Consolation, April 16, 1941
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Contents
The "New Order" in Europe (Part 2) 3
Educated to Murder 3
Petain and the Garrote 5
Poland's Baptism of Fire 6
No Atrocities Excused 7
Crimes Against Poland 8
The New Government
Pomona Police Hero 12
A Modern Zaccheus 12
"In Every House" 13
Opposite the Bus Stop 15
"Say to the Prisoners, Go Forth" 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Life in Perfect Health 17
Connecticut Solons Would Fine the Savior $500 19
Deceitful 20
Cruel - Destructive 21
Hypocritical 22
Public Utilities 26
Railroads and Steamships 27
British Comment
Invasion Threats 28
Altering Conditions 28
The Pope Protests 28
"Protestants" 30
The Kingdom 30
Says a British Pioneer 31
Warding Off Dogs 31
Masses for Hitler 2
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Masses for Hitler
◆ Under date of March 5, 1941, a physician in the state of Washington wrote the following letter:
We had a patient in today who was a former Catholic. Recently her parents died and were buried from the Catholic church. Said patient went to the priest to pay for the bail exacted for the so-called "mass". The priest was not in; so she saw the housekeeper, who was a cousin of the priest. In the course of the conversation the subject of the war came up, with a discussion of Hitler. The cousin of the priest stated that mass is said every morning all over the U.S. in all Catholic churches for Hitler. On being asked why this was so, she replied that Hitler was formerly a Catholic and that they were anxious to get him back as a communicant in order to influence him to ease up on his atrocities somewhat. The patient asked her if it was not more that if Hitler is victorious he will divide his power with the pope. Her reply was that that was partly the reason. She told the patient that the Catholics all expect Hitler to win, and so hope; the reason given, that England and the United States are Protestant nations and when Hitler comes into control of them that would stop the birth control which is so odious to Catholics. She further stated that when England is conquered, Hitler is coming over here and take over this country, and that will give the Catholics control of the situation.
On March 20, 1941, three of Jehovah's witnesses in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania remarked at each Catholic home, "I understand that masses are now being said every day for Hitler." The usual reply was, "Yes, but I don't believe it will do him any good." In no case was there a denial that the masses are said.
This amounts to a full confirmation of the news from Washington, and is BIG NEWS. Every reader of this magazine knows the Hierarchy wants Hitler to win.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."--Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 16, 1941 Number 563
The "New Order" in Europe (In Four Parts--Part 2)
IT IS a big job trying to blockade a whole continent, and there are holes in the blockade, all along the eastern border, and to some extent on the south. It is hard to get the facts, but Germany is now believed to be suffering from insufficient petroleum products, rubber, leather, textiles, soap, ferro-alloys, non-ferrous metals, fats, oil seeds and fodder.
There has been a heavy increase in accidents and occupational diseases.
Owners of buildings in Munich were ordered to remove all copper parts, including roofs, doors, gutters and handles. Many firms closed because of lack of rubber, lead, copper and soldering materials. Large numbers of retail shops are closed. Many textile factories have nothing to do. The claim is made for the new yarn made from hop fibers that it is three times as strong as cotton, more resistant than hemp, and does not wrinkle.
The substitute for soap is strong and corrosive and quickly destroys the fragile fabrics made of wood pulp, the only kind of clothing now to be had. The demand for the wood pulp has taken about 10 percent of the forests. Every German may have 100 points' worth of clothing annually. If less than 14 a child's card is issued. If the boy is large for his age he must get a special purchase coupon or no suit. Not even a spool of thread may be obtained without a special permit.
It is the duty of the "Back-Alley Brigade" to examine all dustbins and rubbish receptacles in their allotted areas, so that anyone caught throwing away anything of value may be punished. In one instance a member of the squad reported two tenement-dwellers for getting rid of potato peelings. That night the policewoman was found beaten unconscious in the street in a black-out.
It is reported that there are no preserved fruits or vegetables, canned goods, spices, onions, lemons or oranges. Coal is rationed so closely that the pieces are wrapped separately each in newspaper, and fed one at a time to a single flame in the smallest room.
Factory-made jam tastes more of the factory than it does of the jam. If a person eats a piece of cake it is charged against his bread card. The lard allowance was cut to 6 1/4 ounces a month. Since January 1, 1941, dogs, foxes, bears, and beavers are legalized for human food and all the 3,000,000 dogs in the country are to be slain for food except those needed for the blind, the Red Cross and the army. Dogs have been eaten in Germany since 1912, when 10,000 were thus used.
Educated to Murder
Wm. E. Dodd, in his diary as American ambassador to Germany, date of December 14, 1935, said, "All military and naval experts here report the utmost speed in German rearmament. They are building the greatest military machine in the world."
The 6,000,000 force under arms is 65-percent mechanized. It has the entire equipment of the French army, the Maginot line and the British equipment left at Dunkirk. It has 2,000,000 French prisoner-slaves and other millions from Poland and Italy and many other lands working top speed.
The "new order" is down to a strictly murder basis. The minister of Education made an oration exalting the murder of one's fellows as the highest aim to which man can attain. The youth were urged to look forward to driving a tank, flying a bombing plane or commanding a U-boat. All youth must now become members of the Hitler Youth, and if they fail to do so their parents are punished. All of Jehovah's witnesses, including their children, are involved, and many homes have been sundered, where the state has claimed the children for itself. Boys 10 to 14 wear knives, and 14 to 18, daggers, as signs of "honor". Exclusion from a youth organization after 14 means virtual civil and social death-ostracism.
For four centuries the Roman Hierarchy taught that no Catholic could be saved who denied that non-Catholics should be murdered. Pius V approved a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth and stated he was willing to spare a culprit guilty of 100 murders rather than to spare one "heretic". Gregory XIII commended the king of France for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. And in the United States of America, and right now, in black and white, the famous Catholic theologian Dr. John A. Ryan wants to know, in almost so many words, when Catholics have grabbed the country, what protection any who object or resist or teach differently would then have against a Catholic state.
