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candidates have been truly called to this mission by GOD---or which
will prove faithful under the test of actual experience and will be
willing to be actually used of God. It's easy to discern physical
or material values, but it is difficult to discern the Spiritual
values, and the inner intents of the heart. Only God can read and
judge minds and hearts.
And so, I rejoice more than I can express to you that God
has given me the vision to see that His solution for the problem is
our new school, now definitely to start next September. There is
a CRYING NEED for such a school. Since we cannot tell, in advance,
whether any particular student enrolling is called, qualified by
ability, and will be able finally to fulfill this mission, we are
opening the school as a GENERAL school of advanced grade, giving a
general and full education fitting students for several and varied
occupations in life. Some will become school teachers---the kind
GOD would have teaching children. Some will become wives and
mothers, trained in practical, common-sense, down-to-earth methods
and knowledge of how to be happy, successful wife, mother, and
home-maker, as well as a useful, practical, spiritual Christian.
But some, I know by faith, we shall see God has truly called, and
a few out of each class will be fitted and trained for the true
ministry, full-time in God's service.
And I more than rejoice---I THRILL to the development of
the past week or two, where in God has placed in our hands
opportunity to purchase the most splendid possible physical assets
for this beautiful private small-college campus in America! Real-
estate men, bankers and lawyers and architects all tell us it is a
miracle that such a fine and large property came to us at the price
and the way it did. But the God whom we serve performs miracles---
He has PROMISED us He will supply all our need, and when that need
came to be a home for our school which has actually cost around
$400,000 to build and develop, God moved miraculously to supply
that need. He CAN do things like that, but God CAN'T break His
promise! We were able to purchase this property for a fraction of
its actual cost, on a basis we can handle.
More and more God is giving us EVIDENCE that He is with
us, guiding, directing His Work, pouring upon it HIS BLESSING, and
blessing it abundantly over and beyond our imagination or fondest
dreams!
Of course, WE have OUR PART in all He is doing for us.
God has done His part already. Now our part is to supply the funds
necessary,---to plan the many, many things necessary to found and
begin a new college of the very HIGHEST standards---to carry out
and execute all these tasks. Walter E. Dillon, whom I have chosen
to head the college is planning to go to New York early in February
and take a semester course in (UNABLE TO READ 1 OR 2 WORDS)
educational research at Columbia University. There, in this
special course, he will have the guidance and direct counsel and
help of the Columbia faculty---the most expert technical assistance
to be had in America---in designing and planning every detail of
our new college. While it will be utterly DIFFERENT from the
colleges of this world---God's type of college, yet the principles
and methods of conducting a college are the same in any educational