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Sweden1991 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Marching in the Streets
The Swedish brothers have eagerly served Jehovah in any way that his organization suggested. For instance, during the 1940’s and early 1950’s, when they learned that the brothers in the United States and England were using sandwich boards and placards, marching to announce the public talk at conventions, such arrangements were enthusiastically made in Sweden too.
Jack Pramberg, who served as a district overseer at that time and arranged for many such marches, recalls: “In wintertime it gets dark very early in the afternoon in the north of Sweden, so we used torches to enhance the effect of our advertising. On one of these occasions, the theme of the public talk was ‘The Only Light.’ As the torchlight procession wound through the town, there was a sudden power failure. The whole town turned pitch-black. Our torches were aflame, though, spreading light on our placards on which people could read: ‘The Only Light.’”
Sven-Eric Larsson, a traveling overseer, remembers: “Sometimes brothers carried through the streets big signs on poles, announcing the public talk at conventions. Out of mere curiosity, in 1948, two lads attended a convention in Örebro. They had not yet decided to become Jehovah’s Witnesses. After one of the sessions, without knowing who they were, I just handed them a placard and told them where to march. Hesitantly, they took it and marched around in the town center. One of them, Lars Lindström, has been a congregation elder for many years now; and the other, Rolf Svensson, is serving as a district overseer.”
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Sweden1991 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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[Pictures on page 160]
Young publishers of the good news with their mother in Värnamo, 1946
Sandwich men advertising a public meeting in Stockholm
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