Consolation, July 27, 1938
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Contents
Windle, Male Chambermaid, to Lose $25,000 3
Roman Racket in South Africa 12
The "Blessing" of Franco 13
Asia 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford "Catholic Action" 17
Aviation 18
Rocky Mountains and Alaska 19
"Forward, Bulawayo" 20
School Boards and Vaccination 21
Romanism Betrays Its Adherents 22
New York 25
Putting the Hypocrites in a Hole 26
By Trail and Stream and Garden Path—Just a Dog 27
British Comment 28
Spain—Cover Design for This Number 31
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Appetizers
Dodging the Drops
The two men had escaped from an asylum and had managed to steal a plane from a near-by airport. Up in the plane at fifteen thousand feet one of the men grew fidgety.
"I think I'm going to jump out of the plane," he told his companion. "I feel I can't stand it here any longer."
"Better take a parachute with you," advised the other.
"What do I want with a parachute?"
The other wagged a finger.
"Don't be silly," he cautioned. "Can't you see it's raining?"—Tit-Bits Magazine.
Air-Raid Drill—Another Aspect
FAUX PAS
■ "Now, then, please, everybody! Gas masks off!" (Pause)
"I said 'Gas masks off', Lady Fridgeworth, please."
"I beg your pardon?"
"I want everybody to take their gas masks off."
"Young man, I am not wearing a gas mask!"—T. S. in N. C.
Methuselah at the Feed Bag
■ "Methuselah ate
What he found on his plate,
And never, as people do now,
Did he note the amount
Of the calories count;
He ate it because it was chow.
"He wasn't disturbed, as at dinner he sat,
Destroying a roast or a pie,
To think it was lacking in glandular fat
Or a couple of vitamins shy.
"He cheerfully chewed
Every species of food
With very few worries or fears
Lest his health might be hurt
By some fancy dessert,
And he lived more than nine hundred years."
—Anonymous, Kansas.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XIX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, July 27, 1938 Number 492
Windle, Male Chambermaid, to Lose $25,000
A L CAPONE, now a shining light of the Roman Catholic flock at Alcatraz prison, is said to have made his first money acting as lookout in a bawdyhouse in Chicago. When he dies he may expect a place in glory with his companion, Dutch Cardinal Schultz, New York's chief but punctured gangster of the same great big flock that now has the world terrorized. Chicago has another candidate, in the person of Charles Pliny Windle. He is coming along nicely. Take a look.
When the harlot of Isaiah 23: 16 wants dirty work done she picks out some person who has the qualifications and doesn't mind what he does so long as he gets his price and can thus make a living in these hard times, and so it was that when the Hierarchy was in the dirt up to its neck in the Smoky City, in the fall of 1937, Pliny got a call to—
Come to Pittsburgh
Along about December 1, 1937, "Reverend Father" James R. Cox, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who was going to distribute $25,000 in prizes on a total intake of only $18,000, was unhappy because the newspapers published information to the effect that three-fourths of the money went to the promoters. The $10,000 prize went to a personal friend of one of the promoters; $500, to a Jersey City man who never entered the contest and never got the $500; $50, to a Cleveland man who did not live at the address given by the promoters; $100, to a Los Angeles man who received no mail for six months at the address given; and $50, to a Hoboken man who did not even know there was a contest under way.
It is illegal in Pennsylvania for persons to give more than a 15-percent commission to charity promoters, yet "Reverend Father" Cox told reporters he had allowed 75 percent to the promoters of the peculiar "charity" with which his name was so prominently connected; but when he came to talking to the officials of the Pennsylvania state welfare department, he told them that the commission which he had paid was 10 percent, and they announced (a little too suddenly, as it turned out) that that was satisfactory to them and that there would be no investigation.
Is it not wonderful that a man could flood the United States mails with a lottery proposition offering $25,000 in prizes for names of a garden, and promising to see that the awards would be "under my personal supervision", and that then, when the awards were made as heretofore explained, could say, "I don't know anything about the payments"! Here are some of the statements made over Cox's signature at the time he was looking for dollar bills:
Be assured that this contest will be conducted under my personal supervision, in a manner guaranteeing complete fairness, and affording each and every person who competes the opportunity of receiving unbiased consideration from those whom I have personally selected, for their ability, intelligence and integrity, to serve as my judges. It shall be my goal to conduct this contest exactly as you, as a contestant yourself, wish it to be conducted.
Besides giving the sucker who sent him a dollar such a completely fair offer as above described, Mr. Cox sent along to each poor victim a "St. Christopher Miraculous Rose Medal" possessed of "so great an intrinsic value that it is impossible to estimate it in dollars and cents". In other words, it had no value at all; but notice how adroitly the truth is put. It shows Mr. Cox's training in the greatest lie factory underneath the canopy.
A Great Opening for Windle
As will appear from this story, conditions were ripe for Windle to enter and make a hit. But a few more words regarding Mr. Cox. One of the newspapers of the city explained for him that—
The medal is not blessed until after the money is received, as it is forbidden to sell any blessed article.
That seems like good business. Make sure of the money first. Get cash down. No promissory notes on this. No money, no bless. What could be fairer?
On one of his previous lottery stunts, “the Belmont futurity” horse-race proposition, Mr. Cox took the precaution to announce that—
. . . it is strictly against the postal laws to use the mails regarding these events.
When the police finally grabbed the gent and unearthed his papers they found among them the cheering evidence that in a period of ten years he had invested $153,552.70 in a combination swimming pool and liquor-dispensing establishment, but there was a slight difference between the investment and the assessed valuation, which was put at $8,300, or less than 6 percent of what he “put into” it. But in these days, when money is so easy for some people to get out of the taxpayers, why worry because somebody succeeds in hiding 94 percent of what he has cached against a rainy day?
In due time Mr. Cox was indicted, but when the case came to trial there were seven women on the jury and all he got was a very, very slight slap on the wrist, despite the fact that the indictment had specified, among other things:
◆ That the list of prize-winners sent out by defendants was monumental in its falsehoods and deceptions, giving names as prize-winners of those who had never entered the alleged contest, maiden names of married women as winners, together with fictitious addresses for other winners’ names, all of which defendants well knew was calculated to deceive bona fide contestants.
