Consolation, November 26, 1941
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Contents
Jesuit Destroyers (Part 1) 3
Jesuit Guilt 4
Abraham Lincoln, the "Heretic" 6
Hierarchy Against the Union 7
Knights of the Golden Circle 10
Under the Totalitarian Flag 12
Mr. Taylor's Expensive Trip 12
The "People's Reporting Service" 12
The Catholic State of Canada 13
"The Sword of the Spirit" 14
Supreme Deference to Aristotle 14
Was Peter the First Pope? 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Return of the "Princes" 17
Spiritism — "Psychiana" Like the Clergy 19
The New Government
Witnessing on the Playground 20
The Tender Shepherd's Care 20
Children of the King 24
"Pathé News" 24
John Bull on Uncle Sam's Side! 25
Water and Plant Life 26
Animalia 27
Surgery 28
British Comment 29
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America Succumbs
◆ Events of past history are brought to the attention of Consolation readers because they further expose the deadly hypocrisy of Romanism. These circumstances add to the burden of evidence that the American Republic is the victim of religion and the only hope for the people is THE THEOCRACY.
The independence of the United States of America is 165 years old. The birthday of liberty was celebrated as usual last 4th of July with fireworks and oratory, while Liberty lay on her deathbed.
The Great Experiment, as the free Republic was dubbed from the outset by Catholic monarchists, is dying this year. Its demise was freely predicted by Romanists and joyfully anticipated by all popes. It cannot be cured. It is the victim of that "foe of all free governments", Vatican Rome. The struggle has been bloody. The slain in all the wars from Adams to Roosevelt can be laid at the door of the guilty, intriguing Jesuits, tool of the Papacy.
The graves of both the Blue and the Gray silently accuse the Rome which stirred up the Civil War. The blood of the valiant Lincoln, the victim of Jesuit conspiracy, was mingled with the rivers of gore that flowed from North and South to sate the mounting hatred of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy directed against the free United States. Four other presidents gave their lives in the fight against the Hierarchy. Now the struggle has ended. America succumbs, body and soul, to the domination of Rome. As proof that our forefathers died in vain, I submit that, although every statement is a historical certainty, not one newspaper in the land will dare to print the above facts.
Now the Hierarchy professes to teach loyalty to the flag by advocating the enforced salute. Are we to submit to instruction from traitors? — Elton Groves.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXIII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 26, 1941 Number 579
Jesuit Destroyers
(In Two Parts—Part 1)
Fate of Heretics
THE present assignment of the Jesuits, religious gestapo of Roman Catholicism, appears to be the humiliation and destruction of Jehovah's witnesses. After working the flag-salute issue threadbare, and screaming the false charge of disloyalty, they resorted to another much-used weapon, MOB INCITEMENT. Christians continue to suffer cruelly at the hands of Rome's agents.
Throughout the United States everybody except the fanatics understands the position of Jehovah's witnesses. Honest people respect their courageous stand for righteousness, and their refusal to compromise under terrible assaults from God's enemies.
One Jesuit oath makes this understandable:
"Our business is to contrive: 1st, That Catholics be imbued with hatred for heretics, whoever they may be, and that this hatred shall constantly increase, and bind them closely to each other. 2nd, That it be, nevertheless, dissembled, so as not to transpire until the day when it shall be appointed to break forth."
Jehovah's witnesses have had occasion to observe the operation of the rule: "until the day . . . appointed to break forth." The attempt to wreck the Madison Square Garden assembly in 1939 was begun at a light signal; the riots and assaults in June, 1940, were simultaneous throughout the nation, operating on orders from a central conspirator.
It is also well known that Hitler's legions strike when, and only when, the Jesuit forerunners have betrayed the country in advance; the only exception being England, where they have not succeeded as yet.
Enemies of America
Jesuits are the destroyers of liberty, happiness and life. They have now operated for four hundred years as the secret police of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The bloodiest pages of history resulted from operations and incitements of these most effective warmongers of all time. Their business is discord, deception and destruction.
So diabolical is this institution that it is certainly the creation of the Devil himself. He alone could be responsible for such a monstrous malignancy, rotting empires and consuming flesh. Jesuitry has its roots in Satan's invisible kingdom and was, no doubt, molded by the power of the Dragon. The Scriptures show that its desolation will precede that of the Devil.
In this article it is not the purpose to glorify some creatures nor to injure others. It deals with the deeds of Jesuitry because of their claim to serve the Lord and to be His specially appointed substitute or deputy upon earth. Observe their official name, "Society of Jesus." If the truth calls them into disrepute it is not with design to hurt individuals. But rather the desire is to show the honest that no protection can be derived from them; and their claims to represent the Lord are false, fraudulent, and productive of death.
It is further intended that an understanding of the falsity of this organization will be an incentive for many to turn to the Bible and there find Jehovah’s wonderful provision to save the obedient from the frightful conditions which imperil all human creatures.
