Consolation, June 15, 1938
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Contents
Jehovah's Victory in Australia 3
Steamship Companies Aid Fascists 12
L'Aurora—New Astounding Revelation 14
Steamship Notes 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
"Fascism" 17
"Judge, May I Have My Title?" 18
Vaticana 19
New England 20
Spain 21
Tobacco More Deadly to Females than to Males 22
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path—Wings of June 23
President of the U. S. A. 24
Supreme Court of the U. S. A. 25
Britain 26
British Comment 28
Popularity—Cover Design 31
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Appetizers
Pernicious Propaganda
◆ The horse and mule live thirty years
And nothing know of wines and beers;
The goat and sheep at 20 die
And never taste of Scotch and rye;
The cow drinks water by the ton;
And at 18 is mostly done;
The dog at 15 cashes in
Without the aid of rum and gin;
The cat in milk and water soaks
And then in twelve short years it croaks;
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at 10;
All animals are strictly dry;
They sinless live and swiftly die;
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive for threescore years and ten!
—Linotype's Shining Lines.
Everything Was All Right
◆ Mother had mended the young man's trousers, where he had caught them in climbing through a barbed-wire fence. Then she tried to locate her son and heir, but could not at the moment find him. Noticing the cellar door ajar she called out, "Say, young man, are you running around down there without your breeches on?" Back came a deep bass voice, "No, lady, I am just reading the gas meter." And so the lady knew everything was all right.
Telling the World
◆ The codfish lays ten thousand eggs;
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles,
To tell you what she's done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
While the humble hen we prize;
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise.—Exchange.
Felix All Wet
◆ Felix, in his booklet "Our Faith", states, "Rutherford always refers to the pope as anti-Christ." Will someone point out one instance where Judge Rutherford has done so? This, of course, is not calling Felix a liar.
The Missing Cashier
◆ "Have you seen the cashier this morning?"
"Yes, sir; he came in without a mustache and borrowed the railway timetable."
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 15, 1938 Number 489
Jehovah's Victory in Australia
THIS IS the account of Judge Rutherford's trip to Australia and his fight for Jehovah's kingdom on many geographic fronts. The battle was waged against the enemy in Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, Auckland, Sydney, and fought all the way back without cessation. Jehovah hailed truths upon the hiding places of entrenched Catholic-Fascists from America to Australia, and their howls went up from Honolulu to the southern tip of New Zealand. The battle was desperately fought by the enemy, but they prevailed not. Through Judge Rutherford the Lord trounced them with such cutting exposures that they were still screaming abuses as the boat left the successive ports of call.
Introduction
When a man's one ambition in life is the honoring of God's name, he has entered fully into the joy of the Lord; whatever then takes place in his career can bring only contentment and satisfaction. When Jehovah God revealed to His people that He had put His name upon them, and that they were and are His witnesses, He brought them a joy that will last for eternity.
It is God's will that the majesty of His name should be proclaimed throughout the earth prior to the destruction of "Christendom", of which Australia is a part. It is His will that Jehovah's witnesses, of whom and for whom Judge Rutherford is the principal spokesman, should carry that message thither. And it was His will that Judge Rutherford in person should take to Australia the warning from Him that the time of His vengeance and of His deliverance is at hand.
Necessarily that message would and did anger the Devil's representatives in the one continent, in all the earth, that is bounded by the ocean on all sides. Those representatives are, first, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Jurisdiction, and, second, all Jewish and Protestant clergymen, all of whom have participated in the dishonoring of the name of God for centuries and for generations.
The Story of the Trip
On the 30th of March the S.S. Mariposa sailed from Los Angeles fifteen hours late, bound for Honolulu, Samoa, Fiji, Auckland and Sydney. On board were Judge Rutherford, a secretary, and several companions. Docking at Honolulu on Sunday April 3 the party was met by a group of friends who had assembled. Although they had endured a wait of many hours, they ran forward, with much joy on their faces, throwing leis of perfumed flowers over the head of Judge Rutherford, and then took him and the party to Kingdom Hall, the Watch Tower branch headquarters, in the center of Honolulu.
When he told the friends there of the significance of the Memorial of the death of Christ Jesus it was after ten o'clock at night, due to the boat's delay. But the hall was packed with Hawaiian, Japanese, and American witnesses, some with sleeping children in their arms, who had waited there most of the day in anticipation of hearing him speak.
After arrangements for a public talk on the return, departure was made the same night. Just one day later a radiogram was handed to Judge Rutherford disclosing that the Catholic-Fascist group, headed by representatives of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, were desperately striving to prevent him from landing in Australia and that they were conspiring to prevent his use of the Town Hall in Sydney, where the public lecture had been scheduled.
Although howls against the judge had come from the Catholic press of Sydney as early as ten days before, March 24, it was about on the date of this radiogram, April 4, that newspapers of Sydney took up the fight of the Hierarchy; and in their effort to heap calumny on the Lord's cause and His representative, they donated much unintentional advertising.
When later it was possible to see the newspapers they showed such scare-heads as the following: "Move to Ban Ex-Judge" (Sydney Sun and Guardian, April 3); "May Prevent Rutherford's Lecture," "Cancellation of Town Hall Date to Be Considered" (Daily Telegraph, Sydney); "Ban Use of Town Hall" (Sydney Morning Herald, April 7); "City Council Refusal Commended" (Sydney Sun, April 10). Such notices appeared in similar form in all parts of New Zealand and Australia.
A few papers had articles on freedom of speech, for which Australia was once well known, and favored permitting Judge Rutherford to speak; but for the most part they spread the abuse which the Hierarchy had coerced them to print.
Newspapers Fear the Truth
While this battle raged in Australia, every bit of which publicity was used by the Lord to forward His work and give free advertising for the lecture, Judge Rutherford received a radiogram from the Daily Telegraph of Sydney, which radiogram and the judge's reply are copied together on a leaflet reproduced on this page. Although the Telegraph feared to publish the reply they had requested, and admitted as much, excellent use was made of the leaflet by distributing it to all the passengers aboard ship.
