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A JOURNAL OF FACT - AND COURAGE
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GETTING AT THE TRUTH h interesting editorial on the ultimate triumph of truth
PERSONALITY
a clever exposure of a popular manifestation of aggressive selfishness
BIBLE STUDENTS ARRESTED: WHY
religious intolerance and persecution : its source and its purpose
JEHOVAH IS GOD
third lecture of a radiocast series on “Reconciliation”, by Judge Rutherford
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Social and Educational
What the World is Doing Afraid of a Better World How Persian Rugs Aire Made Achievements of a German Girl
Com merce—Transportation
Non-Stop Trains to Scotland Increased Fares for the Poor
Political—Domestic and Foreign
Official Report on Teapot Dome ....
Events in Canada..........
Conditions in Hawaii........
Tyranny Gone AI ad....... .
What the Penobscots Got for Their Lands Laws Binding on Al Smith......
Japan Now Grabbing China......
Science and Invention
Three Remarkable Inventions . . .
Nikola Tesla Forevisions the Future
Home and Health
Life Ends When Brain Stops .....
Home-Made Baking Powder.......
The Aluminum Germ (Enteric) .....
Lost, Strayed or Stolen, One Stomach . . .
Travel and Miscellany
Alabama’s Great Hail Storm .......
Demon-Painted Pictures..... . . .
Religion and Philosophy
Organized Hypocrisy in New Jersey.........
Getting at the Truth....... .
Personality ...................
Jehovah is God..................
Preaching the Gospel at South Amboy........
Why the Bible Students Were Arrested at South Amboy, N. J.
The Children’s Own Radio Story
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Volume IX
Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, August 22, 1928
Number 233
What the World is Doing
| Spain’s New Automobile Road
SPAIN will have a new automobile road, stretching 260 miles from Madrid to the ; junction of France and Spain on the Bay of i Biscay. The road will cost $40,000,000 and will be built by the Fox Brothers International Corporation, of New York.
I Non-Stop Trains to Scotland r>- . __
| rpwO of the railroads operating from London = 1 to Glasgow and Edinburgh have recently i run non-stop trains between these cities, which are 400 miles apart. The longest American non-l stop run is that of the eastbound “Twentieth | Century Limited” between Toledo and Albany, [a distance of 592.5.
I Schedule of Air Mail
t IpHE air mail schedule reads like a fairy tale. । * Letters mailed in Boston at night are delivered in New Orleans, Minneapolis and St. I Louis before noon the next day. Letters mailed in New York before 11.00 a.m. are delivered the £
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A YOUNG German inventor has devised a , system of sending electric light rays into the brain, whereby, by telegraphic transmission i of black and white pictures, produced by dots I and dashes, the blind are made to see. The same iman had previously invented a system of trans; mitting sound waves directly to the brain, thus t enabling the deaf to hear. And now he has produced an improvement on the X-ray which is I destructive of life. Experiments on rats indi-eate that the latest invention may possibly be L useful in destroying cancer. The inventor, Dr. i Graichen, believes he is on the track of an in-| vention which will split the atom and render its t power available.
Self-Defense Not Often Necessary
ELF-DEFENSE is not so often necessary as some would think. In nine years only eight persons were shot in New York city by persons defending their lives, but in that same period of time a total of 1,882 persons were killed by pistol shots.
Afraid of a Better World
HE Daughters of the American Revolution are said to be so alarmed at the prospect
that anybody might want a better world than the one we now have that they are mothering a blacklist of most of the capable and honest speakers of the country. These nice old ladies have undertaken a very un-American job.
Decrease in Tuberculosis Deaths
omer Folks, secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, is authority for the
statement that twenty years ago the death rate from tuberculosis was 451 per 100,000 and that last year it was only 77, or about one-sixth what it was when the present campaign against it was inaugurated.
Life Ends When Brain Stops
ir Arthur Keith, British scientist, in a lecture at Manchester University, supported
the Bible proposition that death means death. He said in part: “We can drug the brain so as to exalt the power of certain parts and deprive those of the others, and thus alter the mental behavior of any man or woman. We can at will obliterate consciousness or exalt it. In short, the brain is a piece of perceiying machinery: it consumes fuel and transmits energy into feeling, thought and memory. If we withhold the supply of oxygen or fuel, the sources of its energy, the brain ceases to act as certainly as fire ceases to burn when its supply of fuel or air ceases.”
Beth-shemesh and Kirjath-sepher
ETH-shemesh and Kirjath-sepher, both familiar to Bible students, are now being
uncovered by archeologists. Beth-shemesh was a Philistine city within two miles of Samson’s birthplace. Kirjath-sepher was a Canaanite city, captured by Caleb’s nephew Othniel, and destroyed by Sennacherib.
Police Methods Up Before Parliament
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THE questioning of a young woman for five hours in a police station, without any opportunity for her to communicate with lawyers or family, has led to an apology by the British government and the announcement that it will at once undertake a complete inquiry into police methods in Britain. ’
No Hold-Ups for 21 Hours
EW York is rejoicing in the fact that on a Saturday in May there were no hold-ups in the city for twenty-four hours, the first time a thing like this has happened since the World War. The time is surely coming, and is now near at hand, when there will be no more holdups anywhere in this world ; and that not merely for twenty-four-hour periods, but for ever.
Increased Fares for the Poor
HE Interborough Rapid Transit Company, of New York city, having more than tripled their money in less than twenty years, and now earning regularly 33% on their actual investment, are fighting desperately to raise the subway fares from 5c, first to 7c and then to 9c. In other words, their wish is to take from the poor workers, jammed like sardines in a can, a levy of $12 a year apiece, not because they need it, but because they want it.
The Old Ladies and the Newspapers
HE Manchester Guardian says: “The D. A.