There is an interesting similarity between the conduct of the Jesuits toward Jehovah’s witnesses today, and their past action against the American Republic and its leaders during the seventy years from 1830 to 1900. It was the hatred of the Jesuits that accomplished the death of Abraham Lincoln* and thousands of others. Study of these facts is important because the Jesuits today have constituted themselves the teachers of “patriotism”. Those who have been deceived by such false claims will do well to ponder the following record taken from the pages of history.
Special consideration is given the destructive influence of a Jesuit conspiracy upon the United States for the last hundred years. The course of this study takes us back to the bier of a murdered president and the causes which led to his death. Abraham Lincoln is well known to American history students as a champion of righteousness as he saw it, and as the victim of an assassin’s bullet. It is now seventy-six years since he was shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, April 14, 1865.
* The foremost modern authority on Lincoln’s assassination who ignores the Jesuit motive behind the tragedy finds himself bewildered:
“THE CASE AGAINST JOHN WILKES BOOTH. The motives which prompted John Wilkes Booth to kill Lincoln have been the subject of many conjectures. During the days and months following the tragedy, when the public mind was still inflamed by the passions of war, suspicion was naturally directed, not to say diverted, toward Southern leaders as the real instigators of the crime. Nevertheless, a most thorough, almost desperate, search for the proof of the charge against them cleared them all of guilt.” P. 372.
“A great political crime was committed without an adequate motive . . . But through every report on the great tragedy one can trace the lingering perplexities of the writer. No one seems sure of his own conclusion.” P. 379.
Both quotations are from Otto Eisenschiml’s Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
One imperfect man’s death is not important, even a Lincoln’s. Today the all-important thing is THE THEOCRACY, soon to be ushered in completely by the glorious Son, Christ Jesus, who, after tasting death for all who would obey Jehovah, is “alive for evermore”. (Revelation 1: 18; Hebrews 2: 9) But the assassination of Lincoln was an act in the furtherance of a conspiracy which has a bearing on the present. It serves to reveal the black perfidy of the same Jesuit organization which presumes to teach loyalty and love of flag by violence and persecution heaped upon Jehovah’s witnesses at this very day. As the self-appointed guardians of “patriotism”, the record of the Jesuits becomes interesting.
For this reason it may be profitable to delve into events which are mournful to most Americans: those dark and fateful days from 1860-65, when this land was bathed in its own blood. Today the Catholic Hierarchy conspiracy which killed Lincoln is bearing even more fruit. Lincoln was appointed to die as the head of a government which cherished freedom of worship. Today Jehovah’s witnesses are appointed to the same cup of death, but their Elder Brother, Christ Jesus, will intervene to utterly depopulate their oppressors.
Jesuit Guilt
The proof is conclusive that Lincoln was killed in the execution of a Papal or Jesuit Hierarchy conspiracy to destroy the United States because of the nation’s hated principles of freedom and equality; and this unabated conspiracy is reaping a harvest of wickedness today, paralyzing every department of press and government in its fearful clutches. One of the results is the open exchange of emissaries between this government and the Vatican. (“Myron Taylor Returns to Vatican”—AP Dispatch September 4) The reason for this friendliness between Roosevelt and the Vatican is not the result of Papal favors to the United States in the past. Their conduct when bloody conflict tore this land in twain it is well for Americans to remember. Those who think that Catholic priests have been assisting the Catholic population to enjoy the "American way of life" will also do well to consider these few pages from past history.
It must be remembered that the Declaration of Independence aroused great animosity among the Catholic Hierarchy of Europe, and among the Catholic Monarchial heads, who feared the spread of this "pernicious" freedom. This is made certain by the words of La Fayette uttered shortly after the success of the Revolution: "American liberty can only be destroyed by the Popish clergy." "Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States" is the title of a book by S. F. B. Morse (1836) which divulges the formation of a conspiracy by the Leopoldines and Jesuits whose set purpose was the dissolution of the infant Republic. This same Morse who invented the telegraph and the Morse code was so impressed by the danger that he risked his life to get these facts before the people.
Morse several times warned Lincoln. On this we have the word of an ex-Romanist, "Father" Chiniquy, whom Lincoln had once defended from false charges made by Papal agents. (Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, pages 702, 706, 714) Chiniquy also quotes Lincoln as saying that the United States ambassadors in France, England and Italy had warned him likewise.—
"I saw Mr. Morse, the learned inventor of electric telegraphy; he told me that, when he was in Rome, not long ago, he found proof of the most formidable conspiracy against this country and all its institutions. It is evident that it is to the intrigues and emissaries of the pope that we owe, in great part, the horrible civil war which is threatening to cover the country with blood and ruins."—Lincoln; same authority, page 692.
Just what the mission Rome expected to accomplish is clearly stated by Chiniquy:
In a word, Rome saw at once that the very existence of the United States was a formal menace to her own life . . . From the very beginning, she sowed the germs of division and hatred between the two great sections of this country, and she felt an unspeakable joy when she saw that she had succeeded in dividing its South from its North, on the burning question of slavery. She looked upon that division as her golden opportunity. To crush one party by the other, and reign over the bloody ruins of both, has invariably been her policy. She hoped that her hour of supreme triumph over this continent was come. [It has almost come now, 1941.] She ordered her elder son, the Emperor of France, to keep himself ready to help her crush the North, by having an army in Mexico ready to support the South, and she bade all the Roman Catholic bishops, priests and people to enroll themselves under the banners of slavery, by joining themselves to the party of Democracy.—Pages 690-1.
