Consolation, June 11, 1941
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Contents
Feigned Patriotism 3
A Uniform for Every Country 6
Feigned Patriotism at Ida Grove, Iowa 12
Singular Forms of Plant Life 14
It's Great to Be an American 15
Stranded in Denmark 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Food Shortage 16
Staticless Radio Broadcasting 18
The New Government
New Hampshire Supreme Court 20
Questions of Liberty 24
Resolution 24
Tobacco Shortens Life 25
"Make Users' Flesh Creep" 25
61 Percent Excess Deaths 25
Alcohol versus Tobacco 25
Other Scientific Evidence 26
Radio Also Suppresses 27
How to Save Your Life 27
Nicotinic Acid in the Blood 27
Oxygen Instead of Narcotics 27
The Scrubwoman 28
British Comment
The London Blitz 29
'Satan Cast Out of Heaven' 29
A Bishop Speaks Out 30
British Minister in Vatican 31
Altar Bread Threatened 31
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Crimes Taught by Roman Theologians
◆ If any man conceals another's property, for the support of himself and his family, when asked, he may say that he has concealed nothing. For example, a priest may equivocate before a secular judge, that he is no delinquent, by understanding the judge is not a competent lawful authority to receive the testimony of ecclesiastics.—Tamburinus, Lib. 3, Cap. 4, Sect. 2, page 27.
A woman may take the property of her husband, to supply her spiritual wants, and to act like other women. [In plain English, wives and daughters may steal from their husbands and fathers, to satisfy their confessor priest.]—Gordonus, Theolog. Moral. Univ., Lib. 5, page 826.
If an adulterous priest, even aware of his danger, having visited an adulteress, is assailed by her husband, kills the man in his own defense, it is not criminal.—Henriquez, Sum. Theol. Moral., Vol. 1, Lib. 14, Cap. 10, page 869.
He who is not bound to state the truth before swearing, is not bound by his oath, provided he makes the internal restriction that excludes the present case.—Charli, Prop. 6, page 8.
A child who serves his father, may secretly purloin as much as his father would have given a stranger for his compensation.—Escobar, Theolog. Moral., Vol. 4, Lib. 34, Sec. 2, Prob. 16, page 348.
If a man becomes a nuisance to society, the son may lawfully kill his father.—Dicastillo, Lib. 2. Tract. 1. Disput. 10, Dub. 1, Num. 15, page 290.
The rebellion of Roman priests is not treason, because they are not subject to the civil government.—Emmanuel Sa, Aphor., page 41.
Priests may kill the laity to preserve their goods.—Molina, Vol. 3. Disput. 16, page 1768.
A man condemned by the Pope may be killed wherever he is found.—La Croix, Vol. 1, page 294.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."--Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 11, 1941 Number 567
Feigned Patriotism
THE veil of FEIGNED PATRIOTISM has been drawn over one of the most shocking crimes this country has ever witnessed. To hide the criminal assaults on the parents and children of Jehovah's witnesses, which were begun long before the present emphasis on flag-saluting, the attackers pretend a great fervor for America's safety. The flag-wavers proceed with their subversive work while the public is yet beguiled into thinking that it is all done in the cause of patriotism.
Let the point be made in the outset that what happens to Jehovah's witnesses is everybody's responsibility in this nation. Therefore AWAKE, Americans! Decide whether you wish to pretend that mobbing law-abiding citizens who obey God first of all, and snatching away their children to reformatories, is done to preserve the safety of the United States, or whether you perceive that such conduct is Hitler's way, the road to Nazism, from which no travelers return. Your decision and subsequent course of action are of first importance to you, because upon them rest your eternal destiny. Therefore choose carefully and be not deceived by "good words and fair speeches" (Romans 16:18), nor by the starry labels of red, white and blue, nor the FEIGNED PATRIOTISM which covers dark deeds.
It is your life that is in the balance; for the people of this nation and all nations are on trial and what they do as regards Jehovah's witnesses will be deemed by the great Judge, Christ Jesus, as done unto Him. (John 5:22) "Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." (Matthew 25:45, 46) Therefore the treatment of Jehovah's witnesses, and specifically the flag salute, since it has been made a crucible to melt their courage, are issues of vital concern of all creatures who stand trial today before the Elder Brother of these humble folk. The flag salute has been made a test of their obedience to Jehovah God, who forbade the worship of inanimate objects. (Exodus 20:4, 5) The founders of this land never intended that the flag should be set up in the place of the Lord. It was the symbol of the laws of a government that once made an honest effort to serve Jehovah.
The patrioteers have appropriated this fine symbol to cover up their lawlessness. Of them George Washington's words sound prophetic: "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." Our forefathers knew that unscrupulous men would attempt to hide treacherous and wicked designs behind a patriotic front in order to delude the people. These impostors have always sailed under the banner of protectors of the country's weal. In this disguise they anticipate little opposition while defenders arise on all sides to thus unwittingly shield their crime. That is the sad picture that confronts America today. It is the picture of a nation, which for years has worshiped Jehovah God as supreme, now clamoring for the blood of His servants. Thus observe the poisonous fruit of "pretended patriotism".
The real objective of those who seek the humiliation and death of law-abiding citizens is not the country's welfare. Their patriotism is feigned, a mere sham, full of the same love as the kiss of Judas Iscariot. It is the sheep's wool covering the ravenous wolf. Moreover, it is the costume which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy's Nazi agents wear in every country that they profess to "protect". Now they say this country must be protected from conscientious school children and their law-abiding parents who openly declare their allegiance to Jehovah, the same God to whom Roosevelt claims to pray. Thus this country has begun to be favored by the "protection" of Hitler's advance agents, the Hierarchy, her priests, and her Legion. Just to what extremes such "protectors" are willing to go is well demonstrated in the fate of Finland, Poland, Belgium, and France. "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
In what manner this country is 'endangered' by the righteousness of upstanding children the Hierarchy does not explain. But the virulence of their hatred is exemplified in the following:
One thing is sure and certain, there is no country where its citizens are more of one heart. In recent months this has been proved in the name of "the witnesses of Jehovah", led by Judge Rutherford of Brooklyn. Although no intelligent American will seriously take stock in this religious outfit, still, due to our die-hard bigotry, the "witnesses" have been tolerated and, in some sections, actually allowed to thrive on their impossible proposals—until they made one mistake, and that was to over-emphasize their lack of respect for the American flag. INDIGNATION. Now a wave of indignation is sweeping the country. . . . But once these people openly, insultingly, and defiantly turned their backs on the Stars and Stripes, O, that was a different story! It will mean the eventual breakdown and disappearance of "the witnesses of Jehovah", for the American heart has been touched, national indignation has been aroused, general patriotic feeling has been spurred.
