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my son, who I love as David did Absalom! It is CHRIST who turns heart-
broken sorrow into JOY--who is going to give us beauty instead of ashes,
oil of JOY instead of mourning, the garment of PRAISE for the spirit
of heaviness--who causes all things to work together for GOOD to those
that love Him!
Let us, in the meantime, REJOICE in GLADNESS, PRAISE and
THANKSGIVING that God's Church no longer is divided--for a house
divided could never STAND--and Christ PROMISED that His Church will
endure through all generations. It WILL finish its course--and Christ's
GREAT COMMISSION!
WHY has God's blessing been withdrawn from His Church these past
ten years? CHRIST was being PUT OUT--a more liberal lifestyle was,
during my absence, being ushered in. The teachings and doctrines
Christ put in His Church through His Apostle were being WATERED DOWN--
Ambassador had become no longer GOD'S College that I had labored,
sweat, bled and "died" to build as GOD'S College.
Christ had called me, during the past ten years, into all parts
of the world, where HE WAS OPENING DOORS to kings, emperors, presidents,
prime ministers, giving me miraculous FAVOR in their eyes--opening the
doors for CHRIST'S MESSAGE to go into their countries where doors
previously had been CLOSED to it. In THAT area the Work was making
strides it never could before. But, back home, secularism and
worldliness and a "more liberal approach" was leavening completely
the College and beginning to spread through the Church.
Doubters and those discouraged were telling me and writing me
that the Church was about to be destroyed--the Work fallen completely
apart.
Brethren, GOD DID NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. He brought me back from
actual DEATH a year ago August, and He has been PURGING OUT that secular
leaven, and setting the Church, the College, The PLAIN TRUTH, the
broadcasting--the WHOLE CHURCH--back on GOD'S TRACK!
Once again Ambassador College is GOD'S COLLEGE--though I had to
START ALL OVER AGAIN, with one single class which is being turned
into a freshman class. Next year a NEW freshman class will be added,
and this year's students will become sophomores. And another freshman
class each year, until ONCE AGAIN Ambassador is going to be a full
four-year college--GOD'S College!
NEW INVIGORATING LIFE is everywhere in the Church and its Work
today! A NEW SPIRIT of UNITY, ENTHUSIASM for the future, is gripping
every facet of the CHURCH--GOD'S ONLY Church on earth! In the past
few years the broadcasting program had dwindled to LAST PLACE among
so-called "religious" broadcasts. Now MORE AND MORE STATIONS ARE
BEING ADDED EVERY WEEK! The REAL GOSPEL MESSAGE OF CHRIST is going
out IN POWER--the same power that BUILT the Church and its Work!
And I plan soon to resume the program of carrying Christ's final
Message over ALL THE WORLD! Christ is RESTORING HIS BLESSING, and
the Work now will plunge FORWARD!