Consolation, November 27, 1940

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Contents

Eglon's Excrement (Part 2) 3

How the Hierarchy Works 3

Historical Sketch, &c. 4

Morality of the Jesuits 8

"He That Exalteth Himself" 10

Mr. Curran's Mental Distress 11

Curran's Prevarications 11

Why All the Misrepresentation? 11

Satan to Curran 12

Curran's "Common Sense" 13

Curran Listens to the Girls 14

Direct Contact with the Demons 15

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Racket in Souls 16

Theocratic Convention, Manchester, England 18

Statement by A. D. Schroeder 23

London Cripples' Faithful Witnessing 27

British Comment

London's Ordeal 28

Church Buildings and Hospitals 30

"The Sword of the Spirit" 30

Trade Unionists 30

Memoranda 2

Re-establishment of Holy Roman Empire 2

Later Facts re Las Cruces, N. Mex. 2

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Memoranda

Re-establishment of Holy Roman Empire

◆ The political and social order that resulted from the Reformation, both in Europe and in America, is regarded by the Catholic Church as pagan and anti-Christian; they give it the name of "pseudo-democracy". This is to be found in all official Catholic writings and is the burden of all papal encyclicals. . . . Whatever opinion the Catholic Church may now express about Hitler and his Nazi-Socialism, it stands 100 percent with him and the other Fascist dictators in the avowed objective of destroying the political and social order that came out of the Reformation. . . . What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for as a result of the present death struggle between the Fascist and Democratic blocs is the re-establishment in Europe of the "Real State", a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. . . . The Jesuit Order has its "Aryan paragraph" corresponding exactly to that of Hitlerism. Its Constitutions contain six impediments against reception into the Order, the first of which is Jewish descent up to the fourth generation. If Jewish descent is discovered after a candidate's admission it prevents his "radiation". . . . This identity of interests between Nazi-Fascism and Jesuit Catholicism in the matter of opposition to the mixture of races and religions is something that cannot be denied. And this ideology is the prime cause of the war that is devastating Europe at the present time. Hitler, the fanatic, has already gone a long way to bring it to realization. If he succeeds in making it permanent, the "new order" which he has vowed to bring about in Europe will be what the Catholic Church has been strenuously working for during the past four centuries.—L. H. Lehman, in The Converted Catholic. [Hitler was Jesuit-trained.—Ed.]

Later Facts re Las Cruces, N. Mex.

◆ Correcting inaccurate and misleading newspaper stories, Jehovah's witnesses jailed at Las Cruces say their persecutor was City Attorney E. G. Shannon, and that Judge Apodaca was not in any way antagonistic, but shook hands with every one of the witnesses, with tears in his eyes, after he dismissed them.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 27, 1940 Number 553

Eglon’s Excrement (In Two Parts—Part 2)

The fires of war in Europe rage more fiercely. Hitler’s NEW ORDER has swallowed up the Continent and now threatens the free people of the British Isles. Just what are Hitler’s aims? and from whom does he borrow his pattern for remaking the whole world? A Nazi was once quoted by the New York Times as calling their advance the ‘Catholic revolutionary movement’. A little study will show that the Nazi was well informed. Observing the handmade governments that the Nazis have fashioned for the conquered nations such as France, an age-old shape appears. It is the Jesuit design for enslaving mankind for the glory of the Catholic Church. For four hundred years the Jesuits have sought to abolish the Reformation. Hitler has undertaken this identical crusade for his masters in Rome. It is not a pretty picture, nor is “Eglon’s Excrement” a pleasant title. (Judges 3:12-22) But as the origin and model for Hitler’s aggressions is found in Jesuit lore, it seems appropriate and profitable to delve into the Jesuit secret manual of wickedness. It is dirty indeed, but better uncovered than permitted to flourish unseen and devour without warning!

Nor is the terrible disease limited to Europe alone. The first American sufferers of this foreign plague are Jehovah’s witnesses. The papers have carried many stories of Jesuitized mob attacks upon them throughout the summer. In Texas a man, his wife and children were recently arrested and charged with being Jehovah’s witnesses. In Harlan, Kentucky, six men are under indictment for sedition charged with the formal crime of “advocating a government by one Jehovah God”. Let all in Kentucky beware of praying “Thy kingdom come”! In Nebraska a man has been forcibly castrated “to teach him not to criticize the Catholic Church”. In Maine, scene of so many outrages on Christians, one of Jehovah’s witnesses was struck by an ex-deputy sheriff for the “crime” of preaching the gospel. Defending his life he shot and killed the attacker. Even in prison Jesuitized mobs threatened his life. As this advance move of Catholic Action goes on, it seems important to acquaint ourselves with the background, history and technique of the blasphemously named “Society of Jesus” contained herein.

How the Hierarchy Works

IT IS still very difficult to understand how the Hierarchy manages to so befuddle the non-Catholics unless one investigates her system of deception. To carry out her designs without dropping more than a hint of the real intentions and purpose of her action is the age-old secret art of Rome. Her eternal business is hypocrisy! Centuries of experiment, trial and error have perfected her skill in subterfuge, lying, dissimulation or other deception, whichever fits the case. Lying is not a haphazard enterprise when carried on successfully. The father of lies is the Devil, and he is extremely sly at deception. The Hierarchy has copied his cunning. They have hid themselves behind a mountain of lies. (Isaiah 28:15) In order to understand their technique it is necessary to study their own code book. In order to uncover the excrement of Eglon we must examine the secret instructions of the most despicable order that has ever corrupted the earth, that of the Jesuits.

To study the customs, schemes, teachings and source of power of the Jesuits together with the infamous history of that society gives a very clear clue to the confusion Hitler and the pope can cause by their adoption of the Jesuit methods. The confusion is real, but the speakers are not confused. Every word uttered by the pope or by Hitler is carefully studied for its effect. And this study is from the Jesuit manual. Before taking up the handbook of secret instructions of the “Society of Jesus” a history of the origin and crimes of the organization is submitted.

HISTORICAL SKETCH, &C.

“Swear—forswear—and the truth deny!”

Jesuit maxim.