ATTENTION PLEASE
Judge Rutherford, who is travelling on this boat to Sydney, Australia received from the Sydney DAILY TELEGRAPH the following wireless message:
AUTHORITIES REFUSE MAKE AVAILABLE SYDNEY TOWN HALL AND OTHER HALLS FOR YOUR CONVENTION NATIONAL BROADCAST PREVENTED BY POSTMASTERS REFUSAL SUPPLY LAND LINES. WHAT IS YOUR REPLY TO THIS. WILL YOU SPEAK OPEN AIR AS LAST RESORT
(Signed) DAILY TELEGRAPH SYDNEY
At the request of the DAILY TELEGRAPH Judge Rutherford answered by wireless as follows:
FASCISTS AND ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY COMBINE TO SEIZE CONTROL AND RULE ALL NATIONS BY DICTATORS. THEY SUBTLY AND WRONGFULLY INFLUENCE PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO AID THEM IN KEEPING THE PEOPLE IN IGNORANCE OF FACTS. THIS GREATEST CRISIS OF ALL TIME AND THE RESULT PLAINLY FORETOLD IN GOD'S BIBLE PROPHECY. VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE HEAR THE TRUTH NOW. PERSONS OF GOOD WILL ARE ANXIOUS TO HEAR TRUTH. I WILL GLADLY SPEAK OPEN AIR TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE. ENEMIES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS CANNOT PREVENT JEHOVAH'S MESSAGE REACHING THE PEOPLE. YOUR PAPER RENDERING SPLENDID SERVICE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS.
(Signed) RUTHERFORD
Any person aboard who would care to have more information as to why this intolerant spirit is being manifested in Australia by certain persons, please call Mr. Heath at Lanai seven.
[Distributed April 12th or 13th to all passengers on the S.S. Mariposa, at sea between Suva and Auckland, N. Z.]
A late arrival at Suva, capital of the British crown colony, the Fiji Islands, prevented a public lecture there.
At Auckland, a town of about 220,000, largest city in New Zealand, several hundred friends were refreshed by a talk on the Memorial, by Judge Rutherford.
On the next day, April 15, while the S.S. Mariposa sailed the Tasman Sea en route to Australia, and still two days from Sydney, there appeared an article in the Sydney Daily Telegraph stating: "During the trip several Mariposa passengers complained to the purser that they had been rung up and asked to Rutherford's cabin to hear his teachings explained."
This was, of course, an intentional lie, and it is mentioned in this account as one incident of a series which pointed to full co-operation between the Catholic purser's office and the bigots of the same stripe ashore. More than ninety percent of the whole crew and personnel of the Mariposa were said to be Catholic. Later events show how servilely the Mariposa was doing the Hierarchy's bidding.
Cowards of a Warless (?) World
Meanwhile the battle continued throughout the Commonwealth of Australia. Lord Mayor Nock, of Sydney, had banned the use of the Sydney Town Hall, as early as April 6. His reason, based upon allegations of the Finance Committee, was that the Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] Day celebrations of the returned soldiers of Australia and New Zealand, occurring at the same time as the scheduled speech, April 24, might cause disturbance of the peace ‘because of the soldiers’ animosity’.
That this was merely another false alarm originated by the Hierarchy, and used to hammer any spineless members of the City Council into line, was clearly demonstrated by a curious incident that occurred at the dock on arrival of Judge Rutherford at Sydney.
As a thousand of Jehovah’s witnesses were shouting cheers of greetings, one member detached himself from the throng and, concealing his identity, went up to a man wearing a “Catholic Action” button, and asked the Catholic what all these people were doing at the dock. The reply was: “They are down here to see Judge Rutherford. There would be some trouble, and he probably couldn’t have landed, but the returned soldiers fell down on us.”
The real soldiers repudiated this effort to protect the Hierarchy’s racket by use of their name. Six hundred of Jehovah’s witnesses, many of whom were returned soldiers, demanded a public apology from the Lord Mayor. “At a meeting of the Katoomba ex-service men objection was taken to the City Council using the name of the ‘diggers’ [ex-service men] as the excuse for canceling the letting of the Town Hall for Judge Rutherford’s lecture.” (Sydney Morning Herald, April 11)
Invaluable Free Publicity
While on this point the lying use of the soldiers’ name is carried back to the agent of the father of lies, namely, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. At the Sydney Sports ground, where Judge Rutherford finally spoke to about 25,000 people [at least six times as many as the Town Hall could accommodate], a Protest was presented by an ex-service man and was approved by the whole audience, many of whom were ex-service men. In New Castle (Honeysuckle Iron Works) ex-service men passed a similar resolution. (Labour Daily, April 15)
At Auckland, New Zealand, where the judge addressed an audience of 4,000 people, a similar resolution was unanimously passed, and it was found by a show of hands that over 80 percent of Jehovah’s witnesses there were returned soldiers. As Judge Rutherford so reasonably pointed out: “Why should the returned soldiers be against me? They fought to make the world safe for democracy, and returned to find all nations going under dictators. I have told them this.”
This fight of the Hierarchy naturally furnished invaluable publicity. Many articles on freedom of speech appeared, and advocates of fair-dealing wired the government and voiced their criticism of the discrimination on all sides. Jehovah’s witnesses had no difficulty, because of the outrageous action of the council, in obtaining 120,000 signers to a petition of Protest. Newspapers took many pictures, gave much front-page space.
One news film showed a picture in the theaters in which the judge’s remarks about coming to Australia to tell the people the truth were carried with the film; but his statements regarding the combination of the Nazis and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy were carefully censored. Two good pictures, with very fair captions, appeared in Pix of April 30.
To show the volume of publicity it is here recorded that more than seventy articles, good, indifferent and abusive, appeared in the Sydney papers alone during three weeks of April.
Similar news items were carried by papers throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand, aboard ship, over radio, and several articles even appeared in the carefully censored Times and Herald, of Fiji Island, where the Catholic Hierarchy’s influence has so far succeeded in sustaining a ban on Watch Tower publications.
It was natural and undoubtedly maneuvered by the Lord that the people of Australia desired to hear for themselves what they read so many conflicting reports about. And they came to the Sydney Sports Grounds, and poured into the stadium 25,000 in number! where Judge Rutherford delivered an epochal speech “WARNING”.
