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Location number 2 is in a general neighborhood of
Colorado, Hill, and Holliston. There are a number of possible
sites, 65-foot, 85, and 100-foot frontage, and all about 210 feet
deep, both on Hill and on Holliston---from a distance of about a
half-block to a block and a half north of Colorado. (It is about
three ordinary blocks to the next street north of Colorado at this
point.) All these locations are close to Pasadena Junior College.
All are very centrally-located sites, in the very heart of the
Pasadena residence section, all commercially-zoned, or zoned for
building a church and office building.
My preference of these at location number 2 is a large
lot 100 x 210 feet with large and beautiful trees, another old
structure already on it to be torn down, but which would provide
considerable lumber. Now this lot would give us almost twice the
ground of the lot at location number 1. If we select the number 1
site, we will be a little crowded, yet apparently there is
sufficient space there for all our immediate needs or anything I
can contemplate within the next two years, with one possible
exception, which I will mention below. One advantage, however, of
site number 1 is that it will cost only half as much as number 2.
The number 1 lot is on a prettier street---very nice homes across
from it, beautiful trees over the street, but none on the lot
itself. Yet, I am just a little fearful lest we might find our-
selves cramped for space two or three years later. There is an
adjoining lot we could add to this, but the price is too high,
although the total price would still be lower than location number
2, and with this adjoining lot would give us almost the same number
of square feet.
And now, since this is a long letter anyway, I want to
take you into my confidence further and reveal, for the first time,
another important step planned for the future.
We are laying plans now to establish a BIBLE COLLEGE. It
is just as tho God has revealed to me recently,---it is so vividly
impressed upon me,---that one of the next things to come in the
progress of this great and true work of God is to be a BIBLE
COLLEGE. A college utterly unlike any that now exists!
In no sense will it be a typical sectarian or
denominational Bible school. In no sense will it be a "theological
seminary." It will not in any sense be a "ministerial college," or
school for training preachers---since only GOD can call one to
Christ's true ministry. When a young man decides he would like to
become a minister or an evangelist, and decides to go to a
theological seminary or ministerial college or typical Bible
college, the call usually comes from SELF preference and SELF
interest, not from God. That's why there are so many preachers who
are not called of God. We cannot go out and choose for ourselves
those God would have, and call, for His ministry.
But this great God has raised up thru our efforts
together never can reap the full harvest of souls, or accomplish
the full good that is possible on a national and world-wide scale,
UNLESS it is followed up by personal contact by personal workers,