Later, under "Patriotism", the Catholic monsignor continues:
In the instances of "the witnesses of Jehovah", it took an insult to a piece of cloth to wake up some of our leaders.
So writes "Rt. Rev." Mgr. Peter M. H. Wynhoven, editor in chief of Catholic Action of the South, in The Brooklyn Tablet, November 16, 1940, in a syndicated article entitled "Wild Wisdom" and subtitled "God Bless America", appearing in many Catholic periodicals.
The above is typical of Catholic abuse in the name of patriotism. Similar outbursts have been written by Edward Lodge Curran, president of the International Truth Society; "Father" Felix, O.S.B.; Archbishop Spellman of New York; and others, in nearly every Catholic newspaper in the world.
Analyses of such publications generally disclose the peculiar Catholic intolerance of American principles which often appears in the same articles that rant of patriotism. For instance, Wynhoven in the above refers to American tolerance of Jehovah's witnesses as "die-hard bigotry"; their advocacy of God's kingdom under Christ is an "impossible proposal"; and refers to mob attacks upon them as a belated "awakening" of "our leaders". Archbishop Spellman, while extolling the American Legion in his speech to them in Boston last summer, found occasion to sneer at the "organization" which had "disrespect for the flag". His words were easily understood as approval of the mob attacks on Jehovah's witnesses, in which many Legionnaires had but recently engaged, in contempt of the law.
Writers in the Jesuit organ America refer to the United States as a "pseudo-democracy", and a Jesuit speaker averred that "Liberalism and Catholicism cannot live under the same roof". All Catholics regard the laws of foreign Vatican as above the laws of the United States. "We [the pope] hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty." (Pope Leo XIII, Great Encyclical Letters, page 304) Wynhoven’s opposition to religious freedom is supported by Catholic law: “Let us examine that liberty in individuals, which is so opposed to the virtue of religion, namely the liberty of worship, as it is called. This is based upon the [American] principle that every man is free to profess, as he may choose, any religion or none. . . . This is no liberty, but its degradation.” (Pope Leo XIII, Great Encyclical Letters, pages 149-150) Page 151 contains this piece of Papal wisdom: “We must now consider briefly liberty of speech and liberty of the press. It is hardly necessary to say that there can be no such right as this.” The same authority says a government “by the will of the people” embraces concepts “wholly at variance with the truth”. (Page 122)
Forcing people to violate their consciences is also in accord with canon law of the Catholic Church: “The mission of the Catholic Church to educate embraces every nation without exception, and all men, within or without her membership, and there is no power on earth that may oppose her or stand in her way.”—Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri, Encyclical on Education, 1931.
Pretended Patriotism
In view of the avowed hatred of Catholic authorities for all forms of freedom, one might reasonably ask: “Why are they interesting themselves in the salute of the flag, America’s symbol of freedom?” The answer is here made, with proof to follow, and is, to wit: The great interest in compulsory flag-saluting which the Hierarchy has lately developed originated in their desire to rid themselves of exposure. They found the words of Jehovah’s hailstone truths sweeping away their “refuge of lies”. (Isaiah 28:17; Revelation 16:21) They think that by ridding themselves of Jehovah’s witnesses they will hear no more tormenting truths that expose their organization as anti-God; nor be further disturbed by the declaration of the Lord’s coming vengeance. They do not believe that the Lord will destroy a “church” of such antiquity and long-standing. But they see large numbers of the Catholic population deserting priest and tradition in order to serve Jehovah. The falling away of such numbers, part of “a great multitude which no man could number”, lowers Papal prestige, and, of course, is not to be tolerated by the most intolerant organization that has ever existed. On this point it is interesting to note how perfectly the Lord foreknew and pictured this course of action in the conspiracy of Mount Seir, typifying this same religious element, with Moab and Ammon, formed for the purpose of annihilating His typical people, Israel. (2 Chronicles, 20th chapter, discussed in the Watchtower magazine, under the title “His War”) Likewise in her fight the Hierarchy has called in politicians and dictators, the modern Ammonites; the Jewish and other commercial elements, foreshadowed by Moab; school boards, mobsters, American Legionnaires, partial judges, and anybody else in the byways and hedges, that could be induced to fight against Jehovah’s people.
Here again the Lord foreknew what her course of action would be when seized by the desperate desire to stop the rising tide of exposure. When Sisera was faced with the necessity of fighting against the army of Israel under Barak, ‘he gathered by cry, or proclamation,’ his forces. “Likewise the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, in the lead of religious systems, sent out their call to all anti-Theocratic powers and forces of the earth.”—Watchtower magazine, January 1, 1941, paragraph 17, which see.
In both the above pictures the religious element was thoroughly humiliated and defeated, thus foretelling the doom of religion today. Thus it appears that the Hierarchy is certain to go down to defeat, and all her schemes, including the compulsory flag-salute, will fail.
