Golden Age, December 18, 1935
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Vol. XVII - No. 424
December 18, 1935 CONTENTS
FASCISM (CATHOLIC ACTION—THE INQUISITION) IN PENNSYLVANIA 163
The People of Jehovah 163
The Fires of Moloch 164
In the Days of Daniel 164
In the Days of Jesus 164
The Ambassadors for Christ 165
Masterpiece of the Devil 165
Brief History of Dark Ages 166
Wrath upon "Desirable Banners" 167
CATHOLIC ACTION 4 CENTURIES AGO 168
CATHOLIC ACTION IN A.D. 1935 169
In Preparation for the Inquisition 170
Pennsylvania Children May Be Murdered 171
Further Reports on the Tortures 172
The Inquisition All Over Again 173
Another Brutal Attack on Kids 173
Canonsburg Indirect Appeal to Pope 174
Eagerness to Destroy Estep Family 175
A Cowardly Squawk 175
Associated Press Caught in a Lie 176
BAPTISM 177
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN THE FIERY FURNACE 178
Thank You! 178
Unfairness at Canonsburg 178
Not All Hypocrites in Canonsburg 178
A Courageous Young Minister 179
League Against War and Fascism 179
The Battle for Freedom 180
A Letter to Judge Rutherford 180
Headlines Speak for Themselves 180
Silliness and Injustice at Lakewood 180
The Finicky 1,000% Patriots 181
Mobilizing Nazi Sentiment 181
Forces of Intolerance Gathering 182
Patriotism by Compulsion 182
What Are They Trying to Hide? 182
Rites and Rights 183
The Eight-Year-Old Fool-Killer 183
Oath Law Repeal Sought 183
Making a Mockery of Patriotism 184
Instilling Patriotism, New Style 184
Common Sense in Minnesota 184
The Roman Cult Blesses Murder 185
THE ORIGIN OF "CHRISTMAS" 186
The Truth Makes Free 186
The Birth of Jesus 187
Jesus Not Born in December 188
Nimrod and Semiramis 189
"The Branch" 189
Making Heathens Christians 190
Santa Claus 190
IN THE CHARIOT OF JEHOVAH GOD 191
A Six-Year-Old's Testimony 191
A Little Lad in Los Angeles 191
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Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 18, 1935 Number 424
Fascism (Catholic Action—the Inquisition) in Pennsylvania
School Children Clubbed, Choked, and Refused Toilet Privileges Between Beatings. Men and Women Teachers of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Catholic and Protestant, Beat Mercilessly the Little Ones Who Dare Put Jehovah God Ahead of the Flag. Doctors Refuse to Examine Bruises and Welts. Principal Taunts Children Privately for Feeling Pain, and Publicly Because of Their Love for and Obedience to Jehovah God. Little Folks Face Blackboard Two-and-a-Half Hours at a Stretch, Threatened with Imprisonment in Religio-Political Institutions, and Their Nervous Systems Wrecked. An Exceptionally Competent Teacher, Main Support of a Family of Eight, Dismissed on the Edge of Winter Because She Dared Exercise Freedom of Worship. Hitlerizing of the United States by Open and Secret Connivance of Priests Now in Full Swing; Has Support of Professional Politicians, Flag Wavers, Grafters and Associated Press.
JEHOVAH GOD is the God of Peace. "Now the God of peace be with you all." (Romans 15:33) "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly." (Romans 16:20) "Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you." (Philippians 4:9) "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." —1 Thessalonians 5:23.
Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor [Roth.], The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."—Isaiah 9:6.
Satan the Devil is the opposite of all that Jehovah God and Jesus Christ His Son stand for and represent.* He it is that is "that crooked serpent" (Isaiah 27:1); he it is that sowed the tares among the wheat. (Matthew 13:25, 39) He it is that is the father of lies. (John 8:44) A murderer. (John 8:44) The ruler of the darkness of this world. (Ephesians 6:12) The spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience. (Ephesians 2:2) And he it is that offered Jesus all the governments of the world, and the glory of them, including their flags, if Jesus would fall down and worship him.—Matthew 4:8, 9.
"WHAT PROTECTION?"
"But constitutions can be changed, and non-Catholic sects may decline to such a point that the political proscription of them may become feasible and expedient. What protection would they then have against a Catholic State? The latter could logically tolerate only such religious activities as were confined to the members of the dissenting group. It could not permit them to carry on general propaganda nor accord their organization certain privileges that had formerly been extended to all religious corporations, for example, exemption from taxation."
[Taken from "THE STATE AND THE CHURCH" (page 38). Written and edited for The Department of Social Action of The National Catholic Welfare Council by John A. Ryan, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America, and Moorehouse F. X. Millar, S.J. Imprimatur Patrick J. Hayes, D.D., Archbishop, New York, 1922.]
The People of Jehovah
The people of Jehovah know that Satan will perish. Not only will Jesus "destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14), but the Devil's works also, including the governments he offered to Jesus, will be destroyed. "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."—1 John 3:8.
The reason why the people of Jehovah have ranged themselves on the side of Jehovah and have thus exposed themselves to all the fiery darts of the wicked (Ephesians 6:16) is that Jehovah's side is the side of righteousness and truth, of love and justice, of nobility and generosity toward all.
*See footnote on page 191.
The people of the Devil have ranged themselves on the side of the Devil, partly because they have been deceived by him into thinking that he is the true God, and partly because in their fallen condition they love strife and murder, force and hypocrisy, forms and ceremonies and entertainment.
No doubt, when Cain killed Abel, Satan and Gog and the nephilim (rebel angels) approved the murder and thought that Cain did just right.
When the earth was filled with violence in the days of Noah, these evil ones were glad to do all they could to help it along.
That they tried to destroy Isaac, the typical seed of promise, is certain.
