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750, with 400 on the Texas campus and our planned limit of 250 in
England -- a total of 1,400 vigorous, happy students. We could
easily have expanded the number of students to ten times the 1960
enrollment -- but we have purposely set a limit on the number we
accept. Each year we have around seven times the number of
applicants we can accept.
Not only has The PLAIN TRUTH circulation grown TEN TIMES
the 1960 circulation, it has expanded from a 32-page two-color
magazine to one of 52 pages, FULL-color. Ten years ago, there were
only four names listed on its staff -- mine as Editor, Garner Ted
Armstrong as Executive Editor, Herman L. Hoeh as Managing Editor,
and Roderick C. Meredith as Associate Editor. Although those four
are still the TOP four, the staff that has had to be added to
produce the modern mass-circulation magazine has become too large
to enumerate here -- 73 -- including 6 Associate Editors, several
Regional Editors around the world, Contributing Editors, Research
Staff, Photographers around the world, a sizeable art staff,
Circulation Managers around the world. You'll find them listed on
the inside front cover each month.
But -- besides The PLAIN TRUTH, there is now the NEW
magazine, TOMORROW'S WORLD, with a circulation already of 350,000
-- larger than The PLAIN TRUTH circulation ten years ago!
And we could go on and on.
Most important of all, however, is the fact that COUNTLESS
MILLIONS of people, around the world, have been reached with
Christ's own Gospel -- by radio, by television, and by print -- and
today we have Ambassador College-graduated ordained ministers
stationed at points all over the world, ready to give understanding
counsel and Biblical instruction, to help and to baptize any and
all who request this help themselves.
But MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL -- the number converted by the
Spirit of the living GOD, and baptized by the ministers of this
Work of God, is also MORE THAN TEN TIMES the number of ten years
ago! There have been THOUSANDS every year!
What a wonderful HARVEST of precious lives, receiving the
gift of eternal life, to enter the Kingdom of God! Once again,
just as in the days of the original apostles, the number of the
disciples "was MULTIPLIED," (Acts 6: 1). Their number is being
multiplied again now -- TEN TIMES IN TEN YEARS!
I was just reading again the parable of the pounds,
recorded in Luke 19. The one who had done the best had multiplied
his one pound which Christ had given to TEN POUNDS. The pound,
(today the British œ is worth U.S. $2.40), of course, was
symbolic of God's Holy Spirit. The one who bore the greatest
fruit, spiritually, had multiplied what Christ had given TEN TIMES.
So Jesus is represented as saying to him, at His second coming, on
entrance of this disciple into God's Kingdom: "Well done, good
servant, Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall
have authority over ten cities."