But it is valuable to examine her sham patriotism, and disclose its very unpatriotic motives, in order to enlighten those who might otherwise be fooled. They must be warned of the death-dealing subterfuges of Rome. The Lord has commissioned His people to "testify to the truth", and that for the benefit of all who may be seeking. This article will deal further with the Hierarchy's mock love-of-country, which has behind it the desire and intention of destroying the United States and every other nation that will not bow to the banner of the Italian pope. Read on if you wish to protect yourself against "the impostures of pretended patriotism", and to avoid the evil fate of those who fight against the Lord God of Hosts. The intelligent are grateful to Jehovah's witnesses, who seek to save them from such a catastrophe. It is not for the Hierarchy's sake, but in the interests of the reasonable and honest, that the following facts are presented.
A Uniform for Every Country
The Hierarchy dons the uniform of every nation, and gives loyalty to none. Her agents are found in every nook, cranny and distant outpost of the world. Hers is a vast international organization with roots in every land, drawing sustenance from the people, which organization is likened in the Scriptures to a "great whore that sitteth upon many waters", "the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." (Revelation 17:1, 5) This prostitute is also pictured as riding upon the backs of the kings of this world; which means that she will rule all the governments of earth for a time. (For a full discussion see Light, Book Two, written in 1930; and compare it with events today.)
The Hierarchy is fast achieving complete control of the world. Her priests and minions, whose only loyalty is to the pope, of course assume great loyalty to the countries in which they reside. They are in the forefront among flag-wavers, and their profession of allegiance to every flag is loudest and best advertised. Such outward demonstration of fealty serves as a shield or smokescreen to hide her schemes to overthrow the countries not yet under the iron heel of Nazi-Fascism.
Of those that still require "remodeling" to conform to the pope's "new order", England and the United States are the chief. England is at least informed of her peril, as will appear later to the reader. But America has become so infested with Nazis, Communists, Coughlinites, and other Romanists who clamor for the lifeblood of this democracy, that the body politic is near dissolution. These Catholic breeders of internal strife openly declare themselves for Hitler, advocate "bullets instead of ballots", to reduce this country to Papal serfdom. The treasonable purpose of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is broadcast by radio and published abroad. And, to insure success, the treacherous schemes are advanced as in the public welfare. Around them are woven emblems of the American flag. Upon them are bestowed copious blessings of patriotic fervor, fully publicized by the press, without omitting large photographs of Catholic prelates practically draped by the flag in the background. Is it then so amazing that Americans do not recognize the Papal wolf in its elegant American uniform?
Catholic declarations of fealty are accepted at several hundred percent by the people; and they are aided to do this by the extravagant publicity accorded such claims by the Vaticamerican press. The servile obedience rendered Rome by the news agencies in this country bring to mind the henpecked husband, who, when his wife spoke, jumped twice, for fear she did not see him the first time.
The Hierarchy's role of patrioteer is also facilitated by the ridiculous reverence with which the black garb and collar-turned-backward are usually regarded. Foolish creature worship, together with "three cheers" for the red, white and blue Romanists loudly echoed from the Vaticamerican press, sufficiently well transforms a Catholic-Nazi into a bona fide minuteman; especially when the magician at the Vatican endeavors to make it unhealthy to observe too closely and report the mechanics of this transformation.
There are a few slip-ups, however. The impersonators lose their make-up or are discovered in the quick-change. Such mishaps make control of the press an absolute essential, as will be observed as we go along. Since she has staked her all on Hitler, even with the best efforts of the most competent liars in the world, sometimes a bit of incriminating evidence will leak out. Take “Father” Schulte for example. The “Nazi Flying Priest”, former German war ace, causes the Toronto Globe and Mail anxiety:
The authorities would allay apprehension if they made a public statement concerning the activities of “Father” Paul Schulte, “flying priest of the Arctic,” who is alleged to have established petrol caches and made complete aerial maps of the Hudson Bay region while ostensibly engaged in missionary work in the subarctic. We are now informed that the Canadian authorities intercepted letters from the former German war ace, who was making soundings in the Albany River and the James Bay District and sending the information thus obtained to the German Embassy in Washington.
It seems that the people and the government of this nation should be vitally concerned in Schulte's interesting “missionary” work, especially since Buffalo and Detroit would be as vulnerable to attack from a base near Hudson Bay as many Canadian cities. But our newspapers, without exception, omitted this item. No doubt they felt that its publication would shock the religious susceptibilities of “Father” Schulte's friends here. That was a very considerate attitude on the part of American publishers, wasn't it?*
* Latest advices to Consolation are that “Rev.” Paul Schulte, whose address has been given as Washington, D.C., is now located in Wagner, S. Dak. This is within 500 miles of the Canadian border, two hours away by plane.—Ed.
The Converted Catholic, published at 229 W. 48th St., New York city, in reporting the above adds a few sentences worthy of serious thought:
“It occurs to us that we also had a much publicized ‘Glacier priest’ in this country, the Jesuit Father Bernard Hubbard, about whom we have heard nothing of late. He was active in Alaska.” No doubt he is engaged in a bit of military missionary work such as mapping the rivers, mountains, and preferred sites for Axis landing fields in Alaska.†
The worst of Catholicism is embodied in the principles and action of the Jesuits. They were founded in 1540 by Ignatius Loyola, a wounded and demented Catholic soldier. Their crimes have been so unspeakable in the four hundred years of their festering growth that most nations have, at one time or another, expelled them. An interesting account of their diabolical schemes is found in the Philippine magazine (Manila) entitled The Jesuits and Reaction, in which they are described as “the first Fascists on earth”. The author states:
Indignation ran so high against the [Jesuit] Order in the Catholic world that the authority of the Holy See and Catholicism itself were seriously endangered. For this reason the
† WHY IS THE ARMY SO HELPLESS?
Under date of March 11, 1941, the Philadelphia Record quotes the “Reverend Father” Bernard R. Hubbard, styling himself as “Glacier Priest”, as saying:
“I conferred last week in Washington with the army and navy intelligence services. I pointed out to the two services sites for air bases which I think are more feasible than those already selected, and suggested for a submarine base, Takli Harbor, on the Alaskan Peninsula, of which I have the only map in existence.”