The Society of Jesuits was founded in 1540, just eleven years after the Christian church had come out of the Roman sect and assumed the name of Protestants. The singular originator of the new order was Ignatius Loyola, a native of Biscay. He had, when a soldier, received a severe wound in the service of Ferdinand V of Spain, in 1521; and he had been long confined in a place where he had access, probably, to no other books than The Lives of the Saints. It is not to be wondered at that his mind was thence turned away from military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism. When recovered, he speedily gave proofs of his insane fanaticism by assuming the name and office of “Knight of the Virgin Mary”. And like a good type of the future Don Quixote, he pursued with solemn gravity a course of the wildest and most extravagant adventures, in the belief that he was her most exalted favorite. Having conceived the plan of a new monastic order he submitted the constitution thereof to Pope Paul III. And he assured his “Infallibility and Holiness” that the plan and constitution were given to him by an immediate revelation from heaven. This he no doubt deemed necessary to be on a footing with the other orders. For, as Dr. Stillingfleet had shown, every order of monks and nuns in Rome has been ordained by visions, and inspirations from heaven.*

The pope hesitated. Loyola took the hint, and had another convenient “inspiration”, and added to the three usual vows of the monastic orders of chastity, poverty, and obedience, a fourth vow, namely, absolute subservience to the pope; to do whatever he enjoined, and go on any service he wished, and into any quarter of the globe.

This the pope could not resist; especially at a time when the Reformation had convulsed his seat, and shaken his empire to the foundation. He accordingly issued his bull of confirmation, and sent them out to invade the world. Their object was diverse from that of all other orders. Monks professed to retire from the world, and macerate the body. The Jesuits set out to conquer the world to the pope. The monks hoped to conquer the flesh—but they did it by acting contrary to the laws of nature and the gospel of Christ. The Jesuits aimed at a universal dominion over the souls and bodies of men, to bind them as vassals to the pope’s chariot wheels. The monks professed to combat, in private, the devil, the world and the flesh; although they did it in the exact way to make themselves the slaves of the flesh and the devil. The Jesuits were the soldiers of the pope: they knew no law but the will of their general; no mode of worship but the pope’s dictate; no church but themselves. And the mass-god which their head at Rome set before them in the wafer was the idol of their adoration. They were also extremely indulgent to their heathen converts—the Chinese, for instance. They allowed them to continue the worship of their ancestors, and light candles, and burn incense before their images; they

* On the Idolatry of the Church of Rome, Chap. IV.

imposed on them no other burden than to give to these deceased Chinese the names of the Roman saints, such as St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Mary! These the converts had on their lips, while their heart's homage was given to their ancestors. Thus they converted them by stealth, and saved them by deception and idolatry!

Among the Indians of our great West they not only suppressed the truths of Christianity, but devised the most infamous fictions and falsehoods. "One of them assured a native chief that Jesus Christ was just such a one as he would have admired. He was a mighty chief, a valiant and victorious warrior, who had in the space of three years scalped an incredible number of men, women, and children." "Another, in the East Indies, produced a pedigree of himself, in which he clearly demonstrated that he was a lineal descendant of Brahma!" (Brewster's Encyclopedia, article "Jesuits", Vol. XI)

Other papal orders were in a manner voluntary: at least their members had greater liberties, and were not in abject submission to their abbot or superior. But the sect of Jesuits were placed by Loyola under a strict military and despotic government. In fact, the old wounded soldier took his laws and discipline from his military experience. Like the military chief, their general was chosen for life. To him every member was sworn on the cross, to yield an implicit obedience. Like the soldier, the Jesuit yielded up his body, and soul, and wishes, and desires to his general. He had no right to consult a friend, or exercise even his own judgment. The general's will was his will: he must go wherever their chief, residing at Rome, should dictate, be it into Asia, or Africa, or any other portion of the globe. He put no questions; he asked no reasons. The general was his sovereign god. He sailed with sealed orders. He must teach—not what he believed to be right. He had no choice of his faith. He must believe as his general regulated his heart, and soul, and conscience. He must do any deed enjoined on him, asking no questions. He was not to shrink from any deed of blood. If the general enjoined, he must send the Spanish Armada to overthrow England; he must blow up the English Parliament with gunpowder; he must assassinate King Henry of France, or shoot the prince of Orange; or poison Pope Ganganelli; or enjoin Charles IX to perpetrate the St. Bartholomew massacre; and Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes, and cover fair France with blood and havoc, and fill the nations with the lamentations of her miserable exiles! If he failed, he tried again and again.

He stopped not short of his aim, until it was either accomplished or he died on the rack, as did the assassin of the king of France. And if he did perish, he was sainted; as was Garnet, the Jesuit chief of the Gunpowder Plot; who is to this day worshiped as St. Henry, in Spain. (Hume's Hist., Vol. III, Ch. 46)

The general had the uncontrolled right of receiving and disbursing their immense funds; and made every nomination to office; and removed anyone he chose without assigning any reasons to anyone. For, although nominally under the pope's power, the Society exercised an unlimited power over the cardinals, and even over the pope. Money, and Jesuit craft, overcame all and enslaved all. They did what the kings of France did to the pope; and what Austria now [1854] is doing to his vassal, "the Holy Father." They flattered and caressed "the successor of St. Peter"; while they tied up his hands, and chained him in his chair of St. Peter.

The whole Society was divided by their general into thirty-seven Provinces; and a register lay before him, containing the character of each novice, and of each fully initiated member: his talent, his tact, his activity, his defects—everything relating to him. Hence the general had an accurate view of each instrument, in each field, ready for every emergency and task. "The Jesuits had missionaries for the villages; and martyrs for the Indians," says the writer of their history, in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia. "Thus, a peculiar energy was imparted to the operations of this most singular society. The Jesuits are a naked sword, whose hilt is at Rome, but its blade is everywhere, invisible until its stroke is felt."

