Golden Age, June 16, 1937
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Vol. XVIII - No. 463
June 16, 1937 CONTENTS
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES—PROCESS SERVERS OF THE GREAT JUDGE 579
Exploits of a Catholic Boys' Brigade 579
ACCUSES NUTLEY OF IDIOTIC, VACANT STARE 580
HOLAHAN CAUGHT IN THE FLYPAPER 581
THE MOST PERFECT HYPOCRISY 583
CONCERNING HERETICAL BOOKLETS 584
QUITE A GOOD IDEA FOR POLICE TO BE LAW-ABIDING 585
Opportunities for Serving the Truth 585
COPY OF A NOTE TO FRANK HAGUE 586
A Kentucky Preacher's Wife 586
Weehawken Township Committee Hangs by Tail 586
THESE FUNNY NEWSPAPERS 587
ONE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN ITALY 587
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN RUMANIA 588
"JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" AND "HEIL HITLER" 589
JEHOVAH'S PEOPLE AT QUARRYVILLE, N.B. 590
WHAT A DELIVERANCE! 590
FOUR WITNESSES IN LAFAYETTE, LA. 591
CARTOONS (By the Cartoonist himself) 592
GARMON ON THE WARPATH 592
EXPOSED (G) 593
UNABASHED CONSPIRACY AND HYPOCRISY 594
SALTER'S MOST MALICIOUS, COWARDLY FALSEHOOD 595
"OUT OF THINE OWN MOUTH WILL I JUDGE THEE, THOU WICKED SERVANT" 596
A YOUNG WOMAN PIONEER IN UTAH 597
"UNCOVERED" AND "PROTECTION" IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA 598
MOB VIOLENCE COMES HOME TO ROOST 600
'PURIFYING' MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 600
THE EBULLITION OF IRIS BROWN 601
"HELL" AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS 602
DISOBEDIENCE TURNS CERTAIN VICTORY INTO UTTER DEFEAT 604
The 7,000 Saw the Point 604
Ahab Gets Bad News from Damascus 605
"The Gods of the Hills" 605
The Thing Plainly Discernible 606
THE PARSON RAISED CAIN 606
SOUND-CAR WORK IN HAMMOND, LA. 607
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The Golden Age
Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, June 16, 1937 Number 463
Jehovah's witnesses—Ambassadors for God and His King—Process Servers of the Great Judge—Announcing that Jehovah's Kingdom Is Here
(Part 3)
(A brief account of some experiences of true Christians in various parts of the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Rumania, South Africa, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and other lands in [and as a consequence of] their fearless and thrilling denunciations of the clergy of the Devil, the politicians of the Devil, and the financiers of the Devil, beginning with the great Keystone State of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Exploits of a Catholic Boys' Brigade
FOR more than a year now an electric sign has flashed in the sunporch window of the home of Fred Rowitsch, 155-35 101st St., Howard Beach, New York city. "How to obtain Riches that endure. Inquire within," read the sign. Passers-by did "inquire within", and received books and booklets pointing the way to "riches that endure".
From the very first the sign annoyed certain inhabitants of Howard Beach who were loyal subjects of Monsignor T. A. Nummey; thoughtless ones tossed a brick at the window, and broke the window and sash. The sash and window were repaired in such a way as to show up the sign to better advantage, and a month later it was broken again, and again repaired. This was early in 1936. No further breaches of the peace took place for a time.
Lately the "Riches" sign has been replaced with one announcing the radio lecture "Exposed". Nummey worshipers took note of the change, and, after ascertaining the significance of the new sign, tossed another brick through the window, just to be sociable and to show their good Catholic training. But before this happened they had been throwing stones at the house, sneaking up to the door, ringing the bell, shouting "Down with the Communists" and peeping in at the window when a group of friends were assembled to study the book Riches.
Evidently there were two gangs at work, one about 9:30 p.m., and the other between 12:00 and 1:00 a.m.
Fascism (Catholic Action) at Howard Beach
With the third smashing of the window (April 23, 1937) the police were called in. Detectives were assigned to the case, who asked that any clue whatever be turned over to them. A copy of the booklet Uncovered was placed with the detectives for full information.
As several of the attacks took place on Friday evenings, Mr. Rowitsch and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Green, decided to watch as to what might happen on April 30. Jehovah led the culprits right into their hands. A group of eight or ten boys in the uniform of the Catholic Boys' Brigade, who had been drilling with wooden rifles at the Lady of Grace Auditorium, were returning from their weekly drill. In khaki uniform, oversea hat, brown leather belt, and epaulets on their shoulders, the boys were properly fitted out for the work in hand.
As they neared the house where the electric sign flashed, stage whispers ensued.
"Here it is," said one boy.
"Wait till we are all in a bunch," suggested another.
Then came the stones, which hit the porch, and the brave boys ran, pursued by Rowitsch. Two of them, William Steuber and Fatty Minnock, thinking they were not noticed, stood where they were, and were caught by Mrs. Green. The police were called, and after calling three times and waiting for 45 minutes, finally made an appearance. A report was filled out stating names, ages of the boys, 12 and 13, and the complaint. No charges were pressed, but the names were to be turned over to the Crime Prevention Bureau, which follows such cases up closely.
The policemen questioned the boys.
"Why do you throw stones at this house?"
"Who tells you to do that?"
"Do they talk about it at home?"
"Does someone down below [meaning at the church] send you to do it?"
"Why don't you break windows on the house next door, or the church, or the monsignor's house?"
The boys denied throwing stones, didn't know why they did it, nobody sent them, and, anyway, they didn't know anything.
Mrs. Rowitsch asked them if they knew what a Communist is? Fatty said "Yes."
"You know a Communist does not believe in God?"
"Yes," from Fatty.
"How can we be Communists when we believe in God and in Christ Jesus?"
Fatty looked surprised but made no comment.
The policemen stated that Rowitsches had a perfect right to believe what they wished, witness from house to house, and display signs, and nobody had a right to interfere. (Rowitsches knew all that already, but it was nice to know the policemen knew it, too.)
Then, with a promise to follow up the case, the policemen sent the boys home, and departed. Detectives came later and took all the data, and promised to see the monsignor about it, who is, they said, a broadminded man and would not sanction such actions.
