Consolation, February 9, 1938
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Contents
Tampering with the Ten Commandments 3
Mr. Felix Helps a Good Cause Along 5
George Puts It Up to Friend Hall 6
Catholic Action Adopts Foundling 8
Same Bloodthirsty Old Devil 10
Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Felix in Conspiracy 10
South America, Australia, Britain 12, 13
Germany, Italy, Central Europe 14-16
Your Questions Answered by Judge Rutherford 17
Maxims Ever Young 19
Those Patriotic Ceremonies 19
U. S. Government 21
New York, Ohio, Kentucky 22, 23
Puncturing One More God 24
The Friendly Cold 26
Home and Health 28
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path (A Winter Walk) 30
Winter Thaw—Cover Design 31
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Shied at Having Her Sash Cut
◆ At Voltago, Italy, a group of girls said they had been visited by the virgin Mary, and they had touched the rosary which she carried, but when they tried to cut off a corner of her sash Mary beat it. Usually a thing like this goes over big; and it did in Italy. Tens of thousands came to the city; but the bishop of Belluno thought it was a little bit too raw, and instructed the clergy to discourage the demonstration, which was done.
Blessed the "Holy Fire"
◆ A picture in The People, London, shows Bishop Myers blessing the "Holy Fire" outside Westminister Cathedral recently. After a little practice a bishop gets so he can bless the holy ash can, make a straight shot with a soger at the holy waste basket, or decorate the holy cuspidor with a perfectly straight face, confident that the common people are so foolish they will swallow it all without turning a hair.
Maybe You Heard It Before
◆ Maybe you heard before about the Pullman car porter that was told by a certain man to be sure to put him off at a certain station, no matter what he said or did. Late the next morning he woke up to find his station fifty miles in the rear. He sought out the porter and bawled him out right. The porter took it resignedly but finally said, "Go on; it's nothing to what the man said and did that I did put out."
Chicago News Makes It All Plain
◆ The Chicago News makes it all plain as to the difference between Socialists, Communists and Fascists, thus:
If you have six cows, the Socialists take three and leave you three; the Communists take all six; the Fascists leave you all six, and make you feed them, but they take the milk.
Inquisitive Mr. Smith
◆ In Auckland, New Zealand, a Mr. Brown was astonished to see in the morning paper an announcement of his death. Calling up his friend Smith to inquire if he had seen it, he was astounded when Smith cautiously replied, "Er—yes; where are you talking from?"
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 9, 1938 Number 480
Tampering with the Ten Commandments
A HEADLINE in the New York World-Telegram reads: "10 Commandments Fit Today, Most Students Agree at N. Y. U." However, apparently the second commandment does not fit, at least not as far as any evidence in the news item following this heading is concerned; for the second commandment is omitted altogether, while the tenth is divided into two parts. This is also done in the Roman Catholic Catechism, although the Roman Catholic Bible (Douay Version) contains all of the ten. The comparison made herewith should give one an idea why the Roman Catholic Hierarchy does not want the Catholic population to read the Bible.
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DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES
THE OLD TESTAMENT
FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT DOUAY, A.D. 1609
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THE NEW TESTAMENT
FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE ENGLISH COLLEGE AT RHEIMS, A.D. 1582
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The second commandment is unquestionably a most important one, and why it should be omitted in a Catechism ostensibly setting forth the law of God is difficult to explain except on the grounds that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy does not represent Jehovah God, but His opponent, Satan the Devil. When an organization will go so far as to omit, ignore and cover up one of the commandments of the almighty God, and then juggle with another of the commandments, rearrange and subdivide it, so as to still make ten, it certainly cannot be maintained with reason that such an organization does in truth and in fact represent Jehovah God. It very definitely misrepresents, opposes and disdains Him.
In deleting the second commandment from the law of God as given to Moses, the Hierarchy show they have a guilty conscience. They encourage the use of images and likenesses in the formal worship of Catholics. The excuse is made, of course, that they do not accord these images the same honor that is given to God, but merely show them a lesser degree of honor. Surely, say they, we should show respect to images and likenesses of angels, saints and the cross.
Similarly, "respect" is demanded for the flag, a formal obeisance or salute, such as holding hand or hat over the heart, or raising it in salute. Actually respect or marks of respect cannot be received by images or symbols, as they have no eyes to see nor ears to hear.
Gestures made before or toward them endow them with attributes they do not possess. Flag-saluting is but a milder form of image worship, if distinctions exist. Many who would not salute a cross, or show it "respect", even under the mistaken idea that it is the symbol of Christ's death, ignorantly show reverence for national emblems.
The honest Catholic population, and there are millions such, are urged to diligently compare the ten commandments given by Jehovah God to Moses, and recorded in Exodus, chapter 20, of the Douay (Catholic) Bible, as given below, with the extract from the Catechism, opposite thereto, in the right-hand column. Notice that Jehovah God's second commandment, appearing in Exodus 20: 4-6, is omitted altogether, and that this subterfuge is covered up by splitting the tenth commandment into two portions falsely labeled 9 and 10.
EXODUS
CHAPTER 20.
The ten commandments.
AND the Lord spoke all these words :
* (1) 2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
(2) 4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
(3) 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
(4) 8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
(5) 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.
(6) 13 Thou shalt not kill.
(7) 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
(8) 15 Thou shalt not steal.
(9) 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
(10) 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid; nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
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2. Which are the Commandments of God?
The Commandments of God are these ten:
1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
See! In the Catechism, the second commandment is entirely omitted.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
See! The tenth commandment is split into halves.
Mr. Felix Helps a Good Cause Along (And see page 10)
CONSOLATION is doing a good work in exposing the wickedest group on earth, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and "Reverend Father" Richard Felix, Pilot Grove, Mo., is helping the good cause along by printing and circulating a folder, a reproduction of which appears below. He was cramped for space and did not have room to reproduce the captions underneath the cartoons, and so these now follow his selections. Jehovah's people will be much interested to read again the story of Mr. Felix, which occupied the first six pages of The Golden Age No. 466, issue of July 28, 1937, and also to look up the issues from which the cartoons were selected, and to see again some of the good ones Felix missed.
