Consolation, December 25, 1940
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Contents
Mobocracy (Part 2) 3
Who Incites Riots? 5
Edinburgh Theocratic Convention 6
Law-abiding 9
The Castor Oil Legion 11
Railroads and Steamships 12
Russia 13
Rocky Mountain States 14
Speed 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
The Mimic of Theocracy 16
Social 18
Surgery 19
Under the Totalitarian Flag
Partners in Racketeering 20
Two More “Baby Jesuses” 20
The Chaplain Racket 21
Stopping the Kaiser 22
South Atlantic States 23
Southwestern States 24
“Give Us More Religion” 25
Spain 26
Protestantism 27
British Comment
“The Greatest Crusade” 28
The “Battle of London” 29
Costs of Living 30
Food for the People 30
The Shelter Health Problem 31
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Notandum
Children Bearing Witness
◆ On November 24 a zone assembly was held at Los Angeles, California, attended by the prospective “great multitude”. At the assembly 497 children publicly declared their devotion to the great THEOCRACY, thus bearing witness to the name of the great THEOCRAT and His King. The following telegram relating to that assembly will be of interest to those who have children who love Jehovah:
The zone assembly at Shrine Auditorium unanimously send to you their greetings and enthusiastic appreciation of your message. Sixty-one hundred fifty in attendance. Four hundred ninety-seven children declared publicly that they have taken their stand on the side of the great THEOCRAT, His King and His kingdom. We unitedly raise our hearts asking Jehovah’s continued guidance upon you and upon the onward march of THE THEOCRACY.
—ZONE ASSEMBLY, Los Angeles, November 24.
Some Priestly Opinions
◆ In response to requests made of 1,500 priests as to how the Roman Catholic religion is standing up on current strain, there was considerable blame of Irish Catholic politicians like the crook Judge Manton; some thought the church lost more than it gained by the deal which resulted in Roosevelt’s sending Taylor to the Vatican; while a New England priest said of his congregation of French and Polish descent: “They deeply resent Italy’s entrance into the war. They are upset by the pope’s inability to hold his own people away from Hitler and Stalin. Many are now missing mass. The mention of the pope’s name will arouse many to boos. They have torn his picture from the walls.”
Kennedy Persona Non Grata
◆ Kennedy, Papal ambassador to Britain, (paid by Uncle Sam) ought certainly to be persona non grata to Britain, if, as alleged, he boasted Britain is licked.
CONSOLATION
“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 25, 1940 Number 555
Mobocracy (In Two Parts—Part 2)
THE Protestant Press Bureau of Ilford, England, quotes two Jesuit fathers (same organization that invited Roosevelt and Willkie to attend a mass commemorating the 400th anniversary thereof, September 29, according to the New York Daily Mirror of September 13, 1940) as imagining the Lord’s place of punishment of “Purgatory” as follows:
“You must then conceive purgatory to be a vast, darksome and hideous chaos, full of fire and flames, in which the souls are kept close prisoners until they have satisfied for all their misdemeanours, according to the estimate of Divine Justice. For God [Rome] has made choice of this element of fire wherewith to punish souls, because it is the most active, piercing, sensible, and insupportable of all others.”
On page 135 the Jesuit exclaims,
“Good God! how the great saints and doctors astonish me when they treat of this fire, and of the pain of sense as they call it! For they peremptorily pronounce that the fire that purges those souls, those both happy and unhappy souls, surpasses all the torments that are to be found in the miserable life of man, or are possible to be invented; for so far they go. Out of which assertion it clearly follows that the furious fits of stone, fever, or raging gout, the tormenting colic, with all the horrible convulsions of the worst diseases, nay, though you join racks, gridirons, boiling oil, wild beasts, and a hundred horses drawing several ways and tearing one limb from another, with all the hellish devices of the most barbarous and cruel tyrants, all this does not reach the least part of the mildest pains of purgatory.”
The Scriptures declare that “God is love” and that “the dead know not anything”. (1 John 4:8; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) “Purgatory” is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and “hell” is shown to mean the grave. With this in mind, note the horrors invented by the Hierarchy:
Few Englishmen are aware of the infamous publications written with this object [of scaring the children] that are circulated by Catholic priests among the poor. I have before me a tract “for children and young persons” called Sight of Hell, by Rev. J. Furniss, C.Ss.R. It is a detailed description of the dungeons of hell, and a few sentences may serve as an example: “See! on the middle of that red-hot floor stands a girl; she looks about sixteen years old. Her feet are bare. She has neither shoes nor stockings . . . Listen! she speaks. She says: ‘I have been standing on this burning floor for years. Look at my burnt and bleeding feet. Let me go off this burning floor for one moment . . .’ The fourth dungeon is the boiling kettle . . . in the middle of it there is a boy . . . His eyes are burning like two burning coals. Two long flames come out his ears . . . But listen! there is a sound like a kettle boiling. The blood is bubbling and boiling in his head . . . The fifth dungeon is the red-hot oven . . . The little child is in this red-hot oven. Hear how it screams to come out. See how it turns and twists itself in the fire. It beats itself against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor . . . God was very good to this child. Very likely God saw that it would get worse and worse, and would never repent, and would have to be punished much worse in hell. So God in his mercy called it out of the world in its early childhood.” This is from a quotation by Protestant Press Bureau from W. E. H. Lecky’s, History of European Morals, Vol. II, page 94.
The acts of this unholy and blasphemous organization are thus in exact accord with the horrors they have conceived God as guilty of. Is it not in keeping that the same organization should defame God’s holy name and also persecute in the most fiendish manner all of His witnesses? Castration, rack, gridiron, torture chamber, in the hands of the most vicious mobocracy, is what America is headed for. Let the Legion, Roosevelt, and any other who wishes, hobnob with these bloody tormentors of the righteous. Let them arm themselves in the most invincible manner. Let them conquer the earth. Let them heap up lies and sanctify war. They are certain to perish. “I will slay the last of them with the sword; he that fleeth of them shall not escape (R.V.); and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell [Sheol; that is, dig holes in the earth to shield them from the bombs of airplanes and gas attacks], thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven [take to the air in planes to escape from the trouble], thence will I bring them down; and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel [rocky caves in the mountains], I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea [in submarine boats], thence will I command the serpent [the bringer of evil and calamity], and he shall bite them [destroy them]; and though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword [Christ, the Executioner of Jehovah’s commands], and it shall slay them; and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.”—Amos 9:1-4, with brackets quoted from the Watchtower magazine, issue of September 1, 1940.
