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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION-WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophesies of THE WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing
Box 111, Eugene, Oregon
The P L A I N T R U T H
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
January 17, 1947
Dear Friend and Co-Workers:
Another BULLETIN is past due. I am so pressed for time
just now I have decided to simply write you a brief letter from San
Francisco, enroute to Los Angeles to get the first NEW and larger
PLAIN TRUTH on the press---and then I will try to get you another
BULLETIN immediately afterwards, at the usual time, about the 20th
of the month.
All the initial planning for the new college, coming just
at a time of getting out the enlarged double-sized PLAIN TRUTH, is
surely keeping me busy---in addition to preparing and broadcasting
a new radio program daily. In fact much of the pressure of
preliminary planning for the college has delayed the January PLAIN
TRUTH two weeks. So I have decided to call this number the
January-February number.
I have great news for you in regard to the new college.
Plans are progressing rapidly,---We are now planning on a larger,
more thorough basis than I had in mind at first! A thing worth
doing is worth doing right. And this is so worth doing, it must be
done on the highest, most thorough possible standard.
Consequently, it is becoming a bigger undertaking than I really had
in mind at first! It is truly a gigantic undertaking---even tho we
planned to start it small, with perhaps around forty students. We
are planning for bigger things and the foundation must be firm, and
pure, and right.
It is not yet finally named. BUT it appears more and
more apparent that the name which first came to me, almost as
though God had put it in my mind, is the name that will be adopted.
That name is AMBASSADOR COLLEGE. Everyone seems to like it. When
I first mentioned the name to Mr. Walter E. Dillon, who in all
probability will be the first president, he said he liked the name
---it had dignity, it was of pleasing sound, etc., but he felt that
we should select a name that carried a definite meaning. I agreed,
and when I explained the meaning, he thought the name very
satisfactory.
The meaning of names is important. It is important to
realize the meaning of the name of God, and the meaning and power
of the name Jesus Christ. All Hebrew names have meaning. Well,
then, here is the meaning: As most colleges today claim to train
students for their part in the world---to become a part OF the
world, AMBASSADOR COLLEGE has a diametrically opposite purpose. It