Golden Age, February 22, 1928
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GLIMPSES AT
THE CINEMA
WHY I AM NOT
A SOCIALIST
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORLD
V©L IX Bi-Weekly No. 220
February 22,1928
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Contents of the Golden Age
Social and Educational Glimpses at the Cinema ........ 323
Edinburgh’s New Eire Alarms ............. 323
Britain Feels the I'ineii ................ 323
A Poser for the Padre . ... . ........... . 324
Hearst Papers Badly Fooled ............. 325
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Volume IX
BroooHyn, N. Y. Wednesday February 22, 1928
Number 220
Glimpses at the Cinema
Edinburgh’s Neu, Fire Alarms
THDINBCRG 11, Scotland, has a new system of JLJ fire alarms by which loud speakers enable firemen to converse with whoever sends in the alarm, even if he he located ten feet distant from the box at the time. The exact location of the fire is given by this means.
Polish Severity Against Communists
"DOLAND has sentenced 123 communists io J- a total of 1,000 years imprisonment in what are admitted, to be, at this time, the worst prisons in the world. Nine of these unfortunate men were sentenced for life. They are not accused of having committed any overt acts, but alleged to he preparing.
. New Process of Making Tool-Steel
A FIRM in Sheffield, England, has perfected ,**• a new process of making tool-steel without fuel. The melting is done exclusively by high frequency electrical current, insuring freedom from sulphur and phosphorus, greater homogeneity of metal, more accurate control of the temperature and the privilege of intermitting operation with very little loss of efficiency.
The Cost of the War
THE cost of the World War to the United States was $35,119,622,000; and the number of Americans that lost life because of it was 126,000. The question as to what America got for all this is still being discussed. It was the W to end war; but armaments are now increasing more rapidly than ever before in the history of the world, and there are more men Sender arms. But we all know that the Morgan loans to France and Britain were taken care of; •o that is something, anyway.
Civilization in Argentina
THE League of Nations commission on the white slave traffic has declared Argentina, Brazil and Egypt as the chief importers of white slaves, and that one of the theatres in Buenos Aires admits fipm 100 to 200 women free each night so that they may solicit patrons. They must have a nice religion in the Argentine.
Dictatorships in Europe •
THE New York Times prints an interesting J- list of dictatorships in Europe, ranging all the way from the one in Russia which Uncle Sam refuses to recognize to the one in Italy which he financed. The list includes the countries of Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Albania, and three-fifths of the population of Europe. i • ;<•■■■•■
Britain Feels the Pinch
Sib Geobgjs Newman, chief medical officer of the British Board of Education, declares that one million British children are unfit to study, because suffering from malnutrition. Frank Simonds, noted press correspondent, says that the British people are sick unto death of war and have no interest in nor desire for any naval competition with the United States, nor for anything but peace.
Spiritualism and Christianity
GLANCING through the columns of an atheist paper we notice that a certain Reverend, the pastor of a so-called Spiritualist church, is a contributor. He bluntly writes, £T am opposed to the Christian humbug, and I don’t believe in a personal God.” Anyway, we know what this Reverend really does stand for, and his very honesty in his unbelief entitles him to a measure of respect
Child Pats a Leopard
A LEOPARD escaped from an animal store in London. Before its anxious owners could locate it, the animal found its way into a back yard where a two-year-old child was playing. The child had never seen such a large kitten but bravely patted it on the back; and although the kitten snarled, the child escaped any harm, and the owners got their leopard back into its cage without accident.
A Cute Picture
AS CUTE a picture as you would wish to seo is that of twelve Russian children loaded in an open-air truck on their way to a suburb of Moscow where they installed home-made nests for the starlings. These young pioneers bore with them placards reading, in Russian, "Take Care of Birds” and “Birds Are Our Friends”. They all look exceedingly happy and well fed. The picture appears in the .magazine Our Dumb Animals.
German Secrets in the World War
HOW hard it is to keep secrets in these days
is proven by what happened to German cipher messages during the World War. The British government read every one of these cipher messages; and though the keys were changed every few hours, yet it never took more than two or three hours to determine the change which had been made. The British government knew in advance, by this means, every important move of the German navy.
HemphilTs Protest to President Coolidge
John S. Hemphiix, Ferguson, Mo., whose son was killed in the war in Nicaragua, has written President Coolidge, “For the death of my ■ son, I hold no malice or ill will toward General
Sandino or any of his men; for I think (and I believe ninety percent of our own people agree with me) that they are today fighting for their liberty, as our forefathers fought for our liberty in 1776, and that we as a nation have no legal or moral right to be murdering those liberty-loving people in a war of aggression.”
The Soviet Peace Proposals
THE Soviet peace proposals to the League of Nations involved the destruction of all weapons, military supplies, warships and military air vessels; the abolition of military service, training and the calling of reserves; the destruction of fortresses, naval and air bases, military plants and factories; the discontinuance of funds for military purposes: the abolition of military, naval and air ministries, general staffs and all military administrations, departments and institutions; ths prohibition of military propaganda and instruction; the prohibition of patenting of all war devices; and legislation making infringement of any of these stipulations a crime against the state.
Palestine Said to Se Overtaxed
Jacob De Haas, prominent editor and Zionist,
in a speech in Brookline, Massachusetts, claims that Britain is overtaxing the Jews in Palestine, producing a surplus at the expense ■' of the Jewish people there and hampering the development of the country. Especially he regrets the award of the Dead Sea to Britons, claiming that while it will create vast wealth elsewhere it will reduce Palestine itself to a land of beggary.
