school.
TODAY Christ's own Gospel is being thundered around the
world, on every continent, on more than 9 million watts of radio
power every week! This reaches a cumulative audience of more than
FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE every week! Can your mind grasp the magnitude
of that?
TODAY some 21,000 students are studying God's own Bible
Correspondence Course. TODAY Ambassador College in Pasadena has
reached the originally-planned limit of 250 students. Now we face
the problem of whether to raise this limit to 500.
TODAY The PLAIN TRUTH has grown from a home-made
mimeographed paper with a circulation of about 250 copies to a
professional-appearing 32-page magazine of 225,000 copies in the
United States beside 15,000 of the British edition printed in
London, every month. These now carry 32 pages of GOSPEL TRUTH,
with news analysis and prophecy, to more than a half million
readers all over the world!
Yes, THINK OF IT! What a growth in power and scope that is!
TODAY, this is a dynamic world-wide FORCE, empowered by the
SPIRIT OF GOD, changing more lives from carnality and sin into
righteous Spirit-led lives than any other work or activity, in all
probability, in the past 18« centuries! This work is criticized,
opposed, persecuted, spoken against, just as Jesus' own preaching
was!--just as God's Church was in apostolic days! BUT IT IS
GOD-EMPOWERED, and GOD KEEPS MULTIPLYING IT IN POWER AND FORCE!
You and I are merely GOD'S INSTRUMENTS. Yet He can use us
only if we yield, submit, are willing to sacrifice other things and
desires for it, and exert all our own energy to push ahead as He
leads!
And so I have to take you into my confidence and tell you
what a tremendous RESPONSIBILITY this places on you and me! God
has called YOU as a Co-Worker with me and with Christ in this work,
to SHARE this great responsibility with me.
TODAY Christ's own Gospel goes out IN PRINT in a page and a
third in Capper's Farmer every month to some 2 or 3 million readers
all over the United States. TODAY this Gospel Message, in two full
pages of Reader's Digest, British edition, reaches EIGHT MILLION
readers in the British Isles. Actual surveys show that this
magazine is read by one in five of the entire adult population in
the United Kingdom! ALSO, in the Australian and the New Zealand
editions, two pages every month reach about one in every FOUR of
the adult population! THIS IS POWERFUL PREACHING TO VAST MASSES!
TODAY, in addition to my own broadcast, with my son Garner
Ted Armstrong also speaking, The WORLD TOMORROW program reaches
Spain and South American nations in the SPANISH language; we now
broadcast via Radio Luxembourg, German beam, in the GERMAN
language, by a German man trained in Ambassador College and
consecrated to God's service, to all German-speaking peoples of