Hierarchy’s Sewage Department
In their attempt to protect a several-billion-dollar racket, the Hierarchy fought every step of the way. Their methods are the same everywhere, and only a few examples are quoted to show the vicious endeavor to becloud the issue and blacken the Lord's cause. A scurrilous article of personal attack on Judge Rutherford appeared in Sydney Truth, whose editor, on interrogation, refused to admit what his religion is (and can you blame him?); but other people who know him said he is Catholic. Another representative of Rome, acting as vent for the Catholic Press Sewage System, was appropriately named Rumble. These two got their reward for personal attacks.
Others carried on by innuendo, misinterpretation and lies. The Lord Mayor, as reported in the Daily Telegraph, April 14, put locks and guards on the Town Hall and stated to the Press that he hoped no effort would be made to create a disturbance. His attempt to make the public think that violence would be used to obtain the hall was ridiculous in view of the fact that the Sports Grounds, with a capacity of six times that of the Town Hall, was already secured.
Telegrams to the Parliament members requesting that the judge be permitted to give his lecture "WARNING" were construed as threats. The Daily Telegraph, April 7, under a scarehead "Followers of Rutherford Talk of Bloodshed", explains in small type, "The witnesses of Jehovah are willing to see their life-blood shed" for Jehovah.
A reporter for the Labour Daily admitted, on questioning by the writer, that he was drawing on his imagination when he wrote, April 22, that the judge would speak in the Sydney Domain (the safety-valve public-speech park, like Hyde Park of London). And April 23 his paper said: "Judge Rutherford arrived in a . . . steel-bodied car with bullet-proof windows." When asked why he made these false statements, he replied: "Well, I had to write something."
The significant feature of these newspaper accounts is that the Australians, a pleasure-loving and liberty-loving people who would have had scant time to hear a religious talk came out in the number of 25,000 to hear the answer to this major newspaper controversy.
The whole effort of the Hierarchy, through their hirelings, the newspapers, resulted in stirring up the people's curiosity and giving great impetus to the work in Australia and New Zealand. It is a sorry spectacle to see the public press, which is dedicated to tell the people the truth, and by inference bound to supply them with news concerning their welfare, and which admittedly knows that the Hierarchy plans to deprive the people of their liberty and by means of avowed or covert dictatorship subject them to the control of a foreign power, yet, because of fear, refuses to publish the facts. A verbatim report of Judge Rutherford's conversation with reporters appears on this page.
Conversation with Reporters
Reporter's question: Have you some parting message for the Australian people?
Judge Rutherford's reply: Why should I give you a message? You would not publish it.
Reporter: Yes, we will publish something about your visit.
Reply: This is a nice country, splendid climate, and some very kind people, and some of the other kind. As to the newspapers, they don't want to tell the truth. They would not tell the truth if it would suit better to tell a lie. They belong to the same crowd that is trying to deceive the people, because they withhold the truth from the people and publish lies instead. Newspaper editors well know that the Fascists, Nazis and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are in a combine to grab control of the nations of the earth to rule them by dictators. I have made this clear time and again, furnished the facts, which they refuse to publish; and since they refuse to publish these truths, they show they are traitors to their country and to the people, and are delivering them into the hands of the country's worst enemies. Tell them I said they are traitors and that they have not the courage to tell the truth. You boys will understand I am not saying this to hurt you. You go out and gather up your story, turn it in, and the man that sits back in the swivel chair blue-pencils it and publishes nothing that is the truth. I do not know what to compare you to. There is nothing that more suits you than that you are a bunch of pimps to a bawdyhouse.
Reporters: Well, we have to make a living.
Answer: That may be true, but I would be ashamed to represent such a cowardly, treasonable crowd. I would rather get a tin bill and pick with the chickens than have such a job.
--Usurpation of Authority
By a usurpation of authority, or rather by a wrongful use of authority, which use of authority was contrary to the Constitution of Australia, the postmaster general refused permission for the use of the land lines (which are under control of the Posts and Telegraph) for the broadcast of Judge Rutherford's speech "WARNING" until he was furnished with a script of the talk. Agreement was made by Judge Rutherford to furnish script for the files but not for CENSORSHIP.
Mr. H. P. Brown, postmaster general, or director general of the Posts and Telegraph, took the responsibility before the Lord of refusing to permit the use of the wires, although a public property, unless he could censor God's message! He preferred to take liberties with the Constitutional rights of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia (for the Constitution expressly forbids interference with free speech or discrimination against any religion), and not incur the anger of the Hierarchy.
This is further evidence that the public officials of Australia have prostituted their office to serving a group whose headquarters are in the foreign country of Italy. The full extent of this betrayal of the people's trust will be fully realized by the citizens of Australia as a whole only when the Nazi-Catholic Hierarchy begins to purge all protest by execution as in Germany.
Jehovah from on high laughs at His adversaries. The broadcast of the speech "WARNING" was not made, for the reason that Mr. Brown, postmaster general, preferred to serve the Hierarchy, and not keep faith with the people; but a recording was made of the lecture, and the honest-hearted throughout many lands will, with sound-reproducing machines, hear God's message contained in the speech "WARNING".
Mr. Brown's efforts bring to memory the attempts of a few New York policemen to stop the operation of sound cars receiving a former broadcast that was at that very time encircling the globe; and of the soldiers who thought, as they stood guard at the tomb, that they might prevent the resurrection of Jesus! Opposition to Jehovah can lead to but one thing: "The wicked will he destroy."—Psalm 145:20.
25,000 Enthusiasts Assembled
At the public lecture April 24, given at Sydney Sports Grounds, upward of 25,000 came clamoring to hear Judge Rutherford give the speech "WARNING". Here the Catholic Hierarchy, in keeping with their practices everywhere, had emboldened a group of Nazis, gangsters, and hoodlums of such ilk, to heckle the speaker, and it is surmised, from the bottles and other weapons that some of these possessed, that their further intention was to turn the gathering into a riot.
