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EFFECT OF HOLY YEAR
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Address by Judge Rutherford broadcast over Watchtower chain Sunday, April 23, 1933
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Vol. XIV - No. 356
May 10, 1933
CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Poor Relief in Sweden .... 493
Worse Things than the Dole . . . 495
The Best-posted Man on Russia . . 494
Barnesville's Doughty Police Chief 495
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
To Stabilize the Rio Grande . . . 493
Abbreviations .......493
Pennington in the Cleveland <-,s 494
Report of Committee
on Social Trends ...... 494
Specialized Libraries
Libraries
HOME AND HEALTH
Child Marriages
Home Remedies
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Clay Center and Holton, Kansas . 493
Falls of Slate in West Virginia Mines 493
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Made a Flat Out of a Tomb . . , 493
World’s Largest Clock.....493
Destroying Jews in Poland . . . 493
Standard Oil Riot in Rumania . . 493
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Railways in Hands of Receivers . 493
Big Banks Trying
to Ruin Themselves , . . . . 494
Effect of Holy Year
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Might Get Caught Next Time . . 494
on Peace and Prosperity . . 483 “Effect of Holy Year’’
and Jehovah’s witnesses . . 490 Some of the Responses .... 491
Raising Money 3,000 Years Ago, and Now.........495
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Volume XIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, May 10, 1933 Number 356
Effect of Holy Year on Peace and Prosperity
(Broadcast by Judge Rutherford over chain Sunday, April 23, 1933)
THE peoples of the nations of “Christendom” have been told that this is a “holy year” and that it is hoped that by the combined efforts of the ruling factors ‘a tide of religion will arise and sweep the nations into peace and prosperity’, relieving them of their present burdens. All reasonable persons have a desire for peace and prosperity. Without a knowledge of how these desirable things can be gained the people are ready to grab at anything that seems plausible.
The people could do no better than to observe a “holy year” within the true meaning of that term. A year is not made holy, however, by a proclamation of men, nor by an occasional offering of prayer. A truly holy year is a year entirely devoted to Jehovah God and His kingdom, teaching the people and leading them in the light of God's Word.
For centuries religionists have induced many to believe that a few men on earth rule by divine right and that whatsoever such men recommend the people should accept. That has resulted in keeping multitudes in ignorance. Millions believe that the year 1933 is a “holy year” because religious leaders have so decreed, and the principal of their flocks have joined in the proclamation of such decree. It is not my purpose to even attempt to convince the religionists and the principal of their flocks that they are wrong, because they have closed their ears to that which is spoken from the Word of God. Some will say that I am indulging in abuse and cruel criticism of religious leaders, but that is not true. I do not indulge in abuse of any man. I hold no personal animosity against anyone. My purpose and duty is to speak the truth for the aid and comfort of the people and to the honor of Jehovah’s name.
It is far better that the peoples of good will learn the truth now than to build a hope upon false testimony only to have that hope dashed to the earth at the end of the year. Is it not better that the truth be placed before the people and by them dispassionately considered, and each person given the privilege of deciding for himself what course he wants to take ? I am not concerned about the men who have presumed to proclaim this a “holy year”, but I am concerned as to whether the people shall be deceived by the declarations of men and whether they shall hear the truth and have an opportunity to take their stand on the side of God and His kingdom.
What Is Truth?
Christ Jesus, the greatest of all teachers ever among men, said concerning the Scriptures, which are the Word of God: “Thy word is truth.” Whatsoever is in opposition to the Scriptures is therefore false. The gentlemen who are responsible for this being designated as a “holy year” have invited all the people to pray to God “that we may be relieved of our burdens”; and by so doing they are estopped from denying that God’s Word is the truth. If you will act for your best interests you must return to the Bible and be guided by what Jehovah God has there expressed as His will. The Bible was written for this hour of distress, because therein it is stated that it was written for the admonition of the people upon whom the end of the world has come. (1 Corinthians 10:11) We have come to the end of the world and this scripture applies now. Those who disregard the Word of God and follow the advice and admonition of man, whether that be of pope, priest, clergymen, politicians or financiers, are certain to come to deep disappointment and sorrow.
In his inaugural address the president of the United States quoted a part of the 29th chapter of Proverbs, to wit: “Where there is no vision,
the people perish”; and, according to the interpretation given by the public press, that means that unless the people have a vision of the political and commercial and religious affairs of this world they will perish. That Scriptural text has no such meaning, nor does it apply at all to this world. The entire text reads: ‘“Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” (Proverbs 29:18) The vision has reference to Jehovah God and His purposes, as expressed by and through His kingdom, and only those who now get an insight or vision of such truths and act in harmony therewith will escape at Armageddon. Truly, as the Scriptures say, those who have no vision perish; hence is magnified the importance of the people's now hearing the truth of and concerning God and His kingdom. Note that this Scripture text shows that the happy one is he who keeps God’s law; and to keep God's law means to do what He says, and not what imperfect men may say. In order for the people to keep God’s law they must have a knowledge of His law. Jehovah’s witnesses are now diligent in their efforts to inform the people, and it is those who name this a “holy year” that are trying to keep the people in ignorance of God’s law.
