SIGNIFICANT BOOKLET CAMPAIGNS

Many of the brothers showed great enthusiasm in the field service campaigns, distributing many booklets, such as Freedom for the Peoples. In Oslo, the capital, the brothers rented a bus on Sundays and went out in the rural districts, engaging in field service all day. During the week they went from door to door in the city. Some also witnessed in restaurants and cares. The price of the booklets was only 10 øre each, but if individuals did not contribute, they got them free.

A brother recalls: “I went into the dining room in Kristiania Steam Kitchen [a café]. The room was full of people, who were sitting at long tables. I called out: ‘Freedom for the Peoples! Ten øre! . . .’ Everybody took booklets. On Sundays I walked in Studenterlunden [main part of Oslo] where people were sitting on benches. Every one of them took booklets. In apartment houses I rang the bell on all the doors at one floor at the same time, and everybody came out with 10-øre coins. I had my bag full of booklets and was able to distribute 30 to 40 ‘small books,’ as we called them, within an hour.”

This is just one example of how the brothers went about the work. A capable “class worker” could distribute 1,000 booklets in one week. These campaigns held in 1928 and 1929 were very stimulating to the brothers in Norway. Booklet distribution helped many to get started in the witness work from house to house.

In order to notify the whole world of the new name that God’s people had-adopted, this resolution was printed in the booklet The Kingdom, the Hope of the World. This booklet was published in Norwegian in 1932 and was used in a great campaign in March of that year. The brothers delivered the booklet in a closed envelope to all prominent persons​—politicians, clergymen, doctors and teachers. This booklet was also given to Haakon VII, then king of Norway.