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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
October 27, 1972
Dear Family of Co-Workers:
I want to announce NEW and ENLARGED ACTIVITIES in this
Great Work. It is the Work of the living God -- and it is going
forward in greater power now than ever before.
We have been given the GREATEST COMMISSION ever delegated
to human beings on this earth. I think we tend to lose sight of
that fact -- of the MAGNITUDE of importance of this calling. It
is no ordinary Work.
As I was writing this letter, newscasts and newspapers
were shouting that PEACE in Vietnam was only a matter of days
away! But do you think we are going to have REAL PEACE? There
may be a cease-fire in Vietnam -- FOR NOW. But do you think for
a moment the Communists will stop PUSHING ON? The only "PEACE"
the Communists will agree to now, will be one by which, later,
once the United States is completely out of there, they can launch
a sudden NEW attack, and take over South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,
and probably even Thailand and Malaysia.
World leaders and rulers have sought PEACE ever since there
was a nation. NONE HAS EVER BROUGHT ANY LASTING PEACE! Leading
scientists and heads of nations today ADMIT that the world's only
hope of permanent world peace is WORLD GOVERNMENT -- one single
all-powerful government over ALL NATIONS. The GOOD NEWS of that
very coming WORLD GOVERNMENT, bringing WORLD PEACE, is our Great
Commission.
NEVER was any human activity SO IMPORTANT! The original
first century Apostles had the same Commission. But they did not
have OUR TREMENDOUS FACILITIES! There was no radio --
no television -- no printing presses, then. Where they could
reach hundreds, WE ARE TODAY REACHING MILLIONS! We need to COME
AWAKE to the MAGNITUDE of our great calling.
Moreover, we are very definitely, in a number of ways,
PREPARING THE WAY for the coming of that great WORLD RULER! And
THAT GREAT COMMISSION is going out to the world in GREATER POWER
AND IMPACT right now than ever before.
The development and growth of THIS WORK is -- I verily
believe -- probably the GREATEST "SUCCESS STORY" of our time, or
of any activity carried on by human beings. And all the more so,