Saturday Mrs. Steuber called on Mr. Rowitsch, saying that the police had called at her house to inform her of the incident. She declared that William was innocent and is determined to prove it. She will visit the monsignor, and also Mr. Molloy, major of the "Brigade", who happens to live directly opposite the Rowitsches. Said she would find out who throws the stones, and if that is what they are taught at the Lady of Grace Auditorium she will take her boy out of the Brigade.
A large canvas sign, reading "Hypocrisy Exposed", and telling of the series of lectures on that subject to be heard over the radio, now decorates the front gable of the house. The electric sign, for the present, flashes from behind a broken window, just to show the public the kind of work that is being exposed.
The ways of Jehovah are wonderful. Satan's agents are co-operating beautifully in accomplishing their own exposure. Their tactics, wherever they raise their heads, quickly identify them for what they are, and all Jehovah's witnesses have to do is to hold aloft the light of Truth.
Accuses Nutley of Idiotic, Vacant Stare
NUTLEY, N.J., believes in sending women to prison for thirty days rather than permit them to preach the good news of God's kingdom to her bechurched and benighted citizens. Accordingly it is with a smile that one reads in the Paterson Evening News that somebody from Akron, Ohio, wrote to Mayor Frederick H. Young that he thought the people of Young's city have an idiotic, vacant stare and that it is a hick town inhabited by pretentious and silly people who have a lot to learn and who should do more traveling.
Holahan Caught in the Flypaper
DID you ever see a cat get caught in the flypaper? It is one of the funniest sights in the world. The more it jumps and leaps and struggles, the more flypaper it gathers up, until finally it sneaks off to some place where it can rub off some of the paper, lick off the rest, and saunter back into the family circle with all the heavy dignity of an impostor wearing a three-story crown upon his manly brow.
Holahan is like that. See his effusion of April 26 reproduced herewith; also the communication covertly threatening boycott of advertisers of radio station WEST, of Easton, Pennsylvania, unless said station should break its contract to broadcast "the Judge Rutherford program or any program of its kind" presuming to tell the truth about the erroneous theories of Roman Catholicism.
Holahan couldn't let it go at that. He was already well wrapped in several sheets of the sticky sweetness, but he wanted more, and got it. He thirsted for publicity, and so busted loose in the Easton Plain Dealer explaining that while it was perfectly all right for a Holahan to criticize Judge Rutherford, yet it would be absolutely wrong for Judge Rutherford to criticize in any way the wickedest bunch of dollar-chasers that ever lived on the planet.
"Judge Rutherford should mind his own business and keep away from other religions. We believe in the Golden Rule of charity."
That is Holahan's expression. He would enforce the Golden Rule so that nobody would dare tell the truth about the Roman Hierarchy.
"The people live in a Christian community, and such things shouldn't be allowed to happen," says Holahan. Quite so! Quite so! It is all right to boil people in oil, or jerk their arms out of their sockets, or pour molten lead into their ears, or teach doctrines that would shame anybody but the Devil, but nobody must say anything about it. If they do, the Golden Rule is busted all to splinters, and it may be necessary to boycott half the merchants in the city, and eventually to torture anybody and everybody that dares speak up above a whisper. That's the idea.
Holahan entertaining Easton, Pa.
Holahan was getting along fine, and then Jehovah's witnesses in Easton swung into action. First they circulated widely a nice little card, copy of which is as follows:
DO YOU KNOW
That a religious organization is dictating what can be broadcast from your local radio station? Catholic priests have decreed that all listeners, Catholics and Protestants, shall not hear the truth concerning "Purgatory" and similar subjects. Therefore, Judge Rutherford's lectures are no longer permitted to be broadcast from Station WEST.
Would you like to hear the truths which have caused this censorship to be established in your midst? They can be presented right now in your own home. There is no obligation to buy anything, or join anything.
The more of these there were circulated, the more flypaper stuck to Holahan, and the more people in Easton became interested in the matter. This all worked out well for the spread of the truth. The folks began to wonder why the radio station's courage had oozed, and why the Roman clergy are so mightily interested in keeping Judge Rutherford silent.
Then the Easton witnesses mailed Mr. Holahan the letter of which copy is reproduced herewith. Moreover, they sent a copy of it to the editor of the Plain Dealer, and that gentleman, being one of those rare human creatures with a spinal column and intestinal fortitude, published it entire.
That’s all! Now the whole city of Easton is laughing at Holahan, and even the Catholic priests of the community privately admit that this was one time when he stuck his foot in it.
Easton, Pa., May 6, 1937.
Edward J. Holahan,
Pastor of St. Bernard’s Catholic Church,
132 South 5th St., Easton, Pennsylvania.
SIR:
Your recent letter and boycott petition addressed to the management of radio station WEST, Easton, has been brought to our attention.
You state that Judge Rutherford’s talks are “against the Church”, and therefore he should not be permitted to broadcast his lectures in the community. You, and the Catholics you can influence, have set yourselves up as the radio dictators of Easton. In effect you have ruled that no one in Easton is to listen to anyone who “talks against the Roman Catholic Church”, no matter how truthful his statements may be.
We wonder if the non-Catholic people of Easton are in favor of having a Catholic priest prescribe their radio diet.
Saint Bernard Church
132 S. Fifth St.
Easton, Pa.
April 26, 1937.
We the signers, strenuously object to the radio speeches of one certain Judge Rutherford. These speeches are directed against our Church (Catholic). It is un-American and unfair, and your Station should not allow a man of this type to foment religious dissensions among the peaceful citizens of Easton and vicinity. At the present time we would suggest that this gentleman occupy his time, talents and energy in a more commendable manner.
Rev E. J Holahan
Rector.
Flypaper Sheet No. 1
You accuse the radio station management of being “un-American” because it broadcasts Judge Rutherford’s lectures. Then in the same breath you show the station management how un-American you and your “Catholic daughters” can be by subtle attempts to boycott the radio station. Boycotting is distinctively un-American and is a distinctively Catholic method of stifling freedom of speech. You hold the boycott club over the head of radio station WEST just as your predecessors in tyranny held the club of physical torture over the heads of their victims in the days of the Catholic inquisition.