Another ex-Romanist, Burke McCarty, states that when this Papal decree went forth, of 144,000 Irish Catholics enlisted in the Union Army, 100,000 deserted to the Confederacy! (Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, page 55) Efforts of priests throughout the Northern States to recruit sympathizers for the South and spread disaffection became such an open scandal that Lincoln was forced to threaten several bishops with criminal prosecution. The president's own words were: "The New York riots were evidently a Romish plot from beginning to end. We have the proofs in hand, that they were the work of Bishop Hughes and his emissaries."—Chiniquy, page 703.
These words of Lincoln have seldom been quoted:
"This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.
We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North, on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis nor any one of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the Jesuits, that, under the mask of Democracy, the money and arms of the Roman Catholics, even the arms of France, were at their disposal, if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops and the monks of Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war; the later the more terrible will the retribution be. I conceal what I know, on that subject, from the knowledge of the nation; for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and it would, at once, take a tenfold more savage and bloody character. It would become merciless as all religious wars are. It would become a war of extermination on both sides. The Protestants of both the North and the South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could hear what Professor Morse has said to me of the plots made in the very city of Rome to destroy this republic, and if they could learn how the priests, the nuns, and the monks, who daily land on these shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion, instructing the people in their schools, taking care of the sick in the hospitals, are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon {III}, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from the constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free."—Chiniquy, same volume, pages 699-700.
Could Rome forgive a man who knew her devices so well? And as president of the hated Republic, he was a thousandfold more dangerous! There is doubtless nothing in the Jesuit book of villainy that was not adapted to bring about the final "liquidation" of Lincoln.
The nature and oaths of the Jesuits make this clear.
"The Jesuits are a military organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is: POWER. Power in the most despotic exercise. Absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms; and at the same time the greatest and the most enormous of abuses."—Memorial of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Montholon, vol. ii, page 62 (quoted by Chiniquy, pages 684-5).
Secret Plans of the Jesuits, page 127, reiterates the oath:
Our business is to contrive:
1st. That the Catholics be imbued with hatred for the heretics, whoever they may be, and that that hatred shall constantly increase, and bind them closely to each other.
2nd. That it be, nevertheless, dissembled, so as not to transpire until the day when it shall be appointed to break forth. [Note in this connection that priests and others in St. Joseph, Minnesota, knew in advance that the assassination of Lincoln had been set for April 14. See Chiniquy's, pages 730-5.]
3rd. That this secret hate be combined with great activity in endeavoring to detach the faithful from every government inimical to us, and employ them, when they shall form a detached body, to strike deadly blows at heresy.
Abraham Lincoln, the "Heretic"
Lincoln called "Father" Chiniquy into his office one day to find out why the Catholic press throughout the nation falsely charged that he had been baptized a Catholic and was therefore an apostate: "They call me a renegade, on account of that; and they heap upon my head mountains of abuse. At first, I laughed at that, for it is a lie. Thanks be to God, I have never been a Roman Catholic. No priest of Rome has ever laid his hand on my head. But the persistency of the Romish press to present this falsehood to their readers as gospel truth, must have a meaning. Please tell me, as briefly as possible, what you think about that."
Chiniquy: "Let me tell you that I wept as a child when I read that story for the first time. For, not only my impression is, that it is your sentence of death; but I have from the lips of a converted priest, that it is in order to excite the fanaticism of the Roman Catholic murderers, whom they hope to find [Booth and all eight of the convicted conspirators were Roman Catholic] sooner or later, to strike you down, they have invented that false story of your being baptized by a priest. They want by that to brand your face with the ignominious mark of apostasy. Do not forget that, in the Church of Rome, an apostate is an outcast, who has no place in society, and who has no right to live.
"The Jesuits want the Roman Catholics to believe that you are a monster, an open enemy of God and His Church, that you are an excommunicated man . . . "
"My dear president," continues Chiniquy, "I must repeat to you here what I said to you when in Urbana, in 1856. My fear is that you will fall under the blows of a Jesuit, if you do not pay more attention than you have done, till now, to protect yourself. Remember that because Coligny was an heretic, as you are, he was brutally murdered in the St. Bartholomew [by order of Catherine de Medici, queen of France and niece of the pope, 1572]; that Henry IV was stabbed by the Jesuit assassin, Revaillac, the 14th of May, 1610, for having given liberty of conscience to his people, and that William the Taciturn [William I of Holland, slain 1584, for championing the Protestant cause] was shot dead by another Jesuit murderer, for having broken the yoke of the Pope. The Church of Rome is the same today [and today, 1941] . . . "
Chiniquy summarizes the reasons for the Hierarchy's hatred of Lincoln:
"The unanimity with which the Catholic hierarchy is on the side of the rebels, is an incontrovertible evidence that Rome wants to destroy this republic, and as you are, by your personal virtues, your love for liberty, your position, the greatest obstacle to their diabolical scheme, their hatred is concentrated upon you; you are the daily object of their maledictions; it is at your breast they will direct their blows. My blood chills in my veins, when I contemplate the day which may come, sooner, or later, when Rome will add to all her other iniquities, the murder of Abraham Lincoln. . . . "—Pages 694-5.
