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HE"WORK" AfTER 40 'IEAR


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THE uMISSING DIMENSION"IN EDUCATION..40 YEARS LATER

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F EW REALIZE the magnitude towhich this worldwide Workof God has grown. It is a major -scale edu ca t ional programworldwide .Actually, the Work started first in 1934 with one man and a helper,his wife.The college, with an undergraduatecurriculum and students in residenceon campus, was founded in 1947withfour students and a faculty of eight.Today there are three campuses andabout 1,300 students.But , much larger in size andpower of impact, is the extensionprogram of the college. This is, initself, a huge industry worldwide. Itis an in-the-home educational service for all peoples .On the following pages we takeyou on a tour around the world, toview pictorially, the facilities andoperations of this now major worldwide enterprise. Today the sun

never sets on our offices, plants , andoperations around the world . Ouremployed staff now reaches into thethousands, its expenditures into themultiple millions and still growingat a phenomenal pace .It isthe intriguingstoryofmaking the

missing dimension in education available to millions of people. It is thesuccess story of something neverdone before - of a huge educationalenterprise worldwide - seemingly in- .

credible, yet an accomplished andliving fact. And I didn't build oraccomplish it - no man could!Here , in brief condensation, is thestory from its beginning.I had experienced an uncommonearly training in business, in thespecific field of journalism and advertising. This led to catching thevision of the missing dimension intoday's education. I had toured theUnited States as "idea man" forAmerica's largest trade journal tosearch out ideas successfully used inbusiness and in community development and social welfare . I hadpioneered in surveys, by personalinterview and by questionnaire, obtaining, tabulating, analyzing, andclassifying information on businessand social conditions.Through this intensive researchcovering many succeeding years inmy own advertising business, I wasbeing tremendously impressed withthe unhappy fact that even in theaffluent Uni ted States there was atragic dearth of peace, happiness,and abundant well-being.I was aware also, of course, of thesickening conditions of poverty, ignorance, filth and squalor, starvation, disease and death in the livesof more than half of all the earth 'spopulation - in such countries asIndia, Egypt, and in so many areasin Asia, Africa, South America


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not to speak of some areas equallywretched here in the United Statesand parts of Europe.But WHY?To me it didn't make sense. Forevery effect there had to be a CAUSE.I didn' t know the CAUSE . Nor was itrevealed through education.Then, at age thirty-five, I waschallenged and angered into an indepth study of evolution and of thebiblical account of special creation.I studied the writings of Darwin,Lyell, Huxley, Spencer, Haeckel,Vogt. I researched into scientific evidence for or against the existence ofGod. From all sources, I found absolute proof, to me, of the existenceof God and the authority of theBible. I found absolute proof, to me,of the falsity of the theory of evolution. And I found, of all places, inthe Bible the ANSWER to the question of all the world's evils.I learned what it seemed neitherscience, education nor religion haddiscovered, that there is in living,inexorable motion an invisible spiritual LAW that regulates all humanrelationships. I learned through thisthe cause of all world ills.The living, but invisible spirituallaw is simply the one WAY OF LIFEthat is diametrically contrary to theway humanity has been traveling. Itis the way of love instead of lust.The way of giving, sharing, serving,helping , instead of taking and accumulating in lust and greed. The wayofoutgoingconcerninsteadofincomingselfish desire. The way of courtesyand consideration instead of envy,jealousy, resentment, bitterness, ha

tred. The way of cooperation insteadof competition. The way of humilityand exalting God, instead of vanityand exalting the self. The way ofGod-centeredness, constantly expanding one's horizons, instead ofself-centeredness, shrinking one'shorizons constantly inward.I found revealed what neitherscience, education, nor religion hadseemed to find there or to know the PURPOSE being worked out herebelow - the REASON why human lifewas placed here. I learned WHAT

man is, WHY he is, WHERE he is going, and the WAY to this transcendent potential, of which educators,scientists and theologians seemwholly unaware.I foundrevealedthe factthat theveryfoundation of education to fit one forhappy and successful living is beingtotally ignored . That foundation isawareness of the purpose of life,knowledge of what man is, recognition of the true values as opposed tothe false, and knowledge of the WAYwhich is the CAUSE of every desiredeffect. That knowledge is the dimensionthat ismissingin today's education.This new knowledge resulted in aseries of lectures in and near Eugene, Oregon, in the summer andautumn of 1933. Response wasspontaneous. Later, an invitationfollowed to speak on radio stationKORE. Frank Hill, owner, suggested a weekly program expounding this MISSING DIMENSIONon his station. Thus, the first week in1934, The World Tomorrow programwas born.

