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Vol. XVI - No. 410

June 5, 1935 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

A Nation of Paupers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

What Huey Long Would Do . . . . . . . . . 564

Who Was It That Said It? . . . . . . . . . 566

Child Labor Preferred . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

$3 a Week Wage After Five Years . . . . 571

Unemployment in France . . . . . . . . . . 572

Working on the German Roads . . . . . . 572

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL

THE PRISONERS FOR THE LORD IN GERMANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

STAY AWAY FROM NEW JERSEY! . . . . 554

No Gamblers in This Part of Brooklyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Waking Things Up in Australia . . . . . . 562

Messengers of Jehovah . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Freedom of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

"Faith, Hope, Charity" Charm Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

The World's Finest Linens . . . . . . . . . 571

Sheffield Busy on War Materials . . . . . 574

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Long's Tribute to Standard Oil . . . . . . 564

20,000,000 Tons of Pepper . . . . . . . . . 571

War Business Is Good . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Transportation in Australia . . . . . . . . 573

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

COUGHLIN CALLED FASCIST . . . . . . . . 556

Sedition—Inquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

An Honest Man in Bad Company . . . . . 562

PRAYERS AT FIVE BUCKS EACH . . . . . . 563

"Recovery Sure," Says Roosevelt . . . . . 565

SOS to F. D. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Who Incited the Greek Rebellion? . . . . . 571

Alexander Left $10,000,000 . . . . . . . . . 573

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

THE SOY BEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

English Farmers Resist the Tithes . . . . 570

No More Free Homesteads . . . . . . . . . 570

Russia's Collective Farms . . . . . . . . . 574

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Achievements of the Murderers . . . . . . 565

Britain Erecting Bombproof Shelters . . . 571

Gas Masks in Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . 573

HOME AND HEALTH

"Pep" Through Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Homemade Yeast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Tannic Acid for Burns . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Doctor Macdonald and Osteopathy . . . . 569

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES—"TO THE LIONS!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Cardinal O'Connell Told the Truth . . . . 558

"On Moral Principle" . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Reverend Hanford Describes Church . . . 560

Torture Chamber Found in Zagreb . . . . 573

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The Golden Age

Volume XVI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 5, 1935 Number 410

Jehovah’s witnesses — “To the Lions!”

JEHOVAH uses the lion as a symbol of justice and judgment. (Revelation 4:6-8) Christ Jesus is the judicial officer of Jehovah God to whom is committed all judgment in heaven and in earth, together with the authority and power to execute judgment. (John 5:22-27) Jesus Christ is therefore appropriately named “The Lion of the tribe of Juda”. (Revelation 5:5) “Juda” meaning praise, Christ Jesus is the Head and chief of all who praise and serve Jehovah. His judgments are in strict harmony with justice.

To the workers of iniquity Christ Jesus, the Executioner of Jehovah’s judgment, is a power of evil (that is, punishment for their iniquity), but to those who love and serve Jehovah He, the Chief Officer of Jehovah, is a shield and strength and protection.—Philippians 4:13; 1 Timothy 1:12.

In the construction and operation of his organization Satan has attempted to mimic Jehovah. By this means he has succeeded in bringing much reproach upon the name of the Most High. Satan uses the lion to represent his law, his abortive justice, and his judgments. In Satan’s organization men are condemned to death and are often literally thrown to the lions for execution, and the multitude, beholding the infliction of the penalty of the law, wag their heads and remark: “That man got justice.” But in this they were wrong. For centuries men have organized governments, made laws, and tried to administer them in the way of justice; but in almost every instance they have failed and their failures have been due to the power and influence of the wicked one, Satan. In the world the failure of the law and justice to go hand in hand has caused the people to have little respect for the law and also has caused them to greatly reproach the name of Jehovah God.

With Jehovah His law and equity are the same. This is not true in the organizations of men under Satan’s control. Men who organize and rule the nations of the world frequently make and enforce laws exactly contrary to justice. With them law and justice do not mean the same thing, even though the ruling element attempt to induce the common people to believe that law and justice are one and the same. Often when laws that are proper in themselves are improperly construed and enforced the result is great injustice against the person.

When the religious organizations, such as the Catholic hierarchy, find it desirable to rid themselves of annoyance created now by Jehovah’s witnesses in telling the truth, that political-religious organization brings forth a scheme to accomplish its purpose in an apparently lawful manner. The Catholic hierarchy widely advertises itself as strictly adhering to and obeying the law, while at the same time violating the spirit of the law in almost every instance. If a person is found doing something that is displeasing to the Catholic hierarchy and its agents, at once an effort is made to find some “lawful means” by which the supposed offender may be apprehended and severely punished. This is very often true, even though the one charged with wrongdoing is at the time proceeding exactly in accordance with God’s law.

Framing Mischief by Law

The law of God commands His witnesses to go from house to house and preach the gospel of His kingdom. (Matthew 10:11-14; Acts 20:20) It is the duty of God’s servants to obey this law. When they do so in obedience to God’s commandments the ecclesiastics, particularly the Catholic hierarchy and their agents, misapply and misconstrue the commercial law of men which makes it unlawful for a person to go from house to house and sell goods, wares and merchandise, and they insist that Jehovah’s witnesses should be severely punished, on the theory that they are violating the laws of commerce, although the hierarchy well know that Jehovah’s witnesses are not engaged in a commercial work. The real purpose of the hierarchy and their agents is to rid the community of Jehovah’s witnesses, and the real and primary author of their unjust scheme and procedure is Satan the Devil. This is proof that the Catholic hierarchy and its agents form a part of the Devil’s organization.—Romans 6:16.

