Footnote
a The hundreds of newly baptized witnesses joined in the response of the visible audience when the public speaker submitted a resolution at the close of his talk and said: “And now my good friends of this audience, of the invisible as well as the visible, I suggest everyone of you who desires a righteous government, who desires to see a government in which peace, prosperity and happiness shall come to all who obey, arise and say Aye.”
Concerning what followed this suggestion, the Washington newspaper Herald said:
“Like a tidal wave that mighty throng in and around the auditorium swept to its feet. Arms raised aloft, Jehovah’s witnesses at the top of their lungs shouted their affirmation. Windows in the auditorium rattled as the sound wave beat against them and the voice of the throng, police estimated, could easily have been heard for a mile.”
Similar scenes were enacted at the same moment in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Copenhagen and hundreds of other places in many parts of the earth.—The Golden Age, issue of June 19, 1935, p. 598; see also the Year Book of Jehovah’s Witnesses for 1936, p. 62, par. 3.