AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, VOL. 1 
 
By Herbert W. Armstrong 
  
 
  
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
  
Introduction 
Chapter 1 - Boyhood 
Chapter 2 - Learning Important Lessons 
Chapter 3 - Learning to Write Effective Advertisements 
Chapter 4 - "Idea Man" for a National Magazine 
Chapter 5 - Pioneering in Public Opinion Polls 
Chapter 6 - Discovering Rules of Success 
Chapter 7 - How to Put Resourcefulness into Practice 
Chapter 8 - Becoming a Publishers' Representative 
Chapter 9 - How I Met My Wife 
Chapter 10 - Marriage Plans Complicated by War 
Chapter 11 - Our First Child 
Chapter 12 - Depression Strikes! 
Chapter 13 - Business Disintegrates 
Chapter 14 - College Competition and "Oregon or Bust" 
Chapter 15 - Launching a New Business 
Chapter 16 - Researching the Bible and Darwin 
Chapter 17 - At the Crossroads-and a Momentous Decision 
Chapter 18 - Learning Whether God Answers Prayers 
Chapter 19 - Trying to Convert Relatives 
Chapter 20 - The First Sermon 
Chapter 21 - The "Million Dollar" Clay Business 
Chapter 22 - Astounding Answers to Prayer 
Chapter 23 - Prelude to Ministry 
Chapter 24 - Ordained to Christ's Ministry 
Chapter 25 - Evangelistic Campaigns in Full Swing 
Chapter 26 - Caught in Newspaper Business Trap 
Chapter 27 - Stuck in Astoria 
Chapter 28 - Back into the Ministry 
Chapter 29 - The Real Beginning of Present Work 
Chapter 30 - The World Tomorrow Broadcast Begins 
Chapter 31 - The Plain Truth Is Published 
Chapter 32 - Campaign Gets Under Way-Despite Opposition 
Chapter 33 - Early Evangelistic Campaigns-the Trials and Tests 
Chapter 34 - Steady Growth of Work at Eugene 
Chapter 35 - Uphill All the Way 
Chapter 36 - Broadcast Work Expands 
Chapter 37 - A Costly Lesson Pays Off! 
Chapter 38 - Work Grows-Despite Hardships and Persecutions 
Chapter 39 - The Plain Truth Revived! 
Chapter 40 - First Vision of Worldwide Work 
Chapter 41 - Impact on Pacific Northwest
Chapter 42 - On the Air in Los Angeles
Chapter 43 - Impact of Daily Radio
Chapter 44 - Work Leaps Ahead -- World Tomorrow Heard Nationwide
Chapter 45 - More Opposition -- More Growth
Chapter 46 - A Talk to San Antonio Businessmen
Chapter 47 - Severe Financial Crisis
Chapter 48 - Historic San Francisco Conference -- The United Nations Is Born
Chapter 49 - World War II Ends -- Atomic Age Begins
Chapter 50 - A Momentous Year
Chapter 51 - Planning a New-type College -- in U.S. and Europe
Chapter 52 - Our First Trip Abroad
Chapter 53 - Impressions of Switzerland and France
Chapter 54 - Mid-Atlantic Hurricane!
Chapter 55 - Strategy to Gain Possession -- Birth Pangs of the College
Chapter 56 - A Supreme Crisis -- Now Forced to "Fold Up"?
Chapter 57 - Surviving the First Year of Ambassador College
Chapter 58 - Ambassador Begins to Grow
Chapter 59 - First "Fruits" of Right Education
Chapter 60 - A Giant Leap to Europe
Chapter 61 - Our First Experience with Television
Chapter 62 - The Crossroads -- TV or Radio?
Chapter 63 - First Evangelistic Campaign in British Isles
Chapter 64 - First Middle-East Tour
Chapter 65 - The Holy Land
Chapter 66 - At Last! -- Jerusalem
Chapter 67 - Touring Europe by Car
Chapter 68 - Purchasing Ambassador Hall
Chapter 69 - Ambassador College Expands
Chapter 70 - Tragedy Strikes Richard D. Armstrong
Chapter 71 - 25th Anniversary
Chapter 72 - Providential Acquisition of English Campus
Chapter 73 - June 29, 1959 - May 22, 1963
Chapter 74 - April 25, 1966 - December 10, 1968
Chapter 75 - September 28, 1970 -- April 12, 1971
Chapter 76 - May 28, 1971 - July 1971
Chapter 77 - March 26, 1972 - June 1973
Chapter 78 - September 24, 1973 - December 1973
Chapter 79 - March 28, 1974 - May 21, 1974
Chapter 80 - June 18, 1975 - December 24, 1976
Chapter 81 - February 25, 1977 - June 22, 1978
Chapter 82 - July 25, 1978 - December 18, 1979
Chapter 83 - November 26, 1970 - July 24, 1983
Chapter 84 - January 11, 1984 - January 10, 1986
Chapter 85 - January 16, 1986 - May 1986
Chapter 86 - One Year Later