Your letter and petition show that the American principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion have no place in the Catholic organization. You believe in strong-arm methods. Undoubtedly you would like to use the rack and thumbscrew, but in view of the fact that you could not get by with that in America you resort to the un-Christian, un-American, indecent, dishonest, vile and barbarous threat of boycott. Your organization prates greatly about freedom of speech, but would allow no freedom to show the falsity, errors, and frauds of Catholic teachings. You would bludgeon the radio stations into silence with your threats and coercion regardless of the corruptness of the practice.
It is a good thing for the American people that you and your kind do not rule America as you did Europe in the Dark Ages.
We note, however, a lack of unity of action among you gentlemen of the cloth of the Catholic system. One priest, designating himself as the Reverend Richard Felix, O. S. B., of Pilot Grove, Missouri, who, like you, thinks he has a special mission to “camp on the trail of Judge Rutherford”, deplores the boycott system. He says it indicates that the Catholics have something to hide. Evidently that is true. This confusion in the matter of tactics indicates that the god of your church (for his identity see John 8:44) should keep his priests in better order. One is yelping, “Boycott the stations that broadcast Judge Rutherford’s lectures.” Another says, “Don’t try to shut him off the air; that looks bad for us.” And thus the devotees of “Catholic Action” pull against each other and know not whither they are drifting. Your god doesn’t have good control over his shepherds. You and Felix ought to get in touch with him and straighten out the muddle.
On one point, however, you are in perfect agreement: You know that the Catholic dogmas cannot stand the light of truth. You both know that the purgatory graft, the remission-of-sins racket, the blasphemy of papal supremacy, and other forms of Catholic hocus-pocus would look worse than smallpox lined up against the truth as set forth in the Word of Almighty God. Therefore, when two million six hundred thirty thousand people signed a petition calling for a debate between Judge Rutherford and any Catholic prelate, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy was placed in an embarrassing position.
Easton, Pennsylvania
April 24, 1937
We, Catholic Daughters of America, demand that the Judge Rutherford program or any program of its kind be prohibited from broadcasting its erroneous theories against Catholicism over Station WEST.
A copy of this demand is being sent to the advertisers on Station WEST.
Cunningham, Nettie M. 137 So 10th St Easton Pa
Sullivan Mae L. 2007 Washington Blvd
Leonoy Rose A. 12 Chestnut St.
Christie Mary 224 N St Geo. Allentown
Newman, M. Kathryn 283 N. Wilkes-Barre St.
Flynn, Margaret E. 45 So. 5th St.
Schaefer, Anna 416 So. Main St. Phillipsburg
McFadden, Jennie 414 So. Main St Phillipsburg
Schuler Margaret 336 N. Second St Allentown Pa.
Kinenhour, Mary 121 So. West St Allentown, Pa.
White Catherine 328 So. St Cloud St. Allentown Pa.
Agnes M. McCarthy 516 So. 5 St. Easton Pa.
We the signers protest at the broadcasting of Judge Rutherford on our local station.
Hiram E. Dougan Easton R.D. #1
C. M. Shurlin 30 North 6 St Easton Pa
Charles Raettyen 14 South 6th Easton, Pa.
Paul M. Hedegard R.D. #1 Easton Pa.
Laura Hedegard R.D. 1 Easton Pa
Alice Richard Prendergast Easton Pa
G L Dougher 9th Street
Edw M. Gaghan 415 W 8 St
Lottie M. Arndt
Mrs Frank Ross
Ellen Wright
Mrs. John Hodge
Mr John Hodge
Mrs James Donegan
Nicholas Schein 133 So 5th
Michael J. Caldwell 110 No 11th St Easton Pa
Flypaper Sheet No. 2
Sheet No. 3. Look at the specks!
But you and Felix and all your tribe agreed that no matter how embarrassing it is to decline the challenge, it is not safe to meet Judge Rutherford in public debate. You agree that it is best to forbear to fight. None of you have answered the call to battle. You have crawled into your holes and resorted to the distinctively Catholic tactics of bulldozing and threatening radio stations with boycotts and loss of business. You thus think you can stop the spread of truth and keep yourselves free from exposure.
Nineteen centuries ago the Master, whom you piously pretend to serve but actually oppose, told a bunch of similar clerical frauds what He thought of them, and wound up with this benediction: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matthew 23:33) That discourse of Jesus to the clergy of His day is recommended to you and Richard Felix for careful consideration.
Sincerely,
EASTON COMPANY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES,
by HIRAM P. KLEINHANS, Company servant,
505 Philadelphia Road, Easton, Pa.
The Most Beautiful and Perfect Hypocrisy
FOR a sample of the most beautiful and perfect hypocrisy ever written by the pen of man; see the following editorial taken from The Register, Denver, Colo., one of the little sheets of the cowardly organization, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, that not only has refused to meet Judge Rutherford in open debate, but knows full well that the doctrines taught by the Hierarchy are so unreasonable, dishonest, inconsistent and foolish that they cannot be defended:
WHERE FREEDOM CEASES
The fact that the mentally shriveled "Judge" Rutherford, the self-appointed messenger of "Jehovah-God", is being allowed to continue his "canned" ranting against reputable institutions, the Catholic Church in particular, makes us wonder whether those guilty of allowing him the courtesy of the radio know what freedom of speech means.
Freedom of speech is a balance or compromise between two rights: The right we have to use our power of speech; the right everyone else has to keep his or her good name. Freedom of speech, then, certainly does not mean liberty to slander or to throw verbal mud at another. Put practically, it does mean, and can mean only the liberty to debate reasonable questions open to reasonable interpretation.
Concerning Heretical Booklets
Open Letter to Monsieur the Bishop of Saint-Dié
(Translation from French Golden Age [November issue] by F. B. Freer, of Leicester, England)
THE Religious Weekly of Saint-Dié, dated June 12, 1936, publishes the statement given below, which statement is repeated in The Cross of Sunday, June 14, 1936, under the title "Heretical Booklets".
A distribution has recommenced in our towns and countryside of booklets with illustrated covers, written by Judge Rutherford and published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society.
We remind the faithful that it is forbidden them to read or even to possess these heretical booklets, under pain of excommunication by the Sovereign Pontiff (Canon 2318, Paragraph I). They must be destroyed immediately they are received.
LOUIS, BISHOP OF SAINT-DIÉ.
