Consolation, October 6, 1937

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Contents

The Golden Age’s New Name—Consolation 3

What Is Breaking Up the British Commonwealth of Nations? 6

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path 13

Unusual Experiences with Animals 14

Vivisection and the Vaccine Peddlers 15

Poltergeist in Jamaica 16

Consolation Interviews Judge Rutherford 17

Exposed (O) 19

Timid, Timid Uncle Sam 20

Around the World 21-31

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Appetizers

Military Mass

◆ An hour and three-quarters of foolishness was enjoyed by all when “military mass” was celebrated at Fort Jay, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the purchase of Governor’s Island from the Indians. Everything was as strictly Roman Catholic as could be desired, including the rolling of drums, bugle salute, saluting the flag, etc., when the idolatry was at its height. The speaker, “Reverend Father” William B. Martin, pastor of Holy Family Church, New Rochelle, N. Y., called for a crusade against “the forces of atheistic Communism”, and then spoiled it all, for the Hierarchy and for himself, by referring to “the rack and the caldron of boiling oil”. The less the Hierarchy has to say about things like that, the better off it is. It should keep still.

What Price Government?

◆ Explaining Chicago’s municipal government, Westbrook Pegler says entertainingly:

Sometimes by mistake they may put some tax figures in one of these ledgers, but they never try to balance them, because you can imagine the confusion you would get if you should foot up the morning line at Hialeah, plus ten miles of pavement at so much per mile, plus the last election returns, divided by the telephone number of a girl named Edna (if man’s voice answers, hang up). If a Grand Jury begins to ask foolish questions they tear the pages out of the books and paint the walls over, and if a private citizen gets too fresh they indict him—not anybody in the administration.

Great Snakes!

◆ The Staten Island Zoological Society received some great snakes from the Malay peninsula. Among them were one variety that cranes its neck like a chicken and growls like a dog, three others that travel under water, and fifteen that climb walls and ceilings. Also, there are five temperamental snakes that hate the light and are happy only when hidden from sight, in caves. Great snakes! Also, interestingly, there were more than twice as many snakes when they arrived as when they were shipped. Great snakes!

CONSOLATION

"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.

Volume XIX Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, October 6, 1937 Number 471

The Golden Age's New Name—Consolation

APPEARING in this issue in a new dress, The Golden Age, on its eighteenth anniversary, takes a new name, a Scriptural one. This does not mean, however, that this will be a religious magazine. The old name suggested religion and tradition; the new name stands for truth.

In the mythical Roman golden age all was peace, happiness and contentment, the earth yielded its fruits spontaneously and spring was eternal; and while it is true that there is here a hint of the paradise that was lost in Eden, and which will be restored; and while it is also true that the Romans had a legend that the mythical golden age would sometime return, why continue to use a legendary or religious name, when a better name, a Scriptural one, may be had in its place?

Since the Lord Jesus has come to the temple and the Day Star has arisen in the hearts of God's "remnant", and He is being revealed also to the "great multitude", it is not appropriate to appear to continue to look for a return of a mythical golden age such as mythology alleges existed in Rome when the heathen god Saturn 'kept men free from bodily infirmities or the necessity of labor'. The word saturnalia is derived from the name Saturn.

The Golden Age has been a consolation to many: their letters, though appreciated, are not published; the magazine speaks for itself. It is the intent to make it better with every issue; indeed, that has always been its motto. If the magazine was appreciated before, it will be more appreciated hereafter; and there will be some new features. No need to tell you. Look!

"Consolation" is solace in compact, intensive form. The Hebrew tahnkhoom and Greek paraklesis (calling alongside for help) occur 32 times in the Scriptures and are, in the Common Version, translated sixteen times by the English word "consolation", derived from the Latin solari, meaning solace. May the new name of the "Journal of Fact, Hope and Courage" be prophetic of the place it will occupy in Jehovah's organization in the stirring years that are just at hand!

"Waiting for the Consolation"

For centuries Jehovah's people have, like the just and devout Simeon, been "waiting for the consolation of Israel" (Luke 2:25), and their hearts' desire has been gratified. The Kingdom has come; Jesus, as a divine spirit, is here, ruling in the midst of His enemies.

"Rejoice ye with Jerusalem [God's organization], and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted." (Isaiah 66:10, 11) This magazine hopes to have a share in dispensing these blessings of consolation.

Truth on any subject is a consolation. It is of no use for anyone to think he loves God if he does not love the truth. David voiced the attitude of all Jehovah's people when he said, "In the multitude of my cares within me, thy consolations delight my soul." (Psalm 94:19, Rotherham) This magazine is intended to be a delight to the souls of those who love the truth.

Consolation in the Early Church

The persecutions of the early church were not continuous; they came in spasms, as they do now. After the opening of the eyes of Saul, who became Paul the apostle, the account says:

Now the church had peace throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria; and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord, and was filled with the consolation of the holy [spirit].—Acts 9:31, Douay.

In between the persecutions now visited upon Jehovah’s faithful people, this magazine hopes to comfort the persecuted by declaring their experiences to the world, and pointing to their faithfulness as proof that Jehovah has people in the earth that maintain their integrity.

The people of God were looking for consolation in the days of Paul and Barnabas (which latter name means “Son of consolation”), for when those two witnesses came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue and sat down, after the Scripture reading the rulers of the synagogue sent to them saying:

Men brethren, if is a word in you of consolation to the people, say you.—Acts 13:15, Diaglott, interlinear.

Paul gave them a grand discourse on that occasion, but although they knew they needed consolation some were not willing to have it in God’s way; they wanted it some other way. And that will sometimes be true with some of the readers of this magazine. It won’t suit everybody; it isn’t intended to serve as a men-pleaser, but just to witness against the Devil’s organization and for the Lord’s organization the very best it can, in every issue. If you like it, O.K.; if not, O.K. The very issue you care for least may be the issue someone else will appreciate most.