That they sought the death of righteous Lot is also certain.
When Esau set out to kill Jacob, the Devil and the evil angels no doubt goaded him on.
Would anybody now say that it was other than the Devil and his associates, visible and invisible, that dragged Joseph away from his aged father and cast him into a dungeon in the land of Egypt?
Who is there that would now presume to justify the devilish persecutions of the Jews in Egypt, the Pharaohs even seeking the death of the babes as soon as they were born? The most that can be said for Pharaoh is that the newborn infants were put to death mercifully. Apparently they were not tortured in the manner set forth in the running subheads beneath the title of this article.
The Fires of Moloch
In the land of Canaan, prior to the days of Joshua, patriotic Canaanites burned their babies to death in the brazen arms of the god Moloch, and that all seemed quite right to the Devil and the Devil’s associates in the invisible realm and in Canaan itself. But this torture of the children to death (see again the subhead of this article) was very displeasing to Jehovah God. “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am [Jehovah].” (Leviticus 18:21) Incidentally, if anybody wishes to know the real reason why all the nations were destroyed out of the land of Canaan, read the entire eighteenth chapter of Leviticus and see the things of which these children of the Devil were guilty, besides torturing their school children at the behest of the clergy of that day.
The whole book of Esther shows how the Devil, acting through a suitable Judas by the name of Haman, undertook the destruction of the entire Jewish people—another attempt to destroy the line from which Jesus was born according to the flesh. Similar attempts at destroying the line were made as recorded in the book of Ruth and elsewhere.
The book of Job, from end to end, sets forth the Devil’s methods of seeking to destroy the people of Jehovah, and their children, but at that time the Devil had not been able to think of anything as mean as was recently done at Canonsburg, Pa. Read once again the headlines at the beginning of this article.
Consider how the Devil sawed Isaiah asunder for telling the truth and worked upon his royal highness Zedekiah to sink Jeremiah in muck in a wellhole because he dared to proclaim the name and the message of Jehovah God.
In the Days of Daniel
What a record the book of Daniel provides of the attempts of the Devil and the Devil’s politicians and clergy to destroy Daniel and his three companions, who had purposed that they would not defile themselves by eating of the king’s meat, previously offered to idols. Since an idol is nothing in the world, some would say this was overconscientiousness on the part of these four men. But not so, for the name of Jehovah God was involved, and Daniel and his friends risked their lives when they went on the plain diet which they preferred, in lieu of the diet prescribed for them, which they refused.
The same spirit on the part of the Devil and his minions can be seen in the conspiracy against Daniel’s three friends on the flat refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to bow down to the image in the plain of Dura, and in the subsequent futile effort to have them destroyed in the flames.
Yet once again see the vicious ungodly attempt to interfere with Daniel’s freedom of worship and which had for its objective his death in the lions’ den.
In the Days of Jesus
Consider how Herod sought the death of Jesus while He was still a babe. Mark the successful plot against the life of John the Baptist. See the triple temptation of the Devil against Jesus, any one of which, if complied with, would have resulted in His destruction, and one of these was this very matter of falling down before the Devil in an act of homage which can properly be given only to Jehovah God. See the repeated attempts of the scribes and Pharisees, the hypocrites, to catch Jesus in His words, to get Him into trouble with the Roman government, to destroy His influence with the people, to entice Him away from the path of self-sacrifice, which latter enticement at the hands of Peter the Lord expressly denounced as the work of the Devil. (Mark 8:32, 33) And, finally, see the work of Judas, after the Devil entered into him; and see even the attempt of the Devil, through his representatives, to prevent Jesus’ resurrection by placing guards at His tomb.
Jesus warned His disciples that He sent them forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, that they would be brought before governors and kings for His sake, that they would be hated of all men, that some would be killed and crucified, some scourged in the synagogues (churches), some persecuted from city to city, some beaten, some betrayed, and some thrust into prison.
All this was exactly fulfilled. Those familiar with the Acts of the Apostles remember how they were threatened and commanded to speak no more in the name of Jesus; how they were beaten in the presence of the Sanhedrin; how their leaders were put to death and they were scattered abroad everywhere; how they suffered tribulation, distress, persecution, nakedness, peril, sword, hunger, thirst, had no certain dwelling place, were defamed and made as the filth of the world and the offscouring of all things. They were beaten with rawhide whips, beaten with rods, were stoned, shipwrecked, robbed, attacked by their own countrymen, attacked by the heathen, attacked in the wilderness, attacked by false brethren and by the bitter cold. And they were thrown into prison, they were robbed of all their earthly possessions, and were finally put to death, some of them by crucifixion—all the work of the Devil and the clergy.
The Ambassadors for Christ
Foreign ambassadors are exempt from saluting every flag except their own.* Jehovah’s witnesses are ambassadors; their citizenship is in heaven. They are not expecting any mercy from the Devil or the clergy; they have had none, and will get less. Their rights proceed from Jehovah God, and not from man, and Jehovah God will see that they receive what protection He considers best for them to have for the prosecution of the work He has given them to do.
Among all the people in the United States there are no citizens more truly loyal than Jehovah’s witnesses. Although they include representatives of every tongue and people, they include a surprising number of persons whose ancestors have been in this country 300 years and more and were making roads and building stone walls while the ancestors of the people who now wish to run the country were but slowly emerging from the pall of stygian darkness of priest-ridden Europe.
It is just as well now as any time to remind the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that of the thirty forms in which the flag of the United States has existed, five of them bore the motto “Don’t tread on me”, two of them bore the motto “An Appeal to God”, one bore the motto “An Appeal to Heaven”, two bore the words “Liberty or Death”, four more bore the word “Liberty”, and one bore the word “Hope”.
