Golden Age, January 11, 1928
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V®1. IX Bi-Weekly No. 217
January 11, 1928
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Contents of the Golden Age
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Social and Educational .
Miss Mayo Stirs India ................ 289
Five-f>ay Week Spreading ............... 241
Finance—Commerce—Transportation
Honk ! Honk I Look Out I ............... 231
National Utility Association’s Joke Book. ......... 231
Political—Domestic and Foreign •
Lord Arnold’s View of the House of Lords ......... 229
Things in Britain ................ . 230
Lindbergh’s Father and the Federal Reserve. ........ 236
Bits of News .................... 238
Science and Invention
The Rivet Machine is Passing .............. 239
Radio Service in Siberia and India ............. 239
Home and Health
A Brief Lesson in Vaccination .... , .......... 237
. Religion and Philosophy .
Doctor Akjsd’s Pbeclemcal Existence ........... 227
Withdrawals From the Catholic Church ......... 230
Feu® Days in Carbondale ................ 232
The Man Nobody Knows .................. 234
Doctor Anderson’s Expense Account ........... 235
Bible Students in the German Press ........... 238
Strange Powers of the Demons ............. 241
Clergy-Ridden Scotland ................ 242
The Last Days .................... 243
When Soldiers Become Peaceful FAmrur.s ......... 249
A Lima: Lost Child (Poem) ............... 252
A Wicked King and a Faithful Prophet .......... 253
Bible Questions and Answers .............. 254
Little Studies for Little People ............. 255
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Doctor AlcecVs Preclerical Existence
THE Los Angeles Evening Express of October 8 contained the following advertisement : “All Souls’ Church. Dr. C. F. /Used. Doors open at 10: 30. Service at 11: 00. Belasco Theatre., Hill street at Eleventh. ‘The Tribal God, the cruel Jehovah-God, and the God whom Jesus taught us to call Father.” Pianist: Mrs. Earle T. Jenney.. Soloist: Otto Ploetz. Dr. Aked preaches over KNX at 5:15 P. M.”
The same paper contained the following leader: "Jehovah to be theme of Dr. Aked’s sermon. Tomorrow morning at the Belaseo Theatre Dr. Aked, pastor of All Souls’ Church, wall discuss ‘The Tribal God, the Cruel Jehovah God and the God Jesus Taught Us to Call Father.’ Dr. Aked says that ‘Jehovah is not God, and never wTas. The use of the word represents bad history, bad theology and bad religion. It is a crime against the younger generation to teach a Jehbvah religion.’ Dr. Aked will conduct the regular vesper service at 5:15 over KNX.”
In order to appreciate the weight of the foregoing statement it becomes expedient at this time to divulge for the first time the hitherto unpublished account of Dr. Aked’s preelercial existence. He was then in training for his present high estate but had not yet arrived at that proud eminence where he could put the degree I). D. after his name. However, he was even then making good progress toward his present lofty position, as the account shows.
The account opens with a conversation at the time of the annunciation. The angel Gabriel had just said to Mary: “Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High: and Jehovah God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.”—-Luke 1: 31, 32.
At this critical moment up stepped the pastorelect of All Souls’ Church, of Los Angeles, and said to Gabriel: ‘I question that statement. Who is your authority for making remarks of that kind?’ And the angel looked oxi him with pity-and with shame and saidvT need only refer you to the statement of the sweet singer of Israel, in Psalm 132:11, where David says: “Jehovah hath sworn in truth unto David, he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne,” and also to the prophecy of Jeremiah 23:5, “Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wise* ly, and shall execute judgment and justice in ths land.” ’
But at that time the light that is now shining so brilliantly in All Souls’ Church had not so much as heard that there ever were any such people as David and Jeremiah, so the conversation stopped short and young Aked went on with those lessons in the multiplication table which were subsequently to make him such a great man; lessons such as 3 X 1=1, etc.
■ First Lessons in Theology
fJIHE next place where (lie future luminary of All Souls’ Church appears in our history is out in the wilderness where young Aked and his professor are all set for the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth, after His baptism.. Part of this is in the Bible itself.
It seems that the professor got into an argument with Jesus, wanting him to leap off the temple, but Jesus said to’him, "It is written, Thou shalt not tempt Jehovah thy God.” Later the professor wanted Jesus to follow Aked’s example and fall down and worship him, but Jesus turned on him again and said, "It is written, Thou shalt worship Jehovah thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
The professor seemed quite upset by this last remark, and so he and Aked went off together to discuss matters. Aked said to the professor: ‘Prof., you know I reverence you and have agreed to always do just, as you tell me in all things, for I know that is the only way to separate the wool from the sheep in sufficient quantities to make the business pay, but why did you pay so much heed to those quotations T .
Thereupon the professor said, ‘Aked, you never read the book of Deuteronomy, did you?’ Aked said: ‘No/ Then the professor said: AVell, Aked, Jesus was quoting from Deuteronomy 6:16 and 13, and of course I knew that what he was saying is the truth, and so I could not make him any answer; hut I say to you now that you will never be a -true child of mine and a true follower of me until you know’ just enough about the Bible so that you can lie about it skilfully, artistically and with a. show7 of believing in it? Thereupon Aked got the right idea and resolved to read Deuteronomy at least. '
In the Primary School
IT WAS not long after this first lesson in the theological kindergarten before the sun now. shining in All Souls’ Church came into contact with Jesus himself. The first instance was where Jesus earn® to Nazareth and, to follow’ the Bible account, “entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on. the sabbath day, and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the pla.ee where it was written, The spirit of Jehovah is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: he hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah.”—Luke 4:16-19.
At this point' young Aked and some of the other roughnecks in the congregation went out on the front steps to criticize what Jesus had said, being hurried in their course by some severe denunciations w’hich are recorded in the next seven or eight verses, which they did not wish to listen to.