R. blacklist is not the'result of its own study and research. It is the composite product of several other societies of professional patriots. The importance of these societies grows out of a peculiar situation in America. The daily press of the United States is overwhelmingly conservative in character and its columns are closed for the most part to arguments in favor of pacifism, internationalism, and, indeed, any liberal social programme.”
Bow Persian Rugs areMade ' 1
ERSIAN rugs are made by little children, six to ten years of age, who work from dawn to dusk, packed on narrow benches in air- ,
less rooms. Those who survive are hunchbacked ' • • 1
and sickly. The rugs bring a high price in the ; markets of the Western world. The wages of ' the children average 6c a day.
Cancer in Australia
ORTY years ago, in Australia, the proportion of cancer deaths was one in forty-three ; now it is one in ten, and at the present rate of increase it would be one in five. It looks as if the whole world would have to give up plating its interior with aluminum or else all go the same route to the grave.
Black Death and Rats
MEDICAL men, noting the rapid increase in the “rat population” of the world, and their extraordinary facility as breeders of contagion, fear that at almost any time now the population of the world may be decimated by another visitation of the black death, or bubonic plague, which overran Europe in the fourteenth century.
Sixty Dollars a Minute
IXTY dollars a minute, day and night, perpetually, is spent to advertise drugs and medicines; and yet some of those highest in the medical profession have asserted that if all the drugs in the world were sunk in the bottom of the ocean humanity would be better off. If the drug advertisers spend thirty million dollars to advertise these worse than useless dopes, what must be the amount of money expended for them annually ?
Radium Poisoning Case Settled
HE radium poisoning case has been settled out of court. Each of the women doomed to
die from the radium emanations will receive $10,000 in cash, medical care, court fees and a pension of $600 a year until such time as two out of th rep doctors conclude that they are no longer suffering from the effects of the poison. It is estimated that this leaves the income of the women what it was while they were well and strong, but they get nothing for their suffering and for the shortening of their lives.
[Samoa Under New Zealand Rule
IQAMOA is under the mandated rule of New IP Zealand and the latter country has recently passed a law permitting the administrator of [Samoa to banish from the country all who ven-hare to criticize his acts. Too bad the Czar of
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[Russia is dead: otherwise he would be an ideal 'man for such a job. Of course, to banish a [ Samoan to Siberia would be to kill him, but it 6would make a job for the Czar.
[Cas Warfare Outlawed
AS EVERYBODY knows, gas warfare was . officially outlawed long ago. Almost every-[body also knows that all nations are making [new gases and that it will be the weapon of the [next war. The Red Cross thinks so. It has just [held an international conference at Brussels to [discuss the matter and found the prospect so [horrible that it practically threw up its hands land said there must never be another war. Just [what we all say. It is the Devil’s own business, [and only the Devil’s own people can think of it [sympathetically.
IPoisoning the Kids
THE power thieves are working overtime at their job of poisoning the minds of the boys [and girls with their propaganda against public [ownership. In Missouri five of their books have [been introduced in the high schools. Similar [changes have been made in the textbooks in use fin Iowa, Nebraska, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, [Illinois and the Carolinas. The old-style burglar ■who gave his victim a fighting chance was much ’more manly. Most of the newspapers are pub-.lishing the power trust propaganda, some of it as editorials.
Los Angeles Saves Twenty Million Dollars
T OS ANGELES has already saved twenty million dollars that would otherwise have gone to the power thieves. By contrast with the •rates being squeezed out of the public elsewhere ■it makes a combination heating, cooking and lighting rate of two cents per kilowatt hour and [is making money on it even at that. Municipal [ownership in Seattle has reduced the rates from I12|c charged by the burglars to 3^c charged by [the people themselves. Listen to the song of [private ownership of public utilities a little [while longer, and they will have the whole country by the throat. They virtually have now.
Achievements of a German Girl
THREE and one-half years ago Edith Hocke, a German girl, landed in America without any knowledge of the English language. In the graduating class of 1928 she was valedictorian at the Newton high school at Elmhurst, L. I. Foreigners who work as this girl has worked in the past three years deserve to get ahead; and in America, the land of opportunity, they do get ahead.
Alabama's Great Hail Storm
ON TUESDAY, May 22, 1928, in Pickens
County, Alabama, there was a hail storm which completely demolished vegetation and, even the next day, was piled in some places over six feet (not six inches) in depth. The Birmingham Age-Herald published pictures of a tall man standing in *front of a pile of hail higher than his head, and another where the fall was so great that it blocked a stream at first and then, when the stream had cut its way through, remained over it as a natural bridge several feet in thickness.
Blasphemy by Bishop of Birmingham
Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, in a so-called sermon in Westminster Abbey, London, April 1,1928, showed what a supposed Christian minister, and a bishop at that, can do in the way of blasphemy, when he referred to Him whose name he has taken and whom he is supposed to serve as: “The Galilean artisan, without the knowledge of the man of science, with no special education, the child of His age.” The bishop is in the wrong job. He should turn bootlegger or hijacker or else become lecturer for the power trust.
Demon-Painted Pictures
LONDON papers are mentioning a painting, nine feet by four feet six inches in size, of “spirits of the departed dead filing past their own gravestones”, which was painted by an artist between seven at night and six the next morning. The man, it is claimed, worked with frenzied rapidity and claimed that his work was done by inspiration. We believe this. The man was inspired, and not from any good source. The work was the work of demons, devils, if you please. Their constant attitude is that of hatred and opposition to the God of the Bible, a work which declares over and over again that the dead are dead, in which respect it differs from all other literature in the world. Man’s only hope lies in a resurrection from the dead, and this can come about only as an act of mercy at the hands of a merciful God.
