WHERE WE HAVE BEEN! - Dan C Taylor - February 1984

Dan C Taylor

A look back at a magazine ahead of its time. "Everybody senses that something is wrong with the world ... that some mighty event is about to occur. What is it? Bible prophecy tells! Here is a solemn warning ... and it is the plain truth." Those words were written half a century ago in the February 1934 issue- the first issue- of The Plain Truth. Its modest bow was made under the editorship of Herbert W. Armstrong in the form of an eight-page, mimeographed issue totaling about 250 copies. As Mr. Armstrong wrote in his Autobiography, "No publication could have had a more humble, or a smaller start." It was the time of the Great Depression. Today, The Plain Truth has a monthly circulation of more than six million copies in seven languages. But its up-to-date, unique perspective has remained the same these past 50 years. That perspective is made possible through an understanding of biblical prophecy. There was no other magazine like it 50 years ago, nor is there one like it today. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library