There are two gods before the creation of earth: one the true and righteous God; and the other the mimic or fraudulent god. The name of the true and righteous God is Jehovah. The name of the mimic or wicked god given him by the Scriptures is Satan, Serpent, and Devil. His name means ‘deceiver’, and by appearing through his representatives, and claiming to be an angel of light, he deceives those who do not learn of and rely upon God’s Word of truth. When I say that men serve the Devil I am not abusing men, but, on the contrary, earnestly pointing out that they are deceived by Satan, who is the enemy of all men. Since the days of Nimrod and the building of the tower of Babel on the plains of Shinar the Devil has caused the names of men to be exalted and the name of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus to be pushed into the corner. That is the rule followed today in the world. With all kindness and sincerity I remind you who listened to the “Holy Hour Service” held in New York on the 2d of April that the name of man was there exalted by frequently using and applying to men such terms as “Holy Father”, “Your Eminence,” and “Your Excellency”; whereas the name of Jehovah God, His King and His kingdom were not mentioned at all. No reference was made to God’s expressed purpose of dealing with the human race by and through His kingdom. Let all who desire to follow such course by bestowing high esteem and exaltation on men do so, but I am reminding you common people who are of good will that such a course is displeasing to Jehovah God, and this 1 do in order that you may give honor to God and His kingdom, and not to man. Jesus said to those who exalt men: “That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” (Luke 16:15) Satan has led men into his trap by exalting men and disregarding God. And why has he thus done? Because the policy of Satan is to turn men away from the true God and he resorts to subtle means of flattery to accomplish this unrighteous purpose. Keep in mind always that Satan long ago defied Jehovah God to put men on earth who would honor Jehovah and who would maintain their integrity toward Him. If all men understood that the Devil is the enemy of man there would be very few if any that would fall into Satan’s trap. Because they have no vision or knowledge of God and His kingdom the multitudes fall into Satan’s subtle trap and will perish.
The act of declaring this a “holy year” for the bringing in of peace and prosperity is a presumptuous sin before Almighty God. No man or company of men are running Jehovah’s business so as to enable them to “change times and laws”, and it is so stated in Daniel 7:25. No man has the power and authority to use a golden hammer or any other instrument to break open a door and say to the people: “This symbolizes the entrance into the blessings of the Lord.” For the people to believe and follow such a leader means to walk on in darkness. No man or combination of men can make the year holy by merely declaring it so to be. The declaring of this to be a “holy year” is contrary to God’s Word and His will, and it would therefore follow that peace and prosperity would not come in answer to the prayers of those who inaugurated this year to accomplish their purpose. To those who commit such presumptuous acts Jehovah, at Isaiah 55: 8, says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways [of decreeing this a ‘holy year’] my ways.” God does not follow the lead of men.
This year cannot be made holy, nor holiness gained, by visiting famous buildings called “churches” or “temples”, nor by making pilgrimages to shrines, nor by worshiping before men or going through outward forms of penance, nor by exalting men to high positions in a church organization. Exactly contrary thereto God’s Word says (Psalm 99: 5, A.R.V.): “Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool : holy is he.” Furthermore, Jesus said concerning the exaltation of men (Matthew 23:9): “And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” The question for the people to determine is whether they wish to follow what man says or obey Jehovah God's Word.
We are now in the last days because the time has come when Satan’s organization must shortly go down before the onward march of the great Conqueror, the Christ of God. The conditions which you observe today exactly fulfil the prophecies long ago written in the Bible concerning the end of the world or last days. I am calling attention thereto, and to the presumptuous acts of the mighty men of this world, not to ridicule them, but for the benefit of the people of good will who want to know the right way to go. The meeting together of men and declaring this to be a “holy year”, and the going through certain forms of worship, is contrary to the will of God. The Lord foretold such in these words (2 Timothy 3:1, 2, 5): “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away.” The people are now being divided between God’s organization and Satan’s organization. Let everyone be free to take his own course; but bear in mind that only those who turn away from Satan’s organization, and take their stand firmly and honestly on the side of Jehovah God, and who are then guided by His Word, will be spared at Armageddon.
It may be said that the Catholic organization, headed by its mighty pontiff, the multitudinous divisions of the Protestant organizations headed by their wise and eloquent clergy, and the Jews led by their philosophical rabbis, this united religious multitude, supported by the professional politicians and financial giants, will present such an inspiring spectacle before the throne of God that even He will hear and grant their petitions that they may be relieved of their burdens and given more ease and comfort. The question is, Will Jehovah God hear and grant the prayers of such an unholy alliance ? According to the words of the Scriptures, God answers, No!
The Scriptures declare that all men are by nature unrighteous and that righteousness can be obtained only by faith in and obedience to Jehovah and faith in Christ Jesus and His shed blood as the redemptive price of man. Prayer to Jehovah must be asked in the name of Christ Jesus, because God has thus commanded it. All Jewish rabbis entirely reject Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of man. All modernist clergymen do likewise reject Him and His precious blood, and the entire combination heretofore mentioned rejects Jehovah God’s provision through Christ and His kingdom to bless all the families of the earth with peace and prosperity, and, on the contrary, have given their allegiance to the League of Nations, which is a product of the Devil. The entire combination forms the visible ruling powers of this world, and concerning such it is written that the whole world lies in the wicked one, Satan. (1 John 5:19) Now what does God’s Word say about hearing and answering the prayers of such as give their allegiance to the w’icked one and his organization and who therefore form a part of the world and hence are God’s enemies? Will the prayers of such bring prosperity and peace during this so-called “holy year” ? The following scriptures bear upon the point and are conclusive. Proverbs 15: 29: “The Lord is far from the wicked; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.” Proverbs 28: 9: “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” 1 Peter 3:12: “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” All prayers made during this so-called “holy year” for peace and prosperity will go unanswered, because God’s Word declares that there shall be no lasting peace and prosperity until the earth is rid of its oppressor Satan and of his wicked organization. It is vital that the people know this fact, in order that they may choose what course they will take.
Long ago Jehovah chose the Jews as a people for himself, established them at Jerusalem, and put His own righteous name there. Satan by means of fraud and deceit caused the Jews to fall away from their covenant and to indulge in idol worship. Time and again God warned them that He would punish them, and did punish them. The Jewish nation was a type of ‘‘Christendom’’.
