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    Convention Program — Theocracy's Increase (1950)

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    Convention Program — Theocracy's Increase (1950)

    THEOCRACY'S INCREASE ASSEMBLY of Jehovah's witnesses

    YANKEE STADIUM

    NEW YORK CITY

    JULY 30 TO

    AUGUST 6

    THEOCRACY'S

    INCREASE

    ASSEMBLY

    of

    Jehovah's

    witnesses

    YANKEE STADIUM

    NEW YORK CITY

    JULY 30 TO

    AUGUST 6

    1948 1949 1950

    1950 "Theocracy's Increase" Assembly

    (CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-1-1950 pages 361-365)

    Yankee Stadium, New York City July 30-August 6,1950

    DAY'S THEME:Gilead Graduation Day

    MORNING

    Music

    (RELEASE: "Songs to Jehovah's Praise" (book))

    9:25 Music

    9:30 Song

    10:00 Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God

    12:05 Song

    AFTERNOON

    79,247

    1:20 Song

    1:30 15th class of Gilead Graduation

    The Way of Success

    Nathan Knorr

    Gilead Graduation Diploma Presentation to Students

    EVENING

    111,795

    The Way of Success

    Nathan Knorr

    Gilead Graduation Diploma Presentation to Students

    EVENING

    111,795

    8:00 Gilead Students Express Themselves

    Nathan Knorr

    DAY'S THEME: Jehovah's Undeserved Kindness Day MORNING

    9:10 Music and Song

    AFTERNOON

    1:40 Music

    Reports from :

    Argentina South Africa Canada Mexico

    T. J. Sullivan then spoke on Psalm 107:23-31, 4:35 Song

    EVENING

    6:30 Music

    6:35 Song

    Blessed Are the Merciful

    Laying Aside Every Weight

    Lyman A Swingle

    Lyle E Reusch

    Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News

    Hayden Covington

    DAY'S THEME: Theocratic Devotion Day MORNING

    9:10 Music and Song

    9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer

    9:30

    Field Service

    AFTERNOON

    147,135

    1:30 Song Prayer and

    Firsthand reports on the expansion of The Theocracy in postwar Germany and in countries behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe

    The Increase of His Government Nathan H Knorr

    RELEASE: 32-page Watchtower magazine

    EVENING

    6:30 Music

    6:35 Song and

    The Service Meeting was built around the convention's theme, increase.

    Then followed four practical demonstrations in overcoming objections at the door through refutation.

    Evolution versus The New World Colin D. Quackenbush (RELEASE: Evolution versus The New World(booklet))

    9:05 Song and Prayer DAY'S THEME: PREACH THE WORD

    MORNING

    9:00

    AFTERNOON

    1:30 Song Prayer and Reports From: the British Isles and from Cuba

    3:30 Turning to the Peoples a Pure Language

    Nathan

    (RELEASE: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures

    4:35 Song

    EVENING

    6:30 Music

    6:35 Song

    7:00 Scholarly discussion of the ancient Greek language

    Fred W

    9:00 Song 53 and Prayer

    DAY'S THEME: Missionary Day

    MORNING

    9:10 Music and Song

    9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer

    9:30 Baptism

    AFTERNOON

    1:40 Music

    1:45 Song No. 51, Prayer Missionary Reports

    4:35 Song

    DAY'S THEME: Branch Day

    MORNING

    Reports from the Branch servants

    AFTERNOON

    1:40 Music

    1:45 Song No. 109, Prayer

    Reports from the Branch servants

    Regret and Protest by American Convention Hosts over Religious Discrimination Against Visiting Witnesses of Jehovah

    Knorr

    4:35 Song

    Nathan H

    EVENING

    173,079

    6:30 Music

    6:35 Song

    Reports from the Branch servants Song and Prayer DAY'S THEME: Knowledge of God Day MORNING

    9:10 Music and Song

    9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer

    AFTERNOON

    1:40 Music

    1:45 Song Prayer and

    Saturday afternoon and evening conventioners had the opportunity of hearing how radio station WBBR, the printing plant and office, the Brooklyn Bethel, and the Bible School of Gilead are being used for the preaching work that is spreading knowledge of The Theocracy to the ends of the earth.

    4:35 Song

    EVENING

    6:30 Music

    6:35 Song

    Taking In Life-giving Knowledge RELEASE: This Means Everlasting Life(book)

    Nathan H Knorr

    New Systems of Things

    9:05 Song and Prayer

    Fred W Franz DAY'S THEME: New World Living Day

    MORNING

    9:00 Music and Song

    9:10 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer

    Pioneer experiences

    R. L. Anderson

    12:05 Song

    AFTERNOON

    123,707

    2:15 Music

    4:00 Can You Live Forever in Happiness on Earth? Nathan Knorr

    NEWTO

    Lorna Boom

    Children presenting the Watchtower and Awake March 29,1950 Bangkok Thailand

    Children presenting the Watchtower and Awake March 29, 1950 Bangkok Thailand

    At Jehovah's Witnesses Convention two girls set their hair in curlers outside lavatory built by Witness Labor.