Announcements

LOYALTY TO THEOCRATIC ORGANIZATION

Jehovah, the Almighty Sovereign, does not tolerate disloyalty in his great organization. He requires full allegiance to the righteous principles his organization represents at all times. (Josh. 23:8, Mo) Love for God impels his faithful servants to intense loyalty. This they demonstrate not by words only, but also by consistent and continuous activity in behalf of what is just, true and righteous. Their loyalty moves them to clean and right living, and to widespread preaching of the good news of Jehovah’s kingdom, so that all persons may see the benefits that come from loyalty to God’s organization. That is why, during the month of November, Jehovah’s witnesses will go forth from house to house and offer the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures and a bound book, on a contribution of $2. (Or, the Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. I, if persons have the Greek Scriptures) These will help persons of good will to appreciate the need for their loyalty to God.

BASIS FOR BELIEF IN A NEW WORLD

A new world of righteousness, peace and eternal prosperity may appear to you to be beyond reach. Your heart is heavy under the weight of woe now upon this old world, with its uncertainty and fear. You would like a completely new world, yes, but you feel that you will never live to see any such world. Do you know that there is a sound basis for belief in a new world? Do you know that all evidence points to the early realization of a complete change in earth’s affairs—a change from corruption, distress and perplexity to a new system of things under the direct administration of Almighty God and his Son Jesus Christ? If your mind is open to consider the facts, the 64-page booklet Basis for Belief in a New World will provide absorbing reading for you. At the conclusion you will have a comforting basis for belief in a righteous new world. The booklet may be obtained for 5 cents a copy, or seven copies for 25 cents.

“WATCHTOWER” STUDIES

Week of December 6: The Living Word.

Week of December 13: Power for Life and Service.

Check Your Memory

After reading this issue of “The Watchtower,” do you remember—

✔ What reason Dr. John Haynes Holmes gave for the world’s confusion? P. 643, ¶1.

✔ What questions a “natural” religion fails to answer? P. 643, ¶4.

✔ How the Catholic Church tries to cover up Augustine’s erroneous belief concerning Christ’s reign? P. 646, ¶3.

✔ Why the preaching of Christ’s presence now is no false alarm? P. 648, ¶1.

✔ How Christ appeared in 1914? P. 648, ¶2.

✔ What betrays Christendom’s churches to be famine-stricken? P. 649, ¶2.

✔ To what must there be a turning if spiritual famine is to be avoided? P. 651, ¶5.

✔ What one outstanding factor discounts Muhammad as a prophet of God? P. 653, ¶2.

✔ How the Quran admits it contradicts itself? P. 654, ¶3.

✔ What is the ultimate purpose of old-world propaganda? P. 657, ¶2.

✔ What is the most important feature of the Bible? P. 658, ¶9.

✔ Why God’s words are living, powerful, effective? P. 659, ¶13.

✔ What determines whether we are Jehovah’s witnesses? P. 665, ¶8.

✔ When men get into trouble? P. 668, ¶16.

✔ Why loyalty in little things is important? P. 669, ¶9.

✔ What Jehovah’s Word means when it says it “pierces even to the dividing of the soul and spirit”? P. 671, ¶5.