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    The Watchtower—1963 | August 15
    • Assembly Opens in New York, Closes at Milwaukee

      SUNDAY, July 7, the “Everlasting Good News” Assembly opened at Yankee Stadium in New York with delightful weather, blue sky and a teeming crowd of conventioners. Sunday afternoon the Watch Tower Society’s vice-president, F. W. Franz, reported to the assembly that he had just come from Milwaukee, where, on July 6, the crowd of conventioners rose to 53,112. This was the largest attendance for any convention of Jehovah’s witnesses in Milwaukee and for any crowd to occupy the stadium in Milwaukee.

      Franz’ talk, “The World—God’s Field of Work,” was an absorbing study of the Greek words usually translated “world” and how each Greek word has significant meanings. Proper understanding of the words aión and kósmos will be of great help in understanding many Bible texts, including the identifying of the time referred to in them as “the founding of the world.” At the close of Franz’ talk it was announced, amid loud applause, that a crowd of 67,266 had been present to hear this most enlightening information.

      The Society’s vice-president further delighted this large audience by telling them he would soon be in telephonic communication with the Society’s president, N. H. Knorr, to inform him of the fine attendance at the opening of the New York assembly. When the call was made, the Society’s president, in turn, informed Franz of the outstanding attendance in Milwaukee for the public talk “When God Is King over All the Earth.” This was a record 57,055 persons, who thrilled and applauded as President Knorr declared: “God, not world politicians and statesmen, will determine when this ‘time of the end’ shall close. Shortly the clock of universal time will strike the hour, and the ‘war of the great day of God the Almighty’ will break out, not by accident or by human miscalculation, but because God has had enough of mankind’s opposition and ignoring of him . . . Only men and women, like Noah and his family, who are in favor and support of God’s kingdom by his Son Jesus Christ will survive.” In New York 107,483 heard the same talk the following Sunday.

      When the New York assembly concluded, this talk was still scheduled to be given in twenty-two other cities around the world this summer.

  • Announcements
    The Watchtower—1963 | August 15
    • Announcements

      FIELD MINISTRY

      Manifesting their subjection to Jehovah God, Jehovah’s witnesses will continue to carry out their ministry during August, offering the Bible-study books “Let Your Name Be Sanctified” and “Your Will Be Done on Earth,” with two booklets, for just $1.

      ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL MEETING

      Yearly the annual meeting of the members of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is held on October 1, and in 1963 this date falls on Tuesday. The meeting will be at ten o’clock in the forenoon on Tuesday, October 1, and will be held at the office of the Society located at 4100 Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

      A regular letter of notice of annual meeting will be sent to each of the members of the corporation. The members will wish to be certain that these letters of notice reach them by seeing to it that the secretary’s office has their present mail address to which to send the notices.

      As is the usual procedure, the notices will be accompanied by proxies. The proxies should be returned by the members promptly in order to reach the office of the secretary of the Society not later than September 15. The proxy should be returned by each member whether the member is going to be at the meeting personally or not.

      WORLDWIDE ASSEMBLIES CLIMAX

      This year a new and exciting chapter is being written in the record of unity of Jehovah’s witnesses. In quick succession, twenty-four assemblies around the world are demonstrating their interest in advancing the knowledge of God and his Word. The worldwide assembly will reach its finale in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, September 1-8. Don’t miss it!

      “WATCHTOWER” STUDIES FOR THE WEEKS

      September 15: Protect the New Generation. Page 489.

      September 22: Each One Will Render an Account. Page 495.

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