Footnote

b For many years The Watchtower was viewed as a magazine particularly for anointed Christians. Starting in 1935, however, increasing emphasis was placed on encouraging the “great crowd,” whose hope is everlasting life on earth, to obtain and read The Watchtower. (Revelation 7:9) A few years later, in 1940, The Watchtower was regularly offered to people on the streets. Thereafter, circulation increased rapidly.