The stage is about ready for the last act. The religious, political and commercial elements are as thick as thieves and acting with one accord. Allied with them is the “evil servant” company, those once companions of Jehovah’s witnesses and now their bitterest enemies. This traitor class is doing its part to besmirch Jehovah’s name and cruelly scourge the Lord’s servants with the vilest falsehoods. Let this gang all get together and do their worst. The Lord will take them in His stride. “Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.”—Isaiah 8:9, 10.
Many have attempted to excuse themselves from responsibility by saying that Jehovah’s witnesses are trouble-makers, hate-peddlers, and that they would not be in trouble if they would take some other course of action. Such words will not excuse them before the Lord. If the message of Jehovah causes those who hear it to riot, the fault cannot be laid upon the bearers of the message. It may not be pleasant to hear the words telling of Jehovah’s vengeance, but it is worse than folly to stop the mouths of God’s servants and say “all’s well”. Jehovah’s witnesses bring the storm warnings and tell, by the Lord’s command, how this storm of bloodshed may be escaped. This is a friendly act, and not one of hate, as the writer in the Saturday Evening Post claims. To kill and persecute the watchmen-for-the-people’s-safety is vicious beyond description. Let those who desire mercy at the hands of the Lord have no part therein.
A clear answer to those who claim that the witnesses are “hate provokers” is found in the Watchtower magazine, September 1, 1940, page 261:
The clergy today wrongfully charge Jehovah’s witnesses with intolerance toward Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. The facts are that Jehovah’s witnesses are intolerant to no one. They hold that every one has the right to freely express himself, and also that the teachings or doctrines put forth by any person or system may be properly and freely criticized. In no other way can the people learn just now which is correct. Jehovah’s witnesses proclaim the truth as it is written in the Scriptures, and which God commands all his covenant people to proclaim at the present time. Those who have a desire to learn and who therefore have an ear to hear will give heed to what is published. No others will give heed.
The information submitted herein is for the same ones, ‘those who desire to learn.’ As for the Hierarchy and her allies who favor and promote MOBOCRACY, they are going literally to hell (the grave). (Psalm 9:17) Let no one be deceived into thinking the Hierarchy invincible because of their show of power. The Lord laughs at them and lets them keep on only until His appointed time to annihilate them and all wickedness. (Daniel 11:27) Let the honest-hearted have no part in the MOBOCRACY, which has sealed the doom of its operator, but remember the injunctions of the Lord if they desire His salvation: “Before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.”—Zephaniah 2:2, 3.
Who Incites Riots?
The Los Angeles Examiner, issue of October 11, 1940, tells
WHERE BLAME LIES
NEW DEAL HAS FOSTERED ROWDYISM
Of course, it is unfortunate for everybody—and most unfortunate for the third-term party—that ROWDYISM has made its appearance in the presidential campaign.
We refer to those incidents in which a woman RFC employee tossed heavy articles at a Willkie crowd from an eighteenth-floor window, severely injuring another young woman; in which a newspaper correspondent was gashed when a stone was hurled through a window of a Willkie campaign train; in which objects were thrown at Wendell L. Willkie himself; and in which the wife of the Republican nominee for president had her clothes spattered with egg.
President Roosevelt has expressed hope that state laws will be invoked to punish and to prevent assaults upon Mr. Willkie, and that Federal workers implicated in such misconduct will lose their jobs.
And yet—we may well inquire—whose fault is it, at bottom, if in the simple minds of some New Deal adherents and beneficiaries HOODLUMISM and LAWLESSNESS are regarded as New Deal campaign policies?
Is there not something of the spirit of LAWLESSNESS in Mr. Roosevelt’s own assault upon the Supreme Court and the independence of the judiciary?
Has not the New Deal itself preached and practiced and condoned LAWLESSNESS?
Did not Mr. Roosevelt exhort Congress to subvert the Constitution, which is the fundamental law of the land, by passing a Guffey coal bill notwithstanding any reasonable doubts as to its constitutionality?
Did not Mr. Roosevelt himself commit a LAWLESS DEED—so held in court—by arbitrarily removing a chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from office?
Have not New Deal boards and bureaus been found guilty in court of depriving citizens of their rights to “DUE PROCESS OF LAW”?
Did not the New Deal, through Secretary of Labor Perkins, flagrantly flout for years the immigration and deportation laws?
Did not the New Deal encourage, and even abet, LAWLESSNESS and VIOLENCE in the “sit-down” strikes?
Is it surprising, then, that in the very region of these strikes New Deal camp followers should lawlessly try to intimidate by violence the anti-New Deal candidate for president?
But the New Deal has done more than to weaken our respect for law.
By its pernicious system of political bounties and pillage of the public treasury, and by its vicious appeals to CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS—which inevitably begets CLASS HATRED, the New Deal has actually labored to make America MOB-MINDED.
And neither LAW nor DEMOCRACY can survive in a mob-minded country.
Among such a populace, there are bound to be MANY who believe that A MISSILE is a better political weapon than A BALLOT.
More than 600 cases fully prepared,
setting forth the evidence of mob violence against Jehovah’s witnesses, have been filed with the Department of Justice, but the THIRD-TERM CANDIDATE will not permit his Attorney General Jackson to prosecute these cases. WHY? Maybe since election some action will be taken!—Elton Groves.
