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Index
Page numbers set in italics refer to locations where pictures accompany the text. Subject headings in italics usually are the names of publications
A
Aaron: 15, 16
Abbott, Eva: 158
Abel: 13
Abortion
view of Witnesses: 183
Abrahamson, Richard E.: 91
Abt, Harald and Elsa: 453
Ackley, Maria Frances (See Russell, Maria)
Adamson, J. B.: 627
“Address to Co-laborers”
convention discourse, 1919: 258
ADV
convention banner, 1922: 260
Advanced Course in Theocratic Ministry: 94, 568, 721
Christ’s return: 132
influence on Russell: 43-4, 122
‘Advertise the King and the Kingdom’
convention, 1922: 72, 77-8, 138, 213, 259, 260, 678, 720
Advertising
newspapers: 560, 561
Advice for Kingdom Publishers
legal procedures: 691, 692
Africa
animism: 483
bans: 675-6
countries, number preached in, 1975: 488
countries, number preached in, 1992: 518
countries, number reached by 1945: 518
film showings: 481
how truth spread: 433-6, 475-88, 509-10
literacy classes: 480
local customs: 531
Memorial attendance, 1992: 518
persecution: 10
polygamy: 176-7
publishers, number: 435, 488, 501, 518
Agbetor, Akakpo: 477
Aid to Bible Understanding: 233
Aimé Boucher v. His Majesty The King
court case: 689
Akintoundé, Nouru: 484
Akpabio, Asuquo: 176
Alaska
branch office: 357
early witnessing: 440
reaching remote areas: 357, 499
Albania
bans: 675
Albu, Pamfil: 453
Alcoholic beverages
view of Witnesses: 181-2
Allegheny, Pennsylvania
headquarters of Bible Students: 54, 208, 719
place of Russell’s birth: 42
place of Russell’s burial: 64
“All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial”: 103, 122
Amazon: 465
American Bar Association
flag salute: 685
American Legion
flag salute: 671
American Standard Version: 607
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
radio network, 1931: 267
Amis: 536
Analytical Concordance: 605
Ancient worthies (See Princes)
Andersen, Anna: 559
Anderson, Andrew: 419
Anderson, C. H.: 68
Angels
role in preaching work: 549-51
Angola
counterfeit Watchtower movements: 481-2
early witnessing: 430, 437, 528
publishers, number: 481-2, 488, 510
relief received: 312
Anointed (See 144,000)
Anointing
Antigua (See Leeward Islands)
Apostasy: 33-41
early developments: 33-6
Greek word: 33
modern-day: 111
Appointments
deacons, early views: 206-9
elders, adjustments: 106, 233-4
elders, early views: 206-9, 638-9
elders, theocratic procedure: 218-19, 721
ministerial servants: 233-4
service committee: 212, 214, 638
service director: 212, 214, 637-8
theocratic, benefits of: 220-1
traveling speakers: 222-3
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Ararat
business association in Finland: 640
Argentina
assemblies and conventions: 281, 467, 468, 502-3
attending meetings (experience): 253
branch office: 366
web offset printing: 595
early witnessing: 366, 412, 428, 436-8, 521
flag salute: 672
reaching remote areas: 444-5, 466
Argyrós, Nicolás: 437, 438, 444
Armageddon
destruction: 170
early view: 139-40
later view: 140-1
Armenians: 428
Arnold, Adolphe, Emma, and Simone: 451
Arnott, Harry: 537
Arrests
Britain: 722
China: 490
Germany: 194, 451-2, 553, 678-9, 694, 720
Netherlands: 267
paying fines: 683
Romania: 679-80
Spain: 494
United States: 194, 679-80, 683-4, 692, 720, 722
Aruba: 463
Asia and islands of the world
preaching activity, 1992: 519
Assemblies (See also Conventions)
despite obstacles: 467-8
efforts to attend: 281
special assembly days: 281
Assembly Halls: 330
construction: 328-32
court cases: 331-2
donations: 347
Associated Bible Students: 151
Atonement (See Ransom)
“Atonement, The”: 47
At-one-ment Between God and Man, The: 53
Auschwitz concentration camp: 179, 452, 663
Australia
Assembly Hall: 329
ban: 10, 456-7, 586, 640-1, 658, 676
lifted, 1943: 721
printing operations: 586
branch office: 400
area served in the past: 400
languages printed: 400
Regional Engineering Office: 332, 400
convention, 1941: 456, 457
early witnessing: 418-19
field ministry, World War II: 457
missionaries sent out: 541
Pacific islands, help in witnessing: 470-1
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 60
radio station 2HD: 81
reaching remote areas: 445
Rutherford visits, 1938: 246
sound cars: 567
Austria
bans: 675
providing literature: 450, 454, 586
branch office: 373
congregations, number, 1992: 373
legal recognition: 696
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die,” discourse: 426
persecution, World War II: 448
relief received and sent out: 308-9
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
Awake!
audiocassettes: 598
begins publication: 722
languages, number: 592, 683, 723, 725
purpose: 724-5
replaces Consolation: 97
B
Babylon (ancient): 189
Babylon the Great
identity, early view: 52, 84, 189, 647
identity, later view: 84, 147-8
letter of withdrawal: 189
“Babylon the Great Has Fallen!” God’s Kingdom Rules!: 148
Back-calls: 85
Bahamas
ban: 676
branch office: 357
Watch Tower literature reaches Bahamas: 357
Bangladesh: 537
Bans: 503, 505, 509-10, 657-9, 675-6, 680
assemblies: 468
countries, number: 117, 519, 676
lifting of restrictions in Africa and Eastern Europe, 1990-92: 723
list by country:
Africa, French territories: 675
Albania: 675
Austria: 675
Bahamas: 676
Basutoland (Lesotho): 676
Bechuanaland (Botswana): 676
Belgium: 675
Brazil: 502
Britain: 721
British Guiana (Guyana): 676
Bulgaria: 675
Burma (Myanmar): 676
Canada: 10, 69-70, 498, 675, 696-8
Central African Republic: 477
Ceylon (Sri Lanka): 676
Cyprus: 676
Czechoslovakia: 675
Dahomey: 484
Dominica: 676
Estonia: 675
Fiji: 675-6
Germany: 442, 639, 675, 693-4, 720
Gold Coast (Ghana): 675-6
India: 675-6
Italy: 675
Jamaica: 676
Japan: 675
Korea: 675
Latvia: 675
Leeward Islands (British West Indies): 676
Lithuania: 675
Netherlands: 675
Netherlands East Indies: 675
New Caledonia: 471
New Zealand: 676
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia): 676
Norway: 675
Nyasaland: 675-6
Portugal: 494
Singapore: 676
South Africa: 676
Swaziland: 676
Switzerland: 675
Tahiti: 471
Trinidad: 675
United States: 675
Yugoslavia: 675
meetings: 494
World War I: 675
World War II: 455, 457-8, 675-6, 720-1
Baptism
immersion: 145
Jonadabs: 83
screening baptismal candidates: 186, 479
Baptist Church
origin of name: 150
Barbados
branch office: 358
early witnessing: 358, 413, 461
Barber, Carey W.: 116, 226, 227
Barber, Norman: 546
Barber, R. H.: 199
Barbour, Nelson H.: 48
association with Russell: 120, 133-5, 575, 718
death: 48
rejects ransom: 47, 131, 619-20
Russell severs ties: 47-8, 131, 619-20
Three Worlds: 718
Barnette, Gathie and Marie: 686
Barry, Bill: 419
Barry, Mrs. Thomas: 419
Barry, W. Lloyd: 116, 419, 491
Basutoland (See Lesotho)
Battle of Armageddon, The: 53, 140
Beams, Captain: 440
Bechuanaland (See Botswana)
Beecher, Henry Ward: 59
Behannan, Harry: 485
Belarus: 506
Belgian Congo (See Zaire)
Belgium
ban: 675
branch office: 373
clergy opposition: 448
Knorr’s service tour: 96
languages in which literature is distributed: 373
relief provided: 308
Belize
branch office: 358
early witnessing: 461
Kingdom Hall construction: 325
reaching remote areas: 358
Bell, Major-General James Franklin: 649
Benedek, Andrásné: 430
Bengel, J. A.
Christ’s return: 40
Benin
ban: 484
letter campaign: 695
branch office: 385
convention, 1990: 385
legal recognition: 510, 696, 701
literacy classes: 480
missionaries: 541
polygamy (experience): 176
publishers, number, 1948: 484
religious beliefs: 483-4
Bennecoff, Ethel: 78
“Be of Good Courage”
Watch Tower article, 1921: 563
“Berean Bible Study Helps”: 238
Berean Circles for Bible Study: 237
“Berean Questions”: 252
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp: 452
Berner, Alice: 298
Bethel (world headquarters)
Advanced Course in Theocratic Ministry: 94, 568, 721
Bethel family, growth worldwide: 113-14
buildings, early: 216-17
closed and relocated, 1918: 71, 577, 719
expansion: 98-9, 270-1, 336, 584, 588-9
financing the work: 345
Bible printing: 606-7, 611, 613-15
leased factory space: 578, 580
magazines, production capacity: 592
web offset printing: 595
instruction programs: 112-13
literature, number of languages printed in Brooklyn: 355
name: 59
rebellion at, after Russell’s death: 66-8
reopened in Brooklyn, 1919: 76, 577-8
Watchtower Study: 234
Bethel service: 295, 296-7, 298
number:
1896: 295
1976: 114
vow of poverty: 351
sold: 76
“Beyond the Grave”
convention discourse, Russell: 257
Bhutan
early witnessing: 513
Bible
American Standard Version, Watchtower edition: 607
Byington translation: 607
commercial printers: 605
Emphatic Diaglott: 606
first, published under name of Watch Tower Society: 605
King James Version, Watchtower edition: 93, 606-7
languages, number, 1950: 608
New World Translation: 607, 608, 609-15, 722
printing and distribution, Society’s role: 603-15
various translations used by Witnesses: 604-8, 609-11
Bible, The—Accurate History, Reliable Prophecy
videocassette: 601
Bible, The—God’s Word or Man’s?: 112, 122
“Bible Brown” (See Brown, W. R.)