As, Monsieur Bishop, you set at naught with such assurance the publications distributed by the Watch Tower, it is evident that you have read at least one of these works.
You are therefore too well informed not to have estimated at its true worth that message which, in harmony with the Divine will expressed in Matthew 24:14, is today preached throughout the entire world, and which message is summed up as follows:
[Here follows a synopsis of the Good News of the Kingdom, which is well known to the favored English-speaking readers of The Golden Age.]
Is it possible, Monsieur Bishop, to publish a message more comforting and more sublime? Would you, who know the Bible by heart, dare to swear with one hand on your breviary and the other on a crucifix that each and every promise contained in the foregoing resumé is not confirmed by the Holy Scriptures? And dare you repeat that these wonderful prophecies are heresies? Are you so much in love with this evil world, infested as it is with thieves, tyrants, oppressors, and every sort of evildoers, that you cannot bear to hear the reign of righteousness spoken of?
Do you dread the kingdom of God so much that you must pursue with such manifest hatred those who announce its near establishment on earth? Does the lot of the poor leave you indifferent to the degree that you treat as undesirables those who courageously go from door to door telling the oppressed that God is at last going to deliver them from all their enemies?
There ought to be no more ardent protectors of the courageous Watch Tower pioneers than those who call themselves ministers of God. If the latter were truly ambassadors of the Most High, could they have more valuable helpers than Jehovah's witnesses? Your elementary duty is to show them love and to commend them to your parishioners. You ought, Monsieur Bishop, to invite them to your diocese in order that they might abundantly spread the good news among the flocks committed to your spiritual guidance.
Why do you, on the contrary, knowingly lie in asserting that these humble disciples of Christ are propagating subversive doctrines? What master do you serve when you treat as dangerous malefactors the most peaceable men on earth?
Cite us the passages from the Scriptures corroborating the baptism of newborn babes; purgatory; hell-fire; three gods in one; the worship of angels, of saints, of the virgin, of relics and of images; the Catholic Hierarchy; indulgences; the chaplet; the rosary; vain repetitions; prayers for the dead; processions and holy water. Show us also the Scripture text authorizing the imperial inquisition, and the page where are set forth the tortures inflicted in former times by the demons of the "Holy Office".
But why continue, since you know as well as ourselves that these doctrines are of human invention? The heretics are not those whom you denounce; and to you belong the punishments of the divine sentence pronounced against false teachers in the 23d chapter of Jeremiah's prophecy. The prophet there speaks of those who twist the Word of the living God, tell the visions of their own hearts, prophesy lies, and represent these words as being a message from the Most High.
Those who lead the people astray with their empty dreams serve no good purpose. Their punishment will not be excommunication by a man, which is a matter of no importance; but their fate will be far more serious. It is written that they shall be cast out of the presence of the Lord, and covered with everlasting reproach, and perpetual shame, which shall never be forgotten.—Jeremiah 23: 39, 40.
Quite a Good Idea for Police to Be Law-abiding
IT IS quite a good idea for police to be law-abiding, but that never seems to have occurred to some of them. They seem quite unconscious of the fact that they must themselves keep the peace, and that in their discharge of their official duties all citizens are to be treated alike. A bishop is to be treated as well as a law-abiding colored bootblack, provided he is equally law-abiding. But if the bishop holds the law of the country in contempt, then he should be made to walk the chalk line of good behavior. Some bishops seem to think the police are merely their office boys, set to run their errands. They err.
There was an interesting time at Mobile, Ala., May 9, 1937, in which the police of that city received some instruction in righteousness. The facts were set forth on a dodger, reproduced herewith. Twenty-three cars of Jehovah’s witnesses (107 workers) had the pleasure of calling at every Mobile home, and leaving 2,368 Uncovered booklets besides the instructive dodger.
The medicine took, and the patient was helped greatly. To be sure, the police rushed out and picked up nine of the 107 workers, but that is a small percentage of casualties. The chief of police had not expected the exposure, and was quite manifestly disturbed at the publicity. He should have thought of that on April 17. He admitted he had done wrong in permitting his men to tear signs off a pioneer’s car, said signs only telling of the lectures at the home of the local meeting place.
Further publicity was obtained in Monday’s newspapers, because the nine arrested were detained in the city, on their own recognizance, for hearing on Monday. At the hearings all the cases were dismissed.
It is a whole lot better for the police to be law-abiding. Jehovah’s witnesses are setting them a splendid example in this. They not only are doing their own proper work as witnesses, but at the same time are serving the public interest, convenience and necessity, by occasionally showing up police-office-boy work done for bishops and such, which, as a matter of law, justice and self-respect, should not be done for anybody at all.
The more the police are law-abiding, the more respect the people will have for them, the easier their work will be, and the surer their jobs will be, too.
WHO DICTATES
Religious Intolerance in Mobile?
False arrest; assault and battery; malicious destruction of property; religious intolerance; suppression of free speech and malfeasance of office, are condoned by Mobile police in the interests of those who fear the truth.
On April 17 two of Jehovah’s witnesses were arrested without cause. Their permit to operate sound equipment issued by Commissioner Bates was torn up by the police. At police headquarters one of them was struck in the face. Sound equipment and signs were torn from their car.
Why was this done? Was it in the interests of law and order?
Had They Violated Any Law?
The Answer Is NO!
No law had been violated and these unlawful acts by officers of the law were done because some person or persons found fault with the message they were presenting.
Religious freedom is suppressed in Mobile by those who are afraid of the truth.
Tune in WAPI, 1140 Kc. each Sunday at 3:30 P.M. Listen to Judge Rutherford’s series of lectures on the topic
‘EXPOSED’
Then you will know why Mobile police violate the law in order to persecute Jehovah’s witnesses.
Mobile Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses
PUBLIC MEETINGS AT 1405 St. STEPHENS ROAD AT 3:30 EACH SUNDAY TO HEAR LECTURE “EXPOSED”
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND
Opportunities for Serving the Truth
OPPORTUNITIES for serving the truth are often overlooked. One zealous witness in Cincinnati, observing that the Catholic press had noticed the suits brought by Judge Rutherford and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society against the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Philadelphia, but such suits were not mentioned in the secular press, made it his business to see about it. Results were good. He saw the city editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, took along the Petition, and got a nice write-up embodying the wording of it, which could not fail to be a help to his fellow witnesses in the field.
