The Deadly Leaven of Higher Education - Herbert W Armstrong - September 1978

Herbert W Armstrong

Personal From Herbert W. Armstrong - I was never called to engage in the college business. But by 1947 the need had become imperative to establish an educational arm of the Church on the college level. It definitely was NOT because this world needed another college. There were too many of this world's institutions of higher education already! But the living God had caused me to realize the serious need for a college to educate a ministry for His Church and to train other personnel to fill the increasing number of administrative offices. For this purpose it had to be God's kind of college - utterly unique in the world. No college or theological seminary extant filled this purpose. Jesus Christ had called His people out of this world - to live in, but not be of it. What, then, was lacking in existing institutions? I quote from a section entitled "The Missing Dimension in Education" that appeared for many years in the Ambassador College annual catalog: - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library