Our History in Motion

[Tortuga]

Part 2!

 

https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&wtlocale=E&lank=pub-jwb-084_11_VIDEO

[peper-eliot]

Thanks

[Doug]

There's about 56 hours of video under our History tab.

[Godskingdomrules]

Does anyone know the older song they played in the last bit of the video, our brothers and sisters in the former Soviet Union were singing it at there convention in 1992. The song brought back many memories:).

[Juniper]

2 hours ago, Godskingdomrules said:

Does anyone know the older song they played in the last bit of the video, our brothers and sisters in the former Soviet Union were singing it at there convention in 1992. The song brought back many memories:).

God’s Great and Wondrous Works - number 84 in the 1984 songbook

[Keep Fighting]

Plesase help me understand, Im a little bit slow.

 

so why did we stop singing between 1938-44?

[careful]

because, if im understanding it correctly,...the brother who was at the time the president of the society, felt that singing was too much like false religion. But after his death, others went ahead and make a plan to sing again and released a book.

[jwhess]

4 hours ago, Keep Fighting said:

Plesase help me understand, Im a little bit slow.

 

so why did we stop singing between 1938-44?

At the time (1930s) we did not believe that ANY religion could be true.  ALL religion was false and a work produced by Satan. There was true worship and false religion.

 

Our organization was organized like a business.  Our GB was  composed of Legal Directors of the Watchtower Corporation.  Our congregations quit using the term "Ecclesias" (religious) and were formed as incorporated "Companies".  My Kingdom Hall had its original charter framed on the library wall.  We were the Willoughby Company of Jehovah's Witnesses, Incorporated.   We had legal officers and so on.  Anything that moved us away from the idea of  "religion" was best.

 

Ask yourself, do Corporations or Companies sing each time they meet?  Probably not.  Even Br. Knorr was focused on the business end, factories, world-wide printing and shipping and factory organization (like time-and-motion study).  But as time went on, we added the Gilead and Kingdom Ministry Schools.  And then the Theocratic Ministry Schools in local "Companies".  So by 1944 we again added singing to our meetings. By 1950-1951, we added the idea that there could be a "TRUE" religion as well as a false one.

[Keep Fighting]

5 hours ago, jwhess said:

At the time (1930s) we did not believe that ANY religion could be true.  ALL religion was false and a work produced by Satan. There was true worship and false religion.

 

Our organization was organized like a business.  Our GB was  composed of Legal Directors of the Watchtower Corporation.  Our congregations quit using the term "Ecclesias" (religious) and were formed as incorporated "Companies".  My Kingdom Hall had its original charter framed on the library wall.  We were the Willoughby Company of Jehovah's Witnesses, Incorporated.   We had legal officers and so on.  Anything that moved us away from the idea of  "religion" was best.

 

Ask yourself, do Corporations or Companies sing each time they meet?  Probably not.  Even Br. Knorr was focused on the business end, factories, world-wide printing and shipping and factory organization (like time-and-motion study).  But as time went on, we added the Gilead and Kingdom Ministry Schools.  And then the Theocratic Ministry Schools in local "Companies".  So by 1944 we again added singing to our meetings. By 1950-1951, we added the idea that there could be a "TRUE" religion as well as a false one.

Im sorry to say this, no wonder I didnt understand this. I have to read more about this. Anyway thank you. 

[Lee49]

8 hours ago, jwhess said:

Our organization was organized like a business

Thank you Brother John for all of your historical information, now I understand why you keep all of the older publications! 

 

Also my wife asked, " where is part 1 " , couldn't find it?

[jwhess]

11 minutes ago, Lee49 said:

Thank you Brother John for all of your historical information, now I understand why you keep all of the older publications! 

 

Also my wife asked, " where is part 1 " , couldn't find it?

Part one is at the end of the November Broadcast.

[Lee49]

Oops, we hadn't watched it all the way thru yet, thanks, busy month!

[Old]

That is my Grandmother Betty Shilton seated at the piano at the 5:30 point. ❤️

[daydream]

Screenshot of video. Is this the photo of Br. Jerry's grandmother at the piano? You're so blessed.

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by happiness IS

[jwhess]

The brother in the back (with hand on the piano) is Br. Van Amburgh, I think.  I am not sure of the photo's age.  Br. Van Amburgh died in 1947.