When they got outside the young divinity student said to his comrades, “What book was that he was reading from?’ and one of the roughnecks who had been brought up right but had gone astray said, ‘That was the book of Isaiah the prophet’ (Isaiah 61:1); and so Aked determined that he would need to read that book also if he w’as ever going to hold down a really first-class job in the year 1927. Subsequently the mob tried to kill Jesus as He came out, but failed in the attempt. See the story, Luke 4: 21-30.
The Next Less&n
HE next lesson was when he was in the Sadducee grade, once called the First Reader.
With some of his tutors he had gone along to see if they could not trip Jesus into some predicament concerning the doctrine of the resurrection. One of the tutor’s put up a pretty good question about a woman having seven husbands in. succession, the object of'the question being to try to impress the students in theology that the idea of a resurrection or any need of a resurrection is all bosh.
But to the dismay of Aked and the tutors Jesus dismissed all their quibblings with one breath and going straight to the root of ‘the matter said: “Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth Jehovah the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the flead, but of the living: for all. live unto him.”—Luke .20:37, 38.
When they got outside Aked said to one of the Sadducees: ‘What book was it that Jesus was quoting from that time?’ And the tutor looked at him and said: ‘Aked, did you never hear about Exodus? Well, that is a quotation from the third chapter and the sixth verse?
So the young luminary went to his room and got out his Bible and read thoughtfully Exodus 3:6,14 and on down to and including Exodus 6: 2,3, especially the last two verses, and said to himself: ‘If I am going to fight this Nazarene successfully I shall have to pay more attention to what is written in these old books whieli I have hitherto regarded as not worthy the attention of a man. of my skill in adding up one plus one plus one? .
Getting Wiser and Wiser
OW it happened that when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence ‘they got together; and Aked, having finished with the Sadducees, was now in the Pharisee class, once called class B, or The Second Beader. One of his teachers was a lawyer and this lawyer set out to trap Jesus and so, of course, Aked was along.
The lawyer asked Jesus a plain question: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:36-38) "And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Master, thou hast ’well said that he is one: and there is none other but, he: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.’’—Mark 12:32-34, A. R. V. '
This conversation upset young Aked considerably ; for he remembered having seen these words of Jesus somewhere but could not just place them. So he went to the principal of the school and narrated the circumstances, and asked to be transferred to another class. The principal explained to him that Jesus was quoting from Deuteronomy 6:5, and told him again that he could never be a D. D. until he could repeat and deny everything in that book, and then granted his permission for transfer to another class under a teacher who would have more of his own spirit, the spirit of apostolic succession.
Getting Ready for His Degree
IT WAS not long after this until Jesus turned.
questioner. One time He came suddenly upon a number of Pharisee tutors among whom young Aked was taking final lessons and asked them pointedly: “What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son-? And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man, from that day forth, ask any more questions.'” (Matthew 22:42-46) This was the last time that the future pastor of All Souls’ Church ever saw Jesus alive; but in this instance, as a budding young Pharisee, he had to admit that Jesus had quoted directly from Psalm 110:1 and by this time he knew that if he was ever to be a D. D. he should have at least a fighting knowledge of the Psalms.
After Jesus was dead young Aked came across the gospel according to John. Heading that one time he chanced upon John’s sad reflection that despite all the mighty works which Jesus performed, works of teaching, healing, opening blinded eyes and even raising the dead, “yet they believed apt on him; that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he* spake, . . . Who hath believed our report ? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?”—John 12: 37, 38.
This was Aked’s final examination. He knew Isaiah’s prophecy by this time and recognized John’s words as a quotation from Isaiah 53:1, but he had fully decided by this time that his own opinion was worth far more than the combined testimony of Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus of Nazareth, the angel Gabriel, Matthew', Mark, Luke or John. And then he suddenly remembered that he had already been granted his degree; and the degree is written in Jolin 8: 44, rvhere all wflio will may read it.
Thereupon Aked was ready for his charge and lie could and did publicly proclaim and advertise that “Jehovah is not God and never was”: and also, “The use of the word represents bad history, bad theology and bad religion”; and also that “it is a crime against the younger .generation to teach a Jehovah religion”. Also he could and did call Him “The Tribal God, the Cruel Jehovah God”, and Mr. Ploetz sang for him and Mrs. Jenney played at the piano and the professor of the seminary looked doivn upon the whole performance and smiled, and that is the end of the story.
P. S. Dr. Aked used to be in the East; but he wanted a warmer climate; and who, we ask, can deny that if anybody really deserves it he surely does? „
' Lord Arnold’s View of the Howse of Lords
Lobd Arnold,one of the members of the Brit- never give labor a fair deal. The House of Lords ish House of Lords, but a broa.d-minded and is blind to the signs of the times. It is callous^ kind-hearted human being, said recently: “'I tell selfish, cynical, inconsistent, factious, obstrue-you as one within it that the House of Lords will- tive, unscrupulous and utterly reactionary.”
Things in Britain
TN BRITAIN at the present time 3.8% of the * people have 82.78% of the national capital. This situation definitely faces the not distant ’day when 4.59% will own it all; and 95.41% will then not own anything. Capitalism is gradually making an absolute fool of itself in the eyes of all men and is showing its complete unworkability.
In Britain just now 5.5% of the people are in receipt of 44% of the national income. By the inexorable laws of logic this presages the time when 12.5% of the people will have all the national income, every bit of it, and the other 87.5% will be slaves. And then what?
In Britain at the present time 28 dukes, 33 marquises, 194 earls and 270 viscounts and. barons are literally rolling in wealth which they did not create. The national wealth of the country is increasing at the rate of $2,400,000,000 per . annum, sufficient, in twenty years to wipe out the national debt and leave a. handsome margin besides, but it will not go that way. It will go into the hands of the dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons whose principal service to mankind is that they breathe and eat.
The miners of ' Britain today are working longer hours in order to live than are the miners of Germany, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium or France. That is so that greater incomes may go to dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons.