The World Tomorrow was designed to assist and educate thoseseeking positive answers to the"unaskable" questions presented bytoday's tumultuous world conditions. It presents timely and challenging commentary on chaoticinternational relations and insightinto world affairs. The analyses andanswers to today's world conditionsoffer a message of hope for thosewho desperately seek a better tomorrow.In keeping our listeners abreast ofimportant world events, The WorldTomorrow television staff membershave, over the years, traveled farand wide to achieve on-the-scenecoverage. Firsthand informationand opinions are gained throughpersonal, in-depth interviews withworld leaders and those making tomorrow's headlines.One month after The World To-morrow broadcast was born, ThePLAIN TRUTH, on February 1, 1934,made its most humble bow - an 8page mimeographed "magazine"printed by use of a borrowed type-

.writer on a mimeograph, the use ofwhich was donated by the localmimeograph sales agent. I was thecompositor, Mrs. Armstrong ran thepress - by hand - and she kept themailing list by pen and ink.That first edition consisted of approximately 175 copies. Total cost,stencils, ink and paper, was probably less than $2. The broadcastingwas costing $2.50 per week - $130per year.From that almost infinitesimalbeginning, like the proverbial grainof mustard seed, the broadcastinghas expanded until it is worldwidereaching a weekly audience of 55million, and costing around fivemillion dollars annually.From that almost infinitesimalbeginning the publishing operationshave expanded into three majorprinting plants and one smallerprinting shop in Texas. On our Pasadena campus alone, 3,600,000 letters were received and personallycared for in 1973 by our staff. In onesingle day over 50,000 letters werereceived. Our postal center employees sent out almost 38,000,000pieces of literature in 1973. The

scope of our work makes us one ofthe largest mailing operations onearth.Advertising space purchased inmass-circulation magazines aroundthe world brings the total audiencereached by our Extension Programup to an estimated 150 million!I realize that a pictorial roundthe-world journey, such as wepresent on the following pages, cannot give you the real and true understanding of the actual size, scopeand power of impact of this program. If the reader has opportunityto visit in person one of these campuses or foreign offices, he will thenexperience this activity in its truedimensions . The pictures cannot doit justice. But view them slowly.Pause to absorb each picture. Readall the descriptive and explanatorymatter.And remember, when opportunity comes for a personal visit, youare welcome. 0


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UTHE WORLD TOMORROW" BROADCAST... in the beginningThis Work of God was largely built bythe power of radio broadcasting . Begin-n ing in January 7, 1934 , a little over

forty years ago , Herbert Armstrongmade his f irst radio program in Eugene,Oregon , on 100-watt-stat ion KORE.W ith in eight years , the program wen tnationwide.

The f irst major international stepc am e in 1953 , nineteen years after the

rad io broadcast began . Powe rful RadioLuxembourg was added onc e week ly ,and Europe began hear ing The WorldTomorrow program . The picture aboveshows Mr. Armstrong during one ofthese broadcasts w ith Mrs . Armstrongat his side and Richard D. Armstrong,who died in an auto acc ident in 1958,at the controls.By F ebruary 1961, The World To-

morrow was being broadcast over 100stations worldwide on near ly 13 mill ionwatts of power every week . With in twoyears the number of stations carryingthe program climbed to almost 150.Today, 115 stations in the U . S.car ry the program , 56 in Canada and64 stations in other par ts of the world ,or a total of 235 in English, besidesforeign languages.