Just at hand, in the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen of November 16, under the subhead “Courageous Souls”, occurs the following:
“To salute a flag,” Judge Rutherford said in a radio address about a month ago, “means, in effect, that the person saluting ascribes salvation to what that flag represents, whereas salvation is of Jehovah God.” Judge Rutherford went on to say that at the present time more than 1200 of Jehovah’s witnesses are in prison in Germany because they refused to shout “Heil Hitler!” From our own contacts with these people at two of their international gatherings held here we would say that they are definitely the stuff of which martyrs are made.
Primitive Christians were the same as Jehovah’s witnesses. They counted not their lives dear unto themselves. It was the law of the Roman realm that Caesar be considered a god. Caesar’s title was Pontifex Maximus. The early Christians, because they were ambassadors for Christ, refused to shout “Ave Caesar” or “Salve Caesar” or “Hail Caesar”, and were therefore butchered to make a Roman holiday.
*Are not foreign ambassadors exempt from saluting the American flag? And if so, where is the consistency in demanding such procedure from ambassadors for Christ? Anyway, the best method for people to honor a flag is to live up to the principles upon which a nation is founded, and not by going through some hypocritical ceremony. On account of just such hypocritical practices as that, we have in the world today millions of religious and other hypocrites camouflaging their real heart sentiments. —A. Z. Becker, Pioneer.
The Masterpiece of the Devil
After the death of the Lord and the apostles the Devil executed his masterpiece of all time by gradually weakening the power of the Roman emperors and removing their headquarters to Constantinople so that he could, and did, make the ambitious bishop of Rome his personal representative. He bestowed on this bishop, who assumed to be the successor of Peter, but was really the spiritual successor of Judas, the title of Pontifex Maximus. He did this because he fully believed that the best way to dishonor Jehovah God’s name in the earth would be to have the service of Jehovah God appear in the eyes of the people as a shameless thing seeking the favor of earthly potentates, conniving to take their place in the minds of the people, teaching doctrines that outrage every sense of justice and decency and parading around in satin slippers and robes fourteen feet long, the most perfect personification of hypocrisy that it would be possible for the mind of the Devil himself to conceive.
In this issue there is presented a full-page cartoon entitled "Catholic Action (the Inquisition) Four Centuries Ago". Examine it carefully and judge for yourself what the Roman Hierarchy is, what it does, and what it intends to do. It is the boast of the Devil that he never changes, and it is a fact that the Roman Hierarchy openly declares its purpose to destroy all Protestants as soon as it feels strong enough.
Protestant Press Bureau. Tract No. 68
Priest Admits Truth.
THE Pauline Fathers, while conducting a mission in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, in New Brunswick, N. J., in May, 1901, 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 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 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 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 Fellowship Forum, 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 Protestant country as it is abroad. Father H. Lester, S.J., 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 Church 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!
A Brief History of the Dark Ages
In addition to the reading matter on the cartoon, be it noted that in the conduct of the Roman Catholic Inquisition violation of women was a cardinal privilege and practice of inquisitors, who, being above the law and answerable only to themselves, could commit such crimes with impunity. Even the king of Spain dismissed complaints on this matter sent him by whole towns and boroughs, because it would decrease the number of victims and cut into his percentage.
As in Europe the property of the condemned was seized to keep the Inquisition going and the king in pocket money, so in the United States, the wealth of the nation is being seized through colossal appropriations to build up an organization and keep it going.
Simple folks used to go to Rome to buy immunity from the fires of the Inquisition from the pope and were ignorant of the fact that the pope and the inquisitors had an understanding on such matters, and that the immunity wasn't worth the paper on which it was written. They realized it gradually as the fire began to rage around them.
It must be strikingly evident to any student of history that the Inquisition had more to do with settlement of America than all other factors put together. They came here in thousands to escape the clutches of the Hierarchy. Hence the expression, "Free America." And as no country can escape the ravages of these fiends, America is next. It is to be noted that Germany resisted the Inquisition but is now fully under its dominion.
King Philip, of foul memory, celebrated his escape from shipwreck, and his marriage to Isabella of France, in a general auto-da-fe, wherein 66 distinguished "heretics" were burned before his eyes. These human victims, chained to the stake, were the blazing torches which lighted the monarch to his nuptial couch.
Victor Hugo estimated the number of victims of the Inquisition at five millions, it is said, and certainly the number was much greater than that if we take into account, as we should, the wives and husbands, the parents and children, the brothers and sisters, and other relatives of those tortured and slaughtered by the priestly institution. To these millions should properly be added the other millions killed in the wars precipitated in the attempt to fasten the Inquisition upon the people of various countries as The Netherlands and Germany.
Wrath upon All "Desirable Banners"
No prophet is more often quoted by the Lord Jesus Christ than the prophet Isaiah. Notice the following plain statement that in the day of Jehovah, now here, His wrath is upon all, to men of the world, "desirable banners," all the flags of all the nations of the earth, and because it is important for men to know some of the other things upon which the wrath of Jehovah now rests, the entire passage of Isaiah 2:11-21 is here given as it appears in Rotherham's translation:
The lofty looks of mean men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of great men shall be bowed down,—and [Jehovah] alone shall be exalted in that day. For a day of [Jehovah] of hosts shall be upon every one who is high and lofty,—and upon every one who is lifted up and he shall be brought low; and upon all cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,—and upon all the oaks of Bashan; and upon all the lofty mountains,—and upon all the uplifted hills; and upon every high tower,—and upon every fortress wall; and upon all the ships of Tarshish,—and upon all desirable banners. And the haughtiness of mean men shall be humbled, and the loftiness of great men shall be laid low,—and [Jehovah] alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols shall wholly pass away; and they shall enter into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of clay,—because of the terribleness of [Jehovah] and for his majestic splendour, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day shall the son of earth cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,—which had been made for him to worship, into the hole of the mice and to the bats; that he may enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the crags,—because of the terribleness of [Jehovah] and for his majestic splendour, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Does not the foregoing scripture warn all that—
The wrath of God is now upon the red banners of Russia, Morocco, and Zanzibar?
