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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
January 28, 1973
Dear Inner Family of Co-Workers
in the very Work of the Living God:
In four hours I'm leaving for Tokyo and Saigon. The
newspaper headlines say "Vietnam Foes Sign a 'Fragile Peace'." A
meeting has been arranged between myself and President Thieu in
Saigon. I hope also to have another meeting with U, S. Ambassador
Bunker. In Tokyo another meeting is set up with Prince Mikasa,
brother of the Emperor, to discuss details of the Ambassador
Institute of Biblical Research. This Institute is the outgrowth of
a suggestion from the Prince during a meeting in his palace on a
former visit.
Things are moving toward the final Supreme Crisis -- called
"the Great Tribulation" in the Bible, at the END of this present
world. It will usher in the wonderful WORLD TOMORROW -- the coming
world of REAL peace, universal well-being and happiness. And
things are MOVING in GOD'S WORK -- faster than ever before.
Right now I am more encouraged and enthusiastic about the
state, and future, of this great worldwide Work of God than any
time in the past two or three years. We have come through the two
most traumatic years in the history of the Work. Yet this Work has
GROWN during those two years by more than 40%. Many thousands of
precious lives baptized and turned to God's Kingdom!
As I wrote you a month ago, the GREAT TURNING POINT came in
late September last year. And it has continued on the upturn
through the first month of this year of 1973.
A principal barometer of the future -- of the next 6 to 24
months -- is the receipt of mail. Here in Pasadena Headquarters
we received (from the U. S. only), during the first ten months of
1972, an AVERAGE of 41,000 letters PER WEEK. That's a very heavy
mail! But it began to go up in October, and in the last two
months, the weekly average leaped to 58,000 letters. And the first
four weeks of this month, January, the weekly average jumped to
66,500.
December 7th I outlined for you SIX GIANT ACTIVITIES now
getting Christ's last End-Time Message to the world, NONE OF WHICH
were going out prior to January 1st of last year. Now we add still
another powerful means of getting the true Gospel for this End-Time
to additional MILLIONS.