INFORMANT

OCTOBER, 1938                                   'Be not afraid: the battle Is God’s.’—2 Chron. 20: 15. BROOKLYN, N.Y.

“Jehovah’s Battle” Testimony Period

Fascism or Freedom: Which Shall We Have?

An Onward March

We Should Have over 30,000 Publishers

The world-wide convention, just passed, was the greatest ever held on earth. Although Brother Rutherford served personally only the key convention city, London, the arrangements made to link together the 50 convention cities made one grand convention and it seemed that Brother Rutherford was at each one. The remainder of the discourses during the three-day convention were on the same subjects, all convention programs being identical, and all the discourses featured “Organization”, “Jehovah’s Theocratic Government,” and “His War”.

These instructions and further encouragement emphasizing that our Leader, Christ Jesus, as the Executive Officer of Jehovah, is in command and that the battle is Jehovah’s show God’s people as being not only “willing in the day of his power” but also, as was David as he faced Goliath, eager to face the monstrosity and thus have a share in the vindicating of Jehovah’s word and name.

The month of October should find all who have been publishers, as well as those who first saw this privilege at the convention, out in the field. The booklet Warning, released first at the convention, will be the campaign literature for the entire period. Containing the two speeches of Brother Rutherford on “Warning” and “Violence”, this booklet should be placed in every home in our territory, if possible. Realizing that only those who take a firm stand on Jehovah’s side will be carried through Armageddon, Jehovah’s people shoulder the responsibility of getting the warning to those of good will to serve God and Christ and thus find a way of escape.

Time

The question before us now is not, “Shall I set a booklet quota for the month?” or “Should I quit after getting in my twenty hours?” but rather we will stock up with Warning booklets and say, “I will do all in my power to see that I get the message into the hands of every person I meet!” That means that every true lover of righteousness reading this Informant will determine, by the Lord’s grace, to spend every moment available during the mouth, “Jehovah’s Battle” Period, witnessing witli a group of publishers, or alone in territory near your home, or when going to and from work. Follow the same procedure used during the three-month campaign.

The booklet Warning will be left with the people on a 5c contribution, or thirteen on a contribution of 50c. No testimony card will be provided. A short verbal testimony may be used, giving the background of the conditions under which the lectures were delivered, how the booklet calls attention to the prophecies dealing with the very conditions now existing, and the outcome. The phonographs should be used extensively, using particularly the new record, “Relief,” “Resolution,” P-151, P-152. This record will aid not only in placing the booklet, but also in arranging for model studies with the lectures "Warning” and “Violence”. It would be well to supply yourself with a few bound books, such as Enemies and Riches, offering these to the people who desire additional literature.

Not only does October 1 open “Jehovah’s Battle” Period and the new fiscal year 1939, but also the new Theocratic Organization goes into effect then. The various servants of the company will appreciate your co-operation in aiding them to fulfill their duties. The study chairmen will be emphasizing the importance of service in their study groups. The zone servants will begin visiting the companies in their zones.

The people of good will in your territory are waiting for the message contained in Warning. On your mark I Get set I! Go!!! The Lord bless you 1

Change in Reporting

Beginning with the fiscal year, October 1, there are a few changes to note on your report cards:

• 1. Nine-day testimony periods will no longer be reported, because all testimony periods will be one month long, as, for instance, “Jehovah’s Battle,” which will run from October 1 to 31. (Your report for October will include September 26-30, as the field service report for the fiscal year ends with September 25. All company servants should inform the publishers week by week of the progress of their work compared with the previous year, so that they can see how they are increasing in the Kingdom interests committed to their care in their own territory.

• 2. Reporting of “Obtainers” will be discontinued. Instead you will report the total number of “new subscriptions” for The Watchtower and Consolation. Do not report renewal subscriptions. Only new subscriptions are to be listed. Both sixmonth and one-year new subscriptions may be counted. Report new subscriptions in the space formerly used for “Obtainers”, striking out “Obtainers” and writing above it “Sub’s”. In all back-call work, particularly, The Watchtower and Consolation should be stressed.

Summarizing; Report the following after October 1: Books         New Subscriptions

Booklets        (Watchtower and

Number of       Consolation)

Publishers   Attendance at

Hours          Sound Meetings

Back Calls

Notice

All pioneers now serving as special pioneers or zone servants will please return all territory assignments held by them prior to their new assignment.

