Keep on ....digging!

by MacHislopp 1 Replies latest jw friends

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  MacHislopp

  Hi, it's me again,

  Think about this one:

  *** w57 5/15 313-5 Appreciating Basic Christian Publications ***

  “...Their zeal for knowledge may even prompt them to dig back into things that were published long before they came into the truth, expanding and deepening their understanding, and ever growing in Christian maturity...
  Do you dig out older publications to expand and deepen your knowledge on subjects about which questions arise?
  Have you really studied these earlier publications?... How is your background of knowledge? ... Never think: "Oh, I know most of that."
  For you will find, indeed, that you do not and that you will be strengthened by your additional study...once you have completed your study of them you can then look to even older publications...
  Only by studying earlier publications and digging back through previous issues of The Watchtower kept in the library at your local Kingdom Hall.
  There is much in the way of spiritual riches and aids toward mature knowledge in these earlier publications, and their study is most certainly worth your time. “

  Do you get the point...?

  J.C. MacHislopp
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  ozziepost

  It's interesting, isn't it, Mac, that if the brothers and sisters did just that, how confused they would be? Did such and such mean this or that?

  The point you quoted was repeated in the Watchtower of June 15, 1985, on page 12: "It requires digging deeper, putting forth effort to locate that older publication and then studying the pages referred to."

  The problem is, that research using the Watchtower Library CD-ROM, is limited in the case of The Watchtower to all isuues from 1950, and in the case of Awake! from 1970. This is partly acknowledged in an article in the Watchtower of November 1, 1994, on page 29: "Most of the publications printed by the Society during the last 20 years are still available"

  Ozzie (of the checking it out class)