In this they failed, and their uncouth remarks Judge Rutherford answered with such stinging and apt retort that the rest of the audience shouted applause. Perhaps because of fear of the sympathies of the people, these hoodlums finally were almost silent; and their few interruptions gave greater fire to a delivery by the judge that even surpassed his speech "SAFETY" in Columbus, Ohio, last year.
Apparently with the intention of disturbing the speaker, a succession of airplanes flew close to the stand and continued to circle near the field; but the Lord's spirit was there and Judge Rutherford was at his best, and, unmindful of the racket above, his clear and ringing denunciations fell upon the ears of an enthralled audience.
Shouts of the hecklers but added vigor to the outpouring of the message and furnished occasion to trim the Devil's agents. On one occasion, when some ignorant interruption had been made, he turned to the ruffian and said: "If you cannot stop your interruptions I will ask the police to put you out." Then addressing the audience, he asked, "Do you approve?" and with a roar they shouted "Yes!" With thunderous vigor he warned of the campaign of the Hierarchy to control the entire world, including Australia, by means of dictatorships, or otherwise called a "totalitarian" government.
The audience shouted applause at the just condemnation of the action of the City Council of Sydney and the postmaster general to prevent the people from learning the truth as contained in God's Word. Many individual Protestants, some of which are still left in Australia, approved with shouts of "Hear! hear!" when told that unless the people's interests were guarded by officials who served those interests, and not the Hierarchy's, Australian freedom would soon be at an end.
The enthusiasm of an audience of people who love fair-dealing, and had had the principles of freedom of speech inculcated into them since childhood, wildly applauded the speaker, who so boldly warned them of the dangers threatening. More about this later.
The Thrilling Climax
At the conclusion of the speech, and almost on top of roaring applause, a returned soldier jumped to the microphone, even ahead of the chairman, and proposed the following RESOLUTION, which the chairman read. He said:
Mr. Chairman, as a returned soldier, who did military service in the British Army for several years, I desire to propose to this vast and representative audience of Australia a resolution. I ask the chairman to read it and move its adoption.
"RESOLVED THAT:
"(1) This body of Christian people, numbering upward of 25,000, assembled this day at Sydney, Australia, do hereby declare that we are in favor of freedom of speech and unhindered worship of Almighty God, which have been the well recognized principles of this nation since the time of its birth. We heartily join with the 120,000 persons and more of Australia who recently signed the following protest:
"Attempts are now being made to deprive the people of the Commonwealth of their rights as citizens to hear a lecture by Judge Rutherford to be delivered at Sydney Town Hall, April 24, at 4 p.m., and relayed by radio to all parts of the Commonwealth. Expense to be borne by the Watch Tower Society.
"We, the undersigned, emphatically protest against any action being taken by the authorities which savors of Fascism or dictatorship and we petition the Commonwealth Government to make arrangements immediately for the broadcasting of this speech so that we may hear the Word of God discussed by Judge J. F. Rutherford, an outstanding visitor to our shores.
"(2) We declare ourselves unalterably opposed to Fascism, Nazism, and religious dictators known as the 'Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Authority', which combine attempts to regiment all people, arbitrarily rule them by dictators, and to deprive them of freedom of thought, speech and of worship.
"We are not against the Catholic people, designated by their clergy as the 'Catholic population', but we are against the tactics of the 'Catholic Hierarchy of Authority', which operates from Vatican City, supports wars of cruel conquest, resulting in great suffering and death of many harmless persons, and which carries on other subversive schemes. We believe and hold that there are millions of honest Catholic people who are deceived and held in ignorance by the hypocritical practices and wrongful influence of the 'Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Authority', and we insist that such honest persons of the 'Catholic population', as well as others, have the right to freely hear the truth publicly proclaimed.
"We protest against the action of said unholy combine in their endeavors to induce public officials to prevent the people of this country from hearing Judge Rutherford speak on Bible prophecy. We hold that it is the right of the people to hear what they please and then to exercise freely their own will.
"(3) We vigorously protest against the action of public officials in refusing the use of public halls where the people might assemble and peaceably listen to the speech of Judge Rutherford. Such officials manifestly have yielded to the seductive influence of the aforementioned politico-religious combine and have thereby deprived the people of this country of their just rights to listen to a public lecture.
"(4) We vigorously protest against the action of public officials of the Fiji Islands, and of other possessions of the British Commonwealth of Nations, in preventing the people from obtaining possession of and reading books and other literature dealing solely with Bible prophecy now in course of fulfillment, and which prophecy and facts the people are in great need of hearing and understanding.
"(5) Fascists and Nazis, in utter disregard of the right of others, have destroyed the nation of Abyssinia, seized control of Austria, imprisoned thousands of Christian people in Germany, for having in possession the Bible, and are prosecuting rebellious war against the government of Spain, all of which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy fully endorses; and now that same unholy combine attempts to force dictatorial rule upon all nations, and against all of which we vigorously protest.
"(6) We further protest against the action and practice of steamship companies operating vessels upon the high seas in co-operating with said politico-religious combine by permitting the 'Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Authority' and their representatives to force their practices upon a defenseless traveling public, by daily using public places on such vessels for the purpose of advertising themselves and carrying on their God-dishonoring racket.
"(7) We declare that it is man's inalienable right and privilege to enjoy freedom of thought, speech and worship of Almighty God and that without let or hindrance from any political, religious or other selfish organization, and we call upon public officials to see to it that the people of this country henceforth have and enjoy such full freedom."
It was unanimously adopted.
'BE NOT AFRAID: THE BATTLE IS GOD'S' - 2 Chronicles 20:15
Sketch of Jehovah's witnesses' Calendar for 1938
A Human Jackass
One jackass in the audience insisted on being heard at the conclusion of the Resolution. He shouted: "Judge, I want to ask you some question." He immediately regretted getting so much attention to himself, as the judge shortly advised him, "Go ask your priest." Those near-by who heard shouted, with laughter, at this identification of two jackasses at one and the same moment.