By and through Christ Jesus and His apostles there was established on earth the true worship of Jehovah God and which is properly called true Christianity. Within a short time an organization labeled ‘‘Christianity''' grew to be a great organization and then fell an easy victim to Satan, and many of the nations now call themselves “Christian nations" but at the same time follow Satan's lead. It is written, at 1 Corinthians 10:11: “Now all these things happened unto [the Jews] for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” Concerning what came upon the Jews that which is recorded in the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel applies specifically to “Christendom”, particularly at this very day. To some of these things I now refer.
Zedekiah, the last king of the Jews, and his official associates proclaimed a “holy year” at Jerusalem and led the people to believe that they should have peace and prosperity and freedom, and then they used that occasion as a scheme to bring the people into further subjection and serfdom. Then Jehovah God declared to the rulers that because of their hypocrisy and duplicity He would send His executioner and destroy Jerusalem, and within a short time Jerusalem was razed to the ground. (Jeremiah 34:8-22) The nations of “Christendom” are the counterpart or antitype of Jerusalem, because the Scriptures so declare. Now the Catholics, Protestants and Jews and the principal ones of their flocks form a confederacy with the ostensible and announced purpose, by their own efforts, to bring to the people peace, prosperity, liberty and relief from human suffering. The time to accomplish this they call a “holy year”. The real purpose is an effort to keep the people quiet for a while by causing them to hope for better times to come. The scheme is hypocritical on the face of it. Of the leaders, the Catholics have no confidence in the Protestants, the Protestants have no confidence in the Catholics, and the Jews have no confidence in either Catholics or Protestants, and the politicians and Big Business men know that the whole crowd is insincere. The so-called “holy year” will not bring the suffering peoples relief, nor peace, nor prosperity. On the contrary, the end of the year will find the people in greater distress than they are now in.
Another striking illustration as to what shall come upon the nations of “Christendom” shortly is set forth in the 37th chapter of Jeremiah’s prophecy. Jerusalem, having become unfaithful to God, there pictures the present-day hypocritical “Christendom”. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his army pictured Satan and his militant forces which now pretend to give aid to “Christendom”. The Chaldeans there mentioned picture Jehovah’s Executioner sent against “Christendom” to destroy it. Jehovah God sent Jeremiah His prophet to give warning to the rulers and to the people of Jerusalem that the Chaldeans would come again and destroy the city as His executioner. The Jewish clergy, the rabbis, who then claimed to be holy and acting as the spokesmen to the people, declared that there was no cause for fear and tried to prevent the people from hearing God’s prophet. The people were in doubt as to what they should do. Then God caused Jeremiah to prophesy these words to the Jews (Jeremiah 37:9): “Thus saith the Lord, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.” God;s executioner did return, and destroyed the city of Jerusalem. God caused Jeremiah to utter the following words to the people of Jerusalem concerning those who were falsely prophesying peace and misleading the people (Jeremiah 6:13,14): “For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. They . . . [are] saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” Exactly that same thing is now taking place in “Christendom”, whose leaders have proclaimed this a “holy year”, and who try to prevent the people from hearing God’s truth.
There can not and will not be peace and prosperity sent to “Christendom” from Jehovah God as long as the unholy alliance of commercial and political oppressive power, with hypocritical religion, continues to exist. The prayers of such for peace and prosperity are a mockery; and “God is not mocked”. The petitioners and many people will be deceived, but God knows the secret intents of all. The mouthpieces of this hypocritical alliance continue to cry out, “Peace, peace,” while at the same time every one of these nations continues to heap burdens upon the people in order to prepare for war. Satan and his organization, pictured by the three frogs of Revelation, continue to croak and boast and bluster and to gather the nations together for the battle of the great day of God Almighty, and there “Christendom” shall fall.—Revelation 16:13-16.
Peace and prosperity are not possible under the present unrighteous world, because Jehovah has decreed that it shall be destroyed. The proof He has abundantly set forth in the prophecies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Another example in proof of this I now cite. God’s covenant people under the rule of Israel’s unfaithful king mixed politics and false religion with their outward claims of serving Jehovah. The exact counterpart of this is today found in “Christendom”. The leaders claim that these nations are Christian nations, and yet all of them mix politics with their outward claims of worshiping God. They attempt to unite all kinds of religion under one arrangement, even those who deny Christ and His precious blood, and expect God to hear their prayers. Jehovah sent His prophets to give warning to the Israelites, but that warning was ignored. Then Jehovah sent Jehu as executioner to execute His judgment against that unfaithful people. In that Jehu was a type of Christ Jesus, whom God will now use as His executioner of “Christendom”. Jehu proceeded quickly to his task; and the messengers of the rulers hurried out to inquire of Jehu and said, “Is it peace, Jehu ?” and he said, “What peace is there as long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?’ (2 Kings 9:17-22) Now the Lord sends warning to the rulers of “Christendom” and they ignore His warning and reject His King. The Greater Jehu, Christ Jesus, is proceeding with His army to the war of Armageddon to execute Jehovah’s vengeance against all of His foes. The unholy alliance of “Christendom” cries out, “Give us peace and prosperity,” and the great Executioner Christ replies: ‘What! Peace, when there is so much hypocrisy, political religion and Devil worship among you?’
Jehu then caused the people who supported the Devil worship to identify themselves, and then in the presence of Jehonadab, who pictured the order-loving people of the present day, Jehu slew every one of the false religionists and de-famers of God’s holy name.—2 Kings 10:15-25.