ORGANIZED hypocrisy in New Jersey is in evident bribery, thievery, conspiracy and cora bad way. On Sunday, June 11, one jus-
Organized Hypocrisy in New Jersey tice of the peace arrested another for operating a motion picture show. Justice No. 2 went home, swore in a flock of deputies and started in to arrest everybody in sight, except those who were going to and from church. That is the way the law reads. After he had closed all stores, held up hundreds of automobiles and busses, and was about to shut down the telephones he was again arrested, this time for blocking traffic. How much longer will the state of New Jersey leave on its statute books these idiotic laws which were intended solely to keep the clergy in their saddle on the neck’s of the people, ne ver I had any other objective and never accomplished!
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Official Report on Teapot Dome
THE senate’s official report on the Teapoti Dome crimes says: “Never has the world! known a case involving a degree of fraud, quid® ruption to compare with what has come to be known as the Teapot Dome-Elk Hills-Continental Trading Co. case. The leases involved in the case are estimated to have been worth not less than $500,000,000, and were consummated, to use the language of the Supreme Court of the United States, ‘by conspiracy, corruption, and
fraud.’ ”
Cot a person has yet been punished
for these crimes, the greatest of their kind in the history of the world; and, so far as we know, the president of the United States has never even so much as mentioned them to anybody in any way.
Events in Canada By Our Canadian Correspondent
WHILE the industries of Canada are expanding very rapidly, the coal industry here, as elsewhere, is having much to contend with. Editorially the Toronto Globe says:
“It is estimated that 200,000 miners are per-manentlv out of employment in the United Kingdom, as far as this industry is concerned, and there is no country to which they can go as miners, for the mining industry is experiencing difficulties everywhere. The concession made in railway rates in Canada is not only for the purpose of providing Canadian coal for Central Canada, but to give the miners of Alberta and the Maritimes additional work, and many units of the industry are in such shape that the Alberta Legislature at its last session passed a law to protect mine workers from loss of wages. The unemployment situation in the United States mines is becoming a subject of periodical investigation, without any signs of relief being offered.
Coal Mining a World Problem
“THE fact is that coal mining has become a
J- world-wide problem. Competition is so intensive that business is going to the countries with the lowest production costs, while the demand for coal has not kept pace with general development.
“A. report issued recently by the United States | Department of Commerce estimates the world’s coal production in 1927 at 1,308,600,000 tons, as| compared with 1,241,700,000 in 1913. Continental Europe, where low wages and long hours prevail, increased its output in this period by only 50,000,000 tons. Great Britain’s production was 32,000,000 tons less last year than in 1913.
“Even the isolation of Australia does not save it from the inroads of competitors. New South Wales is struggling with the question of providing work for idle miners, and it is noticed that the coal operators suggest either a bounty on exports or reduced freight rates, adopting the theory temporarily applied in Canada, that the troubles in the industry constitute an obligation on the State Treasury.
“Incidentally, however, it might be mentioned that the State raised the wages of the miners to a high level, and added materially to cost of production. Besides this, however, the statement is made by the chairman of the Colliers' Association that South African and Japanese coals are driving the New South Wales product out of the markets and out of the bunkers of ships trading to and from Australia.
“As in other countries, the use of fuel oil is affecting the Australian coal industry. Nearly half of the crude oil produced last year, it is estimated, was used as fuel oil. It displaced 155,000,000 tons of coal. Thirty-five percent of the world’s shipping tonnage used oil as fuel, as compared with one percent in 1913. Hydro-electric power is believed to have displaced 105,000,-000 tons, and as this form of energy is only in its infancy as to development the coal mines will probably suffer more and more from competition.”
Gardening with Electricity
NDER the heading “Raise Four Bumper. Crops a Year” the Moose Jew Times has
the following news item from Paris:
“Gardening with electricity, French experts of the governmental agricultural experiment station at Wagonville have succeeded in raising four bumper crops a year on the same plot of ground and in making fruit and vegetables grow to three times their usual size.
"The use of electricity instead of chemical fertilizers is still in the experimental stage, but France, Germany and Norway are making great progress in these tests and government experts predict that the day is not far distant when agriculture will be the most modern of all sciences.
“The principle of electrical fertilization is simple. At one end of the field, at a point facing approximately the magnet north, a small instrument is buried to a depth of about fifteen inches. Its role is to collect the telluric currents which circulate through the earth.
“At the opposite end of the field is a transformer, embedded in the soil at the foot of a pylon, standing twenty feet high and surmounted by a fringe of metal prongs bent southwards. Beneath the soil, from north to south, is buried wire.
“Great secrecy surrounds the nature of the principles of the transformer and the buried wires, but it is understood that a current of six to nine volts is obtained by the equipment, which is sufficient to light a small lamp. By the end of the next summer crop season, the experts will have completed their report and will then make public the details of this modern application of electricity to the oldest science.
“At the Wagonville experimental farm, the electricity-treated field is surrounded with fields fertilized by manures of chemical products. At a glance it is easy to see how much crops benefit by the electrical treatment, for fruit trees in that area were bearing small fruit before trees in other fields had blossomed. The .electricity also kills field parasites.”
How Little We Know!
T IS good to see narrow bounds of nationalism being broken down more and more, and people of all nations, with the increase of knowledge, getting an international outlook. A short time ago a friend of your correspondent remarked, upon his return from South America, “When I left Canada for South America I thought there were only two countries in the world, Canada and the United States; but I have changed my mind, for in many respects South America outclasses both.”
The fault, of course, lies with the educational systems of all countries which teach narrowminded patroitism. Regarding the many absurd notions about Canada the Toronto Daily Star editorially remarks:
“It is apparent that some of the leading newspapers in the United States know very little about Canada. The excitement over the Bremen fliers has made this clear enough. Although vast numbers of motorists cross into Ontario and Quebec in the course of the year, knowledge about Canada spreads very slowly in the neighboring republic. The impression prevails that ours is a land of ice and snow, peopled by Indians, trappers and Eskimo.