Persecution of thinkers, and murder of them, is essential to the "new order". The Nazis destroyed the University of Warsaw, placed the professors of the University of Cracow in a concentration camp, and closed the University of Prague and half the universities of Germany, and they visited ruin and destruction on the University of Madrid and the University of London. They also murdered Josef Weinhauer, the courageous boxer and electrical engineer, who traveled about Germany for a year and a half broadcasting the truth about the infamies he saw. Anticipating correctly that his apprehension would mean his death, he virtually finished the three men who arrested him. No honest man can fail to admire the courage of this man who was willing to die in the cause of liberty, for what he believed to be right.
Germany must have received serious damage from the more than 2,000 air raids over Hitler-land. For the most part these damages are denied, but pathetic pictures were published of charming little folks playing in the public garden of Freiburg, in Breisgau, and the same little folks stretched out dead, with parts of their heads blown away by bombs from French planes. They look just as bad in Germany as they do in Spain.
550,000 German children have been evacuated from the cities. Up to the age of 3 they go with their mothers; from 3 to 10 they go in private families; from 10 to 14 they are in the Hitler Youth organizations.
The war catacombs under Berlin shelter 2,500,000 persons, have power plants, artesian wells, radio apparatus, gas masks, secret exits in woodlands far removed, operating rooms, police stations, food warehouses, access to the subways, and were built secretly in anticipation of just what the "new order" now has on hand. Jews are given a place by themselves in the corridor and no German member of the community may speak to them.
Like everything else in Germany, the breeding of cannon fodder is under state supervision. Pierre van Paassen explains as follows: "An efficient visiting service of German women to the front and to Nazi-occupied areas has been carried on since the beginning of hostilities. Carloads of eager patriotic girls and women are dispatched to the warriors of the fatherland, who are admonished to spurn any contact with foreign women." Breeders of livestock usually route the males. The "new order" has not gotten to that—not yet. Spokesmen for the Reich have stated that hereafter only Germans may live within its borders; and, from the way things are going, it is certain nobody else would wish to do so.
The Religious Racket
The religious racket receives the same minute attention as the breeding arrangements. The clergy still impart "religious instruction" in the public schools. They want control of the children so that they can collect from them throughout life, without themselves being expected to do any useful work. Hitler's additions to the Reich changed Germany from a Protestant to a Catholic majority. It is calculated that there are now 48,000,000 Catholics and 45,000,000 Protestants. Papa has pre-eminence in all things.
Up to now Germany has been contributing 70,000,000 marks to the salaries and expenses of the Protestant churches and only 55,000,000 marks to the Catholic churches, but these proportions can all be changed. There are but 16,000 Protestant clergymen, while the 11,000 Catholic parishes average four priests apiece.
The Oberammergau racket is off for the duration of the war. The man that was booked to play the part of Christ in the play for 1940 is a soldier in the German army. This so-called "Passion Play" was never anything but a money-grabbing racket. Here and there an honest Catholic admits in the publications of the church that there is no truth in the widespread reports that the Roman Catholic church in Germany is being persecuted. Such reports of the real facts in the case appeared in the London Catholic Herald of December 27, 1940, and the London Universe (Catholic) of the same date. It is true that priests must serve one month as common soldiers before they may have the safe and soft and honorary job of chaplain, and it is also true that after a night of air raids the church bells may not be rung until after 1:00 p.m., but no sensible person can class these as persecutions. The bulk of Catholic priests throughout the entire world hope in their hearts that their fellow-Catholic Adolf Hitler will subjugate the entire earth in the interests of what the Catholic bishop Franziskus Rarkowski designates "our good and just cause". It is hard to figure out when the Devil ever had a worse one.
Petain and the Garrote
Rooters for the "new order" do things no decent, self-respecting man would countenance. Thus the much-belauded Marshal Petain, dictator of France, handed over the former president of the Catalonian republic to the much-belauded Franco. This man was then strangled by the garrote. Had he wanted to be decent, Franco could have had him shot, as he did the members of the Spanish Republic's cabinet, but he got more religious satisfaction out of having him slowly strangled. Petain is a personal friend of Franco. Both are ideal "new order" statesmen. Conditions in Spain are the worst in 62 years. Franco agreed to admit a shipment of 110,000 Bibles, but seized them and ground them up.
If, as and when the "new order" takes over Gibraltar, it will also take over Portugal, conditions in which were mentioned in Part 1 of this article. Catholic papers swell with pride over Salazar. Thus the London Catholic Times, May 10, 1940, had a two-column story about this monster, entitled "Catholic 'Dictator' Achieves Two More Triumphs", just about the time they thought the "new order" was going to take over the whole earth. The deal did not go across, but it is confidently predicted that at the right time Portugal will surrender by telephone. Also, and this is interesting, there are 500 officials in the German embassy and consulates, and in a German club-house in Portugal there were found almost 1,000 Portuguese army and navy uniforms, the majority of them officers. Nothing like being ready!
The "New Order" in Czechoslovakia
Some of Britain's big financiers actually encouraged the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, so that they could get Czech factories; and they also loaned money to Hitler after Munich; so the land of John Huss had about the same kind of deal as did Spain. Big Business is strong for showing its sympathies for the "new order".
One of the commandments of the "new order" is, "Thou shalt steal," and it is obeyed very well by the Nazis in Czechoslovakia. When the Germans feel that they want Czechoslovakian homes, they just come across the line and take them. The Czech owners are dispossessed and cast out without redress. German immigrants from Bessarabia (eastern Rumania, now under control of Russia) were moved into 29 communes in the Elbe districts and the Czechs had to leave.
To quell ideas of liberty the Nazis demolished the "tomb of the unknown soldier" in the Old Town Hall of historic Prague. Also, all the many bronze statues and plaques of this historic place were seized and melted down for war purposes. As to Slovakia itself, a wireless to the New York Times quotes Premier Tuka as saying that henceforth the governmental system will be a combination of German Nazism and Roman Catholicism. He thus defines the "new order". That is exactly what it is.