Edinburgh Theocratic Convention
EDINBURGH, Scotland’s beautiful capital, was chosen for the second in the series of the Theocratic Convention in Britain, September 13-15, 1940. Petrol is scarce and motorcars fewer in wartime Britain, but ways and means are always found by the loyal to attend a gathering of this kind. Glasgow chartered a special train to bring 400 to the convention city. Four young men, enthused by the Manchester convention, determined to get to Edinburgh, their only means of transit being by pedal cycle. Starting from Manchester on Wednesday morning, they reached Kendal, a distance of 70 miles by nightfall. Having nowhere to sleep, they turned into a field under a tree, covered themselves with their coats and slept the sleep of the just. On the road again early Thursday morning, cycling 70 miles through rain and storm, reaching Galashiels by night, sleeping in a transport café; off again on Friday morning, doing the last 33 miles to Edinburgh in two hours and putting four hours in the service work before the convention officially started, having cycled over 200 miles.
Organization calls for efficiency, each one doing the job to which he is assigned. J. Herries McCulloch, noted Scot novelist and columnist, writing in the Daily Express dated 14th September, stated:
Noticing the activity outside Kingdom Hall, when I was down in Stockbridge yesterday, I walked into the building to see what was going on. The Theocratic Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses was in process of being opened. Organizing efficiency and publicity seem to play an important part in putting this convention across. Before I could turn around I was put in touch with a Witness who attends to back-calls and the Press. He gave me the low-down on the underlying principle which has brought these enthusiastic Witnesses to the capital. While he talked I kept glancing at a huge banner which extended from one end of the hall to the other—its message was “RELIGION IS A SNARE AND A RACKET”.
Saturday’s meetings were held in the spacious Kingdom Hall which is used by the Edinburgh company. Its main hall seats 600 to 700 people, with adjoining offices and rooms suitable for smaller meetings, and a Pioneer Home above it housing seven full-time publishers. There are 100 pioneers working in Scotland, all of whom were present at the convention, together with many from over the border. “WANTED! MORE PIONEERS” was featured on the platform under the large banner bearing the year’s text. Britain has now over 1,000 pioneers and needs more.
Following the afternoon session, 296 publishers, fully equipped with magazine bags, went out onto the streets of this proud city inviting the people to read The Watchtower and Consolation. The public had been in the habit of seeing only twelve magazine publishers on their streets at one time, and the addition of over 280 to this number created quite a stir. It was noticed that a large number of motorists stopped their cars to obtain a magazine. There were 360 magazines, three books and three booklets put in circulation in the short time at the disposal of the “locusts”. Magazine bags everywhere! Witnesses wearing them all the time, in the meetings and outside of them—what a wonderful means of advertising the Theocratic Government, The Watchtower and Consolation these bags are!
Taking their stand for Jehovah’s Kingdom. Immersion, Edinburgh convention.
The highlight of Saturday’s meetings was reached when A. D. Schroeder read Judge Rutherford’s lecture entitled “The End”. This had come too late for the Manchester convention, and was a special thrill to those assembled in Edinburgh. A letter from Judge Rutherford to A. D. Schroeder was read out on this occasion, being received with great joy, and the impression left upon the minds of those present was that a strong bond of unity existed between the American and British friends, and it was unanimously approved with a shout of “Aye” to send a cablegram to the president expressing love and loyalty to Jehovah’s organization.
Sunday’s meetings were held in the spacious Usher Hall, seating 3,000 and beautifully equipped for a convention of this kind. Twelve hundred brethren gathered to receive instruction and do service for the Kingdom. 1,063 publishers in the field placed 552 books, 4,940 booklets, putting in 2,519 hours of field service and placing 1,182 magazines. Sound attendance amounted to 358, and 26 back-calls were made. Territory which had been done on Saturday was again covered by some publishers on Sunday; and while one person threatened to call the police if this daily visiting continued, five publishers placed twelve bound books, as well as booklets and magazines, and found good interest.
Special points noted in the speech given by J. Hemery on Sunday afternoon were: That Jehovah’s people need spiritual sustenance and need to study at this time more than ever; that the “perilous times” which had come did not refer to the bombing by the hordes of Hitler, but did refer to the increasing attack on Jehovah’s witnesses by the religionists; that the winding up of this world’s order would find no scripture left unfulfilled; that demonized Germany had commenced its “Blitzkrieg” against Britain, but God would soon start His “Blitzkrieg” at Armageddon.
A. D. Schroeder’s address, which followed, had as its main points the need of a clear vision in order to remain in God’s organization and the fact that the gathering of the great “multitude” must continue; that cleanliness of speech and body and the putting away of such things as smoking are not religion, but the proper attitude of Jehovah’s witnesses toward their Creator, and that obedience to our “mother” was not for the purpose of serving any man, but to the honor of God. Both these speeches were heartily appreciated by those assembled.
Publishers taking part in the songs and declarations feature of the convention gave many interesting experiences, among which were the following: One lady, who said she always took the books when called upon, had visited Germany, Russia and Spain making a special study of their political and economic conditions, and was convinced of the failure of those systems, was unable to understand the truth until a model study was started in her house—she needed the Witnesses to help her take her stand. Another, who said she had got the truth in 1918, had her greatest joy in 1940, her husband and daughter accepting the truth and her son and his wife coming along. Another, taking advantage of every opportunity, while traveling by train, spoke to a girl in the carriage, who turned out to be a Roman Catholic, accepted the message, abandoned the Roman Catholic church and became a full-time pioneer—all within the space of three months.
The need for conducting model studies had so impressed one of the publishers that, when he was asked to take a sick sister to the hospital from the convention and was accompanied by an Air Raid Precaution worker attached to Usher Hall, while waiting for the sister to be treated in hospital he opened up a model study in his car with this A.R.P. worker, she asking the questions at the end of the Salvation book and he answering them from the Scriptures. After an hour of this she obtained the Salvation book and promised to attend the evening lecture. Meanwhile the sick sister had left the hospital and returned to the convention.
