Consolation, June 28, 1939

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Contents

Fascism in Britain 3

England Aflame with Catholic Anarchy 4

Violence at Glasgow 5

Motives of the Hierarchy 7

Franco the Butcher 8

Why Assault Jehovah’s witnesses? 9

Other British Items 11

Trinidad Tears Up the Magna Charta 12

The New Government 13

The Inflation of Justice Hart 13

Texas Boy with a Conscience 14

Tribute from an Honest Heart 15

British Comment 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford 17

Jehovah’s witnesses 17

A California Dust Storm 18

All the World Wondering—As Foretold 19

Instruction in Cruelty 22

A Result of Hitler’s Jesuit Training 24

Religious Intolerance in South Africa 26

Where the Conspiracy Was Hatched 26

Typical Nazi-Vatican Conduct 28

Hard Going for Hypocrites 28

British Comment (Continued) 29

Communists 30

Political 31

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Appetizers

From a photograph of Hitler coming out of a Catholic Church.—In London Catholic Herald.

The May 5, 1939, issue of the London Catholic Herald contained a picture of Hitler coming out of a Catholic church (reproduced above) and a large part of the balance of the Herald was devoted to incitements to subjects of the pope to commit further assaults upon Jehovah’s witnesses, such as had already taken place at Clydebank, Folkestone, Camberley, Oldham, Leicester, and London.

There may not seem to be much connection between the above picture and the article on Fascism in Britain. But after reading the article it will appear that the power back of Hitler is the same as that now fomenting violence against Jehovah’s witnesses in Britain.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XX Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 28, 1939 Number 516

Fascism in Britain

Let this fact be clearly borne in mind: This is not a cry for Jehovah’s witnesses. If they die in the performance of duty Jehovah will preserve their eternal existence. Whether one lives or dies is relatively unimportant; because the Devil’s agents can only kill the body but are unable to destroy the right to life. (Luke 12:4) Jehovah’s witnesses trust in the Lord and need nothing from any man. But the purpose here is to warn the people of good will that if they continue to uphold and support an organization that is fighting against God’s kingdom they will suffer the consequences of its destruction.

IN September, 1938, a timely warning was sounded from London, which message was transmitted by wire and wireless to the English-speaking people throughout the earth.

In brief, that warning was this: Vatican City, directing its Hierarchy throughout the world and acting in conjunction with Fascists and Nazis, is in a conspiracy to grab control of and rule the world, regiment the people, and dictate arbitrarily to all.

The speaker on that occasion is not a prophet, he does not claim to be, and no one claims for him that he is a prophet; he is merely one thoroughly familiar with the Scriptures, particularly with the prophecies written by holy men of old and which are recorded in the Bible.

Riots against God’s kingdom occurred in these towns

He is likewise thoroughly familiar with world affairs; and, taking together the Divine prophecies and the physical facts, he pointed out that this conspiracy is being advanced and that the entire conspiracy is the offspring of the Devil, and directed by the Devil and his wicked angels, the object being to oppose Jehovah God and His kingdom.

Many thoughtful people thoroughly agreed, while many others tabooed the idea, and the Catholic press began a severe onslaught and campaign of criticism against the speaker, resorting to all manner of lies. Conspicuous in this were the London Catholic Herald and Catholic Universe.

In recent months the development of the physical facts have shown not only that the warning was timely, but that the predicted events are coming to pass much quicker than many anticipated. The Catholic press and Catholic priests have incited and urged the benighted and ignorant parishioners of that religious-political organization to create a disturbance throughout England. Unable themselves to give any reasonable or Scriptural answer that would offset the warning concerning the encroachment of the Catholic-Fascist conspiracy, the Vatican and the other members of the Hierarchy have attempted to stir up strife, and even bloodshed.

England Aflame with Catholic Anarchy

At Glasgow, Clydebank, Oldham, Monmouthshire, Hebburn on Tyne, Folkestone, Camberley, Leicester, Dundee, London and other places throughout Great Britain these disturbances have been so marked that the people of the nation are aroused and they see the great danger now threatening their government. Below we set out some of the facts, and from time to time this magazine will continue to publish the facts, to the end that the order-loving people of this land may be more fully advised.

Since the days of Napoleon the Catholics have somewhat taken a back seat, until 1929, when Mussolini restored the pope to temporal power by the Lateran Treaty signed February 11 of that year, and since then the Vatican has become more cocky, advocating and encouraging a war against Abyssinia, Spain, Japan against China, the grabbing of Austria, the wrecking of Czechoslovakia, and many other misdeeds too numerous to mention here. All of this unlawful and wicked prosecution of its purpose the Catholic press throughout the earth has nurtured and forwarded. Recent events in Australia, the Fiji Islands, Port of Spain, South Africa, and other places, show that a world-wide movement to wreck civilization to satisfy the ambition of the Vatican, the chief instrument of the Devil on earth, is being vigorously prosecuted, and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and Fascists are working together.

In southern Wales Jehovah’s witnesses of the Abertreshan company rented the Celynan Ambulance Hall at Newbridge, Monmouthshire, for the purpose of giving the people thereabouts an opportunity to hear Judge Rutherford’s speech, “FASCISM OR FREEDOM”. In preparation for this meeting 3,000 leaflets were distributed inviting the public to attend.

Everything was in order for an enlightening hour for the people when the Catholic-Fascists got busy. Had anything in the speech “FASCISM OR FREEDOM” been false these Catholics might have answered the charges like men and Britons; but knowing every word to be true, they were impelled to obstruct freedom of speech to prevent exposure. As to their methods, the words of the superintendent of the hall, who under pressure refused the hall to the Christians who had rented it, are significant. His statement follows:

On Friday evening the committee met to discuss your lecture and whether you could hold any further lectures. We decided that we would grant you one Sunday evening but that we would not grant any further lectures, in view of what was contained in the leaflet. Following this discussion the Roman Catholic Priest (Rev. Father McDonor) paid me a visit. He suggested that this lecture should not be held because it was opposed to the Roman Catholic Church. Also he reminded us that the Roman Catholic Church were the big supporters of the Ambulance Brigade. Further that the medical instructors of the Brigade were Catholics and it would be a great loss to the Brigade if Catholic support was withdrawn from us. As a result of this visit we had a committee meeting and decided in view of these things to cancel your lecture.—D. Williams, 73 Springfield, Newbridge.