The Scriptures show that those who now form the unholy alliance and proclaim this a “holy year” will camouflage their real purpose, put on a bold front, and declare to the people that they have actually brought about peace and safety; and then mark what the Lord says shall come to pass (1 Thessalonians 5:3): “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
The combined efforts of the big men of religion, Big Business, and politics cannot possibly now bring peace and prosperity to “Christendom”, because it is not God’s time and their prayers God will not hear. It is written in God's Word (Ecclesiastes 3:1,8): “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ... A time of war, and a time of peace.” The time for Jehovah God to force the war is nigh. It may not come this year, but it will not be much longer delayed; and no efforts of any creatures can stop it, because God does not change His purpose. Up to this time God has not taken a hand in the troubles that afflict the peoples of earth, but He declares that He will rise up at Armageddon and come forth and smite the nations of “Christendom” to the dust and that these shall fall and not rise again.
The public press quotes the pontiff of Rome as saying that the present suffering and distress of the peoples of the world are a punishment from God upon them because of their unfaithfulness to the church, and now he and his associates pray for peace and prosperity for the world. God is not at all responsible for the suffering of the people. In Revelation 12:12 the statement is plainly made that Satan the Devil has brought this woe and suffering upon the peoples of the world. God has taken no hand in the trouble thus far, but He declares that soon at Armageddon He will smite Satan and all of his organization both visible and invisible.
Big Business, political rulers and big church men have joined hands together. It is that combine that has gained the control of the gold and other property of the world and as instruments of Satan have brought about oppression of the people, and it is because of such oppression that the people now cry out. This hypocritical combine prays for peace and prosperity, and to them Jehovah says (James 5: 3-5): “Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept hack by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.” Instead of the common people’s joining this alliance and being guided by them, Jehovah says to the people of good will (Zephaniah 3: 8, 9): “Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.”
Jehovah God gave His Word that Christ Jesus as King and Conqueror should redeem man with His own blood and then vindicate the name of the Most High. Jesus performed some of these prophecies in miniature when He was on earth 1900 years ago, and now He comes and performs them in completeness. When the time came for the man Jesus to offer himself as King and Blesser of the Jews He did not come carrying a golden hammer in His hand, with silver trumpets announcing His arrival, but He came meek and lowly, riding upon a jackass, magnifying the name of Jehovah God. He was then rejected by the clergy of that day and He pronounced desolation upon their house. (Matthew 21:1-43) In 1918 Jehovah, having installed Christ Jesus as the King of the world, presented Him to “Christendom” and furnished an abundance of evidence from the prophecies, and from the physical facts, that God’s time was here for His King to judge and to rule and it was the clergy of “Christendom” that took the lead in rejecting Christ and His kingdom and accepted in its stead the League of Nations; and now at the temple of Jehovah Christ pronounces the judgment of desolation upon “Christendom”. Thus we see that Jerusalem and “Christendom” have parallel experiences. Concerning this very time Jehovah says (Psalm 11: 4-G): “The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.”
The temple of Jehovah is His righteous organization of which Christ Jesus is the Head. Jehovah has made Christ the judge of all things and has committed to Him the power to execute judgment. (Malachi 3:1-4; John 5: 22-27) Now Jehovah speaks to the people of the nations that have taken His name and says (Habakkuk 2: 20): “The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Instead of the leaders of the nations giving heed to God’s Word and advising the people to follow His instruction, a company of selfish men, bent on ruling the world in their own way, presumptuously declare this a “holy year” and call upon the people to follow them in their efforts to establish peace and prosperity in the world exactly contrary to the Word of God. They do not give honor to Jehovah God and to His kingdom, but bow before men and before images. Let the people who desire life and happiness no longer give ear to the false claims of selfish men. To you, through the prophet, Jehovah God says (Isaiah 45:22-24): ‘Look unto me [Jehovah], and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me [and not alone to Jesus] every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear . . . and all that are against him shall be put to shame.’ You, the people, must take your choice to follow the advice of men or to follow the words of Jehovah God.
For the past ten years Jehovah’s witnesses, by His grace, have declared the truth to the rulers of “Christendom”, and which truth the rulers have not only rejected, but they have connived at the persecution and hurt of those who brought to them the message of truth. Jehovah’s witnesses in themselves are not important, but as Jehovah’s anointed they are the apple of His eye on earth. Now His witnesses turn to you, the common people, and call your attention to God’s message written in Micah 1:2-4: “Hear, all ye people; hearken, 0 earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. And the mountains [governments] shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.” The unholy alliance that has presumptuously declared this to be a “holy year” are not proper guides for you, regardless of whether you have been a
Catholic, Protestant or Jew. The year will not bring peace and prosperity, but the end thereof will find you nearer to the end of Satan’s oppressive rule, and thereafter shall come real peace and prosperity.
Those who are against God’s kingdom under Christ are wicked, and concerning them it is written (Isaiah 57: 21): “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Those who have proclaimed this a “holy year” are against God and His kingdom; and this is proved by their actions. When Jehovah’s witnesses carried the Kingdom message in printed form into Italy recently the pontiff and his political allies stopped the distribution of that message and confiscated and destroyed the books containing it. England and Canada have prevented the message of God’s kingdom from being broadcast by radio. In the United States the clergy and their allies who are called “the higher ups” have given orders that the Kingdom message shall not be broadcast here over certain radio stations and have thus prevented the broadcasting of this message today. These opposers rejoice when Jehovah’s witnesses are arrested and imprisoned for speaking the truth. It is to be expected that it would be so, because the prophecy of Jehovah foretells the same. I call attention to these things that the people may see that God will not answer the prayers of this unholy alliance for peace and prosperity. Concerning them Jehovah says (Psalm 35:26,27): ‘Let them be brought to shame and confusion [even during this so-called “holy year”] who rejoice at the hurt of my witnesses.’
