“Salvation unto our God . . . and unto the Lamb.”—Rev. 7: 10.

“Satisfied” Booklet Starts Big Work for 1941 Witness

Good Time for

New Publishers to Begin

WORK WHILE YOU CAN!

Satisfied! That's the keynote for the month of January. Jehovah in his goodness to his people has provided us with this new instrument to go forth in the proclamation of The Theocracy.

The 1941 Calendar for January says, in the quotation from Psalm 14.1:16: “Thou . . . satisfiest the desire of every living thing.” All creatures who love righteousness and desire to do the will of God and praise him will be satisfied. There are many good people, in all denominations, of every kindred and tongue, who love righteousness and who want to be satisfied. Jehovah is making special provision now so that these people may be fed. Let us do our part.

January Work

As is shown at another place in the Informant, the “Courage” Testimony Period is moving ahead with the greatest progress. Servants of The Theocracy are bending every effort to place in the hands of the people the millions of booklets provided for that purpose. Because the work is moving on at such a great pace this campaign is extended up to and including the 12th of January, which gives us twelve more davs, including two week-ends, to present to the people the special offer of seven booklets on a contribution of ten cents. Beginning on January 1 every combination should include Satisfied and four other self-covered booklets, along with two colored - cover booklets; however, this suggestion is not arbitrary (you may use any booklets you have), but this will be a splendid opportunity to dispose of many of the self-covered booklets on hand. For the first twelve days of January every combination should include Satisfied, Conspiracy Against Democracy, and Jiefugees. By the Lord’s grace we will place another three million booklets In January I

Have in mind that the principal purpose of the January campaign is to prepare the territory for February campaign with the Watchtower magazine. Therefore the booklet Satisfied should be left at every home in the particular territory you are working where the people will promise to read, most of whom will make a small contribution. The suggestion should be made to the people that five cents may be contributed so that more can be printed and distributed throughout the world. During the first twelve days of January (which is the continuation of the “Courage” Testimony Period) where people contribute five cents, with the Satisfied booklet, you can give then! two other self-covered booklets.

Be Supplied

Many of the companies are now running low in their stock of booklets, and this information is being sent to you early so that you can replenish your stock if need be from some near-by company. If you cannot get supplies from Brooklyn or one of the depots in time for the work of the first twelve days of January, write your zone servant and see what he can do to get some literature to you from other companies in the zone. If you can’t get any more booklets, then go ahead with all your energy in placing just the Satisfied booklet and prepare your territory for February as all publishers will be doing throughout the world.

Phonograph

During the month of January the phonograph should be used exten-

"Let's Go!” was I he opening slogan on the "Courage” Testimony Period campaign outline in the December Informant. Let’s go where, and for what?

After seven million booklets, 60,000 publishers, and at least 10 combinations of 7 for each publisher. How have we done?

The Society has received reports from 63 representative companies for the first 15 days of the month of December, and here is what they reveal, by the Lord's grace:

63 companies 250,164 booklets 5,864 publishers Average—424 each 5,864 company publishers placed 250,164 booklets; an average of 424 booklets per publisher for the first 15 days of the month. This is splendid and beyond our expectations. At this rate we shall have an average of 85 booklets per publisher for the entire month. “Courage” Testimony Period. How is your company doing as compared with this early report?

The Bethel family have been greatly blessed in this campaign, and averaged 103 booklets per publisher for the first 15 days. Some of the high points in the other sections of sively.’The suggestion is offered that the record “Value of Knowledge” be used in the doorstep setup and played at homes wherever possible. This is an excellent record for the introduction of booklets. The following month the brethren will use the record “Instruction”, which tells the people of the Watchtower magazine.

Back-Calls

January should be a splendid month for making back-calls. It is usually cold and people do not get out much, but we can go to their homes for a back-call. Go through your files, and if you have not already called on all of these people with the special offer of 17 booklets on a 25c contribution or all 35 booklets on contribution of 50c, then give these people of good-will the opportunity of obtaining this unusual offer.

What a glorious privilege Jehovah lias given us at this day, of taking the food from the storehouse and distributing it to those in need ! This month of January would be a splendid one for new publishers to begin work, using Satisfied.

the country are as follows: In Baltimore one unit'averaged 79 booklets per publisher; in Philadelphia, 74; Washington, 714; Chicago, 65; Boston, 604 ; and so on throughout the country.

Now think! If the company publishers are privileged, by the Lord’s grace, to place between 3 million and 4 million booklets during December and the pioneers make their quota of 3 million, and we have 12 additional days during January to carry on this campaign to clean up, during which time the companies will easily place 2 million more and the pioneers another million—where are those 10 million booklets that we had on our shelves at the beginning of the campaign going to be? In the hands of the people, where they belong and where the Lord purposed they should be. Never before was there such a tremendous witness for the Kingdom given in so short a period. Never before was there such a terrific onslaught against the bulwarks of Satan on the earth. Let’s keep on pounding day and night and share in this testimony that “must be given before the great and final conflict”.

