Moreover, this gathering so stimulated the Liberian Witnesses that, by the end of the 1959 service year, 415 publishers were reporting​—the sixth consecutive peak and a 42-percent increase over the previous year’s average!

PUBLISHER RANKS DOUBLE IN THREE YEARS

By August 1961 the publisher figure in Liberia had reached an amazing 620! Exactly three years earlier, in 1958, 301 had reported field service. Whereas the Memorial attendance for 1958 was 510, it jumped to 1,396 two years later, and in 1961 an astonishing 1,710 attended.

During the three-year period of 1958 through 1961, the number of publishers had doubled. So had the number of congregations, increasing from nine to eighteen. Furthermore, isolated groups numbered a score or more.