The enthusiasm of the witnesses of Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia who had assembled in Sydney for the four-day convention, April 22-25 inclusive, was in many ways more inspiring than an American convention, as, for nearly all present, this was their first time ever to see Judge Rutherford. Many of his talks were interjected by frequent expressions of "Hear! hear!", which meant heartfelt approval. The zeal and activity of the witnesses in this part of the world can be understood from their obtaining 120,000 names to the petition of Protest in a few days in which many other convention preparations were laid upon them as well.
Leichhardt Auditorium, where most of the sessions of the convention were held, is situated about halfway between the business center of Sydney and Strathfield (the Australian headquarters of Jehovah's witnesses), Strathfield being a suburb of Sydney, perhaps six or eight miles distant.
At once striking and unique, in the decorations of the auditorium was a gigantic replica of the Calendar of Jehovah's witnesses for 1938, which was placed as a background behind the speaker's platform, and which appears in miniature on this page. It was from this dais that Judge Rutherford, in his farewell discourse, on Monday, well-nigh brought the audience to their feet by dramatically turning to the Calendar picture of 'burning the whore', displayed there, and emphasized in this manner the fulfillment of how Jehoshaphat and his band saw Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir annihilate one another.—2 Chronicles 20.
A Great Convention
The convention, coming as it did, just after Memorial and the end of the "Companions" Testimony Period, found the friends eager to add convention work to an already full month. Truly the spirit of the Lord was greatly upon those who attended, as, besides a great record in their field service, Leichhardt Auditorium and the Sports Grounds were manned with ushers, decorators, clean-up squads, and radio experts, and the Sports Grounds were served with the finest of public-address systems by ---
Sketch of Jehovah's witnesses' Calendar for 1938
--placing sound-car equipment to cover every direction from the speaker’s platform.
The lecture itself was advertised by billboards, sound cars, placards and leaflets carried to the people to the number of over one million. This involved much extra work for printing and convention office work, as well as their usual duties, for the members of the staff of Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers located at Strathfield.
Given many talking points by the volume of newspaper publicity, the friends spread over the country of Sydney and environs with sound cars, portable phonographs (which are now being made in Australia), books, booklets and advertisement. Their experiences were joyful indeed, and indicated that Australians were pretty generally indignant at the perfidy of the newspapers and outrageous action of the city council in banning the talk there.
When it was explained that, no doubt, it was the Lord’s will that this ban be permitted in order that larger quarters be obtained, they seemed very glad.
One lady, who had arranged to board several delegates, declared that, on account of the ill-treatment of Jehovah’s witnesses, both by officials and press, to those to stay at her house she would give breakfast free.
A Splendid Reception and Farewell
Of all things at the convention, from the time of the ship’s arrival, when an enormous crowd swarmed the dock to meet him, and a sound car broadcast melodious welcome as the ship passed up the harbor, and even the customs officer made special arrangements to courteously rush him through, to the last goodbye, nothing was more significant than the way the Australian friends received Judge Rutherford.
Americans can get a fair idea of this enthusiasm by reflecting how they would greet the judge if after reading his books containing the good news of the Kingdom for fifteen or twenty years they should see him for the first time. The love for a fellow fighter for the Kingdom, the devotion of one who so fearlessly expressed what they knew to be the truth, the zeal of the true liberty-loving Australian for a righteous cause—all this shone in their eyes, wreathed their faces in loving smiles, and burst forth in cheers that must have caused a trembling in many evil quarters.
There was much oppression in Australia in the early days. Many were exiled there for trifling or trumped-up charges, and thereafter greatly abused, and the memory of this early beginning undoubtedly still lives in their minds; and the spirit of the pioneer still remains among a portion of the people of this antipodean commonwealth; a spirit that has about disappeared in America.
In all, the judge gave three lectures in Australia besides “WARNING”. The hearers were refreshed and exhilarated by an explanation of the relation of the children to God’s organization and by being given a fine understanding of the David-and-Goliath picture and the dramatic episode of King Jehoshaphat’s deliverance.
To watch the friends devour the spiritual food which the Lord so graciously provided was almost like seeing them having their eyes completely opened for the first time to the full grandeur of Jehovah’s Word. So, when the time came for departure tears glistened in many eyes.
Narrow-minded Pikers on the Sea
On the voyage home the same animosity to our party was observed among both passengers and officers of the ship. Copies of the Resolution passed at Sydney were distributed among the passengers and many of the crew. It will be noted that paragraph 6 specifically refers to the Catholic activities on board ship, which offenses, namely, the celebration of mass and communion, had continued throughout the voyage. The ship generally was pretty hot again after this resolution was circulated. Their retaliations need not be mentioned, but it is sufficient that, as far as Jehovah’s witnesses aboard were concerned, they had discharged their responsibility.
The public meeting at Auckland has been mentioned. On the platform, behind the speaker, were fifteen fine-looking returned soldiers. Immediately following the delivery of “WARNING” (which 4,000 people, almost every one of whom was of Scotch, English or Irish descent, applauded with clapping and shouts of “Hear! hear!”), a Resolution similar to that at Sydney was unanimously passed with a mighty “Aye”. In view of the fact that this meeting was held at noon, this was a remarkably large audience. Later, on the same day, Judge Rutherford addressed a meeting of about 1,000 witnesses, and sailed for Fiji.
It is difficult to describe how constantly the enemy beset Judge Rutherford throughout the journey. Besides annoying disturbances maneuvered by the ship personnel, he was followed by a Fijian police officer, both on shore and aboard ship, while the vessel was in the harbor at Suva. Considering that the ship was ‘American soil’, this foreign espionage was galling in the extreme.
There seems more than a suspicion that the ship’s officers had some part in the cancellation of the Town Hall in Suva, which had been rented for a public lecture; one of the officers at the purser’s desk was seen pointing out a member of the party to the Fijian police, and admitted as much on questioning.
The property of another member of the party was held in custody in the customs office, while the official there held conference with a priest; such ill-treatment of Americans was protested in a letter to the governor.
On the return voyage considerable literature was placed among the natives and in the Naval hospital at the American Naval Base, Pago-Pago, Samoan Islands.