Left to right, top row: (1) There lives an old woman who has many and diverse children (Holy Mass, Purgatory, Trinity, Confession), who she claims were fathered by God and whom she asks the world to accept as such without question or proof of their paternity. She keeps them hidden from the light of day because she knows that they are so unreasonable and altogether hideous that no one can behold them without a shudder. Justice and Truth demand, in the public interest, that she prove her claim to divine motherhood and produce her offspring. But she is full of terror and fears to show them, because she knows the world will recognize in them their father—Satan. (The Golden Age No. 446, October 21, 1936, page 52) (2) Sister Jezebel says she's afraid he'll prove a stubborn convert. (The Golden Age No. 457, March 24, 1937, page 393) (3) The Hierarchy's Crusades—II. Capturing Jerusalem, they burned the Jews alive in their synagogue and slaughtered 70,000 women, children and babes. Dismembered bodies floated in rivers of blood, while the crusaders took "time out" for devotions. "Famine and pestilence shared honors with crime and depravity. At the capture of the town of Marra, the crusaders butchered the inhabitants and ate their flesh." ... "And the Christians searched the carcasses of the murdered Turks for golden byzants and converted the gall which was found in their bodies into medicine." (Mackintosh's History of England, 1, page 194) "To engage in the crusade and to perish in it, were almost
Shall we let this go on forever?
Join the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
A VICIOUS WAR is being waged against the Church. A challenge to all thinking Catholics are the slanderous attacks against the Faith by Rutherford and his Witnesses of Jehovah. Reproduced here from the pages of "The Golden Age" are a few caricatures made by this group who have no authority but their own warped minds, no responsibility but their own perverted impulses.
The "Golden Age" which has recently changed its name to "Consolation" is published twice a month in twelve different languages, claims a circulation of 3,000,000, and is filled with insulting cartoons and wild charges against the Church. 35,000 field workers distribute this paper from door to door; they also disposed of 21,000,000 of Rutherford's bigoted books and booklets last year alone. Besides this, Rutherford is on the air damning and defaming us over more than one hundred radio stations week after week, year in and year out.
Shall we Catholics remain mute forever in the face of these outrageous charges? Two hundred determined men and women do not think so. The past year they banded together to counteract the evil influence of Rutherford by means of the radio and the printed word. Each one gave what he or she could. Contributions ranged from one dollar to five hundred dollars. These same men and women now extend to you an invitation to join them.
Do you want to pass on the heritage of Faith to your own children? Do you want to bring the real truth of Catholicism to your non-Catholic friends in a plain and popular way? Do you want to see every charge brought against the Church answered? Then become a
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
--synonymous." (Hallam, I, chapter 1) 300,000 crusaders perished at the hand of fellow "Christians" before they reached the Holy Land. "By the time of the third crusade the magic and wonder had gone out of these movements altogether. . . Men went, but only kings and nobles straggled back." So much crime and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as the three years of the first crusade. Pope Innocent III "accuses the pilgrims of respecting in their lusts neither age nor sex, nor religious profession; and bitterly laments that the deeds of darkness, fornication, adultery and incest were perpetrated in open day by the Catholic camp''. (Gibbon, Chapter LX) (It is up to Mr. Felix to show why, in view of the self-evident paternity of the crusades, he objects to the pretty picture he has reproduced as the main feature, top center, of his selection. Who does he think did father the crusades?) (The Golden Age No. 458, April 7, 1937, page 423)
(4) Whose Vicar? (The Golden Age No. 455, February 24, 1937, page 331)
(5) Yesterday---Whenever the pope quarreled with any one now, he called for a crusade, until the word ceased to mean anything but an attempt to give a flavor to an unpleasant civil war. (H. G. Wells, Outline of History, page 645) Today---The German and Italian peoples have already been violated, and their voice silenced, their liberty, their self-respect, their very lives, crushed by the pope's newest crusaders, the Fascists and Nazis. In Spain today these Papal madmen are outdoing in violence, violation, torture and ferocity the black deeds of the earlier Crusaders. (The Golden Age No. 457, March 24, 1937, page 398)
Left to right, middle row: (6) Holy water for Mamma and the babies. (The Golden Age No. 433, April 8, 1936, page 422) (7) Since the Roman Church was founded, 1500 years ago, and considered herself the repository of every privilege divine or otherwise, literally billions of honest but deluded persons have poured into her treasuries untold wealth in return for fraudulent merchandise. Masses, prayers for the dead, indulgences, miraculous tinware, and bones of so-called "saints", and other diabolical devices have enriched her beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. (The Golden Age No. 468, August 25, 1937, page 763)
(8) Woeful tale of the fair ($\dagger$) wanton. (The Golden Age No. 465, July 14, 1937, page 645) (In this instance Mr. Felix selected only the top one third of the cartoon. Had he published the remaining two thirds, showing the Hierarchy being soused with the waters of truth, and showing her ugly pimpled, speckled and spotted hide, it would have been a little too much of a good thing for his purpose.)
