Consolation, April 2, 1941

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Contents

The "New Order" in Europe (Part 1) 3

1940 Was the Year 3

The Catholic Press 4

Clerics Plotted France's Ruin 4

The Hierarchy of Nations 5

The New "Civilization" 6

What Is This "New Order"? 6

Kidnaped by Hitler 7

The Refuge of Lies 8

Habitations of Cruelty 9

Simon-pure Cussedness 10

New Government

A "Flying Trip" to the Detroit Convention 12

The Bombing of Leicester 15

Divine Protection of Literature 16

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Who May Celebrate 17

Labor — 17,452 Jobs — Mass Job Hunts 19

U.S.A. Legislative, Executive, Judicial Depts. 20

Mexico and West Indies 21

The Reclamation of Crank-Case Oil 22

Natural Phenomena 24

British Comment

Religionists' New World Order 25

The Pope's Five Peace Points 25

York's Archbishop 25

The Church and the World 26

God's New Order 27

Invention 31

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Notanda

The "New Order" Hailed and Denied

◆ June 9, 1940, the day before Mussolini stabbed France in the back, the pope told the new French ambassador that after the war he anticipated "a restoration of a new Christian order". July 8, 1940, his organ Osservatore Romano, stated that the principle of authority is higher than that of the human will, thus endorsing Fascism and Nazism, endorsed Salazar's regime in Portugal, stated that is the aspiration and program of the church, and then praised Marshal Petain, whose renovation of France along Fascist lines would be a dawn of "a new radiant day, not only for France, but for all Europe and the world".

November 10, 1940, the Jesuit priest L. O'Hea, in an address in Glasgow, reported in the London Catholic Universe, said that when the war is over "it will be a new world order, both at home and abroad, to which our principles must find their application". O'Hea is principal of the Catholic Workers' College at Oxford.

January 8, 1941, the Jesuit priest, J. Edward Coffey, professor of philosophy at St. Peter's College, in an address at East Orange, N.J., spoke on the topic "Pope Pius XII and the New Order in Europe". The Jesuits have been the advertisers of their proposed "new order" throughout the earth.

February 15, 1941, the Osservatore Romano, alarmed by the stubborn resistance of Britain and the Italian debacle in Africa, denied that the pope had said Europe must adjust itself to a new order, or that he was opposed to the democratic form of government, or that he had blessed the totalitarian troops of Italy, etc. That is Jesuitry.

Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, admitted that "the white that I see I would believe to be black, if the Hierarchical Church were so to rule it". See in any dictionary or encyclopedia the terms Jesuit, Jesuitical, Jesuitism, Jesuitry.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 2, 1941 Number 562

The "New Order" in Europe (In Four Parts—Part 1)

"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." (Revelation 12:12) . . . Satan's great wrath is directed against God and His organization. He therefore oppresses the people in divers and numerous ways and causes great sorrow and trouble to befall them and then induces his pious-faced and lying-lipped clergy to charge all these sorrows, woes and calamities up to Jehovah God. The reason is to turn the people away from God before Armageddon is fought. Satan sees that his time is short, and his purpose and attempt to turn people away from God is to get all on his side. The proclamation of the voice from heaven at this point of the Revelation ends, which indicates that the woes of the peoples of the earth will continue and will reach a climax in Armageddon.—Light* (Book One), page 245.

VON PAPEN, Papal chamberlain, expended millions of dollars to put Hitler the Gangster into power in Germany; so confesses Thyssen, also a millionaire, whose millions were also used to the same end. The objective was to destroy the German Republic; the plan worked perfectly. The anticipated outcome was to be the "new order" in Europe—the suppression of all liberty, the full establishment in power of "The Abomination that Maketh Desolate" under the aegis of the Vatican. After making Hitler dictator of Germany von Papen's next job for the pope was the betrayal of the Austrian Republic, which also succeeded perfectly. At present he is German ambassador to Turkey. As soon as he had destroyed the German Republic, Hitler's first achievement was to suppress the work of Jehovah's witnesses in Germany and put the witnesses themselves in concentration camps. Thus the Devil, the religionists, the politicians and the millionaires do teamwork together.

On January 14, 1934, only a few months after the suppression of the work of Jehovah's witnesses in Germany, and the seizure of their property, the above-named von Papen, in Hitler's own newspaper, Der Voelkischer Beobachter, made the observation, "The Third Reich is the first power that not only recognizes but puts into practice the high principles of the Papacy."

In May, 1937, an unnamed Nazi newspaper published a dispatch from Vienna occupying half of its front page, entitled "Catholic Europe Predicted", and stated that the plans are in pamphlet form and in the possession of prominent Catholics. The Trinidad Guardian of May 7, 1937, contains the story, from Berlin, accredited to "Transocean"—evidently a news service of that name. What this Nazi paper mentioned is now a reality.

1940 Was the Year

1940 (the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Order of Jesuits) was the year set for Papal domination of the

* By J. F. Rutherford.

earth; and there are those who think that if Britain had been invaded September 7-15 the job would have been fully completed by now. After the overrunning of Poland, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium and France, the setup looked so good to the pope that he began talking about the "new order" and the German bishops were sure it was at hand. Confidently they agreed that "the Catholic church in Germany is indebted to German troops for the victorious advance" without which "German Catholics could not have pursued so undisturbed and quietly their church work and ministerial offices". The statement was agreed to unanimously by all the 48 German bishops. The record of the church approval of the Nazi regime in Germany is 100-percent perfect and complete.

British resistance prevented the prompt fulfillment of Papal hopes, so the formal statement of the 48 bishops was delayed until after the success of the big putsch; but in the meantime the Army bishop, speaking for the entire Hierarchy, issued a statement that "there is no doubt as to who is right in this war and as to whom God will help". At this point, please read again the contents of the box at the head of this article: it helps to contrast the real God with the mimic god, the Devil, 'the god of this present evil world.' (2 Corinthians 4:4) The god of Bishop Rarkowski and of Hitler is the Evil One.