A striking example of the injustice of certain laws and the enforcement thereof is found in the sixth chapter of the prophecy of Daniel. Since “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4), this record concerning the prophet Daniel was written and kept for the benefit of all who in these last days are endeavoring to serve Jehovah according to His commandments. “Christendom’s” rulers, particularly the religious element thereof, have a strong desire to be rid of Jehovah’s witnesses because such witnesses tell the truth and the truth exposes the sins and delinquencies of the religionists. The experience of Daniel aids one to understand why Jehovah’s witnesses continue to suffer at the hands of men who proceed against them under laws that are conceived in malice and enforced in wickedness.

Epitome

The record of the sixth chapter of Daniel’s prophecy followed immediately upon the fall of Babylon and the coming into power of Darius the Mede as king of Medo-Persia. Babylon being used throughout Scripture to symbolize Satan’s organization, Darius here appears to picture Jehovah God in whom supreme regal power is vested and who assumes rulership over the world from and after 1914, the year in which “the times of the Gentiles” ended. (Luke 21:24) As The Revelation, chapter 12, shows, Satan was then cast out of heaven, and from and after 1918 Darius, whose name means “coercer, conservator”, pictured Jehovah exercising His power in things pertaining to earth. Daniel (his name meaning “God’s judge”) pictured Christ Jesus, the Judge of all things in heaven and earth; he also pictured Jehovah’s ‘elect servant’ (Isaiah 42:1), of which Christ Jesus is the Head and chief and which includes the faithful remnant of His body members, Jehovah’s witnesses now on earth, who are joined together with Christ Jesus in the covenant for the kingdom of heaven. The lions, being the king’s lions, picture justice of Almighty God. The power of Jehovah God in shutting the mouths of these wild beasts against Daniel foreshadows His protection of those who are wholly devoted to Him as are Jehovah’s witnesses today.

“It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom [of Medo-Persia] an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; and over these three presidents, of whom Daniel was first [or, was one]; that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.” (Daniel 6:1, 2) Correspondingly, the ruling group of “Christendom” now on earth assume to represent God’s kingdom, and hence by their assumption they place themselves in an implied covenant to truly represent God’s kingdom but, on the contrary, they are opposed to the Kingdom. Due to its vast colonial possessions and mandates by the League of Nations “Christendom” has its ruling power operating practically throughout the entire earth, as foreshadowed by the 120 satraps of the empire of Medo-Persia scattered throughout the various provinces thereof. But to Jehovah’s witnesses, as “the faithful and wise servant” class, are committed all the “goods” or kingdom interests of the King, and they as a faithful remnant deliver the testimony of Jesus Christ according to the commandments of Jehovah God. (Matthew 24:45-47; Revelation 12:17) Back there Daniel “was one” and the only real one of the “presidents”, and even so now Jehovah’s remnant, who are His witnesses, are the “first” and only real ones who may speak with authority from the King and to whom the King has duly delegated authority to speak in His name.

Conspiracy

“Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”—6:3-5.

Exactly similar things come to pass in these wicked days. “Christendom,” and particularly its religious element, now seeks some apparently lawful means to destroy Jehovah's witnesses because their telling the truth interferes with the wrongdoers. The clergy have gone to the political element, whom the clergy wrongfully designate as "the higher powers . . . ordained of God" (Romans 13:1), and have laid charges against Jehovah's witnesses, charging them with being lawbreakers, communists, revolutionists, and anarchists. These malicious conspirators know that their charges are wickedly false, and this proves that their conspiracy is conceived in malice and prosecuted with extreme cruelty.

Even after the worldly courts have repeatedly held that Jehovah's witnesses are not lawbreakers, the religious element and their immediate allies continue to cause the arrest and imprisonment of these witnesses. As no real fault was found in Daniel, even so none can be found in Jehovah's witnesses in their work which would justify their arrest and imprisonment. They cannot be faithful to Jehovah God and at the same time engage in lawbreaking, such as revolution and anarchy, or otherwise willfully do injury to men. To the faithful followers of Christ Jesus the commandments are given to "love thy neighbour", and "love worketh no ill to his neighbour".—Romans 13:10.

The modern-day conspirators, particularly the Roman Catholic hierarchy, well know that the truth is their greatest danger and that if the common people know the truth, these ecclesiastics will lose their power and control over the people and their opportunity to fleece the people will be done; hence they want to "get" the ones whom Daniel foreshadowed, namely, Jehovah's witnesses, who testify to the truth. At first they treated Jehovah's witnesses with silent contempt, and then the truth stung them so terrifically and so terribly "shocked their sensibilities" that they were moved to act. Simultaneously they attempt to have a law passed in New Jersey (and it has passed there), New York, the provinces of Canada, in England and in other places, upon the pretext that such law is necessary to protect the people from the wicked movement known as Nazism, which now controls Germany. At the same time they well know that their real purpose is to destroy Jehovah's witnesses. In Germany the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Nazis, though not apparently, yet work hand in hand. How? The Nazis are engaged in an effort to kill Jehovah's witnesses. The Roman Catholic hierarchy is engaged in the same unrighteous business. Whenever some unusual and drastic measure is introduced in the legislative halls the claim is made that "an emergency has arisen", hence action must be taken!

The Issue

"Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree."—6:6-9.

