Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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A
1975
YEARBOOK
of Jehovah's. Witnesses
Containing Report for the Service Year
of 1974
Also Daily Texts and Cornrnenb
Corporate P ~ b l k h e r s
WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
WATCHrOWER BIBLE AND TRACY SOCIETY
OF NEW YORK, IMC.
INTLRNATiONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOClATlOM
N. H, XINOXR, President
F. W. FRANZ, Vlc~Fmsldent
GRANT SUfTER, Secretary-Treasurer
N. H.
OFPlCERS
F.
IWORR, Prcsldent
IW. FRANZ, Vice-President
GRANT SUITER, Secretary-Treasurer
N. H. KNORR, President
A. PRYCE IIUGIIES, Vice-president
E. C. CHITTY, Sec.+Treas, GRANT SUITER, Asst. Set.-Trras.
INDEX OF COUNTItEB
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Watch 'Tower B l b l ~nnd Tract Soclew of Pen~~sylvanin
YEARBOOK
of Jehovah's Witnesses
The apostle Paul, in the closing remarks 01
his second letter to the Corinthian congregation,
said: "Finally, brothers, continue t o rejoice, t o
be readjusted, to be comforted, to think in agreement, to live peaceably; and the God of love and
of peace will be with you. The undeserved kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of
God and the sharing [Greek, koi.no.niPa]in the
holy spirit be ~ 6 t h
all of you." (2 Cox. 13:11, 14)
Like Paul, the elders in the 34,576 congregations
of Jehovah's Christian witnesses around the world
arc keenly interested in helping all to think as one,
to be in agreement, and to llvc peaceably. Jehovah's witnesses everywhere have observed that
the undeserved kindness of Jesus Christ has been
upon them and the love of God has been with them,
and there has been a sharing in the holy spirit.
The dedicated servants of Jehovah have not only
been interested in themselves and seeing to it
that they gain a dearer understanding of God's
written Word, which God reveals through his
spirit, but they have been very much interested in
helping everyone else possible by sharing the
good news of God's kingdom with them.
Jehovah God wants us to have a sharing with
him, to have things in common with him. That
is why he has revealed his purpose both by
mnding his Son to earth and by his writen Word.
'rhr! apostle John was one to whom Jehovah revrtnled many things, and he writes to us: "That
rvhEch we have seen and heard we are reporting
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also to you, that you too may be hzving a sharing
with us. Furthermore, this sharing of ours is
with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
And so we are writing these things ihat our joy
may be in full measure." (3. John 1:3, 4) John
did not stop at just sharing this precious relationship and these truths with tho* already a part
of the congregation. He conii~uedto move out
into the field that Christ Jesus had started to
cultivate, along wiih the other apostIes and early
members of the body of Christ. They continued
to plant and to water, and 4dGodkept making it
grow."-1 Cor. 3:6, 7.
Having the knowledge that Jehovah reveals concerning his purposes places a real responsibility
upon all those who dedicate their lives to Jehovah.
They can no longer walk in darkness, as they did
while in the world, but they m u d walk in the light,
just as John mid: "And this is the message
which we have heard from hiin and are amnouncing to you, that God is light and there b
110 darkness at all in union with him. If we make
the statement: 'We are having a sharing with
him,' and yet we go on walking in the darkness,
we are lying and are not practicing the truth."
(1 John 1:5, 6) How wondexIul it is that Jehovah
has called us out of darkness into his marvelous
light! So we are "having a sharing with him"
and we want to work together with him. If we
are working together with Cod we should see
msults, and Jehovah's witnesses have seen results
this past year.
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with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from dl sin."-1 John 1:7.
Jehovah's Christian witnesses, who have been
very active during the 1974 service year, know
that during this period they have helped at least
297,812 persons t o begin walking in the light along
with them. They have been delighted to share
the truth with these new ones, which truth has
been revealed to theni by holy spirit. As a. result,
ihese 297,872 have dedicated their lives t o do
the will of God and have been baptized, and they
are now associating with God's people in 207
different countries and islands of the sea. In the
34,576congregations of Jehovah's witnesses there
are now 2,021,432 active proclaimers of the good
news, working together t o get the preaching of
Gad" kingdom accomplished before the "great
Iril~ulalEon" hreaka forth. They have 'plenty to
tlo in (FIG work or the Lord, and lhey know that
ltirir InI~oris not. In vain in connection with the
Lord.' (I Cor. 15:58) Briefly, we might take a
look at what has happened in difTerent parts of
the world to see what is being done and consider some of the experiences these Witnesses
have had. We might best do this by continents.
The past year witnessed a marvelous lnerease in
the number of publishers throughout this vast continent, There are over 292,000 persons who are declarin
the good news in Africa, and they arc associate
with about 6,350 mngregatfons scattered in all the
countries of Africa. What a joy it has been to the
publishers of the Kingdom here t o see over 35,500
newly interested persons dedicate their lives to Jehovah
God and get baptimd this past year. In this joyful
warIr they have had some interesting experiences.
While the woslr i s banned in Cameroon, Jehovah's
witnesses are hy no means inactive. They still haye
thelr faith. They still study thc Bible and they still.
speak t o people about the good news of God's kingdom.
They were very active publkly before the ban came
on, but now they take advantage of the opportunities
for informal w!tneasing. They also eonduct a lot of
home RibIe studies with people wlio want to know what
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In the Ilahl.
In Ghann they have had their second full year of
operalin~ t h ~printery in Accra. They arc
the W n l i * i l u ~ u omagazine
r~
h EWE,Ga and Wrr?l%!
were ns many as 19,445 prenrhcrs nf the good news
i r ~ Ghann, and they cnjo.vcd rood experlenccs. One
day one of Jrl~ovah'switnesses found an envrlope on
the bus and, It~steadof rnijlling it to the owner, decided
l o take I t to the crson. W11r.u the brother prrscnl~d
the e~lvclnE to t i e ownct: t l ~ cman was apeerhlrsr.
He wmtPcF to give the brother a reward, hul tho
brother refused it. H e said l l ~ a tIf he w;intd Inoury
he would have kept the cnsI1 in the RrsI place. Then
the man drclnr(~c1 that, ii' evrryone had l h n t kind
of nejgl~borly nffcction, tlir* world would be FI be!lclq
place. The rrsdt wns a flnv Bible* discussion.
Intereatlncly, the man's wlfr! hsld studl~dwith one
of Jehc~v:ih's tvllntlsses Ilul I~arl slappcd hecause of
her husl):~nrl%rnpposilion. In Sncl, she was Ihe m e
who h i d lost Ihc envclopc! i~tId her husbnntl hncl
heaped nngry worrls upon Rrr. ltul now wlren thr: wire
~'eturnccl home that even in^: hrr children lvsl~edIo
meet twr t o tell her what had happened. Of chourse,
she soon fi~und out: that the one who returnetl Ihc
envelopc was one of JehovalPs witnesses. As a reeull,
a ham^ Dlhlc? fitt~dyhas b w n rmumed In t h a t Ilon~c~,
this tirnc! ineluding thc In~sl):~nrl
nnd all the chlldrcn.
A t last rcpt~rtall rvcre r n n l t l n ~~ o o dprogress in gnlnlrrg
Imowledgr nf Jrhovali's pul-pnsrs.
In thc Volia reginn a ~ ~ ~ ~ h l l was
u l ~ agiven
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R n allot.
ment of Ki~t.rffioamNewa Imr-is l o distribute, Rr r.11nse
some diatnnl vlllages in which to place thc tmcts.
But he formd that b did not. have suRjcIerlt copics
t o go around. So he mailed rpnc tract to each oF rlre
elders or chiefs in the villnres that he rould nu1
vt-aclz. 011 t l i r ! ~nve10 he wrc~tr!in the Ewe Innaungc?:
"Very Importnnt!'
A);. the lrollom of the frunl ptlce
of the tract 11e wrote: " P l { v ~ sgather
~
the whott! of
your family, bath young nnrl old, and reat1 I h i s trari
10 them. The message 1s vrry hnporiant!'
In one
villagc the chief gathered nll i h pcople
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in Ihc vlllnf:c
and he had lits randson rend tile iwct to all prcscill.
Each t h c a Hlb?~text was mentioned, anotltpr pcrsan
would open the Bible nnrl read the scriptlzrc rtlorld.
Aftcr hrnrlnlf the whole messagc about the world
crisis all hcr8:~mcdisturkcd, sinre n o one could givc
any sat isfactory answers to I l w questions TImt were
rarsed in tlls tract. A dele ~ t l o n from the villnge
was sent to contact the utlisher hegglng hlm i o
come to Ihe vjllnge so that t t ~ could
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learn more. M'hnt
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scrics of circuit asscmbllus followed. 'l'hen l a
Dt?ucinbcr of 3973 the "Dlvinc \"lctory" InternallanaY
Assembly wits lleld in Nairobi, lE~r ca ital city, w3El1
a pyas atr(mlnnca of 4,5M rind wit\ 209 persons
11.2~ltlzcd,
The branch ofll~wwas opened agaln and, while the
former workers In the branch hnd had to leave, the
African brothers have 1carnc-d to take care of many
things. Jchovah's spirit is puwerful, and up to the
present, rlntlrr S helr direction rlnA with Jehovah's help,
good P T U R ~ C X S IS being made. A goodly amount u l
lite~attirtwas shipped m during the year. Ncw translations of luhIlcations are hrinc mnrlc and the brolhcrs
Lh~rcarc /~uplngsoon to rcrcivo ncw publications.
The Ethlnpinn hrothers w c ~ ealso able to attend
the internatlon:~lassembly in Nairobi, and they rejolcc
now to I~nvrh the entire hook TItr T~rnttl~TRrlt Lrotls
to Etrmrttl T,ijr,, as well as the hook 7II'rlw Prcfcn nlrd
Secpwif~j-Frotn Whcll Xo~trrr9 111 Amharic, ant1 nlso
pasts of n l l ~ c t ~uhlications. "l'liero are still n nurnllor
411 Jehovah's drirlian witnesses who are frnprlsola*d
hccause thcg have been preaching. the Bible, This wns
rlue to the hostile action nf ihe Kfhiopian Clluscl~.
(lne specinl ploncer has been hcltl In prison for nlrnost
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peodle.
~ . ~ s p u n d eentllasiaslically,
d
wllh the result: that many
new places have been opened up, and now, instead of
462 congregations in Rhodesia, we have 513.
Tobacco in Rhodesia is a number one expart product,
and quite understandably many of the brothers have
been affected by what was published m the TVcbtrhf o u ~ mmagazine about tobacco. W M e only a few were
involved in personal use of tobacco, literally hundreds
have been involved in its production. Whcn the brothers
left this work because of t h d r determination to have
employment that would not bring Jehovah's disap
proval whole congregat~onsfolded up. Many have returned to their tribal trust lands, ilsolaced territories,
and they are happy to share the truth with the people
in those areas who have not heard it. Right now the
Word of God is bdng preached in more areas within
Rhodesia's boundaries than ever before.
JnMozambique there are still around 36,000Malawian
brothers and sisters and people who fled with them
living in refugee camps. The government authorities
care for our brothers by giving them a place i o st?
e n d , food ha? been provided regulady along \n%
medxcal supphes. The brotllers have been allotted land
that they can cultivate, so that they are able to raise
their own fgod, and they should eventually become
self-sup orting. In June of 19'74 the government allotted ttrce large new areas in the northwest part
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or~nnizatiun.
In South Afrlca the most outstanding went of the
yerv was Ihr! international convention in Johnnnesburg.
Sl~rldny nfternoon of the coi~vcntion tlicre was a
never-iu-bc-forgottenslght for thc ht.uthe~s In Sotlth
Africa. T h c Rand Stadium Wns packed out wlih 33,408
AT~.lran,Colored (mulatto), Indian and wldte brothers
for t Ire flist real internxlionnl gnl hcrlng of Jehovah's
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Their congregation aided them by providing food supplies, One oi the stops they made was at EEili. T h e
people living here were moved from Bikini Atoll at the
time of the U.X. atomic bomb tests there, On landing,
the publishers promptly worked the whole village with
Kingdom maws tract No. 16 and invited the people to
hear an explanatjon of the subject that afternoon.
The response was gratifying; seventy-two persons
showed up, mostly adults, T h e meeting was held in a
cool spot under the pandanus trecs and the people
sat on the sand. After the talk, questions from the
audience were answered, and there was appreciative
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response.
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Jehovah's witnesses in Rang Kong have had a fine
ear in Kingdom service. Sometimes when an individual
earns the truth in a land where thcre i s deep, even
reverenl., rcspect for ancestors and members of one's
immediate family, it is very difficult. One young nominal Catholic lady, upon learrdng the truth, disposed
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The dedarIng of the good news of the Kingdom
th~%uphtlutEurope met with good success. In tlm
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times In the summer they studied 331 the park, some
weeks she conducted the study on the way to work
~ n t other
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weeks on the way home from wnrIC Another
one joined in the study and soon both werc attendins!:
meetings. Both are now dedicated sisters, also aanthrr
person worlring at the store has b m n haptlz~cl. A11
t h e star now lrnow ~ v h othey nrti and therr nrr mm*P
crpportunities t o witness. So it i s bcncncinl when mr!
shnrc the truth with those around us.
The 3974 service year has been a ~vonderfulone for
the brothers in France. They re,oicbr?over ihclr 15pet-cent increase in publishers, T e brancll nvcrmm
writes that another one of the big cwnts of i h year
~
was whrn they recelvcd t h e Frcnch crllllon of tl~c!
N~70World Trnrtslntion of the 1To2.11 flrriptttren. Thc
brothers "exploderl" with joy!
Cermany cnjoyrd a year ffll~~ledto the IwYrirn with
b l e s d n ~ s .T ~ prospects
P
01 further cxpnnsion In thr
Inrblcry and Bethel hornc have f hrilletl thr T26thcl
family. They arc? now looking h r w n r t l to d o ~ t h ! i n ~
the11 rodlrction of literature during 1 1 1 ~ 1975 servlcr
year. %he Germsn printing p b n t nt Wlerhnd~n liar
Ihc privilege o f supplying many o f tl~rhrt~(1iei-aIn
Europe with literature, and il is ho rrl thnt: durlny!
the next twelve months they will also l?e able l o fro, ly
Ilaly and France with some new puI.rblicalions. tKst
t;r>rmany now has 93,382 publishers: Wrst J3vrlln
opcmles separately inside o f Enst C;rr.ma!iy untl Ihry
h : ~ v c5,555 publishers in West Berlin. H i s lgaotl to srr!
i h~ steacly increase clue to the sharing at the guorl ncw.9
In thpsp areas.
Grrrcc has had ftg troubles wlth a chnn of govern.
men{. It is sriil necessary to continue holcRg mcetlngs
witlth only s fcw attending tn private I~nmrs.Errt what
the families are studying and their hcllef and tllr
urfect they have on neighbors re truly tclllnf:. T h ~ r e
is :in interesting experience of a little hoy who shorvcrl;
t h e right Christian cunduct. Littlc John was plnylng
outside his home when a nelghhor woman c i ~ U r dllim
rind gave him money and asked Illm t o gn l a tllc
tlr~arhy store t o buy her some cignrcttes. The younj:
lncP snid: "Aunt ICatina, let me go to tIlp Rrocer'~nntl
Z)rly Tor you whatever you like, sugal., cnRec, macnronl,
but no $1 arettes." "Why no cig:lreites'l" asked Aunt
ICntlna. &cause cigarettes do harm: thry cnusr eonrt.r,
a n d I I;ve you, Aunt, and do not Hlce to (lo nny h n r ~ n
to you. The neighhnr was impressed nncl looked f n r
.lolrn's mother. Af'cer a discussion abnut the chlld'n
uphringlng and this matter of cigarette smoking, john'^
mother got a home Bible s t ~ ~ d stnrtctl
y
with Iter
nrigl~bor and all t h e family. Good progress is be in^
tnrrrlu nnd tl-lcy are learning the truth.
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Babylon the G r w ~ t .
In Portugal the brothers P~rljuat like Paul, who
wrote: ['But thnt~lcabe to Got1 who always leads us
in a triumphal procca~lnnIn rnmpany wlth t h C
~hrist
and rnnlres the odor o l Lhe knuwIrdgcr of him perceptible t1lrou~h us in evcry plncc!" 12 Cor. 2:14)
Yes, the preaching of tlze g o d nrws wns ticco~nplislied
in a magnificent way En Portugal dudng the past
>-ear. Eight consecutive ubllahrr P P R ~ Swere enjoyed
from September to hpr$ nnd (iirn in Junc there was
another prak of 13,111. WP shot~ldIrrep in mind t h a t
the work in Porlu~nEwas bnnncd undcr the old regime.
Now that the govc~rnmmthas rllnn~,.rdthere nppears
to be more freedom rind thr h ~ + o l l ~ rcnn
r s lncPt more
freely. Thc s.crvic~yrnr a t ~ ~ r t ~OUT
c $ with some of t h e
brothers befng n r r ~ s l r din five tllflrrrnt dlies and
charged with 'illegal' me~t1ng.r.Tllrct? o f lhcsc cases
were heard in courl, bui ill(! judgca rrndt!red rlecisions
in two of them clearly In ravor ol' rclipious Ireedorn,
acquitting the accused. And on Al~rZ12.4 1974, a ~ e t v
regime tool< ovcr l l ~ ecountry, thus nnrlln~forty-elglit
years of dictator~hlp. The new gov~rnmr%nt
declaf ed
freedom oP cx rcqqion nnd Ihc wstltution of civil
rights. As far l a c k as Nuvernb~r 14, L972, Jehovall's
witnesses in Portt~gnlmadp a requesl far lr a1 recogni
lion and it is rinr.rr~lyho cd now f l ~ ~ t prescni
government will a r t ~ilmra!l~on the papers filed so
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t~lsrightenus klngdorn.
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loycd as a ciiauffeur. H e had vnrtous oods to deliver
Eut he would steal some of the things. R n one oo:nsim
he was observed by an elderly Witnrss who nsricd him
why he was doing such a thing. Thc yorrnl: man
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necessary t o take care of the R ~ Pwitness that continues to sprend Zhroughottt all that lantl. It k Interesting to nate that a French.1anguage Crwspaper in
Montreal .featured nn article entitled As Relidon
Goes D~lwn,Jehovah's \f'lincsses Move Al~entI."The
first paragmpli of tllc a l l irlc stntcrl: "Whel-ens traditional religions are on tlw want., will1 thrir churches
getting emptier all the ilme, Jrllovah's Witnesses ore
experiencing incrcnst!rl mcmberslilp and art? even ac.
quiring former churc0h I~~~lltlings
~ n c l atlicr fncilitles
in which to gaihcl* lhrir nllrv mcnlher~." Jehovah's
witnesses' sharlnr the (riilh wit11 othrt-3 is making hig
changes in ~ a n a d a .
Next to the Unlted States, Mexico has the greatest
number of publishers of any country an the Nor llz
American eontb~cnt. Thvy have now reached a new
~ a ofk n,OC)7, ancl during The y w r 13,fi78 were hap+
tized. M a n y people in Mcxicmo nre haHng experinlces
similar t o this one: 4 T l ~ r r ) uthe
~ l ~h l c ?'ltC3 TvirtJt Thnt
Lectds t o Etefwnl TA e J. lcarned that t h e name of Ihe
true God is Jehova . I took nolc tllnt Jehovah does
not Iikc images In worship, so I Immcdlfjtcly went To
the altar in our h o m ~nnd lolrl my wlfo: None of 1111s
I s any good; il Is talac: w r sl-r golnr: ti, lnltr 11' away."
While she looked un In surprlsc Ihc man hrgnn In take
down all the religious pictilrclu, hut 1 1 ~ditl nol. know
what t o do with thcrn. H c wcnl oul Inlo Illy street and
to Ihe first person Ihnt came by Ile m i d : Tnke these,
you can have Iti~rnall.' Tlc stlya, 'Wc then thougllt,
If Jehovah t l o ~ snot like llnng~sto hr wor~hiped,the?
y e should look for scin~e~ h i i r ~ 1in1 whIcZ3 to worship.
'IVe b g a n lo go to d i S f c r ~ ~ones
ll
but T wns nnt satisfied. I lrlld my wile that wr would RQ to no more but
t h a t Jehovah would hrlp ~ t st o Anrl the r i ~ ' t ~plac:e.
t
I prayed: 'Oh, Jollov;ilr, liral. m&r,ayer; trach me
to do ytwr will, for you arc my 1
[Ps.143:1, 10)
A few days latpr whi'lc I was at wnl-lr somc puhlishera
0 from door to
spoke tn my wife tvhcn tlrry were Ro!n,
door. My wifc told Ihem that wn wnnlrd to know
where we could praise and worship Jrhuvah, so they
left the addrpss of Ihe mcellng hnll, hltrr that our
whole life cl~angerl.Wc br[:an shi~rlngl l ~ ctruth with
clthers.'
In Nicam ua the rebulldin of the Kingdom Halls
and homes o! the broth~rsJn
iManaRutarea moved
ahead after the enrthcliiakc illr*rc*.Thc econornlc conditions made living w r y rllill~1111.
I-Iowcver, the spiritual
promss on the part of .Jrho\~rth's wit ncsses has been
ir.uly arnazlng and thrlltlng to a m Thr majority of
the fourteen congregallons In the Mnnagiin area are
still meeting in buildings wit11 crackrrl waFls or just
ilnder a galvanizr,d roof in somc? pnlto. Interestingly,
he
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Penk
Countrp
Fopulatlon Puh)s.
g.ss:q.!iw
l!olivitt ( 3 - 9 )
R~'.ml (51-11)
kv
11~1
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('hrrtl
nrr.
6,50 i.503
3,863 357
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15 ~~~~r (J-7)
FIJI IN-371
55?'r;'a
r\itiv~.ic*:~n
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r:l~ber.t&FIIlc,~IzIs.L-391 55.000
N R $ C~ ~ l l ~ l l ~ n(N-Sb)
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85,OW
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2,7.4.'i
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West Berlln (E-P8)
Ghana (K-17)
Greece (F-19
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P e ~ k One pub Av. over
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No.
I3ptzd.
Av.
PIo. No. 01
Pubs. Congs.
Total
Hours
27
Total
Return
Visits
AV.
Bible
Studies
1874
Penk
Fopuiatlon Ftrbq,
Rntlo
1074 %be.
Elcltcr to:
Pubr. 1:R:X
Ona pub-
hv,
over
ISM
Av.
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1W4
Ke.
Bptzd.
Av.
Pto. No,o t
Tetnl
Plrb~. C t l n ~ ~ . Hnnfmrf
Total
Rftt~rn
Vlslta
Av.
BlbTc
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Population
Pfnk
rAV.
m smc.
Onc 14nz-el.
nnntln
Put)%. Iialicr l r l :
Pk\l>s. 3973
y 3 Bpfrd,
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I'urm.
Pubs. Cmgg.
1
rlours
31.
Totnl
Av.
Rrlr~rn Rlllle
l'lnlls
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t Worlc llnnned and reports tcre I~MinnlQttY
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ACTS OF ~ I I O V TUTXESSES
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IPJ PiIODREN TIMES
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relly:lon~--nncl
W 1 1 4 ~was
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cxpcricnccd
!ruth t u hc found?
grave
disappointment.
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. . . me f ~ l greatly
t
gricvcrl at
the error of Second Adventids, w l ~ awere expectin
Christ in the Resh, and tcnct~ingthat tlie world nn3
all in it except S m n d kdvrntists rvarllrl br: h u n ~ c d
t ~ pin 1873 or 1874,-rvhst: timc.settlngs nnd disap.pointmetits and y u d e i c l ~ ~ rncrally
s
as ta the ohjcvt
and manner 05 h r s conung t r o u g h ! more or lcss r.pproacEt upon us and upon a11 who longecl lor and
proclaimed his coming Kingdom."
Earnestly endeavoring t o counteract such elTOneoUs
teachings, in 1873 hventy-one-year-old C. T. Rusucll
wrole and published at his ow11 expense a booltlot
entitled "The Q b j e a n d M w e r of the Lord's Return."
Some 50,000 copies wem publfshed and it enjoycd
n wide distribution.
About Jnnuary of 1876, Rus~ellreceivcd a copy o f
thc rdlglous pcdodical Xlte licrald of tho Mornigtg.
From thc cover, he idcniiffed it wjth Advenllsrn, but
i t s conients were a surprise. Thc etl~for,N. I-I. Dnrbour
of Rochester, New York, unclerstood t h a t thc oh rtbt
of Jesus Chrlst's return was not t o destroy hut to 1, CISR
all families of the earth and that Ills coming would
he tkieflike and ngt @. the-.flesh but as._a splrlt. Tn
fact from BlhIiical tnneprophecE~s R a r h u r thought
~ h d s then
i
was present and that the hnrvpnt 1 ~ 0 1 4 c of
gathering the "wheat" and "tares" ("weeds") was
already due. Russell arranged a rne:ting with Barl>our
and, as a result, t h e P i & j b u r g k & b l ~ c l a s s d - a h o u t
thirty persons-became amliated \ n t h Barbour's slightly
larger Rochester, 1L**
sork. g o u p . From his ( w n
frtnds Russel cantributed money to print t l ~ ctlwn
nearly suspended -l[eruld, becoming coedilor of t lw
y e t invis~bleto men.
ju i i r ~ ~ a l .
wns cxhnusted.
In 3R77, Rnrhour and Russrll jolntly pubXsherl Three
IVorldx, c r ~ r lf kr! JIca?.rmmf
o/ ThCs World. This 196-page
hook romblncrl Inrorrnntlon about Restitution with
DIhlical t inlc prophecies. It presented t h e view illat
dcsus. ChrIst's in'tllsihlc pi-csence and n forty-year yeI'iorl o rnina lvllh n Ih~*ee.anA-a.ilalf-year
harvest dated
fl-orn r 1 3 ~il~tttlnlno f 7871.
Vcry noteworthy was the striking a c c w a v rvSth
whlrh !)at
hook pointed to the end of the Gentile
TE~ncs, the nppofr~Esd tlmcs of the nations." (Luke
21:211 Xt ~ h n ~ v o lo11
d
pages 83 and 189) that this
2,520-year pcrIod, during wl~lchGentile or non-Jewislr
t ~ n t l o n s~ ~ o u lrule
d the en1tll without intcrfercncc hy
nrlg lrlngtlorn of God, Iiegnn with the Babylonian overthrow of the Itlnedonl n l .Tudah in the late seventh
mntury I3.C.E. nt~dwn~ildend in 1914 C.E. Even earlier,
Ilrawrkvclr',C. T , Tiuasrll rvrnlr nn article entitled "Gentile
7'Irnvs: Wlirn 1111 T'tloy I?nrl?" Tt wns puhlisllcd in thc
R i l ~ l rF:,r:.rn??~
~
i l t c 8 r of Oclolwr 1876, :urd I l~rrcinRussell
~ n l r l :'!The s c v c ~tImcs
~
will end in A.D. 1934." He had
( h ( ~ ~ ~ y' ~ I ~lnkcr1
Z I I hr: Gentile Times wlth the "sevcn
t l n l ~ d 'mrullrrncd In Zhc hook o r D ~ n i e l . (Dan, 4:16,
23, 25, 32) T u e t u auuh calculations,- 1014 did .mark
i l ~ .vnA
c o l tl?osr t Imcs and tllc birth of God's kingdom
111 I l r n v c ~I ~
V I ~ I I C11rlst Jrsus afi Ising. dust lhlnk of it!
Srhovnh f:mn I PC! 1175 pcoplc I lint lcnowlcdge nm_rlxfoul. d r = c t ~ d r ~ s - h r f ~ ~ ~ c tlmcs
~ t f ~ o ~oxpirccl.
c
All went mrll Tnr a whilc. T l ~ mcams the spdng of
187s. Rarho.ur. cxpcdcd Illat the livlw saints on .earth
wozild tlim Ile cnu~l11,a!v?y 11odTly to bc forever with
Ihr f.m-rl in Ilrnic!). >3ut I I djtl not happen. Accordin
tn R~rssrIl.nnt.holll. sc~rnedI n feel that he must
~1ewssI1
y get up same1 hing new to divert attention
from ths fnllure of the Ilvlng s ~ i n t slo he caugl~taway
r n ~nasse."I!e soon (lid so. 90
our painful surprise,"
says nl~ssell'saccor1nt, "Mr. Barbour soon after wrote
iln nr1it.l~for ?hr I l , ~ r o l d
the
nloncrnrrrl-dcnyln~ IKn2 Urp heat 1 of Chr1E.t was the
r ; t ~ ~ s o ~ ~ ~ of
-tw
Ad:m
l c r nnd Itis race, sa ng that Christ's
dcath was no more n setllemcnt o the penalty of
man's sin:: ZIlnn would tIic stlrking of a pin li~rtlugh
the hotly of n fly nnd m u s l n ~I t sunerlng and death
b~ cnnsidered by nn cnrtlllv ~x;ct~tas A just settlement
Inr mtstlcmcanr~rIn hls child.
VXn Ihc. S~pEcmherissue of the Hmnld appeared Rug.
scll'a artlclc "The Atonement," apllolding the ransom
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air
fi
sldcrerl Il ~ epropl~ct
ic signlficnnct: of Israel's tabernacle
and tho sncrlnccs offercrl there. Even children benefited
~ r r n t l yfrom t I ~ e s r studlrs. Recalling lhese meetings
ns l~cldin one home, Snrn C. Kaelin comments: "The
Eroup hntl incrcnscd nnd sometimes the children had
to sit on Ihe steps Iradlng upstairs, but all had t o learn
nnd answer t~~stions.
W h ~ rlirl
t
Ihe bulloclr represent?
1 . 1 1 ~ Court? $hi? Iioly? The Most Holy? Day of Atone
m ~ n t ?IIIgh 13riest? WnrIcr ricst? It was so irnpr~ssed
on our minds 1hnt we Foul% vlsuallze the I3gh Priest
~,rurformlr?ghis tltrties and we Itncw whnt it meant."
"Cottnjy Meetings" were hrld on lTrednesday evenlngs, Thcsc nlso became known as Prayer, Praise
ant1 Testimony 1Mwtfngs. Concrrning thcm EdIth R.
Hrrnisen writrs: " A i l v c a hymn and a prayer, the
lrndcr read nn nppmpdate scripture, giving a few
comments, and thon thc meeting was ttrrned over to
I tic! frlsntI8 to cnrnmpnt as 1 hey wished. Sometimes
It would he a joyful cxpcrlcncc one had in the scrvice
pecause
&-evenings. ofThcrc Rihln
Ie-
.....
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. speakers."
annual comrnemoratlon of Jesus Christ's death
253,922!
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afternoon lecture.
Next came the ddistrlbutlon itself, According t o Samuel
Van Sipma, this Was an activity of the Bible Students
in wltich practically everyone shared." He adds: "Many
o f us would get up early on Sunday morning Cabolxt
five o'clockl and leave tracts on the porches or under
the doors of thc homes in a section of territory assigned, two or four usually working together. Of course,
tracts were also dlstrihuted at other times
. Some
hzve not inappropriately referred to* this tracting a?tivity as scattering gems lilrc rnornrng dew, and unquestionably many were indeed refresh~das a resuIt
of reading these inspiring pages of divine truth."
Even Christian children shared in tract distribution
work. Grace A. Este recalls how she and her two
eldest brothers "wouh tiptoe onto _ i k porches early
aYZ3??day- rnmngs and--slip the tracts under the
doors.. Opposition might wen be'-e-oiiiitbred,
for
Sister Estep continues: "Sometimes a door would
suddenly open and a veritable giant of a grown-up
would appear, usuaIly screaming invectives and sometimes chasinglls withbrams or cants or flailing arms,
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D ~ u b t l emany
~ ~ of the pilgrims endeared themselves
to t helr fcllow bcltcvers also hecause they made thems ~ l v c s"at tlnrne" when visiting, "What: made the visit
so pleasant?" asks Mary M. Hinds. She answers:
"Grt~ellagsdlspenserl wlth, t l ~ cpllgrrm quesuons daddy
ns to ttit. public n~cclings,whethrr o r not Ire has any
qi~estlonlinhuiit tlw articles In l'lre Watch T'ower, how
1 l r i t l ~ ; stire movine alor,~:tn the Ilttlc town, i f anyone
~1::c 1 3 s!towing inrerost since the last visIt, and other
m t t i n e rlurstions. For n llttIe w1hIIe his attention is
till rctcrl to us cllllrlrrn (tlrrer! of us now) hefore hc
r~111.c~
to his room. 'Isn't hc nice? f!e talks to us!' We
arc thrlllcd and off to a good start to enjoy every
mlnuic of his stuy, usually onc or two days. Maybe
I1 Is Dmjumin Borlr~n who has given me a picture
f o c t c a ~ ' r l lllnr h e hroz~gl~tfrom the I910 Cllatauqua
AICPc0n.r-rmllon and hc has pastrd his picture on
the hnclc of It. ~ \ prarhaps
r
Rrottlrr S. A. EaIinct has
rnrrdc m y trrothsr a ltlle nnd i s helplng him fly it. . .
13rothcr A. H. M ~ c m i l l a tmay
~
tnlte a moment to go
out to the corniicld with 11s and select six nice ears
of corn for his rli~~nel.."
"Somc a t the pllgrIms had personal ecullnrltles and
the^^ wero noled, o f roursc; admits Rarold F. woodworth, "hut Ilirrc wcrcr outstaucling q~~alities---giftsof
l h c Iinl s Irl!, t hn1 left a dccg nnrl lasling Influence."
S I S ~ B L - Znlp E, Newen rernnr~m:
will never, never
fr)lTpr>2.
n stnlemcnt that Brother Thorn made that
Jlnu h e l p 4 mr! to Illis day, Hc said, and E quote, 'WhenevtbrT t;ct l o lhinltlng n groat deal of myself, I tnlie
myself ~ n t otho cornr?r, $0 to speak, and say: "You
lit r I t * sprclc oY rlust. What havr: you got to he proud
r~f?""' A nrltcwottlry Imlt, inclccd, for "thc result
nP humlllty nnd Ihr! fenr 09 Jehovah is riches and
p;lar'y and Il.fr,"-IJrnv. 22:4.
These-uavclirrg pflC?rJms dtd not harc-an easy time
In"jirun~eyingfrom 11;icr to place. Concerning trips of
her iilishnnd ~ d w ; t r d who
.
once scmed in this capacity,
Edltt~11. Rwnlxrn wrotr: "To reach some a the outuf.lhr-wny p l n c ~ sit tvas often neccsssry to travel by
train, st agcconrhh, wagons of dl kinds and horseback.
Somc of such Trips WPI-P very exciting.
One appointmont was I I I nr near lClarnath Falls, Oregon. To get
therc nfler goln part way by t r a i ~ l d ethen had to
t o l ~ can overni&t trip by stagecoach, Thc next day
1 i i h G1.i mrt-nf a -little town by A brother who was
Ihr.1-r ~ilfihn hucltl~oarcl.(In case you never s a w or rode
In am, I'll id1 you Ihat i t i s j u s t a wooden wagon
rnounled D L ~ O U P wl~ccls that are set on the axles,
wllll no sprlW%I f n person did not.11ave back trouble
hrlort? his rlrlr, h e stu~clydid afler.) h long ride took
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them Into the mountains to the brother's farm in a
beautiful valley beside a mountain siream."
What about that partictllar pilgrim visit itself? Sister
Brenisen adds: "Soon the ard wag well fllled wivlltl
teams of all descriptions, &inging the Wenrls from
afar to hear the pilgrim. The nzeering began ar thrcc
o'cloclir with a two-hour talk, aitcr whlch questions
were invited, and there were many. They did stop long
u ~ o u g hf o r a nice evening meal that thc sistcrs hati
provided, aftex which there was another 2wo.huur talk,
fdEowed by more questions." That night thc s t s t r ~ . ~
slept in the house and the brothers in Ilre hay. A rnnm
in the house had been I-esenved for t h e pilgrim, hut
Brother Erenisiscn pr~ferrcdto go t o Ihe barn a l o n ~
rvliJl the l~rothcss. "Blorning camc," says Sixtcr Ercnrsen, "and after a hearty hruakfnst the hrotller saddlrtr
lhree horscs, one a pack liorarb and o~rcfor car11 o f
them. To get to the train Ihxt would lalw him lo his
next appointment thry had lo takr* n trip oil sixly
miles right through the wilds to Ihc llcarcst railroar1
station. Sometimc later Edward received a letter from
lhe sister telling him that after illcy left shr went to
thc Imrn for the pillow and there i t was will1 the jm.
pression his Bead had made in it. Wheil shr! pioltcd I t
up, right under that spot was a big rattlesnake all
coiled u having enjoyed the warmth 01 111s hentl.
The s n v k was quite indignant about being disturbrd
and showed it, Now very often it is bclter lo be jgnornnl
of some facts!"
What ahont discourses of thc Ilgrirn~?What Fcre
they iilw? Concerning one pi1
Brati~crTautjlnn,
Iiay C. Bopp says: "This b r w k r was nn instructor.
He taught by illustrations.
, [ H e had] n scalr! made1
of the tabernacle in the wilderness, w'tiicl~ tte Inld
nut on R table . . Tlre holy, the must: holy, the cuurtyard with the altar of burnt onering and the bnsiu
.cvcre cncIosed with a cloth fence abortl four fncIics
high Jmnging like drapery h u m littIe mctnE bars.
Figurines of priests in authentic robts were set In
their proper places and were moved about as they
pel-formed their functions . Fas Rrothcr Tor~tjianl
rlcscribect each observance and its propiletic meaning
based an the reference book Taberftctclc SThadr~tc.~."
"A pub& lecture was always scheduled," comments
Mary &I. Hinds, "and oftentimes the pilgrims would
give a l a k on the Chart, explaining the 'dispensations"
and "ages' marked on it. At least one brother, M. L.
Herr, had an illusbated Iecturc. Using sl ill-life slides,
he made the little Ruthie of hjs t a l k comc to lIfe by
means af the resurrection. Yes, 1lic.long impressions
were made by these brothers, the connecting link in
those days between the headquarters of this growing
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To svrurt! morta sultaMb QuuariGrs, property tha RusseIl
hImst%lfFIRCI Ic)cB(c~I on itn [ ~ a r l l ~1r113,
r ?'11is lhey dld,
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name. May thy rule come into my heart more and
more, and thy will be done in my mortal body. Relying on the assistance of thy promised grace to he1
in every time of need, through Jesus Christ our or$
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t o w e _ r + B i b _ l ~ - ~ ~ @ ~ o f N e w ~
porated. It and other corporations formed by Gods
people in various lands all cooperate with one another
and with the governing body of Jehovah" svitnesses.
'ELESSIhrG &l?,HOVAEl AMONG
CCPNGREGATEP) TrnOKCiS9
ReguIar conventions and other public gatherings
of the Bible Students were excellent occasions t o 'bless
Jehovah among congregated throngs,' even as God's
servants had done in times past. (Ps. 26:12) What
was the nature of thcse events? Let us see.
'Even here, in the hfghcst balcony of the worldfamed Auditorium Theater, home of the Chicago Grand
Opera, nut a seat is unoccupied. As I look seven floors
down toward the stage, one-haIf block away, I: wonder
jf it will be necessary to straln my ears to hear. Followin5 the chairman's introduction, Charles Taze Russell rlses to his feet, places his left forefinger to his
right palm and begins to speak in a normal tone of
voice. He has no notes. There is no podium. He moves
frcely about the platform. Every word is clearly discernible, as he dcscribcs the prophetic ending of the
Gentile Times and the ushering m of t h e Millcnnial
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effect? Thfs, according to the press account: 'The urirecrdented incident of Christian voices s i n g l n ~thc
cwish anthem came as a tremendous surprlsr. ].'or ~l
moment the Hebrew auditors could sral.mly hclicvc
r heir ears. Then, maktng swe It wns tl~rironen I~ymn,
they first cheered and clapped with slict~ arclor thnt
thr mlesic was drowned out, and then, with f hr scronrl
vtal'se,joined in by hundrecls. At the I~cigltl. of the
~nthusiasrn ovcr the dramatic surprise he prcpnrcrl,
Pnstor Russcll walIced off thc slal~jc nnd the rncetlnl:
rnded with the end of the hymn.
Times have changed, and so have Chriatlan views
of J3ihllcal prophccics once tbaugllt In np ly to nnt~irnl
.TCUJI in our day. With increnrril light
God, his
pcople have dismrncd that such worrls foretell aood
lllfngs for the spiritual "Isr~c*lof C:o(l," drsun Christ's
nnointetl SoIlowers. (Rom.9: 6-8,30-:13;11:3 7-32; Gnl.
li:16\ Gut H'I? hnvr brrn rcvi~winglhr enrly t w ~ n t l r t l l
cent~try,and this is how things wrrc in 1110st~rlnys.
Since H r o t h ~ r Russell was so \rritle1y known and
spoke to large audienccs on many orcasions, vorl mily
wonder what it was Iike to listen to hlm. "ilow r l l f fel-rnt from the ordinary preacher!" rxclalms C. TJ..
Tvcdt, adding: "No oratory, no emotlonrlllsm, No bep
glng to hit the sawdust trail. There waR something Snr
morc ebcctive and po~vcrfulthan all or th~sc!put in.
I That was the simple, quict, confldrtlt cxpounrlF ny!
p t f I eof
r the Word of God-lctun~ onr! ~rrlptureunloclc
nno211ex one until it became, ns I t WPI-r,FI powcrlul
magnet. In this way Brethrr Xt~isscllhrlrl his nuclicncc
In m p t aitention!' Ralph 11. J4rmc*1' f i i t y s Illat hel'nra
giving a clisrvurse Brolhrr Etussr~llmarli>scvtlrnI ~:i*ilr:p.
j111 barns te the audiencc. IVhen s~~rnlring,
hr ~sirnlly
sloocl on the open platform and would wnllr nholu
using his arms freely ir. esluring. "Jlc ncavcr rzsci
1 1 0 1 ~
but always spofe frrcly from tl~rheart,
nr!cnrdIng to Bmther M e r , wllo continues: "Ills volre
was not loud, hut it had prcullar carryln~ power.
Without ever using sounil amplifying equipment (I 1uq.c
was none in those days), he could tjo h t ~ ~ rnnd
( l unrlcr.
stood by large audienccs, holding l11i:n-t ns i f spellbound
l'oraone, two and sometimes tlvcr hoivs nt n tlmc.'"
Yet, Ihe man was not imporlant. Thc mcssn c was,
and Bible truth was bein cleclarctl t o mufiltudas.
Thcre were many capable Ehrlslians proclalmin i hc
good news in those days, and some persons Eenrd
their words with appreciation. Opponents wcrt! numrrous, o f course, and they somctin~cssought to pro.
mole their unscriptural views in pubIIc dellate with
J chovaTi's servants.
In what later appeared to be an attemqt by the
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As time passed, requests for prrsonnl appearances
by C. T. Russell increased. In f u l n l l l n ~some speaking
enffaffcmrnts, Ilc sometimes had Iruvcl~rl alroard a
spccinl rnllroad "cone-ention car," n srnnll group acmmpnnylnr?. him, But larger p n r t l ~wrre
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rygnnized
In "cr~~~vcrlliol~
trains," as many ns 240 trnvclina with
t t u ~ s c l l on one occasion. Several rnllronrl cnr's werc
Ilnltccl together and the party travelctl from nne crty
tc~ n11ot2w~according t o a prearran~edsrhrdule. Arriving i r l a particular city, Rrtssclls ssslstnnts nttv r r l iscd rhc pzrblic meeting bv dist rihutlrr h~tttlhtlls.
At 1 llc lnectlng tiley greeted indivi(lunls, (%tniaerl Ole
n a m r s and addresses of jntercstcd ones and, when
f o w i hlc, would visit these anrl ~stn1)lldicongnai:nlions.
t wns nu1 uncommon for thew "ronventlon trains"
to he used In visitiilg largc dt1t.s in thc Unitcd Stales
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Photo-Drama movies. These examples of time-lapse
photo raphy truly impressed viewers, "At the same
time &at these pictures were being shown," comments
Karl F. Rlein, "there was an accompaninlent of v e y
fine music, such gems as Narcissus and Rumoreske.
There were also many other things to remember.
"Right now," says Martha Merediil~,"I see Noah and
his family walkrng into the ark with the animals, and
the piclure of Abraham and Isaac walking to Mount
Monah where Abraham was going t o offer his son as
a sacrifice. I n e n I saw Abraham put his son on the
altar-this
son lle dearly loved-1
shed tears. No
wonder Jehovah called Abmham his frlend , . . II@ lmew
that Abraham would obey his voice at all times."
--Jas. 2:23.
Besides the regular Photo-Drama of Creation, there
were "Eurelra Drama" outfits. Onc was made up of
the ninety-six rcmrded lectures, as well as musical
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For many years prior to 1914 zei$cus colporteursChristian men and women "aglow w t h the spirit3'-had
been spreading the good news f a r and w~de. (Rorn.
12:11) The colpcrteur service began in 18811 when
Zio.n9s Wa;:R Tower carried the article "W2nte.d 1,000
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Tower. Mrs. Russell aald, in aubatanm, that though
unable to agree with Zht! committee, she wotlld t
to look at mattcrs Prom t h ~ l r standpoint. Russ%
further reported: "1 then askrrl her in their prcsence
if she w o d d shake hands. Slw h;~sitakd, but Anally
gave me hcr Ilanc[. I thrn f;nltl, Now, will you kiss
me, dear, as a token of the drgree at chnnge of mind
which you have indfcatrrl ?' Anl:ain F he hrs~tated, but
finaIly did kiss mc nnrl othorwl~r!~nanlfcstrtla ~+me-rval
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NOT moTtA1;
An thowg11 the straln of Russell's marital dlfllculties
was not enough, hfa foes stoopcd t o making scurrflous
c h ~ ~ r ~ngalnst
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him to t h e effect that he was irnmorn]. Tllr-sc! deli brrate falsehoods centered around
R RO-CRIIC~I'CJ~llyflshlJ
story. Durfng thc trial in April
1906, Mrs. R u s ~ r llestiflstl
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thnl n ccrtain Miss Ball
taltl her that C. ?', Russell hnd once said: 'I am Iike
n Jcllynsh. I flont around here nnd there, I touch this
on(. ~ n f lIhnt onc, ant1 1P slio respo?fls I take her to
mc, ~ ~ r Ifr l no1 1 floal. on to others. On the witness
stnntl C. T. R u ~ s c l lcmphntlcally ticnlccl the "jellyfish"
slory, nnrl fill thls mnlter was stricken from the
court rocbord, the judge sflying in his charge t o the
1ur.y: "This llttlc incldcnt nbo~itthis girl that was in
the farnlly, that Is bryond the ground o f the libel
and hns nothlng to rlo with the case."