Cardinal Faulhaber, of Munich, backed up Rarkowski by publicly comparing the Nazi iron cross with the cross of Jesus as a symbol of reward. This is all regular. The United Press, in a dispatch from Rome, August 9, 1940, noted the accord "since the outbreak of the war last September, inasmuch as the Germans regard the Catholics as having well demonstrated their patriotism".

The Catholic Press

The American Freeman makes a continuous study of the attitude of the Catholic Press and sums up the principal Catholic papers as advocating: (1) that the United States should refuse aid to England because it wants totalitarianism to triumph, (2) that this refusal should be not only material and moral but military and naval, (3) that aid from Russia should be discouraged, (4) that British sea power must be destroyed, (5) that the Petain dictatorship for France be approved, (6) that dictatorship rule in Spain, Portugal and South America be encouraged. This summary is correct.

In the London Catholic Herald, May 3, 1940, just as one country after another was falling into the Pacelli-Hitler trap, Harry Tolfree made the very frank statement, "We must attempt to build within the ranks of the Catholic body groups of totalitarian Christians who will be the leaven penetrating the mass." Leaven, it may be added, is often a symbol of corruption; so the figure of speech was quite appropriate. Of similar import was the statement of Cardinal Hinsley at London that "it is only through Catholic truth that true and lasting peace amongst men can be assured". That is like saying that all must knuckle under to the pope and his Hitlers, Mussolinis, Francos and Salazars or there can be no peace. The Hierarchy's idea of Catholic truth in Spain was to put everything back in the hands of the nobles and the clergy and give the people nothing. There is the same Catholic truth in Hungary, where, of the 26 largest estates, 10 belong to Roman Catholic organizations and the common people are desperately poor.

Clerics Plotted France's Ruin

The Monitor claims that less than a month after France declared war on Germany many French clerics and editors and publishers of French Catholic papers entered into a conspiracy in Alsace to surrender the Maginot line to the Germans and, in order to meet the emergency, "it ordered the complete evacuation of over a million people. Literally the whole population of Alsace was forced to leave its homes for the interior of France, the province of Dordogne in the southwestern part of the republic. But even this did not save the republic from its traitors.

When Marshal Petain was made dictator of unoccupied France the Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s own organ, lauded him and the “new order” to the skies, proclaiming that, as they expressed it, “the principle of authority is higher than the human will.” This is a plain statement that the Vatican is in favor of dictatorships. See Notanda on page 2.

Petain calls his dictatorship “Hierarchical”, which is what it is. The French “Messenger of the Sacred Heart” acknowledges this, holding that before France can achieve its national aims the people must be “re-Christianized by education and Catholic Action”. And that this has long been in mind is shown by the “Prelude to Catholic Action”, published in Melbourne in 1936 by the Australian Catholic Truth Society, in which occurs the outline of what was largely accomplished in 1940: “We shall need an all-embracing scheme eventually—specialist groups for each class of Catholic, young and old, town workers and country workers, boys and girls in schools and colleges. It is all working splendidly in France and Holland, Belgium and Spain, Italy and Portugal.”

Swinging into line the London Catholic Herald declared that “conditions in unoccupied France are such at the moment that Catholic Action can be pushed forward intensively in response to the watchword of its leaders, ‘Go ahead more than ever.’” About the same time, at New Orleans, Louisiana, “Reverend” Daniel A. Lord, Jesuit, made the boast that “Catholics are in a better position now than at any time since the Reformation”. It must be conceded that the world was never in a worse condition.

At Vichy, January 14, 1941, the United Press was handed official propaganda by the Petain government of which it said, “It definitely cast France on the side of Italy, Spain and Portugal as against Britain.” The idea back of this is that the big-money and big-religion crowd would have everything. At this point it may be explained that one of France’s curses has been the von Wendel or De Wendel family. The name of the family is changed as the boundaries change between France and Germany, but the family itself, wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, thinks only in terms of money. From declaration of war, September, 1939, to April, 1940, von Wendel or De Wendel shipped 200,000 to 300,000 tons of iron ore into Germany every month. He wanted Germany to have the ore, so it could fulfill the Hierarchy’s desires as to France. He, and others like him, saw to it that when the war came into France the heavy artillery stood idle in French railroad yards. Moreover, the common soldiers of France knew that they were double-crossed by Pacelli officers, many of whom deliberately deserted their commands at the crisis.

The Hierarchy of Nations

Speaking for Italy, Signor Riccardi, Italian minister of Trade and Currency, said in Il Messaggero that the “new order” in Europe will be a Hierarchy of Nations, managed by Italy and Germany along Fascist lines. These will divide Africa to suit the Hierarchy and their currency will be the currency of Europe. The dealings with America will be for merchandise only. What a lovely Fascist dream!

The “new order” is in actual operation in Portugal, where some of its methods are thumbscrews, burning of the soles of the feet, squeezing the head in bookpresses, hanging by wrists and ankles, nude imprisonment in temperatures below zero, walking in a circle until the prisoner drops, and using an electric chair to provide shocks at recurrent intervals. So says Time and Tide, September 12, 1936. Salazar is reported by George Seldes as saying, “In the newspapers I often read this pitiful sentence: ‘The people must be taught to read’; and I say to myself, ‘What shall they read?’ It is education and undesirable literature, these are our enemies.”

The Watchtower, November 1, 1940, contains the interesting information, obtained from the Chicago Daily Times, that when Hitler has subdued Britain he will reveal himself to all South America as the friend of the Catholic church, of which, at the moment, he is the biggest asset.

German and Italian schools that teach totalitarian doctrines in Ecuador were aided by the Spanish dictator Franco, who sent four teachers from Spain, paying their salaries and expenses, to assist in the Pacelli-Hitler plan for world domination. The London Catholic Herald, September 6, 1940, noted that pro-Nazi priests were flocking into Chile in large numbers.