The wrath of God is upon the red and white banners of Japan, Turkey, Tunis, Peru, Denmark, Poland, Danzig, Monaco, and Switzerland;
The wrath of God is upon the red and blue banners of Haiti and Liechtenstein;
The wrath of God is upon the red and green banner of Portugal;
The wrath of God is upon the red and black banner of Albania;
The wrath of God is upon the red and yellow banner of Andorra;
The wrath of God is upon the red, white and black banner of Germany;
The wrath of God is upon the red, white and green banners of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Persia;
The wrath of God is upon the red, white and blue banners of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States of America, Philippine Islands, Cuba, Panama, Liberia, France, Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Chili, Czechoslovakia, China, Iceland, Luxemburg, Costa Rica, Norway, Siam, The Netherlands, Paraguay, and Yugoslavia;
The wrath of God is upon the red, blue and yellow banners of Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Rumania;
The wrath of God is upon the red, yellow and green banners of Bolivia, Ethiopia, and Lithuania; ---
Catholic Action (the Inquisition) Four Centuries Ago
During the reign of Constantine the bishop of Rome (the pope) acknowledged himself to be the son and heir of the Christian-persecuting Roman emperors, by adopting the title Pontifex Maximus, A.D. 312-337.
Among those that suffered martyrdoms of burning alive and beheadings because they denounced the mass, the trinity and the pope himself as antichrist were Peter Waldo, John Huss, Rogers, Tyndale, Jerome of Prague.
Important to note that their brethren were called after the name of their leader, such as . . . Hussites, Waldenses, etc.
THE INQUISITION
The mercy of the Inquisition was more to be dreaded than its condemnation, since the mere arrest of a "suspicious" person was enough to condemn him, his descendants and relatives for generations to an infamous life as social and political pariahs.
"Now in a hundred market-places in Europe the dignitaries of the church watched the blackened bodies of its victims, "for the most part poor and insignificant people, burn and sink pitifully." —Wells' Outline of History.
ROMAN CATHOLIC "HOLY INQUISITION" FOUNDED A.D. 1231. TORTURE TO OBTAIN EVIDENCE APPROVED BY INNOCENT IV 1252. JUDGES WERE GENERALLY DOMINICANS.—Webster.
THE JESUITS WERE NOTABLE ASSISTANTS AS SPIES AND INFORMERS.
Spanish monarchs carried the Inquisition into the low countries and, as stated in their records, burnt all who refused to recant Protestantism, and beheaded all who abjured it. Five million lost their lives, said Victor Hugo.
1501. Even children were not immune from Inquisition. Isabel Ortalano, age 10, Inesita Garcia, age 9, and Jos. Rodriguez, age 8, were burned alive.
In 1549 the Jesuits began operations in Japan, using methods parallel to Hitler's, creating such turmoil and persecution that they were expelled. Lafcadio Hearn wrote of it: "They had brought to Japan nothing but evil: disorders, persecutions, revolts, political troubles and war."
Bartholomew's Day, August 22, 1572: Without warning the Hierarchy struck a blow at Protestantism in France. 100,000 souls were butchered "as an act of faith". It is accurately reported that the streets literally ran with blood.
1481-1517. During a period of 56 years, fifteen to twenty thousand so-called "heretics" were burned alive by the Inquisition in Spain. 200,000 others suffered torture, exile and confiscation. When the supply of Jews and Protestants ran low, they turned on their own people.
Catholic Action (Fascism—the Inquisition) in A.D. 1935
In Washington, D.C., methods used by the president and his aides are purely Hierarchy methods. To those men or organizations that threaten the prestige of the president they offer the threat of a Congressional investigation. Such an investigation would imply improper conduct of the investigated and would turn them over to an angry populace for political or commercial death by boycott; a kind of excommunication, as it were.
In Germany, flogging, beheading and torture are meted out to those who offend or question Hitler's inquisitorial tyranny. The Hitler government's mania for "pure Aryan blood" is a revival of what in Spain was called "Limpieza" when almost every person's ancestry was examined for the condemnatory trace of Jewish or Moorish blood.
As in the Inquisition's rule of action (the "heretic" was tried by torture and turned over to the secular arm for execution), so today Catholic priests and their henchmen, judging Jehovah's witnesses as guilty of a crime against the "holy faith", turn them over to cringing magistrates for punishments of fines and imprisonments.
Just as the king of Spain sold his subjects to the Inquisition to gain their wealth, so today we find Roosevelt selling the free citizens of the United States to a Papal program of absolutism and commercial and political chaos, in return for the support of that diabolical organization.
Roman Catholic newspapers hail Roosevelt as Pontifex Maximus of the pope's encyclical, otherwise known as NRA, AAA, etc. These alphabetical organizations are well calculated, by threat and coercion to force every person or organization to acknowledge the president as Supreme Pontiff without appeal and without liberty of censure.
To create hatred and prejudice, the Catholic-dominated organizations, school boards, news agencies and newspapers cause the motive and importance of Jehovah's witnesses' refusal to salute a flag to be misunderstood. This policy is in line with the lying conduct of the popes and inquisitors when they burned in effigy those who escaped their clutches by flight or death. Whipping and expelling of children, and discharging of teachers, reflect the brutal character of the instigators.
In various state capitals, laws putting the clergy above public censure or questioning have been passed, or are awaiting passage. Just as the inquisitors were above the law, religious or state, and could commit any crime with impunity, no matter how dastardly, because they answered only to themselves for all they did.
