1955 yearbook - Watchtower Archive

46 Yearbook
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is
very glad to see that Jehovah has blessed and prospered
the efforts to organize the work world-wide.
With millions afield who have been served we are
very grateful, too, for the unsolicited contributions
that our brothers in all parts of the earth have
sent in to the Society so that this constantly expanding
witness can be carried on to the ends of
the earth. To care for the work outside the United
States the Society spent through its seventy-five
branch offices over three million dollars during
the year. To sustain missionaries alone and to aid
them in their field activity the Society has spent
nearly half a million dollars. How it cheers our
hearts to see that a work of such proportions can
be accomplished with such a small amount of
funds! Of course, each local congregation has
spent freely, too, to take care of its Kingdom Hall
and to put on local public meetings in all parts
of its territory; and if to that we were to add
what individual publishers themselves spent during
the year for transportation, by car, bus, train,
plane and otherwise, to get to the homes of their
willing listeners, as well as to attend circuit, district
and national assemblies for training themselves
to do better service in the public interest,
it would total many, many more millions. But
this is their gift to Jehovah God, an expression
of their joy, their thankfulness that they can spend
of what they, in fact, have received from him to
help their neighbors to learn his truth. That is
love in action.
Do you find any others on earth who have the
delight and satisfaction of living as Jehovah's witnesses
have in serving the Sovereign Ruler of the
universe? No wonder it is true that not one of
these will be afraid of evil tidings. The reason is
that their heart is fixed and they do trust in the
living God. As children of Zion, they, to the extent
of their capacity, rejoice in Jehovah God and his