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world.' This made her think, and she began to attend
the Watchtower study. Soon she saw the importance of
Kingdom service, and her report for last month showed
twenty hours. It was a great joy when she was immersed
at the district assembly. And the New Testament of
the dean is still a good help when somebody does not
accept any of our publications because he is such a
good Catholic!"
BAHAMAS
Off the coast of Florida there is a group of
islands known as the Bahamas. In this group there
are nineteen that have a good-sized population.
Some are so small as to have only 320 people, but
still it is the responsibility of the branch office
to see that someone gets to all of these islands to
preach the good news of the Kingdom. Out of the
nineteen that are populated twelve have been served
this year, and plans are being made so that the
other seven will be covered next year, in addition
to the ones presently being served. The brothers
have worked hard and they have shown a very
good increase in gathering together the other
sheep. There was a new peak of 136 publishers
who are helping the people to get a knowledge
of God's Word. A new congregation was established
on the island of Grand Bahama. The film
"The New World Society in Action" has helped
considerably in showing the people what Jehovah's
witnesses are doing and how they work. The
branch servant gives us a good report on some
of the experiences of the publishers there.
Several months ago the film "The New World Society
in Action" was shown on the island of Eleuthera. It was
shown at four places to about five hundred people. One
of these places was a small town of six hundred, where
there was an attendance of over one hundred and eighty.
Many of these people had never seen a movie before
and were very much thrilled with it. One thing that great·
ly impressed them was the speed at which the brothers
in the factory worked. After the showing many people
commented on this, and one who had studied previously
mentioned: "I have been wasting my time, but I am
really going to get down to business now." "This must