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the air the engagement of "our Betty," as we call herÄÄÄMiss Betty
Bates, the first student to enroll, and the first to graduate and
receive a degree, from Ambassador College, to Mr. Gene Michel of
St. Louis, one of our fine upper-class students. And,
confidentially, just between you and me, I suspect there will be
more and more such engagements announces as the months and years go
by. I tell you truly, I had no thought of this sort of thing in
starting the school, but it seems just natural that it's happening.
Girls come here to college, and in almost no time they say to me,
"Why Mr. Armstrong, I never knew boys like these before. The
fellows I had dates with back home weren't like these. Back there
they just wanted to seek entertainment or necking (as young people
call it today). But these fellows are intelligent, make a girl
carry on an intellectual or spiritual conversation, spend a date in
a sparkling, interesting time really learning something and
improving our minds."
The fellows tell me they never met such girls. The girls
back home wanted fellows to spend a lot of money on them in
amusements, and if they didn't put their arms around the girls and
start kissing on the first date, the girl would make a lunge for
them or drop them, and seemed never able to keep up their end of an
intelligent conversation. As one girl student remarked to me about
a certain very intellectual male student and the girl he was
dating, "He certainly has met his match in herÄÄÄshe can keep up
her end of any subject he wishes to discuss."
Don't think by that our students are four-eyed book-worms
or proverbial intellectuals. They are just normal, He-men, and
feminine girls, and they like fun as much as anyoneÄÄÄbut they
realize what life is all about, they feel a sense of MISSION in the
world. I think they realize God has called them and feel the
responsibility, and they plan their fun in a way to IMPROVE mind,
body, spirit, not destroy it. When a fellow like that meets a girl
like that, and each has that "something" that attracts the other
and leads to loveÄÄÄwell, dear Co-Workers, we here see GOD'S HAND
IN IT, and that God is bringing it all about.
Now that brings me to what I want to say.
THIS IS IMPORTANT! Many of our girl students, I'm
beginning to realize, are going to become minister' wives. Now
that's entirely DIFFERENT from being the wife of a farmer, a
mechanic, a doctor, lawyer, merchant, laborer, or clerk. A
minister's wife is PART OF HER HUSBAND'S MINISTRY. Mrs. Armstrong
has always been a very definite PART of this ministry, from the
first. It was thru her God called me in the first place. If she
had not had just the right personality, just the right abilities,
the depth of character, the insight and understanding, the
judgment, the complete yieldedness to God and His Spirit and His
leading to hold up her part of this work, so that we could work
together as a perfect harmonious team, my part of the work could
never have been accomplished. We have been instruments, TOGETHER,
in the hands of God these many years.
I have know many ministers whom God could notÄÄÄdid not,
use, because of unfit wives! The training of these girls is JUST