Consolation, April 6, 1938
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Contents
An Australian on Health and Dis-ease 3
Australia 9
Reflections on Mr. Roosevelt 13
Candidates for the Haul of Shame 14
Kingdom Tidings by Boat—Luke 5 : 3 14
Excommunication of Victor Emmanuel 16
Counsel by Judge Rutherford 17
What's Back of Hague? 18
New Jersey 20
Kentucky and Ohio 21
Tree Planting 22
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path (A Visitor) 23
South Africa 24
Spain 25
Kingdom Hall, London 26
British Comment 28
Chinese Junk—Cover Design 31
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"And Don't Go Near the Water"
AT Leaksville, North Carolina, the "Reverend" Erskine X. Heatherley, pastor of the King Memorial Baptist church, like a Jesuit in disguise, fired 26 members out of the church because they went swimming in pools frequented by both men and women, and otherwise used their reason and common sense. Thirteen other "prisoners" quit when the 26 were fired; one woman swooned and had to be carried home; men and women wept. A swell spiritual feast. Religion more foolish than ever.
One More Bogus Spanish Saint
◆ Seemingly, just to keep his name in the papers, the pope manufactured another Spanish saint, one Salvador Da Orta, and then said he hoped the new saint thus manufactured would help to bring about peace in Spain. Can you think of anything more supremely silly? Da Orta is not even mentioned in the Encyclopedia Americana, constant use of which discloses more and more that it is under Roman Catholic influence or control.
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◆ Officials in Decatur, Georgia, were greatly surprised not long ago to learn that their town is still in the United States. They had arrested one of Jehovah's witnesses, whereupon the attorney for the lady had subpoenas issued for the leading Baptist minister and the chief Methodist preacher, to ascertain the nature of their religious business. The city attorney and the judge in the case felt the approaching heat and dismissed the case.
Spring Was Came!
Winter have gone
And Spring are hear!
It happens that way
Every yeer!
The Grass has growed thru vernal thaws
More greener than it used to was;
So leave us lift our voice and sing
Like we was glad that it are Spring.
Delicious Spring
Spring, O most delicious Spring!
You are when mosquitoes do not sting.
That is because in you they do not get
Born yet.—Almanac for New Yorkers.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."---Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 6, 1938 Number 484
An Australian on Health and Dis-ease
[Contributors will kindly note that, inasmuch as all diet systems differ, no further articles on this subject are desired.---Ed.]
IF THERE is one thing in this life we should understand, it is our own body; for upon it most things this side of the grave will depend. Yet how little, if any, knowledge on this subject is included in the education of the average child! Very few seem to realize that their body is made out of the food they eat and drink. I am sure that a good general understanding of the functions of the food tract, including the bowels, would make life well worth living TO THE END.
With these thoughts in mind I am making an effort to contribute something to that purpose. Thoughts are like seeds: when they are cast about, they grow; but thoughts, like seeds, will not grow everywhere. This will be especially so in this case, as my thoughts are so different from the generally accepted idea of disease, but they have the advantage of being able to cure and prevent all disease, and in very quick time; in fact, as soon as you start to obey the laws of nature you feel your health returning.
The difference between the popular theory of disease and my idea is that the popular theory looks upon the human body as a very imperfect bit of workmanship that does not work too well; so, among other things, they cut out any spare parts, sometimes for no other reason than that they do not know what they are there for.
To my mind that method works splendidly as a method of getting rich, but from the sufferer's viewpoint it is a complete failure. Consider for a moment the amount of dis-ease in this world today, the number of diseases that are admitted to be incurable, the new diseases, and the fact that disease is ever on the increase, and I am sure you will need to be a supreme optimist to be satisfied with the old method of treatment.
My idea is that the human body is the most nearly perfect thing in this world. It does not suffer because it is not able to do the things that it was made to do; it is because we ask it to do things it was not made to do. It is like this: Once I lent a razor to a friend, and after he had shaved he tried to screw on a rubber heel with it. The razor broke under the strain, but that did not prove the razor was not a good razor; to get the best out of that razor it must be used only for shaving. And so it is with us; the only life worth living is to live according to the laws of nature. And don't forget, there is no other way to get the best out of this life.
All life, and for that matter the whole universe, is governed by certain clearly defined laws which are perfect. When you are sick you have broken nature's law, probably through ignorance of those laws; you need have no doubt about this. But you will say: "What about the germs?" Well, I will deal with them very effectively later. Let us first consider these laws of nature.
The first law of nature is that we should EAT TO LIVE. But we do not eat to live; we live to eat (and drink), i.e., we eat only those things that are nice or most convenient, and we drink when someone says, "Can you stop one?" The first sin in this world is said to be eating something that should not be eaten; and it is still the one great sin that makes us suffer (and the one that our preachers say least about).
Perfect health is enjoyed only by those who keep nature's laws, and perfect health is depicted in the perfect shape of the body. When you get the so-called "middle age spread", a double chin, etc., and when it is necessary to use paint, powder or lipstick, you are building up for disease.
If you study the first law of nature you will find that every living thing has a certain class of diet. Dogs and cats eat meat, birds prefer seeds, horses and cows eat grass or herbage; and monkeys, which somewhat resemble us, eat fruit, nuts and vegetation, and do not suffer much from disease, even though they live a rough, dangerous life, with no carefully regulated supply of food. In captivity they can be taught to eat meat, sweets, preserved food, etc., and when they take the human diet they generally die of CONSUMPTION within twelve months. Does that suggest anything to you, or do you still believe that consumption is caused by a germ? I have proved my ability to cure consumption in its last stage when all hope was gone; the germ specialists cannot do that.
But to return to the point, human diet: It is necessary to know something about digestion before you can know anything about dieting. In the first place, you must know that the different classes of food are digested by different juices. The first is the SALIVA, in the mouth; it will digest all the starchy class, such as bread, potatoes, etc. Therefore, the longer you chew that class, the easier it will digest; in fact, there would be very little disease in this world if people would eat their food properly.
