Consolation, August 7, 1940
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Contents
Demonization on the Rampage 3
“World-Telegram” Sound Asleep 4
Spread of the Hysteria 5
Keep Down the Hysteria 6
Why Fear the Conscientious? 7
When Officials Are Subjects of Pacelli 8
Affidavit of Interference with Christian
Worship at Waymart, Pa., June 23, 1940 9
“Armageddon—Then a World Theocracy” 11
Under the Totalitarian Flag
Little Red Riding Hood 12
Newfoundland’s Catholic Censor 12
Blessing of the Tanks 13
“It Must Be Stopped!” 14
Who Are Jehovah’s witnesses? 14
Persecution in Quebec 15
Religionists Deny the Bible 18
‘Fighting Against God’ 19
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Where to Flee 16
Ohio’s Governor Insults 2,042,136 Petitioners 20
Non-Salute and Non-Catholic 23
Liberty-Lovers Protest 24
The Times Advocates More Religion 25
“Dixie Land” 27
British Comment 28
Britain and the War 28
Roman Catholic ‘National Prayers’ 29
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Appetizers
The Biggest Racketeers
Tony: I can tell you who are the biggest racketeers.
Andy: You can? Who are they?
Tony: The lawyers, the doctors and the priests.
Andy: How did you find that out? Which is the biggest? Explain.
Tony: It is this way: You get into trouble; you get you a lawyer; unless you pay him he lets you go to jail. You get sick; you get you a doctor; unless you pay him he lets you die. You get into domestic trouble, or you get worried about the hereafter; you get you a priest; unless you pay him he lets you go to hell.
Andy: That makes the priest the worst, does it not?
Tony (astonished at his own logic): I don’t know; does it?
A Spice of Danger
Jones was talking to some friends of a fishing trip he was contemplating on his holiday.
“Are there any trout up there?” questioned one of the friends.
“Trout? Thousands of ’em,” replied the other, enthusiastically.
“Will they bite easily?”
“Will they?” reiterated Jones. “Why, they’re absolutely vicious! A man has to hide behind a tree to bait his hook.”—Labor.
Wrong Man Hollered
A Swede purchased an automobile and was seen driving down the street about 60 miles per hour. A policeman yelled at him to stop, but instead of slowing up, the Swede increased his speed.
Policeman: Why didn’t you stop? Didn’t you hear me holler back there?
Swede (unconcerned): Oh, vas dat you dat yelled? I thought it vas somebody I run over! —The American Flint.
What Is It?
Len had it before, Paul had it behind, Bryan never had it at all, Ralph had it once. All girls have it once; boys can’t have it; old Mrs. Mulligan had it twice in succession; Dr. Lowell had it before and behind, and had it twice as bad behind as before.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXI Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, August 7, 1940 Number 545
Demonization on the Rampage
THE principles of Pacelli are overrunning the earth. These principles are Jesuitical, totalitarian, Fascist, Nazi. They are directly opposed to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and freedom of worship. Their objective is the subjugation of all men to the rule of an Italian camorra operating out of Vatican City. This group is now definitely taking over the American republic by and with the consent of big business and big politicians, and it is not a pleasant situation for patriotic Americans to contemplate. There now follows a digest of a month's news on this subject.
The Protestant Digest of May, 1940, states that Jehovah's witnesses "are responsible more than all others in recent years for keeping alive in American law the issue of religious freedom . . . certainly the salute to the flag cannot be interpreted as an act upon which the welfare of the nation depends. The object of the flag is to generate love and attachment for the country it represents, but there is a psychological futility in compelling a child to salute it when that child believes it to be immoral. Under such circumstances the salute is an affront to the principles for which the flag stands; it produces precisely the opposite results to that intended. . . . These witnesses of Jehovah, therefore, who have vigorously revealed their disagreement with others should be granted that toleration and freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. These 'Earnest Bible Students'—whom Adolf Hitler on April 4, 1935, decreed to be 'quacks', dissolved them, confiscated their literature and turned their property over to the State—should be protected here in their religious rights, for only through strict adherence to this principle of personal freedom can constructive religion and democracy remain alive in America."
By common consent of editors themselves the Baltimore Sun is the best-edited paper in the United States. In an editorial by its famous editor, Gerald W. Johnson, May 2, 1940, we find these interesting statements: "But forced salutes of the flag are distinctly not American. A forced salute of the flag is as foreign as a concentration camp. Indeed, it belongs to the same order of ideas. . . . the moment we extend the forced salute to civilians we are extending militarism beyond the point of necessity. We are adopting, to that extent, the Hitlerian idea that the whole population should be brought under military discipline; which is as venomously anti-American an idea as exists. The forced salute is defended on the ground that it teaches patriotism. But it doesn't teach Americanism. On the contrary, it teaches the sort of patriotism that is accepted in the totalitarian states. As Edith Cavell remarked, 'Patriotism is not enough. The Germans are intensely patriotic. So are the Russians, and the Italians. But there are those who would rather see the American republic perish from the earth than see it converted to that sort of patriotism.'"
Terrible Lies of United Press
To carry out its program for destroying the American republic, Pacelli's camorra depends upon a toe-kissing and ring-kissing clique of newspapermen that are a disgrace to the human family. Prominent in this list is the United Press representative who sent out a story from Del Rio, Texas, May 23, which started riots against Jehovah's witnesses all over the United States.
Every American newspaperman worthy of the name is well aware of the fact that no other Americans have published such vigorous denunciations of the dastardly conspiracy of Pacelli, Hitler and Mussolini against the common people as have been published by Jehovah's witnesses. Judge Rutherford's books and booklets, teeming with the truth on this subject, are in the hands of the reading and thinking public to the extent of more than 300,000 copies. The entire population of the Western Hemisphere is set at but 209,619,000. This speaks for itself and shows how little excuse there is for the malicious lies sent out from Del Rio.