Just received in this office from Honduras is a yellow slip entitled “Asistencia al Catecismo”. It has a border of swastikas on three sides. When the intelligent father saw the swastikas he refused to let his children call on the priest, at Christmas time, for the presents which the yellow ticket disclosed might be theirs on its presentation.

The New “Civilization”

In Italy the pope has encouraged his representatives to hold forth the hope and expectation of a new civilization, described by the Vatican News Service as “Christian, Roman and German”. This demand, voiced by Angelo Bartolomasi, press chaplain for Italy, is that the war must be won for “a better European or rather world balance, for more honest and sincere co-ordination of nations, for better division of wealth and social production”, and, of course, for more religion. The idea suggested is that Pacelli, Mussolini and Hitler will do the necessary “Christian”, Roman and German dividing to put the deal across.

It will be remembered that in 1930, at which time the present pope was Papal secretary of state, it was a grave sin to every Catholic in Malta to refrain from voting, and it was a grave sin if they voted in a manner forbidden by the bishops. Of course, the bishops have no power to forgive sins, but they claim to have such power, and the people believe them; hence their control of politics in the island was absolute.

The drive against fifth column activities in the island of Malta in 1940 resulted in the arrest, quite naturally, of Herbert Ganada, executive editor of the Catholic Action paper, The Voice of Truth. With the declaration of war by Italy against Britain, the police of Hong Kong rounded up and interned twenty Italian residents, closed Italian firms and sealed the Italian consulate, but allowed more than 250 Italian priests, every one of which is a potential fifth columnist, unrestrained liberty.

High-pressure work is going on in Asia. Japan was promised a cut in the new civilization deal, hence a dispatch in the Roman Catholic Register tells of 140 nuns from 33 different congregations meeting for special instruction in Tokyo, with a view to the better co-ordination of their activities.

Uncle Sam is in on it, too. The same paper, the Register, a week later, i.e., January 12, 1941, admits, respecting Lord Halifax, Britain’s new ambassador to America, that “when the ambassador is working and speaking for greater American aid for Britain, we shall be on the other side of the fence, shouting No!”

What Is This “New Order”?

◆ This “new order” is merely a political deal between the Vatican and certain gangsters for the control of the entire world. The Vatican will supply the religion or hypocrisy, and the gangsters will do the dirty work. The morals of both are on the same level. The one is the confidence man and the other the burglar. The intent is to divide the loot between them, each taking as much of the pile as the other will let him have.

Nobody should be deceived into thinking that the Vatican is at odds with either Hitler or Stalin. The International News Service from Rome, under date of January 3, 1941, after telling of a three-cornered deal between Pope Pius, Hitler and Stalin for the working of the Christmas racket in certain Russian provinces, wound up with this tribute by the confidence man to his political ally: "Pope Pius, it was learned, was intensely gratified at the action of Germany and Russia, especially his success with Stalin. The Pontiff sent his personal thanks to Hitler through Mgr. Orsenigo."

The question is sometimes asked why the pope does not excommunicate Hitler for all his deviltry. There is not the least danger. One gangster does not excommunicate another, and certainly a confidence man does not try to put a machine-gun operator out of a thieves' partnership. Rather, he uses him, when he needs him. Hitler is the most honored Roman Catholic on earth today, and Coughlin, of the "Christian Front" gang, made the statement that he is the greatest Christian.

Different members of the gang give out varying statements of why they are carrying and using their burglary kits. Robert Ley, the German Labor Front leader, says they have a "God-given natural mission" to "make Europe and the world happy" and that it is a "holy and unconquerable idea".

Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi chieftain, says that "an outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German army". That is the way all the head murderers of history have talked, from time immemorial.

Otto D. Tolischus, capable reporter of the New York Times, after his expulsion from Germany, says that the dreams of this new gang "outdistance the ambitions of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon and envisage not only the conquest but also the revolutionary transformation of the world". Tolischus states soberly that "these dreams have been lifted far above the fancies of a visionary and have become a concrete political program backed by the world's mightiest military machine".

Tolischus describes the German press as declaring that "the German epoch has begun and the history of Europe will again be primarily a German history". It will have at the center "a German kernel state inhabited by Germans alone, who, when they need more room by virtue of their biological potency, annex to their own state not merely population but land from which the alien population is removed". Certainly the pope has not the slightest intention of excommunicating those that have his very own spirit of the Devil himself.

Tolischus gives quotations from the authoritative Deutsche Wehr asserting: "War has become a form of existence with equal rights with peace. Every human and social activity is justified only if it helps prepare for war. The new human creature is completely possessed by the thought of war. He must not, can not, think of anything else. The war of the future will be total war, not only in the employment of all forces, but also in the sweeping nature of its decision. In other words, total war means the complete and final disappearance of the vanquished from the stage of history." Hitler declares that this "new order" which he is founding, and which is based on these diabolical purposes, will bring to Europe "peace for a thousand years".

Kidnaped by Hitler

Germany was actually kidnaped by the gangster Hitler, away from the true German people. Klaus Mann, son of the famous writer Thomas Mann, left the country for that reason, claiming that the Hitler gangsters "have exiled or crushed every artist, every educator, every scientist, every contributor to knowledge and truth".

This kidnaping descends to minutest details of life. In ancient slaveries the slaves had some time to themselves, but the “new order” stops all that. It excludes every humanitarian principle, prescribes the holidays and games of the people, prescribes their work, their thoughts and even the number of children they shall bring into the world.

◆ After repeating the horrid threat that all soil and industrial property of non-Germans would be confiscated and given to German soldiers, Dr. Walther Darre, German minister of Agriculture, declared that these ex-soldiers will be the new aristocracy of the world; that it will have slaves assigned to it, and that “these slaves will by no means be denied the blessings of illiteracy; the higher education will, in future, be reserved only for the German population of Europe”.