Honk! Honk! Look Out!
A LONDONER has tickled everybody in the city by equipping a cane with a motor-horn attachment and honking his way through traffic jams, where often the traffic cop, taken by surprise, has stopped everything else to let him proceed. The account of his experiences is intensely amusing. The sheer cheek of the thing made everybody good-natured and led to many unexpected occurrences. We quote from the account in the London Daily News:
In Jlolbom an old gentleman heard me honk, jumped, looked round, noticed nothing, and scowled accusingly at an innocent messenger boy on the opposite side of the street. s
My first crossing was Gray’s Inn road at Holborn Bars. There was a steady stream of traffic. I honked and walked sedately across, to the blank amazement of the policeman on traffic duty and the apoplectic speechlessness of a bus driver.
At the Kingsway traffic jam, I got behind the policeman as he blocked the stream of traffic. “Honk, honk honk.” The policeman turned and glared at the coallorry behind. “Got a date?” he asked the unwitting driver. Then he' spotted the horn. "All right, sir,” ha grinned and, stopping the crossing traffic, waved me on. The pedestrian was two up.
By the time I got as far as Tottenham Court road, I had entered fully into the spirit of the thing. I was the Compleat Pedestrian, the Apostle of the Eight of the Padhoofer. I honked my defiance to the world at large,
I shook off a following trail of messenger boys by jumping on a bus that took me to Piccadilly.
This is the circus where pedestrians are put through, their paces and taught to “jump to it.” That’s all wrong, and as I stood and watched the traffic rashing past oblivious to my querulous honking, I fretted and fumed. I stretched out an inquiring toe and drew it back hurriedly as a taxi flashed past in a cloud of bad language from the driver.
Something must be done. I took out a red handkerchief, tied it to my stick, honked, and waved my flag.
The torrent was stemmed. The buses drew up out of sheer amazement.
I waved on the crowd that was patiently waiting and, like the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, ushered my band of pilgrims across the road.
’Withdrawals from the Catholic Church
A DISPATCH from'Vienna, last September, reported that the movement of withdrawing from the Catholic Church continues, 2,462 persons having withdrawn at Vienna during the first ten days of September; 282 minors left the Church at the same time. The total number that withdrew from the Catholic Church during the foreparriof this month is 2,744 men, women and children. Some happy day they will all withdraw; and then will come the millennium.
National Utility Association’s Joke Book’
THE National Utility Association, is made up of all the Big Business interests of the country, particularly those connected with the superpower trust. Its headquarters is in New York. It has just gotten out a neat 32-page joke book, bound with a nice cover.
The title is a great compliment to somebody. It reads:
G0V1BNMENT
FEDEBAL STATE LOCAL
FAILS IN INDUSTRY
To prove its contention that the Government is no good it quotes here and there from Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, John W. Weeks, and others.
If we ask who are these men whom they cite as authority for their statements we find that they are prominent in the Government now or were at some time, in the past. Somebody is being complimented. Who is it?
If we ask the authors of this little book just whc is running this country, and if they tell the truth (which they will not and can not do) they will reply that Big Business is running it.
If we then ask who are the men that Big Business would choose to run the country, provided they could have their unrestricted choice in the . matter, what names would they give us? The very same names. Who is being complimented ?
If the men that Big Business have at Washington, and the men they wish to have at Washington, all agree that Big Business is unfitted to do, in the interest of the people, the tasks that have been put into their hands, whose fault is it? The answer is, Big Business.
The answer is Daugherty, Fall, Sinclair, Doheny, and a string of names that, if published, would fill The, Golden Age from cover to cover. Big Business is circulating its joke book for a reason. What is the reason?
Let us tell you what the reason is. Big Business is making so much money from its monopolization of -the earth and its bounties that it fg scared stiff for fear the people may want a reckoning, an accounting.
The burden of its song is: "The Government is no good. It can do nothing to relieve the common people of their burdens. AM they can do is to let us pick their bones until they drop through the rack.”
But suppose the people, instead of continuing to support the Government which Big Business says is no good, should turn against it, what then would Big Business do? It would turn its machine guns and poison gas and preachers and politicians and newspapers against them and accuse them of being Bolsheviks. ■
According to Big Business, the Government is no good w’hen it comes to doing anything for the people that will really help them, but when it comes to upholding the arms of Big Business in its fight with the common people, then it is some Holy Terror to be reckoned with. It is 0. TG then.
Its little book, attacking the Government for dishonesty, incompetence and inefficiency, is unfair from beginning to end. In one place it even boasts that whereas in Ontario the little fellows can buy electricity at low rates, in America they have to pay fancy prices and only the big companies get the favors.
If they had their way they would sell postage stamps to the big companies at about 25% of the price charged to the common people, and everything else in proportion. The Joke.Book gives us a pain. We are not Socialists. We can not be. It is not a solution of earth’s present distress.
The trouble lies too deep. The very hoggishness of Big Business is slowly driving the common people to despair? They see everything being’ gathered into the hands of a few big financial interests. We see it, too; and we know that the only solution is in Christ’s kingdom, which will grind the present unholy selfish system to powder. Let it come. We can not stop it and would not if we could. »
Field of the Dead a Probable Hoax
IN THE past three years great interest has been aroused among archaeologists, palaeontologists and anthropologists by the relies of past ages discovered in the Field of the Dead, at Glozel, near Vichy, France. Now comes M.
Dussaud, prominent archaeologist of Paris, and declares that the probabilities are that the whole thing is a fake, the work of schoolboys and others who have been making fun at the expense of a score of the world’s most learned mem
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Four Days in Carbondale
George Thomas, of Carbondale, Pa., is director of service work in his home class of Bible Students and sets the right example by getting out in the work himself, at every available opportunity. He recently had four interesting days. On the first day the leading paper of ■ his home city came out with a four-column scare head bearing on the front page the startling announcement "George Thomas Fined for Selling Books 'Without Peddler’s License” beneath "which was printed the following:
Acting ,4s Agent for the Sale of Publications of International Bible Students, He Sold Book io Army Officer's Wife. Officer Causes Arrest, Alleging That the Book Contains Seditious Statements —- Matter to Be laid Before Federal Authorities.
