Golden Age, September 7, 1927
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Social and Educational
Modern Gifts of Tongues ................ 779
Self-Hypnosis Leads to Murder ............. 779
Changes in Men and Women .............. 780
After Mature Deliberation ............... 780
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Bits or Real News .................. 779
President Marsh on the Subject of War .......... 779
War Books All Untrue ................ 780
The French Peace Proposal ............... 780
The Objectionable Inscription .............. 780
Agriculture and Husbandry
Exhaustion of the Soils by Crops ............ 780
Home and Health
A Sei ere Antiseptic ................. 780
Travel and Miscellany
Coaxing the Nightingales to Sine ... ......... 780
Back from the Morgue ................. 780
Religion and Philosophy
The Day of God at Toronto ............... 771
The Hand of God Revealed. .............. 773
The Victory Itself, God’s Victory ............. 775
Resolution ..................... 777
The Bishops of Lombardy ................ 781
Freedom fob the Peoples ................ 783
Who Rules ..................... 783
God the Peoples’ Friend ................ 788
Wars to Cease .................... 789
What Must the Christian Overcome? ........... 791
Mistaken Ideas of Overcoming .............. 792
What the Devil Does Not Want ............. 795
What it Means to Overcome the World ........... 797
The First Cheat Prophet ok Jehovah ........... 798
Little Studies fob Little People ............. 799
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The Golden Age
Volasme V1JI Brooklyn, N„ ¥., Wednesday, September 7, 1927 Naamfeer 20®
The Day of God at Toronto
ALL who are familiar with. God’s Word know ■ that His method is to begin quietly, to begin darkly, to apparently suffer defeat, and yet in the end to win a glorious unmatchable triumph. “The evening and the morning were the first day,” and that has been true of every one of His days. A dark beginning, a triumphant ending. . _
All can see Low true this principle is in its application to the seventh day of earth’s creation. It began with the fall of humanity into sin and death. It ends with the complete recovery of humanity, their lifting up to perfection and everlasting life, as many as will. A dark beginning, a bright and glorious ending. How like our God!
So steadfast is this principle that God caused it to be pictured in cveiy day of the lives of His typical people. Israel. The new day began the instant that the sun sank below the western horizon. For some hours it grew darker; but the imw day was on the way. and eventually it came, and ended in a blaze of glory filling the whole hoavem.
The Lmeinalional Bible Students have been holding a convention in Toronto, Canada. The date was July J 8th-25th, 1927. It was the most glorious, the most awe-inspiring, of all Bible Students conventions since that day in the upper room at Jerusalem when the holy spirit was poured out upon the Availing conventioncrs; and, I'lm that first one, it a1! centered about an act of God, an act that had a dark beginning, but the most wonderful ending imaginable.
We have to pass by the convention itself, for a time, while we consider that act. It had its beginning months before, yes, even years before, when well-meaning but inexperienced engineers undertook to perform work which they were not competent to handle, and thus delayed the installation and operation of WBBR just at a time
when every moment counted. The Lord’s hand may now be seen in what was at that time a considerable trial to Judge Rutherford and his friends, who -were anxious that the message of the truth should go out over the air.
Eventually the best of ecpiipment was installed, but not before the wave length originally allocated by the Department of Commerce had become jeopardized, and when the station opened it was obliged to use a lesser wave and then for a time was assigned to 416.4 meter wave.
The dark day began back there in the days of preliminary equipment; it grew darker when a Radio Commission was delegated which its critics claim is composed in part at least of men who ought not to be serving on the Commission because of business connections; and it grew darker still when notice was served on WBBR that it must reduce its wave length from 416.4 to 256.3 meters.
The Hearing at Washington
THE darkest hour of the day might be said to have come when Judge Rutherford and some of his colleagues, Major J. P. Holmes of San Antonio, Lieutenant Eugene D. Orrell of Wilmington, N. C., Captain G. Y. McCormick of Hollis, L. I., and a staff of radio experts and secretaries went to Washington to present their just claims to a higher wave length.
What happened at that hearing makes a thrilling story in itself, and we hope in due time to get it at some length for use in The Golden Age, but at this writing all who were there are too busily engaged with other important matters to provide the materials for the story, and w® have room at this time for only a condensed statement.
Realizing that a giant corporation, the National Broadcasting Company, practically eon-m
trolled the air for broadcasting purposes, and that it had been for four years sending out the programs of the Federal Council of Churches, and that the Radio Commission was sure to be biased toward both of these institutions and therefore indifferent or unfriendly to the work in which the Bible Students are engaged, Judge Rutherford warned his -colleagues that they should merely undertake to he the Lord's witnesses and to leave the result with Jehovah God.
Accordingly, Judge Rutherford poimod out these facts to the Commission laid before them fifteen thousand bdlers and afildamts irom some of the best citizens of the lard, including men high in every reputable walk of life, who testified that WBBR furnishes the be.d, most uplifting programs of any station now on the air, notified them that the radio waves aie the property of Jehovah God TI'niMf, and not merely of the United States Navy or the National Broadcasting Company, and warned them not to interfere with the divine purpose to use the radio at this time in broadcasting the truth, as God would require it at their hand.
An interesting incident of the hearing was when Judge Rutherford drew from one "Doctor” who w’as at the hearing, in the interests of the Federal Council of Churches, that he had no right to the title, did not know which of the 603 ministers that have preached over the radio network were modernists and which were fundamentalists, and could not of his own knowledge testify that he ever heard one of them attempt to give an exposition of the Bible as to what it teaches concerning the creation, the fall, the redemption and the restoration of man. Although it was self-evident that the ministers were vitally interested in this hearing, this Doctor, who is really a layman, was their only representative at Washington.
Judge Hlutkerford’s Closing Argument
BOM his twenty-page argument in summing up before the Commission we present a few paragraphs which we know will be of great interest to our readers:
“When WBBR began to operate we were tenth in the list of those licenses. Today, after being on the air for three and one-half years, we are twenty-fifth in the list of those allocated wave lengths of advantage. I want to call attention here to this, which is of far more public interest than merely one case that is being heard by the Commission. There has been a growing tendency in this country for a long while to concentrate all the power in the hands of a few I am not alone in that thought by any means; many public men have so stated, and all of us know that that is true.