The second digestive juice is the GASTRIC, which is secreted by the walls of the stomach. Its job is to digest all the albuminous substances, as meat, boiled eggs, the curd of milk, etc.
The third digestive juice is the PANCREATIC. It can digest starch, albumen, and fats. It seems to complete the job after the other juices have done their part. It acts on everything except cane sugar.
The fourth digestive juice is the BILE. It has several jobs to do, one of which is to dissolve the fats.
The fifth digestive juice is the INTESTINAL. It is able to finish the job on every class of food, including cane sugar, which cannot be digested by any other juice; and the less sugar you consume, the better. (I refer to cane sugar.) So, you see, of the five fluids used by the digestive canal, three will dissolve one each of the three classes of digestible food, one will dissolve all except cane sugar, and the last will dissolve all digestible food; thus, nature's provisions are complete.
Digestion starts in the mouth, by the action of saliva; it proceeds further in the stomach, where the gastric and pancreatic juices do their part. The food is rolled round by the muscular action of the stomach and it gradually passes through the door into the first part of the small intestines, where the bile and the intestinal juice will do their part. As the food passes on through about thirty feet of intestine it is gradually absorbed and carried through small veins to a large one which takes it to the liver. After the liver has done its job, the result is sent on through a large vein to the lungs, where the final digestive process takes place, which means that the lungs turn the food into blood. The blood is then pumped through the body to pick up the worn-out particles and replace them with new ones.
So, you see, nature requires everything to go through many and various processes before it is in a condition to build the human body.
Now, having briefly followed that part of the food which is used to repair and build our body, we will consider the residue, or that part which we are not able to digest.
The undigested part of the food passes from the small intestine, through a door near the bottom of the abdomen on the right side, into the colon. There its moisture is gradually absorbed and it assumes a more solid form; the longer it remains in there, the harder it gets.
From there it has to be forced up to about the bottom of the ribs, then across to the left side, and down to the rectum, from which it is expelled.
Now I am going to say something which, if you do not thoroughly comprehend it, will result in your losing the message I am trying to convey. I want you to know that the BOWELS constitute the POISON FACTORY in which nearly all disease is manufactured. Also, it does not matter what disease you get—if a cold, headache, toothache, diphtheria, consumption, cancer, or any other disease—the first place to start treatment is the BOWELS.
Just apply a simple method of psychology to any disease: Take a cold; you cough up large clots of phlegm. Where does the phlegm come from? You say, the lungs; but how does it get into the lungs? There is only one way for anything except air to get into the lungs, and that is, to be carried there by the blood; so where could the blood get the phlegm to take to the lungs? Well, in this case it may or may not come from the poison factory (the bowels). When the contents of the bowels are retained too long, the poisons generated therein find their way into the blood, and if they are not filtered out by the kidneys they may be deposited in the lungs. Another way is from the skin. One of the main duties of the skin is to get rid of a lot of the poisons which are generated in the body; this it does by sweating. In the cold weather nature closes the door against the cold, but what keeps the cold out keeps the poisons in; they are then picked up by the blood and carried into the lungs. One of the jobs the lungs have to do is to use the oxygen from the air to burn up the waste particles. In the winter the air contains a large percentage of water. That means we are breathing only part air, and part water; therefore we are getting less oxygen, so will not be able to burn up so many worn particles; and as the lungs will now be getting part of the skin’s job, they will be unable to cope with the supply; so nature comes to the rescue with a mass expulsion method called “a cold”. The poisons from the bowels or skin are contained in the phlegm; therefore, to cure the cold you must stop the flow of poisons to the lungs; and to do that you must clear the bowels out and make the skin work or sweat; when you sweat you must wash the poisons off. To do that you will have a good hot bath and go to bed; add to this a very light diet, sunshine, fresh air, and exercise, and nature will soon do the rest.
If you digest your food you cannot have constipation, unless your bowels have been so weakened by years of abuse and purgatives that normal action is not possible; and if your bowels are clean you will not suffer much from disease, germs or no germs. That being the case, it will be seen clearly that if you can digest your food you can prevent most diseases. You will now ask, Why does our stomach fail to digest our food? I say, Mainly because we do not eat to live—we live to eat.
The question now is, What shall we eat? I think we must ask nature to answer that question.
First we will ask, What are the classes of food which nature has provided us with the necessary facilities to digest? We will take meat, and compare our facilities with those of a meat-eater, a dog. Meat is digested by the gastric juice from the walls of the stomach, the nourishment is absorbed as it passes through the intestines, and the residue quickly goes putrid and forms a mass of living bacteria. This bacteria creates very deadly poisons which, if not quickly devoured or expelled, will get into the blood and may cause disease in any part or the whole body. Now a dog has sharp teeth to penetrate the meat so the juice can get in; our teeth tend more to bruise the meat. A dog has a very large stomach to supply the gastric juice: we have a comparatively small stomach. A dog has a very short length of intestine, so the residue will be expelled before it goes putrid; we have about thirty feet of intestine, so it is not possible for us to get rid of the residue before it goes putrid.