(9) (Continuation of No. 7) Yet, not satisfied with voluntary or coerced donations; this devilish organization introduced the Inquisition, the sole purpose of which was to enrich her coffers by confiscation of the wealth of the "heretic"---branded wealthy. The fear of a fiery death caused many to contribute lavishly. This enrichment was at the expense of her own communicants, the poor and needy, the wealthy, the "high-born", the murderer, the thief, and the degenerate. Notwithstanding such sources of revenue, she is a beggar and pleads poverty and a life of renunciation, adding yet more millions by collections for "charity". (10) A clear case of infidelity. (The Golden Age No. 451, December 30, 1936, page 195)
Left to right, the two cuts at the bottom: (11) (In an article on "Public Education---the Bulwark of Liberty") C'm on, you brats; here's y'r dinner. (The Golden Age No. 450, December 16, 1936, page 167) (12) (In an article entitled "'Communism'---the Devil's Route to Fascism") Just another bastard, just another doorstep job; in fact, just one more lie. (The Golden Age No. 465, July 14, 1937, page 643)
Mr. Felix animadverts to "this group who have no authority but their own warped minds". Just whose warped minds are they to follow; his own? That is the Hierarchy's whole idea. In the face of the petitions of some 7,500,000 people that the Hierarchy stand up to the microphone, like men, and present their side and allow Judge Rutherford to also present the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, the Truth, at the same time, he asks, "Shall we Catholics remain mute forever?" And the answer is that they shall. Hear the word of the Lord:
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there; for [Jehovah] our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against [Jehovah].---Jeremiah 8:14.
George Puts It Up to Friend Hall
MY DEAR MR. HALL:
You sure must have read that book called Riches very hastily or else "you could not take it", since you wrote the following at the time you returned it:
"All men tell lies, only the Bible tells the truth, so here is your book of lies: I prefer reading the Bible. I think it would be advisable for you also to read the Bible instead of reading such filthy lies as there is in this book. Do you know which was the first church to preach the gospel? When you look it up you will find it was the Roman Catholic Church, and it will be the last." [Signed] . . . "A devoted Catholic."
It is natural for all men to tell lies: we are all imperfect; but I don't see any excuse for any to be as big liars as the Catholic priests and nuns, and, in fact, anyone who is with them or around them. I know this to be a fact, because I was a Catholic myself for forty-five years, was raised up in it, served mass hundreds of times and took part in all the foolishness they go through with. I call it foolishness because it is all borrowed from paganism.
Now you say that you read the Bible; so, if you want a real "hangover" for tomorrow morning, just try to hook up the mass with the Bible. Did it ever occur to you that if the Catholic church really were the first church to preach the gospel, then Jesus Christ should have been a Catholic; but we find the Bible says He was a Jew. The Bible also gives the genealogy of Christ, which is found in the first chapter of Matthew. Every generation [in the lineage] of Christ is given there, and they were all Jews clear back to David. The Jews are farther away from being Catholic than any other denomination. They know it is idol worship. That is why the pope hates the Jews and is trying to run them out of Europe.
And, by the way, did you know that the word "Catholic" is not in the Bible? It is not even in the Catholic Bible, except in the footnotes, where some monk put it there. These might be good questions to ask your priest.
Think it over, fellow, rub the mist from your eyes, and look around. You are some better off than some of the Catholics, anyway. I say this because you read the Bible, so you said. I have an aunt here who calls herself a "devoted Catholic" and yet she told me that if I were to bring any Bible, even a Catholic Bible, into her house she would figure I was bringing the Devil in. If you get mad about this it only proves that you can't take it. I mean the truth. If you don't write me I will figure you got mad.
Since I have been out of that church (so-called "church") many people have asked me why Catholics get mad when you talk about religion. The only answer I can give is, Because they are kept in the dark about the Bible and when they can't find an answer they get mad. Not more than two percent of the Catholics around here have Bibles. Here are a few scriptures [from the Douay] to ask your priest about:
Matthew 23:9: "Call none your father upon earth," etc. In the Catholic teaching it says the soul is immortal and cannot die. Now Ezekiel 18:4, 20 says, "The soul that sinneth, the same shall die." I suppose you rattle the rosary off by the hour; but in Matthew 6:7 it says, when you are praying, not to speak much, as the heathens; for they think that for their much speaking they may be heard. In John 5:39 it says, "Search the Scriptures; for you think in them you have life everlasting: and the same are they that testify of me." How many Catholics do this, when most of them haven't a Bible? In the 8th chapter of John, 31st verse, "Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed." Notice it says "Jews", and not "Catholics". His disciples were Jews. The Roman Catholic church teaches that the church is God's house and He is always in it. Now the Bible says, in Acts 7:48, "Yet the Most High dwelleth not in houses [some Bibles say 'temples'] made with hands." Look it up; don't be blind. Also read Acts 17:24; it speaks of temples here and that He does not dwell in them. Read what it says in Acts 20:20, how Paul taught publicly from house to house. If you have the Truth, why don't you do this? It is your duty, if you claim to be a footstep follower of Christ. The Bible says, in Romans 5:12, all men have sinned. Yet I have a brother-in-law who is a "devoted Catholic" and he says a priest can't sin. Do you believe this? If you do, you are believing a lie. In the 2d chapter, 15th verse, of Paul's letter to the Galatians, Paul says, "We, by nature, are Jews, and not of the Gentiles, sinners." Now he did not say "Catholics". This shows Paul was a Jew, and not a Catholic.
This is a good one for you to take notice of: It says, in Hebrews 10:11, that the priests daily offer sacrifices that can never take away sins. And my grandfather willed the priest $150 or $200 to pray him out of "purgatory"; and you can't find the word "purgatory" in the Bible. This is a man-made racket, and millions have fallen for it, and you are one of them. The Roman Catholic church teaches her people to have respect for the pope and the priests, but the Bible tells us if we have respect as to persons we commit sin. This is found in James, chapter 2, verse 9. Look it up.
Your church is full of statues of Christ and the apostles and the saints. This is clearly forbidden in Exodus, 20th chapter, 4th verse. In this verse it plainly states not to make any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.
Now, then, just who are the liars? What is "truth"? The answer is, The opposite of a lie. What is a lie? The opposite of truth. It's got to be the one or the other.
Exodus 20:4 says not to make any image or likeness of anything that is in heaven or anywhere else; and you know that your church is full of these things. Now turn to the book of Wisdom in your Catholic Bible and read the 14th chapter, 8th verse, which says: "But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he because he made it; and it because being frail it is called a god."
I am yours very sincerely,
GEORGE STEWART.