The United States has owned Alaska for 74 years. In that time it has had many thousand well-paid army and other officials there constantly, and it would be interesting to know, just at this time, why it is now so helpless that it has to have the assistance of a Catholic priest to tell it what to do in what is really its own particular job. And the same applies to the navy. Also, it would be lovely to know how it comes that a Catholic priest has the only map in existence of the best submarine base on the Alaskan Peninsula.—Ed.
Pope ordered the Society of Jesus dissolved in the breve "Dominus ac Redemptor noster", dated July 21, 1773. The document speaks of the great ruin of souls caused by the Jesuits. . . . They returned to the Philippines in 1859. . . . The order appears to have been more or less quiescent in the Philippines until recently. But in the light of its record, its "educational" as well as its commercial activities may well be watched, and, above all, its under-cover political work, which might prove as disastrous to democracy in these Islands as elsewhere in the world.
The above is quoted from the November, 1940, issue of the Philippine magazine. To show how well the author knew his priests, note the following Associated Press dispatch quoted from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, extra final edition of January 13, 1941:
GERMAN PRIEST AT U.S. BASE ACCUSED
MANILA, January 13 (Monday).--Father Luis Bogel, German Catholic priest at Subic, location of the United States navy base, was summoned today to appear before a deportation board January 20 [to] show cause why he should not be deported from the Philippine Islands as an undesirable alien. Three charges were lodged against the priest: Totalitarian propaganda, exaltation of the Aryan race, and that he emphasized the futility of resistance by small nations to peaceful overtures of strong nations.
The people of the Philippines realize the danger they may be in when they receive full independence from Uncle Sam. They also had their bellyful of priests during Spanish domination.
The New York Times passed up this little item just as they did the one about "Father" Schulte. James J. Murphy, former priest and now associate editor of The Converted Catholic, states in the issue of February, 1941:
The venal press of America that was afraid to hint at the German espionage of Father Schulte (as revealed in The Converted Catholic of December) has given wide publicity to his self-glorification in his autobiography "The Flying Priest Over the Arctic". The New York Times not only advertises it, but gives it a "build-up" in its Book Review section of December 22. "Here is one airplane that seeks to save—not destroy—human lives!" [sic]
The world has learned a new definition of "save" from Schulte's master, Hitler. Schulte was, no doubt, in the act of "saving" Canada in the same manner in which Hitler "saved" Belgium, Poland and France. This form of "salvation", which is fortunate in having the blessing of the internationally "patriotic" pope, places the "saved" either in slavery or in the ground. The writer does not require this service thus recommended by the New York Times. There is no objection, however, to its sponsors' enjoying it all they wish.
The use of the cowl and the priest to hide subversive activities has been learned by the Japanese, who know a good trick when they see one. The amusing part is that after learning this device from Rome they immediately suspect the British of using the same methods. The Hongkong Telegraph of December 2, 1940, reports the action of Japan in ousting English and American bishops of the Protestant churches only:
It has already been reported that three English bishops of the Nippon Seikokwai (Japan Holy Catholic Church, the United Anglican communion [actually a Protestant church similar to the Church of England]) were obliged to resign as the result of an agreement made by their Japanese colleagues without consulting them. The three American bishops were absent in the United States attending the triennial conference of the Church; they will be expected to resign when they return. . . . Seven Japanese officers of the Salvation Army in Tokyo and a number more in Peking were arrested a few days later and also some British and Canadian missionaries in Seoul.
Two more significant circumstances are noteworthy in this Japanese attack on foreign religious organizations: (1) the reason for the attack:
An officer in the [Japanese] War Office issued a statement declaring that "the Army, which is vitally interested in national defense through thought, is obliged to take determined steps regarding the fact that the followers of any faith, under the cloak of religion, may act as agents for foreign espionage."
and (2), the immunity of the Roman Catholic Church from such attack:
The other Protestant communions will find it advisable to follow the example of the Nippon Seikokwai and the Salvation Army [who abolished foreign leadership]. The Roman Catholic Church is presumed to be less likely to incur "investigation", since its foreign headquarters are in Rome.
Dissimulation, disguise and deceit are the time-tested weapons of the Devil. The Catholic Hierarchy, in using such devices, is merely practicing the methods of her father. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) For centuries the Hierarchy has posed as man's benefactor, and has claimed to have the sole right to administer salvation. Their claims are lies, and their practices are abominations. They have attempted to spread over the stealthy leopard of destruction (whose bloody maw holds the lives of men slain and of all freedom destroyed) a covering after the patriotic style of the country destined to be devoured. In America they use the minuteman regalia, although they had no part in the fight this country made for her independence; or they employ the American Legion's stirring khaki. This too is false. When the real fighters of the Legion were dying in Flanders the pope's agents were fighting with all their power for the defeat of the Allies.
The Gospel Witness, Toronto, Canada, issue of December 5, 1940, reproduces a letter by J. A. Kensit to Rt. Hon. Sir John Anderson, minister of Home Security, England, in which he warns against the "possibility of a real danger to this country arising from the presence of a large number of alien priests, monks, and nuns belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. . . . England, being Protestant, is under the condemnation of the Papal Italian power, as outlined many years ago by Cardinal Manning, who, at the start of the revivified Roman Catholic campaign in England, used the following words, as will be found in his Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects, Vol. 1, pages 166-7:
" 'It is good to be here in England. It is yours, right reverend fathers, to subjugate and subdue, to bend and to break the will of an Imperial race. You have a good commission to fulfil and great is the prize for which you strive. England is the head of Protestantism, the centre of its movements, the stronghold of its powers. Weakened in England, it is paralyzed everywhere; conquered in England, it is conquered throughout the world. Once overthrown here, it is but a war of detail. All the roads of the world meet in one point, and this point reached, the whole world is open to the Church’s will.'
"Surely language of this kind shows that there has been a long-established Fifth Column of a clerical type, working for England's undoing. Our duty, at any rate, is to call your attention to certain facts which have a direct bearing on the situation today.