It is not lawful to print all the details of sadism and sex pathology that go to make up the "new order". But here is one paragraph from the leaflet "It Can Happen Here", published by the Czechoslovak National Council of America, 4047-4049 West 26th street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. It is telling of what took place November 17, 1939, when 150 Czech students were murdered. Read it:
Many girls, dragged to large open spaces surrounded by tanks, were raped before the eyes of the fettered students, some by several men, one after another. The German soldiers burned the breasts of their victims with cigarettes. Other girls were compelled to drink the contents of spittoons filled with urine and became ill with disgust. The men students were powerless spectators of these frightful scenes.
Poland's Baptism of Fire
◆ The Government of Poland was blown off the map in 18 days. The scene was filmed and shown in all its cruel horrors in Norway and Italy, and will be shown wherever the "new order" wants to make an impression of its resistless might. Dorothy Thompson said of the showing of this film, "There was almost no applause. Onlookers sat pale and quiet. But the film created precisely the effect intended. It conveyed the idea, 'This is what happens to anyone who opposes us.'"
The German Library of Information, center of propaganda in the Western world, New York, 1940, published a 260-page book entitled "Polish Acts of Atrocity Against the German Minority in Poland". Details are given of 110 instances, all of them too horrible to be summarized, and there is no reasonable doubt that the charges are true. It is impossible to read them without profound conviction that the wise man stated it just right when he wrote, "concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are BEASTS."—Ecclesiastes 3: 18.
While the book makes a feeble attempt to show that the Poles were always bloodthirsty against the Germans, yet the 110 instances of unspeakable atrocities seem all to have occurred after the German invasion of Poland September 1, 1939.
This does not justify the atrocities, but it measurably explains them. In the presence of an international Terror, such as the "new order", men lose their poise and reason, and act no better than frightened wild beasts. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that any wild beasts would do some of the devilish things listed, and of which details are given. Many of the charges are substantiated by exhibits and affidavits.
There are millions of Poles and Germans in America, or Americans of Polish or German descent, and here they have no trouble in living amicably side by side. The boys and girls attend school together, grow up and marry, and their children become some of America's finest citizens. Why can they not do the same in Europe? The answer is that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is now using Hitler and other tools of the Hierarchy to seize all the governments of the earth, with the result that the entire world at this moment is in a panic of fear, and under such circumstances the demons can and do use men to express all the devilishness possible.
Jehovah's people have inside information on this subject. Before the German invasion of Poland they had an office at Lodz from which literature descriptive of God's Kingdom was going out all over the country, and bringing light and comfort to many weary hearts. At the same moment, and for many years prior thereto (all during the reign of Hitler the Mad), they were not permitted to circulate the same message in Germany, and all who attempted to do so were thrown into prisons and concentration camps, where they suffered the same kind of inhumanity as that of which the writers of this book complain. Moreover, the moment that the Germans seized Poland the work of proclaiming the Kingdom message was stopped forthwith.
If the German people, all of them, and the Polish people, all of them, had paid heed to the Kingdom message when they first heard it, and had stopped paying heed to the blasphemies of the religionists, both countries would be at peace today and the world would not now be mad with the great Terror which raises its awful head in the lands of what was once and fain would again be the "Holy Roman Empire". But the nations of the earth, i.e., the peoples, gave scant heed to the message; and behold the result!
No Atrocities Excused
This magazine excuses no atrocities by anybody, but it justly accuses the Roman Catholic Hitler and his backers as responsible for conditions of horror in Poland that beggar description. The London Catholic Herald, November 29, 1940, admits 100,000 Poles (one-third of the city) were deported from Lwow, many of them on fifteen minutes' notice. Many of these exiles were taken to the steppes of Siberia, and landed seventy miles from the nearest town, without habitations, by Hitler's and Pacelli's friend, Stalin.
Robert Neville, in PM, tells that in Poland Poles must tip their hats to Germans, must give Germans the right of way, and must wait in stores until all Germans present have bought what they wanted and departed. All men and women between 16 and 47 must register for work in Germany. 1,700,000 Poles have been made labor slaves in Germany, 18,000 Polish schools have been closed. All libraries, museums, scientific institutions and schools have been stripped of their treasures and equipment. 85 percent of all Polish bank accounts have been confiscated. All foodstuffs and livestock have been registered and are delivered to the German authorities at their will. The Germans boldly claim, even over the radio, that the Poles and Czechs are and must be servants of the Germans for ever. It is the "new order".
In stripping Poland and all other lands, wholesale stocks of everything are paid for in worthless scrip and then quietly shipped to Germany. A pathetic result is that when the pinch begins to be felt, the people, exhausted, helpless, and looking for a convenient scapegoat, are inclined to believe what the Nazis tell them, and to blame anybody else than the Devil, the pope and Hitler, the true authors of their misfortunes. $2,500,000,000 of Polish property was confiscated in a single year.
In the subjugation of Warsaw thousands were compelled to stand all day with their faces to a wall; all factories, shops, hotels, restaurants and estates were seized; great numbers of business and professional men were shot; all the men in entire blocks were seized and carried off to Germany to do forced labor; all the valuables in their homes were seized. Whole villages were emptied of their inhabitants. The subjugation of Poland caused the death of 320,000 soldiers, 1,100,000 civilian adults, and 200,000 children. Subsequently 26,000 civilians were executed and 4,000,000 were deported from their homes in the Polish Corridor. Multiplication of Poles is hindered by the very simple process of preventing marriage of young Polish people to each other, and taking many young Polish girls to Germany.