Those lies caused the following newspapers to divert attention from the guilty Roman Catholic Hierarchy to the innocent witnesses of Jehovah, as follows: The Washington Daily News had a five-column scare headline "Texas Mob Chases Nazi Agents Out of Town." The story contained the infamous lie that "the professed Nazis came to this border town of 2,000 several days ago", etc., etc., "denouncing Jews and Catholics." Jehovah's witnesses in Germany are all in prison with the Jews, who have found them to be the only real Christians in their accursed land. Jehovah's witnesses have never denounced the Jews nor the Catholic population, but have stated and do state that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the wickedest organization of liars, murderers and gangsters that has ever cursed the planet.
"World-Telegram" Sound Asleep
The usually intelligent New York World-Telegram had as its headline "3 U. S. Nazis Driven from Texas Town". The city editor was asleep mentally when that went into the paper. He knew better, and if he wanted the facts all he needed to do was to pick up his telephone and ask for them. The Denver Post had as its two-column scarehead "Mob of Texans Forces Three Professed Nazis Out of Town". The Philadelphia Daily News was not content with a lie in its main headline, which read, "400 Run Nazi Trio Out of Texas Town," but put in another lying headline, "Pro-Nazi Records," under which appears the following malicious misinformation, the plain intent of which was to incite the riots which followed, from Maine to California. This statement was: "Police said they forced housewives to listen to pro-Nazi phonograph recordings and leaving copies of a pamphlet, entitled The Watchtower and bearing a swastika on the cover."
The many millions who heard Judge Rutherford's lecture "Fascism or Freedom", and which was circulated in printed form later to the extent of 8,862,746 copies, will be astounded when they look at the cover of that booklet and see humanity shown there in chains with a ball and chain attached to each ankle, and a swastika pictured on one of the balls so attached, to think that any "newspaperman" would lie so viciously as this Del Rio man did.
The Bridgeport Times-Star half suspected there was something rotten, because it tamed the lying Del Rio dispatch into this headline: "Texas War Hysteria Nearly Lynches 3 Pamphleteers." The Rocky Mountain News was still more sane. Its headline was, "Gov. O'Daniel Probes Del Rio Demonstration. Pamphlets Seized, Crowd Forced Trio to Leave." The Modesto (Calif.) Bee was clever enough to put it this way: "Mob Outbreak Is Laid to Anti-Nazi War Hysteria."
Many decent American newspapers fell into the trap laid for them by the vicious lying dispatches from Del Rio. There is no certain knowledge that these dispatches were either written or edited by a Jesuit, but it was work of such a nature as that of which a Jesuit would be proud. The Seattle Star's headline was "Citizens Toss Out Nazi Trio", while the Boise (Idaho) Capital News put it this way: "Crowd Chases Nazi Agents Out of Town."
"Texas and Texans"
One of the best-posted, most honest newspapermen in America is Paul C. Yates, Journal Austin columnist. Two days after the Hierarchy's smokescreen was sent out from Del Rio, Mr. Yates pointed out that Jehovah's witnesses have operated in America more than sixty years; that the literature is "strongly anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist, as any member of the excited crowd could have ascertained by five minutes of examination"; that the copies of Consolation which were burned by the mob contained accounts of the shooting, beheading and torturing of Jehovah's witnesses in Buchenwald concentration camp, Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin. Here are three paragraphs from Mr. Yates' intelligent and truthful article, which those persons who think they are newspapermen, but are merely feeble-minded trained seals of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, would do well to read.
The "swastika" emblems which seemed to have touched off the spy mania in the valley town, and caused a state-wide alarm, appears on the cover page of tract entitled "Fascism or Freedom." The emblem made prominent by Adolf Hitler is used, however, on a ball and chain attached to a seated figure. Beside the prisoner, holding aloft a Bible, appears a deliverer.
They are religious zealots but by no stretch of the imagination could they be classified as spies or "fifth columnists." The supreme court of the United States a few days ago upheld them fully in their right to distribute their literature without obtaining permits from city authorities to operate within the limits of any municipality. The court pointed out that under the bill of rights of the United States constitution, no restriction can be placed upon the exercise of religious freedom.
The valleyites, in other words, drummed out of town and illegally destroyed the property of a small band of conscientious objectors who were exercising an inalienable right guaranteed to them under the United States constitution and affirmed only a few days ago by the highest court in the land.
And this action was taken in the name of patriotism.
Spread of the Hysteria
Jehovah's witnesses have visited the people of Parkersburg, W. Va., for two generations, yet the lying dispatches from Del Rio so upset the acting chief of police that it took him three days to investigate the activities of the witnesses and to learn for himself that their literature "was violently anti-Nazi and anti-Stalin". The account in the Parkersburg (W. Va.) Sentinel explained regarding the publication above mentioned that it "bore the Nazi swastika emblem on the cover, but the article related to domination by dictatorship in comparison to the liberty of democracies".
The chief mischief-maker over the Del Rio lies was the columnist Harlan Miller, whose illustrated yarn mocking the Supreme Court and maligning Jehovah's witnesses went out all over the country. Most papers published that column May 31. It appears in Consolation No. 543, at page 10, which please see.
The American Guardian usually gets the straight of things, and in their issue of May 31 they said something for newspaper liars to think about.
Newspapers headlined stories of the attack in such a way as to leave the impression that this bitterly anti-Hitler, anti-Fascist group were agents of Hitler—even the Associated Press, whose representatives undoubtedly are familiar with the true nature of Jehovah's witnesses, carried such stories. The persecution of the organization is chiefly due to its unrelenting attacks upon the Roman Catholic church.
Miller began to get results right away. At Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the next day, Dr. J. W. Pendleton, police commissioner, encouraged a mob to destroy the property of Jehovah's witnesses, including hundreds of booklets and a phonograph. Pendleton swallowed the lies he had seen in print, and said, "It's the 'fifth column', that's what it is. They come around in a religious disguise, but they're really 'fifth columnists'." The chances are that it was because he made such a poor physician that he is now such a poor police commissioner. Change of employment does not necessarily make a man intelligent.
