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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday Oct. 23, 1975 Witnesses Schedule Convention Salt Lake City, has been selected as the site of a two-day circuit convention of Jehovah's Witnesses to be held October 25, 26 at the Highland High school. The convention, unlike the one held in Salt Lake City two summers sum-mers ago with an attendance of some 14,000 delegates, has been scheduled to accommodate congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses Wit-nesses from the greater Salt Lake City area and surrounding cities within a 300 mile radius. Mr. Robert Spencer, local spokesman for the Witnesses stated that the Witnesses have three conventions yearly, two smaller ones and a larger one each summer. At a time when many religious reli-gious groups are losing members, memb-ers, the Witnesses are registering register-ing phenomenal increases. During Dur-ing the period from September 1972 to September 1973, 193,990 were baptized in 208 lands worldwide. During the same period in 1973-1974. 269,000 were baptized with some reports to be tabulated from countries where the group works underground. under-ground. Mr. Spencer was quick to add that these members are people who have spent months and years in study of the Bible and not ones who, emotionahy moved at the time, decided to be baptized. "The figures that we publish," pub-lish," stated -Mr. Spencer, "represent only active members memb-ers who take part in preaching God's Word to others. While few other groups report new baptisms bap-tisms and membership increases, in-creases, many of their current members quit, thus making their membership records very icnaccurate." In addition to having a baptismal baptis-mal service, the program in . alt Lake will include Bible talks and demonstrations designed to show the practical value of the Bible in dealing with many difficult diffi-cult problems and questions faced by Christians today. Several from the American Fork area will be attending. The featured discourse of the convention will be delivered at 2:00 p.m. Sunday October 26, on the subject, "How the Kingdom of God Affects you." by the district overseer of the Witnesses Wit-nesses in the North Western United Un-ited States, Mr. John R. Heck-man. Heck-man. Its main point is to show it as a reap government with rulers that exercise authority from heaven, fully able and willing will-ing to solve all the problems of mankind. Citing the divisions m society, Mr. Spencer said different political poli-tical ideologies, economic systems, social orders and religious reli-gious beliefs are mainly responsible. respon-sible. "All this breeds distrust," he said. "And this lack of trust has impeded man's efforts to solve the problems of disarmament, disarma-ment, pollution, food shortages, inflation and political crisis." Mr. Spencer said the convention conven-tion program will examine the problem and present the solution. solu-tion. "A world government by God is the only answer," he said. "The convention program will outline the Bible's position respecting human affairs and detail the ultimate outcome." The public is invited to all sessions. ( - LJ Shop the Spice Rack for All Your Clothing Needs!! We would like to introduce you to Jan Ingersoll as a member of our fashion board. She is a senior at American Fork High School. Throughout the year she'll be modeling model-ing for fashion shows and ads for the Temper is what gels us into I rouble. Pride keeps us there. most of is what The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that lie often says something he hasn't thought of yet. 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