"Command Paper 1108, published by order of His Majesty's Government after the end of the last war, printed a letter dated Berlin, 28th November, 1914. It contains the following words:
'First send the priests, as I need them for a special purpose here—you can guess—for . . . . If the priest or priests can get to Christiania (Norway) . . . Warn all our people, too, of the present intrigue at Rome to bring pressure of religion to bear on a question wholly political and national.'
"There is much evidence in that Command Paper which makes plain the intriguing hand of the Romish Church in political concerns. Moreover, as the Church of Rome has been such a disturbing factor in European politics for generations, it leaves it under very strong anti-British suspicion whilst Italy is engaged in war with us. During the last war, apart from the Irish matter [Sinn Fein Rebellion, see below], even the Pope’s private Chamberlain, Monsignor Gerlach, was sentenced in Italy to life imprisonment on conviction of most diabolical plots connected with the destruction of two Italian battleships, one in September, 1915, and the other in August, 1916.
“Again the Times of February 12, 1917, had the following statement:
“The Jesuits of Gijon possess a wireless station which is working in complete liberty. An official of the Telegraphs who attempted to take control of it was transferred to another post on the demand of Father Bilbao.’
“How far convents and monasteries were utilized for espionage it would be impossible to say, but during the course of the last war one priest was caught in an endeavor to smuggle a telegraph code into the country, and the Rev. Father Michael Daly was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for offenses against national security.
“The Italianized Papacy is as active now as ever against us. The Times [London], on the 20th of last month [June 1940], published a report that ‘two Italian Archbishops and 47 Bishops have petitioned Mussolini to insist that the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem be taken out of the hands of Great Britain and entrusted to the Royal House of Savoy [of Italy].’
“In combing out all the possibilities of danger, the Government should have in mind that the Roman Catholic Church demands its members to subscribe to the claim ‘that the Pope is above all temporal rulers.’ This is the language of The Tablet [England]—the leading Roman Catholic paper published in this country, and as recently as the 15th of June [1940].
“Our contention [Kensit wrote at the direction of the Council of the English Protestant Truth Society] therefore is, that no alien priest, monk or nun should be left in a position of freedom, but should forthwith be interned.
“Yours faithfully,
(Signed) J. A. KENSIT [London]”
Britain is also threatened by the Papal-induced defection of three important members of the Empire, Canada, Ireland, and Australia. Canada has substituted priest-rule for freedom. “Father” Lanphier (recently quoted herein as abusing Jehovah’s witnesses by radio) attacks all Protestant faiths and is given carte blanche by CBS; no Protestant minister in Canada is permitted the facilities of the broadcasting system; Lapointe, as Catholic minister of Justice, performs the Hierarchy’s will, Prime Minister King acquiescent. Both the Canadian censor and the Catholic press have attempted to silence even the sermons of Dr. T. T. Shields, of the Jarvis St. Baptist church in Toronto, and refused him all broadcasting privileges, because of his exposures of Catholic treachery to the British Empire.
The Hierarchy began in Canada by outlawing Jehovah’s witnesses. Now it appears that Protestants are under the Papal ban. On January 16, 1941, they proceeded against Jehovah’s witnesses in Australia, of course under the guise of safeguarding national welfare; and all other opponents of Rome may count the days until they too are the objects of attack. This treachery of the Papacy was predicted by Prime Minister Hughes in a statement from Melbourne, August 3, 1920:
“I see that Archbishop Mannix, continuing his anti-British propaganda, evidently wishes the Americans to believe that he represents the public opinion of Australia. He does not represent the public opinion of Australia on the Irish question or any other; he is merely an acknowledged leader of Sinn Fein.
“From the day of his arrival in Australia, he set to work to fan the dying embers of religious bigotry into a fierce blaze, and gather around him every fanatical alien and Sinn Feiner in the country. During the War he worked incessantly and as openly as he dared, to prevent recruiting, help the enemy, and insure the defeat of the Allies.”—The Times (London), August 4, 1920.
Catholicism’s anti-British efforts are reflected in the neutrality of southern Ireland. The Protestant northern counties of Ireland are staunchly fighting against Nazism. As for the position of the Vatican, note the following broadcast from Rome carried by the London Daily Mail and the Toronto Globe and Mail, December 28, 1940, and several American newspapers:
“Should the Irish people be forced to defend themselves against British aggression they can be assured of the full and wholehearted help of the Axis powers. Beside this military help the whole Catholic world would be on their side.”
Further corroborating the Hierarchy's vicious hatred of England is the following dispatch from Zagreb, Catholic stronghold in former Yugoslavia:
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Feb. 12 (A.P.).—Jails here were crowded tonight with persons arrested for questioning in the bomb explosion February 4 in the British consulate building which killed a woman and an engineer.
Several Roman Catholic priests were seized by police. Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac was reported to have gone to Vatican City to report to Pius XII. [Obscure dispatch in San Diego Union, February 13, 1941]
Surely these facts are sufficient to convince every intelligent man, of whatever faith, that the Catholic Church system is the most subversive institution under the sun. It is the friend of no country, but selfishly uses the peoples and nations to accomplish its own advancement. Although at present allied with Hitler in order to achieve world domination, it counts the lives of the German people for nothing. Catholic Belgium and Poland were smashed to sate the pope’s ambition. Protestantism in England and America must likewise perish and then the bloody beast will stalk the earth for a brief period until visited by the EXECUTIONER for JEHOVAH. The Scriptures show that the Lord will cause her present allies to rend her to pieces and expose her hypocrisy and filth.—Revelation 17th chapter.
