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Vol. XV - No. 382 May 9, 1934
CONTENTS
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LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Serious Problem of Depression , 483
What Fascism Destroyed in Vienna 483
Housing Survey in Mississippi . 483
Monopolists Retarding Prosperity 486
Concentration of Wealth . . 510
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Light Dawns in Bergenfield . . 484
Reign of Terror in Poland . . . 485
Boys Sentenced to Sunday School 486
Swindling Disabled War Veterans 487
The U. S. Beatitudes, Inc. . . . 488
Mother’s Day
At ‘ Church ’ on Mother’s Day . 492
‘ ‘ Congress Shall Make No Law—” 493
What Is the Moral?
Why Be Distressed?
Knew Where to Get Murderers . 502
Priests Oppose Labor Amendment 503
Ingersoll’s Vision of Future . . 503
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
‘Good Cigarette’ Gone Wrong . 486
Ware Chair Factory Closing Down 486
Middletown Plant Pays All Bills . 488
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
Triumphant Last Flight of TWA . 483
The Detroit Bank Collapse . . . 484
Stealing Rides on Ferry Boats . 484
O’Mahoney Assails the Plunderers 486
San Francisco Sale of Hetch Hetchy 487
City Salaries Paid from Capital . 487
Franco-German Cooperation in War 488
Churches Commercialized . . . 500
Coughlin’s Business Is Good . . 502
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
“Of Thee I Sing’’.....488
“Russia Makes Me Think’’ . . 503
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Instrument Boards on Late Planes 484 Power Road from Boulder Dam . 4S4 The Number Seven.....504
HOME AND HEALTH
A 1,400-Mile Flight for Life . . 484 Sterilizations in Michigan . , . 486
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Scrubbing Dome of St. Paul’s . . 483
Events in Canada.....495
Bishop of Liverpool Hard Up . 502 Notice..........511
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Blaming God for Hard Times . 485 Ministers Fundamentally Off . , 485 New Jersey Would Keep Out Truth 487 Too Many Pastors.....■. 487
“The Holy Tunic of Christ” . . 487 R. C. Catechism vs. R. C. Bible . 490 Wrestling with the Catechism . . 491 “To Build More Churches—” . 500 Tested Transubstantiation Theory 501 Jehovah’s Glory......505
Jehovah’s witnesses in Action . 510
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Volume XV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, May 9, 1934 Number 382
Sands of Time
The Serious Problem of the Depression
Walter T. Diack, general secretary of the
New York city Y.M.C.A., says in his annual report: “The serious problems of the depression did not begin with the stock market crash. They began when young men, who had been taught to think, found the doors of employment closed to them. They began when these young men found in a world of plenty they were unable to earn a living. This is a situation which cannot be solved by the bread line or the lodging house. It can be solved only by taking thought of the morrow for the youth of our country and endeavoring to adjust the economic structure so that it provides equal opportunity for all.”
Million-Dollar Room
THE dining room on the eighth floor of the
Union League Club, Chicago, has been dubbed the “Million-Dollar Room, or the Folly of 1929”. It is papered with stocks and bonds, gold-engraved and green-bordered, which have no value except as wall paper, but have a face value of about $1,000,000. Not a bad idea, and suggests a bridal chamber papered with marriage certificates and divorce decrees, and a Salvation Army barracks papered with college diplomas and church membership certificates. In these hard times everything has its uses. Undertakers’ parlors could be papered with automobile licenses and liquor permits.
What Fascism Destroyed in Vienna
Triumphant Last Flight of TWA
THE New York Times, referring to the conditions which existed in Vienna before its socialistic government was overthrown by fascism, said: “Its municipal tenements, now housing 200,000 persons in ideal conditions, are recognized all over the world as models of their kind, and Socialist achievement is also writ large in hospitals, schools, day nurseries, baths and parks. The municipal services, such as electricity and gas, expanded by leaps and bounds and were cheaper to the consumer than anywhere else in the world.”
Housing Survey in Mississippi
OF 22,125 farmhouses surveyed in Mississippi, 21,743 were without running water, and 20,959 do their laundry out of doors with practically no equipment; 17,957 were unpainted; 16,615 needed screening; 7,901 needed additional doors and windows; 8,491 needed new roofs; 7,373 needed new foundations; 8,775 needed additional bedrooms, allowing two adults to each room. Of the homes visited 11,013 needed shrubs and shade trees, and 2,128 needed wells drilled.
THE last flight of the Transcontinental and Western Air Lines, Inc., before their mail contract was taken away, was a triumphal one. The start was made from Glendale, California, at 11: 56 p.m. Stops were made at Albuquerque, Kansas City, and Columbus, and the plane landed in Newark at 1: 00 the next afternoon, breaking the best previous record for a passengercarrying plane across the continent by five hours. The plane carried twelve persons all the way, and fourteen persons part of the way, together with several hundred pounds of mail, air express, and baggage.
Scrubbing the Dome of St. Paul’s
OR the first time in 220 years the dome of St. Paul’s, London, is in process of being scrubbed. The job, it is estimated, will take eight men eight months. On account of the peculiar slant of the dome, the men practically hang backward while they work. When they fall, if they fall, they have a clear drop of 170 feet to the floor beneath.
The Detroit Bank Collapse
WHILE it is generally held that the Detroit bank collapse was caused by Coughlin’s radio activities, contributing factors are said to be that the bankers were paying 17-percent dividends even while their institutions were toppling, and 43 judges were aided by loans of $639,631 at a time when they might better have avoided the reception of such favors. The public got frightened and pulled out their deposits at a rate reaching up to one and a half million dollars a week.