This is the condition of freedom in Newbridge.

In Hebburn on Tyne, a suburb of Newcastle, with a similar desire to bring vital information to the attention of the people, a hall was engaged for the lecture “FASCISM OR FREEDOM”. Messrs. Popay, Cooper and Foster, trustees of the hall and non-Catholics, yielded to Papal pressure. A verbatim account follows:

After Jehovah’s witnesses began to push forward their advertising campaign in their regular style with information marches, sound-cars and folders, the local Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Witty, got excited and took steps to stop this meeting. It is evident from reliable source that this reverend gentleman (?) called on the police on the day before the meeting and gave them some kind of an idea that there might be trouble at this meeting. Shortly after midnight on Saturday the police of Hebburn sent for the secretary of the hall, Mr. Talsack, and told him that he had better keep the doors locked on the morrow and refuse Jehovah’s witnesses entrance, as they (the police) could not give sufficient protection in view of the threatened disturbances. This was the first time anything was heard of a possible disturbance. With this information the trustees of the hall decided to break their contract and posted a sign on the door of their hall Sunday notifying the public that the meeting was canceled.

It also seems that this same priest on Saturday evening warned his flock at a service to stop Jehovah’s witnesses and their meeting. On Sunday morning, when Jehovah’s witnesses began to witness to the people in the usual way there were groups of Catholics standing about the street corners lying in wait. All during Sunday morning the publishers of the Kingdom were harassed and ill-treated by these small groups. Stones were thrown at them and also at their cars. Abusive language was used by women who followed the publishers from house to house. They also booed the information marches and stoned the sound-car.

After the notice of the canceling of the meeting had been posted on the hall Sunday morning, groups of Catholics got together shouting “We’ve won, we’ve won”. At the time of the scheduled meeting the witnesses gathered in front of the hall and made appointments to call on all the people of good will who had come to hear this important lecture.

Violence at Glasgow

Report of assaults of May 19, 1939:

The battle gets hotter every day up here, and so I have to report more assaults in the witness work. Twelve witnesses (mostly pioneers) were assaulted, including an old man of 70-odd years.

On Friday evening, May 19, there was what has been described to me by outsiders as the biggest disturbance ever witnessed in the Garngad district of Glasgow. The twelve publishers were distributing the Clydebank leaflet and Face the Facts and Fascism or Freedom booklets, when almost without warning several mobs each made up of hundreds strong started molesting and assaulting the publishers.

Some were pushed down stairs or rather flung down, their literature stolen, their head-gear thrown away, pulled along the street by the hair, hammered continuously on the head and body, kicked constantly on the back and legs as they tried to reach a point for transport. Stones, bottles and every other thing within reach were thrown, some even having horse manure pushed down their backs.

From an outside source (those not Jw’s) I am informed that some in the crowds had old swords and heavy sticks, to kill if they got the chance.

Police sent several constables into the district, but these got stoned also, and were unable to do anything in the way of arresting anyone. Traffic was held up as the mobs entirely blocked the roads. It was a seething mass of angry humanity, yelling, booing and shouting, and not until the drivers and conductors of the tramcars that had been held up came to the rescue of the publishers were they able to get away.

I am told that when the mobs got together in the main street there would be about 2,000 all together. You can imagine the difficulty of getting to the tramcar with such crowds around. The police were throwing the people about like balls trying to reach the witnesses.

Assault at Garngad Road

Further in regard to the riots in Glasgow, Henry Carmichael, one of five mobbed at Garngad Road, Friday evening, May 19, makes a statement:

Five of us went to Cobden Street. Everything was peaceful and we were well received. We were unaware of any trouble in the district. We had finished a close (Scottish apartment house) in Charles Street, when at the foot of the close several women came rushing down, “Tell that man to get out for his life—there is trouble. A man and a woman have been assaulted and taken away in a tramcar.” I was disturbed—didn’t know where to go. Elizabeth Moeckel (German refugee pioneer) and I decided to go down to Garngad Road. We found a huge mob there. I saw two policemen; we put ourselves in their protection. I told the policemen there had been other assaults. They walked with us to Bright Street. A huge howl went up when the people saw us—the mob surged towards us. I never in my life saw such a frenzied mob. The scenes at Clydebank were child’s play compared with this. Stones and sticks were flung; dung was pushed down my neck. The policemen were helpless in the face of the mob—they were getting stones thrown at them also. The policemen were much more afraid of the mob than we were. These policemen took us up Bright Street to Charles Street—walked along to Turner Street. There the policemen left us, told us to beat it to Castle Street and get out of the district. Elizabeth and I went along Charles Street, the mob still following, throwing stones, beating and kicking us with their feet, pulling at Elizabeth’s coat and trying to tear away her bag. That continued all the way along Charles Street, nearly half a mile long. At Castle Street another mob came up Garngad Road (turned back after losing Mrs. Kilpatrick) hundreds strong. At first we didn’t know what to do. There was no transport in sight. At last I saw a tram and we tried to get it. Several youths started battering me and punching me as I tried to get to the tram. Several women attacked Elizabeth at this time, pulling her hair, and trying to knock her on the ground, kicking and punching. The crowd had brought the tram to a standstill. The driver and conductor and another man came off the car and endeavoured to help us; also two policemen were fighting their way through the crowd to reach us. By this time I had half got on and pulled Elizabeth on; women were pulling her off, but a man in the tram helped me to pull her on. Then the two policemen struggled on and the tram started.

