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Subject Index for “The Watchtower” 1979

Indicating date of issue in which article appears

BIBLE

Bible Translations, 8/15

Ezra Highlights Justice and Mercy, 2/1

Psalms

(Discussions of various Psalms appear in most issues.)

Why Read the Bible? 3/1

CHRISTIAN LIFE AND QUALITIES

Are You a Well-armed Peacemaker? 9/1

Are You Supportive? 2/15

Be Wise​—Count the Cost, 4/15

Can Faith Benefit You? 2/1

“Faithfulness”​—Can It Help You? 6/15

God’s Work Done “Just So,” 2/15

Hope​—the Power for Endurance, 5/1

How Genuine Is Your Love? 9/1

Is Faith Old-fashioned? 2/1

“It Is Not My Fault!” 6/15

Jehovah Blesses Those Who Exert Selves, 8/1

“Let Us Not Sleep On as the Rest Do,” 3/15

Living in Harmony with God’s Guarantee, 10/1

Neutrality in a Mixed-up World, 11/1

Smooth Words That Cause Harm, 9/15

To Whom Does It Apply? 8/15

“Trembling at Men . . . Lays a Snare,” 9/15

“You Must Assist Those Who Are Weak,” 4/15

Your View of Money Affects Your Life, 9/15

When Others Care, 5/1

When Things Are Not Right, 3/1

Why Keep Free from Murmuring? 1/15

INSIGHT ON THE NEWS

(This section appears in most issues.)