A 1,400-Mile Flight for Life
THE baby Sue Trammel recovered perfectly from the operation for water on the brain, performed at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. With her parents, a nurse and a grandmother the child was carried from Houston, Texas, to Baltimore in eleven hours, a distance of 1,400 miles. The aviator, James R. Wedell, made the trip through stormy skies, freezing weather and darkness, when air lines had been suspended because of bad weather, landing in Baltimore at 2: 00 a.m.
Instrument Boards on Latest Planes
THERE are eighteen dials on the instrument boards of the latest planes, one of which enables the aviator to turn over the controls to the Sperry Automatic Pilot and sail along like a bird, with nothing to do but keep his eyes fixed on the other seventeen, and figure on what to do when some one of them begins to cut up. Seems like a complicated job.
Light Dawns Gradually in Bergenfield
ERGENFIELD officials are gradually awakening to the fact that New Jersey is a part of the United States. They were helped recently by a decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court that the municipality’s ordinance requiring that permission of the police department be first obtained before handbills can be distributed to householders is unconstitutional. The court held the ordinance to be illegal because it vested discretionary powers in a chief of police and provided no rule of determination, except the wishes of the police, for allowing or denying the distribution, and the court held that this discretionary power is illegal.
Stealing Rides on Ferry Boats
EW YORK CITY operates several ferry lines. On these lines in the past eight years 318,579 persons have been given free rides because they were allegedly "On City Business’. Thousands of the persons to whom the passes were issued, and who made use of them, were never connected with the city administration in any manner whatsoever. The passes got into the hands of such persons through the mayor’s office, the controller’s office, and through various judges, aidermen and other civic officials.
Boy Biologists Swipe the City's Snakes
TWO ambitious New York youths, each fifteen, years of age, wanted to study snakes at close range. They broke a pane of glass at the Bronx Zoo, went in, and took out of their cages a boa, a black Florida gopher, a striped Arizona racer, a spotted racer, a South American red-bander, a Venezuelan rainbow boa, a Florida corn snake, a red-bellied water snake, and a South American boa. Then they gave the snakes to the school where they are pupils, and the rest was easy.
Power Road from Boulder Dam
THE power road from Boulder Dam to Los Angeles runs alongside the great towers, each 109 feet high, and each weighing 20,000 pounds, that are spaced 1,000 feet apart all the way from the big dam to the big city. The copper cable between the towers is 1.4 inches in diameter, and hollow, the largest ever used. It is calculated that Boulder Dam will have a generating power four times that of Niagara Falls.
Will Think Quietly, as Usual
TEN students of Ohio State University refused military training, having taken their stand for a warless world. They endeavored to enlist the active assistance of the Columbus clergy to prevent their expulsion from the university. The Reverend John Miller, assistant pastor of the Indianola Avenue Presbyterian church, put the case for the ministers when he said it was their purpose “to quietly think about the matter but take no action”. In war time the dominies think noisily on the subject of war; in peace times they think quietly; on both occasions, and always, at heart they are for war.
IN AN address at Vatican City the pope said, THE official and regular way to rob the United in substance, that “the hand of God is being -»- States treasury is by means of contracts for
Blaming God for the Hard Times felt in the economic difficulties through which the world is struggling”. Now let us get this thing straight, so that we can know which god he is talking about (whether Jehovah, the God of eternity, or Satan, the Devil, the “god of this world”).
It was 10:30 a.m., February 10, 1929, with the rain falling in torrents from leaden skies, that the pope, robed in white and wearing a gold tiara, and seated within his famous gestatorial chair, in which he was carried around by eight bearers, spilled the beans for us all by “blessing” the whole world.
We did not learn of this until June, when we said:
“We’re all sunk now, for it seems that just before the pope finished his deal with Mussolini to take over the temporal power and a goodsized chunk of the money which America recently loaned to Italy, in a moment of thoughtlessness he blessed the whole world. And, mind you, this is after all those airplanes blessed by the pope and bishops have landed at the bottom of the sea.”
Ever since that time the world has had nothing but hard luck, and we can’t help but feel that the pope wished it all on us when he blessed us. But now that we have got it, why blame God for it, when the Devil is really the one at fault?
Ministers Fundamentally Off
THE differences of Chicago ministers on the question of fundamentals confirm Judge Rutherford’s charge that the clergy are not really fundamental, but either reactionary or unfaithful and faithless. The survey of 1,039 clergymen listed with Chicago Church Federation revealed the fact that the majority of the pastors of that representative city hold views that are thoroughly unscriptural. The existence of the Devil is denied by 54 percent; the existence of angels, by 60 percent; the existence of heaven, by 59 percent; and of a judgment day, by 39 percent; while belief in the unscriptural doctrine of inherent immortality is professed by 92 percent. Sixty-seven percent of the ministers hold beliefs in evolution that are not supported or warranted by Scripture. Their views on hell are fully as unscriptural as their other opinions.
United States Treasury Robbed
Uncle Sam to do this or that for such and such a price; that has often been done. But in March an old-time and unskillful thief robbed a showcase containing $75 in gold coins; it was directly in front of the cashier’s office, and immediately above the treasury vault, where millions of dollars in gold and paper are kept. The thief got away without disturbing any of the police or watchmen guarding the nation’s wealth.
The Reign of Terror in Poland
SAYS Charles Edward Russell: “In Poland, for many months now, the Jews have lived, if at all, under a reign of terror. In many towns and cities Jews have cowered in their houses, not daring to appear upon the streets. If one was seen anywhere the sight was the signal for a riot. Thousands of Jews have been beaten; some have been killed. All Jewish stores have been looted or closed. Jewish workmen have been unable to pursue their vocations. Whole Jewish communities are literally starving. Jewish children have been driven from the schools; Jewish students, from the universities.
