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the denominations and sects and divisions and political church
organizations of this world DO NOT PREACH THE SAME GOSPEL CHRIST
DID---DO NOT PREACH THE GOSPEL HE COMMANDED---DO NOT PREACH THE
TRUE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM JESUS SAID MUST GO TO ALL NATIONS, NOW!
So, ability to speak fluently foreign languages, and ACTUAL
FOREIGN EXPERIENCE, is very vital to God's purpose for this time.
And TIME IS SHORT! And God is, as I said, moving swiftly now,
opening to us amazing, breath-taking, unbelievable facilities and
opportunities.
And now comes the almost unbelievable opportunity to have
our most deserving students take their final completing senior year
of study abroad---in Europe---and in the exact spot in Europe most
perfectly adapted to this very purpose!
Before I give you the specific details, let me say further
that many students take a foreign language course in an American
college, then go abroad, and find to their dismay they can hardly
understand the people there, or be understood---they hadn't learned
to speak the language AS they speak over there! Now that's a
problem that has concerned me much. I've said that we want
AMBASSADOR College to be practical. We want to teach French AS
they speak it in France---Spanish AS they speak it in Spain, and
also AS they speak it in Mexico or South America. But just NOW to
do that is not so easy. How can we get instructors capable of
doing that? Then, again, how can a student become fluent in
speaking Italian, when he speaks it only in a school-room class
three times a week, and speaks English WITH Americans here in the
United States all the rest of the time?
Well, frankly, that question has perplexed me. I knew it
was a problem we had to solve, but how to accomplish I did not
know.
Now training in real expertness in speaking foreign
languages is only ONE of several very important advantages in
spending one year at least of the college training actually in
Europe. I'll describe the others later.
But now here's the amazing opportunity that has opened with
the same suddenness of the Pasadena opportunity: There is a place,
IDEALLY adapted to this purpose, on scenic Lake Lugano at the base
of the Swiss Alps, in southern Switzerland. Now Switzerland is the
only country in Europe not torn by ravages of war. It is a very
small country, surrounded by other European nations speaking
different languages. Because Switzerland is so small and so close
to so many other countries, nearly everyone in Switzerland speaks
three, and often four or five languages. There is probably no spot
on earth where as many different languages are commonly spoken by
all the people---and exactly AS those languages are spoken by their
own native people!
In this particular place in Switzerland, the city of Lugano
---there are many foreign language professors, far more expert than
any available in the United States, and I'm told their charge as a
full-time professor is only the equivalent of $80 per month