Crimes Against Poland
Crimes against Poland listed by the Manchester Guardian (only a few selected) are the execution at Gdynia of twenty young Poles because of the accidental wounding of a policeman by a boy playing with a catapult; the seizure of the homes of 20,000,000 Poles; the birth of children in bitter winter weather in unheated cement barracks, where, for lack of warm water, they could be bathed only in tepid coffee; the deportation into Germany of attractive girls of 14 upward; the punishing of Germans for showing pity; the freezing to death of thirty children on a railway journey; striking people on the face with riding whips if heard speaking Polish. Such is the "new order".
The United Press contains dispatches from Rome announcing the massacre at Chelm, Lubliniec and Koscian, Poland, of great numbers of children sick with mental diseases. The German authorities decided it was not worth while sparing their lives, and so gave them morphine and had them shot. The number thus shot at Chelm was 428. This is more of the "new order".
One of the oldest universities in Europe is the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. The professors were imprisoned in German concentration camps to break their spirit. Seventeen died from the ill-treatment, 104 were released after three months, but 50 were left behind. In an address to these prisoners the official statement was made by Dr. Frank: "By the will of the Fuehrer, you are to be a nation of peasants and workmen. We do not need a Polish educated class. The Reich has an abundance of educated men of her own."
The Jewish Examiner declares that in seven months after the invasion of Poland 400,000 Jews were driven from their homes, 300 synagogues were destroyed, hundreds of cemeteries were wrecked, and more than 7,000 Jewish girls were kidnaped and forced into Nazi soldiers' brothels. 10,000 Jews were rounded up in Vienna in midwinter, robbed of all possessions, and shipped into Poland. Germany offers to sell these at $445 each and ship them to Portugal in cars with blackened windows, thence via boat. The rail charge in this ($245) is more than $200 more than American railroads would charge for the highest class coach service in the world. Hitler is trying to blackmail this money out of relatives of these unfortunates.
The Germans built an eight-foot wall around 100 city blocks of Warsaw and ordered all Jews in the city to move into it. There are but 18 entrances into this huge ghetto. None may enter it or leave it without a pass. The same thing was done at Radom. It is another feature of the "new order". In Hitler's own paper, Völkischer Beobachter, is predicted the complete elimination of Jews from the economic life of Europe in 1941.
The Women of Warsaw
The Committee of Polish American Women, 19-23 St. Marks Place, New York city, received and reprinted an appeal from the Women of Warsaw from which a small portion appears herewith:
Our husbands, our brothers and fathers perished in mass murders which wiped out tens of thousands. They die slowly in dungeons or perish from starvation and cold in war prisoners' camps. Our sons, the future and pride of the nation, either perish like their fathers (as boys of 12 and 14 years of age were by no means lacking among those who were shot) or are registered and taken away to alleged labor camps in Germany whence there is no return. Our daughters, our little girls, the dearest joy of our lives, are being apprehended on the streets or abducted from their homes under cover of night, imprisoned in company with prostitutes and deported to German brothels. And there are among us mothers who, no longer able to shed tears, ask God for one thing only: "that their daughters might die." Our babes, those innocents who first saw the light of day in refugee shelters, in freight cars or prison cells, are slowly dying in our arms (we no longer able to give them warmth) without even once having had a warm bath or sufficient food. Our homes, once cozy firesides, stand empty, no longer sheltering anyone. Their walls ceased to be a protection, since every German has a right to enter at any time the abode of any Pole and take therefrom anything that might look worth while to him: furniture, linens, and the last remnant of supplies.
The Sozialistische Warte, publication of the illegal Social Democratic party of Germany, tells of Gestapo agents bringing a group of Polish workers to a certain country town in the spring of 1940. The farmers moved among them choosing their laborers as one chooses cattle. In some instances one farmer chose a husband and another his wife. The Poles had no interpreters, but their evident distress moved some of the farmers deeply. However, the Gestapo would not allow them to listen to any appeals.
A Vanished Land
The Nazis made a job of it when they wrecked Poland. The Polish minister without portfolio, General Joseph Haller, asserts that between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 Poles were transferred from the western part of the country to the central part, which was systematically devastated beforehand. Absolutely all property of the unfortunate emigrees was confiscated and they were left in a ruined region where there is no commerce and no industry, under the rule of a puppet government which Germany was unable to find a Pole sufficiently treacherous to lead.
Familiar names have been changed so as to obliterate the old landmarks. The Polish railways are now called the "Eastern Railways"; the postal administration is called the "German Post in the East"; the University of Cracow is called the "Institute for German Work in the East"; the Polish language is banned from official and from public use.
For a year the German government maintained over a portion of Poland a nominal Gouvernement Général, which was supposed to mean that sometime a portion of Poland would be reconstituted as a nation, but subsequently the Germans declared that the Gouvernement Général would be incorporated into the Reich, there to remain forevermore.
Polish prisoners of war were released but must remain in Germany, where they work for 57 percent of the wages paid to German farm hands who do the very same kind of work. The Poles are compelled to wear a large "P" on the right breast of every article of clothing, and Germans are forbidden to have social intercourse with them. Now they are not prisoners, but merely slaves.
The "New Order" in Denmark
◆ The religionists and politicians of the "new order" believe that if you have a neighbor that is weak, the thing to do is to take all that he has, at your own pleasure and convenience. This was the reason for seizing Denmark. There was no Catholic minority worth mentioning. Only 2 percent of the inhabitants of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland are Catholics, but to look after the 31,924 thus misled there are 1,830 priests, brothers and nuns. In other words, every group of 18 Catholic persons in those countries is carrying one member of the racket on its back. "And my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"
Immediately after the seizure of Den mark 50 percent of the pigs were killed and 25 percent of the cattle. It became almost impossible to take a bath, because of heat rationing. For more than a year private automobiles have been in storage. Foods, fuels and taxes are very high, and rising.
The Nazi masters of the land forbade the Jews to engage in banking or finance, and drove them out of the jewelry business. Mixed marriages of Jews and Gentiles were forbidden within a month after the country was seized.
Nazi police are on every corner. Community singing is prohibited. When the railway cars and engines go south they never return. No news of the war is permitted to enter the country. In other words, the Danes are, in effect, slaves.
