It is wonderful to find many examples of endurance and the fine fruit it produces in the Far East. Visitors at the “Peace on Earth” Assembly in Seoul, Korea, heard how traveling representatives of the Watch Tower Society in that land must get around without benefit of automobiles, in severe cold and humid heat. But what a reward to find that their visits to the congregations are appreciated, attendances often running as high as 200 percent of the number of local Witnesses.

At Seoul, too, delegates had the opportunity to meet five faithful women who had been imprisoned seven years on account of their faith during the Japanese occupation. To try to cause them to break integrity with God, their jailers mistreated them, even chained them literally. Two of them are now in their seventies, one of them still devoting as much as 150 hours each month to preaching the good news of peace by God’s kingdom. Imagine their joy when they discovered that one of their erstwhile jailers is now interested in God’s kingdom and attended with them some of the assembly sessions.

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Five on right endured prison and torture in Japanese-occupied Korea; still zealous Witnesses

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Philippine householders hear a Bible sermon

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In Papua, some of the candidates on way to immersion; 120,905 baptized world wide last year

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Display at Melbourne assembly shows how the urgent work of Kingdom preaching has spread on this island-continent

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Five on right endured prison and torture in Japanese-occupied Korea; still zealous Witnesses