Statement by Mrs. M. Kilpatrick

Witnesses Geo. Calder, Hendre Carmichael, J. Walker, McGee, Kilpatrick, Elizabeth McGeckel, Robson, Mary Kilpatrick, M. Henderson, Turner, senior, Jessie Turner, Mattie King, met at Garscad Road and Castle Street and started work in Cobden Street and Bright Street.

Soon after we started Jessie Turner came running to me asking me to get the police, as a mob was assaulting their party. I went straight to a police box, burst the emergency bell and shouted “Please send police at once to Villers Street. Come at once; Jehovah’s witnesses are being assaulted.” When I turned to come out of the box there was a great mob round me, probably three hundred.

I went down Villers Street towards Castle Street looking for a policeman. All the way the mob kept battering me on the head with their fists, kicking me and shouting at me in the most dreadful language. They kept saying, “Just see what we’ll do to you for coming here saying things against the pope.” Two young women with babies in their arms, who seemed to be the ringleaders of the mob, threw their babies to two other women and joined the battering and punching. By this time the mob was from 300 to 500 strong, of men, women and children.

I came to the tram line and, by entering the front of the tram, managed to get separated from the mob. I took the number of the car, and the conductor said he was willing to be a witness to my assault. The number of the tramcar is 633 from Crookston to Renfrew Street, Route No. 21. I believe the number on the conductor’s cap was 685. Both driver and conductor saw the actual battering which I got. The mob held the car up and two other cars. This car took me to Castle Street, where I saw two policemen. I came off and reported the assault fully to these policemen. I gave these policemen Who Shall Rule the World? Face the Facts, and the Clydebank leaflet, and a small leaflet with addresses of the Glasgow Kingdom Halls. They said there was nothing they could do.

Catholic Pressure in Dundee

The Dundee representative of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in eastern Scotland reports Catholic interference and thwarting of an assembly to hear the “Fascism or Freedom” lecture in that fair city on the Firth of Tay. He said:

On Wednesday evening of May 17 the Dundee company of Jehovah’s witnesses arranged for a public lecture, “Fascism or Freedom,” in a billiard saloon which has been used on previous occasions. The threescore witnesses in this very active company conducted information marches, made a wide distribution of handbills from house to house, and used their sound-cars to thoroughly inform the people of this important lecture by Judge Rutherford.

On the evening prior to the lecture the proprietor of the hall was approached by a number of Catholics who are frequenters of the saloon. As a result of their attitude and intimidation the proprietor decided to cancel the letting. He was also approached by a police constable who enquired the nature of the proposed meeting and suggested that trouble was likely to occur. This is another evidence of the growing move of the Catholic-Fascist power in this country which is out to bully and intimidate men of other persuasions to do their bidding.

Northwich Hall Canceled 15 Minutes Before Meeting

For a long time the Labor party is said to have stood for principles of fair play and the right of the freedom of peaceable assembly. But in these days of the growing move of Fascism in Britain, there are signs of Labor also yielding to such pressure.

In years gone by Jehovah’s witnesses have many times engaged the Labor Hall on Tabley Street in Northwich, Cheshire, 25 miles from Liverpool. This hall had been used for many public Bible lectures by Judge Rutherford even as had been arranged for Sunday evening, May 14, when this famous anti-Fascist lecture “Fascism or Freedom” was scheduled to be given by electrical transcription.

Jehovah’s witnesses had spent a busy week prior in thoroughly advertising this important occasion for the town of Northwich. Over five thousand invitations had been left with the people, and several information marches were held in the main center of the town. Then Sunday evening, just fifteen minutes before the lecture was to begin, the caretaker of the Labor Hall informed Jehovah’s witnesses that their lecture was banned and that their contract for the hall was canceled. When pressed for reasons the management of the hall and the secretary, F. Whitty, said they had received letters from various Catholics objecting to the meeting. There were also threats of trouble. However, Jehovah’s witnesses were not outdone; they held an open-air meeting near the Labor Hall and gave the entire “Fascism or Freedom” lecture to an appreciative audience. Truly every day bears further evidence of the growth of Catholic-Fascist action in Britain, As the Catholic Herald said on May 12, “There is a growing sense that Catholicity in Great Britain is on the eve of great happenings.”

Report from Oldham

I am confident that a work is being accomplished by the distribution of the leaflet, and whilst there are those who are glad for selfish reasons to see the Catholic system exposed, yet there are many others who are glad to see truth made known for higher reasons. I am confident that we have many friends and the distribution of the leaflet is bringing them to light. Many are glad that there is an organization bold and courageous enough to expose a system having such power in the earth. At tonight’s meeting a stranger came to Kingdom Hall for a few of the leaflets to give to friends, etc.; he had been asked for them and he said he would try to get some. He too sees the menace of Catholic-Fascist action and he is glad of the stand we have taken.

Who Incited the Riots?*

There are still many people suffering under the delusion that the Roman Catholic Church is a fine thing. Hundreds of millions of people have entrusted their spiritual welfare to the Roman Catholic Church. To such let it here be stated that your confidence has been abused and your trust misplaced. If the Catholic organization is in reality a good thing and at all worthy of the Lord’s name, which it claims, why does it indulge in the effort to murder Christians simply because they have views different from their own? Do the good Catholics of the earth think it will enhance the merit of the Church or augment its honor to violently attack people who are striving to assist others to understand the Bible, in fact doing exactly what they should be doing themselves? Is it not time that some of the honor-loving Catholics come forward with the suggestion that the Hierarchy, priests and Church leaders would serve the honor of the organization better by condemning mob violence rather than by inciting it? Is there

* In Nos. 505 and 506 of Consolation, dated respectively January 25, 1939, and February 8, 1939, evidence was presented that there is Jesuit influence in the Cliveden set, which practically controls the British press and foreign policy; that the dishonorable Munich peace was prearranged four years before it occurred; that the Roman Catholic United States ambassador Kennedy was sent to Britain to help put over the job; that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is all-influential in the British Foreign Office; that the British press and reporters are mostly Irish Roman Catholics; that Roman Catholic influences are in virtual control of the British Broadcasting Corporation; that Roman Catholic leaders are arguing for a “modified freedom of the press” (no freedom at all); that Rome now has a so-called “Apostolic Delegate” in England; that the Church of England clergy are sympathetic toward Rome. Trends similar to the foregoing are noted in other parts of the Commonwealth, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

any man of the British Isles cherishing the principles of liberty fought for by English, Irish and Scotchmen who approves beating up another simply because he has different views on the Bible from your own?

