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The

Greatest

Ever

Held .

A

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-

In

Europe

Letpa J ~ i n he Party

That

Ascompanied

the Judge

all prisikam

m @

F

the

h k ; he

gamg

pl

were bw r d

a d

t

U : I I a. ta,

h t z t ~ h ~ ~

y

8,

the

hip

s h l y w w away

fk.erPm

the

pier- Th

dew,

&P, stepin w h i d e

a

iongl

blast as

a parting

noti b

the e i t g of

New York that. the 8s.

Rotterdam

wa

once

mere

leaaing for Europ. This ti-

she carried

Judge

BukkrfaPd

and his

m a l l

prhy of assistants to attend

the

Watch

Tower

wnventi~nsn

Park,

&r-

lin, Cmnhagen

and

L m h ~

Life aboard

the

ship was a very happy

one

for our

little

party. Each

morning

Brother

Rutherford

invited

us

ta have

a study on one

of

the articles on

Mor-

decai

and

Esther

which had

just

started

would

have b m Mqhmg enough,

ht

the Lord had

even

mope

fn s h e or us.

During one

of

t h e e mee*g8i 'Brother

Butherford,

by way of Umtsrtting how

t b

Haman

elam

was

cumpiring

against

the

Mordecai

m d Esther ckm, h i d us

about a

etbr

b ad received f r p Gw -

many before h y i n g

Brddyn.

Ths

kt

ter

threata~d

im

with

awe& a d

h

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An -_mg

or

t h e

Eurqaem

Convmtim8 aad thr ~alunrbus

Cmsmtion and

Exteaaioty Requ,kn a R o d f& t~

Germany.

It

w hzgqmed that a big

-t of Phnnir~g nd Deckabm

Here

HI

s Keeping

Tw-o %ecr&arhm

Busy mth

Rclimmasy Work.

public meeting was be'

e r a - a

OM

?f

th. ~ h r s s

Berlin mn-

What a nwea t j o n

&st

was The Parir

The

RN1 mvat shaved

that on

the ip .aksr Having

talked

to

them

y m t m ~ .

n

spite of the

Mkr

he t

Bmnae

hi&. made th

arrmm-

ammg

3,WO t k ew 23 dXmmt for a full

hour,

after

only

n f ew minutm

~mtru~tmm

o the EVfagdehrg o h

rrtmb

with the ami&ance of

the h d h -

nationalrtlan represented.

This made hctarval

he

want into the large hi1

and

m a+& Wpi?

tMr g-repratjot lul+ th

m ,

t &Q

Wety's

beadquarterr

in

t b

andling Qf the

meetings

a

w r d s -

speho

to the German, Polkh

pubhe

w t ~ n g .

Further than ibm h. F a n g , had engaged th.

Ralk

Plspel, thc e d t problem. B b ortunately

sf

w h h e B r e n .

is

meant t k a t hro

r a h r

did rmt tell us what

?-ie

wa s

pirig ta say newest and hem equipped hall thme

fat

were thee could

andemtan English, p r h ad to tramlate

for

the audbra

OP do. You

can tb%

witem this

th eatire eemt- ien .

With m

largp

French, Germaa m Polish,

it was

watch

sentence mz he

8 it. It was

era os in

tbe

Esbar

d ?.

s

we Ml

=ti n b t

,UW,

and two uon.kr

n-ary

ta

nab ampgearen*

fox

hev- amazing to

ua how

H was sMe to do

a+

haw

Haman plotted agatnst Mor- k d s

mating

abut H I 3 and H O

me-

tng the

variwe

k c k w t r ~ s k b dnb

it a d

certt&ly p m d

t.a

t b b

and the 5 e ~ g h Q ~ h aam i tively, i t

p w m d d

e m e . h k

amamme-

1

&we

f o ~wguafgm

Lord aide a m in ammp ihb i n g his

ur-

t h b . ~ t1d h ~ p p r &T1i;aP? u tb. d n g s h o h pthufmd t e e d t. pb p-.