They soon found their way into schools, and sought most anxiously to gain the education of children, especially of Protestants. Their maxim was this: "Give us the education of the children of this day, and the next generation will be ours—ours in maxims, in morals, and religion!" They found their way into colleges; into theological institutions, as at this day in Oxford and other places. They pretended to be converted, and to enter into Protestant churches. They were found in the Reformed Church in France and Holland, and caused grievous and fatal divisions by false doctrine. They were found in the rank of the old English Puritans. This was discovered by a letter from the Jesuit confessor of Louis XIV. "How admirably our people imitate the Puritan preachers," said he in this intercepted letter.

They adapted themselves to all kinds of character. With the Jew they were Jews to gain their object; with the infidel they were skeptics; to the immoral they were the most liberal and indulgent, until they gained absolute ascendency over them. Hence they found their way into kings' courts and queens' boudoirs. This sect gave confessors to the chief crowned heads of Europe. England, France, and the Waldenses, under the house of Savoy, felt this to their cost. It was in allusion to their utter disregard of morals, except where property and power were to be gained by a show of morals, that the Abbe Boileau said with great truth, "They are a sort of people who lengthen the creed, and shorten the moral law!"

And for want of room, I must, without quoting it, refer the reader to the almost prediction of Dr. Browne, Bishop of Dublin, in 1551, respecting their character, their aims, their deeds and downfall. This is found in the Harleian Miscellany, Vol. V, 566; and in Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. Cent. 16; Sect. 3, Part 2.

The success of this sect was at first very slow. In 1540, when the frantic Loyola petitioned the pope for a bull to establish this new papal army, he had only ten disciples. He was in nearly as hapless a condition as his equally moral, and equally "Christian" brother, Mohammed. But they surmounted every difficulty for a season, by adapting their agents and members to every class. And particularly, they gained applause, and fame, and wealth, by cultivating the arts and sciences: by diffusing the most extensive taste for the classics, by their editions "In usum Delphini"; for the instruction of the Dauphin, as the young heir apparent to the French throne was then entitled.

In fact, they soon supplanted every rival in the department of teaching. They seemed to gain the instruction of the youth in every European kingdom. They did for centuries exactly that which they are now attempting to do in the United States. They affected immense learning. All others knew nothing. They went in disguise into Protestant kingdoms and states. They set up schools; or gained the academic chairs; and the professional chair. They won over the youth to their cause. Their female Jesuits pursued the same course with the young and tender sex, and made vast numbers of converts to their sect. And these Jesuit nuns did not waste their energies and exhaust their pious emotions in dungeon cells and the grated prisons, which the want of due gallantry on the part of laymen even among us allow the aspiring and licentious priests to build for women, under their very eyes!! No, they were out-of-door missionaries. They were known by the name of "Sisters of Charity", "Sisters of the Heart," and other sentimental and imposing names. They were female soldiers invading the sanctity of families, "carrying captive silly women laden with iniquity" and ignorance. They fought among females as did their desperate male brothers among the males in the community.

Forty-eight years after their organization, that is, in 1608, they had increased to the appalling number of nearly eleven thousand. Before the English Revolution of 1688 they had obtained the direction of the schools, academies, colleges, and universities in all the European Catholic continent; and they had the address to have their members installed confessors to the kings of Spain, France, Portugal, Naples, Austria, Sicily, and the regal duke of Savoy, and every leading prince and noble in these kingdoms.

But they had driven on so furiously their wild, ambitious, and bloody career, that innumerable enemies were raised up against them. The Jansenists were their deadly enemies in France. Pascal's "Provincial Letters", written with inimitable good humor, and in the most elegant style, attracted all scholars and politicians to their dangerous morality, their atrocious principles in politics; and had inflicted a blow on the Jesuits from which they never recovered. Their disgrace took place first in France. They were dissolved by the parliament of France. And in this national act, the parliament assigned the following as the reasons of the abolition:

"The consequences of their doctrines destroy the law of nature: they break all the bonds of civil society, by authorizing theft, lying, perjury, the utmost licentiousness, murder, criminal passions, and all manner of sins. These doctrines, moreover, root out all sentiments of humanity: they overthrow all governments; excite rebellion; and uproot the foundation and practice of religion. And they substitute all sorts of superstitions, irreligion, blasphemy, and idolatry."

Their overthrow in Spain was sudden and complete. At midnight, March 31, 1767, a strong cordon of troops surrounded the six colleges of Jesuits in Madrid, seized the fathers, and before morning had them conveyed on the way to Carthagena. Three days after, the same prompt measures were pursued towards every other college in the kingdom. In a word, kingdom after kingdom followed up the same course of measures against these intolerable enemies of God and of men! They have been banished either partially or entirely no less than thirty-nine times from the different kingdoms and states of Europe! And in 1773, Pope Ganganelli—Clement XIV—abolished the order entirely, as a sect no longer to be endured by man! "It will cost me my life," said he, "but I must abolish this dangerous order." It did cost him his life. A few days after his bull was published against the Jesuits a notice was placarded on his gate intimating that "the See would soon be vacant by the death of the Pope". He died of poison, within a few days of the time thus announced, by their agency. He observed on his dying bed to those around him, "I am going to eternity; and I know for what!"—Brewster's Encyclopedia, Vol. XI, page 171.

But, although they were thus dissolved and abolished, they still kept up privately their organization. In the interim, from 1773 to 1801, their general resided at Rome, publicly. In 1801 they were restored, for some political reasons, by the Emperor Paul, in Russia. This seems almost incredible. But this bad man and infamous emperor needed the support of the worst of all the Roman Catholic orders! In 1804 the king of Sardinia, for the same reasons, restored them. In 1814, at the close of the late war [War of 1812], Pope Pius VII, who first crowned the Emperor Napoleon, and then ventured to excommunicate him, restored the order of Jesuits to their full powers in South America, and in all the establishments of popery, "to afford them protection and encouragement," as the pope's right arm, and the superior and most successful instruments of extending Catholicism and pulling down all "heresies".

In that papal bull, reviving this sect, the pope even in this enlightened day utters his visionary claims in a style befitting the Dark Ages! He affirms that "this, his act, is above the recall, or revision of any judge, with whatever power he may be clothed". He thus sets at defiance all the powers of all civil governments upon the earth.