“Rejoiced for the Consolation”

On a certain occasion the people of God at Antioch were much troubled about some matters connected with their earthen tabernacles. Their difficulties were straightened out by an epistle, “which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.” (Acts 15:31) Now and then some of the things that appear in this magazine will, it is hoped, bring just such encouragement to its readers, on this subject or on that. It has been so in the past; why not in the future?

Sometimes this magazine will be reproached for not being “nice” to the Devil’s organization, like other “nice” magazines. What will happen then? Oh, nothing much, except that somebody is going to get a blessing out of it:

As it has been written, “The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me.” For what things were before written for our instruction, were written that we through the patience and the consolation of the scriptures might possess the hope. And may the God of that patience and that consolation give you the same disposition towards each other, according to the Anointed Jesus.—Romans 15:3-5, Diaglott.

The apostle Paul believed that the things that happened to him were good not only for himself but for others also. Hence he said:

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.—2 Corinthians 1:6, 7.

Depending on the Higher Powers

This magazine constantly depends upon the Higher Powers; if you do not know who they are, and read the magazine long enough, you will surely find out. There is a text which shows where is mankind’s real consolation, and which, therefore, should not be omitted:

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any [tenderness] and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.—Philippians 2:1-5.

The magazine Consolation is the product of many minds. Jehovah’s people all over the earth send in their own contributions, clippings, books, pamphlets, cartoons, newspapers and other materials, each doing what he can to present the evidence that the Judgment Day is here, the Judge is trying the hearts of all men, the sheep are being divided from the goats, and the wind-up of Satan’s kingdom is at the door.

There is never any intent to misstate or misrepresent anything, to cover up anything that should be uncovered, to step haltingly and timidly up from Gilgal in the night, or to shrink from shouting from the housetops the truths set forth in the Watch Tower publications.

There is no disposition to curry favor with men by concealing the work of Jehovah’s witnesses. If they want to read about what these witnesses are doing, all O.K. If they don’t want to read the facts, that is their privilege.

"And in His name shall nations hope"

Consolation is not trying to make religious converts; it is intended for those that cry and that sigh for the abominations being done in the earth, and to be a witness to the Most High God, that the hope of the whole world is in His great King, Christ Jesus the Lord, now upon His throne.

“Everlasting Consolation” in Sight

To some people consolation would mean a furtive wiping away of tears, and considerable petting and coddling. In the public press of June 10, 1937, the pope, confronted by exposures of sodomy among the Roman Catholic priests in Germany, is pictured as “laden with emotion” and “tears streaming down his cheeks”, while saying to a German Catholic delegation:

It is a consolation for us to weep with you and to console you as a father does his sons who are being severely tried.

That is not the kind of consolation that Jehovah gives. He wipes away the tears by giving to the sorrowing ones “the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness”. (Isaiah 61:3) In other words, He shows that the real consolation comes from engaging in the work entrusted now to the people of God, and in which all people of good will may co-operate. Consolation will always be found doing all possible to help to that end, so that, trusting in the Higher Powers, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.—Hebrews 6:18.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.—2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17.

Jehovah’s people will be interested to know that when a committee had up the project of selecting a new name for the “Journal of Fact, Hope and Courage”, and lists were made of possible titles, and, for one reason or another, were found unacceptable, either because misused by others or conveying a wrong impression, the committee finally found most pleasing of all the first name on the list submitted by Judge Rutherford, and the subtitle which accompanied it.

And so, henceforth, the “Journal of Fact, Hope and Courage" is Consolation, and while with reason it unhesitatingly claims to be the best general all-round magazine in the world, it is such not because of the approval of pope or cardinals, but in the strength of the great Consoler, Christ Jesus, the hinge upon which swings the gate of the paradise of God. "In his name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A.R.V., margin.

Nobody will ever have "a better hope" (Hebrews 7:19) than "that blessed hope" (Titus 2:13), "Jesus Christ . . . our hope." —1 Timothy 1:1.

Let all who have thus far helped The Golden Age now help Consolation to be a real solace, both as to its contents and as to its distribution among the great multitude now seeking the way to life and true happiness.

Send Snapshots with Manuscripts

◆ Those interested in making Consolation the world's best magazine should send in snapshots along with their manuscripts, not afterward. A fine lot of material from Georgia was followed many days later by photographs which would have been very useful had they come with the manuscript. The cartoonist intimates that he is interested in seeing photographs in this life. If intended for him in his future estate one wonders why they were printed on PAPER!

Miscellany

Lewis' $36,000,000 (?) Slush Fund

◆ In an address at Orillia, Ontario, Premier Mitchell Hepburn, of the Ontario government, asserted that John L. Lewis, head of the C.I.O., is collecting $36,000,000 annually in dues and that he thinks Roosevelt unduly influenced by Lewis' gift of $500,000 to the last Democratic campaign fund.

Mr. Hepburn contrasts President Roosevelt's acquiescence with Lewis' present activities with his expressed condemnation of the massacre at Herrin, Illinois, in June, 1922, of 19 members of the steam-shovelmen's union by 500 union miners then under Lewis' control. Fifty of these men were on their way home under a flag of truce, and a promise of safe conduct, when the United Mine Workers lined them up against a barbed-wire fence and fired upon them, killing 19 and wounding 20. The evident intent was to murder them all. Nothing was ever done about it. There seldom is.

Killed in the Revolution

◆ Only 4,044 American soldiers were killed in the American Revolution, but in the year 1935 alone, in the United States, seven times that many persons were killed by automobiles.

America as Sanctuary of Persecuted

◆ Representative John J. O'Connor, of New York city, chairman of the House Rules Committee, is of the expressed opinion that "America should still be the sanctuary of all peoples fleeing persecution". Seems like a good idea, and if the representatives of the Hierarchy, and other self-advertised patriots, will just say where the persecuted people of Jehovah God can flee from Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, California, Washington, and Florida, maybe something can be done about it.

No Arrests

◆ Police at Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a telephone tip that there were seven gangsters in a downtown building. They surrounded the building and waited. At length seven ministers from Yankton, South Dakota, came out, got into two automobiles and were driven away. There were no arrests.