By His prophet Daniel Jehovah gives a brief history of the chief nations that have ruled from ancient Egypt to the present time, including the alliance that has declared this a “holy year”, and then says (Daniel 2:44): “And in the days of these [rulers] shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” In the face of this plain statement of Jehovah God the people will be foolish to expect a confederacy of men to bring in peace and prosperity. For your own protection I am pointing you to the Word of God that you may have an opportunity to take the only safe course. You may receive this message or reject it, as you see fit.
The rulers have been told the truth and they have rejected it, and thus they identify themselves with the enemy of God. Those who are proclaiming this a “holy year” are conniving at the downfall of Jehovah’s witnesses and are fighting against God. Jesus foretold that when He said to His faithful followers (Mark 13:9): “But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to [courts]; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.” Jehovah permits His witnesses now to be persecuted by the powers of “Christendom” that His witnesses may have opportunity to prove their integrity toward Him, and that the leaders of “Christendom” may convict themselves before Jehovah and meet their just fate at Armageddon. In Psalm 83 Jehovah foretold that those who proclaim this a “holy year” would form a conspiracy against His witnesses and that then He would tear off their mask and bring them to shame, and this He says He will do in order that all ‘men may know that God, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, is the Most High over all the earth’.— Psalm 83:18.
The hole or door opened in a wall at the Vatican is not ‘a symbol of the way into the blessings of God’; and therefore the prophecy at the 118th Psalm has been misapplied. The ones who have opened the door at Rome and referred to it as ‘a symbol of blessings’ have rejected Christ as King, and Jehovah has rejected them. The words of the psalmist following apply to Jehovah’s devoted people, and God causes these faithful witnesses now to say (Psalm 118:19): “Open to me the gates of righteousness” ; not the doorway into some building erected by men, but the way into God’s kingdom. The psalmist then shows that the religionists of “Christendom” have rejected Christ, the Head Stone of God’s kingdom, and continuing says (Psalm 118: 20-22): “This [is the] gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. The stone [Christ the Redeemer and King] which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.” If the alliance that has proclaimed this a “holy year” had faith in God and in His kingdom under Christ they would tell the people what the Scriptures teach, to wit, That Jehovah is God, and that there is no means of salvation and blessing except through the blood of Christ Jesus, and His kingdom (Acts 4:12), and they would then assemble the people and use every means possible, including the radio, to teach them the truth of God’s Word. Instead of so doing they fight against God’s message of truth and connive to keep the people in ignorance and then have the temerity to say, “We will pray God to send us peace and prosperity.” They not only will be disappointed, but will be brought to shame.
Satan’s is the master mind that has organized a conspiracy against Jehovah and His faithful witnesses, and he then forms an unholy alliance to proclaim this a “holy year” in order to divert the minds of the people away from God’s kingdom. Jehovah’s witnesses do not expect to convert the rulers. Their divine commission is to speak the truth only as witnesses of the Most High. To you who have devoted yourselves to Jehovah God and His kingdom He now says: “I am the Lord thy God, . . . and I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. ... Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am [Jehovah].”—Isaiah 51:15,16; 43:12.
Today there are many in the church organizations who have had a great desire to see their church take a bold stand for God and His kingdom, but they have been greatly disappointed. These the Lord calls “prisoners” because they are held by the powerful influence of the political clergymen. You prisoners must now make your choice between Satan’s organization and God’s kingdom. To you Jehovah now says (Revelation 18:4): ‘Come out from the unholy alliance, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her punishments.’ Without a vision of the truth and affirmative action you will perish. To the people of good will Jehovah now says: ‘Know that I am God, and choose you this day whom ye will serve.’ Peace and prosperity cannot be brought to the earth by men, but will come by God’s kingdom under Christ.
Jehovah now bestows the high and great honor of His name upon His faithful anointed and sends them forth as His witnesses to declare to the people that He is God and that His kingdom is at hand. To you, therefore, as His faithful witnesses, He now says (Isaiah 62:10): “Go through, go through the gates [into the kingdom of God]; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.” This command Jehovah’s witnesses will now obey regardless of all opposition and persecution.
Lest the people perish they must now have a vision of Jehovah and His kingdom. No lasting peace and prosperity can come to the peoples of earth until Satan’s organization is completely destroyed. Following the battle of Armageddon Jehovah by and through Christ will bring to the peoples of earth a real holy period of a thousand years of everlasting peace and prosperity that shall surpass the fondest dreams of man. What boundless blessings the Kingdom will bring to the people it shall be my privilege, by His grace, to tell you at my next speech from this station.
Hear the truth and then choose whether you prefer to follow the leadings of imperfect men or whether you desire to know and to serve the great Jehovah God and His kingdom under Christ. Faithful men and women who are God’s witnesses are now coming to you with the printed information to aid you to gain the knowledge and the much needed vision of God and His purposes, and the blessings that He will bring to you by and through His kingdom.
“Effect of Holy Year” and Jehovah’s witnesses
IN THE inscrutable wisdom of God it is hidden from His children what effects are accomplished by the proclamations of the truth which He puts forth, and of which He permits them to be, to some extent, the mouthpieces.
Judge Rutherford, lecturing over a chain of 55 radio stations, talked to millions, probably, and certainly to hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday morning, April 23, in his lecture on “Effect of Holy Year on Peace and Prosperity”, and he can hardly expect to know, in this life, much about how many listened, or how they were impressed. The lecture was not given to try to impress his fellow men: it was given to bear witness to the truth; to do God’s will, and to let the results be what they may.