“When newrs came that the aviators had landed on Greenely island, with its ice, its snow and its isolation, the New York idea was that they were in Canada, in the midst of normal Canadian conditions. Reporters, photographers and moving picture men rushed from New York to Montreal and Quebec, dressed as much as possible like men leaving on an Arctic expedition. It was a treat to see some of them garbed for a spell of life on an iceberg, and armed so as to sell their lives as dearly as possible if attacked by the fierce and warlike inhabitants of Murray Bay.
“Even Col. Lindbergh, one of the most sensible of men and one who has seen a great deal of the world from an advantageous height, was prevailed upon to strap an army revolver around his waist before leaving New York to fly to Quebec with a serum which it was assumed the untutored compatriots of Dr. Banting and the late Dr. Osler would not possess and perhaps had never heard of. The colonel was also given plenty of ammunition and two cartons of safety matches, but one of the New York papers was impressed by the fact that he carried no food. Boldly he set forth without provisions. There was, happily, no lack of food in the city of Quebec when he landed.
“Several times Col. Lindbergh has flown from New York to St. Louis, twice as far as his flight to Quebec, yet this shorter trip was regarded as a rush to the far top of the world. As the Ottawa Citizen remarks, the average man in New York or Boston would be incredulous if told that Greenely island is more than twice as far from Quebec city as are their own respective cities. The flight from New York to Quebec covered only about one-third of the distance to the remote island where the Bremen landed. Yet the New York idea evidently is that Greenely island, Labrador and Quebec city are all one and all alike in their wild and frozen isolation and desolation.
“To the average citizen of the United States all of Canada is so much backwoods and winter, where the mounted police put away their horses and drive dog teams hauling outlaws to log cabin court houses where bewhiskered magistrates with the butt md’of pistols rap oa pine tables for order. It is the frozen northland of the movies. When they- think of Canada they think to the tune of fiction and the movie's, quite apart from geography and fact.
“The Toronto Convention and Tourist Association sent a man to Louisville, Ky., to induce a convention to come here, and succeeded. But some of those present were very much against holding the next meet in Canada. After the point had been settled one of the delegates argued it out with the Toronto man and, as a clincher, said: “I just want to ask you one fair question, How many of the six hundred men in that room, do you suppose, have moccasins?!’
A Rain of Mud
N INTERESTING news item from Port Arthur, Ontario, appears in the Vancouver
Daily Province. It reads:
"A ‘rain’ of fine mud was experienced here Tuesday, the first on record. It spattered pedestrians" clothing, houses, windows and automobiles.
"It was a real phenomenon for Port Arthur and Fort William, though an explanation for the strange occurrence is given by J. R. Townsend, science master at the local collegiate. He believes a fine sand must have been suspended in the air, probably coming from the west, as a solid substance of about the consistency of talcum powder?"
Conditions in Hawaii
IN AN election dodger entitled "The Shame of
Hawaii"", the republican candidate for mayor of one of the Hawaiian cities, John J. Pavao, makes some suggestions that do not read well at this distance. Under the heading "Racial Unrest’" Mr. Pavao says:
Then there are smolderings of a Race World War, perhaps the Armageddon of Biblical prophecy (God forbid!), taking slow flame and which can not but lead to a conflagration that will outrival the last World War, if no sincere effort is immediately exerted to solve the trouble with amity and justice. For,, with Hawaii's ‘HOG" capitalists usurping and appropriating to themselves the Public Estate that rightfully belongs to Americanization, denying small, individual growers equitable returns on their investments, indiscriminately encouraging and importing further Western labor from the Philippines when the market is already overflowing, aggravating and intensifying an Asiatic situation that is already manifesting itself in spasmodic outbreaks in Pacific Coast states through Hawaii's surplus immigration flowing eastward to seek better wages and the equilibrium between supply and demand (their birthright, when citizens), and with Hawaiian capital seeking investments abroad instead of providing employment here for the labor menace they introduce, what can this all lead to but war? Have not they, who are brought here under delusion and promise of constitutional rights for their children, a right to demand fulfilment of their bargain? Is there not a possibility, nay a strong possibility, that with the increasing racial f eel-
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the United States, only to have us throw them upon the earth as people without a country ? In that* event, will there beany doubt'where universal opinion will be? where the entire Orient (including the Filipinos, who are anxious for freedom) will throw its support? or where Russian sympathy, and possibly active support, reeking with antipathy against capitalism and the United States, will be thrown ?
Tyranny Gone Mad
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THE St. Louis Star, referring to Mussolini’s demand that Italiaas everywhere shall consider themselves subject to his control, has a few old-fashioned Americanisms to offer which will sound good to that curious genus homo sometimes known as the Yankee, and there are some, even yet:
If any question involving America’s foreign policy, including the Monroe Doctrine, becomes a campaign issue • hereafter, Italian-Americans, on Mussolini’s orders, ■must- refrain from voting.- From that, of course, is only a step to1 telling them how they shall vote here.
Has Russian Communism gone further than that ? There is only one kind of tyranny in government, whether the tyrant is emperor, premier, a committee, a political party, or a party majority. Interference by one government with the political affairs of another begins when that government seeks to dictate what residents of that other country shall do, whether those residents are aliens *or naturalized citizens. It does not matter whether the nationality of those it seeks to influence are Italian, German, or British.
Napoleon, drunk with power, at the maddest part of his career, never dreamed of such dictatorial power as Mussolini is trying to establish in Italy and elsewhere.
Getting at the Truth
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ON MAY 12, 1928, Judge Rutherford gave 'his great lecture at Albany, N. Y., on THE TRUTH. One' of the radio stations which broadcast the message of the hour was that owned by the Record-Telegram of Fort Worth, Texas. It will interest many of our readers to know that during the succeeding week the Record-Telegram contained the following editorial:
Getting at the Truth
ONE of the most encouraging signs of the times is the tendency on the part of sociologists and human nature students in general to place the blame for most of the present “rattles” in the machinery of civilization to the abuse of the elemental word “truth”.