“Special intends have been diligent in having laws enacted for their special and selfish benefit in this land. They have not always succeeded in this, however. The difficulty is not so often with the law hut in the interpretation and aaimnjslering ol that law. For some time there ba°- bemi a concentration of money power in this land to control even business and every public interest. The predatory wealth controls the banks, the public press and the transportation systems: and now it is reaching its octopus arms out to control the air. It says to the people in effect: BVe will take the air and do with it what we ploa-e. We will make all the money out of it we can and then give you what we do not want.’
“Above all, the air belongs to Jehovah God, and the use of it by the radio also belongs to Him. Ho has provided it for the people that they might know His name and plan. He has brought it to light just at this time for the purpose of having the message of His kingdom told to the people. He will have it done regardless of any opposition.
“The invisible power which has influenced, controlled and oppressed the nations and peoples of earth fox’ centuries is Satan the Devil, your enemy and mine. There is no reason why men should fight about their interests. We are all human beings. We all spring from one common source. We are all made of one common blood. There is no reason ‘why men should fight. But our enemy the Devil, who is the opponent of God and the opponent of righteousness, has injected into the minds of men that which causes them to fight each other; and the time has come for the people to know the truth. He is the enemy of God and the enemy of man.
“The people generally are ignorant of this fact. That ignorance is due, to some degree at least, to the selfishness of men who desire the plaudits of men and not the approval of God; and the most responsible man today for this and for the ignorance of the American people is the clergyman. Not on® of them would get upon this platform. I would like to have examined one of them today before this Commission to prove that ninety percent of the clergymen who stand before the people and pretend to preach the Bible do not believe a word of it. They are destroying the faith of the young men and the old men, and driving the whole nation into infidelity. And that is my only reason for wanting to get this message to the people. I am not trying to get joiners or to get money. It is purely educational and to get the people back to that which they had when this nation was first established.'’
The Hand of God Revealed June 15th
RESIDENT Meilin Hall Aylesworth, of the National Broadcasting Company (the son of a minister, by the va\) was personally interested and concerned in this remarkable case. The follov ing colloquy, while President Aylesworth was on the stand and Judge Rutherford was questioning him, led to an unmistakable revelation of the hand of God:
“A. We try to supply everything in the amount of time available.
“Q. In the time available!
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. But you select the things you supply?
“A. Yes, sir.
“Q. And you do select what yon think will supply the public demand of the people?
“A. We hope so.
“Q. Now, if you were convinced that the great Creator of the Universe, Jehovah God, had a message to deliver to the people of America, you would be just as anxious to deliver that message? , . - »
“A. Yes; just as I do want to let the people get yours.
“Q. Then I will ask you direct, Is it possible to arrange an hour in the very near future?
“A. Any time you want.
“Q. Then I ask you to make it definite for July 24th.
“A. So far as I know that is fine. I haven’t a program with me. How about, that, Mr. McClelland?
“Mr. Me Clelland: I think that is all right
“The Witness: However, we will try to arrange it for that time, even if we have a program on.”
By Judge Rutherford:
“Q. We will try that. I have an engagement to deliver a message at that time.
“A. I am glad to do it. I am very serious about it.
“Q. Very fine. Would you indicate at this time what would be the cost to our association!
“A. There will be no cost to you, sir.”
The Hand of the Devil also Shown
WE GIVE the above word-for-word report of the colloquy between President Aylesworth and Judge Rutherford, as taken from the ofiicial report of the hearing, made on the spot by the firm of Hart, Dice and Carlson, shorthand reporters, 41fi Fifth St., N. W., Washington, D. C., so that all honest persons may compare it with the report as given in the New York Woild of Wednesday, July 20th, and widely telegraphed all over the country. This will help some simple-minded but honest souls to see the real value of the press in this year of our Lord 1927:
“An angry dare and its hasty acceptance at a hearing before the Federal Radio Commission a month ago has resulted in supplanting the regular Sunday afternoon interdenominational service of The Greater New York Federation of Churches, which was to be broadcast from WEAF next Sunday, with an address by Joseph F. Rutherford, long anathema to conservative clergymen.”
(Then follows a two-paragraph squawk on behalf of the church federation and four more paragraphs of drivel about the work of Judge Rutherford, and then the following:)
“I dare you to let me speak from your station,” shouted Rutherford.
“You may speak, sir, for one hour on any day and at any hour you may select,” responded Aylesworth angrily.
“AU right,” said Rutherford quickly, “1 choose 3 P. M. Sunday, July 24th, next.” .
“That will be arranged,” said Aylesworth.
(Then another one-paragraph squawk about the Federation of Churches and the following:)
“Recently Mr. Aylesworth learned that Mr. Rutherford, forgetting or intending to decline the opportunity furnished him, had agreed to attend the convention of the association of which he is president in Toronto, Canada. It became Mr. Aylesworth’s turn to show the evangelist his bluff could not be called.”
(Then another paragraph which admitted that file projected hook-up would be the biggest in. radio history, with a lie taeked on to it reading *with the exception only of a few events of national interest and importance”, and a con-dudtog squawk on behalf of the orthodox churches.)
It took the NewYork World a full month to garble the interesting news from Washington and get it into its columns in such a form that not a person who was at the hearing could recognize it in any manner whatever.
Newspapers in general came to the assistance of their ignoble alliexS, among them the New York Times, also the Toronto newspapers. The latter had already decided not to give the Bible Students a line of publicity of any nature except for the outrageous price of 41V Per bfie-Therefore the Bible Students issued their own newspapers, a Souvenir of the Convention and fcur issues of The Messenger, and were as independent of the Toronto papers as if the latter had been published in Timbuetoo.
A Foregleam of the Coming Victory
FROM the issue of The Messenger for Friday, July 22nd, we quote:
“Never before in the history of the human family has any one man talked to as many people as Judge Rutherford will address this coming Sunday afternoon in the Coliseum. .
“The National Broadcasting Company has taade an unparalleled hook-up covering every important station from Alai ne to California, and from the Arctic Circle to the Caribbean Sea. The lecture will be rebroadcast in Britain.
