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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
May 29, 1973
Dear Co-Workers in the
Work of the Living GOD:
Another college year is ENDING! I can hardly believe it!
Time whips by, it seems, faster and faster. Graduation here at
Pasadena and at Big Sandy is this Friday -- and in England the
following Friday.
We need, URGENTLY, to realize THREE THINGS right now:
1) To realize FULLY just WHAT IS our tremendous
Commission -- and the fact that for 18 1/2 centuries it was NOT
proclaimed to the whole world -- and that TODAY NO ONE ELSE is
proclaiming the true Gospel of Jesus Christ IN POWER to the whole
world! The true Church, small in number, DID continue to exist in
every generation since the original Apostles. Christ's Gospel did
get to the FEW -- often by some private or even secret means,
because the persecutors would have put people to death for
proclaiming it during long periods of those generations.
2) The extreme URGENCY of speeding up the proclaiming of
it NOW -- and precisely WHY, according to the prophecies, THE TIME
LEFT US FOR GETTING IT TO ALL THE WORLD MAY BE MUCH SHORTER THAN
WE SUPPOSE!
3) How GREAT are the results of this great Work, NOW
ACCELERATING. How ENCOURAGING is this progress, and indicated
FUTURE for the remainder of this year -- and next -- in this Work.
First, let me give you some personal news. A month ago,
Emperor Hirohito, and the Japanese Government conferred on me the
highest award and honor ever conferred on a non-official alien.
It consists of a diploma with the Emperor's signature and Seal of
the State, and the Prime Minister's signature; and the brilliant
emblem or decoration to be worn.
My next visit to Japan is now planned to be a BIBLE STUDY
with the Emperor's brother, Prince Mikasa. With the Prince we are
planning an Ambassador Institute of Biblical Research to be
established in Tokyo -- a joint project between him and Ambassador
College. All this is laying the foundation to get the true Message
of Christ to the people of Japan. The Bible study with the Prince
will include the Old Testament PROPHECIES concerning Christ and the
Kingdom of God, and in the New Testament the true Message of