--The wrath of God is upon the red, yellow and black banner of Belgium;
The wrath of God is upon the red, black and green banner of Afghanistan;
The wrath of God is upon the red, white, black and blue banner of Manchukuo;
The wrath of God is upon the red, white, black and green banners of Transjordania and Iraq;
The wrath of God is upon the blue and white banners of Greece, San Marino, Finland, Argentina, Uruguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras;
The wrath of God is upon the blue and yellow banner of Sweden;
The wrath of God is upon the blue, black and white banner of Estonia;
The wrath of God is upon the blue, orange and white banner of South Africa;
The wrath of God is upon the green and white banner of Egypt;
The wrath of God is upon the orange, green and white banner of the Irish Free State;
The wrath of God is upon the green, black and white banner of Syria;
The wrath of God is upon the green, yellow and blue banner of Brazil;
The wrath of God is upon the brown and white banners of Austria and Latvia;
And finally, and most emphatically, that the wrath of God is upon the gold and white banner of Vatican City?
Hundreds of Other Flags
Besides the national flags or territorial flags mentioned there is the so-called "church" flag with a cross on it; there are boy scout flags; there are regimental flags for possibly every one of the thousands of regiments of soldiers all over the earth; there are fifty steamship lines plying out of New York harbor, each with its different flag; there are thousands of college flags, and municipal flags; there are numerous state flags, business flags and other flags galore; and if any one of these flags presumes to demand or is willing to accept the worship which belongs to God alone, then the wrath of God is upon that flag as well as upon the banners under which men go to war in their violation of the everlasting covenant.—Genesis 9: 1-6.
The salute of the Roman legionnaires consisted of stretching out the right hand, palm upward, toward their leader (dux, duce or fuehrer), Caesar Divus (deified Caesar), who was also their pontifex maximus (high priest), and thereby doing homage to the representative of Satan, the god of this world, and of shouting "Ave Caesar!" or "Salve Caesar!" the same as "Heil Hitler!" is today obligatory in Germany or "Viva il Duce!" in Italy, accompanied by the old idolatrous salute of pagan Rome.
Now compare this with the "American Flag Code, adopted by the Flag Convention of June 14, 1923" as published by The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C., in their Manual of the United States, 1930, page 29:
"Pledge to the Flag." "The following is a pledge to the flag of the United States: 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' The pledge is repeated facing the flag, with the right hand held over the heart. At the words 'to the flag', the right hand is extended, palm upward, toward the flag. This position is held until the last word is spoken. Persons in uniform should render the military salute."
When the gladiators of Pagan Rome, who were about to slavishly shed their lifeblood on the sand of the arena for the sadistic pleasure of their perverse ruling class, entered the Circus Maximus, they extended their right hand, palm upward, toward the royal box of the emperor and shouted: "Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!" (Hail Caesar, the ones who are about to die salute thee!) Today that homage of Roman slaves, which has now been revived by Romanists in America, takes on a most ominous significance. Rome herself makes no effort to conceal her murderous plans.
In Preparation for the Inquisition
To re-establish the Inquisition in the United States, as is now being done, necessitates the full control of means by which the people may be reached with information or misinformation. The mob spirit is easily aroused. Though Jesus fed the hungry, healed lepers and paralytics, drove out demons, gave sight to the blind, opened deaf ears and raised the dead, Satan's publicity department aroused the mob to spit in the face of Jesus, crown Him with thorns, strip Him of His clothing, nail Him to a tree between two thieves, and mock Him in His death agonies. The mob spirit is never far below the surface.
The servant is not above his master. In the World War the newspapers of the United States fanned millions into temporary insanity by the skillful construction and publication of falsehoods. The House of Morgan guaranteed to the French government that they would put the United States into the war on the side of the allies, and they did. Ask George Creel.
At the moment, the Devil, Gog, his prime minister, and his various mouthpieces, operating at the behest and under the direction of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, are determined that Fascism (Catholic Action) shall take the place of liberty in the United States. To that end it is necessary to seize the schools. This seizure is now under way. The following item is from the Newark (N. J.) Evening News of November 13, 1935, setting forth a portion of this plan for the Garden State.
Delegates to the Essex Division, Newark Federation of the Holy Name Society, meeting last night at St. Joseph’s School Hall, indorsed a resolution sponsored by Rev. Dr. Ralph J. Glover, head of the Associated Catholic Charities, at the recent crime conference calling for religious instruction in all schools. The delegates authorized Thomas M. Kane, head of the legislative committee, to advocate at the next session of the Legislature legislation requiring all persons to salute the American flag. Officers were nominated to be elected next month.
Pennsylvania Children May Be Murdered
Residents of the Keystone State will be interested to know that politicians guided by the Devil make it possible for a teacher to murder a pupil and go scot-free. All the teacher has to do is to convince the court there was no malice in his act of murder. Now let Americans who wish to get a good look at what will happen in the United States when The Associated Press has succeeded in fully subordinating this country to the pope consider the following report of happenings in Canonsburg in the week of November 4, 1935. These sufferings were brought upon these innocent children by the willful and malicious arousing of the mob spirit in Canonsburg, Pa., by George A. Anderson, editor of the Daily Notes of that city.