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EARLY 1953 The World Tomorrowprogram, with the voice of Herbert WArmstrong, was heard fo r the firsttime in Europe. Not long after, thevoice of Garner Ted Armstrong wasadded to the broadcast. He is seen,left, recording broadcast at a copper-m il l, Duisberg, West Germany.

NEW TELEVISION STUDIO, Pasadena,California campus of AmbassadorCollege, from which most GarnerTed Armstrong telecasts emanate.


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OARIER TED ARMSTROIO TELECAST...asit looks todayNow in itsseventh year of production, theGarner Ted Armstrong telecast is carriedon 105 stations throughout the Uni tedStates and Canada, reach ing many of theimportant , highly populated areas . Theimpact of the telecast promises to become greater and greater throughout theremainder of th is decade .In point of fact , the use of televisionbegan in 1955 when Herbert W . Arm-

strong f irst began speak ing on a regularweekly televis ion progra m called TheWorld Tomorrow. But not until 19 6 6 didAmbassador College really plunge intothe television field w ith its first purchaseof TV equipment, an Ampex TV cameraand video tape recorder. The first television broadcast, w ith Garner Ted Armstrong , began May 1 1, 19 6 7 , onKWHY-TV, channel 22 , Los Angeles.

Da il y telev ision began Ju ly 12 ,19 72 . Today, th e Garner Ted Armstrong program can be seen in theUn ited States on 56 telev ision stationsdaily , another 15 wee kly, and in Canada on 34 stations w eekly . From smallbeg innings , the television program hasbecome a majo r arm of the Wo rk ofGod procla im ing the good news of theworld tomo rrow.

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FIRST ISSUE o f The Plain Truth ,below, dated February 1934, was cu ton stencils by an ancient versionof Smit h Corona typewriter, upper left.IN THE 1930 's The Plain Truth wasproduced by hand from stencilson a neostyle, right.THE ENTIRE WORK, includingpublishing facilit ies, was centereduntil 1947 in the 10 0F Building, above(center w indows, third floor) .LATER DEVELOPMENT o f pressleft, one o f tw o Miehle V-50 verticalletter presses used to pr in t bookletsand co-worker letters . Unfoldedprinted signatures o f bookletWho Will Rule Space? are on thetable at left. (Approximately 1959.)

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THE AMBASSADOR COLLEGE PRESS...in the beginningThe PLAIN TRUTH had humble beginnings . E nv is io ne d by Herbert W . Armstrong in e ar ly 1927 , The PLAIN TRUTHdid not ta ke f inal shape unt il February1934 when abo ut 1 7 5 co pies were repro duced on an old-fashioned neost yleand mailed out to interested readers.The " press" began w ith one bor

rowed typewri ter and a m imeograph in

the of fice of the mimeograph sales representative. After a few months. pressequ ipment in cl ud ed an antiquated second -hand neostyle, anc est or of t hemimeograph , and a second-hand typew riter. The PLAIN TRUTH became apr inted pub lication, pr inted by a Eugene , Oregon , job printer, by the August-September 1940 edition - st ill 8

pages . It stepped up to 12 pages,March-April 1942 . In 1946 our fi rstreal "press " was purchased - aDavidson duplicator, together with anold second-hand, hand-operated cutterand a t in y fo lding machine w h ich is stillin cons tant use. However, this printingdepartment pr inted on ly booklets . fo rmletters, etc.

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AMBASSADORCOLLEOE PRESS...asit lookstoday

From such a modest birth, The PLAINTRUTH has grown and grown . In November 1958 , 175 ,000 were printed .Circulation reached 210 ,000 by January 19 60 , and 400.000 jus t four andone half years later. By August 1964.the Ambassador College Press beganpub lication of The PLA IN TRUTH for thefirst time on our own new web -fedmagazine press in our then newly enlarged printing plant .Wi th the February 1965 issue, The

