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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Volume 6
JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
First published in 1956 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd
This edition first published in 2019
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
1956 George Allen & Unwin Ltd
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ISBN: 978-0-367-02386-7 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-02545-7 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-03115-2 (Volume 6) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-03116-9 (Volume 6) (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-02054-4 (Volume 6) (ebk)
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FIRST PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN IN 1956
This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1911, no portion may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiry should be made to the publisher.
The text used in this book is that of the Authorized Version of the Bible which is Crown Copyright, the extracts from which are printed by permission.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
in 11 -point Baskerville type
BY UNWIN BROTHERS LTD
WOKING AND LONDON
in 11 -point Baskerville type
BY UNWIN BROTHERS LTD
WOKING AND LONDON
by J. W. Felix
TO hear a ring on the doorbell and find one of Jehovahs witnesses standing on the doorstep is now part of the pattern of modern life in Britain. Their giant conventions, conflicts with authority, gruesome stories of concentration- and labour-camp sufferings, legal battles and unusual views often bring them into the headlines here. Whether or not one agrees with their doorstep-religion methods, it is difficult to ignore the group. What are they trying to do? What sort of people are they to get into so much trouble? Exactly who is running them and who is financing them?
According to them, todays major happenings were all predicted in the Bible. They say that this world will be destroyed in our lifetime. But when they say world they do not mean the planet we live on, but the world order or system of society. That, they say, is what is about to end.
To some, that may sound depressing. But the Witnesses call it good news. They say it will be followed, also in our lifetime, by a new system of peace and material prosperity world-wide.
They believe, moreover, they are the people specially chosen by God to pronounce doom to this world system and announce the New World system of Gods Kingdom under Christ. If their conclusion about the end of this system and the beginning of a new is correct then the conclusion that they are chosen by God is inescapable. Certainly no other body has a message anything like it.
A society of people who believe all this might well be starry-eyed fanatics, out-of-this-world visionaries, but the way they organize and run their conventions shows they are very down-to-earth people. Their conventions throw some light on them in other respects.
Britains Biggest Convention
In July 1955 the famous Rugby Football Union ground at Twickenham was used by Jehovahs witnesses for a five-day convention. As a convention site it was ideal, for the ground is beautifully kept, is well equipped and has ample space around it. So the Mecca of the rugger fans was converted to a temple of worship for Jehovahs witnesses, a remarkable conversion. The Army and the Navy even sent along representatives to see how the throng was fed, for the attendance reached 41,970.
During the five days the Witnesses wanted to serve well over 100,000 hot meals, including hot breakfasts. Roast lamb chops, peas, potatoes, carrots, pineapple with cream and coffee was the sort of lunch they had in mind.
To do this at a football ground was a task bristling with difficulties. For one thing, there was not nearly enough water. They wanted 1,200 gallons an hour, most of it boiling. So the Witnesses, recruiting free, skilled labour from their own ranks, and drawing water supplies off the mains, installed their own water system. For the steam supply they set up a locomotive boiler to raise 1,500 lb. pressure an hour. To get upwards of 1,000 gallons of boiling water hourly they made a mixer valve, piped water and steam into it and easily got the needed quantity. They put in their own drainage system. They installed in marquees a battery of food boilers, ovens, fish fryers and food-preparing machines and then fuelled this kitchen-under-canvas with a 300 foot gas installation fed by a 4 inch pipe from the main 400 feet away.
How to buy meat at midweek prices and keep it for days in an open field in unexpectedly hot weather looked like a formidable problem, but the Witnesses solved it. One of their number, a refrigeration engineer in Lancashire, immediately volunteered to bring along a refrigerator door and a three-horsepower plant. Then from an old air-raid shelter insulated with hardboard and sawdust they made a 500 cubic foot cold store. Days ahead, plumbers, electricians and fitters arrived and worked long hours without pay. The estimated labour cost of the pre-convention work done in this way was put at 10,000 and it was all done free.
To serve hot meals the Witnesses built eighteen food-service conveyers each operated by a line of servers. Diners filed through the serving lines pushing a six-divisioned tray, each item making up the meal being put into its appropriate tray-section. Passing into one of the four vast dining-tents, diners stood at tables (Witnesses built more than a mile of these tables) and ate the meal direct from the tray.
Two electric dish washers, designed and rebuilt from old conventional models by two of the Witnesses, scalded eight thousand trays an hour. Looking forward to a bigger convention next time, the designers say they intend to increase the feed-chain to handle twelve thousand an hour.
Motors operated on three-phase current. But there was only single-phase electricity at the Stadium. So the Witnesses hired and set up a single-phase generator and a convertor to supply the needed three-phase power. More than a thousand volunteers from the groups own ranks, cooks, servers, washers-up, operated the under-canvas high-speed meal service.
Most of the work was done against a background of Bible talks relayed over the public-address system from the speakers platform erected at the south end of the playing field. And their public-address system was no less impressive than their catering organization. It appears that there is no legitimate field of human endeavour not represented amongst Jehovahs witnesses. Electronic, Post Office, radio and television engineers and a number of other volunteer helpers put in an 800 watt, 275 loudspeaker sound system that brought the platform within comfortable hearing distance of every point in the extensive grounds.
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