O'Reilly Censors Australian Films

◆ The Sydney (Australia) Herald contains the information that the chief film censor of Australia is W. Creswell O'Reilly. Guess his "church".

What Is Breaking Up the British Commonwealth of Nations?

THE SOUTHERN CROSS, a Catholic newspaper published at Cape Town, South Africa, acting editor, Reverend B. Gavan Duffy, S.J., after admitting that the common people of England are mainly Protestant, explains how their leaders, educated at Eton and Harrow and Winchester, have gradually betrayed them:

An extraordinarily high percentage of Catholics is found among the senior advocates, from whose ranks the judges are drawn. The biggest and most expensive modern church buildings in England are Catholic. Still more important is the fact that the majority of the old English nobles in the House of Lords remain Catholic. The proportion is said to be seventy-five percent. . . . It is well known that English foreign affairs, particularly the Foreign Office itself, are in the hands of Roman Catholics. Since the members of the higher nobility play an important role as governors and viceroys, and occupy several key positions at home, the astounding fact emerges that within the ranks of the ruling classes England has remained far more Catholic than many a purely Catholic country.

Where the Roman Hierarchy cannot rule tyrannically, but must play second fiddle, it is always willing to get down and wallow in the dirt if by any means at all it can creep up one inch toward prominence. This was seen at the British coronation ceremonies. The Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops of Great Britain wanted to affirm the loyalty of Roman Catholics to the realm, but were told in so many words that their titles and territorial designations are bogus and for that reason they could not be used in any official communications acceptable to the king.

Nevertheless, the Guild of Roman Catholic police in London is said to have a membership of more than 1,000, and in the last 50 years the number of Roman Catholic churches in England has nearly doubled while the number of priests has more than doubled.

Britannia—an unenthusiastie candidate for the Fascist operating table

Ireland's Brand of Fascism

Belfast, Northern Ireland, is in terror from acts of the Irish Republican Fascist (Catholic Action) Army. Men are being shot even in the daytime, openly, but, though the murderers are well known, nobody dares to give their names, for fear they will be next on the list of victims. On occasions the assassins walk into a man's house in the night and shoot him as he sleeps, without giving him the ghost of a chance. Eighteen such deaths have taken place recently, and in every case the assassins escaped arrest.

In the census of the Irish Free State of ten years ago 92.6 percent of the people were found to be Roman Catholics, and the remainder, of other faiths, mostly Church of Ireland Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and Jews.

Once one of the most prolific of countries, Ireland lost 6,138 of her population in the last ten years. More people emigrated from the United States to the Irish Free State than vice versa. Part of the Irish Free State's loss of population is attributed to the fact that 78,130 persons emigrated to England and Scotland in the last ten years. Irish lads do not marry until 35.

In the past ten years the Irish emigration to Great Britain was 78,130. The population of Dublin, 587,000, is now one-fifth that of the entire country.

Liverpool is becoming Catholic by the very simple procedure of Ireland's making England support her surplus population. There are a quarter of a million Irish in Liverpool, and they continue to come every year because the poor-allowance in Liverpool is greater than it is in Dublin. Meantime the Hierarchy urges Irish fathers and mothers to have all the children possible. That means more Catholics, with ultimately greater revenues and greater power for the "Church".

With the outbreak of war in the Spanish peninsula some of those who were pioneer witnesses there, including E. Cooke and J. H. Corr, are now devoting their energies to magnifying God's name in the Emerald Isle. Naturally a generous and warm-hearted people, the Irish have been turned into unreasonable bigots by long subjection to the Roman Hierarchy.

Every reader of Consolation will be interested in the following report by Mr. Cooke of some of the experiences which he and his fellow witnesses have undergone in Ireland in their efforts to enlighten that unfortunate people, and will admire the courage and devotion to Jehovah which prompts men to circulate among a blinded and bigoted people such a dodger as is reproduced following Mr. Cooke's letter.

The old guard

Jehovah's witnesses in the Irish Free State are having warm times. The tools of the Devil are incited to attack the witnesses and destroy their literature, and when such breaches of the peace occur the witnesses, and not the miscreants, are arrested for "conduct calculated to lead to a breach of the peace".

There are evidences on every hand of the Devil's mimicry, in attempting to divide the people into Catholics and Communists. The Catholic press has gone crazy over the "menace of Communism" in Ireland and in every other land—all as an excuse to grab world power.

The uneducated swallow it all, with the result that books explaining the Bible are considered to be Communistic; this is the camouflage with which the priests cover their efforts to stop the work. When their misguided myrmidons raid us they refuse to believe our reiterations that we are not Communists, and they even decline to examine the books, to see for themselves.

I asked one, "What is a Communist?" He said, "All I know is you are one." We are told to go back to Russia, and even civic guards have accused us of being Russians. It is queer that in Spain we were mobbed for being Fascists, and now in the Irish Free State we are called Communists.

In a raid at Castledermot we were stopped outside the village while we were eating our sandwiches and were prevented from reporting the matter to the local police headquarters.

In a raid at Timolin a mob surrounded the house at 8:30 p.m. and threatened to break down the door if we did not open to them. They searched painstakingly, and, of course, in vain, for evidence connecting us with Moscow. In addition to seizing all our literature, and burning it, they took our three Bibles, a Year Book and other personal papers.

Even after the police came, the raiders persisted in retaining their booty, and when outside gave three cheers for the pope and their Irish bishops. The next morning six men called and said they had been commissioned to see us out of town, and no food would be allowed until we left. Talk about Catholic Action!

At Clane, ten miles away, Jehovah's witness John Henry Corr was visited by four masked men, but when the landlord started to take off his coat they climbed over the fence and disappeared. Two days later the whole town council came at night and demanded that Jack should leave town.

At Naas the raiders came at 9:30 p.m., when the town was quiet. Our Watchtowers, a Golden Age and some letters, as well as all our stock, were seized and we were hustled out of town the same night and prevented from notifying the police.

