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OUR Co-Workers'
BULLETIN
Published every little while, to keep our
Co-Workers informed of the progress, the
problems and future plans for carrying on
God's work in these closing days of this
age;---broadcasting "The WORLD TOMORROW;"
publishing The PLAIN TRUTH, and other
Gospel literature. HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG,
Box 111, Eugene, Oregon.
VOLUME VIII. Number 2. May 7, 1947
PLANS FOR OPENING AMBASSADOR COLLEGE PROGRESSING,
NEW PRESIDENT ASSUMES ACTIVE DUTIES
GREETINGS! dear Friends and Co-Workers:
A week ago, Walter Eugene Dillon, who has been selected
for the post of president of the new AMBASSADOR COLLEGE in
Pasadena, joined our staff and began active full-time work making
preparations to open the new college next September 22nd. He is
now in Pasadena at the college buildings getting everything in
readiness.
Scores of applications are pouring in for admission to
this new-type character-training institution of higher education.
In addition to President Dillon, one faculty member already has
been definitely engaged---one of our good Co-Workers who not only
is competent in education, but whose heart also is in God's work.
Several other applications for positions on the faculty have been
received.
Now that Mr. Dillon has assumed full-time active duties,
a preliminary catalog soon will be issued and mailed to all who
have applied for entrance or requested information. If you are
one who has written me about the college, please just be patient
a little while longer, and you will receive all the information
we have to give just as soon as we can get it out.
GOSPEL NOW MUST GO TO ALL THE WORLD!
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO THE TRUTH ON THE
WORLD TOMORROW PROGRAM ALL THE TIME. The Gospel already is going
out to five million people every week. THINK OF IT! And thru
economies made possible by experience, the "know-how," and by God's
guidance and blessing, TWO THOUSAND PRECIOUS SOULS ARE REACHED WITH
THE TRUE GOSPEL MESSAGE AND GOD'S LAST WARNING WITH EVERY DOLLAR
PLACED IN OUR HANDS! And this includes all the tons and tons of
Gospel literature, the hundreds of thousands of copies of The PLAIN
TRUTH mailed from our office, and now, the founding of AMBASSADOR
COLLEGE! Unbelievable as it is, EVERY DOLLAR our Co-Workers put
into this work of God carries the Gospel Message powerfully and
effectively to TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE,---many of these receiving The
PLAIN TRUTH and other literature personally requested, besides---
all on that one dollar! If you place $100 in God's work, your
hundred dollars reaches two hundred thousand precious souls, by
radio, and by print! IS THIS WORTH WHILE?
World War III is shaping---in a way very few people
realize, or even suspect! I saw the conditions which are breeding
it on the recent trip to Europe. The next seven years are destined
to be the most momentous in all the history of the world!
TIME IS SHORT! We are nearer the END OF THIS WORLD---
that is, THIS AGE,---than people think! Soon now we shall come to
that prophesied time when the forces that control the earth will NO
LONGER PERMIT ANY PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL! Yes, the NIGHT is
drawing on swiftly, when no man can work for God. Thank God! it's
still DAY---even tho the day is FAR SPENT---and we still have a
little time in which to complete Christ's Great Commission!
"GO YE," said Jesus, "INTO ALL THE WORLD, and preach the
Gospel." "Go ye, therefore," He commanded, "and teach ALL
NATIONS." "And this GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM," Jesus commissioned
prophetically of our time, "shall be preached IN ALL THE WORLD
for a witness UNTO ALL NATIONS; and then shall the END come."
The Great Almighty FATHER sent Jesus into the world with
His GOSPEL MESSAGE. That true Gospel of the Kingdom of God which
Jesus preached is the only true GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. And THAT
true Gospel is not being preached today! It has NOT yet gone out
to the world---to every nation! Instead, the organized
denominations and sects of men have carried forth a DIFFERENT
gospel, as foretold in II Cor. 11:4, 13-15.
And so, as I wrote in the preceding BULLETIN, we have now
reached the time when preparations must be made,---and quickly, to
carry Christ's Gospel Message as a witness to EVERY nation, in ALL
THE WORLD! God has plainly shown me during the past six months the
time has come when THERE CAN BE NO MORE DELAY! God Himself has
MOVED SWIFTLY, performing almost unbelievable MIRACLES in behalf of
this work, making possible this vastly enlarged world-wide work
much quicker than we dreamed possible.
