Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

156 Yearbook
turning following the assembly they discovered that
the companies had continued splendidly. The folks
were able to handle prosperous public meeting series;
all of the company publishers dug in and worked
hard in making the back-calls and caring for the
Bible studies. Thcy just kept the scrvice going like
veterans. When the missionaries who had watched
the work grow from infancy returned, they could
have asked for no greater reward for their efforts
than to see the publishers standing on their own
feet for Jehovah and preaching the good news as
independent publishers. That is a wonderful reward
for missionaries to find on returning from Theocracy's
Increase Assembly, and it certainly made glad their
hearts.
The branch servant in EI Salvador gives us some
very interesting happenings in that land from the
past year's service, and we briefly record a few of
them.
December brought our first outstanding joy: four new
graduates arrived to undertake their ministry in this warm
country of mountains and fine coffee. Then with hardly a
"breather" in between, we were all out at the airport to
meet Brother Robert Morgan, who served us most wonderfully
for four days visiting our missionary homes and by
high-pointing his stay with an excellent talk, "Liberty to
the Captives," given to an audience of 803 persons who were
utterly amazed to find that something completely free for
all people was actually offered in their finest and most
reputable theater. All listeners manifested complete approval
of the strong pOints of the talk; they were deeply
impressed, favorably, and people are still talking about it.
Brother Morgan left, but one week later our joys were
to hit a new peak, for, closely following his footsteps in
the sands of time, came you yourself, Brother Knorr, bringing
with you your own good counsel and the many important
decisions which you made in regard to our service
in the field, which meant for us: the opening of our third
miSSionary home, in San Miguel; another company new to
the country; more frequent visits to the companies and
isolated publishers by the circuit servant; and the two
new Gilead graduates who arrived after the great international
convention in New York. Your being here meant