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Kr M jgWr».-. Visitors from around the world at the last Je- ditm saw the Watchtower \Bible and Tract Society hovah’s Witnesses’ Assembly held in the Yankee Sta- publications printed in their native language. looking New York harbor. This modern build ing contains the executive offices of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and houses 450 workers of the So ciety. These volunteer workers devote eight and one-half hours a day, five days a week, and half day on Saturday, to duties such as running presses, working in the laundry, carpenter shop, cobbler ‘hop, kitchen, tailor shop, library, power depart ment and legal department. To .illustrate the scope of their legal department, they have carried 45 cases to the Supreme Court of the United States and have received 34 favorable decisions. Another duty is the operation of their radio station, WBBR. It is a non-commercial, educa tional station, operating seven days a week. To show further the self-sufficiency of the group, they have two doctors, a dentist, barber, tailor and members of other professions. Their fruit, vegetables, meat, butter and eggs are pro duced on their three farms in New York and New Jersey. In other words, everything is fur nished through. mutual cooperative effort except clothing, for which each worker receives a nom inal monthly stipend. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society was founded in 1872. Incorporated in 1884 as Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society, the present name was adopted in 1896. Their first publication, the WATCHTOWER, began in a small way, the first issue being 6,000 copies. By 1904 circulation was 25,000. Now the current issue, printed in 38 languages, is about 1,500,000 copies. The entire first edition of 6,000 copies could be printed on one of their modern presses in 12 minutes. Above: The “New World Translation of the Christ ian Greek Scriptures”, printed on Ecusta paper.
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