“For a week past the newspapers of the voild have been groping for news. Their columns have been as barren of food for the mind as if issued by the bushmen of .Australia.
“Here is news of the fn 4 magnitude. This hook-up, Hom the viewpoint of the Bible, and from the scientific point of view, is the only real news in the world at this time.
“But the papers are as de ad fs the mummy of Barneses IF, embalmed in "Egypt four thousand years ago. Tutankhamen m then editor and Pharaoh Nocho their pressman.
“Whence all this silence in the ne" spaper offices? is it because they do not know? It is not. They know it all too well. That is why they are sad and why we laugh.
“They want it understood that they stand by the preachers. They do indeed. They stand by them and eease not their wailing, the while aft men hold their noses. “
“They know not that the common people are aware that the preachers, as such, have ceased to exist They know not that hypocrisy is now a laughingstock and ecclesiasticism gathers green mold,
“They smell not; else it would be apparent to them that the reign of the clergy hath ended i these many years back. and quick interment in this hot weather is much in order.
“They hear not; else they would hear the undertaker rumbling toward them with the dead wagon' and the eager footsteps of all humanity I longing to be the pall-bearers of the fraud. ‘
“They feel not; else they would feel the clammy hand which is clutched in theirs, and the cold sweat which slowly exudes from the body of what was once hailotry enthroned.
“They see not; else they would know that when the face is black and pennies from the collection box hold down the eyelids there is nothing left but the funeral oration.
“Why do the Bible Students laugh in this hour of newspaper sadness? It is because they see the Devil caught with the goods: Hypocrisy, deception, fraud, meanness, littleness.
“When they see the adjoining column from the New York limes it will be with difficulty that some of them will keep from rolling on the ground. Unalloyed joy will be theirs.
“'The roar of laughter at the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition will sound like the waters fall nig over Niagara. The Bible Students see what has happened.
“It was a brilliant idea u hen the Devil adopted the clergy as his children, and another brilliant one when ho took over the press to boost thorn and pat them on the back.
“It ms a brilliant idea vbwn he got the clergy to father and mother his mtn lie that nobody ever dies and that his kingdom is Christ's kingdom. Brilliant once. Not now.
“But when the Lord brought forth the truth about His plan and His kingdom, and when He brought forth His radio to enter within all walls, it was a bad day for all highwaymen.
“The accompanying Times article tells us sadly that for four years the preachers have been using the National Broadcasting Circuit, and that nobody is interested. Everybody yawns.
"The Times goes on to tell ns that Judge Rutherford laid the hypocrisy of the preachers _ wide open at the hearing in Washington and that now, in all sadness, they admit they knew it. •
"All the reporters in Washington were at that hearing and knew the great facts and laid them before their papers, but Tutankhamen still held the dead hand of Raineses II.
"Did the Times render a public service by immediately coming out in the open and letting the people know of that great event in Washing-' ton ? Not so that you could notice it.
"But because they know that Judge Rutherford had given the funeral oration over ee-clesiastieism they tried to kid themselves into thinking the corpse was still alive.
"In the past the preachers have done all the dirty work for big business and for crooked politicians, but their work is done. The gravediggers are throwing out the last gravel even now.
"'And then the Times does a wonderful thing. It did not mean to do it. It could not help it. It gave all its powers to advertising Judge Rutherford.
“Previously, when he spoke in New York to a great concourse of people at the New Madison Square Garden, the Times. at the behest of the preachers, gave him not a line of publicity.
“Judge Rutherford was willing to pay for advertising ; but they would not accept his money, because the preachers did not want the meeting advertised. But it was, anyway.
"The Bible Students got on the job and in two days put a million and a quarter dodgers out in New York City, telling the people all about it. And the people laughed.
“And now the Times comes out and tells us that the preachers are dead; that Judge Rutherford has taken their place, and invites everybody to listen in. And they will.
“Let us admit that the newspapers are no longer necessary. Every great newspaper strike has shown that. London showed it. New York showed it. Chicago showed it.
“But as a last gasp the squawk from the Times is a good thing. It does tell the day and the hour when the people can hear Judge Rutherford. And all are glad.
“All are glad. Yes, all the people. The preachers, the press and the politicians have done their dirty work and are about all done. The Lord is now on the job.
“And on Sunday afternoon Judge Rutherford will tell all about it He will make it all dear why the papers of Toronto have kept still about the only news they had.”
The Victory Itself, God's Victory
THOUGH the National Broadcasting Company was the instrument, Jehovah God Himself and His great General, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, alone are entitled to the credit for the victory which followed. In the first place it rained very hard all day Saturday, the day before the great message was to be given. This cleared all the static out of the air, and the Judge’s voice was as clear to approximately twenty-five million people as if he had been in the same room.
The Broadcasting Company preceded and followed the lecture by an excellent musical program sent out from New York City. The dean of announcers, Graham Me Naniee, came on from New York to heral I the great event; and after a brief introduction by Robert J. Martin, editor in chief of The Me^cvger, the Judge began his masterly and courageous address.
Interrupted from time to time by applause from the vast throng (11.000 people) which overcrowded the Coliseum, lie bogged them to remain silent while he talked to the far greater audience which was unseen, the greatest audience ever addressed by man. We cover this point by cpioting again from The Mes^eitge), of Monday, July 25th, the closing day of the convention. Under the title "Judge Rutherford Addressing the Whole World. The First Time in History That Any Lecturer Has Ever Talked to All Parts of the Earth”, The Messenger said:
“One of the greatest events of the age lias passed into history. Judge Rutherford's address, at Toronto, marked the end of the old way and the coming m of the nev.
“Ten year?, ago the Bible Students anticipated that by the end of 1925 the gospel would be -broadcast from some one station to all the rest of the world. They did not miss it by very much.
“Ten weeks ago there were no signs that Judge Rutherford would have the whole world listening to him from the Coliseum plat f own, on July, 24th. But events move rapidly now.
“Nothing could more plainly demonstrate the hand of God than the wonderful way in which this seemingly impossible thing was brought about. All things are easy for God.
