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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
LONDON, ENGLAND
March 4, 1960
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
I wanted to write to you before coming to England--but now,
alarming news from our business office in Pasadena makes it
necessary that I write you an urgent message from London
immediately.
First, however, I simply MUST tell you of the surprise our
staff over here had awaiting me, and of the progress of the work
here.
You know already, of course, that the growth of God's work
in Britain has made necessary the establishment of another
Ambassador College in England--and how providentially Christ opened
to us an almost ready-built college campus when my son Garner Ted
and I were here last summer. The college site here is the mansion,
buildings and grounds of the late Lord and Lady Yule, who were
among the wealthiest people in Europe. The site is only five miles
from the edge of London, in the midst of the beautiful, scenic
English countryside. When the purchase was made last summer, at
astonishingly low price, the grounds had been neglected for two
years or more, and were rather overgrown with high grass and weeds.
But when I arrived this time, the majestic grounds had been
cleaned up and put in order. Much of the magnificent landscaping
had been hidden from view last summer. But God had provided, among
our Co-Workers and brethren here, a man well experienced as head
gardener over large English estates. He and his assistants have
now transformed these beautiful grounds into their original
immaculate condition. Last fall we sent over here from Pasadena
our head painter, Mr. Elmer Woody, with his wife. He has been
cleaning up and renewing much of the housing, and already the
stately buildings of Ambassador College, U.K., are looking more
like new.
The Principal (Dean) and acting President (in my absence) of
the college here will be Mr. Benjamin L. Rea, who is head of the
Spanish Department, and has taught Geography and Geopolitics at
Ambassador College in Pasadena. He is to receive his Ph.D. degree
at a leading university in Mexico this summer. Mr. Rea came with
me on this flight, so that we might make all advance arrangements
for opening the new college here next October. This is a task of