Are not the Roman Catholic priests and press of Britain who have incited the ignorant to riot guilty of the crime even more so than the ignorant? Is it the business of a church leader to organize his flock into a mob lusting for blood simply to appease Rome’s desire to keep the people from hearing the truth? How does one who thus outrages all decency, whether he wears a black coat or lace ruffles or what have you, differ from any other blood-guilty criminal? When a man dishonors a uniform he should not be permitted to hide behind it.

“Let the Buyer Beware”

It is time past-due for the good people numbering millions who support the Roman Catholic Church to ask themselves what they are buying. Let them propound the questions in thoughtful self-examination: Did I examine before I purchased? Was the principle of established business code “Let the buyer beware” pursued with regard to my religious affiliations? Is it not folly and courting disaster to accept what man has to say, whether priest or otherwise, simply on his unsupported word, without the backing of Scriptural authority or proof, knowing full well that I am thereby aiding one who stoops to attempt to murder? Do I favor the killing of Catholics by Catholics in Spain simply because it is decreed by a man? and do I desire English Catholics to presently fight Nazi Catholics at the instance of the organization I am supporting? Is it the part of wisdom to dismiss the matter from mind by paying for a few masses or prayers as may have been traditional in my family as a Catholic?

Motives of the Hierarchy

There is scarcely an intelligent man who accepts without critical examination any statement made by another. It is therefore proper to consider the motive of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy as well as the facts. Within the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States are found the greater portion of the liberty-lovers of the earth. Their allegiance to flag and country is based upon the traditional stand that the Scotch, Irish, English and Americans, all of common forebears, have made for the cherished possession of liberty. Their land stands for their rights to enjoy life, liberty and the unmolested pursuit of happiness. Now it is certain that many within those countries where freedom has been so greatly loved and dearly bought have not applied the principle of “Let the buyer beware” to their religion, because the English-speaking countries greatly support the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church is the enemy of liberty.

This is the fact which the pages of history painfully corroborate. Let the people aforementioned recall the scourging wrath of Mary I, who strove to convert the kingdom to God and the pope; the horrors perpetrated upon France by the pope’s niece Catherine de Medici; the ravages of the Inquisition, which has been reproduced in modern times by the Catholicists Hitler, Mussolini and Franco and let the free-born man of any country under the sun ask himself one question: Has Catholicism or any of its sons ever stood for right and freedom and received the sanction of the church? Has the church ever favored democracy or freedom in any form? Let any Catholic find some encyclical or pontifical utterance which promoted liberty and was reflected in an action for liberty. In fifteen hundred years of existence, had this organization any policy of liberty, it would have been expressed. Obviously it has none; it is the very antithesis of freedom: a dictatorial and tyrannical power inimical to every democracy under the sun.

Why, then, is it supported by the people of the democracies? Chiefly because it has built up a superstitious aura of influence founded upon the tradition of men and supported by the Devil to dishonor God’s name. You who support the Roman Catholic church, consider what you have bought, not because such consideration will help Jehovah’s witnesses, but in order that you may save your good money and eventually save your lives. Does not everyone attach some importance to his money, and more to his life? If you are a Catholic and care nothing for your money, the same cannot be said for the church which you support. The Reader’s Digest points out that in Germany alone the church owns twenty billion dollars’ worth of property. If the church had cared nothing for this money it could have found plenty of needy Catholics in Spain and elsewhere upon whom to unburden itself. The church loves money, and boasts of its wealth.

Do You Want to Live?

The consideration of the lives of the Catholic population is vastly more important, however. Does anyone who believes in the true God, who promised the people truth without money and without price, who owns the earth, would stoop to an arrangement whereby a few princes of the Catholic church would enrich themselves at the expense of the others affiliated in some way with the church, and this God would do in order to persuade himself to shorten the duration in “purgatory” of wretched men? The traditions of men, and not the Scriptures, are the basis for such blasphemous falsehood.

Four hundred years ago Martin Luther proved that “purgatory” was not taught in the Bible; and today, if any still believe that Catholicism is supported by the Scriptures, let them read a Bible treatise called “Uncovered” written by the faithful Bible exponent, Judge Rutherford.

You freedom-loving peoples of earth, you have bought neither bread nor freedom, nor your lives, by supporting the Roman Catholic church. The nation of Spain has recently bought a brand-new Catholic system; they paid a dear price: a few hundred thousand lives, most of whom were Catholics, the gutting of their treasury, and every vestige of freedom.

The Hierarchy always seems fortunate enough to find just the right man to do any zealous bit of murdering that the case seems to call for. Take Franco, for instance. His first official act when he captured Barcelona was the celebration of a public mass; it follows, of course, the Fascist army was there, joining in the ceremony, because General Franco does not entertain any opinion contrary to the pope’s. One of his mottoes is: “Dead men have no criticism against the Fascist government.” And he is delighting the pope’s heart by converting to Catholicism or to death, in either case a victory for Rome. Is it any wonder that the pope thanked his god, the Devil, when Franco took over?

Franco the Butcher

Note what a thorough-going job Franco is doing. The New York Times of May 27, 1939, carries this account:

835 Executed by Franco Since March 28;

120,000 Accused Are Being Tried 380 a Day

By The Associated Press.

MADRID, May 26.—It was officially announced tonight that the Nationalists’ specially constituted councils of war and permanent military tribunals had sent 688 persons before firing squads since the fall of Madrid on March 28.