PLAIN TRUTH stepped out w ith a spar kling, ful l-color cover.Circulation began to soar , and the1,000 .000 mark was passed in July1967 ; by August 1969 circulation dou bled again , and in 1973 total world-wide circulation of The PLAIN TRUTHpassed three mill ion monthly. The Ambassador College Press acqu ired a hugeGoss P-50 in November 1969, enablingit to print upwards of 50 ,000 16 -page signatures of The PLAIN TRUTHhourly.In add ition to m ill ions of copies ofThe PLA IN TRUTH , the Work printed anddistributed seven million pieces of literature throughout 1973 . The Ambassado r College Press has grown toincorporate three major plants: Pasadena , Californ ia; Radlett , England; andNorth Sydney, Austral ia, and a s ma llerplant at Big Sandy, Texas.8


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AMBASSADORCOLLEGENever before has there been a col legequ ite like it. Beginning in 1947 , ad ream of Herber t Armstrong began to

be fulf illed. In that year , Pasadena be-came the home of Ambassador College.By the 1959-1960 college year, enroll -ment at the Pasadena campus reached245 full-time students, and in the fall of1960 another campus was opened inBr icket Wood , near St. Albans ,England. A third campus in Big Sandy,Texas, was added in the fall of 1964.Today , at the three sister campusesof Ambassador College , a total of1,280 students are enrol led. They arepioneers in a unique educational experi-ment . Many Ambassador graduates fillimportant posts in the worldw ide enter-prises connected with the college's Ex-tens ion Education Program .The pictures on these pages are ofthe Ambassador College campuses . Up-per left is an aerial view, with the gymnasium and track in the foreground , oft he Bricket Wood campus i n th e" Green Belt " outside London . Lowerleft is the rolling terrain of the BigSandy campus, sloping down from theRoy Hammer Library. To the right, theLoma D. Armstrong Academic Center ofthe Pasadena campus, as seen from theOrange Grove Boulevard entrance.


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AHISTORIC MESSAOEFROM HERBERT W. ARMSTRONOBecause this message is particularlyrelevant to crises confronting the worldtoday, we are reprinting it from the Aug.-Sept. 1970 PLAIN TRUTH in thiscommemorative issue.A FTER TWENTY-FIVE years , I reL-\. turned to the historic site ofthe San Francisco Conference. It was the 25th anniversary ofthe signing of the United NationsCharter - the San Francisco Com

memorative Meeting, 26th of June,1970.Many who attended that conference, where the Uni ted NationsCharter was drawn up, are notamong the living today . That includes my wife, who attended theseveral-weeks-long conference withme. Once again, I was seated in abooth in the press gallery . And thistime, photographers and writers onThe PLAIN TRUTH staff were withme.Once again , as in the plenary sessions a quarter century ago, it wasopened, not with prayer, but with amoment's silence - which lasted tento fifteen seconds. Once again, theanniversary memorial meeting wasopened on an optimistic note . Thepresiding chai rman said we werehere, 25 years ago, in a spir it ofoptimism ; and he expressed hopewe returned, now, with renewed optimism.Actually , the true state of affairsin the world was more accuratelyexpressed that same evening at thecommemorative dinner at the Fairmount Hotel atop Nob Hill. It wassummed up by the Secretary-General of the United Nations , UThant.Secretary-General U Thant summarized 25 years of U.N. "progress"with these words: "Now we meetagain in a mood of uncertainty and12

anxiety, with only the knowledgethat humanity is moving at an increasing speed in uncertain directions, and that time is runningshort. . . ."After 25 years of the United Nations, its Secretary-General continued : "Where has national interestled us? To an arsenal of ugly weapons, which cost humanity 200 thousand million dollars [$200 billion] ayear; to the greatest historical deadlock between Big Powers that theworld has ever seen ; to north-south,east-west , ideological, racial andeconomic cleavages ; to a belt of divided countries; to a series of smoldering or active conflicts stretchingacross the globe."World War II was the "war to endall wars." The Uni ted Nations wasthe world "peace effort" to preventfurther wars. What are the resultsafte r a quarter century?There have been more tha n 50wars .The U.N. has contributed to theshortening of four wars.