“It is less than six weeks ago that Judge 'Rutherford and his colleagues were at Vmsh, ington, setting forth to the Radio Comrus a m their just rights to a. high wave length.
“Reasons were given why WxTBR. Judge Rutherford’s station on Sloten JJa id, sn mid have part of tl e time of WJZ. Tt Sro-E? ■> ] yi.p ,, hopele«s mb Men, Hit Go e ,w otheiA ro.
“WJZ is on the National Bron La« xua f <> ■>-pant’s wrouit. .its president vac at the x. wow. Natuiady he v anted to let on h"« ii <!W Judge RntLc-xloid into’ _s « J 1 im.
'Pit1-dent '»r-'ihii U B vlcsuv Ju x t( o National Broadcasting I uropany, de~x. ». mat Judge Tbilhww’I Mwuhl make iwe o* to* cm cuit: ami a c «to v as fiveu. July 24th, yesterday.
"'So it came about that vhen Judge Rutherford -topped out on tho platform yesterday he stepped out to speak from all the stations which go to make up the National Broadcasting circuit, in addition to his ovn chain of stations.
“These include many of the most important station.*- in the United States, and with them the lied, Blue, and Pacific networks, as they are called, leaching eBar across the continent.
“But he spoke from more than these, because many otiier of the most prominent broadcasting studios, including several in Canada, concluded also to send out the lecture.
“So it came to pass that Judge Rutherford, standing in Toi onto, talked ft™ a line of stations reaching irom Toronto, through Saskatoon and Edmonton to Vancouver on the Pacific coast.
“Standing in Toronto he was broadcasting simultaneously from Boston, 'Worcester, Springfield, Hartford. Providence, and other stations all. over New England.
“Standing in Toronto his voice went out from the greatest studios in New York, Schenectady, Buffalo, Rochester, Washington, Pittsburgh and other stations in the Middle Atlantic states.
“Though here in Canada, he broadcast from Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Davenport, Batavia, Louisville, and many other stations in the Middle 'Western states.
“Without leaving the Coliseum his voice rang out from stations in Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, Jacksonville, Dallas, and from stations in many other cities all over the Southern states.
“Though his voice went into but one microphone here yer it entered other microphones with oqUal power in Des Mories, Omaha, Denver, San Antonio, Oakland and Spokane.
‘ Oi’-guiahy ca t from Toromo, Judge Ruther-Foid’a vows vent on and on until it was amplified mJiions of traes m d vas re-broadcast fi om th- groat smehe • m England and Australia.
“T! f audience at Toronto was as no<h« ;-,o. 4-1,0 m , 4 WH ■" ■ -» >• po filled 91* Im-H”
ahead of time .ml Jions.ind* ue tunned awaj ; out ail could ri ■ >, in Ox out.
"Al1 ,'vrr f’e » •■'■i’ll lb -■ ..ww in Toronto was d iul_i.Avc Lout f O'i> <-jJ fi.n fi.ends and ii’-' p ■ vic !>‘t i ’ a w bwls, au'bion-.'jh ami pi-*e e <i>!»>, ug eie>y vord.
TI »w ixiuup uiLuiuus heard Judge Ruther-lords wondertul dwiourse Sunday afternoon there will never he any way of finding out, while we «ie on this Ado of the vail.
“But there will be many more millions that will see it; for though it appears not in The. Messenger it will surely appear in those auxiliary publications of The Messenger: The Watch Toirei and The Golden Age!
“As the Toronto meetmg broke up, 595 workers, stationed at vantage points within the Coliseum and Transportation Buildings (where loud speakers were installed), offered dollar combinations to thousands who wished to join the thirty million readers of tl e Judge’s great books.
“In our mind’s eye we roe that scene dupli* cated a thousandfold. The great work of popularizing the truth has really begun. Can it ba that the Millennial Morning is here?’’
It should be added that when the Judge had ceased speaking the entire audience arose to their feet and with an “Aye” that was heard around the world adopted the resolution which follows.
We now give the resolution and the address in full:
The speaker said: Mr. Chairman, my audience seen and unseen: What I shall say here is in the interest of the common peoples of earth, and especially in behalf of those of Christendom. First, I offer the following resolution and then I shall speak in support of that resolution. Th* resolution reads as follows:
RESOLUTION
[Judge Rutherford’s address in support of this Resolution will be found In full on pages 783-791.]
To the Peoples of Christendom:
The International Bible Students in general eonvention assembled send greetings:
As Christians and witnesses to the name of Jehovah God we deem it our privilege and duty to ea 11 your attention to the following vital facts:
FIRST. That God macle of one blood all peoples and nations of mon to dwell on the earth, and granted to all peoples equal rights. There is therefore no just cause or excuse for one nation to wake war against another nation.
SECOX’O That the foremost nation* of the earth claim to he f'Dristiaii nations and, taken collectively, rix-y constitute "'''Christendom” or “organized Christianity”, so-called; that the men chiefly responsible for the claim that these aie Christian nations are the clergymen of the various denominations, who call themselves by the name of Christ but w ho in fact have denied him; that iheir purpose of claiming that these nations are Christian is to induce the peoples to believe that said Rations, although military and cruel, are the representatives of God and his Christ on earih; that sucii claim is fraudulent and false and has turned the minds of millions of honest people away from the true God and from Ids Christ; that the invisible ruler of th© nations of "Christendom” or "organized Christianity”, so-called, is Satan the Devil, who has fathered the scheme of forming "organized Christianity” to deceive the people and to keep them in subjection to himself and his agencies.