T h e girl in rluestlon came to t h e Russells in 1838
as an urphnn rihout tcn years old. They treated her
as their own chlld and she kisned both fi,and Mrs.
Ruasrll gootl nl ?tilt each evening when retirin~.(Court
Record, pngEf4
and 91) Mrs. Bursell testifled that
the n l l q y d IncIclent occurred in 1891. when thls g r l
coultl nnt hnvc h e n more than fifteen years old.
ICot~rtRecord, paEe 15) After that Mrs. RusseIl lived
wlth her husband f n r thrce ycnrs and was separated
from him f u r nho~rt sevm years m o r e before filing
S H ~ I for s~pnraZ1011,
In her bill for separation no ref*
c-runce wns ~nntlcto this matter. Though Miss Ba12 was
then living: nnd Mrs. liussell knew where, she made
no attempi t o prorure h ~ as
r a witness and presented
no statement from her. C. T. Russell hjrnself could not
have hnd Miss Eall preficnt t o iestify because he had
t ~ onotice or in(imat1on that l ~ i s wife would bring
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answered: "No.
Throughout the triaIsome period of Charles Tnze
Russell's domestic diffleullies and the related hardships, Jehovah sustained him by means of the ho3y
spirit. God continued to use Russell during those
years, not only t o wrjtc material I n r Zion'.9 U7crtcEb
Toqcr-r, but to discharge other weighty duties rind l o
pen three~volurnes of Millenniul. Dtrzon (or S l w d i y
en the Scrlptetres). How cncuuraging this is t o Christians today as they g o on doing Ihe divine will t h o t ~ r h
beset by various trials! Especial1 heartening to Jcsus'
faithful anointed followers are t i w e words of Jamrs:
"Happy is the man that keeps on enduring trinl, Ilecause on becomin approved he will receive the crown
of life, which ~ & o v a h promised to thosc who continuo loving him!'-Jas.
1:12.
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Jehovnh is a faithful Gnrl, The prophet ;Samnel
m~~nscled
the people of Israel t o serve God mth all
t h d r hrnrt, and drclared: "Jchovah will not de~m-t
his people for the salte o f hb great name, because
Jehovah has taken It upon himsclf to make you his
people."'-1 Sam. 12:20.25.
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the Scriptures warranted, then we must bow to Jehovah's will and adjust our minds and hearts in faith
to His way, still faithfully watching and waiting for
the outworking of associated evcnts."
An incident at the Saratoga Springs convention in
1914 highlights Brother Macrnillan's view of "going
home" to heaven In Chat year. He wrote: "Wednesday
(September 30) I was invited t o talk on the subject,
'The End of All Thlngs Is at Hand; Therefore Let Us
'Be Soher, Watchful and Pray.' Welf, as one would
say, that was down m road. I helleved ~t myseIf
sincerely-that the churcx was 'going home' in Odober.
??lrin~that discourse 3: made this unfortunate remark:
This is probably the last public address X shall ever
deliver because we shall be going home soon."'
The next morning, October 1, 1914, about five hun.
dred Bible Students enjoyed a lovely rlde down the
Hudson River on a steamer from Albany to New
Pork. On Sunda the conventioners were to open
sessions in ~ r o o k r m ,where the assembly would end.
Quite a few delegates stayed at Bethel, and, of course,
members of the headquarters staff were resent at
the breakfast table on Friday morning, 8ctober 2.
Everyone was seated when Brother Rupsell entered.
As usual, he said +eerily, "Good morning, all." But
t h i s particular morning was different. Instead of proceeding promptly to his seat, he clapped his hands
and joyfully announced: "The Gentile times have
ended; thcir kln s have had their day.': "How we
clapped our hanfs!" exdams Cora Merr~ll.Brother
MamilIan admitted: ''We were! highly excited and
I would not have been surprised Lf at that moment
we had just started up, that becoming the signal to
begin ascending heavenward-but
of course there
was nothing like that, really." Sister li?errill adds:
"After a l~rlef pause he lRusseIll said: Anyone disappointed? I'm not. EverytIiing is moving right on
schedule!' Again we clapped our hands."
C. T. EtusseIl made some remarks, but it: was not
long before A. FI. Mamillan became the object. of
attention. Good-naturedly, Russell said: "We are going
to make some changes in the program for Sunda .
+t 10:30 Sunday morning Brother Mamillan w81
give us an address.
That brought hearty laughter
from everyone. After all, just that past Wednesday
Brother Macmillan had given what he thought would
probably be his "last public address." "Wcll,'\vrole
A. H, hlacmillan years later, "then 1 had to get busy
to And something to say. I found Psalm 74:9, 'We
see not our signs: there is no more any prophet:
neither 18 there among us any that knoweth how
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A t that time there also were reasons for rejoicin .
For years God's people had pointed forward to 1984
as the year that would mark the end of the Gentile
T'imes, Their expectations did not lead t o disappointment. On J d y 28, 1914, World War I erupted, and as
time marched ov toward Octoker 1 more and more
nations and empires got invoIved. As Jehovah's Christian witnesses know from rheir Scriptural studies, the
eriod of unint~rruptpd Gentile world rule ended in
914, with t h e birth of God's heavenly kingdom with
Jesus Christ as king. (Rev. 12:l-5) But thcre also were
other expectations regarding 1914. Concerning these,
Brother A. H. Macrnillan wrote in his book Il'nitJ~ olt
the March: "On August 23, 1914, as I well recall, Pastor
Russell started on a trip to the Northwest, down the
Paclfic coast and over into the Southern states, and
then ending a t Saratoga Springs, New Yorlr, where
we held a convention September 27-30. That was a
higllly interesthg time because a few of us seriously
thought we were r i n p t o heaven during the first
week of that Octo er!
The idea of goin to heaven in 1914 was strong
among some Biblc gtudents. "Our thought: remarks
Sister Dwight T. Kenyon, "was that the war would
go into revolution and into anarchy. Then those of
the anointed or the consecrated at that time would
die and be glorified. One night I dreamed that t h e
whole ecclesia (congregation) was on a train going
somewhere. There was thunder and lightning, and
all a t once the friends began dying all around me. I
thought that was all right, but try as I would, T
couldn't die. This was quite upsetting! Then all a t once
I &ed and felt so relieved and satisfied. I tell this
just to show how sure we were that all was going to
end soon as far as this old world was concemcd and
that the remnant of the 'little flock'was t o be glorified.
--Luke 12:32."
HazeIle and Helen KruIl recall that during 1914
discussions at the Bethel dining table often centered
on the end of the Gentile Times. From time to time,
they say, Brother Russell made extended remarks,
urging faithfulness and explaining t l ~ a tthe time features had h e n reviewed and still seemed accurate,
but: also that "if we were expecting more than what
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long.' Now that was Werent. In that talk 1 tried to
show the friends that perhaps some of us had k e n
a bit too hasty in thinking that we were going to
heaven right away and the thing f o r us to do would
be to keep busy
the Lord's service until he determined when an of his approved servants would
be taken h o m e to Keaven!'
C. T. Russell himself had w a ~ e dagainst private
speculations. For instance, he discussed the end of
the Gentile Times and then said in The Watch TOWW
of December 1,1912: "FinalIy, let us remember that we
did not consecrate Cdedicatel either to October, 1914,
nor to October, 1915, or t o any other date, but 'unto
death.' I f for any reason the Lord has permitted us
to miscalculate the prophecies, the signs of the times
assure us that tlre miscalculations cannot be very
great. And if the Lord's grace and peace be with us
in the iulurc as i n the past, according to 13s promise,
we shall rejoice cqually to go or to remain at any
time, and t o be in His service, either on this side the
veil or on the other side Con earth or in heaven], as
m a y please our Master best."
Even as the climactic year 1914 began, Russell wrote
in The Watch Tower of January 1: "We may not
read the time features with the same absolute certainty as doctrinal features; for time is not so definitely
stated in the Scriptures a& are the basic doctrines.
We are still walking by faith and not by sight. W e
arc, however, not faithless and unbelieving, but faithful and waiting. I f later it should be dcmonstrnted
t h a t the Church is not glorifl~dby October, 1914, w e
shall rry t o Ice1 content with whatever the Lord's
will may be."'
So, there were great expectations concerning 1914
on the part of many of the Bible Students. Pet, they
also had received sound admonition in pages of The.
Watch iraz~wr. Indeed, some Christians thought they
were 'gain5 home' to heaven in the autumn of that
year. "But,' says C. J. Woodworth, "October lst, 1914,
came and went-and years accumulated after that
dat-nd
the ano9nted were still here on earth. Some
grew sour and fell away from the truth. Those who
put their trust in Jehovah saw 19.914as truly a markcd
time-the 'beginning of the endJ-but they also realized
their previous concept was wrong concerning the 'glorification of the saints! as it was stated. Thev now ncrceivecl that much work yet remained for the-faithful
anointed ones-and of that group my father [Clayton
J. Woodworthl was one."
But disappoktrnents about going to heaven in 1914
really were very minor, compared with the great
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De a d n g from New York on OcDctohr 16, 1916,
~ r o t f e rRussell ancl his secretary, Mentn Sturlynn,
traveled t o Detroit, l'vfichigan, by way of CanntIa. The
two men then went on t o CE~lmjio, Illinois, down
through Kansas and on into T e x ~ s .EIis rontlitlon o f
hraltll was such that hls secretary had l o suhslitule
for him at several speaking engagcmcnis. O n ?ticsdflv
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early aftmnoan of Tuesday, October 38,1918,s1 -fouryear-old Charles Tnze Russell dled nt FnmpnTexas.
'GOD STa;L AT TIEE IElCUP
Charles Taze Russell'g many trials, preach,ing activities, d t f n g rcs onsiMlitjcs m d other dur~eshad
drawn greally on !ls vltnlliy. Fnr about thirtptwo
years he had servcd a1 president of the Watch Tower
Bible and Tsart Sosfety, Rrl)nrledly, hc trnvelcd more
than a million milrs aa a puhlic sprnker, reaching
over 3o.000 scrmons. FTc wrale ilirml ul-r tots!rig more
than 50,000 )ages, orten dlr:Lntcd n Ihotlsantl letters
a month, wflilt! managlng n worldd?ndrcling evangelistic campaign thtti n l rlno tlme ~ n ~ p l o y e d
100
speakers, FurthcrmorP, Tlussrll pt~ssonnlly compiled
the most informativr Bthlicnl drama ever exhibited,
the Photo-Drama of Crcnt loti.
Since Brather Russell hnd played such a prominent
role In the work o f ~Icclnrlngthe good news, he was
missed greatly by many Rlhlc Studcnt~."When 1 read
the telegram regarding hls rltxa; h to the 13c-the1 family
at breakfast thr: next morn in^, said A, 31. M,ymillnn,
"there were moans it11 o v r r i l ~ et l l n l n ~room. Among
God's people in gcncrnl thcrt: wrrr rnlx~rl rencliolls.
Arden Pate, who, incldeninlly, wns i111 altrndant at:
the Majestic T!~ealrr: In S i ~ nAiltonlo when C. T.
Russell gave h u I R Ypuhllc
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t ~ l l c 01)servcs: "Some
said, 'That's the end ot it,' find for ~kemit wns because
they didn't: see Jehovah lcnrling his eople, but they
looked too much to one rn:~n."A l Zuascll's funeral
services on Sunday, Nov~rnhcr5,1IH6, in tho New York
City TempIe, a number nf his closr nssocInles spoke of
the great loss. Iiowcver, thrrc were nlso exhortations
to continud failhfrilncss. Scparnlc services were held
at the Carncgic Music l Iall in Pittsbur~hIAllrgheny),
Pennsylvania, beginning at 2 p.m, on Nr~vernber6, with
interment in the Brtht.1 Fnrnlly plot of Zhc I~osemont
United Cemeer~cs,Allrgljeny, fit tltlsk of that day.
During the morning funeral scrvlce in New York
city, A. H. Mncmlllnn lolrl aboul the tnllr Brother
Russell had with him shortly brfare his dratli, mentioning also certain steps l<ufl~rlltook Jn connection
with the work at the Socicty's hcndquartcrs. Then,
among other Ihfngs, Mnr-millan derlnrrd : " T l ~ ework
before us i s great, but the Lord will filva us the necessary grace and strength to perfurn1 It. , . some
faint-hearted workers may think the tlme has come
to lay down our harvesting lnqtruments ~ n wait
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the Lord calls us home. This Is not the tlmc Ior slackers
t o be heard. This is a tlmc for action-mote deteiminctl
action than ever before l"
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resolve, called her back, took the books and
them in his library at home and th~r.ret h e rcmninctl
fpr a while. One day as he uynseonvalescLg from 8
s ~ c kspell Ile opened one of t h e books and srarlcd to
read. That was the beginning af a llfelong i n t ~ r e s t
and a never-ceasing devotion and service to his Cod,"
Meetings of the Bible Siudents were not held In
the immediate vicinity of the Rutherford heme. ITowever, Clarence B. Beaty sa s: "l*'rom 1904 on, meelinga
were hrld in our home. Jstcr Rutherford and Jucl
Rutherford came up from Uounvillc, Missouri, for
Memorial [of Christ's cleathl, , , I-Zc partook of Ills
first Mcmorial ant1 gave his A r s t p i l ~ r ~ rtalk
n to the
friends in our home. Tlrc hef~lno one in the tnith in
BuonviIle except Ihcrnseces.
But how did J. F. Rutherford get started as a
reacher of the good news? Well, A. H. Macmlllan
argely was responsible for that MetcmiIlan met
Ruthcrford in DO5 at ICansas City during a trip across
t h e United States with Brother RusseII. A little Inter
Brother Macmillan stopped to visit Judge Tturherlorct
for a day or truo. One conversation betwcc~r thcnr
went like this:
"Judge, you ought to be preachfng the truth here,"
T'm not a preacher. I'm a lawyer:'
'Well, now, Judge, I'Il show you what you can do.
You go and get a copy of the Holy Bible nnd a small
group of people, and teach them about life, d e ~ t hand
the hereafter. Show them where we got our life, wh
we came into the condition of death and what dentx
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Jesus Christ said that all h i followen; were "brothers" and that 'the one greatest among them must he
thelr rninlstrr." (hlalt. 23:it-12) Hence, no true Christian ~ccortls any fcllow beIiever undue importance.
Yct, Ihr! IXil-rle rcvcills 1 he Irnits of various servants
u i Got]. Moscs, for example, was noted f o r meekness;
dames an11 John, thc sons of Zebedee, for their fiery
ri~tl~udasm.
(Num. 12:J; Mark 3:17; Luke 9 : 5 9 Sincc
Joscph F. nutl~erford wns entrusted wjth much re
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told that a chart talk en the '2)ivIne Plan" would Boon
be given in the district, and those manifcstlng in.
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would Sollaw me all ovcr
from room to room trying t o aet cver word just
cxnct. She so wanted to get it just right," $ellectlng on
thr! fact that the Baclireth contained repnrect lestlmonlc=s,Elixsheth E h d says: "I approckted Illis, far we
(lid not have an arrangement, :Is wc now have, of n
pcrson golng along wit11 anotllrr Lo I r:dn find help
one l u become an effective publisher. This unlficd the
message going out."
As the rejuvenation campaign continued, other step
mcre taken by the Societyhs new adminlatratEon bnck
in 1917. For instance, a number of regional convcntlons
were held. These wem designcd In cmcournge thc
I3ihlc Students to press on will] their worlc and not
bccomr weary in welI-doing.
Just bcrore 1914 C. T. Russell placed emphasis on
a pul~llr:speaking program. Now it was t l m e to QTrange for further qualified speakers la reprr!scnt the
Wnlch Tower Society from t l ~ cpublic: p l ~ t f o r m ,How
was this done? The program used was i h r V. D. M.
nrl-angernenl. These etters stood f ~ the
r 1,atln woi-ds
V a M Dsi Minister, meaning "Minister of the Word of
Gocl." The program consisted of a questionnnirc ~narlc
available to both men and women nssocislcd wltll
congregations of Bible Students.
liere are some sample questions ap arlng on the
V. D. M. questionnaire. How well c o u ! you nnswer
thein? (1) What was the flrst creative act of God7
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tioned It, hoping that these board members would
discontinue thdr opposition. However, their attitude
showed that they were not qualified to he directors.
Rightly Rutherford dismissed them and appofntcd four
new board members whose appointment could he
confirmed at t h e next general corporation mcctfng,
early in 1928.
Brother Rutherford did not summarily d l d s s the
former directors from the Christian organi~ation.Instead, he offered them positions as pilgrims. TIrey refused, volu~~tarilyleft Bethel and hegan sptlcading
their opposition by an extensive spe~kiny!and Ertterwriting campaign throughout the United States, Cnnarla
and Europe. Conseqo~ntIy,aflcr t!ic summer of 1!)17,
many con(:r'cgations of Eible Students WEIT con~poscd
of two parties-those loyal to J~lrovah's organitstron
an? others u-ho had hecome spirjIunlly drorvsy and
had fallen victim to the smooth talk of the opposrrs.
The Iallcr became uncooperative and would not unEa e
in the work of preachng the good news of ~ 0 t h
I<ingdom.
FIMTIE m a y s TO GAIN ~ONIPROL
The op osition group that had recent1 left Bethel
thought t\ey
would be able to emtrol
Bible Students* convention held at Boston, Massachusetts, In
August 1911. Mary EIannan,, who was 371 att@nclnncc
nt that assembly, reports: 'Brother RutherFord was
alert to this effort on their part and did not give
them an opportunity to get on the platcorm at any
time during the sessions. He actcd as the cliairman
all t h e time." The convcntlon was a thorough s~icccss,
to Jehovah's praise, and the opposers were unabla
to disru~t:it.
J. F. Rutherford knew that the annual co oratton
meeting of January 5, 3918, wouId afford the dfPssIdents
another chance to get control. He was mnsonahly
sure that the BibIe tudents in general did not favor
such a move. Yet, they would have no opportunity to
express themselves a t t h e election, sinre It was a
matter to be handled only by members of the l e ~ a l l y
constituted corporation, the watch Tower Blble and
Trzct Society. So, what could Rutherford do? I-Ie could
give all of Jehovah's dedicated ser-vants an opportunity
to make expression. Accordingly, The TVatdt TOWCI*
of
November 1, 1917, suggested that a referendum vote
be taken by each congregation. By Dcccmher 15, 813
congregations sent in their votes and the poll indicated
that 10,869 of the U,421 votes were for J. F. Ruthcrford as the Society's president. Among other things,
Ihe referendum vote also showed that all the fail hi'ul
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God's service.
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S THE CRPCIIBLE
During 1917 to 1919 the Bible Students were also
objects of an international conspiracy fomented pard
titularly by the clergy of Christendom. Thk: P i d s h ~ d
Mystmy, seventh volume o f Shldaes za the Scriptures,
reused their clerical ire. Within seven months of
this publication's initial reIcase it was enjoying unparalleled circulation. The Saclety's outside prjnters
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message anywhere.
Opposition and pressure continued to mount against
Jehovah's people. On February 24, 1918, J. F. Ru+erford delivered a public Iectuw a t Los Angeles Cabfornia, to an audience of 3,500. The morning thereafter
the Los Angeles Tfibacne printed a full-page report
of the lecture. This aroused the indignation o f Ioeal
clergymen. The ministerial association held a meeting
on Monday rnornfng and sent its president to the
managers of the newspa er, dernandln that they
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~nol>swrrt? Ioll(:tl,
"A ril 22, 1018, at Khgsvllle Texas, L. L. Davis
anrl %nnicl Toole were cl~ascdby a mob led by the
Mavor nncl a County Judge and subsequently caught
and ailftl wltllout a wm'r*ant. Davis was forced out
of h s lob. Jn Ma
1918, at Tecumseh, Oldahoma,
J. J.
was srixepnnd inearccratcd thirteen months
In nn in.unn(n nsylum hy Ihe oriler of n ,Turl~;e,after
Ihrrrilminl: klnrl nhusc. ITk fnmlly was not atlvised as
to whnt 11:id brvn done wlth hlm. . .
"Mnrch 17, 1918, nt (:rant1 Junction, Colorada, a
merting I'or Blhl~!sturlp was brolcen up by a mob cornpos~tlo f the Tulnyor, lcndi~ignewspaper men and other
proinincnt bu~incssmm. .
"April 22, 1918, st Wynnewood, Oklahoma, CIaud
Wntson wa8 flrst jailed and then deliberately released
to n moh rornposed of prcncbhcrs, business men and
a h:w otllers tkiat knoclced him down, rnused a negra
to whlp hlm and, wllen he had partially recovered,
io whlp him a~mln.They thcn poured tar and feathers
nll uvcr him, ruhhlny: the tar lnro his hair and seal .
April 29, 1818, at Walmt Ridge, Arliunsa, W.
I,uncan, 61 scars o f age, Edward French, charlei
Frankc, a Mr. GrEffln and Mrs, D, Van I-Toesen were
jailed. The jail wns brolrcn into by a mob that used
thr most vile and o ~ s c c n elanguage. whipped, tarred,
fllntltcrcd and dl-ovc thrln f r i m town. Duncan was
cornp~lIcdto wnllc twenty-six miles to his home and
bnrrly recoveretl. CrSflln was virtually ,,blrnded and
tlictl, from thr? assault a few months later.
After all thest? years, T, H. Sjebenljst remembers
well what ha)')pcned to hta lather fn Shathick, Okra-
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far as their tormenting work of prophesying "in sackcloth" was concerned, to the great relief of their religious, political, military and judicial foes. (Rev. 11:3-7;
13:l) That was the prophecy, and It was fulfilled. Rut
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how?
On May 7, 1918, the United States District C o w
for the Eastern District of New York ~ssueda warrant
for the arrest of certain rincipal servants of the
Watch Tower Society. Invoged were President J. F.
Rutherford, Secretary-Treasurer W. E. Van Amburgh,
Claylon J. Woodworth and George H. FJsher (the two
compilers o f The Finished Musterul, F. PI. Robison (a
member of the Watch Tower editorial comrnittce),
A. W. Macmillan, R. J. Martin and Giovnnni DeCecca.
On the very next day, May 8, 1918, those of this
group who wcre at Rroohlyn Bethel were laced under
arrest, Eventually all were in custody. saortly thereafter they were arraigned in Federal Court, Judge
Garvin presiding. All of them were met with an mdiclrnent previously returned by the Grand J u q ,
charging them with
"(I, 3) The offense of unlawfulIy, feloniously and
wilfully causing and attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty and refusaI of duty in the military
and naval forces of the United States of America, in,
through and by personal soHcitations, letters, public
s eeches, distribution and public* circulation throughout
United States of Americv of a certain book called
Valurne S e ~ e n ~ C ~ ~ ~ ~STUDTES-The
rnmn
Finished
Mystrry'; and distributing and publlcly ckculatin
tl~rouchoutthe UniIcd Stales eertam articles presentej
fn pamphleis calletll 'B~ELESST~JDENTS
MONTHLY,
TI^ WAETI TOJVER,'KTNCDOU NEWS' and other
pn~nphlolsnot named, et cctera;
"(2, 4 ) Tlie offense o f unlawfully, feloniously, and
wiliully obstructing the recruiting and cnllstment service of ,?he United States when the United States i v a s
at war.
Principally, the Indictment was based on one paraa h in The Finished M y s ' t e r ~ . It read: "Nowhere
t\e New Testament is Patriotism la narrow-minded
hatred of other peoples) encouraged. Everywhere and
always murder in its every form is forbidden; and
yet, under the guise o f Patriotism the civil governments of earth demand of eace-loving men the sacrifice
of themselves and their
ones and the butchery
of their fellows, an!, hail it as a duty demanded by
the laws of heaven.
Brothers Rutherford, Van Amburgh, Macmillan and
Martin faced a second indictment of txading with the
enemy, based on a dafm that the Xodety's officers
fi
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h g , and so they acted against us on that balsis even
though we testified that we never at any time conspired to do anything whatsoever to affect the draft
and never enmuraged anyone to resist it. It was all
t o no avail. Certain religious leaders of Christendom
and their polilical <allies were determined to gef: us.
The prosecution, wth consent of Judge Kowe, a~med
for conviction, insisting that our rnotlve was irrelevant
and that intent should be Snferred from our acts. 1
was found guilty solely on the basis that 1 countersigned a checlr, the purpose of which could not be
determined, and that I signed a statement of fact
that was read by Brother Rutherford at a board meeting. E v ~ nthen they could not prove that it was m y
signature. The in,justice of this helped us later in
our appeal"
At one point, a former officer of Ure Society was
w o r n in. After looking at an exhibit bearin
signatures, he said he reco nized one as that of%!y
Van Amburgh. Here tho &anscript of Record reads:
"Q. 1 hand you Exhibit 31 .for identiflcatlon, and
ask you to look at the two slgnahrres or purported
signatures, of MacMillan and ValnJ Amburgh, and ask
you first as to Van Amburgh, if in your opinion that
is a mimeograph enpy of hi$ signature? A. I think
it is. I. recognize it as such.
"Q. MY. MacMitlan's? A. Mr, MacMillan's is not so
recognizable, but I think It i s his signature."
Concerning the defense presented by those on trial,
Brother Macmlllan later wrote:
"After the Government had completed its case we
presented our defense. In essence we showed that the
Society is wholly a rcllginus organization; t h a t the
members accept a9 their principles of belief the holy
Bible as expounded by Charlca T. Russell; that C. T.
Russell in his l i f e t h e wrote and published six volumes,
Stud&s 4?t th-8 ,Scriptures, and as early as 1806 remised
the seventh volume which would treat Ezehel and
Revelation; that on his deathbed he stated that some
one else would write the seventh volume; that shortly
after hls aeath the executive committee of the Society
authorized C. 3. Woodworth and George HH.
Fisher to
write and submit manuscript f o r consideration without
any promise made concerning publication; that the
manuscript on Revelation was corn leted before the
the manuscript
United States got into the war and
of the entire book (except a chapter on the Temple)
was in the hands of t h e printer before the enactment
of the Espionage Law; hence, it was impossible for
any such conspiracy as charged to have been entered
into to violate the law.
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did not solicit members and never advised or encouraged anyone to resist the draft; that the letters
written were to those whom we knew to be dedicated
Christians who were entitled under %e law to advlce;
that we were not opposed to the nation gorng to war
but as dedicated Christians could not engage in mostai
combat."
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1WES REJOIUE
The incarceration of thcse Christian witnesses of
Jehovah was a figurative deathblow, much to the
delight and relief of their enemies. Fulfilled were the
words of Revelation 11:10: <'And those dweIling on
the earth rejoice over them and enjoy themselves,
and they will send gifts to me another, because these
two prophets torme~ltedthose dwelling on the eartlt"
Religious, judicial, military and political foes of the
"two wilnesses" did "send gifts" to one another, in
that they congratulated one another for the part
they played in gaining a victory aver their tormentors,
In 111s hook Prsaclwr* Present Arms, Ray H. Abrams
considcrcd the trjnl of J. F. Rutherford and his asm
sucfnlrs and observes:
"An analysis of the whole case leads to the conclusiun Zhtll the churchcs and thc clergy were orfginaIly
behind the movement to stamp out the Russcllites. .
"When the news of the twenty-year sentences reached
the editors of the religious press, ractically every
one of these publications, great an8 small, rejoiced
over the event. I have been unable t o discover any
ivords of sympathy in any of the prthodox religious
journals. 'There can be no question, concluded Upton
Sinclair, that 'the persecution . .
sprang in part
from the fact that they had won t h e hatred of "orthodox" religious bodies,' Witat the comblned efforts
of the churches had failed to do the overnment now
soemcd to have succeeded in accompli&ing for themthe crushing of thcsc 'prophets of Baal' forever."
. .
From 607 to 537 l3.C.E. the Jews languished as captives in ancient Babylon. Comparably dedicated worshipers of Jehovah anointed with his holy spirit were
brought into a Babylonish captivit and exiled during
the World War I period of 1914-I&!% Especially were
the depths of their captive state felt when the eight
faithful brothers from the Society's headquarters were
incarcerated in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta,
Gcorgla.
But ciurlng this entire period of dlElculty, not one
issue of The Watch Tower failed t e zppear in print.
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k-
ill
ers' havin been hpdaon&, they never stopped witnesstng. ~ R c ywere just n bit more mul~ous,perhaps:
Sister H. N, S. Dixon rrcnllerl tlrat "the Iaith af the
hiends remahed strun onti ihc meetings were held
regularly." Jehovah's C%lstlan wllncssrs r.onlinued to
display faith in God. Truc, they r v ~ r l ! in n crucible
of hardship and perscmttlon. Yet, God's holy spirit was
upon them, If only thcy auld cndure, surely the
Divine One would savr them from their pcrsccutors
~ n dgrant them rlclivcranr-c! from Ihclr state of
Babylonish captivity'!
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EXPltEBSIONB OF GONFmENCE
T l ~ sarmlaricc was sfgmed on Novembr 11, 1918, and
World War I cnmc tn 12s end, Rut the eight Bible
student^ were still In rlson. These they remained
while their fellow helzvers held a convention in
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' ttshurgh, Pmnsy hanln, January 2.5, 1919. This asscmhly was combined with t h e very significant annual
rnct.llng of t h IVatch
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Towrr Rible and Tract Society
on Snturrlay, Janttnry 1, 1919.
J. F. Rutherford lralimrP that at thk corporation
meeting opposers wt lht n I he organization would try
to have him nnrl thr other sfllcers of thc Society re~ Y a w dIby men of lhcir chofw. That Saturday, January .%,
A. 1-1. hlsornll~nnwas playing out at thc prison
tcnnIa court. Rutl~crford npproachetl: him, and, acrnrrllng to Macmlllan, Ihlcr is what took place:
"'Rutherford snld, 'Mac, I want to talk to you.'
"'Whnt do you want to tnlk t o me about?'
" "I want to tnlk to you about what's going on at
P l t t hury:hmt
~
" 'I'd lfke to play tilts tournamwt out here.'
"'Arm't you I n t c r ~ ~ t r tIn
l whnt's goln on? Don't
ou Imow it'n thc clretion o l olllcrrs turlay! You might
re Jp~orcilnnrl droppctl and wc'll stay ere forever.
" 'I3rolhcr nuthsrrord,' I aald, 'let me tell you somethin^: perhn s you helvcn't Ihaught of. T h i s is the first
t l m ~slnec !he Sorlciy was Incorporated that it can
bccomc clcarly cvitltant whom Jchovah God would hke
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to hnve as prcaidmt.'
" 'Whftt do ynu lnrnn by that?'
'' 'I mean fhnt Erothpr nusscll had a controlring vote
and he nppointed t h ~dlffercnt offfcers. Now with us
werningly out of commission the matter's different.
nut, if IVC got mtf: In tlmr to go up to that assembly
la that husiness m ~ c t l n g , we would come in there
nnd would br ~cccptcclto tnkc Bmther Russell's place
with the sanle honor hr rec~ived.It might look then
like mnn'.s work, not God's.
"Ruthprford just looked thoughtful and walked
away."
T h n t wns an eventful day at Pittsburgh. %en
the
hour ,,nrrived for the huslney mecttng, tensions were
high, recalls Mary Hnnnnn, W e ohsellred that some
of the opgosltlnn were present, they hoping to get
thplr man In nflice."
A letter from Brother Rutherford was read to the
amllenc~.In It hc sent love and greetings to all and
wnrned against Satan's chlef weapons of pride, ambltlon ant1 fear. Shnrzulnga clcaire to submit to Jehovah's
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rtltion was circulated and In n short time
?OCI,OO~"slgnntures were obtainmi. Tht! pet [tion was the
lnrflcst Jn its timc. It nevcr was pwscntcrl to Prcaldent
Wilson or the government, howcvcr, kcnuso Wore
Ihnl accurrcd action had been talren ta release the
eight Blble Studcnts. Nevertheless, the pctitlon served
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Re ardlng
L. cfaus
I&lm%am
FROM
PRISON
"Wnslifngton, D.C.
&#sir:
"Anewerlng your telepam of the l a t lnst., I wired
you thttt ~ v r n l n gas ~ o ~ T o ~ v s :
'"'nccmmm~ntnd Immedlatc commuinibn for Joseph
Rutl~c!~+for.rtl,
William E. Van Ar~~hurgh,
Rohcrt J. Martin,
J.'rctl I I , Robison, George W. ln7isllrt*,CInyton 3. Woodworth, Glrlvrlnni DcCccvn, A, 1I u ~ hhlncm31Inn. They
werc nII rlrlfvndnnts in samc cnsu In 1~:nsIcrnDistrict
of Ncw Umnlc.M y position 1s t o br: gencaihousnow that
Ihc wnr L ovslh.They did rnucli clamam? by preaching
nntl publishing their religious doclrjncs.'
"The severe sentence of twenty yeara rvaa Imposed
upon each of the defendants except DcCecca. Ills was
ten years. hly principal purpose was l o makc an example, us a warning t o others, and I bellcved that the
Presftlenl would relieve them aftel' Ihc war was aver.
As I sald in my telegram, they did inucl~dnmagc and
it may well be claimed they ouelit irot to be set at
lilxrly so soon, but as they cannnl do any more harm
now, I am in favor of being aa lcnlent ns I was severe
iln imposlng sentence. I l~clicve most of them were
slnccre, lf not all, and I am not In favor of keeping
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*'Rsspeetfully,
(signed1 J-IARI,ANI, B. HOWH,
Unitrrd Btntea District J ~ t d g @ . ~
On March 25 1919, United Stntca Su reme C o w
Justice Louls D. Brnndeis ordercd hail E r the elght
Imprlsoned brothers and directed thnt thry should h e
lven thc right to an appeaI on April 14 of that year.
hcy wrre r~leasedpromptly anti on Tuesday March
23, [hey left Atlanta penitentiary by train. back in
nrooklyn on March 26, 1919, federal nutIioril~es relrascd llle brothers on bail of $10,000 ench, p ~ n d i n g
f urlhrlr trial.
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The case of the eight Bible Students waa due t o he
heard on a peal on April 14, 1919. They then had n
hearin h g r e the Federal Serond Circuit Court CJC
at New ~ m l rcity. On May 14. 1919, their erroneous convictions were reversed. Then p r c s i d i r ~were
~
Jud es Ward, Rogers and Manton. Judge Wnrd satti
in LRe o inion when remanding the ease f a r rctrial:
"The d&ndmts in this case did not have thr tcnlpel-ate and impartial trial to which they were ~ntttletl,
and for that reason the judgment is reversed."
Jud e Mart+ T. Manion dissented. On J d y 1, 1918
this atfiohc judge, without assigning a reason, 11nd
refused bail to R~*herford and his fellow clefendanls,
resulting i a a nine-month unjust imprisonment wIlile
their appeal was pending. Incidentally, Pope Pius XI.
lntcr made Judge Maftton a "ltni~htof the! order of
St. Gregory the Great. Ultimately; however, nfarlton's
disregard for justice was revealed, On June 3, 193!),
IZC was sentenced to the maximum penalty of two
years' imprisonment lus a file of $IO,OM) for shame.
fully misusing his hlg% federal jud eshlp by accepting
bribes in the amount 01: $186,000 Tor six decisions.
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illegal judgment
Reversal of the decision and tllsrnlssnt of the fnflietrnents meant that J . F. Rutherford and his seven
associai~swere totally exoncratcd. Some have spol<en
of Judge Rutherford as an "ex-convict,"hut absolutely
without basis. The court action of M a y 14, 1919, deflniteIy established that he and his associates had h m
lmprjsoned on an illegal conviction. That Brother
Ruthcrford mas not considered an ex-convict Is decisively proved by the fact that he later pradred as
a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United
States, an impossibility for an ex-convict. Twenty years
after his unjust imprisonment, or in the autumn of
1939, the nine justices of the Supreme Court listencd
to the argument presented by Rutherford in the case
of Bc7~midevv. New Jersmj. The court rulecl eight-I*
A NEfV O W O K
Atter thelr trialsome period of 1917-1919,Jehovah's
people subjected themselves to scrutiny. RealFng that
lhey llac? acted in ways Zllat did not meet with God's
approval, 1211.y sought forfiivencss in rayer, repenting
of lllelr f o r r n ~ rcourse. Wlis lcd to $hovahls forgive
ncRs nnd I~lcssin~.-I'rov. 28:13.
One cornprornjse had been t h e cutting of pages from
Tlre Irdttlfi?~o(lM?jatery, this to please those who had
n ~ ~ u m c rthc!
l
poaI2lorr of ceneor. Another occurred
w11c.n 'I'itrr llFair:I~
!i'.o~m
of June 1, 1918, stated: "In
ncrhordr~nc,awlih Lhc wsolutfon nf Congress of April
2rlt3, n111lwith the
:~m:rlion of I hc? President of
l i ~ r b 17nllcd S l n t c ? ~
or"""
Mny L 3 , It Is suggested that the
J,ordJs 11(*rlplr! c!vcrywhc;f.c rnnlcs May 30th a day of
pyaycr 11 nd su pllcnlion, Subsequenl comments lauded
thc lrnilcrl ~ k l r snnd did not harmonize Nth the
CIirisUan posl lion of ncutral1ty.-John 15:19; Jas. 4:4.
D u r l n ~ :World Wnr I quehllons arose among the
Blblc SluAcnts as ta the losltlon the should take
ragnrdii~grnlllrsry service. dome reiusedlto participate
In any way, whcrcas others accepted noncombatant
servlcr, RcInted questions arose about whether to buy
war 'tm-trls ant1 stamps. FnlLure to do so sometimes
resuItec2 in pcrscr:utlon, even brutal treatment. When
Jehovah's servants of today consider any program or
nrtivlty of t t w nations, thry act in harmony with such
Sct+lpr~~t.nl
rinciples ns that sct forth a t Isaiah 2:24,
~ v l ~ l r roncfirles
)l~
with tho words: "And they will have
l o bent their sworrls into plowshares and their spears
Into p n i n l n ~ shpnrs. Natian wllI not lift up sward
agnlnst nnlirm, rlrithef will they learn war anymore."
A new outloolr. That Iq what Jehovah's people had
as t h ~ yentrrecl thc 2920's. They had one through
dlfllcult ycnrs, but Christ's nnnintcd Allowers, the
symholb "1 wn witnesses," were alive again spiritual1
i m r l rrndy for adinn. What led up to this? What tooc
plnm In Ihc months Immedfatcly folIowing the release
nr Brother Rritlrcsiord nnd his seven associates from
prlson ?
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A EUCCESSFWL TEST
When Rutherford was released from prison, there
w a s a blg question in I-]is mind: Just how much in=
ierect is there in the Kingdom mesn;l@? I-Ic was an
ailinf: man, who might rcasonabl he expected t o be
roliccrnctl primarily with his herich, but he juat had
l o havs nn answer t o that impnr'tant questloll.
As it 19, during the months nf ihclr Incarccratlon fn
the Atlanta penitentiary, Brr~lllcrs nu tht!rford and
Van Amburgh had shared a ccll havlny: no aIr ctrculntlon due to a fan mnlfundion, Firlllg unrtl~le to
grt sui!lcie~ll oxygen, their systcms hnrl hren filled
wlt h poisr>ns.While Ruthrrford ~ v a simprisonetl, in fact,
n Inng r-nlirlition had dcvclo (TI Ihnt ~1:ryrrlwit11 him
far the rrrst of his caribly Tirr. Shflrily ni'ter 111s IPleasc 11e ~ ~ o n l r acd
r t pt~ctunnnlrt. IJratllcr 1Zutheriord
hr!rnrnc R O ill that his surviv;kl I V i l S in qurstion, Rerrrusc! of his physical condil ion anrl owing t o Ibe fact
thal hls family was in Californin, he wcnl tlrerc.
TryIng to determine just how much Interest there
acltrany was in the Kingdom rnrssnce, Brother Ruthe?
ford arranged for a public m e c t t n ~at. CEune's hudltnrium in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 4,1019.Through
cxl~nsivenewspaper advertising, Itc promised to exaln In this discourse just wily lhe Watch Tower
ociety's olfrcers had been convicted ilegnlly.
The local clergy thougl~tthe Biblo Stutlsr~rsand the
Soript were finished, that no onc! would shrlw up for
I h c nckerllrcd talk .'The Hope for D i s l l.csu.rl HumanRve hun11 y." IIut lllcy were wrong. Cht-rc! t t~o~unnrl
cll+etl were prespnt, and nhout s i x h ~ ~ ~ i d rhad
o d to k
tkrrnetl away for lack of spacv. Ru!llrlhiol.rl promised
to spcak to them on Monday cvenltl~.Thougl~ he had
bccn sick all day, he delivered that t;ilk 10 nn audience
o f 1,50R. He was so ill, howcvrr, thnl filter about an
hour h e had to bc replacer1 hy an i~ssatdnlc. Yet, t.he
test in Los hngeIes had been a success. There was
notable Interest in the Kingdom mesaagc.
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DurIng J. I?. Rutherford's stay in Cnllfornfa, however, an Interesting thing happened at the Soclqtyf
PIttsbur h hradquarters. One mornin a Christ~an,
George Autteifiela, a person of eonslSrnble nlcans.
wnlkcd into ihe office. A. H, Marmillnn spoke with
Ilinl In tht? parlor, informed him t h a t n r o t h ~ rR u i h e ~
mrd was in California, and then t h i s ifi what hap
prbned, according to Mamillan's own report:
"Ilc sald, '3-lalTeyou got a prlvate room here?'
"'Well, wc'll lo& this door, thls is private. W h ~ .to
t
you want to do, George?'
*'Helrrgan t o take his sMrt off as 1 talked to him.
f thortghi h c Ilnd gone crazy. He lnokcd n IIltle dirty
and tmucl-worn, whereas ortll~~nrjly
he was a tifly
and tvrll-kept man. When Ile gnt down to Ills UntlerIir! cul, out n Hltlc p ~ t u h
Ilc hnd on there and took out a bundb of money.
T1 was about $10,000 in WIls.
"He put it down and said, "That'l'l he1 you to get
Ihlrr wrrrlc stnrtcd. I wouldn't mnd n e!e:eck because
I tlltln't know WAC, was here. I dltln" t r a v ~ lIn a sleeper
lwcrc.az~a~
I didn't Ivonl nnyhody to cnmtt nnd Xakc thls
am;ly Isrrrn 1174: If they s r ~ s y ~ c r tTd hncl I t , so 1 fiat up
nll ~ ~ l ~ tI i lr13dn'l
,
Icnow wlrn wnrr In r.l~nr[rc! of tlse
wnrk, hr12 now that I see ynll I,rcllhr~.r;hrrt! wllom I
I~nntvunrl 1 trust, I am glad tlml J cnnrr!' .
11 w a ; ~
H plcnsr~ntaurprinc and certainly an mcouragcment.
Upon Firother Rutherford's return to the Society's
PUtshur~h oMces, he instructed the Soclety's vice.
p~+cslrlcni,
C. A. Wise, to go to Brooklyn and scc about
reopr~tlnEBcthel and renting prcmlses whcrc the S*
cicly r-ot~ldbcgin printing operalions, The ronversation
..
war.]
"How many tons do you think I should order to make
the test?"
"Well, make it a good test: order flve hundred tona."
That is just what Brother Wise did, And upon
mahlng application to the authoritlea, hc was g ~ ~ n l e d
n mrtiflcate to get five hundred tons QP coal. ImnedlnteIy he wired J. F. Rutherford, That much coal would
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bcnriit.
llorcfa at Cedar Polnt could houac some thrce thousanrl, nnrl Ihc nible Sttndcnts hnd arranged to take
ovcr nll thclr facilities by nnon of the conventian's
o p v n i n ~day, Monday, September I. Thcre waa a little
disa pnlntment whcn only a thousant1 pcrsons shewed
up kr the opening session. nut pcoplc kept mming,
on special trr~Insand by other means. Soon long lincs
of plated dplegates were nrvaltlng nccommodatians.
And who wcrc busy behind Ihe rounler handing out
room nssignments? Why, nonp other thnn two f o m c r
Inmates or Atlanta penitentiary-A. W. MacmiIlan and
R. J. Martin! Now look Ihrre, Drothrr Rutherford
and mnny olllcrs are having n grent time ns .hpllhops,
tonng sultcnscs and helping fr~Elow conventionem to
thrir mrbrns. Thlngs kept humming till niWr midnight.
Mnppy delegates kept r i ~ l l tr)n coming. Frnm about
3,000 on Elnncl Ily evening of i l ~ vIlrat rlny, attendance
climbed t o 6,000on Friday. Ant1 fr~rI h r Sunday public
lecturc flboul 7,000 were prcsrnl. A1 llrls joyous assembly over 200 ~ymbolized thnlr clcdbntlon to God by
subrnlttln~ to water baptism,
Conrcrnin~:t h ~
public discourse ''The Hope far Distwssrd lT~irnnn!ry,'Arrien Pate wrltes: "They arranged
to hnve the public talk outsidc ancl Brother Rutherford
8polrc. . . W181that small number it wasn't too hard
to hr?nr."
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laughter,
For reUef from nngwg dosfty, the assembly
delegates had to watt 1111 Friday, Septemlwr 5-"Co.
laborers' Dnv." Imagine yourself among those h:~lppy
throngs as 5'. F. IZ~tll~~rforddve fllc ndrll.cfls An.
nonncing the Kfngtlnrn." In it %e announced the publication of n new ~ r l n ~ a d n T
e ,l ~ eGoldclt Age.