&hw

t i a ~ p b e n

he

b.s L

That was the

qumtim

in

mar

mbd s . them W b r e

about 3,BQD brethren

at soluteIy uutir~ng

n

b u adminiskrakion of

a11

the mti4nalitmr ck me~bld to-

The trip mcro%s tk m n

was

a vwy' the

mvention from

all

parts

of

to

the &s of

these brethren

who had mtber

in

the

s a v

ball,

t h ~

ntemreb

deliphtpul am On Bunday, May

17

we Eumpe, from,,deia and from A m r i a .

travel

d1w

te hear

th mdarting em translatd b m W h into P&&,

p

arnwd a& Plymouth, whem a party of The btd number

ta

come from En land news which

h

ad to bring. to them fr;m F rind German.

friends met Brother Ruthwfod , who

dis-

v u

118. f2er-y

p t &? a- God s Word.

0-

mrning,

for

example, On

Monday

evening armngmnbi

ambarked

ta

.qn~nd

f m ~

ays

in Em-

&n

o

L450

bPeWum

and

661

Polish

he

spoke

to

t?mFrench

brethren,

and

as

had

been

mads

far,

the public

nleeting.

h qn Frdny of khect ye& he Br&ren ~ o r k ~ to- e

2?O

he spoke, w b m h n w Bad to be

t rans

W e

h b n

ovlhng forward to t b ~

to

Psrrls fw first bqg m w ~ t ~ m

mneh b d h m

IFI

gmng a

real

wrt- l a b 8

by

another

brotker

into Fmtieh. WMI

YOU

will probably re-

Park had

wer

had. m o

Bo

the u w and Kingdarn in

Talking

in this

mamer

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THE

MESSENGER, SATURDAY; JULY 25,1931

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The convention officially op

ed

that

meeting

and the

time for seeing whether

afternoon with

an address *rother or not

th

Devil s

organiaation would at-

Rutherford.

All of us were surprised

at

tempt to

make

good

its

threat, finally

pd:large attendance

at this

first meeb arrived

As we came into the h ll a

1

We had rather anticipated t h ~ t rother informed

us

that some

member8

t h l

convention

mght not be so large,

o

the Nationalist party had

attem

because of the hard time through which

to

ut up their banners but

th t

the

German

people

have

been paasing, ha been taken down

by.

the

brethren.

butwhen

we

came

into t h e

great Sport

This in

itself looked

as

the trouble-

Pal- wekheld crowd of fdlp8,000 makers were

thee ,

at

least The

@eat

people there

Sunday s meehngs

were

hall

was packed m t h

people.

Every seat

Lttended

by

an

even

larger crowd. was taken and many were standiflg-

eonsefvative estimate

of the

number

t Another

adjacent

hall,

connected

with

attend the convention would be

I0,ODO

loud

speaker^

was

also filled,

making a

brethren.

In

his address Saturday, total

attendance

of

16,000

or

more

Some

Brother

Rutherford

made

no

mention of

e~ t imated

the

crowd

at

17,000.

The

the threatening letter he

had

received,

friends,

a Iarge

number of whom

Q d re-

but greatly

encouraged

t h e brethren to turned home so

as

to

make

room

for

go out into the service

the

next morning. th

public,

tmk the e a t s to the

rear

o f

He

called

for

a

s h o w

of

hands of

all

the

speakers* pIatform

and

in

the b t

those

who

expected do

this, and

it conies leaving

the

best

se ts on the main

was

thrilling

to

see

every

hand

go up. floor for the public

There

were approx-

That the brethren actually &d this was imately 6,000 friends there. he r st

shown by the servrce

reports

which

were

of

the crowd

was made up of the

public

remved from 8,000 workers.

When Brother

Rutherford came upon

r .

