The Watchtower, “Shedding Forth Light Amidst Earth’s Gloom”
“These flashes of prophetic light prepared the ground for the historic discourse on “The Great Multitude,” given May 31, 1935, by the president of the Watch Tower Society, J. F. Rutherford, at the Washington, D.C., convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Fixes the date and occasion of the 1935 change and notes that it was published in The Watchtower of 1 and 15 August 1935.
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Confidence note. Document opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; the wording was read in full and the page number taken from the library's own page markers.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-d-w-1985-0301-1935-discourse