Informant, November 1938
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INFORMANT
NOVEMBER, 1938
‘Be not afraid: the battle is God’s.'—2 Chron. 20: 15.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
“Vindication” Books for “Faithful and True” Period
Thrilling Offer! “Vindication” 1, 2,3, on Contribution of Only 35c
Every Publisher Should Place at Least One Set
Warning Also to Be Offered
Shall We Have
35,000 Publishers???
Jehovah has revealed to his ‘faithful and true’ witnesses, in the publications Vindication 1, 2, and 3, his glorious universal organization; also the wicked and cruel organization of Satan, and his (Jehovah’s) purpose soon to utterly annihilate Satan and all his religious cohorts, that all people who love righteousness may know that Jehovah is the only true and almighty God. Therein is disclosed also the grave responsibility of the anointed and their companions of now widely warning the people of this impending destruction, and the urgent necessity that the people of good will ride in the chariot of the Greater Jehu.
By the most gracious provision of the Lord, we are privileged to offer these three books on a contribution of only 35c, thus bringing this message well within the reach of all people who love righteousness. Also, during December, if you have no Vindication, you may offer Preparation and Warning on a contribution of 25c, dropping to Womwiy alone on a 5c contribution if they do not take books.
Necessarily now the obligation is laid upon all the anointed and their companions to bring this unusual offer to the attention of as many people as possible throughout the 31 days of December. Each company should set as Its goal the distribution of all the Vindication books in stock and as many Preparation and Warning as possible. Make it at least one set of Vindication per publisher.
Offer Most Seasonable
This wonderful offer comes at the most appropriate time of the year. It is during December that the people are “ ‘Christmas’-shopping-con-scious,” so called—they are on the lookout for the best bargains that they can get as presents for their friends and for themselves. This false sense of ‘good will toward men’, which has been foisted upon them by the religionists, can be used to their advantage by bringing to their notice an offer that they cannot duplicate elsewhere. Vindication, Books 1, 2, and 3, on a contribution of 35c cannot be beat!
Use Own Stock
Most of the companies have a plentiful supply of Vindication, Preparation, and Warning; so there will be little need of companies’ ordering for this campaign, except Vindication to make complete sets. The stockkeeper should arrange to have an exact count of this literature on hand as of Sunday, November 13, and post this information so that ail publishers may know what
is to be put out. This information is to be kept up from week to week until the campaign is over. The company servant should see to it, by the time of the last service meeting of November, that all the publishers have on hand at least one or two sets of Vindication, some Preparation, and a good supply of the Warning booklet. All should be fully armed to start this campaign December 1 and place all of them by December 31.
Pioneers and Auxiliaries
Pioneers and auxiliaries located in company territory should arrange to draw on the company stock of Vindication, Preparation, and Warning, only. The company servant is hereby authorized (during this campaign only) to transfer to pioneers and auxiliaries as much of this stock as they can use, on credit, on their word that their account is in good condition. At the end of December, that proper adjustment may be made on the different accounts, the company servant is to send in a statement signed by himself and the pioneer or auxiliary showing the literature so transferred. This one notice, covering literature turned over to each individual, will be all that will be necessary to send in to this office. It only causes confusion if both parties notify this office of the transfer.
Isolated Pioneers and Auxiliaries
Pioneers and auxiliaries not located in company territory, as well as those companies that have but a limited supply of this campaign literature, should send in their orders at once to Brooklyn for whatever Vindication, Preparation and Warning are required. We will promptly arrange to fill your order from our own, or, if possible, from some nearby company stock. Brethren whose
accounts are in poor condition should accompany their order with remittance to cover.
Territory to Be Worked
During December the brethren should return to their urban territory, to the large towns and cities. The territory servant should immediately line up and assign such territory as can be best witnessed to in cold and inclement weather. The purpose should be to aid the publishers in calling on as many people as possible during the winter months.
Additionally, the back call servant should arrange for the publishers to call on all the interested ones on his list with this special Vindication offer, not only that they can take advantage of this opportunity for themselves, but that they can also be encouraged to get a set for their friends.
Carry Your Phonographs
Introduce the phonograph as quickly as you can. Run records "Relief” and “Resolution”, P-151, P-152. Briefly present the Vindication offer, pointing out the need of studying them at this crucial time. If they cannot take these books, endeavor to leave Warning at least. Those brethren who because of infirmity or for other reason cannot carry along sets of Vindication should stress Preparation and Warning on a contribution of 25c or Warning alone on a contribution of 5c.