The Seizure of Norway
In the history of the world there was never before such a perfectly co-ordinated piece of bedevilment as the seizure of Norway. The perfect operation of motorized and mechanized forces with infantry and air operations and lying and bluffing bespeak the master hand of Satan himself. It was impossible to use battleships within the areas patrolled by the air forces of the invading army.
But a price was paid. The Norse sank the cruiser Bluecher, its oil tanks sprang a leak, the oil took fire, and as the ship went down all on her went into a sea of water covered by a sea of flame. Those rescued were blinded. But other troops landed and overran the country, to the intense disgust of the Norse. One old woman shot a German soldier in the seat with a package of carpet tacks, and all Norway applauded. However, the country has been stripped to the bone and the cruelties used in Poland were used there too. A youth saw a German soldier corpse in the street, reported it at the nearest police station, giving his name and address, and the next day was picked up and shot without a hearing.
Norway was conquered in three weeks. As soon as Oslo, Norway, had been seized the representatives of the “new order” took control of the radio and in perfectly spoken Norwegian (learned when they were fresh-air guests) issued “official government statements” assuring the people that there had been no attack, and to disregard the mobilization calls which had been issued. On the seizure of Bergen, Norway, the same master liars, in faultless English, radioed the Norwegian defenders that they were British vessels bringing assistance against the German invaders. In addition to being demonized, both Hitler and Goebbels were Jesuit-trained and are admittedly the most audacious liars in history.
The “New Order” in Norway
The “new order”, i.e., the “order” of the Devil, the pope and Hitler, shows the same spirit in Norway that it does elsewhere. At Rena, Norway, Arthur Menken, news photographer, arrived in time to get pictures of German aviators flying low and destroying private homes in a helpless village in a country which had given them no cause of offense. Those that have the spirit of the Devil would far rather be feared and hated than to be loved and appreciated.
The Norwegian High Command issued a statement that it had witnessed German plundering of cities, townships and houses, and attacks upon points of no military value; had seen women and children machine-gunned by German fliers; had seen detachments of Norwegian troops fooled into submission and then shot down without a chance of defense; had seen Norwegian peasants and prisoners used as a shield against Norwegian bullets; and had seen Norwegian ships used as transports for German soldiers, with the result that the Norwegian crews were killed by Norwegian bullets.
At Nordli, Norway, on the Swedish border east of Namsos, a Nazi plane attacked a column of ambulance cars belonging to the British Quakers, and riddled them with machine-gun bullets. The large red crosses on the roofs of the ambulances were clearly visible in the sunlight when this was done. The occupants of the cars, knowing that German planes had repeatedly attacked passenger cars and even farm houses, escaped by fleeing into the woods upon hearing the planes approaching. So says a Norwegian writer, Kaare Haabeth, in the New York Times.
'God hath made of one blood all nations of earth'; but the Jews are henceforth to be excluded from Norway's civil service, and Jewish stores in Norway must be marked as such. The town of Hamar was fined 100,000 kroner and an 8 p.m. curfew was put in effect. About 1,000,000 Norwegians are now living under a regime akin to that of the concentration camp, and a hatred of these confessors to the pope and his orderlies has been engendered that will last as long as they do. The entire Norwegian judicial system was wiped out by a mere stroke of a pen. The Nazi church commissioner, Prof. Ragnar Skanke, issued an order forbidding Protestant church leaders to work against the "new order" (using that very expression), and warned them against most serious consequences if they disobey. The Lutheran bishops cannot figure it out why troopers of what they teach are the "higher powers" resort to systematic violence, why the police should be warned not to interfere with such violence, but to protect the wrongdoers, and why all the Supreme Court had to resign in protest of such conduct.
It is now illegal in Norway to pray for the king. All mail addressed to Vidkun Quisling, Hitler's alter ego, must terminate with "Heil Quisling" to be O.K. The Quislingists decided that the Norwegians might not wear buttonhole coins with the king's head. The Norwegians changed the buttons to paper rings. The rings were declared seditious, whereupon they wore their bread cards; the king's arms are printed on them. The instructions to treat political prisoners in a humane manner are withdrawn.
Forty thousand unemployed Norwegians were drafted to work in Germany and have thus fallen into the ranks of the actual slaves of the "new order". People disappear and nobody knows what becomes of them. This is all regular. Even the women disappear. In the "new order" there are no such things as manhood or womanhood, but there are what may be described as "pure Aryan beasts" instead. The Norwegian men have caused landslides and avalanches; many of them at the same hour at night, to harass the Nazis, but the only effect of such sabotage is to cause more suffering to the innocent. Another useless and foolish act of sabotage was that as a German broadcast was going on in Oslo, the electric cables outside of the city were cut in several places, and for several hours neither radio nor electric lights nor electric railways could function. The effect of such acts is greater suffering for the slaves.
The Norwegian torpedo boat Sleipner, based on the Faroe islands, slips in and out of fjords and bays and ports, lays mines, captures smaller craft manned by German crews, and hides with a deftness no pursuer could emulate.
The murderers that have seized the country rendered an occupation bill of 40 percent of the national income of Norway.
Norway managed to get its gold reserve, $132,000,000, across the sea into Britain. Also it got 20,000 Norwegian sailors, none better on earth, now engaged in bringing essential supplies to Britain. Some of these were so eager to get away from the Germans that they crossed the stormy North Sea, 500 miles, in rowboats in order to enter British Government employment. One of these, thus escaped, reports that in Oslo there are no eggs, milk is scarce, and meat is almost unobtainable. On account of gasoline shortage there is no vehicle transportation and almost no fishing. Good flour is not to be had, and there is an acute shortage of feed for poultry and cattle. Butter, sugar, coffee and clothing are rationed, and the prices for everything have doubled.