◆ That the St. Christopher Miraculous Rose Medals sent out to contestants were not personally blessed by Father James R. Cox, one of the defendants herein, as promised in said advertisements (of the contest).
◆ And all of which untrue, false and fraudulent representations, pretenses and promises were made and caused to be made by the defendants to the victims with the intent and purpose that the victims should believe them to be true, and, so believing, should send money to the defendants; the defendants then, there and thereby intending to defraud the victims and to obtain money from the said victims and to convert the same to their own use, benefit and advantage without returning to the victims anything of value therefor, except the St. Christopher Miraculous Rose Medal.
The seven words at the close should have been omitted. The “Miraculous Rose Medal” is the biggest fake of all those mentioned. Supposedly blessed in the name of God, the only “blessing” it could possibly bear is the “blessing” of the Devil. Its plain intent is to draw the mind away from God and lead it to a thing made by man. A case of religion, pure and simple. Cox was merely selling diminutive idols, and every idol is accursed of God.
Pliny to the Rescue
Here was a chance for that noble, high-minded, intelligent, astute idealist, Charles Pliny Windle, of the same city as Mr. Al Capone, to come to Pittsburgh and straighten things out and clean things up. Did he do it? Did he? You don’t know the half of it.
He came all right, and there is a three-column account of his coming in The Irish World of December 11, 1937. He did not say anything about Mr. Cox. He had something else on his mind and wanted everybody else to have something else. That is why he came, and probably why he was sent for. The headlines read:
Non-Catholic lecturer raps the ill informed who speak blind prejudices; Flays Rutherford, whose propaganda is aimed at all creeds; World-wide net; A true Protestant does not fear the Church.
Pliny has for sale a little book which he calls “The Rutherford Racket”, which is his name for designating the message of God’s Kingdom. In the story in The Irish World he is described as “editor of Truth and Light and of The Liberal (Iconoclast)”. They must be important papers: there is no mention of them in the office copy of the American Newspaper Annual and Directory.
But Windle has found how to make a living, and that, gentlemen and ladies, that, to him, is a real achievement. He has learned that the message of God’s Kingdom is making itself felt; that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is frightened, and justly so; and he is doing all he can to enhance and encourage that fright and turn it into a bread ticket for himself and his family.
Hence, instead of attacking Mr. Cox, he attacked one of the finest Christian gentlemen in the world, Joseph F. Rutherford; and this article will tell you something of a more recent attack, cleverly gotten up, representing Justice blindfolded on the cover, with the words, "1,000 Reward; Jury Summons; Judge for yourself" and an imitation legal seal, Mr. Pliny explains that his little book of 28 pages (10c a copy) is "In the interest of Truth and Fair Play" and that—
I hereby agree to forfeit $1,000 for proof of any material error, false statement, or distorted historical or other reference found in my indictment of "Judge" Rutherford in this booklet.
Windle Loses $25,000
Now, don't get frightened and imagine that poor Windle has any $25,000, when as late as November 2, 1937, he did not know for sure if he would be able to keep afloat. Are you so foolish as to believe that any man would make himself liable for the throwing away of twenty-five thousand-dollar bills who would write to such a person as Leo Connelly, alias Tom Bosey, alias Fitzpatrick:
Our monthly orders fit in admirably with our plans to build a permanent Light and Truth circulation. You are doing swell. Keep on getting orders and I may be able to do something at the Bank. As you know the matter of immediate financing for your expenses and printing is our only obstacle. If we can keep building circulation for another two months, we will have a nice margin above expenses. If I had $1,000.00 to work with, we would be assured of circulation around 100,000 within three months, as Bishop Sheil has assured me he is going ahead here. However, I cannot see him until after Wednesday and I do not know how soon some funds from that source will be available.
I can raise some money, as we demonstrated here, but I wanted to hold off until I closed with the bishop. Besides, I need every minute in the office.
Perhaps, the Most Reverend Bishop at Cleveland would help at this critical point with a substantial order for copies of the Rutherford Racket, or a loan for six months. It would be the greatest thing he could do to help build a mighty bulwark against atheistic communism Rutherford’s religious prejudice and enemy forces which aim at the destruction of religions, morality, and inalienable rights.
The First $1,000
When losing money it is harder, probably, to lose the first $1,000 than it is to lose any other $1,000 afterwards, so Pliny tried extra hard to make sure he would lose this first thousand. First he started off with a statement of the value of the Golden Rule, to which he fully subscribes, and then gives the examples of how he applies it that sets him back $1,000 if he stands by his offer.
(a) In the Golden Rule alone is ample medication for most of the ills of nations. If individuals and nations would do unto others as they would be done by, and refuse to do unto others what they would not have others do unto them, most of the difficulties and troubles of the world would vanish like mists before the morning sun. [Page 23]
(b) In spite of a total lack of logic and a supreme contempt for the truth which he pretends to revere, the "Judge" is a clever cuss who with weasel words deceives a great many people. When he wrote his new pamphlet, "Cure", he employed his usual method of mental chemistry. He took a few facts relating to the distress of nations all over the world, threw in a generous portion of suspicion and prejudice, added the poisonous roots from various plants in his tenderly cared for garden of falsehood, poured in a large pail of bitterness, dumped in a supply of delusions; used plenty of gall, put in a whole mass of weird prophecies and misinterpretations of the Scriptures, stirred it vigorously with the spoon of malice, and brewed the mess in the witch's kettle of Hatred over the hot fires of a wild and vivid imagination. [Page 22]
I wish to state without equivocation that the championship medal for plain and fancy lying—for little lies and big lies, useless lies and malicious lies—goes to "Judge" Rutherford. All other contestants in this field are pikers compared to the head of the witnesses of Jehovah. Most liars will tell the truth occasionally merely by accident. Usually they come up for air between lies. But Rutherford has no such limitations. [Page 16]
An Apostle of Love
Windle seems to feel that there is some danger he may not lose this first thousand, and so he expands on the subject of the Golden Rule, continuing to show that he is anxious to do to Judge Rutherford as he would like to be done by. The judge himself he describes as "this champion liar" (p. 17), "a purveyor of falsehood, a distorter of Holy Writ" (p. 27), "a madman" (p. 9), thus leading the mind gradually to the statement of Holy Writ itself:
The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?—John 8:48, Douay (Catholic) Version.