When the cases got into court the district justice was most unfair, refusing to postpone until counsel could be obtained. It was obvious that the superintendent of police wished to rush a conviction—a willing tool of the Hierarchy indeed. The innocent were sentenced to two months in prison, but are out on bail.

The battle is indeed waxing fiercer and fiercer, and if we were not sure of Jehovah's protection over us we should be dismayed. But the spiritual food of recent months has prepared us for these things, and "forewarned is forearmed".

You may Bail in, boys, but mind—no intervention

VERY IMPORTANT

The Roman Catholic Church is a very great organization. It is composed of and ruled by the Hierarchy, that is, a few men most of whom reside in Italy and who are Italians. The millions of sincere persons who support the organization are not members of the Catholic Church, but are designated by the Hierarchy as

"The Catholic Population."

There are a few important priests in every country, but most of the priests perform menial service, collect the money, and send it to the higher-up men of the Hierarchy, who use it as they see fit.

The people of the "Catholic population" are very sincere and are easily deceived by those who reap the money profit.

The Hierarchy participates in the politics of every nation and works with dishonest politicians and dictators to keep the people down and in subjection. They control Germany, Austria, Italy, and are now trying to grab Spain, and are making an attempt to rule the whole world by harsh dictators.

The Roman Catholic Hierarchy operates under the name of Christ but does not obey the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God is the Almighty, whose name alone is Jehovah. Christ Jesus is the King that will rule the world in righteousness, and who will destroy every wicked organization and every person that deceives others.

The Hierarchy are religionists and teach the traditions of men and thereby make the commandments of God of none effect even as Jesus said they would do. They give no heed to the Bible and the commandments of God written therein.

Jehovah God commands that the people now be warned of His purpose to destroy all who do not love and serve Him.

You Want to Live!

How can you get life? Jesus answers: 'To know God and Christ Jesus is life eternal.' (John 17:3) The Bible is your only true guide to know God and the Hierarchy keeps you in ignorance of the Bible, giving to you only the traditions of men. Your only way of escape from destruction is to learn the commandments of God as set forth in the Bible and then follow them. You must no longer follow religionists, but you should follow Christ and be true Christians.

You Have Been Warned!

Act Promptly

If you really desire to live do not permit the Hierarchy to further deceive you but give heed to the warning of God's Word. True Christians desire to help all who wish to be helped; hence this warning.

Fascism, Truth, "Communism," in Canada

The Hierarchy is making rapid strides toward control of Canada. For the first time in its history Quebec opened its legislature, October 7, 1936, with Cardinal Villeneuve seated on a special throne. The speaker of the house was on his right. Rapidly, by egotism and assurance insufferable, the Hierarchy is preempting authority in temporal as well as "spiritual" matters.

The cardinals of the Roman church are going on record as advocating Fascism, one after another, to make it look unpremeditated. Villeneuve made the statement, "The corporate state offers the only solution of our present economic and social problems." That puts him squarely back of Mussolini, Hitler, Franco and the next madman that appears on the horizon.

Already Quebec gets deeper and deeper into Fascism. Hooligans prevented four intelligent Spanish officials from presenting the case of the Spanish Republic; Fascists wish to hear but one side.

A crucifix 14 by 18 inches is installed above the speaker's chair in the Legislative Assembly. It has a golden figure of Christ nailed to it and Christ believes in freedom of speech.

One of the officials of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the "Reverend Father" A. Vachon. Canada is only 40 percent Catholic, but the Catholics wish to make it appear that it is about 100 percent and rights of others may be entirely disregarded.

Immigration into Canada for the first half of 1936 was one-sixth from Britain and the balance from other lands, including many from Catholic countries. Canada is in a bad Catholic jam.

Recent achievements of the J.E.C. or Young Catholic Students of Montreal were forbidding a meeting of Spanish Loyalists, knocking down a college professor on the street and kicking him, howling imprecations outside of brokerage and newspaper offices, breaking windows and holding up traffic by seizure of trolley cars.

Pushing for immediate control of the whole earth, the Roman Hierarchy made the pace a little too fast in Ontario. Last year it succeeded in jamming through a bill splitting the taxes of corporations, so that Catholic schools would get a bigger slice, based on the number of Roman Catholic stockholders in these corporations. The law proved unworkable and was repealed unanimously, to forestall the possibility of a religious war in the province.

The New Deal statesmen

The simple and unvarnished truth is always an obstacle to Hierarchy aspirations; hence the following outburst from Archbishop Forbes, of Canada, as set forth in the Ottawa Journal of February 1, 1937:

Archbishop Forbes has issued a pastoral letter in which he condemns certain publications which he stated are circulated throughout the city and district, "and which contain heretical doctrines attacking Christian truths the most sacred and holding them up to ridicule, such as the dogma of the Holy Trinity, that of the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of the immortality of the soul, thereby sapping at the very foundations of religion and harming church authorities."

The letter was read in many of the Roman Catholic churches of the archdiocese on Sunday. In churches where the letter was not read, it will be heard next Sunday.

The letter states: "We, by virtue of canon 1398 of the Canon Law of the Church, declare prohibited, and by these presents we prohibit in our diocese, these writings, booklets, pamphlets, circulars. They are not allowed to be published, read, kept, bought or sold, nor to be translated into other languages nor to be passed about in any way. They are to be destroyed.

"To be perfectly clear, We wish without excluding all the rest of the same type, to point particularly to the writings of the so-called Witnesses of Jehovah."

The archbishop's fear is that when the Catholic population read the Watch Tower publications and see how reasonable and Scriptural they are they will naturally turn away from the "hell-fire-purgatory" husks upon which the Hierarchy has been feeding them for so long. And what is more, these publications expose the Hierarchy's Fascistic schemes for world control.

One ludicrous form of Catholic control in Canada is manifest in the following "Code of Hospital Morals", adopted by the Quebec Conference of the Catholic Hospital Association:

I. Things prohibited.

1. The following practices are strictly prohibited:

(a) All abortions produced directly or for therapeutic purposes, under pain of excommunication at the instance of the local bishop. (Code of canon law, Can. 2350).

