Golden Age, December 5, 1934
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SHALL THE TRUTH BE SUPPRESSED?
Complete text of address by Judge Rutherford broadcast over network from WBBR Brooklyn, November 18, 1934
PETITION TO CONGRESS DIET A SIMPLE SCIENCE
TRUTH
OBEDIENCE
MARKS HEIRS OF GOD
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Vol. XVI - No. 397
December 5, 1934
CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Priests Useful to Big Business . . 147 Percentages of Doubled Families . 148 Nothing for New "Workers to Do . 148 Over Ten Million Still Unemployed 149
The Jobless of Pennsylvania , . . 149 Forced Membership in Company
Union..........151
Public Ownership of Public Utilities 153
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
Shall the Truth Be Suppressed ? 131
Harney’s Amusing Denial. . . . 137
Fumigating the Radio Situation . 138
Petition to Congress
Petition
Achievements of America .... 147
An Intelligent Relief Administrator 149
Relief to States
The Privileged Rich
Barnard Seeks Better Voices . . . 154
Church Connections of British
Prisoners
‘‘More Power to You” . . . . 159
MANUFACTURING AND MINING
Ford Will Have Own Steel Mills . 151
Taunton’s Municipal Lighting
Plant......\ ? . .153
South Haven Celebrates .... 153
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
Going Up.........144
Fear of Collapse Not Idle One . . 149
Debts of $4,070 per Family . . . 149
General Motors’ Net Earnings . . 152
Things That Have Pinched Railroads.........152
Burning of Morro Castle .... 152
One Hundred Miles an Hour Trains 152
Companies Not on Relief .... 153
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Treasonists Offer General
Butler $3,000,000 ..... 147
Economic Suicide of World . . . 149
Lloyd George Says Wilson Lied . . 151
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Tower of San Francisco-Oakland
Bridge..........152
New Things About Biggest Bridge . 152
Golden Gate Bridge......152
Down Half Mile in Ocean .... 154
Claim Earth Has Five Motions . . 154
World’s Biggest Lightning Rod . . 154
HOME AND HEALTH
Diet a Simple Science .... 142
Cancer on the Increase.....144
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany 146
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
“Father” Harney Would Murder Judge Rutherford ..... 136 Shocking the Religious
Susceptibilities
Truth
“Be Thou Faithful unto Death” 146
Obedience Marks with Distinction the Heirs of God
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Volume XVI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 5, 1934 Number 397
Shall the Truth Be Suppressed?
Broadcast over network on Atlantic coast, from WBBR, Sunday, November 18, 1934, by Judge Rutherford
LIBERTY of conscience, and freedom of speech and press, have ever been dear to the hearts of the true men of America. Love for those principles moved the men of the early days to build this nation. Today there is an organized and subtle movement to take away from the American people liberty of conscience and freedom of speech. The prime agency of that unrighteous movement operates from its headquarters in a foreign land. Already many Americans have fallen into its subtle snare.
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IN THIS ADDRESS Judge Rutherford | protests against the conspiracy of 1 f “Haman”, now under way. Read It | | and rejoice that America still has a few 1 1 real Americans. With rare restraint the | | speaker held himself to his announced | | subject, a necessary and Important part I | of which was mention of the mutilation f 1 of Congressional evidence at Washing- 1 | ton. The story was so truthful and so | 1 pointed that the Washington radio station | | which carried It cut the speaker off from | | the last two minutes of his address. i 1 Not mentioned In Judge Rutherford's | | address, but directly related to It, and | i revealed by photographic evidence In | | this Issue of The GOLDEN AGE, Is the |
| fact that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,
1 claiming to control 20,000,000 Roman
| Catholics in the United States, has ex-
f pressed Its settled purpose to murder | 1 any or all of the remaining 100,000,000 | 1 Americans as soon as the Hierarchy feels | 1 that it has seized enough power to make | i this act 'prudent’. Interestingly, this | 1 evidence came to light 33’/z years, to | | the day, from the time this official pur- | | pose of the Roman “church” was an- | 1 nounced by Its spokesman.—Ed. |
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In the early part of this year a petition signed by approximately two and one-half million American citizens was presented to the Congress, demanding that affirmative action be taken to prevent selfish organizations from interfering with the rights of the people in hearing what they desire to hear by means of radio. That was the greatest petition ever presented to Congress up to that time. A law was enacted creating the Federal Communications Commission, one section of which instructs that Commission to hear evidence concerning the radio broadcasting methods and to report to the Congress not later than February 1935. Such hearing of testimony before that Commission was had in the month of October this year, and the official record thereof is now at Washington. The members of Congress are the servants of the people, and now the people are entitled to know what is contained in that official record, in order that they may instruct their congressmen at the next session thereof.
Jehovah’s witnesses offered testimony before that Commission, which testimony constitutes a part of that official record. My speech on this occasion is to enable the people to gain some information concerning the situation, and therefore I shall quote from the official record. The substance of this testimony will be printed in booklet form and millions of copies thereof will be distributed a-mongst the people within a short time. If you desire a copy, write the station to which you are listening or to Watch Tower, Brooklyn, and you will receive a copy without charge. At their own expense Jehovah’s witnesses are now bringing this program to you that you may get some of the truth of this matter.