George Thomas, of Terrace street was fined this morning by Aiderman J. F. Atkinson of the Third ward for selling books in this city without first procuring a peddler’s license. City Solicitor J. E. Brennan is said to have advised that such an action, was permissable.
Thomas, who was selling a pamphlet said to have been written by Judge Rutherford for a religious publishing company, made the mistake of calling at the home of Sergeant Peterman, TJ. 8. A., on Maple avenue. Mrs. Peterman bought a book; and the sergeant read it carefully and found a paragraph which is alleged to have said that the government made recruiting places out of the churches during the late war. '
This statement, alleged to be seditious by Sergeant Peterman, so riled the army officer that he caused the arrest of Thomas. Constable James Farrell made the arrest and Thomas was held under bail for a hearing this morning.
The principals gathered at the office of the veteran aiderman this morning, and Thomas is alleged to have made a long speech which the alderman told The Leader contained statements aimed at the goverment and some American institutions. The alderman stated that this phase of the case was not a matter for his office but for that of the District Attorney of the county and the Federal, authorities. He fined Thomas, however, on. the charge of peddling without a license, which is a violation of a city ordinance.
' Sergeant Peterman attended the hearing this morning, and after the fining of Thomas it was stated that Constable Farrell left for the office of District Attorney Hayold Scragg with a copy of one of the books sold by Thomas. It is also understood that Sergeant Peterman is determined to obtain the government’s 'attitude on the sale of the book in question and will move for a showdown in that direction. Until further action is taken either by the district attorney or by the government, Thomas, with the payment of the fine imposed by ft® alderman, is freed from custody.
In addition to being fined, Thomas was held in bail to await the outcome of other charges against him £f any ar® made. He secured the bond and was released.
That was all for the first day, which was Saturday.. The Leader had no Sunday issue; but when its. Monday morning paper came out it contained the- following interesting letter from Mr. Thomas, which contains food for thought for all who fear God more than, they fear man:
GEORGE THOMAS
TELLS HIS SIDE
' . > OF THE STORY
Editor Leader, ,
Sir: I have been arrested for selling a 5-cent booklet, which contains a clear scriptural explanation of the great time of trouble which, is now upon the nations of the whole world, and which is going to be followed with the greatest time of happiness that the world has ever seen. Some of the newspapers surely did give me a good writeup, for which I am very thankful. ,
I am now thirty-three years of age and have been arrested for the first time in my life. I am one of the happiest men in the world today, because to be arrested for preaching the gospel of Christ’s glorious kingdom which, is about to be inaugurated is the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon any one on this earth. Now note why I am so happy: Jesus said, “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my name’s sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets which 'were before you.”—Matthew 5:11,13.
Some of my opponents are also very happy because of what they read in some of the newspapers. But the reports were false, and when they find out that they have been, deceived, they will probably gnaw their tongues.
The following newspaper reports .are false. ‘That I' paid the fine imposed upon me, That I am under a bond. That I am against the government, or that I sold seditious literature.’ ■ '
Alderman Atkinson said that the city solicitor instructed him to fine me $50.00 but that lie would let me off easy by letting me go for $25.00 and 1 said, “Nothing doing!” and he didn’t put me under a bond either, because he knows that the constitution of the United States of America permits any one to exercise his or her religious, faith; and that is what I was doing.
Then Mr. Atkinson asked me if I believed in war, and I told him that I was a Christian, and that it is an unpardonable sin for a Christian to kill or to urge othera
to do so; and any one who claims exemption for himself and urges others into the trenches to suffer and die, and at the same time calls himself a servant of God, that man is a hypocrite and a coward, and this is what many clergymen did. They are the ones that are responsible for the world being filled with cripples, widows and orphans, and some of them know it, too; that is why they have so much love for.the Bible Students.
Then Mr. Atkinson said that I was a dangerous man.; that I was crazy and should be deported, because I was against the government. And I told him that I had nothing to say about the government, but that' I am exposing false religious teachers, and that I am ready to •die for a good cause if necessary.
Then I asked Soldier Peterman what he had against the book, and he said that it was against recruiting’ officers. Then I opened the -book and read from page 10 as follows: “The dishonest and faithless preachers of the various denominations, while claiming to follow Christ, urged the people into war and acted as war agents. Hypocritically they preached war from their pulpits. In many instances they were paid for so doing by the big financiers who desired war for private gain.” After Mr. Peterman saw that this quotation referred to the clergy and not to real recruiting officers at all, we walked up the street together and shook hands when we parted.
Little do the people know about the duties of a follower of Christ; or the insults which such must bear for trying to do as instructed, to wit: Preach the gospel (good news) of the kingdom for a witness (Matthew 24:14), for which Jesus said that we would be hated in all nations. (Matthew 10:22; 24:9) And he also said that we would be arrested, too. See Luke 21.: 24.
Great will be the day when the deceiver of this world is bound. (Revelation 20) Then the people will all know the truth.—Zephaniah 3: 8, 9.
I am very thankful to our great and loving Creator for this great and beautiful day, and may He greatly bless all who oppose me.
In conclusion I wish to say that this great message is being broadcast from 81 radio stations in the United States, and that it is printed in 46 languages, and that it is being distributed in all parts of the civilized world, GEORGE F. THOMAS, 56 Terrace Street, Carbondale, Pa.
’ This was not quite all. The next day’s issue of The Leader contained the following letter from a prominent military man of the city; and since that time you can not find a politician within fifty miles of Carbondale that will even so much as cheep. Thomas has received at least $100 worth of free advertising and the class is
making good use of their opportunities te spread the truth. ~ '
Editor of Leader.