(b) Removing one or both ovaries, cutting out, sectioning or ligature of one or both Fallopian tubes when these organs are not badly diseased.

(c) Sterilization of the ovaries by any method having solely or principally in view the object of rendering conception impossible.

(d) Surgical removal of the excretory duct of the testicle with the sole or main object of rendering a man sterile.

2. All surgeons, doctors or nurses are strictly forbidden to teach or to advise in this hospital any contraceptive procedure whatsoever.

3. Although the doctor should authorize administration of sedatives to dying persons which will allay severe pain, he should in no case deprive them of their senses and reason, under pain of very great sin, before they have made their last temporal and spiritual dispositions. Similarly, when the dying person has in all respects given account to both God and man, the doctor shall not deprive them, unless for very serious reasons—by an injection of morphine or by any other means—of the possibility of acquiring, in full possession of themselves, the precious merits of a dead saint. (Quebec Council, decree 429; Payen, S.J.: Medical Deontology No. 203).

4. Euthanasia (easy or painless death), in all forms, is absolutely forbidden.

II. Things required.

1. All doctors or surgeons are bound conscientiously to notify their patients in danger of death, or to cause them to be notified, so they can put their temporal and spiritual affairs in order. It is unwise to delay this charitable duty until the patient is about to die. (Plenary council of Quebec, decree 429).

2. All embryos or foetuses should be baptized in an absolute manner if they are living; if life is doubtful, they are baptized conditionally. ("If you are living I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost"). (Canon law, Can. 747).

In case of expulsion of the entire ovum, foetus and membranes, the ovary is immersed in a vessel of water and the membranes broken and the blessed sacrament given. This is baptism by immersion.

If human existence is doubtful, one says, "If you are a human being . . .". (Hoornaert, S.J.: Urgent baptism for medical reasons, pages 15 and 21).

3. Intra-uterine baptism ought to be administered conditionally to the foetus if it is believed that it has not died previous to birth. In this case it is necessary to endeavor to have the water reach the head of the infant. Every foetus baptized in the mother's womb should be baptized again after its birth, but conditionally ("If you have not been baptized . . ."), and by the doctor, if it is urgent. (Canon law, Can. 746).

4. In case of ectopic gestation, if the surgeon must, because of grave danger to the mother, intervene for the purpose of removing the extra-uterine sac, he must open it at once before taking it to the pathologist in order to look for the embryo. If he finds it, he must baptize it, unconditionally if life is certain, conditionally if life is doubtful.

5. If a mother dies before the birth of her child, the foetus must be extracted by those concerned, that is, by the surgeon or doctor, and baptized unconditionally if it is certain that it is living, and conditionally if life is doubtful. If there is a moral certainty that the foetus is dead, there is no obligation for extracting it from the maternal womb. (Canon law, Can. 746).

Fighting "Communism" in South Africa

The Fascists of South Africa, otherwise called the Grey Shirts, have a magazine published in Afrikaans and English, which contained only in Afrikaans the following deliberate lie:

A Warning. Beware of the organization which bears the name International Bible Students' Association, the members of which call themselves Jehovah's witnesses. In reality it is a political organization which strives for the establishment of a Jewish world state. Further, on the grounds of its underground activities it is banned in Germany, Austria, Italy and Japan.

A similar editorial policy was manifested by the Malaya Catholic Leader, of Singapore, which said:

In December, 1934, several 'Earnest Bible-seekers' [in Japan] were arrested. They were charged officially with carrying on activities hostile to the State, denying the possibility of any recognized social organization and employing the large funds at their disposal to foment unrest among small farmers. Catholic missionaries, in consequence, suffered greatly from the slander and hostility of the agitators.

The two items obviously originated from the same "news service", and both are false from beginning to end.

The Straits Times, Singapore, Straits Settlement, Asia, by its manager Mr. Bartholomeusz, refused to publish the following advertisement unless the words "only true" were omitted. Singapore, it may be explained, has 375,000 Chinese, 47,000 Hindus, 42,000 Malays, 8,000 Europeans, 7,000 Eurasians, 4,000 Japanese, and 8,000 others; so it may be judged how many "gods" the Times is trying not to offend:

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Underground Work in Australia

Determined to control the propaganda of the world, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Australia, at its November (1936) conference in Adelaide, discussed the methods by which they will extend to Australia the censorship operating in other parts of the British Empire, the United States and the world.

The following statement (exposing Hierarchy methods) by R. A. Kinninmonth, one of Jehovah's witnesses, appeared in Smith's Weekly, of Sydney, Australia, November 24, 1936:

The trouble arose in the first place when one of our workers entered a country convent to distribute our books and pamphlets among the good ladies of that institution.

Perhaps our representative did not know that it was a convent, but, even so, we see no reason why liberty of religious education should be restricted. But a priest intercepted him, tore up our literature, and forcibly ejected our representative.

When we booked the Masonic Hall in Warragul to give a lecture, free, we were advised that we would not be allowed to hold the meeting. We had engaged the hall and had obtained the key, but I was personally threatened by a leading Masonic official, that I would have to hand over the key, or it would be taken from me.

I went to the police station and informed Senior Constable Adamson that I had been threatened, and requested that a police officer be stationed in the hall to keep order, if necessary, during the meeting, but although I offered to pay for the service, the request was refused.

Our meeting was fixed for 3 p.m. We assembled in the hall half an hour or so earlier, but the police told us that, as we had only hired the hall from 3 p.m., and, as the authorities demanded the return of the key, we would have to hand it over or be liable to a charge of a breach of the peace. We handed over the key, the Masonic authorities locked the hall, and refused to reopen it for us.

Some days later I personally booked the Warragul Theatre, and paid a cheque for the use of it. But several days after that my cheque was returned to me. There is a definite and united attempt in Warragul to suppress the gospel, but we are just as determined that liberty of religious teaching shall triumph.

