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rooms and lecture rooms in which to teach them. We must have more
library space for more books. We must have auditoriums in which to
hold assemblies and worship services. Auditoriums at Pasadena and
England are completely outgrown. These buildings are not luxuries
--WE SIMPLY CANNOT MAINTAIN OUR COLLEGES WITHOUT THEM!
God's Work is GROWING! It is producing an ever-
increasing great HARVEST! THINK OF IT! Twenty-five to thirty
million people are HEARING and READING the very Gospel JESUS CHRIST
BROUGHT, every week! Never in earth's history have SO MANY
precious souls been reached with the one and only TRUE GOSPEL!
But JUST ONE THING IS LAGGING BEHIND. We are actually
receiving LESS MONEY in the SPECIAL OFFERINGS for this BUILDING
EXPANSION FUND than we were a year ago. Instead of increasing, IT
IS DROPPING.
Co-workers, DO YOU WANT THIS PRECIOUS WORK TO BE STOPPED?
The WORK OF GOD on earth simply cannot grow UNLESS THESE COLLEGES
GROW! The past two years we have been receiving applications from
seven times as many prospective students as we have had space to
accept. We are having to say to SIX out of every SEVEN: "Sorry--
we don't have enough space in our present buildings to house you,
feed you, or teach you." Hundreds of students simply have to be
terribly disappointed because they cannot come.
REMEMBER--this Work never began to GROW and REACH MORE
THAN A FEW PEOPLE UNTIL Ambassador College began to put God-called,
properly trained men and women into this Work with me. As the
colleges have grown, so the WORK has grown. Money invested in
necessary new and larger buildings is money invested in REACHING
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WITH CHRIST'S TRUE GOSPEL! It is money
invested in bringing eternal life in God's Kingdom to more and more
people!
Look at it this way: Suppose some very wealthy man had
come to me, before Ambassador Colleges were started, and said: "Mr.
Armstrong, I will give you TEN MILLION DOLLARS for Christ's Gospel
Work--on condition that you will never build any colleges. EVERY
PENNY OF THIS MUST BE SPENT BY YOU ALONE ON GETTING OUT THE GOSPEL
TO THE WORLD. You must not train anyone else to work with you."
Do you know that I could have done very little more to get the
GOSPEL to the world than I was already doing, alone, without that
ten million dollars?
Before Ambassador College was founded, I tried working
with other ministers. But they were either incompetent, dishonest,
or they pulled off in another direction. WHY did not Jesus try to
team up with the ministers and priests of HIS DAY--with the
Pharisees, the scribes, and the Sadducees? They all WORKED AGAINST
HIM! They were HOSTILE to His Message! They conspired to KILL
HIM! Do you know that when I came, with that same Message, I found
other ministers were just the same?
I had to DO AS JESUS DID! He called young men who were
NOT preachers or priests. Peter was a fisherman. Matthew was a
tax collector. They FORSOOK their jobs, joined Jesus, and for 3 1/2