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FIELD EXPERIENCES TRUTH SWEEPS AWAY REFUGE OF LIES A court trial in Quebec City centered around the work of Jehovah's witnesses, and appearing to testify against the Witnesses was a Catholic priest. The result was much dis- cussion about Catholic doctrine in the light of the Bible. That this was an eye-opener to honest Catholics is shown by the following experience of a pioneer publisher in Quebec City: "The other night when I arrived back at the hall 1 found two of our company publishers very ably haying a book study with seven young men who had been following the court trial. They had read our hall address in the papers. One of their number has a sister with whom I placed some literatu~'e in 19-!6. This group of young men customarily hang around a cornel' downtown, drink 'cokes' and generally do nothing but talk. However, because of the interest in the trial they all procured Bibles and had many que~tions to ask. The priest refused to answer their questions; so they came to Jehovah's witnesRes. They were all quite satisfied with the answers received and were loud in their praise of our knowledge of the Bible. The last boy did not leave the hall till 3 a.m." GOD'S WORD DISPELS DESPO~DE:"CY While in a hospital in Florida one of Jehovah's witnesses helped a patient by telling him some of t~e marvelous truths contained in God's "'Yard. "There was a ;young man who had been b the hospital for sixteen months. He hud been in the Pacific i~lands during the war and hardly got a 5cratch, but was rur. down by an auto and had hi& left leg crushed, and after all this time he thinks it will have to come off. His wife, who is a Catholic, told me that he felt ~o despondent that nothing would cheer him up. WelL the next time I saw him on the porch, I began talking to him abou: the truth. At first he was not interested, but, when I took the Bible and showed it to him, then he believed it. I took him from when God formed man and blew breath into his nostrils and he became a living soul, right up to the Kingdom. He was surprised, as he said he had asked several ministers and none could tell him what 1 told him about the resurrection and the new world. Why, he talked about it to everyone. He t09k 'Let God Be True', 'The Truth Shall Make You Free', 'The Kingdom Is at Iland', 'Eqltipped for Every Good Work', and a Bible. He has read aU of them and is reading the 'Let God Be True' book the second time. I am going to have a Bible study with him on Tuesdays. His ....ife told me that I did him more good than all the nurses and doctor put together." BOOK STUDIES MAKE NEW PUBLISHERS The following experience sent in by a publisher in Texas shows the need to baek-call on all placements, and also that it 1S not always experience that enables one to place litera- ture. The bubbling zeal of newly interested ones is also effective. "1 called on a good·williady to conduct a study in 'Let God Be True', and found she had company. 1 asked the lady 'isitor whether she cared to study with us. 'Yes, I do!' she quickly replied. She asked many questions and when the study was over said that she had the book 'Let God Be Tr1ie', but that she had not studied it because she could not understand it. 1 set a date to call on her, and when 1 arrived she was waiting for me. I asked her to select a subject that she would be specially interested in hearing discussed, and she chose the 'new earth'. She was yery thrilled and asked many interesting questions, and said that she realized that all she had now was going down into destruction and that she wished she could sell everything and just go into this work. I invited her to go out into the work with me for an hour right then. She stated she would be glad to go, but she didn't know how to gin a witness. I stated that she could liste.n to me and learn, and then she could try a door. She got her mother to keep her twin babies, and she went with me to the first house. When 1 started to witness to the householder the householder said she couldn't take the book and handed it back to me. But it was soon placed when the newly interested lady began tdling how wonderful she had found the book to be. The next door I gave the witness and again the householder refused, but the new witness joined me in testifying and soon she made the placement. The next door she took alone, and returned to tell me that the lady was quite sarcastic. But at the next door, where I had tried but failed to make placements in the past, she gave a brief witness and as she left I could hear her saYlng, 'You be sure to read this book.' 1 only had two studies with this good-will lady of about 20 years of age. Now she attends company studies and participates in the Theocratic ministry school reviews." (Continued trom page 130) time to plan your vacation for 1950. ~ow is the time to save your only WIll the brethren be attending the conventIOn but they will funds so you can make the trip. be able to Visit both the new Bethel home and the new factory, We ask too that all pray to the Lord for a rich blessing to as well as the new radio station, which should be fully completed, be upon this assembly, that His will may be done and that the and inspect them. The Watchtower Bible School of GIlead IS not conventIOn may redound to His honor and praise. too far distant, so many of the visitors may enjoy that also. It is with real joy that we look to 1950 and this International Further information concerning this International Convention Conyention of J ehovah's witnesses in New York city, for not will be published later in The Watchtower.