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True Love Is PracticalThe Watchtower—1954 | September 15
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39. How is our dwelling in unity like such dew, and why does it descend upon us from above?
39 As with typical Zion in Palestine, so with the antitypical Zion, God’s kingdom. Because God has commanded that there, in the Kingdom, should lie the blessing for us, even life for evermore, he caused the typical Zion of old to be bathed daily with dew during the hot, wilting season, as a prophetic picture. Our dwelling as brothers in amiable unity is like that abundant dew, refreshing amid the persecutive heat of this world and conducing to our life for evermore in God’s new world. It is because our dwelling thus wins the favor of our reigning King Jesus Christ: “The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.” (Prov. 19:12) To this restored spiritual Israel Jehovah God has promised: “I will be as the dew unto Israel”; and he causes his word to trickle down upon them like dew for their unfailing refreshment.—Hos. 14:4, 5, AS; Deut. 32:2, NW.
40. To be like what among the people of good will must we have this refreshment, and what is all-essential in this behalf?
40 By forsaking the gathering of ourselves together and by failing to keep in unity as a New World society we should deprive ourselves of this life-sustaining dew. Can we afford to be without such sorely needed refreshment amid this hostile old world? No! We need it to be always fresh for our foretold work among the people of good will; as it is written: “The remnant of Jacob [spiritual Israel] shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass; that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.” (Mic. 5:7, AS) We shall not be suited to be like dew to the parched people unless we ourselves have this spiritual refreshment first. Our keeping unified as a New World society will supply it to us, keeping us cool and calm and pleasant for God as well as his own people to look at. The all-essential thing to our keeping thus united is that fruitage of the divine spirit, love. It is a love, not merely in word and with the tongue, but in deed and truth, for true love is practical.
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Burning His Juju Converts AfricanThe Watchtower—1954 | September 15
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Burning His Juju Converts African
● It was back in February that some Christian ministers visited a certain person of good will who was a leader of a juju society and an ardent believer in the power of the juju. They called his attention to what the Bible had recorded regarding Baal worshipers in times past and what it said about Jehovah’s being the only Life-giver. After giving careful attention to all that the witnesses had to say the juju worshiper stated that if they could prove that they had power over his juju he would believe. So on an agreed-to date the witnesses gathered together and invited all the townspeople to see what would happen. First a Bible lecture was given and then the juju idol was publicly burned. Through Jehovah’s undeserved kindness not only has this leader of the juju become a witness for Jehovah but he succeeded in interesting another person of good will in the true worship. Recently both were baptized at an assembly of Jehovah’s witnesses.
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