A Sensible Woman Editor
The Southwest Daily Times, Liberal, Kansas, has a woman editor, Mrs. R. S. Williams, who, unlike Mr. Miller, believes the sensible thing to do is to read both sides of the story before passing judgment. She hit on a great truth in her editorial of June 3, when she said:
We do not believe those three people in Del Rio were doing any underhand work against our government simply because they had been leaving some of their literature at some of the homes. On the contrary, we are of the opinion that the charge against them is merely a "red herring" being dragged around in an effort to cover up something else that is much more sinister and wicked, yes and more threatening to the peace of our beloved country than would ever be attempted by any of the "Witnesses".
June 3 the Boise (Idaho) Capital News had a headline "Un-American Propaganda Stirs Village"; and then followed a silly and untruthful dispatch by Vance Pollett, Middleton, Idaho, dated June 3, which contained five paragraphs, each one of which had at least one lie in it. The story as a whole reads as if Pollett, in writing it, used only his arms and fingers. He certainly didn't use his head.
Right in the midst of the storm of persecution, encouraged by Miller, there was here and there an editor who showed honesty and courage. Mr. N. A. Broking, editor and publisher of the Highlands County News, Sebring, Florida, is such a man, and in the issue of June 4 he was courageous enough to put some of the responsibility for much of the current persecution just where others will put it:
When the supreme court decided that school boards or others have the right to force children to salute the flag, regardless of their religious beliefs, the first stone was laid in the path to religious persecution. If one sect can be told how to worship or not to worship, even though they be a small minority, it will not be long until we will all be told just what kind of religious beliefs we may have.
On the same day the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on the singular decision that the bill of rights is to be guaranteed to adults by denying those rights to children, significantly stated: It would not be surprising if the members of the Court privately think, with a great many other Americans, that these Flag-saluting laws are silly. Can you make anyone patriotic with a club? Patriotism is in the heart. Can you detect a traitor by watching to see whether or not he salutes? Traitors will be on the jump to salute.
Keep Down the Hysteria
The reason why Miller's Del Rio lies are so inexcusable is that the Washington Post, with which he is connected, flatly refused to print, even for money, as an advertisement, Judge Rutherford's address on "GOVERNMENT", which he gave at the Washington, D.C., convention of Jehovah's witnesses in 1935. On this point see The Golden Age No. 411. The article, "Who Rules America? Are you in favor of America being ruled by her own people? Or shall the nation be ruled by the FOREIGN POWER from Vatican City, Rome? Why the Washington Star and the Washington Post choose the side of ROME." In that article, on page 582, occur the following paragraphs:
The Post accepted the speech, read it, set it in type, and was about ready to go to press when some powerful influence suddenly caused the Post to repudiate its contract and to refuse publication in its regular paper. As an excuse for declining to carry out its contract to print the speech the general manager of the Post said: "I have given instructions not to print the entire speech as we agreed, but we will print part of it if that portion which refers to the Vatican City at Rome and foreign power is deleted. I have marked that part that must be deleted."
The Post then agreed to print the entire speech on its presses merely on sheets of paper without the name of the Post appearing thereon for a cash consideration of $400.00. The entire speech was in type form, proofread, and was going to press when the order came from some high-ups: "Do not touch that stuff at all." And again the Post repudiated its contract. . .
Immediately after the Del Rio lies went out over the country, mob violence occurred at many places. Referring to these, the San Francisco Chronicle, in a second editorial, in its issue of June 4, said:
. . . at Odessa, Texas, one notes with amazement that the County Attorney is said to have ordered at first that the group be held in jail until they had "saluted the Flag". How does a County Attorney arrogate to himself such powers of arbitrary arrest and detention? He should study the law, the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights, as well as the rule of common sense. . . Keep the hysteria down! It is silly as well as productive of injustice and cruelty. In this time the best thing any American citizen can do is to go quietly about his business, pulling his weight in the preparation of America's defense program, and leaving the squelching of subversion to the Department of Justice. The Department will not mistake harmless religious zealots for agents of Hitler or Stalin. There are enough of the real agents to be rounded up.
Good Common Sense
The editor of the Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun has some of the good old-fashioned American common sense that could be used to good advantage in Washington and elsewhere. In its issue of June 4, the Sun said:
There is probably not one teacher in twenty who can give you a comprehensive, adequate definition of what the flag stands for. What that flag salute rule amounts to is a contemptible, primitive worship. Those people who put such rules into the State law don't know what they are at work on. . . . What it amounts to is a required worship, worship by the children that don't know what they are worshiping. They never will learn by that kind of tyranny.
More common sense on the same subject is to be found in an article by Frank W. Grinnell, in the Boston Post of the next day:
With the present uneasiness about "fifth column" activities and the difficulty of dealing with that problem wisely and effectively, without hysterical injustice, there is danger of hysterical injustice in dealing with genuinely conscientious children over this flag salute business. . . . It should be remembered that one of the powerful arguments against so-called "child labor" or "child control" amendment was the danger of invasion of the home and the right of the parents in the matter of the education of their children. . . . These things should be pondered before making any more religious martyrs out of children.
On the same day that Mr. Grinnell made his strike for liberty in Boston, Ludwell Denney, the columnist, referring to the 8 to 1 decision that two children, ages 10 and 12, must be forced to salute the American flag in violation of their consciences as the price of attending school, and in the name of liberty, said in the Fort Worth Press:
Instead of dealing with actual spies and saboteurs and fifth columnists, the most powerful peacetime government in the history of the United States bombs away at the liberties of children of a tiny church . . . There has been no hysteria like this in Washington since Hoover called out the Army against the bonus marchers. . . . Justice Frankfurter, of all persons, delivered the Supreme Court decision saving the republic from those two children.
In that entire tribunal, which the President “liberalized,” only one lone American defended the constitutional guarantee of religious liberty—not a “reformer” but the Republican, Coolidge-appointed Justice Stone. In a bitter dissent, he charged that the majority decision was a “surrender of the constitutional protection of the liberty of small minorities.” Of course the religious sect of which these children are faithful members is only a small powerless and derided group. Since judges have been puffed with power and states have set themselves over the souls of the humble, despised Christian and Jewish sects have been hounded by governments. Hitler was not the first, nor is he apparently the last.
