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programs that preceded us on the same time.
This year every-night EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGNS were
started! I held a campaign in London, England, last summer,
assisted by my sons. This resulted in A NEW CHURCH in London,
pastored by our own ministers! My elder son, Richard D. (Dick)
Armstrong teamed with Roderick C. Meredith in early fall, in a
nightly five weeks campaign in Fresno, California. The third
campaign is NOW IN PROGRESS. Our evangelists Raymond C. Cole and
Gerald Waterhouse are preaching nightly in downtown Dallas.
Ambassador College has grown this year from 81 to 107
full-time undergraduate students. Ambassador started in 1947 with
only 4 students. Now the college is turning out increasing numbers
of called, consecrated, trained ministers every year. But
Ambassador College has entirely outgrown its past limited
facilities! When this NEED came, GOD ACTED! This past summer two
more fabulous adjoining estates came to us. Now we are hard at
work making necessary alterations to convert these fine properties
over to college use.
The PLAIN TRUTH has been greatly enlarged and improved
this year---have you noticed? It has grown from 16 to 24 pages per
month. It has a new cover. It is now profusely illustrated. The
type is easier to read!
OPPORTUNITY came this year to REACH SPAIN over Radio
Tangier. Also a large Network of Spanish-speaking stations in
South America and Central America. BUT WE HAVE NOT HAD SUFFICIENT
FUNDS. Ted Armstrong is now ready to start broadcasting over these
stations in the Spanish language. He speaks it fluently, without
"foreign" accent. Many of our booklets are now translated and many
printed, in the Spanish language. Co-Workers, we MUST get started
on these Spanish-speaking stations, reaching additional MILLIONS,
this year!
We now look forward to a still BIGGER YEAR in 1957!
And yet---the TRAGEDY OF IT!---most people, right now,
are saying to CHRIST: "Christ, you've blessed us beyond measure
this year, but right now, you get out of the way for awhile---let
us celebrate your birthday at a season when you were not born, by
ignoring and snubbing YOU, while we go on a spree of trading
presents---many of them useless---back and forth among ourselves
---and then, after our spree is over, maybe we'll get back to a
gift to keep YOUR work alive---IF we have any left---and IF your
work is still alive!" Can people do that with a clean conscience?
NOW is the season when "SANTY" takes the place of Christ.
Right NOW "Santy" beckons: "Suffer little children to come unto ME
---'Santy.'" After waiting hours in line, little children are able
to sit on "Santy's" lap, and pour out to him their prayerful
petitions. Thereafter parents must keep up the pretense, taking
the place of dear old "Santy," the "giver of all good gifts." And
so we have thousands of "Santies," and others purporting to be GOD
---teaching little children to come to THEM! Do you not call this
idolatry---having other gods before the ONE TRUE GOD, who is the