King's Business - 1955-09

Good News president* and founder Clyde H. Dennis (left) and offset superintendent Harold Hultmark talk over new tract titles.

good news It started with $20 and a young man's faith

I n 1938 a young Christian printer and layout artist be­ gan a hobby which was des­ tined to become a world-wide ministry for the Lord. The young man was Clyde H. Dennis who was then working for Lund Press, Minneapolis as a ’linotype operator, composer, typographer and printing designer. A few years earlier he had been brought to

Christ through the instrumentality of his Christian employer, who also was a printer, and as a hobby Den­ nis began to design attractive gospel tracts. While at Lund Press young Den­ nis took advantage of his first real break. The owner consented to let Dennis use the plant facilities to try out some of his ideas in print. Den­ nis had saved $20 of the Lord’s

money and with this purchased enough paper to print his first run of 40,000 tracts. From a mailing list of 600 Chris­ tian workers Dennis began his “hobby.” He chose the name, Good News, because the desire of his heart was to spread the good news of the gospel by attractively pre­ pared leaflets. His young bride of a few months CONTINUED

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