Preliminary Convention Report

While the world-wide convention is over, the information and instruction received by Jehovah’s people during those momentous three days in the 50 convention cities and by radio has given them some real food for thought and encouraged them to greater activity and zeal than ever before in Jehovah’s Kingdom service. The Jonadabs have an added incentive now to maintain their integrity at all costs, so as to have the further opportunity of serving God after Armageddon.

On Sunday Brother Rutherford tolled the death knell (and the sound encircled the globe) of the totalitarian state (Fascism, Nazism, Communism) and the organized religion of the Devil, and in particular the Hierarchy and its titular head, the pope.

We are looking forward to reading the complete report of the convention in The Messenger, and we can give here only a preliminary report of the convention cities in this country so far heard from: Over 19,000 publishers reported, making the convention practically a 100-percent publisher convention ; almost 150,000 pieces of literature placed; almost 300,000 heard either the sound cars or phonographs. “Sandwich signs” played a prominent part in every convention city, nearly all of the publishers having some share in this unique way of advertising. Report from London indicates that one of the parades there was three miles long.

Other advertising was also used, such as handbills and placards on private and sound cars. There was also some unsolicited advertising: The Catholic Press, desiring to leave no stone unturned to disrupt every convention, if possible, aided considerably in getting the people to the Sunday “Face the Facts” lecture. One of the priests ‘regretted that they had given the matter so much publicity’. They did as much ‘dirt’ as they could, using foul means and ‘fouler’ to prevent the people from getting the information that Brother Rutherford had for them. The detailed report in The Messenger will give more information on this subject.

Another Witness Against Them

By the time this Informant is received, Brother Rutherford will have delivered another broadside against the Fascist-religious totalitarian crowd in his lecture “Fascism or Freedom ; Which Shall We Have?” on October 2. Due to the intense opposition of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, arrangements were made to receive this lecture in auditoriums at New Orleans, Seattle, Columbus, Ottawa and Toronto, in addition to Mecca Temple in New York city, where Brother Rutherford spoke in person. Simultaneously over 60 radio stations carried the lecture to all parts of the United States. This further humiliation of the “monstrosity” and its supporters, the Hierarchy, will have filled you with joy and eagerness to continue in the “strange work” of Jehovah.

Every true lover of righteousness will esteem it a privilege and act immediately in writing to those stations serving the territory in which you live, commending them for their courage and fair-mindedness in carrying the speech, in view of the Hierarchy’s having coerced, browbeaten and threatened any that would dare to broadcast any matter that would expose their selfish and God-dishonoring and racketeering schemes. Radio stations shall carry programs that are of interest, convenience and public necessity, and Brother Rutherford’s speech of October 2 certainly meets these requirements. There is shown below a list of the stations that contracted to broadcast the speech. Ascertain if the ones in your locality did so, then write them promptly. This is a Kingdom privilege of service.

NEBRASKA

Norfolk WJAG N. Platte KGNF Scottsbluff KGKY

NEW JERSEY

Bridgeton WSNJ

NEW YORK

Brooklyn WBBR

Buffalo WGR Freeport WGBB White P. WFAS

N. CAROLINA

Durham WDNC Wilm’gton WMFD Winston-S. WSJS

OHIO

Akron WADC Portsm'th WPAY

OREGON

Astoria KAST

Klamath F. KFJI

Medford KMED PENNSYLV’A

Reading WRAW S. CAROLINA

Spartanb. WSPA S. DAKOTA

Sioux Falls KSOO TENNESSEE

Jackson WTJS Knoxville WNOX

TEXAS

Ft. Worth KTAT Longview KFRO P't Arthur KPAG

VIRGINIA

Charlot’v. WCHV Danville WBTM Harrisonb. WSVA

WASHINGTON

Seattle KEEN

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston WCHS Clarksb’g WBLK Fairmont WMMN Hunt’ton WSAZ Parkersb. WPAR

New Records in German

The following lectures have been recorded in the German language, and are available at the usual rates, namely, 70c for single discs, six discs for $3.50. These records are manufactured in the U. S. A., hence lower in cost than the records previously imported from Switzerland, and are of much better quality.

PX-5,6 Kingdom, Armageddon PX-7, 8 Soul, The Dead PX-27, 28 Comfort, Why Clergy

Oppose Truth

PX-29, 30 Prince of Peace, Peace Messengers PX-101,102 Value of Knowledge, Riches

PX-14,114 Truth, Enemies