The judge, according to Mr. Windle, “has a fondness for deception” (p. 4), “a colossal impudence” (p. 21), “is a false witness” (p. 3), and is one of Jehovah’s witnesses for whom “a splendid name would be ‘Murderers of Souls’”. (P. 14) And further, “For sublimated gall, and unfettered impudence, and blatant blasphemy the claim of Rutherford to be a Witness of Truth and of God stands on the highest pinnacle of Absurdity.” (P. 17)
Mr. Windle does not chance to mention the particular one of the 210 American religious sects that meets with his special favor. This might let him in for a little gentle criticism of some of the teachings to which he subscribes. The most he will say for himself is that “The author is a non-Catholic” (page 2 of his booklet “The Rutherford Racket”), but for some reason he wishes to make it clear that, at any rate, he disapproves of Judge Rutherford’s expositions of Holy Writ, and accordingly expresses his opinion of them in the following words, which, to his mind, express The Golden Rule:
No reliance can be placed in his statements, no confidence in his teachings, and no hope in his “cure” [p. 27]; [his] “propaganda constitutes a vast deception” [p. 3]; [his] “vast and amazing array of Bible misinformation, prophecies, contradictions and wild imaginings constitute a veritable Labyrinth of Error” [p. 14]; [his Bible instruction constitutes a] “mass of interpretations and chronic misuse of Bible quotations” [p. 18]; “his demoralizing philosophy” “seeks to arouse the corroding passions of class and religious hatreds” [p. 2]; and that is something C. Pliny Windle would not do, not at all, unless he could get the coin out of Bishop Sheil or Bishop Schrembs to keep afloat his peculiar industry.
Let Brotherly Love Continue
It seems further that Judge Rutherford’s expositions are “wild ravings” (p. 9), “contradictory, misleading and erroneous interpretations” (p. 25), “arouse bitterness and hatred” (p. 27), which, of course, Windle would never think of doing, and “no greater delusions ever existed outside of an insane asylum”. (P. 27)
The harlot’s chambermaid wants everybody to know that “no man is less qualified” “than Rutherford to act as interpreter of the Bible” (p. 27) and “this quack doctor’s villainous prescription had better be left to the imagination”. (P. 23) The theme of the booklet Cure is a “lunatic contention” (p. 24) which proposes “the application of mental poisons to the minds of millions of people”. (P. 2)
According to Windle, his work in the vineyard of the Lord constitutes a “vast campaign of deception” (p. 4) in line with “his constant practice of deception upon credulous people” (p. 5), which is “a fake because it is based upon the delusion that the millennial reign of Christ is here”. (P. 25)
Like the Jews that said and did to Jesus every evil thing they could think of, Mr. Windle forgets what a jam he is in if the very “strange work” of which he complains (Isaiah 28:21) is in itself an evidence that the reign of Christ is here. Has he read enough of the Holy Scriptures to know that those who will not submit themselves to the new King are doomed to death everlasting at His hands? —Luke 19: 27.
His final effort to show his contempt for The Golden Rule is really funny. He says of Jehovah’s witnesses as a whole that “they offer the mad mutterings of ‘Judge’ Rutherford as the basis for the salvation of the world” (p. 27); whereas every single one of those witnesses knows, believes and spreads the message to earth’s remotest bounds that the Devil’s uninterrupted rule or “world”, which Windle hopes to save, has been ended and what he and all the theologians, Catholic and Protestant, are trying in vain to do is to “put humpty-dumpty back together again”, a thing they will never do. Their terror and despair will continue to increase until they themselves are for ever blotted out by a just and angry God. When that time comes Windle will not mind the loss of this first $1,000 which he is hereby, in the court of Public Opinion, adjudged to have forfeited.
Is God's Cure a Fake?
The place where Windle loses his second $1,000 is in his not knowing or accepting God’s cure for the present ills of humanity; but here it is:
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. —Daniel 2: 44.
Ask of me and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance . . . Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.—Psalm 2: 8, 9, A.R.V.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.—Matthew 6: 9, 10.
Now come some of Windle’s expressions which show his complete confusion on this vital subject, and that he places the accursed maladministration of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, and many others that could be named, far and away above the reign of the Son of God above promised and now here:
The “Judge” condemns all forms of government. [P. 2]
It challenges all government. [P. 3]
Rutherford’s sole contribution to the problem and science of government is to condemn all human government as the invention of the Devil, and to state that no form of government holds or ever can hold any hope for mankind. [P. 6]
No reliance can be placed in Rutherford’s statements and accusations, no faith in his philosophy, and no hope in his “cure”! [P. 3]
Judge Rutherford is trying to palm off on the people a fake cure for the ills of the world. [P. 22]
Rutherford’s cure is a fake because he tries to deceive people into believing that it is God’s cure. [P. 25]
Judge Rutherford has no cure of his own to present. He simply points to the kingdom of God as the only cure, as set forth in the above and numerous other passages of Scripture cited and quoted in all his writings.
By the evidence above presented Mr. Windle is hereby adjudged in the court of Public Opinion to have lost his second $1,000.
Attempts to Improve Government
No other living man has done as much to improve all government on earth as has Judge Rutherford. This is not limited to the publication of his work Government, in the hands of the public to the extent of 2,528,500 copies, nor the booklet of the same name, with a circulation of 8,664,883 copies, nor the Cure booklet, with 10,000,000 put out in the first three months of its circulation, but all his writings, to the extent of now nearly 300,000,000 copies, are brimming full of the same inspiring message.
But it does not cease there. The same message has gone out over the radio to all the world, sometimes to as many as 450 radio stations at once, and for years on end, reaching virtually all the human family that desired to listen in. Further, on hundreds of occasions the judge has personally addressed vast audiences of up to 30,000 at one session, and still does so, one such audience in Sydney, Australia, April 22, 1938, and another in Seattle, Washington, June 5, 1938, with more to follow.
