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But then Mr. Portune came up with the idea that he could
move the offices of Business Administration across the street into
the front part of a girls' dormitory building.
"That's no place for a college's Business offices," I
said. "If any office ought to be in the Administration building it
is the Controller (Business manager)."
"I know it," said Mr. Portune, "But I can explain to
bankers, insurance men, contractors and others who come to my
office that we are expanding, outgrowing our quarters, and I can
make it serve as a makeshift until we build the new Administration
building."
That is decidedly NOT a right or proper solution of our
problem. But, as we considered the problem from all angles, it
seemed the least of the evils. So we shall move Dr. Hoeh upstairs
into Mr. Portune's office, and expand the Registrar's quarters to
include Dr. Hoeh's present office, which adjoins Mr. Herrmann's,
and also the one that was occupied by Mrs. Armstrong as Guidance
Counsellor for women.
Now WHY have I taken time and space to tell you all this?
Simply because I know how God felt back in the days of Moses, when
the children of Israel griped, complained, criticized, and refused
to obey God's orders. They didn't trust God -- they said it was
all MOSES' doing, and blamed Moses for everything. They didn't
agree with Moses -- when he was only doing as GOD directed. Today,
Brethren, I am doing as GOD directs, but too many of our brethren,
who profess to be yielded to God, criticize, disagree, lack faith,
and NEGLECT TO RESPOND. So many of you can't see why we need any
new buildings!
I wonder if some of you don't think that all there is to
running God's Work is to go to some radio studio and talk in front
of a microphone once a day and to have two or three little rooms
for a handful of students to sit in for classes.
I think many of you do not realize that the great Work of
God is any larger than your own home, and your own family
operations!
I am utterly APPALLED to see on a report from the Business
Office that there is now LESS money coming in for the BUILDING FUND
than there was a year or two ago! Yet there are THOUSANDS MORE OF
YOU! We have just published a brochure showing that MORE THAN
40,000 MEMBERS ATTEND OUR SERVICES EVERY SABBATH!
God's WORK is GROWING -- it has become B I G!!! God's
CHURCH is GROWING!!! That is, in every facet EXCEPT the BUILDING
FUND! That is DECREASING!
God simply BLAZED in anger at the people of ISRAEL when
they sagged and lagged, and griped and complained, and lost faith!
I know how He felt. I know how Moses felt!