Now having been at sea for nearly six weeks, with only a little while ashore, the party arrived in Honolulu. After a public talk by Judge Rutherford there, and arrangements for conventions at Hilo and other points, the party embarked for America. With much rejoicing they landed in Los Angeles, after two months of constant strain of battle, and thanked Jehovah for their safekeeping.
Though bearing responsibilities such as no other man has borne since Jesus was on earth, and looking after the details of a world-wide organization with a care and consideration that could come only from solemn appreciation of the fact that the work is God’s, and that man at his best can only be a servant of the Creator, Judge Rutherford planned more than six months ago to visit Australia and tell the people of good will who might assemble in Sydney what he had found in the Word of God, of greatest importance to them. The trip is long, expensive and tiresome.
A Great Honor to Australia
Judge Rutherford had no misconceptions that the Devil or any of the Devil’s crowd would be glad to see him come. He knew, and his friends knew, that he has been and is too faithful to his trust to obtain any such reception anywhere. But Judge Rutherford is held in honor by the Most High God, and by millions of his fellow men, and it is customary in civilized lands for all to give ear to such. Australia had such an honor.
But Australia today is in bad condition. Not long ago there was a pagan celebration in Sydney styled a “Eucharistic Congress”. It consisted of alleged followers of the alleged first pope, Peter, who warned all Christian teachers to feed the flock of God “not for filthy lucre, . . . neither as being lords over God’s heritage”. (1 Peter 5: 2, 3) Needless to say Peter never was a pope.
The account says:
At Sydney, Australia, in 1928, the host was escorted for seven miles across the shining waters of Sydney harbor by ships emblazoned in silver and gold.
When Judge Rutherford arrived in Sydney he was not accompanied by “ships emblazoned in silver and gold” which paraded “for seven miles across the shining waters of Sydney harbor”, and would not have wanted it (would rather have rebuked it), but was met by fully a thousand earnest Christian men and women, glad to see his smiling, earnest, honest, courageous face, and to welcome him in the name of the Lord God.
Those that came in Peter’s name were dressed in lace curtains and lingerie, hating the Holy Scriptures and defaming and dishonoring Jehovah God by their every word and act. Their alleged errand was to parade around with a little piece of bread, honor it, do obeisance to it, and glorify it; their real errand was to glorify themselves and promote their racket, the Roman Catholic religion.
When these impostors came to Sydney the Devil’s crowd fell prostrate before them. They were willing to kiss any part of their anatomy, and could and did manifest their servility by falling on their knees and kissing their rings. From pictures published in the papers of the time one could well imagine the whole thing as taking place in the days of Nimrod.
Judge Rutherford wanted none of that; would have despised it; would not have accepted it under any consideration. All he wanted was an opportunity to tell the good people of Australia some of the purposes of God, that they may set their houses in order while yet there is time. The Devil’s crowd tried to prevent that achievement, and they got left in the lurch, as they always do, because they leave God out of their calculations.
—Wm. P. Heath, Jr.
Steamship Companies Aid Fascists
RULE of the people by fanatical dictators is now the great peril threatening all nations. Fascists, Nazis and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy have combined to force such dictatorial rule upon the world. The Hierarchy has become entirely a political organization and what is called "Catholic action" is a well-organized movement to gain control of the various governments of earth. When that does take place all the liberties of the people will be taken away and all Protestants and Christians will be cruelly subjected to the old-time Catholic Inquisition and torture. By employing subtle, coercive methods of operation the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and allies are gaining undue advantage over many business companies, which companies are induced to co-operate in destroying the liberties of the people. Judge Rutherford, who travels in various parts of the earth, has carefully observed some of their methods. Recently, while on a voyage to Australia and return, he observed such practices used in discrimination against other passengers and he addressed to the president of one of the steamship companies the following letter:
May 10th, 1938.
Mr. Wm. Rolf, President,
Matson Lines,
215 Market St.,
San Francisco, California.
Dear Sir:
This is a friendly suggestion. Having made the voyage from Los Angeles to Australia and return on the Mariposa I express my appreciation of the material comforts it furnishes. I thought to render some assistance to your company but I am of the opinion that officers of the ship did not appreciate my purpose, hence I am writing to you.
Each day on the outgoing journey two Catholic priests operated in first class and one or two in the cabin class. On the return one priest operated in the cabin class. Each day there appeared in the ship's newspaper a notice such as hereto attached. This to the exclusion of all other faiths or beliefs.
I am certain that steamship companies in America, including yours, are being imposed upon by religious practitioners and that to your injury. The religious belief of every person is a matter of personal choice, which no one can properly interfere with, nor should the practices of any religious belief be imposed upon the traveling public. It seems it is wholly uncalled for to daily put under the passenger's nose a notice of what the Catholic priest is doing. At the same time I am informed that literature of other religious organizations, brought aboard to be distributed, has been deliberately cast overboard by officers of this ship. Such a flagrant discrimination caused me to make some inquiry, and I learn that the stewards are not permitted to attend any religious service except the Catholic. I am also informed that the priests go amongst the stewards and stir up their prejudices against others who are not Catholic. If their operations were carried on in a private room, without advertising their activities, then there would be no discrimination such as now indulged in by the steamship companies, including yours.
I am certain from the facts I have in my possession, and which facts are easily ascertainable by everyone who tries, that the "Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Authority", operating from Vatican City, Rome, is putting forth a studied campaign of Catholic action and is operating in conjunction with Fascists and the Nazis to gain control of the official affairs of the world. The hypocrisy of the matter is this, that these priests travel on the ships and pretend to be serving God when in fact they are agents of what is generally advertised as "Catholic action" and which action is entirely for political purposes. It would seem that the Hierarchy has an understanding with steamship companies to carry on their practices on all the ships that ply the seas, and which practices are working real and great injury to the steamship companies, and in course of time even greater injury will result from their activities.
THE POLYNESIAN Issued Daily at Sea
Today's Program of Events
Saturday, May 7, 1938
10:30 a. m.—Continuation of Tournaments
4:00 p. m.—Tea Concert ............................. Lounge
8:15 p. m.—Keno Game ............................. Lounge
9:00 p. m.—Dancing ............................. Pavilion
All Clocks Aboard Ship were Advanced 30 Minutes at One A. M. Today
Notice of Change of Destination
Passengers who intend to change their port of disembarkation, particularly those who intend to change from San Francisco to Los Angeles and vice versa, must do so immediately so that immigration authorities at Honolulu may be advised. All passengers will be presented today with a "Notice of Destination" card which should be filled in and returned to the Purser's office today.
