1955 yearbook - Watchtower Archive

20 Yearbook
untheocratic theories prefer segregation, class
distinction, the caste system. How necessary it is,
then, for a reasonable person to make his mind
over, to quit thinking like the old world and, instead,
take instruction from Almighty God! God's
Book, the Bible, teaches us to love as he loves.
Love casts out fear. "He that docs not love has
not come to know God, because God is love."
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws
fear outside, because fear exercises a restraint.
Indeed, he that is under fear has not been made
perfect in love. As for us, we love, because he first
loved us." (1 John 4:8, 18, 19, NW) When one
lives by the accurate knowledge he receives from
Jehovah's Word, how different his life becomes!
But with these new ideas, these newly found truths
from God's Word, Jehovah's witnesses must go
forward to teach others so that all who eventually
choose to become part of the New World society
will think as Jehovah thinks and grow to maturity.
HOW VALUABLE IS TilE BmLE?
Everyone of us can become alive to the wonderful
joys and blessings that Jehovah's witnesses
have if we take the time to receive instruction,
associate with Jehovah's witnesses, express ourselves
and advance to maturity in the congregation
of God. Sometimes it is said that Jehovah's witnesses
have their own Bible, but when one reads
the pages of The Watchtower he sees that many
translations are constantly cited and quoted from.
Jehovah's witnesses urge that every person read
his own copy of the Holy Bible daily. It matters
not which version of the Bible is read, whether the
Catholic DouaYJ or the Protestant King James or
American Standard, or any other Bible version in
German, French, Spanish, Hebrew or Tagalog. No
matter which rendering of the Holy Scriptures you
read you can learn the truth. None, generally