Copy of a Note to Frank Hague By Engracio Alinsod (Philippine Islands)
GOD has an organization on earth called "the remnant". They are Jehovah's witnesses. (Acts 15:14; Isaiah 43:10-12) Why do you persecute them? Persecution brought us to the knowledge that Jehovah is the true Almighty God. (Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; John 17:3; John 20:17; 1 Corinthians 8:6) Thanks to persecution, we found out in the Bible that men will remain unconscious after death and until resurrection day. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6; John 5:28, 29) Not only that: "eternal torture in hell" is a lie and a defamation of God's holy name; for, as aforesaid, men are unconscious after death. "Purgatory," a good source of fat income for crooks, is another lie. God truly said that man will surely die if he disobeys Him. Satan, the father of all lies, said that man is immortal. The clergy, headed by priests, uphold the theory of Satan because "purgatory" gives the church enormous wealth. It cannot be doubted that the Catholic priests are antichrist. Sensible people will not believe that rooms in the kingdom of God are for sale.
The Hierarchy's ride to Armageddon
There is Ferraris' Ecclesiastical Dictionary, which shamelessly proclaims that the pope of Rome is the king of heaven, king of earth and king of hell. The Bible, on the other hand, says that blasphemy is written on his crown. Can you deny that the hypocrites are the worst enemies of God? Woe unto you who persecute the true followers of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. For it is prophesied that the enemies of God will be tormented by the truth and become restless and desperate.
You tolerate atheism and evolution. At the same time you fight bitterly the true Christian gospel of the Kingdom. You will gnash your teeth. Jehovah will put you to shame. You will find it impossible to prevent His message to the people. The Protestants are now on the side of Catholics. They lick up their own vomit, blindly following the pope to destruction. The real issue is between Jehovah and Satan. The testing fire for the living souls will be "the supremacy of the pope", that is to say, between ambitious wickedness and true worship of Almighty God in spirit and in truth. Convinced that the battle of Armageddon is near, persecution will fail to dampen our spirit. We are for Jehovah God and His great Vindicator, Jesus Christ.
A Kentucky Preacher's Wife
ONE of Jehovah's people witnessed to a preacher and his wife in a Kentucky hamlet. The preacher knew it all, and was not interested except to find fault; his wife showed real interest but was not permitted to obtain the booklets. She contrived, however, to elude her husband; she contributed 25c and asked that the booklets be left next door, where she could obtain them at her convenience. "The Lord knoweth them that are his," and how to feed them, too.
Weehawken Township Committee Hangs by Tail
WHEN a monkey wants to look particularly foolish he hangs by his tail from a top bar of the cage and then looks up to see if he has made a hit. The Weehawken, N.J., township committee is like that. At a meeting held February 18, 1937, it passed an ordinance which was described as "NEW ORDINANCE TO CHECK CANVASSERS—Believe Weehawken Regulation Aimed at Jehovah witnesses" in the Jersey Observer of the following day, and which any American with the simplest backwoods knowledge of American laws knows has not a leg to stand upon and will surely be ignored by the law-abiding people at whom it is directed.
These Funny Newspapers
NEWSPAPERS make great claims of altruism. How they do love the dear public! How they do yearn and yearn to protect their interests! How their hearts just bleed and bleed for the wrongs inflicted on some of the people! Yes, yes, Clarissa, I know you haven't seen much of that bleeding and yearning in your daily paper, but they make plenty of claims.
The Bergen Evening Record is a newspaper. Its editor has been well aware of the religious persecution abounding in New Jersey. He has seen the rights of Jehovah's witnesses trod in the mire of the Jersey "judicial system", so called. He has observed special legislation enacted against them from time to time. He knows of the unjust trials and malicious tactics. But he hasn't said much. No protest from him. The Record has been as silent as a cemetery.
But the other day he woke up. New Jersey municipalities are passing new ordinances with fever heat, most of which are publicly announced to be aimed at Jehovah's witnesses. Suddenly it dawned on the editor of the Bergen Evening Record that these ordinances might affect newspaper circulation. And then he protested. He let out a real yelp. He howled for help. Freedom of the press—which included the Bergen Evening Record—was imperiled. It was in danger. The basic freedom of the people—yes, Anastasia, the dear, dear, people—was endangered. And, Aimeesemple, that just couldn't be permitted.
Then along comes George W. Rossier and sends the following epistle to the said editor:
Mr. John Borg,
Bergen Evening Record,
Hackensack, N.J.
DEAR SIR:
It is indeed interesting to notice your change of front in respect to the underlying purpose of municipal distributing ordinances. There are few towns in New Jersey without this type of ordinance today, thanks to the scheming tendency of our Roman Catholic officials.
They have been using these local ordinances for years in an effort to hamstring the activities of Jehovah's witnesses. Now the shoe is beginning to pinch. It will be refreshing indeed to watch you and others endeavor to squirm out of the position which you have helped to create.
Your editorial of April 7 is what we have been endeavoring to tell you for years, but you just simply would not listen.
In the editorial which attracted witness Rossier's attention Mr. Borg had sufficient mental acumen to say, in part:
Edgewater's brand-new ordinance against circulation of handbills is carefully designed to prevent canvassing in Edgewater by any persons who have a cause to advance, whether that cause be good, bad, or indifferent, political, religious, or social. Essentially the ordinance is intended to give local police absolute control over printed matter distributed in the Borough. In effect this may mean restricting freedom of the press in Edgewater to persons acceptable to local police officials.
Limitation of any basic freedom enjoyed by the people of the United States should be undertaken only after the most careful analysis. Limitation of a right so fundamental as that to speak and write and disseminate social or political or religious opinions freely bears a dangerous resemblance to European usages which have no popularity here.
That is not much; but it is something, and provides a vague hope that before the New Jersey press is completely hog-tied and delivered to the New Jersey Fascist (Catholic Action) gang some of its members may do enough yelping to render some real service to the people. But, of course, when the country is completely Hitlerized, they will (most of them) go along with the toe-kissing gang that now seeks to have the whole world at its feet.
One of Jehovah's witnesses in Italy (Contributed)
"I AM writing these lines to you to let you know that I have been sentenced to five years and eleven months in prison, because I have proclaimed the Word of truth. I have put in an appeal, with the result that I am now banished to the mountains of the island of Colobraro.
