Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Yearbook 149
that were here and had to leave the country were there.
We got news of the assembly in the daily Times from
New York.
At the writing of this report the ban of June 21 is still
in effect and the police are still intimidating the good-will
people. Gilead missionaries and pioneers can't get their
quota of hours in the service, and at the suggestion of the
Society are finding secular employment to become a working
part of the community. Stepping back into the world for
work is very difficult for us, but 'sticking to our work' is the
motivating reason and we know that the Lord will bless us.
ECUADOR
The publishers of the Kingdom in Ecuador were
blessed during the year because they had full freedom
to push forward with the work. Ecuador has
a liberal government even though the majority of
the people there are Catholic. The Ecuadorians have
insisted on freedom not only for themselves but also
for others, and this freedom has allowed the work
of Jehovah's witnesses to forge ahead. The missionaries
who were sent to Ecuador as well as the local
publishers are having many interesting experiences.
They are doing some follow-up work, too, on some
pioneers who traveled through Ecuador in 1935, following
the Washington convention in the United
States. These two sisters placed much literature, and
now that this seed is being cultivated some of these
people are associating with Jehovah's witnesses and
engaging in the work. The seed sown 15 years ago
is now bearing fruit. The branch servant in Ecuador
sent us some interesting experiences, and a few of
these follow.
An employee of the Provincial Government of Cafiar
read with much interest in the Spanish edition of the
Reader's Digest (Selecciones) the article concerning the
1946 convention of Jehovah's witnesses in Cleveland. He
was so impressed by this that he wrote to the Society in
Brooklyn for further information regarding Jehovah's witnesses,
expressing a desire to associate with such a group of
fighters for truth and righteousness. The letter was forwarded
to the Ecuador branch and literature was immediately
mailed to this man. Later one of the missionaries spending