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 Many other conventioners were listening elsewhere. At the assembly's "Trailer City" forty miles to the west in the neighboring state of New Jersey they was another record crowd of 49, 027, to listen by direct wire connection with Yankee Stadium, making a total visible audience of 165,829. Besides that, by means of remote control, one of New York city's pioneer radio stations, WBBR, was daily broadcasting the convention's features over an area occupied by some fifteen million people, and it now stood ready to beam out to an uncountable invisible audience at their radio sets the good news to be proclaimed. Accountable for this record turnout was the tremendous advertising both before and during the convention-the millions of folders and handbills distributed, the thousands of window cards place to view, the thousands of placards worn by information walkers on the city streets, the thousands of signs on the bumpers and sides of automobiles, and two placards in each and every in each and every subway car of New York's three subway system. 

What was the good news to be proclaimed that brought such a crowd on a hot July afternoon? It was the good news summed up in the intensely advertised subject, "After Armageddon-God's New World." The president of an organization represented in 143 lands at the time, far more lands than the sixty-members of the United Nations. The speaker's very first words were applauded: "Armageddon will be the worst thing ever to hit the earth within the history of man. God's new world will be the best thing ever to come to distressed mankind and will never pass away: He went on: "For us to know that the best immediately follows the worst gives us courage to consider the subject of our discussion. . . . So if have yet to endure Armageddon, it will better for us to fact it with understanding, in the hope of surviving and entering into a new world of God's making, a world altogether different from the one mankind has known for thousands of years, to its sorrow. Armageddon will prove a great blessing in disguise." 

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