Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

130 Yearbook
a very sad thing for them. Hundreds came to the station
to see them off and thank them for their help and
encouragemen t.
"Arriving at Taipeh city the missionaries were confronted
with the charge of being Communists, but no opportunity
was afforded to refute this.
"As they sailed away leaving the bleak shores of Tai Wan
behind, their hearts were heavy at leaving brethren they
loved so much. Gladly they will return when Jehovah opens
up the way again."
COLOMBIA
As the curtain falls on the 1950 service year, those
who have shared in the past twelve months in declaring
Jehovah as King can look back over the time
with great joy. It has been a season of refreshment,
one of success for the zealous Kingdom publishers;
and they are determined now, by the Lord's grace,
to go ahead with a new year, looking for even greater
gains. Colombia had a 48 per cent increase in number
of publishers, reaching a new peak of 162 witnesses
for the Lord. In Colombia many obstacles, including
revolutions, have hindered the truth, but
despite all these the faithful servants of the Lord
have been richly blessed and are now pressing on
with determined effort to see to it that Theocracy's
increase will continue. The branch servant gives us
some very interesting comments.
Outstanding among the opening acts was the anxiouslyawaited
visit of the Society's president to Colombia for the
second time. His audiences were not disappointed. A threeday
stay by the president and his secretary at the Bogota
branch office and missionary home proved a real stimulUS to
the local company and to the isolated publishers that had
traveled to the capital to see them. It was at the coastal
miSSionary home in Barranquilla, however, that Brother
Knorr's visit reached a grand climax. Attendance records
were rudely shattered when 261 persons packed out the
Kingdom Hall to attentively hear the powerful lecture
"Liberty to the Captives". It was really something new for
the brethren, since the discourse was given in English by
Brother Knorr and in Spanish by an interpreter.
On the heels of this came an influx of pioneers. The pioueer
list increased from 4 to 11 and the monthly average of