Testimony Publishing Company to publish The Fundamentals. Stewart turned over 3,000 shares of United Petroleum Stock to Giles Kellogg, an official in the Union Oil Com pany, to be held in trust as a gua rantee of his good faith in the matter, and the work was begun. Later, his brother Milton joined him in this project to the extent of one-half of the expense. The plan which was adopted by the committee of the Testimony Publishing Company was to pub lish a total of 12 volumes and to send them free to all the English- speaking Protestant ministers, evangelists, missionaries, theolog ical professors, theological stu dents and YMCA secretaries. Later, the plan was broadened to include Sunday school superintendents, religious lay workers and editors of religious publications through out the world. Of the first nine volumes, over 300.000 copies of each were sent out. Of the other volumes, over 100.000 were sent, but these vol umes were limited to those who requested them. Copies were sent to 21 foreign countries. The cost of this project was around $300,000. Again Stewart was paying back his tithe with multiple interest. Stewart's interest once more turned to the foreign field. He and his brother Milton pledged the support of 12 missionaries in Korea, a work that was under the Presbyterian Board. They agreed to support these missionaries for five years. Although the mission board was slow in providing the missionaries, at least six of them sponsored by the Stewarts did finally reach Korea and houses were erected for them with funds Page 13
While attending this conference, Stewart became deeply impressed with the idea of sending this little magazine to all the ministers in America but was unable to do any thing about it at the time, having hardly sufficient funds with which to carry on the Christian work in which he was already engaged; and, as he stated it, "having hardly sufficient funds with which to get back to Los Angeles." But the im portance of the work along the line taken by the magazine con tinued to impress itself upon his mind and he felt that some work of this nature should be done to "stay the tide of apostasy." He said, "I was impressed with the thought that a great many good, honest men were teaching error because they have never been properly instructed, many of them being limited in their reading and study to their church literature, which in many cases, is preju diced." Some time later, when Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, was in Los Angeles speaking in some of the local churches, Stewart attended some of the meetings. On one occasion he felt impelled to ask Dixon for a personal interview. Up to that time he had never spoken to anyone in reference to the mat ter of publishing Christian litera ture. When he mentioned the matter to Dixon, the latter replied, "It is of the Lord; let us pray." In the interview with Dixon, Stewart outlined his ideas and the method by which he thought they should be carried out. Dixon went back to Chicago and organized a committee of strong Christian men who, in turn, incorporated The
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