Catholic Action Adopts Foundling
COMMUNISTS are usually atheists. Atheists are opponents of religion, especially of the "holy Roman" variety. Atheists deny the existence of Almighty God. When an atheist-propagandist joins hands and consorts with, and renders aid, comfort and assistance to the "holy" church in its war against humble servants of Almighty God and His Christ, that, dear fellow thinkers, is SOMETHING. Listen, therefore, to the tale of Charles P. Windle, sometimes called C. Pliny Windle.
In Chicago, in a dingy little office cluttered with magazines, newspapers and pamphlets, Pliny Windle has embarked on his new campaign in defense of religious freedom of that much abused (tears), long-suffering (more tears), persecuted and maligned ("whales" of anguish here), satanic, demoniacal, diabolical and execrable aggregation of parasitic, religious racketeers called the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
For many years the Windle family were exponents of atheism and opponents of religion, but that form of propaganda seems to have petered out. Something was needed in its place, and as C. Pliny looked over the field the Catholic racket looked like a good source of income. Those priests know how to collect the shekels from the flock. Why couldn't he share in the fruits thereof?
So he takes his pen in hand and brings to birth a conglomeration of words entitled "The Rutherford Racket", making it a part of a series called "Truth and Light". Its announced purpose is to combat Communism and religious prejudice against the Catholic church. He claims that as a non-Catholic he can render efficient aid to the abused old snake-in-the-grass, and, of course, at a profit.
A sample of the "truth and light" in his brochure is shown in this paragraph from page five: "He [Judge Rutherford] mixes unwarranted assumptions, brazen falsehoods, agonizing prophecies, misapplied biblical quotations and weird intellectual interpretations of the Scriptures into an intellectual dish that must give many a Witness of Jehovah a bellyache in the place where his brains ought to be."
It's not a difficult task to rattle off a bunch of adjectives and nouns from a typewriter and call it "truth and light". It goes over well with the beskirted gentry who have been dodging a debate with Judge Rutherford these many years; but to be an article of worth along the lines of truth and light some proof ought to be produced. Some of the alleged "unwarranted assumptions" Pliny mentions should be shown. The "agonizing prophecies, misapplied biblical quotations" and "brazen falsehoods", if such there be, should be brought into the cold light of day for all to read. Windle knows that he cannot do that, and neither can his priestly nurses. If it produces some of the greatly desired long green, why should he worry about the truthfulness of the allegations?
The Hierarchy's "inspected and passed" Irish World and American Industrial Liberator (New York City) in its issue of December 11, 1937, sniveled and sobbed almost a column of favorable quotation from and comment on Windle and his effusions about Jehovah's witnesses, and especially Judge Rutherford, under a bold headline, three columns wide: "NON-CATHOLIC LECTURER RAPS THE ILL-INFORMED WHO SPEAK BLIND PREJUDICES." The editorial motto of this step-papa to atheism is a "holy" utterance of the Hierarchy's Archbishop MacHale, nobly printed in each issue: "If you wish to have an honest press, you ought honestly to support it." It's lovely to have such lofty and sublime aspirations about an honest press, but just how closely the Irish World adheres to the exalted sentiments of its patron archbishop can be judged from its whole-hearted approval of a Godless writer’s profane disseminations.
An ambassador to convey this precious “truth and light” (not forgetting to collect the circulating medium therefor) to the waiting dupes was needed. Thereupon one Leo Connelly, alias R. J. Keyes, alias Tom Bosey, alias —— Fitzpatrick (he didn’t have time to think of a first name), roamed through Ohio soliciting orders. Windle wrote to him that he was doing fine, and discussed the delicate financial situation, suggesting that perhaps the “Most Reverend Bishop” at Cleveland might help at that critical point with a loan or a substantial order for a supply of lumps of lies, alias “truth and light”.
Said Pliny: “It would be the greatest thing he [the bishop] could do to help build a mighty bulwark against atheistic communism, Rutherford’s religious prejudice, and enemy forces which aim at the destruction of religions, morality and inalienable rights.”
And if it doesn’t take too many of his shekels, the “most reverend bishop” may take a flyer at it.
Bishop Sheil, alias the Most Reverend Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., vicar general of the archdiocese of Chicago, is also supposed to come across for Pliny’s project with something more substantial than a sacerdotal blessing.
Connelly, alias Keyes, alias Bosey, alias Fitzpatrick, also did a little gum-shoe work for the “cause”. He called on some of the companies of Jehovah’s witnesses, talked with them, procured liberal quantities of books and booklets, and evidently tried hard to find some “communists” and “communist propaganda” to prove the need for building up that desired bulwark. He told some wonderful fiction of his great and burning love for truth, and of injuries inflicted on him by papists. He didn’t deceive Jehovah’s witnesses, who told him to go on his way and cease pretending to be what he is not.
The Catholic Hierarchy, with all its wealth and its oodles and oodles of “holy” societies and orders, dare not condescend to direct a priest, pontiff, pontifex primate, bishop, prelate, rector, abbot, vicar, apostolic reader, nuncio, apostolic delegate, buck nun, sissy saint, or even a cardinal, to meet Judge Rutherford in public to discuss the fundamental issues involving the eternal destiny of fair-minded and evil-minded people. The “glorious” Hierarchy dare not make even a pretense of answering the challenge presented in his writings. It can and does try to escape the judgment of clearly stated, God-given truths by shouting “calumnies”, “libels,” “slanders,” “lampoons.” And even in such shouting it appears to be losing its power and might. Its falsehoods, perversions, dissimulations and fabrications do not stem the mounting flood of TRUTH. So with that supreme inconsistency which has marked its actions from ancient days, the Hierarchy now publicly adopts and cuddles to its ugly bosom an unbelieving heretic to carry forward its dirty work.