Jews Now Expect Their Messiah
OF THE 150,000 Jews in Palestine it is said
that at least 50,000 expect their Messiah, ■ and are praying daily for his coming. They declare that the Messiah will be a superman and that his kingdom will be a great center from which will radiate peace and brotherhood extending throughout the entire world. It is : their expectation that the Messiah, who will ; become king of the Jewish nation, will personally put an end to the next world war at the moment when all appears lost. Bible Students, familiar with the prophecies, greatly appreciate these good hopes of the Jewish people.
A Poser for the Padre
ONE of the highway contractors in. Pennsyl
vania is an Italian and he employs laborers I of many nationalities. Some of his men were digging a deep ditch on a raw, windy day, under the direction of a pushing Italian foreman. Among them were two Irishmen. The parish priest came along, saw them in the ditch and ■ leaning over said, laughingly:
“I never thought to see Irishmen working for. ■ a dago boss.” Michael straightened up, spat on his hands and replied:
“Well yir rivirince, how about yersilff”
Hearst Papers Badly Fooled
GOLDEN AGE
Hurrah for Carpenter
EVERY day adds more evidence showing how Zri harles E. Carpenter, president of The badly the Hearst papers were fooled in pub- Houghton Line, tells us in his house organ
‘ listing the supposed Mexican documents which all experts, including Hearst’s own experts, declare are forgeries. Moreover, the documents contain several hundred instances of misplaced accents and misspelled words. The man who wrote up the stories for the Hearst papers testifies to having had four interviews with a newspaper man in Mexico City on one matter connected with these documents and yet testifies on oath that he does not remember who it was. No public carriers between Mexico and the United States have any record of having carried or having seen the bogus documents.
Fruit Plentiful in California
NEW lemons are selling in Southern California now at 5 cents per dozen at fruit-stands along the highways. Whole orchards of lemon trees are being dug up or cut down and burned; fruit and all, because it does not pay to hire help to pick the fruit. The fruit boxes are worth than the fruit. A person can get all the 'fruit he wants to haul away for the picking of it in the lemon fields. “Oranges are selling at the roadside fruit-stands at 20 cents per 10-quart . pail. We are throwing them at the trees and batting them with ball-bats. In the best of them we punch a hole and suck out some of the juice. Melons rot in the fields. Heavy frosts are hurting the orange growers,” writes a correspondent.
Jerome’s Interesting Prediction
FTIHE death of Jerome K. Jerome, English -*■ writer, and lover of peace, recalls his interesting words, written in 1916, when the World War was at its height. Most of- the things he mentioned have come to pass:
There may be one color for Poland instead of three. Alsace and Lorraine will have returned to France, and that one last corner still soiled by Turkish rule may, one hopes, have been cleaned out. The main features will remain. Germany, bruised and battered, her arrogance and her bombast knocked out of her, but still alive and vigorous, will set to work to build herself anew. Ten years after peace is signed—every schoolboy knows it— we shall be buying from Germany, selling to Germany. In twenty years we shall be playing tennis with them
and teaching them golf.
And thirty years later it is .. with two satellites, going for the unfortunate heretic,
quite possible that they, in turn, may be our allies. something that ought to warm the heart of every true American, and ought to soak into the preachers, the newspapers, the politicians, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. He says, and it is a gem:
The Chinese arc not supposed to be civilized, and they don’t know what they are lighting for ; but they at least know enough not to believe that they are fighting to make democracy safe for civil izafjon.
Here are two more from the same pen:
If you want our opinion of jazz, here it is: We believe jazz to be vulgar; blatant; hideous; degrading; demoralizing; an insult to music; a nerve irritant and a crime, from which we suppose you will gather that there is. something about jazz which we do not exactly like.
Just because a few bossy, so-called strong-minded women want to deteriorate to the level of men and swear, smoke, drink, and dissipate generally and enter into politics and neglect the home duties which God according to Genesis created them for, is no reason why all of our women should be degenerated.
Common Prison of the Inquisition
WITHIN the past few months seventeen paintings, each four feet by nine, portraying the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, have been on exhibition at 1670 Broadway, New York. From the description of one of the pictures we print the following, which will assist some minds to get a proper view of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, a representative of which many Protestants are so anxious to see in the American presidential chair:
The dungeons of the Inquisition consisted in subterranean vaults, situated at a depth of more than thirty feet underground. A vessel intended to satisfy the natural wants, and which was emptied only once every week or every fortnight, occupied one of the corners and completed to infect the air which was already to a great extent disoxygenated by the breathing of the unfortunate sufferer condemned to sojourn in these dreadful holes. Some of them, mad with despair, put an end to their torments by killing themselves. These wretched victims, to escape from the tortures, crushed their heads against the walls; others suffocated themselves by strongly inhaling the mephitic gas emitted by the vessels filled with excrements. The present picture represents a Dominican friar, attended by a torturer who is to appear before the Inquisitorial Court.
Development of the Gold Coast
BIIE G<»kl Coast of Africa, from which the ancestors of the millions of Negroes in the United States were largely taken, is now being developed rapidly. The old slave castles are no longer in use as-inslruments of oppression. A new port and a modern city are being built at Takoi*adi. One of its features is a million-dollar hospital entirely for the natives. Eighteen other hospitals have been opened.
The natives, than whom there are no finer specimens of manhood anywhere, have remarkable memories. It is said that many of them, when they learn to read, can commit to memory their textbooks. Their only difficulty, as with many other people, is in making practical application of what they learn. But even here they are excelling and are building up under a better-than-usual British administration a high-class modern state.
