a wallet on the roadside containing a considerable amount of money. He then noticed a Roman Catholic priest walking slowly down the road, obviously in distress, looking first one way, then another. The brother approached the priest and asked him if he was looking for something. Yes, he had lost his wallet. The brother returned the lost wallet, to the great relief of the priest. Asked who he was, the brother said: “I used to be a Roman Catholic, and if I still was one I would have kept that wallet and said nothing, but now I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses. Here is your wallet.”

Brother Dower, a member of the Bombay office staff, next spoke on “Building for the Future.” He pointed out that God does not dwell in temples made with hands, but that he is pleased to use buildings to carry out his purposes. Then came the dedication speech by the zone servant, G. D. King. It was a well-expressed statement of gratitude to Jehovah, the Giver of this fine new building, which is to be exclusively devoted to the doing of his will. This was followed by prayer; then Brother King delivered a service talk to the audience of 263, drawn from the various congregations of Jehovah’s witnesses in Bombay.

The building itself is a two-story structure of concrete frame, with brick filling. The entire front is faced with stonework, adding beauty and dignity to the building. At one end is a main entrance flanked with gray marble panels, and on each side of the steps there are built-in boxes for flowers. The entrance lobby also forms a reception room, and this is beautified by a glass panel of deep-etched glass portraying a fine picture of the paradise earth. On the ground floor are dining room, kitchen and general storage facilities. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a spacious, well-lighted Kingdom Hall accommodating 250 persons. Up on the terrace roof is adequate space for open-air meetings. The whole building is enclosed in a garden, which, in time, will grow to paradisaic beauty.

Such, then, is the growth of a movement that began in a small way in India in 1912. It is a common saying in India that “all religions teach the same,” “all religion is good,” “all lead to the same goal.” But is this really so? No, for Jesus said: “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.” (Matt. 7:13, 14) It is the narrow way, in contrast to this world’s ‘broad road,’ that leads to everlasting life in the new world. Yes, it was a most important movement that started showing the people of India this narrow way to life in 1912.

“The Head of All These Kingdoms”

HAZOR, a Canaanite city in the days of Joshua, was no small or unimportant place. Describing Hazor briefly, the Bible says: “Joshua turned about at that time and captured Hazor, and its king he struck down with the sword, because Hazor was before that the head of all these kingdoms.” (Josh. 11:10) An archaeologist has commented on how apt a description the Bible gave. Reported the New York Times of May 12, 1959: “An Israeli archaeologist reported yesterday that excavations of the Biblical city of Hazor in Israel’s Galilee had disclosed ‘the best picture to date’ of the material culture of the ancient Canaanites and Israelites. At the same time, Dr. Yigael Yadin, an authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls, said that the discovery of Mycenaean pottery last November in the Hazor diggings established that the Biblical Joshua had conquered Hazor in the thirteenth century B.C., along with Jericho, as the Israelites crossed the Jordan into the Holy Land. The pottery discovered, he said, places Joshua’s campaign about 3,300 years ago, which coincides with the Biblical account. . . .

“For the last four years, Dr. Yadin has headed the James A. de Rothschild–Hebrew University archaeological expedition at the northern Galilee site. He has uncovered the remains of twenty-one cities. . . . His excavations, Dr. Yadin said, indicated that the greatest of the twenty-one cities, and probably the largest in Canaan, was the Hazor that Joshua conquered and burned. . . . The excavations of Hazor, Dr. Yadin said, indicated that the city fitted the brief Biblical description as ‘the head of all those kingdoms.’ ‘Joshua’s Hazor was a city of approximately 150 acres; it could have held 25,000 to 30,000 people,’ Dr. Yadin said. ‘We can gather some idea of its impressive size for those days when we realize that Megiddo, the famous fortress city guarding the Valley of Jezreel—Armageddon—covered only some fifteen acres, and the Jerusalem of King David’s time, centuries later, covered about ten acres.’”

Questions From Readers

● What did Jesus mean by the words, “You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God; for in the resurrection neither do they marry nor are they given in marriage”? (Matt. 22:29, 30) What is contained in the Hebrew Scriptures that the Sadducees should have known about the resurrection and not marrying in it?—A. E., United States.

The Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection, as is clear, not only from the Gospel accounts, but also from the record at Acts 23:6-10, which tells of the strife between the Pharisees and Sadducees that Paul caused by stating that he believed in the resurrection of the dead. The tricky question the Sadducees asked, about a woman having had seven brothers in succession as husbands and whose wife she would be in the resurrection, was meant to prove Jesus mistaken, but he turned the tables on them and proved them mistaken. In doing so Jesus could have quoted from many scriptures showing that the dead would arise, such as the words of Job (14:13-15), Hosea (13:14), Daniel (12:13) and others. But because the Sadducees held that only the Pentateuch was inspired, Jesus used the words of Jehovah to Moses at the burning bush to prove his point.—Matt. 22:31, 32.

This was really a master stroke on the part of Jesus, for the Sadducees prided themselves on knowing the Pentateuch and yet they had not seen in it the clear implication of the resurrection that Jesus pointed out to them. They had not gained the import of what God said to Moses at the burning bush to indicate that he, Jehovah God, is the Deity, not of the dead, but of the living. For the then dead Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to live again to worship their common God they would have to experience a resurrection from the dead. Jehovah God was equal to this miracle of the resurrection of the dead.—Ex. 3:6.

The fact that God had the resurrection power had been illustrated even by Jesus himself as the Son of God prior to the time that the Sadducees tried to stump Jesus with their tricky question. For these patent reasons Jesus could straightforwardly tell these Sadducees that they were not so smart after all, that they were wrong in discounting the resurrection of the dead and that their being mistaken on this score was because they did not know either the Scriptures by Moses, and the rest of the prophets, or the miracle-working power of God.

Jesus easily cut through their resurrection problem by informing the Sadducees that those who will be resurrected to life on earth neither marry nor are given in marriage, and hence there will exist no question as to whose wife the woman will be who in this old world had seven brothers successively as her husband. Jesus thus showed that, though the Sadducees were familiar with the recorded Scriptures, particularly the law of Moses, they had no real knowledge of their meaning and prophetic