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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
August 28, 1963
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
GREETINGS once again from World Headquarters of God's
Work at Pasadena. Mrs. Armstrong and I arrived here a week ago
from England.
The 17th college year gets under way here today. But
with only about half the number or new freshman students we
accepted a year ago. And I want to tell you WHY. It is NOT
because of any lack of applications. This year there were more
applicants than ever before--618. But I had put a limit of only 70
on the Admissions Committee.
The reason is simply that we cannot increase our total
student registration any larger UNTIL we can expand our facilities
for handling them--build more buildings. We have outgrown our
dining-hall facilities, and students cannot live and study here
unless they can eat! We have outgrown our only assembly hall--a
make-shift temporary one. We could not get all our students into
it last year. We started out by holding our twice-weekly
assemblies outdoors. When weather no longer permitted that, we
managed to rent the use of a hall away from the campus.
Last March 25th, I wrote our Co-Workers that I was
forthwith instituting a financial AUSTERE YEAR. It was NOT a
program of reducing the onward march of God's Work--rather, every
phase of this great Work (except this cut in student enrollment
beginning today) has leaped on ahead this year at the same breath-
taking pace--30% increase over the year before. For 30 years we
have maintained that same rate of increase.
But a fast-growing WORK, now world-wide, demands also a
rapidly-increasing financial income. Rapid growth always brings
serious financial problems. We did not have adequate money
reserves for such an operation.
We reached a point where that situation could continue NO
LONGER. For the first time in the 30-year history of this Work,
the opportunity was present to make certain reductions in
expenditures WITHOUT slowing the growth or power of the Work. I
had to seize that opportunity.
One reduction I made was to postpone the opening of the