You may be eating all the best of nature’s products and still be poisoning your body, as certain foods do not mix well in the stomach. The following list, being simple and plainly put, should save you from these mistakes:
VEGETABLES
Agree with:
Flour and Meal
Cereals
Breadstuffs
Pulses
Berries
Milk and milk products
Nuts
Potatoes
Eggs
Puddings
Disagree with:
Fruit
Sugar
POTATOES
Agree with:
Vegetables
Eggs
Nuts
Milk and milk products
Disagree with:
Cereals
Rice
Fruit
Sugar
EGGS
Agree with:
Potatoes
Cereals
Vegetables
Fruit
Nuts
Disagree with:
Milk
Cheese
Cake
Butter
Pulses
Sugar
FRUITS
Agree with:
Berries
Cereals
Nuts
Eggs
Dairy foods
Honey
Onions
Disagree with:
Sugar
Vegetables
Potatoes
Milk
Cakes
Water
CEREALS
Agree with:
Fruit
Nuts
Eggs
Vegetables
Milk and milk products
Disagree with:
Potatoes
Sugar
PULSES
Agree with:
Cereals
Vegetables
Dairy foods
Milk
Disagree with:
Mushrooms
Fruit
Sugar
Those facts, backed up by personal experience, have proved to me that I am healthier, and able to do more work, without meat. With fruit, nuts, vegetables, and grain products nature is in full accord. Our teeth are shaped to crush these classes of food so the tongue can mix in the saliva to digest it. Our stomach is provided with a series of fluids quite able to finish the job to perfection. The residue will ferment and form a living mass of bacteria, but this bacteria is favorable to us, and will devour all the other bacteria, including the meat bacteria; thus nature tries to save us from the penalty of our sins. Food is best as nature supplies it; the more you preserve, sterilize, mix, or manufacture it, the harder it will be for your stomach to digest it.
We have briefly considered food first; but as we can live longer without food than without drink, you will see that drink is more important than food. This fact should be sufficient to show you how necessary it is to control it.
What shall I drink? When? and how much? Nature never intended us to drink for friendship’s sake; no other living thing takes a drink every time it meets any other special living thing. Why should it? Why should we?
Water is nature’s drink. It serves many purposes. It goes in pure and always comes out loaded with poisons. It should be taken in large quantities for that reason, but not when there is food in the stomach. If you drink anything cold while there is food in the stomach digestion will stop, and it will not start again until the contents of the stomach regain the right temperature, during which time the food will probably go sour. A hot drink will not stop digestion; it is also better for cleansing the system, especially in catarrh of the stomach. A large glass should be taken first thing in the morning, as much as you can manage through the day, and more last thing at night.
The most necessary thing to life is AIR; it costs nothing in cash, and very little effort is needed to take in as much as you can use. Those facts have protected our air from vested interests; so it is not subjected to the abuses to which our food and drink are subjected. I will not, therefore, dwell on it any further here.
This is not the whole story of our bodily functions, but it is, I hope, sufficient to help you to understand what I am talking about.
It is very hard to find any section of organized society where vested interests do not reign supreme. They certainly rule so-called “Medical Science”. To back that statement I will quote one, “Physicus.” Writing in the West Australian and discussing a certain disease, he said: “Therefore the most logical way to treat this disease would be by sweating, but sweating does not cost anything, and the one unforgivable sin in the British Medical Association is to prescribe something that does not cost money; so we must treat it otherwise.” I could fill a book with such statements made by the highest medical authorities, but that one, being so plainly and honestly written, should suffice.
As the next law of nature I will mention the fact that man was intended to work for his living, and in moderation I regard it as my best friend, and hope to work till I die.
Another law that is very much abused is that of sleep. It is very necessary that we should have plenty of sleep to allow the blood to catch up in its job of removing the worn-out particles and replacing them with new ones. Many people will say, “Oh, but I cannot sleep.” The reason is, their body is in such a dis-eased condition caused by disobeying the laws of nature, probably for years; then to add insult to injury they go to the chemist for relief, and he drugs them to sleep, which makes their condition more chronic.
As all life emanates from the reciprocal action of the sun, air, and water, we can never be at our best if we do not have plenty of each, including sunshine; but as, like air, sunshine is free and cannot be controlled by vested interests, there are few to advertise and extol the benefits of sunshine. Very few people think for themselves; in fact, when they die their brains are quite new, as they have never been used. They swallow the lying statements of advertisers whose sole object is to sell their goods.
There are other things that affect the health, such as a contented mind. The man who sets out in life to get rich seldom retains health or happiness. The happiest people are those who are satisfied with their share of the good things of this world; when you want other people’s share as well as your own you get trouble.
We will now consider DIS-EASE. (Note the word “dis-ease,” meaning dis-comfort or disorder.) I have tried to make it plain that the cause of disease is breaking the laws of nature. Now you say: “What takes place in my body when I disobey nature’s law?” Well, that depends on which law you disobey. If it is that you eat too much (your body can use only a certain quantity, even if the lot is digested) nature may store the over-supply in the form of fat. If you continue to overeat, nature, being pressed for space, may store it where it will retard the action of the organs. That is one of the starting points of disease, but nature may make an effort to save you. You may lose your appetite till you use up some of the excess; or, more likely, nature, not working at its top, fails to keep the excess in a state of preservation, so it will ferment or decay, and in that process gases are formed and they press to all parts of the body. That is why you lose your energy when you are ill; the pressure of the gases on the organs is like driving a car with the brake on.
But nature still has some cards left; it will use many methods to remove that decaying mass, one of which is to create quantities of germs to devour it. Germs are like every other living thing: they have a special class of diet, viz., decaying matter; they do not eat the healthy tissue—not while it is healthy. The germs are not the cause of disease: they are the result of a diseased condition inside; and the cure is not to kill the germs: it is to take their food away. Look at it this way: You kill a perfectly healthy dog and allow him to lie till next day. You will find he is full of germs, but you know the germs did not kill the dog; they are part of the economy of nature and are doing nature’s work removing decaying or useless matter. It is equally wrong to blame the germs when you are ill because you can find them in your body. If you did not kill the dog the germs would not be in him, and if you did not break the laws of nature there would not be any decaying matter in your body, on which the germs feed; for germs cannot live without food.
While on this matter of germs I will say that their part in causing disease is the same as of the yeast in dough. The yeast causes fermentation, and germs will cause the oversupply of nourishment, or other matter which is being stored in the body, to ferment. In that process all the useless matter in the body can be removed, that is, if you help nature to do the job, instead of poisoning the body with quantities of so-called “medicine” containing drugs and poisons, until the body has not got enough vitality left to finish the job. You see, then, that disease, like pain, is our friend and helper to the same extent as the money lender; but as it is much better never to need the assistance of the money lender, you will be much better if you do not do the things that make the cleansing process of disease necessary.
