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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPoRT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL. 4, NO. 22
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE UPDATE
(Pasadena Campus)
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
MAY 28, 1982
Last week we conducted the 32nd commencement exercise of Ambassador
College.
According to established tradition, graduation exercises were
held in the Lower Gardens of Ambassador College, and we had the largest
attendance at these commencement exercises since the 1978 graduation.
Mr. Herbert
w.
Armstrong, the founder and chancellor of the College, gave
the commencement address which he entitled "Education in the World
Tomorrow." This year Mr. Armstrong stood as he gave the address and came
across very powerfully. Mr. Armstrong began his address by saying: "Time
is running out on this civilization. Nuclear World War III and Armageddon
are coming closer day by day••••"
Mr. Armstrong gave a brief history of how man began going astray. The first
man and woman in Eden rejected God's way--His education--and turned to
their own ways. Cut off from God, they and their descendants were only able
to learn about things, but were not able to truly understand how to deal
with their fellowmen or with their Creator. Then Mr. Armstrong gave a brief
account of how modern education began and how it developed over the past
2,500 years.
After debunking evolution and revealing that he had proved that there had
to be a Creator who was the source of the material creation, Mr. Armstrong
said:
"The Bible is the Textbook--the history, the textbook and the
prophecy of that claim of special creation and of a Creator God."
Later, the Chancellor pointed out that "the Spirit of God imparts that
whicW will develop character in man. Now if God is reproducing Himself,"
continued Mr. Armstrong, "He has to reproduce character because that's what
God is--holy, righteous, perfect character; perfect spiritual character. I
have defined character in many ways. But character is simply the right
knowledge plus the right attitude, plus the right action of doing the right
thing, the right way. And it all gets down to attitudes.
"But," said Mr. Armstrong, "education has been essentially materialistic.
They have not known the true values. And the true values, after all, are
spiritual values•••• " The following longer quotes from Mr. Armstrong's
address are especially interesting with regard to education in the World
Tomorrow:
Now what is going to be the education then of the future?
Ambassador College is a college that we have been calling God's
College. Now very frankly, I don't think it's a hundred percent
God's College. It's as near God's College as He has given us to
see. But when Jesus Christ comes to rule this world, I think He's
going to note things that haven't been revealed to us.
And I