Footnote

a In the German democratic Republic, the Communist government has instituted an antireligious ceremony by the name of “youth dedication” to substitute for the so-called Christian confirmation as carried out by many churches in Christendom, so as to draw the youth away from the churches, and this evidently not without results. Jehovah’s witnesses do not observe the un-Biblical confirmation of the churches, neither do they nor their children participate in any “youth dedication” in any country.