Experience in Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom

FRUITS OF NEIGHBOR LOVE IN TENNESSEE

“Here is the heart-warming story of a kind servant of Jehovah and a grateful wayfarer who had with him three little children. Some time ago out here in the mountains of Tennessee a witness was going home from a home Bible study. The evening was coming on and it was raining. As he drove slowly down the road he saw a man leading some little children by the hand and leaning into the driving rain. The witness stopped his car and invited them to ride down the road with him. It was learned that the man and children had come almost one hundred miles in the last few days in the rain. The witness invited them to come in and stay all night and have a meal. The wayfarer declined to stay in the house but did take some warm food and he and the children stayed all night in the barn. Before bedding down for the night the wayfarer got his interest aroused in the new world of righteousness, and received a gift copy of the book ‘Let God Be True’. Next morning after thanking his host for the food and housing and expressing his gratitude for the new Bible knowledge and the book, the wayfarer and his children were on their way. The story now shifts to a little town in Alabama: Keener. The wayfarer had moved on and the book had gone with him. He and his children stayed all night at a house in Keener, and he told his host about the new world of righteousness. His host showed interest, and wanted the book ‘Let God Be True’. But it was the wayfarer’s most prized possession; he could not part with it. But he told his host how to get one: write to the kind servant of Jehovah back in Tennessee. The host wrote the letter; he got his copy of the book, provided by the same servant of God who had first showed hospitality to a wayfarer. Once again it is seen that Jehovah is working in many ways that the ‘sheep’ may be found.”

Announcements

“PREACH THE WORD” TESTIMONY PERIOD

December, the final month of 1950, has been designated as “Preach the Word” Testimony Period. How could this eventful year be more effectively concluded than by taking the word of God upon your lips and heralding it forth to all who will hear? That is what Jehovah’s witnesses will be doing, in harmony with Paul’s counsel at 2 Timothy 4:2. The 320-page book “This Means Everlasting Life” will be offered to those displaying interest in God’s Word, on 35c contribution. We suggest you report to us the results of your preaching.

1951 YEARBOOK OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

Of the increase of God’s government and peace there will be no end. This Scriptural truth is convincingly proved by the report of the 1950 service year as presented by the president of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in the 1951 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In addition to this annual report covering more than. 100 regions, the Yearbook contains the president’s comment on the yeartext for 1951 and a daily text and comment for each day of the coming year. Those associated with a group should send in combined orders, as through the servant of a company, to save time and expense. A remittance of 50c per copy should accompany each order.

1951 CALENDAR

Prominently displayed across the top of the 1951 Calendar published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society is the new yeartext, “They said: ‘Praise Jah, you people, because Jehovah our God, the Almighty, has begun to rule as king.’” (Rev. 19:6, NW) Beneath this appears a beautiful view of the Society’s newly enlarged printing plant in Brooklyn, New York. The calendar pad attached below this picture presents six different scenes of theocratic interest in pastel shades, overprinted by the calendar for 1951. The calendar pad also furnishes the Scriptural themes for the six bimonthly testimony periods and service themes for the intervening months. This service calendar will be sent to any address at 25c a copy or $1.00 for 5 copies sent to one address, postpaid. Groups or companies are encouraged to order in quantity, through the appointed servant, sending remittance to cover the cost.

“WATCHTOWER” STUDIES

Week of December 24: Subjection to the Higher Powers, ¶1-24

Week of December 31: Subjection to the Higher Powers, ¶25-33; and Execution of Judgment upon Opposers, ¶1-13.