But we may with confidence speak for some thousands of Jehovah’s witnesses that were out on the firing line and stopped their witness work for an hour so that they might listen to this most inspiring and most convincing address. If you missed hearing the address under just those conditions you missed one of the blessings you might have had.
Conditions for radio reception were excellent at the time the lecture was given; it was a popular hour; it was on a subject the people want to know something about; the lecture gave every listener abundant food for reflection. It gave a thrill of happiness to every worker out in the field.
Anybody ought to be able to see, when his attention is drawn to it, that, as the judge said, no year can be made holy by a proclamation, and the mere fact that the Scriptures are cited as authority binds those who cite them to give heed to what they say, and shape their courses to suit. It is obvious that Judge Rutherford had it right when he said, in effect, that it is those that have named this a “holy year” that are trying to keep the people in ignorance and therefore actually working against the very thing proclaimed. How can such persons in truth and in honesty expect Jehovah God to bless anything with which they have to do, when they accept or appropriate to themselves titles and honors in abundance, and push the names of both Jehovah God and Christ Jesus into a corner?
It is not visiting shrines and churches that will make the year holy; not a bit of it. It is only the doing of God’s will that will make it so, and on the very day in question His own witnesses, bearing in their hands and on their lips His message of truth, were going about among the people and telling them that their deliverance is coming about, not through a clergy-proclaimed “holy year”, but by Jehovah God's act of vengeance, putting an end to the hypocrisy that has overburdened the earth.
In one circle of witness workers who took a breathing spell to listen to Judge Rutherford’s powerful presentation on the “Holy Year” many a hearty laugh went around when some particularly telling point was made, as the one which he made that it is not the clergymen that God will listen to, and that, anyway, ‘the Catholics have no confidence in the Protestants, and Protestants have no confidence in Catholics, and Jews have no confidence in either Catholics or Protestants.’
On his first call after listening to the foregoing lecture one of Jehovah’s witnesses placed in the first home at which he called a complete set of 13 of Judge Rutherford’s books and 14 booklets. Would he have done it if he had not been inspired by the proclamation of the great truths he had just heard? We may well question it.
SOME OF THE RESPONSES
Rochester, N. Y. “Due to illness we remained home from church Sunday, but were greatly repaid by listening to your address, and believe every word true. Will you kindly send me a copy of your address ?” Mrs. L. A.
Pulaski, Ya. “I have just enjoyed listening to the splendid and very searching lecture delivered by Rutherford at ten o’clock this morning. Because of my keen interest in and deep concern relative to his wonderful books and scholarly speeches, I am asking that you send to me at your earliest convenience a copy of the lecture this morning on ‘The Effect of Holy Year on World Peace’.” G.W.L. (Principal)
Toronto, Ont., Canada. “I would appreciate a copy of Judge Rutherford’s speech over the radio today. This is not only an inspiration to me, but I hope to use it with a group of business people for the study and development of better world conditions.” J.E.S.
Reading, Pa. “Your talk on the radio this morning was a revelation to me. Would so much appreciate a copy.” Mrs. R.Q.
Waverly, N. Y. “Your sermon today was fine and we are desirous of copy. Keep this good work up, as we are in need of more men that think and dare say the things you are telling us over the radio. God bless you in your work.” Mrs. O.R.S.
Farmville, Va. “Please send me a copy of your lecture which you delivered over the air today. I consider it a master message.” J.T.A.
Philadelphia, Pa. “Will you be good enough to send me at your convenience a copy of Judge Rutherford's talk as broadcast over the network on Sunday morning, April 23? I enjoyed every word of this marvelous talk and am looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to the next one on April 30.” Miss H.T.P.
Chicago, Ill. ‘Would you kindly send me a copy of the address by Judge Rutherford about the ‘Holy Year’ over the Herald and Examiner station in Chicago? I agree in every point with the speaker and thank the Lord that he has the courage to proclaim the truth.” Mrs. L.K.
Springfield, Mass. “I missed a part of Judge Rutherford's talk on Sunday and would like a copy of it. If you will send me several copies I will see that they go to people where they will do good. It was marvelous and I thank God for such a man.” Mrs. M.R.R.
Middletown, R. I. “We would be very much pleased to have you send us copies of Judge Rutherford’s lectures which he broadcast last Sunday and today, also any future lectures he may give. They are truly wonderful and anybody having a hearing ear must be enlightened.” E.M.H.
Wilton Grove, Ont., Canada. “After hearing the wonderful message you gave on Sunday over the radio, I am thanking you for the opportunity of being able to receive a copy of the same. May God guide you.” R.K.
Orange, N. J. “Today I had the pleasure of listening for the first time to Judge Rutherford. His talk from the shoulder (if you will pardon the expression) impressed me more than words can say, and so if you can spare a copy of this morning’s lecture, or any other, for that matter, I will say thank you.” S.E.K.
Providence, R. I. “Having listened to that wonderful lecture, given so fearlessly by Judge Rutherford this beautiful morning, I was very much touched, and would like to receive last Sunday’s, this Sunday’s and next Sunday’s lectures, that I may study same and check up same, as I am a believer in God, but not of any particular faith except when I hear the Word of God preached faithfully by a man as if it was in his own heart and mind. I hope the time will never come when we cannot hear the truth plainly spoken and cannot receive these great messages over the radio.” H.A.M.
Buffalo, N. Y. “Please send me Judge Rutherford’s talk on ‘Holy Year’. Am more than interested and think his talks and guidance taken from the Bible are wonderful.” J.W.D.