article by Russell: 134-5, 718
Storrs, editor: 45-6, 127, 135
Bible House (Allegheny, Pennsylvania): 208-9
outgrown: 59
typesetting and composition: 576
adjustments in understanding of God’s purposes: 630, 637
character development: 292, 294
congregations, early: 239
conventions: 254-61
attendance: 255-9
local assemblies: 255-6
love feasts: 257
prayers: 257
program for colporteurs: 255
resolutions, 1922-28: 260, 261
singing: 256-7
travel arrangements: 255-6
meetings: 236-41
Berean Circles for Bible Study: 237
Dawn Circles for Bible Study: 237
literature used: 237-8, 240-1, 252
no collections: 237
Prayer, Praise and Testimony Meetings: 238, 247
prayers: 238
public speakers: 248-9
Sunday meetings: 238
Workers’ Meetings: 247
youths: 244-5
Memorial: 242-3
persecution: 423-4, 552, 644, 647-56, 658, 678-9
preaching work: 404-43, 556-64
all encouraged to share: 51, 562-4
hired assistants to distribute literature: 405
tract distribution: 557
tests resulting from—
adjustments in understanding: 629-30
attitude toward ransom: 619-21
business ventures: 639-41
change of administration: 623-6
expectations based on dates: 631-7
field ministry and organization: 637-9
pride: 626-9
view on “faithful and wise servant”: 626
voluntary donations: 340-3
Bible Students Monthly, The
“Fall of Babylon, The”: 189, 647, 648
1914, end of Gentile Times: 135, 635
Bible Students’ Tracts: 51
Bible studies
completing two books: 115
correspondence course, 1921: 560
development of Bible study activity: 572-4
Mexico: 363
model studies: 85
1945-92 (chart): 717
1950-92 (chart): 574
number:
1950: 574
1969: 723
1975: 501
1984: 723
1987: 723
Asia and islands of the world, 1992: 519
North America, 1992: 517
South America, 1992: 518
publications used: 105, 571, 574, 721
Bible Vs. Tradition: 48
“Birth of the Nation”
Watch Tower article, 1925: 78-9, 138-9
Bishops: 35-6
“Blessed Are the Fearless”
Watch Tower article, 1919: 212, 563
“Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love”
sung at love feasts: 257
Blindheim, Rasmus: 408
Blood
God’s law: 145
Blood, Medicine and the Law of God: 184
Blood transfusions
view of Witnesses: 183-6
Board of directors (Watch Tower Society)
at Russell’s death: 65
four members oppose Rutherford: 66-8, 627, 719
members, mid-1950’s: 100
members voted in, 1918: 68
Bogard, Kathryn: 298
Böhmermann, Gerrit: 307
Bolivia
branch office: 367
clergy opposition: 667-8
early witnessing: 367, 436, 438
reaching isolated publishers: 540
Bookbinding: 579-80, 583, 586, 588-9, 593
Botswana
ban: 676
early witnessing: 435
reaching remote areas: 485
Boucher, Aimé: 689, 690
Branch offices (Watch Tower Society): 271, 357-401
Branch Committees: 109, 235, 544, 723
expansion of facilities: 114, 332-5, 338
financing: 346-7
missionaries assist in oversight: 541, 544
number:
1942: 97
1946: 97
1955: 101
1976: 97
printing branches, 1992: 347
Branch overseers
Brathwaite, Joseph: 413
Brazil
baptisms, number: 368
printing: 584
clergy opposition: 457-8
conventions: 281, 369, 460, 502, 503
early witnessing: 413, 436, 457-8, 548
hours, increase: 334
local customs: 531
meeting attendance: 253
New World Translation: 612
Pioneer Service School: 300
publishers:
1945: 463
1945/46: 460
1950-92 (chart): 369
1963-92, increase: 612
1992: 368
serving where the need is greater: 470
Brenisen, Edith: 238
Brenisen, Edward (Brenneisen): 64, 222-3
Brickell, Ben: 288, 289
Britain
branch office: 374
literature, languages printed: 374
printing: 584
clergy opposition: 643
congregations:
1900: 406
1992: 374
conventions: 260, 267, 275, 495
early witnessing: 405, 411, 412
embargo on Society’s literature: 675
Food for Thinking Christians, distribution, 1881: 561, 718
IBSA House: 374
Kingdom Hall construction: 324
military exemption, World War I: 192
military exemption, World War II: 194
missionaries sent out: 541
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 422
publishers:
1900: 406
1938-45, increase: 455
1992: 374
Russell’s visits: 406-7
service assemblies: 266
use of commercial printers: 581
Watch Tower House: 374
British Commonwealth
bans, World War II: 457, 675, 721
British East Africa (See Kenya)
British Guiana (See Guyana)
British Honduras (See Belize)
British West Indies: 423
Brooklyn, New York
headquarters moved to: 59, 719
headquarters reopened, 1919: 76, 577-8
Brooklyn Tabernacle: 59, 71, 75, 251
Brown, John A.: 134
Brown, W. R.: 414, 433, 434, 485-6, 488, 521, 549
Bruch, Victor: 452
Bryan, E.: 627
Buchenwald concentration camp: 452, 661, 664
Buchner, Charles J.: 651
Bulgaria
ban: 675
relief provided: 308
Bulletin: 246, 247, 348, 563, 720
Burgess, A. E.: 64
Burma (See Myanmar)
Burt, Don: 460
Burundi
letter campaign: 695
missionaries: 542
Byington, Steven: 607
C
Caamano, Maria: 514
Cain, Gerald: 500
Callaway, Neal: 540
Calvin, John: 39
Cambodia: 535
Campanus, Johannes: 44
Campbell, Merton: 88
Canada
bans: 10, 498, 586, 648, 657, 675-6, 680, 688-90, 696-8
“Fall of Babylon, The”: 648
Finished Mystery, The: 69-70, 648
printing operations: 586
blood transfusions: 184-6
expansion: 333-4
legal department: 689
printing: 583
clergy opposition: 644, 647, 657, 666, 667, 680-2, 688-90
congregation, 1912: 239
conventions: 255, 256, 260, 265-6, 282
advance cause of religious freedom: 690, 699
literature distribution: 690, 697
total pending in 1947: 722
“Ecclesiastics Indicted,” distribution: 427
field ministry:
reaching remote areas: 360-1, 439
World War II: 456-7
flag salute: 688
Kingdom Hall construction: 324
Kingdom Schools: 671
legal recognition: 696-7
missionaries sent out: 541
persecution:
World War II: 456-7
petitions for Bill of Rights: 689, 699
public meetings: 249
publishers:
increase, 1938-45: 457
number, 1992: 360
radio station CHCY: 81
relief efforts: 308
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
tests resulting from—
field ministry: 638
Russell’s death: 624
Cantwell, Henry A.: 97
Cantwell, Jesse L.: 100, 527, 530
Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
court case: 684
Cape Verde, Republic of: 437, 510
Capito, Wolfgang Fabricius: 44
Caribbean
missionary work: 462-3
publishers, 1945: 461
Carpenter, Sadie: 84
Carter, Stanley: 462, 463
Carvajalino, Antonio: 525
Catholic Church: 38
concordats with—
Fascist Italy: 442
Nazi Germany: 659
involvement in politics: 195, 680-1, 696
opposition to Jehovah’s Witnesses: 379, 384, 492-4, 512, 682
Cedar Point, Ohio (See Conventions, 1919, 1922)
Cellarius, Martin: 44
Celsus: 548
Central African Republic
ban: 477
branch office: 385
Central America
congregations, 1975: 470
missionary work: 463-5
Ceylon (See Sri Lanka)
Chairman’s Committee
“Challenge to World Leaders, A”
resolution, 1922: 261, 426, 427
Character development: 172-3, 292
“Character or Covenant—Which?”
Watch Tower article, 1926: 172-3, 292
“Character or Integrity—Which?”
Watchtower article, 1941: 172
Charles, Cyril: 536
“Chart of the Ages”: 161, 162
“Children of the King”
discourse, 1941: 86
Chile
branch office: 367
financing construction: 346
congregations, 1945: 463
missionaries: 461
reaching remote areas: 367
China
convention, 1936: 454
early witnessing: 418, 421, 423-4, 441, 455-7, 489
persecution: 490
publishers, 1956: 490
relief, after World War II: 308
Russell’s visit, 1912: 420, 489
Watch Tower first reaches China: 718
Choi, Young-won: 491
beginning: 38
Christianity Goes to Press: 575
Christians (early)
adjustments in understanding God’s purposes: 629
attitude toward—
birthdays: 199
world: 200
common people: 547-8
congregations:
ministerial servants: 233
exemplary lives: 677
financial support of congregations: 341-2
first called Christians: 149-50
house-to-house preaching: 571
identifying features: 29-32
loving brotherhood: 304, 710-11
meetings: 236
modern-day Witnesses patterned after: 234
persecution: 32, 642, 644, 646-7, 677
traveling overseers: 222
unity: 28-9
witnesses of Jehovah and of Jesus: 26, 32
world’s attitude toward: 200
“Christians in the Crucible”
convention discourse, 1946: 268
“Christians’ Mission on Earth”
Watch Tower article, 1927: 563
Christmas
celebration discontinued: 79, 200
early view: 199
Chronology
expectations:
1878: 632-3
1881: 632
1914: 60-3, 134, 135, 136-9, 635-7
1915: 632
1914, Russell’s announcement at Bethel: 61, 719
1914, Russell’s article in Bible Examiner: 134-5, 718
Russell’s view: 46-7, 49, 60, 136
Church
Bible Students’ use of term: 206
Circuit overseers (servants) (See also Traveling overseers): 223
Civil Liberties Union
Clara Schneider v. State of New Jersey
court case: 684
Clarke, H. P.: 413
Class
Bible Students’ use of term: 206
Class workers: 560
Clergy
instigate government opposition: 69-70, 384, 423, 434, 450, 455, 458, 472, 477-8, 484, 494, 498, 552, 666-9, 676, 678-82, 688-9, 695
opposed Russell: 642-6
opposed The Finished Mystery: 69-70
opposition by: 189, 379, 380, 384-5, 447-8, 458, 474-5, 502, 512, 566, 573, 644, 647-50, 654-60, 666-9, 678-9
persecuted early Christians: 642, 644, 646-7
political involvement: 680-1, 696
some seek truth: 474
supported war effort: 191, 647-8, 651-2
Clergy-laity distinctions
view of early Christians: 29
view of modern-day Witnesses: 144
Clune’s Auditorium
discourse by Rutherford, 1919: 76, 720
Cobb, Mildred: 84
Colombia
branch office: 370-1
convention: 468
early witnessing: 371, 424, 438, 521
missionaries: 461, 464, 530, 535
relief efforts: 314
Witnesses come to serve where need is greater: 469-70
direction from Society: 211
number:
1909: 559
1914: 284
1917: 66
service instituted: 210, 284, 405-6, 558
Comfort for the Jews: 141
Comoros: 513
Company
Witnesses’ use of term: 206
Computers
use in printing: 596-8
Concentration camps
commendation of Witness inmates: 179, 663-4
declaration renouncing one’s faith: 660-1, 663
love among Witnesses: 663-5
number of Witnesses confined, World War II: 720
preaching work: 663-4
prisoners become Witnesses: 677
receiving Bible literature: 664
treatment of Witnesses: 659, 660-1
Concordats
Catholic Church with—
Fascist Italy, 1929: 442
Nazi Germany, 1933: 659
Congregation Book Study: 237-8
Congregations
early Bible Students: 239
increase in number, 1972-92: 234
meetings: 236-53
singing: 240-1
number:
1916: 239
1940-92 (chart): 717
1976-92 (chart): 114
1992: 234
number formed, 1976-92: 115
service organization: 212
Conley, W. H.: 576
Consolation (See also Awake!): 683, 724, 725
Construction
Assembly Halls: 328-32
international volunteers: 336-9
Kingdom Halls: 115, 320-1, 322-8
Conventions: 254-82
accommodations: 267, 269, 272, 275, 277, 279
baptisms: 273, 274, 277, 280, 479
conduct at, serves as witness: 281-2
delegates from foreign lands: 270-1, 275-82, 504, 506-7, 509
efforts to attend: 267, 269, 276
expressions of appreciation: 255-6
field ministry: 258-60, 262, 265, 266-7, 276-7, 569
financial assistance to attend: 282
foreign-language sessions: 259, 270, 273, 277, 279-80, 282
international gatherings: 270-5
key cities tied together: 278
list by year:
1880’s: 55
1892: 254-5
1893: 255
1898: 255
1903: 256
1905: 257
1909: 256-7
1911: 256
1913: 256-7
1917: 256
1919: 72-4, 76-7, 257, 258, 259, 425, 637, 720
1922: 72, 77-8, 138, 246, 259, 260, 265, 678, 720
1922-28: 260
1925: 265
1927: 266
1928: 266
1931: 79, 82, 155-6, 261, 262-3, 266-7, 720
1935: 83-4, 166, 167, 261, 266, 267, 721
1936: 447
1937: 84-5
1939: 265
1943: 94
1950: 99, 262-3, 271, 274, 526
1952: 269
1957: 468
1958: 101, 102, 264, 270-1, 274, 282, 722
1962: 264
1963: 103, 264, 276, 277, 282, 397-8, 536, 542
1964: 264
1965: 496
1966-67: 276
1969: 264, 278, 398, 493, 495-6
1972: 264
1974: 269
1977: 264
1978: 282, 383, 387, 397-8, 510
1985: 282, 381, 387, 397, 502, 503, 504
1990: 280-1, 369, 385, 389, 502, 506-7
media coverage: 495, 502, 504-5, 510
one-day, served by Russell: 130
pilgrims: 255-6
radio and telephone hookups: 260, 266, 267, 278
service assemblies: 266
special sessions for colporteurs: 285
trailer and tent cities: 273, 275
travel arrangements: 255-6, 267, 272, 275-6, 457
Cooke, Eric: 430
Corby, Jim: 658
Cormican, Hugh and Carol: 534
Corporations
used by Witnesses: 229
Corr, Jack: 658
Costa Rica
branch office: 358
financing construction: 346
early witnessing: 413
flag salute: 671
missionaries: 461
relief efforts: 311
Côte d’Ivoire
branch office: 386
early witnessing: 386
government officials uphold Witnesses: 478, 676
missionaries: 386, 478, 532, 535
relief sent out: 309
Cotterill, Richard: 540
Couch, George: 274
Coughlin, Charles: 658
Countries
number already reached by Witnesses:
by 1900: 719
by 1914: 422
by 1939, South America: 518
by 1945: 461
by 1945, Asia and islands of the world: 519
by 1945, North America: 517
by 1975: 501
by 1975, Africa: 475
by 1992: 520
by 1992, Asia and islands of the world: 519
by 1992, North America: 517
number in which Witnesses were preaching:
1914: 719
1920-92 (chart): 717
1931: 566
1935: 443
1938: 458
1939: 461
1941: 721
1943: 544
1945: 461
1945, Africa: 475
1957: 722
1963: 722
1975: 501
1975, Africa: 488
1985: 723
1992, Africa: 518
Course in Theocratic Ministry (See also Theocratic Ministry School): 94
Covington, Hayden C.: 89, 91-2, 679, 683-4
Cross and crown symbol: 200
Cruden’s Concordance: 605
Cuba
conventions: 458, 459
early witnessing: 458
first baptisms: 459
Knorr’s service tour: 97
publishers, number: 459
radio broadcasts: 459
Russell’s visit: 414, 421, 458
Cuminetti, Remigio: 191, 192
Curaçao (See Netherlands Antilles )
Cure
clergy reaction in Netherlands: 682
Cyprian: 35, 36
Cyranek, Ludwig: 454
Czechoslovakia
conventions: 281, 432, 506, 507, 701
delegates attend Poland conventions: 279, 504
literature distributed: 432
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 432
printery: 586
publishers, number, 1935: 432
relief efforts: 308-9
visit by member of Governing Body: 506
D
Dachau concentration camp: 452, 661
Dahomey (See Benin)
Daily Manna: 201
Davison, John: 474
Dawn Circles for Bible Study: 237
Day, Frank: 440
Day of Vengeance, The: 53, 140
Deacons
appointment: 206-9
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Deane, Eldon: 88
Death
belief of Witnesses: 145
Debates
DeCecca, Giovanni: 75, 652, 653
DeCecca, Grace: 298
“Decently and in Order”
Watch Tower article, 1895: 205-6
“Declaration Against Satan and for Jehovah”
resolution, 1928: 261
Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News
legal procedures: 691, 692
Deliverance: 140
Demut, Margarethe: 410
Denmark
Assembly Halls: 332
blood transfusion (experience): 184
branch office: 377
construction: 335
languages printed: 377
court cases: 494-5
early witnessing: 377, 407, 548
meeting attendance: 253
missionaries sent out: 541
relief efforts: 308-9
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
service assemblies: 265-6
tests resulting from—
field ministry: 638
Russell’s death: 624
witnessing to Turkish people: 497
Deschamp, Clem and Jean: 287
Dewar, Frank: 446, 447
Dickmann, August: 660
Director: 247
Disciple
Greek word: 27
Disfellowshipping
discussion: 186-7
number, 1960’s: 103
District overseers (servants) (See also Traveling overseers): 223
Divine Name That Will Endure Forever, The: 124
Divine Plan of the Ages, The: 52, 122, 161, 576, 718
translations: 408
Divisional campaigns: 82-3, 692
Divorce
view of Witnesses: 177-8
Djibouti: 387
Dochow, Carl: 464
Dodote, Eric: 515-16
Dominican Republic
ban: 667
letter campaign: 695
branch office: 359
clergy opposition: 667
Dos Santos, Joseph: 440-1, 453, 488, 521
“Do the Scriptures Teach That Eternal Torment Is the Wages of Sin?”
