This Swiss brother continued to share in the Photo-Drama work in France and the Saar until 1925, when he was called in to the Berne Bethel.

It became a bimonthly magazine in 1925, but ceased publication on Brother Rutherford’s instructions in 1926.

Property across the street was acquired and work began on a new “Bible House,” which was completed by the spring of 1925.

It was a big event when the Central European Office moved into this new building, 39 Allmendstrasse, on April 1, 1925.

A report in The Watch Tower of December 1, 1925, had this to say about the campaign: “Our Italian brethren distributed 100,000 copies of the ‘Indictment’; and they particularly saw to it that the pope and the other high officials of the Vatican each received a copy.”

1925​—THE FIRST ASSEMBLY

In the following year, 1925, a European brother, William Dawson, was sent up from South Africa.

In any case, it was good that the Society sent John Hudson and his wife to Nyasaland in 1925 to investigate and arrange things.

Came the year 1925 and the fourth angelic trumpeter stood poised for action.

During a regional convention at Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 24-31, 1925, God’s servants heartily endorsed a resolution under the title “Message of Hope.”

From 1920 through 1925, this stirring talk was given throughout the world.

The April 1925 Norwegian-language Bulletin (now Our Kingdom Ministry) made a thrilling announcement: “We hereby send you the first issue of The Golden Age in Norwegian.

Before she died in 1925, her last words were: “There is so much to be done up there in northern Sjælland, and I wanted so much to do it.”

One day in 1925, Hans Christian was asked to call on a young man by the name of Einer Benggaard, who had read some of the Society’s books.

He then tried to manipulate weaknesses in human personalities, beginning about 1920 and climaxing in 1925.

His report made Brother Rutherford include Sweden in his trip to Europe in the spring of 1925.

The year 1925 was a very eventful one.

Incidentally, in 1925 Oslo became the new name of the capital of Norway.

But it was not until 1925 that Portugal began discovering the meaning of Matthew 24:14.

He made arrangements for the Watch Tower Society’s president, J. F. Rutherford, to deliver the public lecture “How to Live on the Earth Forever” in Lisbon on May 13, 1925.

Shortly after his arrival in Spain in 1925, Brother Young again sought permission for a visit by Brother Rutherford​—this time with success.

The newspaper proprietor took advantage of the opportunity for this scoop, and without difficulty it was arranged for the discourse to be published in Informaciones of May 12, 1925.

By 1925, The Watch Tower was available in Russian.

A touching letter from Siberia appeared in The Watch Tower of September 1925.

This official contempt for Jehovah’s people resulted in a government directive from the inspector general of Moldova to a certain chief of police, dated April 25, 1925.

After the 1925 ban on the preaching work, the brothers at the branch office in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, submitted a 50-page, typewritten report to the minister of cults.

The Year 1925​—A Time of Division

The situation came to a head at the time of the Memorial in 1925.

He arrived in May of 1925.

He was one of the first ones to come into the truth in Sierra Leone as a result of Brother W. R. Brown’s lectures in 1923, and had made good progress by 1925 so that when the call was made, he was willing to give up his job as customs officer and come to the aid of the interested persons in the Gold Coast.

Then in 1925 Brother Rutherford sent John C.

Brother Rufino had been a sailor and learned the truth through his fellow sailor, Januário S. Diniz, and was baptized in December 1925 by Brother Felino.

Thus it came about that in 1925 Carlos Ott, a German pioneer, was assigned.

In 1925 Brother Ott began preaching to the German-speaking population.

In 1925, Church and State were separated.

BAPTIZED 1925

Although the witness work was still limited, The Watch Tower of December 1, 1925, reported: “The Harp of God, also The Desirable Government and The World Distress booklets were translated and printed in the native tongue . . .

“In 1925 there were three organized congregations in Albania, as well as isolated Bible Students,” wrote Thanas.