Anna Prinos. (Teacher, Miss Ruth Aiken, Protestant, daughter of Presbyterian minister.) Anna was whipped with a stick about 3 by 24 inches by ½ inch in thickness. Five or six strokes were administered at one time, and seven or eight later; in all, fourteen strokes were given. Whipping administered in presence of principal, another teacher and school janitor. Monday morning Principal Earl S. Davidson grabbed Anna by the throat with both of his hands and shook her repeating “When I make orders I want them obeyed”, and as he repeated this statement he tightened his grip. This grip was such that next day deep marks and bruises were seen on her neck. She tried to shake him off and prevent his choking her entirely, but he overpowered her. After this, Anna was sent out of the room into the hall and she started to cry because of the severe treatment she had received at the hands of Davidson. Just then her own teacher, Miss Aiken, came along and inquired what he had done to her, and on being informed of the circumstances, said to Anna, “Pull yourself together; we don’t think you are sincere,” and with a pat on the back, passed on down the hall. Later Anna was ordered to go down to the basement, to the boiler room; and knowing what it was for, and due to the nervous strain she had been under during the administration of the choking in the classroom, she asked that she might first go to the toilet. This request was refused, and she had to take the beating first! Miss Aiken herself did the beating. Each time Anna jerked she was informed she would get that much more. The girl is 13 years old but is as big as most 15-year-olds. The bruises and marks of welts raised on Anna looked like raw liver, and next day she could scarcely sit, because of the pain. She had to be taken to a doctor. Four Canonsburg doctors were approached to make the examination, but all, being in the clique with the Canonsburg school board, refused, and she had to be brought to Pittsburgh for the examination. She reported for school Wednesday and Thursday, and Thursday was told to stay at home “until called for”.
Pauline Prinos. (Teacher, Miss Marcella Reagan, Catholic.) Pauline is 12 years old. She too was whipped, with the same stick used on Anna, and the whipping was administered in the boiler room of the school basement. Five strokes given first time, and, three days later, eight more by Principal Davidson, Miss Reagan having administered the first beating. Davidson is a former president of Kiwanis. He was so brave he held little Pauline’s hands behind her back so she couldn’t wince, while he struck her with the stick. Following this severe beating he made her sit in the corner from 11:00 until 12 o’clock, and several times asked if she would salute or did she want to go to Morganza. Later he told her to go home and not come back “until called for”.
Ruth George, nearly 13 years of age. (Teacher, Miss Viola Laskowski, Catholic.) Monday the teacher told Ruth to stand in the corner until the salute exercises were over. Teacher then asked her if she would salute the flag, and upon being informed she could not change her mind, the teacher said Ruth would in later years regret the stand she had taken. Miss Lesknowski told Ruth that her mind was made up, too, and for her to go to the basement. Principal Davidson walked down with them. He offered a good deal of advice about saluting the flag, gave his own viewpoint, and then told Ruth that if she goes out and sells these books, now that she isn’t saluting the flag, the people will not buy them. He compared Judge Rutherford to the monkey getting the chestnuts off the stove, and these children as workers were the cats getting burned, and told her that when they get into Morganza Judge Rutherford will come along and pat them on the back and say "Poor people" and then forget all about them. (This latter statement was made before the entire class after she had returned from the basement.) During the beating operation, when Ruth cried he mockingly said, "I thought Jehovah's witnesses didn't feel any pain," and then he told her teacher to continue the beating. Had to be taken to the doctor on the fourth day, and doctor thought the bruises "pretty bad".
Timothy George, 11 years old. (Teacher, Miss Elizabeth Rush, D.A.R.*) Principal Davidson and janitor were present while Miss Rush beat Timothy in the boiler room of school basement. He too was told that Jehovah's witnesses were not supposed to feel any pain. When Timmey started to cry and back up the principal asked if he had to hold him. So Timmey stood his ground and suffered nine more strokes. The beating wasn't all on the spanking place, one severe bruise being across the boy's leg, about four inches below the hip, and this mark he carried on him for a week following the beating! Child is very nervous as the result of treatment and the threats of taking him from his parents and placing him in Morganza; so much so that he screams out in his sleep, and after eating cannot retain food for any length of time. Tuesday he was not able to attend school, but Wednesday morning his parents sent him again. When the principal found him there on Wednesday he said, "Timothy, go home until you are called for; how many times do I have to tell you?" While getting his books ready to leave, principal said, "Hurry up, before I give you another paddling." The Pittsburgh doctor examined him on Friday and said after five days there was 2 1/2 inches of damage, a bad bruise, still on the boy's leg.
Further Reports on the Tortures
A further report on the little Greek child just named says he is "a dear little fellow" and "is in such a state of nervousness he can neither eat nor sleep properly. As soon as he eats he throws up his meal, and in the night he screams out in terror, thinking he is getting another beating in the school basement behind the hot water boiler!! The children are all very nervous about the thought hanging over them of being taken off to a house of correction and further ill-treated. One of the little girls who was whipped so severely had blisters on her back that looked just like raw liver, and before these were gone her mother sent her back to school and another whipping was administered".
Further reports of the terrible sufferings brought upon these particular children of Jehovah's witnesses as a result of the activities of The Associated Press, Attorney General Margiotti,* and the Canonsburg Daily Notes, are as follows; and those who remember their school days will know that the humiliations described caused real suffering to them as well as to Jehovah's witnesses and to the One who took the little ones in His arms and blessed them and said, "Suffer little children to come unto me."
Timothy George. As soon as he entered the room and did not salute the flag the teacher told him to stand in the corner facing toward the blackboard. He stood there two and one-half hours, and in the afternoon he had to stay in one-half hour after school and did not come home until late. The teacher threatened him and said she would paddle him if he did not salute. He said, "If you kill me, I won't salute." One day they had a test but she did not give him credit, but gave him a zero on his lessons. The principal had him in the hall for two hours, which was the principal's punishment in addition to that which the teacher gave him. He has to stand for two and one-half hours for every day he refuses to salute the flag.