“Members of an anti-Semitic society have armed themselves with sticks having razor blades at the end, and with these have attacked, and slashed, Jewish fugitives. Other detachments have traveled to and fro on railroad trains looking for Jewish passengers, and beating any they have been able to find. Trains have been stopped between stations, and Jews driven from them.
“Three Gentiles were mistaken for Jews and nearly beaten to death, one of them a public officer.
“A funeral procession was organized to do honor to an anti-Semite killed in a drunken and riotous attack upon a Jewish house. As it went along, cursing the Jews, there was an explosion, and one of the marchers fell, badly wounded. Instantly arose the cry that he had been shot by Jews, and extensive raids were planned to hunt the Jews from their hiding-places. At the hospital no bullet wounds were found upon the injured man, but in his body pieces of tin. This started the suspicions of the police, and he confessed that he had been carrying a hand grenade to use against the Jews and it had prematurely exploded.”
A 'Good Cigarette' Gone Wrong?
ON JANUARY 28 (1934) a $100,000 fire destroyed the Jesuit Novitiate of the Sacred Heart Winery at Los Gatos, Calif. The wine manufactured there was used at sacraments and masses and for just plain drinking by papas of the church, and brought good prices. It is rumored that winery owners who pay good taxes to the government had an idea that a careless cigarette might be a good investment if deposited wisely. But the Jesuit Novitiate of the Sacred Heart Winery is to be rebuilt on a larger scale than before; so that is another "good cigarette’ gone wrong.
Ware Chair Factory Closing Down
JUST 259 years ago the Ware family landed in southern New Jersey and started a chair factory. For generations they obtained their own wood from the near-by woodlands and gathered their own rushes from the marshes, formed their own frames, glued them together, wove the rush bottoms, stained and varnished their product, and acted as their own salesmen. The great-grandson of the founder of the plant is eighty years of age, with no apprentices and no children, and the plant will be closed down and soon be nothing but a memory.
Sterilizations in Michigan
IN THE past twenty years 904 inmates of a single home and training school have been sterilized at Lapeer, Michigan, 129 of them last year. It is claimed that a frightened youth was chained to an operating table and forced to submit, and that a young girl was tricked into a sterilization operation which she knew nothing about until she awakened from the ether.
Robbed the Church of Its Cards and Dice
THREE Detroit youths robbed the Reverend Hofkesbrink’s Rosedale Park (Mich.) church of four decks of cards, six pairs of dice, and four ash trays. The name of the church, whether it was St. Peter’s, St. Anne’s, St. Joseph’s, or whose, was not given. Anyway, they were bad boys to cut the saints out of their usual poker games, or whatever it was they were playing. As no denomination was mentioned, the name of the sect is known, for there is only one church carefully shielded in cases of this kind.
O'Mahoney Assails the Plunderers
IN AN address at Indianapolis Senator Joseph
C. O’Mahoney, of Wyoming, denounced “the ring of promoters and bankers, their alliance with public officials, their use of popular heroes, clean-cut young aviators and experts, to win public confidence, and then their raid upon the national treasury w’hile paying themselves huge salaries and bonuses”. While he was at it the senator also explained that “insiders were admitted on the ground floor and, before the public selling campaign began, were permitted to purchase stock at a fraction of the price at which it was later offered on the open market. The innocent public, its enthusiasm aroused by the heroic feats of the young eagles, was permitted to rush in with its savings and make the market in which the favored few were able to unload”. That tells the story, in about as succinct language as it has ever been told, of how the big bankers connive to rob the common people.
Monopolists Retarding Prosperity
Senator Borah puts it very well when he says: “To raise prices first, as monopoly is doing, is simply to hold labor and the producer down to the bare level of existence. With the pricefixing power in the hands of those interested in charging all the traffic will bear, there is no hope of restoring the purchasing power of the masses.”
Boys Sentenced to Sunday School
TWO Seattle youths who stole an electric heater from a Christian Science church of that city have been sentenced to go to church morning and evening and to attend Sunday school for the next two months. Can’t help but wonder what they will be taught. Will they get the information that an infinitely loving God deliberately planned to roast almost the whole of the human family in the strangling fumes of burning sulphur throughout all eternity for something that somebody else did six thousand years ago? Will they be taught that their ancestors were chimpanzees? Will they be taught that somebody with his collar on backwards can, for a consideration, get their relatives out of the frying pan ahead of time? The judge who sentenced them should have specified the curriculum.
New Jersey Trying to Keep Out Truth
NEW JERSEY is afflicted with quite a number of reactionaries and standpatters who will not hear of progress in any direction and who simply will not tolerate the truth. They want to penalize severely anyone spreading propaganda against any group of persons because of their religion, race or color. It is believed (by some) that this measure is aimed at Nazi propaganda, but it is appreciated by others that it is intended to keep out Jehovah’s witnesses with their testimony that the kingdom of God is the hope of the world. Many New Jersey towns have persistently subjected these messengers of peace to every kind of indignity and inconvenience.
The hand of Rome is clearly evident in this piece of medieval legislation, which proposes not only to punish those who circulate literature unfavorable to the “churches” now stagnating in New Jersey, but those also who so much as dare to possess such literature.
San Francisco’s Sale of Hetch Hetchy
SAN FRANCISCO voted last November to sell its Hetch Hetchy power to the Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation. This will bring the city $2,000,000 per year. The private company will sell the power back to San Francisco for $8,000,000 per year. Pursuing this method of self-enrichment, the people of San Francisco should all sell their homes for one-fourth of what they are worth and then use the money thus obtained to pay a good stiff rent for the same properties. In this way they would help Big Business, which seems to be San Francisco's one great aim.
