Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

190 Yearbook
the good news of salvation by him." (Ps. 96: 2,
NW) The ministers in Korea have had so many
interesting experiences that it is impossible to
publish all of them here, but some are taken from
the report of the branch servant that will make
our hearts glad.
The outstanding event of the year for us was the
visit of Brother Knorr and Brother Adams. The good it
accomplished is even now still manifesting itself in many
ways. The president of the Society had never visited
Korea before. Now he and the "channel" organization
he represents are something really personal to the
Korean brothers. It warms the heart to hear such ex·
pressions as "our Society" and "our Brother Knorr."
Koreans usually use such expressions only when they
take something really unto themselves and reserve them
primarily for expressing close family relationships.
One man who attended a meeting of Jehovah's witnesses
for the first time when Brother Knorr gave his
public lecture in Seoul stadium was baptized at a circuit
assembly held just a week before this writing and is
a most zealous publisher. Yet it is less than five
months since Brother Knorr's visit. He had not studied
before, but after that assembly last spring he attended
one of the congregations regularly and studied diligently.
He is well educated and already has been influential
in causing a number of others to take up the truth
seriously. Another middle·aged man was recently immersed
with his entire family, including his wife and
married daughter and father·in-Iaw, who was a devout
religionist. It is unusual for an entire family to take up
the truth at the same time in Korea; so this example
was encouraging.
Much good pUblicity was experienced during Brother
Knorr's visit, but the best was reserved for the Sunday
after he had gone. In the meantime the candidate of
the opposition party for the presidency suddenly died
of a heart attack. The next day's newspaper (Sunday
edition) was undoubtedly the most widely read issue
of a Korean paper in many years. That was the issue
in which one large Seoul daily carried a full summary
of Brother Knorr's lecture. It was accurately done, too,
and better publicity for the Kingdom message could
hardly have been planned.
One problem has been that some people are baptized
so soon that they have not had a deep enough knowledge
upon which to build toward maturity. Brother
Knorr's instructions to limit baptisms between assem-