Now I will paint another picture. Syphilis is one of the most terrible forms of disease. In its so-called “different stages” we can see nature’s efforts to rid the body of its poisonous contents, the skin being particularly active. Until recently this disease was treated with arsenic or mercury mixtures, which made all outward traces of the disease disappear, and they thought they were cured. However, people who were cured (?) by these mixtures eventually became paralyzed. Investigation proved they were not cured: the disease still prevailed inside and poisoned the system until the paralyzed parts were no longer able to work. The explanation of this result of such treatment is as follows:
In the early stages nature is strong enough to make an effort to rid the body of this poisonous matter by expelling it through the skin (as I explained before, one of the skin’s jobs is to get rid of the poisons; so, when you have so-called “skin diseases”, don’t stop nature—help it—the trouble is inside); but arsenic and mercury are deadly poisons, and if you take a large enough dose you die. If you take a smaller dose you do a corresponding amount of damage, or a half dose will half kill you. When you are half dead your body is not strong enough to make the effort to rid itself of its poisons.
This is exactly what happens in EVERY case where disease is treated with medicine. Drugs and poisons stop nature; they never help nature; and you continue to stop nature right through life until your body gets so full of decaying matter that you cannot find anything strong enough to stop it; then your condition is called “cancerous”. That is why cancer, like leprosy, is not contagious; it is due to an extreme condition of the body, and you cannot catch that condition; you can only create it. It is the last stage of a diseased condition that has taken years of disobedience of nature’s laws to create.
The cure today for syphilis is a vegetarian diet, employing all the laws of hygiene, and no medicine.
The same applies to consumption. After spending millions of pounds and years of research, the best treatment today is diet, fresh air, exercise and sunshine.
But the trouble is they do not know why it is the best treatment. In our sanatorium at Wooroloo the patients believe that while they are gaining weight they are getting better and if they are losing weight they are dying. Therefore they consider it is necessary to eat as much as possible; so, in addition to their three meals, they drink milk, etc., between meals, and their stomach is always loaded. Now a sick stomach cannot do as much work as a well stomach, and I want you to realize that it is not what you EAT that will help you: it is the amount you are able to DIGEST and absorb; and any excess is equal to keeping a loaded gun in your living room when you are healthy, and when you are ill it is retarding progress and poisoning your body.
As consumption has probably taken years to develop, through disobedience to nature's laws, it cannot be cured in a week; but it is possible for anyone who understands the laws of nature to make so great an improvement in one week that there will not be room for any doubt about the ultimate result. It is not possible to replace any organ or any part that is already destroyed, but a small portion of lung can be developed to such an extent that many years of happy life are possible.
The proper treatment for consumption is the same as for all other chronic or last-stage diseases.
Dis-ease means dis-order, or not in good order. Well, the job is to put it in good order. Man has all the necessary organs in his body to keep it in shape and condition under normal conditions. It is necessary to bring about those normal conditions, and we will start on the sewerage system of the body. The skin will be first, with a Turkish bath; and when you see what comes out of your skin you will get some idea of what the rest is like.
Next morning we will start inside, and for all chronic diseases the best plan is a diet composed of milk, bran, and fruit. Start at 6:30 a.m. with a big drink of water; at 7 a.m. eat some fruit and bran; at 9 a.m. drink some milk; at 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and every half-hour till 5 p.m. continue to drink the same quantity of milk; at 7 p.m. eat fruit and bran.
The bran can be made into scones if preferable. This diet will last two weeks, during which no other food may be eaten. Great care must be taken when you return to three normal meals a day. Only the food that is easy to digest may be eaten, taking care to select food that will mix well in the stomach. No food may be eaten between meals; and milk, or anything else that has to be digested, is food. Drink plenty of water, but not within an hour before meals or two hours after a meal.
I want to impress on you that not only your health, strength, and happiness, but also your very life, depend on this food problem, and the one mistake that causes most trouble is slop feeding: soup, dipping crust, etc., in tea, washing everything down with a mouthful of tea, boiled bread and milk for breakfast, etc. I explained earlier that all the starchy class are digested by the saliva in the mouth. If your food is thoroughly saturated with liquid before it enters the mouth there will be no room for the saliva: so that food cannot digest.
That means that undigested matter will get into the blood and may block the cells of the liver or lungs, or any other part of the body, and this is the starting-point of disease. When you are ill, dry feeding is absolutely necessary; the old idea of beef tea, chicken broth, etc., never did anyone any good unless it was through their lack of nourishment.
Do not look on consumption as a disease of the lungs: it is a disease of the whole body; and your stomach being weakened by disease, it MUST NOT be asked to digest large quantities of rich food. The only part that can be worked hard in diseases is the teeth; and the more they work, the better.
If strong enough, two steam or Turkish baths a week and a warm bath every night at least two hours after the last meal. Finish the bath by sponging the head and upper half of the body with cool water; then go to bed.
In all chronic diseases the whole body is impregnated with foreign matter, and the blood will be required to remove its share of the foreign matter. By drinking large quantities of water you help the blood, also the heart, arteries, kidneys, and anabolic and metabolic action. As the blood will flow easier in the liquid form and will thus be able to carry a larger quantity of waste matter to the kidneys and lungs, the lungs will now require large quantities of pure air to enable them to deal with this extra work. Therefore you must live in the open air and in a dry climate, as you must breathe all air, not half air and half water. Add to this plenty of sunshine, and the logical use of physical exercises, especially deep breathing.
The nerves will have their share to do, and there are many ways to enlist their services.
By the application of hot and cold water, also electricity skillfully used, "miracles" can be performed.
It may be noticed that I have not said anything about the main sewerage system of the body—the bowels.