A Radio Station Against Free Speech
One radio station* in this chain has threatened to cut off the program if any statement is made by the speaker which it would seem to that station should not be heard by the people. If that station does cut off the program, that will be evidence of an effort to suppress the truth. I shall say nothing about any person on this Just as this leaves our hands a cable comes from Hemery and Burton, London, England: ‘ ‘ Thrilling reception Pittsburgh broadcast.” (Reception from W8XK, Pittsburgh.) occasion except what appears in the official record at Washington; and all of such record the people have a right to hear. The two major broadcasting corporations in America could broadcast to you all of that record with very small expense; and they should do so, but they will not. That may be considered as circumstantial evidence that they do not wish the people to hear all the truth that is in that record.
Because this matter involves the right of the people to speak and to hear the truth, and hence is of such vital importance, you should write your congressman, demanding that the entire official record of the aforesaid hearing before the Communications Commission, Broadcast Division, be printed at the expense of the government and freely distributed to the people. You are entitled to know the facts which your congressmen have required the Commission to report.
The aforementioned petition presented to Congress early in the year charges that the National Broadcasting Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Roman Catholic Hierarcy, and others, have wrongfully, by threats, coercion and other improper influence, prevented many stations from broadcasting certain programs, thus depriving the stations of legitimate income and depriving millions of citizens of the privilege of hearing what they wish to hear. The evidence offered in support of those charges shows not only that said two major chain-broadcasting companies refuse to permit their facilities to be hired and used by Jehovah’s witnesses, but that they attempt to prevent other radio stations not owned by them from accepting and broadcasting such programs. The evidence also shows that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has, during the past year, carried on a campaign of coercion by means of threats of boycott to prevent Jehovah’s witnesses from using radio stations for broadcasting and have tried to induce many radio stations to refuse to broadcast programs offered to them in a legitimate way. Representatives of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in giving testimony before the Congressional Committee charged that the aforesaid petition was obtained by fraud. From the official record I quote:
“In keeping with Satan’s methods of false representations the statement has been made and widely published by certain religious papers that the names signed to that petition were obtained by fraud and misrepresentation. I here brand that statement as a deliberate and infamous lie, which has been published for the purpose of prejudicing this Commission and the Congress. The petition was plainly printed, submitted to the people, and was voluntarily signed by those persons who did sign it.”
People Should Be Free to Hear
The official record shows that the programs which are broadcast by Jehovah’s witnesses are called Watch Tower programs and are devoted to explanations of the Bible concerning God’s kingdom on earth about which all the prophets foretold and for which Christ Jesus instructed His followers to constantly pray, and which kingdom is the only hope for distressed humanity; that Jehovah’s witnesses do not desire controversies with anyone, hut they are earnestly endeavoring to give information to the people concerning God’s kingdom because of its importance to them; that Satan the Devil is the great adversary of God and of His kingdom, and that such adversary uses selfish men whom he blinds to suppress the truth and to keep the people in ignorance thereof; that the people should be free to hear the message concerning God’s kingdom and then determine for themselves what is for their own best interests.
The law governing broadcasting emphasizes the fact that radio stations must broadcast programs of public interest, convenience and necessity. The words interest, convenience and necessity should be clearly defined, and the definitions thereof should be according to the highest authority. The presumption must be indulged that Congress used the words according to the definitions based upon the highest authority.
Claims to Be a Christian Nation
In this connection attention is called to the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Church vs. United States, 143 U.S. 457, in an opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Brewer, affirmatively held that the United States is a Christian nation. The highest courts of practically all of the states have followed that decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. No lawmaking body of the United States could now be heard to say that the United States is not a Christian nation whether that claim is absolutely true or not. That decision means that the government recognizes Christ Jesus as the Master Teacher and Jehovah the Most High the supreme authority. Christ Jesus taught only the words of Jehovah God. Therefore the law of God as set forth in the inspired Scriptures takes precedence over man’s law, because God is supreme. We therefore ask the Commission and Congress to give due and careful consideration to the definitions of the foregoing important words according to the meaning placed upon them by the supreme authority. The proper definition of these words will aid in determining the value of the testimony offered at this hearing.
Interest. According to the derivation of the word, interest means that which commands attention because of its importance and value. It does not mean merely that which entertains, but means that which is for the good or profit of those who hear it or receive it. Necessarily it follows, that which is of public interest is that which relates to man’s peace, prosperity, happiness and his life. Since all these desirable things proceed from Jehovah God, that which is of public interest is Jehovah God’s provision for mankind.
Convenience means that which is necessary, proper, profitable and for the building up or improvement mentally, morally, spiritually and materially of the people. At Proverbs 30: 8 the word convenience is used in this manner: “Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.” The original word from which the English word convenient is there derived means, “That which is good, righteous, and well for my person.”
Necessity means that which is needful to meet a condition that exists. Where one is in stress oi' under constraint necessity is that which meets his demands for his well-being or betterment, and hence is profitable to him.
Interest, Convenience, and Necessity
The foregoing definitions, based on the highest authority, therefore show that programs broadcast should be for the upbuilding of the public in things which they need, mentally, morally and spiritually, and which would advance them in the way of righteousness and best equip them to meet their life battles. It necessarily follows then that nothing could be of such public convenience, interest and necessity as that which is contained in God’s Word.
