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Phillips also offers a tribute to James Welch. In a time of world-wide crisis, Welch never forgot his mission as a Christian to communicate God's love to the world.

"Welch felt strongly that the divisions of war did not diminish the relevance of the Word of God or its direction," Phillips writes. "If anything, it made the gospel more important than ever. Christ's offer of forgiveness to all who turn to him in repentance and faith is universal. The claim of Christ to be the route to God himself—the Way, the Truth, and the Life—applied in all times and all places. It applied equally to men and to women of all nationalities. Germany might be the enemy, but the Christian gospel had equally to speak to Germans as to the English. Religious broadcasting 'has to speak the Word of God, who is Lord, Judge, and Father of all men, of Germans equally with British, of Japanese equally with Americans. For religious broadcasting is, fundamentally, the broadcasting of truth about God and the truth given by God.'"

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