JEHOVAH GOD

Evidence of a Creator, 3/15

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

Bringing the Good News to Samoa, 2/15

Building and Planting in France, 1/1

Building to Jehovah’s Glory, 5/1

Championing Bible Truth! 7/1

China and Christianity, 7/15

Convention Delegates with “Living Hope,” 11/15

Firm in Faith During Difficult Times, 6/15

Ghana Responds to Kingdom Proclamation, 12/1

Gilead Graduates Told: ‘Become Joyful,’ 11/15

His Prayer Was Answered, 3/1

Hope, a Valuable Possession, 11/15

It Is Filling a Need! 7/15

Jehovah’s Praise in the Cook Islands, 4/15

Keeping Watch for 100 Years, 7/1

Life-giving Education in Costa Rica, 3/15

Light of Truth Shines in Belgium, 10/1

“Living Hope” District Conventions, 2/1, 5/15

Message to Our Readers, 7/1

Missionaries Taught: Know Jehovah! 5/15

Nation That Trusts in God, 5/15

Reaching Finland with the “Good News,” 11/15

Struggle for Survival in Taiwan, 9/1

“The Watchtower”​—Making It Available, 7/1

They Answered the Call to Guam, 8/1

They Preached from House to House, 7/15

“Watchtower”​—Announcer of Jehovah’s Kingdom for 100 Years, 11/1

‘We Really Appreciate It,’ 7/1

What Others Have Said About House-to-House Witnessing, 7/15

When the Worst Happens, 10/15

Witnessing in a Nigerian Village, 6/1

JESUS CHRIST

When Was Jesus Born? 12/15

LIFE STORIES

Bible Truth Transformed Their Lives, 12/15

Fifty Years in “the Vineyard,” 2/1

Free!​—After 20 Years in Detention, 7/15

Joyful, Despite My Handicap, 8/15

My Life as a Soldier, 6/15

Rearing My Sons Without a Husband, 4/1

Serving a Worthy Cause, 9/15

“To Be, or Not to Be”​—an Atomic Physicist? 4/15

We Did Not Give Up! 11/1

MAIN STUDY ARTICLES

Benefiting from “One Mediator Between God and Men,” 11/15

Can You Have an Intimate Relationship with God? 4/15

Christian Neutrality as God’s War Approaches, 11/1

“Come After Me, and I Will Make You Fishers of Men,” 12/15

Completely Victorious Through Faith, 1/1

Continue to “Stand Firm in the Faith,” 1/1

“Cup” That All Nations Must Drink at God’s Hand, 9/15

“Dead in Christ Shall Rise First,” 6/15

Discreet Woman Displays Her Unselfishness, 3/15

Divine Judgment Against the False Prophets of Christendom, 11/1

Does Relationship with God Help Us Now? 4/15

Faith in God’s Son​—How Should It Affect You? 2/1

Faith in Jehovah’s Victorious Organization, 3/1

“Figs” That Give Pleasure Even to God, 9/15

Giving Our Best to Jehovah, 5/1

God’s Promise of His World Government Dependable, 12/1

Go On Walking as Children of Light, 6/1

How Jehovah Guides His People, 7/1

How the Day of Reckoning Is Worked Out for Our Good, 1/15

Jacob’s Distress and God’s New Covenant, 11/15

Jehovah Does Not Desert His People, 3/15

Jehovah, Our Hope for Entering a New Order, 8/15

Jesus Christ​—Victorious King with Whom Nations Must Reckon, 1/15

“Keys” of the Greatest Government Put to Use, 10/1

“Keys of the Kingdom” and the “Great Crowd,” 10/1

“King of the Nations”​—Our Only Help, 8/15

Liberation and Survival of Christendom’s Fall, 12/1

Living Now in That “Last Day” of Resurrection, 6/15

Maintaining a Precious Relationship, 5/15

Maintaining Cleanness When Bringing Gifts, 5/1

Persistence in Prayer Has Its Reward, 5/15

Prayer in These “Last Days,” 5/15

Preaching in a Lawless World, 7/15

Resurrected​—“Each in His Own Proper Place,” 6/15

Royal “Shepherd” of Bible Prophecy, 9/1

Saying “Peace” When There Is None, 8/1

Speaking Jehovah’s Word with Boldness, 12/15

Sustained by the Millennial Hope, 10/15

Take Courage!​—The Millennium Is at Hand, 10/15

To Whom Shall We Go but Jesus Christ? 3/1

Traveling Overseers Bring Benefits Today, 2/15

Visits from Older Men Benefit God’s People, 2/15

“Way of Life” or “The Way of Death”​—Which? 9/1

Who Really Have the Truth? 7/1

Who Will Make the Day of Reckoning Work Good for Us? 1/15

Why Will Christendom Not Survive? 8/1

World Conquerors by Faith, 2/1

You No Longer Walk Just as the Nations Walk, 6/1

Youth’s Place in the Christian Society, 4/1

Youths, Resist Worldly Pressures! 4/1

Zeal for Jehovah’s House, 7/15

MISCELLANEOUS

Achan, a Man Who Troubled His Nation, 2/15

Ancient Israel’s Revolts, 10/15

Baptism​—A Christian Requirement, 5/1

City That Jehovah Guarded, 3/1

Day of Reckoning Is Guaranteed, 10/1

Ebed-melech​—Man of Courage, 1/15

Eli, a Priest Who Failed as a Father, 9/1

God’s Kingdom​—the Only Hope, 7/1

Hannah Found Comfort in Prayer, 5/1

How Powerful Is the “Good News”? 12/15

Idolatrous, Power-mad Athaliah, 12/1

Is a Millennium of Peace Just a Dream? 10/15

Is Your Trust in God . . . or in a Man? 5/15

Job​—A Pattern of Godly Conduct, 6/1

Jonathan​—‘One Man in a Thousand,’ 11/15

“Lift Your Heads Up,” 8/1

Mephibosheth​—an Appreciative Man, 10/1

Millennium​—What Is It? 10/15

Nathanael​—A Man Without Deceit, 8/1

Need for Justice, 10/1

Our Children​—A Heritage from Jehovah, 4/1

Peace, 12/1

​—Is It a Fleeting Hope?

​—Peace on Which World Unity Hinges

​—Way Peace Can Come to Earth

Recreation That Genuinely Refreshes, 6/1

Shocking Lack of Appreciation, 3/1

Should You Follow the Custom? 3/15

Spiritistic Communication, 2/15

We Need God’s Kingdom! 1/1

What Blessings During the Millennium? 10/15

What Is Happening to Entertainment? 6/1

What Is Happening to This World? 8/1

What Makes a Government Real? 1/15

What Teen-Agers Need from Parents, 4/1

What Will God’s Kingdom Mean? 1/1

Youths​—Are You on Road to Success? 4/1

Youths Who Remember Their Creator, 4/1

QUESTIONS FROM READERS

Apocrypha quoted at 1 Corinthians 2:9? 1/15

Attend family meal on December 25? 11/1

Baptism for one in very poor health? 5/1

Birth control (intrauterine device), 5/15

Christmas bonus, 11/1

Corinthians’ claim to ‘belong to Cephas,’ 5/1

“Crown of life” of James 1:12, 7/1

Death for calling down evil, 4/15

Edomites defeated by whom? 6/15

Forgive man running off with another’s mate? 11/15

Hiram’s parentage, 4/15

Jehovah residing in “thick gloom,” 7/15

Jesus “mediator” only for anointed? 4/1

Jesus’ return in flesh? 12/15

Jesus “tested,” 8/15

Kings who build “desolate places,” 4/15

Knowledge of good and bad, 3/1

Lecithin from blood? 3/15

“Loyal ones” at Psalm 89:19, 4/1

Michael’s ‘standing up,’ 2/15

Paul “died toward law,” 7/15

Prayer for disfellowshiped persons? 10/15

Samson go to a prostitute? 2/15

Tax on ‘side jobs’ or tips? 1/15

Who are “the rest” of Revelation 19:21? 8/1

Why two bands for tree stump of Daniel 4:23? 10/1

‘Wise Men’ visit Jesus, 12/15

YMCA membership for Witnesses? 1/1