You May Survive Armageddon Into God's New World - Continue

 The number of visitors that afternoon to United Nations building paled into insignificance in comparison with the tremendous throng gathered six air-line miles to the northwest at the world's famous sports stadium. the Yankee baseball park. There it was the eighth and last day of an international assembly that had changed Yankee Stadium from a popular sports arena into assembly place for matters of far grander importance to all mankind. There that same Sunday morning words of the prophet Isaiah had rung out: "They should forge their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not life up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." The speaker applied them, not to the United Nations but to a New World society. 

But now four o'clock in the afternoon had come. Never had there been seen at Yankee Stadium the sight that now greeted the eye, from the ground, from the spectator stands and from the airplane that wheeled above taking pictures. The baseball diamond had been transformed into a small paradise-like scene around the speaker's stand. the three-level spectator stands and the bleachers surrounding the playing field on every side were filled to the last seat. Outside the stadium vast overflow tents were filled with 25,240 persons anxious to hear by loud-speakers. But the crowd that turned out to hear the good news was too large; there was not enough room in the tents and in the stadium stands. So a few minutes before the announced hour the gates were thrown open and thousands of men, women and children streamed in an onto the green playing field to seat themselves in well-ordered groups on the green grass to listen, swelling the crowds inside the stadium to 91,562 persons.

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