Where there is interest manifested, arrange for a back call for the “Warning” and “Violence” series. Use every means at your command to aid the interested people in recognizing that Jehovah is supreme and that their safety lies in aligning themselves under his organization. The sound servant should see that all phonographs are in working condition and in use and that the brethren have record P-151, P-152.
December Report
On the December report card, in the column “Books” Is to be shown the total number of Vindication and Preparation (as well as any other books) that have been placed during that month. In addition, the companies and auxiliaries are to show at the bottom of their December report card the number of complete sets of Vindication placed, by stat-
ing there, “Placed
sets of
Vindication,” and giving the number. All companies and auxiliaries giving this information will receive a credit on their account of 25c and 13c a set respectively. If this information is not on the December report, it will be assumed that the company or auxiliary so reporting is desirous of helping the Society to bear the burden of this special reduction. As the cost to pioneers is already very low, no credit will be given on sets placed at this special rate.
Warriors All
This “Faithful and True” period should see all the soldiers of the Kingdom wielding the sword of the spirit to the honor and praise of Jehovah and his King, Christ Jesus, and to the continued perplexity and pain of the religionists and their Godless allies. This period should start us well on our way toward our goal of 35,000 publishers as well as clear the decks for the great battle to be fought during the world-wide campaign of January-April.
“Warning” Going Well! Don’t Stop!
Our Work During November
In another part of this Informant, the “Faithful and True” testimony period, during December, is outlined. While the booklet Warning will be offered in connection with the bound books and should he left at every call, it will be impossible to cover a large territory, due to handling more literature, and it will be necessary to concentrate on getting this booklet into as many homes as possible before the December campaign opens.
Therefore we will continue throughout the month of November to offer the Warning booklet to the people on a contribution of 5c, and leave the booklet in quantity of 6 on a 25e, 13 on a 50c, or 26 on a $1.00 contribution, with those who show
particular interest and desire to have a share in this important work.
“Warning” is not just the title of another booklet; the booklet contains an ultimatum from the Lord to the Fascist-religious totalitarian crowd and an invitation to those of good will to serve God and Christ the King and live. The obligation is laid upon Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions, the Jonadabs, to deliver this message—an obligation that cannot be side-stepped.
Continue to use the new record, “Relief,” “Resolution,” P-151, P-152, in the regular house-to-house witness, which will materially aid you in arranging for studies in the homes of the interested ones. At these back calls, use the “Warning” and “Violence” series of records.
The Judge Let 'Em Have It, Fascism or Freedom
Thrilling Meeting
Splendid Lecture for Back Calls
The speech “Fascism ob Freedom”, by Brother Rutherford on Sunday, October 2, at Mecca Temple, was an event that you had to be actually in the audience in order to appreciate. Brother Rutherford was at his best. His masterly delivery of one barrage of irrefutable evidence after another against the bulwark of the Devil’s Hierarchy Fascistlc com-! bination was thrilling. The audience was held spellbound throughout.
Over an hour before the meeting commenced the main auditorium, with its three massive balconies, was filled to overflowing. Then the large auditorium downstairs, used for an overflow, was filled In a very short time. Long before the meeting started all the halls, including the hall for the overflow meeting, staircases and every available space where a person might stand, were filled up and crowds were being turned away. This was beyond the comprehension of the Mecca Temple employees, who told us before the meeting that it was useless to get an overflow hall, as they had never filled the main auditorium in the (Continued on page 2, column 4)
“Face the Facts” Going to 12,000,000 Homes
Four-Month Campaign Begins January 1
Special Offer with
Plan Now for
Greatest of All Witnesses
It Is not the purpose here to go Into the details of the next worldwide campaign, when the booklet Face the Facts will have a tremendous distribution, but merely to make announcement of that campaign so that you may prepare, arrange territory and good-will names, and get ready for the offensive battle ahead. Face the Facts Is to have the greatest distribution of any message, and, by the Lord’s grace, this will be accomplished by his chosen people and their companions.
Time
On January 1, 1939, everyone will be prepared, world-wide, to carry to the people of the earth this message and will press forward, even though it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere when the campaign begins. It will continue until April 30, by which time spring will have begun and we shall be able to wind up the campaign with a tremendous rally. The four months of the campaign will Include two testimony periods: the one usually held in February, and the other the world-wide testimony period.
