Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

Friday, September IS
If ••• her husband has heard
it and has kept silent toward
her on the day of his hearing
it, then her vows must stand
. . • But if her husband on
the day of hearing it should
forb'id her, then he has annulled
her vow that was upon
her or the thoughtless p1'omisc
oj her lips.-Num.
30: 6-8, NW.
Adam at once knew that Eve
had been deceived by the serpent
and had sinned. He was
not deceived but Eve was "thoroughly
deceived and came to be
in transgression." Eve did not
speak or act for him her head.
The head was to decide and
Adam must either approve of
her sin by joining her knowingly,
willingly, in eating the
stolen fruit or disavow her act
and stop it immediately from
becoming the practice in his
household. Jehovah's theocratic
law, later stated to the nation
of Israel, agreed with this. So
Adam could have reproved Eve
and let God be true and the
Serpent the Devil a liar, thus
vindicating himself as no party
to her breaking of God's law.
God had appointed him head.
He should have respected God's
appointment and resisted Eve's
acting as head in making deeisions.
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Saturday, September 14
In case . .. your companion
who is like your own soltl,
should try to allure you in
sccrecy, saY'ing, "Let us go
and serve other gods," ... you
should kill him without fail.
-Deut. 13: 6, 9, NW.
This was to ensure the preservation
of Jehovah's worship
without pollution and the keeping
of his righteous commandments,
thereby also preserving
the qualities of virtue in general.
Virtue has reference to
moral practice or action con-
formative to the standard of
right, excellence and integrity
of course, uprightness of conduct,
rectitude j morality. It is
an active qua ity, whether of
physical or moral nature, of
strength, courage and valor. It
has reference to excellence of
any kind, merit, worth, value,
chastity, purity. Since the
righteous God, Jehovah, is the
author of all these virtuous
clements, his worship is involved
in them all, and a departure
from his worship is
a departure from all virtue.
Therefore the extermination of
devil worshipers from Israel
served to preserve true worship
and virtue. lV 11/1 15
Sunday, September 15
Make a joyful noise unto Jehot'ah,
all ye lands.-Ps.
100: 1, AS.
God's love is so great that
his salvation embraces many,
even Ii great crowd of other
sheep. We can tell this good
news of his salvation by our
speaking mouth or by the
speaking printed llage. And for
telling the good news we are
not limited to one place. 'Ye
can tell it daily, in our homes
to members of our own family,
in the doorways of other
people by going from house to
house, in public places aside
from on the platform, even underground
in totalitarian lands,
in prisons and in concentration
and slave labor camps. In isolated
places we can tell the
good news, or as congregation
publishers. Still better, one can
tell it as a full-time pioneer,
even as a missionary in foreign
lands. One may be favored
with telling the good news as
a zone, district or circuit servant,
or as a public speaker.
'rhus in many capacities the
telling of the good news may
be done, and each of us should
be faithful in his capacity. W
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