Ruth George. The teacher kept her after school one-half hour in the afternoon and evening. She got zero for her work. She was forced to write "I pledge allegiance to the flag" ten times on paper and on the board. The teacher, Miss Lesknowski, Roman Catholic, never calls this pupil by her name, but calls her "disgraced child" and "anarchist". She threatened to paddle her but did not do so. She was taken into the presence of pupils of three rooms to answer questions that the principal asked concerning the flag which are not really for a child to answer. The teacher told the other children not to associate with her. This pupil has a bank account at the school, but after this incident the teacher would not let her bank any more, so Ruth decided to take her money out. In order to do so, the children must have a pink slip signed by the teacher; but the teacher would not sign the slip so that she could get her money out, and the principal would not sign it either. The principal, Mr. Davidson, made the statement that if he had his way, he would thrash the children until they did salute the flag.
*D.A.R. DIDIES FOR CANONSBURG KIDS
*Ill with acute indigestion at Harrisburg November 22, and probably a poor insurance risk.
Now that our patrioteers have beaten up the kids in the primary grades, when are they going to start on the kindergartners? And when that is done, I suppose our patrioteers will start a move for the compulsory use of the star-spangled diaper.—Morrison Sharp, in the Boston Herald.
(This is not stretching it so much as might be imagined. In Chicago, which is now thoroughly Romanized, and where the Catholic teachers in the public schools make it so hot for Protestant teachers that they have to get out, a child was dismissed from the kindergarten October 31 because she refused to salute the flag. LISTEN! You can hear the carpenters at work on the scaffolds and the knife-makers hammering out the guillotine blades.) Anna Prinos was forced to write "I pledge allegiance to the flag" ten times. She is being passed up in her lessons although she did not receive any zeros; she was merely passed up when it was her turn to read or spell or recite. They also threatened to whip her.
Pauline Prinos was taken to the front of the room facing the other children and forced to salute the flag five times. They passed her up the same as the others in her studies. The first day that she refused to salute the flag, she misspelled one word and the teacher paddled her for it. Her teacher, instead of calling her by name, calls her "disgraced child".
The Inquisition All Over Again
As was their duty, the law-abiding parents of these children sought redress in the courts, only to learn of the Pennsylvania "law" that their children can be murdered by teachers and there is no redress. At the same time, Jehovah's witnesses visited every home in Canonsburg to give the people an opportunity to read the address by Judge Rutherford on the subject "SALUTING A FLAG", which address appeared in Golden Age No. 420. The Associated Press five times asked for the information contained in that address, but gave it to the public in garbled form. Their action was that of women, not men, and not very good women at that.
The presiding judge, Brownson, of Washington county, Pa., decided that the children remain with their parents, and recommended that they attend school and at flag-saluting time be segregated from other children; but McVay, the school-board superintendent, held the recommendation of the court in contempt and refused to allow the children to return.
Immediately a threat was made that these children, unusually intelligent, unusually conscientious, and always hitherto obedient, should be incarcerated in state penal institutions on charges of incorrigibility because they could not be forced to worship the American flag.
Similar acts of terrorism were perpetrated against little ones of Jehovah's witnesses at New Salem, Pa., Royal, Pa., Nemacolin, Pa., Gates school, German township, Pa., Minersville, Pa., and many other places, under Attorney General Margiotti's jurisdiction.
At New Salem, Pa., two little children were expelled from school; the teacher of these children was a Roman Catholic; the next day the father of the children was discharged from his job. This is the normal course of inquisition, as administered by the Roman Hierarchy wherever they can control rulers and sources of public "information". The Nemacolin children were whipped until they were black-and-blue. One of these little fellows, a dear little boy named Lewis Wiekiewicz, who will not be ten years old until next February, was put on the stand, and testified as follows:
Q. You went to school and refused to salute the flag? Why? A. It says in the Bible not to salute a flag.
Q. What does it say in the Bible? A. It says not to bow down to anything.
Q. Do you think it is just the same, to raise your hand or bow down? A. Yes.
Q. Did your father ever tell you not to salute the flag? A. No.
Q. After your principal told you to go home, at that time what did your father tell you about saluting the flag? Did he say you should or should not salute the flag? Did he ever tell you that you ought to salute the flag? A. He said, if I wanted to, to go ahead and do it, if I wanted to. He teaches it is wrong.
Q. Did your father ever tell you not to go to school? A. No.
Q. Did he ever tell you to go to school? A. Yes; he wanted me to learn.
Q. When your principal told you to go back home, did he say anything to you about going to school? Did he (referring to father) say in any way that you felt he wanted you to go to school? A. I did go, and they sent me back home because I would not salute the flag. I wanted to go myself.
Q. You did not go because if you went you would be just sent home because you would not salute the flag? A. Yes.
Another Brutal Attack on the Kids
It is wholly unreasonable to expect just or honorable treatment at the hands of the Roman Hierarchy or of anybody that is under their control, directly or indirectly, as is the school board at Canonsburg, Pa.
Do you remember how, when you were a child, you dearly loved the good teacher who, in the early days of life, helped you to determine to do what is right, though the heavens fall? Such a teacher, refined, intelligent, and comely withal, was Grace Estep, of the Canonsburg school, but she is there no longer. The tools of the Hierarchy, in this instance particularly McVay and editor Anderson, were out to take her life as a teacher, and took it. Grace Estep was almost the sole support of a family of eight: the father has no work, and one son, younger than Grace, draws small wages. Her family has lived in Canonsburg, Pa., for fifty years. Her father went through the same schools in which Grace taught, and when the Rome-controlled school board removed her from her position because she failed to salute the flag, they took the living away from the family and to all intents and purposes are murderers.—1 John 3:15; Proverbs 22:22, 23.
It is necessary for school teachers to use their brains, but school boards, like other boards, are long and narrow, and wooden.
The National Education Association, Washington, D.C., in the October (1935) News Bulletin, published by the department of classroom teachers, resolved to unqualifiedly oppose all legislation requiring loyalty oaths of teachers, students or any other special groups, and manifestly did it because they can see that the present trend is to drive the United States into the most devilish form of government ever existent upon the earth, the form represented by the Ratti-Mussolini government in Italy, or the Ratti-Hitler government of Germany.
