Life Story/We Learned Never to Say No to Jehovah/AS TOLD BY KATHLEEN LOGAN - A PERIOD OF CLEANSING

 

During the 1960's and 1970's, many Amis brothers were not living by God's standares.  Since they did not fully understand Bible principles, some were living immoralluy, getting drunk, or using tobacco and betel nut.  Harvey visited many congregation, trying to help the brothers understand Jehovah's view on these matters. On one such trip, we had the experience mentioned at the outset. 

Humble brothers were willing to make changes, but sadly others were not, and the number of publishers in Taiwan dropped from over 2,450 to about 500 during a period of 20 years. This was veruy discouraging.  However, we knew that Jehovah would never bless and unclean organization.  (2 Corinthians 7:1) Eventually, the wrong practices were cleaned out, and with Jehovah's blessing, Taiwan has over 11,000 publishers. 

From the 1980's on, we saw the spiritual condition of the Amish congregations improve, and Harvey could spend more time among the Chinese.  He was delighted to help the husbads of a number of sisters become believers.  I recall that he said how happy he was when one of these men prayed to Jehovah for the first time.  I too rejoiced to have been able to teach many honesthearted ones to draw close to Jehovah.  I even had the joy of serving at the Taiwan branch with the one and daughter of one of my former Bible students. 

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Life Story/We Learned Never to Say No to Jehovah/AS TOLD BY KATHLEEN LOGAN - A SAD LOSS

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