BUT -There is no evidence to show thatthe United Nations has PREVENTEDany war!Let me give you a few of thestatements I heard in the press gallery 25 years ago, spoken with greatsolemnity in opening plenary sessions:Said Anthony Eden ofGreat Britain: " . . . the work on which we aremaking a start here may be theWORLD'S LAST CHANCE."General Jan Smuts of South Africa, whom I interviewed person-

ally: "I f San Francisco fails, then Isee nothing but sta rk disaster beforemankind. . . . Scientific discoverieshave been made in this war whichmight mean the END OF THE HUMANRACE."General Romulo of the Philippines: "This may be our LAST OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE PEACE."And many other such sober, ominous warnings.But after the plenary sessions, thedelegates - foreign secretaries, secretaries of state, high officials in theworld's great powers - got down toreal business in many private sessions. And then what happened 25 years ago?Here is what I wrote in San Francisco then:

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This is Sunday, April 29, 1945. Itis a grave moment in history.We are in the last days of WorldWar II. The Nazis are disintegratingon all fronts . It appears only a matter of days, now. But already worldleaders are looking toward WorldWar III. This histo ric San FranciscoConference is the world 's effort toprevent it and bring in world peace."The world 's last chance," says Anthony Eden of this conference.

Power Politics in ActionNever in the history of mankindhas anything like this taken place. Itis the grea test, most elaborate conference of world leaders ever held. Ihave had the rare privilege of beingone of the writers and radio commentators credentialled to the conference.Here I have talked with worldstatesmen. Here I have been seeingpower politics in action. Here I havewitnessed something of the subtle,yet fateful arts , skill, and strategycalled statecraft and diplomacy - inliving action as instruments for selfish national advantage.In the plenary sessions of the conference we hear beautiful oratoryenunciating lofty aims of altruismand world peace - to be prin ted in

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for public consumption. But the realsessions are behind locked doors ofcommittee council chambers, andthere the savage battle for nationalinterests rages fiercely.Already I see the clouds of WorldWar IIIgathering at this conference.We learn of it in private talks withdelegates in hotel lobbies . The nations can have peace - if they wantit. But they don't want it. They wantgain at the expense of others.Injustices to Minorities

Yes, the efforts to form a worldPEACE-ENFORCING government hereare proving, in themselves, a continuing contest, punctuated by constant strife.The firebrand here is Stalin's topman, Molotov. I've attended pressconferences here where protestingrepresentatives of Lithuania, Latvia,and Estonia cry out against graveinjustices forced on their people bythe overpowering Ru ssian boot.Three million from Lithuania havebeen tom from their homes andfamilies and deported to Siberia!In a private interview with Constantin Fotich, pre-Tito ambassadorto the U. S. from Yugoslavia, Ilearned that 30,000 small-farm owners in Yugoslavia have seen theirhomes and farms confiscated byStalin's puppet government. Someof these remain on their farms asslaves, some have been driven toSiberia - many have been "liquidated" - killed!I do not see peace being germinatedhere, but the seedsofthenext war!Success of the United Nations' effort for world peace requires complete HARMONY between the BigThree. But if America and Britainare to achieve harmony with Russia,it is already apparent it will have tobe at the cost of justice in thesmaller Baltic and Balkan nations,and Poland. And if the rights ofthese helpless millions are to betrampled upon with impunity as theprice of peace with Russia, THEN WESTILL HAVE NO PEACE!There can be no real peace untilwe have justice for all. To achieve

that, Uncle Sam must stand up asthe stem and determined championof the rights of these helplesssmaller peoples.