This order being thus revived, and covered with the shield of "the master of the kings of the earth", is now in active operation; and has been attended for the last twenty years with the most appalling success, in undermining the liberties of mankind; "corrupting religion, sowing dissensions in the churches"; and in aiding the "Holy Alliance", in throwing "a wall of iron around their kingdoms to prevent the entrance and dissemination of liberal sentiments". Their labors extend to every papal and every Protestant kingdom and state in Europe, and in South America, where they are the main cause of all these national convulsions and bloodshed, in order to prevent and put down all republicanism. They are also most active in Great Britain and the United States, which above all other nations they are most anxious to win, and woo over to papism.

The revival of the order of Jesuits by Pope Pius VII in the face of the bull of another equally "infallible" pope, who had condemned them, and abrogated them, as a most pestiferous and infamous sect, exhibits a poor specimen of papal unity and infallibility. And the act of Pope Pius VII ought to have roused the indignation of all the friends of humanity, order and liberty in Europe and America. The following are the sentiments of an able writer (on this) in the London Christian Observer, Vol. XIV, pages 175, 176.

"What new witness has appeared to testify on behalf of Jesuitism? What adequate cause existed for its revival by a pope? . . . If an instrument is wanted to quench the flame of charity, and throw us back in the career of ages, and sow the seeds of everlasting divisions, and lay a train which is to explode in the citadel of truth, and, if possible, overthrow her sacred towers, we venture confidently to affirm that JESUITISM is that very instrument. . . . Until a proper reason be assigned other than this, we must conclude with our forefathers, with the kings, and queens, and parliaments, and judges, and churches of Europe, ay! and with the decisive bull of the infallible Pope Ganganelli, Clement XIV, that Jesuitism is a public nuisance, and that he who endeavors and dares to let it loose upon civil society, is actually chargeable with high treason against the common interests and happiness of the human family." (See Brewster’s Encyclopedia, Vol. XI, page 172.)

MORALITY OF THE JESUITS

Lemoyne, Prop. 1, page 36: “A Christian may deliberately discard his Christian character, and act as other men, in those things which are not properly Christian!”

Alagona, Thom. Aquin. Sum. Theol. Compent., Quest. 94, page 230: “Ex mandato Dei licet occidere, &c.”—“By the command of God, it is lawful to murder the innocent, to rob, and to commit all lewdness, because he is Lord of life, and death, and all things; and thus to fulfill his mandate is our duty!”

HIGH TREASON. Philopater, Respons. ad Edict., Sec. 2, Num. 157, 158, page 106: “All theologians and ecclesiastical lawyers affirm that every Christian government, as soon as they openly abandon the Roman faith, instantly are degraded from all power and dignity, by human and divine right; all their subjects are absolved from the oath of fidelity and obedience which they have taken; and they may and ought, if they have the power, to drive such a government from every Christian state, as an apostate, heretic, and deserter from Jesus Christ, and a declared enemy to their republic. This certain and indubitable decision of all the most learned men is perfectly conformed to Apostolic doctrine!”

Henriquez, Sum. Theol. Moral., Vol. 1, Lib. 14, Cap. 10, page 869: “If an adulterous priest, aware of his danger, having visited an adulteress, is assailed by her husband, kills the man in his own defense, he is not criminal.”

Fagundez, Precept. Decalog., Vol. 1., Lib. 4, Cap. 2, page 501, 665, and Vol. 2, Lib. 8, Cap. 32, page 390: “Papist children may accuse their parents for heresy, although they know that their parents will be burnt for it.”

Amicus, Num. 131: “A priest may kill those who hinder him from taking possession of any ecclesiastical office.”

Escobar, Theolog. Moral., Vol. 4, Lib. 32, Sec. 2, Prob. 5, page 274: “It is lawful to kill an accuser whose testimony may jeopardize your life and honor.”

Cardenas, Crisis Theolog., Diss. 23, Cap. 2, Art. 1, page 474: “Servants may secretly steal from their masters as much as they judge their labor is worth more than the wages which they receive.” To this agrees Taberna.

Gordonus, Theolog. Moral. Univ., Lib. 5, Quest. 3, Cap. 4, page 826: “A woman may take the property of her husband to supply her spiritual wants, and to act like other women.”

Taberna, Vol. 2, Par. 2, Tract. 2, Cap. 31, page 288: “Is a witness bound to declare the truth before a lawful judge? No—if his deposition will injure himself or his posterity; or if he be a priest, for a priest cannot be forced to testify before a secular judge.”

Molina, Vol. 3, Disput. 16, page 1768: “Priests may kill the laity to preserve their goods,” &c., &c.

At a very early period after the establishment of the order of Jesuits the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of France proclaimed, “The Society [of Jesuits] was dangerous to the Christian faith, disturbers of the peace, and more fitted to corrupt than to edify.” (Published by American and Foreign Christian Union, 1854.)

When the “Secret Instructions of the Jesuits” are examined it appears why it is so hard to put one's finger on the exact meaning of the statement by a Catholic prelate and why his language still seems inoffensive. It is because the Jesuit training is hypocrisy developed to a fine art. A few examples will make this clear.

“Let the members of our Society [of Jesuits] direct princes and great men in such manner that they may seem to have nothing else in view but the promotion of God’s glory; and advise them to no other austerity of conscience but what they themselves are willing to comply with; for their aim must, not immediately, but by degrees and insensibly, be directed towards political and secular dominion.

“We must therefore often inculcate into them that honors and preferment in the state should always be conferred according to the rules of justice; that God is much offended at princes when they anyways derogate from this principle and are hurried away by the impulse of their passions. In the next place, our members must with gravity protest, and in solemn manner affirm, that the administration of public affairs is what they with reluctance interfere in, and the duty of their office obligates them often to speak such truths as they would otherwise omit. When this point is once gained, care should be taken to lay before them the several virtues persons should be furnished with who are to be admitted into public employs; not forgetting to slyly recommend to them such as are sincere friends to our order; but this must be done in a manner as not immediately to come from us (unless the prince enjoins it), for it may be effected with a far better grace by such as are their favorites and familiars.”

“Let the defects of other religious orders be diligently canvassed and remarked, and, after full discovery, gradually published to our friends, but always with seeming sorrow; and let it be pretended that it is not in their power to acquit themselves so happily as we, even in the discharge of those duties which are common to us both.”