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Liquor Prohibited into Hawaii and California
Recent modification of liquor regulations prohibits the importation of liquor in any quantity whatsoever into Hawaii and California except under importer's license.
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Morgan Aware of Whitney Crisis Months Before Crash
NEW YORK—Two months before Richard Whitney's brokerage firm collapsed J. P. Morgan knew that the five times president of the New York Stock Exchange was in an awful jam, the financier testified at a hearing of the Securities and Exchange Commission but added that he had not felt obliged to apprise stock exchange officers of his inside knowledge.
Holy Mass
Until further notice, Holy Mass will be celebrated in the Cabin Class Lounge ("C" Deck Aft.) every morning, except arrival mornings, at the following hours
Week Days ................... 7:30 a. m.
Sundays ..................... 9:00 a. m.
(Holy Communion by arrangement with Rev. Fr. T. O'Sullivan, Room 511.)
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Exchange Rates
Buying—
Australian ................. $3.90
New Zealand ................ $3.93
Fijian ..................... $4.40
Sterling ................... $4.90
Shipboard Branch American Trust Co.
Boat Deck (opposite Radio Room)
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WASHINGTON—Commissioner G. H. Payne of the Federal Communications Commission charged that a radio monopoly is seeking to mould public opinion to its will and urged as the only effective answer the long over-needed Congressional investigation of the radio industry.
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MADRID—The heaviest Insurgent artillery bombardment of Madrid in many months spread terror over the city last night, the crash of shells merging with thunder of a torrential rain.
Inclusive Tour of Honolulu
The S. S. Mariposa will arrive in Honolulu at 8 a. m. and depart at 4 p. m., Wednesday. As an attraction to our through passengers an interesting tour about Honolulu is offered for their entertainment.
This consists of a morning and an afternoon drive, the cost for the complete tour with luncheon at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, is $8.00.
For the morning drive, the tour starts promptly upon arrival and proceeds along the coast past the Kahala residential district, Waialae Golf Course and the U. S. Naval Radio Station at Wailupe. Continuing along Koko Head Road the drive passes Koko Head Crater, an ancient volcanic cone. A stop is made at the Blowhole, a spectacular salt water geyser. Continue along the rugged lava coast line to the Waimanalo Pali, overlooking the windward side of the Island. An ancient Hawaiian highway, called Kealakipapa, or the "Old Kings Highway," can be seen as you approach Waimanalo Pali. A side trip is made to the beaches of Kailua and Lanikai. On the return trip the drive is through a large grove of coconut trees and an avenue of Ironwoods, then up to Nuuanu Pali from the eastern side of the Island. Ample time is allowed for a swim at Waikiki Beach and also for lunch at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
The afternoon drive includes a shopping and sightseeing tour through downtown Honolulu, returning to the ship in plenty of time before sailing.
MAKE RESERVATIONS AT THE SHIPBOARD TRAVEL BUREAU.
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ALBANY, N. Y.—Assemblyman Nathaniel Minkoff, American Labor Party floor leader turned his back on the new National Progressive Party and announced he would continue to support President Roosevelt.
Travel from CHICAGO to NEW YORK via
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS
and see DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, TORONTO, OTTAWA AND MONTREAL
(This routing is available to holders of through tickets to U. K. without extra charge)
In above facsimile, note the article marked. This advertisement of the Roman Hierarchy's racket appears daily in the steamship's newspapers.
L’AURORA
THE OLDEST ITALIAN EVANGELICAL PAPER IN AMERICA—FOUNDED IN 1903
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ITALIAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
NEW ASTOUNDING REVELATION
Rev. Father Patrick O’Brien Declares the Government of the United States of America is Already in the grip of the Roman Hierarchy. Plans to revive Holy Inquisition to Roast all Protestants in accordance with the Roman Catholic system in dealing with heretics. Looks forward with assurance of success in blotting out our present Constitution. It must be in keeping with the Canon Law of the Church. Declares President Franklin Delano Roosevelt will help the Hierarchy out!
Our readers will recall the publication of a letter sent to us by the Rev. Father Patrick Henry O’Brien from Syracuse, N. Y., which we reproduced in our issue of December 19, 1936. In that letter the author said that now the Roman Catholic Church has her representatives at Washington, headed by Postmaster General, Hon. James A. Farley. Recently the Editor has received a second letter from Father Patrick Henry O’Brien, which was mailed from Rochester, N. Y. We reproduce verbatim this “precious” document to acquaint our Protestant constituency with the sinister intrigues of the Church of Rome in America. The present situation in Washington reflects very clearly the Pope and Roman expression by Father O’Brien in his former letter. We keep in our safe the hand-written original of this document ready to reproduce it in fac-simile form if the necessity requires it. The letter follows:
Rev. A. D. Domenici
First Italian Baptist Church
Philadelphia, Pa.