Dear Sir: The undersigned was interested in & new® item published in your Saturday issue relative to the arrest of Mr. George Thomas of Carbondale for selling a religious'paper alleged to contain statements of a se» ditious character. It seems the chief objector is an army recruiting sergeant on duty in this city, who probably didn’t take the time to read thoroughly the paper ia' question or, if he did so, was influenced by a kind bf religious intolerance and spirit of persecution which breathes of the dark ages and still pervades Christendom.
The writer has served in the U. S. Army Air Corps for ten years, the past two years having been in the Philippine Islands, during which time he has been actively engaged in the work of the Philippine Branch, International Bible Students Association, the organization publishing the religious pamphlet sold by Mr. Thomas, and has found nothing of a seditious nature i® these publications.
It. is a well-known fact that the I. B. S. A. lias bees a .source of annoyance to the clergy of all denominations because of the fact that the teachings of the clergy have been shown up in their true light, and, although the clergy are familiar with the truth of the I. B. S. A doctrines, they refuse to enlighten their flocks. They know they would lose their jobs and salaries if the people wer® enlightened as to the truth of the Bible, therefore they persist in keeping their flocks in ignorance. This is the reason they try to prevent the distribution of I. B. S. A. literature and, perhaps, the reason why I. B. S. A. representatives are refused a license to sell the publications in Carbondale—more religions intolerance.
Judge Rutherford, in his latest book. Deliverance, speaking of the persecution of Christians by the clergy during 'the war, says: “During the World War from 1914 to 1918 humble Christians residing in Germany were subjected to all manner of wicked persecutions and punishment because they declined to disobey God’s command: ‘Thon shalt not kill.’ In England, Canada and America like followers of Jesus Christ were beaten, thrown into prison, tarred and feathered, and some of them were killed; because they refused to take up arms against their fellow man and shed innocent blood. The war furnished an opportunity and an excuse for the clergy who as th.® representatives of Satan, hated these humble Christians and who induced the commercial and political powers to unjustly punish Christians.” Mr. Rutherford shows clearly in his writings just how the clergy used their churches and influence to enlist men in the army during the war. Many of the clergy now look back and lament because of their activities in this direction.
It seems rather a huge task the authorities of the city of Carbondale have undertaken when they say they can
prove io the go\eminent the seditious character of the I, B. S. A. publications. If they will investigate a lit tie, they will find the I. B. S. A. one of the strongest religious institutions in the world, with, branches in all countries and representatives in every known part of the earth. The I. B. S. A. radio broadcasting stations in the United States, particularly WBBR of New York, are
broadcasting their programs daily to millions of listeners; and the government finds no fault with them. ’
23 Archbald
Carbondale, Fa.
Very truly yours,
MILLARD KBTCHAM,
Technical Sergeant, Air Corps, U. S. Army,
Th© Man Nobody Knows
TriROM a piece of advertising matter which has just come into our hands we clip the following : •
B5 Fifth Avenue, New York October, 1927. Dear Reader;
Jesus Christ “ths founder of modern business”?
Jesus a master of efficiency in organization, a born executive? '
.Jesus a sociable man, a cheerful, bright companion with a pat story on His lips—an outdoor man with clear eyes and hard muscles ?
Jesus wording the best advertisements ever written?
Yes, this is the Jesus Christ now being introduced to hundreds of thousands of business men and busy women by Bruce Barton. ’ '
Barron is himself a brilliant, successful young American business man as well as a writer. In his book “The Man Nobody Knows” he brings to us, in our daily work, a Jesus we never knew before, one who set examples for us, not in some ideal and impossible way but in our job, managing a bank or clerking, gelling automobiles, doing professional work, furnishing something of service.
We are hearing today much of “The Man Nobody Knows”. He is pictured as a great salesman, the founder of modern business, a society man, a reeanteur of good stories, an advertisement writer, a man of great magnetism, an ideal business executive, the organizer of the world’s greatest business.
Who do you suppose it is? Rockefeller? No. Jay Gould? No. Harriman? No. Schwab? No. Carnegie? No. Morgan? No. Commodore Vanderbilt? No. Who then? Reader, we are ashamed to put it in print. This man is supposed to be Jesus of Nazareth, the Savior of the world, the Son of the Living God.
If He came to this world to sell anything it was to sell Himself, to give His life a ransom for dying humanity. Does it seem likely that He was the founder of modem business when He had not where to lay His head? Can He be regarded as a society man when the question could . be asked by the higher-ups in His own day, Have any of the scribes or of the Pharisees believed on Him ?
Can it be possible that anybody would regard Jesus’ parables of the kingdom of God as so many good stories, told by Jesus so as to make Himself and His cause popular? Why, the mere telling of some of those parables caused His own followers to leave Him and caused the scribes and Pharisees to try to murder Him, and to finally succeed in their attempt.
Jesus a man of magnetism? The Scriptures do say of Him that he was a man. of sorrows and acquainted with grief, despite the sneering claims of the advertisement to the contrary, and they also ,say of Him that His own people received Him not and turned their faces from Him, as though He were smitten of God.
Jesus a great business executive, a pattern for the men who are today gobbling into their treasuries all the riches of the earthe The thing is so ridiculous and so presumptuous as not to be worth answering. Jesus was crucified between two thieves, it is true, but this is the first time we ever heard even Big Business insinuate that He was really one of their side partners.
Jesus the organizer of the world’s greatest business? It is true that Big Preachers and Big Evangelists have tried to make it a business, a business for lining their own pockets at the expense of the common people, a business of hiding truth and exploiting error, selling masses, scaring people into contributions to keep from falling into a fiery hell. But Jesus was not the founder of this religious business. The Devil was the real founder and is still the proprietor and general manager of the whole affair.
