“Tiger” (Percy) Iszlaub, an outgoing Australian Queenslander, reminisced: “We conducted a lot of Bible studies. I had 36, and Ilma and the rest had about the same. Students used to come to the missionary home to study, some every day. There were Bible studies being conducted in every room of the house, three or more each night. We spread out the study material in both English and Japanese. To help students, we would both count down so many lines to where the answer was. It was slow going, but it was amazing how they would catch on just by reading the scriptures and comparing these with the publications. And they are in the truth today!”

Some ten years later, in the city of Fukuoka, Percy had a monumental experience. Kimihiro Nakata, a violent death-row prisoner who had been paid to kill two men, requested a Bible study, and it was Percy who studied with him. As a result, Kimihiro completely abandoned his “old personality.” He was baptized in the prison, and Percy described him as “one of the most zealous Kingdom publishers I have known.” (Eph. 4:22-24) He studied Braille and transcribed the book “Let God Be True,” the booklet “This Good News of the Kingdom,” and Watchtower and Awake! articles into Braille. These publications were distributed to various parts of Japan, including schools for the blind. However, early on June 10, 1959, a police car pulled up at the missionary home. Kimihiro had requested Percy’s presence at his execution that morning. Percy complied. In the execution yard, they conversed briefly, and at the last, they sang a Kingdom song together. Kimihiro said to Percy: “Why are you shivering, Percy? I am the one who should be nervous.” Before he was hanged, his last words were: “Today I feel strongly confident in Jehovah and in the ransom sacrifice and the resurrection hope. For a little while I will sleep, and if it be Jehovah’s will, I shall meet you all in the Paradise.” He sent warm greetings to his brothers around the world. Kimihiro died to satisfy justice, giving life for life—not as a hopeless, hardened criminal, but as a dedicated, baptized, faithful servant of Jehovah.—Compare Acts 25:11.

After fighting cancer for some ten years, Ilma Iszlaub died at the Ebina, Japan, Bethel Home on January 29, 1988. Thereafter, as a member of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Percy attended the Society’s annual meetings several times, giving a fine report about Japan on a recent occasion; then he too died, in 1996.