T h e mystery was over. Those letters "GA" stood for
Goldem Age. mother Rutheifold was follotve!rl on the
program b 1'. J. Mnrtin, who outlined ~nethMlsfor
a new wal-$ n i ohlninlng subscriptio~~s
for T'l~rGoldc,~
Age. Publjsherl every other week, this thlrly-two-pnge
magazine would carry milch religious matter c!xpJnlning
y s e n t - d a y evenlr in tie Light of divine ~ r u p l ~ ~ y .
t s first issue, dated October 1, 1919,contnineb. rnnlt!rial
on such topic:s ns lnhor nnd economics, mnnuhcturlng
and nlini~if:, fltir~nrc, mrnrnerce anti tmnsportatiun,
agricultul-r anrl ll~tshnndry,srienm and invcntinn nnd
religion, Includln~:n Srrlpt urnlly based art l r h l r cntitlcd
"Talking wflli ihc! Dmrl?"
As its editor Y'lrm U r i l d ~ nAge had one of the brothera
who had hccn Im r i ~ u n c d with Brother Ruthurford,
He was Cla ton
Waodworth. His son, C. Jnmes
Woodworth, i l l s In t h c s ~Interesting dctnlln: "My fnther
reestablished a homr for us in Scranton IPennsylvanial, and when, in 1919,Tlw Leddm Age was hejiun
as a cornpaniun mngazlne t p The Watch Tnuwr, the
Society appolnld him its edltor. It was necessur fnr
him to spcnd a inrm .eat?- of his lime nelanl& in
Brooklyn, so I he Sncioty kindly made a n anangcmcnt
whereby hc workptl for two weeks In Drooldyn and
two weeks ar t~omc--an nrmngement that went nn
COT quite a few years. 1: well remember my dad's
typewriter goinl: busily at five o'clock mmly mornings
--as he wrote or e ~ l i t r dmaterial for Tltr! #oldoft Age
and sent it t o Bronltlfll by early mail."
Clayton J. Wootlwarth faithfully served ns editor
of The #otde+t Ago and its successor Conblolatbla
(published from Oclobcr 6, 1937, through July 31, 1916,
inclusive). 13ecnuse of advancing years, he was relieved of thls work when the new journal AwnkeI
repIaced (lottsolnt$o?r,with the Issue of Au~uat22, 194.
However, Brother Woodworth remained faithful at
other duties h Gocl'n service until death, on December
M, 1951., nt eighty-one years of age.
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cighiK.
A.
TO TAE r n L D k
1919, c~st.le8
the two-part article "Rlessed Are the
Plainly it showed the need for faithful anntl fcnrlesa
nctlon in God's service. The reB onse 10 thla call l o
I C O ~ ~ Caction
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on the part of f)phnvah's pcaplc wan
cnt huslnstic and coura EOUE. They ~x?alously undcrtoolc the Kingdom pubhicity work thnt was now srt
hrforc Ihem. They Iwcamr spirii ually ~ilivr agnln jn
Jcllovahls activc servicr ns his nmhnssadors. Thus
X7t8 Watch Tower of August 1. Find 15
11:11* 12.
In 1920 personal responsEbfIity for prcachtng was
more lcr*cnly felt ns participants In the wltncss work
turned in a weckIy report of activity. Prlos to 1918
on1 colporteurs made field service reports. Also, l o
fntb6itntc the preaching activity, con r~jinllons were
given specific territory assi nments. %hilt wpm tho
rlTccta? In 1920 there were !,(I52 'VrIass workcrs" ant!
350 colporteurs. By 1922, of more than 1,200 congmgatlons In the United States, 980 had h e n fully reor anircd l o engage in the field service. These linn 8,#01
workers who placed Bible literature wllh houschoIdcrs
on a contribution. The weeklg average was 2,250.
When work with Tfw Golden Age was starting, ft
W R S outlined in this way: *'TmGOLDEN AGE work
fs a houseto.house canvass wlth the Mngdam message,
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THE '%aJD
WORK
On dune 21, 1920, & paper &Ition of TIM Pinlshed
My8tw'y was released for ttlstr'lhutlon. It wafl cam.
rnonly called the "ZG." ( " 2 stood for Zioa'a Watch
a copy.
Recalling her work wlth the "ZG," Beulah E. Covey
'"There was a full-page picture inside of a church
mth
two preachers, each going down an aisle with
a gun In one hand and n rollcctton plate in the other.
a?:
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we
I had to do t o place t h b 'ZGJ was to s a b this
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pwture, and it was very common to place forty Or
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a yearend report,
Y3rothrr Ruthrvforrl disclosed t h ~ the
t Saciety was setling up n Central European Om* t o supervise the
p r e a c h ~ nwork
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in Switzcrlnnd, France, Belgium, Haland, I:crrnn~~y,Austria nnrl Italy.
waa eatahllahcd
TIIE '-FAIONS
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Mnrtin would remark, The angels are holding up
r Ills bulldfng.'
ONLY wmz maovmtsKELP
'The successful prinitng af hookrr nnd BIhlcs on
r a t ~ r ypresses by persons o f little or no prrvious
rxperience is evidence of Jehovah's QVPYBI
h t nnil t h ~
riircrlian of his spirit," remarks Charlra
Fehrl. He
lins been in Betl~clservice s h c c 1921. Brnthcr E"ehr.1
hnzr slrared In the developments at the Society's headquarters fox half a century and assures as: "Persona
I n perform each task were always Iounrl wlthr~ut any
dupllcntion or wasteful effort. Ynst itlslts plnnnctl
nhcnd of lime were completcrl as rrrlulrctl In spLtr of
f:
Sn1:ln's oppositfon."
W t r ~ nIht? Socie moved !ts i a ~ o r yto 18 Concord
Sttrr!t, Rrnoklyn, ack in 1922, a corn ~Ictc. outfft of
lyprsrlting, rlertroplating, printlng an1 hlndlng macnhinrry, most of it new,* was ohtnined. Thc prr*:Ident
of
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At that very moment a three-colored, thirtysix-footIong banner is unfurled above the speaker's stand.
On it a;p ear a lar e center picture of Christ and the
words ldvgdvertise tfie King and Kingdom." Now it is
clear. The enigmatic letters "A D V" mean "ADVERTISE." Advertise what?-Why, "Advertise the Ring
and Kingdom"! "You can irnaghe the enthusiasm,
cxcIaims George D. Gangas, "the joy and the excitement of the brothers. Never had anything like that
happened in their lives. . . . It was something that
was written indelibly in my mind and heart, that will
never be forgotten as long as I live." C. James Woodworth, then a sixteen-year-old lad in the assembly
orchestra, recalls: 'That was a dramatic momenl,
How the audience a plauded! OId Brother Pfannc.
bceker waved his vioen above his head and, turning
t o me, said loudly: 'hch,Ya! Und now ve do it, no?' "
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AT TFJG DOORS
Would you like t o join some Klngdom publicity
agents in their house~to-housepreaching work 01 the
;a"?
Explaining the activity, Myrtle Strain says:
We mostIy explained what the books contained and
tve used quite a bit of salesmanship too. Often, howEver, we were invited into the homes and then when
Ihe householder showed interest, we would give the
whale outline of God's purpose, beginning with Adam's
fall and going on to man's restitutio:; Sometimes we
would take an hour or so at a house.
"Those early days in association with Jehovah's
people are filled with many never-to-be-for ottcn memories," remarks Martha Holrnes. "I recat our Little
group of flve worlcing the outlying towns in the Des
Moines, Iowa, area. At times we wouId leave b e f o ~ e
dayligl~tand stay until after dark. In those days our
auto had no hard tap, no power brakes, n o power
steering, no air condltfoner, nor a heater. Most of
the time we had to drive on unpaved roads. We would
get stuck in the mud and woulrl havc t o shave boards
under tile wheels to get golng again. Our car had
hutton-on side curkains that were used when it rained
or snowed. We took box lunches and ate in the cold
car. One day, after spending scvcral hours in the
work at Newton, Iowa, about thirty miles from Des
Moines, a severe windstorm came up. It was difficult
to keep the car on the road, as the winds were of
gale force. Additionally the canvas top had blown
hack and kept flopping in the wind. We finally made
it back into Des Moines, all of us drenched through
!o Ure skin. I'm quite sure that onlookers thought,
What: a crazy Bunch of people!' "
Often thefr efforts were rewarded with fine results,
however. For instance, Julia Wilcox has not forgotten
one day back in the 1920's when she was a new Kingdom publicity agent working alone from house t o
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God by participating h !he war and thereafter re~ d l a t i n g1 3 s Mesmanlc lnngdom by holdln,g 4 hat the
ague of Nations was the political exprPsmon of thni:
It\n~dom.That October in. 1922 45,000,ONI coptr~ of
Ilte resolution and supportmg maiorial Iwgnn to 1~
tlistrll~uted earth wide. From that time onwnrcl, QirlsZr~rrlom (her CathoIic and Protestat~t clcrfry nnrl llrr
rhucrh mcrnhers) has been laid bar@ as J'nlsc In I ~ c s
clnlrn to being real followers of Jcsus Chrlst.
Under the direction of the second u,ngelIc trv~mpettw,
the Bible Students held a aeglannl convcntlon in Lon
Angclcs, California, .an August I!-26, 192:23. Tllcre they
ovelwhclmrngly approved the blstoric rcsoIutlorr, entillcd "A Warning." It exposcd t!lc~ fnllurtr 01' Chri8tnirlom's chlergy to aid in proclnimlng llitl l i i ~ i ~ d o rmcsn
fi:~l:(qnd;I ppraled to shecplikc yrersons to turn, not
to l h ~ clrrgy-supported
.
League of Ni114ons, hut l o God's
kingdom as 1 1 1 ~"only remedy for nniional. and Inrlividunl
Ills.''The failure of tlre clergy in 1111s regard h:ls h ~ e n
n major factor in t h e rise or radLral, r~volutlonnl*y
elcmcnts, pictured by the restless 4'sscn.'' But tllose
rotlicnl dements cannot give lHe to 1nnnM11tl c?i2hrr1
no Inore than hlood pourer1 out from thr! Il~unanllr~(ly
a m give life. In December 1923 printing b c p n on Ihe
tract- "Proclamation-A
Warning to All C:ht-lstinns,"
which contained the convelitio1-1 rc~olutlon. Rcsitlrs
I h c mIIljons of copics published abroad, 13,47X,400 wmbe
pl'mled In the Un~ted States. Mass rllsttlhulian oI
thnt ProcIamntion was only the hrgfnnln~.To thls
(lny, dcsus' mloini ed follozve~shnvt. n r n t l ~Inan y
Inn~aliorisadvocating God's kingdom.--T(c!v. N:R, 8.'OC'
Wlwn ill@ third n n g ~ tMew hi8 Irrcmpr.t, a third of
tllr wafers mere turned t o wormwood. Illev. R:10, 11)
Sirnificantly, a1 the Bible Slurlenis' chr~nvrntlon
n i July
'l0.27, 1924, In Columbus, Ohio, God's prople enlhuslast lvaily a d ~ p t ~
a l resolution tcl-n?crE "Znrlfrtrnci~t,"Ji
txposcd t Eie false and God-defaming dart r-incs t zwght
I>yC:hristendornls apostate clergy nnrl shnwcd thc tlrad.
lincss of the seligIous course in which l hcy nnrl I hrlr
politiral associates were lcading tho en le. Indrerl,
the clergymen were making the pro
(Trlnk sometlIing hitter as wormwood that waul$ result in lhclr
splr~luul cl@nth and eventual deslructlon. The ranvrn tion resolution was incorpo~nterl in t l ~ ctract rtltftlcti Ecclesiastics Indicted," 13,545,000copies of whit11
wcrc printed in the United Stntcs. MilILcma more In
So~rlgn languages were publisl~ecl nhroxd. Tn time,
50,000,000copies were distributed. The Jntlirtment also
wns pubUshcd in T?w Watch Tow% Agnjn, t h a t wns
just the beginning. By radio, bonks, booklets, mngaalncs and verbal testimonies Jehovah's sttrvanta have
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continued to poht out that: the teadlln~sof Christendom's clergy are not waters of Ilfc, but lead to death.
Came the year 1925 and the jot~rthr n 1 g d i ~EMm@m
stood poised for action. 311s trumpet wns hlown and a
third of the sun mnon and stars wen? smitten and
darkened. (Rev. $:12) During R srglonnl convention at
Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 24-31, 1925 God's
servants heartily cndor'sed n rcsolul ion under the
title "Message of IXope," It matlc lovln expressions,
but also sllowed thnt Ihe people had fnl?m into darlc
ness in Christendarn whic.11 rlnlrns lo he thc! worl(1,'s
spiritual llght. ~ e s i c htho rcsolutlon's publlcalion m
TJIR Watch T m r r and Th? noldsn A p , !,flI.lmate!y
many millio~~s
of copies nf It In tract form wcrc mrcu!ated in various Inn~yagc?~.
Thus ill(? ~uoplewpre informed that Christendom \vns not enjoAng t11r light of
heavenly b u t h and divint! fnvor,
The attack of syml~ollclocusts wne heralded whm
in the spring of
the f i f t h uttge'el aoit91ded ltls tntn4
1926. (Rev. 9:1-21) O n May 25. 1 of that year the
13ihJc St litlcnts hrId nn InternntIonnl ronvpnt ion in
l,c~ndon,P;nglnnd. Thrtnrti h c y whol~hcnrtr!dly adopted
a r ~ s n l u t i yr.nlltlrt? "A Y'iatlmnny I n thc! Rirl:ys of
the Wo!hIrl. II nnd Vlc fiuppurtln , puhllc ntidrcss Why
World l3rwc1-3Arc. rot l crlt~c-']'Kc? Rrrnetly," rlrllveretl
on Sunrlag, Moy 30, b Ili,c~lllc~*
Il~rlhrar'fo~~d
t o a vast
audicnce in IEcryal R!C(?~'I. Hnll, nxlroscil the Sntanlc
origin of the Lcngue of Nrlljan~and polnled out the
clergy's failure to support Cod'a Mcsslanic W~~gdom.
Similar iniormntion upprarctl in 1 1 n~ ~ w l yrebased
boolr DeZiveru?~ccnnd 111 the I,onklei T ~ Rta~da?.d
P
fm
t h e People. On htonday morning, Yhr! Dail?) N m ~ sof
London devoted n Iull gngc t:o the ~rsolt~lionand R
synopses of Sunday's pu l l ~Iecture, along with an advertisement of Ruth~rlnrrl'sMonday night spech. The
newspaper mace had hrcn PU~I'I~RSCR
for a cons~derable
sum, and a mlllioti or n1nT-P cnples of this edition
reached the puhlic.
In time, some 50,000,MlO co lea of the msolutSon
"A Testimony" w e r e dlstrlhute$ tmou hout the earth
In tract form In many Inn uugea. T Is exposure of
human schemes deviserl agakst God's kingdom in the
name of religion stung likc the Rilng from n ~corpion's
tail, and it continues 4 0 do so.
m e n the sixth angel Zllcw hia t r m &, four aym.
bolic angel. were untied and 200,0~00(1~ymbolie
horses went forth "to Itill a tIilrd of l he men." Those
"horses" picture the mcnns OE publfcIzing n terrifying
judgment message, part~cufarly hy thr printed page.
The action began with n notablr cvcnt 01 3927-an
international ronvenlion of tllc Blblr! Studcnts In To.
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For some thirty-three yeam WBBR brought lory
10 Jehovah and spread Bihlc h v t h i n r and wl&. It
began broadcasting \pith a 500.wntt transmllter. Three
iitpr, a new l,OC(F-watttrnnsmlttcr was purchased,
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kept, Later, WBBR was a s s i g n ~ dt o hronclcasl on alloilier wavr?len,oth, and still, Iatvr rcassip-teri to one
less Pavorahlc. Under the Radio Act of ET2T the So+
rlrt 's slnilon began a proceeding befol.e 1l1t? Frderal
R n J o Co~rlmissiun to be assigned n mol+c dcsirnble
al;~vclen[:lh.At the hearing (dune 14, 15, 1627) Presirlvnl Mrrlin I-Iall Aylesworth of the Nntionnl nruadrnallng (Ivmpany testified to the r c n t ~(.r'vic:r!rendercd
hy Nc!w Yorlc radio stations $ F h nnrl WJZ. up.
~nrrnllyto show that it would not he r l ~ l to
~ tpctmit
Evnitlt to occupy part of the time, although hot11 WJZ
iknrl WICAF hntl separate ~vavelcngths. I juriug cross.c>x:hrnlrlriltr~n hy d. F. EutT~rrforrl, 11tIs clucstirm was
1>lu l ~ o ~ i ~ i r t to
r v l Mr. Aylrpworl h: "Yrnil* IIIII'IIOF(*
1s 1 0
1:ivc to Ihv pcoplc by rat110 illc njrssnj:lh of 1 1 1 ~reulesl
~
lin~inc~irl.:c.tlir most promincant sl:it~*nmc~n,rund ill(!
~nrlql 1,1~<)wtlcd
clergymen in t I ~ cwc)rlrl'!" Tl~r*rrpl y
tvlis nlllrmnr lvo.
"If you were convlnoed that the mat Goil of the
universe wlll shortly put in opcrat on IlZs pEnn for
the hlrssing of all the famllles an11 natl~ns of the
earth with pence, prosperity, life, Ilbcrry Rntl ha
~ v o u i d you arrange t o broadcast 11'" It ivoug?%~
lwrn uitp difficuI~to say Nn, and so the answer was
Yes. ?'llcn Mr. Aylesrvorth voltmlarily said that he
woulr1 b r p l ~ a ~ etod broadcast a lecture by tho presidcnl of the International Rillle Studcnt~ Assodation,
Nntur~lly,J, I?. Rutherford acccplcd 1 IIC orrer.
So it was that as BrotIler Ruthcrfotbd ~ p o k eto a
convention nutlience of some 15,000 nt Toronto, Ontarlo,
Canada, on Sunday, July 24, 1927, rnlllfons more heard
him by means of a htherto un xrnll~led ratllo network. In a lctter received by t k Sui.irIy from the
Nzi~lonnl Bmildcnsting Company, it was Btntrd: "1
imagine that Judge Rutherford hud ns lar P an au~ l i ~ n cyesf~rday
c
afternoon as any man f;iivlng has
hnd over illc radio!'
Thc EIblc Students were involved In Anothcr notable
radio cvrnt In 1925, In Detroit, Mhhignn, on Sunda
A U ~ U 5.
S ~when J. F. Rutherford delivered the ullly~
lectura l'Rul~rlor the PeopleJ7to on audience of f 2 . 0 ~ .
It was carr~ed hy a radio network that linked 107
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stations, required 33,500 miles of telephone Hnes and
91,400 miles of teXe raph lines, and it was rebroadcast
hy short wave to fustralia and New Zealand.
The Watchtower or 'White" network was organized
In 1928, especially to serve that Detroit convention.
It was so successful that the Watch Tower Society
decided to operate a weekly network of radio stations
throughout the United States and Canada. A one-hour
program was arranged and it emanated from WBER.
These were live broadcasts, featuring a lecture by
Brother Rutherford, with inmductory and concluding
music furnished by an orchestra maintained by the
Sodcty. Every Stinday from November 18, 3926,
through the year 1930 radio 1isf;enersthus could tune
In to "The Watch Tower I-Iour.
Radio programs occupied much of Brother Rutherford's time. A fine witness was given, but he was
unable to travcl or organize conventions in various
parts of the earth. So in 1931 the Society decided to
present transcribed programs. Two hundred and fifty
stations were organized to present these fifteen-minute
transcriptions, made by Rutherford at his convenience
and played by the radio stations at times thcy chose.
In 1932 this radio service (called the Wax Chain) was
expanded to 340 stations. By 1933, the peak year, 408
stations were bdng used to carry the message to
six continents, and 23,783 separate Bible talks were
broadcast, most of them being these fifteen-minute
electrical transcriptions. In those days, one might
spin the radio dial and tune in Watch Towel. braadcasts emanating from widely scattered staiions at
the same time. Often the air waves were filled with
words of truth that glorXed God.
A J7ACIM)IRP TO UALL 'I71ElTR OWN
More and more Jehovah's people wem attracting
public attention. Their historic radio hookups of the
late l!320's could not be ignored. Nor could the eople
disregard these Kjngdorn proclaimers, for their Rouseto-house preaching work was increasing in tempo.
Greater demands were being made for Bible literature
and the Society's publishing faclliries had to keep pace.
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TITE HOPE OF THE WORLD"
During the CoIumbus convention--an Sunday, July
26, 1931, at noon--4. F. Rutherford*began his highly
significant y b i i c discourse 'The Kingdom, fhe Hope
of the Wor d." Roth the National Broadcast~ngCompany and the CoIumbla Broadcasting System had
denied the use of t h e i ~radio facilitks. However
Jehovah's worshipers built up a radio chain to send
the messa e from Columbus, and the American Telephone an8 Telegraph Company said, in a nutshell:
"This partictllar network is the Iargest,individual network that has ever been on the air. The message
went out over 163 radio stations in the United States,
Canada, Cuba and Mexico.
Immediately after the radio-ch%n address "The
Kingdom, the Hope of the World, and as part of
that broadcast, Brother Rutherford read a resolution
styled 'Warning from Jehovah-To the Rulers and
to the People.'%ong
ather things, it plainly declared:
'"T??ehope of the world i e God's l~ng&m, and there
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nppcnled.
nut something else also wa$ done. In 1933, 12600
Witncsat?~in tllc United States wlunteerfd to respond
on s tmrt notice for Irousata-house preaclnng on spcdal
missions In nl-ens of civic o position. They were orFanlzrd into sevcnty-eight clivlsfons, eadl division suppl~ed
.rvi!h n numbcr of cars, flvc workers to a car, and
flom 10 to %Hl cars were sent to a trouble spot.
Whcn some Chrlslinns were arrested in the field servlre, this was ~.cportcdto Ihe S o d ~ i y .A call went out
and on a Sunday soon thereafter all car groups in
a divlslon met at a prearranged rendezvous point,
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generally In the country, recefved instructions and territory assignments and then "besieged" the town like!
" l o c u s t s , ' ~ g i h gthe whole community a wltness, sometimes wlthin as little as thirty to sixty minutes. IRcv.
9:?-9) Ln t h e meantime, a conmiittee of brothers called
on tlle.police and gave them a llst of all the Witncssps
preachng there that day. Any Kingdom publisher nrr ~ s t e d during the campaign was to Call n ccrtnln
telephone number upon arrival at the police station.
Attorneys were 'en Band with ban money to come
to his rescue.
One campaign first got mder way by sending ten
cars of Witnesses t o the territory, according to Burnice E. Williams, Sr.. who continups: "After n lliilc
while those that wcnt into the territory rvould bc
calling lmck saying they had hecn arrestcrl. Then
Zen more cars were sent in until the jail W a 8 filled
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us would
SRY,
iail, so we
preaching.
Though decades have passed since those cam algna
in >933 t o 1935, they are recalled fondly hy tllel?
tlc~pantsof tlmes gone by. "Indeed," says John
chinos, "those were thrilling years and their rncmprles
are pre~ious.Jehovah's sprrit made us fcarlcss.
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During the 1930's Kin~domproclaimers wed transcription rnach3ncs In Ihrlr search for sheeplike ones.
I-lenry Cantwell tells us thls about them: "In 1933,
LIE Ihe Society hcgan to expand the preaching work,
nrrrrngen~enls w r w made I n have recordings of l e e
turrrt hy I3roth~r J. F. Rutherford resented In all
p;lrll; or tlw vountry. To do this the
produced
\vl~r~lwrrr cr~llrtl el~rlrical transcription machines.
'1'l)rv:s wlnnhIr~~y:r*~ p r l ~ ~ p w o u n
phono~raphs
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with an
i'lr111
i~lrlc-~tl~
nr I nrw nl-m 11nt1nrnpljflrr and loudHIII~:IIC(~I+
tl~nl ol~r*l'nt(l~lfrom hnllrrirs. . . . Wr had a
vnrl(xly r ~ 1f llcrs(1 ~.r!c-r~r.~llnl:s.
Sonir wt?rr:complrte within
I l ~ c ~ ~ n s r ~otllcar'n
l v r ~ ~ ;i o ~ ) l t1wo 01" f o u r rrcords to conl1~IvIc~
n lr!c~l~irr.
So wr hnd talks for 15 minutes, 30
~nlnutcsnncl n n r hour. TI] thls wa we were able to
hold public meetingr in t h e v a r k s territories we
cbl(b~-!
worfcetl."
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"TRUE WISDOM''
!CHROUGH WAGAZZNES
Kingdom publishers had excellent opportunttles
to help gather the "great cro~vd" and spread true
wisdom by offering subscriptions for The Watchtowsr
and ConsoZation in their house-ta-house preaching.
During the first Consolation, subscription campaign, in
April, M a y and June 1938, 73,006 new subscriptions
were obtained in the United States. The first annual
Watchtower subscription campaign took place from
January through May of 1939, when Jehovah's witnesses in the Un~tedStates alone oblained over 93,000
new subscriptions.
But Tho Watchtower and ConsoZation were yet t o
come to pubIic attention in a special way. "True
wisdom" wo~rlrl virtually 'cry aloud in the streets!
(Prnv. 2:20) How? Through magazine street work,
which had its start in February 1940. In this activity,
Jehovah's servants took positions on busy street. corners, wearing over their shoulders specially designed
and lettered magazine bags that identified the two
journals and indicated the suggested contributionfive cents a copy. Holding ConsoEa.tw~zaloft, the Kingdom proclaimer might call out, "Publisl~esfacts no
other magazlne dares to print." Other slogans included "Exposes the religious racket" and "Thc Watchtower explains the Theocratic Government." Magazine
publishers were urged to be moderate in s eech on the
street, gursuing a dignified murse. Neediess to say,
passers y were attracted and many responded favorably,
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The Sodety
Sodety, sendin them a sample bn .
m o t e me, thanfing me and all of us %r the experiment.
and saying that they would make announcement in
the InfomanE soon. They did."
The Society made arrangements to provide magazine
bags. Nicholas Rovalak, Jr., tells us: "The publishers
of the Passdc, New Jersey, congregation had .the
privilege of making the magazine bags for the Society.
VJe cut the cloth and sewed it into magazine bags. O n
Saturday and Sunday all who ualified and volunteered
would assemble al Brother *rank Catanzarops pants
factnry and have the privilege of sewing the magazine
bags for our brothers throughput the country. . .
tht? Society wol~lddo the nntmg. So evcrg time we
saw a rnagazme bag, we fe& we had had a little share
in advertising Jehovah's kingdom."
What was it like to make one's ArsP appearance on
the street corner with The Watchtowsr and Golasolution
back in Fchruary 1940? Peter D7Mura answers: "Row
well 1 recall February 1, 1940! . . . How were we oing
tn hc rerrivcrl? What would be the reaction of our
nelchbors :inti lownspcop!c? W e wcrr! excitcd. We were
oint: lo do 1Ihs for two hour% . . W m * tvo surprised!
5 s we rnllcrl rlut 1110 pro r r slogens nntl npprnnrhcd
~ P O ~ I C WP llnrl surhcrrs.$I% eneh plamd mnny mngn-
~incs."
Recalling public renctlon, Grace k Estep states: "At
Arst thcrc was a kind of stunned surprise mingled
with amusement and sometimes anger, and then a
great deal of embarrassment as people scuttled from
one siac o f the street to the other in an effort to dodge
ihe neighbors to whom they didn't want t o speak and
yet were ashamed to ignore. After the Arst few weeks,
however, they just gave up and were conveniently engrossed in conversation or window-shopping as they
ran the gauntlet oof street publishers.''
At t i m e s moh violence erupted while Jehovah's servants engaged in magazine street work in those earlier
days. For instance, 8. S. Robbins recalls an angry
mob that assaulted him and other Kingdom publishers
while they wcre doing magazine street work in San
Antonio, Texas, some years ago. As things turned out,
the Witnesses were not injured, but they, not the
mobsters, were arrested, Brother Robbins adds:
"When we were released we went back to the
Kingdom IEall to reorganize and see what we would,
do next. . . . We reorganized and went right back.
"By the time we got back downtown there was an
'extra', newspaper out and the cry of the newsboys
was: Jehovah's witnesses arc run out of town,' and
here we were all over the streets again.
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problems,
and certain +d!vlduals left the or~snlmtlon.
lowever, the vast rnq~ontyof the con~rcgntloniand
those associated with them accepted l l ~ corgnnlznttonal
adjustment ~ratefully.
0DEVZXOPMENTS IN
ORCkANadTIONAL STItIJClCUXtE
For many years only brothers wlla were anointed
followers of Jesus Christ filled posltlons nP re8 on~lbilltyin the Chrisdan congregndon, But in 1937 l%rc
was n change. Writes Grant Suiter: "Org~nlzntlonnlIy
we were assided by the counsel of TFLPWrrlclrfurrri'
nt May 1, 1937, to the effect t h a t Zliosr? who were o f
Ihe dnnadah class [having eniallrly prrls rctsl rnigllt
Ilc nppoint~!l to positions of service i n $6 canErcj:nIlons.
rhe August 15 issut? 01 TILE IVtitrlr~nruer
11olntcd out that Sonadabs cuul(l serve on ~ c ~ r cornv i ~
rniliecs and In oihcr similar capadtics In thc conlpnnlrs
Icon~regntions3."According to T?!ctr~ntcltlolrrcr, "Jnnarla hs" cauld become "company servants," or presidlllg
nverstters, I f qualified members nf thc dnolnlcd l'rninanl were not available t o seive. "We see how J ~ h o v n h
w a s paving the way in preparation fnr Ilir! grrni Inrrrnse that was yet to come in," snid Norrnnn Lnr'son,
ndtllng: "It certainly opcncd new horizon!, for thosr?,
Iilic myself, who were of the earthly class.
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While many school, otl'lclkla and t~nclierswere broadminded, others nrterl arhitrsrlly ant1 expeUftl chiIdren
of J e l ~ o v a l wltneafies
~'~
from school for refusal to salute
the nag. For instance, on Nov~rnl~cl6, 1935, two Wjtness cllilclren werp cxprllcA I I ) Il~ls
~
rcnson from a
pubIic school at Mlnersvillc, Pennsylvania. 'I'llelr fai her,
Walter Gobitis, instjtulcrl a sulr n ~ ~ l n sthe
l hoard of
education, Rlinersvill~ School District. The suit was
begun in thc I:ntttvl States Illstrict C ~ I I I -lor
t
the
Eastern District t ~ fPennsylvani;t linrl wan decided in
f:tvor o f Jellovnh% svlllnd-sc,rbs. IYEicn thls t i ~ ~ t s t owzs
n
rontcstrd, t t ~ c lW l t r i c s ~I ~~I ~H ~W
I ~ tHi fnvor~ihlrtlrclslon
in the Circuit Court c j C A rjrr*~rln.Ilut thrb rsnr:r1nrxl went
to the S u ~ , r ~ r nCollrl
v
ol Ill* Ilnllcd !ifntlna, l'lirr~,In
Sunc 19110 1,y rt tlct:lslo~io f rll:l~l lo O I I V , the- Court
revrrsctl I h~ favolbrl h l ~Jlldfl~nt-n
I , wl I11 11Isn~t
t'oun C U ~ scquenccs.
In one place after
rtnotl~cr ChrJstlnn~ wcre persecuted hecause 01 their I31blkal position on flag sa.
luting. For instance, n moll joined by sonle policcmcn
attacked Jehovah's wltncsscs dtirlny: a Rible m e t i n g
in Rackvillc, Marplanrl, on June 20,1!14(1, llaving p i n e d
entrance to tile Kinf:dom IlnEI, t h ~snob Icarlel- lleld
up a fag and said, "I will give you ~ C O P I P two rnlnutes
American time to salutr: this flag or thcrc will be
bloodslt~rlhere." Sotir I<. Vnssll rcports: "Thew was
siIenee for about a nlinute, when R 1 of a sitddcn one
man wI10 had came to I11e lncetlng for the first time
became very frlghtensd, juni~~crllip, snIuted (Ile flag
and went out . . No one else sn2uLed l11c [lag. When
thc two mjnufes were up, Ihr! Icader I~uoclretleverything out 01 my h;tnds ;;nil gavc orders tn the mob
to ,'break up everythin
chikErs, nnd .so forth, and
articles began to ny. 7T;e two poIiecmen wit11 their
pistols on their hlps were Insirle with them and I went
ovcr to then1 and nslted If thcy couldn't do something.
They did not even open Ilieir m 0 ~ t l l sor begin to Inlre
any action to stop the moh," Tlrr! sliuntion became
worse. ''Tl1~3~began act in^ Iike n prtck of demons,"
says Brother Vasrll, "pusl~lng and shovlne: us out of
the haL1. They kept crying out: 'K111 t l ~ c m !Kill them!
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the last year of schooI, because of wartime gas rationing, we went home every fhIrd weekend."
With plenty of work to be done, a cook and a housekeeper were on hand, Rut the children had their assignments too-helping in the Mtchen, washing and drying
dishes, !aking out the garbage and so forth. There
was a dlscussron of the daily F3ible text at the break.
fasr tablc, and every school. day began with a half-hour
Bible study. So the children were fed spiritualIy. FurIh~rmore,they had opportunities to use what they
learned, in thc field service on Saturdays and Sundays.
Another Kingdom School was established at Gates,
Pennsylvania. Instructing there was Grace A. Estep, a
public school. tcacher who had been dismissed because
shc would not conduct the pledge of allegiance and
flag salute in her cIassraom. Slster Estcp recalls the
school's first year as a ''tumultuous one," with every
sort of ''official" trying to find some reason to close
it. She also states: "The schoolroom was often invaded
by some omcial, school or otherwise, for tho purpose
nl' flndlng fnult or adding further harassment. AddICtonnll
pnlr.lot[c fervor was not missing among
mnny r,?thp pnpulnce. R crowd gnlhered nt one t h e
with llrt* pllr'pclse of homl~ingor hurnlng i ho schnol,
an[:rlly rrmonstrafln~ wllh tlic owncr for having
1.mlril t o uq. 13ril sincr the cwnr5rwas 11 J~adingrili*mn
of tlie town, and since thcy couldn't ffgurr out: flow
in lmmb Ihe school wllhout bombing thc barbcr shop
[in the same building], they gave up tho idea." Eventually, the student body increased, eaZlilzg for kinder~ a r t p n ,eipht ~ r a d e sof elementary school and four
of high school.
How did Fingdom School students fare as f a r as
their educatmn was concerned? Llovd Owen, who
taught a t the one in Saugus, ~assachusetts,reports:
"Wc used t o give the achievement test to see how well
uTehad been doing. Most of the time Ule students rated
one half to a whole grade better than the grade they
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Later, having escaped the mob, Brother Vassil contacted the zone servant, Charles Eberle, who Immediately reported the incident to the Attorney General
of the United States, The Federal Rureau of Investigation be an Iooking into the matter the next day,
~ v e n t u a ? ~there
~ , was a court case, and Brother Vassil
tells us: "After the trial, which was decided in ovr
favor and to Jeliovah's ~lory, Rqckville 'I'ownshi
placed a policeman t o guard our Icmgdom Hall evcg
time we heId a meeting so that another such incident
could not occur. This time Satan's instrument l o destroy
our newly formed congregation and Kingdom Hall had
fai1ed.Isa. 54:17."'
'This account i s merely qn example. There were
many other incidents. For rnstance, in Connersville,
Indiana, a lawyer of the Witnesses was beaien and
driven from town. God's servants were endurlng such
violent persecution because they were adhering strictly
to the Holy Scriptures and courapeousIy maintained
that their salvation and deliverance from foes and
erIIs comes, not from any nation, but from God.
Fndeed "salvation helongs to Jehovah."-Ps.
3:8; compare Ammican Standard Version.
KINGDOM lJOHOOLd
CornpuIsory flag salute in schools resulted In the
expulsion of many students who were Jehovah's witncsses. I-Iowevcr, thc Watchtower Soclty aided true
Cllrislla~lsto provide ertucati~nfor their children. As
early as 1035 this was done 73 opening private "Ringdom Schools." At these, quali&d teachers from among
Jehovah's witnesses devoted their time and energy,
instructing Witness cliildren who had been expeIlcd
Irom puhlic schools. God's people organized and financed these private schools in various places.
One of the Kingdom Schools was located in Lakcwood,
New Jersey. According to a former student there,
C. W. Erlenmeyer, the Lakewood congregation's Kingdom I-Iall was on the first floor, as well as the school
classroom, a lrltchen and the dining area. Bedrooms
for the girls ivere on the second ffnor, and those of
the boys on the Ihird. "Of course," says Brother Erlenmeyer, "most of us boarded right there and only went
borne on weekends, at the most, Those who lived
farther away went home every second weeIcend, and
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.T~hovnh's Chrtstinn witntrasos, whether yonn or
old, vxpr~r:Lto 1). pr!rseeurc-(l. Arler nll, Jesus tolf hls
d1r;cll)lfis: You wi 1 he oll,j(!ct~of hnliai!d hy all p e o p l ~
on asrrwnl of rny ~~ame."
(Matt. lfl:22! "In fact
wrotr I'nzrF, "nll thme d e s i r l n ~ to live with
drvntlnn in ysoctation with L:hrtst Jesus wUl nlso
h r prl-srculcd. ( 2 Tim. 3:12) At tlmes persecution I ~ a a
led t (I i~rl.rstsof Christians on false charges-perhnps
selllng ~ l hout
l a license or dirpl~rrhin( illr: peaw. Slaw
tlstics wcrr not Icept at first, hut, in 19,,3, thwe were 31;8
arrests rrportcd thl'oughout the United States. T3y
1936 Ihe number had risen to I,M!). Improperly, ,lt>heyah's wit ncsses were class~daR sol Icitors or itinerant
merchnnts, rather than as proulairri~rsof the gospcl.
Jehov~h'switnesses did not sufCor arrest, trial a~zrl
imprisonmrnt without a fight, Iiuwrver, They ado Irvl
a policy of appealing ndvrrse drcisicms rendere$ irt
)he rottrts. With Jellovah's nfd they were able to
defend xnrl IzrgnlIy establish the goclrl news."-Phil, 1 : T .
It would bc Impossible, In hut a fcw pages, to re.
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"Rut shame upon the priests and clergymen who
havc connived at and c ~ u s ~the
d persecution of Jeh o v a h ' ~witnesses in order that they might keep the
peoplr? in ignorance of thta truth nlld thus shhld 1E1emsclvrs Iron1 rxposure; shnrnc 11 on those pul,llc alncers
who have heen ready and W i l h i g l a class bTrhovnhta
wHne.rsr4 as s e s s h p c d d l ~ rnnd
~ hawkers hr ordet- t h a t
tlr~y~ n l a h tserve their own ~clflstzends; shnmr! u )on
I l ~ clawyers who practtc~upon the bench anrl d o r o
thr? bnr, who because of fear of losing some clrsonnl
ntl~anlilgc have sirle.atcpped Ille issue ant1 faficd ~1111
rcfllserl to decide squarrly the question as to whelhcr
01, not men can be prevented from preaching thr ~ o s p r l
of Cod's kingdom by thr rnactrnent a n d enlnl-crrnvtlt
nf mzr niclpal orrlinanccs level~c!against pcdcilars nr~d
11n~lir~u."l3n~lllcr Gangas admits: "I was saying to mycrew:
'Now they will shoot hlm! Now they vdll arrest him!'
Bul, ns it Is stated In the Introduction of the bonltlct
ItttoTeranm?, T h e angel of the Lord encamp& round
nhout them that fcnr him, and deIiverct11 them.""
1Ps.34: 7) Despite the trying situation, Brother Rut t~er-
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of fl~rtlholy nnme.
Not only in the United States were Jdlovnh's witnesscs htkving n battle for frccdotu of: spcech nnd
worship, Tn June of the so.called "lloly Yenr" a f 1933
Adrll C I1ltl!r1s regime seized the Watch T n w t ~Sot:lety's
property In Magdeburg and banncd thc ndlvilics ef
Jchovnh's people in Germany as rpgnrds rn~rstlnfsand
Illcraturc distribtttion, t h o u ~ h thr roprrl y Ivas retrlrnctl that October. On October 7, 1834, thc Wlt ncsses
in C;rrmnny met in groups ancl, n l t r r ~ o l ~ r n prayer,
ll
thry dlspnlchrd a protest hy tr1rf:r;un I n olllcials nC
Z[iclct.'s govcrnrnent. IIowevPr, f:orl's sr!rvnnts In D ~ ~ P I '
lrinrls rltrl no1 s h n d by idly,
"At thc ~crvicemceting onc nlaht In the pfir of
193k, wo Wrrc asked to be at t l i ~rnccting plnca nt
9:00 am. Sunday for something spc*cfnl,"rcr:ills Gladys
nolto~l. "Everyone was cxdtcd! \Vhnt toultl It be?
Stlnclay n:orning the house was full, Thc spraher annuunccd that congregations o f Jrhevn 11's wirnesses
world wlilc were meeting- today In nr.(ler to scntl cablegrams t o I-Iitler, all at the same timi-, nsklny: him lo
l r f rnl? from persecutin Jehovnh's rv~t~iosars
fn Germany. After praying
Jehovah cnch aroup sent
thr! I'ollowlng cablegram: "Hitlcr dovon~rncn[,Berlin,
C:(>rnlnny. Your ill-treatment o f Jchovnh's witnesses
shnrlrs nll good eople of earl11 nntl rllshunors God's
couris of the United Stafttcs. 71n helll 'ICtngdom proclnirncrs, tl~cWaIchtmver Socictp cs t nbl~shrrla l c ~ a l
dvpnrtrn~nlat Its headquarters In Brookl~.n,New York.
Looltlng hack, Robert E. Morgan rccnlls: "At our
wcrlcly smnfice rncctings we sludlctl Qrrl(-r of b'irrt
~ Y P T ) R I ' @ Cb~ the Society, and enrlc:tvorcrl to e ulp Our~ c l v c xl o
with the police nnrl judges w lo were
con~lanllyharassing us in the field scrvltv?. Bur service
mcrtlngs would teach us llow lo respond when nccoslctl by l h c police, what our rights aF: c i t l z ~ n swere,
n i ~ lwhnt procedures we must tint fnll 10 follow in
onlcr lo ealnI~lls1~a sound ha~1:: for T P R ~ ~ action In
rlrlrnste nf the! ~ o n dnews i t 1 tlae rwrant mi~virtions
wrnilcl wq\hrv nur going to t l ~ c -nlj[bcrllnlch murt n."
"l)r*rnnl~s
t rntlorrs in servicc mr~tlllngs cnnct ctl pMccr111rrrnlm tlmt? of arrest to 1 1 1 ~c ~ l ~ ~ r ~ l utsr ll otrlnl.
~l
nnrl rlisposlllon of the case," ~ c c u l l s lZny C. 13opp,
ntltlItif:: "St+l'vnntsin tllc congrcgati{m wlmld $r:l ns
proserution and defegse attar~~rys,
irnd snmc trials'
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tvl! lwuacs; c~ll~c;wisr
God will &r! ,.or yihu itnll yoiu
n:~lirrnat pnrty. 'I'hc messncr W : I ~ slgnt-tl ".lr:rrorn~r's
\V~TNK:-HF=I'"~ l n dtile city (11. town wl~~nlc>
thc congrcgnt lot^ wris nsscml,lctt was cItrd.
l'llnar mhlt~gsnmscaused qullr? n &IT,
cvcn at some
tc1rl:r:tph oll~ccs in the Unit crl State#, "In Kaysvillc,
Vil.f:lnl:l, its well as other plnccs," snya Melvll~ Willchrsl rr, ' I t he irlegraph operator aImosl f ~ i n l e t lwhen
Xhr fricnds cnme in with lfle cable ~nessr~gc.''
I-lnrv did the Nazi regime re6 ond? PersecutIen of
J~llovnh'switnesses was intensi&d. But God's people
jn G ~ r m n n ynnd elsewhere had hr!cn prppnrwl for the
o p p ~ ~ s i t l oan11
t ~ hardsfrips a l ~ c x lo f thcrn. At the ri-ht
timc, Jel~ovnh saw t o it that they rcrci\~eri necacrl
Sm'lpturul coiinse1 and encnuragcmenl , 1t !lad cnrlle
Inlc In the year 1933 b$ mcans of the Wnlchto7urr
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they n w e r got the chance, for as we left the courthouse he w a s surrounded by us and Ihen went quickly
to a waiting car, not Ill$ usilnl one."
OfOhio and West Vlrclnfn Inwns, Ednn Bauer says:
%a?y of the irienrls would Ire n m ~ n t dnnrf taken
t o latl on fIrr trucks with sir'pns I:?awfng, louclly m11111g
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througl~cllstrihutjon of literature.'* 1 A c f n ~ r n h l ef i I $ r ~
dnrk cicdslon did away with the flood In rrgard to
Ilr~nse tnx cascs involving Jehovah? ppeoyhc,
T h r l r efforts have had an e f f ~ c on
i thr Inw. FIttIngly
it h:ls hrrn said: 'Tt is plain that prrarnt ronstltuiionaf
guzi1.4ultI r s ot personal lil~erty,n s ;lutliorll;~(lvclyInter)x't\tc!d I)y the United Stales Guprcmt? Co~irt,rwc far
rundcr tllnn they were hefore l h e r:ptmln~
of 10:18; and
I hnl mosl of this enlargement Is 2 0 b r Inunrl In the
I 111 rt n ~ Jrhovtth's
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LVitnesses caaes (sixt cc*n rlcciding
aplncns). of which Jhvcll 17. C ~ l yof riffit it^. \I1ils t h e
f l r ~ t .If 'the blnod of thr martyrs Is Zlir swd of the
C'l~urclx,bwhatis the debt of Cnnstlt~ttiot~;ll
1,nrv to tho
milt t ant nersistmcv---or nerhans I should sav d ~ v o t i o n
:--of tlllR' strangeugroup?"-j~itinc~~nttcT,&U
lilm'ielrl,
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mlnc Ince ta
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art- with vlolr.t~t rnohs. This w ; ~ sntrl ~vitlloutpnrallel,
Tur .Trsus Uhrlsl 1llrnsr.l l lmd rxprrlenccs of
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FDRY AT UONNERSVIW~El
Notable among acts of mob vlolenco were incidents
thnt acrurred In 1940 at Connersvllle, Indiana. Certain
Chrlat Eltn women on trial there were falsely charged
w l t l ~"1.lot'oaa conspiracy." As Rrothrr Rntnbow, a zone
srrvanl, nnci VIrtnr and MHrIfrtl SvlbrnItEt left the colrrl:
IIOIIA(~ on ltir* Ii.lrllk first clny, nhotlt lwrtlly men lunged
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Many were the acts of mob violence having Jehovah's
witnesses as their targets. ]In Decembr 1942 at Winnsboro, Texas, a number of Jehovah's witnesses were
accosted by a m o b while dolng magadne street worlc.