35,000 Publishers for 1939
New Year — New Quota
The month of October ushers in another year of service in the Kingdom for Jehovah’s witnesses and their companions, the Jonadabs, who recognize Jehovah as supreme and delight to acknowledge his new Theocratic Government, under Christ, and place ourselves under its laws. We rejoice to have had a share during the past year in heralding the Kingdom tidings, and confidently look forward to a year of Increased privileges of serving Jehovah, now that the time has arrived for a better and more completely harmonious organization for the service of the Lord, He having made bls approved servants peace and righteousness, and who are in complete harmony and united in action.
The two Important messages from London during the recent world-wide convention and the one from New York city on October 2 have renewed within the Lord’s people, both anointed and Jonadabs, a determination to let nothing separate us from the love of God and participation in his service. With confidence, knowing that the battle is Jehovah’s and the victory certain, let us fearlessly face the enemy, alert and subject to the commands of God’s great Field Marshal, Christ Jesus.
The world-wide convention witnessed many newly interested Jonadabs taking a firm stand for Jehovah and his righteous kingdom, engaging for the first time in the actual field service, joyfully saying to those with a hearing ear: “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
The August Informant stated: “In the United States alone [during June] there were 31,110 publishers in the field—a new peak—showing the continued increase of the multitude.” In view of the advent of Jehovah’s Theocratic Government, with many new ones now appreciating the privilege of service as sub-
“The Watchtower”
The Offer
Face the Facts, a 64-page booklet, will contain the lecture by that title as well as “Fill the Earth”, the speech delivered by Brother Rutherford at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, September 10. In the latter speech it is pointed out that more information about Jehovah’s mandate to righteous creatures to fill the earth is supplied in The Watchtower. It is essential, then, for the lovers of righteousness who read this booklet to have access to The Watchtower. Therefore the offer will include the Watchtower magazine. In fact, it will be a special offer: Enemies, Riches, or any other bound book written by Judge Rutherford, and the booklet Face the Facts, will be left with the people free when they subscribe for The Watchtower for a year. Only $1.00 in the U.S.A., or $1.50 in foreign countries.
Companies, pioneers and auxiliaries, by now, have thousands of names in their files. All of these persons will be called on with The Watchtower, one of the bound books and Face the Facts. It is hoped that during these four months 100,000 new subscriptions for The Watch-jeets thereof, the peak of publishers reached in June will be far surpassed, and so a new quota is set for the fiscal year 1939, namely, THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND PUBLISHERS. This will call for wide-awake action on the part of every true lover of righteousness In the Lord’s army of witnesses. Each publisher will determine to be consistent in service (turning in service reports regularly and promptly) and also to place the matter of now being servants of Almighty God in its proper light before the interested ones at back calls and at study and service meetings. This is a responsibility on all Kingdom publishers, and especially company, zone and regional servants.
Companies should keep a close check on the matter of increase in publishers. Each company should have an up-to-date list of all company publishers on file. All associated with the company organization and not now publishers should be encouraged to have a share in this ‘strange work’ of the Lord now progressing.
In the strength and by the favor of Jehovah of Hosts, we will reach and exceed the new quota of thibty-FIVE THOUSAND PUBLISHERS !
New Organization Big Help
Effective October 1 the companies of the Lord’s people were reorganized under Jehovah’s Theocratic Government in full harmony with the Scriptural requirements. The regional and zone servants are now going from company to company and in every way possible assisting the reorganization so that a more efficient and greater witness may be accomplished. Some companies are wondering why on October 1 the zone servant did not call on them. He will within the next few months. In due course every company will be notified of the date of the zone servant’s arrival, and at which time he will go into all details relative to the organization instructions. Meantower will be obtained, one million bound books distributed, and twelve million Face the Facts, this being the world-wide quota. Wherever people do not subscribe for The Watchtower, there we will leave with them the bound book and Face the Facts on contribution of a quarter. In every home where the people are interested and will read, they should be left a copy of Face the Facts on contribution of 5c or less, or even free if they are unable to contribute. Such contributions will make it possible to print more. This message must go far and wide. Where persons are really desirous of reading but their circumstances will not permit them to make even the small contribution of a penny, leave Face the Facts with them and arrange for a back call with the records.
