Chapter Eleven/Is Your Name in the Book of Life? - Coming "as a Thief " - Continue

 The John class today is itself awake to the need for stimulating God's people to keep spiritually alive. To this end, special gatherings are arranged throughout the earth several times each year. In a recent year, attendance at 995 district conventions totaled 6,153,749 and 82,785 new believers were baptized, for more than a hundred years, the John class has used the Watchtower magazine in announcing Jehovah's name and purpose. In response to bitter persecutions during the two world wars, The Watchtower aroused Jehovah's Witnesses to renew zeal by publishing articles such as "Blessed Are the Fearless" (1919), "A Call to Action" (1925), "And Defeat of Persecution" 1942). 

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