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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A NATION-WIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Analyses Today's News, with the
Prophecies of THE WORLD TOMORROW
Publishing
Box 111,Pasadena,California
The P L A I N T R U T H
A Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
March 21, 1951
Dear Friend and Co-Worker:
The office staff is really after me today, and insisting
I drop everything else to acknowledge and THANK YOU, for the
offering (or tithe) again received. Much as I wanted to write you,
I've had so many things to do it seems I didn't get to it.
I thank you doubly---for, now that they have pressured me
into setting other things aside to write you this "THANK YOU"
letter, it gives me opportunity to just talk to you a moment and
tell you a little about things here. You'll realize how very MUCH
your own generosity has helped in the work when you receive the
letter I'm forced to send to all co-workers again, telling them of
another financial crisis in this work. It is so serious that
---but I won't dwell on that troubled-appearing picture further in
this letter, but rather commit this great need to God, and tell you
about the more happy side of the picture.
Today our students, with a crew of experts directing the
operation, are winding up the planting of a beautiful camellia
garden in one section of the college campus. These trees are
BEAUTIFUL. The owner of a nursery and camellia business, forced to
retire from business, is donating to the college camellia trees
appraised at $100,000. The market is such that there is no sale
for these trees now. Otherwise, of course, they would not be given
to us. Perhaps in future years we may be able to sell some of
them. It's almost unbelievable---but then, nearly everything about
this work of God and this college He started thru us is
providential. We have only had time to move thirty-four of these
beautiful trees, finishing up today. The weather is turning warm,
and the rest of the trees cannot be moved until about November.
These trees are between ten and twenty five years old. We have
planted a lovely hedge of camellia trees along a 150-foot strip of
frontage which up to now was not secluded from the street. Other
trees are being placed approximately ten feet apart from this hedge
up over a knoll, completely secluding the beautiful campus grounds
from the street. These are really fine varieties, producing rare
and beautiful flowers of various colors.
Of course we probably never will be able to move more
than half of these hundreds of trees onto the campus. Some are too
large and costly to move, but this gift of rare and beautiful
camellia trees is adding much to our magnificently beautiful
campus. And it is truly almost unbelievable that these things
always come to us in such a way as to take nothing from the gospel
work.