RIGHTEOUS RULER
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Pomona Police Hero
◆ The police department of Pomona, California, pays wages to a fat and very brave officer who totes two huge revolvers and carries a night-stick almost two feet long. This oversupply of war material guarantees that no one will be so indiscreet as to protrude his tongue in the presence of this flat-foot except maybe to lick an ice-cream cone. One of The Theocracy's roving photographic eyes caught this overzealous minion of the law while in action against Jehovah's magazine publishers. The outcome of the incident left one Irish policeman (guess his church) badly chagrined, gave the Pomona police department a clean bill of health, and resulted in another victory for Jehovah.
A loyal son of Rome accosted one of Jehovah's witnesses on a busy downtown corner in Pomona, asked, "Who gave you permission to distribute that stuff on this street?" and left with the remark that the police would soon put a stop to that. Shortly our aforementioned heroic pavement pounder, who had previously attempted to interfere with the witnesses, appeared on the scene.
Cop: Who gave you permission to do this work?
Jw: I asked for no permission. Almighty God has commanded me to preach this message of God's Kingdom and I am using this method of doing so.
Cop: Are you an ordained minister?
Jw: Yes.
Cop: Can you conduct marriage ceremonies?
Jw: What preacher married Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden?
(Broad grins on the faces of some goodwill people in a car parked at the curb. They had just obtained magazines.)
Cop: We're going to take all of you to the station. How many of you are there in town? Ten?
Jw: Oh, lots more than that.
Cop: (Nonplussed) Oh, there are, huh? Well, you're coming to the station with me, anyway.
Jw: Am I under arrest?
Cop: No.
Jw: Then I can't leave my post. The Lord's work is too important.
Cop: (Exasperated) Give me those magazines! He snatches the magazines from the witness' hands and the Jw promptly grabs them back. Oblivious to the possibility that tomorrow's headlines might read, "Pomona Cop Jugged as Magazine Snatcher," he snatches them away again, only to have them grabbed back pronto. Finally our hero makes his getaway with one Consolation, and heads in the direction of the police station.
After a few minutes the chief drives up to another witness on the opposite corner and questions him about the work. Apparently the interview is satisfactory; so, after the chief leaves, Papa Pacelli's two-gun angel trots right back sheepish-like and gives back the magazine he hooked. Was his face red!
The chief is to be commended for his stand for righteousness and knowledge of Constitutional law.—F. H. Eaton.
A Modern Zaccheus
◆ A preacher associated with a very wide Methodist circuit in North Kent was requested by one of his flock to explain certain facts that a Jehovah's witness had put to him. Several of the young men of the preacher's flock also put pertinent questions arising out of contact with Jehovah's witnesses. The preacher took his troubles to the lord of his diocese, who dismissed everything with a sweep of his hand, concluding with the peroration that these witnesses were only booksellers. The preacher was not satisfied, the young men of the flock were not satisfied, and the result was that the preacher and one other should visit these Jehovah's witnesses, and accordingly they arrived on Sunday at . . . at local Kingdom Hall.
Theocracy pioneer camp just outside London, England
The study of Part 6 of Zephaniah's prophecy was in progress, and I cannot do better than pass on the comments of the two religionists, who said: "We are amazed at (1) your lack of reverence and your freedom of speech and action; (2) the spirit of happiness and contentment pervading the assembly; (3) your unequivocal stand against religion; (4) your amazing use of the Bible to prove all things."
On the following Tuesday, in company with the servant, the preacher was taken to the Salvation study, and the disclosures at that study showed the sincerity of this prisoner and he could not withhold his grief. He said: "I thought I knew the Bible, but you make me feel a novice."
On the following Friday I again visited him. It thrilled my heart to answer his many questions on the Kingdom and to leave a set of 12 books with him. That visit brought about his decision to witness for The Theocracy, and in this his wife also joined. To dwell here on his distress of mind as he realized all the privileges he had lost, and the paucity of his knowledge, is but to reveal the anguish of a sincere and honest heart. This modern Zaccheus who 'came to see Jesus' is now supping with Him. The preacher is resigning tonight and declaring that he is taking his stand with Jehovah's witnesses and witnessing from house to house. He declares eight other young men are coming with him, for apparently they have waited for his decision. The congregations over which he has presided are now torn in twain.
The prisons are opening and those that are coming forth find the sun brilliant to their eyes, for it is nigh "noonday".— F. L. Brown, London.
"In Every House"
◆ The apostles after Jesus' death broke the bread of life "from house to house"
(Acts 2:46), "and daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." (Acts 2:42) This lesson was well learned and practiced by Paul even before he became a Christian (Acts 8:3), and at Ephesus he was glad to be able to look back over his course and thank God that he had taught the people "publicly and from house to house". This house-to-house work is plainly implied in Jesus' sending out the seventy "two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come". (Luke 10:1) Certainly the Son of God would not send seventy men to camp out permanently at one house.
At Leicester, England, one of Jehovah’s witnesses was before the Tribunal and a member of that body sought to entrap him as follows: "You say you are a full-time minister. Do you go from house to house?" "Yes." "Don't you know that Christ said, 'Go not from house to house'?" "No, I do not." "You are a fine minister! you do not even know the Bible." "And do you still intend to go from house to house in the face of that Scripture?" "Certainly, I intend to continue." "Then you are a humbug." "You are registered for noncombatant service in His Majesty's forces."
Of course, the scripture quoted (Luke 10:7) in no way lessens the necessity of preaching the Kingdom message from house to house, but is an exhortation to workers in the Master's vineyard who have found a place to remain over night, where they are welcome, to "in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house". This misuse of the Scriptures was entirely unfair. But the newspapers, as always, applauded the injustice. Probably, in the mob that shouted "Crucify him, crucify him" there were at least some of the 9,000 that at different times had been fed miraculously by the loaves and fishes. They were reporters before the advent of the press.