Satan seems always to have held that "religious groups" should be safeguarded from slander and libel and hence no one should be permitted to speak the truth or act any truth that would tend to call attention to the frauds and hypocritical practices of such Baal-religion groups. This really involves the great issue: Jehovah God or the Devil, who is supreme? It was tried out with Daniel, and it is tried out now, and the result is certain to be the same way, for Jehovah is at the helm. Of course, any Jew, including Daniel, could within the secrets of his own heart and in his secluded bedchamber make petition to Jehovah and be heard by Jehovah just as well as in doing so by public prayer, and, he so doing in secret, the rulers in the governments could not know about it.

The same is also true of the present day. Such hidden worship by Jehovah's witnesses might be carried on by praying to Him and talking secretly to others about His kingdom without even the hierarchy's knowing it. But such hidden worship would be positive evidence of fear of man, and a silent admission that Jehovah is not supreme and cannot protect and deliver His own. This is exactly what Satan now desires to accomplish. The Lord foreknew this and warns that 'the fear of man leadeth into a snare'. (Proverbs 29:25) But "the fear of the Lord tendeth to life". (Proverbs 19:23) To be a true worshiper of Almighty God one must obey His commandments, one of which is, "Ye are my witnesses" (Isaiah 43:10, 12); that is to say, you must make known to others that your trust is in Jehovah and that He is the only source of life and blessings and the One to whom all proper petition can be presented with certainty of having the same answered.

Making the State Supreme

Back there, to limit all prayers to the king of Persia would be making the king a god and allowing him to control the conscience of men. Such would show supremacy of a power other than Almighty God. The conspiring satraps proposed a law that would make the state the supreme power, to which all the people must yield and thus blindly obey a human dictator. It is exactly so today. Every part of the earth is in a state of turmoil. The powers that rule are being defied by the lawless. The clergy and all religion-mongers come forth with pious faces and hypocritical words and say to the political powers, in substance, this:

'The communistic and revolutionistic spirit is due to a lack of proper respect for the religious groups in the land; therefore give us a law with teeth in it, which law will not permit any person or organization to in any manner speak or publish or say or do anything that might in any manner whatsoever subject our religious groups to ridicule, scorn, or contempt.' Further the religious conspirators say, 'This is a Christian nation, and it is the Christian duty of all to be subservient to the state in order that there may be peace and prosperity in the land.' Those words seem to be well chosen, but the speakers know they are hypocritical. They know that their claim is false and that their real purpose is to rid the land of those who faithfully serve and worship Jehovah God and speak the truth about His King and kingdom, which is the only hope of the world. (Matthew 12:21) These conspirators demand, therefore, that provision be made by law that whatsoever the people may hear by radio, phonograph, transcription-record machine, word of mouth, printed page or other means of communication, must first be approved by a committee appointed by the state; hence no one would be permitted to say anything until it is first censored by the duly appointed groups. They proceed to make up a committee of Catholics, Protestants and Jews, who practice their own religion, each of a different kind, and none of which serve Jehovah God, and this committee attempts to tell the people what they shall or shall not hear.

The evidence offered before the Congress of the United States in 1934, and before the state legislative body in New Jersey in the same year, abundantly proves that the clergy, and particularly the Roman Catholic hierarchy, have formed and are carrying out a conspiracy to prevent the people from worshiping Almighty God as He has commanded them. The enactment of such drastic laws which are destructive of freedom of speech and of press, so far as religion is concerned, proves beyond all doubt that the real purpose is to prevent the people from hearing the truth of and concerning Jehovah God and His kingdom. The Devil himself is back of such a movement.

Permission

The enemy of Jehovah's witnesses desire God's approval to go ahead in their destructive work, and hence they seek a "lawful means" to accomplish the same. They have long held and openly advocated that the political element of the world rule by divine right and hence that if they can have a law put upon the statute books under which they might "frame" Jehovah's witnesses they can thereby bring about their destruction and do so in apparently a lawful manner and with the approval of God, as foreshadowed by King Darius. Because the action of the conspirators was, in Daniel's time, and is now, a challenge to Almighty God, the King eternal, He responds to them as He did on another occasion to the Devil: "Thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." (Job 2:3) "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which [throne] frameth mischief by a law?"—Psalm 94:20.

The king, Darius, yielded to the request of the satraps. This illustrates how Jehovah permits 'the wicked to spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity to flourish' (Psalm 92:7), and to use so-called "legal" means or methods to bring about the destruction of faithful witnesses of the Lord. God permits the earthly ruling factors to pursue their own way and to enact laws according to their own selfish ideas and to enforce the same, that such laws may operate as a test to His own people; but that does not mean at all that God approves such cruel and unrighteous laws. The great question involved is the vindication of Jehovah's name, and hence that means that His anointed ones must receive the test and continue to maintain their integrity toward God until the end.

To the Lions!

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” (6:10) Had Daniel gone to the king and asked for a permit or a license to pray to Jehovah, that would have been conforming to the decree of the king, because he must first get the consent of the king before he could pray, and that would be showing that he did not sincerely hold that Jehovah is supreme and above the king on earth, which course of action would have been an insult to Jehovah. The state or earthly government is not a mediator between God and men. Jehovah is above all, and His law is supreme and His people will obey it.

As it was with Daniel, so it is with Jehovah’s witnesses. By disregarding the unrighteous law of the realm, Daniel would bring upon him death, but unfaithfulness to Jehovah God would bring upon him destruction. Even so today, Jehovah’s witnesses, by disregarding some law of the land, may be subjected to death, but their disregarding or disobeying Jehovah’s law means the complete destruction of their very existence, as Jesus declared, at Matthew 10:28. To obey Jehovah’s law the faithful anointed ones cannot hide themselves by declining to openly testify to His name, nor can they have an excuse to sit quietly in their homes and hum hymns and read religious books. The true and faithful are Jehovah’s witnesses, and they must not cease to bear the ‘fruits of His kingdom’ before men and to pray for the increase of Jehovah’s kingdom interests and for the destruction of Satan’s rule. In the faithful performance of their divinely given commission the faithful remnant know that they are putting themselves in a position of jeopardy at the hands of men who claim to execute God’s justice for Him; but the remnant are blind to everything save that of fully obeying Jehovah God.—Isaiah 42:19.

