Do You Condemn or Wink at Unspeakable Crimes? (1940)
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INFORMATION for all persons of good will toward Almighty God. RELIGION is a snare and a racket. GOD'S TRUTH shields and strengthens the upright.
. the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, . . of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end . . The zeal of JEHOVAH of hosts will perform this.—Isaiah 9:6,7.
DEVOTED to the principles of justice, truth, equity and kindness as exemplified in the acts and sayings of The Creator of the Universe and of His King Christ Jesus.
New York City - October 1940
No.7
Do You Condemn or Wink at UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES?
"THERE, that will hold you for a while!"
1 So sneered three inhuman males to Albert Walkenhorst after cutting and snatching from him one of his testicles.
Two of those demonized fellows, each about 25 years of age, came to their victim's home in Nebraska early one Tuesday afternoon in August, 1940. At his front door they first politely told him they were in the same work of witnessing to God's Kingdom that he was doing. Confidently he stepped outside and at once they seized him, and whisked him away to a grove where the third fellow of their gang was waiting. There they castrated Albert (one of Jehovah's witnesses) and left him.
Shocking? Yes, to persons of honesty and integrity, even in these turbulent days of 1940. Who is responsible?
Madison, Nebraska, is the county seat and is the nearest town to where the above-mentioned attack took place. The postmaster there, a Catholic, is also the publisher of the newspaper. His paper printed a number of lies. They said the officials did not believe Walkenhorst's story, that there was no grove and no signs of blood, and that he told the officers they did not need to look any further for his attackers.
DEMONIZED RULERS OF "CHRISTENDOM"
Calmly consider other typical cases here set forth. These are only a few of thousands of such astounding and brutal acts of lawlessness committed in recent weeks against Jehovah's witnesses in many parts of the United States by persons deliberately incited to such violence. Who incited them? Generally, the demonized leaders of "Catholic Action" and their Nazi, Fascist, COMMUNIST, "Protestant" and other religious admirers and hired backers.
Among such scornful leaders responsible for shedding innocent blood in many states are high prelates of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and other religionists. Among them the Hierarchy's bishop-editor of its most widely-circulated national weekly Our Sunday Visitor (August 4, 1940); other officials of the Vatican's "good" press, including the monsignor-editor
of Catholic Action of The South, P. Wynhoven; also the Hierarchy's eminent cardinal, D. Dougherty of Philadelphia; its Jesuit-directed "radio priest" of "Franco's way" and Royal Oak, ably aided by E. Pacelli's Jesuit weekly America and by many Godless "Protestants" of the Stanley High type who now laud and cleverly shield "the Church" against which their Luther "protested" and who also hire themselves to write mischievous imaginations about Jehovah's witnesses for "Saturday evening" journals and other periodicals owned and manned by hero-worshipers that still childishly think "the Church" of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is a SACRED COW, even as do thousands of Knights-of-Columbus members of The American Legion whom their 1940 national commander, R. Kelly, feverishly spurs to "summary action" to save America by 'stamping out' Jehovah's witnesses just as Hitler's Gestapo "got" Jehovah's witnesses at the request of Vatican swastika-saluting bishops in Germany. And in the meantime those same Nazi bishops loudly thank and praise the 'triumphing FUROR' as he bombs and 'saves civilization' in France, Belgium and elsewhere for his comrades, E. Pacelli, B. Mussolini, F. Franco, J. Stalin, Hirohito, and like scornful rulers.
Do you also praise such conduct of eminent and pious pastors and
their private army of Legionnaires and other un-Christlike parishioners? Do you shout with Godless super-patriots that all such wicked acts against Jehovah's witnesses are "for God and country"—"100% Americanism"?
OR do you fearlessly CONDEMN all those shameful hypocritical deeds?
Every person of honesty and integrity is discerning more and more the hollow hypocrisy of scornful 'rulers of the Christian religion' who have "a form of godliness but deny its power", who draw near to God with their lips while their hearts are far removed from HIM. From such leaders every upright person now boldly turns away. The time is here to FORSAKE RELIGION and instead LEARN AND OBEY THE LAWS OF ALMIGHTY GOD written in His Word, the Bible, and to serve only Him and His King Christ Jesus in sincerity. Only those who do so shall remain alive under the protecting power of JEHOVAH OF HOSTS.