Consolation wonders who will find himself stung first. Will C. Pliny suddenly discover that his loquacious efforts are not bringing in the gingerbread, angel-food cake, lady-fingers, macaroons (or what have you)? Or will the “always right” and most reverend bishops find that they are dishing out the horseshoe nails for the essence of nothingness?
“Catholic Truth”—Pittsburgh Style
◆ “Reverend Father” James R. Cox, Pittsburgh, Pa., offered $25,000 in prizes; chances $1 each. The chance-takers were each to get a medal called the “St. Christopher Miraculous Rose Medal”, concerning which “Reverend” Cox says with more or less truthfulness:
The meaning of this beautiful medal, offered by the Reverend Father James R. Cox, possesses so great an intrinsic value that it is impossible to estimate it in dollars and cents . . . Never before was such a beautiful medal offered at such a price and your suggestions may make you independently rich.
Probably you may think that you know all about this St. Christopher bird; but listen to this by the “Reverend Father” Cox:
The martyr Christopher, whose name signifies Christ-bearer, was one of the fourteen Holy Helpers. Earlier in life as a pagan of huge stature, he had served first the greatest of earthly kings, and then the Devil. Later, while he was a ferryman for poor travelers, he one day was carrying a child across the stream, when despite his giant strength the weight of the child bore him down. Thereupon the child was revealed to him as Christ, the King of heaven and earth.
Same Bloodthirsty Old Devil
THE same bloodthirsty old Devil that was after the Albigenses in the south of France in the twelfth century is after them still. The Albigenses held unwaveringly to the belief that the Roman Catholic church, as governed by the pontiffs of Rome, was corrupt. Their lands were forfeited and all the inhabitants of Beziers, Catholics as well as others, were put to the sword, 40,000 being killed indiscriminately. Evervinus, a Roman Catholic, addressing "Saint" Bernard, another Roman Catholic, is reported as saying:
Tell me, holy father, how is this? They entered to the stake and bore the torment of the fire, not only with patience, but with joy and gladness. I wish your explanation, how these members of the Devil could persist in their heresy with a courage and constancy scarcely to be found in the most religious faith of the Christ.
Seven hundred and twenty years have passed, and as proof that the Devil who hounded the Albigenses to death in the Dark Ages is the same old Devil, and will be until God Almighty chokes off his wind, here is an extract from an encyclical put forth at Vatican City, September 29, 1937, which makes the blood run cold, in its appeal to all that is worst in fallen man:
As the terrible sect of the Albigensians was overcome by the invocation of Mary, so, we hope, shall they be overcome who, as Communists of today, remind us of them by their craftiness and violence.
It should be added that anybody that disagrees with the bloodthirsty son of the Devil at the Vatican is a "Communist".
But, considering that the Albigenses denied the doctrine of transubstantiation, trinity, purgatory, infant baptism, and rejected all papal claims to infallibility and vicegerency; and considering that they tried to live according to the Bible, and not according to the traditions of men; and further, that Pope Innocent III preached a crusade against them (about 1165 to 1179) and that they were faithful unto death, whom would you say Pius XI was especially referring to when he called modern Albigenses "communists"?
Draper says: "She [the Roman church] did not crush it [the Albigensian 'heresy']; that would have been too indulgent; she absolutely annihilated it. Awake to what must necessarily ensue from the imperceptible spread of such opinions, she remorselessly consumed its birthplace with fire and sword; and, fearful that some fugitive might escape her vigilant eye, or that 'heresy' might go wherever a bale of goods might be conveyed, she organized the Inquisition, with its troops of familiars and spies. Six hundred years have elapsed since those events, and the south of France has never recovered from the blow." —Int. Dev. Ev., ii, 147.
Pope, Cardinal Pacelli and Felix in Conspiracy
THE old gent that backed Hitler in his destruction of the German Republic, and backed Mussolini in his rape of Ethiopia, and backs Hitler, Mussolini and Franco in the attempted destruction of the Spanish Republic, is in agreement with "Father" Felix, of Missouri, in the conspiracy against Judge Rutherford.
The Catholic Register of January 13, 1938, conveys "assurance of Pope Pius XI's prayerful interest" in the devilish work of "Reverend Father" Richard Felix, treated at length in The Golden Age No. 466, July 28, 1937. If you did not see the pretty pictures in that issue, you missed something.
From his own writings, which he admits are purely fictional, Mr. Felix appears to crave the arrest and imprisonment of Judge Rutherford more than any other one thing. That is the only point he makes that could have called forth the approbation of either the pope or Cardinal Pacelli. What is wrong with these gentlemen that they do not dare debate their doctrines with Judge Rutherford, but that they do dare to conspire to violate the Penal Code by advocating imprisonment of an innocent man?
Jehovah's witnesses are laughing loud and long at Felix's claim that he and his friends have already circulated 150,000 pieces of literature making personal attacks on the ablest Bible expositor of our day. One thing is sure, and that is, that, whatever may come, Jehovah's witnesses never stir up mobs, at any time, anywhere.
Social
“Fascism Declared Already Here”
◆ Tufts College, Universalist denomination, a private school, near Boston, had as one of its teachers Prof. Alfred C. Lane, 72 years of age, accounted one of the best geologists in the world. Massachusetts is in the grip of Curley, otherwise Catholic Action, otherwise Fascism. When Catholic Action demanded of Prof. Lane that he take the oath of allegiance he prefaced his oath with the following statement: “At the request of the trustees of Tufts college and protesting that my status as a teacher does not and will not make of me a public official, and construing the oath as provided in section 2A of chapter 370 of the acts of 1935 that it does not abridge the admirable provisions of the constitution of Massachusetts protecting liberty of religion, of thought and of speech,” I do solemnly, etc. And what did the tool of the Jesuits, Mr. Reardon, Roman Catholic commissioner of education, do when the amended oath came into his possession? Don’t be silly! Why ask foolish questions? Mr. Lane lost his job, of course. The Des Moines Register publishes the facts in three columns (from The Christian Century) under the caption “Fascism Declared Already Here”. Although the article does not mention the Roman Hierarchy, it does say: “The purpose of the loyalty oaths that these pseudo-patriots are pushing is not to promote loyalty to the nation, the interests of its people and the imperishable principles of free government embodied in our fundamental instruments; it is the regimentation of American minds into conformity with their own patterns of political thought by police control under their own direction. And that is Fascism.”