Through a careful study of the prophecies, considered in the light of events taking place today, the fact emerges as clear as sunlight (as published in Consolation No. 566) that Hitler is Catholicism's champion; that his bloody deeds bear the imprint of Jesuit planning for 400 years; that even Mein Kampf was written by a priest; that Hitler is the “sword” of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Few people today consider seriously what is said or written. They are stunned by the pace of living and the imminence of death. Though conscious of a swift current, moving at ferocious velocity, they know not whither it goes. This distress has been brought upon them by the Devil. “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) In this prophecy the people are represented by the “sea”. In the Scriptural record at Joshua the fourth chapter, the hopeless masses are pictured by the Jordan river rushing down to the Dead sea, a type of Armageddon. Let this and the other evidence presented, together with a careful study of God's Word, convince the honest that there is no hope of life in the ways of the Hierarchy, that hers are the “ways of death”. (Proverbs 14:12) Jehovah, through Christ the King, is the only way to life. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord.”—Psalm 3:8.
When the Hierarchy feigns patriotism it is as faithless as her heart. She is your enemy and the enemy of every free nation and decent creature under the sun. When she professes to teach patriotism by inflicting punishment upon God-fearing children and their parents; when she parades her virtuous endeavor to enforce the flag salute and induces others to perform her iniquitous will, it is another act of infamous deceit. Her guise of benefactor is fraudulent; when she speaks of disloyalty and the fifth column she speaks of her own.—Elton Groves.
Feigned Patriotism at Ida Grove, Iowa
Read the following carefully, and the description opposite.
PAGE SIX PIONEER RECORD, IDA GROVE, IDA COUNTY, IOWA. THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941
LET'S FACE FACTS
WE WILL NOT TOLERATE A FIFTH COLUMN !!!
WE LIVE IN AMERICA - LET'S KEEP IT AMERICAN
IF YOU ARE A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CITIZEN YOU'LL READ EVERY WORD OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT
WHAT TO DO
If Visited by a Jehovah Witness or Other Subversive Agent - - -
1. They are recognized by their cloak of religious fanaticism, their victrola records and their various pamphlets such as "The Watch Tower," their official organ.
2. Avoid argument or use of force and violence in dealing with such agents.
3. Secure name of agent if possible and where he is from.
4. Firmly refuse to grant any such agent further hearing.
5. Notify County Sheriff or this organization.
INFORMATION WANTED
The Ida County Americanism League is anxious to obtain any facts whatsoever concerning the activities of Jehovah's Witness and other such subversive groups. If you know of any planned meetings of these organizations or if an agent of such a group approaches you it would be very helpful if you would immediately give this information to the Ida County Sheriff or notify some member of this League.
Through the sheriff's office we are in constant touch with State and National investigation agencies.
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land."
-Scott.
The American's Creed
I believe in the United States of America, as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.
IT IS HAPPENING HERE!
Agents or organizations such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Children of God have been working in Ida County. Under the cloak of religion these representatives have advocated the overthrowing of government by the destruction of all churches and by instilling a disrespect for the emblem and principles of our government.
Their work has included many visits to homes and the wide distribution of pamphlets to individuals. In a home interview, an agent advocated the wiping out of all churches and stated the organization was against the saluting of the flag and all adequate defense measures. Organizers, primarily outsiders, have already secured a following in Ida County. Several school children refused to salute the flag in their schools last year as a result of their activities.
It is obvious that these "religious" workers have been effective in carrying out their program. They are camped in various localities in this vicinity today, carrying on their subversive work against our religious institutions and democratic form of government as they now exist. These un-American activities are not in the far distance either as to time or geographical location but are actually in our community - - IN IDA COUNTY!
OUR PROGRAM
The program of the Ida County Americanism League is three-fold in its purpose: First, we propose to immediately counteract the activities of such un-American organizations through an educational program; Second, to prevent well meaning but radical groups from inciting riots against these un-American organizations by co-operating with the County Sheriff in any way possible, and; Third, to co-operate in every way with the Ida County school systems in curtailing a further spreading among our school children of disrespect for the flag and the breaking down of American ideals.
SPONSORED BY
Ida County Americanism League
THE AMERICAN LEGION
LEGION AUXILIARY
This Advertisement Paid for by These Ida Grove Organizations
SACRED HEART CHURCH
IDA GROVE COMMERCIAL CLUB If this advertisement had been called “Ida County League Against Americanism” it would have been more accurately named. The union of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy [Sacred Heart Church in this setup] with the American Gestapo miscalled the American Legion is enough without dragging in the Ida Grove Commercial Club of businessmen whose sacred job it was to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for America’s biggest racketeers. See the brilliant article of Elton Groves on “Feigned Patriotism”, which occupies the foregoing nine pages of this magazine, and which shows just what the Roman Church is up to in this country and Europe. Read Notanda, on page 2.
It is well known that Roosevelt and the American Legion were in consultation only a short while back to see how the American Legion could be made an informal army to do Gestapo work in this country and how only the outcry of a real American patriot in Baltimore prevented the deal from going through. The complaint was made that he had spoken out of turn, and thus spoiled everything. Neither he nor they can Hitlerize us.
It is freely admitted by all students of outrages against the laws and the rights of the American people under the Constitution that no other body of men has as black a record in this respect as the American Legion, and that does not even except the Ku Klux Klan, whose methods the Legion follows. This advertisement in the Ida Grove Pioneer Record is an appeal to the people of Ida Grove to become anarchists and to assure them [vainly] in advance that in their anarchistic efforts they will have the backing of the Sacred Heart Church, the Ida Grove Commercial Club, the American Legion and the Sheriff in a projected illegal campaign of bluff and bluster, an American copy of Hitler’s chosen methods. This bluff will be called and the bluffers will fall flat. Wait and see.
If the United States of America had a patriotic organization of half a million men devoted to the perpetuation of the principles which actuated Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln, such an organization would be of priceless value to the American people at this critical time, when the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is taking over the country; but when an organization conceived in a spirit of Fascism allies itself with the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, takes orders from the Hierarchy and devotes its energies to the destruction of American ideals and American institutions, claiming all the time to be one-hundred-percent American in everything it does, it is high time the American people knew the facts. Read Notanda (page 2) again.
