How many JW in the 1920's

by xaminewt 16 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  slimboyfat

  I would like to know how many baptized JW there were globally in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928

  I doubt this specific information can be found anywhere. We don’t even know how many baptised JWs there are today because the publisher number includes unbaptised publishers, and not all baptised JWs are active, and some report preaching irregularly.

  On the point about the number of JWs in Germany, it was indeed the country with the second highest number of JWs in the 1930s, but it was still behind the US, as far as I’m aware.
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  Biahi

  Haha, Gorb, just like now!
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  Jeffro

  I would like to know how many baptized JW there were globally in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928

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  TonusOH

  Now, now... the society would say that there were always JWs. They just didn't know it at the time.
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  liam

  Quote Wki
  

  Thousands of members left congregations of Bible Students associated with the Watch Tower Society during the 1920s, prompted in part by Rutherford's failed predictions for the year 1925, increasing disillusionment with his on-going doctrinal and organizational changes, and his campaign for centralized control of the movement.[2] William Schnell, author and former Jehovah's Witness, claims that three quarters of the original Bible Students who had been associating with the Watch Tower Society in 1919 had left by 1931.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Student_movement

  Jehovah's Witnesses are like Cockroaches, you can get rid of hundreds of thousands of them, but eventually they come back and start growing again.

  Right now with all the Changes in the religion, many are leaving, .....But give it a few decades, and the religion morphs into something else, just like it morphed from Charles Russell to Rutherford ideology, and just like Cockroaches, it will start growing again.

  That's just part of human nature, there will always be the gullible and the ignorant that are attracted to the cheese. And every year, millions of humans are born into a very complex, and crazy world with millions of scammers waiting for prey.
  
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  TonusOH

  It is already morphing. The recent changes may be relatively minor, but they are designed to keep people in (or, in the case of the recent updates on shunning, to avoid potential sanction). And they will continue to change, since they have their expensive campus project. I would not be surprised to see significant changes in the next 5-10 years, as they try to keep people in and keep the dollars flowing.

  Perhaps a change in attitude towards higher education?
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  blondie

  jwfacts.com https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1925.php

  The converse occurred after 1925 came and went without incidence. Memorial attendance dropped by three-quarters, from 88,544 in 1927 to just 17,380 in 1928. (Watchtower 1955 p.366; Yearbook 1929 p.55) (Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose p.313) It is estimated that as many as 75% of publishers left the religion and by 1935 memorial attendance was still only 63,146.3 It took until 1940 to once again reach the same number of Watchtower followers as the pre-1925 era.