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chance in thousands of millions of such a thing just HAPPENING!
The ONLY WAY we can reach the Japanese people is by a miracle from
God. There is no way we, of ourselves, can go to Japan, convert a
trained radio speaker, bring him to Pasadena, put him through
Ambassador College. But if the living HEAD of this Work wants HIS
Message to go to the Japanese people, then Christ Himself will have
to send just such a man to us--there is NO WAY we can bring it
about ourselves."
We had no right to expect that anything like that would just
HAPPEN in a thousand lifetimes! We had to trust the living Christ
to do it for us!
Here is what happened. Last year--I think it was in August--a
native of Japan was walking along Pasadena's South Orange Grove
Boulevard. He was attracted by the large fountain and the several
water jets in the formal Italian sunken garden of our Ambassador
Hall. He noticed the bronze plaque on the entrance: AMBASSADOR
COLLEGE." He walked inside. He looked over more of the campus.
He was looking for an American college, to further his education in
the English language. After thorough examination, he registered as
a student. But he was not, apparently, the man. He had no
radio-speaking experience. He had made a mistake in filling out
papers for the Immigration authorities, due to improper
instruction. The Immigration authorities said he could not remain
in the United States. So he went on to England, filled out
immigration papers there properly, and was admitted to Ambassador
College in England.
We did not know it, but from there he was in contact by
correspondence with a fellow Japanese in Japan who was a radio
speaker. That man is now on our campus here in Pasadena. He has
decided to stay. He is not a baptized Christian--yet--but very
plainly God is dealing with him. Already it seems his whole heart
is in this Work. As I write, his wife is on a ship which sailed
from Japan, bound for Los Angeles harbor and Pasadena. He is now
at work translating several of our booklets into Japanese. He is
going to attend Ambassador College, beginning this coming fall
semester.
Co-Workers, things like this don't just HAPPEN, by accident.
Yet they are being brought about. These two Japanese men were
friends in Japan. Now they are BOTH at work translating booklets
into Japanese. The man in England will work with, and assist, the
radio speaker in Pasadena. I BELIEVE GOD WANTS THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN
TO HEAR HIS MESSAGE! Perhaps, just to be cautious, it is too
early, yet, to say definitely that this Japanese man now in
Pasadena will actually become the radio speaker on The WORLD
TOMORROW in Japanese. But most assuredly it looks that way.
In 1947 Mrs. Armstrong and I sailed to Britain and Europe, to
inspect possibilities of a branch college there, and broadcasting
opportunities. There was NO POSSIBLE WAY we could get The WORLD
TOMORROW on any radio station over there--then. Yet, late in 1952,
the most powerful station in the world, Radio Luxembourg, opened to
us, and the program went on the air the first week in 1953. But we
needed DAILY broadcasting in Britain. That seemed utterly