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for only one year. And another reason is that we are simply FORCED
to continue a BUILDING PROGRAM at both Pasadena, and at the college
in England--OR ELSE TAKE IN NO ADDITIONAL STUDENTS next school
year!
Here in England we are now trying to feed 110 students in
one ordinary-size family dining room--designed for only one small
family! So we are proceeding right along to complete the new
dining hall, which was started last year. We have no place for
additional incoming new students to sleep the next school year. So
we are continuing the work of remodeling the "Clock Horse Stables,"
converting them into a new dormitory to house 150 men.
We are having to enlarge our office space, and space for
our printing department here, to take care of the constantly
increasing mail from listeners requesting literature.
The Work CANNOT GROW unless the colleges continue to turn
out an INCREASING number of graduates every year. This great Work
now encompasses THE WHOLE WORLD. It now requires the full time
work of HUNDREDS of trained men and women. It now reaches MILLIONS
of people every week--our estimate is at least 22 million!
We are spending NO MONEY for just "beautifying" our
college properties that is not absolutely NECESSARY for the
functioning of the colleges. Our colleges are outstandingly
BEAUTIFUL multi-millionaires built these fabulous estates that way
at THEIR expense. Then these magnificently-landscaped properties
came to us at a tiny fraction of their original cost.
For example, you could not, today, even buy the fine and
imposing iron fence and gates around Ambassador Hall on the
Pasadena campus for the price we paid for the whole fabulous
estate! This entire central college campus with all its buildings
here in England was purchased for LESS than was formerly paid for
just ONE single-family house-and-lot which is now part of
Ambassador College in Pasadena, and in which one of our professors
and his family now lives.
But we are certainly not letting these fine properties go
to weeds and ruin. God commanded Adam to DRESS AND KEEP the Garden
of Eden, not let it run down and go to weeds. We do work hard to
properly MAINTAIN what God has seen fit to entrust into our hands.
HE WILL HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE for how well we take care of what He
gives us!
The BUILDING PROGRAM MUST GO ON, or the WORK cannot grow!
Our building program has been costing only a small portion of the
total expenditures for God's Work--between 2% and 3%. It would be
penny-wise and pound foolish to cut this off. Rather, we are
making BIG cuts in the two BIGGEST items of expense. This enables
us to continue right on with the NECESSARY building program, and
still REDUCE EXPENSES, while at the same time INCREASING AND
EXPANDING THE WORK ITSELF! God's Work MUST continue to GROW its
normal 30% even during this austere year! This does take CAREFUL
PLANNING, and SOUND MANAGEMENT!