A SHERIFF WATCHES
Traveling in the "Deep South" (July, 1940), Beulah Amidon, an honest editorial writer, says she saw a sheriff. He was coatless, gun on hip, leaning against a telephone pole, watching—what?
Seven men and four women, with bundles and suitcases, plodding along a dusty village street under the blazing sun. Following that band, in the road and along the sidewalks, was a crowd jeering, yelling, throwing sticks of wood and anything else handy. "Git out o' here." "Hurry up!" "Damn their dirty hides." "Git out!" The sheriff watched. He made no move to join the crowd, or to help the sufferers.
A half brick hit one of the plodding women between her shoulders. She gasped, staggered. Two men caught her, dragged her along.
More jeers, flying missiles, curses by the 40 or 50 pursuing boys and men. As the ugly "picture" moved away toward cotton fields beyond town, Beulah Amidon asked the sheriff: "What is it all about?" He replied:
"Jehovah's witnesses; running 'em out, they're traitors—the Supreme Court says so; ain't you heard?"
"MAY," NOT "MUST"
CONTRARY to this sheriff's lazy sum-up of its eight-to-one decision, the Supreme Court of the United States did not hold that Jehovah's witnesses are "traitors".
Every thoughtful person who has read the entire opinion of that court knows it declares emphatically that every school board in this country MAY (not must) now require children in public schools to salute a flag, and that each school board is free to decide. What? Whether it will line up with totalitarian enemies of free peoples of this "land of liberty" by COMPELLING flag-saluting (as Hitler's Gestapo compel Germans to salute him and his swastika), OR whether such school board will choose, on the other hand, to uphold the principles of liberty to worship Almighty God, liberty of speech and of assembly for right purposes, and firmly maintain such liberty, with justice, FOR ALL.
That lazy sheriff's sum-up of the Supreme Court decision is flatly contradicted by eight of the court's nine justices who in their own words of that decision positively refused to shoulder the responsibility of making a rule allowing school boards to force children (not adults) everywhere to salute flags. Summarizing its own position, the court said: " . . . the courtroom is not the arena for debating issues of educational policy. . . To fight out the wise use of legislative authority in the forum of public opinion and before legislative assemblies rather than to transfer such a contest to the judicial arena, serves to vindicate the self-confidence of a free people."
Clearly, then, by that unique decision America's highest court puts school boards of this whole country "on the spot". How? Each school-board's members must now prove, before Almighty God and His King Christ Jesus, whether the board as a governing body will humbly show kindness, consideration, GOOD JUDGMENT, or instead will choose the way of Nazi and Jesuit oppressors and cruelly but "politely" FORCE hardships indescribable upon upright, God-fearing children who have sincerely contracted to obey the written law of Almighty God, who forbids His faithful servants to revere, salute, bow down to, or otherwise worship any emblem, flag, image or idol. CONSIDER Exodus 20:1-6; Psalm 60:4; Psalm 20:5.
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MORE INNOCENT BLOOD
It's June, 1940, another Tuesday afternoon, at one of Wyoming's largest cities, Rawlins. Carr, Everett and his wife, three of Jehovah's witnesses, peacefully and lawfully offer Bible literature among passersby. Suddenly they are surrounded by several religious "patriots" who rapidly question them, sneeringly asking whether the literature being distributed is against "our religion" and giving them no chance to reply. Immediately, from behind, the two men are struck, knocked down, unmercifully beaten. One of them flees for help to the city hall, where he is promptly jailed on a false charge of "disturbing the peace". The property of the others is taken from their car, including Bibles and other good literature, and all burned on the spot. The city attorney and a policeman arrest Everett, falsely charging him also with "disturbing the peace". He is jailed. His car and his trailer the mob rushes to the edge of town, and burns them, together with all his own and his wife's clothing and other belongings, including money. That same night, more horrors at Rawlins!
Everett's wife and her hostess (at whose home his trailer was parked) are rushed upon by a gang of demonized dames who break down the door of the house, drag out the two women and force them to march several blocks to the post office, where fierce face blows to Everett's wife cause her loss of much blood until a local doctor dares to dress her wounds after the mob tears off nearly all her clothing.