Haddonfield, N. J. “Please send me copy of Judge Rutherford’s lecture on so-called ‘Holy Year’. It was fine. I listen to the Watchtower every Sunday. May the Lord bless Judge Rutherford and keep him from all harm. I have read quite a few of his books and think they are just grand.” Mrs. E.W.W.
Peterboro, Ont., Canada. “Please accept an appreciation of your continued work of spreading the truth. We were pleased to hear again Judge Rutherford for one-hour program Sunday morning over radio WGR Buffalo. The lecture came to us very clear and distinct. Our canary bird Tom, who is now in his old age, seldom sings, but sang during the overture and almost continuously during the lecture. When the judge ceased speaking, the bird ceased to sing. The flowers in the window smiled, but my hearing was not keen enough to hear their notes of approval. Wife and I were both pleased to note the bird’s appreciation of something real and good. Would that many of our citizens who are now in the dark could realize the truth of the words given out by Judge Rutherford from time to time.” M.T.B.
West Philadelphia, Pa. “Will you please send me the leaflet with Judge Rutherford’s talk that he gave over the radio yesterday, the 23d. It is the first time I have had the pleasure of hearing Judge Rutherford. I wish there were more fearless speakers like him.” S.J.P.
Lansing, Mich. “I heard this morning, over WJR, Detroit, Judge Rutherford’s masterful lecture about the present so-called ‘holy year5, which the hypocritical clergy are attempting to pawn upon a misguided and distressed people. The lecture, forceful, true and eloquent, came in remarkably clear. May the blessings of God be with him always. Please send me a copy of this lecture. Enclosed find twenty-five cents which I gladly donate for same.” A.G.R.
Buffalo, N. Y. “Kindly send me one of Judge Rutherford’s addresses on ‘Holy Year’. Am more than interested in your helpful broadcasts.” K.L.H.
Dorchester, Mass. “Will you please send me the address delivered by Judge Rutherford Sunday, April 23, on the subject, ‘The Holy Year’? It was grand. I praise God he is so fearless, and that the world has someone in it to warn the people and educate them as Judge Rutherford is doing. I have a number of his books and prize them. The church is so dumb on the subject of the Second Coming of Christ. Enclosed is a stamp for sending the leaflet.” G.E.H.
Brooklyn, N. Y. “I am a Catholic who, for the past two years, has been very interested in learning what is the matter with the world, and have concluded that our present system is a failure. ... I had the good fortune of securing several of your books, and ever since have attentively listened to your appreciated speeches by radio.” M.M.
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Made a Flat out of a Tomb
AMAN in Poland distinguished himself by converting a tomb into a flat and living there for a year before he was turned out. He had in the tomb a bookcase, chair, stove and other articles, and slept in a coffin from which he had removed the original occupant. In the neighborhood, he had the reputation of being a ghost. The police finally got him.
Clay Center and Holton, Kansas
FOR the year 1932 the Clay Center electric light and power plant paid one-half the city taxes of its citizens. The December bills of Holton (Kans.) users of electric current were sent out marked “paid”. The citizens of Longmont, Colo., canceled $9,000 worth of bills for service in December. You guessed it; these towns all own their own municipal electric light and power plants.
To Stabilize the Rio Grande
THE Rio Grande will be stabilized. Its course will be made permanent, and deepened, and will then become the permanent boundary between Mexico and the United States. This will involve the transfer of some lands from one country to the other, but care will be taken to insure that the totals are the same. The stabilization will end the flood menace at El Paso and Juarez.
Falls of Slate in West Virginia Mines
OF THE 338 men killed in West Virginia mines in the first eleven months of 1931, 56 percent Avere killed by falls of slate. In the same period of 1932 the number killed by falls of slate was 60 percent. Attempts are being made by the humane to inaugurate better mine legislation in West Virginia, but their efforts are being blocked by the lobbyists of the coal mine owners.
Railways in Hands of Receivers
AMONG the railways in the hands of receivers at the end of January, 1933, were the Ann Arbor, Florida East Coast, Fort Smith & Western, Gainesville Midland, Georgia and Florida, Mobile and Ohio, Salt Lake and Utah, and the Wabash. The only one of these that received any considerable sum from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is the Wabash, which had $14,825,000.
Poor Relief in Sweden
WHEN a Swedish workless man applies for relief, he may find himself allotted to road-making, forestry, drainage or other manual work for six days a week, and may have to leave home and family to do it. Single men are paid 37s. a week, married men 21s. additional and 7 d. a day extra for each child. Work begins at 7:30 and ends at 4:00. One foreman has charge of 65 men.
Child Marriages
FIFTY-FIVE women physicians of India have petitioned the viceroy for a law making consummation illegal until wives are fourteen years of age. Many of the child wives under their care are from seven to twelve years of age. Louisiana and Maryland permit girls to marry at 12 and boys at 14. There are in the United States 667,000 wives who married under 16 years of age.
Destroying Jews in Poland
IN POLAND 3,500,000 Jews are being done to death, every door of employment being closed to them, even by their own kindred. In a cellar room an investigator found nine persons living like swine. There were two inches of water on the floor, with no drain, chimney or water closet. In a garret next door three families lived in one room. It is estimated that 90 percent of the inhabitants of the Polish ghettos are tubercular.
Standard Oil Riot in Rumania
RUMANIANS resent Standard Oil control of the oil industry of Rumania, or at least the program of wage cuts and lay-offs. Four thousand workmen went on the warpath, attacked the office building of the company and destroyed furniture and papers. Two hundred and fifty were arrested and then the mob tried to charge the police station and rescue them, but were repulsed.
World’s Largest Clock
THE world’s largest clock is on the new building of the Shell Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in London. The building, costing £1,000,000, occupies the former site of the Hotel Cecil. Dimensions of the clock are not stated. If larger than the clock on the Colgate building, Jersey City, it must be a whopper; the dial on the latter one is 38 feet across. There is one in Boston with a dial 34 feet across.