“Dare to Be a Daniel”

And so Daniel, notwithstanding King Darius’ efforts against it, was thrown to the lions. (6:11-17) Today Jehovah permits His witnesses to be delivered up and subjected to unjust punishment, that the test may be applied in vindication of His name and as a testimony against His enemies. (Mark 13:9) The den of lions was a place of fearfulness and of great danger, and hence a place of certain death to Daniel unless Jehovah furnished him protection. Let those who are faithfully performing their covenant in serving Jehovah God today be just as fearless as was Daniel. Manifestly Daniel did not show any fear. His persecutors were vicious, even as the persecutors and conspirators against Jehovah’s witnesses today are vicious and are just as vicious as wild beasts, and would, thinking themselves to be God’s “lions” of justice, just as quickly tear God’s faithful ones to shreds if permitted to do so. But the lions in the den where Daniel was put were the king’s lions, and therefore those lions pictured Jehovah’s forces of justice, which forces do destroy those who are guilty of breaking the divine law. Jehovah’s witnesses are in danger when the conspirators or executioners assume to be ‘bearers of God’s sword not in vain’ (Romans 13:4), and this they do when taking the law into their own hands. They fail to reckon that God is looking after His own. Jehovah knows full well who serves Him in spirit and in truth, and His own He will preserve.

Deliverance

Daniel was in the lions’ den all night, and that would afford ample time for the unchangeable law of the realm to be fully satisfied and justice to be fully executed. The lions in that den were the king’s, and hence they represented Jehovah’s justice. Those lions could not destroy Jehovah’s faithful servant, and hence, as Daniel said to King Darius, “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.” (6:22) Nor will God’s justice today destroy those who are faithful and true to Him. The malicious enemies may kill the body of some of those who are faithful to Jehovah, but the everlasting existence of these anointed ones is in the hand of the Most High, and nothing can pluck them out. In these wicked days of conspiracy against God’s anointed the beastly element that now rules the earth would quickly destroy them except for the protection that God furnishes through His angels.

The preservation of Daniel by Jehovah’s angel was proof that Daniel had been faithful. Likewise the preservation of the remnant of God’s organization is a confirmation that these witnesses have been faithfully maintaining their integrity before God. Daniel’s being taken up from the lions’ den seems to picture more particularly that there would be a series of acts of deliverance by Jehovah of the members of His anointed remnant now on earth, to the end that they might continue to serve as His witnesses. (Psalm 68:20, A.R.V.) Such acts of deliverance would be an indication of Jehovah’s approval of His servant class. The conspirators reason that the punishment of Jehovah’s witnesses by the terms of their (the conspirators’) laws (improperly called “rules of justice”) would prove that Jehovah’s witnesses are wrong, and hence that their lions (earthly rules of justice) would tear to pieces these “pestiferous” witnesses. The enemy, however, overlooked the fact that the lions belonged to the king and that they represented true justice that proceeds from the throne of God, and that real justice is meted out only by the Lord. No one could ever have occasion to regret his faithful devotion to God.

The rule of retribution is a just law. In due time, and that shortly, will come the turn of the conspirators in the “den of lions”, Jehovah’s “lions” of divine justice. They and all who now take their stand on the side of the conspirators and against Jehovah, and who render aid and comfort to the conspirators, shall suffer a fate like that which came upon those who conspired against Daniel. “And the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.” (6:24) None of that wicked crowd will ever be permitted to abide in God’s kingdom. The Scriptures indicate that some of the remnant will actually witness the execution of this retributive justice against the conspirators at the battle of Armageddon, and this they will witness while on the earth.

The Prisoners for the Lord in Germany (Contributed)

WHEN the brethren began working again in H— there were about 31 groups organized. H. v. A. was out with the books and was stopped by a policeman, who asked what he had. V. A. did not reply; so the policeman examined him and found that he had books. Later in the evening four policemen came to v. A.’s flat and there were also some sisters present taking part in a study. When the police entered they said in a rough voice, “What’s that? a meeting here?” Then one of the policemen said, “It is you who have sent the statement to the government.” V. A. said, “It is not I who have sent it, but I stand by all that was said in it.” One sister rose and would take a Bible from the table, whereupon one of the policemen cried, “Don’t touch.” V. A. was taken to the police station, where he requested that the case could be heard by a judge and that he should not be sent to a concentration camp, where there would be no chance of a hearing. They just took him away. Sister E— (housekeeper for v. A.) they said must be locked in the kitchen for the night; but when she protested that it was cold there they allowed her to sleep in the bedroom, but locked up every other room. The three sisters who were present at the Bible study were told that they must report to the police the next morning at nine o’clock. This they did, and three were arrested, while the fourth, being over 80 years of age, was allowed to go home. All the brethren have since been sent to a concentration camp.

Two R.S.D.’s who were on a visit to H— the same week heard that v. A. had been arrested, and went to his flat to see if there was anyone there. They were well prepared, and one gave the other all his papers before he went up to the flat to inquire. He called at the flat and as the door was opened by a tall detective, the brother asked, “Does Mr. R— live here?” The man replied, “You mean H. v. A.” “I asked for Mr. R—,” replied the brother. “Well,” said the detective, “he is not here.”