That the masses of the peoples of the nations are entitled to self-government exercised by the people for the general welfare of all; but instead of enjoying such rights a small minority rules: that the money power of the world has been coneenti ated into the hands of a few men called high financiers, and these in turn have corrupted the men who make and execute the laws of the nations, and the faithless clergy have voluntarily joined forces with the high financiers and professional politicians, and that said unholy alliance constitutes the governing powers that rule the peoples; that the masses of the peoples acting under a misapprehension of the true facts have borne up, carried, supported and maintained organized Christianity; and that without the support of the common people the Unholy alliance constituting organized Christianity could not long exist
THIRD. That for centuries the privileges enjoyed by men have been wholly unequal and unfair, The multitudes have produced the wealth of the world, but have been unjustly deprived of the fruits of Their labors. That the leaders of Christendom instead of teaching the children of men the doctrines of Christ, whom they claim to folloTv, teach them to murder their fellow’ creatures; and that now the rulers are amalgamating the common people with the military, in order to make all the peoples a part of and subject to their great vac machine; that by unjust laws the common peopl-y emit। ary to tlieix' own wishes, have been compelled to go to war against each other, resulting in great sorrow and suffering, multitudes of broken hearts and millions of untimely graves; that “organized Christianity” has turned a deaf ear to the petitions and entreaties of the people for relief, and now Cie cries of the oppressed people have entered into the oars of Jehovah God, and his time is at hand to give the peoples deliverance and freedom.
FOURTH. That Jehovah is the only true God, the friend and benefactor of the peoples. He has now set his beloved Son Christ Jesus upon his throne, and bids all the peoples of earth to hear and to obey him who is earth’s rightful King.
FIFTH. That the kings and rulers of the earth, to wTit: those constituting the said unholy alliance have been duly notified that God has set his King upon his throne and that his kingdom is at hand; but they refuse to understand or to take heed, and they walk on in darkness. Therefore God has demoed and dw1 tired that there shall come upon the world a I hue of tFhulai’on such as never was known; and that during that trouble “Christendom” or “organized Christianity”, so-called, and all of Satan’s organization shall be destroyed; and that Christ Jesus, the righteous King, will assume complete authority and control and will bless the peoples of the earth.
SIXTH. That it must be now apparent to all thoughtful peoples that relief, comfort and blessings so much desired by them can never come from the unrighteous system of “Christendom” or "organized Christianity”, and that there is no reason to give further support to that hypocritical and oppressive system. In this hour of perplexity Jehovah God bids the peoples to abandon and for ever forsake “Christendom” or “organ*
issed Christianity’*, and to turn completely away from it, because it is the Devil's organization, and to gi^c. it no support whatsoever; and that the peoples give their heart’s devotion and allegiance wholly to Jehovah God and to his King and kingdom, and receive full freedom and the blessings God has in store for them.
SEVENTH. For four thousand years the cherished desire of Jews has been God’s Messianic kingdom. For nineteen centuries that kingdom has been the hope of real Christians. It is now at hand. True to his promise God by and through the reign of Christ will lift the burdens of the peoples, free them from war, fraud and oppression, from sickness, suffering and death, and give to them a righteous government and the blessings of everlasting peace, prosperity, life, and happiness. "
Judge Rutherford's address in support of the resolution will be found on pages 783-791.
The many new readers of this number will be interested to know that each issue of The Golden Age carries one of Judge Rutherford’s lectures broadcast from one of the stations used by the International Bible Students Association. Subscribers to The Golden Age will therefore be assured of keeping up with these lectures.
A Few More Convention Items
OpHE total attendance of Bible students at J- Toronto is variously estimated at 11,000 to 14,000. The Coliseum seated 8,500 and was comfortably full at every session. When Judge Rutherford spoke, it was crowded and on the occasion of his Sunday afternoon address was packed, with an overflow meeting of 2,000, served by loud speakers installed in the Transportation Building for the purpose.
The program was an interesting one. Able Epeakers came from all parts of the world. The Convention was officially opened with an address of welcome by Thomas Foster, mayor of Toronto, and a response from Judge Rutherford. The Souvenir published letters of welcome from the Premier of Ontario, G. Howard Ferguson, the president of the Rotary Club, and other public officials; and the Toronto people opened their homes to the Bible Students in the' most hospitable way. The work of arranging the details of the convention fell largely upon the manager of the Canadian office, Walter F. Salter, and his assistants.
The grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition, where the convention was held, are ideally situated on the shore of Lake Ontario. They comprise three hundred acres and buildings worth twelve million dollars. These buildings and grounds were free of all charge to the con-ventioners.
The Souvenir, printed in the Canadian office from type set by Douglass Brothers, contained the official announcement of Judge Rutherford’s great lecture, and was sold to the extent of over 100,000, which is a circulation probably much more than that of any newspaper in Toronto; so there was no lack of local publicity. The Souvenir contained many nice things about Toronto, the people, the homes, the officials, the grounds, the various plants of the I. B. S. A., and sketches about the Judge’s books, Deliverance and The Harp of God, together with one of his addresses, and was sold on service, days for five cents per copy. It was very freely illustrated, and was on sale on the grounds the day the convention opened.
The first issue of The Messenger was published on Tuesday, July 19th. It opened with a Greeting to the Conventioners from Judge Rutherford, and a sketch of his life by one the editors, pictures and sketches of a dozen or more of the Judge’s associates, including J. Ilemery, British Branch Manager, Paul Bal-zereit, Manager of Branch in Germany, and George Young, Ambassador at Large, and snatches of some of the best things said by Monday’s lecturers. It also contained a page of pictures of the station Watchtower WBBR, located on Staten Island.
Glances at the Messenger
GLANCES at The Messeiigct show that the issue of Wednesday, July 20th, contained Mayor Foster’s welcome and Judge Rutherford’s response, interesting items about the work in Spain and on the Gold Coast of West Africa, an interesting sketch of two women who started for the convention without funds but who covered more than 700 miles in five days, and an interview with Australians vdio came half around the world to attend. There were the usual excerpts from addresses by the speakers of the day before, with another full report of one of Judge Rutherford’s lectures over the radio. This issue contained pictures of the I. B. S. A. radio stations at Toronto, Edmonton, Chicago, and Oakland.
Friday’s issue we have already quoted from liberally. It had a write-up of the convention’s arrangements for feeding the natural man, a dog-biscuit story that is worth reading, pictures of several groups of Bible Students, and a page specially devoted to the colporteurs, God bless them! The radio dramalogue, The Return of Little Betty Brown, was a feature of this issue which was much appreciated. The Judge’s keynote address to the conventioners themselves was in this issue. It will reappear in The Watch Tower.
