Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

268 Yearbook
call and Bible-study work is playing a big part in
bringing about the increase. They had a number of
very interesting experiences. One publisher sees to it
that he meets all the trains as they come through the
small town in which he lives, offering the magazines
to those in the trains. Because of this a traveler in the
farming section received the truth and is now a publisher.
The circuit servant has done a good work, and at
the circuit assemblies many new publishers are encouraged
to get into the field. New territories are being
worked and some very interesting experiences have
been sent in by the branch servant, showing what
happens when they get into a new territory that has
never been witnessed to before.
Three missionary homes operated during the year for nine
months, but two were closed down in May and the furniture
from them was stored in the other during the three months
that sixteen delegates to the convention were in the
States. Three missionaries remained to care for the one
home. Now that the Gilead graduates have returned from
New York, two new homes will be opened up in new territory.
Our ranks will soon be re-enforced by the arrival of
seven newly assigned graduates who have just recently received
their permanent residence entry permits.
Uruguayan experiences are numerous. One of interest is
that of two Gilead missionaries and a married couple who
were special pioneers. They were aSSigned to a town that
was a hotbed of religious sects (besides the Roman Catholic
cult there were seven or eight others) and not one active
witness of Jehovah, but one Watchtower subscriber. The
first week of preaching the Catholics came out to protect
their flock, sending four Catholic Jesuit missionaries through
the territory, collecting all the literature to burn it, calling
in the bookS as bad for Catholics. Next the children came
along the streets shouting at the sisters: "Christ is King!
Down with the American Bible I" together with a priest in
a car who cheered the rooters on with his horn tooting.
Then the radio opposition that was staged was extraordinary.
Demonstrations with a missionary who spoke Spanish
with a strong American accent calling at a door. A woman
answered and shut it with a slam. The radio commentator
summed up the act lamenting what a pity that good Christians
had to take such measures, but that they were nec­
('ssary, as it was the only way one could protect self from