Sunday’s highspot was Judge Rutherford’s lecture “Religion as a World Remedy”. Over 1,500 people listened to this with keen attention. One young man was so enthused as the lecture progressed that he could not refrain from commenting upon it to a lady seated by his side, who turned out to be a Roman Catholic but caught some of his enthusiasm and obtained from him a Religion book, giving this young fellow one of the greatest joys of his life.
A bonnie lass with a bonnie message
It has to be acknowledged that some of the Scottish papers had been fairer in their treatment of Jehovah’s witnesses than many others in various parts of Britain. They gave the convention a square deal. Reporters were sent from these papers to interview officials of the convention, special mention being made of The Scottish Daily Express, enjoying the largest circulation of any daily paper in Scotland, The Scotsman, the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch and The Evening News, and the Glasgow Herald, The Daily Express and The Bulletin carrying good photographs of the immersion service held in the Glenogle baths, at which 61 of Jehovah’s witnesses were immersed. The Daily Express staff reporter said: I expected to find flowing beards and locks, long robes, mystic signs and incantations among these followers of the American Judge Rutherford, the opponent of present-day religion. Instead, I found a group of normal-looking men, women and children in coloured bathing suits. Some of the younger women wore brief, fashionable two-piece costumes. Many men and women lined up on the opposite side of the baths filed into the water, were grasped expertly by smiling young men and lowered backwards until they were completely under water. This baptism means only that those who undergo it are giving an outward manifestation of their acceptance of God.
“These newspapers carried splendid “write-ups” of the convention and gave a fair report of its proceedings, the aims and objects of the Society, and the answer to the Society’s critics.
The convention ended with the conviction firmly fixed in the minds of those attending of the near approach of the time when “they shall say, Peace and safety”, the sign that Armageddon will begin. The conventioneers trooped out of the brightly lit Usher Hall into the blackout conditions of wartime Britain, but a full moon, which could not be blacked out, helped many on their homeward journey through the night to distant parts.—E. J. Guiver.
A Highland Laddie Theocratic publisher
Braw magazine lads at Edinburgh convention
Law-abiding
Some policemen, sheriffs and other public officers think they have the right to interfere with Jehovah’s witnesses preaching the gospel by presenting to the people the printed message and receiving from them a contribution. In this they are wrong. The Supreme Court of the United States in several cases has decided that Jehovah’s witnesses are acting entirely lawfully in preaching the gospel in this manner. Atlantic City ignored those decisions. United States District Court of New Jersey has issued an injunction against them, restraining Atlantic City, its officers, agents, servants and employees from enforcing or applying against Jehovah’s witnesses any ordinance or law or arresting or imprisoning or prosecuting them for carrying on their work in distributing literature as above mentioned. A copy of that Opinion appears below:
A TRUE COPY:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
Civil Action No. 1013.
Mitchell Dallas, Peter Butrus, Edith Sellers, Francis Belmont, Charles Jenkins, Jack Hardy, Helen Yourinko, and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., a New York corporation,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
City of Atlantic City, a municipal corporation, Thomas D. Taggart, Jr., James McMenamin, William S. Cuthbert, and Albert Shahadi,
Defendants.
DECREE FOR PERMANENT INJUNCTION
At Trenton, in said district on the 11th day of October, 1940,
This proceeding coming on for hearing for decree for permanent injunction in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants, and upon the pleadings as filed and amended by order of the court; and it appearing that the allegations in the complaint, as amended, are admitted by the defendants, and that no answer has been filed by any of said defendants within the time limited by the rules of this court; and it further appearing that due notice of the application for entry of this decree has been given to the defendants herein; and the Court, upon the proceedings had herein, being satisfied that the defendants under color of law are acting unlawfully and are depriving the individual plaintiffs and other Jehovah’s witnesses of their civil rights of freedom of press and freedom of worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences;
NOW THEREFORE, upon motion of Abram Waks, attorney for the plaintiffs herein, it is ORDERED that the defendants, their officers, agents, servants and employees be and they are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from enforcing and applying against the plaintiffs and other Jehovah’s witnesses ordinance No. 17 of the year 1917 of the City of Atlantic City as amended by ordinance No. 26 of the year 1937 of said city, or any existing ordinance amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and from arresting, imprisoning and prosecuting said plaintiffs and other Jehovah’s witnesses under said ordinances by reason of the lawful conduct of said plaintiffs and other Jehovah’s witnesses in distributing, disseminating and selling the magazines, periodicals and pamphlets connected with their faith on the streets or highways of Atlantic City.
And it is further ORDERED that the plaintiffs are entitled to costs to be taxed against the defendants.
[signed] FORMAN
U. S. D. J.
I hereby consent to the entry of the within decree.
[signed] SAMUEL BACKER
Attorney for defendants.
“Not ashamed of the gospel of Christ”
Theocratic publisher at Edinburgh convention
Amid Ravening Wolves
◆ Writing in the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, H. R. Hewitt wants to know when any of Jehovah’s witnesses have disturbed or broken up other people’s meetings; and, of course, there is no answer—except to remember the words of the Lord to His own disciples, “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”—Matthew 10:16.
(To be continued) The Castor Oil Legion
IF THE United States of America had a patriotic organization of half a million men devoted to the perpetuation of the principles which actuated Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln, such an organization would be of priceless value to the American people at this critical time, when the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is taking over the country; but when an organization conceived in a spirit of Fascism allies itself with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, takes orders from the Hierarchy and devotes its energies to the destruction of American ideals and American institutions, claiming all the time to be one-hundred-percent American in everything it does, it is high time the American people knew the facts.
Among the notable financiers who organized the American Legion, several have been sent to the penitentiary for fraud and conspiracy. The history of Swift & Company reeks with fraud. They had a big hand in organizing the Legion. One of the principal organizers of the Legion, a man worth thirty million dollars, said he was willing to spend half of his pile to save the other half. The commander of the Legion in 1923, Alvin Owsley, made the threat of treating the citizens of the United States as the Fascisti treated the citizens of Italy.
