Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

76 Yearbook
of two weeks. During that time they placed their entire
supply of 500 books.
H Is believed that many of these books are in the hands of
people who will read them during the winter. Since Icelanders
are quite self-reliant and like to "find out for themselves",
It may be that some w1ll be sufficiently curious to
read and thus learn the truth.
KOREA
Even though the missionaries are not In Korea at this
writlng we would like to give a retrospective review of the
work done there for the first 10 months of the service year.
The service year opened with the first complete month of
field service reported in almost 11 years. A new peak of
21 company publishers was reached. The few Korean booklets
on hand were rationed out for the purpose of lending to
the people of good will. The brethren were pleased with the
home Bible-study work, which was new to them. In November,
when the first sizable shipment of literature arrived and
the brethren could once again offer booklets in the houseto-house
work, the brethren were overjoyed. This was reflected
In December's report, when a Dew peak of 28 publishers
averaged 30 hours.
Now that literature was on hand some of the brethren
began to think seriously of pioneering. By the first of February
fully one-fourth of the company had entered the pioneer
service, four beginning In January and three In February.
Two of them had pioneered before the ban by the Japanese.
One of these, a sister, had been Imprisoned by the Japanese
for seven yeurs. Her husband had died In prison. Now she
is again in the full-time service and her zeal Is second to
none. Sometimes she puts in 14 hours a day, not even stopping
to eat. Though she Is required to Pl'lt in only 100 hours a
month, recently she reported 234 hours. The hospitals,
universities und other Institutions respected this sister and
the professional people would stop and listen to her.
The Korean brethren work under dilJicult conditions. l.ack
of food, clothing and transportutlon still hamper them, but
one WOUldn't InlOW it by their cheerful attitude. They constantly
practice the Christian principle that "godliness with
contentment is great gain".
A young woman from a well-to-do family was finishing
her college education to become a Christian social worker.
She had the money granted to her and in the bank for an
Americun education. Her mother heard of the truth and was
interested enough to come to the meetings. The daughter,
who speaks English well, came along one Sunday to find
out about this strange message. If Christ's second presence