Hierarchy Against the Union
On the banks of the Rio Grande, about fifty miles from where it empties wearily into the Gulf, is a little town called Matamoros. It is south of the border, in Old Mexico. Southern historians of the Civil War, such as Waddy Thompson, put little emphasis on one of the most revealing angles, which had its finale in the sleepy little village just across the Texas line. From here, in the year 1866, embarked one of the armies which the pope had sent to fight against the beleaguered Union.
The time that Napoleon III selected for the establishment of his Mexican empire, 1863, saw the bitterest fighting between the Union and the Confederacy. There can be no doubt that the Papacy was seeking an opportunity to intervene in behalf of the Southern army through the French-Catholic monarch, Napoleon, who sent Maximilian and Carlotta to rule Mexico. They were supported by 30,000 French-, Belgian-, and Austrian-Catholic troops. As proof of the close relation between this Mexican venture and the pope's interest in dissevering the Union, it was freely talked in the South that Napoleon would help the Confederacy, and when Carlotta was sent to Europe her final appeal was to the pope, whose harsh refusal to aid Maximilian came after the defeat and surrender of Lee's army.
Corroborating the Papal backing of Maximilian the following translation from the Spanish of Julio Oliva Ramos'
The Religious Problem of Mexico, 1926-1929, is noteworthy:
The shrewdness of the Mexican [Catholic] clergy had caused many years' delay in the application of the legal precepts which directly affected the interests of the Catholic Church of Mexico. In other words, the clergy had mocked the laws of the Nation with impunity.
To obtain said impunity the clergy had set up the Presidents of the Republic as it wished, and had extended its influence to all governmental activities. To preserve and perpetuate its pre-eminence and privileges the clergy of Mexico had called in Maximilian to be the emperor of Anahuac [poetic name for Mexico]; and for the purpose of raising him to the throne by armed force, three foreign nations had formed what is commonly called the Triple Alliance. I would call it the gruesome gang. Said alliance culminated in the French intervention of 1862, which intervention was requested and supported by the high clergy of Mexico, as shown both by the undeniable historic documents and physical facts well known to all, such as when Maximilian was received in the Cathedral of Mexico City, solemnly and triumphantly by the archbishop of the metropolis.—Page 1. Translation by Eduardo Keller.
But a year before this, and while there was still hope of bringing victory for the Gray, the pope's army under Maximilian stood poised in Mexico, while intrigue was freely conducted between Jeff Davis, then recognized officially, and his Papal confidants in Canada. Meanwhile the personal conspiracy against Lincoln was progressing steadily, under Jesuit tutelage, to its execution.
House of the Conspirators
It is agreed by all historians that the conspiracy to assassinate the president, and General Grant, and several members of Lincoln's cabinet was matured, if not actually hatched, in the house at 561 H St., Washington, D.C. It was owned and operated by a devout Catholic, Mrs. Mary Surratt, later tried and convicted with eight others. She was among the four against whom the evidence was so damning as to bring on their heads the sentence of hanging; four others were sent to Dry Tortugas, a terrible prison off the coast of Florida. Her son John, through the aid of priests, escaped to Canada, thence to the Vatican, where he was enlisted with the Papal Zouaves, under the name of Watson. Discovered by an American, he was extradited, but allowed to escape by Papal officers, but finally apprehended in Alexandria, Egypt. Two years after his mother's execution he was tried, and, by the exercise of much Jesuit pressure, acquitted. Schoolmates from the Jesuit hatchery at Georgetown constantly thronged the courtroom; and his connection with the Roman Catholic Church was emphasized instead of withheld as would have been the case of a righteous organization involved; while the government prosecutor was forced to try to keep the religious issue out of the proceedings in order to prevent the cry of partiality.
This will give some idea of the Surratt connection with the priesthood. It was brought out at the trial of the mother that the residents of her house were "the most devoted Catholics in the city". Priests were frequently seen there, and one Catholic witness testified that one priest was living with Mrs. Surratt. Chiniquy asks pointedly:
What does the presence of so many priests, in that house, reveal to the world? No man of common sense who knows anything about the priests of Rome can entertain any doubt that, not only they knew all that was going on inside those walls, but that they were the advisers, the counselors, the very soul of that infernal plot. Why did Rome keep one of her priests under that roof, from morning till night, and from night till morning? Why did she send many others, almost every day of the week, into that dark nest of plotters against the very existence of the great republic, and against the life of her President, her principal generals and leading men, if it were not to be advisers, the rulers, the secret motive power of the infernal plot.—Page 719.