It is written (2 Timothy 3:16,17, R. V.): “Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.”
According to the foregoing definitions of the words public interest, convenience and necessity there are very few programs that are broadcast in the United States that meet the requirements of the law. It is certain that the programs broadcast by Jehovah’s witnesses come nearer meeting the legal requirements than any other, for the reason that a large portion of these programs are based upon and fully supported by the inspired Word of God.
Further the official record says:
“Throughout the earth there is great opposition to the message delivered by Jehovah’s witnesses concerning the kingdom of God. This Commission and Congress arc entitled to know the reason therefor. Satan’s method of opposition is to deceive and thereby blind men to the truth and cause them to vigorously oppose the truth. Satan’s chief instrument used for this wrongful purpose is the religious organizations, their leaders and their allies.”
Hierarchy
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy used threats and coercion, expressed through various newspapers and other publications, to compel many station owners and managers to discontinue broadcasting Watch Tower programs of Jehovah’s witnesses.
Copies of such publications containing threats of boycott by agents of the Catholic Hierarchy were freely used in many parts of the country to coerce owners and managers of broadcasting stations and allied business enterprises. Such action was taken to enforce pressure upon those stations by means of organized letter-writing and personal visits of individuals and groups spurred to act by direction of the Roman Catholic clergy.
As a result of the nation-wide opposition conducted by the organized clergy and the subsequent action of members of the Federal Radio Commission in writing officially and specifically to hundreds of radio stations regarding the Watch Tower programs, many radio stations, induced by fear of losing their license, have broken their contracts with Jehovah’s witnesses and decline to further broadcast their programs until the matter shall be definitely settled by Congress or its duly constituted authority.
The official record of the Congressional hearing, which purported to show the methods of operation between the Catholic Hierarchy and its connection with the Federal Radio Commission to prevent radio stations from broadcasting Watch Tower programs, was mutilated, which mutilation tended to destroy the value of that testimony. The fact of the mutilation is not disputed. The question is, Who would be interested in destroying the record showing those connected with the Catholic Hierarchy in their campaign against Jehovah’s witnesses ?
Censorship
The two major radio corporations have joined hands with the clergy not only to censor programs, but to prevent such programs’ being broadcast which might disturb the religious doctrines long held by some others, even though those doctrines are utterly erroneous. They have created what they call ‘The National Church of the Air’, and limited all religious broadcasting to Catholics and Protestants, recognized clergymen, and refuse to hire their facilities to anyone who tells the people what the Bible says on vital questions of the hour. A few men have assumed to tell the people what they may or may not hear.
Objections to programs of Jehovah’s witnesses are that their programs attack other religions or other persons. That charge is not supported by the facts or the evidence submitted. Before the Commission Mr. Bellows, for opponents, testified:
“I do not believe it is legitimate to hold the things that are dear to other people, things that they care about, things that men cherish in their hearts, up to public ridicule.”
If a statement is broadcast, and which statement is fully supported by the Word of Jehovah God, that statement is not an attack upon men of the clergy profession even though such statement of truth makes the doctrines held dear by the clergy to appear ridiculous in the eyes of other persons. A statement of truth, fully supported by the Word of God, is of the greatest public interest, convenience and necessity, even though such truth holds up some men to ridicule and contempt. On this point the scripture says (Romans 3:4): ‘Let God be true though it make all men liars.’
People Entitled to Learn
Religionists have, for more than a hundred years, held to doctrines which are clearly contrary to God’s Word. If in the present time there is an advancement in the understanding of God’s Word, then the people are entitled to hear it; but if private corporations are permitted to determine that only those who advocate the ancient doctrines should be heard, then the people are prevented from hearing discussed that which is of interest, convenience and necessity to them.
As an illustration, the orthodox doctrine of both Catholics and Protestants is that when a man dies he is not in fact dead, but that he has an immortal soul that keeps on living and if that person was wicked his soul is in purgatory or hell torment. The orthodox doctrine is that persons in purgatory, undergoing punishment, may have the duration of punishment lessened by the prayers of men who are living and who are practicing the Catholic religion. The Bible, on the contrary, teaches that all who die are in the grave awaiting resurrection.
If the dead are not in purgatory but are in the grave, then certainly no man, regardless of whether he is a priest or holds any other position, could pray him out of purgatory or lessen his punishment in purgatory, and anyone who would teach the people that this could be done, and would take money therefor, would be taking money under false pretenses.
“Shocked Susceptibilities” vs. Information
Do this Commission and Congress wish to hold that repeating the plain statement of God’s Word on this subject shall be construed as an attack on religionists? Will this Commission and Congress conclude that the broadcasting corporation systems and the Catholic Hierarchy are justified in having these divine truths excluded from the people merely because the truths themselves “shock the religious susceptibilities” of some persons? If so, is this regulatory power of the broadcasting facilities being exercised in harmony with the spirit and intent of the Congressional mandate? Manifestly it is these plain Bible truths, clearly stated and broadcast for the benefit of the common people that they might hear and understand, to which our opponents object, because these truths expose errors of long standing, which errors are ‘cherished in the hearts’ of some persons.
If our opponents’ contention is correct, then it is more important to let the people go blindly on in the dark and not know of God’s gracious provision for them than it is to tell the truth which might disturb some time-worn doctrine that is ‘held dear to the hearts’ of some persons.