The day after v. A. was arrested arrests of the brethren took place in all parts of the town, and in every case the police searched the whole house. The brethren when arrested were taken, together with all literature that could be found, including Bibles, to the police station. V. A. had a large stock, and this was taken six days after. The police who had taken the keys to his flat later returned them to his relatives. The police also took what money they could find (about 60 marks). When v. A. asked how he should pay his rent when they had taken his money, the police did not reply.

There were arrests right up to the day I left. Now there are about 60 in the H— company who have been arrested. One brother, who was a cutter, was arrested at his business at about 9 a.m., the detective coming in a fine motorcar. The chief of the business was very upset and said, "Now I shall have to apply to the government to get you free; otherwise I shall have to close my business." One brother, a shoemaker, asked if he could be allowed to wash and change before being taken away, and this was allowed by the ones arresting him. One brother asked the one arresting him why it was he had to go to the police station, seeing that he had done nothing wrong. "Yes, you know I haven't anything to say," said the policeman; "I have got to obey the higher powers."

One brother (previously an auxiliary) who was put in a concentration camp in 1933 was allowed to go free on October 9, 1934. He had not been before any court, and had not the least idea how long he was to be in the camp. As he is now free, he can report how he was treated. They had to march about 30 kilometers (19 miles) per day. The meals were bad, and sometimes they went for two or three days without any dinner. He was beaten and thrashed many times, and punched in the face, because he would not sing "Deutschland über Alles". He has blue and green marks all over his body. When he would not sing he was lifted by the neck and cast on the road, and many times they asked, "What has Jehovah got to say about that?" Twice he was threatened with death. The first occasion was when the Germans withdrew from the League of Nations and he was told that he must vote "Yes" and he was marched forward at the point of the revolver. On the second occasion one of the leaders in the camp smashed a stink bomb in the brother's pocket. Later he came back with the camp leader and the brother was asked, "What have you done?" to which he replied, "You know best yourself." They then announced that in two hours he would be shot. When the two hours had expired they came back with two men armed with rifles. The brother was then told to stand against the wall and then the two men with rifles aimed. "Open your coat!" cried the leader to the brother. The brother did not move. He was not shot. His father and mother, who were not in the truth, wrote to the Nazis and said that their son did not support that Society anymore. This letter was placed before the brother and he was told that if he would put his signature to it, then he would be set free at once. The brother replied, "I cannot," and later explained that Jehovah would free him in due time. Now he has been set free, but all his books have been burned.

There were about 600 in the camp where he was (they were not all brethren) and all were compelled to attend church. He did not want to go to church; so the Nazis took him forcibly.

One old sister (about 90) was compelled to go to the Catholic church. But they could not force her to kneel down. "The church," she said, "is the great house of murder."

The "man of sin" has formed a group and all go to church. One leader of such a group was around to see the brethren who are not yet in prison and asked about calling them "brethren". "That depends," said one sister; "we have not broken our covenant with Jehovah." This man referred boastingly to the fact that he was free while the others were behind stone walls. He also spoke of his connection with the police.

In one case, when the police came to fetch a brother, they found that he was unable to walk and that he had to be wheeled about in a chair. When the police found that they could not take the man, they said if the wife was one of J. w's they could take her. They finally found another brother in the house, and, after asking if he was one of Jehovah's witnesses, they said they would take him instead of the first brother, who was lame.

In H— the prison keeper complained that Jehovah's witnesses will drive him mad, for they are sitting around in various corners and each one is crying "I want my Bible!" One brother said, "It is not Moscow here; I want my Bible." It was not allowed.

One policeman while making an arrest said, "It is terrible, with all these telegrams we got on October 7."

Generally the police just ask, "Are you one of Jehovah's witnesses?" and that is enough for them.

In H— about 100 brethren were sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

A later contribution from another pen says:

"Today may be the last day of freedom for me, if Jehovah does not decide otherwise. Yesterday and today the brethren of L—, 35, including J. and F., are on trial in court. The Staatsanwalt, which means state attorney, has already addressed the court, and today it is only our lawyers, and then the decision of the court. The state attorney said in his speech that Brother Rutherford had been giving advice to German citizens, thereby poisoning them and making them disobey the rules of the German government. It is too bad, he said, that one could not get hold of him who in a shameless way is attacking the government of his own country. I am sure that the Lord will look after this matter, and also after the man that made such a speech. The Lord will reveal His power within a short time. For Brother K., 9 months have been set, and for all the rest of us, 6 months in jail. Please tell Brother Rutherford that we all love him and that I wish the Lord’s richest blessings on him, that he may continue his work as Jehovah’s faithful servant. In the Lord’s strength we will bear whatever suffering will be laid upon us. I am, I admit, a little worried about N. He is my only boy, and I love him. This, of course, is not the reason why I would not want to leave him with some strange person for a time; but N. is now of an age where children begin to love one who is always with them, and when such a one is taken away such children are not able to control their hearts as we do. I had him with someone yesterday and the result was that he awoke several times at night telling me he was ‘drank’, meaning ill or sick, and that I should not go away. I will leave all worries to Jehovah. He will redeem His people, and joy will be in Zion. I want you to have this last message from me before jail. Employees and judges are reading my letters. Once more I send my love to you, who helped me to understand God’s will, when I wanted to come to His holy mountain.—L.

Stay Away from New Jersey!

IT IS NOW ILLEGAL to laugh or sigh, breathe or smile, talk or hum, in the state of New Jersey. Henceforth the boardwalks of Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Wildwood and other hitherto famous New Jersey resorts will be places of discomfort, uneasiness, cheerlessness and gloom. You might say something to your companions that would hurt somebody’s religious susceptibilities. One can never tell. There may be somebody listening, watching, trailing and spying.