On the same day also the Raleigh News and Observer made these observations :
There is no reason to believe that the simple folk who compose the sect of Jehovah’s witnesses are any less patriotic than many who salute the flag with ostentatious vigor. . . . What this country needs is patriotism from the heart, not the legally enforced patriotism of the hand. If there are traitors among us, they would be the first and most ostentatious in patriotic display. The spy would be shrewd in making a show of salute.
In an editorial entitled “The Court, the Mob and Jehovah’s witnesses”, the Louisville Courier-Journal, after noting the Supreme Court decision in the flag case, said:
But no logic, law or moral sanction—or even patriotism—can be imputed to the Texas mob. It trampled on all the rights the flag symbolizes and thereby desecrated the emblem it commanded the recalcitrants to salute. Acquiescence would only acknowledge obedience to brutal force. That delights the enemies of democracy. The “fifth column” will be in complete accord with the spirit and action of the mob. Traitors don’t hesitate to salute the flag. They “run with the hounds”. They will chase “Jehovah’s witnesses” or any other quarry that may distract attention while they pursue their secret machinations.
Why Fear the Conscientious?
A very little reflection will convince anybody that no government has anything to fear from the conscientious, but they have everything to fear from those whose consciences are in the control of Eugene Pacelli or any other man. On the same date of the above editorials the Dallas Morning News said:
So far as loyalty is concerned, outward show is less than nothing. Your espion; your subversive alien, your native traitor will be punctilious indeed about flag saluting and even blatant in flag waving. No country has much to fear from anyone who is open and aboveboard about a deep-rooted contempt for form or sincere and genuine in his insistence that the Kingdom of God takes precedence over his mortal obligations.
On June 6, in the Henderson (N. C.) Daily Dispatch, Mrs. K. W. Edwards made this interesting statement:
I deem it a privilege to make some statements. First, I state not a person in this town nor in any other town in America ever heard of compulsory flag saluting in any school they ever attended. Why now this furor about flag worship? Who are the instigators? I answer, Hitler’s sympathizers and admirers, and I wish to emphasize admirers. Any one who can think above the ears will know that this is a sinister movement and un-American . . . who with Hitler want to rule the world and are stealthily trying to get a strangle-hold on American government. Now why pick on Jehovah’s witnesses? Because they have been exposing their racket and duplicity.
On the next day, June 7, Federal Judge W. H. Atwell, rebuked the authorities of Ellis County, Texas, for jailing 89 of Jehovah’s witnesses at Waxahachie. He reminded them that there is no law requiring citizens to salute the flag, and added that Jehovah’s witnesses show respect for the flag, though the Scriptures forbid them to deify it.
Persecution Extends to Miners
On the same day that this federal judge in Texas made these sane and sensible statements about Jehovah’s witnesses, two miners in Pennsylvania, Charles Billman, of Shenandoah, and John Walaitis, of Frackville, lost their jobs because they refused to salute the flag before descending into the mines. Walaitis was a veteran of the war of 1914-1918, in which the world was made safe for Democracy and Christianity.
On the same day that these two hard-working, conscientious Americans were being rewarded in this curious manner by their employers and fellow employees, Ernest Bradshaw had a letter in the Chicago Daily News that the whole country would be better off today if it had more people as true to their consciences as are Jehovah’s witnesses, and that their refusal to worship the flag does not mean disloyalty to the country, but “simply means supreme loyalty to God”.
On June 9, in an address at Boulder, Colorado, Judge Wiley B. Rutledge, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, acknowledged the valuable work that Jehovah’s witnesses have done for the cause of freedom and stated that in the regimentation of children in the Fascist and Communist salutes the very freedom for which Jehovah's witnesses strive is destroyed.
The mob spirit spread to Maine, where mobs on the French Catholic front, i.e., adjacent to Quebec, made the mistake of thinking that they could drive out of Kennebunk men who had as much right there as they had themselves. Jehovah's witnesses defended themselves, which they had every right to do. As a consequence, two men will go on crutches the rest of their lives. People that look for trouble sometimes get it, and thus justice comes home to roost. Incidentally, the headquarters of Jehovah's witnesses were burned to the ground. The governor of Maine has promised a cessation of mob law in the state.
On June 9 also, in Glenwood, Arkansas, the "Rev." Roy Hughes "happened to be passing" (that's what they always say) when a mob of 50 or more attacked Jehovah's witnesses, five in number. Four of the witnesses were men, of the average age of 31. The account of the arrest of Jehovah's witnesses for being mobbed by persons unnamed and not arrested, explained with regard to the "Rev." Mr. Hughes that he "suffered a broken nose when one of the four is alleged to have struck him". It seems just too bad for Mr. Hughes that he happened to have his nose in the place where it was at the time of the riot. It was out of place then and will be out of place from now on.
Selling Freedom Short
On June 11, the Lansdale Courier Journal (Pennsylvania), speaking of the mobs in Maine, said:
It is shameful—and a desecration of Old Glory—when a mob uses "Salute the Flag!" as a mad cry of hate. Jehovah's witnesses is a religious sect. To the best of our knowledge it has never been accused either of treason or subversion. Its sin, indeed, is that it is utterly uninterested in fleshly things; its members feel bound to pay obeisance only unto God. . . . Think of it! A raving mob sacked and burned the headquarters of the sect. In another wild raid, the crowd dragged from home "a screaming man clad only in underwear." He was saved from a dose of tar and feathers only by prompt police action.
Referring to this selling of freedom short in the state of Maine, or at any rate just after the Maine outrages had received wide publicity, a writer, W. A. M., in the Chicago Daily Times, June 12, said:
True greatness was never achieved by individuals or nations when conscience was subjected to popular clamor, mob hysteria, or judicial policy. Those who have been loyal to the dictates of conscience, whether Jehovah's witnesses or the captive Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, stand out as the world's greatest benefactors. To try and crush this divine link might be excusable in darkest Africa, but in this land which owes all it has of worth to this particular source, such an effort denotes decadence in its most dangerous stages.
