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possible for us to reach Japan? We have no one who could do the
broadcast now. It would mean that a native-born Japanese, already
trained as a radio speaker, would have to be converted, and
graduated from Ambassador College. There is no way I could find
such a man. There is NOTHING I can do myself. It would take an
absolute miracle. God Himself would have to SEND to me the man.
Without a miracle, there would not be one chance in a hundred
million of it ever happening."
But IT DID HAPPEN! About four years ago a man from Japan
just "happened" to be walking down South Orange Grove Boulevard in
Pasadena. He was walking past the high iron fence in front of
Ambassador Hall on our campus. He noticed the water fountains and
the beautiful Italian formal sunken garden. Then he noticed the
small bronze sign on the entrance post, AMBASSADOR COLLEGE. He WAS
planning to enroll as a student in an American college or
university. He liked the appearance of what he saw. He walked to
the Administration Building, asked many questions. He decided to
register. But, in previously filling out papers with the United
States Immigration authorities so that he could take up residence
in the United States, he had made a mistake through
misunderstanding. He was denied permission. So he proceeded on to
our campus here in England. Here he made no mistake in his
application, and the British government allowed him to stay.
Was this the miracle? No, but it was the start of it.
He did not mention it to any of us, but he had a friend in
Japan who was a radio announcer and speaker. He wrote this friend
about Ambassador College. This friend became interested, flew to
Pasadena to investigate. He decided to enroll in Ambassador
College. He was careful to make no mistake in his application for
residence in America. He had sent for his wife and family to come
on to America before I even heard of any of this.
Now, for the past two or three years, this man has not
only attended classes, but has had an office on our campus working
all his spare time translating a number of our booklets into
Japanese.
He is now awaiting Mr. Rader and me in Tokyo. He has many
important contacts there, is able to arrange a meeting between us
and important officials. We are now nearing the time to open up
the Work full blast in Japan. We will also have conferences with
the Reader's Digest officials in Tokyo. All this is another
evidence that this is the Work of a much Higher Power than we
humans whom God is using as mere instruments of His, doing HIS
Work.
I have received hundreds of enthusiastic letters from
Co-Workers who received the color brochure reproducing a few of our
ads we are now running in a number of the world's largest
circulation magazines and newspapers. Results are absolutely
OVERWHELMING from those ads. They have added a readership of
nearly 200,000 here in Britain. Our office in Bombay, India, from
the first two ads in the English-language INDIA edition of Reader's
Digest has been SWAMPED with TWENTY THOUSAND requests for The PLAIN