Delegates came to Suva, Fiji, from seventeen different lands as well as from many scattered islands of the Pacific, Samoa, Tonga, and so on. To local inhabitants the attendance of 1,621 at the assembly’s public lecture was a real eye-opener. Imagine their surprise, too, when 77 persons indicated that they were willing to be girded for the urgent work ahead by offering themselves for baptism! Why, not even that number had been baptized in the entire year ending August 31, 1969!

What a colorful throng the conventioners made, dressed in their national costumes, as they fed on the same spiritual food from Jehovah’s table! Even though language barriers sometimes prevented them from freely conversing, each one knew the reason for the other’s joy.

WITNESSES PUB. MTG. ATTEND. BAPTIZED

Fiji 403 1,621 77