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was ~ e S s m y or

him

to complete the

never

manif- a

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for a much needed house long-tail eo black tmr a d

Ohren who

are looking after less eccIesiashI

formalim.

u d

to be in evidence

had

mt

a h@

ared. With hearty

mth srn

cethxen

greeted Brdhr 1k a? ndd

b l k on the 54th chapter of

larlg when

hq told

them W.t tbe

&

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all honor for the

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THE

MESSENGER, SUNDAY,'JULY

26,

1931

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at least three times, and he

took the

rest

NOWt happena that in Cxechodov Ea

great

wtpectancy, and

the

addresses discarded it, there is a

determination

of the

set,

w Bible,

and

a Golddn A f s most of

the consecrated

live

@

d @ h c b glv@nby Brother

Rntberford, with

the

more

expressed than ever w

subscription. Surely

the

Lord's bIessings where the standard of dycatlon 1s vem tact

.&ere

was an except iond

pub- hold to the truth

as if is

revealed in the

on the witness work are very marked at low. Aq many of these

friends

are them* I c meeting,

went to make

the

conven- ~ o r d l s ppoinbd way to serve t he h r d

this

t ime and

ours is a marvelone privi- selves

uhable

t read or

write, and

often- tlon

n

outstanding

feature.

Undoubtedly bg it

and thus

to

seek

to

be obedient in

lege

to-have

part therein.

.

time8 a h iving in conditions of utmo~ltthe Lord

blessed

t h e

convention as

it

BU

thingB to everg. m e s t a t i o n

of

hia

In full support of his

army the

light poverty and do not have proper cloth-

passed,

and he will assuredly 'bies~ he will.

and power of .the Lord i s ever manifest ing bes~des.hem, frocks,

are W-

memory

and the result of the gathering

here

are

260

classes

~d

100 s h m

as he, as it

were, goes on in

advance, eralIy not

m

posifion to perform

effec-

the urtherance of his work.

shooters engaged

in the

wark. The

nuin-

breaking down prejudice and opening tive work.

But

the London convention~wasealIy

ber of brethren holding the necessary

the way f o r his

messengers

by

means

of Nevertheless,

Jehovah

has richly one of h o

that

the British friends en- p e rm l b 1s 4,900. The

w~eekly

workers

the radio.

It

is gratifying to note that in blessed his work in Czechoslovakia. The

joyed

at this time, f o r no lese than 800 av,orae 2,700, and it

is

now usual

Canada

and

Newfoundland

there are

now number of

workers

has ncreased by 50 British brethren

went

to

the

Paris con- have

qyer

4,000 out on

campaign weeks.

21 stations broadcasting the message of per cent.

G e m

x e t b n . from Ger-

ventlon.

This

a new exwrien&,

During

the past twelve

months

the

truth.

This service

has

been

improved

many)

have come in as Ploneera and

for

nothing of the End h aken

place

clagges

and

the

sharpshooters

have

beyand expression

by

the

rmsntlg

have

done

excellent

work.

Other

dis-

before. placed

about.

615,000

pieces

of

literature,

,

chanmd

policy of the Society of

using tricts

near the erman hrder have heen

Evidently i t

was

the Lord s

will

that

and have given

well

o+ver thrw

millim

electrical transcripts of

Brother

Ruther- worked

by

German

cksses. Vew fre- the-British

friends

should

have

these ex- t e s t imon i~ . he classes h v e an assign-

ford s own voice speaking

f o dh

with quently these

German brethren

have

Perlences

and should realbe the unity ment

of

about five 'million homes; en

omr and might the message

of

the been

arrested, but all the against of those of 0 t h h ~ ~ a g e sf like pre- which

call, and

the report~'whkh,?.m&

&our.

them have

been satisfactord~

ettled. cioua faith.

The

journey

to

Paria and be ing received lead

to apedtation

WhileCAvjeannot fully compmhend the

The litefafure f*pr Czechoslovakia is the sharing of e e ' wbrk m e life's fiat' this dcosts,

yhch

@er was aceekted.

