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mountainous proportions! Mr. Rea was simply overwhelmed and
overjoyed on seeing the fine campus God has provided for HIS
college in the country of His "Birthright" people, "Ephraim."
God's work has taken big strides in Britain and Europe. Our
staff in our new offices at the college here surprised me last
evening with the first copy of The PLAIN TRUTH printed in England.
We have reached 15,000 copies here now. It became too expensive,
and too slow, to air-freight so many copies from Pasadena. The
British edition of The PLAIN TRUTH is exactly like the United
States edition, except for different, although nearly identical
paper. Already we have applications for admission to the college
here from students in Sweden, Australia, Holland, South Africa,
Switzerland, Spain and Ireland. The college here will train for
positions in God's work not only English students, but others from
many parts of the world.
DO YOU REALIZE how this work of God is growing? For almost
27 years--more than a quarter of a century--this great work has
continued steadily to grow at the remarkable rate of 30% each year
over the accumulated size of the year before. It almost doubles in
size and scope every 2« years! I do not know of any work,
enterprise, operation, business or activity. commercial or
religious, that has grown so rapidly and so consistently.
Back in August, 1933, Mrs. Armstrong and I rejected the tiny
salary of $3 per week because the MEN who paid us demanded that we
preach and act contrary to God's Word. We saw then that if we were
to be free and unshackled to serve God faithfully--to be HIS
instruments--we should have to look to HIM, and not to men, for
financial support.
We started then from literally NOTHING! It took courage.
It took FAITH! But God provided, very little at first--always the
bare NEED and no more, as He has promised. We still trust HIM
ALONE to this day. The NEED still is pressing! But as God uses us
as His instruments in speaking, broadcasting, writing, teaching, so
also He supplies financial need through YOU CO-WORKERS! He also
has called YOU as HIS INSTRUMENTS. You have YOUR part as much as
I have mine!.
LOOK what God has developed for His work TODAY!
TODAY we have our own offices on the new Ambassador College
campus just outside London, in England. Already it is staffed with
some 14 English workers beside our American men. TODAY we have
this fine college, with its 30 acres of magnificent grounds, its
stately 33-room main building, now re-named RICHARD D. ARMSTRONG
MEMORIAL HALL, in memory of the elder son of Mrs. Armstrong and me,
who was one of God's consecrated and able ministers, and, just
purchased on this trip, we have a splendid adjoining assembly hall,
beside many other finely constructed buildings for student
dormitories, staff residences, and offices.
TODAY we have offices in Sydney, Australia, staffed already
with three competent men trained in Ambassador College. Also there
is the 350-acre Texas project, with its elementary school and high