Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Building Work That Honors Jehovah

God’s Kingdom Rules!
- 5. Why is the name Kingdom Hall appropriate? (See also the box “The New Light Church.”)
  
  ⁵ Early in the modern history of Jehovah’s people, the Bible Students began to see the need for their own meeting places. It appears that one of the first places of worship constructed was in West Virginia, U.S.A., in 1890.
  
  Bible Students shown in front of the New Light church
  
  THE NEW LIGHT CHURCH
  
  IN THE late 1880’s, many members of a Baptist congregation in the area of Mount Lookout, West Virginia, became Bible Students. For a while they continued to share the Baptist church with the Baptists. Apparently, whichever group got to the building first used it. By 1890, however, our brothers had stopped meeting in the Baptist church and had constructed their own hall.
  
  This hall appears to be one of the first places of worship built by Jehovah’s modern-day people. It became known as the New Light church because the truths that the Bible Students taught were viewed as new light on the Scriptures. The hall was used until the 1920’s. Brother A. H. Macmillan and other traveling speakers known as pilgrims gave talks at the hall, and it was used to show the “Photo-Drama of Creation.”

Building Work That Honors Jehovah

God’s Kingdom Rules!

Building Work That Honors Jehovah

God’s Kingdom Rules!