70 Thousand Publishers

Including More Pioneers

As indicated by the November Informant, during the fiscal year just ended there was an average of 47,762 publishers in the field in the United States, with a peak of publishers of 58,009. Undoubtedly this was one of the most important years in the history of the church, as it saw all the faithful, those of the “little Hock” together with those of the “great multitude”, unitedly marching forward (as locusts) in the face of extreme opposition on the part of the deluded and demonized earthly agents of Satan. Jehovah rewarded His people with further joy in the service and gave them more ■'companions” to assist in carrying forward “His strange work”.

Trusting the Lord to give tlie increase, we are confidently setting another quota of publishers for this year, seventy thousand publishers. In order to reach this in the United States, it is the privilege of each company to set and diligently strive for a 25-percent increase over its 1940 peak of publishers. Properly caring for the back-call and modelstudy inlerest will be the best means of accomplishing this. Remember the quota of 12 back-calls per month per publisher, 1 model study per publisher, 60 hours per month by ail company publishers,

And, those who have been able to consistently meet and exceed that company publisher goal of hours will have their minds on the “150 hours per month” pioneer service I

“COURAGE” TESTIMONY FLASHES

CALIFORNIA. “ •Courage’ Testimony Period started with unprecedented impetus. We anticipate many last-minute needs for booklets on the part of companies that figured only on their quota of ten sets per publisher. Already some companies find they have placed about half their quota of booklets. Dec. 5.”

“Nine of us placed 103 sets of 7 in 4 days.”

“Six publishers placed 43 sets in three days.”

OHIO. “I have been able, by the Lord’s grace, to place 34 sets of 17 and 18 sets of 7 booklets, mostly on back-calls, by December 6.”

VIRGINIA. “Sr.----and I placed

789 in the first 4 days of the campaign.” (Pioneer)

December 14 a pioneer writes: “Sister and I have placed 2,000 booklets in the first eleven days, and have 1,200 left. At the same rate these will be gone in seven more days.”

NEW YORK. “My territory is 90-percent Jewish. During the first 15 days of ‘Courage’ ’Testimony Period I put in 45 hours and placed 635 booklets, including 71 sets of 7. This was accomplished in week-end and evening work. One evening, 2i hours, placed 9 sets.”

Three Months Special

Check Your Supplies

New Peak in Publishers Expected

Preparing himself for war Ehud made a two - edged sword. The Watchtower shows that the two-edged sword (the message of The Theocracy) ‘is an instrument of warfare that punctures and cuts in all directions’. Ehud’s sword pictures the work now being accomplished by the spreading of the Kingdom message throughout the earth, in which the faithful have a part. Ehud girded his sword, which meant preparation and to be fully equipped, and thus he went forward, trusting in Jehovah; and this pictures the Lord’s people today in action!

Time

The distribution of the booklet Satisfied prepares the territory for the Watehtorcer Campaign, which starts on February 1 and which will last for three months. This will be a world-wide campaign, which will come to a climax in the month of April, during which month the lord’s people, the remnant and the other sheep, will assemble to celebrate the Memorial. A peak of 70,000 publishers in the field by April is the goal aimed at. Everyone who loves the Lord, and has covenanted to do His will, will take part regularly in this campaign. Regional servants, zone servants, companies and pioneers should prepare to make this the greatest Watchtower campaign that we have ever had.

Offer

The special offer will be a year’s subscription for The Watchtower, with the book Religion and the booklet Satisfied, on a contribution of $1.00. We should diligently strive to place this offer with every person of good-will on our back-call files and those we meet in the door-to-door work. Persons who are unable to obtain this special offer should be offered the book Religion and the Satisfied booklet on a contribution of 25c. If they cannot afford either of these, the booklet Satisfied should be left on any contribution they can make, or free if they cannot contribute but promise to read.

Quota

The quota is 100,000 subscriptions, 1,000,000 bound books, and 12,000,000 booklets, in three months. With a new peak of publishers in prospect, back-calls ready for the campaign, and each publisher doing his part, this quota can easily be reached. The quota for each publisher will be 1 subscription, 7 bound books and 80 booklets each month. The Informant repeatedly stresses the importance of each publisher’s arranging a regular schedule for each week’s Kingdom service. Those publishers doing this are proving more efficient in attaining the quota of hours and back-calls per month, and also making their quota in campaigns. They have real joy and courage in this time of peril, keeping in mind only The Theocracy and the vindication of Jehovah’s name.