On the same subject, i.e., the Maine riots, the New York Herald Tribune, on June 13, said editorially:
This conservative old New England state has seen little lynching or other lawlessness; but the Supreme Court's recent decision that the Jehovah's witnesses must salute the flag seems to have convinced several hundred Maine rustics that it is their personal responsibility to see this decree carried out. The national "fifth column" hysteria has added fuel to the flames, of course. It has not occurred to these Maine Yankees that if the Jehovah's witnesses were actually foreign spies they would not take such elaborate pains to identify themselves as dissenters. At any rate, automobile caravans of self-appointed patriots have been night-riding in Maine, in the best Ku Klux Klan tradition. They have broken into the bedrooms of members of the Jehovah sect, forcing the members to salute the flag, and often flogging them for refusing. On at least two occasions so far there has been gun play. Six members of the Jehovah's witnesses have been arrested for assault with intent to kill—all because they chose to defend their homes and their ideals from an illegal invasion at night. [Exodus 22:2]
When Officials Are Subjects of Pacelli
Some idea of what can happen in any land when the officials of that land are subjects of the Italian camorra at Vatican City may be gathered from the following letter from Louisiana, dated June 17, only four days before this article was written:
Pioneer C. J. Golden was released from the Leesville jail sometime in the night of June 14, 15 upon the advice that they had received a telegram from the F.B.I. that he was O.K. I do not know why he did not insist on staying there till morning. It was very dark and raining. It is only two miles from the jail to our house. He started to walk home and before he had reached the city limits he was picked up, taken seven miles south of Leesville, tied to a tree and beaten with a rope in true Hitler style, till he thought they would kill him. He was then told to Heil Hitler. Instead he uttered a prayer which seemed to unnerve them and they cut the rope and let him fall, left him lie and fled. After he rested five or ten minutes he started out the best he could to find his way out of the woods and by two o'clock on the 15th he found a witness' house, and while I was on my way up to the jail to take him a change of clothing, thinking he was still there, the witness brought him home and he is resting here now. He was beaten blue over his hips so he is helpless, but will be all right if no infection starts. I wired —— at ——, for this seems to be a job in which the city, parish and state police are involved and looks like there are only a few of the higher-ups doing it and have to do their own dirty work. We are sitting quiet to see what happens. It looks so much like Joshua before the gates of Ai drawing them out in the open and leaving the gates open. So trusting in the Great Theocrat, I remain
Yours in the Theocracy
F. O. J.
In Harlan, Kentucky, six of Jehovah's witnesses were arrested for proclaiming that "the Kingdom of heaven is at hand", the Theocracy for which Jesus taught His followers to pray, saying, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as in heaven." Five of them, kept in jail on account of the demand for excessive bond, write as follows, under date of June 15:
This finds five of us still in the Harlan jail. All are happy to have a share in what the Lord said would come to pass at the end of this wicked age. The demons are very angry and show their hate for the Lord's people through the strong-arm squad, etc., but "he who is for us is greater than all that are against us". Your co-workers in Christ,
L. E. Carr, M. L. Lebman, S. F. Lehman, E. Hurst, Louis Beeler.
Even those whose knowledge of demon activity is limited know that it is not exactly a complimentary remark to refer to a person as apparently demon-possessed. The Scriptures make it clear that Satan's hordes of demons would be especially active in the last days, urging men on to acts they would not perpetrate had they not given place to the demons. Certainly the actions of mobs in their attacks upon sincere Christian people bear the mark of demon influence. An example in addition to foregoing is the lawless and violent attack upon Jehovah's witnesses at Litchfield, Illinois, where twenty-six of them were severely beaten in an effort to make them "kiss the flag" and fifteen automobiles belonging to these harmless publishers of the Truth were overturned and badly damaged.
Commenting on this occurrence, the St. Louis Star-Times of Wednesday, June 19, calls it a disgraceful riot and says:
For years the American people have been reading with horror and disgust of sadistic and brutal attacks upon minorities, especially Jews, in Germany. . . . But what can Americans say of Litchfield, Ill., where last Sunday morning the same tactics were used by American citizens against twenty-six male members of Jehovah's witnesses? . . . By way of demonstrating that the American constitution is still respected in Litchfield, local authorities should apprehend as many of the rioters as possible and proceed against them as common lawbreakers.
Yet mobs are not common lawbreakers. They are worse than mere lawbreakers, however depraved. Those who participate in mob action are the most contemptible of cowards, giving vent to the meanest traits of fallen human nature, and allowing themselves to be used by demons and carried to extremes which in their saner moments they would blush to think of. Yet they will be held responsible before God for the wickedness they perpetrate upon those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. Let all who desire to avoid such wickedness keep away from mobs as from a deadly plague. No one who seeks the approval of the great Judge of all can afford by complicity in mob action to lay himself open to demonization and consequent destruction.
Affidavit of Interference with Christian Worship at Waymart, Pa.
June 23, 1940
I AM a law-abiding Christian, born in America. I hold America's institutions in high honor, unmatched elsewhere. I am a taxpayer of Pennsylvania and an employer of 75 well-paid, busy workers. I accept the Holy Scriptures as the infallible Word of God, and conform my life wholly to them, to the best of my ability. Besides operating my business in a humane and successful manner, I put in 20 hours a week in Christian work. My form of worship of the Creator is to go from door to door telling the people that the Kingdom for which Jesus taught His followers to pray is the only hope of the world. I take others with me in this work, and in one way or another assist more than 20 persons to do this work. This involves some 400 miles of automobile driving every week, which expense I bear alone, and am glad to do so. I hold that the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society teaches the truth: its latest book, Salvation, contains 1,004 Scripture citations.
On Sunday, June 23, at about 10:00 a.m. I sent into Waymart, Pa., three Christian men and one Christian woman. The profit motive is entirely missing from the work of all of these, as well as myself. On that occasion they were circulating the following:
PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR OF OHIO AND THE OHIO STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION
WE, citizens of the United States, are unalterably in favor of freedom of assembly, of speech and of worship, as guaranteed by the fundamental law of the land.
