Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

136 Yearbook
this wouldn't have happened. Realizing our mistake in not
calling back, we visited this family two days later and
started a home Bihle study with them. When we started the
study with them they had an altar with 16 images on it.
Three weeks after the study started they burned up all the
images. And now, three weeks later, five members of this
family are publishers for the Kingdom."
The number of publishers in the Habana metropolitan
area continues to grow in leaps and bounds. At the present
there are over 1,256 publishers in the ten units of Habana.
There are prospects of shortly organizing three more units
there. About six years ago, when the company book studies
were first organized in the Habana company, one of the
study groups had just 3 persons in attendance at its first
meeting. This group has grown into an organized company
with over 200 publishers reporting regularly. This same
company had an attendance of 402 at the Memorial.
One difficulty that some of the units in the city of Habana
have is that of finding homes with a room large enough to
hold their company book studies in. Many of the publishers
are poor materially and live in very small hom('s that have
rooms that are much too small for a company book study.
One company remedied this difficulty by holding public
meetings in the homes of some persons of good will who had
large rooms in their homes. After the series of public talks
was over they arranged for company book studies to be held
in these homes. Concerning this the company servant of
this company wrote the Society saying, "In one month we
held three different series of public talks in the homes of
persons of good will, and after these set·ies were finished
we organized company book studies in each one of these
homes. At the conclusion of one of these series of public talks
in one of the homE's we announced that on the following week
a book study would be held at the same hour in the same
home. We thought that about 8 or 10 newly interested
persons who heard the public lecture would attend. But
imagine our surprise when 38 persons of good ,vill attended
the first study. About 35 of these good-will persons continued
to attend this study weekly. Then later on all of
them were invited to attend the meetings at the Kingdom
Hall, and now almost everyone of these 35 is a regular
publisher for the Kingdom."
Many of the brethren from here were able to attend
the international convention in New York. Most of them,
being poor in this world's goods, made great sacrifices in
order to attend. One pioneer brother, who was not able to
attend the 1946 convention in Cleveland, due to lack of
funds, saved American quarters in a jar for four years