Thus, it will be observed, the so-called “new order” is merely a return to the devilish arrangements of the Middle Ages and of modern Spain, under Franco, where all the property is in the hands of the clergy and nobility. This is now and always has been the aim of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy everywhere. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says, “We Germans have no reason to be ashamed of the Middle Ages”: those ages “were a proud time, one of the proudest in memory”.

Thomas W. Huntington, writing in the New York Times, after a ten years’ stay in totalitarian lands, states his firm belief that the most potent German weapon is the attack upon the minds and nerves of the people whom they would subjugate. The same ideas are reiterated over and over again by radio, press and motion pictures, with the result that there is an intellectual and moral collapse of the people such as is discernible in Europe and elsewhere at this moment.

The Refuge of Lies

The teachings of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and of Hitler are both of demon origin, the work of “lying spirits” and therefore lies. In Mein Kampf Hitler actually boasts of the power of lies, and it is claimed by Otto Strasser, his one-time comrade, and author of the book Hitler and I, that, except for a single chapter on propaganda, that entire book was revised, rewritten and whipped into its present diabolical shape by “Reverend” “Father” Staempfle, a learned Catholic priest, editor of a paper at Miessbach. Staempfle was bumped off by the murder squad on the night of June 30, 1934, because he knew too much about Hitler.

Westbrook Pegler hit it about right when he said that Hitler had shown himself to be such a liar, thief and assassin that it would be folly to attempt to do business with him on a basis of good faith. Pegler reminds mankind that when President Roosevelt sent him an appeal to keep the peace, Hitler specifically asked Poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Rumania whether they felt that their safety was threatened by Germany; they replied that they had no such fear. Then Hitler rebuked Roosevelt for meddling in European affairs and went ahead and grabbed all the countries named.

Hitler’s chief claim to glory is that he believes in using and does use unsurpassed and impudent lies as an instrument of national policy and that there is not in the world today an honest man that has one particle of confidence in any statement he makes on any subject. He was Jesuit-trained. He seeks not justice, but mastery. He snoops into the private lives of all prominent men, so as to know how to corrupt them. He admires men that have no tenderness or manliness in them but are fierce and cruel and tough. He practices bribery in every land and admits that he shrinks at nothing and holds agreements in contempt.

His eyes are hard and remote. His love for children and animals is merely pose. He hears voices (of demons), wakes at night with shrieks (because of their presence), shouts for help, gasps and babbles in unknown tongues. He (the demon controlling him) makes all military decisions, makes them like lightning and changes them as quickly. He takes no advice from anybody. His "success" is understandable only in that he is either a demon himself or is moved by one. A spiritist who met him in 1929 describes him as then untidy, dirty and a nut who then believed he is the spirit of Germany and embodies all the young Germans who died in 1914-1918. He talks as one possessed, and "the effect is hypnotic, or perhaps it is better described as demonic", says the columnist Dorothy Thompson.

Any person in Germany who says anything against him may be tried and put to death. Some of his recorded speeches contain so many lies that the sale and storage of them was forbidden. When in France he is afraid of death and has his train parked at night in a railway tunnel.

In a speech at Munich this embodiment of all that is most vicious and wicked in the earth had the hypocrisy to say, "I am convinced that Providence has brought me thus far and has spared me all the dangers in order to let me lead the German people in this battle." In the same address he showed his complete union with the Devil in the boast, "I am the hardest man the German people have had for many decades, possibly for centuries."

Top-Notch Ability

Nobody can question the top-notch ability of the Germans. They have the banner military machine of all time. And it is the largest. To help understand the military news it should be remembered that a regiment is 1,800 to 2,000 men, and a division 12,000 to 15,000 men. Airplane service covers all continental Europe.

Germany has the fastest railroad train in the world. The 110-mile Hamburg-Hanover line makes the trip at an average speed of 82.5 miles an hour.

Germany claims to have blind aircraft workers who work to closer measurements by ear than they could ever have been able to do by sight. A new acoustic measuring scale does the trick.

Warm meals from central kitchens are all the go now. In the city of Leipzig 85 firms are served and in a year the number of workmen supplied with warm meals has multiplied sixfold.

There is German control of many important airplane parts, of patents dealing with military equipment, airplane engines, artillery and small arms in the United States. Also, many important chemical processes in the United States are largely carried on by German technicians.

Noting that Uncle Sam is getting about all the world's gold, after generously and foolishly boosting the price to about double the previous price, Germany is predicting a new currency based on the measure of the production of the necessities of life. This is sure to come some time, and then there will be no use for the big pile of gold at Fort Knox.

Habitations of Cruelty

William Joyce, known to the English radio fans as Lord Haw Haw, and working for the Nazi propaganda outfit, was born in New York, so says PM, and, like all the other leading lights of the "new order", is a Catholic and Jesuit-trained. He abandoned his wife and two little ones in England and skipped to Germany with another woman, without bothering to get a divorce from the one who should daily thank God he has gone. Like all Nazi stars, he is anti-Jewish.

The New York Sunday Mirror (February 9, 1941), magazine section, contains a map showing the locations of the 104 concentration camps, 145 prisons and 1,263 county prisons that make Germany one vast penal settlement. The narrative shows that after release from any prison any prisoner may be confined in a concentration camp, and states that the rules are that NONE of Jehovah's witnesses may EVER gain freedom.

The introduction of prisoners into Buchenwald was to compel prisoners to run the gauntlet between guards armed with brass knuckles or whips. A prisoner related that from his cot he counted 22 prisoners with bloody heads. A number of the prisoners had to stand all night. There were no facilities for washing, and hence the prisoners were sick at their stomachs at having to handle food with filthy hands. There was only one latrine, thirty feet long, for the 10,000 men confined in this one concentration camp.