Canonsburg Appeals (Indirectly) to the Pope
The middle of October, when the Canonsburg Daily Notes had started mob hysteria against Miss Estep, Dr. H. S. Pease, the president of the school board, which school board subsequently flatly refused to be governed by the court advice, to educate the expelled children pending settlement of legal questions involved, appealed to Attorney General Charles A. Margiotti for a ruling in the case. Margiotti, being a papist, and therefore not a good American, showed his Roman Catholic proclivities and sympathies. (See Golden Age No. 423, pages 136, 137, and the interesting comments there on the refusals of William Penn, William Tell, and the prophet Daniel, respectively, to kowtow to King Charles II, the tyrant Gessler, and old King Nebuchadnezzar.)
When the Daily Notes began its campaign to destroy Miss Estep as a teacher the young lady’s first communication to the editor of that sheet was as follows, and speaks for itself:
The account given in last night’s Daily Notes of my refusal to salute was not presented in a very just manner. I should like this chance of explaining the situation to those of you who have always been my loyal friends.
The paper states that I am reported to have refused to require the flag salute. That absolutely is not true, as I was never asked to require the salute. The truth of the matter is, it never occurred to me. No flag salute is required in high school, and none is required in college (except, perhaps, spasmodically). Being unused for six years to having the salute brought to my attention, it never entered my mind to have it when I began teaching. During the years I’ve taught the principal has been in my room at various times while I was having opening exercises, and never noticed that I didn’t have flag salute. As soon as it was brought to my attention, I began having it daily. Does that sound like refusal? And I have broken no state law; for the code does not require this. Section 629 requires simply—in regard to flags—that one should be displayed upon or near each public school building, and also that a flag be displayed within each building.
I, personally, do refuse to salute the flag. We are told in the Bible to give honor, or allegiance, to no man and to nothing man-made. All glory and honor are Jehovah God’s, and a Christian would be committing a sin in worshiping the flag, just as the three who were cast into the fiery furnace would have been committing a sin had they worshiped the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar set up.
I am not a radical nor a “red”, as you who have known me all my life certainly know. I appeal to the parents of the girls and boys who have been in my room: has there ever been a time when your children have learned anything radical or unpatriotic in my room? You know there has not been. And they have been taught as much about the principles of our country and about our great men as have the children in any other room. I am probably a great deal truer to the principles for which that flag stands than are many of those who are so determined to have me “bow down and worship” the emblem which they “have set up”. Do not misunderstand—I would never show any disrespect to the flag nor to the fine principles it represents. But as a Christian, and also one of “Jehovah’s witnesses”, I cannot give honor to anything man-made.
As a Christian, I am also opposed to militarism—to the taking of human life. The same flag, flying so peacefully over our school has—together with the much-saluted emblems of other nations, and in direct disobedience to the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”—flown over masses of men gone mad with the lust for blood. We cannot salute the flag of love and peace without saluting as well the flag of horror and hate and destruction, for they are one and the same.
“Reverence” for the flag does not necessarily produce high ideals and honest, unselfish patriotism. In fact, most everyone who gives the salute and repeats the pledge does so mechanically, giving little or no thought to the significance of it. And many of those who are the worst enemies of the country’s welfare make much ado of saluting the flag and are vociferous in their championship of it. Why not? “They think they shall be heard for their much speaking." I appreciate that ours is the greatest nation in the earth, but the liberties guaranteed its citizens are being trampled on by some who use the flag hysteria to forward mass action for the furtherment of their own selfish ends. They seem to forget, they and these heads of high patriotic organizations, that we have a Constitution which guarantees religious freedom.
It seems that a person may be a liar, a swindler, or a racketeer; he may be thoroughly unprincipled, thoroughly immoral, and still be accepted as a good American. But let it be discovered that he is a Christian, and he is branded immediately as an undesirable citizen. Yet it was on the principles of Christianity that this nation was founded.
If there are any parents of pupils who have been in my room who feel that their children have been demoralized by having had me as their teacher, I wish they would say so.
In fairness to me I expect the paper to carry this letter.
GRACE A. ESTEP.
Eagerness to Destroy the Estep Family
The eagerness of the Canonsburg Daily Notes to destroy Grace Estep as a teacher may be judged from the fact that four of its silly editorials on the subject run a total of fifty inches. There is no use to reprint these "editorials", but they are unmanly and ignoble to the last degree. They resulted as hoped and intended. The one in the Daily Notes of November 4, 1935, is particularly exasperating to a man. It says, in part (George A. Anderson is the editor):
Now that the Estep case has been settled insofar as the school board is concerned, and the teacher who refused to take part in the customary salute of the flag has been dismissed, to take effect next week, it is hoped that the unpleasant affair will be allowed to die and that the general operation of the schools of the borough will not be seriously affected. The teacher has the right to be heard, if she cares to appear before the board. It is not known what her decision will be on this phase. It is believed that if she is acting independently and because of her personal convictions, she will drop the matter. If, however, she is being prompted by some central personage connected with the cult calling itself "Jehovah's witnesses", the organization might capitalize on the local situation by forcing the case into court. There have been instances similar to the local one in various parts of the state and the country. Others, however, involve students only. There is a possibility that there is a concerted movement under way to bring the cult into the limelight and nothing would be more inviting to them than a court trial with all the fanfare and eloquence that usually attends such procedure. Any controversy involving interpretation of the Bible is bound to attract attention and if the radio broadcaster at the head of the cult can succeed in getting a public airing, he stands to gain a nation-wide publicity of incalculable, although somewhat questionable, value.
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