Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong

Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) was one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century, watched, read and followed by millions worldwide. He founded the Plain Truth magazine, the World Tomorrow television program, Ambassador College and the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation. He served as pastor general of the Worldwide Church of God, and visited heads of state and addressed large audiences globally as an unofficial ambassador of world peace.

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	Introduction	Read
Chapter 1:	Boyhood	Read
Chapter 2:	Learning Important Lessons	Read
Chapter 3:	Learning to Write Effective Advertisements	Read
Chapter 4:	‘Idea Man’ for a National Magazine	Read
Chapter 5:	Pioneering in Public Opinion Polls	Read
Chapter 6:	Discovering Rules of Success	Read
Chapter 7:	How to Put Resourcefulness Into Practice	Read
Chapter 8:	Becoming a Publishers’ Representative	Read
Chapter 9:	How I Met My Wife	Read
Chapter 10:	Marriage Plans Complicated by War	Read
Chapter 11:	Our First Child	Read
Chapter 12:	Depression Strikes!	Read
Chapter 13:	Business Disintegrates	Read
Chapter 14:	College Competition and ‘Oregon or Bust’	Read
Chapter 15:	Launching a New Business	Read
Chapter 16:	Researching the Bible and Darwin	Read
Chapter 17:	At the Crossroads—a Momentous Decision	Read
Chapter 18:	Learning Whether God Answers Prayers	Read
Chapter 19:	Trying to Convert Relatives	Read
Chapter 20:	The First Sermon	Read
Chapter 21:	The ‘Million-Dollar’ Clay Business	Read
Chapter 22:	Astounding Answers to Prayer	Read
Chapter 23:	Prelude to Ministry	Read
Chapter 24:	Ordained to Christ’s Ministry	Read
Chapter 25:	Evangelistic Campaigns in Full Swing	Read
Chapter 26:	Caught in Newspaper Business Trap	Read
Chapter 27:	Stuck in Astoria	Read
Chapter 28:	Back Into the Ministry	Read
Chapter 29:	The Real Beginning of Present Work	Read
Chapter 30:	The World Tomorrow Broadcast Begins	Read
Chapter 31:	The Plain Truth Is Published	Read
Chapter 32:	Campaign Gets Under Way—Despite Opposition	Read
Chapter 33:	Early Evangelistic Campaigns—the Trials and Tests	Read
Chapter 34:	Steady Growth of Work at Eugene	Read
Chapter 35:	Uphill All the Way	Read
Chapter 36:	Broadcast Work Expands	Read
Chapter 37:	A Costly Lesson Pays Off!	Read
Chapter 38:	Work Grows—Despite Hardships and Persecution	Read
Chapter 39:	The Plain Truth Revived!	Read
Chapter 40:	First Vision of Worldwide Work	Read
Chapter 41:	Impact on Pacific Northwest	Read
Chapter 42:	On the Air in Los Angeles	Read
Chapter 43:	Impact of Daily Radio!	Read
Chapter 44:	Work Leaps Ahead—World Tomorrow Heard Nationwide	Read
Chapter 45:	More Opposition—More Growth	Read
Chapter 46:	A Talk to San Antonio Businessmen	Read
Chapter 47:	Severe Financial Crisis	Read
Chapter 48:	Historic San Francisco Conference—the United Nations Is Born	Read
Chapter 49:	World War II Ends—Atomic Age Begins	Read
Chapter 50:	A Momentous Year	Read
Chapter 51:	Planning a New-Type College—in U.S. and Europe!	Read
Chapter 52:	Our First Trip Abroad	Read
Chapter 53:	Impressions of Switzerland and France	Read
Chapter 54:	Mid-Atlantic Hurricane!	Read
Chapter 55:	Strategy to Gain Possession—Birth Pangs of the College	Read
Chapter 56:	A Supreme Crisis! Now Forced to ‘Fold Up’?	Read
Chapter 57:	Surviving the First Year of Ambassador College	Read
Chapter 58:	Ambassador Begins to Grow!	Read
Chapter 59:	First ‘Fruits’ of Right Education	Read
Chapter 60:	A Giant Leap to Europe	Read
Chapter 61:	Our First Experience With Television	Read
Chapter 62:	The Crossroads—TV or Radio?	Read
Chapter 63:	First Evangelistic Campaign in British Isles	Read
Chapter 64:	First Middle East Tour	Read
Chapter 65:	The Holy Land	Read
Chapter 66:	At Last!—Jerusalem	Read
Chapter 67:	Touring Europe by Car	Read
Chapter 68:	Purchasing Ambassador Hall	Read
Chapter 69:	Ambassador College Expands	Read
Chapter 70:	Tragedy Strikes Richard D. Armstrong	Read
Chapter 71:	25th Anniversary	Read
Chapter 72:	Providential Acquisition of English Campus	Read
	Afterword	Read

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