That same year, in Bruay-en-Artois, the Bible Students held their first assembly in the Polish language. Less than a month later in the same town, a representative of world headquarters, Joseph F. Rutherford, held a public meeting, where 2,000 gathered. Moved by the large, mostly Polish attendance, Brother Rutherford told them: “Jehovah brought you to France to learn the truth. Now you and your children must help the French! A great preaching work is still to be done, and Jehovah will raise up publishers for that work.”

At the 1926 general assembly in Sin-le-Noble, 1,000 attended the Polish session, along with 300 at the French.