The councils, formed by officers of the Madrid army of occupation, condemned 1,000 persons to death, but the sentences of 312 of them were commuted to prison terms by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

Officials of the military tribunals said in disclosing the figures that daily trials contributing to “the total normalization of the life of the nation” were “indispensable for initiation of the second era of empire.”

Tribunals in Madrid have been trying daily 380 persons accused of assassinations, robberies, burning and sacking of churches, treason, imprisonment of Nationalist sympathizers and other activities during the time when the Republicans dominated the city.

The number condemned includes those sentenced by councils of war operating in Toledo, Ciudad Real and Albacete in addition to Madrid. A roundup of suspected criminals in all newly incorporated zones is continuing under direction of military authorities.

The latest number awaiting trial in Madrid was not announced, but it was officially disclosed less than a month ago that there were 46,000 scheduled to face the tribunals and 1,200,000 information filed against suspects in all Spain.

Showing the absolute accord between pope, Fascist and Nazi, note this dispatch in the same paper:

VIGO, Spain, May 26 (A.P.).—The German Condor Legion of about 6,000 men who fought in the Spanish civil war sailed for Hamburg today aboard five German liners.

General Juan Yague, Jose Solchaga, Miguel Aranda and six other Spanish Nationalist military leaders were aboard the steamer Robert Ley, which led the four other liners out of Vigo harbor, escorted by more than 100 fishing vessels. The Spaniards were invited to Germany to see the Condor Legion parade before Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Berlin on June 6.

Forty-five officers of the Spanish Nationalist Air Force also were aboard for a trip to Germany.

Franco has no doubt heard of Thomas Torquemada, Inquisitor General of Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, a time when Europeans were just beginning to emigrate to America to escape the Catholic Inquisition. It is recorded in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that Torquemada killed only 10,000 “heretics” by rack, stake and torture chamber in the name of the pope; whereas Franco already has several hundred thousand slain on ready. It looks as if Franco ought to have up a permanent record. This is real cause for the Hierarchy to rub their hands in anticipation.

A Catholic paper of recent date says that the Irish, those we have come to respect in America as the “fighting Irish”, are to be called on to fill in the gaps in the priesthood in ravaged Spain. Have enough Irishmen become so tainted by their association with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that they are willing to undertake the work of helping Franco kill another million Spaniards? It does not sound like a job worthy of the charming people of the Emerald Isle. And it seems incredible that the experience of General O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War could have been so quickly and so completely forgotten.

Why Assault Jehovah’s witnesses?

To return to the attackers of Jehovah’s witnesses. In brief the motives of these agents of the Hierarchy are here impugned: their purpose is quite evidently to discredit the words of a speaker who is too clearly factual; to cloud in the minds of the ignorant or innocent any exposure of the Hierarchy in true character, that of one who is blood-drunk, who does not want her evil discovered, so that she may continue to drink the blood of innocents and devour the nations of earth. “Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.”—Jeremiah 2:34.

What, on the other hand, is the motive for Jehovah’s witnesses? They have nothing to gain, no gigantic fabulous wealth that is endangered by simple truth, no need for armies to destroy the lives of thousands that selfish religious rulers might continue in power. Jehovah’s witnesses are commanded to tell the

“What I like about these fighters in the Watch Tower [Jehovah’s witnesses] is the way they defend Democracy and expose the evils of Fascism. They are always eternally right when they educate the masses regarding the Fascist conspiracies of the Catholic Hierarchy in Ethiopia, Italy, Spain and other countries of Fascist intrigue. . . . Wherever Catholicism is strong in this country, there you will find the followers of Judge Rutherford persecuted. These persecutors are the enemies of our free institutions; the persecuted ones are the defenders of our precious liberties, our glorious rights of free press, free thought, free speech and free assembly—rights which the Watch Tower Bible Students never fail to support with every legitimate weapon at their command. . . . I have never heard a word of aggression from Judge Rutherford or any of his colleagues. I have never heard them suggest that men and women should be bound and gagged because they happened to express unpopular opinions.—The Editor of The American Freeman.” truth (Isaiah 43); and it does not matter in the least whether anyone listens or not, as far as the result to them is concerned. “And speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.”—Ezekiel 3:11.

Jehovah’s witnesses, in obedience to the Most High, are crying out to you honest and fair-minded peoples of earth to save yourselves. If one chooses to believe agents of the Hierarchy, in spite of the facts, he will be the loser, and not those he condemns; and as the Hierarchy gains more power in the earth, because the Lord has decreed that she be entrapped in the fullness of power, the cries of Jehovah’s witnesses will likely be silenced for a time. Then the people will learn too late that these spoke in kindness and in obedience to Jehovah of Hosts. In the fullness of power the Hierarchy will be taken and all who give allegiance to her. This is Jehovah’s just decree against the abomination that desolates Europe and the whole earth.

Why Libel Judge Rutherford?

Unable to answer the Scriptural proof set forth by Judge Rutherford in his address on “FACE THE FACTS”, and on “FASCISM OR FREEDOM”, which are now being distributed throughout this country, the Catholic Press of London has made and continues to make many scurrilous, false and libelous charges against Judge Rutherford. We are not interested in this. We are not here defending Judge Rutherford. He needs no defense. Every person who knows him is fully convinced that he is sincerely devoted to Jehovah God and His kingdom. Whether he served a short time or a long time as circuit judge, or whether he was a junk dealer, is beside the question. That throws no light whatsoever upon God’s Word. Judge Rutherford is bringing to the people the message of God’s Word. It is not a man’s message, but the Lord’s message, and every honest and sincere person is able to see the truth thereof without the aid of Jesuit priests. No one can truly charge Judge Rutherford with doing wrong. That much cannot be truthfully said about very many Catholic priests. Judge Rutherford left the law to devote himself, and is wholly devoting himself and all his energies, to the service of Jehovah God and His kingdom, and in aiding the people to understand the Bible, that they might flee to the only place of refuge, safety and life.