Among the Witnesses was 0. L. Pillars, servant to
the brethren (circuit overseer). As the mobsters approached, the Witnesses concluded that street work
could not be done under such circumstances. So they
began wallring t o w ~ r dtheir car. "In the middle of
thc main strect, In his sound car, was the Baptigt
reacher, C. C. Phillips," r e c ~ l l sBrother Pillars. "He
lad heen preaching nbnut Christ and his being crucified,
but as soon as he saw us he changed his sermon. EIc
slarted ranting and saving about how Jehovah's witncsses would not salute the flag. He told Elow he would
be happy to die for Old GIory and that anyone not
saluting the flag should be run out o f town. As we
passed his truck, we looked ahead lo see another mob
coming toward us. Soon they dosed in o n us and
held us until the city marshal appeared and arrested
us."
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The next thlvg Brother Pillars knew h$ was back-in
thc unheated jalL A doctor exarnmed h ~ mand said:
"If ou want this boy to live, you had better get him
to txe hospital, as he has lost a lot of blood and his
eyes have dilated!' To this the marshal retorted: "He's
the most stubborn devi! 1 have ever seen." ':How those
words encouraged me, remarks Brother Pdlars, "for
they assured m e I had not conlpromised?"
After thr doctor left, the mobsters flled through the
cold, unlit jail. They s t m k matches t o see Brother
Pillars' face, and h: heard them ask: "Is he dead yet?"
Someone replied: No, but he's going to, die." Chilled
to the bone and soaking wet, Brother PxlIars tried to
keep from shivering, hoping they would think he had
died. Finally, they left and all was uiet. Eventually
the door opened, the Texas State ~oyiceentered and
Brother Pillars was taken b ambulance to the Plttsburg, Texas, has ital. He haXheen at the mob's mercy
for six hours. but what had, happened when they
hung him? Why was he st?? allve? "I found out those
answers late the next day, remarks Brother Pillars,
adding:
"Inlo m y prison ward at the Pittsburg hospitaI
where I was recuperating came Brother Tom Williams.
He was a local attorney from Sulphur Springs and a
real fighter for righteousness. He had endeavored to
locate me tvlth no success until he threatened to sue
the town. Thcn they revealed I was in the hospital.
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nccomrnodations,
Some Wltncsscs, an arriving, headed for the Theorrntir: fii~ller Clty. It grew untll the site was teeming
wilh B i 7 trallcrs, 1,824 tpnts, 100 rnrs wllh sleepers,
99 t m c k s ant1 3 buscs-anrl n population of 15,526. "It
was immensc," r~mnrkaE d n ~Corra, whp also ,says:
"Strect~w r r r nnrnetl and tbclrc wrrc washlng Eacrlities,
pl-opcr bntl~roomincllEiL1s, and so forth. It was a wonr1c:rCul algP~t to hcl~olcl-pcople from different Hates
living in their trailers, tents and buses, all in one
accord."
SOME PRQQRAM r n a m m m i
SpIrltually rewanling indeed was the convention
roEr.am. For Inslatice, 1Iazel Burfortl, now a missionary
Pnnnrnn, mrnnrlts: ''Tllere we thrilled to h a y clasiR e d for u s Zhc Issue o f rile utiiwrsal dominatmn of
Jchovah as Supreme Sovereign and h o w that involved
the Intcgrliy 01 J ~ l ~ o v a hservants.
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faithfulness to Jehovah. Thereafter he had only
one good lung. I t was YirtualIy impossible for hlm to
remain in Brooklyn, New York, during t h e winter nnd
still carry out his duties as the Society's president. I n
the I M O ' s he went to San Diego under a rloctor's
treatment. The climate there was exceptionally goorl
and t h e doctor urged h h to spend as much t n r ~ cas
possihlc in Snn Diego. That is what Rutherford dld
ull~mnlely.
k mrQoT3!mANmoPJ
Thursday, January 8, 1942, marked the end of the
earthly life of seventy-two-year-old Joseph Fr~nFrlrn
RutIlerford. For twenty-five years he had been prcsi-
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C;r;~nt Ruitcr.
On Jnn1r;u.y 13, 1942, all b a r d members of the
Pcnnaylvr~nln nnd TPWYork corporations used by
Gorl's ~ ~ r r q met
~ l c jou~ll nt Brooklyn Bethel. Several
t l ~ y senrli~lr, 1 1 1 ~~ o e i r & s ~ i e e ~ p ~ r s i d e n
Nathan
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11.
Iinurs, 31id aslied Ilint they cnrnestly seek divine
wistlom by prnycr rind meditation, and this they did.
7'1icIr joint meelln was opcned by pra cr for Jehovah's
uliiant+c, and rcfter cnrelul consicf~ration Brother
~11oi.rwns nnrnln~fcd and unanimously elected presirlu~rt of tho S o u l ~ t y ,"No cmc thnt 1 Icnew about even
r(ut>:itlontvl the ;~ppoJnimcni of I3rritllcr Knorr," says
a
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COURSE IN T ~ O C R A T I UfiKCNlSXRY
"Just a few days more than one month after Brother
Knorr became president of the Society," says Henry
A, Cantwell, "arrangements were made for what was
then called an Advanced Course in Theocratic Ministry."
And, what was that? A school, inaugurated at Brooklyn
Bethel In February 1942.
C. W. Barber ex lains: "All the male members of
the Bmoklyn nethey ljlmlly were invited to enroll
The course conststrd Hrst of n Icctu~u!delivered t o ' t i e
entire school. The sislrrs were lnvitcd to nltcnd, but
lhey were not at that time enrolled in tile school.
After the lecturc we adjourned to smaller rooms
where all enrolled would present student talks under
the tutorship oi: trained counselors." L. E. Reusch
adds: "Each month we had a review prepared by our
school instructor, Brother T. J. Sullivan."
Does that sound familiar? If you are one of Je
hovah's wllnesses, you know what started over three
decades ago a t Brooklyn Bethel-the Theocratic Ministry School. Soon other praisers of Jehovah were
benefiting Prom this education IO?, A t their "Call to
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Various publications of succeeding years were FIXpared with the Theocratic Ministry School in mmd.
Among these was the Watchtower-size book "AZI
Scripture Is Imperedl of God and Be?taficiaZ," of 1963.
Doubtless expressing the thoughts of man others,
Alice Babcock ap ropriately calls it "a veritabe storehouse of spirituaPtroasuros." Here was another publication that thoroughly discussed each o f the sixty-six
books o f the Bible, with special emphasis on the ways
in which each Elble book is beneficla1 for Christians
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course in a wa pleasing to him. I advise young
brothers in the h o c r a t i c Ministry School to do likewise bccause Jehovah has always heard my peation
and he will hear theirs alsoan--Ps, 65:2,
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day, February I, 3943. Snow covered the fields of
Fingdom Fnrm. It was a cold and win'cry day. Yet,
ins~dethe administration building forty-nine men and
married, some single--gathfifty-one women-some
ered @th great delight. Joining them for the school's
dedication exercises: were directors of the Soci~ty
members of the faculty, friends and r e l a t i v e 1 6 i
persons in all.
Talks were given by F. W. Franz and W. E. Van
Amburgh, as well as others. Brother Rnorr himself
delivered the address of welcome and dedication,
Doubtless all those present agreed fully with his
comments: "Jehovah God has provided thls land and
building named 'Gilcad' tor His purpose. To Him we
eive all thanks and vraise." No question about it? This
school's establishment was a rnajbr lh~ocraticdevelop-
ment.
Bible Research, Theocratic Field Ministry, Public
Bible Speaking, Su reme Law, BibIe Themes-these
were some of the suEjects t o tvhhlch indusWious students
g a w their attention during the Ave-month course.
Iticluderl was instruction in a foreign l a n g u a g 4 p a n i s h
i o r t h e flrst class. Truly, ihere were many thlngs to
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r;il~ltltIrsant1 pri\.iIeg~s.
'1'11r~l.r1s nn intcrrsljng side of tlicocratlc education
for lifrb ~ I I R Js~ not l o ht. Il?;nor~l.T l i ~ o u ~the
h years
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have srlughi Scrll,tulnl know1rd~:ehave been
I l l l t rmtr, hir I, t licir p1.ublcn1 11ns13ui hr!rn [~ushcdasEde.
311 nlniiv I;ul(ls thc org:~ni-rution uf God's pcoplr has
provltli:~l fo1. Iitcl-acy classes; same hrrvr been higl-hy
rbolnii~rx~~dctl
by government ofiicaInle. Rlrn nurl women
t~:tvc! It*:u'ncd to read and write n t ~ dmany AInong thcm
Ilavr gone on t o enjoy rich privileges of scrvice to
J~hovrils9 honor and glory.
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clemency would restore the civil rights of these Chris-
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x m ma= FIGHT o m m m s
rnLPING HANDS R E A m O m
Sept~mber2, 1945, brought the end of World War XI.
The 'lirntch Tower Society's brancl~ o m c ~ swere soon
r ~ n p n c r tIn many lands. Con~rcgallanswerr* reestabllsi~rd nnrI pir ritual food again I.lecntne nv%llnhle in
~ v e ~ l n c t . c n s i n~lnlounts.Yet, Chrlst inns In wnr.mvn ed
no liolis I I C L ' ~ P $ material things Loo, lic!~n:,In n rllsp ny
ol' C hrlsl la11 love f o r their nrcdy LeIlow Ziellrvers,
dr*hovnll'a ~lcoplelaunched what provrrl to bc rt twoanrl-half-yeur worldwide relief saml~nl:no ( J o l ~ n13:34,
35) bi1it ncssos in tile United Stales, blnadn, S w l t z c ~
Innd, Swrtlrn and elsewhere contrlbut crl clothln y: and
lnrmcy Xo h ~ y
food to 11eIp Christians I n AusFri;~, BPI~ l u m Ih8lr::il-[a, China, Czrrhosln~~i~ltEn,
Drz~rni~t'lc,Eni
n,
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I It~nEnr.y,
Il;ily, Ihv N ~ ~ Z l ~ i ~ r l zNorwny,
~ n t l s , t l i r n l'hlfI[il~lt~c*
.I(iq)\it~lIc,
y)!w
lJol:ktld IIHII l t ( ~ ~ t ~ j a ~ i i : ~ .
'Xi tho rln~ilor World War TT," mcnll ITnzrlle nntl
ITPT~~II Iii'UIE, "oui3 Z~l~oZlicrs
rr!tu~'netlSlaoln Ilie prlaon
cnnlpe, ~rlutlgsick and permanently ~trllapc!tl n i tlrt!ir
nl:;ll~~-lol
pust:rssluns, some of them EC nrntrB from tlirlr
filmillcs, not l;i~nwingif they were still nliv(*in tlie flr.:ih
or not. I4ul wiih all of t h ~ sIhey werr amazing1 strong
cpit+ifUIIIIV.
T i i q ~vereweImmed bar k by illcli. %rothers
;r l l over tlrc ~vorld.Their first intenul was to t h e o r ~ a n i m
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of 20,000 lived convedently and Inex ensively. Natur a y , the delegates required physical god, and signincant indeed was the calcterln nrrnnaument at the
assembly location. There, l w l ~ v e e n 15,000 and 20,000
persons could bc fed En an hour's time.
Spiritual food was o f utmost Importance, however,
and It was ilrrnlshed in nl~undancu. For instance,
F, 'rYYFranz spalct~on "TI.le Ilarvcst, The End of the
World," an ahsolhhi~igrxpnslllon o f ,T~sus Clirist's
illustration 01 the when1 nntl, 1 hc wcrrls or tares.
(Matt. 13:24-30, 3ri-43) Ant1 it was nt this sumc assembly
that L. A. Swinglc di~cussedlhe sublect "Awakc!" H&
described the twcntldh-ccniury wnrid ns a synthetic,
atom-smasliing, jet-prop~llcil, rntlar.controllcd, electronic world headed Snr Ihc dllcl~ o f drstruction f o r
failure to be aw:llw to rhc w d Issyes confronting
mankind. Brotllel- Knorr spoltc an An Answer to
the Rousing Call," urgin his listeners 'to be awake, to
stay awake and la rcvd Jwi~in!'Y c s , the new magazine
Aumlcc! was to re lncc Cotlsotntion, fonncrl known as
' I 1 h Coldcrr Agc. h n n y yvnrs Inter Henry
Cantwell
was nble lo my: "IVltlro~rl(Iouht, Azl3r1l;r!11as II\,ccl up
to Its nnlnc in Ibelplt~j:mnny l o ribvnltr Tpm t hc slcr'p of
lcthnrffy r~nrl to 1 111.11 to t I - L ~ ( > WCII.::~I~[I.
Othrrs wlIE rt*mrvr~l,~r
t 11l.r Ihr-llllr~l:rl~scmbl far the
exrell~ntprlrnnl-y liilil(: H! l~tlyi ~ l l l I l1~1.v~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ % e d - l h
boulr "I,ct Uod Br: 'l'r.~rr,." MO!+I:t him 10,500,01)0c01)ics of
Ihc first cdil ion wrrc publlsl1r1d wllh111nbcatl six yc!urs.
Revised as of April 1, 1952, Ihc I~oolckstlatribut.lor~con.
tinued, and by enrl I971 a lotill of 19,246,710 copies
had been published
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thcn stood In lourlh place on anc list of the world's
best-selling nonfiction llnolts of I lle twentfel h century.
Thursday, August 8, was csperlally notahla a t that
I946 assembly. Brother Ir;nors spolre on Ihc subjcct
"The Problems of Itcmnsl r~rciion and Expanston.'"
Rezapturing the event, E<Eg;trCFny of the f:ritlsh Isles
later m o l e : "I had the privilcgc of k i n g l)cl~indhhm
on the platform that cvcning. and as Ile ot~tlinedt h e
work and then told ahout I hc )Inns for enlarging the
Rmoklyll B e l W home and i'nc!ory, t l ~ ca iplnuse from
the vast audlcnce sur ed In r e ~ c w e duulf,urLsls,While
one could sce no disRnvt I?T from the ploilorm, it
was easy to sense tliclr joy.
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enclrcllng slervfce tour. From personal observation dming that 47,7fmmile journey it was prxsslMr?to determine
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died
on earth.
AN ALARM IS SOWNXIED
This grand assenlbly was sure t o be remembered for
a convention feature that Webster L. Roe calls "a
thriller!" Concerning that particular discourse, Roger
Morgan writes: "The ialk that most impressed me at
the 1953 assembly in Yankee Stadi~unwas Brother
Franz' lecture 'New World Society Attacked from the
Far North.' "
Truly, an a I a m was sounded on that Thursday
evening, July 23, 1953. The Society's vice-president,
F. W, Franz, painted a graphic picture of the coming
attack upon Jehovah's people by Gog of Magog and
his hordes. Gog, the prophecy's principal character, was
identified as Satan. And, Franz showed, the land of
Magog i s the location of the wicked spirit forces in a
limited spiritual realm near earth's vicinity following
their expulsion from heaven by 1918 (C.E,), (Rev, 12:7-9)
YemrbooJc
The speaker showed that the present prosperity, unity
and security of Jehovah's people would cause Gog and
his forces to attack. But through all this terrific stom
Jehovah would preserve the N e w World society. How
much the 112,7UO listeners appreciated this warning
and the admonition to keep trusting in Jehovah and
proclaiming the good news of his kingdom by Christ!
iEHE ~ ~ E ~ L MOVING
Y ' S CONGZTTBION
Delegates were in for a particularly movlng exerience on Sunday afternoon, duly 26. For N. H.
norr's public discourse "After Armageddon-God's
New World" 165,829 persons assembled inside Yankee
Stadium, in overAow tents and at TraiIer City, There
were 91,562 ersons in the stadium itself. Not long
before the puglic talk, gates were opened and thousands
fllcd in lo sit on the racs of the playing field. Additional thousands hoard &c &speechover iht* Society's radio
station WBI3R.
That absorbing hour passed qulckl and soon the
public talk was over. A coal breeze rezeshed the thousands who remained for the assembly's closing session,
Baaing his remarks on Psalm 145, Brother Knorr gave
an hour-long talk stressing the need to praise Jehovah,
exalt him as God, advertise Ilim as Universal Sovereign and make known his kingship. With thc Iyrlcs
of the song "Sing Triumpl-ial Praise!" and a closing
prayer, the greatest Christian assembly to that time
came to a happy ending.
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Beach, some miles away, thus symbolizing their dedication t o Jehovah God. This was t,he largest mass
baptism at on? location in modern tlmss.
At this grand gatherin the earthly paradise, thc
spiritual paradise and the %cavenly paradis-all three
were considered in thc discourse "Maintaining Our
Spiritual Paradise," given by Brother Knorr, After
Chis absorbing talk, the spealres related that missionaries
in ThaiIand had onm aslced whether the Society would
roduce a study publication, not refuting falsehood,
Eut sett@g forth just the t r u e Biblical leaching. To
meet thew need and that of Christians everywllere,
lie saicl, the Society had produccd the new book &'TOY?&
Para,dise Loat to P a r a d i ~R~~ g a f n a dWdlteti
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in simple
language and rofusely ilIuslrated, t h e Prrrarlise boolr
11as been a deeght lo young nntl old nlilcc. "A whole
generation of cllilrlren has rown up flqcring the
P a ~ n d i s ebook," says Gram
Fstep, "carrying i t to
meetings with them, sharlng it wilh their litllu plnvmates, being able lo relatc, lqng before they were old
enough to read, a whole series of Bible stories just
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name 'lJehovah" 237 times 3n the main text o f the
NFW World TransZation of the Chdsthlz meek Scri
tu~ea.The Translation Committee's foreword clear&
presented the valid grounan for usin the Name. Many
Scfipturss
the people has been the motivation behind other Bibleprinting activities. Thus in 1972 the Watch Tower SOciety produced T k a Bible in IIiving English, by the late
Steven T. Bylngton. I I consistently renders the Hebrew
Tetragrammaton as "Jehovah:"
Sincc 1950 millions of copres o f the New World
Xra.;zslafiort have been distributed throughout the earth,
many of them in En lish. Greatly appreciated, therefore, was the ~orn~re%erssiq!e
Concordance of the NEW
W e r f d Translatiott of ths Holy Bcr~ptu~ss,
released in
1973, with some 14,700word headings and ahout 333,200
entries. Many members of the-Broolrlyn Rcthcl family
worked industriously at cornpilrng it, proofreading it,
and so l a r t l t Certainly, with this rovlsion much time
1s being saved in loeating d e s i r e f ~ i h l etents.
Today, the yew Iyorirrl Tr~ttsEat3on of the Holy
Xcrapfwree IS available m Its entrrety in seven languages,
and the Christian Greek Scriptures in one other tongue.
Also, work i s under way on the Christian Greek Scrip.
tures in four other languages. In English the regular
cdition of the New Wnvlcl Tranalrrtiolz of llle whole
Rible is still available f o r $1.00 a copy, and tho equivalent is all Ihnt is being received in foreign currencies
for this excellent translalion of the Bible in other
languages, \my such a low cost? So that the IToly
Scrlptures ma reacli the hands of the people, that the
honest<hearledramong them may read and acce t it,
#'not as the word of men, but, just as it t r u t h f u h is,
as the word of God."-1 Thess. 2:13.
More than three decades have passed since one of
the Society's pressea rolled 03 the first: copy of the
IVatdl Tower editiqn of the King James Versio.rt.
During the latervemng ears, many dedicated hands
have worked +lipcntiy ro get copies of God's Word
t o the people in ever-~ncreasingnumbers. Why, from
1942 through the 1974 service year, 28,533,890 copies
of the Scrlptures, the whole or a part, have bccn
produced at the Society's Brooklyn printing plant.
And it m a y surprlse you to know that during 1074
as many as fifteen rotary presses of the Watchtower
Society in Brooklyn were bdng used full time to
print Bibles.
Coupled with this tremendous production of Bibles
has been the publishing of millions of Bible study
dds. All of them-like "All S c ~ i p t u ~1se Inspimd of
Bod and BcneWal" and Aid to Bible ITnderstawd~ng-
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A further notable step in advancing the king do^ witness marked the 1957 "Life-giving Wisdom" Drstrict
Assemblies. WI-ites Made Gibbard: "At thIs time we
first heard the expression 'serve where the nccd i s
great' Families could, in effect, do missionary-like ser\*ice. This was a new concept in service that opened
doors of opportunity to individuaIs and families who
could not take advantage of Gilead 2chool training
and enter tlze formal missionary fleld.
Many Christians who have moved lo places ln the
United States or abroad where the need for Klngdom
pmachers was greater than in their former con
gations have been able to encourage and upbuild *elf%
believers, aid new ones to gain knowIcdge o f God's
truth or even share in the establishment of a congregniion.
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the training program was of great aid. With the paasinp:
of time, vanous outlines for suggested three- to ~ f g h t *
rntnute house-t+house sermons and tcn. to flttcenminatc sermons for use on return vIsIfB wcre published
by the Watchtower Society in the monthly sor\,lrc
instruction bulletin I*:nformant and Its surcpssor I r ' l ~ f p
dom M i n i s f r y . Some NTitnesses later fount1 it easlclno r
more convenient to use short sermons hascd on o t ~ c
scripture, sucl~as Isaiah 2:4 or John 17:3.
To Walter R. Wissm+ the giving of Rlhle Blennons
In house-tohouse witnessing and on return vIsirs "was
n milrstone in our theocratfc regress." I n c r r a ~ i n ~ l y
the p~lhlicidentifled God's peo
wit11 the 13111lr. 11. D.
C ~ n t w ~ remarks:
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hcnrrl loss and IPSS 0f the nl(l chnri:c nt I h t ? rlrror thnt
J c l ~ o v n I ~ 'wjtnessea
s
wcrc 'book s:iIcsmcn.""
"What a grand improvement we havc made in our
house-lo-house service!" exclaims Myrtle Strain. "No
mow is there need of a card to hand Ihe peoplc to rend
or a need to play a record, or to go In nud spend
nn hour telling them the whole outline of God's l t r h
pose. Now we have dl learned how to ~ l Rv s h~ r t
sermon at the door, well prepared with ;i set theme,
h~clccdup by two or three po~ntedscriptures. W e cnn
use many sIlort sermons, all based on Importnnt, timely
scriptures. Moreover, w e are nnxlous to rllanwI lit! ho~rueholdor out in the conversation." Whel h ~ rnccrp t lng
tllr message or not, people tlius have been g i v m a
wttncss.
RXPUBINQ A FALSE Url[affP
While Jehovah's witnesses were h o m i n g more pra.
Hei~ntin udng Ihe Holy Scripturrs nt the drmrs of
thc people, thrg had lost none of the ficr Pnthustasm
f hat hnd characterired their aellvlt ies o r past years.
l'llus, cnrly in 1955. Jehovah's wlrncsscs fcarlcssly
rlrclawtl a message that exposed a false splrIt11a1I i ~ h t .
On Sunday, April 3. 1955, a bold praclumatlon o l
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an all-rime peak of 625,256 1Clnp;dom publishers was
reached throughout t h e wnrltl. In late July 1955, Jehovah's witnmscs mnlIed lel2ers and these f i m f u l
booklets te clergymen nnd cdilors.
'THE WORDw-WO 18 3 1 E P
The expM3ure of Chl'lstendnrn'~f n I ~ eHght c&ainly
was not to the Hking (if many clor~ymvn,but they
had not received thrir Inal 1311bSRAE(! rrnnl JP~~QVR~I's
witnesses. Not by any m ~ n n s !M a n y rlerirs welr dcnyling the divine Insplrnr Ion of tl~cI Joly Scrlplures. Oll~ers
claimed to advocatc the Rlbla, hut wcrc Icachlng Goddishonorill dod rines. TIic 'l'rln It y wnn nmmg thcse
false teaehngs. In this mgonl--whether they lilted
il: or n o t ~ c l e r f c got
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death!
The year 1966, then was the be mnin of aornethlng
la new way to teach at assemb tea o!I Gad's people.
Through t h e yearfi since 1966 Blhlc dRima~have been
a regular leature of large assemblln~hcld by Jehovah's
people. Often tl~ese dl-amntlznl Ions I1 nve hecn presented earlic~at graduntious of tht! Watchtower Bible
School of Gllead, the stuclontu portrriylng persons o f
ancient and modern tlmcu.
Cansidering the blesslr~gsnnd beneflta of these dramatizations, James W. Fllson rernnrlts: "1 feel that the
Bible dramas have bcrn an excellent d d In br~ngtng
home to us the lessons nnd cor~nsel of the Bible's
record." In fact, some have h e n nloved by assembly
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w itdoIatrous worship to the polltical image, the
atp per,
rnent.
At the 1969 "Peacepn Earth" Assemblies the soundlng
of t h e seven rrymbohc trumpets refcrr~clto in RevclatIon thapters 8-ll came under consFcbcat1on In tlic
tliscourse "Final Woes to Enemies of Fracr with God."
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jection was spelled out and has safeguarded our posiiion before Jehovah and the political authorities he
perrmts to exist until Christ Jesus' Kingdom rule
removes them."
Yes, indeed, Jehovah God has supplied s fritud food
in abundance. Why, just look at a s h e 8 containing
books that have been published b the Watch Tower
Socicty in relatively recent ears.T ??lcre is the 1958
publication "Yolm Will Be g o n e on Earth," dealing
with the book of Daniel. A verse-by-verse consideration
of the entire book of Revelation appears in the boolrs
"Then Is Finwhed the Nystery of God" and " B a b ~ ~ l o ? ~
the Great Ha? FdEela!" God's Kilzgdom Rules! I6The
Nutiofis Shall Krmw that I A m Jehoval~j'-Now? published in 1911, considers the prophecy of Ezekiel. And
the fulfillment of restoration prophecies of Haggai
and Zechariah is viewed from the twentieth-century
vantage point in Paradise Restored to ManJci~&-by
Theocrawj!
EMPHASIS ON IPXSCIPLE-M&KtNG
Some of the Chsistlan publications available to Jehovah's people are especially designed to help them
t o carry out their commission to preach the good news
and make disciples. (Matt. 24;14;28:19, 20) "Let God
Bo True" was such a book, originally published jn 1946.
It was an aid dealing with basic BibIe doctrines. Then
in 1950 the book "This Means Everk~stiwg Life' provided information on dcepcr Bible subjecis and Christian living. Consider also the 416-page book "Things
i.n W ~ L + ICt IIs
~ Impussible for God t u Lie," published in
1965. As a basic Bible study aid, it has proved to be a
helpful instrument in the hands of Kingdom proclaimers.
Jehovah's servants are constantly bdng provided
wiLh thtngs they need for their preaching and disciplematring work. Thinking back, to the I967 district assemblies, C. %V*Barber mentions something he terms
an "innovatlon." I-Ie rernarlcs: "Jehovah's organization
is always providing new thrllls and joys, This timu
it was a new kind of campaign hoolc, a small clothbound bodr entltlcd 'Did Man Get Here by &:volution
or by Creation?' . . . i h l a one was to be presented
for twenty-five cents, Right from its introduction, it
w a s apparent that it would have tremendous appeal
to all thinking people."
MiMons of copies were placed by Kingdom ,proclaimers in t h e field service. During May 1968 specla1 efforts
were made to get it in;to thc hands of educators, with
excellent results. Mane Gibbard slates: "A schoolteacher in White Plains, New York, is a baptized
Witness today because a twelve-year-old student placed
a copy with him and the interest was followed up."
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A WELL-TIMED PROVISION
From 1960 to 1965 the annual baptism figure had
been in the 60,000bracket. In 1966, however, the number
of those immersed was down t o 58,904, Under the
circumstances one might well have aslr@d,Is the work
slowing down? Time proved that it was not.
During the 1967 service year 74,981 persons were
baptized, This was an upswing and it gave renewed
reason for optimism. Then came 1968, along with the
Truth, book and the six-month Bible stud program.
"In the minds of many," remarks Edgar ! C Kennedy,
"it was closely linked with the announcement two
years before of the 6,OOQ ears [of man's existence on
earth] ending In 1975."
W. Barber similarly cites
"the shortness and urgency of the times," terming
J9M as a "turning oint," and states: "Everywhere the
brothers aroused tgemselves and went at this 'easier'
method of spreading the good news, with vigor. The
number of publishers started to climb again all over
the earth. The listeners began to become doers of the
worlr. . . . Truly Jehovah directed the brlnging forth
of ihis small but powerful disdple-making instrument!'
The book T ~ TEm t h That Leads t o Btsrnd Life has
bad am astounding circuIation. Did you know that it
is now being published in ninety-one languages? Furthermore, in the six years since it was first released,
74,000,000 copies of it have come off the press. This
Bible study aid has helped hundreds of thousands of
persons t o gdn accurate knowledge of the Scrlplures
and to get "a tight grip on the word of life." [Phil.
2:16) While the X m k book is not the only one used
by Jehov&hls witnesses when studying the Bible with
the people, doubtless the majority of the 1,351,404
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This new buildin at 119 Columbfa Wdghts was dedicated on May 2, f969. Next t o it is a large apartment
house owned by Jehovah's witnesses,and much of it: has
been used to accommodate members of the headquarters
staff. Incidentally, by the end of the 1970 service year
the Bethel fmi1y (including regular and temporary
workers in Brooklyn and at the Society's farmsf had
grown to 1,449 persons. Additionally, seventy students
OF Gilead School then lived at headquarters, bringing
the total to 1,519. To help to accomrnodaFe so m a n y
people, the Society leased three floors of the nearby
Towers Hotel,
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In the 1870's and its small beginning and the unbelievable rowth for the past 100 years."--Compare
Zechariah 8:10.
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for some modem-day adjustments. Whereas in receni
years one mature Christian man had served aa conme.
gatlon servant, or presiding ovemeer and was assistcd
by appointed "servants,'Ythe nposto~tcmethod of governing each congregation was by means of o body of
elders. (Acts 20:12-25; 1TLm.4:14) hlso, during 'the ilrst
century C.E. there evidently had been a rotatln of
chairmanship within a congregation's body of rl%rs.
It was therefore deemed fitting to have a different
chairman of the body of elders serve each year w l v r ~
thcrc I s more than one elder In a congregation.
CHOOSING ELDERS AND ItIINTS!l%XkIAt SERVANT'S
The governing body of Jelrovah's witnesses sent emti
conmgation an instructive Ietter about selecting the
"body of elders," as well as ministerial s ~ r v a n t s .According to that letter of December 1, 1671, all b a p
tized men of the congregation twenty
ars old and
upward were considered. (See Ezra
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participating In ddtscussio~~s
concerning elders and mjn~sterlalservants prepared well, considering the nrtlclr~l
"Theocratic OrganizaEon Amidst Demncracies nntF
Communism,'' "A pointed Omcers in the Theomxtlc
Organization" ancfl'A 'Body of Elders' with Rolnling
Chairmanshlp," a pearing in Tha Watclttownr of No.
vember 15, 1971. xdditionally, there was careful atudy
of the January 1, 1972, Watc+tower articles entitlcd
"Who -Is Wise and Understanding Among You?'' nnd
"Appomted Elders to Shepherd the Flock of God!' And,
to the extent that t ~ m eperrmtted, the brothers had rrnd
lnnterlal in Aid to Bib78 Unrlersfnnding undcr Ihc
headings "Older Man," "Overseer" and "Minister,'"
When members of the congre~ntion comrnlltce and
other qualified brothers met together, prayer was mid.
Anlong othrr things, they read and considcrecl cluallncations for elders and rnmislcrial servants as sct out
in God's Word at 3. Timothy 3:l-10, 12, 13: Titus 1:s-9
and 1 Peter 5:1-5."Many f o r the flrst time truly faced
tllprnsplves," remarks R. D. Cantwell, "and all fcll
kccnly the obligation before Jehovah to I ~ PI~onestin
thefr appraisal of seIf and others. A few had to dlsqualify themselves. This arrangement has b r o u ~ t l t
out an konesty a d humility that w ~ u l d have bcrn
Impossible except for thjs forward step in ~~ndcrstandi
ng
of Bible principles of organization." (Even in yrars
prior. to this, however, the Bible's requirements wrrc
the basis for determining who would bc entrvstrd
with responsibility in the congregation, Sec Cbnta~cl.o n
Tlteowatdc Organimtim for JeJwvah's W$t?tes~~s,
p. 19;
Prewhi?tg Together in Unity, p. 26,)
Flnally, after an analysis of quafiflcatfons posae~sed
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m RTJLERSKU?
While Jehovah's people a@ausly awaited fulZ imglernentatlon of this congregat~onalarrangement, those
In t h e Unltcd States, Canada and the British Isles
attended t h e 1972 ''Dlvlnt! Rulership" Dlstrict Assemhlles, Ilckl betwcen the latft-r part of June and Iate
Aujiust. A t thrsc gatherings divine rulership commnndcrl pnrazrulunt xltcntion.
Onr of tlir! sl nifi~.ant assembly releases was the
-ct l iott for Kdngdon~-preachhzg
new IY2-pngr! boo[ Orgrtt~i,
awrl Dis{:iplr.-malrin . am on^ other things, it outlined
llic lrnproverncnts 2elnl: mnde In the structure of the
Chrlstlnn conjin*gatfon. The O ~ g a n i z a t i o ?book
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and
t l ~ oass:embly pro1:rnnr cornMned wel! to point out the
praclir:h nspccts of surh rcorgnnlzatron and to demonslrntr! how tllcso would wnrlc nut.
Recognttion o S dlvinc! rulcrahl was ~tmssedat these
dlstrlct a s s c m h l i ~ ~r l H, In ~ I I Pp ~ ~ l l tUlr
l c l'Dlvlnc nulership-the Only Xlr)pc. of All hTrlnlrlnt1." llclrgntcs renllzcd I hat l o gr~lii c!tc.mnl H f o I llny must pr8rsonallg
rt?l:ognlzr,Jrl~ov~il~'s
rulrrsll IF, 1 E(~wevrr,
thr ncw Organ+
aatio?~,hoolc nntl vnrlr~us rwscmbly prograni features
hlgt~llghicrlt b c Irnporl nrlcr! of co+xgregcrl<oncrlrecognitlon or clivlnr! rulership.
UtOVEItNINQ. TiODY dEXd THE EXAMFm
ose we now turn the clock hack to Monday
morning. Xeptember 13, 1971. At seven o'clock members of thc Watch Tower Society's I~eadquartersstaff
are sentcd a t thrir rrspeetive placcs throughout the
various dlnln rooms of the Brooldyn Bethel home.
They are ren$ for the usual discussion of the d a ~ ~ ' s
Bible text, to he followrtd by breakfast. It has always
hcrn customnry fnr t h e Sctety's resident to preside
ILI tl~eserllseusslcns wi~enhc? Is at Latiquarters. Today
Rrother Finorhi' Is homr at Rethel, tlut h e is not a t
tttc hend of t l ~ c :tablo. Instend, P.W. Franz, the Society's
vice-prcsldent. Is prcslding over the morning text
dlscusslon. Why? I<crmtst the governing body of Jehovah's witnesses has Instftuted the arran~ementof
rotnling i t s mcmbcrs on a wrrltly basis with regard
to contlucting the ~nnrningBible text discussions and
the I3cthel I:lmily's Monday night Illaichtuzt:cr study.
At Brooklyn nethe], thcn, n rotation procedure had
its be~lnnlnga yanr before a slmllar arrangement was
put into eMect in conglrgat9ons of God's people jn
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ccordfng to a resolution adopted by the governing
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await: divine vlciory. Generally live-day gatherings, the
numerous convcntlona of this worldwide event took
place in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia.
I tddle and South Amenca, the South Pacific and Africa.
Many of God's people traveled to distant lands, there
to share the spiritually upbuilding assembly program
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the ri~hteousruns and is given protectIon.'~Prov.
18:IO) A righteous man is a wise man, for he
loves Jehovah's Word. If we stay in God's stronghold we stay there because we want t o live,
and with life we can praise Jehovah continually,
Jehovah's witnesses urant only t o do Jehovah's
will, and that they do with a sense of security,
saying: "Because you said: 'Jehovah is my refuge,' you have made the Most I-Tigh himself your
dwelling; no calamity wiH befall YOU, and not
even a plague will draw near to your tent."
-Pa, 91:9, 10.
Is It not wonderful to know that you can make
the Most Iifgh God "your dwelling," and thnt you
can continue to proclaim thnt to others? You can,
because of your dedication to do Jchovnh'~will,
YEARTEXTFOR 1975
'CI wit1 m y to JehxmJk.. Tm me my r ~ f ~ and
t ~ e
my s t ~ g h o h i , '
' '-PR, 9I:2,
Mow often as a Christian do you say that to
Jehovah? RealIy, we should have this in our minds
all the time because we know that ~ v eare in the
wiclc~dworld, but not part of it. So rve live in
Satan's world and, being there, we surely need a
place of refuge.
Refuge means a place of shelter or protectiorr
from dnnger or t-rouble, and tllc uocl of this world
Sotnn thc Devil has brought only trouble to this
world since he started the trouble jn the Garden
of Eden. Job's critic Eliphaz said: "For man himself is born for trouble." (Job 5 : 7 ) However, to
his faithful followers, Jesus said: "Do not let
your hearts ke troubled. Exerdse faith In God,
cxercisc faith also in me." (John 14:l) So a wise
person will say to Jehovah: "You are my refuge
and my stronghold." He M11 seek protection from
dnnger by exercising "faith in God."
A Christian will want and must have spiritual
security, and this he can get by studyfng God's
WOK? ~ 4 t hGod's people. Jehovah has brought
his people into the spiritual paradise sInce 1919
nnd has, In a wonderful way, cared for them.
That does not mean, though, that no trouble or
danger comes to them; it does. Eut when it doea
they understand why, and God's Word shows
them the way out-I Cor. 1O:IJ; 2 Cor, 4:8, 8.
We can be sure, if we stay close to Jehovah's
organfzatlon, a u d y his Word and live by It, that
we, along with God's n m e people, Jehovah's
witnesses, wiU find refuge in Jehovah because
"the name of Jehovah is a strong tower, Into it
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Bclora there c m upm you
the nay of Jehoxah'9 m p e r ,
seek Jrhocah, all y m meek
one# of tlre earth, .
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righteousness.-Zeph. 2 3 , 3.
A tlinc or acco11nttng draws
nefrr for 1111 mnrlkind. It is
s time when divine judgment
wlll be executed against the
wlckari also a tirne of deliverR ~ I C C lor the righteous. A l l
perwnfi then nllve will be
cnllcrl ta nccount for the way
b t ~ r y hnvc ~ t w d their lives,
whcqt,har with .selRsh disregmd
for t,ht! w111 of Gud nnd the
wcltnrt* or their fellownen or
nlth loving ahedtence ta God
and vnselflsh conccrn f- fellow humnus. Remuse it, w i l l
hc a time of settlnlg accounts
on tht pnrl. of the true God,
the c n r n l n ~time period is referred to in the Bible as the
"rlny of Jehovah." It deserres
our serio~rs concern. If we
aro ke~pinr: It clom in m i ~ ~
wo wlll ha seeking Jehovah
UIIU xlglikouan~s.W 1/15 I, 2
2:WB.
ndvoc8tlng thm ta others,
Xvhat Jesus t~ruuht Mrr 111~c1p1cs nnd wlmt hnu bcrm
pnwed on to 1111 Chrtstinno
dolm through tile centurlea
by rneatls of the Word of
God constltutc~ t n l e Cllristlnn fu11,11. 111 the cnrly d w 8
of Cllrlsllanlt.y, when JL'SI~R'
dlsclples hprrkc ai l,hIngs ttmt
he hari tnutsllt thorn. mnrig
believed ant1 ucq~itred ttrl*
" n s s ~ ~ r caxpectatlon"
d
nnd thin
"cvldcnt dcmonatrallol~ of rcaXltie~."W 1 / I 1 , a
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Clothe yoursel~ealnfth tlur nsta
peraonaEitg, urlafctt iltror~ghacelcrate Rmlrledge fs lrefltlf
vrade nett rrccnrdlnp to ili'
fmcge of tk Oar ~ s l mcreated
it.--Cot. 3:IO.
Whether you live alone Or
are part of B i~niily,whether
you have attained Chl'l~tlnn
maturity m are w o r k l l l ~ COward that goal, advauccmcnC
~ h o u l d be appnrcul In tlle
spirit or dominant, Iorce t h n t
motivates you to [lo . J E ? ~ I o Y ~ L ~ I ' R
w ~ l l .Others abould be 1~bb1Lo
we that adherenre to C:od'fl
Word has mxde you R llctkr
man or woman, a better I%I To
and mother. n belter 1111~lbluld
and fnther, a brttcr son or
daughter. A CWlstlnn homo
shonld be one where hnppiness, pence and lovc. ~ ' I I I P P
than quarreling and shoullnr!,
prevail. It should h alcLnt,
clean and well kcpt.
thnt
true of your home? Witt~out
practical evidence of a p i r l t ~ l n l
growth in the llves aT l.hrlr:r!
who are God's nrrvarlls, nur
preaching meanu very EltClr.
Our religion, our wmahip, I#
judged largely by Ihc rcsulls
it produces in us rind In our
daily Ilves. Do you manlttqst
the new Christlik gersounlity? W 2/15 208
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Bclora there c m upm you
the nay of Jehoxah'9 m p e r ,
seek Jrhocah, all y m meek
one# of tlre earth, .
Seek
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righteousness.-Zeph. 2 3 , 3.
A tlinc or acco11nttng draws
nefrr for 1111 mnrlkind. It is
s time when divine judgment
wlll be executed against the
wlckari also a tirne of deliverR ~ I C C lor the righteous. A l l
perwnfi then nllve will be
cnllcrl ta nccount for the way
b t ~ r y hnvc ~ t w d their lives,
whcqt,har with .selRsh disregmd
for t,ht! w111 of Gud nnd the
wcltnrt* or their fellownen or
nlth loving ahedtence ta God
and vnselflsh conccrn f- fellow humnus. Remuse it, w i l l
hc a time of settlnlg accounts
on tht pnrl. of the true God,
the c n r n l n ~time period is referred to in the Bible as the
"rlny of Jehovah." It deserres
our serio~rs concern. If we
aro ke~pinr: It clom in m i ~ ~
wo wlll ha seeking Jehovah
UIIU xlglikouan~s.W 1/15 I, 2
2:WB.
ndvoc8tlng thm ta others,
Xvhat Jesus t~ruuht Mrr 111~c1p1cs nnd wlmt hnu bcrm
pnwed on to 1111 Chrtstinno
dolm through tile centurlea
by rneatls of the Word of
God constltutc~ t n l e Cllristlnn fu11,11. 111 the cnrly d w 8
of Cllrlsllanlt.y, when JL'SI~R'
dlsclples hprrkc ai l,hIngs ttmt
he hari tnutsllt thorn. mnrig
believed ant1 ucq~itred ttrl*
" n s s ~ ~ r caxpectatlon"
d
nnd thin
"cvldcnt dcmonatrallol~ of rcaXltie~."W 1 / I 1 , a
Frlldnyn dnnnnry l
'
Satmilay, January 4
Clothe yoursel~ealnfth tlur nsta
peraonaEitg, urlafctt iltror~ghacelcrate Rmlrledge fs lrefltlf
vrade nett rrccnrdlnp to ili'
fmcge of tk Oar ~ s l mcreated
it.--Cot. 3:IO.
Whether you live alone Or
are part of B i~niily,whether
you have attained Chl'l~tlnn
maturity m are w o r k l l l ~ COward that goal, advauccmcnC
~ h o u l d be appnrcul In tlle
spirit or dominant, Iorce t h n t
motivates you to [lo . J E ? ~ I o Y ~ L ~ I ' R
w ~ l l .Others abould be 1~bb1Lo
we that adherenre to C:od'fl
Word has mxde you R llctkr
man or woman, a better I%I To
and mother. n belter 1111~lbluld
and fnther, a brttcr son or
daughter. A CWlstlnn homo
shonld be one where hnppiness, pence and lovc. ~ ' I I I P P
than quarreling and shoullnr!,
prevail. It should h alcLnt,
clean and well kcpt.
thnt
true of your home? Witt~out
practical evidence of a p i r l t ~ l n l
growth in the llves aT l.hrlr:r!
who are God's nrrvarlls, nur
preaching meanu very EltClr.
Our religion, our wmahip, I#
judged largely by Ihc rcsulls
it produces in us rind In our
daily Ilves. Do you manlttqst
the new Christlik gersounlity? W 2/15 208
.. .
Tuas8sy, January 7
I ~ws
not able lo speak 20 you
as to ap[rit?~nlmen, but as t o
fleshly m m , as to babm in
chri.rr.-I cur. a:~.
T h e Bible e enks very faw
n o i~ t i o~x who are
cnllrcl "splritu~1" persons. On
tho other hand. it; does not
mcnllon will1 meril those deRcrlbacl trfi "fleshly." To ap~ l ~ c r l n tivhal
e
~t means to be
a spll.htuaI person, it is helpful
to undcrstnnd the oppasite
Wdno~cfnf, Jlrnnery 8
Thrv me, ith f a d . emresalons
inspired b2, dcnlons and perfrrri~r s ! n i ~ a ,and they go jorth
to tkt. krngs of the eatwe
itcttabitrd enpth, to gatlrw
rlrcrn twvcthcr' to the war 01
ihr: Urclrt dog oj God thc
A h ~ ~ i ( r V ~ i y . - R c16:14.