Among the notable financiers who organized the American Legion, several have been sent to the penitentiary for fraud and conspiracy. The history of Swift & Company reeks with fraud. They had a big hand in organizing the Legion. One of the principal organizers of the Legion, a man worth thirty million dollars, said he was willing to spend half of his pile to save the other half.
For information as to just what the American Legion stands for, see the article, by Elton Groves, “Does America Need Roosevelt’s Gestapo?” leading article in Consolation No. 550, issue of October 16, 1940; also his article in this issue; also “The Castor Oil Legion”, in No. 555, page 11; or The Persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses, published by American Civil Liberties Union, 31 Union Square West, New York City, 10.
Jehovah’s witnesses are Christians, not cowards, not lawbreakers, and not afraid of either cowards or lawbreakers. They have a message from God which they must deliver, and which they do deliver fearlessly at all times. The Ida Grove dogs are barking up the wrong tree. Wait and see. Hypocritical religionists, engaged in undermining American institutions, and hoping to make it a second Germany, have yet to learn the big lesson that they fight against GOD.
Dig up and read your booklet Judge Rutherford Uncovers Fifth Column.
Singular Forms of Plant Life
THERE is a plant in Russia, called the "wind witch", that manifests all the tendencies of a hobo. When it gets well settled in a place, and grows up, its branches curl down and pull up the plant by the roots. Then along comes a wind (instead of a freight train) and the plant goes off to a new location, where at length it takes root again and starts all over again in fresh surroundings.
Another odd Russian plant manifests an indisposition to stay where it started. On wet days the fiber of the plant twists and works its way into the ground, thrusting its seeds downward, so they can get a start in life. On hot days the fiber of the mother plant untwists and she looks out for herself, letting the young ones get along the best they can in the nursery where she left them.
In Sumatra the rafflesia does not bother with either stem or leaves, but makes up for it with a blossom three feet across, with petals an inch thick. Like Big Business, it lives off smaller fry in the plant world. They do all the work but the rafflesia gets all the income. It dies young, and should.
The water hyacinth believes in living a sailor life. It floats around on the surface of some pool or lagoon. The roots contain air sacs which enable it to navigate hither and yon, as the winds and zephyrs shift it about.
The dandelion is always on the job, arrives on time, rears its head so it can be seen, overcomes difficulties, refuses to accept defeat, and is pure gold—er—that is, it looks like it, anyway. Besides, it is good for greens.
Some people have funny names. So have bachelor's-button, bleeding heart, Dutchman's-breeches, Jack-in-the-pulpit, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Johnny-jump-up, painted lady, old man, Queen Anne's lace, love-lies-bleeding, milkmaid, London pride, Turk's-cap lily, devil's-bit, queen of the meadow, quaker-ladies, friar's-cap, Venus's chariot and Venus's flytrap. More about that flytrap later.
Always Something New
It is over a century since plant-lovers grafted a tomato vine on a potato stock and raised both tomatoes and potatoes on the same plant. It has often been done since then, and it is said to require no more skill than that required for grafting apple twigs. It is now a joke that tomatoes were once thought poisonous.
You don't expect a magazine of fact to say that at Largs, Scotland, some Scot planted a clothespin and raised a crop. You shall not have that satisfaction, but you might like to know that in 1935, in that same place, a clothespin was recovered which had been buried in the turf, and it then had twelve roots. Before you get over the shock, this is to state that, in 1901, at 1705 Wyoming avenue, Scranton, Pa., a poplar tree was cut down, after the sap had started to flow. Six feet of the trunk was buried several feet in the cellar bottom, to make a nice chopping block, and for several weeks thereafter that chopping block sprouted and nourished a branch which grew to at least eight inches in length, in the cellar, and in the dark. It looked rather pale and sickly, but it grew.
After a little while you may be eating chayote potatoes, originally a native of Mexico, but now grown in Florida. You can have the leaves and tender shoots for salad, the fruit for a squash, and the roots for potatoes, and if you live in Florida you can have the vine as an ornamental porch climber. If you are industrious enough you can plant many of them close together, and eat them as asparagus.
"The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever."—Psalm 111: 2, 3.
It's Great to Be an American
WE ARE presenting this list, not in any carping spirit, but because of the outcropping recently of what one member referred to as "those pathetic little signs". If they tell somewhat less than the truth about Americanism, it is our business to say so. No one knows better than we how great it is to be Americans; but it will be still greater when the excellent principles asserted are honored more in the performance and less in the breach.
"It's Great to be an American," reads one of the stickers, listing some of the keystones of American freedom. We list some of the holes in the keystones.
I can go to any church I please. . . . just so I'm not a member of the Jehovah's witnesses. I can read, see and hear what I choose. . . . although, under the terms of the Alien Registration Act, I am liable to be prosecuted for reading books which may be considered subversive. I can express my opinion openly. . . . and get socked with green apples in the "free" state of Vermont, if my opinion is not popular with the vigilantes, without protection from the local police. My telephone is untapped. . . . unless by an occasional lawless law-enforcer. I can join any political party I wish. . . . just so it's the Republican, Democratic or Temperance Party—all others keep out. I can vote for what and whom I please. . . . if I am willing to have the vote made the basis for a Dies Committee "exposé", endangering my job or career. I have a constitutional right to trial by jury. . . . but if I am a Negro, this right is nullified in many parts of the United States. I am protected against unlawful search and seizure. . . . unless, as at Detroit not so long ago, a "law enforcement" agent wishes to drag me from my house in the early morning on charges that are never substantiated. Neither my life nor my property can be forfeited without due process of law . . . unless, as at Commonwealth College in Arkansas, my books (including Milton's Paradise Lost) are seized by the local gendarmerie as subversive.—Descendants of the American Revolution.