“Of proper methods to induce a rich widow to be liberal to our Society . . . When therefore it is manifest that she is well disposed to continue a widow, it will then be time to recommend to her a spiritual life, but not a recluse one, the inconvenience of which must be magnified to her; but such one as Paula’s, or Eustachia’s, &c., and let the confessor, having as soon as possible prevailed upon her to make a vow of chastity, for two or three years at least, take due care to oppose all tendencies to a second marriage; and then all conversations with men, and diversions even with her near relations and kinfolk must be forbidden her, under a pretence of entering into a stricter union with God. . . .”

“But since our expectations must necessarily be less from widows that educate their children for the business of the world we shall now proceed to lay down methods proper for preventing this inconvenience.” [Chapter follows on this advising the harshest cruelty against children in order to drive them away from their mothers.]

“Therefore let confessors of princes, and noblemen, widows and others (from whom our expectations may reasonably be large), with great seriousness inculcate this notion, that while we administer to them in divine and spiritual things, they at least should, in return, contribute to us of their earthly and temporal . . .”

“It will be proper to borrow money of some at a yearly interest, and dispose of it to others at a higher rate, that the income on the one hand may be more than the outgo on the other. For in the meantime it may happen that our friends, to whom we are indebted, compassionating the necessities of the Society, when they find us engaged in erecting colleges, or building churches, may by will, or donation, forgive us the interest, and maybe the principal.”

Pretty fair financing for priests. Ponzi used something like it later.

“Let the confessors be constant in visiting the sick. . . . At this time it may be advisable to move him by apprehensions of hell, etc., at least of purgatory; and tell him, that as fire is quenched by water so is sin extinguished by acts of charity; and that alms can never be better bestowed than for those who profess a desire to promote the salvation of their neighbor."

Re those dismissed from the Society:

"In private exhortations, at people's houses, let these be represented as persons very turbulent, and continually importuning re-admission into the Society, and let their sad fate be industriously aggravated, who, after exclusion, have happened to come to an untimely or miserable end.

"Let the misfortunes, and unlucky accidents which happen to them, be immediately published; but with entreaties for the prayers of good Christians, that the world may not think that we are hurried away by passion; but among our members, let these things, by all means, be represented in the blackest colors, that the rest may be better secured."

As to crimes committed by members:

"If there be hopes of smothering the crime, let it then be punished by an adequate penance; but if not, let him, as soon as possible, be expelled; let the confessor, however, be always very cautious not to inform the penitent that he is in danger of it.

Chapter XVI is entitled:

"In what manner we must outwardly feign a contempt of riches."

Promotion of wars:

"Nor will it contribute a little to our advantage, if, with caution and secrecy, we foment and heighten the animosities that arise among princes and great men, even to such a degree that they weaken each other. But if there appears any likelihood of reconciliation, then, as soon as possible, let us endeavor to be mediators, lest others prevent us."

These "Secret Instructions of the Jesuits" contain seventeen chapters of such vicious and unspeakable methods.* In many parts of Europe the name "Jesuit" is as infamous as Judas. The above, showing their very inhuman and diabolical ingenuity for cruelty and crime, shows itself to be authentic. None other than Jesuits could imagine such wickedness. The Devil, through his chosen religious institution, has inflicted the ravages of this order on Europe and America for centuries. The magazine America, published in New York, is the organ for the order in this country. Lawrence Fernsworth, Catholic correspondent for the New York Times, tells, in the Protestant Digest of May, 1940, how the Jesuits in New York denied his stories of the Spanish war and how his answers to his own paper were never published. Those who think the Jesuits merely a horror of history will do well to consider this fact.

All the hypocrisy and lies spread by the Italians and Germans while fighting against Britain, such as the lie that the English king and queen have fled London, are according to the Jesuit pattern. The deflection of Quebec and southern Ireland was no doubt maneuvered by the Jesuits working on these Catholic majorities. Every aim, purpose, objective, and method of Hitler has been inspired by Jesuit goals of centuries standing. It is only by pushing in this excrement of Eglon, the Fat-gutted, that we can begin to understand the dirty deeds of the most infamous organization on the earth.*—Elton Groves.

3,500,000 Pall Bearers

◆ In order to make as big a splurge as possible, those in charge of Cardinal Mundelein's funeral officially appointed all of Chicago's 3,500,000 as honorary pall bearers. Why stop at this? Why not appoint all the citizens of Illinois? Or, again why discriminate? Why not let all the states in on this? Indeed, leaving Germany out because Mundelein's brother Catholic is busy, and leaving out Russia, because the Hierarchy is against (?) Communism, it seems as if the whole world ought to put on the black and get to weeping right away. When Jesus Christ was laid away probably two persons performed the task; but, then, Jesus was not a Catholic Cardinal.

* See "Secret Instructions of the Jesuits", Consolation No. 479, January 6, 1938, issue.

* See article on pages 11-15 herein.—Ed.

--Mr. Curran's Mental Distress

THE "Reverend" Edward Lodge Curran, Ph.D., LL.B., president of International Catholic Truth Society, editor of Light, spiritual guide of Silver Charles E. Coughlin of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Michigan, approves all his own much-worn titles and also approves the much-worn titles of the pope, such as "Vicar of Christ", "Holy Father of Fathers" and "Head of all the Holy Churches", but is in great distress because, as Curran himself admits, a man whom he hates and fears was several times chosen to "sit in place of the regular presiding judge" of the Circuit Court of Missouri, and is therefore properly referred to by his fellow lawyers and others as Judge Rutherford.

For 32 pages of prevarications about Judge Rutherford Mr. Curran wants twelve cents. On a contribution of ten cents, during December, Judge Rutherford's friends give the public seven 64-page booklets, full of truth from cover to cover. This is fourteen times as much reading matter for two cents less coin of the realm. Mr. Curran claims that Judge Rutherford makes mercenary appeals. Looks like it, doesn't it?

