cloths are sent to those who express faith in God's promise to heal. Last year 2,301 anointed cloths were sent out. So far this year, the count is 1,065.

Of the people God heals, a number write back to express their joy and gratitude. Following are a few of the letters we have received:

Thanks a lot for your letter of July 13, 1984 along with the anointed cloth, as well as THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT HEALING.... I'm glad to inform you that from the very day we received your letter my wife felt better. Now she is feeling better and better every day. God has performed a miracle for my wife. Thank God. We do believe that God, I repeat, only God, can heal the sick.
V.G. (Kuwait)

I wanted to tell you about the prayer cloth that I asked you for. I had suffered very much for two weeks. The day I got out to mail my letter to you, I was very weak and had to go around the corner to get to the mailbox. Anyhow, I made it out there and the very second that letter got out of my hands, all the pain that I had suffered from was gone.
Mrs. L.B. (Rainelle, WV)

I wrote you back in the year of 1950 or 1951, I don't remember which. I was sick for so long. I fell, broke my back and was paralyzed. I wrote you for prayer. You prayed for me and sent me a prayer cloth. The doctor gave me only a 50-50 chance to live. I have already lived about 34 years since I got hurt, although I do have muscle cramps quite a lot. I am sorry I have been so long in writing you. I lost your address, so I am writing you now and saying thanks to you and all of those good people for your prayers.
J.B. (Grapevine, TX)

I wrote you about six weeks ago that I needed healing of my right foot because my foot was so stiff and sore I could hardly walk on it. A couple of weeks after I wrote you, I received a reply from you containing a white healing cloth. I followed the instructions with the cloth and about ten days later, my foot was about 95 percent normal.

To say the least, I was astounded. I have read and heard about other people being healed, but this was my first personal experience with healing.

This is one experience that I will always remember.
M.B. (W. Richland, WA)

In July [of 1983] I became paralyzed from the waist down. I called and asked for a prayer cloth. A friend brought it to the hospital when I was near death. We did exactly as instructed and the Lord saw fit to heal me! I am now using a walker and getting better every day. Thank God for the prayers that went along with that prayer cloth, and thank God we can hear the real Word of God.
D.B. (Dayton, OH)

— Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center