Old Theology, The, 1889: 128
Downing, Miss C. B.: 418
Dramas: 276
audiocassettes: 598
Drug abuse
view of Witnesses: 180-1
Dulchinos, John: 83
Duncan, W. B.: 70
Dutch Guiana (See Suriname)
Dwenger, Heinrich: 298
Dyer, Lois: 534
E
Early, Sister: 284
Earnest Bible Students (See International Association of Earnest Bible Students)
Earth
conditions under Kingdom: 162-3, 168
God’s original purpose: 168
East Pakistan (See Bangladesh)
Eaton, Dr. E. L.: 128, 129, 643, 644
Ebersohn, Frans: 418
Ecclesia
Bible Students’ use of term: 206
“Ecclesiastics Indicted”
tract distributed: 658
Ecuador
branch office: 367
financing construction: 339, 346-7
mob violence: 668
early witnessing: 438
field ministry, bus terminals: 513-14
missionaries: 463-5
publishers, number, 1992: 367
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 367, 469
Editorial Committee: 146
Russell’s will: 64-5
Eisenhower, Charles: 366, 460, 528
Eisenhower, Lorene: 460
“Ekklesia, The”
Watch Tower article, 1881: 204-5
Elders
adjustments, 1972: 106, 234, 723
alcohol, use of: 182
appointment, early views: 206-9, 213-14, 638-9, 720
appointment, theocratic: 218-19, 221, 721
body of elders: 105-7
early Christian: 106, 218, 233
field ministry: 212-14, 564, 637-8
Greek word: 35-6
service committee: 212, 214, 638
service director: 212, 214, 637-8
serving in areas that have greater need: 500, 508-10
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Ellis, Aaron: 48
El Refugio
boat used in Peru: 465
Elrod, William A.: 89
El Salvador
branch office: 359
construction: 339
clergy opposition: 666
first baptism: 359
relief efforts: 311
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 469
Emphatic Diaglott, The: 604, 605-6
parousia translated “presence”: 46, 133
Enemies: 84
Engel, Mick: 455
England (See Britain)
Enjoy Life on Earth Forever!: 112, 574, 594
Enoch: 14
Equatorial Guinea: 477-8
“Equipped for Every Good Work”: 97
Erler, Brother: 410
Ernste Bibelforscher (See International Association of Earnest Bible Students)
Estelmann, Otto: 457-8
Esterwegen concentration camp: 453
Esther
boat used in Norway: 440
Estonia
ban: 675
Bible literature being received: 700
convention: 506, 507
early witnessing: 429
visit by member of Governing Body: 506
Ethiopia
early witnessing: 428
Watch Tower mission: 476
“Eureka Drama”: 60
Europe: 428
hours, number, 1992: 518
publishers, number, 1975: 501
publishers, number, 1992: 518
Evangelical Alliance: 644
Evolution
undermined faith in Bible: 41
Ewins, Eric: 446
Executions
concentration camps: 663
letters from some sentenced to death: 662
Executive Committee: 65, 70-1, 719
“Exposed”
recording by Rutherford, 1937: 573
F
“Face the Facts”
convention discourse, 1938: 80, 267, 447
reaction to booklet, in Netherlands: 682
Facey, Louis: 413
Faeroe Islands: 441
Faithful and discreet slave
identity: 142-3, 146, 218-19, 626, 706
legal agencies used: 228
Russell viewed as: 143
“The Society”: 219
Faithful and wise servant (See Faithful and discreet slave)
Faith on the March: 61
“Fall of Babylon, The”
ban, Canada: 648
distribution: 189, 211, 647, 648
Family life
“Fascism or Freedom”
discourse by Rutherford, 1938: 85
“Fearless Despite World Conspiracy”
discourse, 1946: 268
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America: 191-2
Fekel, Charles: 585
Feller, Jules: 633
Fergusson, Ian: 537
Ferrie, Sarah: 411
Field ministry (See also Bible studies)
advertisements in magazines and newspapers: 405, 409, 418, 425, 560, 561
angels’ role: 549-51
Awake!: 725
balance: 294
Bible studies: 85, 105, 460, 463, 571, 572-4, 615, 717
billboards: 425
bus terminals: 513-14
Christian responsibility: 51, 63, 145, 212-14, 637-8
clergy opposition: 447-8, 474-5, 484, 492-4, 542-3, 551-2, 566, 573, 656-9, 666-9
concentration camps: 451-4, 664
defending right to distribute literature: 678-88, 690, 697
defending right to preach publicly and from house to house: 494-5, 498-9, 679-81, 683, 688, 697-8
Director: 247
divisional campaigns: 82-3, 692
early methods: 411-12, 419, 557-65
early-morning witnessing: 516
1870’s–1914: 404-22
emphasis, 1919 convention: 77, 258-9, 425
emphasis, 1919 onward: 212-14, 562-3, 637-9
emphasis, 1922 convention: 77-8, 259, 260, 265, 678, 720
evening witnessing: 516
government opposition: 490
high-security buildings: 516
holy spirit: 547-53
hours:
1930-92 (chart): 717
1935: 443
1936-45: 461
1957: 722
1975: 517
1976-90: 520
1982: 302
1990: 723
1990-91: 520
1992, Asia and islands of the world: 519
1992, Europe: 518
house to house: 82, 559, 570-1, 572-3
identity of great crowd, effect on work: 84, 170, 261
importance, Russell’s view: 51, 209
informal witnessing: 514
Informant: 247
Jonadabs (Jehonadabs): 83-4, 292
lands, number: 422, 443, 461, 501, 517-20, 717
letter writing: 495
literature, distribution, 1920-92 (chart): 717
literature, use of: 559
marketplaces: 513-14
missionaries: 462-6, 521, 525-6, 535-7
multilingual territory: 496-7
newspapers, use of: 58-9
1914-35: 423-43
1935-45: 444-61
1945-75: 462-501
1975-92: 502-20
organizing, early: 210-12
Our Kingdom Ministry: 247
phonograph: 85, 87, 565, 566, 721
placards: 249, 266, 447, 460, 567, 568, 721
qualifications to participate: 293-4
radio: 80-1, 249, 447-8, 562, 563, 573, 720
reaching everyone in household: 516
reaching remote areas: 357-8, 360-1, 367, 368, 370, 398, 439-40, 441, 444, 445, 446-7, 455, 465, 466, 485, 499-500, 519, 551, 562
recordings: 249
regional service director: 223
seaports: 513, 514
service assemblies: 266
service committee: 212, 214, 638
service director: 212, 214, 637-8
Service Meeting: 247, 248
service organization: 212
serving where need is greater: 300-1, 367, 369, 374, 378, 399-400, 468-72, 499-500
street witnessing: 456-7, 567, 569, 721
Suggestive Hints to Colporteurs: 246
Sunday witnessing: 66, 82, 564, 638, 690, 720
telephone witnessing: 516
territory assignments: 499-500
frequency of coverage: 515-17
testimony cards: 564, 565
tests resulting from: 637-8, 639
tract distribution: 210, 557-8
training program: 99-100, 568-9, 722
transcription equipment: 87, 448, 566, 573, 720
traveling overseers: 223-7
unassigned territory: 499-500
using every opportunity: 301-2
using secular work assignments in foreign lands: 476, 478
variety of methods: 574
Watchtower, The: 725
Watch Tower articles highlight importance: 563-4
why Witnesses make repeated calls: 570
witnessing:
to government officials: 486-8
to prisoners: 514-15
to relatives: 514
while in prison: 424, 490, 495
Workers’ Meetings: 247
World War I, effect on preaching work: 423-5
World War II, effect on preaching work: 448-58
Fiji
bans: 675-6
branch office: 398
conventions: 398
early witnessing: 441
“Filling the House With Glory”
convention discourse, 1953: 263
Financial support
voluntary donations:
early Christian congregation: 341-2
modern-day organization: 340-51
Finished Mystery, The: 88, 148
distribution suspended: 652
how compiled: 67
objectionable pages cut from book: 652
opposed by some on Society’s board of directors: 66-8, 719
opposition: 69-70, 423-4, 648-50, 651, 652
released, 1917: 66-7, 647, 719
“‘Finished Mystery’ and Why Suppressed, The”: 70
Finland
ban: 675
branch office: 378
bindery: 593
printing with four colors: 595
commercial printers, use of: 581
defending right to go from house to house: 698
publishers, increase, 1938-45: 455
relief received and sent out: 308-9
tests resulting from—
business venture: 640
Russell’s death: 624
Fisher, George H.: 64, 67-8, 652, 653
Flag salute: 196-8, 669-73, 684-8
comments by Rutherford: 196-7
court cases: 670, 680, 684-8, 721
Witnesses’ attitude: 669, 672-3
Witnesses like early Christians: 677
Flores, Juan: 438
Food for Thinking Christians: 123
distribution: 210, 348, 404-5, 561, 718
Fornication
definition: 174
ground for divorce: 177
view of Witnesses: 173-5
Fourie, Stoffel: 418
France
ban: 675
branch office: 375
literature shipped out: 375
printing: 592
clergy opposition: 658
conventions: 495, 496
early witnessing: 409-10, 429-30, 548
“Ecclesiastics Indicted,” resolution: 427
field ministry in high-security buildings: 516
Knorr’s service tour: 96
New World Translation: 612
persecution: 448
publishers:
increase, 1938-45: 455
increase, 1963-92: 612
number, 1940: 95
number, 1945: 95
relief received and sent out: 308, 313, 712
tests resulting from expectations regarding 1925: 633
France Amendment to the Espionage Act: 649
Franke, Charles: 70
Franke, Max, Konrad, and Gertrud: 451
Franks, Leslie: 534
Franske, F. J.: 439
Franz, Frederick W.
association with Knorr: 91, 99
baptism: 111
board of directors: 100
convention, 1950: 263
convention, 1958: 264
death: 111
Governing Body: 116
remarks about 1975: 104
remarks about value of Christian hope: 716
service tours, 1945-46: 459-61
vice president: 91
with Rutherford before his death: 89
“Frauds of the Clergy Exposed, The”
discourse, 1925: 658
Fredianelli, George: 533
“Freedom for the Peoples”
convention discourse, 1927: 266
Freedom of Worship
legal procedures: 691, 692
French
number of French-speaking people worldwide: 375
French, Edward: 70
French Indochina (See Cambodia; Laos; and Vietnam)
French Togo (See Togo)
French West Africa (See Senegal)
Freytag, Alexandre: 628
Friend, Irma: 298
From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained
release: 101
Frost, Erich: 268
Furgala, John: 301
G
GA (Golden Age): 258
Gabon: 695
Gambling
view of Witnesses: 179-80
Gangas, George D.: 260
first talk: 94
Governing Body: 116
“Gathering the Multitude”
Watchtower articles, 1936: 170
Gavette, Penny: 465-6
Gentile Times
expectations of Bible Students: 61-3, 134-8
Russell’s announcement: 61, 719
views of commentators before 1914: 134
“Gentile Times: When Do They End?”