To this end, AMBASSADOR COLLEGE is necessary that trained
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST may be thoroughly and properly trained for
the task. God has moved in breath-taking manner, miraculously
placing in our hands the splendid buildings---the magnificent
grounds---for the college in Pasadena. In Lugano, Switzerland,
we found the villa we went there to see very much more adequate for
our purpose than we had been led to expect. We thought it was a
three-story building. It turned out to be a very new, modern,
splendid FIVE-story building---just the exact proper size for our
need---ample for housing, feeding, and educating forty to fifty
students. Actually we were amazed to learn it is probably the
finest and most modern villa in Southern Switzerland---an exact
replica of the Petit Trianon of Versailles Palace, and built just
shortly before the last war. And it is offered to us on terms
within our means, with no down-payment---an utterly unbelievable
real-estate offer! To purchase it as the European home of
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE, and the European headquarters for God's work,
will add just 8% to the running expenses of this work.
We have not closed the deal. While in Europe we went
also to Geneva, Lausanne, Berne, Basle, and Zurich. We want to be
SURE our European home is in the exact proper location. I had a
personal conference with an official in our American Embassy at
Berne who devotes his time to a study of educational opportunities
for Americans in Switzerland. He agreed definitely with the
conclusion we had come to after inspecting all these cities---the
two most desirable locations are Geneva and Lugano. And until we
decide WHICH---and PRAY, and WAIT ON GOD until God reveals to us
definitely HIS WILL, we shall make no definite commitments. We
must be SURE! But, once we have thoroughly investigated, have come
into possession of ALL THE FACTS, are sure of GOD'S WILL, then we
shall not hesitate to act, and then we will know God will back us
up and bless the undertaking with success. But I will say that, at
this writing, I do feel a conviction that God has definitely opened
this marvelous, most unusual place to us in Lugano, and is
definitely leading us to go ahead and close the deal. But I must
be SURE beyond any doubt, so will wait a little longer. It
certainly seems a MIRACLE that such a place is offered us on such
an unheard-of basis. It's just unbelievable. But such things are
possible with God, and He has shown His hand is definitely guiding
this work!
But the point I want to make plain is that this European
property is not being considered merely as the home of the fourth,
or senior year, of the College. It is FAR MORE THAN THAT!
The college is only a necessary means to an END! The END
is to proclaim powerfully the GOSPEL in all nations of the world!
If we do acquire this very splendid European property it will be
not only the seat of our college in Europe---it will also be the
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE GOSPEL WORK IN EUROPE! We even inspected a
most splendid property in London. Preliminary plans were laid on
our recent visit there for reaching all England, and all Europe,
with the Gospel Message as soon as we are ready to expand the work
to those nations. And that time must come within three years!
Before leaving this subject let me make one point plain.
We do NOT contemplate, as some have seemed to suppose, two colleges
---one in Pasadena and one in Europe. It is all to be the one
college, but with its American unit and its European unit. All
students will spend the first three years of study at the college
in Pasadena. Then, the forty top-qualifying seniors will go abroad
for their fourth year of study. It will be a full calendar year.
The first month will be spent in London, and England. Tentative
plans were laid while we were there for a most unusual one-month
course of study there, under guidance of a British professor. This
will be followed by a nine-months term at Lugano---or at Geneva.
Then the European year will be concluded by a one-month tour of the
Holy Land and the Mediterranean, after which students will return
to Pasadena for graduation.
Our plans for AMBASSADOR COLLEGE already are attracting
international attention. We were interviewed by London newspaper
reporters, and a story written about AMBASSADOR COLLEGE for a chain
of British newspapers. Officials at Columbia University, the
University of London, and several colleges and universities on the
Pacific Coast are showing marked interest and enthusiasm for these
plans. The chancellor of higher education for Oregon told me we
are on the right track---and the kind of college we are founding is
what America needs---one that will recapture moral and spiritual
values and teach students how to LIVE, instead of devoting all
attention to science and materialism, neglecting the spiritual
values.
COMING THRU OUR WORST CRISIS
The past six weeks has seen God's work having to weather
the most severe crisis of it history. It has been a LIFE-AND-DEATH
test. For two weeks the very life of this great work hung in the
balance!
I had to send out a special emergency letter, AIR-MAIL!
Then Mrs. Armstrong And I got down on our knees and PRAYED! And I
know hundreds and hundreds of you must have responded by getting on
your knees and praying with us. Our co-workers responded
immediately, and generously, and for three weeks we began rapidly
to catch up. I had to tell you frankly we were behind with the
largest radio stations, threatened with going off the air. We were
$15,000 behind! As I explained in that letter, this has grown to
a very great work, costing thousands of dollars a week. And we
were in a DESPERATE condition---AND STILL ARE!
Now here's what happened: For three weeks, our
co-workers responded in most gratifying manner, and we began
rapidly catching up---the work was temporarily saved. But now for
a week money received has begun dropping off again at an ALARMING
rate. Before this happened, we were about two-thirds caught up.
