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Rewards of EnduranceThe Watchtower—1961 | September 15
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As the apostle Paul so well expressed it: “Consequently let him that thinks he is standing beware that he does not fall. No temptation has taken you except what is common to men. But God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out in order for you to be able to endure it.”—1 Cor. 10:12, 13.
If I had given up when the going got tough, I would have lost out on so much. The problems that have confronted me are only those that are common to imperfect men; sometimes they are hard, but for one who trusts in Jehovah the spirit of God is a wonderful sustaining force.
My hair is graying now and I have slowed up. It has become necessary to step aside in favor of younger and more capable men, but I am not yet down and out. There is still spring in my step and a song of praise to God in my heart.
How grateful I am to God that he has strengthened me to endure in his service! What a full life, what rewards, what deep satisfaction have been mine for devoting my life to the service of God!
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All Should WitnessThe Watchtower—1961 | September 15
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All Should Witness
“The evangelism program of a congregation is off center when all witnessing is left to the pastor. It is also off center when the pastor expects his people to witness and does not equip, train and organize them for this basic work. He is to be a witness to witnesses and a trainer and organizer of witnesses.”—The Lutheran Witness of October 20, 1959.
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Questions From ReadersThe Watchtower—1961 | September 15
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Questions From Readers
● What answer can be given to those who point out that certain dates given by Egyptologists conflict with the chronology published in The Watchtower?—C. V., United States.
The facts are that the Egyptologists have more self-assurance than proofs for the dates they give for the various Egyptian dynasties. Bearing this out is the following quotation from the book, Archaeology of Palestine, pages 219, 220, written by W. F. Albright, the leading Palestinian archaeologist in the United States:
“It is frequently said that the scientific quality of Palestinian archaeology has been seriously impaired by the religious preconceptions of scholars who have excavated in the Holy Land. It is true that some archaeologists have been drawn to Palestine by their interest in the Bible, and that some of them had received their previous training mainly as Biblical scholars. The writer has known many such scholars, but he recalls scarcely a single case where their religious views seriously influenced their results. Some of these scholars were radical critics; still others were more conservative critics, . . . others again were thorough going conservatives. But their archaeological conclusions were almost uniformly independent of their critical views.
“There have been a few cases [but] the violence done to scholarly objectivity by some of these Palestinian excavators is slight indeed when compared to the damage to Egyptology which resulted from the wholesale brigandage of Belzoni and Passallacqua, or the airtight monopoly of the field by Mariette and the ruthless exploitation of royal tombs by Amelieau. Nor should we forget that some of the foremost scientific excavators, such as Petrie and Reisner, won some of their fairest laurels in Palestine. As an illustration of the caution practised by leading Palestinian archaeologists it is interesting to recall that Petrie and Bliss,
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