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getting SERIOUS again!
Here we are, in the shortest month of the year. This is
leap-year, and we do get one extra day this month -- but we still
have only 29 days. That always makes February a hard month.
There continues to be constant NEED for loans of larger sums,
if you are not free to give such sums outright at this time. It
has helped SO MUCH when some of you have loaned such sums, so they
can be WORKING where CHRIST is working -- and under CHRIST'S
direction -- in this wonderful WORK OF GOD. Then, later, if you
MUST have part or all of it back, we will return it -- or, if you
find you can turn part or all of it, later, into a contribution for
the Work, you can then deduct it on your income-tax report to the
government.
I have explained before that Ambassador College is the
TRAINING GROUND for the required constantly expanding personnel to
carry on this great Work. If the Work is to grow in power and
scope, we must take in an ever-increasing number of new students
every autumn.
Do you realize that this work never began to really GROW until
we began to graduate students from this college? Our offices
around the world receive thousands of letters requesting The PLAIN
TRUTH, the Correspondence Course, and our free booklets, also for
personal counsel about conversion, and baptism. As the volume of
these requests continually increases, we have to have more and more
TRAINED people -- both men and women -- to handle these requests.
We now have offices in England (also the college there);
Duesseldorf, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Johannesburg, South
Africa; Vancouver, Canada; Sydney, Australia; and Manila, the
Philippines.
We have to send trained men or ministers continually to all
parts of the United States to counsel with, and baptize, the
thousands constantly being converted through this Work as God's own
begotten children. This same work of personal counselling and
baptizing goes on continually from all of our offices around the
world. THOUSANDS are being brought to salvation through Jesus
Christ -- and in continuously increasing numbers.
But this Work cannot continue to increase and grow, UNLESS OUR
COLLEGES GROW. Last autumn, for the first time, we had to REDUCE
the number of new first-year students we accepted. Until we can
erect new buildings, the colleges cannot grow, and the WORK OF GOD
cannot grow. So we are proceeding, in faith, right along with our
program of building expansion. I am hoping that, by my next letter
to you, we shall have broken ground on our first new building here
in Pasadena.
Since my last letter, several of you Co-Workers have sent in
the statement-of-intention cards, for this SPECIAL building fund.
Yet, though NOT NEARLY ENOUGH have come in, it seems that some are
merely changing their tithes or regular offerings over to this
building fund.