Since those days the Hierarchy's guilt in Lincoln's death has been plainly manifest in sedulous efforts to destroy all evidence of the crime. Miss Burke McCarty quotes a letter from Admiral George W. Baird, U.S.N., retired, 33rd-degree Mason of Washington, in 1921, the only living witness who helped to identify the body of John Wilkes Booth, the appointed killer of Lincoln, who was shot to death in the tobacco barn on the Garrett plantation, near Port Royal, Virginia, April 26, 1865, twelve days after the murder:
1505 Rhode Island Ave.
Washington, D.C., Nov. 29, 1921
Miss Grace McCarty
Grace Dodge Hotel
Washington, D.C.
My dear Miss McCarty:
Your letter of the 25th received. . . . My acquaintance with John Wilkes Booth was not at all intimate. I met him in New Orleans in the winter of '63 and '64, when he was playing in the theatre there in "Marble Hearts", and he was splendid in his part. . . . The War was at its height and was freely discussed, but Booth did not seem to be much interested in it. . . . [He was not really a zealot for the South, but later picked by Jesuit lot to shoot the president.]
On the night of the 14th of April, 1865, I went to call on a young lady and about 10:30 her brother came in and said Abe Lincoln is dead. He had been to the theatre to see Laura Keene in "Our American Cousin" and during the play a man [Booth] had got into the box where the President was, and had shot the President, jumped out of the box on to the stage, and escaped from the back door of the stage. . . .
The newspapers had the story very early, that John Wilkes Booth was the assassin and David Herold was the accomplice. . . . Though never intimate with John Wilkes Booth, I admired him, his voice, power of declaiming. I took drinks with him at the Franklin House, Custom House Street, a place frequented by army and navy officers. He seemed to me to have no interest in the war. It was hard to understand. I had seen him but once in Washington and that was about three weeks before the murder of the President. It was on Sunday when he was coming out of Saint Aloysius Catholic Church Vesper Service. . . .
[Booth's body was returned to Washington on board the "Montauk".] I was called on board the Montauk by Lieut. W. W. Crowninshield, to identify the body of John Wilkes Booth, which I did. I noticed a piece of cord about the size of a cod line on his (Booth's) neck and invited Crowninshield's attention to it, who pulled it out and on it was a small Roman Catholic medal. Surgeon General Barnes arrived at that moment and probed the wound in Booth's neck. . . .
I saw the medal when it was taken off Booth's neck and I saw it afterwards in the War Department. It was kept in a safe of the Judge Advocate General. It was in a little tin box which also contained a newspaper scrap referring to it with the bullet from Booth's neck, and I think the derringer also.
When I became the superintendent of the S.W. and Navy Department in 1895, I asked the messenger at the Judge Advocate's door if the relics were still on exhibition as I wanted to show them to some friends, and he said that they were all there but the medal, that the Secretary of War (Mr. Lamont) had sent for them to show some friends and forgot to return them and they remained on his desk four months, and when returned the medal was missing. . . .
[The balance of the letter concerns the writer's visit to Surrattville, where Mary Surratt owned another home; and further evidence that led to her conviction and hanging.]
[Signed] G. W. BAIRD.
A word more about this medal which was "lost".
It is morally certain that Booth himself had been secretly taken into the Roman Church when he was given the "Agnus Dei" medal which was taken from his neck. The significance of this medal is: The translation of "Agnus Dei" is "Lamb of God"; it indicates sacrifice—the shedding of blood. The writer is informed by an ex-Romanist who examined the medal that it was made in Rome, probably sent direct from the Pope as was Pius IX's letter to Jeff Davis, a distinction which would tend to flatter the vanity of John Wilkes Booth.—McCarty’s Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, page 108.
Knights of the Golden Circle
This name, like “Knights of Columbus”, “Knights of St. Gregory the Great” (one member of this chapter is ex-Judge Martin T. Manton, “knighting” in Federal Prison till October 13, 1941), “Knights of Defender-of-the-Faith” (Franco, the ‘Butcher’, is best known of those receiving this degree), designates a strictly Roman Catholic Order. The members have performed or are expected to perform some special service for the pope. Miss McCarty, quoted above, relates that The Great Conspiracy, a book published in 1866 by Barclay Co., Philadelphia, re-cites the Jesuitical oath of this society, and she adds: “There is no doubt but that all the conspirators were members of the Knights of the Golden Circle; there is also no doubt that while some of them were nominal Protestants they were wholly papalized. . . . John Wilkes Booth had been initiated into the Knights of the Golden Circle in Baltimore in the fall of 1860, ‘in the residence opposite the [Catholic] Cathedral.’ ”—Pages 90, 108.
It appears that a change came over Booth late in the year 1864, after which time the Jesuit virus possessed him completely. Prior to that time he had doubtless “drawn the lot”, and became the appointed killer.
“Father” Chiniquy spent twenty years gathering the evidence of the Papal origin and direction of the plot, and he encountered the difficulties which beset all researches in the field of Papal crimes: an unwillingness to talk. Rome is exceedingly adept at covering her guilt. But the implication was freely discussed by many Americans in those postwar days.
