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Brethren, I want to tell you that removing the college from
Big Sandy is to Garner Ted and me both like cutting off our right
arms.
But, as I wrote you in the letter read on April 27th, God
committed to me in July, 1933 Christ's GREAT COMMISSION--to take Christ's
GOSPEL ANNOUNCEMENT to the WHOLE WORLD for a witness to ALL NATIONS.
God did not call me into the COLLEGE BUSINESS--as a business.
I MUST keep the PRIORITIES straight as He gives them to me, for I
shall have to give account to Christ when He comes!
But by 1947 it finally became NECESSARY to found Ambassador
College. There were reasons why it HAD to start in Pasadena. God
miraculously opened the doors to start it there, when we had no
money to start it with.
I had been used to raise up the parent church at Eugene, Oregon
with 19 members in 1933. It GREW. God opened radio to me January,
1934. The PLAIN TRUTH was born February 1, 1934. I held nightly
evangelistic meetings in or near Eugene for some two years. We went
on radio in Portland, Seattle, Spokane. I began holding meetings in
Seattle and elsewhere--where God had ADDED members to form a small
local church. But I could not preach at Eugene, Jefferson, Portland,
Seattle, Creswell and other churches all at once on the same Sabbath.
There was not enough of me.
Ambassador College became NECESSARY to train ministers for new
local churches beginning to rise up rapidly. The college started
October 8, 1947, after I had learned what birth-pangs were.
The purpose of the college was to provide personnel for the
work--and ministers to FEED THE FLOCK that was growing 30% per year.
As I said, I have to consider the PRIORITIES.
Let me give them to you.
First, above priorities for the WORK ITSELF, priority number
one is the necessity of a SPIRITUAL REVIVAL in the WHOLE CHURCH.
Without that, the whole work is skidding on the way down--and OUT!
It is just that SERIOUS!
I have started setting the example by five days fasting and
prayer, and I am going back to it with my whole heart--I hope for
the next five days!
I call on all the MINISTERS to FAST AND PRAY AS NEVER BEFORE!
We have hit such crises before. And when we fasted and prayed with
our WHOLE HEARTS--God always HAS ANSWERED EVEN WITH MIRACLES. He
will again!
FIRST PRIORITY in THE WORK is the OPEN DOOR PROGRAM--in which
Christ is OPENING DOORS which I am personally walking through, to
kings, presidents, emperors, prime ministers, their cabinet members,
parliament members, and others of high position--judges, bank