Preamble to the Constitution
◆ In 1520 the Five Nations of New York formed the powerful Iroquois alliance. The preamble to the treaty began with these words: “We, the people of the Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas, Oneida and Cayuga, to form a union to establish peace, equity and order, . . .” The preamble to the Constitution of the United States began with the words: “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, . . .”
The Townsend Plan Debunked
◆ The organizing genius of the Townsend Plan paid himself a salary of over a thousand dollars a month, and almost a thousand dollars a month more for the cost of his apartment, his living and other incidental expenses. Additionally, Robert E. Clements, the aforesaid genius, also accepted for himself one-half the profits of the weekly magazine published for and supported by the old people who put a million dollars cash into the plan in hopes of getting something out of it. When the trail got hot, Mr. Clements resigned.
Blessing the “Prince of This World”
◆ That was a savage paragraph by “Aitchelde” in the Baltimore Sun when he said of this “civilization”:
God has been left out of the picture—until time for a political convention, and then we call in some dominie to ask God’s blessing upon the convention; which is an insult to God, for it simply means asking God to bless the reign in the earth of the “prince of this world”.
American League for Religious Liberty
◆ The American League for Religious Liberty, Inc., has been formed of Catholics, Protestants and Jews to fight for religious liberty of Catholics in Mexico and Jews in Germany. How about doing a little fighting for religious liberty in the United States, where Jehovah’s witnesses have been subjected to all manner of injustices in seventeen States within the past nine months?
Lost—59,000,000 Man-Years of Work
◆ Figuring on what could have been done with the 59,000,000 man-years of work lost during 1930-1935 the American Federation of Labor Survey declares every family could have had $4,400 more to live on if the men had been at work. What could have been done with this vast sum under proper management is almost unthinkable.
Thomas Paine on Oaths
◆ Said Thomas Paine: “If a government requires the support of oaths, it is a sign that it is not worth supporting and ought not to be supported. Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.” South America
First Impressions of Brazil
◆ This place has more flies, more fleas, more mosquitoes, more roosters running around in black nightgowns, more aluminum cooking utensils and more vaccination than you ever saw in all your life; but there are also some honest hearts that rejoice to receive the Kingdom message, so we are glad to be here.
Policemen are plentiful, but seem to be of a different type from most of those we read about in Consolation. When we put on sound programs, they help us find suitable parking places and, if there is a crowd around the car (there usually is) they direct the traffic. One afternoon as we drew up to the curb at a park to give a program, the traffic cop stepped up to the car and said: "If your transcription machine isn't level, run the car up on the curb."—N. A. Yuille.
Social Insurance in Peru
◆ Social insurance has been decreed in Peru. It covers the wide fields of illness, maternity, old age, inability to work, and death. It is obligatory for members of both sexes whose earnings do not exceed $750 annually. Subsidies begin three days after a person becomes ill. Breakfasts are provided for needy children attending school. The law is one of the most advanced pieces of social insurance legislation ever attempted.
Nazi Uniforms Underneath
◆ In Santiago, Chile, thirty Nazis were arrested, wearing Nazi uniforms underneath their own habiliments. The leading Nazi in Argentina was killed at his own door, some say by fellow Nazis who were dissatisfied with the way he was spending the party's funds. It is estimated that there are 100,000 Nazis in Argentina and that there are organizations of them in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.
Vast Coal Deposits in Antarctic
◆ The vast coal deposits in the Antarctic, coal enough, as Rear Admiral Byrd said, "to supply the world," are proof that the Bible story of the Flood, as recorded in the Scriptures, is a narrative of exact facts. The ice that is now in Antarctica is largely composed of the waters which fell from the great canopy still enveloping the earth while the ark was building.
Naked, Starving Men on Galapagos
◆ Letters smuggled from Ecuador's prison camp on the Galapagos islands show that the prisoners confined there are provided with neither food nor clothing and are deprived of the most elementary necessities of life. When they are dumped on the islands they are told to contrive to live the best way they can, as no provision whatever is made for their sustenance.
All Visitors to Ecuador Must Bring $100
◆ Ecuador is determined to get something out of its visitors. Each person coming must deposit $100. This is returned after a thirty-day stay in the country. By that time the visitor will almost certainly have expended $100 in sight-seeing; so, if you wish to see Ecuador it is either $100 cash or else the movies or travelogues.
How the Jivaros Shrink Human Heads
◆ The Jivaro head-hunters of Peru shrink human heads by picking out through the neck every piece of the skull without damaging the facial features. Then with heated sand and hot pebbles the skin and tissues are gradually shrunk until the head attains to the size of an orange.
Bars Priests and Women from Polls
◆ The president of Ecuador issued a decree barring from the polls all manner of persons wearing skirts; also Communists. The voters are limited to men who can read and write; priests, preachers, Communists and women are excluded from the polls.
Serum Peddlers Busy in Argentina
◆ Serum peddlers have been busy in Argentina and have something to show for their efforts. The entire population will be vaccinated.
You Are Wrong
◆ In Consolation No. 471, mention was made of the fact that W. Creswell O'Reilly is Australia's film censor. Consolation readers were invited to "Guess his 'church'". Wrong for once! He's a Methodist.
Britain
Let His Light Shine
◆ Benjamin Darnley started to school in May, 1937, at five years of age. The only school in the district is a Church of England school; and this worried Bennie. He said: "Why must I go to a Church of England school?" His mother explained that as there was no other school she could not help it, but that she would speak to the master and ask him to excuse Bennie from any religious teaching.
