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Declaring the Good News Without Letup (1942-1975)Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom
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The joint meeting was opened with prayer, and after careful consideration, Brother Knorr was unanimously elected president of the two corporations and 30-year-old Hayden C. Covington, the Society’s lawyer, vice president.b
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Declaring the Good News Without Letup (1942-1975)Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom
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Hayden Covington, as the Society’s legal counsel, directed the legal fight, sometimes from his office at Brooklyn headquarters and sometimes from trains as he traveled caring for legal cases. Working with local lawyers, such as Victor Schmidt, Grover Powell, and Victor Blackwell, Brother Covington fought hard to establish the constitutional rights of Jehovah’s Witnesses to preach from house to house and to distribute Bible literature without restraint from local officials.c
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Declaring the Good News Without Letup (1942-1975)Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom
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b In September 1945, Brother Covington graciously declined to serve further as vice president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (of Pennsylvania), explaining that he wished to comply with what was then understood to be Jehovah’s will for all members of the directorate and officers—that they be spirit-anointed Christians, whereas he professed to be one of the “other sheep.”
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