Russell’s article in Bible Examiner: 134-5
German Democratic Republic (East)
legal recognition: 280, 505, 697
Germany
Assembly Hall: 330
bans: 442, 552, 639, 659-60, 675, 693-4, 720
imprisonment: 194
letters to German government, 1934: 315, 693-4
providing literature: 450, 454
branch office: 376-7
audiocassettes: 598
bindery: 593
established: 210
financing construction: 346
languages printed: 376-7
legal department: 679
literature to Eastern Europe: 508
printing: 583, 584, 586, 589-90, 591, 594-5
clergy opposition: 656, 659-60, 678-9, 720
commercial printers, use of: 581
concentration camps: 452-3, 659-65, 720
Memorial: 243
conventions:
1946: 268
1951: 275
1969: 495-6
court cases:
defending right to distribute literature: 679
number, 1926: 679
number, 1928: 679
field ministry:
after many arrests in Bavaria: 442
effect of World War I: 423
hours, 1946-92: 376
seaports: 513
Gilead Extension School: 533, 545
Juvenile Bible Class: 244
Knorr’s service tour: 98
literature distributed, 1919-33: 442
meeting attendance: 253
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die,” discourse: 425
missionaries:
assist local Witnesses: 539
sent out: 541
multilingual territory: 497
Nazi salute: 669
opposition of Nazi government: 10, 448-9, 552-3, 659-60, 693-4
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 422
relief received: 308
resolutions distributed:
“Challenge to World Leaders, A”: 426-7
“Ecclesiastics Indicted”: 427
protest against mistreatment of Witnesses: 448-9, 693-4
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
tests resulting from field ministry: 639
tract distribution: 561
Watch Tower literature reaches Germany: 410
Ghana
bans: 675-6
branch office: 386-7
financing construction: 346
languages printed: 386
printing: 592
congregations, number, 1992: 386
restrictions removed, 1991: 510
screening baptismal candidates: 479
Gibbard, Marie: 93
Gilboa
boat used in preaching: 439
Gilead Cultural School of Mexico: 533, 545
Gilead Extension School: 533, 545
assignments, 1943-45: 460
campus, South Lansing, New York: 95, 527
classes, number: 533
courses for those entrusted with branch oversight: 533, 544
curriculum: 523
Extension Schools: 533
first class: 95, 458, 522, 523, 721
graduations: 526
Knorr’s opening address: 523-4
lands from which students came: 524, 538
lands in which graduates served: 524
locations of school: 533
Ministerial Training School: 533, 545, 546
recognized by U.S. Office of Education: 538
traveling overseers: 231
Giménez, Manuel Mula: 667
Goas, Kate and Marion: 521
Gobitas, Walter: 685
Gobitas, William and Lillian: 670, 685, 686
Gobitis case (See Minersville School District v. Gobitis)
“God Be With You Till We Meet Again”
song: 256
God Cannot Lie
film: 481
“God’s Kingdom Rules—Is the World’s End Near?”
convention discourse, 1958: 264, 270-1
God’s Way Is Love: 574
Gog of Magog: 263
Gold Coast (See Ghana)
Golden Age, The (See also Awake!)
convention, 1919: 258
discussion: 724
exposé on persecution of 1917-20: 70, 578-9, 650
first issue: 683
use in field ministry: 212, 246
Golden Age ABC, The: 245
Goodman, Claude: 287, 288, 446, 521, 566, 585
Gott, Tarissa P.: 68-9
Governing Body
appointment of overseers: 544, 639
combined years of full-time service, 1992: 233
early Christian: 29, 31, 143, 222
modern-day: 146
morning worship, Brooklyn Bethel: 234
relationship to Society board of directors: 228, 233
reorganized, 1975: 723
vow of poverty: 351
“Government”
convention discourse, 1935: 266, 267
“Government and Peace”
convention discourse, 1939: 658
Governments
attitude of modern-day Witnesses toward: 147, 190, 195-6, 672
church support: 189
Jesus’ attitude toward: 189-90
officials show impartiality toward Witnesses: 676
Graham, Alexander M.
letter from Russell: 210
Great crowd
faithfulness required: 167
Rutherford’s comment about: 171
identified: 84, 169-70, 261, 444, 630, 721
effect on preaching work: 170, 444
identity, early view: 161, 166
location “before the throne”: 167
Memorial: 243
Newton’s view: 160
one flock with 144,000: 171
role in congregation: 214, 216
Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, The: 111
Great multitude (See Great crowd)
Greece
ban: 675
branch office: 380
construction: 338
clergy opposition: 380, 450, 668-9, 695
commercial printers, use of: 581
early witnessing: 429
field ministry:
court cases, 1946: 722
World War II: 450
military service: 194
effort to bring relief: 695
publishers:
increase, 1938-45: 455
number, 1992: 380
relief received: 308
Greek philosophy
effect on early Christians: 36-7
Green, Alexander B.: 500
Greenlees, Alfred and Minnie: 411-12
Grenada: 414
Griffin, S. H.: 70
Groh, John: 274
Gross-Rosen concentration camp: 452
Grove, Frank: 418, 419
Gruber, Kurt: 446
Guadeloupe
Assembly Hall: 328, 329
branch office: 359
frequently worked territory: 515
relief received: 313
Guam
branch office: 398
Guatemala
branch office: 360
early witnessing: 424
publishers, number, 1945: 463
Guinea-Bissau: 510
Gurd, Victor: 658
Guyana
ban: 676
branch office: 368
financing construction: 346
congregations:
1915: 239
number, 1945: 463
early witnessing: 413
reaching remote areas: 368
H
Haidostian, Sona: 541
Haiti
Assembly Hall: 329
branch office: 361
financing construction: 346
Hallström, Björn: 669
Hammer, Knud Pederson: 407
Hannan, Mary: 298
Happiness of the New World Society, The
film: 481
Harp of God, The: 88, 560, 573, 579
Harrub, James: 319
Hart, Tom: 411
Harteva, Kaarlo: 408-9
Haslett, Don and Mabel: 75, 490, 491
Hatzakortzian, Krikor: 428
Hawaii
branch office: 399
early witnessing: 441
first “Kingdom Hall”: 318, 319, 721
missionaries sent out: 541
telephone witnessing: 516
Heaven
hope of early Christians: 159
Heide, Richard: 426
Hell: 437
Hellfire
doctrine exposed by Russell: 126, 128-30
doctrine exposed from 18th century onward: 48
“To Hell and Back!”: 130
Henschel, Milton G.
board of directors: 100
conventions:
1953, Argentina: 468
1963, Liberia: 542
1992, Russia: 511
delegation to Liberia, 1963: 316
Governing Body: 116
secretary to Knorr: 96
Herald of the Morning: 46-8, 131, 575, 619, 620, 718
Heritage
film: 481
Hersee, William: 222
Heuse, Ernest, Jr.: 483
Higher powers (See Superior authorities)
Himm, Lew Ti: 489
Hippodrome, New York City: 632
Hirsh, Robert: 64
“His Unspeakable Gift”
convention discourse, 1945: 308
Hitler, Adolf: 552-3
clergy instigation to ban Witnesses: 659-60
letter from Rutherford: 693
nationalism: 196
Hoffman, Zola: 534
Holidays
Witnesses adjust view: 79, 199
Holland (See Netherlands)
Hollister, Robert R.: 421, 423, 521
Holman, A. J., Company: 607
Holman Linear Parallel Edition of the Bible: 605, 606
Hombach, Maria: 451
Homosexuality
view of Witnesses: 174-5
Honduras
branch office: 362
financing construction: 346
early witnessing: 424
hours, number, 1916-92: 362
relief sent out: 311
Honesty
Hong Kong
branch office: 393
translation: 393
family pressure on young Witnesses: 473
missionaries: 535
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
Russell’s visit, 1912: 393
“Hope for Distressed Humanity, The”
convention discourse, 1919: 76, 258, 720
Hort, F. J. A.: 610
Hoskins, Isaac F.: 64-5
Hospital Liaison Committees: 185
House-to-house preaching: 556, 570-2
divisional campaigns: 82-3
Scriptural basis reaffirmed: 110-11
testimony cards: 564, 565
tract distribution: 66
How Can Blood Save Your Life?: 184
Hubler, John and Ellen: 471
Hudgings, W. F.: 73
Hughes, A. Pryce: 191, 192, 451
Hungary
ban: 675
commercial printers, use of: 586
Governing Body members visit: 506
persecution: 680
publishers, number, 1935: 431
relief received: 308-9
Hunter, Bill: 287
Hymns of the Millennial Dawn: 240
I
Iceland
branch office: 379
literature distributed: 379
missionaries: 441
publishers, number, 1992: 379
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 469
Immortality of the soul
conditional immortality: 45
effect of belief on Kingdom hope: 37-8
exposed by Russell: 127
exposed from 18th century onward: 48
origin of belief: 127
Plato: 36
Imprisonment (See Arrests)
India
bans: 675-6
branch office: 393
financing construction: 346
printing: 585
translation: 393
commercial printers, use of: 581
congregation, 1915: 239
early witnessing: 420-1, 430, 521
Gilead classes: 545
Knorr’s service tour: 98
public meetings: 430
publishers, number: 512-13
Russell’s visit, 1912: 419-21
traveling overseer (experience): 540
Indonesia
ban: 675
clergy opposition: 668
early witnessing: 441, 445-7, 521
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
Industrial revolution: 41
Insight on the Scriptures: 111, 122
Integrity (See Issues)
“Integrity”
convention discourse, 1941: 86, 262
Interfaith
view of Witnesses: 145
International Association of Earnest Bible Students: 660
banned in Germany: 442
International Bible Students Association (See also Bible Students): 229
world tour by committee of seven: 419, 420, 421
International Bible Students’ Association: 151
International construction program: 336-9
“International Sunday School Lessons”
Watch Tower: 245
Inthaphan, Chomchai: 447
Iran: 430
Ireland
branch office: 380
clergy opposition: 492, 643, 658
convention, 1965: 496
early witnessing: 430
Kingdom Hall: 327
missionaries: 530
publishers, increase: 510
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
tests resulting from—
field ministry: 638
organizational changes: 638
Russell’s death: 624
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 469
witnessing to relatives (experience): 514
Irofa’alu, Shem: 474
Ishii, Jizo and Matsue: 157, 452, 491
Israel (ancient)
chosen and led by God: 704
festivals: 254
nation of witnesses: 17-18
replaced by Christian congregation: 28
Israel (modern)
early witnessing: 413
restoration prophecies: 141
Israel (spiritual)
Issues
godship: 15-18
universal sovereignty: 10-11, 18, 21-2, 699
Is the Bible Really the Word of God?: 122
Italy
ban: 675
blood transfusion (experience): 184
branch office: 378-9
bookbinding: 378
clergy opposition: 493, 512, 666
congregations:
first formed: 406
number, 1949: 493
number, 1975: 501
number, 1992: 512
early witnessing: 409, 429, 443
“Ecclesiastics Indicted,” resolution: 427
literature, amount distributed: 512
meeting attendance: 253
military service, World War I: 192
missionaries: 530
New World Translation, distribution: 612
Pioneer Service School: 300
publishers, number:
1963: 612
1963-92: 613
1975: 493-4
1989: 253
relief efforts: 308-9, 312, 315
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
Ivory Coast (See Côte d’Ivoire)
J
Jackson, W. K.: 683
‘Jacob’s double’ (See Chronology, 1878)
Jamaica
ban: 676
branch office: 362
early witnessing: 413
publishers, number, 1945: 463
Japan
Assembly Halls: 329, 330
ban: 675
printing: 394, 583, 592, 595-6
Regional Engineering Office: 332, 394
commercial printers, use of: 581
congregations, number, 1975: 501
convention, 1963: 277
early witnessing: 418, 421, 423-4
hours, number, 1992: 394
literature distribution: 349
local customs: 531
number that have served: 540
New World Translation: 613
persecution of Witnesses: 443, 455, 490, 680
pioneers:
number, 1975-92: 394
number, 1992: 540
Pioneer Service School: 300
publishers:
increases following World War II: 491
1950-92 (chart): 513
1972: 334
1989: 334
relief efforts: 311-12
Russell’s visit, 1911: 420
Java (See Indonesia)
Jehovah
beliefs of Witnesses: 144
Jesus revealed: 21
restoration of name in New World Translation: 609
use of name by Bible Students: 123-4
Isaiah 43:10, 12 never discussed in detail in Watch Tower in first 40 years: 152
Jehovah: 124
“Jehovah’s Organization”
Watchtower article, 1932: 213, 638, 640
Jehovah’s Servants Defended
legal procedures: 691, 692
Jehovah’s Witnesses
attitude toward—
abortion: 183
blood transfusions: 183-6
gambling: 179-80
God’s name: 123-4
preaching: 291-5
adjustments in understanding: 121, 132-3, 146-7, 629-30, 708-9
called Bible Students: 149, 151
chart of noteworthy events, 1870-1992: 718-23
clergy opposition: 656-60, 666-9, 676, 680-2, 688-9, 695
commendation by others: 179, 195-6, 467, 663, 673, 677
compared with early Christians: 234, 677
conventions: 254-82
court cases: 678-99
faithful and discreet slave, identity: 142-3, 626
first century: 26-32
fulfilling Jesus’ commission to preach: 404-520, 547-53, 556-74, 674
honesty, reputation: 179
how chosen and led by God: 704-9, 711
how viewed by others: 152, 158, 182
Israel (ancient): 17-18
Jesus, greatest witness: 19-21
love, distinguishing characteristic: 304-17, 712
assistance in building projects: 320-39
care for others in congregation: 304-6
prayers for one another: 315, 317
relief efforts: 307-9, 310, 311-12, 313, 314-17
meetings: 236-53
name:
adopted: 82, 151-2, 155-6, 213, 261, 720
applies also to other sheep: 83
in various languages: 151, 153-4
reaction to: 156-8
percentage of anointed: 501
percentage of other sheep: 501
pre-Christian: 13-18
publishers and distributors of the Bible: 603-15
seek Kingdom first: 283-303
students of the Bible: 603
tests resulting from—
adjustments in understanding: 629-36
business ventures: 639-41
change of administration: 623-6
expectations based on dates: 631-7
field service: 637-8
organizational changes: 638-9
pride: 626-9
ransom: 619-21
unified instruction: 252-3
voluntary donations: 340-51
willingness to help non-Witnesses: 315
witnesses of Jehovah and of Jesus: 26
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Question of Blood: 184
Jehovah’s Witnesses—The Organization Behind the Name
videocassette: 601
Jehovah’s Youth
magazine in Switzerland: 245
Jerusalem
in prophecy: 142
beliefs of Witnesses: 144
dates projected for return: 40
Leader: 204
persecuted by religious leaders: 642, 646
presence:
Barbour’s view: 46
results of apparent delay: 38
sign of: 24-5
purpose in coming to earth: 20-2
ransom: 22
theme of preaching: 21
trained disciples to preach: 247-8
Jewish Antiquities: 32
Jews (modern)
restoration prophecies: 141
Russell spoke to: 141
Johansson, P. J.: 408
Johnson, Carl: 452
Johnson, Emmanuel: 478
Johnson, Freida: 289
Johnson, Paul S. L.: 627-8
Johnson v. Town of Deerfield
Johnston, William: 521
Joly, Brother and Sister: 539
Jonadabs (Jehonadabs)
baptism encouraged: 83
great crowd identified with: 84, 169-70
identified with sheep class: 165-6
invitation to 1935 convention: 83, 166
Memorial: 243
Jones, Rosco: 685
Jones, Stanley: 489, 490
Jones, Thomas: 451
Jones v. City of Opelika
court case: 685-7
Jordan: 695
Joseph, A. J. and Gracie: 420, 421
Joseph, Alfred: 424
“Junior Witnesses”
group in United States: 245
“Juvenile Bible Study”
Golden Age feature: 245
K
Kaelin, Sara C.: 73
Kallio, Leo: 170
Kazakhstan
convention, 1991: 506, 507
Keim, Kasper: 565
Keith, B. W.: 46
Keller, Eduardo: 523
Kelsey, Richard and Peggy: 88
Kenya
branch office: 387
convention, 1978: 387
government restrictions removed: 510
meetings, efforts to attend: 253
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 485
Kim, Bong-nyu: 453
King, Harold: 243, 244, 489, 490
Kingdom
Christendom’s hope fades: 37-8
purpose: 21-2
view of—
Augustine: 38
early Bible Students: 138
“Kingdom”
phonograph record: 565
“Kingdom, The”
convention discourse, 1922: 77, 260
“Kingdom, the Hope of the World, The”
convention discourse, 1931: 79, 137, 139, 155, 267
Kingdom, the Hope of the World, The
booklet: 139, 158, 438-9, 443, 565-6
Kingdom Halls: 251, 318-26, 327, 328
churches converted into Kingdom Halls: 474
early Kingdom Halls: 318-19
financial support: 343-4
quick construction: 115, 320-1, 322-5
Regional Building Committees: 325-6, 328, 723
Society Kingdom Hall Fund: 344
Kingdom Hymns: 240
Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, The: 610
“Kingdom Is at Hand, The”: 133
Kingdom Ministry School: 102, 113, 231, 232, 305, 722
Kingdom Ministry School Course: 294
Kingdom News: 69-70
Kingdom Schools: 671, 672
Kingdom Service Song Book: 241
King James Version: 605
Bible Students Edition: 606
Holman Linear Parallel Edition: 606
Watchtower edition: 93, 606, 607, 721
King’s Theater, The: 693
Kirk, Robert: 528
Kiss, József: 431
Kitto, Tom and Rowena: 471
Klein, Ted and Doris: 535
Klukowski, Jennie: 88
Knorr, Nathan H.