On the first morning the whole school assembled in the hall for a hymn and prayer. When the master sat down at the piano Bennie thought he was to take part in a religious ceremony, and called out, "Oh, please, Mr. Rudge, I can't stay here, I can't stay here!" The master replied, "Why not, Bennie? What is the matter?" Bennie said, "Please, my mother and my father do not want me to learn any Church of England teachings. I'm one of Jehovah's witnesses' little children."
The master kindly sent him into another room, saying how much he admired the little chap for speaking up like that, and that he would see that Bennie did not learn any Church of England doctrines.
That evening Bennie told his mother, "I did not hear you speak to Mr. Rudge about it, so I thought I had better say something." Next morning a neighbor called out to Bennie's mother: "So Bennie started school yesterday. We have all heard how he has been letting his little light shine."—L. M. Alcorn, England.
Jesuit Priest Favors Press Censorship
◆ "Reverend Father" F. Woodlock, Jesuit priest, Farm street church, London, expressed himself as so fearful that Hitler or Mussolini might be offended at some cartoon or biting criticism in some English paper that he proposed a censorship so that these two mountebanks will have no excuse for starting another world war. Manifestly his real sympathy is with them.
Britain's Fastest Train
◆ Britain's fastest train, and the fastest time of any train anywhere, made a record of 113 miles an hour running from Newcastle-on-Tyne to London on the London and North-Eastern Railway.
"The Point to Be Remembered"
◆ L. MacNeill Weir, British M.P., describing the British king's duties, says:
The point to be remembered with regard to the king is that he has no executive functions whatever in a constitutional democracy. He reigns, but does not rule. Every letter he writes, every speech he makes, is put into his hands by others. His duties are purely spectacular. He is called upon to do nothing as king that involves the use of his judgment or even his intelligence. All that is left is ceremonial and pageantry. As the king has little or no executive functions to perform, something must be substituted. Hence the adoration, the deification of the monarch. If you want to see how wonderful and adorable the monarch is, read the Tory press. There you will see that £410,000 a year is cheap when you consider that it is one of the ways in which the indispensable aloofness, is obtained.
When He Woke Up
◆ A writer in the Scottish Morning Post wrote that he went to church and when the pastor started to drone monotonously he fell asleep. He continued:
On the way home I encountered a van with a loud-speaker on the roof. Inside the van was a gentleman operating a gramophone, and from the speaker came the pleasant, friendly voice of a famous American preacher. I stopped, and for some time found myself listening intently to an address on a religion I am not particularly interested in. It struck me then that if our ministers would preach to us in this fresh, friendly manner, they would have no cause to lament about the sparseness of their congregations.
The Largest Single Business in the World
◆ The largest single business in the world was started in Rochdale, England, by 28 weavers who put in £1 each for starting a co-operative store. To themselves, all goods were sold by themselves at the same prices as charged by other stores. At the end of the year the profits were divided according to patronage. Anyone might invest £1 for one share, or buy as many shares as he desired, but could have only one vote. In the United States last year the co-operative enterprises in America did a combined business of $500,000,000 and distributed several million dollars in dividends among the members, patrons and owners. So states The American Guardian.
Germany
Deutschland-Berichte
◆ From the Deutschland-Berichte of the Social Democratic Party of Germany are drawn the following impartial reports:
It is not the masses that encourage action against the Jews. It is a small minority; but this minority holds sway: it has all the power in its hands, and with its terrorism stifles every voice that would protest. . . . The result of the anti-Semitic movement up to the end of 1936—expressed in figures—is a decline of the Jewish population of Germany from 517,000 to 390,000. Approximately 110,000 Jews have emigrated, and the balance of the decline is caused by an excess of deaths over births. On the other hand the Reich can boast of 153,000,000 marks in revenue from the so-called "Flight tax" which accrues almost exclusively from Jews. . . . Of the economic injury inflicted upon the Jews, these 153,000,000 [marks], however, form but a small fraction. Big Jewish concerns are continually passing, under compulsion, out of Jewish into Aryan hands. . . . The Jews are becoming impoverished. Large numbers of them need social assistance if they are not to be driven to suicide.
What are the authorities doing? They have laid it down that philanthropic gifts for Jews are not exempt from taxation. Old men and old women, the inmates of the almshouses of the B'nai B'rith Lodge were literally turned out of doors. . . . After long absence a man, anxiously expected, returns from a concentration camp to the arms of the woman with whom he had lived for seven years. He is an Aryan, however, and she a Jewess. They seize him again and condemn him for another two years in prison. . . .
Now comes the supreme head of the four-million city, the lord mayor and city president, Herr Lippert, who says: "In 1935 we placed a notice board at Wannsee with the inscription 'Jews not admitted!' At the request of the Foreign Office we had to take it down, as preparations were then in progress for the Olympic Games. On that I made the superintendent of the baths acquainted with a skillfully formulated measure of self-help. There is no need to regulate everything officially, but one must remember that, thank God, there are SA and SS men. That proved a success in the open-air bath. . . . The matter was managed without making a terrible rumpus on the spot and causing a big crowd to gather. The swimming master was called in to assist. He has called upon any Jew in question to leave the bath at once. Whenever it was necessary the stalwart SA men have waited a little in the forest outside the baths till the man came out, and they have just shown him what was necessary."
In Germany they will not forego the pleasure of maltreating the Jews, but they will also not forego making use of them when they can. Jewish technicians, for example, are kept back from leaving the country, since they are indispensable in the war industry. Above all, however, it is Jewish doctors that, despite all chicanery to which they are subjected, Germany will not allow to emigrate. When war comes the army will need doctors, and then the Jewish doctors will be indispensable!
From every quarter of the Reich reports come in of restriction of output and of short time being worked in consequence of shortage of raw materials. In Saxony there are weaving mills that work only one day in the week. To save on real coffee, malt coffee is made, but some day the malt coffee factories will have to close down because they can no longer obtain the necessary barley.