Jehovah's witnesses, a body of Christian people, have been invited to hold their annual convention at the Ohio State Fair Grounds, Columbus, July 24 to 28, 1940. The Ohio State Fair Association has previously contracted and agreed with Jehovah's witnesses for the holding of that convention.
Acting under pressure of selfish interests the Association has canceled the contract and refuse Jehovah's witnesses the use of the Fair Grounds. This affects more than thirty simultaneous conventions throughout America to be tied in with the key assembly at the Fair Grounds.
We vigorously protest against efforts of selfish religious organizations and others to induce the cancellation of said contract. We demand that the officials of the Fair Association carry out the contract that the convention of Jehovah's witnesses may be held and that the fair name of Ohio may not be besmirched by selfish opponents of freedom of worship, of speech and of assembly.
In four hours of calling from home to home in Waymart, these Christian men and this Christian woman had secured 86 signers to the above petition. 420 signers were obtained, all together, by those engaged with me in this special campaign against bigotry, intolerance, persecution and hysteria. One of the workers called at the home of Melvin L. Kennedy, burgess of Waymart. Mr. Kennedy refused to sign, which was his right, though one would think he would have been the first person in the community to stand by the principles of freedom of worship, freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.
However, he was not content to let it rest at that. He ordered his daughter to get his big Colt gun, which she did. He put it on, with his belt to hold it, and gathered a posse which included Parole Officer Anges E. Wood and Health Officer Jonas K. Waters, also armed. How many others of the posse were armed is not known. It is substantially true that these four Christian workers, all of whom, as well as I, detest and abhor the governments of Hitler, Mussolini, Pacelli, Franco and Stalin, were chased out of Waymart by Mr. Kennedy and his posse. It is also substantially true, as claimed, that they were followed to the township line and warned to leave immediately, and also, as claimed, that "Burgess Kennedy and his associates were still on guard and had the road blocked with the burgess' car parked crosswise".
I was brought up in this faith, my father before me, my uncle, my cousins and my brother, all law-abiding, reverent, earnest, honest Christian men. It has been taught in Wayne county for sixty years. One of the men who signed our petition is the editor of the two most influential papers in Scranton, Pa. Another is editor of a high-class magazine of 250,000 circulation. I shall, of course, continue to bear witness to the Lord's truth in Waymart, but what I want to know is whether I am to wear a bullet-proof vest or whose foot I am to kiss when I go there.
The woman in the party, Mrs. Lucy Dietz, R.F.D. 2, Moscow, Pa., weighs a full 300 pounds. She states that one of the posse peered in the car and said, in a shamed kind of way, "Are you one of those Jehovah's witnesses?" and she replied, "I surely am." Is it necessary in America for officials to chase 300-pound women with guns? One of the men so rudely treated was H. E. Bachmann, 6 Edgewood street, Wheeling, W. Va., who does a considerable business with bankers throughout Pennsylvania. What must he think of the hospitalities of the pretty little town of Waymart? Another man mobbed by Mr. Kennedy and his posse was Ferdinand Thoman, Van Brunt street, Moscow, Pa., an elderly Swiss, who hates Hitler as only the liberty-loving Swiss can hate such a monster. Why would Kennedy, Wood or Waters wish to shoot anybody who wants freedom of worship and freedom of assembly? The fourth one insulted by Kennedy's Nazi tactics was Fred Telshow, R.F.D., Waymart, Pa., a farmer, the support of an aged father and mother.
(Signed) KENNETH W. HESSLER
334 Holden street,
Wyoming, Pa.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this third day of July, 1940.
(Signed) WILLIAM CAREY
Notary Public
"ARMAGEDDON—THEN A WORLD THEOCRACY"
This month's Supreme Court decision which made saluting the flag compulsory in public schools over the Nation hit hard at beliefs of the religious group incorporated as the International Bible Students' Association, but usually called Jehovah's Witnesses. They feel saluting idolatrous, turn to the Second Commandment for corroboration. Above all, they preach a theocracy to arise only after world-wide destruction by "the beastly totalitarian governments."
Street corner magazine sales are a specific duty for the Witnesses, who feel they must warn a negligent world of Armageddon's approach. Recent charges of sedition mark a long and bitter feud.
Witnesses seem convinced they must suffer for their beliefs. Bernie Rucker, like scores of others, has been arrested for distributing handbills.
Twelve meeting places dot the Louisville area. Main headquarters are at Fourth and Oak. During the last World War the Witnesses were disorganized by governments fearing radical ideas.
Sunday meetings are for group discussion of the Bible. There is no minister, but a large array of "servants," each intrusted with certain organization work.
In Louisville Jehovah's witnesses are not molested. Other citizens give them the same rights claimed for themselves. In some shameless communities the witnesses are mobbed, their meeting places either wrecked or burned and other property ruined. Louisville is American.
Louisville is one of the cities charted for a house-to-house canvass by Witnesses anxious to save "the sheep from the goats." They carry recorded lectures, will return for Bible readings.
Climactic in recent demonstrations against the Witnesses was the burning of headquarters in Kennebunk, Maine. Previously, in the flag controversy, they organized their own schools in several States.
The above is a reproduction of a full rotogravure page from the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal of June 16, 1940, showing that some newspapers can tell the simple truth concerning Jehovah's witnesses. There has been no mob attack upon the witnesses in Louisville. How much better to do what is honest and fair, particularly in dealing with those who are serving Jehovah God, than to proceed as was done at Columbus, Ohio, where Jehovah's witnesses' contract for the use of the State Fair Grounds was broken, greatly hampering their preparations for an international convention and denying to the witnesses and the people of Ohio the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of worship, in spite of a petition which in ten days was readily signed by 2,042,146 American lovers of liberty and fair play.