The "new order" envisioned by Pacelli and Hitler requires the most extreme cruelty for its inception and maintenance. Hitler is reported to have said, in his talks with Rauschning: "I am beginning with the young. With them I can make a new world. My teaching is hard. Weakness has to be knocked out of them. In my Ordensburgen (training schools for future Nazi leaders) a youth will grow up before which the world will shrink back. A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth—that is what I am after. It must be indifferent to pain. There must be no weakness or tenderness in it. I will tell you a secret. I have seen the vision of the new man [a vision from a devil] fearless and formidable. I shrank from him."

The British White Paper justified war on Germany, in part at least, for its horrible mistreatment of Jehovah's witnesses in Buchenwald and other concentration camps. These martyrs were allowed no communication with the outside world. Deaths took place daily: ashes were delivered to relatives on payment of three marks. Cripples, one-legged men and ruptured men were obliged to carry massive stones. Men of 70 were not spared. The prison keepers were young men of 17 to 20, specially trained in cruelty. If a man complained of heat, ten buckets of water were poured over his head. New prisoners, unfamiliar with the rules, were coaxed into positions where they were shot down by machine-gun fire.

Jews were denied medicine. In one case a doctor declared a sick man was faking, yet the man died within two hours after treatment was refused. Men were picked for flogging, entirely at random. Some men died stretched between poles. When some went insane, sacks were tied over their heads to muffle their cries. Tree binding, facing toward the tree, was accompanied by kicking. Some guards never speak to prisoners without hitting them across the mouth. Those released must sign denials of these or any other atrocities, must walk to the station and pay their own fares home. The above are condensations as to treatment of Jehovah's witnesses and other prisoners at Buchenwald and Dachau.

One of the pastimes of Hermann Baranowski, commander of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, was to beat prisoners with steel rods and then play ice-cold water on them. He died after a long illness, and it is a pleasure to know that he may never awaken to vex mankind. God will not forget his cruelties.

At Dachau 18 prisoners were confined in one cell; nine slept on the floor for three hours and alternated with the nine standing. Switzerland reports that nearly 100,000 aged, insane, incurably crippled, and mentally defective children were deliberately executed, 'to improve the Aryan race.' Men have been sentenced to death for forging food cards and for stealing coal. Prisoners often suicide.

Masonry has disappeared; all personal property of lodges was destroyed, buildings confiscated and members forbidden to communicate with one another. Some were murdered and some turned traitor. Similar conditions prevail wherever the "new order" goes in effect, as in Spain, France and Italy. In Italy 130 members of one lodge were murdered overnight.

Simon-pure Cussedness

It is natural enough that the biggest liars in the world would have the greatest fears that their dupes would learn the truth. So in Danzig, for listening over the radio to foreign broadcasts, a father and mother each received sentence of two and a half years in the workhouse and three sons each received one and a half years for the same offense, with five years loss of their civil rights: nine and a half years, all because of the twist of a radio dial. How would you like the "new order" in America? It is on the way. Read Judge Rutherford Uncovers Fifth Column and see for yourself.

It is alleged that two ways have been found for causing opposing soldiers to suffer nerve paralysis: one, by a fluid which makes them unconscious when it is dropped in their presence; another, by sounds emerging from the dive bombers.

German workers may not strike; labor offices assign workers to their tasks; there may be no loitering; absence from work without an excuse may land one in jail; workers may not look around for better jobs: they are slaves of the state. French prisoners do the same kind of work in Germany as would otherwise be done by the German soldiers who are policing the occupied parts of France. Thus the French are helping to keep their masters squarely and securely upon their backs. They get 21 marks (normally about $4.99) a month if they work in factories, and 18 marks ($4.28) if they work in the fields. They have coffee for breakfast, thick soup at noon, potatoes and fat in the evening, and 350 grams of bread a day—about three-fourths of a pound.

An escaped prisoner who arrived in New York states that where he was confined in the Saar 24,000 French prisoners were compelled to listen to Nazi lectures in perfect French, fifteen hours a day. Every blade of grass in the camp disappeared within the first two weeks, having been boiled and eaten as a vegetable.

Out of sheer cussedness the German "Government" continues to pile restrictions on the Jews. Those able to leave the country are told exactly what clothing they may take, down to two scrubbing rags and two dust rags. Jews may use telephones only to call doctors, nurses and hospitals. Jewish hospitals may not be protected by having the red cross painted on the roof. Jews must do all their shopping between 4 and 5 p.m. They have been ordered out of many cities, are forbidden to enter many parks, and in many cities must be off the streets at 9 p.m.

This cruelty to Jews is taken directly from the instructions and examples of the "church" with which Hitler was familiar as a Jesuit-trained youth. The decrees of the Fourth Lateran and Basle Councils, of Popes Innocent III, Eugenius IV, Nicholas V, and Pius IV, compelled the Jews to live apart in ghettos, to pay extortionate taxes, to wear an odious badge (the green hat or cape), forbade them to live in the same house or to eat or trade with "Christians", to practice medicine, to pursue high commerce, to acquire real estate, to testify in courts against "Christians", and banished them at times, in whole or in part, from the Papal States.

Latest example of the spirit of the "new order" is the butchery of Jews at Bucharest, Rumania. There 200 Jews were taken to the municipal slaughterhouse, made to undress, and they were then literally butchered in kosher style to the accompaniment of laughter inspired direct by the demons. The mangled bodies of the beheaded were dumped into the sewers usually used to carry off animal remains.

Elsewhere in Bucharest Jews were knocked senseless wherever met, and were then doused with gasoline and burned. Women had their breasts cut off and both men and women had their eyes gouged out.

The heroes of the "new order" surrounded a Jewish Community house and led forth and shot 195. Of this number only 160 could be packed into the trucks to take them away to the place of execution. The other 35 were shot on the spot, after first being robbed of all valuables.

RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

A "Flying Trip" to the Detroit Convention

◆ That song that goes "I want to be an angel and with the angels stand", it always seemed to me, should read "I want to be an angel and with the angels fly", because I'd had for many a long year a hankering to take to the air. However, just to go up in an airplane or make a short trip never appealed to my fancy. If I went up in an airplane, I wanted to go somewhere. Well, the opportunity came in a rather unexpected way. It was nearly time for the assembling of the greatest convention to be held on this earth—the Theocratic Convention of Jehovah's witnesses. We had bade farewell and wished a happy landing to those who were leaving on the last steamer that would reach New York in time for the convention. Duties in the King's service seemed to point plainly for me to remain in Brazil. Nevertheless, the one assigned to give me instructions had said: "Get all ready. Who knows what may happen at the last minute to enable you to go?" And something did happen.

It was Sunday, and on the following Friday the last plane would depart that would arrive in the U.S. in time. Papers were quickly got ready, tickets arranged, and at four o'clock on Friday, at the airport in São Paulo, the final waving of handkerchiefs, the steward said softly, "Fasten your seat-belt," and I was off on the most marvelous trip of my whole tripping life. Up, up we rose over the city of São Paulo and in an hour and a half were landing in the beautiful Guanabara Bay in the city of Rio de Janeiro, about 500 miles away. Never to be forgotten was that sunset scene from above the magnificent harbor, one of the most picturesque in the world, with its rocky islands rising steeply from the water, and its crescent-shaped shore line with the hills beyond.

The first lap of the journey finished, the night was spent in a Rio hotel, the comfortable and modern Palace Annex, and preparation made for an early start the next day. Owing to fog, we were two hours late starting on Saturday morning, so only reached São Salvador instead of Recife that night. This was no disappointment for me, as it gave me the pleasure of a visit in the home of one of the Lord's little ones in that city. Another night in a hotel, not so restful as on the previous night because of the gay revelry until early in the morning of the Saturday night fun-makers. Another interesting day in the air, landing twice to refuel, take on supplies and give passengers an opportunity to stretch our legs. Among the passengers was a young miss of only a few months. With her there was no anxiety, no fussing around, just perfect contentment as she rested in her mother's arms. As I looked at her and many, many other times during that memorable trip did I remember that "underneath are the everlasting arms".

There are, as yet, no facilities for night flying in Brazil; so each afternoon we landed and spent the night in a hotel. The third night we stopped at Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon river, and, as the hotel was only a few blocks from the river, I walked down after dinner to the river's edge to look into the waters of earth's largest waterway, and to marvel at the Creator's wisdom. Many a time have I been fascinated with stories of the jungles of the Amazon, trying to imagine myself there; and here I was, flying over those same jungles, but too high to see the monkeys swinging from limb to limb or the crocodiles and boa-constrictors, but we could see the swampy waters between the trees. What a vast wilderness! Plenty of room for all the refugees on earth, but they aren't wanted in Brazil, neither literal refugees nor those fleeing to The Theocracy.

Theocracy publishers, Manila, Philippine Islands

Our third day's flight carried us beyond Brazilian shores. We landed in both the French and Dutch Guianas, and stopped for the night at Trinidad, Port of Spain, in the British West Indies. Here we were instructed not to take even a magazine or any printed matter ashore, as, on account of war conditions, a strict censorship is maintained. A resident of the island, a close personal friend of the chief censor, told me that while formerly only an occasional piece of mail was inspected, now all correspondence is read. What a job!

At Belém we had slept for the first time on beds that appeal to Americans. Most Brazilian beds are too hard, and even the pillows, in addition to being hard, are very large. The Queen's Park hotel in Trinidad is modern and perfectly appointed for a real "beauty rest". We needed to rest early and well, for the next day was to be a strenuous one. We were called at 3 a.m., left the hotel at 4, and took off at five o'clock. Stops were made at Port-au-Prince, at San Juan, where the doctor came aboard and took our temperature while the ship had all its corners shot with anti-vermin squirt guns, at Antilla, on the island of Cuba, and, at 5:30 p.m., after setting back our watches twice so that we had had 14 hours of flying, we landed at Miami, back in the good old U.S.A. after four years' absence.

But what is this? Four years away, so one is a non-resident citizen. "Where are you going? How long will you be there? Your address while there? And from there, whither? And, Mrs. Y., your address in Mobile?" Wasn't this my own United States, and hadn't I a right to go anywhere I pleased without reporting? Seems not in these days of mistrust, hysteria and scaredness. We were through the customs in a jiffy, then all aboard at nine o'clock for the last lap.

On to Columbus after changing planes at Louisville, arriving at 11:30 a.m. on July 24—in time to hear the opening address of the convention by the president of the Society. What a joyful anticipation! What memories of former conventions of Jehovah's people in that city that had refreshed my soul and strengthened me for further service for the King of kings! I called up the Deshler-Wallick hotel, only to be told that they knew of no arrangements for the convention. What is this? An attendant asked me: "Is this the convention of Jehovah's witnesses?" "Yes." "Well, they aren't holding a convention here. They tried to go to Cleveland, and then took the convention to Detroit." He rang up one of the newspapers to verify this. "Yes, it's in Detroit." What had happened? Was I crazy, or was everybody else? Had I come all the way from Brazil to attend the most important convention on earth only to find that it had vanished? I searched my heart. What terrible thing had I done? Had I forsaken The Theocracy and its King? He would never forsake me. There was no time to lose. The plane from which I had just alighted was already on the way—to Detroit.

The quickest way now was by train. So, without stopping for further information, I boarded the first train. On the way I overheard a conversation between two colored women. One said to the other: "That was a preacher I was talking to yesterday. What he said certainly was interesting. And he told me that he was going to a convention for about a week in Cleveland." Was I on the right track? Was the convention in Detroit or in Cleveland? As we got off the train in Detroit, there were none of Jehovah's witnesses meeting the trains, so I asked this colored woman, "Did the gentleman you were speaking of tell you about Jehovah's kingdom?" "Yes, he did." Now, what? I asked the Travelers' Aid if the WATCHTOWER convention was being held in Detroit. "I understand that it is," she replied icily, "but I have no information about it." The telephone girl was more accommodating and, quicker than a wink, she had me talking to the Convention Committee. It didn't take me long then to arrive—where I belonged!