Weekly Check

A weekly check should be kept by each company during the Watchtower Campaign; in fact, it is well to do this at all times. The advantage and importance of this is being proved by the progress and results of the booklet campaign, and companies should by now be well acquainted on how to keep this weekly check. Company publishers should

Order “Satisfied”

and “Religion” Now

Notice to Pioneers and Company Servants

The Society is inaugurating a new system of mailing the Informant to pioneers, to save postage. This system is partially in effect in mailing this Informant, and will be in complete operation for the February Informant. It will affect only those pioneers who are in families or are permanent partners or groups who have the same address.

In the cases where there are two or more in one family or two or more partners working together, the Society will send the required number of copies of the Informant for the entire group in one envelope instead of in two or more separate envelopes. So that pioneers will not be missing their Informant or other information, it will be necessary that pioneers be more careful and accurate in sending in changes of address.

It will aid the office if permanent pioneer partners Or groups will notify the Society immediately in cases where their copies of the Informant can be sent together. In all cases where the family names and the addresses are identical the Society will group the Informants without notice; but when such is not the case and a saving may be made, we shall appreciate your notifying us.

Many times the wife pioneering with her husband sends in n change of address for herself with her given name, but no notice changing her husband’s address ; thus the office docs not know whether it was negligence on their part in not sending in two address slips or whether one is staying to finish the territory. In this connection it would help the office if the wife would always use her husband's name or initials and not her given name, and always indicate whether one or both addresses are to be changed.

In cases where the pioneer is also a company servant two address slips should be mailed and one be marked ‘‘company servant” together with the name of the company.

Much time is lost in trying to get the correct address on company and pioneer orders when correct addresses are not given. When a pioneer or company order is mailed to us and the address does not correspond with the address on our records, we are at loss to know which address is the proper one. When literature is ordered sent lo the company servant and the address on the order blank does not correspond to our records, we do not change the company servant’s mailing address, unless a separate notice of change is sent. The Society is doing everything possible to get your orders to you at the right address and on time, but when there are repeated inconsistencies in addresses it cannot be expected that you -will get your orders and mail. Pioneers and, particularly, company servants will do well to check the address on the envelope in which this Informant is received, and if such address is not correct, notify the Society immediately.

Credit to Companies for Colored Booklets

In order to make no mistakes in crediting the company accounts for colored-cover booklets placed with the publishers during the special seven-booklet campaign, the following is here set out as outlined on the back of the special order blank:

The stockkeeper will keep an accurate record of all the colored-cover booklets placed with the publishers at a penny each from the stockroom. At the end of the month he will report to the company servant (who makes out the report card) the number of colored-cover booklets placed with the company publishers at one cent each, and the company servant will request credit for these on the report card sent in to the Society at the end of December.

This company report card should be signed by both the company servant and the stockkeeper, so that the Society is assured that this matter has been carefully checked by both individuals. In small companies that do not have a stockkeeper the signing-by the company servant will be sufficient. If the company delivers or ships to pioneers or other companies any self-covered or coloredcover booklets on an order received from the Society, the Society will send a credit memo crediting the company at the regular company rate for the literature thus supplied. The company will not ask for any credit on their report for these booklets. Request credit only on colored - cover booklets placed with COMPANY PUBLISHERS FOB THE DECEMBER CAMPAIGN.

Since the booklet campaign lias been extended to include the first 12 days of January, companies will note on their January report to the Society the number of colored-cover bookiefs placed with company publishers at one cent each during the first 12 days of January, so that proper credit can be given.

During the remainder of this campaign any company that has an excessive supply of booklets which the company cannot dispose of by January 12 can arrange to transfer them to any near-by pioneer or company, likewise any company needing literature may draw on the stock of any near-by company having a surplus, making out the usual Transfer of Stock form, without first getting the Society’s approval.

Organization Instructions

There has been prepared (and this will be sent to each regional, zone and company servant, as well as each pioneer) a sheet entitled “Amendments to Organization Instructions”, which amendments go into effect January 1, 1941. Therein are some corrections and additions applying to various servants in the organization. On receipt of this sheet, each one should bring his copy of “Organization Instructions (as amended)” up to date by pasting the amended paragraphs in their propel* places or striking out the amended portions of the original form and attaching the new form thereto.

Much company servant should likewise bring these amended instructions to the attention of the company and furnish each servant affected (including study conductors) a complete copy of the portion of the “Organization Instructions” as they now stand affecting that servant.

“Organization Instructions” should be carefully studied from time to time and complied with. It would be well for the zone servant also to go over these instructions with the companies, and particularly with the servants, to see that they are understood.

Yearbook, Calendar Ready

The Society Is filling orders for the Yearbook and the Calendar. If you nave not already ordered your Yearbook and your Calendar for 1941, please do it immediately. It is well for each publisher to have the use of these two Instruments, provided by the Lord, throughout the entire year. Yearbook, 50c contribution ; Calendar, 25c.