Motor Vehicles of Canada

◆ With 1,200,000 motor vehicles, Canada claims that, with a little crowding, all her population could be carried on her 400,000 miles of highways, and that if all the machines were mustered out in one grand parade the procession would be 23,000 miles in length.

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path

By Grace A. Estep (Pennsylvania)

"JANE! Look; see what I've found!"

"What is it, Buddy?"

"A funny brown ball. Jack calls it a puffball."

"Oh, yes. Where did you find it?"

"Over in the leaves by that old stump. There's another one."

"Wait till I get it. Now, watch the 'smoke' when I squeeze it."

"Oh, Jane! Don't! If you get that in your eyes you can't ever see any more."

"Why, Buddy, who told you that?"

"Jack did."

"Well, I'm afraid Jack is mistaken. The 'smoke' is harmless."

"Where does the ball come from?"

"It comes from a plant which grows down under the dead leaves. Toadstools and mushrooms belong to the same family. So does the mold you've seen on bread."

"That's funny. They don't look alike."

"Not a great deal. But they are very like in some ways."

"Why do the puffballs grow in these dead leaves?"

"Because puffballs are a fungus growth, just as mushrooms are. They grow on decaying vegetable matter—leaves and logs."

"What does the smoke do?"

"What you call smoke is really a mass of tiny particles. If they happen to land in a moist, suitable place, they'll make new plants."

"Then they are seeds, aren't they?"

"No, they're called 'spores'. Ferns are an example of something very beautiful which grows from spores."

"But I don't see—Ouch! Ooooo!"

"Buddy, whatever is wrong? Did you pick up a bee?"

"No, I got jagged on something."

"Let's see. A thistle! And here's a burr caught in your sweater. I'll take it off."

"Jane! Don't pull so hard! This sweater is new, and if I get threads pulled in it, Mama's going to be pretty sore."

"All right, then, little brother. Suppose you take it off—easy, now. No, don't pull hard, remember."

"Why, it won't come. I guess maybe—that is,—well, you might as well pull it off if you want to, Jane."

"All right. Come here. And Buddy, you're simply covered with beggar's lice!"

"Lice! Where? Will they bite?"

"No. They're only jaggery seeds. You see, Buddy, the seeds of any plant, whether a weed, a flower, or a tree, must be scattered about in order to make new plants."

"Can't they just fall on the ground?"

"Some do, but if they all dropped just close to the mother plant they'd be so thick that they would choke one another."

"Guess you're right. Ouch! Some of those things hurt. Say, how do seeds keep from being in one place?"

"Oh, by different methods. These are scattered by sticking to things that pass.—Buddy, hold still!—The dandelion has fluffy wings on the seeds. They are blown by the wind. The maple tree has wings of another sort on its seeds."

"I know. Those funny long flaps like a pea-pod. We open up the thick end and stick it on our noses."

"Right," Jane laughed. "Some seeds are in little balls. These balls drop off the plant and are blown across the ground great distances.

"Still other seeds have a cork-like part which makes them float easily on water. Some pods pop open suddenly and shoot the seeds about."

"What fun!"

"Some, such as the acorn, are carried about by small woodland creatures."

"Oh, yes! And birds steal cherries and drop the seeds out of them."

"Just right. There, Buddy, I believe we have those things pretty well picked off. Some poor little squirrel may soon be carrying some of these very seeds in his big tail, far across the woods to a new home."

Unusual Experiences with Animals By T. R. Weeks

WHILE visiting a company of Jehovah's witnesses at Salem, Oregon, I was talking with one of these witnesses on various subjects, and he told me of some unusual experiences which he had had with cats, dogs and birds. These experiences I am glad to send in to the "Journal of Fact, Hope and Courage". He said:

"When I was about ten years old I was reading in a magazine about a boy who trained his cat to catch fish; and I decided to train my cat to do likewise. So I made a fishhook out of an ordinary pin, took thread for a line, and a can of worms, and went to the brook, where I caught some little sunfish. Then I tied one of these fish on a string fastened to a stake so that the fish would be an inch or two from the edge of the bank. The cat then stood on the bank, and raked the little fish in and ate it. Then I staked out three or four more fish, each a little farther out than the preceding one, until the cat plunged into the water up to its neck. I then quit feeding the cat, and watched it awhile. After about half an hour it walked along the stream until it came to a shallow rapids, where it saw a small school of fish. Then it jumped in and caught one. From that time on, whenever the cat was a little hungry, it would go down to the stream and catch a fish.

"We had a large black cat which was in the habit of catching and eating little chickens. One day I caught him in the act. My father appeared on the scene and said, 'I will go to the house, get the gun, and shoot that cat.' The cat heard the conversation, and somehow must have understood that he was to be killed; for he left immediately and never returned.

"At dawn one morning I was picking blackberries; and a little bird chased by a hawk lit on my shoulder for refuge. For several minutes I walked around, picking berries, with the bird on my shoulder. Then one of the party with me came toward me to look at the bird, but it flew away. Evidently it hunted up its mate; for we could hear it chirping and calling as it flew away in the distance. Suddenly the bird returned with its mate and dipped down toward me, lighting on some berries close by, and both birds rejoicing and singing loudly. The four other berry-pickers with me also saw this.

"One day when we were distributing radio folders to homes, a dog met me at a gate. As usual I spoke to the dog, as I walked through the gate. He wagged his tail, but then stood defiantly in the pathway and would not let me go to the house. I decided to see if I could use him in getting the radio folder to the door. So I folded a radio slip, offered it to the dog, and commanded him to carry it to the house. He took it and carried it to the front door, then looked at me. I commanded him to lay it down by the door. This he did, and then looked at me as if to say, 'Guess that's all.' I went on to the next house. About half an hour later I took a brother past this house, and showed him the dog. He remarked that the dog was intelligent-looking. The people living in the house were not at home, and, of course, the dog knew this."