That much could not be said for any Roman Catholic priest under the sun. Judge Rutherford is aiding the people to understand the Bible, while the Catholic priests are doing all within their power to throw dust in the eyes of the people and to prevent them from knowing what is in the Bible. For this reason honest Catholics are rapidly fleeing from the Catholic domination; and that greatly enrages the Hierarchy.

Sincere Catholic people see that in the Vatican there is no hope held out for them; and seeing the truth, they learn that their only hope is in God’s kingdom. Sincere Catholics have been fleeced of their hard-earned money by the agents of the Vatican who regularly go about collecting from laboring men and others their hard-earned money. Jehovah’s witnesses go from door to door to encourage, aid and comfort the people to see and to understand how they may obtain blessings from the Lord. This they do without compensation to themselves. The contrast between Jehovah’s witnesses and the Hierarchy agents is so marked that honest people everywhere are seeing their privilege of getting away from the Hierarchy domination. This truly is the time in which the scripture at Matthew 25:31-46 is being fulfilled. Christ Jesus, acting by and through His representatives whom He sends throughout the earth, is dividing the people, putting the “goats” on one side and the “sheep” on the other; and the flock of “goats” is made up of the Hierarchy chiefly, and those who support them are also “goats”. The “sheep” are those who are willing to be led and taught the truth, and this regardless of whether they have been Catholics, Church of England Episcopalians, Wesleyan Methodists, or anybody else.

This magazine could take up many pages in naming and extolling the virtues of Judge Rutherford, who is laying down his life in the interest of the people; but this is not necessary. It neither adds any glory to the Lord nor brings any comfort to the people and he does not wish this to be done. Forget the man and look at the message, and then decide for yourself whether you wish to be fleeced by these commercial-“purgatory” agents who wrongfully collect money from the people, or whether you want to learn the truth and find the way to life everlasting in peace and happiness. The Catholic organization is a political organization, determined to rule or ruin the people; and it is certainly ruining them. The Lord's organization is the only organization in existence that holds out comfort and aid to the people; and that organization is headed by the Lord Jesus Christ, now present, and who is putting in operation His kingdom, and who will soon destroy all opposition, that peace,

Other British Items

Wages of British Postal Employees

◆ The wages of British postal employees have just been raised, and still seem very meager. Postmen in Inner London may rise to a maximum of 75 shillings a week, which is around $18.25 per week. An American postman at $175 per month gets around $40 per week, but rents and other living expenses are much less in Britain than here.

Trains Delayed by Seaweed

◆ It is surely an odd circumstance that electric trains were delayed by seaweed, but it happened in London. So much seaweed backed up in the Thames that it choked the water supply in one of the electric generating stations. That reduced the steam supply and made it necessary for 20 minutes to cut down the speed of the trains.

Cash for Mental Patients

◆ Experiments on the Isle of Wight with mental patients on probation shows that they are much benefited by being entrusted with small sums of money. The jingling of coins in their pockets gives them a sense of independence and acts as a mental restorative. The experiment is proving a wonderful success.

Fascism in Kendal, England

◆ In Kendal, England, a Fascist chief of police ordered that an attendant be posted at the exit of each cinema, so that at the conclusion of each show no one may leave until the national anthem is played. The rule is strictly enforced, and thus, little by little, Fascism comes to Britain.

Color Bar in Britain

◆ Britain has few colored persons. Occasionally representative visitors come from Africa and other colonial possession. These are frequently treated in such a way as to return to where they came from with less love for the empire than they had before.

prosperity and life may result to those who love and serve Him. But have this in mind: that only those who become the servants of Jehovah God, who refuse to follow any man or any man-made organization, will be the ones that receive lasting benefit. Shun religion, and serve Christ Jesus the King.

Open Idolatry in Britain

◆ At Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England, is a statue cut out of the hillside in pagan times known as the Cerne giant. Many will be astonished to learn that in front of this giant statue, commonly called "the love god", British girls have been worshiping every year for centuries. After darkness they come and pray him to send them a sweetheart, and young wives come and plead for children. This, in England!

Saved Twelve Lives by Being Late

◆ At Lount colliery, Leicester, England, twelve men were about to go down a deep shaft when it was discovered that one of the twelve was a few moments late. The first trip down, therefore, the cage was sent down with mining equipment instead of men. It broke away and dropped several hundred feet to the bottom. Had the men been aboard all would certainly have been killed.

British Post Office

◆ The British Post Office is supposed to be making money, even though the country is virtually bankrupt.

The average surplus of the British Post Office for the past five years exceeded £12,000,000. Wages paid to postal workers are low, seldom reaching £5 a week, with most of them much below that figure.

Burglars of 14

◆ It was Mark Twain that said that every boy should be kept in a barrel and fed through the bunghole until he is 14 and then the bunghole should be closed. It seems they must be thinking something like that in Britain since they discovered that of the 9,881 persons found guilty in 1937 of breaking and entering 39 percent were under 14 years of age.

Trinidad Tears Up the Magna Charta

SOLICITUDE for those who hate the Magna Charta is not amusing or pathetic. It is criminal, disgusting, cowardly and contemptible. In the island of Trinidad, British West Indies, there are Hindus, Mohammedans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and Roman Catholics. The latter believe and openly teach that they alone have the right to teach, and that it is right for them, if they can do so, to suppress by any means whatever those who teach differently. There are also a few Christians, called Jehovah’s witnesses. The latter are singular and peculiar because they not only profess to believe the Bible, but do believe it.

The government of Trinidad is solicitous for one of the groups above named. Which of these groups, do you imagine, is the object of its paternal care? Can it be that it is solicitous for the good name and fame of the religion of Edward VIII, married of late by a clergyman of the Church of England? Of course not. Britain is the land of the Magna Charta and believes in free speech and fair play, or at least it did and no politician in any of its colonies would stoop to defend the Church of England by underhand methods.