World Oblivious toRussian Crimes

And to do that would sacrificeharmony with Russia and risk another war. Peace, it seems, can beachieved only if Russia can eat hercake and have it, too!The world seems blissfully ignorant of the colossal crimes Russia iscommitting against these smallernations she is occupying and annexing. But I have talked, here, withofficials and representatives fromthese nations and learned, firsthand,with shocked indignation, the trueand cruel facts.There is the biblical statement:"Except the Lord build the house,they labor in vain that build it."Here at San Francisco I see littlepuny men in exalted positions setting out to build a great house - avast edifice, a HIGH TOWER that willreach to the HIGH HEAVEN OF PEACE!But God is not building this house!God has not so much as been invited into this conference. At theopening plenary session I was surprised, as I looked down from thepress gallery, to observe SecretaryStettinius, instead of opening thedeliberations with prayer for God'sguidance, call, instead, for a minuteof silence for meditation! You see,Mr. Molotov and the Russian delegates do not believe in God, and ifMr. Molotov were insulted, therecould be no peace! But neither canthere be peace without God!The United Nations Conferenceis producing nothing bu t strife andbickering and is destined from itsinception to end in total failure. Yetworld leaders are pronouncing it the

WORLD'S LAST HOPE - with the onlyalternative ANNIHILATION OF HUMANITY!

Human Nature the Causeof Wars

Peace "cannot be manufacturedhere below." Man alone of God's

creatures can choose to serve andlove his fellow men. But he canchoose, also, to hate his fellow men.In every man a struggle constantlypersists between his higher facultiesand lower inclinations - betweenobedience to law and servility to appetites, passions and selfishness. Unless this lower nature is kept undercontrol, it breaks forth in violenceand disorder.It is human to be sensitive aboutsecuring one's own rights, while disregarding the rights of his neighbor.So men are tempted to lie, steal,and kill in order to get what theywant.With men left to themselves, theirbaser inclinations unrestrained, withselfishness given free play, there can

be no peace or order in this world.Man's mind and will are too weak.The downward impulses of hisnature are too strong .The two great commands - LOVEtoward God, and LOVE towardneighbor - point the only path topeace.Without government over men,therefore, we could not have peacebetween individuals. But, as we risein the scale of human relations , theproblem of peace and good orderbecomes more complex, yet the solution remains the same. If themaintenance of peace and order isdifficult between man and man, if itis more difficult between citizen andgovernment , it is most difficult of allbetween nation and nation! The basic conflict is the same as before human nature - but the stakes arehigher. In the international realm ,the selfishness of human naturereaches its ' lowest level. Nowhereelse are the temptations to greedand lust for power so nearly irresistible. National selfishness is morethan the sum total of the selfishnessof individuals.Just as individual man cannotcontrol and resist the downwardpull .of his passions and nature, sothese NATIONS , swayed by NATIONALselfishness greater than the sum total of the selfishness of all individuals, cannot control these ambitions

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and lusts for power and international aggression."Except the Lord build the house,they labor in vain that build it." TheUnited Nations organization willfail. It is doomed before it starts!* * * *

That is what I wrote in San Francisco, Sunday, April 29, 1945 more than a quarter of a centuryago!I had seen so much savage bickering and angry struggle for selfishnational advantage, I think I wasstirred to some heat of indignationas I wrote.I remember one press conferenceheld by the American Secretary ofState, Edward Stettinius. We pressrepresentatives were kept waitingsome 40 or 45 minutes, as I remember, before Secretary Stettinius entered the room. He had beendetained by Mr. Molotov of theU.S.S.R. in another meeting . Heburst out, in an off-the-cuff explanation, with indignation at theunfair, unreasonable and antagonistic tactics the Russian had usedin detaining him.I remember the 'scene as the chiefdelegates of the "Big Three" powersarrived at the Opera House for theopening Plenary Sessions. Mrs.Armstrong and I were standing onthe steps just above the front sidewalk when a Cadillac limousinerolled to a stop. Out stepped SirAnthony Eden, smiling and handsome. The news photographersasked if he would pose for a picture."Certainly," he smiled.It was the same when Secretary ofState Stettinius arrived, also handsome and smiling.Then two Cadil lac l imousines "rolled to a stop. Out of the first carleaped"seven uniformed men. I'm notsure now, but I believe they werearmed. They dashed to the rear doorof the second car, and, with three orfour more uniformed guards leapingout of the second car, formed adouble line before the rear door.Grim and scowling, Mr. Molotov