Evidence at hand shows a conspiracy in many places to turn Jehovah’s witnesses over to American Legion mobs, which mobs are directed and controlled by Roman Catholic priests. Such a mob was organized in Richwood, West Virginia, June 28, 1940. American citizens proceeding with their rights to secure signers to a petition for freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and freedom of the press were arrested by state police, taken to police headquarters, and there were turned over to the American Legion for such mob action as the American Legion saw fit. The right of a trial was refused. The police stated that there would be no trial and that the American Legion would proceed summarily. A mob of about 260 collected, and seized books, phonograph records and reports.
The police called the priest and in very profane language told him they had three of the witnesses, and others were being rounded up. One of the police hit one of the witnesses twice because he quoted Scripture. The witnesses, eventually nine in number, were roped together like cattle. A doctor came in with a stomach pump and nine eight-ounce bottles of castor oil. The mob seized the witnesses, five of them holding one man, and compelled four of these innocent men to drink the castor oil.
Still roped together the witnesses were led through the town, where they were abused by the American Legion leaders. They were then marched out of town and compelled, in doing so, to carry all their belongings. A mob of 2,000 people lined the way. An American Legion spokesman falsely told the crowd that these innocent men were Communists, but truly told them that they put the great Jehovah God above any flag. He also threatened that if anyone in the crowd showed sympathy for these suffering Christian men he would be roped in the same group. The mob followed for a mile and a half shouting insulting expressions like “Heil Hitler”, “Hitler spies—beware!” “Fifth Column—beware!”
The way in which this conspiracy between the police, the Catholic priests and the American Legion was carried out shows that here are three elements under the control of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy whose aim is to place all Americans under the control of the pope regardless of what happens to American institutions. Certainly every order-loving resident of America can say, “Shame on such police! shame on the shameless Hierarchy! and shame on the un-American Legion!” Railroads and Steamships
Minding Their Business
◆ The people of Clydeside, Scotland, have learned the great art of minding their own business and keeping their mouths shut. They knew that the 86,000-ton super-liner of the seas Queen Elizabeth had disappeared from the place where it was built, but because they knew that in wartime careless talk costs lives none of them said anything about it. Probably some suspected that the $28,750,000 liner was being sent to New York for safety, but they kept still about it and it was good that they did. The beautiful vessel zigzagged her way across the Atlantic, saw no vessel of any kind on the way, and poked her nose into New York harbor safe and sound. She is 1,031 feet long, and the men who brought her believe she will sometime lower the record of her little sister the Queen Mary, which made the Atlantic crossing in 3 days 21 hours 48 minutes. The little sister is not so little, only twelve feet shorter than the “Elizabeth”.
Second-Class Pullmans
◆ A new type of second-class Pullmans is being constructed that seems to have some good possibilities. The cars will have a side corridor and ten compartments. In five of the compartments there will be room for six passengers each, with upper, middle and lower berths, and in the other five compartments there will be room for three passengers, each with upper, middle and lower berths. The plan is to make a very moderate charge; and if this principle is adhered to the new cars will be a success. Each compartment will have a folding wash basin and hot and cold water, mirrors, etc.
Railroads Are Efficient
◆ In a little leaflet entitled “Railroads Can Do the Job” the railroads point out that in 1918 the average freight car could carry 42 tons, but now it carries 50 tons. The engines now have 43-percent more pulling power than they had then, and they look it. The freight trains move 64-percent faster now than they did then. The result of all this is that the railroad efficiency is more than doubled, because now there are 32,150 ton-miles per freight-train hour as against 14,877 ton-miles in 1920. Since 1920 freight cars may not be used as warehouses.
Half a Ship Reaches Scotland
◆ Somewhere off the British isles a torpedo blew off the front half of a ship and that portion disappeared beneath the waves. British seamen remaining on the vessel steered what was left of their ship to Scotland. They made 100 miles in ten days and made one more record of skill and pluck that no real man could fail to appreciate. For some reason this particular kind of manhood makes a greater appeal than the Nazi brand, which finds such perfect expression in abuse and torture of helpless prisoners in concentration camps.
Blimp Rescues at Sea
◆ Off New Jersey blimp rescues have taken place, experimentally. In one experiment the blimp lowered a rubber lifeboat from a height of 100 feet, a sailor climbed from another boat to the rubber lifeboat and was lifted to the blimp; then the procedure was reversed, and he was landed back where he started. Then a rope ladder was dropped from the blimp and a sailor climbed up and climbed back. It seems as if, in some weathers, this form of rescue has some possibilities.
Russia’s Six-Year Labor Service
◆ A million Russian boys every year will hereafter be drafted for state labor service and must each serve six years. The first two years will be devoted to their training in specially created industrial schools, and the next four years to work in state-operated enterprises.
Russia
The Ill-led Russian Army
◆ The Russians have plenty of artillery, but it is “mishandled” and the marksmanship is poor. The Russian soldiers are not suitably equipped for the climate; many of them limp on frozen feet. The organization of attack is reported as “second-rate”. Costly errors, such as tank assaults against impossible obstacles, are repeated blindly.
Finnish officers attribute this chiefly to Stalin’s purges. It has been estimated that out of the entire Russian command above the rank of major only 20 percent are left; the rest are dead or banished to Siberia. Their technical knowledge, their training, their organizing ability, their leadership, are buried with them and gone for ever. Those who remain are said to be afraid to accept responsibility, uncertain in attack, hesitant in retreat. Apparently this demoralization reflects itself in the lower ranks and throughout the service of supply which must back up the fighting forces. All the well-fed political commissars in the world cannot make up for the officer-victims of the Red firing squads. A man of steel may purge his way to power in time of peace. It is another matter to purge one’s way to victory in time of war.—New York Times.
Murdered Too Many
◆ Stalin and his gang murdered too many of their own men. Determined to be Russia’s czar in everything but name, and perhaps even in that, Stalin did not show the brains of one. Out of 754 high army officers he had 349 put to death in the purges of 1939, and the ones that remained were the least competent, because they contained the boasters and the lickspittles. As a consequence, military men the world over now have little fears of anything from Russia except bluffs. Little Finland’s fight completely changed the plans of Britain.