When you and your friends have a social get-together in any of New Jersey’s resorts, do not let yourself go! Beware! A chance remark, a grin, or even a look, may arouse some fanatical Catholic waiter’s ire, “incite” the animosity of a straight-laced “Protestant”, or awaken the hostility of a so-called “Jew” who is subject to illusions of grandeur. And before you know it, you are in the hoosegow or minus your roll, or both.

All this is the result of the amazing piece of legislation adopted by the corrupt New Jersey lawmaking body, which one of its own members calls “rotten”. This law was rushed through the legislature at Trenton under the lash of an agent of the Roman Catholic hierarchy who boasts of his recently enlarged “dictatorial powers”. These “dictatorial powers” of John Rafferty, Knight of Columbus, account for the fact that the “law” was whisked posthaste to the governor for his “signature” shortly before midnight of April 8, 1935, just a few minutes after it was approved by 14 of the 21 members of the New Jersey senate, only one member of which, Dryden Kuser, had the manhood to vote a definite “No”. Previously, in the Assembly, only one member, Theron McCampbell, manifested that he was sufficiently independent of “dictatorial” pressure to vote “No”. Nothing, however, could stop the state of New Jersey in its determined effort to pass “laws” that can be used effectively to throttle free speech, free laughter, free breathing and free wheeling, or what have you?

Perhaps the law was necessary—in New Jersey. Folks there, some of them, have very sensitive “religious susceptibilities”, which cannot stand the telling of the truth. The clergy, especially the Roman variety, are as frail, shrinking violets. A “misdirected” breath might wither them. They are painfully conscious of their insecure position. So “laws” to protect them against “irresponsible persons” are eagerly urged.

Read the “law” which is now on the statute books of New Jersey, and laugh to your heart’s content—provided you are not in New Jersey. If you are so unfortunate as to live in that state, be careful! Beware! Tie Fido at the front gate! Lock the doors, draw the shades! Be sure the roof does not leak! Then go ahead and read the New Jersey anti-smile law, alias “anti-Nazi” law, which is reproduced here in full for the entertainment of the public.

ASSEMBLY, No. 257

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JANUARY 28, 1935

By Mr. RAFFERTY

Referred to Committee on Judiciary

A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes" (Revision of 1898), approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. (a) There is assured to the people of this State under the Constitution of the United States of America freedom of conscience in the matter of religious worship, and also equality in the protection of life, liberty and property, for the establishment of justice, insuring of domestic tranquillity, promotion of the general welfare and securing of the blessings of liberty; and

(b) Under the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, civil and religious liberty are guaranteed to the people of this State, and the people thereof are declared to have certain natural and inalienable rights amongst which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness, and enjoying freedom of conscience in the matter of religious worship; and

(c) The dissemination, circulation or publication of propaganda or statements creating or tending to create hatred, violence or hostility against people of this State by reason of their race, color, religion or manner of worship, has created or tends to create violations of said constitutional assurances and guarantees, and disturbance of domestic tranquillity and peace of the people of this State, and is provocative of violence causing injury to persons and property.

2. Any person who shall print, write, multigraph or in any manner whatever make or produce or by any means set out and make legible, in any language;

(a) Any book, speech, article, statement, circular or pamphlet which in any way, in any part thereof, incites, counsels, promotes, or advocates hatred, violence, or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship; or

(b) Any constitution, by-laws, rules, regulation or record of any proceedings of any organization, association, corporation, society, order, club or meeting of three or more persons, which in any way incites, counsels, promotes or advocates hatred, violence or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship; or

(c) Any picture, photograph, emblem, representation, sign or token which in any way incites, counsels, promotes, advocates, or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship,

Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

3. Any person who shall have in his possession, for the purpose or with intent to utter, sell, give away, circulate, distribute or exhibit to the view of another, or any person who shall utter, sell, give away, circulate, send, transmit, distribute or exhibit to the view of another;

(a) Any book, speech, article, statement, circular, pamphlet or other written, printed or multigraphed matter, made or produced in any manner whatsoever, in any language, or by any means set out and made legible, which in any way, in any part thereof, incites, counsels, promotes or advocates hatred, violence, or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship; or

(b) Any constitution, by-laws, rules, regulations or records of any proceeding or purporting to be such, of any organization, association, corporation, society, order, club or meeting of three or more persons, made or produced in any manner, or by any means set out and made legible, in any language, which in any way, in any part thereof, incites, counsels, promotes, or advocates hatred, violence, or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship; or

(c) Any picture, photograph, emblem, representation, sign or token made or produced in any manner, which in any way incites, counsels, promotes or advocates hatred, violence, or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship,

Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

4. Any person who shall exhibit or display at any meeting of three or more persons or in any parade, public or private, or in any public place, any flag, banner, emblem, picture, photograph, representation, tableau, performance, sign or token, which in any way incites, counsels, promotes, or advocates hatred, violence, or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

5. Any person who shall, in the presence of two or more persons, in any language, make or utter any speech, statement or declaration, which in any way incites, counsels, promotes, or advocates hatred, abuse, violence or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being in this State by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

6. Any owner, lessee, manager, agent or other person who shall knowingly let or hire out, or permit the use of any building, structure, auditorium, hall or room, or any part thereof, whether licensed or not, to or for the use of any organization, association, society, order, club, group or meeting of three or more persons where it is purposed or intended to hold any meeting or assembly of three or more persons whereat any provisions of the four preceding paragraphs hereof are to be violated, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person or persons who shall knowingly hire any such building, structure, auditorium, hall, or room, or any part thereof, for the purpose of using or permitting the same to be used by others for the purpose of violating any provision or provisions of the four preceding paragraphs hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