“Why I Do Not Use Aluminum for
.^j^NENT the use of aluminum:
beeira constant reader of The Gold-■iBBIIiteghiiiing with the first issue. Have itllliliilihueh; Benefit from the experiences of BiliiilBftiigh--' its pages, and thought they would like to hear some of mine.
For years I have dissolved Packer’s Tar Soap to make a shampoo for my head. Some time ago I dissolved some in an aluminum dish,, but did not use all the shampoo at that washing and left it in the dish for future use.
IBOlllixt time<I washed my head I dissolved a little more soap and added it to that in the dish, which had coagulated. I rubbed it well could not make a-lather.
Cooking Food.” By Elisabeth Barnes
I thought it.was the hard water; so put some washing soda into the water, but to no purpose. I. rinsed my hair well and dried it, but found it hard to comb. It had a.metallic feeling.
I rubbed vaseline into my hair and succeeded in getting it straightened out; but when I coiled it on top of my head it felt like a coil of very fine wire twisted together.
The next day I rinsed my head well, but still it felt wiry. I rinsed it again, but with all my care my hair is breaking off.
I was very much puzzled at this experience until I read “Crab Meat a la Undertaker”. I have had other experiences, but had to have this cro wning one to get rny eyes opened to the evil effects of using aluminum in any form.
The Powers of the Demons
THE powers of the demons are brought to light in the following answers to questions which a spirit medium caused to be published in the Winnipeg Tribune. Now see the command of Almighty God absolutely forbidding His people to have anything to do with anything of this kind. (Deuteronomy 18:9-12) If the Tribune only knew it, in lending its support to a thing of this kind it is bringing the wrath of Almighty God upon, its head.
M. W.—Please tell me where to find my wedding ring that I lost.
Abs.’^Your ring is on the floor near the wall under the chesterfield. Your little girl was playing with the ring when it fell out of her hand and rolled into its present location.
J. M.—Will I be successful in my present line of work ?
Ans.—No. You will give up your position in about a month and join your brother Charles in Vancouver.
E. H. B.—Can you tell me where my sister is now living ? as we lost all trace of her four years ago.*
.Ans.-—She divorced the man she ran away with, and she is now working in the division offices of the Grand Trank Railway at Duran, Michigan.
L. A.—(St. Boniface) I have been sick for nearly two years; what is wrong with me?
Ans.—You have liver, stomach and intestinal trouble from improper and over-eating. Consult a physician at once and with proper treatment and diet you can be cured.
H. M. C.—Whom will I marry and when? Do I know him?
Ans.—You will marry Frank S., whom you are now going with. You will be married about the middle of next May.
J. T.—How much will I make on my real, estate investment made last spring?
Ans.—You will clear about 12 percent next year.
M. A. N.—Does my sweetheart love me and is he true to me?
Ans.—He really cares for you and is as true as the average fellow’ about his age.
II. C.—Can you tell me what has become of the diamond set out of my ring.
Ans.—You will find it under the carpet of your automobile. It f. H out while you were driving a week ago.
A. J.—When will I get my first dividend cheque from my oil stock?
Ans.-—This stock is not very valuable, and I do not see you getting anything out of it inside of the next year.
E. K.-—Will I many the girl I am now going with?
Ans.—She would make you an excellent wife if you would only ask her to marry you.
J. A.—Will I be successful in my present position?
Ans.—Yes, if you will remain with this employer until after the first of the year, I see promotion and better pay for you. Do not let William try to influence you in making a change at this time.
C. S.—Shall I change and undertake a business for myself and children to live on ?
Ans.—- You would be much better off to make a change than to continue as you are.
J. S.—Is my sister still in St. Louis, Mo., or where is she?
Ans.—Your sister is now living at 6321 63rd St, Chicago, HL
W. S.— (St. Boniface) When is my sister coming back to Winnipeg?
Ans.—She will come a week from Saturday. You will receive a letter this Thursday confirming this.
A. E. C.—Will our next child be a boy or a girl?
Ans.—A girl, about the 12th of next April.
H. D.—I won some stock in a mine near Sudbury, Ont. Will it pay dividends?
Ans.—Yes, you will receive very good returns from this. ■
G. McD.—How soon will my dad sell his car and what will he get for it ?
Ans.—He will sell the car Saturday for exactly $650.
F. J.— (Portage la Prairie) Shall we stay he-e or move back to Medicine Hat?
Ans.—You will do far better right where you are.
T. W.—1 have lost some valuable kodak films. Where can I find them?
Ans.—You will find the ‘films among some papers stuffed behind the bookcase at home.
Why I Am Not a Socialist By C. E. Guiver (London)
ON MORE than one occasion I have been charged with being a socialist, and it has even been suggested that had it not been for the truth, I should have been standing at street corners and in public parks fighting the lions of capital, oligarchy, plutocracy and monopoly.
This view of my views is not because I have ever worn a red tie, or waved a red flag, or sung the socialist’s anthem, or because I have used such terms as capitalist, proletariat, individualism and collectivism; or have decried the competitive system and extolled the virtues of the cooperative system.
It is not because I have a loud voice, or a large vocabulary, or can rattle off a number of fine-sounding phrases, which may mean a great deal if one could understand them. It is not because I talk about the sins and ignorance of the government and the rights and intelligence of the people. Oh, no! But it is because I have at times, few and far between, expressed a few homely truths on equality.
Equality is a wonderful thing to talk about, especially if you happen to be with those who are better than yourself, but not so wonderful . von regard as in-upon the lucky jam-eating few, and, if they cannot get it for themselves, to spoil it for the others.