background: 91
baptism: 91
Bible printing: 93
proposes a fresh translation: 607
board of directors: 100
conventions:
1938, Britain: 447
1942: 262
1945, Brazil: 459
1950: 264
1951, Australia: 470
1952: 269
1953, Argentina: 468
1974: 269
course in theocratic ministry: 568
Franz as close associate: 91, 99
personal interest in missionaries: 524-5
president of Society: 91, 227-8, 721
Bethel family’s letter of support: 91-2
service tours:
Cuba: 97
1945-46: 459-61
1945-56 (maps): 96
1947, Australia: 641
1972: 592
with Rutherford before his death: 89
zone visits: 227-8
Koerber, Anton: 640
Koivisto, George: 542-3
Königer, Margarita: 541, 542
Korea (See also Korea, Republic of)
ban: 675
branch office:
printing: 583
early witnessing: 418, 421, 423-4
field ministry, World War II: 455
Korea, Republic of (South)
Assembly Hall: 329
Bible studies, number, 1975: 492
branch office: 395
expansion: 334
literature produced: 395
congregations, number, 1975: 501
full-time service: 302, 395, 540
Kingdom Hall: 327
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
publishers, number:
1950-92: 513
1975: 492
relief efforts: 314
Korean War: 98
Kosrae: 513
Kovalak, Nicholas, Jr.: 83
Kozhemba, Stepan: 511
Krebs, LaVonne: 88
Kusserow family: 449
Kwazizirah, Gresham: 434-5
L
Labrador: 325
Larson, Norman: 86
La Torre del Vigía de México: 466
Latvia
ban: 675
commercial printers, use of: 585-6
Lauper, Samuel: 410
Laurier Saumur v. The City of Quebec
court case: 690
League of Nations: 258
clergy support: 192
Witnesses’ attitude toward: 192, 193, 258
Lebanon
local customs: 531-2
relief efforts: 309
sound cars: 566
Leeser’s Bible translation: 604, 605
Leeward Islands (Antigua)
ban: 676
branch office: 362
missionaries: 537
Leffler, Ralph: 55
Legal cases: 678-99
Covington, H. C.: 91
damage suits: 185-6
fines: 683
global publicity: 694-5
instructions on legal procedures: 690-2
issues contested:
commercial peddling: 681
compulsory flag salute: 680, 684-8
distributing literature without a permit: 684, 690, 697
espionage: 682
license tax for privilege of distributing literature: 685, 687
permits to build Assembly Halls: 331-2
letter campaigns: 695
number of cases:
Canada: 680
Germany: 679
Greece: 680
Romania: 679-80
Witnesses’ court cases advance cause of freedom for everyone: 678, 683-4, 688, 690, 698-9
Leoles v. Landers
“Let God Be True”: 97, 475, 574
“Let Your Kingdom Come”: 111
“Let Your Name Be Sanctified”: 124
“Let Your Will Come to Pass”
convention discourse, 1958: 102
Leydig family: 465
Liberia
branch office: 388
early witnessing: 414, 433, 485, 718
Kingdom Hall, funds for building: 344
publishers, number, 1975: 486
relief efforts: 309
Witness assembly disrupted: 542, 671
Liberty to Preach: 692
legal procedures: 690
Libya: 476
Life Everlasting—In Freedom of the Sons of God: 104
Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?: 112
Light
boat used in West Indies: 463
Lightbearer
boat used in Southeast Asia: 440, 441, 446
Listening to the Great Teacher: 246
audiocassette: 598
Literacy classes: 362
Africa: 480
Mexico: 466, 467
Literature
bans: 455, 457-8, 471, 477, 484, 486, 586, 680
commercial printers, use of: 576-7, 579, 581, 585-6, 592
distribution:
1915: 348
1936-45: 461
effect of four-color printing on distribution: 595-6
house-to-house distribution: 557-60, 564, 719
languages: 576-7, 579, 583, 586, 592-3, 594, 596-9, 602
paper rations, World War II: 586
pocket-size books: 593
published simultaneously, 1992: 250
suggesting a specific contribution: 348-9
tracts: 50, 348, 557, 558, 576-7
translation: 112, 391, 599, 602
use at meetings: 237-8, 240-1, 252-3
Watch Tower Society’s printing operations: 575-615
writers, reason not named: 146
Lithuania
ban: 675
Little flock (See 144,000)
Liverance, Wallace: 540
Logan, Harvey and Kathleen: 536
London Tabernacle: 251
renamed, 1937-38: 319
“Look! I Am Making All Things New”: 574
Lord’s Evening Meal (See Memorial)
Lord’s Supper (See also Memorial): 242
Love
early Christians: 304
how demonstrated: 304-17, 711-12
identifying mark of true Christians: 709-12
Lovell, Alma: 684
Lovell v. City of Griffin
court case: 684
Lovini, William: 472
Loyalty: 197
Lublin concentration camp: 452
Lundborg, August and Ebba: 408
Lunstrum, Elwood: 85
Lutheran Church
name: 150
Luxembourg
branch office: 382
literature, number of languages: 497-8
early witnessing: 430
M
Macedonia: 406
MacGillivray, Alexander: 411-12, 445, 446
Mackenzie, Fanny: 423, 424
Macmillan, Alexander H.
announces Russell’s death to Bethel family: 63
annual meeting, 1919: 72-4
arrest and sentencing: 652, 653
board of directors: 68
convention, 1919: 257
expectations, 1914: 61-2, 636-7
name Jehovah’s Witnesses: 152
Palestine: 142
pilgrim: 222
Russell’s view on preaching: 63, 623
visiting Witnesses in prison: 654
Madeira: 437
Madison Square Garden
violent attempt to disrupt meeting, 1939: 658-9
Magyarosi, Martin: 453
“Make Sure of All Things”
release: 99-100
Maki, Gust: 462, 463
Making Your Family Life Happy: 110
Makore, Isaiah: 227
Malawi
bans: 675-6
confusion as to identity of Bible Students: 418, 434
early witnessing: 434, 436, 521
Mali: 475
Mama, Emmanuel: 478
Mancoca, João and Mary: 481, 482, 528
Manera, Angelo C., Jr.: 94
Mankind’s Search for God: 36, 39, 112
Marquesas Islands: 513
Marriage
view of Witnesses: 174-7
Martin, Helmut: 505
Martin, Robert J.: 91, 257, 580, 652, 653
Martinique
branch office: 364
construction: 333
early witnessing: 364
publishers, number, 1992: 364
relief sent out: 313
Martyr
Greek word: 13
Marx, Karl: 40
Mauritania: 476
Mauritius
branch office: 389
missionaries: 535
Mauthausen concentration camp: 308, 452, 660-1, 665
Mayer, J. L.: 424
McGrath, Joseph: 536
McKay, Ruth: 529
McLuckie, Bert and Bill: 434
Meetings: 236-53
attendance: 253
Bible, basis for instruction: 238, 241
Congregation Book Study: 237-8
Dawn Circles for Bible Study: 237
early Bible Students: 50, 54-5, 205, 236-41
early Christians: 28, 236, 251
Kingdom Hall: 251
literature used: 237-8, 240-1, 252-3
no soliciting for money: 340, 343
Prayer, Praise and Testimony Meetings: 238, 247
Schools of the Prophets: 247
Service Meetings: 247
singing: 240-1
Sunday meetings: 238
Theocratic Ministry School: 94, 248, 249, 568-9, 721
training in field ministry: 246-8
unified instruction: 252-3
Watchtower Study: 252-3
Workers’ Meetings: 247
youths: 244-6
Memorial (Lord’s Evening Meal): 242-4
active Witnesses compared with attendance, 1935-92 (chart): 242
annual observance: 242
attendance:
1883: 242
1914: 719
1919: 720
1935-92 (chart): 717
1938: 243
1992, Africa: 518
attending despite difficult circumstances: 243-4
date of celebration: 242
early Bible Students: 55, 242-3
great crowd: 243
“little flock”: 243
partakers: 501
1935-92 (chart): 717
1938: 243
1992: 243
partakers compared with attendance, 1935-60 (chart): 171
Menazzi, Armando: 444, 445
Men of old (See Princes)
MEPS (Multilanguage Electronic Phototypesetting System): 114, 596-8
Meredith, Martha: 71
“Message of Hope”
resolution, 1925: 261
Messiah: 19
Metcalfe, Fred: 492
Methodist Church
name: 150
Mexico
clergy opposition: 502-3
congregations, number, 1975: 470
early witnessing: 414
Gilead Cultural School of Mexico: 533, 545
Knorr and Franz visit: 459
literacy classes: 466, 467
missionaries: 461
pioneers, number, 1992: 303
Pioneer Service School: 300
publishers, number:
1992: 503
relief efforts: 312, 313
Michalec, Edward: 464
Military service
Bible Students during World War I: 191-2
clergy support, World War I: 191, 647-8, 651-2
Czechoslovakia: 195
Greece: 194
Italy, World War I: 191-2
view of Witnesses: 194, 198, 662
Millennial Dawn (See also Studies in the Scriptures): 52, 406, 631-2, 635
Dano-Norwegian: 407
effect on readers: 53-4
German: 410
use at meetings: 237-8
writer: 52-3
“Millennial Hopes and Prospects”
discourse by Russell, 1903: 406
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die”
discourse by Rutherford: 259, 425, 426, 632, 719
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Minersville School District v. Gobitis
compulsory flag salute: 654, 670, 684-7
Minister
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Ministerial servants
appointment: 233-4
early Christians: 233
qualifications: 182
Ministerial Training School: 113, 300, 350, 533, 545, 546, 723
Missionaries: 521-46
adjusting to new living conditions and customs: 528-9, 531-2
appearing before government officials: 539
conventions:
1950: 271
1966-67: 276-7
Gilead School: 522-5, 527, 533
total students, 1992: 524
intensifying the preaching work: 462-6, 535
new languages: 532-4
number of lands in which they have served: 524
obtaining residence visas: 527
opening new fields: 535
persecution: 541-3
pre-Gilead missionaries: 521
stimulate full-time service: 540-1
traveling overseers: 539-40
Witness missionaries contrasted with Christendom’s: 525-8
Model studies: 85
Model Study
booklets: 574
Morality
Morris, Harold: 464
Morrison, Donald: 526
Morton
schooner used in Canada: 439
Moser, Alois: 451
Motion pictures: 480, 481
Mozambique
letter campaign: 695
relief received: 309
Murdock’s Bible translation: 604, 605
Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: 349
court case: 687-8
branch office: 395
clergy opposition: 455
publishers, number: 395
My Book of Bible Stories: 110, 246
audiocassettes: 598
N
Namibia
early witnessing: 439
Kingdom Hall: 322
missionaries: 535
officials show impartiality toward Witnesses: 676
Nationalism
patriotic ceremonies: 196-7
under Hitler: 196
Witnesses attitude: 196-8, 677
“Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovah, The”—How?: 124
Nauru: 513
Nelson, Ed: 418, 419
Nelson, Thomas, and Sons: 607
Netherlands
ban: 675
branch office: 382
construction, donations: 347
printery seized by Nazis: 586
printing: 586
translation: 382
videocassettes: 382
clergy opposition: 682
convention, 1945: 267
early witnessing: 430
field ministry:
seaports: 513, 514
World War II: 449-50
Knorr’s service tour: 96
meetings, World War II: 449
missionaries sent out: 541
persecution, World War II: 267, 448
publishers:
increase, 1938-45: 455
number, 1940: 95
number, 1945: 95
number, 1992: 382
number, pre-World War II: 267
relief efforts: 307-9
Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao)
branch office: 364
Netherlands East Indies (See Indonesia)
Neuengamme concentration camp: 664
benefits: 195
Bible Students during World War I: 191-2
early Christians: 190
Jesus’ example: 189-90
Witnesses commended: 195
Witnesses during World War II: 193-4
Newberry Bible, The: 604, 605
New Britain: 474
New Caledonia
Assembly Hall: 331
ban: 471
branch office: 399
early witnessing: 441
first congregation: 399
publishers, number, 1992: 399
Witnesses from other lands help with preaching: 471
New Creation, The: 52, 53, 186, 190, 207-8, 342, 559
Newell, Earl E.: 79
Newfoundland
Knorr’s service tour: 98
“New Heavens and a New Earth”: 156
New Hebrides (See Vanuatu)
Newlands, Bill: 445
“New Light” Church: 319
“New Name, A”
Newspapers
advertising literature: 409-10, 561
Russell’s sermons: 58, 59, 421-2, 561, 719
“New Systems of Things”
convention discourse, 1950: 263
Newton, Sir Isaac: 46, 125, 160
New World Bible Translation Committee: 607-10
“New World Society Attacked From the Far North”
convention discourse, 1953: 263
New World Society in Action, The