Jehovah’s witnesses have no fight with men, and whether any group of men is well thought of or little thought of is not material as far as this Commission is concerned.
Time-worn, Illogical Nonsense
In the light of the proper definition of public interest, convenience, and necessity, is it fitting and for the best interests of the people to knowr the truth as set forth in God’s Word, or to hold to the time-worn traditions of men which are ‘cherished by some persons’? Such doctrines of men as are mentioned above, and which are contradicted by the Scriptures, are not of public interest, convenience and necessity, in this, that they do not tend to the betterment of the people; but the truth of God’s Word is of public interest, convenience and necessity, for this reason, that it not only tends to lead but actually leads them into tbe light, builds them up materially, morally and spiritually, and shows them the way to eternal life. Here the words of Jesus are appropriate (John 17:3): “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
How can the people know these truths unless somebody tells them? and if our opponents are permitted to prevent the people from hearing, then Congress is permitting them to use the radio facilities against public interest, convenience and necessity.
Even though Jehovah’s witnesses collectively may be in the minority when compared with the group of Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others named as our opponents, yet two and a half million American citizens have petitioned Congress that they might be privileged to hear the programs of Jehovah’s witnesses, which they declare are of aid, comfort, benefit, interest, convenience and necessity to them.
Dare Congress Deprive Millions?
Will Congress permit our opponents to deprive these millions of persons of the privilege and liberty of exercising their God-given rights and duties of proclaiming the truth in obedience to Jehovah’s commandment merely because the proclamation of such divine truths “shocks the susceptibilities” of some who hold time-worn doctrines ‘dear to their hearts’?
If Congress permits this condition to persist and continue, then our forefathers labored in vain to lay the foundations of the nation as a place of freedom to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of one’s conscience.
Will this Commission and Congress desire to go on record as holding that if the unvarnished truth upsets some old and cherished doctrine the truth should therefore not be told lest it disturb the sensibilities of those holding such doctrines ?
Shall we assume that Congress meant that programs should be broadcast truly for the public interest, convenience and necessity, or that they be broadcast to please the sensibilities of a few individuals or corporations?
This matter is squarely before this Commission, and will be before Congress. The lawmaking body must determine whether a few men will be permitted to set themselves up as duly qualified to edit and select programs and determine what the people shall or shall not hear and thereby appoint themselves as the mental and spiritual guardians of the people.
Shall the people have a free and open forum to discuss and hear discussed vital questions and to determine for themselves what is for their welfare, or shall America continue to be a paternalism?
The Thing Desired to Be Covered
Would it not be more appropriate to follow the principles originally adopted by this nation, to allow every man freedom of conscience and freedom of speech? Also to follow the admonition of the great Teacher, Christ Jesus, to wit (Matthew 23:8, 9): “But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”
In this Twentieth Century of enlightenment, does it not seem that the American people are so advanced in knowledge and education that they need no company of men to pose as or act as their “fathers”? This is not said to hold up men to ridicule, but because it is the plain unvarnished truth. The American people are entitled to know the truth.1 Paternalism is foreign to American principles.
Where the Washington (D.C.) Station Faded Out
The mere fact that a plain statement of the truth as set forth in God’s Word “shocks the religious susceptibilities” of some and appears to a few men as an attack upon “the religious convictions of millions of radio listeners” is no reason whatsoever why that truth should be withheld from the people.
A most atrocious crime is committed in the land which shocks the susceptibilities of all order-loving persons. Yet these chain-broadcasting systems do not hesitate to broadcast the details of that atrocious crime. If the theory that they have adopted with reference to “religious” broadcasts is correct, then nothing should be published that might shock someone else, regardless of how true it .is.
Truth is eternal, and always bears the closest scrutiny and investigation, and could never be shaken or disturbed by any statement that any person or organization might make. Teachings of orthodox religion, ‘cherished’ in the hearts of some men, have endured only a few centuries, and now in the light of God’s Word it appears that those things so held are erroneous.
“The truth of Jehovah endureth for ever.” (Psalm 117: 2, XR.U.) Shall the eternal truth of God’s Word be denied to the people merely because the light from that Word plainly shows that previous doctrines might be disturbed? Of the two, which is of public interest, convenience and necessity?
A reference to the definition of these words hereinbefore set out will at once demonstrate that the truth, and the truth only, is of public interest, convenience and necessity. Error could never free anyone. It was the great Teacher, Christ Jesus, who declared (John 8: 31, 32): “If ye continue in my word ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
In all the programs broadcast by Jehovah’s witnesses, not one person has been called by name and held up to ridicule. The record will bear out conclusively the truthfulness of this statement.
Conclusion
The truth which the great Jehovah God, the Creator of heaven and earth, has caused to be published and preserved for the benefit of the human race is of such paramount importance to all things else that it should have the widest publication of anything, particularly among the people who claim to constitute a Christian nation. To maintain the claim and past reputation of this nation the solemn duty devolves upon Congress to enact necessary laws to prevent all interference with the open, free and wide publication by radio, and by all other means, of the truths set forth in the Word of Jehovah God.
