Questionable Origins
What is Easter?
As early as 1919, these meetings were held to organize the ministry
What are service meetings?
This verse promises an "abundance of peace"
What is Psalm 37:11?
In 1927, the Bethel family voted not to hold this yearly celebration anymore
What is Christmas?
This committee organizes relief efforts and helps the brothers and sisters with their long-term recovery
What is the Disaster Relief Committee?
This verse ensures no one will say "I am sick"
What is Isaiah 33:24?
In 1946, the Awake! published that this celebration, "with its high jinks and drunken revelry", is inappropriate for Christians "regardless of the day on which it occurs"
What is New Year's Day?
In 1990, literature began to be offered on this basis only
What are voluntary donations?
This verse assures Jehovah will "swallow up death forever"
What is Isaiah 25:8?
The Golden Age printed in 1929 that this holiday "has nothing very saintly to comment it as to its origin"
What is St. Valentine's Day
In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Witnesses could engage in door-to-door activity without obtaining this
What is a permit?
This verse proves the earth will exist forever, and humans will live on it
What is Psalm 37:29?
Beginning in 1891, this symbol appeared on the cover of the Watch Tower. At an assembly in 1928, it was shown to be "objectionable"
What was the cross-and-crown?
This is the year Brother Russell began publishing Zion's Watch Tower
What is 1879?
This verse gives hope that we won't be plagued by troubling thoughts or memories
What is Isaiah 65:17?