Nor does it stop there. No man in public life has done more to bring to men in public life at Washington, D.C., their responsibilities toward God and toward their fellow men. Petitions to the Government, circulated with his knowledge, consent and supervision, and signed by some 8,000,000 persons, have pointed out definite steps that could be taken to improve government and obtain the Lord’s blessing upon the worthy, and the attention of the president and of Congress has been repeatedly drawn to violations of the fundamental law of the land. He further advises all to be law-abiding and orderly, in harmony with Scripture.
With the above information accessible to all, Mr. Windle, in the court of Public Opinion, loses his third $1,000 for making the following statement:
He would have people sit back, make no attempt to co-operate with government, nor to improve government. [P. 25]
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die”
Judge Rutherford is the author of a book of 128 pages entitled Millions Now Living Will Never Die, published in 1920, but not now in print, of which up to October 1, 1921, 3,366,000 copies were circulated. The book contains full, ample evidence of the validity of the title and its truth. It is supported by an array of not less than 473 scriptures bearing directly upon the subject. It could hardly be expected that in this article the contents of that publication would be repeated or discussed at length. It speaks for itself.
Please observe that in his statement below Mr. Windle examines this subject not at all, but, doubtless backed by both a Jesuit pen and Jesuit money, he parted with his fourth $1,000 in the court of Public Opinion by making the statement that—
Rutherford’s cure is a fake because he preaches that millions of people now living will never die—that they will dwell in perfect bliss in a heaven on earth. [P. 27]
What Judge Rutherford preaches regarding these millions and their future is the absolute truth, but neither Windle nor his backers will ever have any share in it anywhere at all.—Jeremiah 25: 29-35; Isaiah 66: 24.
Salvation Through Membership (?)
Nowhere in the literature that has come from Judge Rutherford’s pen is there the slightest basis for the following effusion by Mr. Windle:
His “cure” is a vast deception that rests wholly upon rejection of religion, contempt for all government, and membership in the Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses. [P. 27]
The witnesses will all laugh at this statement of Windle’s, because they all know, and constantly tell the people they meet, that—
This does not at all mean that such sincere persons must join any organization under the sun. [Judge Rutherford’s own statement in his book Enemies, page 21. See also booklet Uncovered, page 60, paragraph 1.]
For this direct misstatement Mr. Windle hereby forfeits another $1,000 in the court of Public Opinion, making it the fourth sum of this amount assessed against him for being too careless with the truth. In this world it is best not to get too fresh. There is always a chance of getting caught.
Who Preserved the Word of God?
It was the great Author of the Word of God that preserved it. He used various instrumentalities; among them the Hebrew scribes who shielded it for centuries before any such institution as the Roman Hierarchy came into existence. He used Ptolemy II to have those Scriptures translated into Greek [the Septuagint], and the Greek Scriptures were never at any time in the custody of the Church of Rome. He also used the Syriac language and Syriac scholars to preserve the Scriptures, independent of the Church of Rome. The Church of Rome as the Roman Catholic Church is not once mentioned in God’s Word. Now notice what Mr. Windle says:
Were it not for the Catholic Church there would be no Bible.
This is a fundamental error, certainly worth another $1,000 from a man that promises to bestow them so freely upon any who can find “any material error, false statement, or distorted historical or other reference” in his work.
Two Lies in One
It sometimes becomes necessary in a case of this kind to fine the defendant twice because he puts two lies so close together that they cannot conveniently be separated. The readers of Judge Rutherford’s publications all know that he teaches that the kings and prophets mentioned in Hebrews 11 are asleep in the tomb, “in the dust of the earth.” In no sense are they in heaven; nor, for that matter, will any of them ever be in heaven. Nor has the judge at any time stated that they were to appear in 1930. Now notice how wildly Mr. Windle strives to serve the harlot for whom he works, when he says:
The “Judge” claims that while “Christ” is reigning invisibly on earth soon the Kings and Prophets mentioned in Hebrews 11 will come down from heaven and act as Christ’s visible governors. He prophesied their return to earth for 1930, but when they did not appear offered the reason for their failure to be a special dispensation to permit the witnesses of Jehovah to continue their work a little while longer. [P. 26]
For these two lies Mr. Windle is now sentenced to pay $2,000 in the court of Public Opinion.
Priestly Organizers of Communism
In Berlin, Germany, regularly during 1933 and the early part of 1934: the “Reverend Father” Rossaint, “Reverend Father” Kremer of Remscheid, “Reverend Father” Steber, “Reverend Father” Clemens, “Reverend Father” Himmes and “Reverend Father” Schaefer were tried for reading and circulating Communist literature. The New York Times had a sixteen-inch story on this when the trial was in its second week. It is difficult to see how any honest man can question that here was a case in which the Roman Hierarchy was caught red-handed in the manufacture of real Communist propaganda.
Rossaint, Kremer, Steber and Clemens introduced Communism into Catholic Youth groups, and Rossaint allowed Communists wanted by the police to sleep at his house; he also distributed Communist literature. Mr. Windle, on page 17, offers $1,000 for proof, among other things, that the Catholic Hierarchy organizes political agitators into parties, ever organized a Communist party, ever financed a Communist organization, ever encouraged such an organization, etc., and therefore forfeits another $1,000, because the evidence in the above case is quite sufficient. See The Golden Age, July 14, 1937.
The Balance Wheel of Civilization
In his booklet "The Rutherford Racket", page 27, Mr. Windle said:
The Catholic Church from its inception has been a sort of balance wheel for civilization.
Then when he came to get out the new booklet he broadened it, and said:
The principles of religion form the balance wheel of civilization.
Just think about that a little. The Shinto religion, with its 8,000,000 deities, is responsible for the millions' being murdered in China; the Moslem religion is responsible for other millions slain in the 'holy' wars that decimated Northern Africa and the Near East; the pagan religions of Africa were responsible for cannibalism and disfigurement of the human body; the Aztec religion was responsible for human sacrifices; the "hell-fire" and "purgatory" religions have driven millions insane and covered Europe with blood and tears. For this error Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000. This makes $10,000 so far.