By taking the side of those who oppose the message of God’s Word, all so doing align themselves with the Devil. By opening the way for free, unhindered discussion and consideration of the truth of God’s Word, those who so do, to that extent, place themselves on the side of Jehovah God.
It is written (Romans 6:16): We are the servants of him whom you serve.’ Let the Congress of the United States now choose to declare which side they take and whom they desire to serve.
“Father” Harney Would Murder Judge Rutherford
TESTIMONY offered in form of affidavit by Anton Koerber before the Communications Commission charges the Roman Catholic hierarchy with mutilating and destroying certain evidence presented before Congress by Jehovah’s witnesses. “Father” Harney, of the Paul-ist Fathers, considering himself implicated, rushes into print stating that he never asked to see the evidence which was mutilated. Nicely stated, isn’t it? Here is something else not so nicely stated. In St Peter’s Roman Catholic church, New Brunswick, N.J., there was placed in the box the question: “Does the Roman Catholic church regard Protestants as heretics, and does it not believe and teach that heretics should be punished, even unto death, if necessary?” It was answered by the “Reverend Father” Harney, of the Paulist Fathers, as follows: “In a way I say Yes. Certainly the Church does consider Protestants as heretics, in a way. A formal heretic is one who knows he is perverting the truth of God and the Roman Catholic church. No one, by sinning himself, should be allowed to lead others into sin. I do not doubt, if they were
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*T'HB Paulin Fathers, while conducting a mission in St. / X Peter's Roman Catholic Church, in New Bruns' wick, N. J., in May, 1901, had as one of the features a question box. One Friday night the following question was found therein:
2^**'Doos the Roman Catholic Church regard Protestants ** as heretics, and does it not believe and teach that heretics should be punished, even unto death, if necessary ? " It was answered by Rev. Harney as follows"In a way
I say Yes. Certainly the Church does consider Protestants as heretics, in a way. A formal heretic is one who knows he is perverting the truth of God and the Roman Catholic Church. No one, by sinning himself, should be allowed to lead others into sin.
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" As human society protects itself against the murderer { and the man who proves to be a traitor to the Government, I so the Church of God has a right to protect itself.”
On the Sunday following this meeting, a reporter for the Blew York Herald interviewed the priest and in that interview Father Harney stated that his remarks on the Friday evening, as given above, were correct. He said they expressed his personal convictions, and were in accord with those of the Roman Catholic Church.—From the Washington FeffowsWp Forwu, May, 1934. ,
~ Father D. J. Phelan, editor of the St. Louis Western Watchman, was received in special audience by the Pope in 1905 and 1913. Said this celibate in the Watchman: "We would like to rack and quarter Protestantism; we would like to impale it and hang it up for crows to build nests of; we would like to tear it with pincers and pierce it with red-hot irons; we would like to fill it with molten lead and plunge it into hell fire a hundred fathoms deep,”
"The only true Church” is quite as offensive in this Pro* testant country as it is abroad. Father H. Lester, SJ.» wrote as follows in the Pope-blessed Universe of 9th March, 1923: “We have said before and we say it again — Protestantism isn't a religion, it is a disease. The Church has to deal with those affected with the disease as a physician deals with a case of smallpox, or a dentist with a decayed tooth.”
Cardinal Bourne, the Pope’s chief representative in the British Isles, took a solemn oath (printed in the Daily Telegraph of 1st December, 1911), in which he promised “to combat with every effort heretics and schismatics and those rebelling against our Lord the Pope and his successors.”
Public men, ignorant of Rome’s uncharitable speech and action, sometimes patronize Papal functions. The Chnrch of Rome teaches plainly that the Protestant Churches are “from the father of lies and therefore displeasing to the God of truth.'' They little know the sort of thing they are helping on—a grossly intolerant and offensive foreign system — “the Italian Mission” (to use the Church Times' description).
Let us hope that a perusal of the Bureau’s tracts will open the eyes of the offending public men and women (Rome vilifies the fair sex. See the Bureau’s Tract No. 4) —* and that in future they will have nothing whatever to do with what Charles Dickens (no bigot) rightly described as the “most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world,” and John Ruskin as "the most debasing and degrading of all creeds,” while that great Roman Catholic authority, Cardinal Newman, simply stated the truth when he confessed that “the Catholic Church is encumbered with its connection with moribund nations.” Let that suffice I
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strong enough, that the Catholic people would hinder, even unto death, if necessary, the spread of heresy (such errors), through the people, and I say rightly so. As human society protects itself against the murderer and the man who proves to be a traitor to the Government, so the Church of God has a right to protect itself.” On the Sunday following this meeting, this would-be murderer stated that his remarks on the Friday evening, as given above, were correct. He said they expressed his personal convictions, and were in accord with those of the Roman Catholic church. We need only add that any man who would murder would commit any other crime whatever, including mutilation of evidence.
Harney’s Amusing Denial
NEWSPAPERS in New York, Philadelphia, New Haven, New Britain, and all over the country, have printed the Associated Press dispatch from Washington reiterating Judge Rutherford’s charge before the Communications Commission that agents of the Catholic hierarchy mutilated the record of Congressional radio hearings, thus destroying certain evidence. Hardly had these dispatches, dated October 4 and 5, been sent out over the country than other dispatches, dated October 8, also went out from Washington stating that “Father” John B. Harney, of New York, superior general of the Paulist Fathers, denied before the Communications Commission that he had asked to see the official record of radio hearings before a House committee last spring. Now just why “Reverend” Harney should rush into the case is for him to say. Seems as if it would be a good idea for the whole Catholic hierarchy, from the pope down, to make similar statements, equally truthful, and then the only unpleasant, stubborn fact remaining will be that the records were mutilated while in the hands of agents of the Cath-
olic hierarchy, where they had no business to be. But why should we put words in anybody’s m o u t h, when they know so well, of themselves, what to say?
