Year Book of Jehovah's Witnesses - Watchtower Archive

Yearbook 85
witnesses operate. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy
might see to it through its agents that the organization
is broken up, but until they have sufficient power to
kill every individual these will not stop the sounding
forth of the good news of God's kingdom. This good
news will continually torment them because they are
not for the kingdom of God; they are for the maintaining
of this old, wicked world through its dictators
and political regimes.
Jehovah's witnesses take comfort in the words of
Peter when he said, "If you are being reproached for
the name of Christ, you are happy, because the spirit
of glory, even the spirit of God. is resting upon you."
(1 Pet. 4: 14, NW) Jehovah's witnesses in Argentina
are happy. They are rejoicing in the proclamation of
the Kingdom. They are going into the homes of the
people and studying the Bible with them. These with
whom they study are learning the truth, and, in turn,
are starting to preach. There has been a remarkable
increase of 14 per cent in the number of ministers
taking up the good news. During the year there was
a new peak of 1,416 publishers proclaiming the gospel.
The report from the branch servant in Argentina
shows that these brethren are determined to go forward
individually preaching the Word. To those who
have an ear to hear they will say, "Praise Jah, you
people, because Jehovah our God, the Almighty, has
begun to rule as king."-Rev. 19: 6, NW.
Many are the "sheep" that are hungering for the truth,
but few are the workers that are engaging In helping them
find real spiritual nourishment. So, lacking In numbers. stress
has been laid on increasing our own capacity for the work,
bettering the quality of our work, and at the very start of
the year provisions for this were made by the Society by
having three publishers attend the Watchtower Bible School
of Gilead. The field for trained missionaries is indeed enormous,
and every hand is greatly appreciated. After graduating
from the 15th class, they are again with us, ardently
desiring to be active in the field.
Again bleSSings were poured out abundantly when, after
nearly two years without receiving literature in quantity,