Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

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unassigned territory, 109 publishers taking part in this
"drive." Arrangements were made beforehand and
meetings held Saturday night and Sunday, with pre·
ceding magazine work, street witnessing, calls on
every home, both in the town and outlying territory,
and an information march with loud·speaker announcement
regarding the public lecture. This was held outof-doors
and gathered 340 listeners, 145 of whom
attended the study and concluding talk. The local daily
gave a splendid report and the visit there was the topic
of all conversation all over town. "It was just like a
little circuit assembly."
The brothers throughout the country have responded
very well to the Society's appeal that magazine work
should be stressed. The April 1 issue of The Watchtower,
with that wonderful message about all mankind's
being made one under their Creator, went "like
hot cakes" and set the pace for a very good increase
in placements of magazines. It has been a joy to us
here at Bethel that we have been able to serve our
brothers in Norway with magazines since the beginning
of the calendar year, thus utilizing our printing equipment
more fully. There is still the nuisance of having
some of the family taken awar. for prison terms of
varying lengths, but by Jehovah s undeserved kindness
there have always been SUbstitutes ready who could be
called in at short notice and trained to keep the job
going.
SWITZERLAND
Good progress has been made during the service
year in Switzerland and a wonderful witness has
been given. It is not very often that the radio
can be used, but one day the branch office received
a letter from a radio manager inviting Jehovah's
witnesses to take part in a discussion with representatives
of the Reformed National Church.
Reports from one end of the country to the other
are to the effect that thousands of people listened
to this discussion and as a result many wrote to
the branch office saying that Jehovah's witnesses
had won in the discussion. One newspaper had
this to say about the program on the radio: "We
regret to say that if we had to decide for one or
the other party in the debate, we would rather
have decided in favor of the representatives of