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This was the statement made by the Rev. Mr. Harney, a Paulist Father in St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, in New Brunswick, N. J„ Friday evening. The Paulist Fathers have been conducting a mission for the<-last three weeks in that church. Last week th* services were for the benefit of non-Catho-lics.
A feature of last week’s service* was a "question box." This question was read by Father Harney on Friday night:—
“Does the Catholic Church regard Protestants as heretics, and does it not believe and teach that heretics should be punished, even with death if necessary?”
Father Harney’s answer was:—
‘■In a way, I say yes. Certainly the Church does consider Protestants heretics, in a way. A forma! heretic is one who know* he is perverting the truths of God and the Catholic Church. No man, by sinning himself, should be allowed to lead other* into sin.
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The Paulist Fathers, while conducting a mission in St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, in New Brunswick, N. J., had as one of the features a question box. One Friday night the following question was found therein:
“Does the Roman Catholic Church regard Protestants as heretics, and does it not believe and teach that heretics should be punished, even unto death, if necessary?”
It was answered by Rev. Harney (present head of the Paulist Fathers, 415 West 59th Street, New York City), as follows:
“In a way, I say yes. Certainly the church does consider Protestants as heretics, in a way. A formal heretic is one who knows he is perverting the truths of God, and the Roman Catholic Church. No one, by sinning himself, should be allowed to lead others to sin.
“I do not doubt, if they were strong enough, that the Catholic people would hinder, even unto death, if necessary, the spread of heresy (such errors), through the people, and I say rightly so.
“As human society protects itself against the murderer and the man who proves to be a traitor to the Government, so the Church of God has a right to protect itself.”
On the Sunday following this meeting, a reporter, for the New York Herald, interviewed the priest and in that interview Father Harney stated that his remarks on Friday evening, as given above, were correct. He said they expressed his personal convictions, and were in accord with those of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Agents of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy plead, with crocodile tears, that the broadcasting of the truth of God’s Word, the Bible, might “offend the religious susceptibilities” of some listeners; and that therefore such broadcasting, meaning particularly Watch Tower programs, ought to be strictly prohibited.
At the same time, is it any wonder that the susceptibilities of order-loving persons in every part of the land, who desire to know the truth, are ‘shocked’ and ‘offended’ when they are arbitrarily deprived of the opportunity to listen peacefully at home to broadcasting of the refreshing message of the true God, JEHOVAH, as that message is expressed by Him in the prophecies of His Word (the Bible) and as now being given to the people of this nation by Judge Rutherford and others of JEHOVAH’S witnesses?
One of the millions who are so ‘offended’ and ‘shocked’ is a listener in Virginia who has just written to Judge Rutherford. His letter, reproduced in full below, beautifully portrays the attitude of the two-and-a-half million who protested to Congress last January against the atrocious practices of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the National Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and others, in depriving Americans of the privilege of hearing Watch Tower programs, and whose PROTEST stands to this day unanswered. And here is Mr. Turner’s letter:
Judge Rutherford,
c/o Watchtower, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Friend :
Your talk of Sunday, November 18 (A.M.), from WCAU as regards the interference of the Roman Catholic clergymen with Watchtower broadcasts prompts me to write this letter.
I am not, never have been, neither will I ever be a member of any church, for the simple reason that their dogmas, doctrines, long-faced and impious moneygrabbing ways, and their hell torment and other ignominious twistings of the pure and simple laws of
Whose “Religious Susceptibilities” does this expressed desire to commit murder offend?
Almighty God and the teachings of Jesus Christ, nauseate me, and deepen my disgust of them daily, especially the Roman Catholic churches.
Watchtower broadcasts of the past tw*o years have given me the utmost joy, and increased my belief in Jehovah God and the Bible, beyond measure. What a pleasure to hear the plain truth in plain words! No Romish priest with clothes the color of the rainbow, calling some man his holy father, and bowing down to his wood and stone image-saints!! No preacher with his collar turned backwards, and his belly filled, telling the poor to give their hard-earned money to the church, and just believe, then they shall be saved from eternal torment!!! No wonder the world is in such a turmoil, but I can see peace ahead, thanks to the truths of the Bible as shown by the Watchtower broadcasts.
The following words are taken from a letter written by me and addressed to the president of the National Broadcasting Company, dated October 22, 1934. Up to this present moment I have received no answer, although I specifically asked for one, which seems to prove, to me at least, that ‘ ‘ silence may be golden, but it can also be an admission of guilt ’ Quote letter:
President N. B. C.
New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir:
May I as one of the N. B. C. ’s most consistent supporters and enthusiastic listeners take just a moment of your time for a bit of constructive criticism in regard to one of your Sunday afternoon programs.