Stranded in Denmark
◆ In the fall of 1939 an American citizen, Mrs. Adel Youngberg, and her two boys, 12 and 7, went to Denmark to see her grandmother, who died a few weeks after her arrival. When the bills were paid there was nothing left and Mrs. Youngberg telegraphed to her parents in America for enough money to get home. They borrowed the money and she bought her ticket. Just then Hitler seized Denmark and the boat did not sail, nor was her money returned. After several months she received a cable from the State Department at Washington to consult the American consul in Copenhagen concerning passage home on the army transport American Legion, which would call at Petsamo, Finland, August 6, 1940, to bring home Americans stranded in Denmark. She called, but the boat could not take her. It had to carry the crown princess of Norway and her three children and servants. Six cabins on the top deck were allotted to the princess and her entourage, and at last accounts Mrs. Youngberg was still in Denmark and wondering why American officials could be so chivalrous to foreign princesses and treat American citizens so badly.
The New Rifles
◆ The American army's new rifles, Garand, cost the government $80 each when made by the government itself at the Springfield, Massachusetts, arsenal, and cost $120 each when made by the Winchester Arms Company. Nice little profit, eh?
It will be interesting to see how far the government will let the patriotic profiteers go this time.
COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford
Food Shortage
FOOD prices are rising. Many peoples are at the border of starvation. Who is responsible? God Almighty? No! Nor has He sent the pestilence and distress upon the peoples of the world as a punishment at this time. When Jehovah God purposes to punish the people He always gives full and fair warning beforehand, that the people who trust Him may seek a place of protection and safety. (See 1 Kings 17:1-9; Ezekiel 3:17-21; Exodus 9:18-26, concerning predicted famines.) Furthermore, in some portions of the land the rainfall has been abundant and the crops are in fairly good shape, while in other parts they are devastated. The people in one part of the land are no better than those in the other part, and are no worse. The rains fall upon the just and the unjust; concerning which it is written, at Matthew 5:45: "Your Father which is in heaven . . . maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
Since A.D. 1914 events have rapidly come to pass, which events should, in the light of God's Word, fully convince thoughtful persons that there is a mighty change now taking place and that the only hope for the people is in the kingdom of Jehovah God, The Theocratic Government, which is now at hand. (Matthew 24:3-34) Who, then, is responsible for the threatened famine and for the pestilences now devastating the land and bringing great distress and perplexity upon the people? The Scriptural answer is that the responsible one is man's worst enemy and God's great adversary, the Deceiver, who is Satan the Devil.
The Divine Record contains a superabundance of testimony proving that centuries ago Satan the Devil rebelled against Jehovah God and challenged God to put on earth men that would be faithful and true to Him, Satan claiming that he could induce all men to turn away and curse God. (Job 2:5) That challenge was accepted in order to afford an opportunity to demonstrate to all creation the supremacy of God, and in order to prove in due time that Satan's boastful challenge is entirely wrong. God fixed the time limit in which Satan would be permitted, without hindrance, to prove his boastful challenge, and which time limit marks the end of Satan's world; and that time is now here. In that long period of waiting God has permitted men to choose to either obey His Word or to follow their own devices and to fall into the snares set by Satan. That Satan the Devil is a mighty spirit creature with power to produce storms, hurricanes, floods, famines and pestilences, is abundantly proved in the book of Job and in many other scriptures. (Job 1:12-19; Acts 27:14-44; Revelation 12:12) It was Satan who raised the storm on the sea of Galilee for the express purpose of bringing about the destruction of Jesus and His faithful associates. (Matthew 8:24) When on earth Jesus spoke a prophecy in which He declared that Satan's time limit to rule unhindered would be marked by a world war, in which nation would rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
In fulfillment of that prophecy Satan plunged the nations of "Christendom" into the war of 1914. Jehovah God was not responsible for that war. That war, said Jesus, would mark the beginning of great sorrows upon the people. Everybody can testify that from 1914 to this day the sorrows upon the nations have continued to increase. Among the sorrows to befall the world, Jesus prophesied, 'there shall in divers places be famines, pestilences and terrors; and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity.
ity, men's hearts failing them for fear of what they see coming upon the earth.' (Luke 21:11, 25, 26, Rev. Ver.) Satan has brought such sorrows upon the world since 1918, and many nations are now afflicted thereby.
If you would learn the real cause for these famines and distresses take your Bible now and turn to the eleventh chapter of Revelation and there read these words, to wit: 'We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, that thou hast taken unto thee thy great power and reigned. And the nations were angry.' (Verses 15-18) The facts mark 1914 as the date of the fulfillment of that great prophecy, when the World War began. At the same time there was a war in heaven between Christ and the Devil, resulting in the casting of the Devil and his demons down to the earth. Therefore the Lord gives specific warning to the peoples of the earth in these words: "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) Here is the positive and indisputable evidence that the Devil is responsible for bringing all these woes upon mankind at present.
Properly you ask, Why should the Devil want to bring these great woes upon the people? The Scriptural answer is that for centuries Satan has been endeavoring to turn all men away from God in order to prove his own wicked challenge, and Satan would prefer to see the whole world perish rather than that any man should faithfully serve Jehovah God. He knows his time is short till the great battle of Armageddon, which will be the decisive conflict between wickedness and righteousness; and within that short time the Devil endeavors to cause all men to curse God and die. The Devil is a subtle and wily foe, and to accomplish his purposes he resorts to all manner of fraud and deception, thereby overreaching men who have good intentions but who follow human devices and avoid divine instruction.—See 2 Corinthians 2:11; 11:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Revelation 12:9.
Regardless of the honesty and good intentions of men to bring prosperity to the people by recovery measures, all such human schemes are doomed to certain failure. When the people are induced to believe that these human schemes of recovery have divine guidance, and when these schemes do fail, then millions of people who have heretofore thought they were Christians and who have put their trust in men will lose all faith in men and in God, and will say: 'If God permits such calamities to come upon us and will not help us, then we do not wish to have Him for our God.' That is exactly what the Devil expects to accomplish. That fact has already been accomplished in Russia and in Germany, where infidelity holds sway.
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