The trades unions have ceased to exist. Every attempt to continue their work is punished with penal servitude. There are no longer employers and employees to negotiate together as parties with equal rights, but only a Works Community, the leader of which is the undertaker, whereas the workmen, as his "following", are under obligation of fidelity to him. There are, in consequence, no Works Councils, but only so-called "Trust Councils", which bear this appellation because they do not enjoy the confidence of the workmen and have been forced upon them. But these "trust councilors" may not discuss matters amongst themselves, but only in the presence of the undertaker. Freedom has been abolished, and the workman is bound to the concern. . . . If the workman, in the face of rising costs of living, coupled with sinking nominal wages, wants to maintain himself and his family, then he must work overtime. . . . With the present regulation of the market a dismissed workman . . . is as good as a pariah.
Italy
The “Mystery Submarine”
◆ During the merry month of August, a certain submarine, or submarines, appeared and disappeared, fifteen miles north of the island of Lemnos, which is about two hundred miles north of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese that are occupied now by Italy, and where this imperialistic nation has built a strong naval base, sheltering all kinds of keels of death and destruction.
This “mystery” boat or boats attacked some vessels carrying cargoes of wheat to the starving people of Spain, whom Italy decided to exterminate in her true “Christian” spirit. They were torpedoed in the name of Christ and Civilization. Food needed so badly by the Spanish children and women was sent to the bottom, and men forming the crew were dispatched forcibly to tell St. Peter the progress of our age.—The Dodecanesian.
Mussolini and Hitler Hang Together
◆ Mussolini and Hitler hang together—and should! The agreement between Germany and Austria makes the accord between the two dictators practical. Austria was whittled down by the World War so that for a distance of more than a hundred miles it is no more than a mere sliver. At the Brenner Pass Italy is only forty miles from Germany. Barracks convenient to the pass are being rebuilt and 5,000 civilians were at work, at last reports, making military roads on the Italian side of the pass, so that when the time comes to exchange troops there will be no difficulties in the way. Heavy artillery emplacements, bomb-proof shelters, munition dumps and airdromes have also been built, indicating that Italy is anticipating trouble and preparing for it.
Italian Munitions Used Against Italians
◆ In the war in Spain a group of anti-Fascist Italians, called the Garibaldi Battalion, are battling their own countrymen, enlisted to aid the cause of Franco and the pope. Loud-speakers, explaining the issues of the war to Mussolini’s army, led to many desertions from the Fascist side. Major Umberto Galleani, in charge of the Garibaldi Battalion, explains that at the time he left Spain to lecture in the United States his troops were supplied with munitions made in Italy.
Will Seek to Fascistize the Whole World
◆ Mussolini, so it is claimed, will seek to Fascistize the whole world. There are 6,500,000 Italians in foreign lands, and he will expend 60,000,000 lire trying to convert them to the form of government he now represents. Papers will be started, edited in Rome, in every large colony in America and elsewhere. Mussolini will try to do in other lands what he will not at all permit in his own land. In other words, he will use freedom of the press as a weapon to entirely suppress freedom of the press.
Murdering All Right; Swearing Wrong
◆ It is all right for Italian troops to murder peaceful and innocent Ethiopians and Spaniards, for that has the pope’s “blessing”; but it is all wrong for them to cuss such an arrangement, or the ones at the head of it, and so the Italian under-secretary of war, General Pariani, has issued orders that hereafter any Italian that gets his Sunday-school language upside down must be locked up till he repents.
Mussolini Threatens the Pope
◆ The curia at Vatican City are always in hot water with Pope Pius XI because he says too many things first and thinks afterwards. Just now they and he are wondering what was in the back of Mussolini’s head when he said:
Capitalism, parliamentarianism, democracy, socialism, communism and certain vacillating Catholicism with which sooner or later we shall deal in our style, are against us.
On the Thirteenth Anniversary
◆ On the thirteenth anniversary of Matteotti’s murder, the two greatest living Italian liberals, Carlo Rosselli and Nello Rosselli, living in Paris, were stabbed to death because they were opposed to the Hierarchy’s plans for world-wide Fascism (Catholic Action).
Newspapers in Italy
◆ Newspapers in Italy are limited to six pages, to save cellulose. Advertising rates in Mussolini’s own paper Popolo d’Italia are $14.20 for a one-inch single-column marriage announcement, and a six-inch two-column advertisement costs the advertiser $240.
Central Europe
Unfortunate Maria Sznablowna
◆ Maria Sznablowna, Gdynia, Poland, is an unfortunate woman. Passing an old church and cemetery in Oksywia, Poland, she suddenly exclaimed to the friends with her, "Here I was buried." She then swooned, later stating that she remembered perfectly the events of 300 years ago: that she was then the wife of a fisherman by the name of Golosz; that he was killed in the Swedish-Polish war of 1648-1668; that she went fishing with her two children and was drowned and later buried in the cemetery in question. Examination proved the correctness of her information about the Swedish-Polish war, and the deaths of Golosz and his wife. She was wholly in error, however, in supposing that she was present at the time any of these things occurred. The poor woman has been imposed upon by demons who filled her mind with the stories she reproduced, as easily as one may put a record in a phonograph.
In the Riots at Brest-Litovsk
◆ In the anti-Jewish riots at Brest-Litovsk, Poland, the police co-operated with the rioters so well that mobs smashed 1,200 Jewish stores and homes, inflicting damages of $500,000. The Jews offered no resistance, but eleven days later, by way of protest, closed all Jewish stores in Poland for two hours, mutely standing in front of their properties while doing so. It is calculated that 3,000,000 Jews participated in the protest.
Nazi Salute in Danzig
◆ The Nazis, having gained control of the free city of Danzig, have ruled that all teachers and pupils must hereafter use the Nazi form of greeting. In the very nature of things this ruling is bound to bring suffering to some of Jehovah's people, of whom there are many in the Free City.
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