film: 480-1
New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures
Braille: 614
release: 99, 262-3, 264, 607, 722
restored divine name: 99
translations into other languages: 611-13, 722
New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
comments by A. Thomson: 609
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: 607-15
comments by Hebrew scholar Kedar: 611
computer diskettes: 614
editions:
Braille, 1988: 614, 615
Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, The: 610
large print with references, 1984: 111, 608, 610, 614
one volume, 1961: 608, 609-10, 722
pocket size, 1987: 614
regular size, 1981: 614
regular size, 1984: 614
six volumes, 1950-60: 608, 609
special students’, 1963: 610
very large print, 1985: 614
New World Bible Translation Committee: 607-10
number printed, as of 1992: 613, 615
translation, use of computers: 599, 602, 613-14
New Zealand
ban: 676
branch office: 399
translation: 399
clergy opposition: 447
conventions:
1963: 277
1978: 282
early witnessing: 418-19
Kingdom Hall construction: 325
Knorr’s service tour: 98
missionaries sent out: 541
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 60
Nicaragua
branch office: 364
publishers, number: 364
relief efforts: 311
Nichols, Carleton and Flora: 197
Nichols, Carleton B., Jr.: 685
flag salute: 196-7
Nicholson, Jane: 624
Nicholson, R. E. B.: 624
Nigeria
Assembly Halls: 332
Branch Committee: 109
branch office: 333, 388-9, 591
financing construction: 346
literature distributed: 388
printing: 590
congregations, number, 1975: 475
conventions:
1990: 389
early witnessing: 388, 433, 486
government official comments on Witnesses: 488
literacy classes: 480
polygamy (experiences): 176-7
publishers, number:
1950: 486
1970: 486
1975: 488
1992: 388
relief efforts: 309
1914
comment of The World: 60
expectations of Bible Students: 60-3, 134-5, 635
pointed to by others: 134
reaction of Bible Students after 1914: 136-7, 636-7
Russell’s announcement in Bethel dining room: 61, 719
Russell’s article in Bible Examiner: 718
Nisbet, Robert: 435
Nisbet family: 487
Niue: 472
Nkounkou, Etienne: 477
Noah: 14, 15
“Noah’s Day”
Watchtower article, 1941: 174
Noll, Xavier and Sara: 364
Norman, David: 435
North America
publishers, number:
1945: 517
1992: 517
Northern Rhodesia (See Zambia)
Norway
ban: 675
branch office: 383
congregation, 1915: 239
conventions:
1905: 257
1911: 257
field ministry:
gains momentum: 639
reaching remote areas: 440
meetings of early Bible Students: 237-8
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die,” discourse: 426
relief received: 308
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
tests resulting from—
business ventures: 640
field ministry: 638
Nuremberg trials
sentencing: 268
Nyasaland (See Malawi)
O
Oates, Hector: 455-6
Object and Manner of Our Lord’s Return, The: 47, 132-3, 557, 575, 718
Øiseth, Andreas: 408
Ojeda, Rosendo: 466
Older men (See also Elders)
Old Theology, The
Old Theology Quarterly
tract: 50, 51
Oleszynski, Brother: 413
early Christians: 159
not only natural Jews: 159, 169
one flock with great crowd: 171
work on earth: 159
“Only Light, The”
convention discourse, 1942: 92-3
“Opportunities for Service”
Watch Tower article, 1919: 212
Opposition (See Persecution)
Orchestras
“Order of Trial”
legal procedures: 691, 692
Organization
appointments:
elders, adjustments, 1972: 106, 233-4, 723
elders, early views: 206-9, 638-9
ministerial servants: 233-4
service director: 212, 214, 637-8
speakers, V.D.M. Questions: 215
traveling speakers: 204, 222-3
branch offices established: 210
branch overseers, training: 230
expansion of headquarters and branch facilities: 332-9
financial support: 340-51
Governing Body: 106, 116, 228-9, 233-5
Jehovah’s and Satan’s: 78-9, 676, 720
Leader is Christ: 29, 117, 204, 674
legal corporations: 210, 229, 234
meetings, early: 205
no clergy class: 204-5
organization instructions: 232
“Photo-Drama of Creation,” showings: 211
purpose: 210
response to organizational changes of 1930’s: 638-9
Russell’s view: 204-5
service organization: 212
theocratic procedure: 218-19, 223, 228-9, 638-9, 721
effect on meetings: 252
traveling overseers: 222-7
training: 231
unified instruction: 252-3
Watchtower article, 1932: 213, 640
Watchtower article, 1938: 218-19, 640
zone visits: 227
Watchtower article, 1938:
Organization Instructions: 219
Organization Method: 212
Origen: 36
Origin of Species, The: 40, 41
Orphanidis, George: 194
Österman, Emil: 408-9
Ott, Carlos: 437
Ott, Gertrud: 452
Our Kingdom Ministry: 247
Out Islands, Bahamas
boat used to reach islands: 463
Ovbiagele, Ezekiel: 480
Overseers
Greek word: 35
P
Paas, Gottlieb: 410
Page, William E.: 64
Pakistan: 531
Panama
branch office: 365
construction, donations: 347
missionaries: 461
Paniagua, Trinidad: 461
Papua New Guinea
Assembly Hall: 329
branch office: 400
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 400, 471
Paraguay
branch office: 369
congregations, 1945: 463
early witnessing: 369, 413, 437
missionaries: 369
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 369
Park, Ock-hi: 453
Parker, John and Adda: 460
Parkin, Ronald: 462, 463
Parousia (See Presence of Christ)
Parsons, Julia: 543
“Passing Over From Death to Life”
convention discourse, 1964: 264
Pastor
why Russell called: 54
Paterson, Gabriel and Florence: 478
Paton, Fred: 455-6
Paton, J. H.: 620
“Peace—Can It Last?”
convention discourse, 1942: 93, 95, 193, 262
Pele, Fuaiupolu: 473
Peloubet, F. N.: 245
Peoples Friend, The: 439
Peoples Pulpit Association: 73, 91, 229
Persecution: 642-77
bans: 675-6
clergy incite: 69-70, 434, 441, 551-2, 642, 644, 647-50, 654-6, 657, 658-60, 666-9, 676, 678-82, 688-9, 695
concentration camps: 659, 660-4, 665
early Christians: 30-1, 32, 642, 646-7
family and community pressure: 473
letter campaigns: 315-17, 694-5
cablegrams: 552
missionaries: 541-3
mob violence: 667, 668, 670, 671, 721
politics, nonparticipation: 673-5
printing operations shut down: 585-6, 589
Satan behind persecution: 676
school expulsions: 670-2
why Jehovah permits: 677
World War II: 448-58
Persia (See Iran)
Peru
branch office: 370
expansion: 333
early witnessing: 370, 436, 438
first congregation formed: 370, 459
Kingdom Hall: 327
missionaries: 532
publishers, number, 1992: 370
reaching remote areas: 465
relief efforts: 311, 312
Peters, August: 452
Petersen, Anna (Later Rømer): 285
Petition
for release of Society’s officers, 1919: 74-5
Pfannebecker, Brother: 260
Philbrick, Herman L.: 77
Philippines
branch office: 396
financing construction: 346
languages printed: 396
printing: 592-3
translation: 489
congregations, number, 1992: 396
field ministry:
hours, total to 1992: 396
World War II: 455
flag salute: 671
Kingdom Ministry School: 231
pioneers, number, 1992: 302
publishers:
number, 1992: 510
increase after World War II: 489
Russell’s visit, 1912: 396, 419-20
strengthening congregations after World War II: 488-9
Phillips, Llewelyn: 486
Phonograph: 85, 87, 565, 566, 721
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 56-7, 60, 561
Drama Committees: 211
number of viewers, 1914: 422, 562, 719
“Scenario”: 56
Czechoslovakia: 432
Spain: 437
Yugoslavia: 432
Piccone, Domenick and Elsa: 541-2
Pierson, A. N.: 65
Pilgrims (See also Traveling overseers): 66, 222-3, 237, 252, 255-6
Pioneers
auxiliary pioneers: 299-300, 302, 717
number:
1920-92 (chart): 717
1946: 722
1973: 723
1974: 723
1975: 517
1976-92 (chart): 112
1978: 113
1985: 723
1990: 723
percentage increase, 1982-92: 302-3
regular pioneers: 299-300
special pioneers: 85, 299, 350
Pioneer Service School: 113, 300, 723
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
early meetings: 49
headquarters returned to: 71, 577, 719
Pittsburgh Gazette, The
Russell-Eaton debates: 644
Placards: 249, 266, 447, 460, 567, 568, 721
Plymouth Bethel: 59
Poelmans, Brother: 566
Poems and Hymns of Millennial Dawn: 240
Poetzinger, Gertrud: 291, 452, 661
Poetzinger, Martin
comments about the name Jehovah’s Witnesses: 158
full-time service: 290, 291
Governing Body: 663
Poland
assemblies and conventions: 278-9, 280, 381, 503, 504, 723
branch office: 381
clergy opposition: 657
commercial printers, use of: 581
early witnessing: 413
Governing Body members visit: 506
government officials defend Witnesses: 657
hours, number, 1992: 505
Memorial attendance, 1992: 115
publishers, number: 115, 381, 429, 503, 505
relief received: 308
Politics
attitude of Witnesses: 673-4
Polygamy
view of Witnesses: 176-7
Porneia: 177
Portugal
branch office: 383
legal recognition: 269, 383, 494
New World Translation, distribution: 612
persecution:
Catholic clergy incite: 494
letter campaigns: 695
meetings while under ban: 494
publishers, number: 269, 383, 494, 510, 612
Portuguese East Africa (See Mozambique)
Portuguese West Africa (See Angola)
Powell, Grover: 92
“Prayer”
phonograph record: 565
Prayer, Praise and Testimony Meetings: 238, 247
Preachers Present Arms: 191, 552, 655-6
Preaching (See Field ministry)
Presence of Christ
Adventists’ views: 45, 60, 132
Barbour’s views: 46-7
sign: 24-5
Presidents (Watch Tower Society)
Russell: 576
Priests
origin of term: 36
convention, 1950: 263
Printing
Bible printing and distribution: 603-15
bookbinding: 579-81, 588-9, 593
Braille: 585
commercial printers: 576-7, 581, 585-6, 592, 605
computer systems, development and use: 596-9, 602
expansion, after World War II: 588-91
foreign languages: 576-7, 579, 583, 586, 592-4, 596-8
early operations in Michigan: 579-80
simultaneous publications: 598-9
translation: 112, 375, 391, 599, 602
four-color printing: 595-6
platemaking: 582
presses:
job: 587
sheet offset: 594-5
web offset: 587, 592, 595, 597, 614-15
web rotary: 578, 579, 585, 587, 591-2
Society in forefront of printing industry: 575, 579, 581, 584-5, 596-7, 607
Society begins its own printing operations: 577-81, 720
Society’s printing operations outside the United States: 583, 585-93
three-color printing: 595
Prisons
witnessing to inmates: 514-15
“Problems of Reconstruction and Expansion, The”
convention discourse, 1946: 97-8
Proclaiming “Everlasting Good News” Around the World
film: 481
Prohibition
view of Bible Students: 182
Protection: 573
Publishers
increase:
during World War II: 98
following World War II: 230
France: 95
Holland: 95
1928, United States: 564
1947-52: 98
1975-92: 517
1976-92 (chart): 115
1980-85: 111
1982-92: 302
1982-92 (chart): 303
1985-92: 111
number:
early 1880’s: 404
1920: 259
1922, United States: 563
1924, United States: 563
1926, United States: 564
1935: 443
1939: 461
1941: 721
1942: 108
1943: 544
1953: 100
1963: 722
1967: 593
1968: 104
1974: 723
1976: 108
1977-78, decrease: 110
1985: 723
1990: 723
1992: 117, 243, 517-19, 544, 723
number of countries with a population less than total Witnesses worldwide: 519
percentage:
anointed 1935: 501
anointed 1975: 501
“other sheep,” 1945: 501
Publishing Committee: 113-14, 235
Puerto Rico
blood transfusion (experience): 184
branch office: 365
translation: 365
early witnessing: 438-9
literature distributed, 1930-92: 365
relief efforts: 313
return visits, 1930-92: 365
“Purgatory”
phonograph record: 565
Purple Triangles
videocassette: 601
Pyramid of Gizeh: 201
Q
Quebec, Canada
exposing high-handed judges: 692-3
persecution of Witnesses: 682, 688-90
Quebec, You Have Failed Your People!