Pennington in the Cleveland Press
James Pennington, South Euclid, Ohio, (not one of our subscribers) writes with courage in the Cleveland Press when he says:
It is shameful for a man to die as part of an organization designed to slaughter men, women and children, to devastate and to inflict upon humanity untold agony, privation and shame. Nor is a man a hero for being part of such an organization. Instead, he is a coward for lacking the courage to withstand joining it. By all desirable citizens the gangster is loathed, yet infinitely more courage is needed to go out and kill as he does, alone, than to be one of a herd of charging maniacs shooting and hacking without power of thought. For war there is not even the justification of self-defense. Every nation, according to its leaders, fights in self-defense. Instead of cheering our statesmen, it would be better if we cursed them as traitors to humanity. No man can fight in battle and be a Christian too.
Might Get Caught Next Time
THIEVES who thought they were using the most approved methods took over the management of a shoe manufacturing company, at Broadway and Fourth street, New York city, for forty-five minutes the other day. When they came in they cut the telephone wires, bound the hands and feet of all employees with adhesive tape, and put tape over their mouths.
Although, as they claimed, their motto is, “Success is not an accident. It comes to the man that does his work better than the other fellow,” yet they were not quite perfect. As fast as people came into the office they were bound and taped and relieved of their valuables, but one man was not properly tied, and as soon as they left he shouted for help. They got away all right, but might get caught the next time. The heart of New York seems to present a great field for this thriving industry.
Big Banks Trying to Ruin Themselves
BECAUSE the big banks of New York city are large holders of traction securities, they are pressing New York city to abandon the 5c fare, which, if done, will make their traction stocks and bonds very much more valuable. The pressure is brought to bear by reluctance to loan the city the money needed to pay current bills, in between tax collections. This scheme of the bankers is really a scheme to ruin themselves; for while it would add much to the wealth of men whose income is now more than $10,000 a year, it would greatly reduce the incomes of those who have the least, but who nevertheless, because they are so much greater in number, purchase 75 percent of the goods and services marketed in the United States. When you ruin your customers you ruin yourself. The big banks have not yet learned that, but are in a fair way to do so soon.
Report of Committee on Social Trends
THERE is plenty of food for thought in the report of former President Hoover’s Research Committee on Social Trends. Five hundred investigators, working for three years, ended their labors with the close of the year 1932. Frankly they expect a dictatorship, accompanied by “violent revolution, dark periods of serious repression of libertarian and democratic forms”, and an emergence of “the quasi-govern-mental corporation, the Government-owned corporation, the mixed corporation” and other evidences of “business men become actual rulers”. They say that “the best which any group of economic planners can do with the data now in hand, bulky but inadequate, is to lay plans for making plans”. The report covers a vast range. It notes the probability that one out of every five or six marriages contracted is broken by divorce. It mentions that the farmer raises food for himself, three members of his family, 12 Americans not living on farms, and for two foreigners, a total of 18 persons.
The Best-posted Man on Russia
THE best-posted man on Russia is probably Walter Duranty, fifteen years correspondent of the New York Times at Moscow. His opinion of what is being accomplished there is probably based on more information than that of any other writer. In a review in the Times recently he said:
In most respects the Socialist framework is solid and sure; there is no loss of determination among the leaders, no sign that the nation, though it sweats and grumbles under its burden, has any thought of revolt or unwillingness to continue the work. The weakest link of the socialist chain is merchandising and distribution; if this can be strengthened, present difficulties will be overcome. Meanwhile, the whole nation is acquiring knowledge and learning its new tasks with frantic eagerness. Times are hard and will not be easy in the near future; progress may be slower than anticipated, the goal more remote. But unless untoward and unforeseen circumstances intervene, I, for one, cannot doubt the issue or question the ultimate success of Socialist building in the U. S. S. R.
Raising Money 3,000 Years Ago, and Now (From a church notice)
IN THE year “1000 B.C. For the building of Solomon's Temple, ‘Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king’s work, offered willingly, and gave for the service of the house, &c.’
“‘Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly to the Lord: and David the King also rejoiced with great joy.’-l Chron. 29: 6, 9.”
In the year 1933 (A.D.). “Then the parishioners came together to consult how they were to get money to build the church. The people would not offer willingly, so they consulted together and determined to have all kinds of amusements, such as wax-works, Punch and Judy, tableaux vivants, raffles (which are illegal), fortune telling, lucky tubs, shooting galleries, and other such-like things; also whist drives and dancing, &c.
“Then the people rejoiced that they had made some money by these means and offered it to the Lord for building His Church.”
Worse Things than the Dole
THE workers of Britain and America bared their breasts to make the world safe for democracy, and to secure the payment of the interest on Mr. Morgan’s French bonds. Then the British, knowing that the heroes would have to live, made some provision for the unemployed. This unemployment insurance has come to be called “the dole”; not a good word, but used in the press to give an evil taint to a good system. In the United States we have another system. Helen Hull, Philadelphia settlement worker, at a Senate hearing tells about it. In Philadelphia the unemployed heroes do not starve to death, because they steal, beg, borrow and concentrate on obtaining food like prowling cats. The heroes send their children out to snatch food from wholesale markets, steal milk from babies, steal from pushcarts, or steal anything else that can be exchanged for food. This is what they went to France for, and the Morgan crowd do certainly appreciate what the heroes did for them while they were using them; but, now that the bonds are O.K., it does not much matter •what happens to the heroes. Looking after the petty needs of heroes is not a business for Big Business to adopt.
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