"HE LEADS ME IN THE TRACKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" -AS TOLD BY OLGA CAMPBELL

Religious Intolerance in Quebec

My move to Quebec was no mere change of scenery. The Witnesses there faced fierce opposition to their preaching work.  We delighted to share in the distribution of the tract Quebec's Burning Hate for God and Christ and Freedom Is the Shame of All Canada.  That searing message exposed the religious intolerance against the Witnesses.

For 16 days, we started about two o'clock each morning silently slipping tracts under the doors. At one apartment  house, we learned that the police were on their way. We escaped detection by  hiding in an alley. The next day, we went back on the streets offering The Watchtower and Awake!  As the months passed the police arrested us so many times that we lost count.  To be prepared for a jail stay, I always carried by toothbrush and my eyebrow pencil. 

In November 1946, Nathan Knorr, who was the taking the lead in the    worldwide work of the Witnesses, visited from Brooklyn, New York. He invited 64 of us pioneers in Quebec to attend the ninth class of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead in South Lansing, New York. At this school, we received an intensive five-month course in August 1947, we were sent to towns throughout Quebec to start new congregations. 

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