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conform to the new codes. First, the building inspectors
determined that the outside walls are 16-inch brick walls covered
with a half-inch concrete. They were going to force us to put up
steel re-inforcements all around the exterior, which would require
a new concrete exterior over that. It would have cost us some
$75,000 or $100,000. But our own engineers examined further into
the walls and found they already were completely re-inforced, and
all floors and inside walls anchored to the outside walls.
It looked like we were in the clear. But the building
inspector then insisted on cutting out about five circular holes a
foot or 14 inches in diameter at different places thru the outside
walls. Removing these round sections of wall, he discovered that
the mortar used between the bricks was not as hard and firm as
present-day standards. Right now these samples are being tested in
a laboratory, and the fate of the building still hangs perilously
in the balance. IF they decide the mortar used is not firm enough
to pass their modern codes, they may refuse to permit us to use
this building for college purposes at all. Yet it is a SUPER-
substantially-constructed building, and the very finest building in
Pasadena!
We'll just have to PRAY and trust God with the result.
The second emergency is that it is costing quite a little to make
the necessary alterations in these newly acquired buildings for
college use. This takes additional money. Once again we are at
the latter half of the month when money customarily comes in so
much slower. And now we are faced with the difficult month of
December, when most people spend lavishly to EXCHANGE Christmas
presents back and forth, WHILE THEY FORGET ANY GIFTS FOR CHRIST and
for HIS WORK!
So you see, dear Co-Workers, the work is never easy. God
didn't intend it to be easy. We all have repeated trials and are
continually confronted with troubles and problems in our private
lives. And it seems that in this great work of God, a thousand
times BIGGER than one single private-family operation, that our
problems and tests are also a thousand times greater.
And so now here we are again at this fateful season. Just
when the demands on the work for the money to operate it are
greater than ever, we come to the season when people customarily
FORGET their gifts for CHRIST, in their frenzied Christmas shopping
sprees.
Jesus Christ has called us to a DIVINE MISSION! "Go ye
into all the world and preach the GOSPEL!" He commands us. A year
ago we were not reaching Australia or China with the Gospel. This
year we have added a whole national Network of stations in
Australia and Chiang Kai-Shek's powerful "Voice of Free China"
station on Formosa. Today we have the largest listening audience
of ANY program all thru South Africa!
Last night, two of our evangelists started the SECOND of
the new series of evangelistic campaigns I have been writing you we
must now carry on. TWO of our ordained ministers, both graduates
of Ambassador College, Raymond C. Cole and Gerald Waterhouse, have