By this spiritual reproduction, such Bible witnesses are here on earth still today, just as sure as we are the natural children and the physical expression of our forefather Adam, or his “kind.” Of necessity, therefore, in keeping with the same law of reproduction, the leaders of false religion, past and present, must accept for themselves the words of Jesus: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one you make him a subject for Gehenna twice as much so as yourselves.”—Matt. 23:15.

15. (a) Why could Jehovah’s witnesses never adopt the working methods of the clergy? (b) What will their preaching work eventually lead to?

¹⁵ “The kingdom of God will be taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits,” Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees. To his followers he said: “My Father is glorified in this, that you keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples.” Jehovah’s witnesses have a keen desire to be the nation that produces the fruits of the Kingdom of God, and, therefore, they could never adopt the slipshod working methods of the churches of Christendom. They must prove that they are Christ’s disciples, and they can do that only by the fruits they produce, both in quality and in quantity. So regardless of what anybody else does, they must continue to walk carefully in his footsteps, carrying on their witness-making work exactly the way he taught them, searching out deserving persons, calling back on them to study God’s Word with them, making their minds over, thereby bringing forth the same kind of Christian witnesses of Jehovah that Christ Jesus and his apostles made. As to the eventual outcome of all this, Bible prophecy leaves no doubt. The presence of so many true Christians in the world, all preaching God’s kingdom as man’s only hope, will force an issue that makes Jehovah God dispose of all the rotten fruit of false religion.—Matt. 21:43; John 15:8; Matt. 7:15-20.

Pursuing My Purpose in Life

As told by Olaf Olson

ONE evening in 1932 when I was going to my room in a boardinghouse I stopped to visit with a friend. As we were talking I picked up a booklet entitled “Hell” that was lying on his dresser. He asked me if I would like to read it, so I took it with me. I wanted to know what it had to say about that place. Later, after a man had come to the barbershop wanting to trade some of the same kind of booklets for a haircut, I sent to the Society for more of the books; it was just what I was looking for. One day my aunt, a devout Lutheran, came over to see what this was all about, but I was able to defend with the Bible the things I had learned. And when I went to visit the home preacher to ask him some questions, I was convinced more than ever that they were not teaching the truth.

Not knowing any congregation of Jehovah’s witnesses, I had no chance to get instructions, but I started out to preach the best I knew how. It was not long before I called at a door where the lady asked