The N. B. C. ’s policy, I believe, is to give to its listeners an unbiased and non-partial review of such public problems relating to politics, economics, religion, etc., both pro and con. I am therefore writing in a spirit of helpfulness, I hope, as regards N. B. C. ’s treatment of Sunday religious programs. I am not a member of any church, therefore I trust that what I am writing will not be taken as being for the benefit of either the Roman Catholics or the Protestants.
Your Sunday (P.M.) program (of the past few weeks), called the ‘ ‘ Catholic Hour ’ ’, seems and in reality is so obviously one-sided in the matter of religion that I am beginning to doubt very seriously the N. B. C. ’s non-partiality. I hope, however, that I am wrong in this conjecture, but it is impossible even for your most casual or non-partisan listeners to class this particular program as anything except partiality.
Permit me to call to your attention the non-denominational and independent broadcasts of the “Watchtower Bible Society”, of Brooklyn, N.Y. You will find, I’m positive, millions of N. B. C. listeners, getting, as I do, much pleasure and comfort out of these (Watch Tower) broadcasts; at the same time becoming puzzled as to the N. B. C. ’s—shall I say, ‘ ‘ lack of cooperation,” i.e., not giving to a large portion of its audience that which they enjoy, namely, the Watchtower broadcasts. Why not give them a ‘ ‘ spot ’ ’ along with the others (religions) on Sunday afternoons? It is my honest belief that in doing so you will be doing a distinct public service, at the same time proving N. B. C. ’s non-biased and non-partial attitude, which, I’m sure, it is in reality. Hoping for an early reply, etc. Unquote.
I have quoted this letter to N.B.C., thinking that perhaps it may be of some slight interest in showing how the Watch Tower programs are appreciated. Trusting that I have not taken up too much of your time, and hoping that the Almighty Himself will open the way for a greater number of people to hear the truth, I remain
Sincerely,
James E. Turner.
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ecretary Ickes, of the Department of the Interior, has suspended seven teachers of Indian schools for devilish practices, probably learned in some church system the name of which was not disclosed. These teachers had been compelling school children to kneel for hours at a time on concrete floors, or to stand for a quarter of a day immovable, with eyes fixed on a single point. Nobody could learn anything but evil from such persons.
Still Waters Are Stagnant
AYS David Brewer, in the Greenwich Journal: “The time is past in the history of the world when any living man or body of men can be set on a pedestal and decorated with a halo. True, many criticisms may be, like their authors, devoid of good taste, but better all sorts of criticism than no criticism at all. The moving waters are full of life and health; only in the still waters is stagnation and death.”
Petition to Congress
BECAUSE of its intense interest in the subject of freedom in general and freedom to worship God in particular, The Golden Age reproduces on the following page the petition being circulated by Jehovah’s witnesses and other liberty-lovers during December and January. The reason why it is here reproduced is that the readers of The Golden Age may have a part in this demand that what happened at the hearings before the Federal Communications Commission, Broadcast Division, be brought into the open. This matter has never been given adequate space in the newspapers. The people have a right to request that the Government do as the petition sets forth. The American people have been taught that theirs is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The people have a right to know what is being done in matters having an important bearing on their liberties. Cut out the petition sheet. Sign it, have others sign it, everyone for himself or herself, giving name and address. When filled send it to Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y. All petitions should be in before the end of January.
PETITION
To THE CONGRESS of the United States of America: Greetings!
In obedience to the mandate of the Seventy-third Congress, second session, the Federal Communications Commission, Broadcast Division, has taken the testimony of many witnesses in relation to the broadcasting of programs of public interest, convenience and neces-
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sity. We are deeply interested in these facts and therefore PETITION Congress to publish all the testimony and the report of the Commission, at government expense, and mail to each of us, the undersigned, a copy thereof.
ADDRESSES
Diet a Simple Science By H. Sillaway (Tennessee)
THE greatest difficulty in establishing a truth is in divesting it of the complexities we erect around it in its uncovering. The fallen human mind worships mystery and rejects simplicity. Dietetic truth is no exception to this rule, and no subject has ever experienced a worse maze of conflicting theory. There is little wonder that the average individual is perplexed. How can we expect people to take a subject seriously that not only is crisscrossed by and enveloped in theories that contradict one another in practically all essentials, but also creates tables, rules and regulations that are over the head of the average individual’s ability to comprehend and harmoniously apply ?
But, after all, diet is a very simple science. Does it look reasonable that the all-wise Creator has made man’s dietetic needs a matter of complex scientific study requiring years of more than average intelligence to get back of? Just a little common sense is all that is needed to answer this question. Our foreparents in Eden did not have to take a long course in dietetics to learn what to eat and how to eat it. They were told the foods they were to eat, and that was all there was to it. They were endowed by their Creator with the sense or instinct of food selection in proper variety and balance, and this was their unerring guide.
But mankind in general have long been on an off diet, and have formed perverted appetites, and some study and a lot of common sense are needed to get back on the right track. With most of us in the past it has taken years of experience in wading through theories and fads to arrive at the simple truths that common sense should have taught us at the start. But just ordinary, everyday common sense has little scientific ring to it; and because of that fact the majority of investigators of this subject are lured to the fads and theories with which it is beset, and each adds his own bit of theory to the mountain of mixed truth and rubbish.