Churches as Arsenals
This office has in its possession not less than fifteen pieces of evidence of Roman Catholic churches' being used as arsenals. The public press has supplied ample evidence that this was done in Spain, Switzerland, and Austria; and since this is legitimate "church" practice in the most Catholic countries in the world, Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000 for hastily saying:
To put Rutherford to the acid test, I hereby agree to forfeit to him $1,000 if he can prove his charge or lead me to a single Catholic Church in the basement of which are stored quantities of guns and ammunition.
Judge Rutherford could do this in Mr. Windle's own state, but the way his offer is stated that is not necessary. He neglects to fix geographical limitations, and his carelessness on this little detail costs him $1,000 and saves the inconvenience of a long trip, an unpleasant reception, and a total failure on Mr. Windle's part to live up to any financial promise he might make.
The War in Spain
No one can deny that the pope and the bishops are morally responsible for the war in Spain, the rows on rows of boys and girls slain on the threshold of life, the men and women to the extent of now about one million, that were put to death [some of them to music] with a bloodthirstiness unequaled in history. These incidents have been set forth in such detail by even Catholic writers in the public press that they can on no account be denied. The Golden Age and Consolation have published much of such evidence and have much more yet to be published. No one can deny that the pope and the bishops are priests; and therefore Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000 because he said:
There is no Catholic doctrine, Rutherford to the contrary notwithstanding, that gives the priests power to grant an indulgence to commit a sin, much less a murder.
The murders of Franco the Butcher are not less murders because they are by the tens of thousands, and everybody knows that the pope bestowed his "blessing" upon this fiend and that the Hierarchy helped him get his start by turning the churches into arsenals and recruiting stations.
"Coercion and the Gag"
With thousands of Jehovah's witnesses imprisoned for preaching the gospel, not only in Germany, where four thousand of them are the special objects of the wrath of that country's Roman Catholic dictator, but hundreds of them in recent years right in Mr. Windle's own state, namely, at Elgin and Peoria (and many other places), Jehovah's witnesses know a whole lot more about the coercion practiced upon them than Mr. Windle could ever learn.
They know of the disreputable methods used by the Hierarchy to gag radio owners and managers in the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, to prevent the message of God's Kingdom from going out to the people, yet Mr. Windle, in his effort to lose as much as possible, parts with another $1,000 for accusing Judge Rutherford of falsehood in making the following truthful statement:
For many centuries the Catholic Hierarchy has operated the most cruel, wicked and defamatory organization that has ever been on earth. They employ coercion and the gag, and any other unlawful means necessary to accomplish their cruel purposes. When they want someone killed they make the killer believe that the priests can fully absolve him from all wrong and clear him from all punishment, here or hereafter.
Liberty to Kill
No one can question the fact that the Hierarchy claims the right to kill Protestants, or even their own people, if exigencies arise when they think it will work out for the welfare of the "Church". It was because the Hierarchy hopes to get ahead in Ethiopia and get back in the saddle in Spain that it consented to and approved the horrible deeds committed in both of those lands. So it costs Mr. Windle another $1,000 to make the evasive statement that—
There is nothing in the doctrine of Penance that permits a priest to send someone out to commit a crime with a promise to give him absolution.
This is cleverly stated. When the matter of killing Protestants is up, a priest would rule that that is not a crime, and when wholesale murder, as in Spain and Ethiopia, he would probably say that is outside of the doctrine of Penance. Nevertheless, somebody is entirely responsible for murdering 1,000,000 people in Spain, and it was the pope's man, Franco, that started it, and it was in his churches that the arms were stored and the plots against the Spanish Republic were formed.
"Misrepresenting Catholic Principles"
It is very easy for a guilty man or a guilty organization, when some righteous and courageous person calls attention to its errors, to try to raise the cry that it is being misrepresented, hoping thus to deflect or at least defer the punishment due. The Catholic Church always does that; it is a fixed principle.
Forever and forever the Catholic Church insists that it is right on every point on which it is absolutely and forever as wrong as the Devil is wrong. It was and is because he knew that that Judge Rutherford took such pains in his booklet Uncovered to quote Catholic authorities on every point therein raised. That little booklet completely exposes the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's principles, doctrines and objectives, and therefore Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000 (making $15,000 up to now) for saying that:
By misrepresenting Catholic principles, doctrines and objectives, he creates in the minds of many people a wholly false image of the Catholic Church—a chimera that has no real existence. [P. 8]
"RIGHTLY DEATH FOR HERETICS"
New Brunswick (N. J.) Priest Says Catholics Would Thus Stop Spread of "Errors."
"I do not doubt, if they were strong enough, that the Catholic people would hinder, even by death if necessary, the spread of heretical errors among the people, and I say rightly so."
This was the statement made by the Rev. Mr. Harney, a Paulist Father in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, in New Brunswick, N. J., Friday evening. The Paulist Fathers have been conducting a mission for the last three weeks in that church. Last week the services were for the benefit of non-Catholics.
A feature of last week's services was a "question box." This question was read by Father Harney on Friday night:—
"Does the Catholic Church regard Protestants as heretics, and does it not believe and teach that heretics should be punished, even with death if necessary?"
Father Harney's answer was:—
"In a way, I say yes. Certainly the Church does consider Protestants heretics, in a way. A formal heretic is one who knows he is perverting the truths of God and the Catholic Church. No man, by sinning himself, should be allowed to lead others into sin.
"I do not doubt, if they were strong enough, that the Catholic people would hinder, even by death if necessary, the spread of such errors through the people. And I say, rightly so.
"As human society protects itself against the murderer and the man who proves a traitor to the government, so the Church of God has the right to protect itself. The Catholic Church never dreamed of punishing one who is materially a heretic—one who believes things to be true that are not true—any more than a father would punish his child who does wrong unintentionally. The history of the church has been a history of toleration.
"The Catholics have proved more tolerant than the Protestants."