There appear to be two separate lines of attack. One is that one that is ever fearful that convention and orthodoxy will suffer if the bars are thrown down to abstract truth, and the other is that opposite line of reasoning that thrives best only when truth is halved, quartered or otherwise whittled to fit the exigency of the moment. Most of those latter incidents occur in that large vaulted room where we axe adjured to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”, and reminded that we are commanded not to “bear false witness”.
Truth has had to battle its way to the light through a veritable Bermuda grass mat of cant, creed, superstition, convention and dogma, the while it has been constantly called upon to take the side of abstract justice that has permitted its presence only after it has been shaped by the lathe of precedent and made to come within the calipers of rules of jurisprudence which accents the practice to the detriment of the administration of our laws. That it has survived even in its present state of convalescence, is a great victory for the human race.
Probably we are nearer The Truth at this time than ever we have been in the history of mankind. We have not developed a satisfactory set of harness for it, but we are recognizing the need for one. That is something we never have done before—as a whole. The stubborn-minded minority which refused to be practical at the moment of their earthly activities were the creators of that good dictionary word “martyr”. They still exist, except that we are not so rough with them as we used to be. A heretic -isn*t burned at the stake any more; If he can make his heresies splash loudly enough he generally succeeds in making a good living out of them.
“Rebels” and heretics” are the “unknown soldiers” of the war of the intellect for the right to think. Every attacker of the rights of material progress has helped to bring the race, via the Great Charter and the Decla* ration that only was possible because of it, to the reali* ration of the need for free education and free religious belief. Every attacker of those inside barriers of educational standardization and dogmatic restrictions has assisted in the arrival of the people to the knowledge that He who created the human brain intended it only as a container which will, when it reaches its full growth, be a vessel which will contain nothing but the Truths of the Universe.
There never has been an epoch of history where truth, crushed to earth, ever rose with the rapidity shown today. Even while we are permitting inertia to handicap it, we recognize that the eternal years of God are hers. Wounded error does not possess its ancient snake’s tail that permits it to linger on until the sundown of the fallacy. The people of the world want the
Truth. When we become a little less mentally lazy, recognize the Golden Rule as a business proposition and get tired of playing politics we will find, much to our surprise, that our brains are adjusted only to the activities of research and the storage of Truth.
Personality (Contributed)
[Further contributions from this anonymous author would be appreciated
ERSONALITY is such an important word now adays in the vocabularies of even the unlearned that I have felt an increasing desire to learn what it is all about. I fain would try to comprehend it, but it seems to be fraught with mystery. I have asked several persons what it is, in their opinions, and I have received a variety of answers.
Each of these persons apparently has felt competent to define and expound it to me. I have been amused at the facial antics of some of the people as they began to talk on “personality”. Sometimes they hem and haw, narrow their eyes into mysterious slits, while their gaze seeks a corner of the room or a spot on the ceiling, they purse up their mouths and finally begin to talk in a slow, labored drawl that betokens a mighty wrestle inside their minds.
Cautiously they begin by telling me what “personality” is not, or maybe they tell me some of its manifestations. Each gives the impression of talking on a favorite subject, one on which he is informed, but that the main difficulty lies in making me follow his line of thought, that is, to put the ideas into such language that poor little I can understand. Each seems never to doubt that he is one of the lucky few born with “personality”, although modesty forbids an open declaration of such a thought: this selfassured manner makes it apparent.
About the time I begin to catch something like a gleam of hope or understanding, I am simply squelched by being told that no one who is not endowed with it at birth can ever hope to attain it, and this is told me with such frankness and gleaming eyes fixed full upon me that I am sure that my informant feels no disappointment on the “personality” question in his own case. It is as if he had said: “My dear, I
—Ed.] was born with it and therefore fully understand what I can only try to make clear to you; had you been so created you would not be driven to inquire what it is, but you too would understand it.”
Just how sbme of these satisfied persons reconcile this wonderful power of theirs with their mediocre attainments in life, I can not understand; perhaps they expect their “personalities” to function more satisfyingly in the future. All seem to think that “personality” is the open sesame to life’s prizes, in business, in love, in social success and everything else.
A and B may discuss C, who is a man with a loud voice, who has a flow of language like some one who has swallowed the dictionary, who has a hearty laugh, stands with an erectness that suggests that he is about to fall over backwards, waves his hands with gusto, and gives the impression that he is “tickled pink” over everybody and everything and that he is the big-hearted thing that loves the whole world, but who, to the keen observer, gives an impression of craftily concealed selfishness, conceit and cruelty.
A and B are just as apt to disagree as to agree that C has “personality”, which shows the divergence of opinion among those who profess to understand the mystery. This jolly good-natured aspect is one of the common manifestations of this quality, according to the general idea; the possessor of it has such a harmonious life that everything just fills him with joy.
Books on “personality”, will power and its uses, mental concentration, and other such topics, calculated to give the reader a short cut to life’s prizes, are on the market. It would never do to suggest that one must be born with these qualities in order to have them: that would spoil the sale of books. Rather, it is suggested that “personality” and the like can be cultivated. This contradicts those who hold to the idea of having to be born with it, but such differences and: contradictions always occur when no one knows what he is talking about.
“Personality” would appear to be a catchword that really means a condition of mind wherein all selfishness is developed in order to get what one wants in life. All this selfishness is glossed over with what appears to be good nature and generosity.