"I am asking the heavenly Father to let me soon receive an answer from you; and I also ask you to send me a French Golden Age, an Italian Watchtower, and the three latest Italian booklets. These things I am ordering for myself so as to keep informed as to what is going on in the world. I will send you the amount for this literature afterwards. Please send them unsealed, as they must pass the Italian police; also all letters that I receive are censored. Whenever it pleases the police to give me my mail they do so; and when it does not please them, well, they do not. I do not believe, however, that it will be possible for them to withhold Jehovah's Word from me.
"I wish to let you know through these lines that we were innocent when sentenced just because we gave a witness through the booklets about the greatest tribulation just ahead, which will involve the whole world for the complete vindication of Jehovah's name. Four brothers were sentenced to five years' imprisonment each, and two for three years and three months each.
"A small young witness, just thirteen years old, was taken away from his mother because both held fast and faithful to the Lord. This mother is the wife of one of the witnesses sentenced to three years and three months in prison; and on account of their faith all three were separated. The father was thrown into prison, and the son was put in a house of correction.
"Here all of Jehovah's witnesses are fully ready to suffer even unto death, following the example of our Master, who died on the tree.
"I am longingly waiting for your letter and the ordered literature; and I believe that the Italian police will let me have this mail, as it is intended only for my own personal use, and I am not using it for propaganda purposes, but am telling the truth merely by word of mouth. Besides, I think that all men should be glad to know of the justice of our Lord. I am always ready, wherever it may be, to take up the fight against error, and will ascribe all honor to Christ, who refused to be frightened by anything."
Jehovah's witnesses in Rumania
AFTER finishing our witness in the village of Vicovul de Sus, on January 2 we lodged for the night at the home of a Mr. N. C. At two in the morning, while everybody was asleep, a terrible noise was made in front of the house. In answer to the landlord's inquiry as to the trouble, he was told the gendarmes were outside, demanding that he open the door, which he refused, requesting them to return in the morning. Not satisfied with this answer, the chief of the gendarmes called together a few people as witnesses and then attempted to break in the door. Upon seeing this, the landlord opened. The gendarmes then entered the house accompanied by several ruffians. . . . They took possession of all the literature and put the landlord and us in chains and brought us to the gendarmerie. There they boxed our ears and put us in jail. A dog was tied to the doorknob. At eight the next morning we were beaten by another gendarme and then made to chop wood. After finishing this chore, he took us into a separate room, one at a time, and beat us until the stick broke in pieces, then grabbed another stick and continued. Our cries and pleadings were in vain, for we could not be heard on the outside. When one gendarme tired another took his place. They pulled out our hair and choked us with our handkerchiefs. While we were thus being maltreated one shouted, "I too know the Scriptures, for I also read them." Said another: "Where is your God Jehovah, that He may deliver you from our hands?" and like other tauntings. Another said: "I am baptizing you with a new baptism." At five o'clock they ceased their torturing and brought us, bound in chains, to the next gendarmerie post. The chief there gave us additional ear-boxings and made us stand on the cellar steps during the bitter cold. They would not even give us water to drink, though we asked for it. On the following morning we were taken, at our own expense, by autobus to the attorney general's office at Radauti, where we were set at liberty.
On January 8, while witnessing in the village of Cupca, the notary and a policeman of the village stopped us and took us to the police station. There were present the preacher, the mayor and the chief of the gendarmes. They questioned us with empty, bombastic phrases to confuse us, but in this they did not succeed. Not we, but they themselves, were put to shame by their words and questions. They then decided to send us to the attorney general in Storojinet. On the way there the gendarmes gave us lodgment in filthy stables. The attorney general did not give us a hearing, but sent us to Cernautt, and from there in turn we were sent to the attorney general in Hotin, where we were set at liberty. Our journey from post to post lasted twelve days, passing through 21 gendarmeries. At each such post we were beaten and made to chop wood, then sent on our way that same afternoon. They treated us like hardened criminals, beating us and nightly putting us in very cold cellars and then transporting us in chains. We were made to suffer much severe ill-treatment at the caprice of the gendarmes.
On January 22 I was witnessing in the village of Cepanoasa, Jud. Hotin. Upon entering a certain house a gendarme (soldier-police) was waiting for me. He had come from a neighboring village, Rucsin, with the express purpose to arrest and abuse me. First he took away my literature, then I was taken to the gendarmerie station of Rucsin, where I was turned over to another gendarme. He put me in a separate room, at the same time requesting those gendarmes present to leave, and then began to beat me with leather straps. He beat me forty times in fifteen minutes, until I lapsed into unconsciousness. Then the other gendarmes entered the room and brought water to revive me. I was then put in a cold cellar, there to remain until the next morning. The following day, after first intimidating and deriding me, they made me chop wood. Not until the 24th was I brought before the attorney general in Hotin, where I was released.
(From the German Golden Age)
“Jehovah’s witnesses” and “Heil Hitler”
(Translated from the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter, January 29, 1937)
GERMAN citizens who for religious reasons decline to utter the salutation “Heil Hitler” have for a long while been the objects of persecution and severely punished; lately such news has come also from the city of Danzig, where recent happenings of this kind, partly mentioned in the Dagens Nyheter, have caused petitions to be brought before the High Council of the League of Nations.
Those now concerned are the members of the world-wide movement “Jehovah’s witnesses”, which is now wholly forbidden in Germany but has been fairly numerously represented at Danzig, particularly, where they have been working under the supervision of the Central European section of the movement. Last year about 200 persons were active at Danzig in spreading the message of the movement. A Swedish representative for Jehovah’s witnesses, Mr. J. H. Eneroth, points out to our journalist that the movement (whose local organizations at times are also called Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society) is of a wholly unpolitical nature: its sole purpose is to publish the truths of the Bible and how the prophecies are being fulfilled.
