Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

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conveniences and practically no comforts or communications
to speak of, a circuit servant regularly penetrates the wild
profuse jungle country of the north, visiting small companies
and isolated persons of good will.
Enthusiasm ran high in the month of July as the 1950
international convention in New York city drew near.
Three different groups, 31 brethren in all, went by plane. All
of them made considerable sacrifice in paying for such a
long journey. We in Brazil rejoiced in the privilege of
attending the convention in New York city and associating
with the rest of Jehovah's visible organization now when
he causes such a mighty work to be accomplished before
our eyes throughout the entire world.
BRITISH GUIANA
With a popUlation of 400,000 inhabitants composed
of people of six races, British Guiana offers good
territory for preaching the gospel. It is a truly cosmopolitan
country, as the largest group are East
Indians, then follow the Negroes, aborigines, Portuguese,
Chinese and the white people. All live side
by side; so while the witnesses go from door to door
they are constantly meeting different kinds of people
from all nations, kindreds and tongues.
"Guiana" means "land of many waters", and this
is literally true. Often the publishers take off their
shoes to wade through the back yards when visiting'
people of good will. But then, many of the publishers
have never been encumbered with shoes. The heaviest
rainfall of the last 75 years fell in 1950, but even
this did not bog the brethren down in preaching the
good news. The experiences of the brethren have been
very interesting, and the branch servant gives us
a good report of what is being accomplished in this
small South American territory.
It was in March when the colony's only radio station
agreed to allow us free time once each week on the "morning
devotion" dally program of 15 minutes. Now at last
the truth could penetrate into the interior with regularity!
Copies are given to both the radio station and the government
of all broadcasts; so an excellent testimony to our
stand will thus go into their records. Came the time for
our first broadcast, and who shOUld be at the studio but the