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can be two places at once---a third of the way around the earth
apart, too. I can be holding public meetings in London, speaking
to a large audience over here---and then at the same moment
speaking to all of you back in America by radio!
GOD'S MESSAGE is going around the world, in dynamic
POWER!
Now first, just a few brief side-lights about our voyage
that may interest you. We sailed from New York last Friday noon,
August 6th, on America's newest and largest passenger ship, the
S.S. United States. We have enjoyed relatively calm seas so far,
and pray for its continuance. ** A few hours before we left
Pasadena, Mr. Huntington Parmelee, head of our advertising agency
thru whom we purchase and place all radio-station time in the
United States, appeared at the college with surprise "bon-voyage"
presents---a light weight travelling iron, which steams as it
presses, for Mrs. Armstrong, and the finest leather "jumbo" four-
suiter travelling bag for me. ** When we arrived in our state-room
after boarding the United States at the pier in New York, we found
a vase filled with the most beautiful dark red roses. A greeting
card told us they had been sent (by wire) from the students, the
office staff, and our children in Pasadena. They are still
cheering our room, and we are now more than half way. ** The night
we boarded the train at Pasadena there were around a hundred of our
students, staff personnel, and children and grandchildren at the
depot to see us off. It surely warms our hearts and inspires us to
know that there are those who love us.
On last Saturday evening a steward from the Pursers'
office came to our stateroom to invite me to officiate at the
Protestant church service on the ship at 11 A.M., Sunday. He had
brought with him the program that was to be followed. It was an
honor that I was recognized and given first preference to conduct
the church service on America's largest passenger ship. Had I been
given the opportunity to preach Christ's true gospel to them, I
should have accepted. But when I noticed that there was to be no
sermon, but only the conducting of a stiff ritual, in which even
the prayers I was to pray were all written down by others for me to
read off, I was of course obliged politely to decline.
I looked in on the service for a few moments Sunday
morning, though I could not participate---and I noticed some
important people of this world in attendance, including U.S.
Senator Sparkman of Alabama, who was Democratic candidate for Vice
President of the U.S. at the last election. ** Among other
celebrities or notorious persons aboard are Lady Ashley, Monty
Woolley, Holywood star and character actor, and the disgusting
pervert, the former G.I. of whom the Army must be not very proud,
who was operated on in Denmark to try to change himself into a
girl, now going by the name "Christine." But then, is even a thing
like that much worse than all the other rottenness, perversion, and
abominations that literally permeate this world?
CO-WORKERS! We live in a world of spiritual stench, and
in frightful times. BUT WE HAVE A MOST SERIOUS AND A DYNAMIC AND
TREMENDOUS MISSION TO PERFORM!