~.
Tllursdny, January O
I t on j t o ~ il~i p 8 fa t l ~ acor. essfon, 'Jesrra f~ Lord', an$ la
VOUT hear1 tlrc j n i t l ~ that Gorl
iziserl )link ram the (?cad,
then y o r h l o i d f i ~ dtalvtztion.
-Ron!. 11)::).New E t ~ g l l ~ h
Blblc.
T h e "wortl" or rneamge that
"Jesus 18 Lord" ia belng prottalrned to nll the rintlons.
The wort1 is nenr you: it is
upnu your llps and I n your
benrt." IP thc "word" rcolly
rcts down into n person's
heart 110 wll1 bcllevo. Ro will
havo inlth In Jesus Christ a s
Lord Rntt ns Win one through
wlmm Ood TvIII cnrry OI3t nII
tEls g t ~ n c lpromlfirs. In ordw
.o hnvr? ~ t t c h fnlltl wa must
iuvc ktio!vlcdRc -llret of all,
mo~vlctlgr~
u l Uocl 1~t1dknowl:dm 1)1 what ho IinB done.
God hlmnall rnlxcd dcnus from
the dcnd. Bometjnles it la ncc?Mary lo Impress upon even
,hose who rlnil~i to he dcdl:nted ta Oorl tlie al~nlflcnnee
~f tlieac iundninental trv!ha.
? ~ u l w e p r o r l n i t n t n ~ the
pord of Inlth " JVhnt wna that
aith based en7 Theye were
,no very rltflnlte t l l l n ~ sLtmt
I?aul ht~d Irl ~ n h d ,nnd so
muvt wwn 1,000 yonrs Inter.
Thom two thlnuc nrrj Sosus' lai'lt~hip~ i i d1'c.wrrectlon.
W 1/1 8
we r t e e 1 ~ 8 not
,
t h e apivit of
t b ~ r r l d but
, the sptrft which
ts Iron1 God.-I Cor. 2:1Z.
1; contrnst to worldly
ouths the GhrfstIsn youth
has thb hope of living forever
In Ood'a 11ew order 01 r~ght n o t ~ s n w . .He Is not terrifled
nt tZin thou~btnI being thirty
ychr.5 olrl l Why shortld. hc be7
llc llnx the hone of nn eternity
of tlmo nhcnd of him, W he
nlreys Ilia c r m t o r now and
contitlucx to cio so. hforeover,
hs cnn mu the hypccrisy of
bile rnatcrlnllhtlo way Of Ufe
tllxt the ntlulta of this wo~ld
tlrlve rrented lor themselves.
ntlt R Chrl~tlnn must dram
tllIYersnt conclusions than do
thr! yout11n of the world. He
knows tlsnt mnny persons have
"ntnlrlred IhemWlvea alJ over
u~ltll lnnnp pslns" by loving
rnnncy R I l r l the things it !rill
btty. ( 1 Tkm. 6-10) IEe abhors
vlnlence, ntfd he shows it by
ut~aellhhlycloln~good t o 0thera, cvon lbvtng hls enemlea,
ntlcl not by srlflsh gmtiflcnCton of h l own
~
sennunl nppetiLcs. So f(1r Chriirtl~lyouths
there wlll be n grand tor no^row it Lhgr Wold the spirit of
ti111u~wlrl and ita generation
RRPE
W 511 14, 15
S ~ t u r b y ,Yannsrgr XI
Hrrulng o tmdm aflediole fw
voir, rue tcere ~ae?lp l e ~ g e d to
$7nptarl to rou, not only the
t ~ o dtrswa aJ G o d , but also
spaclat resnanslbf~ty,carrying
with it R certalt~ degree of
n~rliiorlky,the Kenera1 attitude
ILHIImnnner of cnmmunication
should Iw by wny of inviting
cooperation, rathm than giv-
bo done, I t la i n r better
to sny: "1.A ua na ant1 tnckle
thlfi 'pmblcm to~cthnr." Tho
warm spirit at unt:clllah and
lov111 drrollon slioulrl be conveyex not "lily 111 what we
say, bul by our tone of eolco
und coz~rhcat nclJ011. fYIl~ta
fine cxa!ri]llc or r i f.?wrlreletionahip I m d l n ~to ROW! commtmlcntlo~rin bolh word and
deed the npostIc Pnul gives In
thc sllove! W 5 / 1 5 0
mUbE
Sunday, J a n u q 18
Ever71 wcsv of a man fa 11
right In his m u f r cltea, bar
Jchocah Is ncaklnrr a%
cstirnatc ol Ireart'te,
-Prm. 21 : Z .
of proelaiming
the Ifooul ncm ol Eho Kingdom In onn ol tho !uost lmportnrit workn that has ever
hecn donrh on rrrrth. Why?
Ucenuscr I E in the touchatone
I,y wEllch mnnklrld 1~ jud~cd.
Accelll~rtice rli nrld u1,cdlence
to l l l c ROO^ new0 1'@n1111In snlThe work
Mondsjr, Jamasp 18
..
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-Ram. 6:16.
Though the redemptive prfce
m s paia for &I, not all wlll
fully receive its benest~.W h y
not? It is only those with an
approved slandlng before the
Tuesday, January 14
All of you gird yourselves with
. . . became
God gff~asesthe haughtg ones,
bwZiness of min#
Pet. 5:5.
We prefer to msodate with
persons who are humble, modest, meek, unassuming. In
fact, the qualities of humility
and lowliness of mind are
quaties that aU Christians
are encouraged to develop. On
one occasion Jesus h e w that
Ma disciples had been arguing
among themselves as to who
was greater, nnd he told
-1
them: "If
m k to be
fir& he must be Inat oi all
mumday, January 18
I f you public2~ declare
that Jesus is Lord, and e m
cise jnith in pour heart that
G o d raised hfm xp frOm the
&a& yofr will be save&
Wea3naSttay, Zanuary 15
Thuse knowing now name &El
trwt in poa, for yo= will certainly not leave tlmse looking
for uou, 0 Jehovah.-Ps. 9:IU.
The nation of Isrnel was
rejected on account of their
lack of knowledge, and God
feels the same today about
those who reject; knowledge of
fjh.The time is near when
he brings vengeance upon
those who do n o t know God."
(2 Thess. 1:8) One's actions
reveal how well one h o w
God. (1 John 213, 4) For one
to M o w Jehovah Gocl means
to be obedient to his will. A n
occurate knowledgo of G o d is
also characterizcd by complete
confidence h I l h , 8s the
psalmist David seid. Those
wlio lulow Jehwnh's name,
that is, his eharacteristfcs and
reputation, will not believe lles
trhout; their heavenly Fnther.
Lf he does or says something
they do not readilv unnderstand, they will not impute
bad motlves to him. They
know there is a good reason
ror all that he does even if
:hey rto not understam8 It p;t
:he time. And if he @ems a
littte slow to us, surely there
s a good exphs;tlon.-2 Pet.
3:9,
W 7/15
8-6
...
-ROrn. 10:9.
Friday, Januarg 17
not hoping fop
anptxng back; and your mward will be great, and yna
40 g o d
...
SatnrdayI January 18
The jorna of worship that ZP
clean ad nsndefled
is
t o Zook after orphans and
widoms in their trlbulatlon.
J a s , 1:27.
One way to i d e n w true
Christians today is to note
their care for bereaved onea.
. . . . ..
Sunday, January 19
Quit mixltr in m p a n y laWL
aavons calf& Q brother that
i s cs lornicator or a greedy
psrxdn
oradsmkord..
i:ot e0kn fatinu ciEh srrctt a
nran.-l Cor. 5:11.
Jehavnh is a God of love, a
mrcilul God. All his mangemrnts nre for the good of tho=
lovillg rl~hteousness:they nevcs have a hximful purpose.
11s Is also R God of righteousncsn: 118 does nut condone
wrotlgdoing, There is, bowcvcr no disharmony among
the& dlvins qualities. Genuine
love, in fnct, requlres a iolding to, nnd ~ t l111~lstin&on,
rlf:htcoi1811rsa. Thus, among
ttin nrrnngements found kr
God's W O I ~is ttmt of dtsIe:lowshiplng, thnt h, remov1t1~
or expcl:ing from the con~rugatlonrersons who, though
clmrnlilg t o l
x ChrlsMsns, en~ o it1
~ cfierlous wrongdoing
and who Inil io show a g e m lncly repentant attitude. 'XneIr
llciiq put out is for the good
of the cangregotian. t o maintt~lnIts purity nnd to protect
LA members, loved by God,
from cunlnnlination through
...
M a m y , danrrary ItO
De not let ywrr adornment be
TneRrloy, d n n ~ ~ n r22
y
[Goti l d m not [cnvc hlrmlt
1 4 :I?.
rcaaon fw m
to want to 1)c slaves ot God
and. Christ. They nra nnliko
the cruel mashrrs of tho pnst
who cared llCtle nbout tho
T~BIY
is !good
welfare or their ~ l n v c n .W h n l
God and ChrlsL hnve dono Ior
rnnnklnd testlfleFi to heir
dwth of Concern and boundless love. Clod Is the O n e to
whom wb nrc Intlrhtc~l fnr
life. Hc crtnted nll t!~lnas.
azd becatlm o t his rvlll they
cx!st nnd rve1.r crcnCcd,' (Rrv.
1.11) He couirl hnvc c x e c l ~ l r d
the denth srnkncr? upon d l a obedlent Adnm Rnd Evr l~foi-e
they bpcame parmh. Nonc of
us would lhrn l l a v ~lwcn lmrn.
Howcver, motvtl 1,y rncrclluI
cons!dcmtlon for thelr rlnborn
offspring. Qod allowed tho
drst hliman pnir to couthuo
living and t o procreak. T3espite the unappreclntlve attltuck 01 mast of thelr clefloendants, hc dld nat wlthhold
from humenkind hts generoun
proMOns l o r sustnlnln!r Ille.
W 6 / 1 5 10. 1E
Wedmsday, January %a
Hia Invtaible qualitte~ are
chear@ seen from the mrtd'a
ereatton onward, kcnrtse tltcy
are perceived by t?le things
a-v
. ..
Q M I ~
Thr~rstlny,Jannarg SO
the b a d ~ Is dead whm
tltwe 13 ?la breath Zejt in ft,
A3
porn dcett*
n corpsr.-4a.~.
so ju4th rlfoorccd
fs IllrlcRa ns
Friday, amuary 81
Man mast live, not on bread
alone, but on ewry utterance
cwning forSh through
Jehvah's mouth.
-Afatt, 4:4.
In addition t o teaching and
training your children during
the day's narmal routine, for
real success. you must also set
aside special periods lor fam-
to rn~terlalthings, so it ia bis
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Saturday, February 1
Go, thn, and learn what tltia
means, ''I want mera, and
not sacrifice." F w I came to
cull, not ri~htsollapeople, b u d
sinners.-Matt. 9:12, 13.
I3o these words of Jesus fnd i d that he approved of
Anners in mat he was wining
to associate with them? Note
Jesus' introductory words:
"Persons in health do not
need a physician, but the ailing do." Would this not rather
suggest t.bat Jesus' reuson for
assuciating with them wna to
cure them? Jesua did exercise
mercy, cvcn mi he admonished
others. (Matt. 5:7$ However,
his exercise of mercy toward
sinners wns not a condoning
of their sins. Rather, it operated in the same compassfonale manner as toward
those who were physicalb ill.
(Luke 5312. 13, 20) Thus it is
evldent that Jesus was not
accepting people In their sins
a3 t h e y were. Rather, one of
the mast important nspects of
his ministry was to cnre men
of theh spiritual illnesses, enahling them to h accepted by
God because of their changed
way of life. W 8 / 1 5 3, 4
Sunday, February 2
Whp sJLOPlEd you die, O house
01 Igrael? For 1 do not taka
any delight in the death of
someone dMng.--Eaek. 185'1.
This expression harmonlzex with Jehovah's statement
through his prophet J e r e m ~ a h
at Jeremiah 3:12, 13, 22. By
Monday, February 1
Howl, you shepherds, and cry
out! And wallow aBwt, poU
mafeetic ones of the m c k because your
for slaughtering and for Tjour scatte~ings
have been fulfilled, and yo76
must fall like a dRperablc
vessel!-4er. 25:34.
Tumday, February 4
You nawt not
j u d p n t of the
p m w t tha
fatherless
We.-Deut, 24:17.
T h e manner in which Jehovah commanded the Israelites to care for fatherless boys
i r n p r m upon us the good
that a g d l y father can accomplish within the family
circle. Jehovah showed loving
.. .
Z / l 7-9
Wednesday, Febmary 6
C b t h e yourselues with tlie neu
persolaality, which throagh
accurate knozoledfle i s being
made new accordanq to the
image of the One who
created 4 t . 4 0 2 . 3:iD.
samethim dmuld
B
JOP'
the
birrdnrge t h h responsibility?
IWst or all, do whnt PauI z y s
a t Ronlnns 12:2. T k s has Co
dn tvlth 110% you thick. on
i~~attcrs
Wllnt Is your attltnde
Monday, Febmarg 10
God mpnt on to eay: "'Let us
maice man in our ?maw, a&corrllrtn to o t ~Ilkmess, and
Zal tlrrm Imua in subfscteon
tlzo fl11t oj i h d sea nnte
c~wrfj rnozllnn anrtnal tho!, fs
a ~ o v l n gtroon t l r p earth.
-4rn, I 2 6 .
Let ua look bnck at the
&ry
ol tommnnlcation and
mc how It c o t st-,
and
what we CMI learn from it.
ln the O c ~ ~ c s laccount
s
of
crebtlOIl, cllnpter one, rve note
thnl on snt:h day, up ta the
ulxllr clay, tho nction is introduced by llre form of the
Hcbraw verb that means that
...
bke place.
Yes, Qod was cornmunIcating
hls instructions, but no person t~ mm~tloncd m responding thereto. Ilo\r.cver, ushen it
comes l o Chr c1.0wlilng l l c t of
earthly crmtlon, zvc noto a
mnrked chr~nar.Thatl~lrIn a
posllion 0 1:rrrua n dll-ectlvs
as t o n, ~uhortllnatt:~tilo Crcntal- wna now invlting cooperation, A Iricntlly, kindly tone
Is Impllerl; n ~ m r lr~lntlon-
llrillhy y~nrtnrrslllp.
$?!
;' isn how
12 shoulcl bc Letrreen mnrrlrd pnrtncr!r. If
fisndny, Fabmmry 11
her
lord
tlrat
case
froirt
his It.pro~t)."-2 1f f . 5 2 .
J u a tthtnk nf tills IlttlE
fmrtlta r:lrl. 8110 wna tnkan
cnnllvc i r ~ l r n Xnrm!, but this
dlcl not w o n k ~ n Ilm fnlEh iu
Jrllovnh nrw 111 hla ahility to
ust: oils rbi hls f r l t t h f ~ ~serl
vants through whom t r l perform mlrncics. She hnd real
falth. Thrrr: \van no questlon
hoti it it: she bellevet! impllcltiy
thnt
if
N R & ~ R ~
~ ~ n u ! d ~ n dnsk, .lrhovnh
W L I I ~ I QIIIR'P~.
~
Allhou~h just
Wednesday, Febmary 12
I1 error8 were what yo% watch,
stand?-Ps. 3511:3.
Eldera in the CMstlan con-
can demonstrnte
how well they h o w Jehovah
by thelr dealing sf[th others
es he would. For examplz.
take Eha mat* erf how clders view their broth~rs. Is
lhplr attitude a reffeetion of
gregatlon
Returday, February I6
muat fnuulcate [these
Yon
be
31inLts himself, t a s t u B a g
only oartaln favorite" porlions of the Bible, hls Imowledge will be of Hm~tedvalue.
Orle must nppreciate t b t "all
-Dezil. 6 : s , 7.
Scl.lptlire is inspfred of God
Yes, the uuorshlp of Jehovah nnd beneflcial" if one fs to
Is to be n way of llle nnd come to an nccuraB h o w l dlsc~~sslng
h l ~purpwes Ja to edge of the truth. (2 Tim.
be clone on ~pproprlntt*occn- 3:16) Actually, an incom&long dhrou~irnltt one's dnilp
plcte picture can be dnngerroutine. How ~ o o dit i a ahell ous. W-thout the f u n picture
onr :; i l r ~ tthotl~hkqon awnk- wc could easily be misled into
rninr nrv of Jcl~ovallnnd '5s
thinklnc thnt we =e aervFng
601:! Wurshlp of Jrllovnli cnnGod while doing something
?!OL be xepnrnterl from the
dinmetrically opposed to kls
dzily routllie ol Ille. W h ~ n will.-John 18:2. W 3 / 1 5 6, i'
Ille apeech Rnd coilduct of
pnrenls rcflccl the convlctlon
Monday, F e b i a q 17
hut t,lds 1s so, thp chlldrcn
Happy f s the matt that has
wlll nrow In nppredntim ut
, hln delight
, in the
the Inct that Jehovnh g o d
jaw of Jehovah.-Pa, 1 : i , 2,
sces m c h lllinff they d o and In
aenerally, the fsmLly will
Inlcte.<lcd In how lhry 40 It,
thnt I t la itnpartant t11 bc nn flnd that they wlll p m t
much by iolloivlng the study
Imitator of C:ncI% fi8o iIn
ev~l-ythlng they do. dcl~avnh course that hns been nrran~ed
n.
G o d nnd his 'son nrc thrn fur Cho c o n ~ l ~ e ~ n t l oprepar~ I I R for partlclpalion in the
it1 tho child's tho\t~htaat nll
tlmcs, not only when npcclnl ~ncetin~a.D n l e s ~ there Is a
tlmrs nro 8ct nuldo for w W - fipcciai necd in the famiIy,
~hil).T h l y wlll Lw l w k l n ~for why !lot focus your attention
,~rhovtah's t~lrssinff uil onch 0 1 1 the atudy material that all
tnhlc perforn~cd n i ~ dwlll brbe others J I ~ the congregation
t h c dil.~cllontio Elves throuwh ~ 1 . 0 thinking and talking
about? What a unifying efIsct
his Word. W 2 / 1 11, 12
it will hnvc nnd what a hne
contrlhtlon each one c a n
H~tnday,February 18
make to the discussion a t
IQod'sl ~ 1 1 1Is that all sort8 the
meeting it families preof nten 8hou3R be savcd and
nt home in harmony
come to an r~ccllralc k1601uI- pnre
with the! congresation's proed#e 01 truth.-1
Tlm. 2:4. gram.
Those blessed w ~ t h
Yes, Oml's wllt Is that pea- more atudy time can do adZc m c to an rccurnts
dition81 research. And while
nowledge of truth. Moro tlmn the mal of some o f &ply
a hnzy outlitlo of knowlFdqe
picparing n comment an the
Is necewtly. This ans u:lc study ques~ions might be an
o l the prok~lemsIIM! hy the acceptable gosl Ea begin wfzh,
Jewish pcople of thp npostlc the renl go31 &%ould be m
~ n u l ' s r11ty Ar? referred to grnsp t h e Scrlpturr-1 subject
Zhctn aa "hnving the frame- ~ v dthen to help others to
work 01 thc knowltdga nnd of
do so by the con~lnentsmade.
thc truth." IROm. 2 ~ 2 0 ) If a With this objective, study won
..
M a y , Feb18
Aeld &ca
and tn p arfng
lor the T h e ~ ~ ~ % #h&y
tld
What~acr
axe ciaimp, towR
Cotrld thry bc given
nt tt w h o F S D y ~as to ~ e - 1Sch0ol7
r~p01IRtblFltle~
armnd
k m a h and not to men. l~ X.;!ncclom 11~117 ti clders the
are
~ ~ 1inoirb
1
tt $
nlcit Zo nlP the dPtriIk thot
Jrlmalc you tt:rll recmne the
amcct
Lhc
6pIritunl
11ves
of
drlc rutunrd
Slave for the
thr "~heep"In their care, they
Maatrr, Chrlat.--1301. 3 2 3 , 24. nrc
In n IloslOon i,u help then1
Llvlng no longer for ourattd cat1 talk nbout these
~11~0%
involves more than thlnEa when they meet tofaithful cntlurnnee when w e
ReLher. ITnwAvcr, what i i a,
nrc bdng persecuted. (2 Cor.
nicrnber in n crmgrc~nMonla
6:lSI Aa urged by Paul, lir-stnrt~tlff In n lrend that the
Infi m lungcr for omselves inPlrlprs fml msp land to spMcl~rdcs crcry mpmt of Ufetun1 dlmctiltyl W n ~ i l dit not
morals, how we think, act,
lx? an rxprrmlm of love nnd
dfely subMndnesrr l o do all they csn to
exeroiae of rcrncrly tho hltur%tlonlW 7115
~rrulnhlp nncl obedience to
8, n
pnrcrll s. II~Inxntlon nnd tilenHIIPO 111'0 211.111111 in achieving
mmMag, Fnbmary 20
hri1rcnc:ml l l i i a , hiid t~ penutne
Far thIa TCUROn, noto fhrrt ios
CI1rl::Linti rlrhtly uses some of
hauc tett llre primary doctrine
h l n time 111 purrnits thnt are
selnxln~and pleesurable. But adoirt flre C'hrisl. 3ct t i 3 press
hr tlors n o t live sole$ for or1 to ~nnt~iritv.not InHnff a
tolindatron agafn.-Hef.
62.
~ I P R B I ~ ! ' P . N o r does ha ration
on w m s spectflc part of his
Are tlwre nny among us
Ilia nr; "my Elme," durin~ who hnvc been n~wclated
which he c:rn ioreet that he with the Chrislian congregaIs ~ c r v l nGod.
~
That this is tiori I o r years nnd yet are
AO 18 Rarn fvom the flne way
not &blu t o tcncll others the
1n which Chrbtian servantmu hslc rloctrlnm of the Bible?
or del~ovah use thefr free
After years of ruwoalnllon with
ttrnm. Hlah on the list of
Gorl'a ~reoplc, do mine still
~ ~ l ~ a ~ u rthing=
n l ~ l ethey do are
have 8lm:ult
In lettlng their
tillnos t l l r ~ o t hreletccl to thelr
mnadenco Ktstinmlsh rlsht
wora't~lp.W 6/15 25, 27. 18
from rvronE? Do they x
i11
rvnt?t otl~rr!~
to tnnke drclsial~s
Wcllnmday, Frbrnarg 18
tor them In mritlprs of conYorr mrrlht t o knnw pc~s!toce@ sclenca? Ariy wlio find theml
111str11ctlon
the oppcarancc n i #ow pock. selves ~ l l lnocrlil~R
111 Ihe I ~ n ~ l c s
nP Christian
-ProV. 27:23.
lenchlllR
R I I ~ l i v j n ~ should
lmflere uhould be aware d ccrlninly worlc hnrrl to ncqtijre
those ncerllns assistance in
Chrlstlnns should
thc aoncr~aatlon. Perhaps mnt,uslLy,
not bc lllre \ ) I ~ I I ( ~1vho
P ~ . snever
srrrne of t h r older ones nre
:et
bryond
S11a Ioimtlntlou of
hnvlng dlmc~llttes that d e c t
.
!
l
e
huildlng,
the
foundntlon
thrlv 8ervIce to Jehovah.
In t h l h ; cnsc M n c : the elernenhlnybe t h ~ p&re depressed nnd
iRv
01
p r l m o ~ y doctrines
nrrd
~11courngemenk. Are
bout chrlst. rhey should
some mjssmg meetings or In press
on
to rornp1,lrlc ths buildothw ! ~ n y dnckening
~
off in
ujc or nupn'strl~cture that
2heI1~scwlce to Jehovah? Do
:esta upon thnt foundation,
BOln! trnvel alone to meetnamely, tlle ?nore r~rlvunccd
Jnas anti flold m r v h through
Rrtching nlloul aod'a purpose
clnngeraus neighborhoods? Do m revealclcd Lluaup.h his Son.
younger ones need help in
W 22/15 8
mrn
.. .
j~%m?nM"h.241,
Friday, Fsbmmy M
you desptre tiw ti&s of
his ktndac8a nn$ forbearance
and Eony-suflcrrng, become
[ow do rtot Ctiow thet the
rndly qsarlty 01 God t s hy-
I%
Znn to
repentance?
--itom. 2:e.
The lnitial maotion of the
i ~ t h e rto hle prodigal son m u
to mlnd these words of Paul.
lcnrl ?FOU l o
K,Ztt?EL E!
cmnt
c ~ l v t lhnck, Rntl~cr. we a f l l
seek lo row n ~ ~ r s ~ l vsons
cs
TO be moesssiu ol wmrsa,
av* trdnlng rnuh
tam.
Parents must know w t a t they
want and what 1C will tnke t o
u c c o m p l l ~ t ~it, It Is ~ ~ t ol d
have 111 mlllrl a plcturc nI the
desired r.r~l11tand to diacusa
I t to~ether.The ~ o n ~holrld
l
he
to prodaco nn ~irlult nhlo to
tlilnk fur Illrnaclf, one ffevoted to r l ~ ~ 1 1 ~ e o ~ ~ tImOw1esn.
Ing Ootl, hnvltl~the wlll nnd
determlnatlol~ to flt?rW God
in ImlLntlon o l Jeat~s IShrtst,
and flridir~r: p l c m r t : In dnll~g
things f n r otller 1lcopTe. Brit
.rr.here 1rnlnl11~ i s lrft to
chwce. l l l c result Irr shame
for the pnrents. W 2 / 1 8 , 1
Srmday, Fohrttary ZS
oo m bringdnu
them ?~p
in
discipline and
mental-regulating o l Jehouah.
Fathws,
..
-Epl~. 8:4.
Monday, Febfllary 24
Whoener exalt.$ himsell wil
ba ltumbled, and whoever
htimblea ltiMeJl will be
mnIlcd.-Matt.
23312.
\YodnWy, February 26
Trrrst in JchauoJl mfth ntl
S f l f #ill
m d e yotw pnthj
low the Scriptural arrancestru:sht.-rrw. 3:s. 6.
ment fur the famllv study.
young 11copIe w i ; ~ w m t
irrc..raectlve OF the h ~ w e n t to YOU
do the all! of Uotl shol~ld
mental ahillties of the various cultivnto
a lovo for OoAr.q
mctnhers of your family. Let
the Dihla. Study f l ,
your children learn the lw- Word,
ponder over what it navlr.
Ron of humility by fully wtreasure up 11s Irutha, obi
operatlnp;, helping to build ~p .ts commnndmmLq nnd Ilve
one nnotber mid so prove that
3y its princlplea of rllrhteousthey nrc Indeed Ghrlfit's dlsless. Wh11t dues It menn t a
clllles. W 2 / 1 23, 24
taka notlco of Jehnvnh In
ill your w a y ' ? f t nwnnn to
nlontfay, February 25
t c k n o w l e d ~ c fehovnh, cspc:!filly by r l s l n ~ whnt, he any%
The teat ol JP&U?L ia the
Iregl?8nfn~01 knotokdge.
ve shot~ld (lo, t o fdtow his
rays. !
I yo11 do thnt, 310 ulll
-ROW.
1 :7.
Ilrect and ~ u l d eyour m y n
Slam a howledge of the
~ n t iyo11 will h n ~ n ROO^ ALIC:
bus QM is .w beneficis1 and
,es3 and rrljoy d i v l ~ ~ favr)r.
o
rencllly nvnllable, why Is I t
qollow!nu t h a t ~ o o d advlce,
thnt so few 01 mankind hare
?ou will not becnn~e rct)elIt? Often the reason i s t h a t
ious becauao of the mnny cvib
they tisve the wrong attltude
#I this present .system of
towartl Jehovah and his Word.
h i n g ~ .You wnll Itnow thnl
One esscntinl is stated by
his wloketl Byfitom or thln~rl
Bolomou, one of the wisest
annot bo refortnrd, sn thcro
lncn h a t cvm lived, Thls
does not mean t h a t one m ~ l d s no n e ~ dt o hrco~nc henlcd
~p in nnger nnd engage In
Irnr nod in t h e m y one would
lolent proteat, To the confear an enemv who was trying
rmy, llfiten to sl~rl.follow tila
to harm one Rnther, mt of
r w e c l for W d acd in aprlx m~ln.wl of Pwlm 37:B, 9.
prcc:ntion ot all he ~ B Sdone
V 5 / 1 lB, la
Thmsiby, February 21
Frlflny, February f 8
Do not Became young chitdtsn Moat trub I say to you, If
in pourers of understandfag, n n y m abswves my word, he
B a t be babes m to badr~css; mfll rlevcr aree cicoth at all.
yet become jull-gra!u~t f j i
powers of understand~np.
-1 Cor. 14:20.
-3ohn 8:5I,
It le ta t h e welt-snotnted
Chrlatlana who wlH rule In tna
Jn& as a man cnnaot b- Kluudom t l ~ n t most OI
the
come a child by sctlng In CllrlsCinn Grrak s c r l g t t ~ r a is
a chfldiah way, thc mnture dircctcrl. In the nbove words
Chnsttan does not become Im- Ct~rl.stob~iouiilyBlrl not mean
mature t h o u g h XvranR nc- thnt tho npofltlm and others
irons. But h e Can heooine who Roun woulrl be ano111ted
cwrupt; and lose his R ~ ~ I ' O V C ~1~1th110ly npivil woutcl I I ~ V C ~
standing with Cfod. Wfl mllRI; Ernw olrl nnrl die. Jle knew
be on guard against let1 l n tho
~
thnt ioln tholn to Pecrive the
modd infiuerlce our t h i n k l ~ ~ ,11cn~Bnly ~~runrrlt h ~ y mrmt
beclouding it and calixlnl! us
r l j r ~ . Golfla intrntlx~earlier Jet o act foolisl~ly. Urrtrill~lY sur; hnrl tulcl them that lie
Christians do nct ~ ? ? e dCXIllmnclC would dle nnd then
perknce in 'bndncm and he r~.uurrrrt~d,All of his
~rrongdoing. nor sliollld they
~nolntcd inllawers, too, had
went or seek such. When I t to dir to bccome irnmatnl
comes to dli;hone.* clealln~s rulers In h l ~kingdom. Then
with othera, plnyinr: t1w rnla
how would srlch ones "neT,,er
of & hypocrite, or purrrului! acr dcnth nt nll"7 In thnt by
sexually fmmornl or prrvrrtc,ti \wins! Inltl~ful ~ t n t i l rlenth
nssociationa, Cliriatinna ciu~hl, t h y \vo111rlucvcr \)c h ~ r m c d
t o be us babes, h~tlncent I I I I ~ lly ltla J ~ U I I H I J c l d ~ t t l ,h~ borne
inexperienced. Yct lu cllallr~- r~ut by RnovoIntlon 2:10, 11.
gulshlng r i ~ h t frum wrrlllu,
Tllna, nftrr t>cing resurrected,
they should be at1 n(t~llt,r~
t111tb
they wH1 lorcvcr bc klnga In
nre flrm for what Is rlgllC nild
not easily gwaycd by tiinooll~ Ilrnven, to tho henoflt of ~ l l ,
1Y 6 / 1 5 0 , 10, l l a
talk. W 2 / 1 5 13, 14
Imitate Gad by Showln#
-Eph.
".
Yah~aehstands pr?n+-PrOu.
19:21, Jerusalem Biblo.
It ia comforting to Imew
that, whereas human pliUI8
for mankind are foiling, tilo
purpose, of a lovlng Crentm 1%
succcedlng. Tho failure af human plans is causing all of
ue hardship nnd concern. But
faith in God strenstllcna us
t o look ahead to our enjoying
eternal good from the 5 U f 0
success of Hls purpaqe. Ro
never necBs to lenrn from
such W n g a as previous mtstakes, for i-.e makes none. Mcn
b:1, 2,
...
wdne5aay, MamL
-&h.
5:I.
Wen has it been 0thBt " m a n is an Imitntlva
creatuy" and thnt "It 1s by
~rnltatmn, far more tlran by
precept, that we learn @verythmg.'VArlstotle said: "TO
~rnitate% ~r~stlnctive
In mnn
from his in;rmcy." It Ila tnre.
We all s h r t out in Hfe imltat~ng.A chilrl lenrns lo wnlk
to feed himself, to Calk, n1)d
60 forth, not by rending I~cHhrn.
not so much even bv expllclt
i~xitruction. Rnther, 'it Ln by
lrnitnting hls parents or hla
older brothers and sisters. At14
R e continue througii llre imitatlng others, oft-n uncurlsciously, In v!ew o t the Impartznee of t h e imitative lnstlnct
in hurnmklnd. horn vital I t 1R
t o look at the r l ~ h texamptl
Yet obvlously the majorltr. of
manklnd, althowh rlnlmlnR
to womhlp Gml, lur srrGrl lry
their p e r f m l n ~ r:r l l d r ~ r ~riels,
s
nre I m i t n t l n ~ Imrl mtnm[)lra,
for look at all tho atlnio. Ilnmorality and wnr 111 whlrh
people seemlnKly sverywlirra
enpzEe, I n t l ~ l s' reqnvd, Llir~o
Is no better c x n m p l ~lor 11.: to
irnltate thnn thot of Jehovnh
God himself. W 3 / 1 1-3
Thumdsg, March 6
Whm J was a chikd T u M Q
chqd's Fmguage, took A ch'ld's
u i m s , m d e a chfEdB eatcuFatiom: since f lrnve becons
a man I hrrve suprrsedcrl Iha
child's mop.-l
Cos. 1 3 : I J ,
Byhaton.
Tbmgh not usually thought
of as mature ChriaMans, children, too, can manifeat ndvancement in spiritual values,
There cornea a tlmlc In a
child's Me when he la expected to rmtgrow ahlldlsh
views and ways. 01 hh own
experience, P R U ~mob the
above. Are you, as a child,
progressi-mly dortrg nwny wlth
iv
2/15 a d 1 ~
PHdur, March 7
OW Fatlrcr ift the hmemI Iet
1'"
1 / 1 5 4a
~ -
do haw the m h d of
Chrid.-l Car. 2:16.
HOWcan one develop the
mind of ChrM snd become a
truly aptritual person? A regUlnr sWdy or God's Word ba
cssentbal, and along with study
rrcdltal~o~l
1s required. Do not
~ n ~ s l a k r r ~Lhink
ly
of meditation as n pnssivc process. It
l,nlce& poslklve, dellberats efl u ~ t .Dnlly reading of the Bible itself should be made part
or 0111- llfe, slnce by such
rcndlng we learn of t h e life of
Jcaus and of other spirltunl
lncn who had God'a approvnl.
B I I ~tlmc mu& nlso lle spent
consldct in# how thls material
trpllllrs pel.sonnlly, how it sets
otic rilrnr t from the world. In
t i u s way there is further fntrrldhrrt!on of God's thtnking
Into o:rr mhd, letting 1t bend
or urge our own t h m u prncssscs m Ehe proper dnectron.
A f t r r read~ng a portion of
grripture. ask yourself: "HOW
can 1 use thrs to avoid repeatin^ paqt mistakes? How does
1C anhance my appreciation of
Jehovah's goodness and swell
within me a deslre to be Iike
him?*' In thls way we see how
to imitate C W and not the
fleshly world. W 4 / 1 12-14
We
#UP
thtnkln~cnn be nd*pld, n n 2
if A person IRnot on gunrrl,
ihc can tw Inshi.shltrnetl bv thlu
sptern of thltljis. T h e dmnt:cr
for Chrlslfnrlr, 14 tlicre, nnrl it
cxa be n real i)attle. It IS not
to b minlrnlaerl. I1 la n sl.rupgle agalnat I~nitatlng world1
~ e n p l e ,whetl~ei.younff or olcf
Yauu
need
ChrlRtlmH enpeclnlly
Mmrlny, Mhrrh 10
Do not hold back dfmfplfne
J r m the olere bo9. In cnnr!
y07C beat him ttrrllb tk raA. he
wtfl nnl dle. Witlt ihe rod ou
yottrself shortld kcat hlnt, taat
wt~mav dciitorr hfs ver71
soul rom Shrol itsell.
-Lrov.
22:13. 1 4 .
wl~r
In Isrnsmel, n rorl
an
chnatlaemcnt,
as Jehovnh rsnid conrtrning
instrument of
David's
succcsaor,
Sulomon,
(2 &am. 7:14)
Row Ihla
pnrentnl rod of a~!tboriacd
chasttwmsnt la used 18 ti wrlous mntter, Parsnta ure ttccountable to G o d . who ulvca
the nulhmltg to ehnstiae, to
use the "rod" properly. l"al1ura
to do so mrry IVCII result in
death
ta Lhe chktd. ns the
Do not i m i t ~ t ethe rwgr of this
wid,--Ram. fZ:.?, Lapmverb stntcs. ns well ns d1The generation gap js a vinr: disspplwal or the pnrbrcakdoun In communimtion enh. Jehovnh hlmsclf ach the
md underskmdm~: between
cxamgle !n the proper cxcrclsa
y o u t h mid adults. World wlde
of fatherly nuthoriLg Go dbclthouqh thia gap may be, pllne, er poinled out nt Howhmt about Christian homes? brews 1237, 9, 10. Jehovnh
should there be such a gap disciplines hie pcopIe, n o t boI n the Christian home? Wdl,
cause he i s Irdtalcd, bul "for
&re true C?ristians part of ou? profit," that we mng huvo
the world? Jesus Christ made his npproval and Ilve. He cxit ctenr that Christians should pects Chrbtk~nlathera to do
be "na part of the ~~orlct.'~llkewise toward their ohlltfren,
(John 1S:LS). 80 if you are a with a view to their becornln~
true Chrintlan, whether Dung true dlsclple! of I*
Son. Ilr
or old, you want PO part of 2 i l 8
Tuesday, Maroh 11
Whether you eat or drink, at
whatever ymi arc teo!ng. do all
for tlte honour of God.-1 COr.
10:31, New English Dlbla.
Many plm their vocntlom
so as to benefit to the full
from one of the large conventions held each rear. 80 wllcn
you personally @re thought to
wenmas, ~vcekenda or vncntions, FeAect on your 6tauding
before God and Chrisl.. Elldeavor t o do Lhat .whIch \!*ill
be refrwhing t o you. Xlrcvc ns
your goal gainlna sLrenatll
that you will put to gotjd uho
in continued servlco to Ood
after the "free" pcriod In ?vrr.
Whlle the ~ v w l dlnsy Nay Gct
swny for r aRlrile rulrl iarr.et
r o w re~ularroutine,' demonstrate iour spprcckntlon mr
what God mci Christ hnva
done for you Avnfd thinns
that could distllrh yr)ur tollsctence unU C R I ~ Syou
~
to Irruk
beck wlth regrtt on ultnt
might othmlse have beell k
rcfreshlng time. Really, L h
servant of God xhaultl hnvc 111
mind dolng nll thlnxs 1,0 tho
glory or his Creatar. Thouch
Imperfect, he shoillcl 5trlv0 l o
control sinful Inciinntion~nnd
not 'present himself ns n nlnvo
of sin.'- om. 6:16. LV 6 / 1 5
?8-30
ndv1ce la ~ ~ n o r c dbut
,
thcy
shu~rld rsmcml)cr w h n t Pa21
urnto, rn q11ot~r1ahorc. Also,
l11 l h e Hnltl nualysis. "eat:
olle will r r r i ~ yIlls own load.
(Clnl. l1:tl) In ~ r l t n r dto givill[: smh cn~it~l.:r$l,
t;omething
iit~nortni~t~ l l o Irl
u hc lenlVned
fl-c;ln tho exi~~r~l>lo
of Jehovah:
nc klntl, l x (,t~ctlut,but he
slloclBc, Millte sure thnl, the
one being rounscletl g r t s t h e
point. W 7 / 1 5 lo, 11
Thumd~y*Mlvch IS
Whflc Ire tuns yet a long mag
on, hf8 all:rr caught 8:ght of
~
flu,
hj R j l b fiIn8 ~ ? W V Cl0flh
artd 111: rorr nnd IrEI upon hvs
r~rcknnrl ? r ? ~ d r r lkfsscrl
y
Irfm,
. - r , u k ~ 15:2u.
. ..
. ..
Monday, Mhmh 17
Knotn thia, mjl beloved broth-
congregations of Jehovah's
Pkidmy, Marah 14
have n o w come more
Let w make man in our im- people
fully Into line wlth the Scrip-
.. . . .
-Gen.
age,
and let t h m haw In
subjecth
, all the earth.
1:26.
W 1 0 / 1 5, 6 , 8
Elatnnlay, March 15
The name o j the c i t y from
that day an wilt be Jehovah
HzmeEf Is There.
--Ezck. P8:35.
World conditions are not
the only evldence of the nearn e s of Jchnvah's day. We can
albG fin8 clear-cut evidence of
its nearness in what is going
on in Jehovah's true Christian
congre$ntron--in what JehoIfah i s doing wlth respect to
Ius people. From Ctd's dealings In recent years the new
order of rightewsness is seen
to be so close that we can see
it tnkmg shape right before
us. Conslder these developments: Organientlonally, the
Bmduy, Mmrah 16
He will teach the meek ones
is
needed. W 3 / 1 5 9-12
Wednesday, March 19
IJe suucd us and called us
with a Izoly cinlding, aot b y
rcason of ow works, but b#
reason of ?ah own purposs
and undeserved Xiadness.
-2
Tim. 1 : 9 .
r n m d w , March 20
Btcome imitators of God, as
bsloved c1~tldren.-Kph. 5 2 .
Wc certainly do not want to
do as those of the world do.
Imlltnte either human 'gods"
01' the invlsiblc demons, do
we? tIow vital, therefore, that
Wc t~cerl Paul's ~nspired arlmonit~on!Doing so 1s a mfegunrtl agalilst becornlnf: ilnb
tators of any fahe gods. B u t
w h o Is the lrue God that we
m e urged t o imitate? The inspired Bllile psal~lllatanswers,
arldrcsslng thnt One: "You,
wl~oar!nnmo Is Jehovah, you
izlotlc! arc the Most Hifih over
1111 1 1 1 ~earth." IPS.83:lS) It
Is hccnuse uf his Creatorsh~p
nf all t l l i n ~ stllnt Jchovall ~s
Indccd GOD.
(Jer.
1 0 -10-12)
t;
Saturday, M a w h 22
Low fs Ionp-suflcring
Whrn ~ v cconsider the vastkind.-l Cor. 13:4.
ness 01 t h e universe, with :ts
This mennn more than just
bHIlons of starry galazes. truly 'ouv smnll md ms~gniAcant putting up with linrrlshlp but
implies putlent forhenrnnce of
we arc compared tu the Grcst
Creator, Jehovah ! T h e very unfnvornb le clrcumatnnccs. In
a famlly, Chrlatlritm rvlttl ~ m l thought of l m i t a t i n ~Hlrn may
ly lovc do m o w than j u ~ tenaecm s t a ~ e r i n gto our !magination. How il; it possible? It dure the Impcrfecttonr; of one
anothcr. (Cul. 3:13) Even 111
i s pclrslble lieca~rseof the way
sucli a close rt~lnl,lollslllpnil
Clod cmatsd us. That is, God
tllut; of lrusbn,trrl i t t ~ r l wile,
put in the Arst humans the
clifferlng vlcwpoiiils cnll fur a
pulenllal, the ability to exercise His o m qualities. They d~splayof this love. Wlint anc
wants
mey nut ba cspeclnlly
hccame his chiIdren. W 3/f
sppeitllnl: t o the ~ t l i r r . Are
11 -13
we g o l n ~to Insist on hnvlnf:
m a g , Mamb 21
The faitlr that reads ta rfghleownrss fa in t h e W ,and
ilre confesstort tbat k d to
aa1vai:on is upon the tips.
-Rom. 10:1O, New
English Bible.
We must prove by om actions that we beheve that Jesus has been exalted to a
position necond only to God.
(Phll. 2:8-11) Of course, in
order to believe that, every
Christian must ~ L S O belleve
thnL Jesue wns raisd from
t h e de:~d,and thnt Jehovah
God In heaven dld tllis for
his eon.
Show6 h his
letter that he was mmr.lnced
ol It, nnd he was -ng
EO
RO
nlo!la
l"
Wndnosilay, Ma,reh 26
The reminder of Jehmmh is
i r i ~ t i a o r t h y snaking
.
the i m -
thrv
Thncndny, M R F P ~27
i%T~morhl
Date
Aftpr
p.m., 8.1:
did I
O
T 148.
-Ram. 5:8.
Bo thnt mnful, uudeserving
httmnna ctn~ldc h w to come
into mn npprowd relationship
wlth him nnd be freed from
hor~dn~ot o sin and death,
Got1 did n o t 6pwe his dearc s l Bnn Irom undcrqolng a
htlnrnrTn1 death. ~ h i n j rof it,
J r l ~ o v o hCtod dld this for hutnntlt tc+hho dld not even ack~lo\vlcr?nc 111s authority in
tl:rlr I!YPS. even as Paul pores.
'Tt:c #lurchme of sinlrzl man-
XFrlday, Mnrrh 28
Let no man ever look down
on ymr poath. On Llre contrary, becon&@an cxampl~to
tb Init?lt?tl ones In spPnkln
rn conduct, tn tm, rn .tct~tiE:
in ctiasiet~css.-l T i m . P:l.?.
Often younR poplo go to
...
m n ~AprlI4
,
TuWajI A p d 1
Tim Lmd
tience
that 6np should perish but
thnt Q1I ahoaM go to repenthig.
-2
P t , 3 3 , Bylngton.
mutl llfa
BccllmulnlR nn nccttr~te
knowledae of thc Bible. nnd
to
Thmmdny, April 8
WC hove h c o m a theatrical
qcctacrc fo thc world.
-I cw. 4 :9.