The foolishness of men who think they can ignore the warning of a danger, and thus avoid it! Chiniquy summarizes his efforts as follows:
I saw, with profound distress, that the influence of Rome was almost supreme in Washington. I could not find a single statesman who would dare to face that nefarious influence and fight it down, except General Baker. [Baker, in discussing the trial, had used these words to Chiniquy: “I mention, as an exceptional and remarkable fact, that every conspirator in custody is, by education, a Catholic.”]
Several of the government men, in whom I had more confidence, told me: “We had not the least doubt that the Jesuits were at the bottom of that great iniquity; we even feared, sometimes, that this would come out so clearly before the military tribunal that there would be no possibility of keeping it out of the public sight. This was not through cowardice, as you think, but through a wisdom which you ought to approve, if you cannot admire it. Had we been in days of peace, we know that with a little more pressure on the witnesses, many priests would have been compromised; for Mrs. Surratt’s house was their common rendezvous; it is more than probable that several of them might have been hung. But the civil war was hardly over. The Confederacy, though broken down, was still living in millions of hearts; murderers and formidable elements of discord were still seen everywhere, to which the hanging or exiling of those priests would have given a new life. . . . We were all longing for days of peace.”—Page 725.
As a consequence of this government trepidation, the Hierarchy was left secure to plot the deaths of other presidents, Garfield and McKinley becoming later victims. And today the Hierarchy is so well ensconced that nothing but the Lord can oust her. This He has promised to do, and will do with lasting results.—Nahum 1: 9.
Rome's Guilt Manifest
All writers who ignore his Papal connection have professed bewilderment to find an adequate motive for the crime of Booth. Though practically all books on the subject have disappeared from the libraries, it is clear that the man was nothing but the Jesuitized instrument of Rome. He was not an ardent Secessionist; for, during its height, Booth took little interest in the war. He performed no service for the Confederacy. The murder was indeed a terrible blow to the South, because it served only to aggravate the bitterness of the North, bringing excesses during the Reconstruction. The assassination but opened wider the wound in the nation.
The bitter memories, prejudice and hatred that followed in the wake of the war served to blind the two factions to the encroaching enemy of both, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Only the Jesuits and their master in Rome profited by the striking down of Lincoln. "Jesuitism is a sword whose hilt is in Rome and it points everywhere." The whole monstrous scheme was devised abroad, and directed through Rome's chosen emissaries of destruction.
Religious Rome was the sole beneficiary in the legacy of discord and disunion which was the chief bequest of the bloody strife. How that struggle was revived and kept alive! Almost to this very day the narratives of mothers and grandmothers bereft by Rebel sword or Yankee bullet fill their children's minds with venom; the exploits of Lee have become legend, the heroic example for Southern boys to emulate; and in the states above "the line", Grant and Sherman are the valiant war-horses who liberated the nation from the contemptible Southern slaver. Many people still live, though the war ended more than 76 years ago, who cannot hear the mention of those days without the stirring of old and bitter hates.
To them, and to all who love the American flag as a symbol of freedom, to be respected but not worshiped, these words are addressed: The burden of guilt for this fratricidal strife, for its sorrow and affliction, lies at the door of the Jesuit Hierarchy, who have always hated the free institutions of the United States. The slaying of Lincoln was but one act in the progressive conspiracy to destroy the liberal government symbolized by the Stars and Stripes. McCarty and other authorities disclose that this was neither the first nor the last attempt by Rome's minions.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, issue of June, 1868, gives the details of "The Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln" which was foiled in 1861. Before Lincoln, presidents William Henry Harrison (1841) and Zachary Taylor (1850) died by the Jesuit poison cup, according to McCarty, and Lincoln's immediate predecessor, Buchanan, was so frightened by an attempt to poison him that he remarked on retiring, "As George Washington was the first president, so James Buchanan will be the last president of the United States." Presidents James A. Garfield (1881) and William McKinley (1901) fell by the leaden bullet, victims of the unabated fury of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Connecting all these crimes, and disclosing the common cause, is the Jesuits' venomous hostility against "the American way of life". It explains as well the terrible riots stirred up against Jehovah's witnesses at Litchfield, Waxahachie, Del Rio, Rawlins, and other places too numerous to mention. But let her do her worst, because she herself nears the destruction so often meted out to her enemies. "Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD." (Ezekiel 7: 3, 4.)—Elton Groves.
UNDER THE TOTALITARIAN FLAG
Mr. Taylor's Expensive Trip
◆ The ex-president of the Steel Trust, Myron C. Taylor, Mr. Roosevelt's personal ambassador to the pope, made a flying trip to Rome, but the only tangible result is that he made a present to the pope of his $500,000 mansion at Florence. It is supposed that Mr. Roosevelt wished the pope to declare the war against Germany a just war, but it is alleged that the pope said 'No' on three grounds:
First. That on a strictly doctrinal theoretical basis there is no such thing as "a just war," and the Holy See cannot therefore take such a stand. Second. The United States and Britain have doctrines, interests and political aims of their own; the Holy See has doctrines, interests and political aims of its own. Third. The doctrines, interests and political aims run parallel, but the very fact of parallelism means that they do not and cannot meet.
