Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

Yearbook 105
The effect on the Burmese-speaking brothers has been
wonderful, because many can now understand the
truth and come to maturity, whereas before they found
it difficult to do so. To compare this year with last
year, we obtained nearly three times as many subscriptions
and placed nearly three times as many
individual magazines.
Almost all publishers here are taking the training
program seriously. Every mature publisher is assigned
to help a weaker one. This arrangement is now bearing
fruit, because when it is applied weak publishers grow
strong and appreciation for the organization increases.
We appreciate the sermons that the Society prints
in Kingdom Ministry. Many of us cut them out and
paste them in our Bibles. This serves as a ready reminder,
and also gives us a greater variety of sermons
for use in the field. It makes us happy to use these
sermons, because thereby the message is given more
effectively.
Here in Burma the Kingdom message is spreading.
A brother writes: "While traveling along the Burma­
China border I placed a considerable number of bound
books, booklets and magazines. I also made it a point
to hand out as many tracts and free booklets as possible,
nearly all with the Society's branch address stamped
in them. I distributed this literature to persons who
were going to remote places, and to others who would
be in contact with such persons, in the hope that some
of it might penetrate into nearby China. Whereas in
the ordinary way one does not distribute literature free,
there are times and places where such free distribution
can do good.
"For example, here in Bassein I called on an officers'
mess of an establishment we were not able to enter and
presented the magazines free, asking that these be
placed on the reading-room tables. A Chin officer
read the literature, wrote to Rangoon for more, and,
on our calling on him, gladly took a set of six books
and was glad to have a weekly Bible study."
While doing unassigned territory work a year ago,
two publishers contacted a person of good will who at
once recognized the pure ring of the truth and was
out in the door-to-door work the very next day. She
continued to publish on her own in the little town and
sent in reports regularly, but later her work took her
into the jungles, where she was unable to communicate
with us. After months she returned to town and wrote
to us requesting a visit. The two publishers who visited
her this time found a great change in her. She was
once a habitual smoker and betel-nut and tobacco