Rwe mu1 uoan not taking
about the apostle8 ae being
Iltc. tcnrn the truth, accept
a apactncla In thnk, Ra others
hlx provision nnd gain Hfe.
vie!tRt?d thorn lmtlin~ honest
In your' 1ovo for fellow h i m a n s lives, thoy hecnrllo cmvjnced
c u n t l r ~ ~ ~twf nwiden
~
out be- of the r l i h t l ~ c wuf the Chrlscalinr uf your apprec~athe tlall wny of lifr. No, he 1~
lllnt all humans ate red1 the discuaslng the srlflerinp Lhnt
property o i nod an$ of
t h e n p o s t l e ~ eqlrrlcnced, as
Christ? W 2/15 I-6b
tllouuh l ' e ~ ~ r ~ ~ ~exposed
htrl~~y
i ~ ?a ttient rr br!ore n 1mIr.ers~1
IVdnrndmy, April 2
8pcctr~Cr)~,I11p,
'rllc. "thcnlrlral
Pontfw o t ~ rtlresc things; be r;~rectrkcl+b"thnt thc npustIes
allaorbrd in tlaem, that your prcrenl. in tho Irlbir '1s by hrlnot n [)mad
adnnnccmrtal may bc manifest mall st~cl~d~~~.clrr,
antg, hut n ~ o r t y and CDIIto rill.--I T i m . 4:15.
temptl1,lo
one.'
TerEulllan'~
Whlla 11 Isl true that knowlsdur Is ~1 "gifl" from God. trnnalnt,ion help8 us to get
t11ls vivid i ~ t ~ ~ofr the
e SUI11 Is uot acqulred or mainInined wlthaut considerable Perlng u i hrlall~nfi when it
fipeak~
of
thrnl
m
"men
II
personnl elTorE. To illustrate.
rr mrirrlcian mag be mid tn polntcd tO IEqht alth mfid
beasts." Onc cnn therefore
liRvtb n RIIC for playing the
ptcture B tcittmpllnl procemion
pfn~:a. H v may have ccrtaln
u ) Roman times At the rear
nnturnt illcltnatlona that lend
comra the thltlifol hnnd ot
thornaelwa to his musicsl
EIpOSI.1BR
nnd atller Chrlstlans
nblutp, rand yct we &ould not
be
in^ loA like d~spiaetlcrimiconclrtdo that hla ability ta
llny came w l t h o ~ ~cfTort
t
or 11la1s to the n r a m wh~1.a::peetabor8 will 1.ovv1 In lilcir slrfI I ~ ~ ILI ~ ! rnalnlalns this gift
mllhout prnctlce. Our getting
fenng nntl denth. W 4 / 2 7, 8a
l ~ o v n l i 'wltna%?es.
~
Work hard
nt nvofd!rlg Ure generatltlm
RRI) $ ~ l dt~ccoming vlctims of
st. Brlnlr rh victlm means only
rilan~,pr~~ntment
nncl death, as
Jollll rvr0tC. I~~rtenci,stick
clnw to Godk Word snd his
ol'unnlsat lot1
of
dedicated,
bn]~l.imdtwo la, 13o the will of
aclrl. Arul kink af the reW I L ~ ~that
R
can bc yoilrs If
yorl nvolrl the ene ern ti on gap1
R l ~ h t now yr~u can enjoy
rnnny hnpp
experiences if
tmly y a l ~ W I reach
~
out m d
wlm holtl ul the thmcratic
~ > r l v l l e gbhcln~
~~
extcr~cIed to
(:l~ristlnn J ( I \ I ~ ~ An(1
I R . 111 tile
i ~ r t u r ~ Well,
*?
Pr&vt=rbs $:I. 2
~ 1 1 ~ : ; : My firm, my lsw do not
$ ~ fiat,
I I nnd my commrandments
mny yolrr Iwnrt observe, bccnum IrtlKlh of tlnys nnd
grtftra nT HIo and pcnrc wlU
ba ndrlrd tcl you!' Pnrmlts,
Irowrvpr, cmr do mnucl~t o prevrnt a ~ ~ i i c m t i o pap
n
from
nslslne in the first place.
It' 5 / I 25-37
Ratw&byp Apin ET
[Ckfatl dktl tw all that
l l t o a ~who llva rnlght live no
lonprr jar tlvmselues, but jor
I ~ i mwho diaR for them.
-2 Cor, 6:15,
Bervice to Ood and Christ
Is a saurm of rcfrwhment and
JOY. (Untt. 1l:ZR-30) But humhns ~vi:hout frith, and wicketI spirit f o r m . make things
11nrcI fur Ctu+ls!.ta!~s.Thfs has
been the cxpcrlc~lce of our
Sunday, kprll 0
My brothers, what uso la It for
be ~ c o o n ~ p n n l ~hyc l works. It
W lil
Monday, April 7
1
am WPed blemed, PsrQird puraebea, a& be shut- snta who are ckllcnr;ed and
Pnptixed
servants of Uocl have
tered to pleceal Plan out u
scbme, and ft wilt be broken t,lle n n t m l Iovo for tllek ORu p ! Speak an# trord, cmd it hl~rlngthat W irnpln!lM in
lu!Zt not stand, /or God ia hurnanklnd. They alhv haw
1l1c upportunllp - to torge a
with us!-Isa,
8:P, 10.
in the family clrclo with
What
~~orlrlly-wise men ~iltllty
I I P love and nnertlon that
iicheme Is c!on~~rcLPt o failure. Fnlrl
speaks of furrl ilia$ can
They not only pn.w over Cod's
joy
and sntlsf~ction
plrrpme but plnn and fig1zt Lrlt~g
ur~nfkiriable
nny other
n ~ a l n s tit, E v r r ~ in the ninb- rnrllntl. They by
ran ~ l t l their
tcr of combllll~ru Eqetfier, In clillclren to bcconw
ralihful
n Unitwl Nnrlon8 organlea- acrcnnts of God; not only
lion, the polilicr~lnnd wlltary t l l l ~bring the inmily clnscr uiu
tolmdms are ~ o l l l f icoatrarg to
but it 1.q tlhn brvt inGod's purpQ!;ch.It 18 really n ~cltlPr
horllr~nce,
they
ccol~lrl
pasu
on
conspiracy n}:it111:it IIirn. Ovrr
two thousnllll Ihrrr, -.
hi~nrlrt.rl
---..- - - lo l,llulr children. 1Y 2;1 2-4a
scars nr:r), t ! a t . 1); lq~hrt Isninh
was inspired tu r:rry tn erleloy
r"hnrriday, AprN 10
want t o pe P E T ~ E Ofl0
~,
sell your h e h f l n g s ontP give
to thc poor
and corm: be
mrr fo1lotser.-Mutt. 19:2I.
T o be Imitators of Cird by
belnu perlect even
He is
perfoct, wo must be dolnu all
we cnn I!r the Interm(; of ]>Uure
\vorr,lilp. Jesus showed this
wllen R dch young man cnme
to him and asked a'llnt he
muaL do Lo galn avrrlnsttnx
lifr. Josm realiecrl Ilint lle
rnrnald Im benefited If hr nn-
It
$IOU
...
nl~anitll: do
Jestls'
words
g l v i n ~tnkcn service t
a God.
We nmgt love God with our
t~qholr!I~cnrt, mI, mind nttd
~ t r ~ l l ~ and
t h , n?t R ~ ~ O prrW
so!lnl dcelres to 1ntorr1:ra wILh
o i ~ rcotrrplcle devotion to Mm.
Thus if wc have no salptirrnl
ahllcationr, ur physlcnl hnlldIm~)sto keep us from nhnriny: full time in prearhltlc: the
Kingdom ~ o o dnewii tn olhrrn,
ufc rvill he sharlng in t,I:e
it111-t,lrnepreschicg IrTork. We
cn~inot,be "perfect" l i wr: hold
I~:~clc
in ow servlCC t o (3od.
IV J / 1 5, 6a
Frlaay, aprU 1%
Do not become ashamed o
t b witnrss about our
neiilttr. of me a pri.poner fw
h i s snkc. but take pour part
la suflctlng eoil jm tlrc good
to t b r puturr
Tim. 1 : 8 .
Jehovnli'w people are llot a
thrcnt ta Inw and order. They
wa r ~ u 1 Chistrans. They clo
in(l@@d
yepresent the ganuin~
ChrJaLian cong~egution. Thla
is prnvcfl by how tllgr scrullu101th:~ try to apply the Bcrlpturc:: In t h e k o m l i v p ~ .Their
conrrcRntian is the mmr! in
stv~rcturo RS h a t OOrrWsRen by
the nl>ostles and prophet8 111
news &cording
01 <God.-2
nmt mtuv.
-people
teach the name hutha, Jehovnh's W ~ ~ ~ P K Tare
E S d mod.
ern "'sspectncle tu the worlrl"
m sufCcrll11: for the ram8
t h I n ~ 3ns (lid Jesus nnd hi8
apostles. Anrl as an orgnnixn.tion, thny know that thnv wlll
eontinut l o lace trihalntinn
riaht Il~rourrhthc end of thla
wicked Vshm of things. But
the
Ratnrdny, Apfl 1%
"Abraham pwt jaitlt fn Jahourah, and 41 was counted ta
him aa rlphtpasrsness." attd kc
crrm to br: called 'Jehnt:al~'~
fr/mrl!'-Jas. 2:23.
A rrlnl,lnn6htt) rtlrcly. if
ever, t ~ t , ! t r ~ l n ntllk. Zt dthor
devclwu rlr rer.rdes. TIIIR 1n
wrnethlna to bc watched and
s ~ f e r y t l r ( I l ~ ! $r!i~~eciaHlywhcn
per?c~jr~i
nro Hvlng clomly toceLhrr n R h ~ t ~ b n nand
d
wlra.
Thc-rr! n ~ n y l,r! n~utuol f a l l h
Illld N r n l j d ~ l lk~
U b P j l l la;!!h,
smnll I ~ ~ I I A
toB dcmonet~nto
,
tllosr? flllr* qualities
Tills
Ai>rahnm rlid tllroupllaut 121s
lifr. Pnul mentions three hlg
ere?ita wlic!~ Abrahnrn, by
p ~ o ~ n pnbedlence,
t
provrtf hln
5brollK fnllh nnd devollon 1A1
Jchovnh: 1 1 ) HIS leavlnu hIs
hnmetown nnd country whcn
called, n,nd (2) hi8 Hvinp: for
year* "na nn allen , , , in n
fnrrlqn 1nnrl." and especfnlly
( 3 ) hi8 'oflrrlng up of Islnc.'
(Heb. l i : 8 - 1 0 , 17-19> Nollce
concEuslnri I
Abraham
hnrE
eat inlth In God, and ( 3 ~ 1
ad Rt.rClllK confidence in bla
friend, W 5/15 16
Bmdav. Anrll 18
WIIP
tVotlneatItcy, AprM 16
Tlrs ct/.gs oj Jehovah aro 3n
cveru
kecpI?~fl watch
? ~ P U ? L 1 LP bad otws and tlre
lnet on exl~lbltionas men npo i n t d to death." God alowed them to appear as low-
Ilnrly.
pTCr,
1 5 :5.
Ycs, Jehovnh's eye8 are ogm
to sea all the wnyn of the
good 0nc.p.-Prou.
Ply
PH
...
H n h r d a ~April
~
19
To llra abtmdunce of tlte
pr1naIy rnla and to peace
fionday, April 82
0 Timothy, gsrard what is
faid up In trust mfth gOuI
turtdng mtmn J ~ o mthe m p l y
speeches t f a t t)ialale what
is Irfl1g.-l
3'ltn. 6:20.
Wnlclll~ig entertnlnment on
telovinlon, H~lenlng ta soap
oporns nn tho nillo lo, or readinf: novola wlll not Improve
uu~r knowledge of the CrenLor'a purposes, The BlbIe Is
t h e instruulrnt provider1 by
C ; d , nnrl through hh dsible
01 ~ n n l r . ~ ~ t 11e
l a l ~has provided
nlrcrly uirla lor c l l l t l w t i n ~the
~srtlor t r u t t ~ .TllnC we need
t r ~ cuillvr~tr nnrl t o imp~ove
our knrnvlcrlge uf the truth Is
in hrirnu\ny wllh what Pwl
wrnla. (]I&?. 0:l-31 Stnce i t
1.9
nod's )ur
R=w under
VXP
!l!ht~mday, ApM 24
the
Kla~rlorn \o
the earth
~ I O ~ ~ I I I Lwith
L P ~ men and wornr n prrlrct Itr knowledpe, then
I t In icvrll thnt IVC now R ~ V Z ~ ~ C
in know!cdr!t? t h a t klefits tile
eervnntr; ot Jehovah. I t mould
nut hn wise for us to make a
prnctleo n? Ilstenlng to fake
r r l ~ ~ l o u 1)ropnanlda
n
on the
rr~dlonr on tclevi~lon, nor to
llrivr! BIIOII
Illtcrntnra come reg11lnl.ly Into our homes, thinkinr! Lhnt thln mould equip us
to rPIule ~ri~acrlpturalteachI r r ~ n . Pn~rl'sndvlw is pertinent
I I P ~ C . 1V 3 / 1 5 14, 15
Wmtnastlrry, A m %!t
IJappy arc lhoee ?ah4 Mae
born persecuted or righteownres' sake.-hatt.
5:lO.
Tho qucstion a h t be
aakd, H n w can any person
endure alrcll ntlvemity? There
IRonly one wny n person can
senlo111 :II rn L L ~.S Christian
while mflcrlnf! evll: Re must
ho n ~t)l\lbr:tl persull. Eee
t t l l n ~ sfrom God's standp0ir.t.
S r ~ c ha orlc will knotv that tle
IR . ~ L I ~ ~ W ~Inr
I I Rrighteousness'
~ n k c .nuL ki fleshly thfnkirig
irj nffnctl~ig h l ~
llfe nnd 31s
hse n worldly viewpoint, even
Ilc who clnirna lo know the
way of tho truth may under
rb
rr);
Frlday, AprPl 25
Thane will depart into eaertallinn rrtttinp-ofl, bwt the
Ilfe.-aratt. 25:46.
In apcakfnu ahout this time
or the ~eneratlonseelug the
Rntadny, Aprll 28
Love ,
bcms all things,
-1
..
Cor, 13:4, 7.
Ee-
N~mdny,April 27
That zlrc mnv t ~ o t bc averreac?laR b# Sntan, for ws are
not fflno~a71l
of I~tsr desigtas,
-2 Cnr. 2 : i i .
Batan% dcal~naare to dewur nng of M ' R mxvknts
thnC he cnn. nlrd he goes
bout "ltka n ronrlng Ilm" trr
accompliah h t ~nlm. The man
who hat1 beon dlrrlello~shiped
In Corl~llhhnd llccn l ~ a n d e d
ovor to Rnlart It1 lllc wnse
thnf h o hnd hecu put oul oI
tho en!~(rrc~c:~tlnn
nncl thrls was
thl'ust rlul Into Zl~a wurlcl ander fintnn'~ t l o r n ~ ~ l nLike
.
n
little Icnven in the u~holeSump
o: do11l:lr. this mrrn hnd hcen
the flr?.;llly c*Icmrnt Irtsirle the
co~rg?r~~:r~tlolk:
n!Kl by removing t13la Inceat~~o~ur,
man the
splrltutally !nLnrlr3tl corlgregation hrtd dehtrt~yctltho "11esl-r"
from its mld&t. Now Sntnn'a
de.rtan or ulm would hc t o
bold on to sual? prey until
succeeding in co~nplctelyswallowing up the mRn, destroyi n g him splritunlly. If the mngrmar.ion. thowl~ In 811 ~ c m U
cun:brir~nce,were to be overly
cnutiotis and rductarit about
receiving tha now truly rcpentnril Wsongrloer bnck, deInying llYlnsconsnrily bir; Ternatntelnent, t h i ~wo~rldknit the
Arl~cl~sa.y'apurpose. W 8/E 4a
Monrlay, Ap131 28
Trwl In Jehovah ?dthaU vow
heart and do not ?can on pow
rlwn [trtrdcrstnrrdCngE. Do mt
J.:glngton.
h meaatirc a i ablll4p is often
requll.ed t o do vnrlous types
of work In the congregation.
Rut tho ~ a u l t at h n t are obtained nhoulrl not Ire attributrd )~rstlo petao~laltlbllie or
tnlmt. In frlct, those blessed
wlt1t nnturnl nbflities need to
IE cnrcftil not t o rely ou them
own ut~ilrralnndfng,but, rather., Eo Ivnn u11 Jehnvah, nsking
liim to tllrcr:l t W r 51eps. Obficrvntion mllt usunlly show
lhnl I,hoae s e r v i ! ~among
~
us
w o ~ k l r lhard,
~
qunllfp thr0-h
rllll$:rrlt sttirly niid spphmtion
of w h n t thry lenrn. Over n
per10~F01 tline they hove paid
c1o.w ntterbtloa t o thernselrres
nzrrl to thcir teaching. inclinInc: theis c-nra to Jehovah's
111htrur:tlon.'rhey have wanted
t o clo 111~ work ne 11s wishes it
fr,
b~ done, and it is comtnendahlo tn are how they xllow Jehovhh l o uae thcir t h e
nud tololts in various T:RYS ta
promote his wor~hlp.IT 9 / 1 17
Zhcrday, Apfl M
!
It we arc rnalkfng fn the light
. . me do have R shming d t h
ane anotbcr, and the blood ot
Y c ~ t t 8J ~ f aSolt CIeanses U S from
all nin.-1 John 1:7.
Tf we are going to practice
tha truth we have to be "mlkin^ in the 1I~ht."To walk in
the light we must cowdstently
h& the cou!>sel gIven us by
to thlrikY11~
ttlnl, nrt,cr afl, the
brief rnt>~nentof anJoyment
m l ~ h bI)o wnrth tho vltltntlon
of tho princlplca of light.
Rather, wo wUl call illmn
God alrd ~ m kIn Tollow right
prlikcl;,leB. I V r wlll Inlloff Mnses' exnm Ir, zvlia mndc I h e
riyht r l l o t r , "lur ho loolieti
in~entIy lownrtl the payment
of the reivri1'd."-Hob.
11:2426. W 9 / 1 5 1 R
to t f i s cnnp~malfon, r l l h f t h f s
hfr bodv.-anlr. I:2:, 23.
Ctorl purpowrl t h t llla Son
ahottkd hnvr a body of W o cfatcri w l l h irirn 111 tnking cnre
of tllirnriri 111lnlra. Thew nafioci:~tea rulLnc: over inankiizd
werr tu he Lrtken rront nmonu
mnr~lrlr~d.
Wllllo y e t on earth
thrso were 1.0 t>e i'orlnd Irtta
a c o n p r ~ ~ n t t nlbavlnr:
n
n borld
of unity wktlz hlm. Whnt nbclul;
the rnrrnl~ersof th1.i Clrrlstlnn
congrepntlon7 WflI, 11 vnrl
God's .:ranr:oua purpcw that
it shau!d h rnndr u p !tot only
ot thasr nhn hnd b c ~ n r!ir-
OR," wns
Sundlby, Hrry 1
. . .mange..
llwr8,
-:d~l!L,
m.tardny, Mhy 3
ThsreJwr tltaac who embraced
his word hnrrrtflg were haptized, t r ? ~ # o n trrnt dng about
three tlknf~sartt7souls were
cltld~d+-ACtS 2:#1.
"This Jesua Ctod r~~
uf which fact we are dl witneaws," ( h c b 2 :323 With
thotic words, the npostk Peter
FrlAav. M ~
to wh<lrn Protor mcke WPI.P.
" 2v
haQtkgd!' Tiiry w&;-addcd
Lst a n m e thirdlng came: M I to
the Chrl~tinncongregation
anyonc t h t u)fsbes fake! Iije's
-
--w,
to which
he In now cnlllll~ special nttention, in 6onrrLhlng m n d
for mnnkltid Ln n t t n ! ~t~o nnder tlir )cln~flomof God's dew
Son. 11 hn.5 become a goal
Ihl~thunrlrcch isf thousands of
1~11~mcllttlvc persons are now
sldvlna tn r ~ n c hwith Gorl's
Ilclp. To thuu~ I t is like tc
prlm thnt h c k o n s them onward, n gp~~clnus
king t h ~ t
fore innnltlnd, nnd
lut~dn~nrt~tnl
f : ~ c t s stated by
b t ! ~ Paul nnd Peter, that
''Jesus i s Lord" tlnd that "this
Jesrts Got! remlrrectrd" from
tlio dc11~17(Asta 2%; Born.
t O : W Xf you do, tbsn there is
surnelt~lny you have to do
al~out 11, nnmdy, make conl e s l o n o? vollr faith with
ynrir Ilps. 'f'11o.w who make
r;tlrbh n h m : f c ~ t confessian
libodd ~ e t bnptkwd. ~ e k r
UI~A
thnas wlio heard him
nt Pontcr:cht to do that, and
threo t h ~ l t ~ ~did.
~ nW
d 1/1 6,D
tL
. ..
I am yearning for a i of y o t ~
in stlch tenrler. agection as
Christ J m s has.-Phll. 1 :8.
What constitutes B good
reIatlonskip, lcadlng t o good
'I
TRarsdny, May 8
...
-Acts
s:ao.
Some of t h e evangelhers in
the firat. oentury did qulte a
:ot of traveling. They went to
places where God revealed
there mas a, need for their
services. We read that Philip
went; down to Samaria, After
he had done good work there,
Re was directed by Jehovah's
angel to go to the south to
the road that led from Jeru&alern to Gnaa. There he ex-
Sntr1rt1rl.v. R h v I
Friday, May 9
Jehovah i s King to time
indefinite, even jorever.
-PS. 11):lO.
The writers of both the Hebrew and the Chri~tlanGreek
Scriptures knew t h ~ Uod
t
will
never die, hence, that He will
reign for all eternity to come.
What mn t h i ~mean both now
and in t h e future for us7
. ..
1 3:71
Loua
h&es all things,
endures all thmgs.
-1
COT.
I 3 : 4 , 7.
Monday, M a y lZ
T k s e verg ones wilt underw
the judicial punishment of
everZasteng destruchon from
betare the Lord and from
the glary of lais strength.
-2
m e s s . I :9.
Sunday, RIny 11
Be obedfmt to those who are
Tum%rmy,May 13
fn t i h m a w w mg kaaentg
Falhm toill also deal with p
i
tl y o t ~Uo not forgive each one
h b brother from y m ~hearts
-Mntt. 18:35.
Alding uf~ to imitate Crod
me UIR
~ B R B O ~ given
A
in Ma
Wurd For ow iloing so, Would
wn llnver Clod forglva 1127 Then
we muat inlitate him bp being
f o r ~ l v l rns
~ Je6us
~
sald la eonr . l ~ ~ d l nhis
q
Ill~~strntlon
abour
ttw ~ i n l o ~ i vslave.
l ~ ~ ~And
wlrole Ilw npostte Paul: "Become kind t o one nnother,
t.endcrly cm)~asaionate,freely
i ~ ) l ~ ~ l(me
v l ~mother
l~
just w
Clotl ulxo Ily Christ lreely forf:lcvn yc>u." (r':1)11. 1.32'1 No
rlr~~-:qtln~l
~bhoatIL, by considerI I I ~ : r*~lvulullyCir~d'sWnrd we
all1 Iwtb lemn~how t o imitate
Cltril rtrtd t~lsobe motivated to
t1(1 so. Anather aid t o help us
tr, Imllntc Gwl Is prayer. Zn
Ibrnysr wc speak to J$hovah
WP open anr h m k t o him,
rirllll~r! 11po11 him in t h e of
trouhlt., whpri we have big decl~lorls to make, ns well aa
tnlltltl# to hlm about everyday
n111i~trr8.Ant! we feel his sub't 1~1rrirlKpmver. guidance and
~onilort. (Ps. 55:221 Thus
pntyer makes Jehovah mure
ten1 Lo ua nnct aids us b Imitntn Iiim. W 3 / l 0 3 . 24
W~llnmnt~y,
May 14
On ncclnp ihc croil'ds he
pill, fir tltnn, becnvsc
were skinrzril and throlan
about lfke shmp zrlithout
a ~1~rpIir~rR.-Matt.
9:36.
Brtnre Icnrnlnr: about the
good m w n of God's kingdom,
rneily nf Jrheva11'speople had
lwelr It~volued In dnra abuse.
rlrmtinke?lncssand ather de~ t ' f l d w i WnYK of life. Others
w c ~ efull nl arixlety because
of the It~aitibillLyof the economy nnd their quest for Annrlolal security. Still othera
wnro mt'iu~ nowhere sand
c~tl~tfitltly
R H ~ tliemsel~es:
~ B
"Wtint pilrpose is there in
tgi
WIttrfIdny, Mag 16
I n Inu heart it prnovcd t o b~
like m buy n J t ~ #ore ~ h t t tt ~ in
p
>+ourhtllr!f'ltt. W
6 / 1 14, 15a
mw,
10
Ha did not leuwe htmsdf m-
a t l e a t d , doing g w d , gtaing
pou rotna out ol the sky and
jrutl-tttn-, jillircg pour I w r h
toit?& jood ond cheminess.
--Ad8
I d : J T , Dyingbn.
EI~~(:I.K.
riff well wi 0thcont:rg~tllo~~.
ought to
~ u n r t l 11f:nlnat cloveloping an
a t t i t u d r n p l ~ r o a c h l n g that
whWh nome rabbinical writers
inrnrllterl tawnrd Gentiles ln
vlunlt~l: them QS wtual eneInlrs. It Is r i ~ h t o hnte the
wfn!iR aon~nt1:kd by t h e dis1cSlowallll)etb ulw. but 1s is not
r'yllt I n IrnW the ~ ~ e r s onor
n
Is I t r l ~ l ~to
l , treat such onea
In tiic
Rmta-y,
Mky 17
You turn, of course, culled frrr
jreerlom. brothers; only do
not 1 1 . ~ 0 thll freedom as m
IrrR?trcmcnt lor' the flesh,
the full in prwlng thalr faithfulness. They enjoy t h a t privitegc%, not prlmnrlly becrrirset
of what or rvllo they are.
Rather, they rrrr In tliclr re-
mective po~itlonsbemuse 01 a
neecl crenlcrl bv the Iilngdom
p~~oclai~ucrli.
~ ~ l l o w llle
l n ~advice of Jcuue, Ihey alini~:tsr to
tiloac in l,ho oonp;rcr:~ttion taward whom thoy nro hlaves,
(Lnlre 32 : 2 0 ) E'nitt~ful overm r s recuf;!ii?z thnt thelr work
1s ln c r ~ r l i ~ r c t l o
nit11
~ ~ thclr
feuow p ~ l l ~ l i n h ~~r s1,1
OI
nhorn
nrc prcrlnuu In Jehovtr11's
s l ~ h t ,wlwn Lhey dan~onstrtrte
falthfull~r?~
W. $ / I 18
Monday, May 19
You huve t a k m gifts b the
lorm 01 men.-Ps. 68:lS.
The 144,000 who alll form
Ehe cooperative badg under
the head, Jesus Chrixt, a m
tnkm "out of every tribe and
lorlgua and people and naZlon." (mv, 6 3 ) So. sfr-ce the
members of the congregat~on
on rwCh ura d l - a m froin such
w~dely d l f wlng sources, there
rn~rz1iLtu be rt m e a t need for a
uli~~lcnt~ion
w0i.k aamng them,
t o tmve them all hold to the
nrie head, the plorMed Jesue
chsih~,TO carry an thta unlflcntlon work sod provided
"k!iila in the form of men?
Ep'pI~estarifl 4:H-15.
Paul
poluts to LlIe ~IoriAed Christ
.I.I lhc one i%rilom
God uscd to
I E S ~ U W t , h a e humall "gifts"
u p o ! ~ the m g s c g 3 t i m on
c:lrth for the purpme of unitlrntlon, Elnce the er.d of
Ihr, Gentile Times they have
ulhter1l.y k e n acting upm JeRIZS' 11rop1letlccommand i0ur.d
~ 1M
, i~ltl~cw
24:14. Associaid
wlth this ramnant today are
h ~ ~ n d r t dofs thousands of dedlcntcd wo~ahlpera of Jehovah
wlio hnve obeyed his cornmntrd t o come out of Babylon
Chc Great. Are yau fully coo [ ~ ~ w t l twlth
~ s these 'gifts in
111un':J1V 1 0 / 1 5 1. 2. l a
Al
I h d y , m t y 243
Be firiit/rtl and increase,
...
Wodne~itay,May 2 t
The klngflons of lllc hravetts
hru bco?nc Ifke a man. a
08
"the
fett
vis~ble epir1t
I v ~ a v c n ~ .PUP
fnstnncc, Kcl~ucl~rttEn~~~xr
wn8
pu: thsou~ht~ ht~n$illntln&enp c ~ l e n c f fnr this atntcd prrlqpose: unlll you ltrlotv tltnt
the Most rrlgh 1s Rulcr in the
klngdom or mnnki~~rl.. nftrr
you know thnt tlio hsavcna
urc ruling," (Dnn. 4:25, 26)
Jesus wns r~fcrrlng to Ond
when he aald concnrnhrg .Tvr~~snlern:
"Do no!,Hwonr
Ily
Jeru~dem, becnune I t I s tlla
clty uf the Rrcnt King," 7'0
this i~etzvenly N ~ KJ8szrs
,
tznght hls dl~clplcs Ea pmy,
snying: "Let guur kiryrclom
come."-Mnt?. 6:34, 98; 6 : R . ;On
. .
.. .
tv rr/rs 4
Tharsday, May 22
d a j j we set a~rtan@
arrived in Caeswea, and we
entered into the hot(se01 Philip the euangclizer, ra!la was
one of thc scve!elz men. art8
T ~ mxt
E
rnday, May ZS
Let an pow enmfes MI^,
0 JeTehamTt. attd let #our l
m
be as ~r;hFn.the sirn g w s
forth m its miulttinssr.
J u d g . Sr31.
What now, in our day. te
represented by the "place that
l a called in Hebrew HarMagedon"? (Rev. Z6:161 As
with mcient Mcniddo, LE dnnotes a world ~ltuntion that
involves a dacldve war. It dcnotes that stage in world hwtillty tamrd God that cnlla
ior settling of the issue QVCF
which the hostility Imp, arisen. since Mglcldo en its rise
of g#und strate~icnny com-
ul the
Flatmhy, May 24
Sperrk truth each olplr of grot^
with hfs t~dg!rtWr, bemuse we
arc mcrnbcra hplwtgIng lo one
attotltcr.--b.'ph. 4:25.
By yolrr rldlcnllon you have
btcomr 11 r n r l ~ l l > r rr>I God's
fumlly, mild uun In truth adn
drcr;q hlbn as "our Fnlher.
(MIILL, B:ll) 'I'hlu in a wirltual
rr.lul.lon~~hlp,
I I ! ! ~ I.akes priorIty 111 yoiir 1II0, However, it
~ C E R no{, oanr,nI o11l fleshly
rralttlionnhipa nild LIielr obhrl~,blnns.Uod N I nrttrrl f h A mer ~ l l r i l i01 Ihe hiirnan fnmfly in
pcsf~*cllon, trlllw thcm to
m~iltlply. (Oen. 1:281 When
arnry.-Ps. 68:12.
Even Ihounh the BIble maka
no rnentlott after Pentecost of
most o l the twelre aposlbs,
mp mn ht: sure thnt they used
their RIF In rncrecl serl-iee b
J ~ h o ~ t tC
h;d ~ 1 1 ~Chat
1
he did
not forgel thein. (Rev. 21:14>
M~htlfhy,M@y 26
Ij anvonc comes to gou and
doe8 11ot britag this teaching,
nevcf rccafur hlm into gour
I~onlesor say n greeting t o
hlrrr.-:!
J u b x 10.
Tr~~sdnj*,
May 27
sny tor hatle solldaritv
tfrltn nl'm and are walkbg i n
thc tllutlinarr. luc are l v i ~ ~and
g
not Itvinrl up t o 2hi truth.
-1 Jolm J:8, Bglngton.
We must watch who o m
rursoclrrtcs rn In tbs field at
enflrrtalnmcnt. Whtle the assoclntlon hrre nlay ILOt be so
persnnfrl, #till we hnve to
wntch uur I!nl,lts in the readInc of Mokn and periodicals
thnl folIow Lhe corrupt stalldnrd of this world, or In
~ ~ t c h t r >rnrtvla
u
and telwtdon thnt eanlC nnd praise the
tl3fng.s conrlrm~wl by Gari'a
Wortl, srlrh nn Illow outfined
$11 tllr hotlb [>l
l3t)rnans. IRom,
I :28-:(11 \Vn cntlllot walk In
thc 1l~hl:n l Gnrl while runnltlg 111 Rsrtooinlir~nwlth those
of this wicker1 and sick soc l ~ t vthat RpIlrores ar everyl ' n l n ~ thnt illr God of light
a b l l ~ ~ r sT. h e cholce of assocl1tLln11Ys up to each one to
drl,rrrnin~),l ~ Ihe
t decision ns
to whetha thnt one Is practlclllr: t11c truth is w t~ Jeh~vtlh God. The polnt J o h n
makra 1s plain and forceful.
A4 lnllowera of J e w Christ,
It is our dlrtv to h d the
rmrnncl of Jrlinvah God's Word
nntE to rlWpct nut llves in nrco~tlnnoa wlth that: coun~el.
W 9 / 1 5 10
U we
WerZnesday, May 28
.. .
-able
~etionof t h w Invited
K;i
.. .
Saturday, m y $1
I his associates exerted every
W i t h such y k n d n g love we fiber of their b i n g tow&
cltose to impart to mu not those in Thexsalonica who accepted the good news. Paul's
only the gospel of God but our
and energies were theirs,
vcw selves, so dear ?&ad yoa time
and he wlshed f n d tried with
become to m.-l Thess. 2 3 ,
all his heart to make them
New English Bible.
the same all-consuming
It is one th~ngt o help a ppw- have
love of the good news by
son to get m e n t ~ lhowledge llving
it in every aspect of
and a~lutherto get things into
their Ilw. Do you feel and
the hawt. In JeausYllustrawork
that
way toward those to
tlon of the sower, the seed fell
on hearts. You as n preacher whom you take the good news?
I f so, you will not be selfish
of the good news want ta cultoward them. You will not
tivate that seed in the heart
counl: them as v o w "sheep."
of your student. An evangeRather, you wiu try to insllll
lieer musk have affectfon for
neonle, even as did Paul. and in them the sairlt of God.
bhfch'he de~cribes.Paul aed I W 6,1 15-1% -
M O I I ~ YJune
,
2
You BeZiePle there h one God,
d o You? You are dolng quite
Sunday, $un4 l
The man who can be trusted
in little tnings can be trusted
also in great,-Luke 16;10,
New English B i b k
4 & s .
Tuesday, Jane 3
Z:19.
Thursday, June 5
Thds good news of the M n g dona dl1 be preached in all
the tenha&ited earth .ima witness t o all the n a t t m : and
then tile estd will come.
-Matt, 24:14.
Thls rernnrk~hle prophecy
Wednesday, Jme 4
A. true comprani& i s loving aII
the time, and is a brother
that $8 born for w7wn there
h distress.-Rov.
1797.
T h e pnrent who watches for
things to t d k about mlth hls
In family
relationships. But
will children go to parents
Madah
know fiat. this
one was t h e meatest advocate
o! God's Messianic 1clngdom
ever on sa~+th.TI-& Messiah
is "Jesus Christ, son of David,
son of Abral~nrn."(Matt. 1:I)
His kingdom i s heavenb and
is able to break the power of
Batan the Devil, who is a disokdlent. heavenly angel, the
prince of demon angels. It Itr
our privilege to let r n a n m d ,
who are pitiful victims af the
Devll and liis demons, h o w
that through Jehovah's kingdom they can get lasting liberation. Are you doing your
payt? W 4 / 1 5 6, 8rs
Monday, June B
Ife that has seen me hna seen
the Fntlzcr.4oI~n1d:P.
Among the wnya we &re
helped t o imitnte Cird IA
I>ythe
example of thmo who themselves are lrnltnlors of Qud.
T h e best exnmr>lc. of Eottrae,
Is Jesus Christ. In fact, One
or the mrtn reasons wiry hB
came to earth wna to 8nnl:e
known Ms he2ver1lr F'nthr~to
us. And he imitnl~tl111.9 P'fiLhrr
K O perfectly tlinl, hnrl Ctml
been on enrth. Ilo wrlulrl llnt'o
conducte~l hltnwll exr!r:tlv
Jesus did, for c.hlr:tt 1'0rtsu11
Jesus cordd any t h o nl~ovc.
Eut there nre others rtcrrcrHhrd
~ I God's
I
Word
ritSt1lCrlHp
imitated frsun CIiiwlst In h i s
imitating God, nnd wo cnll
Rlse be helpetl t o llnitnts OrHl
by looking tu thclr exnmnplos,
rfhc npostlc 1-1~111mn3 j ~ s t
s11c11 a persm. nnd lllnt is
rrlzy he c o ~ ~ l nrl.sc!p
d
(>llcullrR ~ C : '%ecrlma ~)rr~tnlrirao{
me, even RS 1 em ni Christ.
( 1 Cw. 11:l) Ilnitntlnl: the
example of b u ~ h l>PTROIIS Of
falth will flurely hclp us to
imitate God. Thwo nro nlao
Inany persons loitup wllo ape
conforming their 1lve.r lo aorYs
ways and who cnn help us to
Imitate Jehovah, na lndlcnkd
by Hebrews 13:7. W 3:1 28-27
Tnosday, Jnne 10
GOd
Thls i s what tYzo love
means, that wc obset~rs ha9
co1)amand7rrcnts;arrd grt Iris
cmnmand~rtcnt8 arc not burdensome.-l
Joltn 5 :I.
Above nll it la lova fot Oad
that rnottr%tes us t o preach.
the good news of UoA'8 k111sdorn. All who lruly love Gfld
m e preachlng, Wa cnnnot pny
a preacher t o ptencll lor 11s
m
y more tkM w e can pay
someme to Iivc a R&, cIenll,
upright hf@ for un willls \vo
disobey cMdk morn1 law%
Each one rnuqt: onriqy Ilia own
load of refipwnsibllNy. T l ~ e T t ,h
-1
P t t . 4:17.
Anything rcFcmreIvo its ood
nens we naturn!ly wan& to
tell to olhars, rind ~ ~ f t cwe
n do
60 O u t O f the H ~ F CJOY
~
Or
speakhg it, Hnwaver, the koad
nemx of the Klngtltjm pl-alnpbs
us to tell it t u ol,ho~s,rlot orl1.y
through joy, 11111 :ilsn tl~rotuql~
love for our irltorslnnn. 'r'1ke
evangei~zlny mlrtt In one ol
love :or G b l nrld nelelrbor.
The g o d newR tnfnnn h i p 1.0
the receiver, ztnfl so 11 18 ~ 5 ~ 8 1 1 tial thnt it bo proclr!,lrnrtl Fnr
find wide. Pal11w o t o tllrrl, riastruction awltits I,bosa w h o clo
not obey the gaotl tlcwfi ~tlrout
JCXW. (2 Thew. 1:fl, fl) Pctor
sh~39ed tho im],ortnncc of
knowing and obeyirlg t,hn road
news when he spoke ol Clirlfltlans beins jlrdgtcrl Arrorrllngly, the splrlt l l l n t tho 11rtldnlmcr of thc good a3PWA nil~at
have is, not merely to groclninl
it, bu' tn pet it flrmly fixcd 111
the he&
of hmrera. Why?
Eecause even Ihc rlghlcous
Thornday, Jnne U
, mode a mrria@e
least tor hla sots.-Matt. 22:2.
The kina In Jeams' ill-tlvn Is sai@ C h u e a son.
Nerr*eves, Om3 the heawnly
KinR hns hundrrds of millions
f! B> Lrlt sons, who are caEefl
A king
BOrlB
FrldaypJ m s 1s
Jeawa #atti !O him: 'A&n If
f8 mrlllcn: Yort m w t not mi?
Jrl~fltrnlc wrir C:nrF t o the
Ifst,' "-Mt?tt. 4.*7.
Of all pcrsons, W m 81
ahould flt the nrnn who had
reecntly been anointed arlth
Q ~ l kbplrit tO be t h e Mesnlnlz, the Christ. So the Devil
~ r r ~ s m ewhat
d
he thought wsa
n, son1 hmptation for this man
n!koli~t&cloI God. Rut the man,
;resil~
Chriat, saw thou& the
triclr, hhw Ihe wrong thrust
t l v m t o Paulrn 91:11, 12. He
t ci~raerlt o forsake his spirituel:
z l u ~ ~ i r l l yHe
. did thiS by appcaIing to the la~gireclconn~arrrlR~OIT. Jews believed rn
looihwdy ~ l i s p h v o l h ~ r n . ~ l i
heforc the 3rwbkh ]~eor?lu RC
the lernplc. Wl.wly. in thlw
cnse, Jesus' hr>l.])i!1# to his
plam of ~~)irllr!~il
serurlty 1.t.sulted 111 l1k.r p11yr;lml srcurlly,
Rc dld nol d l ~tc ~lrelnnkire
death In n wny l,hitC tlid not
fulfill ljcri ture. X-lc remnlnrd
M v e , ''In yho mct'ot plt~re o f
the Most f-Ilgh,'-Ps. I11 :l.
W 12/1 7, E
%tuMayI June 14
Salvation Ian arm to our God.
who i s rcatrd nrr tlre Ihrme,
ortri t o tltc Lanlt>,-Rev. ?:lo.
BhortIy thcrs wlll be m m pleL& the full memberuhlp of
t h e henvenly rrl!l~dom, the
144,000 K i n c d m 31riis unrlrr
the~rHend,Jeslc~Cl~ilst.OodP
unc1ianl:rd pnrposc n'Yth I c~ a r c l to I 111s hleRslnnlo Irtnp
dom !dl1 silcc~url,wif,h ulo~~y,
Sunday, June 16
Each of us mill rendur tts PCcount for himset! to God.
--Rome 11:12.
Now is no time for w W I W
to try to get hp with mere
taken s-ce.
T h e greatest
lifesaving work in the hjRlorY
of mankind 1s rapidly drnwing to a close, Is ~t not r l ~ h t ,
t,herefOre, for us to mnkc :wcrifims, to fororgo p ~ r s o n n lplcnsures and dcsll.es? Is t h ~ Ln o t
what people d o Aurlnj: Hn~ea
of disasler"l11ey do nut nllrlw
the clock t o govern tt~clrr ( ~ cue ~ o r but
k contlu~~r!
llutllllg
forth their best clI'urts nu lutW
ns there 1s a need. Ix thnt lllfl
way you feel nhout the vltnl
work of Klxgrlom-preatbhW
As sou call on people nt tilrir
hems, does gow hear: movn
you to keep on ns JOnK 0s
you reasonably cRn, wlthnuG
lcsing sight ol the ncerl for
rest and rcfreshrnrnt 11s wrll
as l u E 1 1 i n your ol,hor S C r l l l tural obl~gatlons? A t l)tllrr
times, do you mnke rlficl 01
opportuniiies--In fichOOl, 1 d
work or In other d r ~ l ~C011y
lacts-to talk to peul~lenl>orrt
the truth, i n c h ~ I l i iynilr
~
solativea? Remember, uc t1rO r t i l
accountable to Jellovnh Oud
to do all we reasonxhly cnrl.
iT 2 / 1 5 20, 2 l b
Monday, &me 18
YUURusbtsnds,
continue dwell-
. . . t,"'F
knowingly fnlls
t o show hia
w i f e consideration oannot,
with a clean con~ctence,apenk
freely to Jehovah God. Fhther. he feels condemned, rtfsnpproad, Wowing thnt ha 1.r not
o b e y i i God's cammnnd. Such
a condition could be spkltt~nlly disastrous. It could mean
Tt~eRclay,June 17
H l a tnvisihlc p~falttissare
cIemfy stcn
~ F C ~ P ~thw
S C
are ~)ercrlncd by the t h g n ~ s
made, eracrr hfa cterttal power
t t t ~ r l Fwldtlp,-Rmn. I:ZD.
In c o n t r u t to htnlistlc
wc~~~ldly
i l ~ l ~ t k 11
i r ~Cor.
~
15:
. ..
321, wo
RIT
intensely inter-
Wednsshy, June 18
Hunbunda, eontfnue laving
your trylues, j u t m the Chcst
fitso
loved
the congregatzon
-1s.
sirmrday, Jum S t
Pou yourselves have setrn wlrat
I did to the E:gypliarts. that I
Tuesday, June 24
All oj vuu Shrnld swap W f
$elms in the garment of
hiinrilrty tawa~daeach
oIh~es.-l Pet. $3,
New hgllsh Bible.
Althottgh Xaaman was a
valinrlt. m i ~ l r t g man, ha
Irarned t o gird himself with
htlmlllty. (2 Ki. 5:l-19) .He
crtmc to appi.eciate illat In
Je11r~val1'8 eyes he was just
nilolllcr person What joy he
tnr1!;1 have SelL when he carnc
u p uut of the Jordan the seventh tlme t o see his skin cornplelely cleansntll How glrtd ha
wns thnt he had hurnhlect
i~tnraelf and lollowed the advlro of Elishs glven t111.oush
r l tuessenji~rr'He not only took
tllr word of n lltlle s l a ~ egirl
irum a11 enemy nation; b u t
he t i ~ dLQ lcnve h ~ own
s
gds
\~ch!nd. h'naman's becoming
hirl?:bla meant same:hing o;
I;Ir 6I'eBkr worth to him thnn
I > e i n ~ cleanscd of leprosy.
IVhnt was that? It led him
t t l 1)eeOme a wornhiper of Jehtnnll, n man desiring the
nppvoval of the one true God.