To the man that wrote “The Man Nobody Knows” Jesus is still the man he does not know; and it may be added that the number who really do know Him is limited indeed. Blessed are the eyes ..that see and the ears; that hear, but with most people they neither see with their eyes nor hear with their ears nor understand with their hearts.
They know about Jesus, many things about Him. some true and some erroneous, but nobody can ever know Jesus until., like Him, he ha® made a consecration to do the will of God, an4 like Him is engaged in faithfully laying dowa his life witnessing to the truth, in the face of its almost universal hatred by all mankind.
Doctor Anderson’s Expense Account
DOCTOR Anderson, formerly a Serantoman, now in the evangelistic business, has been putting on a show at Minersville, Pa. He was there three weeks. We just saw the expense account: Tabernacle, $2475.90: janitor, $140; stenographer, $90; electric power, $20.75; use of piano, $67.08; coal, 37.60; note paid to bank, $301.78; printing, $178; advertising, 70c; telephone, $1.40; party expense, $2251.39; total expense, $5563.97. >
We do not feel like complaining about the cost of putting up the tabernacle. We have no serious complaint about the size of janitor, power, coal and printing bills, stenographer hire, telephone and advertising bills; but it does look as if somebody had been stung on the piano hire and the “party expense”. Must have been some party, to get rid of all that in .three weeks.
But this was not all, for the same newspaper which gives us the above curiously interesting items says that besides all this:
All that Dr. and Mrs. Anderson received were the collections which were taken on Sunday. At the morning services this amounted to $1,000; afternoon $707.15; and evening $1107.34, making a total of $2814.49, which was presented to Dr. Anderson by Mr. Weist.
At the conclusion, of the afternoon services Mrs. Anderson was presented with, a purse from the business and professional women, and both Mr. Shank, the choir leader, and Mr. Randolph, the pianist, were presented yvii h a purse from the choir. „
As near as we can figure out Minersville has paid out about. $10,000 for putting on the worst land of show, one that never does any real good in the community, but generally adds a few more hypocrites than were already at hand. Even the Federal Council, of Churches has declared against this particular form of merchandising, and when they decry an ecclesiastical enterprise it must be objectionable indeed.
A gentleman, a Bible Student, who heard three of Anderson’s expensive sermons, sent him a letter of which the following is a copy:
Dr. G. W. Anderson, Crusader.
Dear Sir:
Nearing the end of your Crusade, you will wish t® know the sentiment of your hearers. '
With few exceptions, you will receive the acclaim and plaudits of those whom yon served, both sheep and goats,
I choose to be with the minority, even if alone, wh® ‘ were not carried off their feet with this giant delusion.
I heard three of your sermons, and even the first on® gave me your correct measure.
In your talk on people not acting natural, but aping others, you said it was no one’s business whether jot were an evolutionist or not. '
To me it is essential. If an Evolutionist, you have no business occupying a Christian pulpit or platform; and if not, you should not fear to state so, plainly. Evolution and Christian doctrine are incompatible.
The second sermon heard by me was “The Smashed Bottle”, your Prohibition sermon.
Much of what you said wa.s commendable, such as any order loving person would desire. Your arraignment of the dispensers of strong drink, the saloon-keepers and bootleggers was appropriate, quite strong. Do you. not come in the same category ?
What kind of drink have you served this community the past five weeks, to keep them stapified, absolutely drunk ?
I refer to the Revelatoris statement: ‘Babylon has made all nations drank with the wine of her fornication [false doctrine].’---Revelation 18: 3.
Also the prophet’s statement in harmony with the above: “They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.”—Isaiah .29: 9.
“But they also Slave erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way: the priest and the prophet, have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed. up of. wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.”—■ Isaiah 28: 7.
What kind of high-balls and eoek-tails have you thrust upon a credulous public? Here it is.
One evening your sermon or essay, selected from your stock in trade, was on eternal torture, and as customary, based on the parable of the “Rich Man and Lazarus”.
It was such a good concoction that even the secular editors of the Pottsville daily papers were favored with a draft from yottr golden cup. (Bev. 17:4) It vould have astonished me to learn, that you got safely over that spree that night without taking a. rap at the Truth and its servants. In your drunken stupor you could not control your spleen.
Every well informed man or woman in your audience well knew whom you meant when yon referred to a certain preacher of righteousness, now deceased'.
Then on. the night of the big splurge down Sunbury street, you said that you never discussed personalities or ridiculed another’s religion. How inconsistent i What hypocrisy I We know that your opposition to the Truth Is on. the lines of general principles mentioned by the Great Teacher, “The darkness hateth the light,”
“AH things that are reproved are made manifest by the light.” (Ephesians 5:13) Your immortality of the soul and hell-fire nonsense will not stand the light of present-day investigation.
In the third sermon I heard, on John 3:16, I had the pleasure or pain of hearing you trying to reconcile the love of God with His atrocious character pictured a few nights before. What a lame excuse you made! Then you favored them with another brand of drink, handed down from the dark ages, viz., the immortality of the soul. It mixes well with the eternal torment theory.
And it is said that mixed drinks produce the best jags; and the way you partly pulled off your coat to illustrate your point, made it appear that I was about to have part in a drunken brawl.
But the most charitable view I can take of your actions is that you over-iiylulged in wine, got soused, pickled,
I sympathize with the few pastors of this town who have joined in this movement, which they hope will increase their congregations and church revenues, but these pastors know ’ in reality that the Bible does not teach eternal torment and they have discarded the Bible anyway in favor of Higher Critical Infidelity, and you know it. Theirs is an unhappy and stultified position.
I sympathize still more with the common people that they should be betrayed by those in whom they repose confidence and whom they unwittingly pay for keeping them in the dark by taking from them the key of knowledge. “My people perish for the lack of knowledge.” '—Hosea 4: 6.
But still more. I sympathize with God, whose name is dishonored, whose Justice, Mercy, Wisdom, Love and Power are traduced, nay, vilified.