UNDER THE TOTALITARIAN FLAG
Little Red Riding Hood
◆ Collier’s magazine for January 20, 1940, contains an article under the above title which is well worth reading, especially since Finland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and much of France have been seized since that time by the wolf that took grandma’s place. The story is by H. I. Phillips and tells the story of the wolf and the little girl as a dictator would tell it. A snatch at the story here and there conveys the idea:
To the casual spectator, perhaps, Little Red Riding Hood might seem just a pretty, little ten-year-old child, but this was a superficial piece of character analysis. The kid was not to be trusted an inch. She was a rattlesnake, a viper and an imperialist. And on top of all that she was not interested in peace or a better world order. . . .
Grandma was a louse, too! No wolves liked her. . . .
Suddenly, and before he knew what was what, he found himself not only in Grandma’s cottage but in her bedroom! He had kicked down the door. Grandma was pretty startled, and demanded, “What is the meaning of this?” “I am repulsing an invasion,” the wolf explained, scorning all subterfuge. Grandma was an aggressor. That was clear. So the wolf ate her up. . . .
At last Little Red Riding Hood came striding into the bedroom. She was very overbearing, the big bully. . . . The wolf watched her weep and wring her hands. . . . “Ah,” said the wolf, “so now you are going to attack me too!” . . . He tore Little Red Riding Hood to pieces to preserve his dignity, and ate her as a matter of principle.
Newfoundland’s Catholic Censor
◆ With the outbreak of the war Newfoundland placed a Roman Catholic in as censor, and the gentleman immediately manifested the fear and hatred of the Bible and of Biblical expositions that is characteristic of all under the influence of the Hierarchy. Twenty cartons of literature, including Bibles, were held, and the censor was so high-and-mighty that he refused to grant a hearing to the consignees. The consignees thereupon circulated a petition for release of the literature and, after getting 2,192 signatures, sent it to the governor. Thereupon the shipment was released. The petition was sent to the governor January 2.
But notice the methods that were employed by the defeated censor. Although he held the invoices for the cartons of literature, and the address of the consignees appeared plainly thereon, yet the notice to come and get the goods was sent to an improper address, and this necessitated a week’s delay. The consignees sent a ringing letter of protest to all the commissioners and to the governor of Newfoundland, reminding them of present plans of the Hierarchy for world control.
Had to Kiss His Ring
◆ It seems that besides bowing three times deeply when he went in and three times deeply when he went out, Myron also had to kiss the pope’s ring. It is good that that was all he had to kiss; for both he and Mr. Roosevelt were willing to go the limit. It’s so American, you know.
HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO CHANCELLOR
RT. REV. MSGR. J. J. BLAIR PRESIDENT
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY
OF CANADA
CATHOLIC OFFICE BUILDING
67 BOND STREET TORONTO 2
Christmas, 1938
Dear Friend:
It is unnecessary to remind you of the approach of Christmas with its attendant obligation of providing gifts for special friends. But I do wish to stress the fact that your greatest friend, the Infant Jesus, wants a Gift from you for His missions. Will you send me a Christmas Gift for Him?
It was for the salvation of souls that the Infant Jesus was born into the world, in the poor stable of Bethlehem and, for the same reason, He continues to give Himself to us in the Sacrament of His Love. But there are scattered Catholics in out-of-the-way mission places as ignorant of, and as indifferent to His coming as was the world on the first Christmas. Your Gift will help to bring Him into their lives and hearts.
Give the Infant Jesus the first place on your list and, in His Name, please send me Five Dollars if possible, or whatever amount you can afford. Your Christmas will be the happier as you experience His peace and love in proportion to your generosity.
I shall personally offer the Christmas Midnight Mass for the intentions of all who send a Gift.
Thanking you in anticipation and wishing you the choicest Christmas blessings,
I remain,
Very sincerely yours in Christ,
J. J. Blair
President,
The Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada
This letter helped an entire family to take their stand against the religion racket and for the Lord.
This midnight Baby Jesus was one too many.
Blessing of the Tanks
All army units of Italy passed in review before Monsignor Alfonso Camillo de Romanis, General Vicar of the Vatican, in Rome, at the blessing of the motorized army of Italy. They were passing in the square near the Arch of Constantine. European
[From the New York Herald-Tribune, April 14, 1940]
"Blessing", the Tanks
◆ Always thankful to have any privilege in the way of boosting arrangements for the murder of their fellow men, the general vicar of the Vatican in Rome, Monsignor Alfonso Camillo de Romanis, acting for the Vatican, "blessed" the tanks and other motorized units of the army of Italy. At the time these tanks were blessed it looked very much as if Italy would shortly enter the World War on the side of Germany. The sympathies of the Vatican are wholly on the side of the totalitarian states.
Sweep of Totalitarianism
◆ It is significant that the government of Finland is much less democratic than before the Russian invasion, that the government of Denmark is being reconstructed and will be much less democratic, and that Norway, one of the most progressive democracies in the world, is under the rule of the swastika. It is also significant that all the totalitarian powers, Germany, Russia and Italy, were pleased with the changes made in Scandinavia and that all the democracies, without exception, are not.
(To be continued) "IT MUST BE STOPPED!"
'A good Anglican or a good Catholic with a horsewhip'
"THE author of the pamphlet concerned might have sung a different tune had he met a good Anglican or a good Catholic who had a horsewhip handy!" Such was the distinctly biased statement recently made by a certain judge, presiding over the Court of King's Bench in the Province of Quebec, in his address to the jury just prior to their deliberation before bringing in a verdict. The occasion was the trial of seven of Jehovah's witnesses, charged with the crime of sedition for having in their homes a Bible text-book entitled Enemies.
"IT MUST BE STOPPED!" said the same judge. This remark was levelled at the work of Jehovah's witnesses of preaching the Gospel of God's Kingdom, the particular method under fire being the distribution of Enemies, which book carries the message of the Kingdom, honors the name of the Most High God, exposes the enemies of truth and points out the way of complete protection for those who love righteousness.
The seven Christians involved in this case, after being haled into court with their "seditious" equipment of Bibles and Bible text-books, were found guilty and sentenced to prison terms at hard labor, being compelled to associate with criminals of every description. Twenty-one others still await trial on the same charge.