The closing issue-of The Messenger contained a picture of Judge Rutherford delivering the message that was heard around the world, extracts from a number of excellent discourses, two whole pages containing a general picture of the bulk of the conventioners, nieest-looking people you ever saw, with another page of pictures of the foreign-speaking delegates, Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians and Slovaks, in session at the same time at Detroit. There was another dramalogue, and a parting message to the conventioners from the president.
No doubt most of our readers have these papers. Those that do not have them are out of luck because the papers are out of print, the entire issue having been oversold.
The service work at the Toronto convention was well-prganized, most of the territory one hundred and fifty miles in diameter, with Toronto as a center, being well combed during the two days, Thursday and Saturday, devoted to that feature of the work. The 3,655 workers reported more than 30,000 books sold. All workers purchased for resale a total of 90,347 books.
Reports from every part of the American continent show that Judge Rutherford’s wonderful address came in clear as a bell, as plainly heard in San Francisco and Dallas as in Chicago and New York. In scores of cities loud speakers were installed in parks, auditoriums and other public places where thousands of people could hear distinctly every word.
Bits of Real News
(Radiocast from WBBR on a wave length of 256.3 meters by the editor, many pages of these items.1
President Marsh on the Subject of War
resident Marsh of Boston University in a recent address said:
Why should we Create in the minds of the young the idea that there is glory in something in which no glory exists? War is of the devil. It is brutal and brutalizing, It holds neither life nor property nor honor as sacred. [There are certain v, ell-meaning persons v.ho are desirous ©f civilizing warfare. With utter sincerity they are striding fc make - ar humane. Ir can’t be done.
Modem Gifts of Tonffues
EW TuKh is stirred with one or more cases of gifts of tongues, accompanied by manifestations which the recipients believe to be outpourings of the holy spirit. We cannot but feel sjnnpsthy with the unfortunates who have thus been vitiled. It is our profound conviction that those gifts are of demonioeal origin and are not the work of the holy spirit, but designed in the end to bring the sufferers under the control of the fallen angels that inhabited earth's atmosphere in the days of our Lord, and still inhabit it,
In most issues of The Griffen Ape we have
Self-Hypnosis Leads to Murder
GIRL in Germany, of excellent reputation, became interested in hypnosis and practised it on herself, thus placing herself under the power of demons. While in this demonized condition she took the lives of two little children, who vent with her for a walk and whom she seemed to love. She can give no motive for the killings.
A Severe Antiseptic
DOCTOR who happened to tear a knuckle on a projection of a brass lock, and who did not have with him at the time anything in the nature of an antiseptic except a match, instantly struck a match and sterilized his wound in the flame. It was a painful hut suect ssful method, and the results wore all he desired. In the same town about the same time, a giocer, apparently in perfect health, scratched his hand in opening a box and was dead in a week. Tn the absence of other antiseptics kerosene or turpentine can be poured into a wound and will prevent infection.
Coaxing the Nightingales to Sing
IN THE garden of a British home a microphone Tvas set up, and then a talented ’cello player coaxed the nightingales to sing. For the first time in history their beautiful songs were broadcast throughout the British Isles.
Back from the Morgue
IN SCRANTON a Bible Student apparently passed away while at a hospital, and was removed to the morgue and a pall placed over his face; but he came to and is now up and around with the rest. In Germany a young man was left in the morgue two days, when it was discovered that he was still alive, but suffering from a cataleptic attack.
The Bible in 835 Languages
OF THE 3,500 languages in the world about one-fourth have been reduced to writing; and the Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into 835 of these. The translation of the Bible into a tongue seems to have the curious effect of eliminating that tongue. The great improvement in communication and transportation helps in this eliminating process.
Exhaustion of the Soils by Crops
THE Department of Commerce estimates that in this country the exhaustion of the soil by crops is equivalent to 22,750,000 tons of nitrate a year, of which at present only a little more than 1,000,000 tons is replaced. It has been found in Germany that the synthetic nitrates sour the soils and are not as good, therefore, as the Chilean nitrates, produced by nature, which do not have this effect.
Changes in Men and Women
THE most interesting and important things in this world are the men and women in it.
Concerning these interesting creatures Doctor Frank McCoy says truthfully:
In the past ten years there have been remarkable changes in both the mental and physical life of 'men and women. The average man is taking on many of the feminine qualities, such as love for the artistic and an appreciation of finer shades of emotional feeling. On the other hand, women are entering the business world and acquiring many of the mental characteristics of the male.
IPar Books All Untrue
THE New York Times quotes M. Clemenceau, French Prime Minister during the World
War, as saying, "I never read war books; they are untrue, all of them. Besides, why should I read what some other man lias to say about the war when I probably know more about it than he does?” M. Clemenceau refuses also to write his own memoirs, on the < ound that he would have to tell too many cruel truths about persons and events.
The French Peace Proposal
ON THE initiative of the French government proposals have been made that France and
America shall enter upon a solemn declaration and agreement that under no circumstances will they resort to war between themselves but will keep the peace always. It would be a fine thing if all the nations would do this with each other. Anyway, war will be at a full end soon; for the Lord’s Word says so, and that settles it. But it is to be feared that a dark night must come first
The Objectionable Inscription
ON THE Plainfield, N. J., War Memorial Monument is an inscription taken fronv Isaiah’s prophecy, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation: neither shall they learn war any more.” Feeling that these -words of Almighty God, through the mouth of the Prophet Isaiah, are not in keeping with preparedness, the American Legion of Plainfield refuses to march past this monument or lay wreaths upon it. The coins in their pockets read, "In Goel we trust.”
After Mature Deliberation
AFTER mature deliberation Ivan Chatowsky, aged 145, and Olga Mariewa, aged 131, of
Moscow, Russia, have decided to embark together on the sea of matrimony. Here is wishing them a long and happy wedded life. Like all young folks they will probably have their share of troubles; but if they do not lose patience with one another we see no reason why they should not be happy. At any rate it can be said that they waited until the felt sure they were old enough to try it.
The Bishops of Lombardy
THE Montreal Daily Star contains a dispatch from Rome which says in part:
The radio came under the laJi of a pastoral letter drawn up by the Bishops of Lombirdy under the presidency of Cardinal Tosi, of M’lan. The lotier condemned the radio as a luxury “bad for the name of those uho ought to set a good example for others and a sign of worldly eiiriosny that is unbecoming and dangerous”. It was declared that priests mu4 not frequent bathing resorts vifhont special permit.