7. Any person who shall from any station, studio, radio transmission equipment, microphone, or any other equipment or device of any nature or kind, located within this State, broadcast or make audible to others, within this State, through any radio receiving set, device or equipment of any nature or kind, located within this State, in any language, any speech, declaration, statement or pronouncement which in any way incites, counsels, promotes or advocates hatred, violence or hostility against any group or groups of persons residing or being within this State, by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship of such group or groups, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and the owner of any such station, studio, radio transmission equipment, microphone, or any other equipment or device of any nature or kind, for the transmission of sound, who shall knowingly permit the same or any part thereof to be used for such purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

8. Any person, firm, corporation or association violating any provision of this act, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) nor less than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by the imprisonment not exceeding three years, nor less than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

9. Should any provision or portion of this act for any reason be declared invalid, such declaration shall not affect the balance of the act.

10. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

This bill is designed to promote greater personal security in the rights of persons or groups in the practice of religion and a greater protection from assaults of irresponsible persons.

Coughlin Called Fascist

(From the Review of Reviews)

“THE stage was now set for the break with President Roosevelt, whose monetary and social policies stopped far short of what seemed desirable to Father Coughlin. By this time the Radio League had collected a staff of economic and political advisers.”

“Use was also made of opportunities to confer with numerous ‘big people’, notably Hearst. It must not be supposed that Coughlin was without connections in the realm of big business, even though he kept entirely clear of financial ties or commitments. Numerous railroad, mining, and real estate executives who favored inflation did everything in their power to aid and abet the Detroit priest. During 1934 several such gentlemen did their best to persuade relatively conservative journals to get behind Father Coughlin. For the most part they failed. . . .

“If the reader finds Father Coughlin’s views . . . vague, he must not be surprised. They are not so much statements of a plan as reflections of a conviction—a belief that the United States will find Utopia if its repudiation of ‘international bankers’ is followed by a rally to the standard of nationalism.

“. . . It has not escaped the notice of observers that the general contour of his doctrine is oddly similar to that of National Socialism (Hitlerism). Although the Nazi dictator has abandoned virtually the whole of the program which he sold to the German people in 1930, the fact remains that it was excellent political copy. The Nazis too (before they took power) advocated a central national bank, the abolition of interest, government control of labor, a better return for agricultural effort, and—above all—the superiority of human rights to property rights.” Legal in U. S. A., but Not in N. J.

Sedition—Inquisition

THERE is considerable talk about enacting a United States sedition law which would make it unlawful for an American citizen to talk or write in any manner that could be construed as advocating that the existing order be terminated. Department of Justice agents would be detailed specially to eavesdrop upon those who merely talk and do not put their thoughts into writing. So says the Baltimore Sun. We have no doubt that the Catholic priesthood would like to put something like this across. These days of stress are furnishing splendid opportunities for the enemies of freedom to get in their work. Catholicism is the traditional and inveterate enemy of liberty of any kind for the people. This extreme they seek to balance by unlimited license for the priesthood. There is far too much Catholic monkey-business going on at Washington. We do not say that all Catholics are the conscious enemies of liberty. Far from it. But many of them do not seem to realize that the system which they support from force of habit is essentially and unavoidably against true freedom. While professing to protect American institutions the activities of the hierarchy whose seat is on Vatican Hill is the greatest of all dangers to the American form of government. In consideration of the fact that the Catholics are a minority in the United States their activities in a political way are particularly offensive to those who wish to preserve the government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Catholics, as individuals, have their rights, of course; and as long as they exercise these rights simply as Americans, without intruding their religious prejudices into questions where they have no place, it would be unjust and un-American to deny them a voice in the affairs of the nation in proportion to their numerical status. But when it comes to insinuating a form of inquisition into the government, it is certain that the American people will register an unmistakable protest.

Sherbrooke (Quebec) Hospital Trust Fund

IT IS against the law in the United States to send lottery tickets or proposals through the mails, and so those who are out to grab every nickel that can be obtained by fair means or foul have had to be mighty careful how they worked. The so-called "church" outfit that is back of these gambling operations in America has done a good business under cover, but some Irish boys that were not exactly loyal to their faith opened a print shop in New York and ran off 2,500,000 tickets, worth $1 apiece, entitled "The Quebec Hospital Fund National Sweepstakes, under Auspices of the Catholic Big Sisters". They were raking in the shekels in good shape until some smart detective caught them; but even after they were caught it was hard to know what to do with them, because to have told the whole truth would have exposed the whole wretched fraud. For more than two months detectives were trying to find out where the leak was, not that there was any honest attempt to stop illegal Roman Catholic lotteries in the United States. Far from it. What was sought was some way to keep these double crooks from double-crossing the single crooks. So the boys were finally charged with conspiracy; and probably that was the easiest way out of an embarrassing situation. Certainly nobody in authority wants the truth told about these Catholic lottery tickets.

This Is a New One

THERE is a sucker born every minute, and north of the St. Lawrence they have been known to come five at a time. The Herald-Examiner of Chicago, Ill., contains a picture of the annual mass of the skis, held in the Roman Catholic church at Val Morin, Canada. Theoretically the object of the mass is to coax blessings out of the saint of skiers for the current season. The picture shows a priest and two altar boys on the job. Canada has some very fine ski runs. One at Kandahar, Mount Tremblante, has a drop of 2,050 feet in a 9,000-foot run.

