I heartily endorse this book because it brings out the only solution to the dilemma the world is in today. A wrong estimation of values is the cause of the chaos, suffering and bloodshed. There will be no lasting peace in the world until men discover that material values are minor values and the only things that have a real, genuine, lasting value are Spiritual things.

Men do not know how to protect their wealth against the future. Many realize the possibility of everything they have being wiped out and they can do nothing about it. There is a longing for something stable and certain.

To an age as this I, as a Christian business man recommend "SO GREAT SALVATION" which has been written by another Christian business man.

In this book are found all the important truths of salvation set forth in simple, concise, convincing and interesting language. I am glad to give this timely book my hearty endorsement.

R.G. Le Tourneau

About the Author:

John Fredrik Strombeck, or J.F. Strombeck, more commonly known to his family as "Fred", worked as a youth in the shipping department of D.M. Sechler Carriage Company where he became expert enough in freight shipment classification that he resigned and began his own freight auditing business. In 1907 he sold the auditing business and entered Northwestern University and graduated in 1911 with a Phi Beta Kappa key. That same year he married Miss Theckla Klint of Rockford, Illinois. His brother George went to the University of Illinois engineering school.

Fred had eyed the wood scraps thrown out at the John Deere plant while engaged in his freight auditing business, thinking that constructive use could be made of the waste material and on September 1,1911 began a small operation to turn the scraps into tool handles and the like. In a 1953 interview, J.F. said, "Our first shop was small, only 20 by 40 feet, with an 8 ft. ceiling too low to properly accomodate our machinery." Other sources describe the shop as a "decrepit shack" located in the rear of the John Deere plant! Actually, the $20 per month "shack" was next to Dimock, Gould & Company. R.D. Becker, described as a "kid", joined Strombeck on October 15, 1911 and became superintendent of production while Fred (J.F.) handled sales according to reports - in essence, the two men were the company and did everything necessary to run the company. J.F. was teaching Sunday school and met R.D. Becker as one of his students; R.D. was a high school valedictorian. The two men incorporated as Strombeck-Becker Mfg. Co. in 1913; Becker became vice-president and production superintendent.

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