Some of the symptoms found in the self-convinced possessor of “personality” are a smiling face, hearty laugh, appearance of such- complete adjustment to life that one is filled with joy, just bubbling over with it, in fact, a ready flow of speech, wise-words, quotations apropos, witticisms, even wise cracks, (for the world likes to be amused). He always seeks to impress. Finallv some one “falls for this line”, and then *■■ , z
the individual gets the reputation for “personality”.
No one can continually dwell on the heights like the above: it is not natural. Such persons, underneath all, do not hesit ate to'use every hidden means to gain their ends; so that, after all, it is merely a case of concealing the most aggressive selfishness.
Now we have a greater thing than “personality”. It is a recent discovery or invention called ‘Tt”. This is vouched for by a writer on love topics; and having been the discoverer of “It”, she seems to be acknowledged by her followers to be the sole dictator $s to who has or has not this quality. We hear that “It” is extremely rare; not one in a million has “It”.
Perhaps not one in many millions has “It”. 'According to the last information I have, only two persons have been acknowledged by this writer to have “It”. The followers of the “It” idea are no doubt waiting breathlessly for her whose sole right it is to name the “Its” to choose the next one for this illustrious group.
We hear that “It” is personality plus, a sort of intensified “personality”, and that the possessor of “It” is a regular devil on wheels. (Pray that none of these “Its” come your way.) Sexually, it seems the “Its” are simply irresistible and they have a whole bag of tricks up their sleeves to drive you nearly crazy with their wiles and seductiveness.
Even the “vamps” are going over to the “It” camp, it seems. Many people, no doubt, secretly believe they have “It”, just as they believed they had “personality” before “It” was thought of. I wonder whether any real follower of Christ wrould be willing to have it known that he believes he possesses “It”.
Did you ever hear any real Christian rave over Christ’s “personality”, as the term is now used? No! Christians talk of the spirit of Christ. If foolish people would forget “personality” and “It” and seek a right spirit, how much better it would be. A right spirit stands for what you have to give the world in the Christ-like way; but “personality” and “It” stand for what you can stealthily and selfishly wrest from the world for your selfish possession. Truly the wrorld is so drunk on silly ideas that it gulps down a new one every time it appears.
After having read about “It” for the first time in a paper or magazine, it is amazing to see howr many people will* immediately talk about “It” as if “It” were something they had always known about. Idiotic drivel makes immediate converts where the iinmortal truth of the Bible goes unheeded.
For my part, I am sick of “personality” and “It”: they mean nothing more to me, when used in the popular sense, than the state of mind into which the Devil and his associates have plunged some people. To each it is insidiously suggested that he is one of the fortunate few having this imaginary quality, while his fellows are inferior to him, being without it. This tickles vanity, of course.
A little flattery wins over a host. If all are one in Christ and all are made of one flesh, wdiat but Devil-inspired selfishness can make one individual want to continually outshine his fel-lows? This is Satan’s chief fault: he has al-ways wanted to be like the Most High Himself, and all his struggles are for that end.
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What the Penobscots Got for Their Lanas By Clarence Scott
N MY work as an attorney I came across the following entry in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, showing the terms under which lands in this part of Maine came into possession of the early settlers. No doubt this may be of interest to some of your readers:
REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF THE INDIANS
August 6, 1796 F
Brothers and chiefs of the Penobscot Tribe of Indians/ in your answer yesterday you told us you were willing to let us have your lands on both sides of the river from Cols. Eddy^s house thirty miles up the river for our people to settle on. You reserved for yourselves all the islands in the river above Penobscot, Old Town and including Old Town island. Brothers, we accept your offer and are well satisfied that you reserve to yourselves the said islands. Brothers, for the lands you are willing to let us have we propose now to pay you down on signing the writings-
One hundred & forty-nine yards and a half of blue cloth for cloth for blankets;
One hundred bushels of com;
One hundred pounds of powder;
Four hundred pounds of shott;
Thirty-six hats;
Thirteen bushels of salt;
And one barrel of rum.
And in every year afterwards so long as you remain a nation and continue to live within this commonwealth, we propose there shall be delivered you at the mouth of Kenduskeag-
Three hundred bushels of good Indian com;
Fifty pounds of powder;
Two hundred pounds of shott;
And seventy-five, yards of good blue cloth for blankets.
These articles to be delivered in each year as follows: The said com on or before the first day of May, next, and the other articles on or before the tenth day of October in each year beginning with the first delivery on the first day of May, next. Brothers, we wish you to consult on the proposals & when you shall be ready to give us your answer.
William Shepard
N. Dane
Daniel Davis
As recorded in
Vol. 2, page 430 Penobscot Registry of Deeds
Laws Binding on Al Smith
HE following laws of the Roman Catholic church, published in 1229 and 1254, are still in force and, having never been repudiated, are binding upon all Catholics. They are therefore binding on Al Smith.
The house in which a heretic has been discovered shall be torn down and the goods confiscated. . . . Laymen should not possess the Old Testament and the New Testament; they shall have only the Psalter, the Breviary and the book of feasts of the Blessed Virgin; furthermore, those books (the Old and New Testaments) shall not be translated into the language of the country. . . . He who is accused of heresy or simply suspected shall not be permitted to practise medicine. . . . Parishioners, especially the hushand and wife of each house, shall go to church on Sundays and feasts and assist at the sermon as well as at the whole divine service. . . . Those who fail, without sufficient reason, shall pay a fine of twelve pence of Tours, of which half shall go to the civil lord and half to the priest or the church.
The bishops shall establish inquisitors in each parish (of their diocese), that is, a cleric and a layman whose duty it shall be to seek out, with care, the heretics and denounce them as promptly as possible to the bishop. . . . For each heretic that they shall deliver and make prisoner they shall receive a silver cpin. ... If possible, this money is to be collected from the goods of the heretic. . . .. Whoever permits a heretic to dwell on his property, shall lose that property. . . . The bodies of those who die in heresy shall be exhumed and burned*
Japan Now Grabbing China
RESENT indications are that Japan i§ grabbing China; and, if so, it will not be long before another world war will be upon us. Britain, France, Italy and Uncle Sam will all want the same thing, and must necessarily fight to see who gets it.
