LITERATURE
(See also Books; Education; Libraries; Reading; Watch Tower Publications)
“adult” comic books: g85 2/22 31
apostate:
proper attitude toward: w84 5/1 31; w84 12/15 19; su 142-143
best-sellers: g71 4/8 19-20
Bible’s impact on world’s: w77 291-292
Catholic public burnings: yb61 232
characteristics of worldly: qm 148-149; g64 5/22 24-26; w60 116-117; w55 227-228; qm55 148-149; g52 11/8 3-4; g51 8/8 6-7
effect of World War I on: g75 1/8 29
health publications:
reliability: g85 7/22 31
medical: g72 1/8 26
obscene: g74 5/8 29; g69 2/22 8; g68 5/22 9; w63 155
preaching through distribution of religious literature has claim to constitutional protection (quote): yb81 11
Pulitzer prizes: g63 6/22 30
selectivity in reading: g84 8/22 12; g83 11/8 18; g83 12/22 17-19; w74 112; w74 153; w73 590, 595; g73 1/8 5; w67 323-324; qm 148-149; w65 692; g65 12/22 11; g64 5/22 24-26; w63 154; w61 401-402; g61 1/22 8; qm55 148-149
use of library: g64 7/22 16-19
worldly magazines: g71 11/8 29
Watch Tower Publications
adaptability in use of: km 3/80 4
caring for supplies in congregation: or 151-153; qm 236-237; yl 139-140; w62 631; qm55 236-237
contributions for: w74 3
contributions of ones refusing: km 4/68 4
delivery to congregations in Italy: yb82 254-255
discussion: km 10/76 7
disfellowshipped persons: or 174
distribution:
and the law: g65 5/22 29-30; g64 6/8 14-15; jp 175-179, 206, 208-209, 211; g56 8/22 17-21; g56 9/8 17-19; w55 591; g53 8/22 19-20; g53 9/8 9-11; w52 451-452; g43 3/3 14-16; g43 4/28 19-21; g43 6/9 3-13; g43 6/23 18-23; g43 12/8 14-15; g42 8/19 19-27; g40 1/10 5-9; g40 6/26 4-8; g40 12/25 9-10; g38 4/20 3-4; g34 1/31 271-272; g31 9/16 803-810
by 1977: w78 10/1 6
for 100 years: yb81 12
for 1980: yb81 30
for 1984: w85 1/1 25
from 1921 to 1935: w84 2/1 22
educational value of: w83 6/15 31
experiences:
accepted but not read: yb71 296
banned books distributed by police: yb79 110-111
confiscated in Argentina: g79 9/8 18
confiscated in Nigeria: yb86 204
confiscated in the Netherlands: yb86 145-147
confiscated literature repurchased: yb81 151-152
confiscated literature returned: yb81 240-241
delivered to brothers despite ban: yb83 82-86
getting literature into Jamaica during ban: yb85 86-87
hidden from opposed husband: km 2/79 7
hidden from opposers: yb75 100-101
literature found: yb71 100; yb70 167; w69 52; yb69 168-169
older Watch Tower publication: yb71 247-248
producing literature underground: yb84 69-72
protected in the Netherlands: yb86 135-137
safeguarding literature under ban: yb86 142, 152; yb84 66-101; yb83 76-78; yb81 236-238; w80 6/15 25; yb80 99-101; yb79 47-48, 110, 112
smuggled into Belgium during Nazi occupation: yb84 71-72
smuggled into concentration camps: w79 11/1 12
smuggled into detention camps: yb81 239
smuggled into Fiji: yb84 171
smuggled into prisons: yb83 204
spiritual food for French brothers during Nazi era: yb80 94-101
spiritual food for Portuguese brothers during years of ban: yb83 235-236
Witnesses in prison: yb86 155-156; yb80 19
witnessing when shortage exists: yb64 240-241
increase in cost of printing literature: km 12/80 6
languages: yb84 7
ordering: km 7/82 1-2; or 151; km 12/68 4
production statistics: yb85 58-59; yb84 8; yb83 22; yb79 10
proper care of: km 11/74 3
proper view of Bible study aids: w84 3/1 29-30; w81 11/15 28-30
proper view of giving away: km 4/82 1-2, 4
request not to leave anything under door: km 4/76 2
symbolic representation: km 5/82 1, 8; w81 3/1 18-19; fm 243-247
trading: yb72 112
United States:
foreign-language literature shipments: km 7/75 1
use in unassigned territory: km 7/76 2
use in witnessing: km 3/80 4; g74 9/22 30; or 116-119; qm 177-178, 180-181, 184; yl 73, 88, 94, 100-101; km 2/67 7; w62 631; ns 347; w59 432; w56 731; qm55 177-178, 180-181, 184; lg 223-224; w50 23-24; w43 109; w37 67, 71; g33 1/18 251
beginning: yb75 39, 45-46, 64, 124-128, 134
not desecration of Sabbath (Iowa Supreme Court): g81 1/8 28
using older publications: km 3/83 4; km 3/77 1; km 11/74 3; km 9/70 4
when a congregation is overstocked with some publications: km 3/83 4
when magazines accumulate: km 10/76 7
when people cannot contribute for: km 4/82 1; km 3/80 4; km 10/76 7
why Witnesses decline to exchange their Bible study aids for religious literature of other people: w84 5/1 31
wise use of: km 7/82 1-2
Witnesses lead the field [in publishing Bible literature] (quote): w84 11/15 20