Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Yearbook 257
work where I called on a lady who said she and her husband
belonged to the Awake! people. Apparently she had subscribed
for the magazine at her previous home. Her husband
enjoyed it but she wasn't very much interested. However,
she Invited me back to see her husband. When I did I easily
started a study with him. She, although she listened, did
not take part in the study. So you can imagine my surprise
when I found out she was gathering her friends together
and telling them the things we were talking at the study.
She says, 'I get all tangled up about 1914 and I suppose
I get them confused, but I told them if they would come to
the study that you would explain it to them.' Her next-door
neighbor told me emphatically she had no interest in our
work when I called there, but, due to the witnessing of
Mrs. B--, this neighbor is now coming in to the studies
and thinks they are wonderful. Mrs. B-- says when I
called on them the first few times she was a bit ashamed to
let her neighbors see me come in, but now she just cannot
keep from telling them all about It."
Interest scattered off the beaten track in the colony is
also manifesting itself. Up till now we have not been able
to cover this sort of territory, but time is flying and the
Lord has helped those scattered people of good will by means
of the native publishers. European people of good will have
asked native publishers to help them study the Bible and
even hold a Bible study with them. In this land of an
effective color bar this is very unusual, but it shows that
the Lord's sheep recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd
and respond to it.
So it has been a very interesting year. Progress has been
made all along the line. We feel confident of the Lord's
bleSSing on our efforts and we are glad to share with our
faithful brethren in other lands as we unitedly promote the
worship of our God, Jehovah.
SURINAM
While the Surinam lady washes the family clothes
with a corncob for a scrubbing brush, and the British
East Indian neighbors are doing the same thing by
striking the wet and soapless clothes with a flat stick
as the clothes lie on a sheet of metal, Jehovah's witnesses
go from house to house preaching the gospel.
Surinam is a land where one finds all kinds of people,
from many parts of the earth. In the better parts of
the city of Paramaribo you find a civilization similar
to that in Europe. But as you get into the outlying