opinion. I told him: ‘First I shall hear your own opinion, but before you speak, read Revelation 22:10.’ So from a copy of the New Testament published by the Orthodox Brotherhood he read the Scripture: ‘Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book.’ Thereupon he exclaimed: ‘It is very obvious that the professor is not right, and I am amazed at his boldness to publicly insult Jehovah’s witnesses and distort the truth so bombastically.’

“The other listeners in the cell also hastened to read the paper’s publication and the verse referred to in Revelation, and they too showed surprise at the professor’s false statement. Giving them more information I said: ‘If you now read Revelation 1:1 where it is written, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants,” you will readily understand that this book is sealed and closed for the professor because he is not a servant of Christ, but the book is not closed to the servants of God and Christ, Jehovah’s witnesses. The very name of the book, Revelation, shows it would not be closed forever.’

“Now how many of those prisoners, who showed interest in this message of truth, will go ahead and progress in their knowledge of the Bible, only the Lord knows. Jehovah God knows His own, and will not permit any of His sheep to be lost. I thank the Lord with all my heart for the blessed experiences granted me during my detention. Out of season for me, but in season for those prisoners, I tried to avail myself of every opportunity to preach the Word. It is most evident from these experiences that all these hardships, persecutions and imprisonments heaped upon Jehovah’s witnesses here in Greece only go to prove the glory and majesty and greatness of our God, whose name alone is Jehovah!”

Isolated Publishers in Hawaii

It was very joyful at Kawaihae last Friday to find at least three isolated publishers in this beach town. One family said they were immersed about ten years ago by an early brother in the territory. One of them had seen us at the Chinese store and later stopped us on the road to contact us. It seems that no one had called here for over three years, and the religionists had tried to get them to burn their books, but they refused and plainly told them why. One family lost their home in the tidal wave of April, 1946, and they lost everything except the Salvation book. Now they would like to get some of these older books again. They took copies of the publications which we had with us at the time and subscribed for the Watchtower and Awake! magazines. The Awake! magazine and Equipped book were entirely new to them, and they were overjoyed when we told them of the many things that had happened since someone called there last. They didn’t know about the Gilead school and the conventions. We arranged to call there again in two weeks and hold a study in the book “Let God Be True” and help them to get organized for the Kingdom service. There are many isolated places on this large island of Hawaii, and, by the Lord’s grace, we hope to be able to reach them soon.—Special pioneer.