Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Yearbook 23
better efficiency, using the time to greater value? Are
they right in the homes with the people, talking to
them and studying with them? or are they just standing
on the street corner holding the magazines and
saying nothing? Are they going from door to door
enthusiastically and continually talking to those who
have an car to hear? Is our work efficientY These are
questions that we can all propound to ourselves. Then
again as we look over all of these countries, we find
that 45 countries out of the 115 report at least a 34
per cent or more increase in their publishers in the
field on the average every month as compared with
last year. We wonder, How can they have such a
marvelous increase? Again the same questions might
be asked.
INDIVIDUAL ACTION TOWARD INCREASE
"Then we look at our task and the results thus far,
the 18 per cent increase for all nations on the average
is splendid; but if we are going to see Theocracy's
increase as we have never seen it before, what must
we do during the year 1951? Individually, we cannot
bring in a half a publisher or a third of a publisher,
but we can, as publishers of the new world, aid
another creature to understand God's purposes, help
him in going out in the work, grounding him well in
the truth, and letting him see his privilege of being
a minister of the Most High to join in this great shout
like that of thunder and sing praises that Jehovah is
King. By Jehovah's undeserved kindness a far greater
crowd will sing these praises before Armageddon,
and Jehovah's witnesses will share in gathering them.
Would it not be well, then, for everyone of Jehovah's
witnesses today to try to help at least one person to
gain sufficient knowledge of the truth during the coming
year so as to aid him to become a regular publisher
? We may have to conduct many studies to gain one
for the Lord; but if we are able to do this and every-