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Part 16—Publishing Under a New Name, TheocraticallyThe Watchtower—1955 | August 15
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large share in even more effective magazine work of today and tomorrow.—Matt. 25:31-46; Prov. 1:20-23, AS; RS.
To round out the picture as to the gigantic distribution performed in this period, the accompanying table will aid every thoughtful reader to understand through comparison: In four successive periods (shown in the table) the preparatory and final work of “announcing Jehovah’s kingdom” became progressively world-wide during the 65-year epoch embraced in the table.
“ANNOUNCING JEHOVAH’S KINGDOM”
Four periods of Books and booklets Highest number of
sixty-five-year distributed (not active world-wide
epoch including magazines associates
or millions of free
tracts)
1893 to 1918 9,737,224f 21,274g
1919 to 1930 93,500,000h 23,988i
1931 to 1939 215,984,991j 61,589k
Truly Jehovah’s witnesses as irresistible “locusts” were ‘diligent in the business’ of their Father and His unconquerable King during the decade ending in 1939. (Prov. 22:29; Luke 2:49) Much happened to them organizationally; and at the same time their unending resistance of apostate opposers prominently brought them forth onto the world stage as champions of freedom of speech and of worship. From a nontheocratic source its concluding commendatory words are here included:
“Jehovah’s Witnesses have literally covered the earth with their witnessing . . . No modern Christians make a more constant use of scripture, or memorize it in greater quantities than the Witnesses. To argue successfully with them on scriptural grounds, one must know his scriptures better than most members of even the fundamentalist churches do today. . . . Against any sort of opposition they press ahead. They fight by every legal means for their civil rights, the right of public assembly—sometimes denied them—the right to distribute their literature, the right of conscience to put God above every other loyalty. They have performed a signal service to democracy by their fight to preserve their civil rights, for in their struggle they have done much to secure those rights for every minority group in America. When the civil rights of any one group are invaded, the rights of no other group are safe. They have therefore made a definite contribution to the preservation of some of the most precious things in our democracy.”l
(To be continued)
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P.V.P. 100 Per Cent EffectiveThe Watchtower—1955 | August 15
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P.V.P. 100 Per Cent Effective
The International News Service in March, 1954, reported on the dramatic use of P.V.P. by New York Doctors, which, when put in the veins, “in an emergency, will do the life-saving job of restoring blood volume, fighting shock, and preventing the loss of electrolytes and other precious body fluids just as well as real blood plasma.” Two doctors at two New York hospitals “reported dramatically effective results of P.V.P. transfusions on 224 critically hurt patients. These patients had suffered third-degree burns, lacerated wounds, fractures, penetrating wounds of chest and abdomen, or head injuries. Some had suddenly gone into shock on the operating table or in the maternity’s delivery room. The P.V.P. was transfused, the doctors reported in the New York Journal of Medicine, and ‘prompt and sustained improvement was observed in all cases.’ Of the 224 patients, 220 recovered. None of the four deaths was due to blood loss or shock.”
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