Anybody who has ever seen a hunch of fat, greasy, wine-soaked priests, with their sensual faces, can imagine how hilariously “the Bishops of Lombardy” must have laughed after they got logc-thoi the above bit of propaganda and launched it forth to their time-honored servants, the Press, to hand out to the people.
The joke is not all in flic last sentence, though Protestant police and newspaper men would agree that it is joke enough.
The B’shops of Lombardy are worried over the radio, and the first reason they give is a peach. To own and operate a receiving set which will bring in any wholesome information to the mind is "a sign of worldly curiosity It is indeed. The poor victim might learn something and cease to cough up so much per, to keep a lot of lazy loaiers riding him from the cradle to the grave.
But the Bishops of Lombardy get down to the real thing when they say that to own and operate a receiving set is dangerous. When they Said that they said something, and they know it, and we know it, and everybody is going to know it. The radio is the most dangerous thing to horse-collar hypocrisy that was ever invented.
If the radio keeps on telling the truth, the first thing you know some of these Bishops of Lombardy will be backed into the thills, collar and all, harnessed up in an expensive two-piece or one-piece suit of overalls, and put to work digging ditches; and if they do not dig until their hands are blistered, they will be fed on sawdust and shavings until they reform.
Dangerous I We should say yes. Let us glance at some recent news items that have been broadcast over the radio and see if for once the Bishops of Lombardy did not tell the absolute truth.
It was dangerous to the Bishops of Lombardy to have it broadcast that Roman Catholic police broke up a Protestant parade in New York City on orders from Patrick F. Scanlon, editor of the Roman Catholic Tablet, and then to haw the suggestion softly put forth that as soon as a change of administration comes there will he nothing to hinder Protestant police from breaking up Roman Catholic parades. And because it continues to stand only by overaweing a lot of poor mutts by its outward show, its parades, its bluff, there is nothing the bishops more fear.
The Bishops of Lombardy could well be scared to have it broadcast that after Lindbergh and Chamberlin had flown unblessed plar.es from New York to ths heart of Europe, .De Pinedo’s plane, blessed bi tin Pope himself on Easter Sunday, flopped into the sea two of three hundred miles off his course and the poor fellow had to be tovred to the Azores. Once le* the people get the right idea that a papal or priestly blessing is a curse, and they will stop wanting it.
The Bishops of Lombardy would not have had the news broadcast that the priests Vega, Pe-drozo and Angulo were at the Imad of the mob of a thousand or more bandits that set on fire a train bearing 188 human beings in Mexico, and then shot the poor unfortunates that sought to emerge from the furnace. It does not sound well. Some might not think it Christlike. And then again some might try to ape the priests or even to reverse the procedure. Dangerous! Yes I
Would the Bishops of Lombardy like to have it widely known that in the United States Senate for forty days, from January 14th to February 23rd, Senator Heflin of Alabama literally overwhelmed the government with evidence that the Roman Catholic church is a plotter for war, an enemy of American schools, a political vampire and trickster, a disciplinarian of politicians, an assassin of reputations, an assassin of presidents, an un-Christlike, brutal, bloodthirsty hypocrite? Would that be dangerous to the bishops? They succeeded in keeping that out of the newspapers. Would they like to keep it from the people altogether?
The Bishops of Lombardy do not want it known that the people of Chile after a terrible fight have succeeded, at least for the present, in separating their government from the Roman Catholic Church and have issued orders that no more money be paid out of the national treasury into the pockets of the Roman Catholic priesthood. You should have seen how this item of real news was twisted before it was allowed to get into the Catholic controlled press of New York.
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The Bishops of Lombardy are alarmed that over the air, into the homes, behind the walls, anybody might listen to the news from Silesia, Poland, that, in total disregard of all justice and all decency, the police, at the instigation of Roman Catholic priests, seized the body of a dead Bible Student, ordered it buried in a Roman Catholic cemetery, stood guard while a priest went through the usual flummery on such occasions, and threatened to arrest any Bible Student who either talked or sang. The bishops fear the time when conditions might be reversed. They know they have not a leg to stand on. They wish to hang on to their jobs.
The Bishops of Lombardy do not want it known over the radio that the United States government has been fighting their fight in Nicaragua, fighting against liberty lovers and fighting to saddle the country with Roman Catholic domination, Roman Catholic schools and Roman Catholic churches supported from the public treasury. They want to keep such things quiet and to make them appear entirely different from what they actually are.
Nor do the Bishops of Lombardy wish it generally known that the Pope in one breath approves Governor Al Smith’s declarations regarding separation of church and state, and in the next one threatens to excommunicate all French Catholics recently united to fight for the same identical principle. It might lead some people to indulge in circulation of blood above the neck and eventually give them an idea that they were being treated like idiots by the Holy Fraud.
The Bishops of Lombardy are in a bad way. Their pals in Mexico tried to plunge the United States into war wuth a people that are trying desperately to get an education, to learn how to farm the soil effectively and how to get rid of a clerical ring thar, like the Old Man of the Sea, have tightly twisted their legs about the necks of all the poor peons below the Bio Grande. They do not want it known how badly they lost out in their desperate venture.
The Bishops of Lombardy would be sore if they lived in America, and knew that here the news is broadcast about Cardinal O’Connell fighting the fight of Big Business to keep the • children of Massachusetts tied to the wheel, so that he can live on the fat of the land. The more the people know about it the shorter will be his sultanate.
The Bishops of Lombardy do not want it generally broadcast that occasionally a Protestant judge here has courage enough to hale a Roman Catholic priest into court and denounce him and practically take the hide off him for preying upon the mind of a poor old dying Irishman so that he could get the bulk of his money. The bishops are for the money but not the publicity.
The Bishops of Lombardy do not want it broadcast that Lindbergh’s father while in Congress tried in vain to force open the prison walls of Roman Catholic institutions all over America so that the truth regarding their inner workings might be shown to the light of day. They want the great honor and publicity of officiously blessing him, so that one of their cardinals could get into the picture; but they do not want it known that Lindy’s dad was even more courageous than he. Lindy should have refused the blessing.