A flne reward indeed for his
clothing himself wlth humilii$, As wlkh Nnarnan, we too
cnn sroflt irn~neasurablvBDirItunliy if we wrap o~zrseiveiin
the rarment of humlhty nnd
rrnllfc t h n t God dws favor
thosr wlxr nre 1iuml)le. W 7/1
i l l , 22
IYcclnemlny, Jane 25
Lotre
...d
m mot W p ac-
count of t ? ! ~
IfiJ?6rg. it does
not rejnicc over uarightwibs~ress,hut rejoices with the
truti~.-1 Cor. 13:4-6.
Friday, June 21
of g&
~bnrsrlns,Zune 20
When ?tc scnt h l ~a ~ r v n n l ato
summon l?tc gtresls hc had
i ~ ~ t ' l t c dlfieu
.
w ~ t t l dnor M n l r ,
-fifoft. 22:3. NCIV
En fills11 Blhlp.
Well, Ilrlw, wlmi and In
whnt way Iind these ~ l r e a d y
bee11 Invltrcl or been R ~ V tPh ~e
Initial, cn117 ?'Ills \VIIS 111 Met
In the gcnr l h l a n : c . ~ ,1;) ,
tlle nctioii of Out1 iho ICinC,
11v hln bvl~lalnaBrnel illto lIlc
LRW ~ o v c l l n t ~El h l ' . ~ ~ ~MOSPA
ch
as medlrrlor. The lt~llial oflll
or invllallon wns extrrlcled Lo
the fsrnrlltes nn a notloll, not
as h~cllvtc!
t~:lls,tor t11r r~ntloik
~~itkhrrt h : ~ n the luttlvitlu1t1
rnernlicr~a : ~ uw l ~ n gt r l r l l r l fclrlt111rtr tn r , Ist 1111L11tltc K ~ ~ K ' s
wcrtctfnr: frast V'n8 1)re;)nt rd
and r p u l y l u I)r! srr~llrl," T h e
irilllnl lnvllrltlon to tlw nntlr)n
ot XsrRrI rvnrr Inr+lurlctl111 Qorl'a
tcl-ms l,hnt :.ct forlll t l i p IIPIIPfit I,o tllr nnl ion of IHIRL.~
Tor
ellterln~and krcpl11R l,llr LnW
covailant wl t h del~ovxl~
Qod.
When
I opn.ring t i c Covcnanb to
rtl h f o ~ u ~Blnui,
(r
God throtrRh Moscn RVL bcloro
that no fian lCliisdon~ prospccts, runllv klir luvl~:!tlo~l,to
become a "l.ln[:rioni or prlrclls,"
rvhlch sor~ld nrl
Cqorl's
eer\xtit for thc 11~nFlltor I!lo
I . P . ~ ~of nl:~ul;hrd,--7 : ~ . 1 3 , 1 4 .
%riel
t h i n g 8 f - R Q ~ , 10:15.
Monday, June 30
I t o fellowship with another
acceatinv that onc as
Quit mixing in company with means
an eq&t itahding -with
anyone called a brother tftat on
oneself,
be in^ interested in
zs a Iornicatw
, not even
and entertaininn his views.
eating with such a man.
shnrlnq these i i t h an open
..
-1
COT. 5:11.
The Greek expression used attitude. To have ~nkitualfelby Paul for "mixing in com- lowship with another --would
be, in effect, to have a spiripany wkth" is a verb meaning
tual ' a d trme' together. But
"to mix or mingle together."
when -rve exhort a; person to
(Matt. 27:34: Luke 1 3 : l ) For
repentance
we are not uniting
us t o mlx dn compnnv with ourseIves with
in an nmiothers wouW imply a 'fellow- cable union; wehim
are not sharship existing among us. The
ing
with
him
any
improper
English term "fello!vshlp" 'has
the sense of ''~omradeship;~ ~entimenthe mny have shown
but, rather, are dealing with
cornpatlionship; friendliness,
him as a person in need of
there being a "communij;y of
correction, W # / 1 8 s
inlarest, sentiment, etc So,
10:25.
Tuesday, July 3.
Weanestlay, July W
4 e n . 1.27,
28.
Thursday, duly 3
M u son, to my wisdom 0 do
pay attention. To my discernment incline $IDUP ears, so as
t o guard thinking abilities.
--PV'OV.
5:1, 2.
Sunthy, July 0
I feljowshlned one were followSofid food belongs to mature Ing a course Hke those false
people. lo those ~ w h ntlnrough tendlax dcncrlbcrl by t h e
npodlo John, ~ I I F elder m ? d
use h v e thcfr pmcep-iire pawtwnl ~lothlnnto do w t h mch
cr9 trained to distinbuish both
tl orre. n u t i l that onc 18 not
l'lpllt n?td zrong.-HeB. 5 : l i .
clnns, would not JeWhat rare the things you o f that and%
ccxamglc nIlow
Wnllt to Instill In the hearb hovah
l,lla rlrlol. ta xpenlc words
of t h e person w i t h whom you for
llio rlinJcllowplhlped
uro ~ t u d y f lt o~ ~make
~
kim a exholetinR
0110 t u A C C ~ Ct o rrrftl11 a good
Eolind, mnture ChrfsCianl You
stnndjn~
1~1th Clnd? a n t h e r
rvlll xrqiit to check conabntly than belnr out uf harmony
ant! kcc], cvet in mind the n'llh
k h c rl!@tellOwsl~lplng,by
Sollowlil~points, and it is up hlr, wordn
oi cxhortntion the
to you ro work hard to help eMer nctuallp sor11tl stlow h!s
Ihtnt one to scce them: Is yotir
s8:pport of suah 11islellor1-shipstt~clent comitig to h a w dcnctlnn na I~:~vlnc:been
Irovnlr, that IS, does he undcr- 11iv
r1r:ht
t l i l r l ~~cerlcd.
I V H/I 9n.
hl,lIl~tl~ I I J E J J JcllovnIl is having
thrb~:ootlIIUW h r o u ~ l i t o hi111
Tuvrrrlmy, 81rly 8
nnci l o ~ L l ~ c r sIloes
?
he underGod Zs tllc olro thnt, jor the
~ll~rtncl
why C:od hns let wlckeclsafrc o t ?!In ood pleasure ts
Ilcgi+n collllnue for n time and
octfnrl rrrlth% you in ordh
mhv 11s rlors not n i p e it out
jor vo71 holF~In wlII and
irnlnetl!ntely? DWS he sec
t o ( > ~ l . - P h f l .2 :13.
clcnrlv thc i m e of Jehovah's
.sorcs&igt~:p, and the lovicgWblle n ~ r c c l r l with
~
whaE
ktildnc.;s of God In allowing you rend nt Fptlesinris 4:22tlri~c tu be taken in settling 24, you mny wnlrrler how I t is
t11c Isskte7 Dwa he see that
prmlbb to mrry It out in hnnt l ~ cthinas that are happenrllinr th* prohlemn ttlat: press
inl: 111 the cnfth hurt God
lhat the
Montlay, J I I 7~ ~
Msng deccivcm 7tnne gone
forth into t),c mrlrl, persons
n u t c o , ~ ~ c s s ~ nJ~~~~
g
christ
a8 cot!al?a~dr! t k s flesh. This
"O
lo
On e
lt
T'.)rc@
OP youv own ~nlnd.Ralher, you l f o r n how to cooperate
w1Ch a o r l * ~splrlt. This dozs
mat
if an elder
not mmn thnl you cnll 6 0 1 ~
to
Up with a person
all your pl'oblemq by R ! ~ P ~ Y
who
h p n d~a~e~-~Ped?
Woulrl the plde~be acting o11t dlsmimlng tllcln, ft lm.lns
o l llnrmon with the magre- that salt can !mve the corn~ n t l o t l ' s rt%tellorrshiping acfork 01 knowln~that your ntt [ o n If he spoke to this ona, tiCude nnd cours;a of action
umlng hlm or her t o 'turn
nre rlght nnd Rcrlpturnl. mom
nround' and seek reconciliaGod's vlewpoinl, your record
tlon ~ u a l nwith his heavenly a318 c o n s d e ~ ~ care
c clear, for
FnlhcrP Ctrcu~mtnnceswould by hla pravi~lonour sllla re
gorcrn. Of course, if the dis- forglvon. W 5 / 1 5 4, lia
i8 ilgcrdccciosr and the
attl1christ.-2 John 7.
Wednomda35 July 9
The badness oj man u;as a m d a ~ titt tltc earth and enmy
:ncIntrtton 01 tltc l h o ~ r g h f s01
Iris Jkrflrt nuns orrly bad aEL the
t17ne.
So J J C o ~ n l zm i d : " I
nrrs winp t n wipe men w h n
I have created off the surface
01 t h o groztnd."-Gen. 6:S, 7.
Can we pay that tho present
humnn ~moratlonis any better tllntl thnt nncienl; one, or
Is t h ~ r e~ l refison
~ y for us to
1,ellc~c thnl it ic, even worse?
tVc awe it tO ourselves to direct the rtuestlon to oitrselres:
An1 I rngwlf on the corr~rpt
Icvcl of tirr~t nitdent generatlr~n?W e ~ l ~ o u l put
d such a
. ..
~ I I C R ~ ~t o
P I or~rr:elves
I
ildivid-
%!6
Tbllrday* Ydg 10
Anyone drtelllng in the &?met
plnre o/ 1Iir Most H f q h d l
pVOCIlT0 hiiriselj 7odginfl under
&!LC
V P ~ ~slradora
I
ol the
A ZmlgbLy One.-Fs. Dl :I.
We mil ask altreeIves peraonnllg, 130 I belong to the
fnvored claea thrts referred t o
nnd nddrcwed in this faiths t r ~ n ~ l h e r ~ lpm1n1?
ng
If we
crtrb say Yes, then me can be
nrwe ttmt we shall have the
~plrlhznl@cllrlty dacribed in
tho ]~&nlrn.The "secret place
o f tho Most High" is not the
Psalm Dl. It i~
n pluce o l shelter for them, IL ~ ~ I I C 01
O )IPOtectlon Pol* them. Slnce It is a
place of ~plrltunlhrrurlty, the
people of l,i>r-world r~mnol;sec
I t with tllrir anturnl cycr. m d ,
not I > n v l n ~splrltunl flkcernrnent, they cnnrlnl stic Illnt. the
rlweI1ers zhci+ylr~nrr! I r l that
"secret plncc. IV I:, 1 17, 10
Prlday, July I1
If won wdtt strlctlp obev my
volce
~louyoz~raolvcs wilt
become t o me a k l t t g h m
of p r f e a t e ~ B x 18:5,
.
8.
.. .
Saturday, July 12
You wtll not be afrajd of
smamy, JW
IS
to be a 'congregated throng.'
To practice the truth as a
g m p , each one must listen to
Mond~y,duly 14
An ouerseel. stwt be . . . holding linrtly t o the faithjul r v w d
as respects his art of teaching,
that he moy be able both t o
Tuesday, July 15
He raised us up together and
seated us together in ths
keuvenlg places s?d unbn
mth Cllrrist Jesus.
-EpJ&. 2:6.
m d is not- depending upon
Christendom to rurnfsh the
members of the heavenly
Mngdom, which Clod will use
in adm~nistermg earthly affairs for the unity of mankind. All who want to be
God's people he tells t o get
out of 3nbylon t h c Great. In
mite of all the opposition hy
Babylon, yes, in spite of Satan
the Devil and his demons with
whom God's people have a
struggle, Gcd h?s now on
earth his remnant, the final
ones who arc in line to have
a part in aclminiskriw of
human afPalrs throup.h, J m s
Christ, their Head. In spite
of coming from varfous races
and nations, they are a uillted
congregation, tall of lhem holdh g unitedly to the invisible
Head, Jesus Christ. Thrls, Jn
their case, God has 'gathered
logether again in ChrisL,' the
"things in the beavml~,"inasmuch as even now Gcd has
"seated [them] together In
the heavenly phccs in Union
~ 1 1 t hChrist Jesus."-Eph.
I:
10. W 10J15 5 , Ba
i s under
obligation to do so.
Thumilay, July 17
No one comes to the Father
except t7~rnugh me.
J o h n 14%
The AIlnighty One can be
very intimate to us, even
we
creaturas in
...
...
Friday, duly 18
A g d a he sent forth other
8lavea, smng, "Tell those
itmitcd: 'Look! I have prepnred m.y t l i n w . . C m e
.feast."'
t o t b marriage
Bnt 1671concerneU
they
..
8rrEr1rtlay. July I9
Po?!u)IlI not be upaid of . . .
Monrlny, July 21
rearese~~tarlons,
violent lntlniiditlng threats, misappllcntlons of laws in courts, y c ~ ,
the framlng of mlxchlet hy
lam. (Ps. 9 4 : 2 0 ) nevpILc nll
such flquratlve arrnrrfs thnk
hnve flown by day cyll~ce the
y e w 1919 ngnlnst
US, IVC
hnvo
Smrlay, July 20
I am clean from the bImd oj
aZl rnerc. for f hncc not held
back jrom t e l l i t ~ gyotl all
the coltnsel n l G o d .
-Act$
20:26, 27.
Am you really
cone@rns8
11
E
I
1
'
~ i g h
=in
ta M-
after US
TO llr
IC'HAT
SHALL
was?
. ..
ealled
fnvitatim, bcsauko
Sunday, llnty 31
now gathered In did not
T k e me new hcavans and a those
take
the
tnillntive
nnd "crtt~h*'
new emth that 7rv- nrc nlcnitthe a e d d i l ~ g n c t l v l l i ~ ~Those
.
: r ~ gaccording to Itis ~>rt~?~tlse,
gathered nu rcplnCemr!lts
and in t l ~ s er l ~ l l t ~ o l l ~ ~ t r s nov
s
were
not
luvltrrl
111 the r,cnsc
i s t o t31r)ell.-:! t'c'l, d . I J ,
tirat the urigi~inlIrlvltrPa llttrl
How to survlve inla that ),em. This work ut ~ntlicrlllr:Ln
new earth 11ndrr tha new eaough guesls IPOIHL~II! I (i:l(lfi
heaof Ckl+irl's kl nudnm
outside the city of ( h r Iz~vlLcrl
Is now the question. 111 order OLIW began, not in 70 C.E.. Ilut
to live throuxl~ the rlestruc- in the autum11o l 36 C.K..scv;
tion of that R R C ~ CI F~ ' ~O T ~ ~ , en years, or R "week of ymrs,
Noah built the nrk RA tilld
after the llnptlal~~
rtrirl ntlolnthy God, By l ~ i t r n l r l [ ~ l z this
~ ~ u ing of Jesus, Elw Moll r>Y Orrd.
course of nctirrn wit11 C70ll'~ 'rhe flrst slnvc S P I ~OIL(;
~ anR
purpose to prc:rcrvu (,ha IluPeter, to t h c uiicircuincl~stl
man race, Nuell : ~ r ~ IrIl~ H PJIII- Gentile, Corr~cllu.;. 1V I l , 15
ily enacted a prnplictlr: drnrna
6-8a
that has Its IrrlAllt?wi>tit\ olir
genetetlon. Accorrhtllrrly, Nrlnh
TnerrIlnyI July 20
pictured Cbrht, titit1 tltn wife
pictured the Brl(lra af Christ, Let kim that think3 he C
kurare tlrat he does
or, more pnrtlc~ilnrlp,tho scm- sta.nddng
not tall.-1 Cur. I0:12,
n a n t of the nt-lilo t h n l sllll
Those who hnvo dodlcnted
finds itself c~nrnr.111. 'J'l11: th12e
sons of Nanh ~ u u lthrlr wivrs themselves t o Ctorl I11irl hnve
Iwen bnptlzetl ~ I I O W111111 ~ 0 1 1 picture thnsn t l . ~ l ~ t l a ~wol.rl
t i t ~ i l c r l rlgtl~knut~la rvclr~lrcd.
6h1per.s of Jchobnl~ cil~d wha
Knowing thry ltrr Imt>r.rlert.
cua associate rq711h l !IV rc,nln e n t of t h e Rrltlo r.l~rwn ~ l d they are nwnro nt thc cmclnlUct
so t h n t
who expect ttr IEcnmr! 1\10 ivlltdn t\~r-m&~lvi'm,
l ~ Itl'r ~lnvtln
exrthly chlldrrrk of b l l r ~ Ktr8t'- with tha 1 l r ~ 1thsv
to sin's l n w I)hor~f:hwith (110
nnl Father, ,rc:$~i~
Cllrl:\t,, nurtcr
mind t h y Ilrr t;111vos 10 Qotla
h l s rnllle11111nl k l n ~ t l r l ~T~I>)f!rt
.
into the r1r:lltrorls nr7w ta~!'ilt Inw. Thcy know 111t~scI.Y C O I ~ a c must, Ilk? NORII, hni111n- 11:watlve grnv1l.y t)f Iwr>llr:ni7e our course o f nctlon rrtih damp and Ihat sln6 can tnlx R
1criet.y of form.%-,sltls nunl!~st
~ o d ' spuurpcse. It' 11 t I l8a
mankind, sins nfinlnut C a d t i
and Christ, slna nr:rklllat onc's
Montlny, duly 2R
body, find runny ocllcr
Go t o the roatlr leladlnp ollt own
offenwrr. Holvovor, Lhry
of tlze citu, unrE a?tuo?tr gou such
take
curnlorl 111 I hc wortis
Jlnd invjte t o the i ~ l n r r l a g e
funnd
at 1 YJh!l 2 : l - 0 . TIII~SB
feast.-Mail. 22 .!I.
on tile wag lo life rrlv In rimPromptly lxiore the deBdence on Jehovnli's mrrrv
struction of t . 1 ~ctty of those evpressed through Jrsus Christ
murdesers, tho kinc sent Lilr and endeavor t o wnlk In the
rjlaves to locntlonx outsirle tire way of thnt One. Hut e w n
~ i t y ,outside thnl conltnunlly
though they nvnid nrom slns
Go the rondn l ~ n d l ~out
l ~ o!
that would obvlaur~lp tnl:o
the city." Frolu tllcrtnr t h e
king's slave8 wnrrld Z ~ l n n 111 them out itom unrlrr Icllot h e replacements, yes, onvone vah's mercy, they know that
tnat they found. Tire.* un- there are many RCW 01 cornk n m pewrms, not [kt their mission or ornlsslon thnt can
home address, lhe st*KeS cottld seriously endanucr their rrtantling with Jehovnll nild so they
persuade t o tnko a plaeo nt
must beware. W 8/16 10, 11
tlie muriago fc!lsb+ Tllls wnJ
tVerlnorr&y, Jalg 30
You are sltotun to be TI IeW
of Clzrkst luritten by us as
mfnfstcrr, i?iscribed not d t l z
ink bfit U f t A sptrdt of a living
CW, not on &totre tablets, but
o?a fleshlu tnllfcts, on Itearis,
-:!
Cor-. 3:3,
Thur~tby,JnIy 51
Be f n nrbfection to one anollrer I n /car of CMst.
- E p i ! . 5:Zl.
Fro er m~l,jcction is a manireatnion of true love. m e n ,
ns n Irua Clwjrsllan, you took
the ate a i tlrcllcntfon, i t was
ntj e v l r L c o of your love for
Jchovnll, nnd of your cornplute und wlllhg subjection
to him, to do his mll. In the
Chl'lstltln c o n p l ' e ~ t i o n , there
shoulrl nho IIP the spirit of
m ~ t u n lconsldcration and subJecllon. III l,llls, the elders
nllaultl to,ke the lead. The
heme nplrlt s h o ~ ~ lbe
d shorrn
it1 the hotile. This Is well illustt'~+terlIn the human M y ,
where f11l the members have
t o 1w I~nrrnolllollsly joined toKctllcr nnd mnde ta cooperate
t u ~ e thinRA
t
done. Wherc this
i l t l c ntl,lt,ude of cooperation
!R ~ h o w i ~tilora
,
are few family r,ral~lerna t h n t cannot be
stilvcrl, clulckly nltd ea~ilp. In
othcr. u*ortl::, the absence of
tt1l9 nttltudc I& often tne m
o
rot
mum ol t h e problem. Even
Ivtlrn only one mnte I s a Chrisl,lrkn dls]~layl~lg
thls proper attllude, i t cnn go a long way
townrd
rrvantlna problems
from Rettrlp t o the point of
dlsenrlon. W 5/15 18. 17n
--
Frldny, A ~ r y s tX
E$, lilm ruc ?rave ilje and move
lclllus
Satnrdny, Anfwd 2
W hfs wfngs ym tunt
take refuge+-Pa, 81 :4.
Row beautifully thb wns 11lustrated m the case OI the
...
Sunday, Arrlfust: 3
You lover?, of JeReccrlr, hate
wealth afld m e .
W r o i o r e It
a ~ ~ u t e lneccssnry
y
that
we regard whvhnC Is bnd mlth
IS
,Wontlag, Au~r19trl
We shonld n o longer be babes.
tossed about as hp fume8 dnti
carricd htther cathri thithor bU
euery zuiild of Yt3n?ltl?lg 1111
means of tlre Irkkrrtl 01 ?nett.
-IS?IN,
In
4:l.l.
the i l r ~ t ~ P I I Z I I ~name
jealousies, envies and e n d ties, are likewise h R dnnrlruus posltion 1)vions Jehuvnh
God.-Gal.
5:lO-21. W 2/15
5, 7
Tuesday, August 8
Happy b the man that if
feeling dread constantly.
-P~ov. 28:1#.
A8 we endure in the C m tlan way we come to appreclate the excelling value of
Wednesday, August d
Our being adequately qualified
Thuradny, August; ?
N w , t o the one who can, accordzng t o hzs power which is
operateng in us, do more than
superabandantlu beyond a12
the things me ask or conceive,
t o htm be the glory.
-Eph.
3:20, 21.
:an. W
5 / 1 5 13a
Friday, August S
Become dsnitutars of me, even
as I am of Christ.
-1 COY,11 :I.
ing to do
...
Monday, August I
I
Who are you 0 fudge the
home servant of another? To
hns oun master he stands
or falls.--Rom.
11:4.
Tuesday, August I2
The meek ones themselues win
possess the earth,-Ps. 37:11.
That David's wmds also apply to the Kingdom rule of
the entire earth is seen in the
fact that Jesus quoted them.
(Matt. 5:5) Did Jesus say that
their fulr-dment was all in the
past? No, for be grojeckd
them into the future, saying
that the 'mild-bempcred will
inherit t h e earth.' Yes,those
mild-tempered ones who are
to be with Jesus Christ Ln his
heavenly kingdom %ill rule
over thitr earth. Jesus knew
that the Kingdom mould rule
Xhurerday, August 14
Became you said: 'J'ehmah
fu ?nu refuge;' you have mude
Wcdnosday, August 13
R 18 Jehovalz your Gob goa
must worship, and it Zs to him
aloxe you must render sacred
service.-lulce 4:8.
Most of the human family
went their own way. The few,
from Abel onward, exemplified
by their life course the right
principles involved. Even the
Flood, a forceful remlnder of
who actually owried the earth
mday, Angust 16
He sent his slams to summon
those who had k e n invited
to the banquet.--Matt. 22:3,
~n Arnerlcan Translation
When was I t that God the
King sent out; his slaves to
nomy the invited ones that
the time for the marriage
femt had amved ~ n d
so they
should come at mce? This
m s after the water baptism
of Jesujus and the anointing of
him wllh Gd's holy splrit so
as to become the Christ, the
one anointed to be the Massianic King. When Jesus Christ
returned from forty dam spent
in the Judem wilderness, John
Saturday, Angolst 16
He that is giving t o the one
of Ztttle m e ~ ~ nwill
s
have no
want, but he t h ~ tis hhfing
his eyes will get mungly curses.
--BOW.
28:27.
of intolerance
and self-interest, tfie one acting mercifully Is a refreshing
blessing. What an indictment
of this present generation are
the intolerable conditions resulting from the innumerable
suspicions, rivalries md animosities of peoples and nat~ons!From the words of Solomon above it is evident that
God's mercy will not extend
t o those 'hiding their eyes.'
God Is not a sentimentalist.
His exerclse of mercy i s always tn harmony with his
other qualities and righteous
standards, including justice
and hohnw. Anyone prwuming upon God's mcrcy, thinkiilg that God wilI continue
his mercy toward that alle
no m a t h ? wllat he does, 1s
doomed to b~tter dlseppo~ntment. The one showing fieliberate disrespect for God's
riahteous ways by his course
of life oflends God, m d the
true God will rightly "shut OK
his mercies in anger," md will
reward such a one with ''many
curses."-Pa.
77:9. W 8/15
1, 2a
In f?hihls day
Btmtlag, Augaat 11
You arc not to assacfute rufth
atcpotkc who is supposed to bc
a C?ir:.~tion
brotkcr, and yet Es
~rrtli~ornL-l Cor. 5 :I 1, An
Amerlcan Trnnslltion.
Tho npo~ltle warns against
aaaoclatl~~~;
with one who "is"
irnmurnl or a
ncticcr of
auriw ntller kln$lr of serious
w m ~ l g d u l n ~What,
,
however,
o l tho trnc who has been dtsIclInr$shlpotl for being that
k111tl o i llorslln hut who therenItrr rlvrs cornislent evidence
of dl~cont!n~llngsuch wrong
,rncElcev)Chn It be said that
le or she stlll "ls" as Icnvrll towr11.d tlm cmgreqation?
Rucll onrs zrrny nut yet hsvo
comc riilrl Inr!hlally sought reirlt~l~cbnnr-nl
bv t11e crn1greg:itlun. Is there, however, not
rl n evlclen t dl ti'erence betwccn
t t ~ c s o nn4 others who contllrzic rls11t o n in the m a {lrjlnrl: that. brousht t11W atsr c l l t ~ r m h l ~ ~ i nThose
~?
giving
It]> thc wrong practice moy
slill 1nnnIPest some avpreKstlon for Chrlatinn trlith, perhnpa RVOII defending the
Chrlstin!~ congmffatlon when
Ao~neotic speaks against It.
Htloulcl not ~ u c hcirculllrtancc.9 bc Riven due weaht and
hnve an eRmt o n olrr attltude
nd R e o n ~ r ~ q a t l ntoward
n
such
ones? LV 8 ' 1 IU, Iln
Mnndny, Angust 18
The jathrr~ hove eaten sour
grnyra.-Etrak. 18:2, New
R n ~ l i e hBible,
Satan's n r ~ u r n e n t that
momptecl t h e disobedience of
Arlan~ rtnd Eve was to the
r n ' ~ r : L t h n t the right t o eat of
th:tt fruit; belong& t o them.
Ti\uS t)y deliiwr~te and deilonE aclion. that speaks loudcr ti~nrl worlls, hoth Adam
nnd Eva class~Aed t h a t for-
h ~ eaten
d
the forbidden fruit.
clld they iccI ustlflcd i n their
judlclnl, claw.slhcfitlon ol trees?
No! True, thev could not restore lo thc trcr: the pieces
c i lrulL thrrt tlrcy hnd enten
from it, 1 ~ 1thrll.
t
havlnp nsfilmllntcd Iha cr~lenIrult Into
thrir l~oclicsb r c i r ~ ~ hthem
t
110
fcrllnfl of OWIICI'RIII~ of u jnst
rli:11t tr) L I R ~ Llio inrklddcn
i~111t. The lraves wlth whlch
ttwy mndo lolu covcrlnes to
hlrlo thulr horv rcnllzed nnkeclnes: \wrr t nkcn from the
fir! trm. Thv outcome of
the whole ~ n n t k r wna str if
T I I P M ~AIIWIR~
R ~ , ID
We avo good-jar-nothl?ig
~ l n v c s . Whrat u)e haul:
tlonr 1s ~ulmtjot: aught
to hnnt done.
-Llil:c I 7 : l O .
Any WROUI'C:EB ar Wen&
thnt; R person h ~ should
s
be
vicwml ns n trezsuro held in
trtlst, to bo ~rscd to G d ' s
borlnr n n d ~ l o r y .In this was
it will l~rotect cnlu from se4tin8 puftrtl zkp hccsust? of his
nccompllshmrnts in servinr
Jetlovnh. h llno atlltude that
everyone ahouId cultivnte nftcr tlavlng rlor~owitat W 9 8 osslgncrl In ~ l v r nabuve. Ixrving
ns OorE rill rrls, doin:: so qlndly
nlltd wllllnvly ~
r rlrper~clnblp,
,
whether 111 oinlncntlv or not,
lr; ~ o n l c l l i l ~~~r!rc'cnl>la
>e
to Him.
Nn onc, I~owcrcr-,should hnzrt?
s IEPHIIRor Ir11::LmtIon m useIc~snrsrr, rvcn thout:h tllcre
tnay hc a, ccrtnln siilnencss or
nionotony n l ~ o u t 1t1c routine
of work pcrformecl. SLarnernher, wtmt .rchovnh continues
to
Weilneudny, Augnst ZO
Anmnc dlarlllng in the see&
pinre 01 tlac Most High mill
proelire Iilmgelt fodging undrr. t h e 2:rr9 shatlolu of the
Alttzlghlp 0t1c.-Ps. 91:l.
The splritunl security that
thaw f~illlliullg dxvelllna in
Lhla aecrrt lllnca enloy testif l r ~to tllrltr rcnll h m g there.
The fncls sl~ow%at they are
bpli ltunllv anfegumded on the
1:. In;
t h ~~R R L I Cll?d!cnted b y the
tle.,;~:~:~llon
of the One provlrlinp Ihr s~cret,l~lnce,
nameIv, "Lllc hlost Hleh." A h ~ e s ,
l i IR ~ , I W l ~ h U ( : oi' Universal
Bovcrelrtlty. The ones occu~ ) y l ~ l r (LIlis ficcret place see
tlln iaauo mrl llam uneqwvorr~lly come out fn fuvor of
His ~lnlvernnlsowreignty and
therefore mnlntnln Christian
~ l ~ l h t ~ n ltoword
lty
the conmcts
01 Itle worltily zrtttlons for nattonn! suvPrPlmty and domiIIRI 1011 OI tllc enrth. We who
clwcll in tnc wcret place of
the Most I T k h could not enter
nnrl retubin there: unless
sccognlnrd and held fast
HIu Ilnlv(*r~n1aoverelgnty. W e
eu~erly look lorwnrcl to His
vlutllcntlrl~ of his un~versd
p o v c r r l ~ l y wlthltl this geU~1.~tiOl1.
IV f 2 / 1 19, 20
He
. .dcspolh
. nt nridtlay.that oj
-Pn. 9 1 :S.
-.
1:
Snturday, August 23
These are fie ones that come
out of t b grent tribzllation,
mid they have lumhed their
robes arid made then& xhite
69.
3:
Tuesday, August ZB
Brothers, I was not able lo
speak to vou as t o aplritunl
me=, But as to fIestiIy tncn, as
to babes i n ChrtsE, f 11.d yott
?n!lk, ?wt mmcth!np 10 t n l ,
lor you were not set slrorzg
enough.-1
Car. 3:1, 2.
Back in the flrat century
111 It rc~~rlnrly,
dolrlg so ln
there were immature CIVIA- the nrca !vl\crc WE llnve k e n
tians in the cong-regatlon nt nhslp.nerl l o ])reach? Do we
Corinth. Paul ms ~uial~Eato
lnriko rctuin vtsitu on people
speak t o them "ns to s]?lritunl wllo wtwC to know more about
men," but had ta npertk to GortP A1.s wo tlancndnbl when
thcm "as to fleshly Inrli, ne it, COlnCR to cunducllna home
to babes in ~hrisd." Ilr fed Rlblc sf,uclles w11,11 ~ ~ i cperh
them only "mlllc" of Uhrlasnns? WE wllf Ire 1I we ~ 1 %
tian truth, for thay wern not
in1ilatol.n of Jchoval~. W 3 / 1
"strong enough." Because of
10, l l n
their being "fleshly," jenlousy
strife and sectarianism existed
TlllarAay, A u p ~ 88
t
among them. Are m y of us
like tMb-unstable, fit111 In- If an one tonnts to come after
me, fkt him dlgown Itfrnself
clmed to follow men? &a
same "fleshly" or worldl$ In und plck r q his lorlrrrc stake
and jollnrrr ?>ir contititrally.
their thinkin&, usu8llg crltlcnl
--Mark 8:34.
of their brothers nnd tllc work
To dtaown oncwlf has a
thev are dolng snther Ellr~n
~voiking harnionrouslg wlth at ton^ mcrmlnp:. It means
them under the headship o f
mora thrrtl ju#L R f~tilure to
Christ? Have some not As yet
clriim uwner~hl of oneself
rind or~vk rlR11& It means
developed the love 111at mutirpates one to cx sttd o7mmore thnn u f ~dcnylna;
t
oneself
self for the upbulldlng of the crrtnin i,hjrlp,H, rls when reChristian conxregntio~ilTlirt~ 1lj:loniuts ndvocnlc self-dcnial
they da indeed need to Blrlvc- wl'rk. In thls cnse It means
to attain Chrisi!nn rnaturlly, rrjrctlnt: oaner8hlp af oneself
In lnvor of oivncrsliip by JehoIV 2/15 3, 4
vah. To pick u1) yollr torture
Wednesday, Angurst 87
sinlre nho hua strong meaning.
not take{> llteraliy
dehanoh ymlr G a d fs the lrtre l'l~nugh
the dlpEipIes
fob
mrl, the jlrithfttl God keeping whrn
lorvlng
desn!:,
It
covenalmt and loving-hlnditess. pirllll!y told of n~lcrsrthcless
c
u
u
n
e
under-Deut. 7 9 .
t:lken vrr1untwlly Ihnt rvould
Kn being f~ithiul and ds- cr~tnll
urtilerlnp, s11nlne nnd
gendable Jehovah God sets a rlmth. Ttlc Inyt condition
f i l e exxmple for us t o Imltnte.
t1wt oI contlt~uelly followlnp
So, then, as inlitator8 of JcJcs~is,A ctlsc~plo la n t a u ~ h t
hovah God, we, too, mush he one, a loat'n~~.,
Iiowsver, it is
faithful and rlep~ndabts.Wo
ovirlenC Pron~Jssu~'words that
have cormnitled t o uu such he rcqulrerl, ~loL only belief
personal assets as Ilme, mon- f t l whnt Ilc t n ~ i ~ l i tbut
, lhat
ey, energy and pwsonal inone's c n t l ~ c IIfc, colitlnunlly
fluence, We need t o bo f l t h l u l
rind wltllni~lIrl up, 63iould folin the stewardship of thcsc, low thc pnttcrn set by Jesus.
Rave we told Sel~ovahthat we IIc emphasl7etl preaching aud
will s m him as long an we tcnchlnq thc Klngdonl good
live? Are we faithfully keep- news. 1V 1 0 / 1 6-7a
Friday, Augnst 29
[Pazlll began t o reason in ths
synagcgue zuith the Jews
.. .
b marht-
he apaqtles. all
Ctlristlans, young and old.
rrch and poor, farmers and
city d~cllers, preached the
mod n e v x 'Afhatever they
knem about Jma. his m h s try, Us death a d resurrcction, they toId 60 others. In
fnct. they used every avenue
own t o them to get this messnre of evcrlr~stinrrlife throiach
t o the people mound them.
Thry prenclled m t h e fielris,
ill the cities, at marketplaces.
In the homes and whe;ercr
they found a listenmg ear.
Thcy d ~ dnot hick themselves
away 111 some monastery, nor
did they wait for some scheduled tlme to preach on a certain day, as clergymen do.
Enrb C i r i s t ~ a n swere moved
t o mrakc proclamation of the
~ o o dnews under a11 condiHons, as Paul did. Similarly
toclay, a love for people will
help us t o be alert to t h e
rnnlly nvenueEl open for reaching people. W 3 / 1 5 10a
Sah~rrtay,k u p s t 30
A thousand wILZ fall at your
side nnd ten thmsand at
Vour rinht hand: to
it zoill
not conre near.-Ps. 91 :7.
What fattI1-lnspfrlng a m p Bnce these woxcls e v e t o those
who we "in the ,secret place
of thc Most ,Eigh'V !~1-.ose
spoken of ns bema at the very
s!de of these dedicated mi-shlpws of Jehovah would bs
people of Chrstenrlom and
Jewry who profess to v m h i p
the Qod ol t h e Bible. They
fnll in spiritual death because
they mc not in Jehotah's place
Of spiritual secwlty. Hence,
t b e y arc exposed to the spir-
itually death-de~1it-i~thlngu
such as the dreadful t h l n ~ aor
earth's niEht, thc IlyINg ai-row
by day, tim nlooln-llrf~utltic
pestilence, the c!eatructlc~!~
that dc.moila a t middav. 'l'hr:v
have r.Gt really lnnrlr, L I I F ~
God their stro11g r.PCujie. T11c
psalmist sags thnt tl~osoXnUinq w:l be "ten Jho~~snncln t
your r~&:ht hatld. Tllevc fall.
r-ictlm because thev :ire not
proof aqobnst wmldll'ne~s,nutl
reTiqfoir.s propn?ntltIa, poptllnr
theolory nnd (iernr~r~-insplrerl
reliaron. They are not Imm~rnjzcd by the help oI Jrl~nvnll
W'SSpirit.. W 2 2 / 1 5 25-27
Sunday, Anmot 31
We i h m k rlolr, JrJtot~ahGod.
the Alnrighly, Ihn O ~ Itofm
:
is mtd rril~owas, Ilccau.se ynlr
Itcave tnl-en yatrr qrlrmt power
aird belfl~tbrulinfl.
-Rev. 11:17.
It is by no unforeseen turn
in human aBairr. nor by m y
accident that the Kingdom
k u e gets t o be fouaht over
at the bnttlsdeld of Hiti-Mngedon. The matter is all
timed lu bel~nlfof Goti iand o l
man. Tho Almighty God, who
provided f o r
inan'a tiinekeen-
Mondrty, Beptombef 1.
Wallc tuortlllI~ ,
with Mmptctr Iorcrl1nr.w of mltrd and
~rriltlncss,zrltlr- long-s~rfleriltw,
~ 1 1 t t f l r 1rrp
0 1o:th onc clrlothcr
i n Iovc.-Eplt.
4:1, 2.
Thc iden of male I~cadahip,
of CUII~LP, En11 Iw cnrtictl lo
extrrrnes To fzsInil his role
n.: i : t ~ ! ~ c naid
r
husbnllrl, the
~ ~ r n lIn
c Ithc h o u . s u l i o l t l nccttv
to he lii~mblc,l o scc 1115 out1
..
...
Thursday, September 4
Word. You may create R spa~k
of Interest by encaurn~lng
H a p p y the merciful; jar they
someone to rend a BLble study
ahnil rcceive rnercp..-Matt,
id. Time gasses anrl someone
63. Rotherham.
may wntcr the ::md of lnad's mercy t o us ix at c:se
tmeat.
God keeps rnnki~ig
such magnitude that we are it grow.And
nt rltl n~:nl!~ly
conlpellcd to exercise mercy you may Lnkr
I)e
III~~MIUCPC!
to 12:15
toa'irrd o w fellou-s, comparasame
person-slow
FPJI'!
tivcly small though it may be, tun! brotllcr or your
sislrr! Re
TIIIR ~ n n y seem d~mcult at sprnk out to cvcry~)~lc
vuil
tlnrus and the offenses of our meet, doinz na out of i i hdnrt
brollrerfi may be such that we
full
of
l
o
w
for
Jehovrrh.
(Rnm,
nle inclined to Ignore this rel0:lO) Y L ~ O
I n11 nlsu n t l r n ~ t
qulrelncnt of showing Iove and
trnrl n ~ l g h b o ~tu
n the
uxtending niercy, rationalizing friends
lncsswe
~
~
h
o
uulir
t OoB Jehnwllhin nursclves that surely
vnh
b.~
letllna
them
observe
Jesus dld not mean we should your pure Christlnn contli~rt.
vvcrlnuk such "extreme" f a ~ ~ l t s-2 Pct. 3:11. 12, W D / I 2R, 23
In .rjti~crE.B u t Paul rnagnfies
Gorl't: love rabove nny thnt we
Zo11lrl show when he said:
C i r ~ r l recommends his ortn
low to us in Iha't, n.W tte
tue sbnre l o p b h ~ rt i romnlott
uere yet sinners, C h r s t d i d
Irlc.-1 John f:7, Ncw
to1 Us." (Ram. 5 : 8 ) HOT much
E n ~ l l s lBlble.
~
Rreater are the sins ti?& God
11w fo~givcnus than any that
A t Colossians 3:13-14 we
2vt. n l l ~ h tbe called upon t o
h d some o l tho wny8 we CM
Ioi'glvo III our brothers! And
prt~ctlre tho lruth ancl 011our- n& f o ~
Jehor.ah's mercy
Eel.vr Gad's comnlnndmsntfl 111
111 providing KL way of rethese drrys of tot1~1d~trknwa
tlempllon cannot be evaluated
npon t l ~ cpeapp Whllo tho
nlo11flr:s~dethe nee& of our
clarlcnnss o Ll~c worltl Krowa
blaI,l~r&rs
thaC we are able to
mow clenee thc! HEIIL; r~ftl'llL11
BI1PIllY. X8 I t m y wander that
crom tile +i+orf ui
RI-OWH
Jrhatnh's mercv cannot be
briahtcr. It rc~nlndsus Of tlis
mikrle to extend ie those lacki n y s of Mosca when tho
Itif: mcrcy? W 8/15 15. 16
~xraeIlteswrImeilowri It1 ERypt
T11c u l n t t l plncuo
Friday, Mptrrnbr 5
\?.oiz?r&rkncw
upon EsyylC,
Let your I f g l ~ t shine befm 'hilt Irrz' 1411 I!lc Sons of I s r n ~ l
.
h
~
r
c
l>mvcrl
ta
br Hght 111
tncn, i l i n t t h c p nlny me your
:heir rlarlllrlm." i lFx, 10 :20,
fine workd uttd moe glory te
13 r We nrc Hvln in monlrnyoW Father t u l ~ ois in the
,nus t!rnt-s, n i i f w h i l ~ t h e
heavens.-Matt. 5:16.
Tn the Christian collgrega- worla p+pmpe8 In darkness. 1la.l;
tlon there arc! varlous duties c n o w i n ~the way out, the l j a l ~ t
)f truth rrom the God of
thnt d~ffercntones may peright chlnea I~rilllnntly. H o w
Swm. N o one should feel unwnrltect or say l o mother, "I:
~ppropr'iatetlint wa rc~ulsrly
]lava n o need oI you." The
:orlsider what It Inomtl t o 11s
entire congregahlonal arrange,o practice tha tl-uth and lo
mcnt servca to prwluce mature
:ontlnue ol>~ervlng
Gorl'a comCllrlstlans fat. Gad's glory.
nnndmonts. walklnrr in the
Ftne rt-sults nre obtained whm
ight! Let ua he thttnkfl~l fur
nlcl nnd young dIiiyenlIy work
)ur ullion wlth tllr God of
tO~ethet+ In iuln?ling thek
tqht, 111 whom illere Is no
curn~nisslon to preach the
i a r k n e . ~at all' W 9/15 I&-20a
Sunday, September 7
~ r th~11~111iand
n
[milt ratn at
Jehovrtll ha3
X;IEiade%t
t:~nse
rtctrd
I>P{-RUM
sBlie rcceivcd the 6PlCS
in n pe~ccnblcw ~ y . "(Ileb. 1 l :
Tnesday, Reptcmbr 9
A I & W ~ of the Lord
need* te be sntle torsurd bd
keepl?~ f!rrlselt restrained
vndcr st.!! t n ~ f r ~ t c t f n gr n r l ? ~
. ..
Wednesday, September 10
Be t r a n s j m d by making
gfous mind
over, t h a t you
may
t o be wrapped
up In the rnaterfaIistic pursults
of the world. (1. John 2:16, 37)
Thev could well cause us to
la'+eWoutaltogether, as was true
in Gehaei's erne. (2 Ki. 5:2027) 80, Ihen, the course to follow is to keep studyhg God's
Word, keep conforming our
lives to Jehovnh's will and
help others to cornpl~ w ~ t h
Jehovah's way for 6alvatlon.
We want t o appreciate fully
the sp~ritof humility within
the ranks of W ' s people and
work to contribute to that
sp~rit.W 7 / 1 24-2t3a
cannot &ord
Tihursday, September 11
The h ~ m b l e people you &El
save; but your eyes are
agdnst the haughty
os?es.-2 Sam. 22:ZS'.
If we really M e v e these
wordti of David, then we will
want to ferret out of our lives
any traces of pride, of thinkjng we are better than others
because of our race, our nationahty, our education or our
stntlon in 1Ue. We all come
from sinner Adam, so in ourselves we really have nothing
about which to be proud. The
hope of salvation fs ours If we
humbly conform to Jehovah's
Friday, September 12
Become kind to one another,
tenderly compassionaZe, f reew
forgiving one
another just as
Saturday, Weptembe? 13
That which cwrespends t o
this i s also n m snvtao Ym,
namcly, baptmnt (.
the
request made to God for
a good consciencs)
-1 Pet. 3:21.
A clean conscfence is essential if we expect to receive favor and life from God. Therefore, in a 1 tll~ugsthat we do
our Arst confiideration should
be: How do these thmgs reflect
..
.
TuesdayJ September IS
You think, not God's
thuugl~ts,but those of
men.-Matt. l 6 : 2 3 .
Bekg a, truly spiritual perm takes ~ E o r t .n o not give
up on yourself as you work
at developins "the rmnd of
ChrisC." Henlember, just because a person is a spirititla1
man d m not mean thnt QU
his problems and. fleshly inclmat~ocs \-apo:.ize. A fern
even& in the 11fe of Peter
shorn this. Thus ~ h he
m lmed
l o show Jesus a m~staBen
kinducss. he aradj told the
nbove. Flesh& thinking nas
lherc t o bc dealt aith? Less
than a p n r later Peter denied
Jesus three times. He repented.
And yenrs later Peter again
had to be corrected. this time
by Paul, for the same weakness of vacillating because of
fearing what others mould
think. Seemingly Peter, an
apostle, a spiritual man, had
to work all his life at trving. to correct this wezhei.c.
Paul,too, tells us that he had
to disclollne himself. (1 Cor.