Another person told me the story of an old dog that one evening scratched the door, wanting to get out. Shortly before this his master had said, "Well, we shall have to kill old Sport, as he is getting too old." Sport then arose, walked over to the baby's cradle, licked the baby's cheek, and went to the door to get out. He never returned. Apparently he had understood what his master had said.

Innate Love of Wild Life for Man

◆ The innate love of wild life for man is revealed in a touching story from British Columbia. A lone prospector broke his leg and crawled into a bear's cave to avoid a fresh fall of snow. Some days later he started dragging himself toward his cabin, which took him one week. During all that time the bear stood guard over him, preventing coyotes from coming near him. If that prospector at any time in his past life ever shot a bear, does anybody suppose he would do it now? Why not let the bears enjoy their lives?

Vivisection and the Vaccine Peddlers

HERE IS one illustration of how to make a vaccine for typhus—a disease said to be caused by body lice. Professor Weigl will now tell you, in his own words, how to prepare the very latest in cures: [Quoted from Abolitionist]

I have found that the best medium in which to cultivate the germ is the louse itself. The procedure, which from a technical point of view has proved unexpectedly easy, is as follows: by means of a capillary glass tube, inserted through the anus into the intestine of the louse, infected matter—such as the blood of a patient—is injected with the help of a magnifying glass, and a competent worker can in this way infect over a thousand lice in a few hours. It was found that a louse thus infected could take the place of a laboratory culture-medium. The microbes multiply rapidly in the intestine (the louse eventually dying), thus furnishing a culture which can be kept for investigation. I have shown that the microbes thus obtained are genuine typhus germs, and have found that by infecting one set of lice after another with them, in series, a constant supply of vaccine can be made available year after year. We are now preparing in our Institute at Lwow enough of the vaccine to immunize a thousand persons a month. For this purpose we have to breed vast quantities of lice, and feed them on human blood twice a day. For the operation of feeding, we put from three hundred to five hundred lice in a sort of shallow cage with a gauze bottom, which is fixed to the arm or leg of a man: the lice then suck his blood through the gauze. One man can in this way feed about 20,000 lice a day. After eight days' feeding the lice are mature, and are then infected with typhus germs in the manner previously described. After this they are fed for another five days, in order to allow the greatest possible increase of the microbes in their intestines, and for this latter feeding we have to employ persons who have either had typhus themselves (and thus become immune) or have been inoculated against it with my vaccine. He has actually inoculated 12,000 healthy persons with this filth. His paper is published in Discovery, August, 1935.

I shall be pleased to send particulars of fiendish medical experiments on humans and animals, the real nature of vaccines and chemical poisons used in medicine. The authenticated facts at my disposal will convince the most skeptical that Medical monopoly will make our country a human vivisectionist and vaccine mongers' hell.—Edgerton Ward, Fellow of the British Empire Health Foundation, 266 Bramall Lane, Sheffield 2, England.

Vaccination and Truancy

By Ernest M. Brown (New York)

BETWEEN September 11 and October 30, 1936, my two girls, aged 7 and 8 years, were refused admission to school thirteen times, although the older had been to school before and had a transfer from the other school. After two hearings before the attendance officer I was summoned to the Children's Court on a charge of truancy, because I refused to have them poisoned by vaccination. At my first hearing in the Children's Court (October 21) I was given until November 4 to have them vaccinated. On November 4, when I still refused to have them vaccinated, I was given a suspended sentence of $10 or ten days in the case of the younger; in the case of the older, was ordered to take her before the city doctor for examination. I could have given a better examination myself; for the only thing he did was to test her heart with his stethoscope. Was ordered to report back to the court on November 18.

Meanwhile I had made arrangements for my children to enter a school outside of the city. On November 18 the judge gave me a sentence of $20 or twenty days, but in view of the fact that I surprised him with a signed statement from the principal of the school where they were that they were attending school, he deferred it until December 10 in order to check up on the facts. I know that this week he received a statement from the school board that my children were attending school, and had been attending school for the past three weeks; yet Judge Stephen S. Jackson today suspended sentence in the case of the older girl, but gave me a sentence of ten days in jail in the case of the younger. Yet "no one is ever sentenced for refusing vaccination"???

Poltergeist in Jamaica

POLTERGEIST, a form of spirit manifestation in which the demons throw objects from one place to another, without the intervention of human hands, has broken out in Mount Horeb, a village in Jamaica. Poltergeist always occurs in or about a home wherein one or more members of the family are in contact with the demons. In this instance it is a 14-year-old girl. We give a part of the account, opening with her story as it appeared in a Kingston paper:

"I can see a spirit. When I was living at Mafoota I saw one. I see all the time in and around the house a tall man dressed in white and wherever I go on the premises he follows me. If I happen to go to anybody's house, nothing follows me, I see no sign; but as soon as I return to Miss Johnson's place the stone-flinging begins. One day last week I saw him cringing at Miss Johnson's back door. I flung a stone at him and set the dog after him. He ran into the bushes, but returned later on in the afternoon. Another day I climbed a breadfruit tree, and I saw him standing at the root of the tree. He beckoned to me to come down. When I did come down he waved his hand as if sending me away. Another day I saw him standing at the latrine door to block my entrance inside. I have never seen him fling a stone, but I know it is he. I am many times hit with all kinds of missiles. I was hit on the elbow of my right hand with a stone which inflicted a wound [wound seen]. He often knocks my tea out of my hand, throws marl at my head, pinches me and hits me. He took out of my hand a piece of breadfruit one morning. He took a pint bottle and hit me over my forehead, and took the lamp out of my hand on various occasions. I am not afraid of him. At night on entering my room I feel a bit afraid, but otherwise I am all right. I love Miss Johnson and I do not mean to leave her."

Literally hundreds of people have visited the scene, and here are some eyewitnesses' stories of what is happening, as told to our own correspondent:

Saturday, Sunday and Monday were the worst days of a bad lot. People congregated in the house on Sunday in exceedingly large numbers, and as many knelt upon their knees to pray, stones, bottles, bricks and gravel were hurled at them; so that in this case prayer did not frighten the "unwelcome visitors".