More mercenary appeals! Mr. Curran, with assistance of four other editors, gets out a monthly magazine, Light, which the pope is pleased to style his "very own voice". For 22 1/2 pages of reading matter and 5 1/2 pages of advertising Mr. Curran wants 20 cents a copy or $2.00 a year for the 270 pages of reading in the twelve issues. This magazine (Consolation) supplies 29 pages of reading matter in each issue for the magnificent sum of 5 cents and sends along 26 issues in a year for $1.00. If you want to send $2.00 Consolation will send you 1,508 pages crammed full of truth instead of "Catholic truth" and you will not find one mercenary appeal in it from one year's end to the next.

Curran's Prevarications

The "Reverend's" little book is full of lies from beginning to end. In the first two pages Judge Rutherford is supposed to have made more than fifty statements, not a single one of which was ever made by him. Some of these statements, put in quotation marks by the "Reverend" prevaricator, as if to show Judge Rutherford had made them, are: "No one knows the Scriptures but me. . . . Body and soul are just two names for the same thing. . . . I'll bring the people back to God. . . . Everything except me is the Abomination of Desolation." And then, says this incorrigible liar, "Believe it or not, such thoughts, and hundreds of others, are actually presented in pamphlets and books and over the radio on phonographs."

On page 11 the "Reverend" says of Judge Rutherford that "those who wish to follow him must give him all their earthly goods, beyond what is absolutely needed for personal or family support". Judge Rutherford never asked anybody to follow him, nor to give him any earthly goods.

On page 13 the "Reverend" says of Judge Rutherford's books that "only a minor portion of his books is devoted to actual quotations from the Scriptures". An examination of Judge Rutherford's latest book, Religion, shows 863 Scripture citations, and that one-fifth of all the reading matter of the book consists of "actual quotations from the Scriptures". There is no other literature in print, certainly no Catholic literature, containing anywhere nearly as much direct Scripture quotation as is found in all Judge Rutherford's writings.

Why All the Misrepresentation?

Why is it that the great Catholic organization cannot name a man to stand up on the same platform with Judge Rutherford and discuss the Holy Scriptures? It is because, despite all their titles, the Catholic spokesmen have made lies their refuge, just as the Scriptures themselves declare, and they do not dare let the common people see the inconsistencies of their teachings.

Mr. Curran pretends to be so much excited about Judge Rutherford's title that he refers to it in quotations eleven times in forty-one lines of type in his magazine, and thirty-five times in the thirty-two pages of his booklet. If so much distressed about this, how does it come that he found no occasion in his magazine or elsewhere to mention "Judge" Manton, Knight of St. Gregory, president of the Catholic Club of New York, president of the Catholic Club of International Peace, accepter of $186,000 in bribes for six judicial decisions, beneficiary of the American Tobacco Company and others to the tune of some $439,481.44, and now doing time in a private room in the hospital of Lewisburg penitentiary, Pennsylvania, as the biggest judicial crook uncovered in the last three hundred years?

Though Mr. Felix was exposed in The Golden Age No. 466, issue of July 28, 1937, as a most contemptible liar, yet Mr. Curran calls on him for moral support. The two know that Judge Rutherford would never have been in prison at all except for the reason that he was hated by their crooked friend "Judge" Manton.

As to Curran's titles, he uses the word "Reverend" before his name, which title occurs only once in the Holy Scriptures and is then applied to the great Creator, Jehovah God. (Psalm 111: 9) Behind his name he uses several titles, including "Doctor of Philosophy" and "Bachelor of Laws", to which he has about as much reasonable claim as a sick cat in a back alley.

Satan to Curran

The Devil purposes that the whole world shall go totalitarian, so that he can get rid of Jehovah's witnesses. Pacelli has the same idea; so has Hitler; so has Goebbels; so has Coughlin; and so has Curran. Curran gets his inspiration from Coughlin; Coughlin gets his from Goebbels; Goebbels gets his from Hitler; Hitler gets his from Pacelli (who is at this moment pushing France to attack Britain); and Pacelli gets his from "the god of this world".

It is fully established that the "Christian Front" was named by Coughlin, whose eastern spokesman is Curran; that it contemplated bombing the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, West Point and Annapolis, and seizure of Federal Reserve banks, National Guard armories, railway terminals, key post offices and all utilities facilities; that fourteen congressmen were to be assassinated, and that of the seventeen men jokingly arrested, jokingly tried and jokingly released, nine were military men who knew as well as Hitler what they intended to do and how to do it. Coughlin is Fascist by his own repeated statements; and so is Curran. Willkie would not take the infamous Coughlin's political support even as a gift.

Curran says Judge Rutherford's explanations of the Scriptures are "treasonable"; but if they had been a tenth as treasonable as those of Coughlin or himself, he would have been behind bars or been killed long ago. One of Curran's protégés committed suicide rather than face trial.

And yet on page 26 of his booklet Curran has the unmitigated gall to say "Rutherford is a Fifth Column all by himself"; and on page 30, "Rutherford is the greatest traitor in the United States of America today." The London Catholic Herald admits that its objective is a totalitarian bloc of states in opposition to the liberal tendencies of Britain and America. Curran's objectives are the same.

Coughlin's admitted sympathies are with Nazism, Mussolini and Franco, and the papers of Germany, Italy and Spain laud him to the skies.

They hate the democracies; so does Coughlin; so does Curran. Their entire course shows it plainly. What is the sense of such men trying to defame Judge Rutherford or, for that matter, any of Jehovah's witnesses? It is entirely a cry of "Stop thief". They are caught with the goods, and know it.

Curran's "Common Sense"

In the article in his magazine Curran said that in his pamphlet he shows "clearly and convincingly" that Judge Rutherford is "the enemy of common sense". Now for taking apart this alleged Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Laws and letting all see just how much common sense he himself has. It won't take long. It is common sense that when a man dies he is dead. It is common sense that in the day that he dies "his thoughts perish". (Psalm 146:4) It is common sense that "the dead know not any thing". (Ecclesiastes 9:5) It is common sense that the dead "go down into silence". (Psalm 115:17) It is common sense that "the wicked shall perish". (Psalm 37:20) It is common sense that "the wicked shall not be". (Psalm 37:10) It is common sense that "all the wicked will he destroy". (Psalm 145:20) It is common sense that the dead are 'in their graves'. (John 5:28) And hence it is, of course, common sense that "if there be no resurrection of the dead" then there is no hope of a future life for anybody.—1 Corinthians 15:13.