Francis Pegahmagabow

FRANCIS PEGAHMAGABOW, only a poor Indian, writing in the Parry Sound Canadian, said: "The clergy is still playing a joke on Indian. Lately a child died from cramps and fell in water. The parents felt sorry for the child. Then the clergyman declared the said child cannot go to heaven. The mother nearly died over it, and the father said he had a good notion to turn Protestant over it. Another party of relatives was very much disappointed when the priest sent word to bury the dead without the burial sermon. Just because we have no money to offer at church, which we do not mind to give when we have it."

No Gamblers in This Part of Brooklyn

SOMEBODY sent in a ticket bearing the following:

NE 801130, Jan. 28 to Feb. 8, 1935. Reverend James R. Cox Charity Fund. At Shanty Town, 17th and Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Twenty 1935 Automobiles, 2 Autos Daily, 10 cents. One Auto Daily Last Six Figures of U.S. Treasury Balance—Straight. One Auto Daily Last Six Figures of U.S. Treasury Balance—Reverse. Do Not Use Cent Figures—Use Last Six Figures of Dollars in Balance. Rules: Tickets tampered with are null and void. If for any cause, such as holiday, figures are not published, use previous day’s figures. Winning tickets must be turned in within 30 days after date on ticket. Notify your local agent when you have a winner, but hold your ticket until the automobile is delivered to you.

On its face is a picture of a smooth-shaven gent with a clerical collar; also a picture of an automobile. What is the big idea? Who gets the ten cents? Who supplies the automobiles? Is this the same “father” Cox that offered to run for president and was afterward given a $6,000 job at the city hall in Pittsburgh, which, it was alleged in the funny column, he was induced to accept under great pressure? Having no acquaintance among the Roman hierarchy, the gambling fraternity, or other persons of ill repute, and there being apparently no gamblers in this immediate vicinity, it is hard to understand all this. Who can explain? Looks like an open defiance of the gambling laws and lottery laws of both state and national governments. Of possible related interest is a current advertisement in a local paper. It reads:

“Our Intellectual Confusion” will be the subject of a lecture by the convert, Ross J. S. Hoffman, professor of history, Washington Square College, New York University, at the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, Thursday evening, March 7, at 8:45 p.m. Proceeds to help convert Protestant clergymen. “This is a delicate and exquisite charity.” (Pius XI) Admission—One Dollar. Tickets may be obtained from The St. Paul Guild, 108 East 56th Street, New York. Telephone PLaza 3-0277.”

When the gazabos running the business advertise it as “Our Intellectual Confusion”, who can expect the public to be other than confused?

Cardinal O’Connell Told the Truth

WHENEVER a Roman Catholic prelate tells the truth on any subject The Golden Age is glad to make a record of it. For example, Cardinal William T. O’Connell recently said, “It is a Catholic teaching that gambling in itself is not morally wrong, as long as the person who risks his money does not deprive others of what is rightfully theirs.” There was that item in the Chicago Tribune about the collapse of the Crowley and Doherty bucket shop wherein occurred the following: “Mr. Canaday asserted that the Reverend M. J. Conway, 1610 Semple street, South Bend, Indiana, was the principal loser among the victims. The Reverend Mr. Conway lost $45,000 of funds belonging to widows and orphans, which he had invested in worthless brewery stock marketed by the defendants, the federal prosecutor said.” The way this thing now stands, it was all right for the Reverend M. J. Conway to gamble, and all right for him to gamble with the money that belonged to widows and orphans provided he won, in which case, of course, he would keep the winnings, and return the principal to the widows and orphans, maybe. But it was all wrong for him to lose, because then the widows and orphans don’t get back anything at all.

Hartford Minister Beseeches the Pope

PERHAPS not having heard of Jehovah God, mentioned by name about 7,000 times in the Holy Scriptures, the Reverend Dr. John M. Phillips, of Hartford, Conn., wants the pope to declare ‘A Truce of God’, saying that the pope is the only one who can apply the leverage necessary to bring this about. He goes on to say, quite truthfully, “I believe that we Christians are the bloodiest crew ever let loose on the world.”

The Uses of Chaplains

DR. LOUIS MANN, Chicago rabbi, in an address before eleven national peace organizations, made the statement:

“There should be no chaplain in any army. A chaplain is not there to comfort the dying and bury the dead. That is merely camouflage. He is there to give divine sanction to the hellish business of human slaughter.”

One Church Burned in Ireland

WITHIN recent years Roman Catholic churches have been burned in Spain, Canada, Mexico, and other countries. To this list may now be added Ireland, the church at Birr having been robbed and then set afire in three places. In some quarters it is considered “good business” to have a fire when bankruptcy threatens.

Macrory Dodged the Rain

THE big day of the Eucharistic Congress at Melbourne, Australia (on which occasion a little piece of bread was worshiped), was the day of the "pontifical high mass" for women. If the lord of the little piece of bread was interested, it was a fine chance for him to show what he could do; but he missed fire. In place of fire there was water, lots of it. The account in the Brisbane Sunday Mail says that as soon as the archbishop of Liverpool got to preaching the rain came down in torrents; 50,000 women in the arena were soaked; in the stands were 50,000 more. Some of the latter tried to cover themselves with strips of red carpet and newspapers. One priest held a chair over his head. The account says, "The children of Mary, who had no covering of any sort, fared worst of all." Not sure what they meant by that. Sounds mighty bad. When the grand climax came, here is what happened. It says, "Because of the rain the papal legate, Cardinal Macrory, did not address the gathering, but contented himself with giving the papal blessing."

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