But, after all, that is fallen man’s roundabout way of getting at the truth, and the truth results though it takes a lot of sifting to get it. After years of this sifting of dietetic theory no small part of it is found to be rubbish. Another element of it is scientific truth that is of special value to the dietitian and scientific anthority, but of minor importance to the ordinary individual at the present time, who merely wants to know what and how to eat to maintain health. To such we trust the following pointers on diet and the pitfalls of theory wTill be of interest.
While diet is one of the chief essentials to health, it is not the only one, by any means, and too much should not be expected of diet alone. Some authorities tell us that good health must and will result from the use of a proper diet where sufficient vigorous daily exercise is taken. But this is not always true; for many have not the constitutional foundation for perfect health, and the daily vocations of others are either of a character not healthful in themselves or are under conditions that cause nerve tension, mental depression or too great mental or physical strain. Again, many are subject to unavoidable worry which renders perfect health impossible. But whatever the handicap may be, diet is a long step towards health, and for that reason aione proper dietetic rules should be observed as far as reasonably possible.
People suffering from subglandular weaknesses, as many of us do, cannot expect full vibrant health to result from diet; for no system of diet yet inaugurated has had the miraculous power to develop constitutionally undeveloped glands. But, on the other hand, there is no class of people to whom a proper nourishing diet is more necessary for the maintenance of even a measure of health than the subglandular one. But through recent scientific discoveries there is a ray of hope ahead for this class of sufferers. In subglandular troubles, especially of the thyroid and adrenal glands, a lack of magnetic nerve force results, which in turn results in an improper atomic arrangement of the iron in the blood. To the extent that this exists, to that extent the iron is deprived of its oxygencarrying nature, which appears to be the principal office of the iron in the system. The result of an improper functioning of this iron as an oxygen carrier leads to oxygen starvation of the tissue cells, which is the direct cause of much disease and weaknesses among subglandular sufferers. It ha-s been found that by placing the patient inside a magnetic field for a few minutes once to three times daily the atomic state of the iron in the blood is corrected and the glands stimulated.
Tables of food values in their nutrient essentials are a valuable study in the selection of the necessary variety in the menu. But this very study often proves the very reverse of what it should, as more often its influence is towards faddism and theorism detrimental to sound dietetic rules. More often proper dietetic habits are better established by not giving these tables too serious consideration and by following simple rules, such as are here given, in food selection. After dietetic habits are once established on a sound basis a deeper study of the scientific principles involved will not endanger one so much to unsound theorism, and will be an aid in correcting minor irregularities in dietetic rules that have escaped our attention.
Wild birds and animals in their normal state are not subject to disease, because they live a natural life and eat what they should. Their food is selected through the food selection instinct with which the great Creator has endowed them. Man is subject to disease because he does not lead a natural life and either ignores the food selection instinct with which he is endowed or, through circumstances, is unable to use it. Perverted appetites have had the influence to crowd out his inherent sense of food balance and food selection. This sense is the only real guide we have for a proper and harmonious food selection, and for that reason it is necessary that we redeem it by a study and correction of our perverted appetites.
These perverted appetites are our tastes or preferences for all kinds of improper and demineralized foods, as pork products, corn syrups, white-flour bread, white rice, potatoes peeled before cooking, etc., and also the extensive use of high flavorings, spices and condiments, tea and coffee, all of which create false appetites and render our sense of food balance and selection more or less useless. Even a light use of any of the above-noted products is often sufficient to seriously interfere with a proper functioning of our food selectivity instincts, and the failure to realize these can always be traced to indulgence in some of our old perverted tastes.
Having rid ourselves of our perverted appetites we are now in a proper state for our food selectivity instincts to begin to function as our guide in what to eat and in the quantity of each kind of food to eat at each meal. And rest assured they will do it after a little rigid training, and far more nearly perfectly than can be done by the unnatural methods so widely advocated. For a time we shall be troubled by temporary returns of our old perverted appetites. These we must train ourselves to recognize. Remember, too, that our guiding senses in food selection will function only when we are really hungry. A strong desire for sweets at the beginning of a meal usually denotes a slight digestive derangement, and it further denotes that we are not really hungry, however faint at the stomach we may feel; for, normally, such a desire for sweets does not manifest itself, if at all, until the keen edge of hunger has been satisfied.
Of course, the reader is wondering what this sense of food selection that we are discussing is and how recognized. But, after all, there is nothing at all mysterious about it, any more than there is about hunger, of which it is an accompaniment and to which it is directly related. When we sit down at the table we often see some article or articles of food upon it that we like, and though we are hungry these particular foods do not appeal to our appetite at this particular meal. This is nothing more nor less than the discriminating call of our system for the foods in their combination of nutritive elements which it needs at that meal. In other words, it is our instinct or sense of food balance' and selection in operation.
We have always possessed this sense, but if in the past our diet has been an improper one, its functions have been perverted; and because of this perversion some authorities fail to recognize the original office of it, and think it necessary to figure out a table of the average proportionate amount of each nutritive element the system requires daily, and urge that we see to it that our daily diet contains these in something near that proportion. But here are the facts of the matter: The depletion in the system of the various nutritive elements which our food supplies varies greatly in time. Some meals or days we may not require any of some nutritive elements as available in some particular combination found in a certain food or foods.
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