It is my thought that all shepherds false to their trust will be dismissed ignominiously, and that very soon. Shame on. you! Yours respectfully,
R. H. Bannek,
Minersville, Pa.
Lindbergh’s Father and the Federal Reserve
By Henry Vincent, in The Manufacturers Record.
HOW many about this time will connect our world hero’s name with that of his father, when an outstanding figure in Congressional debates, especially preceding the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act? This father was the minority member of the committee reporting out that measure, and his closing appeal contained a forecast of the operation of the Reserve Bill which reads now much as a prophecy, concerning which the general reader can better express himself today than at the time it was voiced.
In that memorable, though short address, Hon. Chas. A. Lindbergh is recorded as saying:
“This bill positively abolishes the United States Treasury. ... it proposes to move all the people’s money from the United States Treasury and place it in. the vaults of the banks, to be used by them for private gain. It violates every principle of popular demoeratio representative government, and every declaration of the Democratic party and platform pledges, from Thomas Jefferson down to the beginning of this Congress.” .
It remained for a man, who for 49 years had served as a Republican appointee in the Brooklyn custom-house, to follow the operation of the Reserve Act that he might disprove the prophecy quoted above, and what did he find? Before that act began to work, say April 7, 1917, the gold on hand in the United States Treasury, amounted to $2,240,531,589. Gold could be had for the asking from banks everywhere. By August 1, 1919, the gold in the United States Treasury had shrunk to $693,408,404, a loss of more than a billion and a half, and since that date no gold has been available in banks anywhere; it has entirely disappeared from public use, cannot be had without special engagement even for a Christmas present in small denominations.
How was it done ? By gathering up the yellowbacks and exchanging them for Federal Reserve notes, then exchanging these notes for gold at the sub-treasuries and carting the gold to vaults of the banks in the great centers, where it has since been undisputed property of the banks with which to play the markets, foreign as well as domestic, making it possible for these banks to make the prices of cotton, wheat, tobacco, live stock, manufactured products and real es-
>1. i‘i'L'u.;GCK. who has been debarred from school four years because be has NOT been vaccinated.
fate to suit their own caprice. Thus runs the explanation for more banks dosing since that date than in all previous history of the country, wiping out savings of millions of bank depositors and pouring them into the profits of the .overgrown financial institutions in the East. Not in. the entire history of our country have so many horfies been lost to their owners; so many suicides, murders, holdups and divorces, so many girls disappearing never to be heard of by parents or friends, and in general such lowering of moral standards in the community at large.
Our world hero's sire saw all this; warned his countrymen of what would follow in the operation of a single law. And remember, one of the closing acts of the last session was to make the charters of those banks perpetual.
Still we speculate in our simple-minded way if we should not raise more tobacco and less cot
ton, less wheat and corn, all the while forgetting that our Congress, for whose members we fight and vote to elect, have voted for plating this control of all prices, all our financial affairs, in the hands of twelve mtfney speculators, who compose the Federal Reserve Board, with no government restrictions worthy the mention, or requirements that government finances be operated in the interests of other than whom this twelve choose to favor. '
It should not be difficult today for our readers to form an opinion from their daily experience how well placed was the forecast made to his country by the senior Lindbergh. .
A Brief Lesson in Vaccination
WE PRESENT here the picture of two
New Hampshire children, one of whom has been vaccinated and the other not. The child who was vaccinated is now helpless, confined'to her bed, going blind; and her face is disfigured beyond recognition.
In a vaccination case which was brought be-
VIVIAN ROSY, who has been debarred from school three years by disease atxi suffering because she WAS vaccinated.
QOLDEN AGE
'tore the Supreme Court of the United States it was held that “there is a sphere within which the individual may assert the supremacy of his ©wn will and rightfully dispute the authority of any human goveimmeftt, especially of any free government existing under a written constitution, to interfere with the exercise of that will* In other words, compulsory vaccination is nn« con.stituti.onal and therefore illegal
The pictures speak for themselves.
Bible Students in the Centum Press
THE Daily News., of Hanover, Germany. • A second supplement, on Wednesday, September 21, 1927, contained the following about the Bible Students:
During recent years the Bible Students’ movement has gained a strong foothold in Germany. Those who know the Bible Students very probably came into contact with them by hearing some of their numerous discourses and by their continuous missionary work, extending to the remotest cities and villages.
The Bible Students own. at present a great number of radio stations all over the world; they are said to have at their disposal 52 radio stations in America, by which the people of all languages and races are being made familiar with the message of the Bible.
They are moreover operating in several cultured countries their own printing plants, that are organized on a large scale. One of these plants is in. -Brooklyn, where the headquarters of the Association are located. This plant produces daily up to 12,000 books; and the plant in Magdeburg, the headquarters of the Society for Germany, produces up to 7,000 volumes of religious subjectmatter. The works of Mr. Rutherford, now president "of the Association, have been distributed in various editions, aggregating thirty million copies.
The number of those taking’ part in the convention of the Bible Students, recently held in Berlin, varied between 10.000 and 12,000 visitors from Germany; foreign countries sent delegates from America, Hou-mania, Finland, Au str o-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Switzerland. President Rutherford, of Brooklyn, also took part in the Berlin. Convention and gave a public discourse that was attended by 15,000 people. A like number is said to have waited in vain for admittance to the already overcrowded Palace of Sports. It is further stated that the Bible Students came to Berlin in ten special trains from various parts of German}'.
By their well-known harmony and by their zeal for their cause, that is common to them all, they acquainted the city of five millions with the aims of the Society and of the Bible, by a cleverly arranged house to house canvass on a Sunday forenoon. This bespeaks a sacrificial spirit that one at present is vainly looking for in other circles, but it also shows at the same time that the world has to reckon with the Bible Students.