tract: 689
Quebec’s Burning Hate for God and Christ and Freedom Is the Shame of All Canada
Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work: 110, 175, 246
R
Radio
chain broadcasts: 79, 137, 139, 158
number of stations carrying Society’s broadcasts: 80, 562
Society begins using radio: 562, 720
stations owned or operated by Society: 80
CHCY: 81
2HD: 81
WORD: 81
value in proclaiming the Kingdom: 249, 562
Raibe, Seremaia: 472
Randle, Horace: 418
Ransom: 22
Barbour’s view: 47-8, 131, 619-20
test involving belief: 619-21
view of Russell and associates: 45, 47-8, 131-2, 620, 718
Watch Tower, advocate of ransom: 620
Raunholm, Unn: 543
Ravensbrück concentration camp: 179, 452, 551, 661, 664
Raymond Street jail, Brooklyn: 69
Recordings
discourses for the public: 87, 249, 565-6
Kingdom songs: 241
videocassettes: 600-1
Reformation, Protestant: 38-40
Regan, Michael: 514
Regional Building Committees: 325-6, 328, 723
Regional Engineering Offices: 332, 394, 400
Regional servants (See also Traveling overseers): 223
Regional service directors (See also Traveling overseers): 223
Reiter, Franz: 662
Religion
early view of the term: 447, 567
“Religion and Christianity”
recording by Rutherford: 573
“Resolution to the Peoples of Christendom”: 261
Restoration prophecies: 141-2, 720
Return of Christ (See Presence of Christ)
Return visits: 66, 85, 299, 460
number made, 1946-75: 501
number made, Puerto Rico, 1930-92: 365
Réunion: 469
Reusch, Lyle: 103
Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!: 111, 148, 598
Revised Version: 606
Rice, Frank: 286, 287, 447, 521
Riemer, Hugo H.: 100, 578, 586
Ritchie, A. I.: 65
Robison, Frederick H.: 64, 652, 653
Rockwell, Henry C.: 64
Roe, Webster: 169
Rogers, S. D.: 627
Rollwald Camp: 451
Romania
ban: 675
conventions: 506, 507
early witnessing: 431
Governing Body member visits: 506
lawsuits, 1933-39: 679
literature placements, 1924-35: 431
publishers, number: 431
Society’s printing operations: 583
Roosevelt, Eleanor: 670
Rosam, Eugene and Camilla: 88
Rosario, Ana Paz de: 184
Rota: 513
Rotherham, Joseph B.: 605
Royal Albert Hall: 80, 422, 447
“Ruler for the People”
convention discourse, 1928: 262, 266
Russell, Ann Eliza: 42
Russell, Charles T.: 42, 53, 625
acknowledged indebtedness to others for assistance in Bible study: 43-9, 120
announces “Gentile Times have ended”: 61, 719
associates, early: 45-6, 120, 127
Barbour, N. H.: 46-8, 131, 619-20, 718
begins systematic study of Bible: 44, 718
biography: 64
clergy opposition: 642-6
reactions of Bible Students: 63, 624, 625, 626
debates: 128, 129-30, 643, 644
description: 53, 55, 228-9, 284
early life: 42-5
evangelizing trips: 405
Austria: 406
Britain: 406
Caribbean: 405
Denmark: 406
Germany: 406
India: 419-21
Ireland: 406
Italy: 406
Japan: 420
Middle East: 406
North America: 405
Norway: 406
Orient: 419-21
Philippines: 419-20
Scotland: 406
Sweden: 406
Switzerland: 406
Turkey: 406
world tour, 1911-12: 419-21
“faithful and wise servant”: 143, 626
Herald of the Morning: 46-8, 131, 575, 718
infallibility, no claim of: 207
inspiration never claimed: 622
marriage: 645, 646
meetings: 236-8
newspapers carried sermons: 58, 59, 421-2, 561, 719
Object and Manner of Our Lord’s Return, The: 47, 132-3, 557, 575, 718
president of Watch Tower Society: 576
refusal to solicit financial support: 340, 342, 350
religious background: 42-3, 122, 126
spoke to Jews: 141
Three Worlds published with N. H. Barbour: 47, 135, 575, 718
Tower Publishing Company: 576
turned “hose” on hell: 130
views on—
alcohol: 181-2
Armageddon: 139-40
Bible and study helps: 133, 238, 241
Christ’s presence: 133
Christ’s return: 45, 132-3, 622, 718
covenants: 630
eternal life on earth: 161-2
“faithful and wise servant”: 142-3, 626
government: 190
Jehovah, the name: 123-4
Lord’s work: 211
1914: 60, 135-6, 622, 635-6, 718
ordination: 645
preaching work: 51, 63, 556-7, 559, 623
ransom: 45-8, 131-2, 620-1, 623, 718
selection of elders: 206-7
visited early Watch Tower readers: 50, 205, 222, 404
Russell, Joseph L.: 42, 43
Russia
baptisms: 700
conventions: 281, 506, 509, 511, 700
early witnessing: 411, 454, 507-8
Governing Body members visit: 506
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406, 507-8
Rutherford, Joseph F.
arrest and sentencing: 69, 650-2, 653
background: 67
conventions:
1922: 260
1927: 266
1931: 266-7
1938: 447
1941: 262
court cases: 684
discourses: 84, 86, 155, 258-62
“Face the Facts,” 1938: 80, 447
“Frauds of the Clergy Exposed, The” 1925: 658
“Government and Peace,” 1939: 658
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die”: 425, 632, 648, 719
Editorial Committee: 64
imprisonment: 69, 70
instructions for Witnesses on legal procedures: 690
Judge, why called: 67
lawyer for Society: 59, 67, 654
leadership, comments on: 220, 221
letter expressing support: 625-6
letter to Adolf Hitler: 693
member of New York Bar: 684
name Jehovah’s Witnesses: 151-2, 155-6
not a convict: 654
opposition toward, at headquarters: 66-8
personal characteristics: 66, 220, 624, 625, 626
president of Watch Tower Society: 719
elected, 1917: 65
reelected, 1918: 68
reelected, 1919: 74
radio discourses: 447-8, 458, 562, 563
first broadcast: 80
Russell’s funeral: 284
Supreme Court cases: 684-5
test in Los Angeles: 75-6
wintered in California: 76
Rutherford, Malcolm: 89
Rutherford, Mary: 89
“Rutherfordites”: 150
S
Sabbath: 144
Sachsenhausen concentration camp: 453, 660, 663, 665
St. Croix
relief received: 313
St. Helena: 435
St. Kitts: 414
St. Maarten
Sibia, Society’s schooner: 463
St. Thomas: 413
Salgar, Ramón: 424
Salter, W. F.: 628
“Saluting a Flag”
radio discourse by Rutherford: 196-7
Samoa: 441
Sandwich signs (See Placards)
Santo Domingo (See Dominican Republic)
Sargent, Melvin: 574
Satan: 144
Scheider, Wilhelm: 453
Schenck, Agnes: 471
Schmidt, Victor: 92
Schneider v. State of New Jersey
Schools
flag salute: 684-8
Schools, Watch Tower Society
Gilead School: 95, 522-4, 527, 721
Kingdom Ministry School: 102-3, 113, 231, 722
Ministerial Training School: 113, 300, 533, 545, 723
Pioneer Service School: 113, 300, 723
Theocratic Ministry School: 94, 248, 249, 721
Schools of the Prophets: 247
Schroeder, Albert D.
branch overseer, Britain: 522
convention, 1938, Britain: 447
Schurstein, Karl: 452
Scotland
convention, 1909: 257
early witnessing: 405, 411-12, 447, 567
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
Scott, Edwin: 427
Sedition
charge against Witnesses: 682, 688, 690
Christ’s return: 132
influence on Russell: 43-4, 122
Seegelken, Hermán: 549
Seeley, Robert
comments about Gentile Times: 134
Seiss, Joseph
comments about Gentile Times: 46, 134
Seliger, Ernst and Hildegard: 452
Senegal
branch office: 390
Witnesses from abroad assist with preaching: 469
Servants to the brethren (See also Traveling overseers): 93, 223
Service committee (congregation)
1919: 212
Service director
“Service Essential”
Watch Tower article, 1922: 563, 637-8, 639
Service Meeting: 247, 248
Sessi, Ayité: 477
Sewell, John E. (Ted): 445, 446
Sexton, E. D.: 73-4
Sheep and goats
Jesus’ illustration: 163-4
Shepherd, Sydney: 440
Shooter, Alfred: 478
Shuster, Eugene and Delia: 500
Siam (See Thailand)
Siberia
convention, 1991: 507
Sibia
Society’s schooner: 462, 463
Sierra Leone
branch office: 391
early witnessing: 391, 424, 433
relief sent out: 309
Simonsen, Theodor: 408
Singapore
early witnessing: 412, 430, 445-6, 535
Lightbearer, Society’s boat: 441
Singing
early conventions: 256-7
songbooks: 240-1
“Singing and Accompanying Yourselves With Music in Your Hearts”: 241
Sing Praises to Jehovah: 241
Six Sermons: 45
Sjoberg, Hilma: 438
Slide showings: 481
Smets, Brother: 566
Smith, Frank and Gray: 435
“Society, the”
Sodaemun Prison
Korea: 453
Solomon Islands
branch office: 401
early witnessing: 401
religious leader accepts truth: 474
Somalia: 535
Songs of Praise to Jehovah: 241
Songs of the Bride: 240
Songs to Jehovah’s Praise: 241
Soul (See also Immortality of the soul): 36-8, 127, 145
serving whole-souled: 294
Sound cars: 87, 156, 267, 566, 567
South Africa
“A Challenge to World Leaders,” distribution: 427
ban: 676
construction, donations: 346-7
expansion: 334
translation: 391
congregation, 1915: 239
convention, 1985: 282
early witnessing: 418, 430, 521
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die,” discourse: 426
racial unity of Witnesses: 322
reaching remote areas: 439
South America: 413
Bible studies, number, 1992: 518
congregations, number: 470, 518
early witnessing: 521
missionaries: 463-6
publishers, number: 439, 461, 470, 518
Southern Rhodesia (See Zimbabwe)
South-West Africa (See Namibia)
Sovereignty (See Issues)
Soviet Union (See U.S.S.R.)
Sozoñiuk, Alejandro: 466
Spain
Assembly Halls: 329
bans: 675
branch office: 384
financing construction: 346-7
printing: 584
congregations, number: 384, 501
early meeting place: 318
early witnessing: 384, 424, 430, 436-7, 521
Kingdom Halls: 384
legal recognition: 384, 494, 696, 700
persecution: 494
publishers, number: 384, 494, 510, 667, 696
witnessing while in prison: 495
Spanish
number who speak, worldwide: 365
publishers, number: 613
Speakers
certificates: 204
meetings, early Bible Students: 237
Schools of the Prophets: 247
Theocratic Ministry School: 94, 248, 249
traveling: 222-3
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Special pioneers (See Pioneers)
Spill, W. E.: 68
Spiritism
view of Witnesses: 144
Sri Lanka
ban: 676
branch office: 397
congregation, 1915: 239
early meetings: 240
early witnessing: 397, 412, 430, 535
Stanley Theater: 331-2
Steele, Don and Earlene: 491
Stephanoff, Basil: 406
Stephenson, F. de P.: 414
associate of Russell: 45-6, 120, 127
Street witnessing: 456-7, 567, 569, 721
Stubbs, Louise: 460
Studies in the Scriptures (See also Millennial Dawn): 42, 53, 66-7, 111, 135, 175, 406, 577, 623, 631-2
Subjection
superior authorities: 145, 147, 190-2, 198, 264
“Subjection to Superior Authorities”
convention discourses, 1962: 264
Sudan
relief received: 712
Suggestive Hints to Colporteurs
pamphlet: 246
Suiter, Grant
board of directors: 100
comments about great crowd: 166
convention, 1950: 274
Schools of the Prophets: 247
board of directors: 100
convention, 1922: 77
Sunal, Rudolph: 453
Sunday meetings: 238
Sunday witnessing: 82, 564, 720
Superior authorities: 145, 147, 190-1, 198, 264
Supreme Court
Canada: 689-90
United States: 197, 349, 499, 654, 670, 679, 684-8, 697-9, 721
attending meetings (experience): 253
branch office: 371
congregations, number, 1945: 463
early witnessing: 413
Swaziland
ban: 676
letter campaign: 695
early witnessing: 435
Sweden
Assembly Hall: 331
branch office: 383
languages: 383
printing: 590
early meeting place: 318
early witnessing: 407-8
field ministry, total hours, 1983-92: 383
missionaries sent out: 541
relief sent out: 308-9
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
Swingle, Lyman A.: 91, 100, 116
Switzerland
ban: 675
branch office: 384
bindery: 593
printing: 583
clergy opposition: 658
“Jehovah’s Youth”: 244, 245
Knorr’s visit: 96
literature distribution: 349, 583
meeting the challenge of language differences (experience): 497
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 422
publishers, increase: 455
Russell’s visit, 1891: 406
tests resulting from expectations based on 1925: 633
Sydlik, Daniel: 116
Syria
clergy opposition: 566
missionaries: 541
Szabo, Berthold: 662
Szabó, Károly: 431
Szinger, Ádám: 453
T
Tahiti
ban: 471
early witnessing: 401, 440, 471
legal recognition: 471
Taiwan
Amis tribesmen: 536
branch office: 397
convention, 1991: 281
early witnessing: 397
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
Tanganyika (See Tanzania)
Taylor v. State of Mississippi
flag salute: 688
Temple Auditorium, Los Angeles, California: 648
Templeton, Ramon: 88
“Testimony to the Rulers of the World, A”
Thailand
early witnessing: 397, 418, 430, 446-7
Kingdom Ministry School: 231
office: 397
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
“Then Is Finished the Mystery of God”: 107, 148
Theocracy
definition: 217
“Theocracy’s Increase”
convention theme, 1950: 99, 274
Theocratic Ministry School
Brooklyn Bethel: 248
sisters invited to enroll: 569
Thérond, Elie: 409
“Thief in Paradise, the Rich Man in Hell, and Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom, The”
discourse, 1909: 257
Thomas, Hans: 446
Thompson, Adrian: 451
Thorn, Walter J.: 79
“Thorns and Traps Are in the Way of the Independent One”
Bible drama, 1969: 175
Thousand Year Reign: 104, 162-3
Three Worlds, and the Harvest of This World: 47, 135, 575, 619, 718
Thy Kingdom Come: 52, 53
Tilmant, Jean-Baptiste, Sr.: 409-10
Time Is at Hand, The: 52, 53
Time prophecies (See Chronology)
Tischendorf’s New Testament: 604, 605
Tobacco
view of Witnesses: 180-1
Tobago: 325
Toco, Simão Gonçalves: 481-2
“To Hell and Back!”