“Peaceful Occupation” of Rumania
◆ Week by week the dictators get more and more beastly. A new record was made by Stalin when he demanded immediate surrender of Bessarabia from Rumania. The demand was complied with on the instant, but the new-style hero was not satisfied with that, but fired on the evacuating army, killing and wounding whole trainloads just for the sheer fun of the thing. Russia also terrorized the Rumanians with the new baby tanks brought to the scene with huge airplanes. All hail to the Creator’s purpose to obliterate all such beastly murderers in the impending battle of Armageddon! The earth will have no peace until that is done, and only He, the eternal and almighty God, Jehovah, can do it.
Cynical Russia
◆ Hitler scolding at Austria, or Czechoslovakia, or Poland, or Norway, or any other country he has grabbed recently, could not have surpassed the cynicism of Russia in scolding at Lithuania and pretending that it was necessary to grab the country in order to prevent it from torturing Russian soldiers, plotting an open attack on the Russian army and kidnaping and murdering Soviet soldiers. One can almost hear the Russian sons of the Devil laugh while they were drawing up the fanciful charges.
Licking Stalin’s Boots
◆ On the day that Stalin’s sixtieth birthday was celebrated the leading Soviet paper, Pravda, which name means “Truth”, had on its back page one column of news of every kind while the remaining seventy-one columns of the paper were devoted to Stalin praise and propaganda. The editor of Pravda probably debated long whether he would dare put in a whole column about other events in the world when it was his particular job to lick the boots of the “great” Stalin.
Rocky Mountain States
The Bill of Rights
◆ The Bill of Rights is as important to you now as it was to the men and women of 148 years ago. Because of it you are free—free to belong to any church you please, or to none; free to speak or print or write your opinions; free to complain against and to the government; free from unreasonable search and seizure of your home, your property and your person; free from arbitrary, cruel or unusual punishment; free to demand a prompt and public jury trial if you are accused of crime; free to own property which not even the government can take from you save by due process of law and with just compensation.
But these freedoms are not for you alone. They belong to all, and all must be permitted to use them or none can long have them. That is what we must remember today, when freedom is denied or restrained in many other countries and when in our own country doctrines hateful to the majority are being preached by minorities.
Even those who despise the Bill of Rights, even those who would destroy it if they came to power, are entitled to its protection. For denying freedom to them would be the first step toward denying freedom to you.—Rocky Mountain News.
“Kangaroo” Courts
◆ “Kangaroo” courts or mock courts held in prisons or jails are merely a device by which lazy, incompetent, shiftless, good-for-nothing “officials” get out of their own proper work by placing it in the hands of the lowest, meanest, most vicious stool-pigeons in their care. Such prisoners have been permitted to fine other prisoners, order them to perform distasteful tasks, and inflict punishment upon them, all illegally but none the less real. In Denver they killed a 16-year-old boy, and other ill-governed cities are involved. The Department of Justice may and should bring criminal proceedings against every official that permits such atrocities to the prisoners in his care.
Salmon Industry Is Saved
◆ Many feared that the building of the Bonneville dam in the Columbia river would put an end to the salmon fishing; but the fears have proved groundless, for the fish are climbing the 1,200 concrete fish ladders made by man, and seem to like it. The jumps in the ladders are only a foot high, and the big forty-pounders that used to leap the seventy-foot Cascade Rapids find it no job at all to swim right up; they don’t even bother to jump at all. All the fishermen up stream report that the fish arrive at the headwaters in better condition than when they used to have to make the big leap to get back home.
Apple Growers Hit by War
◆ American apple growers were hit hard by the war, because Britain and France decided they could get along without the $16,000,000 worth of apples and pears usually taken by the two countries. Now it happens that in the state of Washington the growing of apples is the third largest industry in the state and Washington fruit growers just do not see how they can get along without the foreign market to which they are accustomed. The growers appealed to American Labor (A.F. of L.) to buy 4,000,000 boxes (6,000 carloads) and help them in their predicament.
The New Carlsbad Cavern
◆ The new Carlsbad cavern, recently found in New Mexico, may be an extension of the older one, but, in any event, it is one of the largest in the world. One chamber is described as 700 feet wide, three miles long, and with a ceiling so high that it could not be discerned even with the aid of powerful searchlights.
Speed
CONSOLATION, usually so well informed, has it all wrong when it reports that the fastest speed ever accomplished by a human creature was that of 670 miles an hour, performed by Lieutenant Troy Keith when his plane fell four miles to the earth. You call THAT fast!
I have done over a thousand miles an hour inside this very room in which I am now sitting. That means that at the same speed the distance from here, Bombay, to there, New York, a distance of thirteen thousand miles as the crow flies, would take twelve hours; and the earth could be circled at the equator in twenty-four hours. But wait a minute, I have not started yet.
I do not call that fast, either. I have traveled on a moving vehicle going at a speed of 68,000 miles an hour; and slept soundly during the journey, too! Let me see, at that rate it would take only three months to travel from here to the sun, a distance of 93,000,000 miles. This is considerably faster than my 1,000 miles an hour; but there is more to follow.
To understand my next you must imagine a man running at ten miles an hour on the roof of a train traveling at sixty miles an hour. It is obvious that the total speed of the man would be seventy miles an hour. Well, it was like that on the vehicle just mentioned that was doing 68,000 miles an hour. That speed was relative to another vehicle that was itself doing 43,000 miles an hour, making a total of 111,000 miles an hour. Speeding up, aren’t we!
I have nearly finished. To this last total you may add the 1,000 miles an hour first mentioned, bringing the grand total up to 112,000 miles an hour. THAT is the fastest speed that man has ever traveled, not 670 miles an hour.
How did I do it? Easy! I just sat at home in this chair and let the Solar System do the rest. This earth turns at a surface speed of 1,000 miles an hour; the earth speeds around the sun at 68,000 miles an hour; and the sun, the “hub” of the Solar System “wheel”, is rushing towards the constellation Hercules at 43,000 miles an hour. So on favorable occasions the sum of these is our speed, the aforementioned 112,000 miles an hour.
