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Yearbook 173
for expansion were put into effect and with many corresponding
joys and blessings. Here in the capital we have
never been able to use any of the theaters for public tall,s,
but the brethren in going out to some of the smaller towns
and working found managers more CQ-operative and less
greedy for money and thus were able to get theaters several
times to put on their hour lectures! At one small town
250 persons attended, as many as we sometimes have during
circuit assemblies. Isolated brethren have been visited, aided
in the service, and lectures have been successfully put on
in the homes of these isolated persons. In one such case,
50 persons crowded into the living room and 50 more stood
outside the doorway in the street and listened.
The second outstanding event was the New York convention.
All 17 of the Gilead missionaries were able to attend,
as well as 6 of the local brethren. The absence of
these brethren put much more responsihility on those
remaining, and generally this resulted in much good as they
put forth a greater effort to take care of the work; and now
that all have returned, these are able to assist much more
than previously. It also proved that the Lord has an organization
of people here who will preach because it is written
in His Word and not because some american08 take them
out. Although many of the local brethren attending the
convention could not understand English, through the
Spanish meetings they got the most of the information, and
the association with such a great number of brethren was
something they just can't describe to their brethren. When
there is any mention of it. they just seem to glow and radiate
the spirit and joy of their experience.
Every opportunity to witness should be so used, and
that as soon as you start learning the truth. One of the
Gllead graduates went to see a person with whom she conducts
a study. an old lady who can't read and who has a
hard time making a living. She had made arrangements
for the sister to go with her to some people she had talked
to (she says she talks to everyone about the truth). She
took the sister down, down, down into a ravine in a poor
section of the city, to people who had a restaurant. The
restaurant consisted of a roof of cloth supported hy poles.
which sheltered a table and a couple of chairs, with an outdoor
fire. The book-study lady had washed dishes for the
restaurant people and talked to them, a young man and his
mother. The man wanted to know how to get "Let God Be
True" and a Bible. This was quickly shown to him and a
study was started.
These are some of the little experiences stemming from
the greatest experience a person can have, namely that
of being a publisher. Mayall those who have entered into