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This entire fabulous property, purchased by Jerry Block and
associates from Las Vegas, Nevada, is to be largely DONATED by them
to Ambassador College! Meanwhile, I have a cablegram from Vern R.
Mattson, our business manager, that another estate owned by the
Merritt heirs is being offered for sale at a very reasonable price!
This estate, located on the opposite side of the campus from the
other estate I just mentioned, comprises the same acreage as our
original College property.
This is all opening up to us at a time when the main College
property is PAID OUT AND BECOMES CLEARED OF ALL INDEBTEDNESS. Any
payments on these additional properties would be less than payments
have been on the present property! THINK OF THAT! This means an
actual reduction in monthly expenses---while the original main
College property is owned clear of debt and now has added campus
facilities THREE TIMES THE FORMER SIZE! This is just what we need
to expand the Work of God.
If this is not a MIRACLE, what do you call it?
The influx of new students plus providential tripling of the
campus facilities JUST WHEN NEEDED, and at no extra expense, is
PROOF that God revealed the NEW course of expansion of this work
outlined in the preceding letter. God is now moving dramatically
to make the enlarged evangelistic crusade possible!
This is a stern CHALLENGE from God to us! Can we now move
forward with increased zeal and earnestness, doing our part? The
work of God is now in that time of month when income always lags.
The need for the rapid expansion of this worldwide work means YOU
must redouble your efforts with generous offerings, full tithes
and EARNEST PRAYERS! Let me say impassionately to you as the
apostle Paul did to the Corinthians;
"What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for YE
are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, 'I will dwell
in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be my people.'...Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,"
I say to YOU as did the apostle Paul, "let us cleanse ourselves
from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in
the fear of God. RECEIVE US...We want you to know, brethren, about
the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,
for in a SEVERE TEST of affliction, their abundance of joy and
their extreme poverty have overflowed in a WEALTH OF LIBERALITY ON
THEIR PART. For they gave according to their means, as I can
testify, and BEYOND THEIR MEANS, of their own free will, begging us
earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints
---and this, not as we expected, but first THEY GAVE THEMSELVES TO
THE LORD AND TO US by the will of God...Now as YOU excel in every-
thing---in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all earnestness,
in your love for us---SEE THAT YOU EXCEL IN THIS GRACIOUS WORK
ALSO" (II Cor. 6:16; 7:1-2; 8:1-7).
I beseech you all, as Paul did the Corinthians, to GIVE
YOURSELVES first of all to God as His instruments in His work and
then we shall launch out on this new and decisive and FINAL WORLD-