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I know that TIME IS SO SHORT, there was not enough time
to delay the opening of AMBASSADOR COLLEGE even one more year.
That is why God moved with MIRACLES to make the IMPOSSIBLE happen
for us, so we could start, as we did, this fall!
I want to tell you of its progress---of the state of this
work. BUT DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT WE HAVE BEEN PLUNGED INTO
A GREAT CRISIS IN THIS WORK, WHICH WE HAVE NOT YET PASSED, ALTHOUGH
GOD HAS MERCIFULLY KEPT THE WORK ALIVE AND PROGRESSING WITH
INCREASING MOMENTUM AND POWER. This work needs your greatest
sacrifice---it needs all you and every other co-worker can give.
It need MORE than you can give---it still needs the LOANS from many
who are in position to put money they may need later INTO GOD'S
WORK where it can be WORKING FOR GOD until needed, when we can pay
it back. Especially do we need more LONG-TERM, and LARGE loans---
that is, of from one to ten thousand dollars---even more, over a
long period, not to be paid back for two, three, five years or
more. A few loans for a period of only a few months have helped
greatly. More of these will help---but the greater need is for
larger, and longer-term loans from those who are able.
The "BEST COLLEGE IN THE WORLD"
These past several months have kept Mrs. Armstrong and me
under such pressure, in the financial emergency of meeting this
unexpected reconstruction expense at the college, that we have
literally suffered agonies. There have been moments, when things
looked so dark and hopeless, when I have wondered if it was all
worth while---when I was sorely tempted to drop the crushing load
and flee from it all. But always God helped us over such moments
of temptation---as He always will.
But when I see the happy, smiling faces of the students
and professors at the college---hear them all exclaim how WONDERFUL
it all is,---hear them say Ambassador is the BEST college in all
the world,---and they really MEAN that from the heart---see some of
the students out on the tennis court, others on the benches
watching, or strolling over the beautiful grounds---see some of our
student "experts" engaging in long drawn-out volleys of hard drives
across the table-tennis in the recreation room;---or, when I look
into a class room during class and see the interested and sober
expressions;---when I look into the alert, enthusiastic,
anticipating eyes of students and professors alike during my own
Bible classes, so eager, so interested, so absorbed in what they
are learning---when I see these things, then I think it certainly
IS all worth while, after all.
And when Mrs. Armstrong and I sit down and read thru
hundreds and hundreds of earnest letters from radio listeners from
all parts of the United States and Canada, and read of what our
broadcast has meant in their lives---of how it has lead thousands
and thousands to CHRIST and HIS TRUTH, well, I tell you, dear
Co-Workers, these things just warm our hearts, fill us with
encouragement and determination to PRESS ON with all our might, no
matter what the cost!