Ma:velous: i~~~+~s it fo

mte

on every

>and

the

s i~nsdof

he'

i-apid avnroach o'f

tb&end

o f all

devilish

things.

We

Ree t h e

nation being gathel-ed together to

the

.Battle of God Almighty, and the

witness

that must be made

being

made

by

G e a

faitbfu1 remnant class, and the pmrmse

ig that

when

that is finished

then

the end

shall come,

the

church

shall

be delivered

are ireater numbers of those

who

are

a t ~ dmankind released from

their

bond-

rbddy to

purchase

when the books are

age. And so his people pray with a fall

pqebnted

t o them. wk

are confident

assurance of

faith,

Thy Kingdom come,

t b t there is a great outlook fox the

knowing that ete:long

that

kingdom -will

books

already published and for the

be fully

established in

power and great

f h t he r rne3sagee which God

will

surely

glory to the vindication of

his

word and

send through his people.

name.

In

the immediate

future

we look

for-

ward

to the radiation

of the spirit o f

service which

will

come horn Columbus.

The Wit,ness

Work

in

Arrangements

are

made

f o r

seven

local

conventions

in

the spread-out w e

Czechwlovakia

conventions in

connection

with the Co-

lumbus week

The Bethel Family at London. See em Grinnirqg?

The

Chief Had U S ~ par

an

these prideges we

henk the

2

Bg t h Rs s i d s d amgw

Finished Telling Them Something in the "CoIored

Language."

Lord,

and

wi th

heart trnd mind expect, rts5

We

here in Czechos1ovakirs

are

in

o i e

a part; of the

Lord's

army, t o take a

of

the

newest one of oldeat of

~ ~ e .~ E

r e & m

contin-

to

friads

who, bad

been

see,ing the party share with

dl thers of

like precious

countries

in the world*

press the work with zeal,

and

the resulb off

were

corning

away,

one riilyay rngn fala and

mwics.

had its Own

king

for

many

of

she t h e

Lordfa

blesdng. The people are sald.ta a sister, What is allthis crowd?

yeara

prior to 1620$ et in hat year it w b g p. Of late

years

there has been She< eplied, "It is God's orgariization.

was mallOwed

by A qtria

and

had

no

a detetermmmed atand for religious liberty. m t the man made:out of t h e reply

'

ne

ighfl Radio. '

eparate exlgbnce until t emerged as a

All this haa

een

helpfnl ta us in our

repnblic i? 1918, in t h e breaking UP

of

work.

The people a r e now read^ to lis

the Austrp-Rungarian monarchy,

and

t

ever

befor

took

its p*sr&t

name.

This is

tlie

land

af

Huss,

and whoever,

Eke John Buss, has raised

his voice

The Witness

Work

in

gainst the

Roman

Catholic church, has

Great

Britain

een an object

of

persecution. In 19?1,

ou t

of a population of 13,613,172, h e

number of Roman CathoIics was 10,884,- B

Xienbe

833.

Protestants

were

put down

as 990,-

319. The remamder of the populatjon

was made

UP

of

Jews,

Greek Cathohcs,

Russian

Orthodox

and

others.

This

will

give

YOU

some idea of the problem with

which we are confronted.

. In

she

Czechoslovakia i s about the

same

a

Your state' of minois. In the:

parts which prior

to the

Woxld

War

were in

Germany

97

per cent of

t h e peo-

ple can

read and write, but

in

Slovakia

proper, wkch was part of the

Austrian

empire, only 85 per cent can read and is this, that there is no

possible

ques

write, while in Rythenia dl one-half

tion that

the convention recently held

are

without educat~on f any

Lnd .

This in

Loridon q s thebest

and

mast

profit-

is

what the Austrian Empire and

the

%bIe that we' have had in

this part

of .

oman Catholic

fhurch

did

to

the po6i &-~#d..

pie under

thar

cam

c~rcnmstancee

of

the conventipn,

..

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