Theocratic magazine publishers, Phoenix, Arizona

Bristol, England, pioneer home and staff,

Too late to hear the opening talk, but too happy to allow that to cast a cloud of unhappiness or regret on four of the most momentous days of my life, surprise after surprise, joy after joy: the new phonograph; the Fifth Column Uncovered booklet and the joy of putting it into the hands of the people; happy hours in the door-to-door service with veteran publishers whom I had known in the King's service for many years, where I could talk to the people in English and they could understand me, the delight of receiving an intelligent response and a sympathetic ear from many of them; the climax Saturday afternoon when the book Religion was presented at the end of Judge Rutherford's inspired talk; the hundreds marching out on Sunday morning to symbolize by water immersion that they had taken their stand on Jehovah's side, a thrilling sight; and then the crowning hour, the Sunday afternoon lecture, Jehovah's answer to the threats of His enemies, that never-to-be-forgotten declaration of truth from the lips of His servant to whom Jehovah gave strength and wisdom in that hour.

The convention drew to a close, but its joys lingered. Dear ones, for many years comrades-in-arms in the only Cause, who had come from San Francisco, consented to change their plans so as to take me in their trailer party of six and return home via Mobile on the Gulf. There our ways parted, they returning to the field in San Francisco, while I lingered for a visit to my earthly family, a "flying trip" to Washington, D.C., and back to New Orleans where, on August 16, I boarded the Delbrasil, one of the new freight and passenger steamers of the Delta Line, and after fourteen pleasant days at sea—home again, refreshed, strengthened and ready for further service for The Theocracy, and waiting eagerly for The Messenger in order to live it all over again.—Maud A. R. Yuille.

Preparing the evening meal at Bristol, England, pioneer home

Kingdom equipment, advertising section, Bristol, England, zone assembly

The Bombing of Leicester

◆ In spite of the destructive and death-dealing air raids recently carried out here by the Nazis, Jehovah's witnesses and their faithful companions in this Midlands city of England have continued to herald forth the message of God's Kingdom. This is done in obedience to the Divine command, so that all persons of good-will may find protection in Jehovah's organization as in a "city of refuge", and thus escape the destroyer's avenging sword at Armageddon. "All these are the beginning of sorrows," said the great Teacher, foretelling the physical events now occurring; and truly this week this city has experienced heavy sorrow, so that men's hearts are sad indeed.

As though unleashed by the very Devil and his demon host, as indeed they were, death and destruction have rained down from the skies upon this hapless city, which, to use Paul's description of Tarsus, is "no mean city". The district where the Kingdom Hall is situated, and where most of the brethren live, was the scene of the heaviest attacks during the two worst consecutive nights. Going to the Hall in the early evening of the first day for a study of the book Religion, we heard overhead the German planes, and soon the slowly-descending flares illuminated the center of the city.

Soon after, the bombs began to fall, and the shutters obscuring the lights in Kingdom Hall shook with the repercussion as though they would fall. Among that first salvo of bombs was one which fell on the home of a faithful, elderly sister, living near by. Being a delayed-action bomb, she had to quit there and then, leaving everything at a moment’s notice. When the bomb explodes, her home will be annihilated.

As we were leaving the Hall the red glow over the city spoke of the coming terrors of the long night. The Lord’s people endured these terrors with full faith in Jehovah. The Society’s zone servant, on a visit to the local company, was called upon to share the experiences and dangers, and manifested complete confidence in Jehovah as the bombs whistled and crashed on all sides. A little later a further string of bombs was unloosed near Kingdom Hall. One of them exploded just outside, damaging surrounding property. But it only shattered the windows of Kingdom Hall, and knocked off a small corner of the roof.

Time and space forbid a recital of the various experiences of the brethren during that night and the following one. Suffice it to say that, in spite of harrowing experiences, none of the witnesses or their companions have been killed. On the second night the parachute-mines caused dreadful material havoc in the same district. But Kingdom Hall, situated midway between two explosions, still stands looking much the same as its photograph represents it in Consolation No. 504.

Yesterday (Sunday) we had our meetings there as usual. A few yards from the Hall the authorities had roped off the district, putting up a notice, “Danger; unexploded bomb.” One had fallen just around the corner. This has yet to go off, but the Hall is considered safe.

We thank Jehovah for His marvelous preservation; for while the casualties were heavy, and the material damage terrible, Jehovah God graciously gave His angels charge over His people to keep them. (Psalm 91: 11) His servants continue to look to Jehovah for grace and strength to declare His purposes as commanded, “until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.”—Isaiah 6: 11.—F. R. Freer.

Divine Protection of Literature

◆ It is our blessed privilege to acknowledge the Lord’s protection to His printed message being delivered to London during the year. Because of the war shipping facilities have been hard to obtain. A license had to be obtained from the British Government to have books go on the ships. Such license was from time to time obtained, and during the fiscal year the Brooklyn office shipped 351 tons of literature from Brooklyn to London. Every one of these ships except one landed our literature safely in England without any damage. One ship was torpedoed but not destroyed, and the only damage done to the literature of the Lord’s people was four cartons that got wet, and yet they were landed safely. No one who loves the Lord has any doubt about the protection that was given in that. Therefore this literature went over according to His will, and He who controls the sea and the land and all the power in the universe saw to it that His message got safely across. Doubtless He permitted the four cartons to get wet to demonstrate that the enemy can do only a little damage if He exercises His power against the enemy. Many thrilling experiences showing the hand of the Lord in protecting His people from air raids have been received from London.—1941 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.

To Correspondents

◆ The picture in the upper left of page 8, Consolation No. 559, was mailed from Idaho Falls, but the picture itself is of an event near Hermosa, South Dakota, and so explained in a separate letter when it was sent in. When sending in a photograph please write lightly, in lead pencil, on the back of the picture just what it represents, where it was taken, and the items of interest in connection with it. Much can be stated in a few well chosen words, and it all helps when it reaches the desk for which it is intended. Mark Consolation Desk matters accordingly.