To date, the only things seized are Manchuria and Shantung. It seems that when Japan gave
748 up Shantung she gave it up with the intention of taking it again when conditions for keeping it were better. That time seems to have now come. The war in Nicaragua has given the militarists of Japan an opportunity which they will make the most of. It is hard for Uncle Sam now to insist that Japan should leave an open door in China.
The Aluminum Germ (Enteric)
HE following dispatch ought to be of- vast interest: to those who believe in: shutting f their eyes temporarily or perpetually while | those wise • men who guide • the destinies of hu-L man health isolate the germ of “enteric fever” j and overlook so simple a thing as an aluminum I pan. r
1 New Orleans, La., Monday evening, June 4, 1928
FOUR ILL FROM PUDDING—ONE DEAD
FOUR ILL FROM PUDDING IS CHARGE
ENTIRE FAMILY AFFECTED
DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO PROBE CASE
Authorities Monday afternoon were investigating to ascertain the exact nature of poison contained in a pudding, the eating of which resulted in the death at 11:30 Monday morning of Rene Alberti, 12 years old, of 5139 Arts Street, and the serious illness of his mother, his sister, the latter’s fiance, and a fifth young man.
The pudding was purchased In an aluminum pan by B. J. Alberti, father of the dead boy,. at a restaurant on last Thursday, and he brought it home for dinner. Mr. Alberti said he ate only a small piece of the- puddingy and he was made only slightly ill. However, the son/ his wife, his daughter' Claire, his daughter’s fiance, Morris Callaut, of Urquhart Street, near Louisa, and Alfred Scott, 19 years old, a friend, living at 2626 St. James Street, became violently ill on Saturday, and< all were removed to Charity Hospital.
Monday morning. Rene Alberti’s condition grew worse, and, despite desperate efforts of hospital doctors to save him, he died. The others were reported in a serious condition Monday.
Following the death of young Alberti, hospital physicians diagnosed the case as “enteric fever”. This condition exists in the case of the other four, also. They explained that this condition is induced by the enteric* germ group which, if it settles in food, may result seriously.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen, One Stomach By 'N. A. Yu Hie
IpOR several years I had been suffering from a serious stomach inflammation, which a
long fast (two years ago) seemed to remove. Since that time I have eaten very carefully, but in spite of correct eating my old trouble returned in a little more than a year.
Three months ago, after convincing myself’ that aluminum cooking utensils were poisoning our food (for we had been using alumina: we discarded all aluminum cooking utensils. As a result I don’t know that I have a stomach.
I have regained my normal weight, and both my wife and I are in better general health than we have enjoyed for some time. This means more time and . strength for the Lord’s service. So we thank the Lord for The Golden Age “illuminating aluminum”.
My wife tells me that when she formerly washed her table silver in an aluminum vessel, she never had to polish it, the chemical action, of the aluminum (as she now knows) keeping the silver bright.
Nikola Tesla Forevisions the Future
N THE ’Success Magazine for March (1927) Nikola Tesla, inventor of means for applying the principle of the alternating current motor, of arc lighting and of the rotating magnetic field, is accredited with having said that wireless transmission of power is a certainty of the near future; that its first application will be in the operation of airplanes; and that the planes will thereby be made virtually independent of weather conditions, because they can rise to any desired height.
Of' equal importance, in Mr. Tesla’s view ofi the future, will be the wireless production of rain, which will eliminate the desert and make
749 the whole question of the world’s food supply an exact science. Not only will wireless waves bring the rains when and where desired, but the compounds of nitrogen which are so valued as fertilizers will be produced from the air by the same means.
Wireless power will enable explorers on any part of the earth’s surface to have instantly available electric power and electric lights, and the kit can be carried in an ordinary hand-bag. Homes will be lighted, heated and cooled by wireless and with an elimination of waste now: undreamed of.
Jehovah is God
[Broadcast from Station WBBR, New York, by Judge Rutherford.]
ANOTHER means the enemy has employed to cause confusion is that of instilling into the mind of man a misconception of God. Satan has caused some to teach that God is merely a blind force without intelligence; others, that God is merely nature; still others, that the great Creator and Jesus are one and the same. The truth is found in God’s Word alone.
There is but one First Cause: He who is from everlasting to everlasting and "whose name alone is Jehovah”. (Psalm 90:2; 83:18) He, only, originally possessed immortality, “whom no man hath seen nor can see,” because He is divine. (1 Timothy 6:16) In His Word V ___
He states: “I am the Lord, and there is none else. There is no God beside me.” (Isaiah 45:5) “I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.” (Isaiah 43:11) “I am the Lord; that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another.”—Isaiah 42:8.
He reveals Himself to His creatures by different names, and each one of His names is deeply significant. The name God appears in the Bible in connection with the beginning of creation. (Genesis 1:1) That name especially refers to Him as the Creator of heaven and earth and the Giver of breath to all creation. “Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.” (Isaiah 42:5) This name represents Him as the Supreme One and relates to His responsibility in connection with all creation.
He then revealed Himself under the name Almighty God. (Genesis 17:1) This name first appears when God spoke to Abraham in connection with His covenant with Abraham. At that time God in substance said to Abraham: “I have made and do now make a covenant with you that you shall be the father of many nations and this shall be signified to you by your name, which shall now be changed. I am the Almighty God.” The name Almighty God was a complete guarantee to Abraham of the great Eternal One’s unlimited ability to carry into operation His announced purpose. Abraham was then an aged man. His wife was past the years of bearing children. God had told him that he should have a son by his aged wife and
He in substance said to Abraham: Aly name Almighty God is a guarantee that this shall come to pass? It indicated the unlimited power of Jehovah. The name Almighty God signifies, to all who believe, that His power is unlimited and for Him to will a thing means that it shall be done.
