A congregation was formed in Tiszaeszlár, and then other congregations sprang up in the neighboring villages.

Brothers pleaded with him to show more caution, but he continued traveling the country, visiting the congregations and endeavoring to strengthen others spiritually. He was a good example, fitting the apostle Paul’s words “gentle toward all, qualified to teach, . . . instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed.”​—2 Tim. 2:24, 25.

On July 20, 1931, brothers were expecting him at the blossoming congregation in Debrecen, near the Romanian border, but he never arrived. They concluded that his enemies had done away with him and that he had ‘gone home’ to his heavenly reward.​—John 14:2.