Socialism has for its principle that what affects the community should be owned by the community, and that what affects the individual only should he owned by the individual. For example: Cemeteries, gas-factories, mines, railways and other necessary evils afflict the community, and should be owned or abolished by the community; whereas skirts, tooth-brushes, bril-liantine and powder-puffs affect the individual. (I was going to say only, but that is not always true, especially the puff, at least the powder on the puff, for it sometimes affects another individual when osculatory exercises are performed; in any case these, the articles, not the osculations, should be owned by the individual.) The question is not whether we should have individualism or collectivism, but how much of the one and how little of the other.
Land is one of the things that the community should control, says the socialist. Some say it because they have none, except in a flower-pot; and most of us will not get any until our end,
society with new bits of cloth until it becomes a new suit, as though, the ideal state will grow naturally out of the present disorder; others think we should scrap, the old clothes and get new ones, but they do not say whether or not the state must go naked until the new are found.
I am not a socialist because: (1) Selfishness is innate in man, and selfishness is the one thing which would make the most ideal system a failure and, to go upon the lines that some suggest, is like building the walls of the city with dynamite for cement, winch at the least percussion explodes.
(2) Even if socialism succeeded to a degree, it is only half a remedy, and becomes a mule with a horse’s head and a donkey’s body running about. It has some intelligence, buf its hind part kicks and causes trouble. ■
(3) All socialists see the need of.reform; but not all agree as to the method by which it should be brought about, and are thus opposing each other: reminding one of a crowd of school boys pulling a cartload of apples for their fellows. Some pull it this way, and some pull it that; and, eating the apples as they go, the cart is empty long before they reach their destination.
Equality, fraternity and liberty are fine - words. All for each and each for all, sounds well; communal ownership of communal interests is a good principle. Well, it may be all right; but I know something better, and that’s why I am not a socialist.
The Misuse of the Radio By C. J. W., Jr.
I HAVE just been, listening to the hookup of stations engaged in broadcasting the proceedings of the annual banquet of radio manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. The first hour was devoted to speeches, mostly ungrammatical, awkward and delivered with the customary bleat of the man trying to make an impression and ignorant of how to go about it.
Eor the most part the speakers were evidently doddering, mercenary, unintelieetual wretches to whom lockjaw on that occasion ■Would have been a mercy, both for their hearers and for their own reputations as speakers.
The speaking was bad enough; but it was followed by one of these so-called “popular” orchestras, hammering, squawking and scraping out the cacophony of “popular” tunes. And what tunes 1 But as all have heard these cheap tin-pan bands, operated by mechanics, and not overly good mechanics at that, with little or no sense of time, rhythm, harmony, tune or tone-color, I spare all further reference to them. ■ .
Then, amid thunderous applause, the announcer introduced a “humorist”. Now if there is any object more completely doleful and wretched than any other it is a humorist at a function, trying desperately hard to be" funny. There was half an hour of rusty, musty, feeble jokes; and then in despair I turned the radio nff.
After more than half an hour I returned. Werrenratli, the golden-voiced tenor, is on the air, trying his best to erase the memory of the evening’s miserable beginning, and is doing it well. Why can we* not have first-class music and first-class speeches over all the radios all the time? Is it true that the American people find their chief delight in listening to matter which would hardly be acceptable to ten-year-old children ?
Sad as it is, it must be that it is the people themselves that are responsible for this misuse of the radio, inane jokes, unintelieetual speakers with nothing to say, who say it loudly, and make music which is a horror to the ears. Let the people cry down these monstrosities that are making the night hideous, and demand .artistic execution of high-class music and talks by lecturers who have something to say and know how to say it.
The Devil, is doing all in his power at 'thir time to make the radio a thing to be loathed instead of a thing wherewith men might be lifted to the skies. I am glad that the Bible Students are becoming more and more skilled in radio coimnunication. I know that they can he depended on to give the public only that which is good, ennobling and satisfying.
I could wish that all of the radio stations were up to the high standard of WBBR, WORD* WHK, CKCX, etc.
A Diminutive Sharpshooter
BOYS do not mind being squeezed sidewise, but they do object to being squeezed up and down. But if Leon Charles Smoker, grandson of William Kimmel, could be squeezed down just half an inch (and that ought not to hurt so much) he would be just four feet tall. That is one foot taller than the door knob, and six inches shorter than the mantelpiece.
Leon was born January 17, six years ago. He has brown eyes, weighs 48 lbs. (which is the same as a sack of flour), is quiet and gentlemanly, and has a sweet smile. Shall we say that he is sweet? Boys are not supposed to be sweet; and until one. came our way we never knew that they were; but they really are. That is a big joke on the fathers. They never knew that boys are sweet until they had one of their own. They knew that the girls are. Everybody knows that. But nobody suspected that th© boys are.
Well, Leon heard his father and mother talking about the service work, and used to go out last summer and sit in the car and watch the work going on. Then his mother, being indisposed for some weeks, was unable to get out; and it rather worried Leon. He felt as if he ought to do the manly thing and take her place until she could go on with the work Leon believes in man’s rights as well as woman’s rights, the right to be manly.
Several times he broached the matter to his father, who thought him a little under size and under age for such important work. Finally the father consented, but suggested that his son go witlrhim while he made the canvasses, or at any rate go in every other house, so as to keep track of him. But Leon looked up in his face and said: “No, papa; you go on the other side of the street, and let me work this side.”
