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plan to fly to Rome to see us there.
In LONDON: We spent a very busy ten days in London. We
planned for having the British and overseas edition of The PLAIN
TRUTH printed hereafter in London. Until now we have shipped the
printed copies by air freight. But the circulation mailed from our
London office has grown to over 12,000, and the air-freight is now
too costly. Also arranged for booking halls for five evangelistic
campaigns of five weeks each, six nights a week, from June of next
year until end of December. We will send over a complete
evangelistic team for these campaigns, with Evangelist Roderick C.
Meredith the speaker. The same advertising agency that made all
plans and bookings and handled all advertising for the Billy Graham
campaign in London is executing our advance plans--halls must be
booked about a year in advance.
Also, thru this advertising agency, plans were completed for
the purchase of two pages every issue of the British edition of
READER'S DIGEST, starting with the October issue. In this double-
page spread space we will put a full Gospel Message, just as we now
do in Capper's Farmer in the U.S. The Capper's Messages are
bringing us an average of FIVE THOUSAND requests for further
literature or The PLAIN TRUTH every issue. The British edition of
READER'S DIGEST is read by four or five million people. THINK what
a powerful new door has opened to us there for PUBLISHING the
GOSPEL. Jesus said that we, at this time just before the END of
the world and second coming of Christ, are to PUBLISH, as well as
to PREACH, the Gospel in ALL NATIONS (Mat. 24:14 and Mark 13:10).
Also plans were made for establishing a second Ambassador
College in Britain, beginning September next year, 1960. God
opened to us one of England's fine, spacious country estates.
Until the owner died a year ago, this was the home of one of
England's wealthiest titled ladies--Lady Yule. It is one of the
most recently built of such estates--built in 1924, and in superb
condition. Originally this estate comprised over 800 acres. When
wealthy titled people die in Britain today, the inheritance taxes
take almost everything, and their heirs (Lady Yule left no
children) are forced to sell the property in order to pay the
taxes. In this case, the estate has been subdivided into many
smaller farms, and most of it sold, except for the fine big
mansion, with its 8 acres of beautifully landscaped lawns, rose
gardens etc., and a 2-acre plot containing brick housing units for
the former employed staff, the fine brick stables, garages etc.
These will make student housing, as also will servants' quarters in
one large wing of the mansion. They had no difficulty selling off
small farm plots, and even near-by guest cottages. But in England
today NO-body could buy such a mansion to live in, and it could
only be sold for a college, hospital, or some such institution.
The result was, having been unable to sell it in a whole year, the
price was reduced to a small fraction of what it cost to build. We
obtained it for less than we paid for any of our college buildings
in Pasadena, tho this is larger than any of them, and even finer
than any except Ambassador Hall. It came to us with a small
payment now, a large part of which was paid by our British
Co-Workers, and except for small payments which I think British
Co-Workers can fully pay, no more to be paid for a year, when we