Because of their Biblical Christian conviction the members are unable to use such an expression as “Heil” in connection with anyone except God and Christ, says Mr. Eneroth. For this reason they are bound to disobey the National-Socialistic laws in the aforementioned way. When a citizen of Danzig, Willy Ruhnau, at the end of last year was, for such offense, delivered by Danzig authorities to the German Gestapo, the matter, of course, caused serious alarm among “Jehovah’s witnesses”, not only at that place, but in various parts of the world, and soon petitions and protests started to flow in—three petitions in re, dated 10 and 29 December 1936 and 15 January 1937, are at present before the High Council of the League at Geneva. But it has, regrettably enough, already turned out that the protests have caused intensified persecution of “Jehovah’s witnesses”. Through the promulgation of a new police law, the Danzig Senate has been uncovered as a tool in the hands of the Gestapo. Especially those members of “Jehovah’s witnesses” whose names were mentioned in connection with the petitions have been the victims of these new persecutions; they have either been arrested or handed over to the Gestapo or disappeared, and maybe met with a still more cruel fate.
Protests against these happenings at Danzig have been telegraphed to the League from “Jehovah’s witnesses” in the U.S.A., England, Sweden, France and Poland, and, additionally, representatives of the management of the movement in America have arrived at Geneva in order to contact the secretary general of the League and the various delegations who constitute the Danzig Committee. From Sweden a special wire was sent to our minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Sandler, calling his attention to this matter. [Mr. Sandler was personally at Geneva at the time.—Translator's note.]
Finally Mr. Eneroth reminds us that Judge Rutherford, of Brooklyn, the president of the international Watch Tower movement, attended a meeting last autumn at Lucerne, where protests were passed and sent to Hitler and the pope, regarding the treatment of "Jehovah's witnesses". It is said that, in certain places, it is the Catholics who are behind the Nazi persecutions of this movement.
Jehovah's People at Quarryville, N.B.
TWELVE children of Jehovah's witnesses at Quarryville, N.B., declined to worship the British flag and were roundly abused therefor by the editor of the Fredericton (N.B.) Daily Mail. The Toronto office of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society thereupon wrote him the following letter, and, to his credit be it said, he was man enough to publish it.
Your issue of the Daily Mail for March 18, 1937, has been forwarded to us. The editorial, "Saluting Our Flag," is one of the most contradictory articles we have yet read on this matter. In the third paragraph you state, "In this country everyone has a right to his own religion and belief and to worship God in any manner or form which he feels to be in accordance with his conscience," yet in the first paragraph that statement is contradicted by saying, "If the parents of these pupils are endorsing their action, as seems to be the case, it is time that these parents were made to see that they cannot get away with any such sentiments in this country." What you are saying is that if people will not back down and worship a man-made image, then the next best thing for them to do is to take their bed and bedding and get out. Don't you think the boot is on the other foot? If you want to bow down to something that is erected by man as an image, in violation of God's commandment, then leave alone the conscience and rights of others.
In paragraph two you state, "It only shows how fair and broad conditions are in this country when a crowd of people such as the Quarryville Russellites, or whatever they are, are allowed to get away with this kind of nonsense." This evidently does not apply to your editorial. We are surprised that you would make this statement and then put yourself in the position to show how narrow and mean you are in wanting to go against such broad and fair conditions.
Paragraph three states: "If these people were living in some European countries that we read about they would probably be stood up against a stone wall in front of a firing party." We remind you that the Press also would be restricted and would have to fall down and worship the state or quit. Surely you are not associating yourself with such atrocities and acts of violence even to the extent of murdering people because they worship God in accordance with the dictates of their own conscience. It would appear that the one who has the screw loose is yourself, and not these people who know the truth.
In paragraph four you state, "It is to be hoped that the Department of Education will teach these children and their parents a lesson in regard to patriotism." It seems that the person responsible for the editorial needs to learn that patriotism cannot be taught by compulsion. When will such writers of editorials realize that to compel people to worship a flag will never accomplish any good if the people are to respect it.
The Toronto Evening Telegram was fair enough to publish a statement showing the position of Jehovah's witnesses, and a copy of the same is enclosed. In fairness to the public which your paper serves, we suggest that you publish the official statement enclosed, concerning the position of Jehovah's witnesses, also this letter. The Press is expected to publish news without bias. If your editorial stands for liberty, freedom of speech and truth, then be sufficiently broadminded to publish the statement.
What a Deliverance!
WHAT a deliverance was granted in Altona, Germany, to one of Jehovah's witnesses, where, after thirty-three years of married life, the court granted the wife a divorce because, says the dispatch, "her husband persisted in associating with a forbidden religious group although he had been repeatedly jailed in concentration camps." The six children of the couple are all grown. The man's eternal deliverance, which would have begun anyway at Armageddon, is merely begun ahead of time. The dispatch describes the wife as a Nazi wife.
Four Witnesses in Lafayette, La.
TUESDAY, February 23, was our first day in Lafayette, La., preaching the good news of Jehovah’s kingdom. From the first place of business called upon a complaint went to the police, demanding that we identify ourselves immediately; hence our first ride to the courthouse.
Four days later, while playing the lecture “Fathers”, the susceptibilities of others were shocked and soon the chief, under the influence of the priests, had men out to find us, but they did not locate our position until the lecture was completed. Orders were to take us for another ride.
On arriving at police headquarters, the chief shouted, “I don’t care who you are; don’t operate that sound equipment; do not go to another place of business; do not go from house to house; do not call on any schools, especially Catholic; in fact, you are not welcome here in Lafayette. Get out!” With that he seized the driver of the car by the coat and pushed him out of his office. Of course, this gave us more zeal to carry on and prove our love for the true Higher Powers.
Two days later, Monday, March 1, as we appeared in town to get our mail, before starting our work, we noticed loud talking and saw finger-pointing by many that had been warned in “church” the day before to have nothing to do with us. Guess the “church”. One frenzied gentleman called the police, and another carload of them came for us. They opened our car door and inquired if we had put on any lectures or sold any books against the chief’s orders.
We calmly replied that we were not engaged in any commercial enterprise, but preaching the gospel, and that the chief did not give us opportunity to explain what we were doing; so his restrictions did not apply to us. With that they grunted, closed the door, and drove off.
The next day, Tuesday, March 2, after completing our day’s work, a few articles had to be obtained from the shops, so I proceeded to get them. At the first place a cop came in just as I completed the purchase. I went on to the next, with him at my heels. Finally he caught up and remarked, “You know I am spying on you?” “You are?” I said. “What for?” “To see if you’re selling books.” “But that’s the point, Officer; you see we don’t sell books”; and with that he ducked into another store.
