I wondered if anyone has any information here as to the numbers of JW's in 1935.
I am assuming that the numbers were closing in on 144,000 so Rutherford had to come up with this new idea of a great crowd, would i be correct in this assumption?
Paul
1935..and Rutherford's great crowd?
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digderidoo
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bennyk
The Watch Tower Society taught until 1935 that the "Great Crowd" was a second class of Christians with a heavenly hope.
The 144 000 were the Bride-class, the Great Multitude (Crowd) an attendant class ('Brides-maids').
The increasing numbers of Bible Students affiliated with the Watch Tower Society did not force the change in doctrine. The teaching allowed for large numbers of heaven-bound Christians. The Watch Tower Society taught the following in the 1917 publication The Finished Mystery on page 103:
FM103
Was ten thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands
.— The number of theGreat Company will apparently exceed one
hundred millions. Num. 4:46-48 and Ex. 28:1
indicate but one priest to each 2,860 Levites,
which would make the number of the Great
Company approximate 411,840,000.— T118,
119; Dan. 7:10. 5:12
Currently, belief that more than 144 000 will receive a heavenly reward will result in Disfellowshipping. (w 01. April 1986 QfR)
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Lady Lee
in the 1935 Yearbook it says that in the US (they often forget the rest of the world) there were 26,786 people who reported time on their service reports.
The attendance for the Memorial was 32,795 but only 27,116 partook.
The Yearbook is full of numbers of publications sold getting down to how much it all weighed. But they are a tad stingy on the people that joined up
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Lady Lee
Just found this on page 39 of the 1936 Yearbook
September 29- October 7
Countries reporting 77
Pioneers 3,046
Auxxliaries 1,360
Company pubhshers 35,515
Total publishers 39,921
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jwfacts
- "Year ...... Att. ...... Part.
1935 ...... 63,146 ... 52,465"
Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom p.717 -
Lady Lee
They could very well be for just the US. Most of the info in that section was related to the US.
I could not find any worldwide figures in the Yearbook so your figures could be correct
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BluesBrother
jwfacts' figures from the Proclaimers book relate to the Memorial attendance and partakers
The same page says that the publishers were
1935 56153
1940 96418
1945 156299
Of course we recently learned from this board that in the 30's the term J W was reserved for the anointed..Although publishing, the Jonadabs were not granted the privilege of that name