When the bowels are mentioned the first and only thought is a purgative. Now I want you to especially remember, there is NO such thing in this world as a "HARMLESS purgative." The only reason why a purgative works is that it is poison, and the irritation caused by it sets up a violent action of the stomach and the whole thirty feet of intestines, when it is probably only in the last five feet where the blockage is. But worse still is the fact that all the valuable juices used for digesting the food will be shot out with the rest. That is why after a purgative you often get blocked up. You eat the next meal as if everything were right inside; but you have washed out all the digestive juices; so that meal will go through not digested. Undigested food is the cause of constipation. The ONLY CURE for constipation is to eat only the food you are able to digest.
In advanced conditions of disease the bowels are so weakened, by years of constipation and the use of purgatives, that normal action is not possible; therefore the enema will be necessary for some considerable time. Certain physical exercises will help to effect a permanent cure, while purgatives can only make the complaint permanent.
Real health or happiness cannot exist where constipation prevails.
The above treatment will also positively cure cancer, leprosy, syphilis, rheumatism, and all other chronic or last-stage diseases. It is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the laws of nature, especially for the cure of cancer, but there never has been and never can be any other CURE.
This will sound like tall talk to most people, but it is the simple truth; and until we can take the mystery out of disease we can never make any real progress. I assure you there is nothing mysterious about disease; in fact, it is all too simple for words, when understood. Every condition that prevails is caused by some action of our own.
In the acute or first-stage diseases the recovery is much quicker and simpler. Take the much-discussed diphtheria; its sole cause is the fermentation of a quantity of foreign matter in the abdomen. In the process of fermentation gases are formed and they press to all parts of the body. The neck being a narrow passage, the pressure there is intense, and if not relieved will close the windpipe, when death will occur.
The cure is to open the ventilators (the pores of the skin) to let the gases out. You will do this by making the patient sweat; the steam bath is the best. The bowels must be washed out with an enema, when the patient will be much relieved. If the pain returns, put the patient back in the warm bath, not the steam bath; this must be repeated as often as the pain returns. The patient should be back at school in five days. In diphtheria the diet must be restricted; milk or fruit juices are best, with plenty of water to drink, until well out of danger.—W. G. Galbraith, Australia.
Australia
Catholic Freeman's Journal
◆ Nothing faintly approaching the distribution of Judge Rutherford's books ever took place before in history. They come to over a quarter of a billion copies; think of it, 252,000,000! And now the millions that have been blessed by his able, scholarly, Scriptural and truthful books will be interested in a question asked by a reader of the Catholic Freeman's Journal, Australia, and by the answer, a portion of which appears below. It speaks for itself:
Why has not a representative of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy granted his request for a public debate?
No sane person would humor an ignorant, deranged and abusive charlatan whose one craving is publicity. Rutherford is as ignorant of his subject as an infant-in-arms. His challenge is as absurd as would be that of a child who is just commencing school, yet who would challenge Einstein to a debate on relativity. Again, Rutherford's books are filled with insane twaddle. If a lunatic tells you that he is a poached egg, anxious to sit on a piece of toast, you don't debate with him.
All this is but the language of terror and despair. Caught in its own dragnet of lies, the Hierarchy has no answer to the truth, and well knows it.
In the Catholic Freeman's Journal is another hypocritical headline besides that of the paper itself—for there is no such thing as a free man who is subject to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The article in question is by the "Reverend Father" Henri Blanc. Stung by the evidence which is accumulating everywhere that Fascism (Catholic Action) is the coming menace of the world, he tries to defend it by a distinction which does not exist. Under the hypocritical headlines "Red Fascism, the Real World Menace: Moscow's Confusion of Terms" he tries to show that there are two kinds of Fascism. In the article he says,
As we see it, there is nothing in Fascism that is criminal and subversive, nothing to be frightened at. On the contrary, Fascism is a most harmless word, one that stands for order and security. What is criminal and most condemnable is to distort the meaning of the word by associating it with intents or purposes which Fascism never had.
Mr. Blane is quite correct in his proposition that Fascism and the Roman Hierarchy find nothing wrong with each other, but is entirely incorrect in his proposals that there is a good Fascism and a bad Fascism. Both are of the Devil, and the Moscow brand, trading under the name Communism, is as hateful as the Berlin brand trading under Nazism or the Italian Fascism itself.
Roman Priests in Australia
◆ A hundred years ago there were three Roman Catholic priests in Australia. Now, though the Catholic population is only 1,459,179 out of a total of 6,775,361, there are 7 archbishops, 20 bishops and over 2,000 priests.
Roman Hierarchy in Queensland
◆ I am of opinion that the Labor Party in Queensland, with its 27 Roman Catholic members of Parliament out of 43, is definitely dominated by Roman Catholic influences and that Protestant principles are in grave danger by the continuance in office of such a party. We believe that Roman Catholic leaders have used the Labor movement for their own ends.
Roman Catholics are 19.2 percent only of the population, but this small proportion has appropriated 27 places out of a total parliamentary strength of 43. It has 5 out of 7 Supreme Court judgeships; 3 out of 3 seats on the Industrial Court, 75 percent of Civil Service appointments, and 70 percent of the police force.
The extent of their influence may be seen when it is realized, also, that out of moneys spent on relief work in respect of church buildings and properties Roman Catholics have received assistance in the proportion of £85,000 to £27,000. Strange to say, by the way, the number of Roman Catholic relief workers is under 10 percent.
The Protestant Labor Party does not believe that the Roman Catholic Church, as a political organization, has any tolerance in its make-up. Quite recently, in Abyssinia, Protestant missionaries were expelled from the country. In Italy, under Mussolini, who is now working with the pope, Protestant missionaries have a very bad time and have no privileges similar to those accorded to Catholic priests.
One very noticeable feature of a Roman Catholic country is the existence of fine and elaborate churches and church buildings, side by side with the poorest of slums and with dire poverty. Here in Queensland we find relief workers improving church properties and buildings and forced to exist on a meager pittance.