But the Government of Trinidad is so deeply moved for the interests of one of the groups above mentioned that it “devised mischief by a law” which prohibits admission into the colony of Bibles if printed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, books explaining the Bible if printed by the same Society, and song books containing hymns of praise to the Creator if published by the same.

In whose interest, pray, is all this paternal care exercised? Is it for the Hindus? No; they may still worship their idols, believe what they like and teach it to others. Is it for the Mohammedans? No; they may still look forward to an eternity spent in the arms of the houris, the black-eyed and beautiful nymphs of paradise, and the men, at least, can work for converts as they will. Is it for the Presbyterians? No; they may still teach that they are elect, set apart for eternal mercies, while others are set apart for climates hotter than Trinidad. Is it for the Methodists, who believe the results will be the same as by the Presbyterian system, but that the Creator does the best He can to prevent it? No; they still have the right to teach what they wish.

To the house of fulsome tragedies

Ah! there is one group left. Can it be possible that the politicians of Trinidad are deeply moved for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy because they and their followers are few, and, despite the oft-repeated and extravagant claims of what they would do to their fellow men if only they had the power, these politicians wish to make sure that no harm can come to them until they commit some overt acts? Yes, and no! The solicitude is for the Hierarchy and its following, but it is not because they are few, but, according to the politicians, it is because there are so many in Trinidad. That is why the Christians, Jehovah’s witnesses, must, so the politicians say, be deprived of their privilege of reading or circulating their Bible literature.

How would you like to live in a place where those who at heart are evil and wicked, and openly confess it in their public statements, are protected by politicians at the expense of the taxpayers, and Christians are deprived of their most elementary rights? Such is Trinidad.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

The Deflation of Justice Hart

◆ Irondequoit is a town in Monroe county, state of New York. Its justice of the peace is Arthur L. Hart. As such justice he is quite an important personage. He has the power to pass on questions of law and fact, and is empowered to levy fines and to impose prison sentences against those brought before him charged with crime.

Sometimes a little power has a bad effect upon the minds of people. It causes an overestimation of their position in relation to the rest of the families of the earth. The story of Justice of the Peace Hart’s overvaluation of himself and of its deflation is here told for the delectation of Consolation readers.

On December 12 last, one of Jehovah’s witnesses, Mary Guthrie, a pioneer publisher, visited residents of Irondequoit at their homes. While so engaged she called upon Florence Donoghue. Never mind guessing Mrs. Donoghue’s church. She announces it for herself. She listened to a Biblical record played on Mrs. Guthrie’s phonograph, and then emphatically stated, “I am a Catholic.” She thereupon demonstrated clearly the Catholic mode of objecting to Bible lectures by shaking her fist, storming around, and ordering the pioneer publisher off the porch.

Picking up the phonograph, the publisher departed. The matter should have ended right there. It would have been better for Mrs. Donoghue and Justice of the Peace Hart if it had. But the shocked condition of Mrs. Donoghue’s Papalistic susceptibilities impelled her to further action. She went to Justice Hart and swore to an information in which it was charged that Mary Guthrie “annoyed, disturbed, interfered with, and was offensive to her” by “starting to play a phonograph” and “trying to sell religious leaflets”. Thereupon the officers of the law sallied forth, and in due course of time Mary Guthrie was brought before Arthur L. Hart, justice of the peace, and tried upon the charges stated in Mrs. Donoghue’s information.

Jehovah’s Kingdom publishers’ information march, Orlando, Florida

There was no evidence that the accused one had violated any law. It was true that she did play a phonograph record containing a Bible lecture. It was true that she did present some Bible leaflets to Mrs. Donoghue. But it is not against the law to do those things. Nevertheless, Justice Hart made full use of the powers given to him by law and found the defendant guilty of the offense charged. He thereupon levied a fine of ten dollars against her, plus a sentence of ten days in the Monroe County Penitentiary. He suspended the penitentiary sentence, however, upon condition that the defendant “stay out of Irondequoit hereafter”. That, fellow democrats, is some judicial pronunciamiento. It brings to light and manifests the evil effects of that well-known disease which may be designated “bloating of the cranium”. This local justice seems to be afflicted with the final stages of that disease, and therefore imagines that he is as big a man as “I-am-the-law” Hague, of Jersey City.

In accordance with Hart’s finding and judgment, the defendant, a God-fearing, Christian woman, must stay out of Irondequoit thenceforth, thereafter and forevermore. She is persona non grata on streets and sidewalks, in hotels, restaurants, business places, residences, and in all other portions of the town. She is excommunicated, banished and exiled. Ten days in jail await her any time she returns. No judicial precedent is cited as authority for this autocratic, imperious decree. It came from the inflated mental recesses of the town’s justice of the peace, unsupported by statute, ordinance, edict, rubric or maxim; and undoubtedly it brought great comfort and peace of mind to Florence Donoghue and others of like mind.

But their joy was short-lived.

Mary Guthrie, through her attorneys, took an appeal to the Monroe County court, where, after due argument and the filing of briefs, the county judge entered a decision reversing the judgment of the Honorable Justice of the Peace Arthur L. Hart and setting aside the conviction. Thereupon now, henceforth and for evermore Mary Guthrie may walk the streets of Irondequoit unmolested and without fear of incarceration; and His Honor, the justice of the peace of the community, will, in mental structure, decline, abate and subside to the usual condition, size and temperature of the normal human person.

Some of the thousand listeners to a transcription lecture

Texas Boy with a Conscience

◆ The world needs nothing human so much as it needs boys and girls with consciences like those of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. There are many such among the children of Jehovah’s witnesses. Having heard the truth all their lives, and seen their parents live it, the children want to live it too.

Texas has many such boys. God bless every one of them. Noel is one of them, age 11. He did not want to sing patriotic songs if there is anything about war in them. He would sing the first two verses of one of the songs, but not the last one. He would not sing a song about “his soul taking its flight to God”. His desire is to live forever on the earth. He did not wish to participate in Christmas celebrations. He had read of the origin of Christmas, in this magazine. He would not participate in a song that asked God to bless a new school building, its walls, windows, chimneys, doors, etc. He was sure such a song would not be in harmony with the Scriptures. His teachers so far have seen the point every time, and that shows that they are up to the highest standard of the American teaching tradition, and worthy of Noel’s love and respect, and he of theirs. The story leaked out in a letter.