40,000 or 50,000 Too Many Pastors
THE LITERARY DIGEST, March 10, 1934, has an article entitled “Finds 85,000 ‘Poverty-Stricken’ Churches; Three-Year Survey Also Shows an Oversupply of Between 40,000 and 50,000 Protestant Pastors”. The Digest doesn’t say what is to be done with the 40,000 or 50,000 that nobody wants to hear preach. We have a suggestion. Let them go to work, like other people. After a few weeks in overalls the whir of the alarm clock at 6:00 a.m. will seem like music; and the footfalls on the cold bedroom floor, like steps in paradise, compared with the slow-moving bread lines in which these purveyors of advice on all subjects beneath the skies now march to the tune of the dirge.
Swindling Disabled War Veterans
Representative Griswold has uncovered a racket devoted to the swindling of mentally disabled war veterans. The swindlers enter heavy overcharges for clothing and other items, and invest in depreciated securities for which they charge the par price. By these means the estates of thousands of former soldiers have been robbed of millions.
“The Holy Tunic of Christ”
THE so-called “Holy Year” ended with the exhibit at Argenteuil, France, of the so-called “Holy Tunic of Christ”, Good Friday to Easter Sunday, March 30 to April 1, 1934, inclusive, by authority of the pope himself. This garment, supposedly woven and colored by the virgin Mary, is said to be made of wool, seamless, 40 inches long, purple in color, and last exhibited to the public in 1829.
The argument that it is genuine is based on Mark 15:17, which reads, “And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head.” Everybody who can reason must know that the purple which was put on Jesus at that time was nothing that Mary made for Him, but was a garment borrowed for the occasion and intended to mock His claim of royalty.
And if you read on down to the twentieth verse you ascertain that “when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him”, and the mere manner of the statement proves that the normal color of Jesus’ clothing was not purple.
Japanese Rejoicing
THE happiness of Emperor Hirohito of Japan at the birth of a crown prince, and the coincident happiness of the populace generally, was shared also by 35,000 convicts and prisoners, including a number of assassins, all of whom had their sentences reduced by as much as one-fourth.
City Salaries Paid out of Capital
INVESTIGATIONS into New York city’s government disclose that something like $50,000,000 was paid out in salaries in the last ten years, which payments were made out of capital and never appeared in the budget. That is one of the reasons why the city’s bonded debt has gone soaring.
Franco-German Cooperation in World, War
URING the World War the Franco-German armament makers cooperated with each other beautifully. Through the Lonza Company, Switzerland, the French apostles of Big Business supplied Germany with huge quantities of glycerin for explosives, nickel, copper, oil and rubber for other military purposes. Germany ■was equally obliging. Every month 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel or barbed wire were shipped into France via Switzerland. One family of armament makers, called the “de Wendels” in France and called the “von Wendels” in Germany, supervised these exchanges. Their control over both the French and German governments was so great that gunfire was carefully directed away from their ammunition factories on both sides of the line. England was affiliated with both sides, through the Vickers company. In rural England is a cannon captured from a German regiment. On one side of the cannon are engraved the names of the British soldier lads that were killed by it; on the other side is engraved the name of the British concern, the Vickers Company, that made the gun.
“Of Thee I Sing”
(Reprinted from the St. Paul Daily News) Mr. W. H. Dewar is a Y.M.C.A. secretary of Canadian birth who was anxious to become an American citizen. Appearing before Judge Alfred A. Stein, in Elizabeth, N. J., he was asked to present a written statement giving his position in regard to war and peace. This he did in the following language:
“I have no reservation whatsoever about bearing arms in defense of the country. Should the government, however, undertake war ‘for the solution of international controversy’ I could not guarantee now what my conscience might dictate under such circumstances, or should the government enter any war that is used ‘as an instrument of national policy’ in expressing our relations with another nation I could not give assurance now as to what my position might be at such a time.”
In presenting his statement to the judge Mr. Dewar called attention to the fact that the quotations were taken directly from the Kellogg peace pact. Nevertheless Judge Stein said that on the basis of previous decisions he would have to deny Mr. Dewar’s application for citizenship. According to the Kellogg pact the United States has renounced war as an instrument of national policy. But it objects, apparently, to having its prospective citizens do so. We have one position, it seems, for consumption abroad and another for home use. No wonder people by the thousands are going to the New York musical comedy “Of Thee I Sing” to roar at their own government. As one reviewer put it, “The play is funnier than the government, and a lot less dangerous.”
A parallel of the above occurred during the World War, in Wisconsin. A professor of economics told his class that Liberty bonds were not worth their face value, and he was arrested and tried for sedition and admitted making the statement. He was fined $300, and offered three $100 Liberty bonds in payment of his fine. They were refused on the ground that they were not worth $300; so his friends made up the difference in cash. “Consistency, thou art a jewel.”
Middletown’s Plant Pays All Bills
MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania, owns its own municipal lighting plant. The budget for 1934 is $56,700. The municipal lighting plant is estimated to earn that much and $5,000 more —the latter sufficient to pay for a building recently purchased for a borough hall.
The U. S. Beatitudes, Inc.
By Mrs. M. T. Hatton, (Reprinted from the Birmingham Post) BEFORE John Wharton’s missionary from Siam arrives, I hope you will forward him a copy of the enclosed beatitudes, U. S. interpreted and incorporated. It would never do to allow his entering the U.S. without this preparatory course:
Blessed are the proud and haughty of spirit: for to them belong the chief seats in the temples of worship.
Blessed are they that laugh: for they are popular.
Blessed are the selfish and the oppressor of the meek in spirit: for they have inherited the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after the sweat and blood of their neighbor: for they are full.