What can be thought of a government whose solution of the unemployed problem in this State is to tax its people and spend the money received from such taxation on the improvement of church buildings and properties when so much national work (such as roads, bridges, and irrigation) is urgently necessary?—G. S. Webb, Esq., in Maryborough Chronicle.
Australian Religion and Crime
◆ In Victoria the Roman Catholics are 18 percent of the population, while the Presbyterians and Methodists are 25 percent. In 1935 the Roman Catholic prisoners numbered 2,164; the Presbyterian and Methodist combined, only 1,035. In New South Wales, Roman Catholics are 21 percent, and Methodists and Presbyterians 17 percent of the population. On June 30, 1935, there were 454 Roman Catholics serving sentences, and 120 Presbyterians and Methodists. In Queensland the Roman Catholics are 21 percent, while Presbyterians and Methodists are 20 percent of the population. In 1934 the Roman Catholic prisoners were 744, while Presbyterians and Methodists combined were 285. This all means that the Roman Catholic teaching appears to produce three times as many criminals as Presbyterian and Methodist.—The Protestant World, Sydney.
Italians in Australia
◆ For some years now about 4,000 more Britons have left Australia than have entered it. Meantime a steady stream of Italians has been entering and remaining. In parts of North Queensland Italian is spoken as much as English; there are Italian schools and Italian newspapers, and some police are required to have a knowledge of Italian in order to be acceptable members of the force.
Australia Ready for a Dictator
◆ Professor F. A. Bland, teacher of public administration at the University of Sydney, is accredited in dispatches from Sydney as having declared that, the ground having been carefully prepared, Australia is now ready for a dictator who will rise at the right moment and exterminate all enemies. Already, on the part of the populace, there is a ready acceptance of prohibitions and restrictions on personal liberty which presages the Fascist state.
Results of Unconscious Memory
◆ To illustrate the ease with which a perfectly natural mental process can be torn from its setting, the following is told of the experience of three men traveling through a dairying district of New South Wales.
One was a clergyman, one was a young man of 25, and sitting in the far corner of the carriage was a man of 45 who was of the type that does more thinking than talking. No word was spoken by any until the train was pulling out of a small country siding, when the young fellow said, without apparent reason, "We were only kids, though."
Realizing that he had been thinking aloud he explained that he had been thinking of his school days. The D.D. to whom he had addressed his remark looked surprised and said, "I was thinking of the same thing; that is thought transmission." With that he immediately launched a discourse on the proof and possibilities of this power. In a few seconds he had taken all three out of New South Wales into China, where he had spent some years, and where the Chinese, so he said, had developed this power to the extent that they could transmit their thoughts over long distances; but he did not identify the Chinese exploits as demonism, which he should have done.
But returning to the incident in New South Wales: When the clergyman stopped for breath the middle-aged man asked if either of his companions had caught the smell of clover just as the train pulled out of the last siding. After a moment's thought they both admitted that they had. "But it was almost unnoticeable," said the D.D., with a trace of annoyance at having his narrative interrupted by such an apparently irrelevant question.
However, the first question was followed by a second one, "Has either one of you ever farmed?" It seems that both of them had done so, both having spent their childhood on farms closely connected with clover. "Then," said the man in the corner, "that explains your thought transmission; it was merely the result of unconscious memory, stimulated by the familiar odor of your youth."
Houghton's New Zealand Story
◆ In 1925 an American officer who visited New Zealand with the American fleet left a ten-pound note with the bartender of his hotel while he went to the horse races. The bartender put the note in the cash register and went off duty. The proprietor saw it in the drawer and borrowed it to pay the brewer. The brewer paid his tailor, the tailor paid his grocer, the grocer paid his doctor, and the doctor, a guest at the same hotel, paid the amount on his board bill and the ten-pound note went back into the cash register. When the officer came back from the races he recovered the note from the bartender and tore it in pieces. When the bartender objected, the American explained that it was a counterfeit. Houghton wants to know if this was inflation.
Courage in a Panic
◆ When a launch capsized in Sydney harbor, throwing 175 people into the shark-infested waters, seven officers and men of the U. S. cruiser Louisville, and members of the Sydney police, dived into the water again and again, smashing the windows to let passengers out, and then swimming with them to places of safety. One man was seen swimming with five people clinging to him. Such things make you love your fellow man and realize that, with all their devilish and fiendish dictators and ecclesiastics and money-grabbers, there are such things as real men in the world. In due time these, and such alone, will inhabit the earth. The Devil is having his last innings right now.
“Kept in Aluminum”
Sydney, Australia.
ONE hundred and seven of the 150 residents of Major’s Creek, a mining village 12 miles from Braidwood, who attended the annual New Year's Day Picnic on the Recreation Ground yesterday, were admitted to hospital suffering from food poisoning. All are now out of danger, and 22 were discharged from hospital this morning.
In addition to temporary wards in the grounds of the Braidwood Hospital, a temporary hospital had to be established in the school hall of the Braidwood Convent. Fifty-six patients were accommodated there. Practically everyone who attended the picnic was affected by food poisoning.
For the picnic a large quantity of corned meat was cooked in a laundry copper, and afterwards put through a mincer and kept in aluminum containers until sandwiches were made. These and other foods were served to the picnickers about noon. Less than an hour afterwards many were seized with abdominal pains, which resembled stomach cramp. The first to collapse was Constable Burr. Within a few minutes adults and children were writhing in agony.—Brisbane Courier-Mail.
[It should be explained that the Mellon interests do not have their work as well organized in Australia as in the United States, where publicity of this embarrassing kind could not occur.—Ed.]