We learn that Leon’s canvass is as follows: “Good morning! Have you heard of Judge Rutherford, who talks over the radio from WBBR, the Watchtower station, in New York! Here are some of his books. This one, Comfort for the People, has all these questions answered: Why is the Outlook for the World so Dark? Why are so many Clergymen and their Parishioners Scoffers? Why are the Nations SO Dwgfratdy Preparing for War? Can the World be Stabilized? Why the Agitation Among the Jews Concerning the Reestablishment of Palestine? What is Meant by the Kingdom of Heaven? and What Blessings may the People Expect to Come from it? This one, Where are the Dead? shows where our loved ones are and when they will come back to us. It is the most comforting one of all. The last one is Freedom for the Peoples, and has a very good message for everybody. You get all three of these . for 25c; or Comfort for the People is 10c, Where are the Dead 10c, and Freedom for the'Peoples is 5c.”
Asked, “Leon, what do you do if they do not buy? Do you get mad?” He replied: “Oli, -no! I just go on to the next house.” If they buy he thanks them and says: “I hope you will read it and enjoy it.”
The first time Leon canvassed was Sunday, October 30, approximately three hours: sales, twenty-five booklets. His second attempt was Sunday, Novembei’ 20, a cold day. He canvassed two hours and sold seventeen booklets.'
In answer to a request, Leon’s father, from whom some of these details were obtained, wrote us:
“The child was consecrated to the Lord before his birth; and since then divine help and guidance have been sought continually that he might be directed hi the right way. In our family worship he is continually reminded of the fact that his parents have consecrated him to the Lord, and that it is his desire that he may become a useful helper in the Lord’s kingdom, which is now here.”
Some Scriptures occur to us as appropiate at this point. Adults please take notice:
“Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.” (Psalm 8:2) “And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to th.® son of David! they were sore displeased, and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea: have y® never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?”.......Matthew 21 f
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The Establishment of the World
[Broadcast from Station WBBB, New York, by Judge Rutherford.]
ON THE sixteenth of October over this station you will recall that I spoke to you concerning the great battle of God Almighty. That is otherwise designated in the Scriptures as Armageddon. It is now my privilege to speak concerning the establishment of the world. It is fitting that we here again define what is meant by the word “world”. It means the peoples of earth organized into forms of government un-'der the supe rvision of an invisible overlord. For centuries Satan has been the invisible overlord of the people of earth. The time must come when the Lord Jesus Christ ousts Satan from his position and then under the direction of Jehovah establishes a righteous government amongst men. We must believe this to be true if we believe the Bible. God’s prophet, looking down to the time when Christ would take His authority and establish righteousness, wrote: “Say among the nations, that the Lord reigneth: the -world also ■ shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.” —Psalm 96:10.
Let us briefly examine this prophecy. The time for the beginning of its fulfilment is stated to be when the Lord reigns or begins His reign. Other scriptures show that the Lord took His power and began positive action against Satan in 1914. You wall recall that this matter was considered in discussing “The Birth of The Nation”. The beginning of that time -was marked by the World War and other attending evidences. Immediately following the World W ar all Christians -who believe and appreciate the Bible discerned that now the words of Jesus spoken in. Matthew 24:14 must be fulfilled. These words are: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come.” (Matthew 24:14) This is exactly in harmony with the aforementioned prophecy. One prophecy is that God commands His people to tell out the truth and to “say among the nations, that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established”. This is complete proof that it cannot be moved.
I am not speaking on this matter to get adherence to the Bible Students, nor to get money away from the people, noi- for any other selfish reason. I am speaking because I love the Lord God and have agreed to obey Him; and I am trying to do so. Therefore it is my privilege and my duty to call attention to these matters.
One of the other commandments which God gave to those who have agreed to do His will, is that they must declare the day of God’s vengeance. That means that they must declare God’s purpose to vindicate His name. That is the reason" for speaking concerning the battle of Armageddon. Nothing could be gained by frightening the people, but it is manifest that God intended for this matter to be called to the attention of the people for their good, That great climax in the affairs of men must precede the establishment of the world. Armageddon marks the expression of God’s indignation against the great wickedness that Satan has caused the people to fall into.. It is the will of God, as declared by His Word, that the people now should be advised of this that they may understand that Jehovah is God, and that Christ is His great Executive Officer. The great battle of Armageddon is yet future, and the Scriptures and other facts indicate it is near, and then the Scriptures positively show that the establishment of the world shall follow.
When a great earthquake, a disastrous storm, or a mighty tidal wave, sweeps a community and destroys houses and peoples by the thousands, and leaves other thousands homeless, much woe and distress follow; and great effort is required to relieve the suffering. The battle of Armageddon in the “great and terrible day of the Lord” will mark the complete collapse of Satan’s organization. What an earthquake or terrific storm or tidal wave is to a community that trouble will be to the whole world, only much worse. In the wake thereof there will be great woe and distress ; and the people will cry for relief.
It may truly be said that the history of the world has been written in human blood. But the worst is not yet. The long and terrible siege of Titus against Jerusalem brought to the Jews indescribable suffering, and the final assault upon the city by the Romans completely destroyed it. The destruction of Jerusalem was in fulfilment of divine prophecy, and foreshadowed what will befall the organizations of the -world in the great battle of God Almighty.
The trouble that came upon Jerusalem was an expression of God’s indignation against the peo-
pie, who had repudiated Him and followed after the Devil. The clergy of that day, posing as representatives of God and hypocritically claiming to be the interpreters of His law, were responsible for the terrible calamity that fell upon the city. The religionists of Christendom have turned the minds of the people away from God. Christendom’s trouble, therefore, will be more terrible than that which befell Jerusalem in 70-73 A. D. God has promised to make a complete end of the evil systems in the final trouble that shall befall Satan’s organization.
