A Refreshing Move

A refreshing theocratic move was the transfer of the branch office back to Stockholm in September 1926. The brothers found a suitable location at Drottninggatan 83, in the very center of the city. And how handy that the neighbor was a printing establishment called Egnellska Boktryckeriet, which, conveniently, was used to print our magazines for 28 years!

How was the office moved? Two fully loaded canal steamers moved all the branch equipment for 120 miles [200 km] from the inland city of Örebro to coastal Stockholm. The Bethel family followed on a third steamer. The trip took a day and a night.

Three years later, a four-story stone building in the city center became available at Luntmakaregatan 94. Brother Rutherford wanted the Society to buy it. And many willing brothers lent the money to pay the mortgages on the building. Finally, after many years on the move, the branch office was located in this place, which would serve Kingdom interests for the next 25 years.

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Branch office, Luntmakaregatan 94, Stockholm, was bought in 1929. It served the Kingdom interests for 25 years