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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
April 28, 1974
Dear Inner Family of Brethren
and Co-Workers with Christ:
I have GOOD NEWS -- but today's newspaper does not!
Listen to the front-page headlines: "ISRAELI TOLL WORST SINCE
OCTOBER WAR" -- "100 FEARED DEAD IN RUSS AIRLINER CRASH" -- "ART
THEFT ALARM DID ITS WORK BUT POLICE HAD QUIT FOR THE DAY" --
"RHODESIAN FARMERS LIVE IN NIGHTLY FEAR OF TERRORISTS."
The last headline resulted from the overthrow of another
GOVERNMENT -- this time, Portugal, whose colony borders Rhodesia.
Just before coming to the typewriter just now, I was
praying, and thinking, about these headlines and the terrible
troubles that grip this entire confused and troubled world. And
when I did, that part of what is called "The Lord's Prayer" --
actually His sample OUTLINE for prayer -- came to mind -- and I
prayed, "THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE, ON EARTH, AS IT IS
IN HEAVEN." And I knew that in that prayer is the only GOOD NEWS
for us on earth today. God's WILL is not being done on earth
today.
But though I know, and teach THE WAY that will cause that
glorious state, I know it will not come for the whole world UNTIL
the KINGDOM OF GOD DOES APPEAR with the coming of Jesus Christ in
supreme POWER and GLORY, as the KING of kings and LORD of lords,
ruling all nations in the KINGDOM OF GOD!
The FACT that the time is now NEAR -- the fact that it is
SURE! -- THAT is the big GOOD NEWS today. THAT IS the glorious
silver lining behind the beclouded wretchedness of today. THAT
is the world's GREAT HOPE right now.
I have been used of the living God in establishing three
colleges where there is beauty, character and quality of physical
environment, and where beauty, character and quality has been built
into happy, smiling-faced young men and women -- giving eye-witness
PROOF that the principles of the KINGDOM OF GOD, when applied here
and now, produce the GOOD THINGS.
I had the privilege, one night this past week at dinner,
to explain THAT WAY, and how it is coming, to a distinguished
philanthropist, and an internationally known Nobel Prize-winning
physicist. I've been privileged to share that precious knowledge