In an interview last night, Father Harney stated that his remarks on Friday evening, as above quoted, were correct. He said they expressed his personal convictions and were in accord with those of the Catholic Church.
"Nothing to Do with Charity"
The Greek word agape means love for Jehovah God, with all the heart, mind, soul and strength, and for one's neighbor as for one's self. It is this love for God and man that consumes Jehovah's witnesses, takes them from home and kindred, causes them to endure privations, imprisonment, scorn and abuse such as Judge Rutherford received at the hands of Mr. Windle and from thousands of others, and yet this does not prevent Jehovah's witnesses from going right on, taking the message of hope and love to all who will hear. This word agape is commonly mistranslated (1 Corinthians 13, Douay Version) "charity", a cold and formal thing that needs no love whatever in it. But in the proper meaning of the word, there are no other people on earth as truly charitable as Jehovah's witnesses. There are things people need more than tips or crusts. They need the truth which religion of all forms has denied to them. Therefore Mr. Windle hereby forfeits another $1,000 for his statement that—
The witnesses of Jehovah have nothing to do with charity. [P. 11]
Warnings Against Religion
Two of the pointed warnings against religion, and particularly against the Jewish religion, are contained in the following scriptures:
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol.—Isaiah 66:3.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.—Isaiah 1:15.
There are literally hundreds of passages that prove the same thing, but these are ample basis for Mr. Windle's forfeiting another $1,000 for saying:
I challenge Rutherford to show any Scriptural proof that God ever warned the Jews against the principle of religion or bade them turn from religion. [P. 18]
"Him That Heareth"
A great call is now going out to abandon religion and come over on God's side, on the side of Christianity, and a great multitude are hearing that call. Mr. Windle hears the call but does not understand it. To him everything churchy seems all right, and from the fulsome way he writes about the Catholic church, which is the most churchy of them all, he seems to think that the more churchy a church is the better it is. It is just too bad that he does not hear the call to reform his judgment and his practices; but others are wiser, and so there is a world of meaning in the text:
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come: and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.—Revelation 22:17. See also Ezekiel 9:4-10 and Revelation 7:9, 14.
Because he does not understand this and other passages, and because, therefore, he misstated the facts, Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000 for his utterance that—
The Scriptures do not declare that 'a great multitude will forsake religion'. [P. 18]
"Millions" Message in 1918
The first time that the message "Millions now living will never die" was ever uttered was February 24, 1918, in Los Angeles, by Joseph F. Rutherford, and therefore Mr. Windle at this point loses another $1,000 for saying [regarding C. T. Russell],
Russell, who was quite convinced that he was one of 'the millions now living who would never die', passed away in 1916. [P. 14]
Windle should be more careful than that, throwing away thousand-dollar bills.
"The Seventh Messenger"
Windle forfeits another $1,000 for the bald-headed, barefaced lie,
Pastor Russell "proclaimed himself to be the Seventh Messenger of God to enlighten people on earth". [P. 13]
He never did anything of the kind, and not a scratch of evidence can be produced to back up this misstatement. Forfeitures thus far, $20,000.
Wife-Beating
Windle forfeits another $1,000 for the grotesque and impossible lie,
Pastor Russell relieved the strain on his mental apparatus by beating up his wife on sundry occasions.
This is the first time in 44 years' active service of the message of God's Kingdom and intimate acquaintance with both C. T. Russell and J. F. Rutherford, two of the finest Christian gentlemen that ever lived, that this writer ever heard any such twist put to the newspaper persecutions of a man who died 22 years ago this fall. A liar must be hard put to it for material, to tell such whoppers. But Windle feels that he must earn his money somehow or the Hierarchy will not provide him with the bread ticket which, to him, seems all important.
"No Deviation Permitted"
The humblest child of God, speaking any language, and living in any land beneath the sun, can confidently draw the attention of Judge Rutherford to any statement that seems out of line with God’s Word and be assured of a kindly consideration of his honest proposal that the subject be further examined. It is so well known to all Jehovah's witnesses that this is fundamental, that is, that Judge Rutherford as well as they are being led and taught by Jehovah God and Christ Jesus, His Son, and that all together are "walking in the light" which "shineth more and more unto the perfect day", that Windle forfeits $1,000 more for rashly saying:
Not the Bible, but the "Judge's" interpretation of it, form the creed of the witnesses. They must accept the "Judge" as final authority on all Bible teachings. No deviation from his views are permitted. [P. 14]
"An Infallible Interpreter"
Mr. Windle forfeits another $1,000 for the falsehood concerning Judge Rutherford that—
This is the man who poses as an infallible interpreter of God's Word. [P. 22]
He does nothing of the sort, as every reader of his writings knows very well. He constantly and consistently holds that the only One who can explain the Bible is the One who wrote it; and this the Lord is continually doing. How very different this prayerful, careful, thoughtful attitude from that of the allegedly infallible pope Mr. Windle so eagerly defends.
"More Religion"
After all the evidence mankind now has of the effect of religion upon the human heart, as manifested by Japan's devilish religion in China, Stalin's devilish religion in Russia, Hitler's devilish religion in Germany, Mussolini's devilish religion in Ethiopia, and Ambrose Ratti's devilish religion in Spain, it becomes necessary for Mr. Windle to forfeit another $1,000 for his foolish statement,
What the world needs is more religion, not less religion. [P. 23]
"Authority on the Bible"
The question as to whether or not Judge Rutherford is an authority on the Bible is adequately settled by the fact that the Roman Hierarchy can employ windbags and frauds like Windle to do its dirty work but it has not the courage to meet Judge Rutherford in a radio debate on the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church, even though millions of its own people have requested such a debate. That is all for now. Windle forfeits another $1,000, total $25,000 for 25 master lies, this last one on page 6; but he told many others, also.
Consolation holds some more material to use, if it seems desirable to do so, showing that Windle is a fertile liar, a tool of the Hierarchy, and a son of the Devil.—John 8:44.