The pope is too clever a politician to come right out and tell Taylor and Roosevelt that he is squarely on the side of Hitler and fervently hopes Hitler will obtain control of the world; but that is the plain truth, as every reader of this magazine knows full well. It was Pacelli, the present pope, who, as Papal nuncio in Berlin, paved the way for Hitler to come to power in Germany. This is well known and there is no excuse for either Taylor or Roosevelt to be ignorant of that fact or of all that has occurred since to put Hitler on the road to world control, with the Hierarchy, of course, sitting astride his neck and guiding him.
In a wireless dispatch from London, published in the Saturday Evening Post, Demaree Bess says that for more than a year Hitler's agents have been working "to recruit support among European Christians", by which Mr. Bess means Catholics, and goes on to admit that that is what he means. It is this that accounts for the peculiar conduct of Petain, Laval and other Catholic Frenchmen.
When Hitler invaded Russia it took the Italian Catholic paper Avvenire only one day to designate his double-crossing of his former ally as "the anticipation of Anti-Christ" and a couple of days later the Roman Catholic Episcopate of Germany advised all dioceses that the attack on Russia is one "for the Christianity [i.e., the making Catholic] of the world".
As the war went on, within a month the archbishop of Gorizia, Italy, publicly prayed for an Axis victory over Russia, likening it to an ancient religious crusade, and on the same day (July 20) it was announced that Hitler's invading forces had with them a good supply of Catholic priests "specially trained to do missionary work in Russian territory occupied by the German armies". In the United States Catholic opposition to America's helping Russia became vocal and violent.
The "People's Reporting Service"
◆ In Germany itself Hitler's new "People's Reporting Service" is the Inquisition brought up to date. The priests know all about the private affairs and private opinions of everybody, and will be sure to lend priceless aid to this camorra.
Hitler and Mussolini have agreed upon the new "European national flag". It is to contain the national colors of every nation that has been overrun, and Mussolini's paper explains that all of France and all of Portugal will be brought into the new state.
Hitler has long since announced his purpose to wipe out at Westphalia the effect on Europe of the first Treaty of Westphalia, which brought to an end the "Thirty Years' War" and gave Protestantism a legal standing in Europe, even though this fact was never acknowledged by the pope.
Irving Pflaum, foreign editor of the Chicago Times, states that General Weygand, from whom many in the democratic countries hoped so much, relies implicitly on the Vatican for guidance. For that reason he obeys Petain implicitly, and therefore Hitler has not a general in his own army who is more valuable to him at this moment than this same General Weygand.
Spain will most certainly be in the new Pacelli-Hitler European state. Even now this impoverished land pays the church 65,000,000 pesetas a year, has restored all property of the religious orders, made Catholicism the sole religion, given bishops the right to supervise all instruction, and allows civil marriages only when both parties can prove that they are not Catholics.
On one occasion Mr. Winston Churchill had the courage and honesty to say:
It would seem that the Spanish monarchy and all the governments, parliamentary and dictatorial, which have served it, have had to bear a very heavy load on account of the overweening power of the "church". The various concordats established between civil and religious life in Spain are far more antiquated than those of any other country. Nowhere is such a large proportion of national energy and treasure absorbed in religious institutions; nowhere has the power of the "priest"-hood in temporal matters survived so effectually.
The Hierarchy is so far along its road to world control that hereafter in Japan its officials, and that of no other sect of so-called "Christians", will be given the rank of imperial appointees.
The Catholic State of Canada
◆ Canada is now a Catholic state, and celebrated its victory over Jehovah's witnesses by a widely advertised pontifical mass on Parliament Hill in Ottawa itself. All kinds of Protestants put up a big holler, like the man that yelled that his horse had been stolen and then carefully locked his stable door. The altar was erected within the main entrance of the Canadian House of Commons. When the Protestants got together they declared that—
the Roman Catholic Church is today, as it has always been, the most divisive force in human society—the enemy of the home, the enemy of the church, the enemy of all free men, and of all free institutions; that it is a totalitarian system which fastens upon its victims a yoke more deadly than that of Hitler, because it is a yoke which stretches beyond the boundaries of time;
and also that—
nothing is likely to be more destructive of national unity than the Ottawa Government's subservience to Roman Catholic demands as evidenced in the Mass on Parliament Hill; its acquiescence in Quebec's anti-conscription attitude; its granting of extra purchasing hours to gas-consumers attending the Three Rivers Eucharistic Congress—a privilege specifically denied to others; the special facilities afforded the Roman Catholic Church for sending Canadian funds to Italy; the use of the facilities of the Ministry of Information for the propagation of Romanism; and now the most recent affront to the Protestant conscience, the distribution of a Roman Catholic form of prayer including prayer for the dead, and in Roman Catholic publications, bearing the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa, for use by all churches including Protestant churches, in this week of so-called "reconsecration"; and many other examples of the evident dominance of Government Departments by Roman Catholic influence.