That is the greatest speed that any human creature has traveled, but it is not by any means fast. Light rays and radio waves travel at the speed of 670,000,000 miles an hour, or six thousand times as fast; which makes our speeds look sick.
If the seat of Jehovah’s Universal Government is anywhere near to the center, then spirit creatures must travel at speeds far exceeding that of light. In Job 1:6,7 we read, “There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. . . . And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth.” How long did it take that spirit creature to do that return journey? Unless he traveled considerably faster than light, or unless the seat of Government is remarkably near to this earth, it would have taken him thousands of years or more. It is reasonable to presume that light, very fast to our way of thinking, is slow to them. They pass it by with the air that travelers on transcontinental trains adopt when overtaking the slow suburban.
The fact remains that speed is a relative thing, and whilst we may be sure that Lieutenant Troy Keith thought he was going very fast when his plane fell those four miles towards the earth, yet actually he may have been traveling in the direction exactly opposite to what he thought he was, according to which direction the earth at that moment was speeding through space, and his fall to earth causing him to go much slower than the rest of us.—C. S. Goodman, India.
COUNSEL by Judge Rutherford
The Mimic of Theocracy
IN THESE final days a monstrosity appears in the earth, and claims the right to rule the world, and to regiment the people. It is called the “corporate state” or “totalitarian rule”. The ruling power is centered in a dictator, and all the people are commanded to be subject to that dictator. Such totalitarian rule is against the Most High and against His kingdom and is brought forth as a counterfeit of His kingdom. It is the attempt of the great enemy of mankind to mimic the government of the Most High and to bring reproach upon His name and to turn the people away from Him and into destruction, in order that the enemy, the Devil, may succeed in carrying out his original wicked challenge to the Almighty God. That monstrosity is made up of extremely selfish rulers, such as Fascists, Nazis, Communists and the leading religionists, of which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is chief. Note now the apparent likeness between the monstrosity and the kingdom of God, which the monstrosity tries to counterfeit.
He who rules over all is God, the Supreme One, hence Jehovah is called and is the great “Theocrat”, in whom reside all power and authority. Christ Jesus, whom He has appointed King, is Jehovah’s officer, the administrator of His Theocratic government. On the earth following the approaching battle of Armageddon will be the visible representatives of Christ Jesus during His reign, to wit, the faithful men of old, raised from the dead, such as Abel, Abraham, David, and others; specifically named in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. To that Theocratic government under Christ Jesus all the people must be fully obedient if they would live, and none will be permitted to live except those who render themselves in obedience to that government. The Theocratic Government will be wholly and entirely righteous and will establish lasting peace, prosperity, joy and happiness and give life everlasting to all obedient ones on the earth.
The monstrosity, the counterfeit, and product of the Devil, is, as viewed from the earth: Government or governments ruled by an arbitrary dictator to whom all the people are required to give allegiance and full obedience, and all the people are regimented and directed as to what they may or may not do, and the dictator’s word is law. Furthermore, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the great religious institution of the earth, claims the right and authority to rule the earth as the vicegerent or representative of Christ, to occupy the place over the dictatorial government as a spiritual overlord. Back of all this is the Devil himself, who claims to be equal to or superior to Jehovah God, The Theocrat. The monstrosity is entirely unrighteous, extremely wicked, and brings upon the people strife, war, suffering and ultimately everlasting death. The monstrosity claims to have authority to bring about peace and prosperity and induces the people to believe that a fact. Thus it is seen that the monstrosity, or mimic government, is this: The Devil assumes the place of Jehovah God; the Roman Catholic Hierarchy assumes the place of Christ Jesus the King, and the dictators of earth assume the place of the faithful men who shall be the princes in the earth. —Ps. 45:16.
The monstrosity, therefore, is a counterfeit of God’s kingdom and a mockery of God, and the means of working great deception upon the people. There is a deadly conflict, therefore, between the Theocratic government of Jehovah under Christ and the monstrosity or dictatorial government brought forth by the Devil.
The Lord Jesus foretold that the monstrosity would come forward at the time of the second coming of Christ Jesus and His kingdom. The indisputable facts show that exactly that thing has come to pass. Facts and fulfilled prophecies agree that in A.D. 1918 the heavenly King Christ Jesus came to the spiritual temple of Jehovah and gathered to himself those men and women on earth who at that time had proved faithful as witnesses to God. It was about the same time that the League of Nations was formed, the announced purpose of which was to rule the world and establish lasting peace and prosperity, and which League the clergy of the earth declared must rule as the representative of Christ. The League of Nations was in fact brought forth to blind the people and for a time was used by the Devil to pave the way for his dictatorial, totalitarian, monstrous rule. God had declared through His prophet that the League of Nations would be formed and would fail, and, of course, the Devil knew that fact. (Read Isaiah 8: 9, 10.) The Devil then saw to it that the totalitarian monstrosity arose in Italy under the name of Fascism, and later in Germany under the name of Nazism; in Russia it appears under the name of Communism; and now it practically dominates Europe. The dictators perform the political duties, and in this they are supported by the traffickers; and the great religious institution, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, acts as a spiritual super-power or overlord. Thus Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, political and religious powers, operate together and together constitute the great monstrosity, which is anti-God and anti-God’s kingdom under Christ. Thus it is seen that religion is the tie that binds together the political and other elements; and that religion, as well as this entire monstrosity, is the invention of the Devil is clearly proved by the Holy Scriptures.
As further evidence that the monstrosity is against God and Christ and His kingdom, the Hierarchy and their Fascistic-Nazi allies join together in a wicked persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses, because these proclaim the truth concerning the great Theocracy. The combination forming the monstrosity exactly fits the description given to it by Jesus, to wit, “the abomination of desolation,” which abomination was foretold by the prophet at Daniel 11: 31 and 12: 11. The kingdom of God under Christ is here. It is the only rightful rule of the world. Anything against or in opposition to that Theocratic government is an abomination in the sight of Almighty God.
