Sound Car Spreads Message

Meanwhile, back in 1935 some brothers from Australia assisted the Hasletts in purchasing an automobile, a Plymouth, which was used as a fully equipped sound car. A loudspeaker mounted on top of the car would broadcast a public lecture in English, Japanese, Iloko, or Tagalog as the car cruised through the streets. During that year, over 17,000 persons heard the name Jehovah by means of such equipment. At the close of each lecture, house-to-house visits were made in the neighborhood, and the message was distributed in printed form.

This method of preaching came just in time as opposers, stirred up by Brother Rutherford’s visit to Honolulu in 1935, coerced the local radio station into dropping the broadcasts of Brother Rutherford’s lectures. However, it appears that a greater number of people were reached by means of the sound car than previously by radio.

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Sound cars broadcast Bible messages. This one was shipped from Honolulu to the outer islands in 1937