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formed lines. Then the whole procession walked stiffly and unsmiling,with Molotov complete ly surrounded byhis guards, up the steps.I attended a special Molotovpress conference . He was the same.Belligerent, unsmiling, accusing theUnited States, praising the U.S.S.R.What an opportunity for theUnited States to have championedthe rights of those smaller downtrodden, ill-treated countries between East and West Europe - Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania, Poland,Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia. The United States was by farthe strongest military power in allworld history then . We had theatom bomb. Russia had no nuclearweapons. If the United States had

stood up to Russia IN STRENGTH andgiven its demands, the Kremlinwould not have risked war. But wehad lost the pride of our power. Weweakly submitted to Russia's demands' and threats.And as a result the United Nations has become virtually a Kremli n SOUNDING BOARD fo rpropaganda before the world.The world COULD have peace - ifmen in power in the great powerswere willing to sacrifice selfish national interest and personal aggran dizement, and if giant powers likethe United States were willing to usetheir power to defend the rights oftrampled-over little nations.But men in power are human,swayed by human nature. They arenot willing. And so, where do we gofrom here? Is humanity SELF-DOOMED? The answer is emphatically NO!The answer is to be found in ourintriguing booklet, The WonderfulWorld Tomorrow - What It Will BeLike. It's sent gratis, of course. In ityou are going to take an astonishedglimpse into a new world - as it willbe in just ten or fifteen short years.I'll count it a privilege to send thisalong to you, if you haven 't read italready. These problems will besolved, after all. Personally, I lookforward in faith and confidence

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THE "MISSIIODIMENSION"BROUGHTm

mPLEADERSWORLDWIDE

A new dimension of the Work of Godbegan in 1968 when Herber t W . Armstrong began meeting with high-levelworld leaders at their request. br ingingto the ir attention the same announcement that Jesus Christ brought to theworld nineteen hundred years ago .Herbert Armstrong has met with theleaders of such Asian and Near Easternnations as Japan. the Philippines.South Vietnam. Indones ia. Ind ia. Nepal. Sri Lanka ( former ly Ceylon). Thai land . Lebanon and Israel.Besides meeting with kings. primeministers and premiers. Herbert Armstrong also met with Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. in June of 1973 andEmperor Hirohito of Japan. in December1973 .Photo (top right) shows Mrs . IndiraGandhi of India meeting Herber t Arm strong for the first time in December1970 . Photo (bottom r ight) shows Emperor Hail e Selassie and Herbert W.Armstrong upon their first meeting.In coming months. Herbert W. Arm strong is beginning special personal appearance campaigns in Saigon andManila where hundreds of d igni tariesand thousands of oth er people w ill hearhim speak.


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PERSONAL APPEARANCE CAMPAIGNSThe fi rst personal appearance campaign conducted by this Work occurredin the summer of 1933 when HerbertA rmstrong spoke in person to an audience packed in to a 35-seat schoolhouse in Eugene , Oregon .But the personal appearance campaigns did not become a major thrust ofthe Work unti l 1970 , when 15 ,000people heard Garner Ted Armstrong inNashville, Tennessee.

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The campaigns " exploded" in 1973 asover 30 cities were vis ited . M inisters ofthe Worldw ide Church of God announced the good news brought byJesus Chr ist to audiences in such placesas Melbourne and Perth, Austral ia; Saskatoon , Saskatchewan, Canada ; Seattle,Wash ington ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;Auckland , New Zealand ; and Honolulu ,Hawa ii. In 1973 a tota l aud ience of120,000 people saw the campaigns.

In 1974 , campa ign projections callf or about 40 campa igns , including sixby Garner Ted Armstrong, which w illreach a cumulative audience of wellover 200,000 people. Photos above illustrate campaigns. A welcome is extended from Bossier City , Louis iana. Incenter, inset, Garner Ted A rmstrongaccompanied by his w ife Shirley, makesa record ing wh ile flying en route to apersonal appearance campaign.


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If you wish fast personal service , call(1) 800 423-4444 or (1) 213577-5225if you live in nontoll-free areas .


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