Mr. Curran, "Reverend," Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Laws, does not believe the above statements, but he believes in "purgatory", which doctrine is taught by 'women' who follow the example of mother Eve, listening to the Devil when he said, "Ye shall not surely die."

Mr. Curran cannot deny the authority of Vicar General Stephanus S. Woznicki and the "Right Rev." Monsignor M. J. Grupa, D.D., LL.D. These two gentlemen, prominent in the Hierarchy's organization at Detroit, Michigan, and more prominent in that organization than Mr. Curran himself, are responsible for the publication of a 78-page book entitled Revelations on Purgatory, a reproduction of the cover of which appears herewith.

Oddly enough, all the authorities quoted in this book are women. ("I suffer not a woman to teach."—1 Timothy 2:12) Because they were obsessed by demons most of these women are worshiped as "saints" of the Roman Catholic Church. It is just too bad that circumstances do not permit giving the full names of all these women. As far as their names are known, they are as follows. The family name in each case is in parentheses. The girls were Bernardine (Siena); Catharine (Emmerich); Frances (Rome); Gertrude (?); Magdalen (Pazzi); Marina (Escobar) ; Mary (Dionysia) ; Mechtild (Helfeda) ; Teresa (Francesca). Besides these nine girls, there was one by the name of Saint Birgitta, whose sex is uncertain. Also, the abbess Walburga repeats what she says a man told her about "purgatory". The man, of course, was stringing her, as men are wont to do. But anyway, what business has a man going into a convent and telling an abbess about such private and personal matters? Now to come back to the girls.

Bernardine said (page 11) that an "earthly fire is like a painted fire by comparison" with the fires of "purgatory", in which, however, strange to say, some have the hard luck to be "held in intense darkness". It would take a Ph.D. to stand for a thing like that.

Curran Listens to the Girls

Catharine, to let her tell it, found "purgatory" to be a hill covered with flaming grass. One poor cuss who made his home inside the hill Catharine saw lots of times. He was always "red as copper and dragging a chain". She says, "I always beheld him being barked at and torn by dogs." She also says that frequently "boiling blood was poured through him". (Page 3) Can you imagine any Doctor of Philosophy as being a big-enough sucker to fall for such a line as that?

Frances came down with this: She said that the fire in "purgatory" is a "clear bright fire unlike the dark fire of hell". This is the place for the Bachelor of Laws to rise up and tell how Frances picked out a dark fire from a light one. Frances also explained that persons in "purgatory" suffer much from contempt and ridicule. (Page 14) Don't ask how Frances found out all this.

Gertie came home with this: She explained that one gentleman, who had gotten his soul rusty, "had to be cleansed from this rust" through blows with iron clubs. (Page 23) This bird with a rusty soul was probably some "Reverend". One wonders what he did to Gertie to make her feel that way. She must have had it in for him; but Gertie should shame herself for having such a disposition. Gertie was jealous of somebody; for she tells about one of her lady-friends that was "standing before the gate of the glory of God", but she couldn't get through, because "her dress seemed to catch on nails". (Page 26) If Gertie wants to do the right thing, the next time she goes near that entrance she should take a nail-puller and remove all those nails, so that some other nice girl will not tear her dress and have to go into heaven bare-legged and with her clothes in tatters.

Then there is Magdalen. She says that in one of the places in "purgatory" "molten lead was poured into the mouths of liars". (Page 15) She didn't say for sure, but the chances are that these were all clergymen, because she mentioned especially the unfaithful clergy in this connection. Also, she says that in the development where she was there was 'an insufferable stench'. Magdalen either had the bad luck to park too close to the city dump or else she needed a bath, or both. Mr. Curran should look into this.

Marina picked this up somewhere: That the souls go through in bunches of four. She describes how some people cannot even get into "purgatory" but "wander about in pain outside, now here, now there, after the manner of a sick bird, fluttering around". Going more into detail she mentions "a stream where she saw four boys wading in the sand and trying in vain to enter the water. Four other souls were sad and shivered with cold, while farther on four others stood in the water to their breasts and trembled." (Page 40)

Then there is Mary. Mary says that "years of sorrow, poverty and sickness in this world are not to be compared with one hour in purgatory". (Page 31) If that doesn't show you why you should pay some money to Mr. Curran so that you don't get into that "purgatory" jam, then what would?

Mechtild, it seems, saw a bunch of souls have their hearts opened, and she saw in each a large worm which gnawed and gnawed and gnawed. (Page 27)

And lastly, there is Teresa. This lady was troubled with demons, as is perfectly clear from the story in the little book. In order that you may know that Doctors of Philosophy, "Reverends" and Bachelors of Laws have no reverence whatever for God's Word, but have great respect for the lying spirits of demonism, consider, if you please, this statement: "As Francesca often became unconscious from terror, they began to show themselves as floating shadows until she was accustomed to their appearance. They differed according to signs indicating their respective guilt. Thus a notary came with a pen and writing material; a locksmith with glowing hammer; a drunkard with fiery cup; a vain woman in rags." (Page 39)

Direct Contact with the Demons-

One of the first "saints" canonized by Pope Pius XII was Gemma Galgani. An account in The Catholic Times stated: "In the presence of His Mother Jesus Himself appeared before her and liquid fiery flames issued from His Sacred Wounds and touched her hands, feet and side, the contact being so painful that blood began to flow."

This one that represented himself as Jesus was a demon, one of the unclean spirits, and this is true also of the creature appearing as a woman. Gemma Galgani was a spiritist. She heard voices; those voices were the voices of demons. She heard the rattling of a rosary; more demonism. She felt her head touched by a hand; more demonism. She had "many colloquies she enjoyed with Our Blessed Lord"; more demonism; and was "in constant converse with her Guardian Angel"; more demonism. When the demonism is taken out of religion there is nothing left. Demonism and Christianity are exact opposites. The one dishonors the Creator; the other honors Him. What is there about "liquid fiery flames" scorching an onlooker that would be an honor to either Almighty God or His Son? Nothing at all.