The next day, Wednesday, March 3, by order of the chief, the keys to our car were demanded from one of the sisters. Of course, she refused, as she was not the driver. So the officer proceeded to find the driver, but in the meantime called the wreckers and had our car dragged through the town to the police headquarters. We were then told to wind up our business, as our car was tied up. He said, “You girls look too sweet to do anything wrong.” We said, “That’s just the point. The chief is the one that is doing the wrong; he is trying to interfere with the Lord’s work.”
We continued on until we finished the day. Then, on foot, we started for the courthouse and demanded our car. The chief remarked that he had had the district attorney and the judge on this case, to see if we could do this work or not. We got our car and with rejoicing looked forward to another day to witness for Jehovah’s name!
The next day, Thursday, March 4, the scripture was fulfilled, Jeremiah 51:30, where it says: “The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they remain in their holds; their might hath failed; they [are become] as women.” We had completed practically the whole town with the exception of the courthouse, and, of course, the men in there must receive full warning, too; so, by the Lord’s grace, we called on every department, even the police department, and whom should we see, right off, but the chief himself?
At first he did not recognize us, but when he read the testimony card he shouted, “We don’t want that in here; you say you’re preaching the gospel; I think it is a gag. Now get out!” We replied, “Each one must be given an opportunity; that’s why we called.” He answered, “You are not welcome. Get out; and I hope every one treats you the same.” We turned to go, rejoicing for the privilege of having foreheads stronger than theirs!
The next day, Friday, March 5, no more trouble with the police, but much booing and spitting by the children under the influence of the “fathers”. We completed our assignment in Lafayette, thanking the Lord for the strength and the privilege to do so.—Glenn and June Gerber, Paula Roos and Rosa May Dreyer, pioneers.
Cartoons (By the cartoonist himself)
BECAUSE Satan's organization is holy, pure and undefiled, just, merciful and righteous, it would be rank ingratitude and definitely out of order for anyone, however well-meaning or sincere, to make or cause to be made any statement or picture, or otherwise to publish any book, brochure, tract or cartoon that would tend to hold up to scorn, ridicule or contempt (or any insinuation thereof) any pope, cardinal, archbishop, very right reverend, monsignor, priest, dominie, beadle, elder, sexton, communicant, or spiritualist; and/or any dictator, king, president, maharaja, caliph, regent, vizier, mogul, satrap, premier, Reichsminister, governor, senator, congressman, member of parliament, emissary, diplomat, judge, magistrate, mayor, alderman, sheriff, constable, catchpole, or policeman; and/or any munition maker, plutocrat, tycoon, nabob, magnate, aristocrat, billionaire, or the mouthpieces of the whole gang, to wit, press associations, newspapers, magazines, radio stations, etcetera and etcetera. And if any of Satan's main props have been inadvertently omitted, they are included as of the above.
Desiring to honor the Higher Powers, The Golden Age will leave no stone unturned, nor pass up any opportunity to emphasize the opposite of the above paragraph, which was written purposely to emphasize its antithesis—God's Truth. The exposé of Satan's organization is a mandatory obligation Jehovah requires of His people, beyond the shadow of a doubt. In fact, a multitude of passages and pictures in His Word permits no alternative or compromise. Our Master, leaving us an example, that we should follow in His steps, exposed to shame, ridicule and contempt the hypocrites and evildoers of His day AS A CLASS. In addition, Jehovah has also revealed to us the utter necessity of drawing a firm and readily discerned line of demarcation between His own organization and that of the adversary.—Matthew 6:24; 2 Corinthians 6:15; John 17:16; James 4:4; Obadiah 1; 2 Corinthians 6:17.
Cartoons are an aid in this matter. Because of their peculiar ability to concentrate a world of meaning in a small space, and because of the ease with which they make a point by the use of pictorial hyperbole, and, most of all, because they can tell the truth clearly and forcefully, they are a powerful weapon which all of the Lord's people welcome at this crisis in the world's affairs.
If they seem to deride stuffed shirts, hypocrites and stooges, it is because Jehovah himself has shown us that it is our privilege and joy to do as He himself is doing, and will continue to do. (Psalms 2:4; 37:13; 59:8; Ezekiel 23:32; Nahum 3:6; Habakkuk 1:1, 10; Hebrews 10:27) Anything that will prevent His people from being beguiled into feeling one ounce of sympathy for any least part of Satan's organization is all gain.
If cartoons, therefore, aid us to emphasize and deepen the wide abyss between Jehovah's witnesses and Satan's diabolical organization, then cartoons are a good and worthy instrument. When their utility ceases, we shall know it, and they will have an end.
As concerns a few details of certain cartoons, about which the Golden Age office has received a minimum of unhelpful suggestions, it is good to bear in mind that Jehovah God is not a God of prurient prudishness. He calls a spade a spade and a whore a whore. The cartoonist, when treating of her against whom we are commanded to rise up in battle, could not be faithful should he present her and whom she represents as a decent woman. A harlot—and a contrary one is that pictorially represented—is no more detestable than the one in Ezekiel chapter 23.
The Golden Age can boast of having on its staff the highest-paid cartoonist in the world. His “wages” are the same as all of Jehovah's witnesses receive, at the doors of those who sigh and cry for all the abominations done in the earth—specifically, the joy of serving the One True and Only God, the Holy One of Israel.
Garmon on the Warpath
W. F. GARMON, of Texas, is on the warpath. ◆He says he has $1,000 reward for anybody who will come forth with evidence that the denominational or salaried preacher who teaches that there is a soul, separate from the body, which does not die, but suffers in a burning hell of literal fire, is not one of the wickedest men living, making the Creator a liar and a fiend. He sent in $20, paying his Watchtower and Golden Age subscriptions ten years ahead. He is sure, so he says, that Armageddon will be along before his subscription has expired, but he doesn't care, anyway. Well, nobody will ever get his $1,000. He is betting on a dead-sure thing.
Exposed
A recorded talk (G) by Judge Rutherford
THE Roman Catholic doctrine is that our Lord Christ Jesus conferred upon Peter the place of spiritual supremacy in His church and that such supremacy has since resided in the popes of Rome. That is another vicious and erroneous doctrine, wholly unsupported by the Word of God and misleading and detrimental to all sincere persons.
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