Then God revealed Himself by the name Jehovah. The translators have rendered the name Jehovah merely as Self-existing One. It means much more than that. It signifies God’s purpose towards His people. God chose Israel as His peculiar people and Jehovah was the national name by which that people knew Him. He directed Moses to go unto the Israelites and tell them that Jehovah had sent him, and then His words to Moses revealed the meaning of Jehovah by stating His purposes. He said: ‘Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.” (Exodus 6:6-8, R. V.) The name Jehovah therefore signifies to God’s chosen people His purposes concerning them and specifically His purposes concerning Christ Jesus and His church.
Then the great God revealed Himself by the title Most High. This name or title signifies His relationship to all creation. It refers to Him as the Supreme Ruler over all powers and principalities. Anything and everything that is held in possession by any creature is from, and subject to the will of, the Most High. He is above all. There is none like unto Him and no power can prevent Him from carrying out His will. The name bespeaks supremacy, the One to whom all governments, powers and creatures must in due time be in subjection. He is the Author, the Maker, the Executor, and the Finisher of His plan. He works through His chosen instruments to accomplish His will and purposes. “lie ■ 'dwelleth not in temples made with; hands;”
It is a dishonor to His name and a reproach to His name to teach the people-that there are three gods in one or one in three. The great 'Jehovah God is completely separate and distinct from all. He is the Creator. All others are creatures, h
The Son
JESUS CHRIST is the Son of God: The name by which He is first known in the Scriptures is The Word, or Logos, which means the one who is the mouthpiece or word or speaker as Jehovah God’s instrument. He was the beginning of God’s creation and from and after that time was the active agent by which Jehovah God created all things that were created.—John 1:1-3.
The Hebrew word elohim is translated god. * . ■
The great Jehovah is The God. The Son, the Logos, is A God. The name god is applied to mighty ones, even to angels and to magistrates. The name god is therefore properly applied to the Son because He is a mighty one. The name god is appropriate to Him because He is the agent used by the great Creator in the creation of all things: The names- Jehovah, Almighty God, and Most High are never in the Scriptures applied to Jesus the Son of God.
Jesus Himself testifies that He was the beginning of God’s creation, “the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” (Revelation 3:14) Furthermore He said: “The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth.”—Proverbs 8: 22-27.
When the time came for the creation of man manifestly Jehovah God addressed His Son the Logos in these words: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26) Later, when man had sinned and was to be expelled from Eden, manifestly Jehovah addressed His■ Son when He said: “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to-lenow good- and evil.* —Genesis 3:22.
Man stretches forth his aim to accomplish: some purpose he has in mind. The arm is a symbol of power used. It is also a symbol-.ofi power used by one through another. The Logos, the Son of God, is frequently spoken of in the Scriptures as the Arm of Jehovah. The following, scriptures-support this conclusion: “Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” (Isaiah 40:10) “The Lord hath made bare his holy arm.” (Isaiah 52:10) “To whom is the arm of Jehovah revealed?” (Isaiah 53:1.) “I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.” (Jeremiah 27: 5) These scriptures show that Jehovah God, the great Creator, used another as
His mighty instrument by which He has carried forward His purposes. That great One who;
He has used as His instrument is His Son the
Logos, Jesus, the Christ. Paul with authority from God wrote concerning Jesus as follows: ‘Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature ’, for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they, be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”—Colossians 1:15-17.
The foregoing scriptures clearly show the distinction between God, the great First Cause, and the Logos, the beginning of the creation of the great Creator. Adam, the perfect man, alienated himself from God by sin, and death resulted. God’s plan for the reconciliation of man was foreshadowed by the sacrifice of animals. These sacrifices foretold that there must be a sacrifice of a perfect human life. There was none in earth. God therefore transferred the life of His beloved Son from heaven to earth that He might be the One who should take away sin and furnish the basis for man’s reconciliation.
Made Man
TN PLAIN phrase the Sacred Record says:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us-, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) That a babe was born of a virgin, Mary, at Bethlehem, grew to manhood’s estate and died upon the cross at Jerusalem, both sacred and profane history abundantly testify. Who was that man? The so-called orthodox clergy, in order to support their false dogma of the trinity, have been forced to accept from Satan and teach another lie, to wit, that the child born of the virgin Mary, which grew to manhood and was crucified, was God himself; that while on earth He was a spirit and that the body of flesh that He used was merely an incarnation of the spirit creature; that is to say, that God took upon Himself the form of man and went about in this body of flesh for thirty-three and one-half years, and that during that time He was known as the man Jesus Christ. Their contention is that by being born as a man child the second person of the trinity assumed a human body and that during all the time He was on earth Jesus was both God and man. Frequently, however, one of them says, “Jesus was very God and very man; he was God incarnate.”
It seems strange that sensible men could ever be deceived by such an unreasonable dogma. Note the absurdities to which such doctrine leads. The doctrine is: God is one, made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The logical conclusion then is that when God left heaven and took upon Himself the form of man, which form He assumed for 7
thirty-three and one-half years, during that time heaven was without God; therefore heaven must have operated itself. At the end of that period of time Jesus died an ignominious death upon the cross, at which time He cried: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” He did thus cry either sincerely or for a fraudulent purpose.
The Scriptures show that God is immortal and can not die; therefore the trinity incarnation dogma leads to the unavoidable conclusion that the so-called dying upon the cross was merely a sham and that Jesus did not d:e at all; and furthermore that the words of agony uttered by Jesus were merely a subterfuge to deceive the people. If the one dying upon the cross was really God, how would it be possible for Him to cry unto Himself: “My God, my god, why hast thou forsaken me?” If Jesus was
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