Thrilling Experience in Queensland
◆ On my way to the Jimna gold fields, via Kilcoy, Queensland, with the portable transcription machine, I met a mail man. He asked me if I had heard that a man by the name of Snyder, a gold prospector, had been lost for five days, and nearly all of the men of Jimna, including the police from Jimna and Kilcoy, all together over fifty men, were out looking for him. He stated that a prearranged signal, namely, the discharge of four plugs of dynamite, had been decided on to recall the different parties, in the event of the man’s being found.
The country he was lost in was rough, mountainous country. I was halfway up the Jimna range at the time it was told to me. I had yet about twelve miles to go, and was pushing on in my Ford, when I arrived at the last little ridge before going down to the gold diggers’ camp. I stopped the car and shelled the camp with fine music, so as to bring together the campers that might be left, to hear Judge Rutherford on “Resurrection” and other subjects.
To my surprise the cannon ball of music hit the lost man, he having just arrived home on his own account and being at that minute in the home of a friend, having something to eat and drink. With others he rushed out, thinking the Jimna band had come out to welcome the lost digger home. They shouted, “More! More!” so I plugged their ears, not with sounds of dynamite explosions, as others over the ridge were receiving, on account of the lost man’s having been found, but with the clear voice of Judge Rutherford on “Resurrection”.
As soon as they learned who was speaking, the diggers all came to the van and said it was a good welcome for the lost man. That night I gave them all some more. They wanted to hear all I had, and I gave it to them, and the next day placed many pieces of literature, books, booklets, and copies of Consolation. That day, also, under the tutelage of an old gold digger I had the unique experience of washing some gold and turned up a half pennyweight within a few minutes. The man who was lost had been an atheist, because he was sick of the churches, but now he is reading Judge Rutherford’s books and finding his way out of the dark.—Tommy Atkins, Queensland.
The Price of Twelve Women
◆ Two pearl-running boats, captured off the north coast of Australia, had on board twelve women, sold to the Japanese traders, by the aborigines, for four plugs of chewing tobacco, twenty pounds of flour and a package of cheap cigarettes. The cigarettes were given as full payment for a delicate native girl, ten years old, who died from injuries soon after her purchase and was thrown overboard before the boat was raided. So says a copyrighted article in the American Weekly.
Milk a Public Utility
◆ Wellington, New Zealand, considers milk a public utility and handles it as such. In 20 years the price was reduced from 17c to 10c per quart, the farmer was paid 15 percent more for his milk, distributors are paid 15 percent better wages and work shorter hours, and in Wellington a surplus of $38,865.42 was returned to the public treasury.
Reflections on Mr. Roosevelt
THE resentment began to gather force and form when the president, after being safely installed in office, proceeded to nullify nearly every item of a platform he formally indorsed 100 per cent. . . .
Then followed a series of acts, the consequences of which have manacled the present generation of Americans and have mortgaged their children and children's children for generations to follow:
The "brain trusters" and their follies; the flight of all the dependable officials from the public service, many his own appointees, and their radical replacements; the alphabetical enormities; the raids, one after another, on the taxpayers; the assaults on industry; putting the government into the field of private business and the illegal encroachments therein; the vindictiveness displayed against the thrifty and successful; threatening to deplete the reserve of industrial organizations; destroying the sources of food supply and forcing the cost of living to higher planes; piling up the public debt to an abnormal figure; giving into the hands of men of no business experience and unused to the management of money vast sums which they toss about like gold bricks; creating a slush fund of five billions, illegally obtained, and transferring the methods of its employment into the hands of a notorious spoilsman—a sinister plan to use the money of one class to buy the votes of another; putting Colonel Lindbergh "on the spot" in order to smear the former Administration; sacrificing the lives of twelve Army fliers after ample warning of their peril; recognition of Soviet Russia; defaulting on the government's contracts with its own nationals; buying billions of ounces of silver, at twice the market value, in order to insure the support of the Senatorial votes of the eight silver states; foisting upon the taxpayers the direct support of 12,500,000 recipients of Federal cash, who, together with their dependents, comprise half the electorate; a prospective purpose to pack the Supreme Court with radical judges; "boondoggling" de luxe, with other people's money; keeping as advisers men of radical records; assigning the credit for a renewal of prosperity to the New Deal policies—"just as we planned it"—when the business charts show that a definite better trend of business did not begin till the N.R.A., "the keystone of the arch," as the president termed it, was ditched; under the guise of an address to Congress on the state of the nation, a stump speech by the president and an appeal to class hatred, broadcast over the country; using the legal departments of the government to harass and malign the character of prominent Democrats after their contributions to the party treasury had ceased; vitiating the civil service to build up a bureaucracy of government employees; an abortive attempt to gag the press; in fine, creating a state of chaos throughout every stratum of the national structure and fostering a state of universal apprehension as to where it will all lead.
E-magine FDR wanting to be dictator
But probably the most reprehensible act of the president, and the one causing the greatest revulsion throughout the country, was his contemptuous reference to the Supreme Court and his directions to an inept Congress to pass measures manifestly violating the Constitution—an instrument he had previously sworn to protect and defend.—Wm. C. Hill, in New York Herald-Tribune.
Candidates for the Haul of Shame
St. Joseph's Rectory
DOWNHILL DEPT.
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WESTMONT
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December 21, 1937
Dear Friend,
We need only glance at our daily papers and see the unrest and war clouds hanging low over many countries to realize how good God has been to America. True, the business world is not as strong as it was before the war; still thanks be to God we are far better off now than we were a few years ago. Is it not most fitting then that at this holy season of Christmas we gather at the Crib of the Christ Child and offer our thanks to Him for these many graces? You can give Him but one gift and that you should not deny Him, a pure heart. We sincerely hope and pray that you and your family will receive our Lord in holy Communion on Christmas morning and pray for continued peace in our land.
We ask you to use the enclosed envelope and place in it a generous donation as your gift to Christ's Church. So many in the past have given only one dollar and felt they discharged their obligation towards the upkeep of the church. In some cases this represented a generous gift but in many instances it did not bespeak generosity to Him who gives all of you. Would your generosity and love for your friends stop at a one dollar Christmas gift? Where then will you stop with God? Give to Him in the same generous way that He gives to you and let your Christmas gift to His Church be a fitting expression of your gratitude for the many blessings showered upon you.