9:27) so, today, we may have
our weak points, but, by earnestly sstuPylng God's Word
Thursrlay, September 18
Anwone shunning disclpline Is
refectiag h i s otun soril. hit
the one listening t o reproof is
heart.-Prov. 1 5 : 3 2 .
The older iolks weye younA
once; thev lulow whnt le
is like. heir experience hns
changed thelr wnso of vn111t?&,
But you polmpcr Ones have
never beeu 01~2 and so you
know nothing of the outlouk
on life that comes with older
and applying it and relying
years. So nppreclak the hcnon God's reinfordng spirit, uTe eflt that comes from tht)se
can he nided t o overcome wIth older years. Same worltlly
them. IV 4 / 1 28, 23
young f u l b toclny say they are
willing to Enlk to people over
W a r l n ~ i l a ~Saptmbr
,
3.7 thirty years of ngc, hut only
He I8 mrayed with nn ovter if the olcicr ones refrain from
ndvlce. It is thls splrlt
garment ~prlnkled with Wood, glvlng
that makrs many yoltths %Itand
.
he has ct nanw
tims
of
the generation rap.
~ c r f i t m King
,
of kings
But you Christian youths, CIQ
and Lord of lords.
not be that wny. D o not r c . ~ r ~ t
-Re#. 1923, 16.
helpful advice, just hecn~:rit!
Because this is saeb a serfyo2 did not tisb for Ltl Sornrow matter for all people of
we do not know thnt
this generation, t.he Bible is times
we need counsd. At s Zlmc
very ptarn and outapcken as
like
that
Is most I~elpr~tl
to what awatts those who now .ahen someitmnture
one klndi?
line up on the side t.hat is qwuks up nnd orers It to us.
headeci for defeat in t h e mi- It can save us hen~tachrs !!
versa1 war at Har-Magedoa we listen t o councpl. Tri!p?dy
True lovers of a perfect rich- can often be avoided, ns nnted
teous government for all manabove and nt Proverbs 10:17;
kitld duinlt back in horror at
12:J.. W 5 / 1 21, 22
acquiring
Fridny, FlepkmlMr ID
I n the sl~udozu of yozrr fuings
naay ylott cancenl ma.
-PS.
17:8.
t h ~
"~emct ~ ~ l r ~ cof
e"
on In their places
the believing Gentlleq like
brnnclres from a xild oldVi3
r ree. Thus God gets hb - full
%pll.ltunl Israel. thr splntual
w e d oi Abrnham. IV 1 1 / 1 5 Frx
ly grafted
Suntlay, September 21
Yaur ere8 must become eyes
Beeing yotir Grand Instrmctor.
-Ism. 30:?n
Whataver you tcach t h w
accepting the good news.
whntevcr point they learn, re-
Cat1 rr:cnpe
hi8
Monday, Septmber 22
Xhe T a n and his wfje went
zato hadtng from the face of
Jehovah God.-Gen. 3:8.
Because of their sin they
could not face ther God and
were fearful of what he would
say to them, As for tlie level
Toasday, September 25
Pay attentton to ~uurseEvea
find, t o all the jlock, aammg
which the holy spirit has
appointed zfou O V ~ ~ H C W S .
--Ads 20:28.
The spirit of humility creates and maintains a pleasant and rewarding atmowhere for all our brothers,
Jehovall's organization mnnot
change just to suit indhlduals. If we object to something done by the body of
elders or criticize the way
Borne matter is handled, we
are being dlsleyal to Jehovah's
a course of faultfinding or
complaining actually may hvolve resisting the holy spirit,
becau~ethe holy spirit is responslbIe for the appointments
of older men in the congregation. Why, then, should we
c r ~ t l d s eone of the brothers
for handling a Inalter in a
wny that the holy ~ p i r i tseems
to direct him? And i f the
brother is wrong In the way
he handted something, m-e
shouId have faith thnt t h e
holy spirit wlll wrrcct him.
W 7/1 26, 2%
Wednesday, Septambx 24
We, for our part, shall walk
in the name of Jchovah oar
God to time indefinite, even
forever.-Mic.
4:5.
Sunday, %@ember 25
I rulu aal, to Jehovah: "You
are wry refuge and my
~ht~gftol&"--P$.91 :Z.
The divine name is rektted f
a
the Hebrew expression translated ''1 SHALL PRWE TO BE
I control-heamea
more ~ f l d
mwa apparent. A new farce
or dornlnnnt .spirit Is at work
Ir! hlm. One of the prlmarv
n l m ~OI the C~I-latlancongr&
Ention, W i t h I t s " ~ l t t in
s men,'"
elclcrs s f r v i n ~ nn shepherds
name, Jehovah
...
...
Tlanmdny, Odoher 2
Wbal sort o persons ounhL
uou la hc
holy acts-of
rt)ndrrct and deeds oj paly
detlotimz, azuntt!l~g and ceping clusf trr tnl?ld the presence
of t l ~ can?! of Jehorah.
-2 Pet. J:Ii, 12.
Are you Iteeplnji close In
mhld that Ilery dny of Jehovah? In i t HO renl to you
li'rldny, Orlabor S
The world of that ttma statrered dcatn~ctlontuhpln it luns
deluged rvfllr, lunler. B?tt FY
ilrc snmc! ward tlir ~ ~ c a v e n $
a n d Ilre carifi tlrtll arc no!!)
arc air!red arp for /:re awl arc
bung resevr~rl to Lha (lop o l
judnrnel~l
nltd o t desh.~rctiort
. oj the rrngniltjl mew.
-2 Pet. B:6, 7.
The ~ i ~ r v i v uthnt
l
Gad now
offers to 11ulnan c~.ealureson
eartl. fa tho nurvlvnl oi Ihr!
end of ibis n1rJrr:rl tiyetem of
thines vrllll the npporlunity
for the :.urwlvol.~to Hre ioiVe\.er on erlrtli under 1x1s new
svstem of Ihlrlus, 1 s thnt
not sumetl~lnuworth si~~~vlulnq
for? R u t 1hl.g ~ v o r i d e r f ~nur~t
viva1 will !rot btr tly u a l i ~ gAny
mnn-mude rn~t~horlaoI #ell snlvation, ~eZI-rc~ru~e,
nor by
anv evoliltionlatic ''hurvlvnl uI
th; fil,Le~t."hr;.~~ln,It wlU ho
by the Ilnrmonlzl~rg ot one's
colnze c > l Rr!t,ll)II wlth God's
p u r p o . ~ .Tn tZic raw of NunSl.
he hnrl t o excrd.gr r~rcntIztiz?~
in God's WILS 1 1 1 1 1 ~ ConmrllinX
the dP?trlt~tl<~:l
n f the ancwnt
worlcl nnd
w h n t Ood Irlld
him to d o for the prcsprvatiurl
of IumwII urld Illo IILIIIIIY.
He
was river1 wnvning plct~ly of
tlme
nUlotbncs. Hr4 obeyed.
w llr'l 10n
saklnlay, OctQber 4
No cnlamitlr wiIf wail
m o m triultflly dm~UngIr
kern
DUr
distance,
03
111 I IEIPIICOC~
rand rnlsg~dded by
all the controversial palitlcn1 propn~rtrnrlnnow rampant.
U' 1 2 / 1 21,
:?2, 21, 25
hlonflay, October .B
The love o! monw Is a root
ot all awls ol inguriow things,
nwrZ br, r m c t t f n ~olit for this
love same Ttn1l.e bcen lei!
rrstrap Porn 21te faith and
hovt rrnbbctl themselves
ar1 over with many
7)tZf7M ,-I
T17?t. 6 :loThc world's insntlable
for rnnbrlnt mln must be raaisted, Wcre a Christian to
nllow the love ol money tr~
tnlra holrl or hlm, it would
~iil)lly rlndermjne his a p w -
rn
rlrl(lon for
Q I I ~ multl
;~plrltual things
even destroy h ~ s
&
Taestlsy, Ortoher 7
Naah
showed godtu few
a ~ t d wmrimctcd an ark lor
the saving ot i r f No~rselwld;
a r ~ d t h ~ o uh Illiff faith he
r,ondatLne% tho ram lrl, and
lte becatne an heir 0)'
the righfsal~lnasa that
!s according to jnftln.
. ..
-IlCb.
11 :7.
Thnrwdmy, Ocfober B
to ou that t h b
generation
nn means
pass nrLlay zmtiE/ all these
thing8 occUv.-Malt. 21:,18,
Jehovah's pcople 11Rve bcen
enlIgtened to see tllnt cvrr
m r y ?F =say
&
Frkihy, (Irtobr 10
Be tufss, my son, a d nab
my lrcart rcfafce, that X ma1
n?ake r~ tepI1) t o him that i>
such r
thing
Monday, October 1%
h f c d them,
because the?, arc no part
The mwEd h#
n.p rim
no part of I Itc ?uorlrl,
of the tuorlrl, j r r s t
Thuwwhry, f k t 8 b e ~16
Congregate the people, the
men and LA8 ? m e n and the
Ilttlr nnea
tlr order
~ R , ! C 31rerj may jrz;tefi and
r r A ordur that tliey may
..
tcnrtz.-lleut. 31:IZ.
HOW important i t ia for
parelit8 to- spcnd time
Chclr rhilrlreil l Spending time
to~ether mnker communicaLion nntm'ol and helps p u atlt?l to gct the younmters'
views. Anti. of c o m e , spendI r l t tlmo together in private
nlitl In clmgre~ntlonal I31ble
lnstmctton Ih vital. Gcd comm~mdeci the hmehtes, not
nlhv to teach their children
C1011'8 wayq Irt hurne, but t~!r,o
Irh Cake lhcir c h ~ l t l r e ~wrth
>
thoen whnn gOi11g to tlie ax~bn~llllcs
lhal were heM for
Ihe IltrrpoEc of worshiping JeIlt~vnlr, ns Moses tells. Thc
"IItttc oneYt were not left at
hn!itc LLkedse today. children
ntetl t o lrocornpmly their par-
virlr
ttnu
-Ps, 91:1Y,
Throliuh tha polltldrns, the
IftwmPlrcrzr, the Hca authorlties ~ n dthe G t i : e ~ of the
courts t h c l m ~ y11nve made
cntr; ta t l l A lneetmgs of the
R ~ ~ R Con
~ R Jchcrvnh's people.
Chrlst Inn congl.egation. ParB l ~ t:rr; rrspects t h e Witnefises.
cnl,s who follow God's Word
t l ~ ( ~hnvo
y
not brcli ~ ~ r a l p z e c i
hrivs cllvino widom to help wit11 ienr by Iho vthntlm of the
tlimn l u rcnr their chllclrcn
unfair nltaoke. ' r l ~ c yhhaw renwl if limy t r n r ~tbe1r
~
d~il: rnah~edInw nbldlnl: nitd hnve
rlrd!ri up in the may they
pcnmirrlly nppllcrl to the lav
~h0t11dgo, aPent[iilg time ~ 9 t h courts for thrlr conrrtllutlonnl
Shrrn, tmchlna them to be I'i~hts.'1'0 the hlrlicst conrrtr.
ilnttntorn ol C+M nnd of his of t h e lnnd they hnvc carried
1)rInved Ban, they will I l k ~ l y t!~cir Iwn1 flrl~tlor ~ ~ t n l h r ~ 1 1 L~trsrcd.
I Y $/I 31-2Grt
Ilnr nntE rlr.lrrr(Hn:! by lnw
Il,iedom of ~.rllatonnnd the
Frfdfiy, October 11
right to )FCn(:ll C i o d ' ~ kirlrSect11 that all these thfngs rlorn, IPh!l. 1:7, 16) Viotofy
hns oflot) crownetl thdr cfarc
10 bc di~3oEverf,what
forts1 Whsthrr tlin mlemles
?llnn?~rrOf pn'801~s ought ge
iisetl open, I'mntnl H ~ ~ R C ~ G S
t o Irr:
, rtastening the
p'eschce of the day of G o d . 3~ c0ve1.t: unclcrh!!~ided ones,
-2
Pct. J:fI, 12, Rotherham. tlmy hnve been LmtlAcn rlonn
It wn keep alert: and in tune by EIta ut~wnrd-anrchlng n-lt-1
of tho Most Hlch God.
wlth what Jehoveh is do in^,
When thelr Iltcrnllrrc th:m been
s c tlfc nlwaJrs s h ~ r e r sin g r a t
IIIPJSIH~H. On the other hand, Ihmrcl they hnvc kept p r ~ f i me n1.e in Bnngrr f f we devel- L ~ K Iorwitrd in thefr 8mp01) 311 nttll~rde of skepticism
tnml work of 1nnkln6 dlsclplcs
tnwn~dthn Ghtngs pointed nut
31 Chrlhl by uslne j u ~ t the
t o 2tfl hy tba "fait2dul and.
Bible alone In tlmlr ~ ~ l t u e s s i n ~
Ohereah nlavo." (Matt, 24:45)
xork. ~ l s c l p l e nlzrrve rpaulted!
W e can frntl ourhe1r.e~ in a
LV I B l f 5 lo, 20n
. ..
..
Hastlay, October 15
You ma m# refuge and nag
rtror1ghoM.-Ps. 91 :2.
Jthornh 31~s.
maechlly ginm
1019, l>ccolne these things Zo
TIIAMR~,
O C ~ OZl
~ R ~
Wedmshy, Oatober 22
Turn atoay. get out oj there;
Thursday, Oetoher 23
Even it i t sltourd detny, h e p
expectation of it; jw it will
tulthoztt jail come me. I t m17F
not be late.-Hub.
2:3.
Huturday, Octabr 26
Ponder aver tlleas thin a: be
mh.posbed i?r them, llrn! yolrr
3.
Tuosdrty, Oatabem 28
In mu heart I have beasurec
rtp you? soping, in qrdw tha
I maw not s
m
n a w n s t mu.
-Ps. 119:11.
Ask jrourselP: Is my mjoy.
ment Oi remling and stndyinr
Shc Bible f:rowing as eac!
sear nc.=s? DWS it atead.
Ily bei-nnle clearer and mort
~ C t t n l 1 1 ~ f 1to
1 1 me* A n 1 ap.
plyinlr the Blhle's admonition
Ilcltor 111 my life? If you no.
tlcc little ndvanwment, what
6lllrukl yotl, do? Yon would
r.rrlnInly want t o npply yoilr3clr in filling your mind and
hcnrt wti.11 the wisdom found
I r i Ood's Word. Its counsel
1111181 reneh vour henrt t o
rrsponrl n ~ ) p r ~ c i ~ t i v e lO
y .~ l l y
c11r11 rr.111 rvc be LmpellH to
nrt, wlwly. Hence. there IS
iipcd for thoughtful me=diCt i m . tu t h i ~ i k in terms of
wlirrt ~ITecl, the things read
rmrl sturlfcd should be having
on mr life, and R.hv A s you
r csrl nnd study, you m!ghL
~lnnderq ~ ~ e s l l o nsuch
s
8s: Am
L strlving to conform to JeEiovnll'a ~c~+ssonaUty,
ways or
rlenlir~gs as rcwaled in the
]lns.srrtre of scripture being
r ~ n r l ?Dors the niblieal malcrlnl polnk up ally weakness
111 me? What could I do to
work on thls weakness? This
is !.he WRY the psalmist felt.
1'/ 2/15 5, BR
Wodnmihy, Octaher 29
Catllfnt~eto pa# in the prnoer
ot the H01w Spirit. Keep yawnet~csit1 tlw lovc of Gad, cnd
look wward to t h e day urhn
our l o r d J ~ s u s Christ in h f s
7rrfrcu will give eternal life.
- 4 r t d c 20, 21. New Erigli~h
Bible.
20. 2111
'rl~urwtlay, bctobr SO
[?ancernfng that day rrrzd Itour
".
Fridw. Clctnbnt
91
I looklun. how fierce-lookinu the
syrnllnh younK Hon ma? be
U p m the young Ifon and the
rnukiuu hie open, frontal
cobra yon wSU tread; yoit ?uItl when
rittnck. Jrllrlvnh'~ worshipers
trample down the muned
lrnrnple tlrls rlnnrcrous a t young lion and the hip
tnckrr d o l l . Thcy s ~ l kright
make.-Pib. 91 :13.
(I:!,
n h y l t ~ : ~t h c Mmt Hlgh
The* psalmist helghtena the
Clnd rs Sorcrettn Ruler rattler
tntenslt~ of the flgurerr of ttibrn Hnt~llke Itwn 01. llonlikc
;speech &hen, In a parnnelian~, tn11n-mrirlr nrRnriizntluns. T h ~ g
he .veaks as above. 'Cl~emnnccl rrr:dcr tn I1orilil;c CnElrnr only
young boll should be older irnrl
wlrrat b d o n ~ s bo Cn~sar and
a130 fiercer-lookhlg t1v~r1just
111 n o wny l ~ o l dI ~ R C
nnythi~kg
~
the young liun, and 1110 btrl
1.1~~1
b e l n ~ ~111n Ciod,
~
glvin to
sn:nnke should be n mnur~.uh.o~~s111111 ( 1 ; ~I , I tki
~ tngH I lint 13cFong
reptile, r ~ h i c hthe Oreek 801,ti) IIlrn. Ho 11wy lire t ~ o splrmt
tuaant Yerslon of the Psalms i l u ~ l l yhurb hy tlw menacing.
cnlls & "dragon." I-Iow6vrr, ncllun 01 the 'Won."-Acls
no matter how Impwsslvcn:zs; M n l k . 2 2 : 2 i , 1V 1 2 / 1 5 2 1 s
I T m o n i x h ~ gOur Liven rv1t.h U o d ' ~Pnrpoue.
- ~ p l 1:9, r n.
Saturday, November X
Sunday, Nsvemkm 2
Jehoonh. a Clod merciful and
WImetw anill I~uncblchimself
like this yuung child IS the one
gmcfnns.
pmdonit~gm o r
t h d i s fhc grentest in i l ~ and
~ tr.n?rt?gfCfi$lotiu?ld sin, but
M a g d m of tlrc htancnz,
h?! no rllcrrns rtrill h!: gIve ex-Nutt. i # : 4 .
emgtfnn J r a n ~punishment.
--Kx, 34 :6, 7.
dehornthis example
h~rmllThaw who would $Bin or
ity is of assist~nwto u8. If
Jehovah, the greatant pw~On- Contlnuo t t l enjoy Ciod'e apage in the universe, ia humbkl?, provnl should nrrh well Paul'n
should not we na Insi~nlflr:ni~t worils nn found k t 1 Coylntl~icreatures likewlm ha? ips. I D :
nna 11:8-11 : i i ~ Ant Qalatlans (I:
7, 8. Yes. ,J~hovR.hGotl dws
35) The pxtkrll Jmu8 set I#
nlso one for ns to irnl(atc i f wo fOrRlVa sins nnil looks with
arc truly Christians. Wits It not Inwcy a ~ ~corn
d w i o i ~upon
tllc chllflrcn of Atynrn 1r.110 wele
foretold that he moulrl I j t IlulrtM e as he entered ~ I r r ~ l s n l ~ r InH I I . ~ In . % l t ~ HoI~;;~.I'cI.,
.
note that
k present llirnself as kinn?
l ~ c%lhicE 11) Muscp t h a t "by nt,
?r~c{tn,?m l t I Itr pcvr exemptiort
I k h . 9:9: M ~ t t 21
. :$) A? llsltc
V;orci, God's iuhtbom In Ileitvlrorrt prnz~hn!r:llt." Even In t h e
en, t h e o n e who became Jr:,rls ~ t ~ w o I K I 1 1 ( : 1 3 t ~ v l d . ~ i t h . ~ ' h 1 ) m
certainly had A lofty posltinr~, .Ir.t~r~vzihmthclc n cavelinnt for
but "when he found hirwbr1r In
t h e kln~clum,Ood rnrtcle no exfashion %
. a man. he hulnl~letl ception. nnvlrl wna ])uniahed
tiimself and hecama 01)rrllr~nt for hla ~1113, but because he
as f a r as denth." A t ~ r l Pnul wun IT en111nt he wns also
uilsely counseled tho Phlltp~jlt111 IIIPPC\CLI\Y foeor~lvon. T.Iowsvcr,
@r)ngregation,"Keep tiuia 111~11- Jchovtth'~~
fnr'~IvB11~lf1
11ms not
t d attitude in you tlrnl wlur cxtrud Lo tlir~sr:who dcllberalso in Chriat Jesuh," t h n t atply vlvlntc Gotl'fl rl~hteoun
nor to t h o s ~wllo
mental, sttltude including tho ],~~li~clple.;,
quality of humility. (Phil. 2:!itn:tkr: dilnnlnl: n way of life. On
8) As a m a n on enrth. Jesi~s t11r cor~lrnry. His position is
s~oke.of the predousnw of nrlc of rictlvc hostlllty toward
thls attribute, e n c o ~ ~ m g l nhug
R L I C ~ n n ~ s rind thcy cnnnot
Pnrepe p~rnlai>mPnt.1P 8 . 1 5 6
mility. W 7 : f 7. BR
...
Monilsr, No~ember3
LOVE. . does not look or z f s
otvn <nterests.--1 Cm-.
'5.
Rather, love ia a d d by
thc prlnclple stated earlier by
Pn~ll:"Let em5 one! keep seeking, nclt hts oun advanmge,
but thnt of
other person:'
( 1 Cold.10:Z-1) At Christian aswn~hliesdv you pus11 or shove
.a Hrt nheacl of othcrs? Do you
I'rsevve ~caksfor yuurself v&l-~rlrtt concprn foy others? Or
J:*,
Th~mday,NovemXlar R
1 urn pursulng dotun loluurd
tke god for the prfze oj She
upward call of God by ~ n e n t t n
of CIbrist Jes~~s.-Pi~fl.3:13.
Bemuse Paul hml n purposs
b e end=?& wlth long-sutlerlna
am3 strlck t o a C C ~ ~ Rc a~ uIi h ~
of Life. He kept his w e on 111s
rewures and
,wallow them $own Into hi13
Tcmon-tantrollcd organization,
w i t h worldIy
this "big
sl~nkc." Thry ;$void and resist
ttll form%ui sp~rltihrn,thus HOI
ptrmllttug the df-mons subtly
:o tnkc r o n t ~ n luf thclr mind
nrld rvlll, (Luke 10:17) For
God-given purpose, He had RR
otlo tl~lug.the nnofntecl rern"eye goal'' or "eye tarp;st,'W
rr;~nt rru1.4 c!tr thlS 11 they tlethe Jnpanese ond FCorenii elrc tn slutre In t,he Cuifillment
words for "purpose" men11. IIa
Ruinrtns 16:211, h s v l n ~Snlikened himself to n cc)tlLrstu~~t lr~n c r u : i I ~ ~ri~itlor
d
ttlelt' f e ~ t
in a Ioeoo~ncewith his tlycs U u ui~urily.'r'hoy mltd tnlre posldeviatlrlgly Axed on tlls ~ o l t l I:[Ve ~ I e l nl~&lil~L
l~
the flcry-red
where t11c prize wau to IJC
torirlt-auorl" now nnd kcel) him
ierred llpon the winner, Aun l w r t y ~zinrlrrlooi, W I 2 1 1 5 22a
cording to Paul's wordh ribova,
God was the One who did Ihe
Sntr~tdtjy,N@vernl)er8
calling by m a n s of Chrlsb Jcsus, and this c s l b q wm for n Yfe aanld to hlm. "FelIatu, imm
?)a11or6 frr llere not hatrfna
p m s e . In apprecintlmr oP didOTL
u jl~~trriage
pnn>rent?''
this undeserved Wnt?ncsq on
- M o l l . 28:1?.
God's part mward him, PRltl
Whet does tFre marriage @rharmonized his M e coil1 se wii?r
mmnt picture tndny? hccordtng
138's purpose. Paul aalv clenrly
wmch way t o gu, Lor Geld hi~rl i-a sepnrta, such gnrrnerlta freeIv provltled 1)y illp host were
set; R goal hetore tllm. II Ila
I b n ~wllitc I l ~ ~ r r:nrznenW,
m
so
s~~ccessfully
reached that Aonl,
Ihat nil ~iiestswere o~~twardly
he ~vould recelve a prho ut
God's hands. Paul did not dln- clolhcd nllkc, whrther one urns
d a b that prlze, for t o dO a 0 n ~ l ~ l n n l lnv J e w i s l ~lnvllce or
would mean f o r him to tll,ur!~ n C+uu(,ilo plrkul,. Tlic marGod's undcservcd kindnew. Do 1 1 n ~ ef!r~rmcnl slfnlfles more
rlcclared rigliyou appreciate God's z~nrlc- thrtn 011~'s1lei11~
setved klndncsn townrd yo117 b o ~ i a by (rtlrl Ilri'ourrh one's
i
t
t
l
l
l
~
Iri
Christ's
ramom. f o ~
w 21il 9, 11
truch j~stlflrritlonfa 1101, an end
Friday, No17cmImr T
I11 Itself; It doer; not stand
You will lrampIe dmun
the nlonr. (Rev, 1 9 3 , 8; Stom. 5:1,
9) Its p u m m Is that t h e jusblg snake.-Ps. 91:I3.
ThP dragonlike "big make" Ztfierl one should be RdoptM bY
son nnd
reminds us or Satan "the orld- o o d IL~ hls a~~lrltttnl
nal serpznh." (Gen. 5:15; Rev. becomr a rncmbcr o l t h e spkl t l l ~ l need or Abr~hom ntld
la:9) He i s pictured here, not
ras a, "sea monster," but as a thus a men~beral spiritual 11sland monster, a reptile of un- rnel. As nuch, t h l ~adopted son
usual size, long enoug-h to get Is tnkcn i n h tho new coven~nt
medinlad by Und'n Ron. Hcnce,
its coils around a humnn to
crush him and swallow him. tho innsrlr~uo garment sym(Jer. 51:34) 8 0 if JcllOV&hs bollzea all rltnt for Ihe repen' w o ~ p e r sdlscmn that Rntm tunt, bnptlacd ~ u c s t at the
the Devil, by means of his ie11st. So it b one3 identifleamonstrous worlrl orpnkntion, !!on an R splritunl fsmehte,
is t r ~ i n g to wrap hi5 m l l ~ one of Abrnhmi's splrit~tal
around ;hem ~ 1 1 dcrush thm mrcd. W 11!15 12, 138
.. .
T I I ~ Zmn~ple down
Wedae~by, November 12
If you wtll receive my sayfngs
and treaalre up mp mn c m mnndments with ?/osrselj,
in that cwe you will understand the: feat of Jelmva71, ctnd
gou will find the very knowledge 01 God.--Prov. 2 : f - 5 .
Threats and warnings do not
usually produce the best results. Why? Because they may
result only In fear of the
f hreatened punishment, not
hatred of the wrongdoing (Ps.
97 :POj At Ephesians 6 :9, masters me coun~leledto 'let up on
the threatening, for you know
that the ?da&tev of both them
and you Is in the heavens, and
. ..
Being imperfect, we
Friday, November 14
tfiere is no partlnlity wlth
him.' The better method i
!
t.
o
Accorditlg to his good pbraswe
show the advantage of doing which he purposed in him,
things in JehovWs wzy and, -For an administration aj the
where passible, the reasolls fulncss of the seasons to rewhy certain things are bad. unite for himserf . . . dl things
Optimistically encourage the in the Chn8t.-Eph. 1 9 , 10,
right course, but A R ~ the same
Rotherham.
time lovlngly make clear what
For dxty years now the prothe results of disobedience will
be. There is a dltYerence be- spective members of t h e MesMngdom. together with
tween threatening and outlin- sianic
a, "great crowd" of loyal helping what the conserlumees of
a certain course unldoubtedly era, have been preaching "this
will be. Notfcce the Inviting good news of the $lngdoraW
will not have t h s preachmanner in which Jehovah en- mGod
g of his established lrlngdoni
courages the proper course in
o on ind&nilely. Re hm his
thc words above. W 2 / 1 20,21a gmarked
time for this heavenly
kingdom to go into destructive
xctmn nqainst this doomed
Tn evcrpthi?zg b y prayer and system of things. T h e nelv
s u p p l i c a t i o n along zO2th government that God hns glirthanksgiving Ed: youthp9titions
posed to attend to the affallx
be made known t o God.
of all mankind must shortly
--Phjl. 4:6.
take over. Almost two thouPram plays a vital role in sand years ago Cad sent the
making advancement. Jesus one appointed to ke hh Chief
Servant in the administration
said that God wou1d give hoIy
spirit to tliose asking him. ta earth to prove hi8 worthi(Luke fl:131 It is by means of ness. When he \va& dorified in
this spirit that God enablelea us heaven m d founded the Christo understand his Word and tian congregation on the day
apply It col~ectly. When we of Pentecost of 33 C.E.,the
are faced wlth problem or "administrat.tlOn at tho full
have to make weighty deci- Umit of the appointed times"
slons, we can appeal to God started operation In its Arst
for help. His spirit will Wen stage, the most essential stage.
W 1 0 / 1 5 8 , 10a
aid 11s to recall what we need
Sunduy, November 16
Anyone dwelling ia
the secret
Monday, Noremher I f
K e e p rcoxkinq out %'oar own
salvai<oiatt ruztlz cnr and trclnbling.-Pkil, 2:I2.
When it comes to u roper
esttmate of onc.self. de\ovall
Tl~ofldny, NOVCIHI
~ A 18
F
For all thin s I haue Sb
strmotft bv aRue o j )rim ~ v t t o
ijnpattt
JV~tlrtr?~d~y,
Novcmhm 10
Bccatfsc on me Ile Ira8 set I143
nflecthn, I sl~nll also pvavlde
I1 fin
iollh cscnpe.-P8.
01 :I4,
...
...
Mmrhy, xmc~nbrr 24
,TPake honest
rorirlon. tat
mla in tlrr: sipft o .Iclrrn~oh,
b r l f also in tltr slgdl n, nrrvr.
-2 Core #:2f,
T o be ' p ~ ~ ~ f nnrr
a t God In
perfect' wc r l l u ~ lluva whnt hc
loves. (Matl.. h:401 Thlfi Includes pursulnc what I,: l u ~ t
and rictlt. Tllc 8 1 2 , l ~ tr~lh11s
that C~WIis "tc ~ o v p t - 132 US-
God's Word
I m d on it as
or publlcntionu
r!, pnl'cly restor-
...
Thursday, November 27
He who holds mlt t o the end,
he zsfll come safe thrmtgh.
-Matt.
24:13, Bgrington.
please.-lsa 4G:IU,
New Emlish BiMe,
The blllioni of resurrected
humans will all have
be
brought into a unity under
Chrkt, the -el
Empant in
God's "adrmnb&&#!on." The
~ h t ~ l n a tpurposee
of this is to
b:iLF ab#t,t their unBcaticm
with G M . Thrs will require
the uplifting of all the o h dient ones of mankind t o L'ie
h u m a n perfection such es
Adam and Eve had at their
clheatlon. All the disobedient
resisters of such unMcation
wrll be destroyed everlasting-
Wn~rhy,Novemhax 80
I rllalt protect Rht hecuuaa ha
l i r r ~C O ~ ~ Ito
C ktlolu nze, name,
-Pa.
91 :15.
of lhln
rom-
-Pa.
91:14.
In tealimotly
IRa J e h o v n l ~ 'truo
~
wor&ipera
axlat loclny Iir till? most purllOUF, tlmr nrlrl I ~ eI increnslrla
Wo~lRay,Demmber I
dlthougft the fig tree itself
s~uk blonaona, a r ~ d Ittern
J
b
Tumhy, M e m b e r 2
Bfnd him halid and loot and
tl~row hi91~ out into the
drarknesa orrtsi&.
-Matt. 22:13.
mng 8 6 the ~ r ranger of the marriage feast
for hfs ~ ~ 0 1comes
1
in to inapact, the guests. ThThis must
t)~d tho
%ey
. ..
k t u r h y , Deeember 6
him beeawe hc
has come to knoro my name
-Px- 91:14,
On Btmdny alternoon, July
20, Ifiai, nt Chr inbernatlonal
vonvcntion of the 1B.S.A. in
Culunll~us, Ohio, there came
l,he 11rn,rlfelb doption of the
Rcaolritlo~~
ill favor of cmbracinrc Ltlc! New Nnma, .Jehovah's
!vlCncs:xs. Ti~ol*cRiter
thls ReS-
r #hall protect
Fi~mflf~y,
Dec~mher?
i s tti~Iktng mith wise
pC?BOna ujlll become w i a q *but
trc llint i s ficlf~dng dealtngs
rrlllb thc atrapirt orzis ~ v i l lfare
He that
btrd1y.-Prou. 13:20.
Chrlall~npnrents often fbd
that prohlcmn wise when their
cllllhcn 2wgln to asweiate
wit11 other children. They
must, o t course, h s e some
n~:cociatlon wlth o u t d d a r s .
ex&.
But pwente a d to
Monday, D c c ~ m h ~8r
Kaen working by splrlt and
eotl wilt carry o!tb *re peshIv
destre rrt all. Moreover, t?do,~c
who brIo?tu to Chrfst Jesus
impaled tlte pest! tagethrr
~ c t t hIts pnssfma and dessres.
I f ~w arc liufrtv bv splriL, let
eis go on l i ~ a l k t n gr~rdrvlyalso
by spfrtt-C;rrl.
5 : I G . 24, 25.
When wo yloId o i ~ r a e l v e I,o
~
the influence of Clocl'~wlsdom
as set forth ill hls Word nnd
the ~uldnilceof his ~pirit,we
\ ~ j l l flnd that arlr ~p11'1t01'
dominanl tccllnR wlll cnmpel
us to conlurm ever c l m r to
God's stmttnrd ol hollt~r%qor
p ~ ~ r l t yLVe
. !tollt he n ~ o v ~ r to
b
wnnt t o irnltnte hl8 ql1n1ltle.s
-his
l o ~ ~ c~,I I S ~ ~ Eand
P
wlsdom. The rdtl nnd wholrsome
effect of tlic brillnin~rccolvsd
t b r o u ~ lptaram~nl
~
~ n dcunplegatlollrtl hl,zrdy of i,he nibre
wlll be rn~tnji& t o 01)servers
in our ~ttltudc, ~ p e e c l n~ i ~ d
rcklons, Tt~ou~11tllc slnfrll
tcndencleg 0: our failen IIrsh
may push us It1 a wrong directlon, our nplrlt or ctomlnnnt
attltude will caoperrrte with
the llendlng of G d ' a tlplrit and
Tunsdny, December B
Jehovah God proceeded t o
Enke the mfln and settle him
it1 t J ~ e garden of Eden t o
cuEti2;ate it and to take
care of tt.-&en.
2:15.
After the spiriLu~1paratt!se
has survived ths "great trlbulatlon." the survlvlng war-
Wednesday, December SO
He pzirposed
an admhistration at the full ltmdt of
the rrppo~nbed times, namely,
lo gather a12 fhiirgs together
in the Christ,
the things
...
. ..
Thursday, Decemller 21
There are manu intlfted, but
few chosen,-Matt, 22:fg.
W h m dld Jesus menn by
the many that Elad been Invftsd, and ~vllorn by the fcw
chosen? The lllBhy invltcd
were the Jewish n i t i a i tllnt
was in tile Lnw covcnnlrt,
I<-1uch offered help t o tire
Jews to become n kingrlnm of
priests to God. T11e rew choaeu
ns worthy OI the klnndorn oP
the heavens w r e the rcm-
PrMny, nerw?mbar 12
Bleaed bo Jchova?~,who has
not given 11s a3 n gr to their
t r ~ r l Q11r
~ . 801tr in
;
! abirrE
tt~rctl a escaped ro.rr~the 2 r . n ~
boflors. T l t c
$3 trrar;c~i.
Iife. In the New Order Jehovnh OaR will add t o the length
or dsys of the anointed rema n l on e ~ r t hSo the polnt of
rrntl EI'C O I I T S V ~ C C SJ I I ~ I I P ~ S C ~ P C I I . nsxtlslying
the meruhers there-FS, 121:r;, 7,
of. It remains t a & seen
The pmlrnlst Dnvld here whelher thev dl1 be yet rel I k e n ~hlmwlt anrl lrin com- tnlned here +on earth to see
yanionu to b1rda tlrnt hnve the start of the resurrection
actz~nkty Zmn c n r i ~ h t In the of the earthly dead and co
~ Y R J I , but il-orn which t t ~ c v nleet the In!thfuE wirnesses of
hnve h t d~tlvercd.
~
In this nnc~ctnc. PI e-CMstinn t~rnes.
cnsr lljc "hnllcr-5" mra n(1t Tnry wowlrl enjoy that. before
)!Ic!'R~
l>lrdc:lt~11~k's,~ 1 1 t 1 d!le
bei!lg taken OR rhe earthly
bird thrrl cscapiul lrorr~ thch' scrtle t o thetr hrtiwnly reI ~ o k e nI m p wns not n Hterrll \vii:.cl. W 12'1.5 368
bisrl, lrut ~ e f e r slo "our ao:~S,"
thr Roll1 or life of the nnllnii
of Isrn~l,In f~rlflll~nehL
Of I h n t
lie Iajnselj tuill deliver port
pr.o],l~cllcpsnlrn, Jehrlvmlr Ciod
jrum t?le t r a p of the
dltl l~rcnk tllc trnp 111 which
birdcatch%r.-Ps. 91:s.
tho nr~nlntedrernnnnt oT xl>lrWho is that biydcstcher? It
Ilunl Tsrorl wns c:iuh.hb. It w11a
I,lle trip RprItng hy 'Bn1,yloll hwa long lleen discerned and
a reed to that tho symbolic
Ilm Clrmt nrtd hrr accrriubfi-dcatcher is Batan the Devil
plloeB, 111 the ~ p r l uor~ 1910
.1~lloval1broko tlw1, t l n ~lola W h ~ tis 111s ~ylnbolic trap;
from whloh Jehovah God de171s rcprnlnnl rernl~rrliCritld tlid
liver8 uld kee a mfe thosc urho
jkot 11% Ihc "IlniterR," tho aynialrldfn&"in the secret
l)olia l ~ l r r i c ~ 8itlIc
~ ~ ~t ~l l ~~ k
~ rcontinue
~ ,
teeth lnl,o t l ~ r : ilesh of 1.m lslrico of the Maqt; High"? The
sy~ubolic trap lhat Satan the
tvr~pped"hlrd." Thrreaftsr Iho
Dorll has set for those who
rscztpocl rornunnb wt~re tnkrll
I ~ I YJIe:h~o v a l ~ God ns thelr
Itito the "r;ct:rot plncc! of lfla
reiujie and stronghold I s &lie
nront rri~h."-P~,e l :t. W 1 3 : l
ealthlg orgnl>Iantion that Is
IS, 10n
opposed to God's orgn~iiaa~on,
11:~1ncly,Sslan's visible orgar
Sclnlt~rilny,J)ocemhpr 18
ui~nr,ton. In I t O o d ' s great
Wit?&Ictlgth of dava I shall
Aclrcrsary tries to catch Jemtisjg hilt&,and I slratl ccritae
hovl~ll's worshipers and to
JrItn lo scc snI~mtIo?r b?) trrc.
hold them as %4ctlrna,to thew
-P#. 9 i : z 6 .
splrlttinl ruin and ultimate
Only from the ond of the dcstrucLIon. Thtls The Watch
y8Br 1928 WlLR the PrMpWCt
Torcer, August 1. 1927. said:
opened tu the nplritunl undcr" I t seems certain that 'the
sl:u~rEln~
a? thy nnolnted rcmfowlcr' here named by t h e
I I U I I ~of the "f.srnrl of God"
prophet Is ti%? Delui1,and that
to survive Arinnrcddun nnd h:s snnre conslsts of hIs methe ~ l t ~here
r
on cn:ll1 into Je- ods e!ngloy&, and by his firl~nvnh's rtghteotis new order. g~rdzntlon, workring In divers
And now some tho~ls~mda
ot nnd Irumerous deceptive ways
rhr a ~ ~ o i n t c dsenlnnnl, ntlll
t o cntrap those who clalm tn
nliva on this enrth. look &end
be servnnts of the hlmt Hgh."
tn re~lizitll:thnt Joylu! pros~ h l was
s
in the first of three
pect. The i~lcrenalllg great artlcles on Psnlrn 91, W 1 2 ' 1
17. 190
rrorvd or Lhelr ~hcrpllkevonl-
La,,
fitonday, Dri~ember15
Cleanse yozlr hands, you ainnsrs, and purijg sour 7tearh
HumbIe yourselnes fa the
...
2:4.
W 8/1
26,
Tac.sdaf; D e m l K r 16
Tifen the king mid to his
sertrnnts, 'r13ind him hand and
foot and throw I~imout into
the darkness oatside. T k r e is
whme ltts rceep+ng and the
gnashing of his teeth tuill be."
-Matt.
22:13.
LV 1 1 , IS 241k
\VeduerRny, DemmtPPc IT
God
C gmdotis and
%'Or!&
ablrndant in lm7lag-kindrrcsa,
4mZ
2:13.
Tl~cvwdny,nmpmhac I H
rufll daliver yoti
, , . fvom the srsftlcncr!
cai~sl?rgnrrwiaifiea,
Nu hitnselj
Rnnday, December 21
Sku
these tlrings, for by
floifrg lhh yort i ~ t l !saw both
ncs. You u n d stand
~ ~ that. but
yo?irael/ nnd those who Iistcx
thcy do nol. Without comEo ~ozr,-l Ytm. ?r:16.
lrornirrl~lgynrlr I)ositlon or vloThe svan lizlng @it ia
nlltlfc ILIIV Bible ~lrinciple,you
one that hrEga the greatest shnulrl i a out of your way
hnppinefla. T11cre I s no greater
it1 I(~llourkn~
what would be
joy low tiknn bemg able to
ron!.lc!eretl n normal pattern of
tipElolrl J e l ~ o r ~ h name
's
:n an hchnvlor. To tllnt cxkn!, show
ull~orlly world, and to bring
t11aL you belong. Re p-eparerl
h ~ l 111ld
~ t hope to olliws. And
i u ovcrtook maily things. T r y
th(=t~, wh(*ii you see those
to rtvrllil Jlurt feelings, either
whum you ru-e helping coming
In ol,lrer,j or 111 yourself. Jesus
lo Ictkaw J(*hovfth and Jesus
pnllunlly er~dr~rerl
mncli when
Ctlrial, mtl whnh they hsve
In tlir COmpRlly of those whu
donc, yuur joy i6 increued.
were proJucilced and host!le.
Tlw svmyelialng writ does
settlnh. n i l psnrnple for yell.
R N ~ I I Y wJt11 thr spirit of selfi V $115 14n
ihllncss. i t COT. 10:24)
It
rejrlicrs I r l tlip fqiritual ndI'UP
D~mrnbe~
R I 23
~R~~
vnnce or others, p ~ l I c u l a ~ l y
Flacr arc bfl or^ the throne of
of' lhoflr whom ou are helpnoA: ntia riicr y e renderin(
irlp comcqcwn?Iy, all true
hl?tc sncrsd serutce day and
srvvanl.u uf JetlolraR d c s h to
niyht in his temple.
r.ulLlvnt8 bhlt: evangelizing
-Rev. 7:15.
splrlt in tt~embelves and in
othc~a.It you dewre to ~ n h - In the splrilual paraIs
s ~ f ythla splrrt wltllin ymxrself.
whcm true apirltuel beauty
nshwroto C ~ O J C ~ Yx..ith those abtntns, where the iruitage of
u h n I i ~ ~ vIel ~ i *fine attitude,
Furl's splrll conics to matunrlcl a n l l ~ t h e ~ l of
d the elder8
rltv. Pence atld tlhue Christi.1~11
b ~ o h l ~ o r i ~ o obtnin
od
here, and
111 Ihe r:unpc~ation,They will
Ire hnppy Co IicIp you, f o r they
C I L ~ :one
~
tleeks to buUd up
k i ~ o wLhnt It gl(~rifIesC
I
d and
tilt! otiicrs npiritunlly and to
prcparc Chenl r~palnstthe onworks toward the saIvatiun of
t h P t n ~ I ~ C and
3
thaw wbom
coming d n y bI Jehovah. Howthey I I C I ~ . nr G ~ 27,
I 26a
w c r , Ghr rcmfiant, pictured
by Nonll's %v111*, are not the
nfontltby, Dnren~l~or
2X
only (HIPS nrw ocrmppics this
tun! pnmdise, this IOCRW h e ? ~Ire ~ o u abeing reviled, he hpli-t
ol rr:atolncd peaceful radid ? ~ o lgo revilit~gin ralurn. tlt111
lall~~nt.l~lp
with God. Since
WhRn he wan s u f e ~ n g ,he dicl
1035
Ihera have came to this
rroi! go tlrr~ntorrttrg, h
t kept aptrltunl
pnrndlae
those who
on c o r n n r i t l i t ~hintself
~
to the
werc 51:ctured hv Eo~h'ssons
IHIC tr*?ro firtlrles
rig^^?!^.
pnr1 their wiz.es.*~heseere the
-1 Pef. 2 : 2 5 .
p~+uspur:Liveearthly c1Li:drw
N o e a v c r ~ i n c e r e and of thc Etcnuil Pnlher, Jesus
humhla-minded you may be, Uhrlst. I hr! Grcatcr Noah. The
this rnsy n u t be apprecialcd oppol-lut~ll~y
I# mt. before theut
by olher mambers of your
or surrlvlng thc world's great
flcnhly family who are prejti ft~rilnllon,nuw EU near, and
ucllccd, eve11 hogme. They ao to tt~ctnthe prophetic picmas ~ n yYOU *re m g te turc aiwm ln ILevelntirm 7:
p~td on Bfrn of superiorltr. 9-17 itp1hierc. Tllcg a5ll make
m u e , your ~tandcrrds as a
np the " ~ r e n t~rowd''of whom
Cbrirstlan mny be superlor to I l ~ e nlnlvc Is Enla. W 1 I : L
lmhcll.d,hub iJllntdws ~ i o make
t
D, 20n
...
Bnnrlny, Dmembw t g
We will wipe out mety tear
MO-~,
D ~ V W I I21)
~~S
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