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Aids to Prevent Loss of IntegrityThe Watchtower—1955 | April 15
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14. What happy lot is ours if we hold fast to our integrity?
14 Happy indeed is our lot if we can pray sincerely from the heart as did David: “Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering. Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; try my heart and my mind. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.” (Ps. 26:1, 2, 11, AS) Then we can truly hope in Jehovah and entertain an assured expectation of dwelling forever in his new world with a host of like-minded men of integrity. “Keep integrity!” is the counsel to us all this day; and, doing so, we shall abide happily and forever in the universal family of the pure and holy God, Jehovah.
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Questions From ReadersThe Watchtower—1955 | April 15
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Questions From Readers
● Does not Job 14:22 show the torment of the soul after death of the body?—J. M., United States.
Job 14:20-22 reads: “Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.” It is true that Job 14 verses 20 and 21 describe the death state, but Job 14 verse 22 does not. It refers back to the troublous existence previously discussed by Job, where the few days of man born of woman are shown to be full of trouble. According to the believers of torment of the soul after death of the body, the soul separates from the body and the body of flesh decays away. They do not teach immortality of the body and that the body lives on in a lake of fire to be tormented in the flesh. So the very wording of this verse precludes them from using it as proof of eternal torment for the soul because it speaks of the flesh having pain. It is while a man is living that his flesh has pain or is able to feel pain, and when the verse adds that his soul within him mourns it is merely expressing the same general thought in a parallel structure. It is just a poetic way of saying that the individual is mourning. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die,” but while it is a living soul or an animated body of blood and flesh its days will be full of trouble and pain.—Ezek. 18:4.
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Out of Darkness into LightThe Watchtower—1955 | April 15
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Out of Darkness into Light
At the district assembly of Jehovah’s witnesses held in Richmond, Virginia, was a clergyman’s daughter who had become one of Jehovah’s witnesses, also her husband who had opposed her interest before he too saw that it was truth, yes, and her clergyman father himself. The daughter and son-in-law, after accepting the message of God’s kingdom, had taken advantage of every opportunity to discuss the new world with this preacher, emphasizing the new earth and its blessings. Both the clergyman and his wife began to show interest. Some of the truth crept into his sermons, and some of the warmth of the audience slipped out. His attendance at the Monday-night home Bible study became regular, and his activity with the Christian Church, a branch of the Disciples of Christ, was dropped. The entire family has now been baptized, dedicating their lives to Jehovah’s service, and are rejoicing in the truth. Said the ex-clergyman: “There is none so blind as he who will not see. No one knows just how deep this darkness can be except one who has been fortunate enough to come out of it.” Happily, thousands of persons of all walks of life are doing that very thing today.
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