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not have billions upon billions of
dollars for such purposes. Mueh of
this restoration is being done by vol–
un leer labor. It made me think of
the early days in bu ilding Ambassa–
dor College. l n those day . as we
purchascd gradually more and more
property. we used old. dilapidatcd
frame hou es for many purposes:
we u ed vo luntcer student labor; we
im provised as was neccssa ry to keep
building and growing. That is the
way the lsrac lis are building up
their country.
First the mayor rook us through
thc Citadel. an agglomeratio n of o ld
buildings located to thc right of
Jaffa Gate a lo ng the wcstern wall of
the Old City. Sorne of the stones in
its base date back to the sccond cen–
tury B.C. The tower at the far end of
the Citadel has been known as th e
Tower of David since Byzan tine
times - but neither the Citadel nor
Tower of David
ha.~
any con–
ncction with the ancient King
David. The C itadel has many walls
and many rooms. and it is being
restored into a beautiful and mod–
ero conditi on.
From the Citadel we were taken
over to the old Jewish Quarter of
the old walled city. He re were a
e l uster of low. very old domed
houses which were very unimpres–
~ive
from the outside. But upon en–
tering. we were struck by the
13EAUTY
anc.J the
MAJESTY
of the
rooms - the high ceilings wh ich had
looked like
very
lo~r
builc.Jings from
their dingy appearance ou ts ide.
Mayor Kollek had done a remark–
able job of restoring thi arca. There
were about four synagogues, each
in
a different room in the same build–
ing- now very modern. very bright.
and beautiful inside.
I was really impressed with all the
plans Mayor Kollek told us he has
in mind for renewine. and
rebeautifying the city of
Jeru~alem.
1 cou ld especially apprcciate iL
personally. since I have - thc past
30 years - gone through the job of
building Ambassador Collcge in
Pasadena (not to speak of s imil a r
jobs at the other two campuses).
The college was built out of what -
at the lower downhill leve! - had
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A CHILDREnS PLAVGROUOD
A CI'-T OF
Thl>AMBASSAOOR INTERNATIONAl
CUlTURAl FOUNDATION
H. W. ARMSTRONG
PAESIOENT
MR. ARMSTRONG,
left, Stanley R. Rader, executive vice-president of the Am–
bassador lnternational Cultural Foundation, Mayor Kol/ek, and Mrs. Rader
inspect the site in Liberty Be// Garden where the AICF is funding
a
children's
p/ayground.
becn the ncarest thing to a slum
secti on Pasadena had. We wcre then
buying up the property - a 40-foot
lot at a time - usually with two o ld
shacks. one behind the other, on
cach narrow, 40-foot lot. With the
fine help I have had , we have built
this area of Pasadena into a campus
that twice the past two ycars has
won the national award for being
the most
BEAUTIFUL.
the best land–
scaped. and the
13EST MAINTAINED
campus in the Un ited States!
God turned
THIS EARTH
over
lO
father Adam in the Garden of Eden
to ' 'dress it and keep it" - not let it
run down to weeds. But
MAN
has
befouled th is ea rth God gave him in
evcry way - polluted the watcrs.
befouled the air. a nd ruined the soi l.
Mayor Kollek later took the
group of us to a special restaurant
for lun ch. There. severa! o ther
friends joincd us. After that. we
drove
to the si te of the new Liberty
Bell Garden park.
1 had been
~cheduled
to be there
on July 2 for the official ground–
breaking ceremony for building the
new park in the heart of the new
ci ty. I had undertaken to build the
children·s playground area of the
new city park. The last
day
of June.
1
had boarded my G-Il jet aircraft.
bound for Jerusalem. We we re
forced down a t Bangor. Maine. after
crossing the United States from
southwest to northeast because of a
cracked window in the cockpit. We
were forced to re turn to Pasadena -
flying at low alt itudc. So the mayor
conducted that ceremony alone.
When we reached the park area. 1
saw a large sign posted, in both He–
brew and English, saying: "Under
constructi on here:
A CHILDREN'S
PLA YGROUND:
A GIFT OF
THE AMBASSADOR INTER-
ATIONAL CULTURAL FOU -
DATION. H. W. ARMSTRONG,
PRESIDENT."
Sabbath afternoon we had a Bible
study in my hotel suite at the Jcru–
sa lem Hilton. About 30 carne. Wc
now have a very small Sabbath
group meeting in Jerusalem, but no
local pastor as yeL though one man
se rves as leader.
1 gave them an hour-and-a-half
Bible study on
Jerusalem: pas1,
presenl, and future.
1 think you'll
find a brief out line of that study
helpful, interesting. and en light–
ening - if you·ll take the time to
take your own Bible and carefully
read al! th e biblical passages
IN
The
PLAIN TRUTH October 1976