Blessed are the rich and unmerciful: for they have obtained mercy at the bar of injustice and the altar of the church.
Blessed are the impure in heart: for they are holding high revelry with their god.
Blessed are the hellish war makers: for they are called the children of Christianity.
Blessed are ye when men shall say all manner of flattering things to you in the name of Christ.
Let yourself be invisible before men, that they may not see your evil works; and glorify God with your lips while the heart is studying mischief.
Ye are the confusion of the world; a city hidden underground, where souls are separated and lost in dark, blind passages of man-made creeds and dogmas.
Whosoever shall break one of these commandments and teach men so, he shall be outlawed from the select circle and knifed in the back; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be great in the kingdom of Babylon.
Be ye therefore perfect in these things as your father the Devil is perfect; for verily I say unto thee, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from this law that is being fulfilled, if the power of Satan and money can prevent it.—Selah.
Mother’s Day
WITH “Mother’s Day” demanding the attention of the people, it is appropriate at this season to consider to what extent such an observance is either proper or desirable. Doubtless many mothers would prefer that the attentions showered upon them on one day in the year might be a little more evenly and consistently distributed over the rest of the year, and there have not been wanting voices that have decried as both sentimental and hypocritical the practice of setting aside one day in the year for the purpose of rendering special homage to mothers, with “Father’s Day” coming in as a weak and half-hearted second. Particularly apt and moderate are Judge Rutherford’s comments on this subject. We give herewith a brief extract from his book Vindication (I), pages 157-160:
Every good man loves his wife, his mother and his sisters, and is kind and considerate to all women; but that does not mean that he should put women in a place contrary to the expressed will of God. In the church of God the man represents Christ the Head, while the woman pictures the bride of Christ, that is submissive to the Head. The divine rule is this: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. ” (1 Corinthians 11: 3; Ephesians 5: 23-25) Satan would reverse this rule and put the women to the front. He begins his reform work by first deceiving and misleading the women, and then appeals to the so-called “gentlemanly” qualities of man to submit to his subtle scheme. The modern practice of putting women to the fore in the affairs of religion and in the councils of state has much to do with destroying the sacredness of the home and with turning men away from God. Thus Satan has deceived and led the men and women in the wrong way, in order to turn them away from Jehovah God.
Let it always be kept in mind that the policy of Satan is to turn the people away from the Creator, and to accomplish his purposes he uses divers and numerous schemes, many of which on the face of them seem to be entirely right and proper. God commands: “Honour thy father and thy mother.” (Exodus 20:12) He did not command, however, that the father should be excluded. The father represents Jehovah, from whom comes every good thing, while the mother represents God’s organization, used for His good purposes and to His glory. (Isaiah 54:5; 66:8; Psalm 50:20) Satan would turn the people away from this beautiful symbol, and therefore from God, and cause them to disregard the Word of the Lord. This he does in a very subtle way by organizing what in England and in America, the chief countries of “Christendom”, is called “Mother’s Day”. This day began to be observed in England, in 1913. That same year the United States Congress, by resolution, made the second Sunday in May of each year a national holiday, “dedicated to the memory of the best mother in the world, your mother.” That sounds nice, and on the face of it looks nice; but is it sincere? and what is the real purpose thereof? Do the men of England and America love their mothers better since 1914 than they did before? Certainly not. Is it true that every man’s mother is the “best mother in the world”? Everyone knows that is not true.
The so-called “Mother’s Day” was observed in America first in 1914, the very year that Satan’s world ended and when he knew his time was short to get ready for the great battle of Armageddon. To induce the people to bestow special honor and worship upon mothers would be one step towards turning the people away from the worship of God; and this is one of his means of preparing for Armageddon. In all the churches today much is made over “Mother’s Day’’, but in not a single one of them are the people ever told that God is the Father, and that the “mother” is His organization, and that all honor and worship is due to Jehovah God. On the contrary, the men of “Christendom” are taught to pay their honor to creatures, and not to the Creator; and this by the clergymen, whose duty and obligation is to teach the people the truth of God’s Word.
On the face of it the arrangement of “Mother’s Day ’ ’ seems harmless and calculated to do good. But the people are in ignorance of Satan’s subtle hand in the matter, and that he is back of the movement, to turn the people away from God. The slogan is: “The best mother who ever lived”; the purpose being to establish creature worship, or at least to divert the attention of man from the proper worship of God. There have been many good mothers of men, and many bad ones. Not every man has the best mother that ever lived; and therefore the slogan is false. The woman that dishonors Jehovah God and blasphemes His name is not a good woman, regardless of how many children she may bear; whereas some of her children may be faithful servants of God. The good mother is the one who serves and honors Jehovah and teaches her children to do likewise, and who renders her proper motherly duties in the home. Real men have great respect and great love for sueh mothers, but their worship is given to Jehovah God.
Neither the man nor the woman should be worshiped for doing right, because such doing of right is their duty. Creature worship of any kind is wrong and an abomination in the sight of God.—Luke 16:15.
R. C. Catechism
THE extracts below are from the “Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and enjoined by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore”. The Scripture quotations are from the Roman Catholic (Douay) translation. Editorial comments are in brackets.
“The soul is like unto God because it is a spirit that will never die.’’
“The soul that sinneth, the same shall die.” (Eze-chiel 18:4) “The King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality.” (1 Timothy 6:15,16) “He spared not their souls from death.” (Psalm 77: 50) “God . . . will render to every man according to his works. To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life. ’ ’—Romans 2: 5-7.
“We shall know the things which we are to believe from the Catholic Church, through which God speaks to us.”
“Thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice.” (2 Timothy 3:14,16) “To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.” (Isaias 8.- 20) “Who received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether these things were so.” (Acts 17:11) “For what things soever were written, were written for our learning: that through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.” (Romans 15:4) “Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.”—John 17:17.
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“God is everywhere.”
“Our Father who art in heaven.” (Matthew 6: 9) “For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”—Ecclesiastes 5:1.
“In God there are three Divine persons, really distinct, and equal in all things—the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.”
“Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, 0 Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart.” (Mark 12:29) “Yet to us there is but one God, the Father . . . and one Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 8:6) “The Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28) “Jesus . . . being exalted therefore by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this which you see and hear. ’ ’—Acts 2: 33.
“The chief blessings intended for Adam and Eve, had they remained faithful to God, were a constant state of happiness in this life and everlasting glory in the next.”
“For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.” (Genesis 2:17) “And to Adam he said: Because thou hast . . . eaten of the tree . . . into dust thou shalt return.” (Genesis 3:17-19) [Note: They would not have died at all, had they remained obedient.]
“The Blessed Virgin Mary, through the merits of her Divine Son, was preserved free from the guilt of original sin, and this privilege is called her Immaculate Conception.”
“But the scripture hath concluded all under sin.” (Galatians 3: 22) “We have charged both Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under sin.”—Romans 3:9.
“The Pope, the Bishop of Rome, is the visible Head of the Church because he is the successor of St. Peter, whom Christ made the chief of the Apostles.”
“Call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, Christ. He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.” (Matthew 23:9-12) “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:1) “But when Cephas (Peter] was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.” [The keys committed to Peter were keys of knowledge. The Pharisees had taken away the key of knowledge, attempting to shut up the kingdom of heaven by keeping the people in ignorance. Peter used the keys at Pentecost and when preaching the gospel to Cornelius, thus opening the kingdom opportunities to Jews and Gentiles.—Luke 11:52; Matthew 23:13; 16:19; 18:18; Acts 2:14; 10:34.]
‘‘The successors of the other Apostles are the Bishops of the Holy Catholic Church.” [Jesus said nothing about successors to Peter or the other apostles. Since He made no provision for successors, no one is authorized to do so. The apostolic office continued only in the writings of the apostles.]
‘‘Jesus Christ is whole and entire both under the form of bread and under the form of wine.”
“And taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. In like manner the cbaliee also, after he had supped, saying : This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.” (Luke 22:19, 20) “Jesus said to them: . . . Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.” (John 6:54,64) “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” —Romans 8: 9.
‘‘The Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ.”
“Without shedding of blood there is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22) “But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God, for by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.” (Hebrews 10:12,14,18) “Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dicth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him. For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.” (Romans 6: 9,10) “For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest . . . who needeth not daily to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, in offering himself. ”—Hebrews 7:26,27.
‘‘Our bodies will share in the reward or punishment of our souls, because through the resurrection they will again be united to them.”
“How do the dead rise again? or with what manner of body shall they come? Senseless man, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die first. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be; . . . but God giveth it a body as he will.” —1 Corinthians 15: 35-38.
‘‘Besides the sign of the cross and holy water there are many other sacramentals, such as blessed candles, ashes, palms, crucifixes, images of the Blessed Virgin and of the saints, rosaries and scapulars.”
“We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.”—2 Corinthians 4:18.
‘‘Holy water is water blessed by the priest with solemn prayer to beg God’s blessing on those who use it, and protection from the powers of darkness.”
‘ ‘ Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. ’ ’—Colossians 2: 8.
Wrestling with the Catechism
By A.L.S. (Ohio)
CHRISTENED and raised a Catholic, I had gone to the Catholic school for eight years, and won several Catechism contests. When through school I never missed a mass on Sundays or holidays for practically five years. Then my friend received the truth and presented me with a Bible and book, which I studied. Naturally, my parents and I being Catholic, it was very hard for me to decide which had the most truth. I picked out some of the texts that I read in a booklet, such as were different from my belief and would talk to different priests on the subject in order to settle differences, only to find myself more confused. Several instances I will mention:
I said to the priest that as Catholics we were taught that at death the soul leaves the body, and if in the state of mortal sin it goes to hell and cannot get out; “Is that right?” I asked. He said “Yes”. Then I asked him to explain the fact that “hell delivered up the dead which were in [it]” (Revelation 20:13), which proves that they are dead; also, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) In connection therewith, I asked about the resurrection of the body, if the soul was in hell and couldn’t get out to join the body. The answer was very unsatisfactory, that the body joins the soul. I certainly can’t see the sense of having a resurrection of the body if the soul is already in a destined place.
Then I said, “God is without beginning or end, how could Mary be called the mother of God? Point that out from the Scriptures.” I then received a bitter calling down, the priest saying, “How long have you gone to the Catholic school?” (he probably thinking, only a short time and I never understood the doctrines) When I told him “Eight years”, he said he was surprised that I never accepted the traditions of the church.
In their traditions I never learned the beautiful name Jehovah appeared in the Bible.
I quit the church about two and a half years ago, and have learned more reading some of your publications than in the thirteen years of Catholic training.
I have attended quite a few talks given by representatives, who were sent to the Cincinnati company, and enjoyed them very much.
May the Lord bless you in your work.
At “Church” on Mother’s
T HAVE gone to church for the last time on -*• Mother’s Day! Shocked? Not so much, as I only echo the voice of hundreds of women who assume a quaker attitude of motherhood.
Having on my very best, with twin carnations, red and white, to represent one mother dead and a more than mother living (I double up without any falsity about it), I proceed into the church bedecked with flowers, hundreds of them. Directed to a place roped off, I march up the aisle to low music. Thoughts come to one in church which at any other time find no lodgment. How much like sheep we were, so docile-looking. Most of us mothers had on new things and were not over the feel of them, which only added to our discomfort. Some began to weep before we were well corralled and, poor hearts, never ceased until the end.