On a previous occasion two of Jehovah's witnesses had been convicted on a charge of sedition and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for distributing a pamphlet entitled The Peoples' Greatest Need, which, like the book Enemies, points the people to the Kingdom of God. Fourteen thousand letters were thereupon dispatched to business and professional men of the Province of Quebec, acquainting them with this gross injustice and enclosing a copy of the so-called "seditious" pamphlet. On learning the facts many people of good will expressed their righteous indignation at this treatment of Christians, while others showed a bitter spirit of hatred, openly identifying themselves as being against the Kingdom, one prominent politician stating: "Within a short time we will have our own Canadian Hitler, and he will quickly settle your case!"
Many will ask, What is the cause of this bitter spirit of opposition to Jehovah's witnesses, and who are they?
Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses?
The name "Jehovah's witnesses" is taken from God's Word, the Bible, which name the Almighty God gives to those persons who have devoted themselves wholly to His service. Such persons must witness to the name of the Almighty. "Ye are my witnesses that I am God." (Isaiah 43:10-12) They carefully study and consider the Word of God that they may ascertain His will and, doing His will, have God's approval. They follow
[Jehovah's witnesses circulated this in Canada—1] Christ Jesus, and therefore do not follow any earthly leader. Their work is done at the command of the Almighty God and because they rejoice to obey His commandments.
To carry out God's commandments, they must preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. (Matthew 24:14) This good news is that Jehovah's Theocratic Government, under Christ the King, has come and will soon eliminate Satan and his organization, and then bring lasting blessings to all who desire peace, prosperity and happiness. They are commanded to warn the people of Christendom of the impending disaster of Armageddon and to inform them that the only means of safety is to escape from religious organizations and flee to God's Kingdom.
Jehovah's witnesses do not constitute a sect. They are not reds or Communists, as the religionists and the press have unfairly tried to make it appear. They have no political ambitions, and hence, do not support any worldly organization, but follow the admonition of the Scriptures to keep themselves "unspotted from the world." Their work is not for any selfish reason nor worldly honor that might come to them. They seek only the honor that comes from the Almighty. They are truly Christians.
Why Opposed and Persecuted?
Jehovah's witnesses are opposed because they publish the name of Jehovah and His Theocratic Government of peace and righteousness, and are therefore the special targets of Satan and his agents. The Devil makes war with all who are God's people. (Revelation 12:17) During the three and a half years that Jesus went about preaching and teaching the people concerning the Kingdom of God, the Devil constantly reproached Him and tried to kill Him, and finally had Him convicted on a charge of sedition and put to death. (Luke 23:5) Jesus suffered this persecution at the hands of the Devil and his agents because of His love and zeal for doing His Father's will.
Jesus warned His disciples that they would have to suffer like reproach. He said: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you." (John 15:18-20) Among these faithful ones was Stephen, the first Christian martyr, whom the religionists charged with the crime of sedition. They had him arrested, brought into court, and bribed witnesses to testify falsely against him; and when Stephen stood before the court and testified to the name of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and denounced the religionists, these wicked ones rushed upon him and put him to death.—Acts 7:51-60.
Saul of Tarsus, then a religionist, stood by and saw Stephen die. When Saul became Paul the Christian, he also suffered for righteousness. He then delighted to be in the class in which Stephen was found as a follower of Jesus Christ. The same is true today of those who are disciples of Christ, and attempts are continually made to prevent their work being done, either through the courts or through other forms of persecution. This hatred and persecution of Jehovah's witnesses is not because they are evil-doers or that they do anything to interfere with the property or personal rights of others, but because they boldly and fearlessly proclaim the name of Jehovah God and His King, Christ Jesus.
Persecution in Germany
A book, entitled Crusade Against Christianity, published in German, French and Polish, has been widely distributed throughout Europe and America. Commenting on this book, The Montreal Daily Star of January 6, 1940, stated: "It is a completely documented story of the persecutions suffered by the German members of the witnesses of Jehovah organization under the Nazi regime." These Christians were there shown to be the targets of brutal and bestial persecution, imprisonment and even death itself. They were thrown into filthy jails, herded into concentration camps, families separated, homes where Bible studies were in progress broken into and Bibles, Bible helps and books which contained songs of praise to the Almighty God seized and burned. These Nazis broke up meetings where the Lord's Supper was being celebrated and removed hundreds of Christians to unknown destinations. It is known that upwards of 6,000 of the Earnest Bible Students (Jehovah's witnesses) have been confined to prison and concentration camps in Germany—some of them for more than five years—where they have been tortured and even put to death. Through all this, the faith of Jehovah's witnesses in the Almighty God and the righteousness of their cause could not be shaken, and their determination to serve God, no matter what the cost, has even won the respect of some of their sadistic guards. The White Paper, recently published by the British Government, on the treatment of German nationals in concentration camps during the period 1938-39, further exposes the maltreatment of Jehovah's witnesses in Germany.
It is important to note that this wicked and devilish persecution of these Christians began in the year 1933, the same year which was proclaimed by the head of one religious organization a "Holy Year" and which, according to him, would "usher in a golden flood of peace and prosperity."
Persecution in Quebec
Freedom to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom and to serve the Lord according to the dictates of one's own conscience is still allowed to
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[Jehovah's witnesses circulated this in Canada—2] COUNSEL
by J. F. Rutherford
Where to Flee
THE terrible monstrosity of totalitarian misrule is advancing over "Christendom" and all the earth. Armageddon alone will stop the monster and deliver the people of good will. The organization on earth today that has taken the name of the great Creator and that operates hypocritically under the name of His Christ is "Christendom", which practices the falsely called "Christian religion". She is therefore heavily responsible before Jehovah God, who will punish her with great evil or calamity at Armageddon. Jehovah God announces how He will begin Armageddon:
"For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name ['Christendom'], and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. Therefore prophesy thou [Jehovah's witness] against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations; he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground."-Quoted from Jeremiah 25: 29-33.
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