(To be continued) COUNSEL

by J.F. Rutherford

Who May Celebrate

IT WAS a spring night in A.D. 33, at Jerusalem. With His apostles Jesus kept the Jewish passover on the annual date, the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, as commanded by Jehovah God. (See Exodus chapters 12 and 13.) That was the last passover. "And as they were eating [the Passover], Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it: for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26: 26-28) The institution of this memorial by the Lord Jesus took place immediately following the eating of the last passover. It is this memorial of Jesus' death that His followers are commanded to observe each year. Who may partake of the Memorial emblems?

On a previous occasion, as recorded at John 6: 53, Jesus uttered these words: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." He was then speaking of His "sheep", the "little flock", who are in line for the Kingdom of heaven and who become members of God's royal house of sons of which Jesus is Head. (Luke 12: 32) Such are those who are begotten again, of God's spirit, and who are taken into the "new testament" or new covenant as a spirit "people for His name", and these must "eat the flesh" and "drink his blood". If faithful unto death, they gain everlasting life in heaven. But the Bible reveals that there will be a "great multitude" of humans that will gain everlasting life on earth under that Kingdom of heaven. (Revelation 7: 9-17) Do not all that ever get life on earth have to eat of that symbolical bread? No, only the spiritual sons of God eat the bread and drink the blood.

All who get life on earth must exercise faith in the lifeblood of Christ Jesus poured out for the remission of sins, but at the instituting of the memorial of His own death Jesus was inviting His disciples alone to be broken with Him and to be dead with Him and to thus share in His death and in His resurrection to life in the spirit. Since then Jesus' words apply only to those who are fully consecrated to God and who have been begotten of His spirit and called to the Kingdom. Let it be carefully noted that "Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it", and gave the broken bread to His disciples and commanded them to eat. The breaking is of very great importance and cannot be ignored. It is of vital significance to all who participate in the Kingdom with Christ Jesus, who is "the head over all things to the church, which is his body". It means that they must become members of "the body of Christ" and must be broken with Him and therefore die with Him in order to share with Him in His Kingdom glory.—See Ephesians 1: 22, 23; 1 Corinthians 12: 12-18, 27 and 11: 23, 24.

Jesus' words "This is my body" meant: "This bread represents my body." The bread was merely a symbol, and the breaking of it discloses what must be done to those of the "body of Christ". The "cup" of wine represented His lifeblood about to be poured out. His words "Drink ye all of it" clearly mean that all who will be associated with Him in God's royal house must first be broken and die and therefore share with Him in His death in vindication of God's name. That Jesus' words meant that His body members are partners in His suffering and death is fully supported by the apostle Paul, who under inspiration of the holy spirit wrote: "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion [or, partnership] of the blood of Christ?

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread [loaf]."—1 Corinthians 10: 16, 17.

Before one can become a part of that "bread" and thereafter be broken with it one must first have his consecration to God accepted and by Him be justified unto life and thus be counted worthy to be sacrificed with Christ Jesus. Justification does not result to one from sharing in the breaking of the body and drinking of the blood, because justification must first precede or be had before his participating in the breaking of the bread and drinking of the wine can take place. Jesus took the loaf of unleavened bread and broke it and said to His consecrated followers, "This is my body." Then his words were in substance these: "You must eat, that is to say, partake with me and thereby become my partners or fellow sufferers, and as this bread you see me break represents the body of Christ, or the members thereof, all of such must be broken together as one body." Such breaking of the symbolic bread, or body, and also the drinking of the symbolic wine, or blood, must take place after those partaking are justified and begotten of God's spirit.

Jesus did not offer the bread and wine to everyone, but only to those who had proved their faithfulness, as stated at Luke 22: 28-30. It follows, then, that only those do properly partake of the emblems who are first justified and spirit-begotten and who are in line for the Kingdom of heaven. It is God's will that in that kingdom Jesus shall have associated with Him in His work as Vindicator of God's name 144,000 members of "his body", all together constituting one body or royal house of sons of God. (See Revelation 14: 1-4; 7: 1-9.) Every one of such must undergo a test similar to that to which Jesus was subjected, and must suffer and die with Him as a condition precedent to entering into His glory.

Concerning the wine in the cup Jesus' words, in substance, meant this: "This represents my blood, which blood makes good the new covenant, which covenant my Father has made with me. Also, it is the price of redemption for the human race." Jesus knew that, according to the law of Jehovah God, the drinking of blood meant death. (Genesis 9: 4; Leviticus 17: 14) He was therefore inviting His disciples to perform an act that meant their death, and thus inviting them to participate in His death, and hence He said: "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." (John 6: 56) That is the only way to be taken into THE CHRIST, and only those who are taken into and become members of The Christ are broken and pour out their life with Him.

Everyone who makes an unconditional consecration to do God's will properly symbolizes it or gives outward testimony thereof by being baptized in water, as was Jesus. That water baptism, however, does not put him into the "body of Christ". To be brought into that body he must be baptized into the sacrificial death of Christ Jesus, and that must be done after he has consecrated himself to God and symbolized that consecration and has received justification. (Read Romans 6: 3-5.) Only those called to the heavenly calling will share in the sacrificial death of Christ Jesus. Only the "little flock" of the Lord's spiritual sheep, the spirit-begotten ones, are in line to share in the death of Christ Jesus and in His glory that follows; and therefore only such properly partake of the Memorial emblems.

If one is of the earthly class, the Lord's "other sheep", that shall live on earth under the Kingdom for ever, he is not "in Christ"; and if he is not in Christ he cannot share in the death and resurrection of Christ. Therefore it would be improper for him to partake of the Memorial emblems at the 1941 celebration, which Memorial celebration is due this year to be held Friday night, April 11.

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