We may call to mind all the disasters that have befallen the human race during its existence, all the wars, all the earthquakes, cyclones and other calamities; and then know that none of these will equal in woe that which shall befall the world during the great battle of Armageddon. That this conclusion is correct is proven by the words of Jesus that upon the earth there should be tribulation such as was not since the world began, no, and never should be again. But this great time of trouble will result ultimately in great blessing to the people. God has so ordained it
After God’s righteous indignation has been completely expressed against Satan’s organization, the great stormy wind that will tear the mountains and rend the rocks will cease to blow; the quaking that shook the earth from center to circumference will quake no more; the heaven-enkindled fires, having quickly spent their fury, will cease to burn, and silence and rest will once more come to the earth. But the survivors of the people will be disheartened, discouraged and faint. In their distress and extremity they will call upon the Lord.
Then will come from heaven the still, small voice; and Use message long ago spoken by the prophet of God will gently speak words of encouragement to all the peoples of good will on earth/ saying: “0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. Say among the nations that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord: for he cometh, for he Cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.”—Psalm 96: 9-13.
All divine prophecy has its fulfilment in due time, and can be understood only when fulfilled or in course of fulfilment. The foregoing prophecy has now begun to be fulfilled, in that those who are watching the development of God’s plan see that the Lord has taken His power, and begun His reign; therefore they know that shortly shall follow the complete fulfilment of the prophecy. Then will come a period of reconstruction and the Blessings of mankind, according to the promises God has made.
The positive and unequivocal promise here made by the prophet is: “The world shall be established that it shall not be moved.” The “world” here means an organization for the benefit of man. World in Scriptural usage,, . means the peoples of earth, organized into forms of government, under the supervision and control of an invisible overlord. It consists of both, heaven and earth. Heaven means the invisible, while earth refers to the visible part of the world. For centuries the invisible part of the world has been Satan and his unholy angels, while the visible part has consisted of organized forms of government on earth, influenced and controlled by Satan. Looking down to the time: when Satan’s world shall perish, God through; His prophet says: “For behold, I create newt heavens, and a hew earth: and the former shall;,: not be remembered, nor come into mind.. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create.” (Isaiah 65:17,18) This prophecy must have its fulfilment.
In harmony with these words of the holy prophet, Peter in prophetic phrase describes the passing of the old heavens and earth. He says; “Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with, fervent heat.” (2 Peter 3:12) Be it noted that these pass away in the day of God; that, is to say, in the time of God’s expressed wrath. Then Peter adds: “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelk-th righteousness.” (2 Peter 3: .13) In view of these two di* vinely provided witnesses we may have full assurance that the new world will be established, and that it will be so completely established that it can never be moved.
For many centuries Satan the enemy, as head, aided and abetted by his wicked angels, has constituted the heavens that have influenced and controlled the nations and peoples of earth. With the coming of Christ Jesus into power in 1914 Satan and his demon hosts have been east out of heaven onto the. earth. (Psalm 110:5; Revelation 12:9) The new heaven therefore is now an established fact. Christ is in control thereof. None of the people appreciate this fact except those who diligently seek to know God’s Word and to serve Him.
The next great manifestation of the Lord’s power will be the destruction of the beast and the false prophet, the visible or earthly part of the Devil’s organization. With the beast and the ■false prophet destroyed, and Satan bound, the whole earth (visible evil systems) ’will pass away. Then there will be no more restless elements of humanity, symbolically described as |iil|lisiK;>JChen: shall follow the establishment of the new earth. With its establishment the )l®ildlOlk: be .established, as, foretold by the ||)ii|l®|(Bsalnit 9S:T0)v because' both - Aeaven ■ and earth will then be under the control of the. righteous King, the Prince of Peace and Lord of lords.
John had a vision of the new world, and wrote: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no .more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband/’—Kovela-liliililii/); ; ■
The new heaven is the government of Messiah, the new nation born and in power. It is . the holy city, the new Jerusalem. It is the government of peace, with the Prince of Peace as its bead and ruler in charge; the government of* Messiah, which takes the place of that which has been long invisibly ruling the world. The new heaven, or invisible part of the new government, is beautiful and glorious; and is described by John, in symbolic phrase as being like unto a bride adorned for her husband. That is the time when a woman tries to appear at her best, and ,;’d°es so appear. This does not mean that the holy city, the now Jerusalem, has a husband. On
ment, composed of Christ Jesus and the glorified adorned for her husband” are merely words descriptive of the beauty and glory of the new government, the new nation born.
Since Satan the enemy, and his. angels, who compose the old heaven, are invisible, does that signify that the new heaven will also be invisible? Yes; the new heaven will be invisible. The chief one making up that new heaven is Christ Jesus. We have His own words as to whether/ or not He will ever again be seen by the peoples of earth, when He says: “Yet a little, while, and the world seeth me no more.” (John 14:19) Christ Jesus is the express image of Jehovah, and no human eye can see God. (Hebrew’s 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:16) Satan, a spirit being, has also been invisible to man and has exercised power and control over man. Even so the Lord Jesus the King of glory, though invisible to man, shall exercise power and control over men of the earth.
Since the time of Eden until the complete destruction of his organization Satan has had visible representatives on the earth. Does this suggest that the Prince of Peace, the great Messiah, will have visible representatives on earth ? He will, and the Scriptures definitely so state.