Roman Racket in South Africa
BISHOP HENNEMANN of South Africa claims that in 1934 the Roman Catholic adherents in the Union of South Africa were 361,694, and that by 1937, only three years later, they had grown to 472,938. On the same occasion the archbishop, Bernard Gijlswijk, remarked:
The centenary of the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa was of national significance, because it reminded the nation of the just and liberal gesture in allowing the tree of religious freedom to be planted in the soil of the country. For this gesture the country was indebted to both English and Dutch rulers.
Take a moment to think about this. The Roman Hierarchy is granted "religious freedom", its own definition of which is that the Roman Catholic Church is free to teach what it will, and that one of its teachings is that no church but its own may exist in the country, and that all "heretics", i.e., persons that will not bow to its will, may be destroyed. Some freedom, that! And further, it does not say that the Hierarchy itself is indebted to the rulers for granting such freedom to such a devilish institution, but it says that "the country" is indebted to the rulers for granting it such freedom. Indebted for what? Indebted for inviting into its bosom a deadly viper that will not hesitate to sting its host to death.
Spain
The “Blessing” of Franco
ON April 18, 1938, the pope extended his “blessing” to Franco the Butcher, one of the worst murderers of all time, and then, five days later, showed what a 100-per-cent perfect hypocrite he is when he made the following statement to 2,000 married couples:
Woe unto the world if the future were in the hands of men. We constantly see that men are always ready to damage and destroy everything even up to the point of killing each other. What are in fact these wars of which we have received news from the East and West if not men who seek out other men to kill them—and kill them in the greatest possible number and the worst possible ways? That is what war is. Woe unto us if our future were in the hands of men. It is in the hands of God, for which reason I have invited you to follow the example of the pope.
The pope unquestionably knew all about the Spanish war long before it started; for his churches in Spain were the arsenals where the arms were stored with which to begin the campaign, and when the insurrection began almost all the priests enlisted with Franco’s troops. Modern civilization, however, put up such a holler when his Italian and German planes killed 872 persons in Barcelona in 48 hours’ time that the pope, under pressure, had to slap Franco on the wrist and say “O you naughty Franco”. But this was offset the next day by Cardinal Hayes, of New York, saying he is praying for Franco; and quite probably the pope instructed him to make that very statement. Franco’s “government” was officially recognized by the pope on May 16, 1938.
Executions to Music
One can have a good measure of appreciation of the kind of civilization in store for the world, if, as and when Fascism (Catholic Action) gains full control. While Franco’s troops were in control of Teruel, not only were a fourth of the inhabitants put to death, on complaints of the Roman Hierarchy that they were not loyal to the church, but, says Lawrence A. Fernsworth, newspaper correspondent, and himself a Catholic, on at least one occasion the executions were turned into a fete. “The plaza was decorated, crowds applauded each execution, and afterwards the band played and there was dancing.”
Several hundred of these were done to death as a result of being denounced as sympathizers with the Loyalist cause by the pastor of the church of San Miguel. Let this testimony of a noble and honest member of the Catholic population against the bloodthirstiness of a Catholic priest speak for itself. When the Loyalists captured Teruel, population 12,000, they not only learned of the murder of a fourth of its inhabitants, but released from a single prison cell thirty-seven women and eight babies who had been kept in that cell for an entire year.
Some idea of the meanness of Franco may be derived from the fact that among the Basque patriots murdered by his command were three women, one of them a married woman who leaves five children, and one of them a widow who leaves six children. It is on men like this that the old hypocrite at the Vatican bestows his “blessing”.
Italians Dropped Everything and Ran
◆ Near Brihuega, Spain, the Italian troops fighting in the pope's armies against the Spanish people suddenly awoke to the fact that the Spaniards mean business, and that this war is real war. They thereupon dropped everything and ran. A dispatch says:
They threw away their rifles, their gas masks and their knapsacks. They left cannon of various sizes, mortars, more than 100 machine guns, hand grenades by the thousands, and thousands of trucks, bicycles, tractors, food, clothing, tools and field radio and telephone sets. It will take the Loyalists five days to collect all this material, of which we saw a large amount. One commander estimated it would require 700 trips by government trucks to carry it all back to the lines. Two whole munition depots established by the Rebels in expectation of further advances were captured. This list could be continued indefinitely, but it would serve no purpose except further to establish the contention that this is not just a retreat but a collective panic.
On the whole, it looks very much as if it was not a bad thing that this particular delegation of Italians came to Spain, instead of being sent to Ethiopia, as they were falsely told was their destination. It is one thing to start out imagining yourself as a colonist in a conquered land like Ethiopia, but it is another thing to wind up finding yourself fighting liberty-lovers. Ever since then Mussolini has been trying to bring some glory to Italy to take the sting from this debacle.
"Do What You Like, I've Had Enough"
◆ One Italian Fascist captain, who had calculated on marching his high-steppers into Madrid, made a sudden discovery when his forces ran into the Spanish Republican army. After a little experience with desperately determined infantry bayonet attacks, tank attacks, night attacks in a pouring rain, cavalry attacks and uninterrupted air raids, he hid in a cellar, crying like a baby, and said, "Do what you like, boys, I've had enough." In one place the Republicans found the bodies of four Italian officers—a lieutenant-colonel and three captains—who had committed suicide because they discovered that there is a difference between real men, fighting for their liberties, and a bunch of black-tailed roosters misled by a coward and murderer into thinking that the war in Spain would bring them glory. It is too bad that the slayer of Matteotti was not among them.
Before the Walloping at Brihuega
◆ Just before the walloping received by Mussolini's army at Brihuega, Spain, he wired his Spanish commander as follows:
Aboard the Pola on my way to Libya I have received your dispatches in connection with the great battle which is proceeding in the direction of Guadalajara. I am following the incidents of the battle with unshakable confidence because I am sure the impetus and daring of our legionnaires will break the enemy's resistance.
Just imagine the head of a country sending such a dispatch to his own army fighting for the overthrow of a government with which Italy is supposed to be at peace!