After a few well-chosen words “Mother McCrea” came on. Oh my—though perhaps Mother McCrea was a jolly little butterball—her name sounds it, and perhaps she made cookies. Sure, I cried, too. I really didn’t know what Mother McCrea had done, but the voice was beautiful. (Poor Henry Boy, my non-shrinkable gloves were a present from him.)
The prayer was wonderful for words; but the length! Mothers are a busy bunch and can’t sit idle too long. And what a lot of mothers in the Bible! I mean good ones. I had to go home to look up the ones not so good.
To begin with, Adam’s wife wasn’t so much. Lot’s wife was rather fresh, and liked the swift crowd. Jacob’s wife No. 1 had a jealous spirit. Also, we must not forget poor old Job’s “better half”. All these had to balance the blessed Han-
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nah and others, but some way or other they had fairly good sons.
I bowed my head with embarrassment at the astonishing tribute paid to present mothers, tribute which should have been paid to God. In fact, God was off the map on Mother’s Day; clear off. But then, of course, God can get on again sometime.
Did you know that the Lord had a fine chance to start Mother’s Day away back there? He was teaching the people of God’s kingdom, and some one whispered ‘Here is your mother’. But did He stop preaching? No, He only said, “Who is my mother?”
And oh, the beautiful fairy stories of wonderful mothers! Whenever did they live? I recalled my darling mother’s round laughing face, the very picture of my daughter. Nothing saintly about her; just alive with joy and goodness.
I blushed as the man went on. We mothers were a standard to follow, a rock of defense, a tower of strength, religious leaders, a pattern which all time would not alter. We represented purity, honesty, to be worshiped, loved, reverenced, etc., etc. (Why should my thoughts travel across eighteen states to the ‘Goddess of Liberty’, pure, white, beautiful, but lifeless?)
Was I glad my boys had a date and my girl a cold? I could not face just now the roguish faces of my tribe; for I am not in the comparison. They know who and what I am: mother by nature, sister by adoption, pal by choice. My ups and downs are just like theirs. My advice is good only because of experience, but even that, in this day of increased knowledge, is not so greatly needed. My children know I have a temper like they have, and, with them, trying to conquer it. They know I am not an angel and never will be, dead or alive. I say “darn” and stop at the other “d” as they do. When they do things unwisely I tell them how their father did the same tiling. Our dad rather frowns at that, though. I let the boys know how he pulled himself out of the slump, and the strength it gave him to “never again”.
I don’t grow a long face when things go wrong. I get a red face, as angry nearly as they do, and we have the first round, but never a second.
We reverence Jehovah and His Son, and no one else, not even mothers. My children are never going to find me out: they know me from the start. They know that Dad and Mother do many wrong things, and that we reap what we sow, and so will they.
Mothers are mothers from choice; and just as you chose your life job, so I chose mine. Maybe mine is more important, but, after all, the thing is to do it well, whatever it is.
I shall never forget the first time my dear mother No. 1 said “darn”. She taught me many things in after years, but nothing so delighted me as the “darn”. Why? Because I knew then that mother was one of us.
There is no use, dear “reverends”, placing us upon your platforms by the side or in the place of God. It can’t be and isn’t done. You should extol Jehovah, and then, instead of roped-in, wTeeping Rachels, you would have rejoicing Marys and Elizabeths. Or else leave the mothers in the kitchens; they love it there, anyway.
I want no wall of wailing when I go hence; and there won’t be, as the wall is already down, and my children see on the other side. Mothers, mothers on every side of the road, and instead of weeping for themselves they will bear messages of joy here and another joy to the mother there, to the motherless and to those who never knew the joy of motherhood—that will be a true mother’s day, every day, anywhere, anyway.
The mothers of today are but the girls of yesterday. Why halo them? And in the words of my boys, “Goodnight!” veying to the people information concerning the general welfare would be a contravention of the fundamental laws of liberty which the early American patriots were careful to set forth. Obviously it is a matter of duty for the present representatives of the people at the nation’s capital to make some specific provision for liberty of the radio as their forebears did for liberty of the press and freedom of speech. Legislation that definitely safeguards against the restriction of free radio should be the first concern of the lawmaking body in considering ways and means of properly regulating the use of this medium of publicity. Provision should be made to prevent vested interests from monopolizing the essentially and fundamentally public utility for private ends. Discrimination and interference with the free use of this instrument by responsible and reasonable persons should be carefully proscribed. It should be the privilege of anyone who is able to provide the monetary means to bring to the attention of the people whatever message is, in his opinion, of sufficient interest and importance to warrant his spending time, effort and means in order to give it publicity, regardless of who he is. The very same guarantees that are made for the liberty of speech and of the press inevitably extend to the free use of the radio. This use should be limited only to the extent that an impartial and fair distribution of time and facilities demands, but to arbitrarily exclude an individual or organization from giving adequate publicity to its work, its message and its objectives, is manifestly a violation not only of fundamental American law, but of the divine law of equity and justice.
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WHEN the Constitution of the United States was framed the political leaders and representatives of the people took particular precautions to insure freedom of religion, freedom of speech and a free press. These were considered, and truly are, fundamental factors in assuring that the people shall have proper liberty.
The first amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1791, provided that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”. Before this, in 1776, four states, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina, all adopted what are considered the earliest legislative declarations in favor of liberty of the press, and as early as 1768 a legislative body in the state of Massachusetts declined to back up Governor Bernard in efforts to inflict punishment upon a publisher for what he was pleased to consider a libel of his honor. The legislature in question declared that “the liberty of the press is a great bulwark
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of the liberty of the people. It is therefore the incumbent duty of those who are constituted the guardians of the people’s rights to defend and maintain it”.