Since God lias promised that He will create a new’ heaven and a new earth, and since the Apostle Peter says that in this now heaven and new earth “will dwell righteousness, we may be suro that the new visible organization of the Messianic government will be righteous; that is to say, Hie visible rcpreseidatives of the righteous King on earth will be in harmony will; and obedient to His command.
But after th.? destruction of Satan’s organization, and after the-binding of Satan, some men ; will survive; and of these there will be some more ambitious than others. Will not these ambitious and stronger ones push < h p®selves forward and get into the government and control it and again bring about a eonditiwbf ’hhrigJtll eousness? They will not, because they v ill not be permitted to do so. (Daniel 2:44) The righteous King will permit no one to represent Him who indulges'in. unrighteousness. In:: ordM’f®l man to be given an opportunity to be fully restored io perfection the* Lu rd will establish a righteous form of government on the earth. The promise is: “Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment* (Isaiah 32:1.) This will preclude the ambitious and stronger ones from exercising their, political propensities, and seizing the government or an>
But all men are ’descendants of Adam; and since all of these are imperfect, where can there be found any to rule in justice and in righteousness as the representatives of the King?
New Earth
ONG ago God prepared certain men who under adverse conditions proved their loyalty and faithfulness to God; and then they died. These men received God's approval. They will be resurrected from the grave. They will be brought forth as perfect men, wholly devoted to the Lord, and will be the visible representatives of the Lord’s righteous kingdom on the earth. They will constitute the nucleus of the new earth. The scriptures hereinafter submitted conclusively prove these assertions.
It is a fixed rule of the divine plan that God grants everlasting life to no creature until that one is first fully tested and, under, the test, proves his loyalty and faithfulness. God gave Adam life; but He then put him to the test before He would grant him everlasting life. Under the test Adam fell. His failure was because he gave his allegiance to the enemy of God. He was both a disloyal and an unfaithful man.
The next perfect man on earth was Jesus. Before the heavenly Father granted Jesus the great and high reward of eternal life on the divine plane He first put Him to the most severe tests; and all these tests Jesus met successfully, and thereby proved His loyalty and His faithfulness unto God.—Luke 4:1-14; Philippians 2: fill ; Hebrews 5: 8, 9.
At once the absurdity of the doctrine of inherent immortality of all men appears. Satan is the author of this false doctrine; and Satan’s representatives, the clergy, have proclaimed this false doctrine amongst men for centuries past.
Before the ransom sacrifice was provided by the death of the perfect man Jesus, it was impossible for any man to be granted everlasting life. This is true for the reason that all men are descendants from Adam and have inherited the result of his wrongdoing. (Romans 5:12) It is the rule of God that “as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive”. (1 Corinthians 15:22) The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ must first take place before any man could be granted life everlasting. This, however, Bid not prevent imperfect men from proving their loyalty and faithfulness to God to the extent of their ability. By so doing they could have God’s approval.
Since, however, there is no other name under heaven whereby salvation to life can come, except through the merit of Christ Jesus, it follows that life could not be granted until the coming of Christ Jesus and the giving of the ransom. He “gave himself [His life] a ransom for all, to be testified in due time”. (Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2: 5, 6) It follows that no matter how faithful a man might have proved prior to the giving of the ransom, he could not be granted everlasting life until the ransom is presented as a sin-offering before the mercy' seat of Jehovah God. Therefore the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus brought life and immortality to light. (2 Timothy 1:10) All must have one opportunity for life. The opportunity for immortality is for those-only who seek it according to God's appointed way, to wit, by being made conformable to the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. —Romans 2: 6, 7; Philippians 3:13-15.
It now must be apparent to the student of the Scriptures that all that man can do towards saving himself is to have faith and, under the test, to prove his loyalty and faithfulness to God. For this reason it is written: “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”—• Hebrews 11:6.
Between Abel and the cross there were a few men on the earth who believed God and who diligently tried to please Him and did please Him. Concerning these men it is written: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared far them a city.”—Hebrews 11:13-16.
The word here rendered “country” means fatherland, that is to say, their native town or city or place of abode, or their land of nativity. The native condition of man was perfection in
Eden; and since it is God’s plan that this condition shall be restored, but that this restoration can come only through his heavenly kingdom; and since these faithful men desired such a thing, they therefore desired the heavenly kingdom or government to be reestablished on earth. God, in the performance of His plan, will therefore provide a city, to wit, an organization, a government, in which these men shall have a part. But who are these men?
Under inspiration of the holy spirit the apostle wrote of and concerning them. (Hebrews, eleventh chapter) First he mentions Abel, wdio proved his faith in God. Then he tells of Enoch, who walked with God; meaning that he had faith in God and rvas obedient to Him; and he says that God took Enoch away that he should not see death. Thon he mentions Noah, who lived in a time of great wickedness, and who manifested his faith, loyalty and devotion to’ God by proclaiming the truth amidst a wicked and perverse generation. Then comes Abraham, who was called to go out into a place which he knew nothing about; and because of his faith he wTent. He sojourned in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob. The apostle also mentions Abraham’s wife, Sarah, who manifested her faith in God’s promises. Then he tells of the great test that came upon Abraham when God called upon him to offer up his son Isaac. Believing that God was able to raise Isaac up from the dead Abraham obeyed, and this proves Abraham’s faith in the resurrection. -
Then Paul mentions Isaac as one of the faithful. Next he tells of the faith of Jacob who, because of his confidence in God, prophesied and blessed his sons upon his death-bed. He described the faith of Joseph, and how the Lord directed him in Egypt. He then tells of Moses who, although reared in the home of a king, when he came to the years of maturity refused to be called the son of the king's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with his own people becaufee of his faith in God. The apostle adds concerning him: “'Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the reeompence of the reward.” (Hebrews 11:26) And thus is proven the faith of Moses in the coming kingdom and in the great King. Then the apostle mentions the faith of Eahab’the harlot; and he also tells of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jephthae.