Italy's Army Maps Transferred
◆ Not only is Italy at peace with Spain, but it is so much interested in preservation of the peace there and throughout the world that it consented to act as one of the guardians of the Spanish coast. Fine! On the other side of the ledger, just while she was acting as such guardian, the map section of the Italian general staff was transferred from Italy to Cadiz, Spain, and 15,000 soldiers were landed there openly and shamelessly. The refreshing thing about Mussolini's hypocrisy is that he boasts of it, and with beautiful impudence claims that he learned it from Britannia, and occasionally a liberal British paper admits that such is really the case.
[A dispatch from Gibraltar to the New York Times stated that seven months later 5,000 well-armed Italian troops landed at Cadiz from three Italian warships and were at once hurried off to fight with Franco and his Moors.]
"Spain the White Abyssinia"
◆ For publishing an article entitled "Spain the White Abyssinia" a few months ago a Costa Rican editor, Señor Francisco Marin Canas, was sentenced to ten days in jail, as it was considered that the article was a reflection on the Italian dictator, Mussolini. The law, that no one may criticize a friendly government, is now exceedingly unpopular.
Eight Ships of Wounded Italians
◆ Eight shiploads of wounded Italians returned to Italy from Spain were threatened with severe punishments if they talked about their Spanish experiences. The ships arrived at the ports of Spezia and Gaeta.
The Most Battered Building
◆ The most battered building in the world is probably the National Palace, formerly the Royal Palace, of Madrid, Spain. More than 2,000 "Rebel" shells have hit the huge structure since the summer of 1936, but it still stands, despite the fact that there is not a particle of glass left in any of the windows and that all the stones on the exposed side have been chipped and blackened. There is not a day in which some shells do not hit the building. The interior is intact.
Wiping Out the Basques
◆ The wiping out of the Basques proceeds along orderly lines. José Antonio Aguirre, refugee president of the Basque Government, claims that there are 10,000 Basques in prison at Bilbao, that 1,000 were executed, and that the Franco government manufactured large quantities of Basque uniforms so that it might have the excuse that in murdering the citizens of the country it was suppressing an attempted revolt.
Preserving One-sided Neutrality
◆ The various dangers of the world continue to preserve their one-sided neutrality in Spain. The French government passed a bill fining any volunteer 10,000 francs, with six months' imprisonment. Within five days of the passage of that act the Italians landed 4,000 more at Cadiz to fight on the side of the Hierarchy and the Moors against the Spanish Republic.
Congressmen Back from Spain
◆ United States Congressmen Jerry J. O'Connell, of Montana, and John T. Bernard, of Minnesota, back from a two-week trip through Spain, urge an end to the present pretended neutrality which, while shutting off supplies from Loyalist Spain, permits Franco's troops to get all the men, ammunition and supplies they desire from Germany and Italy.
Credit for Splitting Spain
◆ The credit for splitting the Spanish Republic in half must go to the Germans. The plan for the split was formed by Colonel Hoffman of the German staff. The Germans are now in full control of the operations along the Pyrenean frontier, so that when the invasion of France is begun they will be in position to begin attacks on both sides at once.
Lord Faringdon's Report
◆ Lord Faringdon, British Labor M.P., returning from Spain, reports sixty British girls teaching Spanish women the latest and best practice in nursing. The Government made one of them an honorary doctor. Faringdon saw 200 bombs dropped on the city of Tarancon, resulting in children of four and five years of age having arms torn off and their faces rent by bomb splinters. He found Spanish Republicans confident (at the beginning of 1938) that they would yet win the war; they still have a vast man power; they have observed the smallness of most of Franco's bombs; they are bewildered by the apparent desire of the British Government to see Franco, Mussolini and Hitler win the war.
Papal Troops in Spain
◆ There were, at last accounts, 700 German and Italian planes assisting the cause of Fascism (Catholic Action) in Spain. Italian troops were being brought in by the thousand as late as March, 1938; also Portuguese. Papal influence in France and Britain has made both of those governments desire Franco's success, despite the fact that both countries will be the next attacked and the next to go Fascist.
Treasures upon Earth
◆ The duke of Osuna, Spain, once boasted that he could travel from either the French or the Portuguese border to Madrid without leaving his own estates. That made him one of the richest men in the world. His niece, the last of the line, penniless at 78 years of age, recently entered a home for aged and destitute women in Madrid.
Mussolini Likes Spanish Gold
◆ Mussolini's soldiers are in Spain fighting against the Spanish Republic, but as late as November 8, 1937, eighteen carloads of Italian wheat passed into Loyalist Spain by way of France. The money used to pay for the wheat will be used to buy ammunition to kill the men who bought the food.
New Methods of Propaganda
◆ New methods of propaganda are in use in both sides of the Spanish war. A rocket with a range of a mile and a half scatters 1,000 pamphlets at a time. Sound equipment is also used in ever-increasing measure, to bring about desertions.
Asia
Kid Did Not Show Up
Years ago, whenever an old Dalai Lama shuffled off this mortal coil it was quite easy for the priests to locate a newborn infant into which the old geezer's soul winged its way at the moment he faded out. Now for over four years the spiritual crooks of the Buddhist priesthood have been trying to agree on some infant, but what with electric lights, telephones, refrigerators and typewriters getting into the forbidden city, they are having a hard time of it locating the proper young man, either in Lhasa or anywhere else in Tibet. The old Buddhist religion is just one more religion of the Devil booked for a final disappearance act at Armageddon, along with the Roman Hierarchy and all the other "holy" swindles that still survive.
$50,000,000 to the Philippine Friars
◆ The United States Treasury transferred $50,000,000 to the Philippine Commonwealth, on the representation that the president of the Commonwealth (Roman Catholic) will use the money to purchase some of the huge estates of the Roman Catholic friars. There seems no reasonable doubt that the friars will get most of the money. Whether this will result in any real benefit to anybody but the friars remains doubtful.
The Priests of Tall Brak
◆ Archeologists digging at Tall Brak, northern Syria, uncovered a hole in the clay, semi-circular altar of a heathen temple and which hole led them to an adjoining hidden room where a priest might hide and whisper through the tube to the poor sucker outside just how much money he would have to pay to "get his grandmother out of 'purgatory'". The temple did business some 3,000 years ago.
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