The assurances of liberty of speech and of the press, as well as of religion and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, have constituted bulwarks of liberty unequaled in other lands, and it has been pointed out that as a result of these foundation principles the United States has grown to be a great nation. It is unquestionably true that these fundamental provisions for personal liberty have played an important part in the progress of the nation.
At the time the foregoing legislative provisions were made there was no radio, nor was such a revolutionary and unheard-of invention even vaguely imagined. But radio is now an important factor in the life of the nation and its people. As an instrument of publicity, communication and broadcasting information it is nothing short of a divine provision, and rivals the influence and power of the public press. Its use for worthy ends is therefore a matter of greatest importance. To shackle this means of con-
The provision for freedom of religion in the United States has enabled the Roman hierarchy to grow to an extent not possible for it in any other land. It has laid hold of the accouterments of freedom for its own ends and has prospered in considerable degree. It is astounding now to see this organization turn against the very arrangements that have enabled it to increase in a land and under conditions which are fundamentally contrary to its inherent nature. The air of freedom and the environment of equality and liberty have caused it to thrive until now it begins to inoculate the very atmosphere in which it prospered with the stifling vapors of its inveterate hatred of true liberty.
The Roman hierarchy, successor to Pagan Rome and not to early Christianity, has come out into the open and revealed itself as the deadly foe of truth, sincerity, equality and liberty. It mistakenly deems itself sufficiently powerful now to show itself in its true colors and to begin to impose its will on the vast majority of the people. By no means all who call themselves Catholic are in harmony with the policies, activities and objectives of the Hierarchy, which arrogates to itself the power to rule them. The Roman hierarchy is therefore not representative even of the 20 millions who are counted as Catholics. Millions of these are only mildly interested in the Hierarchy. What holds them is the mistaken and unanalyzed notion that in some way the Hierarchy, in spite of all its contradictions to Christianity, is still the outstanding supporter of Christian truth. Nothing could be farther from the facts, and even a cursory examination of the gospels and epistles will reveal the fundamental difference between the teachings of Christ and the teachings and dogmas of the imposing autocratic organization which claims to be His sole representative. The Hierarchy, then, is representative of a foreign power rather than of an influential minority in the United States. At all events, it is certain that it represents (and misrepresents) only a minority of the people of the United States.
Now what does this essentially undemocratic organization endeavor to accomplish? Ostensibly it seeks to exclude from the air a person who is objectionable to the “religious sensibilities of Catholics”. Judge Rutherford is made the victim in this case. But it is not merely an individual that is involved in this matter. No one knows better than the members of that consummately subtle political machine, the Roman hierarchy, that the individual is in this case merely the tangible factor in a struggle which involves the fundamental principles upon which the government of the United States was built, and also the definitely contrary principles underlying the activities of the Hierarchy.
This is a fight and a controversy which involves issues that go far beyond the visible factors. It is a controversy in which no intelligent human creature can be neutral. It is a case of being for or against truth, fairness, justice and righteousness.
The Hierarchy represents the ultimate in the contradictions of true liberty. It is the absolute rule of a small class of ecclesiastical lords over the minds, the hearts, the consciences, the goods, the bodies and even the souls of the masses, who are to all intents abject slaves. The effects of its dominance over the masses are demonstrated in the Inquisition, the memory of which still makes the blood run cold and draws a pall of blackest darkness over the already gloomy history of the world.
It is this thing, this execrable power for evil and misery, that is seeking to lay hold of and suppress the free institutions of a free people, and to arrest the progress of truth and righteousness in a land where the opportunities and privileges of the masses have been most conducive to the general enlightenment and welfare of the people. It is seeking to establish itself in a land where its success would mean a complete reversal of the principles and policies that have for more than a century and a half governed the course of the people. In lands where it has held undisputed sway it is anathema with the more progressive and liberty-loving citizens, and even those whose abject subjection has until now been unquestioned are beginning to see a measure of light and to break away from the thraldom in which they have been held. It is a monstrous contradiction, an unprecedented example of the arrogance, temerity and ruthlessness of the hierarchy of Rome to now attempt the gradual subjection of the most libertyloving people on the face of the globe.
To the Hierarchy, Judge Rutherford is only a pawn, though an important one, in the game which they are playing, and in which the stakes are power and influence of ever increasing proportions for the Hierarchy. Shall the radio be throttled? That is the question. Or shall the radio, like the press, be a medium for the free discussion of all subjects that directly or indirectly affect the public welfare ? A provision to assure its free untrammeled use is unquestionably one of the most important pieces of legislation that have been considered by the American Congress in a long time.
Events in Canada By 0
TIME marches on, and the world, in place of making progress upward and onward, finds “Things Are Upside Down”, to use the caption of an editorial appearing in the Toronto Star, which reads:
In Canada, in all the western world, there is abundance and the efforts of governments is to cheek plenty and produce scarcity. The effort is to increase the cost -of living so that nobody may be in want. The whole thing gives one the impression that everything is upside down and wrong end first. When Captain Philpott makes a speech and declares that a new era must begin some people in Toronto speak of him as a visionary and say that it is but necessary for everybody to sit tight and everything will come out all right as has always been the case before. But Captain Philpott and others who speak in Ontario and the west are not alone in holding the views they do. Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of the Wall Street Journal, is quoted as saying:
“I am no prophet, but I know this is no cycle, no mere interruption in the orderly processes of economics. It is a tremendous turning point, the end of an era which has lasted for centuries.”
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