My dear Sir:
Will by this first Act of our great brilliant third Pres. Roosevelt is being enacted; he plainly told the American people and served notice on the entire world; just what then a non-Sect Inquisition is, from which it derives its Powers; and said how they may retain their freedoms, and just what our worthy President expects them to do and we The Hierarchy of the Holy Roman Catholic Church expect all loyal children of the Church to assist the President with all our strength to see that he individually comprising the United States Supreme Court shall obey the President’s injunctions and if necessary we will change, amend or blot out the present Constitution so that the President may enforce his remonstration program on all phases of human rights as laid down by our Saintly Popes and the Holy Mother Church. For your enlightenment may I call your attention to two very fine pamphlets on “The Sacrament of Confession” by Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S. J., on sale published by The Queen’s Work, 3742 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. Second one, “The Catholic Church and the Bible” by Rev. W. G. Hurley, C. S. P. (The Paulist Press, N. Y.). The first pamphlet tells you plainly just what we Catholics expect and are going to have; I. too, you see we are out in the open about everything; we are going to have your laws made and enforced according to the teaching of our Holy See and the Pope; and Canon Law of the Papal Throne; our entire Social structure must be rebuilt on that basis. Our Education; all Laws must be so construed to be obedient, the Red Peril of all Liberalism, Anti-Protestantism, Communism, Socialism (strange that he does not enumerate Fascism among the isms) and all other ills and ramp up driven out of this fair land; the cross was planted on our shores by staunch loyal Roman Catholics; this must belong to us by every right, large enough have we compromised on every important question, now we demand what is really Ours and we are going to have it. We will support Our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may; if not by way of coercion and force if necessary is ours). We will have none Denial, Spite, or Mean Obey; and as Cabinet Members, Children of the Holy Mother Church holding important positions in the entire administration of our Government. We will respect the lawful religious traditions; but from now on the Protestant heresies will accept the Catholic method to the Protection herded by the Pope. We are prepared by Our Canon Laws, especially those who by our own baptized into our Holy Church and for an open-minded yet loyal Roman Catholic; and lastly belong to us by every right, large enough have we compromised on every important question, now we demand what is really Ours and we are going to have it. We will support Our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may; if not by way of coercion and force if necessary is ours). We will have none Denial, Spite, or Mean Obey; and as Cabinet Members, Children of the Holy Mother Church holding important positions in the entire administration of our Government. We will respect the lawful religious traditions; but from now on the Protestant heresies will accept the Catholic method to the Protection herded by the Pope. We are prepared by Our Canon Laws, especially those who by our own baptized into our Holy Church and for an open-minded yet loyal Roman Catholic; and lastly belong to us by every right, large enough have we compromised on every important question, now we demand what is really Ours and we are going to have it. We will support Our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may; if not by way of coercion and force if necessary is ours). We will have none Denial, Spite, or Mean Obey; and as Cabinet Members, Children of the Holy Mother Church holding important positions in the entire administration of our Government. We will respect the lawful religious traditions; but from now on the Protestant heresies will accept the Catholic method to the Protection herded by the Pope. We are prepared by Our Canon Laws, especially those who by our own baptized into our Holy Church and for an open-minded yet loyal Roman Catholic; and lastly belong to us by every right, large enough have we compromised on every important question, now we demand what is really Ours and we are going to have it. We will support Our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may; if not by way of coercion and force if necessary is ours). We will have none Denial, Spite, or Mean Obey; and as Cabinet Members, Children of the Holy Mother Church holding important positions in the entire administration of our Government. We will respect the lawful religious traditions; but from now on the Protestant heresies will accept the Catholic method to the Protection herded by the Pope. We are prepared by Our Canon Laws, especially those who by our own baptized into our Holy Church and for an open-minded yet loyal Roman Catholic; and lastly belong to us by every right, large enough have we compromised on every important question, now we demand what is really Ours and we are going to have it. We will support Our President in every way to obtain it, peacefully, honestly if we may; if not by way of coercion and force if necessary is ours). We will have none Denial, Spite, or Mean Obey; and as Cabinet Members, Children of the Holy Mother Church holding important positions in the entire administration of our Government. We will respect the lawful religious traditions; but from now on the Protestant heresies will accept the Catholic method to the Protection herded by the Pope.
Sincerely yours in Christ Jesus,
Father Patrick Henry O’Brien.
To continue in details this extraordinary document of “Father” Patrick Henry O’Brien, requires a great deal of space which we do not have in our little paper. However, we cannot let these things go by without saying something to this “holy” gentleman to show him that Protestantism is not so dead as he considers it to be. He says that he is old. Probably it is due to his old age which drags him to dream dreams, but we can assure him that his are only pipe dreams which can be dreamed only by a feeble old man’s mind.
However, “Father” O’Brien, being a priest, echoes the voice of the hierarchy of his “Holy Roman Church” which, in a relentless way, is trying to ruin the very life of our American government. Even the blind can see the pernicious Roman Catholic propaganda which is going on in America and especially in Washington, D. C. The venerable gentleman declares it openly.
Now let us analyze the prose of “Father” O’Brien and see just what his hierarchy expects to do in America.
He says that “all loyal children of the Catholic Church are to assist our ‘worthy President’ with all their strength to see that he individually comprising the United States Supreme Court shall obey the President’s injunctions and if necessary will change, amend or blot out the present Constitution so that the President may enforce his remonstration program on all phases of human rights as laid down by our Saintly Popes and the Holy Mother Church.”
Evidently “our worthy President” is doing the very thing which “Father” O’Brien advocates in changing or blot out the Constitution of the United States, beginning with the Supreme Court. We wonder just how much pressure Jim Farley is exercising upon the President to enable the Roman Hierarchy to blot out of existence the Constitution of America. In regards to the “Saintly Popes” that the Roman Church has had we all know that quite many of them!
Seeing the subtle methods employed by Fascists and the Hierarchy to run rough-shod over inoffensive people, an assembly of 25,000 Australian citizens at Sydney adopted a Resolution, copy of which is herewith enclosed. A like Resolution was recently unanimously adopted by approximately 4,000 people assembled at Auckland, New Zealand. The people are being informed of the crooked methods of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and Fascists and I opine that they will call attention to the matter in no uncertain terms from now on. There are millions of honest and sincere persons amongst the "Catholic population" and, of course, what is said here is no reflection on them, but they, together with others, are being deceived by the political, deceptive and underground methods employed by the "Hierarchy of Authority". Steamship companies of America, as well as others, should awaken to the danger now threatening the institutions of the earth. Fascism is growing rapidly in America and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is doing more to increase Fascism than any other thing in America. If that radical organization, together with the Hierarchy, continues to push their schemes unhindered, America will soon be in as bad or even worse condition than Germany and Italy, and the financial institutions, as well as the political, will go to the pot. It is unbelievable that business men, such as operate your company, wish to be even indirectly made a party to a nefarious scheme carried on under the cloak of religion, but which, in truth and in fact, is political, the purpose of which is to deprive the people of America of their liberties and to rule the nation by a dictator.
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