The fact that the monstrosity claims the right to rule the world in the place and stead of Christ Jesus is conclusive proof that it does “stand in the holy place”, “where it ought not” to stand, and where it has no right to stand. Therefore the present is the time when the people must be warned as the Lord Jesus commands. His warning is given in these words: “When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains; . . . For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.”—Mark 13: 14, 19.
This warning Jesus gives specifically that people who are of good-will toward God and His kingdom of righteousness may have an opportunity to flee from the monstrosity and find refuge, safety and complete protection under Christ the King. Millions are held in religious organizations. To them the warning must be sounded, that they may flee from such organizations to the Lord’s kingdom. Also the warning must be sounded in the hearing of the religious leaders, that they may know that Jehovah is the only true God and that they may have no excuse whatsoever to oppose His kingdom, which is now here. Those who heed the warning will not be destroyed with the mimic of Theocracy.
Social
What the Gamblers Prefer
◆ Figures collected by the Gallup Poll show that 53 percent of the American people gamble habitually. The preferences of those who gamble, in the order and in the percentages in which they like to take their financial risks, are as follows: Church lotteries, 19 percent; punch boards, 17 percent; slot machines, 15 percent; playing cards, 14 percent; betting on elections, 13 percent; sweepstake tickets, 9 percent; betting on horses, 7 percent; and numbers games, 6 percent. So, if you are one of the many Americans that love to gamble, and you want to be in style, you should go in for religious gambling. It’s more—er—religious.
All You Owe Is $1,230
◆ All you owe, if you have only your due share of public and private debts, is a mere bagatelle of $1,230, so Washington says. That means that if you have a family of 5, and own a home worth $5,500 and a car worth $650, you could look your debtor straight in the face and go out in the world without a cent in your pocket and feel that you have squared your account and are ready for interment as soon as you have accumulated the price of a lot in the cemetery and the cost of grave-digging and other incidentals thereto attached.
Studies in Longevity
◆ Studies in longevity by Raymond Pearl, noted biologist of Johns Hopkins University, show that much smoking impairs longevity much, little smoking impairs longevity some, and the same goes for the use of alcohol. Hard work before forty harms no one, but hard work after forty cuts down longevity. The best chance for longevity is had by those whose parents lived to be nonagenarians. In other words: “The studies indicate that to attain to ripe old age one must start from ‘a pretty good egg’.”
The Decade of Hypocrisy
◆ Good-bye to the dirty thirties! They began in world-wide depression; they end in war. Between came tiger-pounces on the weak, sophisticated slaughter and the game, played by statesmen and deluded idealists, of calling things the opposite. The decade saw the climax of political rackets masquerading as ideologies—preaching one aim and practicing another. In the 1930’s the strong were not heroic, the victors never generous; liberals swallowed totalitarian nostrums, and compassion for the persecuted rarely passed beyond words. It was a decade of gigantic, crude swindle—cynical, brutal, disillusioning. History will deplore the decade, and mankind will be ashamed of it.—Upton Close in “1930-1940, Decade of Deceit”.
Ups and Downs of Population
◆ Between the 1930 and 1940 censuses New York city gained 449,813, and is now a city of 7,380,259 inhabitants; Baltimore gained 49,270, and is now 854,144; New Orleans gained 33,520, and is now 492,282; Chicago increased 8,118, to 2,384,556; Cincinnati, 16,692, to 452,282; Kansas City, 429, to 400,175; Detroit, 49,887, to 1,618,549; Milwaukee, 11,309, to 589,558; Minneapolis, 25,620, to 489,971. For some strange reason Philadelphia dropped off 15,875, to 1,931,086; St. Louis dropped off 8,212, to 813,748; and Pittsburgh dropped off 4,433, to 665,384. Probably the automobile has led many thousands to seek the country for home sites.
Was the World Ever Worse?
◆ According to the “Chicago Defender”, self-styled “World’s Greatest Weekly”, Evangeline Booth, general of the “Salvation Army”, made the following statement: “In my opinion the world is a better world than it has ever been in any previous era known to historians.”—J. W. Williams, Lithuania.
Surgery.
43 Years Without a Swallow
◆ I read an article in Consolation No. 500 which deeply impressed me. It was, “Thomas can swallow again.” I myself had that same misfortune. I drank caustic soda before I was two years of age. It ate the coating and lining out of my stomach, also my throat, which caused it to heal shut. I was put in the University of Pennsylvania hospital, Philadelphia, and there operated on. An opening was made on the outside of my stomach and the stomach was then sewed to the outside wall. A rubber tube or catheter is put in and I feed myself through that. All efforts to make me swallow have been in vain. I am not able to swallow even one drop of water by the mouth or throat, but, by the Lord’s grace, I am very healthy and have lived this way for 43 years. Have raised a family of seven strong, healthy children, ranging from 6 to 22 years of age, and, besides, Jehovah has graciously shown us His light and we are having a small part in the vindication of His great and holy name. I could write a book of my experiences, but I am of no importance. Declaring Jehovah’s vengeance is of greatest importance.—A Jonadab, Mrs. Sylvester Gross, Pennsylvania.
Severed Blood Vessels
◆ Severed blood vessels, it is now anticipated, will be mended by sliding into the arteries rods of sugar covered with an oil lotion. These rods serve as a darning egg, and, when the clamps are removed, dissolve and disappear in the blood stream, so it is claimed, in fifteen seconds. The inventor is a young man still studying medicine.
The Boy with Upside-down Vision
◆ In normal vision the retina of the human eye receives images upside down and these are reversed by nerve centers at the back of the brain. In Chicago Richard Kenealy, nine-year-old boy, saw moving things upside down, locomotives, playmates and other things. The trouble was diagnosed as delayed action in the nerves attached to his right eye, and by wearing glasses with one opaque lens, and frequently shifting the lens from one eye to the other, the difficulty was corrected and now Richard sees everything right side up like other boys.
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