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SYMBOLIC BAPTISM IN WATEROn Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, January 5, at the BrooklynTabernacle, an opportunity will be given for symbolic baptismin water. Robes, etc., will be provided. Any desiring to symbolizewill please give us timely notice.====================R5144 : page 3831912--ANNUAL REPORT--1912WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETYDECEMBER 1ST, 1911-DECEMBER 1ST, 1912OUR FISCAL YEAR begins and ends December1. The year past has been one of themost interesting and successful in ourSociety's experience. Every day hasseemed to add momentum to the work.Those who have been enjoying the light ofPresent Truth for years seem generally tobe ripening in Christian character and inloving zeal for the Lord, the Truth and thebrethren. Nothing pleases us more than this.The next most interesting thing is the manifest awakeningof thinking Christian people of all denominations.Many dear people of God have lived in a sort of religiouslethargy for years. Sometimes they dreamed of convertingthe world, only to be rudely awakened to a freshrealization that if the heathen were brought to the samecivilization that prevails in Christendom, God's will wouldbe as far as ever from being done on earth as in Heaven.Others have had nightmares of horror as their mindswould be recalled to the teachings of their creeds--asthey would remember the old theory that all except thesaintly Elect few will spend an eternity in torture.The awakening ones very generally wander off into"Higher Criticism" unbelief, Evolution theories, and generaldoubt respecting everything. Others wander intoChristian Science, and seek to convince themselves thataches and pains are purely imagination, etc., etc. Stillothers wander into New Thought, etc., only to find, inthese, dangerous quicksands. Under the Lord's providencemany of all these classes during the past year havebeen brought in contact with the Bible's own teaching,which we all have so long lost under the debris of humantheory and tradition.It has been a real pleasure to note, as the weeks wentby, the increased attendance at the meetings and the increasednumber of meetings being held and the developmentof faithful brethren everywhere as heralds of the"good tidings." It has been a great satisfaction to readsome of the warmly encouraging letters that have been