Eyewitnesses state that they have seen lamps lifted off tables and fall to the ground. On the first occasion they are uninjured, but if taken up by someone and replaced, they soon fall with a greater force and are shattered in a hundred pieces.

One part of the house, made of Spanish wall, is now broken down by the spirit, and the stones and marl are used to throw on the occupants of the house, whether they be Miss Johnson, Muriel McDonald, or any visitor. One boy, Martel Hurlock, declares that he took up a special stone dropped in the house, wrote his name on it, and flung it away. In a comparatively short time, the same stone came back into the house, hitting the ceiling with lightning velocity and falling to the ground. He took up the stone, flung it away a second time, and again it returned. Others present at the time confirm this declaration.

One Gerald Birch declared he got a severe blow on his hand, when he went to the house to see for himself. These are some of the happenings as told by eyewitnesses:

(1) A lamp was seen to go through a very small hole, and when taken up and fitted to the hole, it could not pass through again.

(2) A stone about half a penny in weight was thrown through a pane of glass, and the glass was not smashed.

(3) One Astley Lewis took off his shoes in the house, and soon after one disappeared, was seen to "fly" at a terrific speed, and hit a girl in her side.

(4) Stones drop into the house, coming, to all appearances, through the roof of the house.

Public Money for Romanist Schools

◆ Public money for sectarian schools is the battle cry of the Roman Catholic cult in Australia at the present time. Having a Roman prime minister the "church" feels that it is now or never to get its clutches into the public treasury; hence the enthusiasm and discipline with which all members of the cult are being crowded into the so-called Catholic Taxpayers' Association of Australia. One of the arguments used is that the same thing was done in Ontario; but the information is carefully withheld from the sucker list that after a year's trial of the wretched system it was thrown out unanimously, as being the most troublesome thing ever undertaken in Canada.

Consolation Interviews Judge Rutherford

IMMEDIATELY upon his return from Europe this magazine interviewed Judge Rutherford. Below appears that interview, in part.

Question: Will you say something for publication concerning the growing unrest among the various nations?

Answer: Unrest among the people of the nations I have visited is on the increase. The ruling elements, as you know, consist of the strong men of commerce, the professional politicians, and the clergymen. These are really in a compact for self-preservation, and in a conspiracy against all who tell the truth about them. All three parts of the ruling element are religionists, but some of them practice it much more than others. The ruling elements have dealt unfairly and therefore unjustly with the common people who really do the work in the land. Because of such injustice and unfairness the common people have become irritated and greatly discontented and are taking an extreme course. They have learned injustice and its methods by observing the religionists, and hence they are organizing and showing their hatred toward those who are against them. For the present, however, the ruling elements have the whip hand and continue to push forward arrogantly, hoping to keep the common people in subjection. Sensing danger for themselves, they have brought forth various remedies to appease the discontented. They have failed, however, to bring forth a satisfactory remedy. Discontent is rapidly increasing, and this is causing the ruling elements to be fearful, and their fear is inducing them to take away the liberties of the common people.

The public press is doing nothing to help the common people; for the reason, the press is owned or controlled by the ruling elements just mentioned. For several years the GOLDEN AGE magazine has been the only magazine that has been doing any real constructive work among the people. The change of name of that magazine to CONSOLATION is appropriate and very timely. Its columns will continue to publish the truth for the benefit of the people who love righteousness and fair dealing. The people are in great need of consolation, and the truth of the matter will bring comfort to them. You may expect the people of good will, and who love righteousness, to greatly increase the circulation of the magazine CONSOLATION.

Question: After your recent visit to Europe, do you think there is still danger of Fascism or Nazism getting control of the countries over there?

Answer: Yes. Already this fanatical organization is in control of several European countries. At Berne, Switzerland, I addressed a public assembly, at which time I called attention to the dangers threatening Switzerland by reason of its geographical situation, and the desire of its enemies to possess it. Fascism and Nazism are one and the same, and both are the offspring of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, which is the chief agent on earth of the Devil. The purpose of the Devil, as the Scriptures show, is to turn all the people away from God and lead them into destruction; and Fascism and Nazism, and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, are means employed for this purpose. At one time the House of Hapsburg ruled Switzerland with a cruel hand. The Hapsburgs, as you well know, were under the dominating control of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and still occupy that position. Under the leadership of William Tell the cruel rule in Switzerland ended, and for more than a thousand years Switzerland has been a republic. During the past few years the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has rapidly gained power in Switzerland. It has used secret and other deceptive methods to place in public office many of its tools. Nazis and Fascists openly and secretly do the work at the bidding of the Hierarchy. Many of their agents are now in Switzerland attempting to influence the people and organizing Fascism there, and it is rapidly growing. Liberty of thought and of speech are greatly restricted and, it seems certain, will soon disappear. The nation is rushing on to early control by the same old gang that once ruled it. In my public address I warned the people against this danger and stated to them that the purpose of the combine of Hitler and Mussolini and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is to crush all the liberty of Switzerland, seize control of the nation, and rule the people by a dictator. I called attention to the failure of the League of Nations to help the people in their distress, and my speech greatly enraged the combine of Nazis and the Hierarchy agents. One of the leading lawyers of Switzerland stated to me on the occasion of this visit that a great change had come over the country during the past four years and that within that time the liberties of the people had been greatly restricted and very recently a law has been passed which prevents any non-citizen of Switzerland from delivering a public address in that country without first submitting his manuscript for censorship. As you know, I refused to submit my manuscript, and delivered the speech just the same, and that made them mad. In Switzerland there is a great number of people who are of good will toward God, who love righteousness and hate iniquity, and who are greatly in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of worship, but many of these have grown fearful of the power of the Nazis. The Hierarchy is desperately fighting against everything in Switzerland that holds forth the truth of God's kingdom. The good people of Switzerland may awaken to their danger, but I fear the spirit of William Tell has largely vanished from that nation.

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