And finally the Bishops of Lombardy would never want to hear in Italy such a speech as Judge Rutherford gave at Toronto on July 24th, which went broadcast in the English tongue all over the planet. In that speech he took the clergy collectively, and made such a show’ of them before the world as was never before provided for the delectation of mankind. And he showed the world what will take the place of this diabolical device of the Devil which has done more than all other forces to keep humanity in ignorance and sorrow.
A hardened newspaper man in New York, one who has not been to church for a generation, said as he listened to the Judge’s address showing up the clergy and showing that Christ’s kingdom is to take their place, the Devil's place, that he could and did believe e^ery word and that he felt like hugging the Judge.
The Bishops of Lombardy are right. The radio is dangerous! It will make Christians in place of timorous, snivelling, wishbone backed parishioners; and when that happens all the horse-collar theologians, and all the other hounds in the mangy pack, -will be through for good. They can throw off their expensive skirts and frocks, and get to work and earn an honest living; and it will be earth’s greatest blessing. It will be the Millennium! Hooray for the radio 1
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M FOR THE PEOPLES
(Judge Rutherford’s Address at Toronto, Broadcast frtfm 58 Stations.)'
[Made in support of Resolution gtvgss in fufi on page® WT, ff&]
GOD made of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon the earth and gave to them equal rights. Foreknowing the evil influence that would be exercised over all governments of men God foretold that a small minority would rule and oppress the great majority; that during that period of oppression and suffering the peoples would desire freedom and a righteous government administered for the general welfare of all; that they would be disappointed and suffer; that the cries of the peoples would ascend unto God and in His due time He would hear them; that He would deliver the peoples from the oppressor into full freedom and give to them a government of righteousness under which they shall enjo) peace, prosperity, and the blessings of life. Therefore He caused His prophets to write concerning the present time these words: that “the Lord . . . hath prepared his throne for judgment; and he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble” (Psalm 9:7-9); and “a king shall rule in righteousness, and princes-shall rule in -judgment”.—Isaiah 32:1.
Only by the Lord’s arrangement can freedom come to the peoples. God’s due time has now come vhen the peoples of earth must know the truth concerning the cause of suffering and the remedy for relief. All true Christians are doing their pmt to tell these facts to the peoples that God's name might be glorified and that the peoples might know that their freedom is near.
^Christendom'
HE foremost nations of the world jointly call themselves “Christendom”. The rulers by this term claim that they are Christians, having and exercising faith in God and in Christ, and that their combined governments constitute “organized Christianity”. The claim is not only untiue, hut it is fraudulent and hypocritical. By such false and hypocritical claim the multitudes of peoples have long been held in bondage and have been deprived of their just rights and privileges. God’s due time has come for “organized Christianity", so-called, to be placed before the people in the proper light.
There is a true Christianity composed of faithful men and women who unselfishly follow in the footsteps of Christ. There is an organized system called "Christianity” or "Christendom”, which is false and is the instrument of oppression wielded by the hand of the Devil. Jehovah through Christ established true Christianity on the earth, and in the days of the apostles it progressed. A few ambitious men, influenced and directed by Satan, defiled true Christianity; and their fraudulent course has made Christianity, as it is generally understood, a stench in the nostrils of honest men. This exact condition God foretold through His prophet Jeremiah (2: 20) who wrote concerning professed Christianity: “Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?” -—Jeremiah 2:21.
“Organized Christianity” or “Christendom” today is Satan’s organization fraudulently parading under the name of Christ. Early in the history of man the Devil caused men to call themselves by the name of the Lord and to thereby bring reproach upon God. That same Devil has caused ambitious and selfish men to organize and carry on vhat Is now called “organized Christianity”. The purpose is to deceive the peoples, turn them away from the true God, and to keep them in subjection to a selfish and unrighteous system of government, of which Satan is the invisible overlord. (2 Corinthians 4: 3, 4) xL government that oppresses the multitudes of the common people and shows special favors to the wealthy, is an unrighteous government and therefore an ungodly nation. Such could not in truth be called Christ’s kingdom or Christendom. It is therefore apparent that when the name of Christ is given to an unrighteous and oppressive government that name is fraudulently so used and for a wrongful purpose.
Who Rules
HE kings and presidents of the nations are in fact the rulers. They are ordinary mon filling their respective places and are mew* symbols of ruler ship. The ruling power behind the seat of authority that shapes the course of the nations of “Christendom” is Satan the Devil. He is the opponent of God and the enemy and oppressor of men. Satan’s visible instruments are those
Eelfish men who combine and form a system of government which rules and controls the peoples. The three classes of men that make up these ruling powers are, to wit, high financiers, called “big business”; professional politicians, called “statesmen”; and the orthodox clergy, called “religious leaders”, who manufacture and dispense religion. These three classes in combination constitute the small minority that rules. Disregarding the obligations laid upon them the selfish men composing the ruling minority have lived van!only and recklessly for their own pba.wue and at the expense of the multitudes. For a long time the peoples have borne them up and supported them and thereby endured great suffering and sorrow. And now I submit the testimony of their own witnesses which proves beyond a doubt that “organized Christianity”, so culled, is a fraud and deception, a g real system of oppression, and a menace to the general welfare of the peoples.
High Finance
THE multitudes, in the sweat of their faces, produce the wealth of the v orld. High financiers are few in number but great in power. They produce no wealth but obtain it through fraud and deceit practised upon the peoples, and then use it for their own wicked pleasure and to oppress the multitudes and to keep them under control. High finance fixes the price at which the producer must sell his products to the distributer, and also fixes an exorbitant price which the consumer must pay to the distributer. High finance has established chain stores all over Christendom, and the producer must sell to these stores at a ridiculously low-price or not sell at all, and the stores in turn sell to the consumer at exorbitantly high prices, which the consumer must pay or starve. The produ-er gets but little, the consumer pays much, and the high financiers that produce nothing reap enormous and unreasonable profits. The result is that the small merchant is pushed to the wall, and the chain stores do the business, and the peoples pay the bills.
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