Theocracy publishers just outside London, England
A dozen London pioneers
Settling Accounts at Clydebank
◆ The religionists were responsible for 71 cases of assault against Jehovah’s people in Britain during 1940. Twelve mob riots were organized by Catholic leaders. Several court cases resulted from these assaults, and the brethren received satisfaction. Early in the year a special campaign was organized in the Clydebank district where so many previous riots have occurred. The large number of publishers participating in this campaign were each armed with either a cane or an umbrella. The Clydebank police gave reluctant assistance while this campaign was in progress. No violence occurred. The Catholic hoodlums saw that Jehovah’s witnesses meant business.—1941 Yearbook of Jehovah’s witnesses.
Opposite the Bus Stop
◆ Just an experience with the phonograph:
I was on a main street, and working houses with front doors quite close to the pavement and making a call almost on the end of a block. An elderly gentleman appeared, rather deaf, and I wondered whether he would appreciate the witness.
I put on the phonograph, on his doorstep, and Judge Rutherford was with us again and in fine form—explaining why “religion is a snare and a racket”.
I did my best also when the old gentleman asked questions, showing him how Christians have always been persecuted by religionists and how Jehovah’s kingdom would bring the greatest desire of every human heart. The old gentleman took a booklet, and, after preparing him for a back-call, I wished him well, hoping that he had received a consistent witness, and turned around.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a bus queue had formed up outside the gate and about two dozen persons were watching and listening to us, with the keenest interest, when I had thought that we were alone, for quite fifteen minutes. I was astonished, yet they knew, very happy, and hoping that Armageddon would not “take them all away” for just then—the bus did. May we be His servants for ever.—H. Eagles, England.
Baptism in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Advertising The Theocracy, Manchester, England
British Witnesses on the War Front
◆ After two months on the war front with air raids and bombardments continuously every night and most of the days, the London office and brethren are still very much alive and on the job with the “strange work”. Yes, these are horrible times and there is destruction visible in most of the territories. London and southeastern England are the battlefield, with the dreadful experiences of war becoming part of everyday life. Some of the brethren have had their homes and possessions destroyed, but the next day you see these courageous brethren in the field comforting the people with the Theocratic message. Three of the London pioneer homes were bombed out late in September. Not one of the 34 pioneer sisters in these homes at the time of bombardment was injured or scratched. Of course, they were shaken, but their nerves were restored quickly, and back on the pioneer work they went more determined than ever to fight the demons now seeking to destroy men of good-will.
Some of the companies in southeastern England have had to evacuate en masse. Such have been rehabilitated in safer sections of the country and are carrying on their Kingdom service. Kingdom School, with twenty children, was moved from Kent to a quiet place in Devon, and the whole lot go out in the service in their new territory on week-ends. So far in the war sections four pioneer homes and nine Kingdom halls have been put out of action and damaged. Only two of the publishers have been killed by the Nazi demons' air war. It is marvelous to see the calmness and determination of the brethren in spite of this frightful rain of death and destruction which rages continually over our heads. Watchtower studies and service meetings are well attended and held on schedule, air raids or no air raids. The organized field work continues each week, and the people in the desolated areas are glad to receive the comfort from the Lord's servants. —1941 Yearbook of Jehovah's witnesses.
Juveniles on the Sound-Car
◆ A newly interested young man made up his mind to go with us on a full day of Spanish studies. The young man speaks and reads Spanish very well and would be a big help when able to hold some of these studies himself.
His mother-in-law lives with the couple, and they have three small boys from 1 to 5 years. The mother-in-law is Catholic, as was the young couple, and she was very much opposed to The Watchtower and turned the young wife against her husband's attitude toward the Truth. The night before the occasion the young man and wife attended a movie, after which the wife put all of his shirts in a tub of water, thinking to keep him home that way. She said she would leave him if he went.
Sunday morning the man woke up to find his wife and mother-in-law gone, as also were the keys to the garage and the car. We called for him with the sound-car to take him to the studies and so familiarize him with the methods. He told us of his plight and said he had prayed to Jehovah, asking that a way might be seen to get out in the work that day.
We told him to put his kids in the truck and come along. He got several changes of clothes for the baby and we left for the territory. During the day he took the baby with him to the studies and I took the other two with me in the car on regular sound work. We put in six hours and he was very thankful for the part he had in the activities. He's going to go steadily from now on.—California Zone 4.
[The woman in this incident was not a help-meet, but a hinder-meet. The man did just the right thing, and, no doubt, by his courageous and manly course taught his wife a needed lesson.—Ed.]
"Say to the Prisoners, Go Forth"
◆ In late August, 1939, a ship sailed from the United States to Britain, bringing two women who had originally hailed from different parts of England. They had become friends in that far-away town in Massachusetts where both had settled. One was returning after an absence of twenty years; the other, of some thirty years. Hardly had they reached the shores of the old country and separated when war was declared.
Sometime later one of these was called upon by one of Jehovah's witnesses. Yes, she had seen some of that literature away back in Massachusetts; she would take the book Salvation. Going on down the street the publisher met a stranger, who stopped him and inquired if he knew the locality. Did he know anyone who had recently come from America? Yes, he would take her along, which he did, thereafter leaving the friends to enjoy their reunion. The inquirer was the other wanderer from America.
A sequel? Oh yes! At a small group engaged in studying the book Religion the writer noticed two strangers manifesting keen interest. He engaged them in conversation and elicited the above facts. In the United States they had been prisoners and in darkness. Now they were awake and stepping into the light together. Who can doubt the Shepherd's care of His sheep, even though it takes a world war and a journey half across the globe to arouse them?—F. R. Freer, England.
(To be continued) COUNSEL
by J. F. Rutherford
Life in Perfect Health
"LIFE" means existence and the right to exist and to enjoy all the blessings incident thereto. The majority of the human race are sick both in mind and in body. An unhealthy body frequently results in a diseased mind. Practically all persons have some ailment. Not one enjoys perfect health and real life. Men have put forth their best endeavors to find the way to health, and the only result is that in the course of time even the strongest become sick and die. If it is possible to learn the way to perfect health and everlasting life, then surely there could be nothing of greater importance to man than to gain a knowledge of that way.