The Church Bulletin of the Church of the Holy Innocents, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y., has the following on the subject of "Purgatory".

In Purgatory our own friends hang on crosses of fire between Heaven and earth. And like our Saviour, they can do nothing for themselves. True, the happiness they receive from their sureness of sometime getting into Heaven is boundless; but it does not lessen the horrible agony of the torment in which they must meanwhile dwell. And, even though we know the Souls in Purgatory are boundlessly happy, far happier, perhaps, than we on earth, nevertheless we should not forget that their torture is boundlessly more painful than we can imagine.

The object of the demons is to belittle Almighty God and Christ Jesus, His Son, and to exaggerate the poor human creature. This is illustrated in the following attributed to "Reverend Father" M. M. Gregory, in the Chicago Inter-Ocean:

I cannot exaggerate the power and dignity of the priest of God. His power is greater than that of an angel. His dignity is greater than that of Mary, the queen of angels. At the altar his power is not inferior to that of God himself. In the most adorable sacrifice of the mass the priest, in taking bread and wine and pronouncing the several words of consecration, draws aside the veil of heaven and calls Christ down upon the altar. At the voice of the priest the substance of bread and wine are immediately changed into the body ["bones and nerves," as the authoritative Catechism of the Council of Trent puts it] and blood of Christ. No power of man is equal to this sublime action. It must be the power of God.

Mr. Curran, and all others who subscribe to blasphemies like that, are in direst need of the help Judge Rutherford could give them if they would only let him. But they know it all, and in their own eyes are more important than the Creator himself. How can he escape the coming wrath at Armageddon?—Matthew 23:33.

COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Racket in Souls

"THE month of November is set aside," so reads a letter from The Association of the Miraculous Medal, St. Mary's Seminary, Perryville, Missouri, dated October 1939, signed by J. A. Finney, C.M., "by the Church to the sacred memory of our dear departed in Purgatory. Let us not fail to remember them in our Masses, Communions, . . . We ask you to assist your deceased relatives and friends by enrolling them as Members of the Union of Masses of our Association. . . . The offering for annual membership is 25c for each individual, living or deceased. A deceased person may be enrolled as a Perpetual Member for the offering of $10.00." Attached to that letter is a blank to be filled out by the contributor, which reads: "Enclosed please find $ . . . . the offering for the following members"; and which then provides numbered blank lines for eighteen names.

Will your contributions of money and your assistance at the sacrifice of masses or your prayers or the prayers of any one else aid or benefit your friend in "purgatory" and shorten the duration of his alleged punishment there? No; for the reason that there is no one in "purgatory". Your dead friends are not in purgatory.

The Catholic Bible generally used is known as the Douay Version. Nowhere in that Bible is purgatory even mentioned. No text makes mention of a soul in purgatory. From the year 595 to 604 Gregory, known as "Gregory the Great", served in the office of pope of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. He was the first man to 'discover purgatory' and to advance the idea of the souls there being tormented with fire. Says the McClintock and Strong Cyclopaedia, Volume VIII, 1879 edition, under the title "Purgatory":

Whatever the views of some Church fathers on the subject, as a doctrine it was unknown in the Christian church for the first 600 years, and it does not appear to have been made an article of faith until the 10th century. "Purgatory as a burning away of sins," said Doellinger at the Bonn Conference of Old Catholics in 1875, "was an idea unknown in the East as well as the West till Gregory the Great introduced it. . . . Gregory the Great added the idea of a tormenting fire."

The doctrine concerning "purgatory" finds authority only in the opinion and interpretation of men, that is, in the voice or opinion of men who lived centuries ago and who are called "fathers". The eminent Catholic authority, James Cardinal Gibbons, in his book "The Faith of Our Fathers", page 208, says concerning his definition and description of "purgatory": "This interpretation is not mine. It is the unanimous voice of the Fathers of Christendom." Then he gives the names of some of the early men in the Catholic church who advanced the theory. Cardinal Gibbons also cites in support of the purgatory theory the prayer books of the church and also the practices of the Jewish rabbis in praying for the dead. But are such authorities of any weight or support to the purgatory theory? Is the fact that men centuries ago taught certain things concerning "purgatory" any proof of the existence of the same? Let Jesus answer concerning the tradition of such men. The clergy who were the Pharisees in Jesus' day based their teachings upon tradition. They said to Jesus:

"Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?" "But he [Jesus] answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? . . . Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites! well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."—Matthew 15: 1-9.

Jesus here shows that the teachings of men make void the Word of God. The apostle Paul expresses the same conclusion. Paul, when he practiced "the Jewish religion", was guided by the tradition of the elders or fathers. When he became a true follower of Christ Jesus he cast away religion and the tradition of the fathers and followed only the commandments of God as taught by Jesus Christ. (Read his words at Galatians 1: 10-16.) Then Paul specifically warned all Christians to avoid the teachings of men and to adhere solely to the teaching of Christ Jesus: "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."—Colossians 2: 8.

The theory of 'burning in purgatory', wherein numerous creatures are supposed to suffer in torment, has frightened millions of sincere persons, causing them to bring forth large sums of hard-earned money and to contribute it toward the saying of masses, believing that by so doing they might render aid to those in "purgatory" and be in position themselves thereafter to receive benefits. Such sincere persons have thereby been greatly defrauded in their property and entirely misled concerning the way to life everlasting. Is not therefore such traffic in souls a "racket"?

In order to find that the doctrine concerning "purgatory" is true it must appear from indisputable evidence (1) that every human has a soul separate and distinct from the creature which we see; (2) that there is no death of the soul or creature, and only the body dies and the soul continues to live; and (3) that those who have died are conscious. You ask, How may I determine what is the truth on these questions? Can I rely upon the opinion of man? No; because all men are imperfect and the opinion of imperfect man is worth nothing unless it is supported by what is known to be true. The Bible is the expressed Word of God. That Word of God is the truth. "Thy word is truth." (John 17: 17) Let God's Word, therefore, answer.

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