The Battle in Jamaica

◆ The former mayor of Kingston, who caused Jehovah’s witnesses to be taken into court some time ago, is not re-elected. The new mayor gave us the privilege of delivering lectures in the Race Course for three nights. Over 1,500 persons heard the lectures, and much interest was shown. There are 105 phonographs in use in the work in the island; also seven portable transcription machines and two sound-cars, and, by God’s help, we expect to tan the old woman’s [Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s] hide.—P. H. Davidson, Jamaica.

Joys of Kingdom Service

◆ Several years ago, while in Smithfield, I witnessed to one of the nicest persons I have ever met while delivering the message of truth. This woman was very poor. She asked the price of the booklet and I told her I would let her have it on a contribution of five cents. She told me that she had no money, and they were too good to be given away for nothing. I told her that I would let her have it for nothing if she promised to read it. She refused the offer, so I bade her good day. As I started to the next house I noticed some beautiful climbing roses in her yard. They were yellow and very large. I went back to the house and asked if she would let me have a few of those roses, and I in turn would give her a booklet; then the book would not be given away for nothing. This she was very glad to do. I had pretty yellow roses and she had the message of truth.

I never have had a more interesting and pleasant experience than this.—Patty Mahone, pupil in Gates Kingdom School, Pennsylvania.

Curtailing Freedom of Speech

◆ Because the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has remained silent while the Roman Hierarchy tried every way to force Judge Rutherford off the air, it is with some interest that note is made of its public and hypocritical statement:

In a democracy freedom of speech is a priceless possession. No administrative government agency is wise enough to be entrusted with power to determine what people shall hear. Freedom of radio is almost, if not quite, as important as freedom of the press. If either is curtailed, our political and religious liberties are imperiled. For this reason we believe any attempt to regulate utterances over the radio by an administrative government agency, except within canons of decency, propriety and public safety clearly defined by statute, is dangerous and contrary to public policy.

Tribute from an Honest Heart

Mr. J. F. Rutherford,

Pres. Watch Tower and Tract Society,

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Rutherford—

I take this opportunity of writing you in behalf of the organization of Jehovah’s witnesses over which you are supervisor under the guidance of the Great Jehovah God, Creator, for the wonderful message that is being transmitted to the world of mankind. I am fully assured that you are carrying the greatest blessing to the distressed that has ever been preached since our Lord trod the paths of tribulation and distress here on earth.

It is surely a great work. I have had the opportunity of reading your many, many booklets on different subjects of discussion regarding the religious impostor groups that call themselves leaders of Christianity, and your conception according to the Bible is straight, hard facts. I have long lost all respect for such bigotry and hypocrisy as is demonstrated by the deceitful clergy of all denominations, and feel that their day is doomed through the coming kingdom of Jehovah God, as there cannot be any hope for the world except through and by His arrangement of things. It is pitiful to witness what methods are being adopted by these satanic concerns in order to just stand a little longer. But the Light of Truth is gradually shining more and more until the dark corners will be rid of all the Cathedral Bats, and they will have to come out in the light and be censured by the Word of truth.

Your criticism of the Hierarchy, measured by the one Book, is surely commendable and, above all, is true. I firmly believe that the undercover methods of this organization have been the foundation or cause of millions of peoples of all nationalities to undergo great sufferings and deprivation.

Keep up the wonderful work, and may the Lord guide and direct all your efforts to the establishment of a government of peace and happiness throughout the suffering world, through His Son, the Redeemer.

Yours respectfully,

Raymond McGhee, Virginia.

Transcription setup in Plaza Park, Los Angeles

Providence Visitor

◆ The Providence Visitor, advocate of the highly intelligent (?) philosophy that anybody with the cash can bribe Almighty God to let his friends out of a “purgatory” where they are being “roasted” to a sienna brown, is so good as to let its readers know that Jehovah’s witnesses are “walking psychopaths”. But it is sufficiently apprehensive of the fate of its racket to advise its readers that “common sense tells us not to argue with them”. That seems reasonable. Suppose now you had a fool racket, like “purgatory”, that had not a single leg to stand on, wouldn’t it worry you, if the racket was a bear for bringing in the coin of the realm, if somebody would go around among your folks and tell them the plain truth? If you were a priest, you would want to keep the cash coming just as long as possible.

(To be continued) British Comment

By J. Hemery (London)

General

• Conscription is now a definite factor of the Government’s rearmament policy. Its first victims are the young men between 20 and 21 years of age. No doubt, in deciding on that age the Government considered that the removal of the 300,000 who are liable to be called will cause less disturbance in the workshops and to professional occupations than there would be if older men were called up. It is a safe prophecy to say that it will not be long before there is a much wider fling of the conscription net, and later a general commandeering of the human power of the country and of all its resources. The voracious maw of the military, naval and air forces will be kept wide open; for the troubles which have brought on this thing will not be settled by talks and pacts or by any policy of appeasement. The Labor party is making its voice heard in Parliament in opposition to the Cabinet’s announced decision; but the Government has a majority which is ready to carry out the calls of the Cabinet, and the necessary act to make conscription a law of the land will be passed. The opposition of the Labor party, whether in or out of Parliament, does not mean that there will be concerted opposition after conscription is law; the party will not produce a great crop of conscientious objectors. Their position, with which many others agree, is that the government is not under the necessity of compelling men to join the forces; that the voluntary system is meeting the needs. Many of those who object to the Government’s Bill believe that the action of the Government is partly a party move, taking advantage of the present situation to further a policy which many have wanted to fasten on the people. Undoubtedly there are many supporters of the Government who are of the Fascist turn of mind.

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