That same wild night, Clare, another of Jehovah's witnesses, Rawlins resident, is mobbed twice, given a "ride", brutally beaten and finally rescued by a local attorney. Also that night three others of Jehovah's witnesses (two men and the wife of one of them), motoring from the State of Washington to Ohio, while innocently passing through Rawlins, are "discovered" and seized by the "patriotic" religionists, shamefully beaten, abused, jailed. About two weeks later, both Everett and Carr, in jail since the wild night, are brought out by the police chief and coolly ordered to leave town forthwith.
FACTS
Here are facts; truly stranger than fiction.
Multiply these facts hundreds of times and you have a view of the gruesome scene in which religious and "patriotic" enemies of the living God and His Son Christ Jesus have moved and still move against Jehovah's witnesses upon the stage called America.
ALMIGHTY GOD sees, too. He declares in His Word that under the extreme conditions prevailing NOW among the peoples of all lands the wickedness of His enemies in all nations has come to the full. Violence fills the earth. The time is here for Him to destroy the nations that have forgotten God. Consider Psalm 9:9-20.
America is in an implied covenant to obey Almighty God and His King Christ Jesus.
America's president and other leaders often go to church, hobnob openly with cardinals, priests, and other clergymen, and often ask all people of the land to pray to Almighty God for the country's welfare. Notwithstanding all such lippings and boasts about the "religious"
and "Christian" estate of this nation, it is here in 1940 that humble and sincere men, women and children who dare to make known the written judgments of Almighty God are being violently and shamefully bruised and maimed and thousands upon thousands of dollars' worth of their property totally destroyed. By whom? By religious racketeers and conscienceless Legionnaires and their demonized comrades of both sexes. These horrifying atrocities occurred and are occurring in nearly every state of the Union; in most instances with the deliberate or cowardly connivance of local public officials acting shamelessly as "patriots".
Evidently because of the ancient "dignity" and boasted "right" of the Catholic Hierarchy's power to make and unmake political rulers, even county, state and federal officials of this land, from the least to the greatest, have silently WATCHED, like the sheriff in the "Deep South", and WINKED at their responsibility to speak and act for curbing the continuing outrages.
This country's highest court, speaking by one of its learned justices, declared America to be "a Christian nation".
'The city "Christendom" called by my name,' says Almighty God, 'I will destroy utterly.' Consider Jeremiah 25:29-33.
Prayers of kings, presidents and other religionists, including the Catholic Hierarchy's thousands of prelates and priests (who "bless" tanks and planes for Hitler and other killers), will avail nothing, because ALMIGHTY GOD, Avenger of Blood, has Himself set the day and hour for His "strange act". He is no respecter of persons. He says, 'The shepherds shall find no way to flee, nor the principal of their flocks to escape; THEY SHALL FALL LIKE A PLEASANT VESSEL.' 'As the vessels of a potter shall they be dashed to pieces' by His King Christ Jesus, the Faithful and True Witness of JEHOVAH GOD. 'THE END SHALL BE AT HIS APPOINTED TIME.' Consider Isaiah 28:21; Jeremiah 25:34-38; Psalm 2; Daniel 11:27; Revelation chapters 13 and 16; Matthew 25:40-46, and other prophecies of Almighty God explained fully in the book Religion.
LET EVERY ONE in this land who loves righteousness and hates wickedness take warning NOW. This may be the LAST WARNING. Let all AWAKE NOW who prefer the favor and protection of Almighty God and who desire to escape His condemnation. The irresistible power of His invisible hosts from "the North" will soon permanently annihilate all hypocrites.—Ezek. 9:2,5,6.
Let all order-loving, God-fearing people have in mind that now is the time in which every person must make an individual choice, to put himself in the class of "goats", who commit acts of wickedness, OR put himself in the class of "the sheep" of the Lord, who do deeds of kindness, love righteousness and hate wickedness, and who try to do right toward all people. Read carefully Matthew 25:31-46 and see there the Lord's final judgment concerning both the "goats" and "his sheep", then choose which class you want to be in.—Zephaniah 2:1-3.
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