Yearbook
131
those for 1939. There are 60 company organizations. Three zone servants have been active during the year, and proviSIOn has now been made for other two to get gomg. The depot servant reports as follows: "The people of this country are more ready, not only to gIve a hearmg ear to the Kingdom message, but also to DO something about it as well. Many hundreds are interested and the majority have remained just that, until the war started. This and other factors are forcing all who have a knowledge of the Truth to make a choice OI!e way or the other j the awakening is here. The result is that Jehovah's WItnesses have their hands full and they are greatly encouraged to see theIr efforts bearing fruit. That which is contrIbuting largely to the gathering of the "other sheep" IS the back-call and sound-machme work. There are only about 40 gramophones in the country, but through them a tremendous WItness IS being given, while, concerning the back-call work, one company expresses the views of others when it 路WI'ltes: 'At first we dId not qmte see the usefulness of the back-call arrangement, but now we realIZe just how necessary It is.' This work is on the increase. One pubhsher tells of how the CN-'Redemption' record put to flight five Roman Cathohc native teachers and how they later caused a report to reach the ears of the District Commissioner that 'someone with a gramophone was going around the villages tellmg the people that Armageddon IS here and that all Europeans are gomg to be destroyed', etc. The old, old dodge; but it did not work that tlIDe. It is somewhat stale now and growmg whIskers! The investigations by the authorities proved the report to be mcorrect, and that closed the matter. The 'eVIl servant' class does not hke the gramophone and attempts to behttle the good work It does by declarmg to the people that it is a 'sin for anyone to use an inanlIDate thmg to preach the gospel of the Kingdom'. Needless to say, very few beheve them. 'Where there is the SPll'lt of the Lord there is a way.' ThlS is demonstrated by the way some brethren up North set about finding the means to equip themselves WIth a gramophone. They buy a huge tree (choosing one near to a 1'1ver, if pOSSIble), fell It, and float it down to their village. There they set about hollowmg out the trunk and shaping it into a canoe, wIDch, when completed, is sold to bring in the wherewithal to equip themselves with a gramophone. All this takes time, some months, in fact, and is hard work, but it means a phonograph.