After mentioning David, and Samuel, and the faithful prophets, the apostle then, grows eloquent, and his words ring with joy and confidence in God when he adds: “Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the svmrd, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockings and seourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.”— Hebrews 11:33-39.
The apostle here says, “The world was not worthy” of those men; meaning the world of which Satan the Devil is the invisible ruler. By their faithful devotion to God and to His promises these worthy ones testified that they were completely out of harmony with the Devil and in complete harmony with God. They had true hearts, and did their best to do right; and because of their faithfulness they received a good report. But they could not then receive the promise. Keep in mind that the promise was the blessing of everlasting life, and the apostle plainly says that life is a gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23) It reasonably follows, then, that they could not get life prior to the giving of the ransom sacrifice.
Then adds the apostle: “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.” It is manifest that the class here mentioned as getting the “better thing” are those who will be associated with Christ on the spirit plane, because Paul includes himself as one of them. He says that these faithful men of old without us should not be made perfect. The word here rendered “perfect” means complete, finished, an accomplished purpose. By
this then it is to be understood that these men, having received a good report because of their faithfulness must wait in the tomb until the members of the body of Christ are selected and proven. The promise concerning them could not be completed until the Lord has selected the entire diarch. That is to say, God’s purpose and provision for them cannot lie consummated or finished until full and complete provision is made for the invisible part of the kingdom.
In the atonement day sacrifice, which God caused the Jews to practise and which is described in the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus, it is shown that the ransom sacrifice is presented as a sin-offering' on behalf of all, aside from the church, after the selection of the members of the body of Christ.
When the members of the body of Christ are completed what then is to be expected for these men who died in faith before the great ransom sacrifice was given ? Paul plainly says: “Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them, a city.” (Heb. 11:16) A city being a symbol of a government, this text is positive proof that God has prepared for these very men in the earth in His government of righteousness.
Every one of the faithful ones mentioned in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews died before the corning of Christ Jesus, except John the Baptist; and he died before the crucifixion of our Lord. None of those wlio had died has gone to heaven. The clergy have misrepresented to the people that these faithful men wmre changed from human to spirit beings. Jesus is the best witness concerning that. In discussing the resurrection he said: “No man hath ascended up to heaven.” (John 3:13) At the time He uttered these words faithful Abel had been dead for nearly four thousand years; and all the others in this list, except John, had been dead for centuries. The Apostle Peter, speaking under inspiration, specifically mentions David; and of him he says: “For David is not ascended into the heavens.”—Acts 2: 34.
Furthermore the Lord Jesus, to show specifically that John the Baptist is not in heaven, and to remove all doubt that might be in any man’s mind on that point, said: “Verily I say •unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matthew 11:11) Unequivocally He here states that there has not been, a greater man than John, the Baptist, and yet He says that the very least in the kingdom of heaven wall be greater than John; thus by inference He definitely settles the fact that John the Baptist, who died prior to the crucifixion, could not be in the invisible part of the kingdom. But since the Apostle Paul has so positively stated that God has provided for John and all other ancient worthies a part in the newT government or kingdom, where could they be ?
It seems quite clear that these are the princes mentioned in Isaiah 32h 1. Those mentioned by the apostle in Hebrews, eleventh chapter, have been recognized as faithful men amongst the Jews; they were even recognized'in David’s day as fathers in Israel. The prophet, after discussing the selection of the church, says: “Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.” (Psalm 45:16) Therefore the conclusion must be reached that these will get their life through Christ, ’which is the only way they can obtain it; hence that they will be called the children of Christ, and that He wall make them princes in all the earth.
The proof therefore seems quite conclusive that these faithful men, who obtained a good report because of their loyalty and faithfulness to God, will receive the promised blessings of life everlasting through Christ, and that the time for receiving these blessings will be when the members of the body of Christ are complete. When they shall receive life the promise concerning them is then complete, therefore they are then completed. Prior to the death of these men they had proved their loyalty and faithfulness, allegiance and devotion to God. He approved them; He waits until He has selected the royal family of heaven, and then the promise is that these men shall be made the visible representatives of The Christ on earth during His reign.
No human eye will ever see Christ, the great King. A human eye cannot see a spirit being. Paul saw the reflection of the light from the glorious Christ and that blinded him. God did not intend that men on earth shall see with their eyes the glorified Christ. All men, however, will see or discern the manifestation of His right-eons government. Christ will have on earth just and true men who will be fully obedient to Him and carry ottt His righteous commandments toward the people. This is so important that you will want some more Scriptural proof. In my next lecture here I shall continue the consideration of the same subject matter and will produce the Scriptural proof that Abraham and other faithful men will be brought back to earth and act in the capacity of official representatives of the invisible Christ. Have your note books ready and make notes of the proof at that time.
Two Salvations But No Second Chance
[Broadcast from Station WBBR, New York, by R. H. Barber.]
SALVATION means deliverance from a condition of evil or danger. In Bible usage it means to be delivered from sin and its penalty, which is death.. Every one of my radio audience knows that the curse of sin and death rests upon every member of the human family. Jehovah God has provided a way of deliverance from it through His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ; and this deliverance is what the Bible calls salvation.
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