The real cause of sickness and death, the opposites of health and life, must first be known before one can appreciate the only permanent remedy therefor. The cause of disease and death is not correctly stated in any medical books but is stated in plain terms in the book of the great Author of life, The Bible. "For with thee is the fountain of life." These words of Psalm 36:9 are addressed to the great Creator, Jehovah God. He is the Giver of life everlasting, and His words point man to the means of gaining perfect health and life.
The first man, Adam, who was God's creation, was made perfect in health and given the right to life upon condition of his complete obedience to his Creator's law. The Scriptures declare that all of God's creation is perfect, which is further proof that the original man was a perfect creature with perfect health. (See Deuteronomy 32:4.) God put man to the test in order to give man the opportunity to prove his loyalty and devotion to the Lord God. The eating of the forbidden fruit probably appeared to Adam as a small thing, but the bigger thing was his act of disobedience to the commandment of his Creator and Benefactor. God's law plainly stated that any willful breaking of that law of perfect man would result in death. When put to the test, Adam did willfully disobey God's law. God must be true and consistent and therefore must enter judgment against Adam in harmony with His law. The judgment of God pronounced against man appears in Genesis, chapter three, and contains no mention of eternal torment.
Only Eden was perfect. All the earth outside of Eden was unfinished, and there Adam was driven. In Eden all the fruits, being perfect, were well balanced and would sustain life without sickness. Outside of Eden the fruit was imperfect, and the use thereof produced disease and sickness, which after a long period of time resulted in death. God had formed man out of the dust of the earth; and when Adam was dead, he returned to the dust, and since then has been completely out of existence.
The law of inheritance is that children are visited with the weaknesses and sickness of the father. Consequently the man, under sentence of death and undergoing the execution thereof outside of Eden, could not produce perfect children, but all his children would inherit and did inherit the imperfections of the father. Every man that is imperfect is a sinner in God's sight. At Romans 5:12 He states the divine rule in these words: "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." It is therefore sin that is the primary cause of all sickness and death and is the evil effect resulting from the violation of God's law by the first man.
Nineteen centuries ago the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, came to earth that obedient man might have life, as stated at John 10:10. He said: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3) Jesus Christ, by His sacrificial death and His resurrection from the dead, purchased the right to life for man that believes. This is one of the benefits that obedient man will receive under the Theocratic Government of Jehovah God by Christ Jesus the King.
The Devil always tries to run ahead of Jehovah God and His kingdom. To deceive the people the Devil brings forth a false remedy. In line with his first lie, told in Eden (Genesis 3:4), he induces religious men to teach that there is no death. Then he gets up a religious organization in modern times and falsely attaches to it the name of Christ, in order to thereby mislead the people. This organization is also called 'scientific', and its system of science teaches that there is no death and that ill health or sickness is a mental conclusion and that men and women can heal and give health to all who exercise faith in said "science". Such announced remedy and other systems of "faith healing" are in full contradiction of God's Word and His announced purpose to accomplish the healing of obedient man through His Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus. So far as it is possible, Satan uses his power to cause some healing from sickness by demon power, his very object being to turn the people away from God to religion or demonism. One thing the honest must admit: that not one that claims to have been healed by these so-called "faith healing" methods ever stayed continually well, but, in the course of time, died, and even the healers themselves grow sick and die in like manner. Jehovah God's remedy to give health and life to the obedient people through His Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus is complete and of permanent value.
The loving heart of Jesus, when on earth, was moved with compassion when the sick and the afflicted came to Him, and He healed many of them. (Matthew 9:35, 36) Upon His disciples He bestowed the gift of healing. (Matthew 10:1-8; Luke 10:1-9) This gift of healing which from Pentecost on was transmitted by the faithful apostles to other faithful disciples was due to pass away, with the death of all those thus favored with the gift, as stated at 1 Corinthians 13:1, 2, 8.
Jesus was born under the law given through Moses, and He fulfilled the law. (Galatians 4:4; Matthew 5:17) As stated by the inspired apostle at Hebrews 10:1 and Colossians 2:16, 17, the things of that law foreshadowed "good things to come". Therefore Jesus' healing of the sick, His opening the eyes of the blind and giving strength to the infirm and raising the dead, did but foreshadow the greater work that Christ Jesus will do during His thousand-year reign.
The Lord will teach the people how to eat, how to exercise, how to sleep, how to think, and how to learn to obey righteousness; and will heal them and make them well, as reflected by His prophecies, at Jeremiah 33:6: "Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth." And Isaiah 33:24: "And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity."
At the same time, so the Scriptures declare, the earth shall yield her increase for man's good. The blood of Christ Jesus bought the right to life for man that believes, and it now remains to apply to such the benefits of that ransom sacrifice and teach the people the way to life. As Eden, the then only finished part of the earth, produced perfect food, even so the Lord will make the earth to yield its increase and produce perfect food and will teach the people how to eat it; and, the people thus learning of God's gracious provision for them through Christ Jesus, and rendering themselves fully in obedience thereto, the result is certain to be perfect health and life to them. God's kingdom is the only means to obtain such.
Connecticut Solons Would Fine the Savior $500
The Connecticut Senate had under consideration its bill No. 721, providing a fine of $500 or five years' imprisonment, or both, for anybody that should dare to tell the truth about religious hypocrites or their teachings as Jesus told it in the 23rd chapter of Matthew. The bill was admittedly aimed directly at Jehovah's witnesses, but, though the I.W.W. was given 16 minutes to protest against the bill, and the Communists were given 12 minutes, Jehovah's witnesses were cut off without a hearing. However, they saw to it that all the legislators had the opportunity to know their objections to the bill, which are below set out in printed form, so that the future historians may have another evidence before them as to how it came about that liberty and justice committed hara-kiri in "the land of the free and the home of the brave" in the reign of America's one and only indispensable man who yearns for all power in heaven and in earth as respects the affairs of every citizen who lives in any of the forty-eight states of these United States of America.
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