Bits ®f News
Old Age Pensions in British Columbia
RITISII subjects seventy years old who have resided in Canada twenty years and in British Columbia five years are now granted pensions of a maximum of $240 -per year, exclusive of any property they may have, provided the property is not worth over $2,500. Both husband and wife are entitled to the pension, so that, between them, they may own a home worth $5,000 and receive an income of $480 per year.
Disorganized Markels in England
BRITISH fruit-grower in Cotswold, England, points out that cabbages for which the wholesalers gave him one-half pence each were retailed at three pence each; plums for which the wholesalers gave him one-half pence per pound were retailed at eight pence per pound; red currants for which the wholesalers gave him one and one-half pence per pound were retailed at six pence per pound. Naturally he thinks that something is rotten somewhere, and who can. blame hup for thinking so?
Awful Example Set by Chinese .
TWO wealthy Chinese living in Mexico have just notified the Mexican government of their desire that their immense lands be divided into a thousand farms and turned over to the poor Mexican peons, under expert government advice and assistance. The ranches are said to be ideally located. The two Chinese have retained small portions for themselves, with the ■understanding that the donated lands must be carefully worked and improved or revert to them again. What a terrible example these heathen Chinese set to us Christians 1
Recent Inventions in. Germany
THE Germans are always getting up something new. Now they have a mail box which automatically weighs letters and fixes the right amount of postage upon them. Also they now stun animals electrically before these are slaughtered, making the butcher business less objectionable. A new disinfectant, chlorthymol, is said to be the most effective disinfectant yet discovered. It, is rated 100 times more effective than corrosive sublimate.
The Rivet Machine is Passing
THE riveting machine has had its day. Electric welding is taking its place. It is predicted that in fifteen years all sky-scrapers, bridges, cars, barges, etc., will be welded. Worn or light weight structures will be strengthened on the spot by having plates welded to their sides. Welding is cheaper than riveting, there is nothing to work loose, the weight is less, and the drafting room work is greatly reduced. Welding has come to stay.
Radio Service in Siberia and India .
IN THE most matter-of-fact way we are told that radio service is fairly good all over Russia, Siberia and India. We cannot appreciate what this means. We are too near to it. But it is the Twentieth Century shaking hands with the dawn of civilization. It is the millennial morning displacing the ages of oppression, ignorance and misery that carry ns all Ilia way back to the Fall of Man. Radio, in the hands of the Lord, will yet bring the truth to all the world.
Paraguay and the United States ~
IT SEEMS odd to think of Paraguay as more progressive than the United States, yet little Paraguay has granted to the Mennonites complete and perpetual immunity from military duty and exemption from participation in a war, even as non-combatants; and the .Mennonites are leaving the United States because this great country is afraid to grant them the same concessions. The Mennonites are an industrious people, a desirable people, but they are peaceful; if one hundred thousand of them leave America it will be a great loss to the country; we have other hundreds of thousands, ready to murder on the slightest provocation, that we could better spare.
The Shark Suddenly Becomes Valuable rpiIANKS to chemistry, the shark, hitherto a . -L nuisance, has-become one of the most valuable creatures of the sea. From it are now made leather shoes that can hardly be worn out, silk stockings, and gowns that are almost indestructible, liver oil which is said to be better than cod liver oil, insulin, glue, paint, manure and food. It is said that more than 300 tons of shark flesh are sold in England every day under the deceptive title of rock salmon. It is also claimed that there are more sharks in the sea today than there are cows on the land. .
A Wise St. Louis Merchant
LOOKING to the future, a wise St. Louis merchant, David May, president of the May
Stern Co., cancelled the debts of all persons ow- ■ ing his concern whose goods were destroyed in the recent disaster; moreover, all such persons may refurnish their homes on credit and without the usual down payment. This is in itself an advertisement of incalculable value. ' '
Mm Mayo Stirs India
Miss Katherine Mayo, in her book “Mother
India”, has -written such a relentless expose of the suffering of the little girl wives of India that she has stirred that country from end to end. Many of these little girls, married at nine or ten years of age, bear weak and sickly children and leave the young mother so weak that she herself often dies. As a result of the circulation of the book, the Maharajah of Kashmir has decreed that the minimum age of marriage of girls shall be raised to fourteen. This is considered a great reform.
Secretary Davis” View of the Future
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, says “As
I look into the future, far beyond this occasional distress of the present, I see a world made better by the very machines invented today. I see the machine becoming the real slave of man that it was meant to be. I see it lengthening the useful lives of men. Today we are scrapping men at the age of 45 or 50 because we think their skill is. slipping. Tomorrow the machine will supply the skill, and a man of seventy may operate it as -well as one of twenty. Machinery has built, our enormous cities of today. Tomorrow will see the highways broadened for better traf~
fic, and the air thickened with new methods of transportation. When that has come, this intense centralization of industry will be unnecessary. The worker and the farmer will Jive side by side, to the advantage and better understanding of both. Machinery will do the work, and men will have time to live. As they have time to live, they will cultivate more and more the things worth living for.” .
A Brave Attorney General
Charles C. McCall, Attorney General of the
State of Alabama, is a brave man. Having investigated the floggings in four counties of the state, and having become convinced that these illegal and cowardly outrages were committed, plotted and planned by the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan of his state, McCall, though‘himself a member of the Klan, and professing adherence to its publicly announced principles, has withdrawn from it, declaring that he would no longer follow under the leadership of men who connived at and resorted to such atrocities. Bully for McCall i We do not wish and will not have in this country anarchy of any sort, no matter who wants it.
New York’s New Metropolitan Zone
THE speeding up of transportation facilities within the past few years, and perhaps particularly the opening of the tunnel for vehicular traffic under the Hudson River, has led to the creation of a new Metropolitan Zone or District with New York City as its center. This zone, which takes in all the most thickly built up area within forty miles of the City Hall, is estimated to have a population of 9,500,000, or more than the combined populations of the six next largest cities in the United States.
Details of the Holland Tunnel
THE $48,000,000 vehicular tunnel connecting
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