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A M B A S S A D O R C O L L E G E
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, President
Written from
Ambassador College
Bricket Wood, England
May 22, 1963
Dear Students of GOD'S College:
A new trend, or fad, seems to be developing among
Ambassador men. These men start shopping for a wife. After
careful analysis of certain girls, they pick out one, tell her they
are in love, propose, become engaged. Then after becoming engaged
to be married---after the girl's hopes and dreams have reached up
to high heaven, after she has her wedding dress made, she finds the
whole thing casually and coolly called off.
It begins to seem that some of our men, once engaged,
then begin looking critically at their pledged fiance. Now she is
scrutinized carefully, analyzed from every angle, to see whether
she is, after all, good enough for His Exalted Highness---whether
she measures up to the superlative standards he is now setting for
whoever shall become his wife. He then begins to look at OTHER
GIRLS, compares his fiance with certain others, decides one or two
of these others might, after all, be better qualified to become his
wife. So then, without any sense of unfaithfulness on his part, in
his own imagined self-righteousness, he coolly tells the one who is
RELYING on his pledge of faithfulness that he is not in love with
her, and he is calling off the engagement. THIS, after all his
many amorous letters telling her how overwhelmingly he is in love
with her. The girl who has been completely faithful to him is now
dropped like a dirty dishrag.
THIS HAS HAPPENED TOO OFTEN! The two very recent cases
are being severely dealt with. Men who are so careless about love
and marriage, so unprincipled, so lacking in CHARACTER, are
immediately dropped from all consideration of being ordained to the
ministry of Jesus Christ! God's Work NEEDS ministers---BUT NOT
THAT KIND!
What's the matter with some of our students? After all
this instruction and explaining, don't you know even yet, what it
means to be IN LOVE? The real SIN---and I do mean S I N in capital
letters---of this kind of jilting a fiance occurs when an immature
young man TELLS a girl he is in love with her BEFORE HE IS SURE!
Can't I make our students understand what a SERIOUS
matter marriage is? It is not for children. It is not for the
immature adolescent, who imagines himself to be a man. It is not
for college freshmen of normal age of 19 or under, as yet
unprepared to SUPPORT a wife and family. That is why we put on the
pressure for all such underclassmen---until about the middle of the