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The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of Understanding
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Editor
December 29, 1969
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
This is the last letter I shall write you in this decade --
the 1960's. What a decade it has been! It has seen this great
Work of God grow to more than TEN TIMES the size and scope of
January 1, 1960!
Here is a small part of a letter I wrote to our Co-Workers
January 29, 1960: It began, "This is my first letter to you in this
new decade. We have entered the 1960's. ... this world has now
entered its most VIOLENT and disastrous ten years since mankind was
placed on earth!"
And THAT HAPPENED! The 1960's HAVE BEEN the most violent
ten years -- unless it was in the ten years before the flood in
Noah's day. Racial violence -- campus violence -- labor violence
-- religious violence -- war violence -- automobile accident
violence!
I wrote further, then: "The present decade will lead right
up to the very immediate threshold of the final world violence
which Christ, at His coming, must cut short." That statement of
ten years ago WAS TRUE! The past decade HAS, indeed, led to that
very imminent threshold! While I EMPHASIZE, we cannot set dates,
yet I am prepared to say now, for the first time, the second coming
of Christ COULD happen during this coming decade, which we enter
later this very week. Don't under any circumstances take that as
setting a date -- but we are now far closer to the END OF THIS
WORLD -- and the beginning of the happy and peaceful WORLD TOMORROW
than people realize! TIME IS SHORT!
But LOOK AT THE FACTS! Ten years ago we were using 9
million watts of radio power per week reaching about 10 million
people. It required a little over three-fourths of a page in The
PLAIN TRUTH to print the log. Today we purchase more than ten
times the power. It now requires three pages, to print the log and
have to omit a number of foreign stations, to say nothing of the TV
log. Today in the Work we are reaching 150 MILLION PEOPLE!
In January, 1960, the circulation of The PLAIN TRUTH was
about 210,000 copies. Today it is more than 2,100,000 -- more than
TEN TIMES the circulation ten years ago.
In January, 1960, there was only the ONE Ambassador College
campus. Today there are THREE campuses of Ambassador College.
When this short decade began, there were 250 students in Ambassador
College. We had reached the originally set limit, and faced the
question of whether to reset our limit to 500. Actually the
Pasadena campus has been allowed to expand to a present total of