One more such week and we would have been completely caught up on
financial obligations. But, meantime, each week's current expenses
must be met, and now this slump is plunging the work right back
into ANOTHER DESPERATE CRISIS! Co-Workers, this great and glorious
work of God MUST GO ON! It MUST not be in debt. It MUST be on its
feet financially. That's another reason we have to delay any
decision about this miraculous opportunity in Europe. Of course I
cannot make a decision until the work is on its feet, and I can see
that the necessary 8% increase is being supplied. And I AM FORCED
TO DELAY THE NEXT PLAIN TRUTH until this condition is met. Already
one issue has been missed. Everything is ready to place The PLAIN
TRUTH on the presses just as soon as this BULLETIN can reach you,
and your response can reach us. Listen, dear Co-Workers---let's
all make just one more EXTRA-ORDINARY EFFORT, at any sacrifice, and
if the response can be as generous as before the work of God will
be out of reproach, out of danger, and back on its feet as it ought
to be. Now I'M GOING TO PRAY AGAIN---BELIEVING, as before. I ask
you to join me. Go to a private place, get on your knees and pray
for this work! PRAY that we will be enabled to stay on the air---
that I won't have to repeat programs anymore,---that we may get
completely caught up with supplies of booklets to send out---that
The PLAIN TRUTH may be printed without further delay. All these
things can be done if financial needs are met. STAND WITH US, and
PRAY! Send the most liberal sum you possibly can by return AIR-
MAIL! GOD BLESS YOU! The fate of God's great work in these
closing days IS IN YOUR HANDS. This has been the most serious
crisis we ever faced, and we're not out of it. I know you won't
fail!
SPECIAL TOKEN OF APPRECIATION
I wonder if you'd like to read a lot of interesting side-
lights of our recent trip to Europe?
If you would like to read it, we are getting together a
special little booklet, composed of excerpts from the personal,
intimate letters Mrs. Armstrong and I wrote during our journey to
our own children and family back home. A trip such as we took is
a real EDUCATION. So many of the things we saw, and experienced,
were so interesting, so thrilling, and educational, we have felt
the record of them ought to be preserved and made available to all
our Co-Workers who wish to read about them.
You, too, are a part of our FAMILY. We just feel that
all of us---all our Co-Workers---form one big, intimate, loving
FAMILY. Somehow Mrs. Armstrong and I feel that we know you---
even tho we've only been privileged to meet a few of you---and we
feel that we know and love all of you. So, if you'd like to read
our personal letters written just to our FAMILY---of which we want
to feel you are a part---we'll get together these letters in the
order in which they were written, and illustrate the little special
booklet with a number of pictures we took along the way---including
thrilling pictures of a HURRICANE in mid-Atlantic---60-foot giant
swells in a 65-mile-an-hour gale. The Associated Press grabbed
these pictures in the press-room of the Queen Elizabeth as we
docked in New York, and developed and printed them for us.
Then, with it, we will send you a reprint of "AN
EXPLANATION" as published in The BULLETIN three or four years ago,
explaining how this work started and grew---the story of our life,
and history of the work briefly stated. And if you'd like to have
it, we have one thing more to include. We have a file of a few
hundred letters, I think it must be, requesting a picture of your
radio pastor, Mrs. Armstrong, or both of us. I hope none has been
offended because those requests have never been filled. Somehow
I've always felt I was called to send out the Gospel, not things
about myself. And I never had a photograph taken since I was a
boy---before I was married,---until Mrs. Armstrong and I were
forced to have photographs taken in order to get Passports for our
trip abroad. Many of our co-workers have been rather persistent,
demanding that they have a RIGHT to see what a man looks like that
they listen to every day---and arguing that when a minister
preaches in church he doesn't hide his face, and shouldn't over the
air. Well, the photograph studio in Washington had a good salesman
who used these same arguments, and urged us to order photographs,
now they were taken, in large lots which they were prepared to
furnish, just as they do the president's official photograph. So
we ordered a limited number---all original large-size 8 x 10
photographs, unmounted, but they will fit standard folders or
frames. If you really want one, we will send it, along with these
other booklets---of myself alone, or of Mrs. Armstrong too---each
is a separate photograph, so if you want both, please request them.
But I warn you, you'll be disappointed so far as I'm concerned,
because NO radio speaker EVER looks like you imagine him to look
from just hearing his voice. Anyway, I can truthfully assure you
our HEARTS are in the right place---and that's the part you can't
see. And we're all co-laborers in one big family working with all
our might to serve God and do good to men, and you've been so loyal
and faithful and generous, in standing with us, we felt we wanted
to send you something personal and intimate---if you'd care to have
it. May God bless you. Make special request if you wish these
things.
Sincerely, and with love, in Jesus' name,
Herbert W. Armstrong
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