Father O'Shea and Father Campbell join me in wishing you health, wealth, happiness and God's choicest graces and blessings. Our prayer on Christmas day will be that you will enjoy a holy, a happy a blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
CYRIL F. MEADE,
Pastor.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, } SS.
Wayne County
You are hereby commanded to appear in the court of Fun and Bingo before the Honorable Bingo Committee every Friday night at 8 o'clock, beginning Friday, September 17, A. D. 1937, at Sacred Heart Auditorium, Dearborn, Michigan.
You are further commanded to enjoy yourself to your utmost or invoke the penalty of this committee.
Damages claimed $.40 per person.
FAIL NOT TO APPEAR.
U. Ketchum & I. Bringtum
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
SACRED HEART CHURCH,
Michigan Ave. at Military
Dearborn, Michigan.
By Bingo Committee.
Kingdom Tidings by Boat—Luke 5:3
IN CARRYING the message of God’s kingdom and its consolation to all the nations, Jehovah’s witnesses make use of every available means. Among other aids, boats are found most useful. These are convenient in reaching islands and places along water routes with the message by means of the sound apparatus with which these boats are equipped, together with the truth in printed form.
In Australia several boats are used to sound out the message of hope to the many islands of the Pacific, including the densely populated East Indian islands, as well as the territory of Malaya, Siam, French Indo-China and Hongkong. The mere presence of these boats in the various ports has drawn attention to the work of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, and a great amount of literature has been placed as a result.
Three motor boats with two or more pioneers on each boat have the responsibility of reaching the people on the fiords and islands along the coast of Norway. This highly picturesque coast-line, with its many indentations, is 1,836 miles long. There are enough small islands, sunken rocks and storms to keep the sailors wide awake. One of the boats is named “Ester”, which name calls to mind the Biblical queen who so beautifully pictures the eager ones who associated themselves with the remnant people of God in these last days to aid in the Kingdom service. In the course of a single year the “Ester” distributed nearly 14,000 pieces of literature.
In Sweden also a motorboat is used to call upon the isolated islands along the coast-line of about 1,400 miles, and among the lighthouses.
The usefulness of a boat in the Netherlands is obvious. That interesting country has unlimited means of travel by water, and a motorboat reaches thousands of eager listeners along the canals, at the same time placing much Kingdom literature.
The Canadian boat “Charmian” has done good work along the coasts of Canada and Newfoundland, reaching otherwise inaccessible towns and villages with the message of truth and consolation now so urgently needed by a world wearied by strife and perplexity.
As Jesus made use of common and everyday things to carry forward His work of preaching the good tidings which He came to proclaim, so Jehovah’s witnesses today avail themselves of the seemingly commonplace accessories of life to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of heaven at hand, as well as making proclamation of the fact that the “day of vengeance” is due in which all the proud and wicked will suffer utter defeat.
1. Canadian sound boat “Charmian”. 2. Netherlands sound boat “Lightbearer”. 3. Norwegian sound boat “Ester”. 4. Swedish sound boat. 5, 6. Australian sound boats.
--Excommunication of Victor Emmanuel
YOU might like to gaze with admiration upon the beautiful spirit of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy as manifested in the excommunication of Victor Emmanuel II, taken from the work Romanism and the Republic, by L. L. Lansing, page 116. This work is now difficult to obtain, as most copies have been destroyed by agents of the Hierarchy. Of the nine ex-priests who contributed material for the book, one was twenty-four years in the Vatican confessional at Rome, and another was nine years at the “Lady of Lourdes” in France. Most of these ex-priests have been murdered by now in accordance with the spirit of the excommunication following:
By authority of the Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and of the Holy Canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and nurse of our Savior; and of the celestial virtues, cherubims and seraphims, and of all the holy patriarchs and prophets, and of the apostles, and the evangelists, and of the holy innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song; and of the holy martyrs, and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of the saints, together with all the holy and elect of God, we excommunicate him.
That he will be tormented in eternal, excruciating sufferings, together with Dathan and Abihu, and those who say to the Lord God, Depart from us; we desire none of Thy ways. And as fire is quenched by water, so let the light of him be put out for evermore.
May the Son who suffered for us curse him; may the Father who created man curse him; may the Holy Ghost which was given to us in our baptism curse him; may the Holy Cross which Christ for our salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him; may the holy and eternal Virgin Mary, mother of God, curse him; may St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him; may all the angels and archangels, principalities, and powers and all the heavenly armies curse him; may St. John the Precursor, and St. Peter, and St. Paul and St. John the Baptist, and St. Andrew and all other Christ’s apostles, together curse him; and may the rest of His disciples and four Evangelists, who by their preaching converted the Universal World, and may the holy and wonderful company of martyrs, and confessors, who by their Holy work are pleading to God Almighty, curse him.
May the choir of the Holy Virgins, who for the honor of Christ have despised the things of this world, damn him; may all the saints who from the beginning of the world, and everlasting ages, are found to be beloved of God, damn him; may the heavens and the earth, and all things remaining therein, damn him.
May he be damned wherever he may be, whether in the highways or the byways, whether in the wood or water or whether in the church; may he be cursed in his living and dying, in eating and drinking, in fasting and thirsting, in slumbering and waking, in standing or sitting, in lying down or walking.
And in all blood letting may he be cursed in all the faculties of his body; may he be cursed inwardly and outwardly; may he be cursed in his hair; may he be cursed in his brain; may he be cursed in his crown of his head, and in his temples; in his forehead and his ears; in his eyebrows and his cheeks; in his jawbones and in his nostrils; in his foreteeth and in his grinders; in his lips and in his throat; in his shoulders and in his wrists; in his arms, his hands and in his fingers.
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