Sound Equipment
During this world-wide campaign with The Watchtower, Face the Facts and a bound book, records will play a very important part, because many back calls will have to be made. It is therefore essential that every company have on hand a good supply of records, particularly the ones announced in this Informant, which records are “Face the Facts”, “Fill the Earth,” and “Fascism or Freedom”. Everyone in the theocratic organization will appreciate the real need of preparing for this, the greatest of all campaigns, and by the Lord’s grace it will equal the last previous campaign of this kind and surpass it. It will mean real work, hard work, and a progressive fight, and therefore we announce at this early date a few of the points relative to the campaign. Your next Informant will carry all the details. In the meantime we will add to all company orders a consignment of Face the Facts. Pioneers and auxiliaries must order their supply.
Are You Properly Prepared with Sound Equipment?
In order to properly carry on the Kingdom field service each publisher should have a phonograph. We are now prepared to fill all orders for these as they are sent in. Find out what the company requirements are, how many more can be used, and send in your orders.
We can also ship No. 4 sound equipment as soon as ordered. The cost is $140 to all publishers; and provision is made, for those not able to pay this all at once, for sending in a $50 down payment, and a year is allowed In which to pay it out. Get yours now.
If you wish your wet-battery PTM converted into a No. 3 sound-car equipment, this can be done for $80, with $10 additional if you desire microphone. This also may be obtained on time, with $40 down payment and the balance in a year. The Society will recondition your present PTM machine and make it like new, as well as make your turntable two-speed. The sound equipment is doing a wonderful work. Get some, and then see that it Is put to plenty of use.
time every company should carry on with its present servants according to the new organization and function until new appointments are made. Regional servants, zone servants and company servants will all look well to the Kingdom Interests and assist all publishers to have a share in these Interests.
Remember: 35,000 publishers our quota for 1939.
New Records for Winter Work
Back Calls to Be Made by Every Publisher
The Importance of back calls cannot be overstressed. It is at back calls that the newly Interested are brought together and fed with the provisions the Lord has made for them, the Kingdom message in printed and recorded form.
Never before was the Lord’s table so bountifully supplied with provisions as right now. We have all the rich food recorded and printed in the past. In addition, we have the new recordings containing “Face the Facts”, “Fill the Earth,” and “Fascism or Freedom”, all containing a vital message of judgment, warning and life for the people.
A letter was sent with this Informant describing the Society’s arrangement for supplying these and other records at a much reduced rate up until December 31 of this year. Each one should get busy Immediately. Check up on your needs and put through your order, that you may be thoroughly equipped to carry out this commission from the Lord. This letter was headed “Turn On the Heat”. This is no time for tranquil complacency ; this is a time for war. Let everyone be on the alert always to take advantage of every opportunity for arranging for a back call. In addition, use the recordings in your own Kingdom hall, schoolhouses, abandoned churches, club rooms, private homes, auditoriums, on your PTM, and on sound cars. Loan them to interested people. In short, take advantage of every opportunity to use them to the glory of the Lord.
Let us make the coming fall and winter the greatest period of back-calling we have ever had to date.
(Continued from page 1, column 4) past. There were over 7,000 people privileged to hear the speech in these halls.
As you know, the lecture was also broadcast by more than 60 radio stations. Many of you, undoubtedly, heard it. We hope that everyone who listened in complied with Brother Rutherford’s request and wrote a letter to the radio station, commending those who properly broadcast the lecture and telling those who cut it off what you thought of their unjust, un-American and cowardly procedure.
There were approximately 1,400 requests from interested parties at the meeting for copies of the speech, and thousands more have come in by mall.
That thrilling speech that held the audience in Mecca Temple spellbound will, undoubtedly, have the same effect upon the people for whom you play it in their homes and in your auditoriums. Order your supply of this lecture, and make good use of it.
Reports
A year’s supply of report cards is being sent to all pioneers, auxiliaries and companies, accompanied with detailed instructions as to how they are to be made out. Special care is to be taken to see that prompt and complete reports are submitted at the end of each month. It will greatly aid this office if you will comply with these simple Instructions.
Companies should keep an accurate record of all publishers in their territory, as well as a list of all the interested ones. Everyone should be encouraged to engage in the witness work at least once every month, with regular publishers maintaining an average of at least 15 hours a month.