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October. We had wanted to find a suitable site near Pasadena.
This has proved impossible until we can purchase land and build our
own Festival grounds. With the east Texas project under way, and
assuming vastly increased importance, we cannot undertake the
project of building our own Festival facilities in Southern
California for at least another two years. There are vital reasons
why this great fall festival must continue to be held on the West
Coast. It must be held at the place GOD CHOOSES. We have had to
wait until we were SURE of the place chosen by the Eternal. There
is no longer any doubt. I can announce the PLACE for the Festival
of Tabernacles definitely.
It will be held at beautiful Seigler Springs, in central
California. It is much larger than Belknap Hot Springs in Oregon,
where we have gone the past seven years. It is also much nicer,
and offers many facilities we never had at Belknap. Seigler
Springs is about 475 miles north of Pasadena, in a beautiful
mountainous region south of Clear Lake. It will offer
accommodations for up to 400 people. Kitchen and dining room
facilities are larger and better than Belknap. There is a large
assembly hall, a semi-outdoor recreation pavilion for table tennis
and other recreations; a large outdoor swimming pool, and an indoor
swimming pool, and a children's wading pool. It has one of the
finest tennis courts in the nation, and a fine badminton court.
There is horse-back riding, and, if those attending desire, the hot
mineral baths in very modern facilities. There is a hotel and many
cottages of various sizes, some of them very nice. Some of the
rooms and cottages are very plain, for those who wish to pay less.
Mrs. Armstrong and I visited the Springs recently, and we are sure
all who come will be more than enthusiastic. It is a PERFECT
place, until we outgrow it as we did Belknap Springs. There is no
place as suitable, that we have been able to find, nearer Pasadena.
It will take care of us, apparently, until we can build our own
grounds and facilities closer to Pasadena. BEGIN NOW to make
definite plans to COME. Are you saving that second tithe? God has
provided the plan whereby you can be ABLE to come. You are going
to be more than enthusiastic over this beautiful mountainous
resort. We will have the place EXCLUSIVELY, all to ourselves, shut
off from the world for eight wonderful, joyful days. It will be a
time such as you have never experienced before. Write me for full
information.
I regret to announce to those who attended at Belknap
Springs, that Mr. Bigalow, owner of Belknap Springs, died a couple
weeks ago of cancer. He said he had never met people like us
before, and seeing how we lived, and how happy we were, completely
changed his life during his last months.
Now about the East Texas project. This is turning out to
be a much more important development than we realized. Since the
first letter sent out about it, several families have written that
they are planning to move to Gladewater, or to Longview, or near
this place we plan to develop.
I had mentioned in that letter the intention to establish
an elementary school of our own there, beginning September 1953.
So many of God's people have been plagued by persecution, and their