Tonga: 472
Tornow, Nikolaus von: 411
Toutjian, Herald: 78
Tower Bible and Tract Society (See also Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania): 603
Tower Publishing Company: 576
Tower Tract Fund: 342-3
Tower Tract Society representatives: 223
protected under First Amendment in United States: 688
first tracts published by Bible Students: 348, 557, 576, 718
languages, number, 1881: 718
Tracy, Robert: 530
Transcription equipment: 87, 448, 566, 573, 720
Translators: 391
computer support: 599, 602, 613-14
number, 1992: 112
Traub, Richard: 438
Traveling overseers (See also Circuit overseers; District overseers; Zone overseers): 93, 222-3, 224-5, 226-7, 298, 719
financial support: 350-1
missionaries: 539-40
supervision of: 234-5
Trinidad
branch office: 365
early witnessing: 365, 414, 462
persecution: 675
Trinity
early antitrinitarians: 44, 125
exposed by Russell: 124-6, 622, 707
origin of doctrine: 36
“Trinity”
phonograph record: 565
“Triumphant Kingdom”
convention, 1955: 276
“Truth Shall Make You Free, The”: 107, 133
Truth That Leads to Eternal Life, The: 105, 107, 571, 574, 594
Tsukaris, John: 194
Tuček, Alfred and Frieda: 433
Tunisia: 475
Turkey: 406
“Two Great Battles Raging—Fall of Autocracy Certain”
tract: 70
Tyndale, William: 44
U
Ubangi-Shari (See Central African Republic)
Uganda
early witnessing: 435
Ukoli, G. M.: 628
Ukraine
Governing Body member visits: 506
legal recognition: 701
meetings: 701
relief received: 309
Uncovered
booklet: 573
Unglaube, Willy: 429, 430, 446
United in Worship of the Only True God: 293
United Nations
beginning: 95
clergy support: 193
State of Israel becomes member: 141
Witnesses’ attitude: 192, 193
United States
house-to-house work: 679
Assembly Halls:
Stanley Theater: 331-2
clergy opposition: 70, 642-6, 648-50, 654-7
congregations:
number: 500
number formed 1985/86: 325
court cases:
defending right to distribute literature: 683-8, 697
defending right to preach publicly and from house to house: 683, 697-8
effect of Witness cases on American law: 698-9
exposing high-handed officials to public view: 693
Supreme Court: 197, 349, 499, 654, 670, 679, 684-8, 721
field ministry:
reaching night workers: 514
telephone witnessing: 516
training: 569
World War II: 456-7
flag salute: 196-7, 669-72, 680, 684-8, 721
“Junior Witnesses”: 245
Kingdom Hall construction: 320-4, 326
literature distribution: 349-50
meetings, efforts to attend (experience): 253
military exemption, World War II: 194
missionaries sent out: 541
World War I: 423-5, 552, 649-56
Prohibition: 182
public meetings: 249
publishers: 457
Spanish-speaking, 1992: 613
relief efforts:
after natural disasters: 313-15, 712
assistance to Cuban refugees: 316
in wartime: 309
tests resulting from—
business ventures: 640
field ministry: 638
unassigned territories: 499
Universal sovereignty (See Issues)
Upper Volta (See Burkina Faso)
Uruguay
branch office: 372
early witnessing: 437
pioneer helped over 100 into truth: 276
publishers, number: 372
U.S.S.R. (See also Russia)
conventions: 507
delegates attend Poland conventions, 1989: 279, 280, 504
early witnessing: 507-8
government opposition: 508, 680
Memorial attendance, 1992: 117
publishers, number, 1946: 508
radio broadcasts: 429
witnessing after World War II: 454, 508, 551
V
Values and Violence in Auschwitz: 663
Van Amburgh, William E.
announces Knorr’s presidency: 91
arrest and sentencing: 652, 653
board of directors: 65, 68, 74
convention, 1942: 93
Editorial Committee: 64
reaction to Russell’s death: 622-4
visits Cuba, 1944: 459
Way to Paradise, The: 245
Van Daalen, Emil: 460
Vandenberg, Albert
Russell-Eaton debates: 643
Vanderhaegen, Peter: 525
Van Hoesen, Mrs. D.: 70
Van Twest, Mr.: 412
Vanuatu: 440
Variorum Bible: 604, 605
V.D.M. Questions: 215
Venezuela
Assembly Hall: 330
branch office: 372
first congregation: 459
Videocassettes: 600-1
Video Services: 600-1
Vietnam
early witnessing: 447
language: 532
pioneers from the Philippines assist with preaching: 473
Vigo, Malcolm and Linda Louise: 530
Vindication: 88, 141, 165, 720
Virgin Islands, U.S.: 535
Voices From the Holocaust: 179
W
Wagner, Charles E.: 90
Walder, Thomas: 521
Wallis and Futuna Islands: 513
Wandres, Albert: 450
“Wanted 1,000 Preachers”
Watch Tower article, 1881: 210, 284, 718
“Warning From Jehovah”
“Warning to All Christians, A”
resolution, 1923: 261
“Watch Tower”
background of expression: 48
Watchtower, The (Formerly called Zion’s Watch Tower; The Watch Tower): 42, 724-5
advocate of the ransom: 47, 132, 620
audiocassettes: 598
benefits: 230
“Berean Questions”: 252
distribution figures:
1879: 48
1914: 48
1916: 725
1920: 578
1942: 721
1992: 723
1993: 725
duplication and distribution, World War II: 454
first issue: 47-8, 121, 122, 718, 724
for persons who are poor: 343, 348
“International Sunday School Lessons”: 245
languages:
German: 410
number, 1922: 725
number, 1938: 252
number, 1969: 592
number, 1993: 725
simultaneous, 1992: 114, 253, 598-9
Spanish: 436
Swedish: 407
name changes: 724-5
never begs for money: 340
street distribution: 567, 721, 725
use at meetings: 252-3
writers: 146
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (Formerly called Peoples Pulpit Association): 91, 229
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (Formerly called Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society)
annual meetings: 65, 68, 72-4, 229
arrest and sentencing of administrative staff: 69, 70, 424, 552, 650, 651, 652, 653, 654-6, 719
appeal of case: 653-4
comments in religious periodicals: 655
release: 75, 257, 425, 654, 720
Bibles: 606-7
board of directors: 65, 100, 228-9, 722
relationship to Governing Body: 233
financial support: 340-51
legally incorporated: 210, 229, 234, 576, 718
membership: 228-9
officers: 228-9
opposition on board of directors, 1917: 66-8, 627, 719
outside the United States: 583, 585-93
president: 67, 91, 111, 234, 576, 719, 721
printing operations: 575-81, 585, 596-7, 607, 720
publisher and distributor of the Bible: 603-15
shareholder-voters: 228-9
Tower Publishing Company: 576
Watchtower Bible School of Gilead (See Gilead School)
Watchtower Educational Center: 336, 352
developing computer systems: 596-7
factory complex: 591-2
Watchtower movements (Africa): 434
Watchtower Study: 252-3
Waterfall, Edna: 532
Watkins, George and Willa Mae: 529
Watson, Claud: 70
“Way to Life”
phonograph record: 565
Way to Paradise, The: 245
WBBR radio station: 80, 341, 562, 720
why sold: 572
Weber, Adolf: 409, 410, 521, 561
Weeds
Jesus’ illustration: 44, 121, 706
Wesley, John
followers called Methodists: 150
West Africa: 521
Westcott, B. F.: 610
West Indies: 462, 463
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: 197, 686-8
Wewelsburg concentration camp: 665
What Do the Scriptures Say About “Survival After Death”?: 127
What Say the Scriptures About Hell?: 129
Wheat
Jesus’ illustration: 44, 121, 706
“Where Are the Dead?”
discourse by Russell: 396
Where Are the Dead?
booklet: 130
“Where Are the Nine?”
tract, 1928: 288
White, Victor: 540
Whittington, Mary: 485
Whittington, Warigbani: 176-7
“Who Will Honor Jehovah?”
Watch Tower article, 1926: 124, 152
“Why Clergy Oppose Truth”
phonograph record: 565
Wiederkehr, Rudolf: 497
Williams, Arthur, Sr.: 419
Willis, Arthur: 445
Wilson, Benjamin: 606
Emphatic Diaglott: 46
Wilson, Gladys: 460
Wilson, Woodrow: 652-3
Windward Islands: 463
Winkler, R. Arthur: 453, 454
Winter, Sophus: 407-8
Winter, Thomas N.
comments about Kingdom Interlinear: 610
Winton, George: 440
Wise, Brian and Elke: 529
Witness
Hebrew words: 12
Wittig, Karl
Witnesses in concentration camps: 553
Wohlfahrt, Franz: 451
Wolfgramm, David: 472
Woodworth, C. James: 93-4
Woodworth, Clayton J.
arrest and sentencing: 650-2, 653
editor of The Golden Age and Consolation: 634
Finished Mystery, The: 66-7
reaction to disappointed expectations: 634
WORD radio station: 81
Workers’ Meetings: 247
World
attitude of Witnesses: 673
early Christians: 198, 200, 673
hatred of Christians: 200, 673
maps: 415-17
“no part of” (John 17:16): 188-201
World Council of Churches
political involvement: 195
effect on preaching work: 423-5
newspaper comment: 60
persecution of Bible Students: 647-54
bans on Witnesses: 455-8
effect on preaching work: 448-58
imprisonments: 451-3
paper rations: 586
Worldwide Security Under the “Prince of Peace”: 171
“World-wide Witness”
Watch Tower article, 1927: 639
Wozniak, André: 227
Wright, J. D.: 65
Wycliffe, John: 44
Y
Yankee Stadium
conventions: 99-102, 106, 270-1, 274
Yeatts, Russell: 529
You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth: 112, 571, 574, 594
Young’s literal Bible translation: 604, 605
“Your Will Be Done on Earth”: 102
“Your Word Is a Lamp to My Foot”: 479
Your Youth—Getting the Best Out Of It: 110, 175, 246
Youths
donations to Kingdom work: 346-7
“Jehovah’s Youth”: 244, 245
“Junior Witnesses”: 245
juvenile classes: 244, 245
meetings: 244-6
Theocratic Ministry School: 249
training: 244
Yuen, Nancy: 490
Yugoslavia
ban: 675
conventions: 507
“Photo-Drama of Creation”: 432
relief efforts: 309-10
Yuille, Maud: 221
Z
Zaire
Bible studies, number, 1992: 510
congregations, number, 1975: 483, 501
counterfeit Watchtower movements: 482-3
Kingdom Halls reopened: 509-10
missionaries: 483
polygamy (experience): 176
publishers, number: 482-3, 510
relief efforts: 712
repressive measures by colonial officials: 482-3, 486-7
Zambia
branch office: 392
financing construction: 346-7
congregations, number: 475, 537
early witnessing: 436
film The New World Society in Action: 480
Memorial, 1992: 509
printing: 594
publishers, number: 392
relief efforts: 317
return visits, number, 1936-92: 392
Zanzibar (See Tanzania)
Zech, O. von: 627
Zeppelinwiese
convention, 1946: 268
Zimbabwe
ban: 676
branch office: 392
circuit assembly, effort to attend (experience): 281
legal recognition: 486
meetings (experience): 251
Memorial (experience): 243
traveling overseers: 227
Zimmerman, Harold and Anne: 469, 470
“Zionism in Prophecy”
discourse by Russell: 141
Zion’s Day Star: 621
Zion’s Glad Songs: 240
Zion’s Glad Songs of the Morning: 240
Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (See also Watchtower, The): 47-8, 252, 718, 724-5
Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society (See also Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)
colporteurs: 284
organized: 718
Zone assembly (See Assemblies)
Zone overseers (servants): 101, 223, 227
Zwingli, Ulrich: 39
