Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

Yearbook 209
day a Bible study was started in his home. He was so
impressed with the truth that he invited all his friends
and relatives to hear a public talk that was to be delivered
at his home on Sunday, May 27, after field service.
However, not all work that is done is done without
opposition. A circuit servant reports that while a little
mining town was worked the president of the Catholic
Action group in that town formed a mob and went to
the school and stopped the classes and had the children
join the mob, so that all together they could stone the
publishers out of town. Some of the publishers had to
run up a ravine for about a half hour's time to escape
the mob, while the other publishers obtained protection
in the homes of persons of good will living in that
town. This mobbing did not frighten these publishers.
Later they called back on these people of good will in
the town, studied with them and then helped them get
started in the service.
The publishers are growing to maturity and appreciation
of the organization and the proviSIOns made by
it. The circuit assemblies are playing an important
part in this and the publishers know it. A group of
publishers in the State of Sonora rode on horseback
and others walked for eight days in order to attend
their circuit assembly. At another circuit assembly a
person of good will attended for the first time. On
Sunday she was informed that one of her close relatives
had died, so she had to go home; but remembering
Jesus' words: "Let the dead bury the dead," she
stayed home but a few minutes and returned to the
assembly and did not miss a single part of the program.
Last year the janitor of a hall where a circuit
assembly was being held was present at all of the
sessions of the circuit assembly and saw the film "The
New World Society in Action." After the assembly the
publishers called on him and studied with him and his
wife. Both began to attend meetings and to take part
in the field service and both attended the last circuit
assembly, not as a janitor and his wife or as persons
of good will, but as publishers. Both were immersed at
the last assembly.
NETHERLANDS
The theocratic activity in the Netherlands during
the year was very beneficial, as the brothers
showed joy in giving Jehovah God exclusive devotion.
By considering the shortcomings and the
advances one can see where improvements can
be made for the service year that lies ahead. The