The Protestants did have one crumb of comfort. In midsummer a Judge Forest had annulled the marriage of a Catholic and his Protestant wife, declaring that the Lutheran minister who married them two years ago had committed a reprehensible act. Within sixty days thereafter the Court of King's Bench in Montreal decided unanimously that a mixed marriage ceremony performed by a Protestant clergyman is legal and valid in the Province of Quebec. The court sitting in appeal ruled that such a marriage could not be annulled because of the religious faiths of the contracting parties. Thus Judge Forest was reprimanded for his narrow-minded decision.
The Sword of the Spirit
◆ Of all fakes ever attempted to be put over on Protestants, the top limit is the so-called "Sword of the Spirit" movement in Great Britain. This was started by the Roman Catholic, Dr. Hinsley, cardinal of Westminster. Purely political, as is every move of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, it was supposed to be purely spiritual. The cardinal invited Anglicans and Free Churchmen to attend, and they came by the thousands. Having no faith in the Bible, they are looking for anything that will keep them coming to the pay window. After the racket had been run for a year, and the cardinal saw that some of the Protestants were beginning to get on to the true purposes of this form of Catholic Action, the cardinal announced that only Catholics could hold office in, or become members of the organization. Cash would be accepted from associate members, i.e., Protestants, and chairs and organs, for churches that had been bombed out, but as far as running the organization was concerned, the Catholics would do all that themselves, as usual.
The pope recently autographed picture postcards for 30 German officers who were among his visitors. He seems to be an obliging sort of cuss.
Jesuit priests that speak and write German and Russian are flocking into Russia, where they have a big future, so they think. This invasion of Russia was something they knew about long before it took place, and for which they made the original plans.
Supreme Deference to Aristotle
◆ The most striking peculiarity of the instruction in the medieval university was the supreme deference paid to Aristotle. Most of the courses of lectures were devoted to the explanation of some one of his numerous treatises—his Physics, his Metaphysics, his treatises on logic, his Ethics, his minor works upon the soul, heaven and earth, etc. Only his logical treatises had been known to Abelard, as all his other works had been forgotten in western Europe. But early in the thirteenth century all his comprehensive contributions to science reached the West, either from Constantinople or through the Arabs, who had brought them to Spain. The Latin translations were bad and obscure, and the lecturer had enough to do to give some meaning to them, to explain what the Arab philosophers had said of them, and to reconcile them to the teachings of Christianity.
Aristotle was, of course, a pagan. He was uncertain whether the soul continued to exist after death; he had never heard of the Bible and knew nothing of the salvation of man through Christ. One would have supposed that he would have been promptly rejected with horror by the ardent Christian believers of the Middle Ages.—The Story of Our Civilization, Vol. 1, page 207.
Hitler's Cabinet All Catholics
◆ The New Age (Masonic publication) for September, 1941, draws attention to the fact that since Hess flew to Scotland each and every member of Hitler's cabinet is a Roman Catholic; and the same is true of the Vichy cabinet and the entire Franco cabinet. All are under instructions and all working in a common cause, and that the worst cause on earth, the slavery of all men to the Jesuits.
Dorothy and the Totalitarian God
◆ Dorothy Thompson, excellent columnist, says that somehow the benign, humane God of her childhood now seems very remote from this universe, that the universe seems directed by demonic forces, that maybe Lucifer is really god and that she fears an age of demon-worship is at hand. Dorothy has something there, but needs help to sort things out. What she really needs is to get a full set of Judge Rutherford's books and read them diligently, looking up the scriptures. Then she will find Lucifer, or Satan, has indeed been the god of this world for about 6,000 years, that the demons are now loose in the earth, and that the benign and good and great Jehovah God is about to put an end to all their wicked and malevolent activity in human affairs. Armageddon is at hand to do that very job.
Was Peter the First Pope?
(An Appeal to Christ's Native Tongue)
◆ In his book The Faith of Our Fathers, chapter IX, on "The Primacy of Peter", Cardinal Gibbons writes: "The Catholic Church teaches also, that our Lord conferred on St. Peter the first place of honor and jurisdiction in the government of His whole Church, and that the same spiritual supremacy has always resided in the Popes, or Bishops of Rome, as being the successors of St. Peter. . . . Promise of the Primacy. Our Saviour, on a certain occasion, asked His disciples, saying: 'Whom do men say that the Son of Man is? And they said: Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; and others, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the Prophets. Jesus saith to them: But whom do ye say that I am?' Peter, as usual, is the leader and spokesman. 'Simon Peter answering said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. . . .' " "The word Peter, in the Syro-Chaldaic tongue, which our Savior spoke, means a rock. The sentence runs thus in that language: 'Thou art a rock, and on this rock I will build My Church.' "
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XI, under "Peter", quotes Jesus as follows: "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter [Kiphā, a rock]; and upon this rock [Kiphā] I will build my church [ekklesian], and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Then the Encyclopedia adds: "By the word 'rock' the Saviour cannot have meant Himself, but only Peter, as is so much more apparent in Aramaic in which the same word (Kiphā) is used for 'Peter' and 'rock'."
The Catholic Bible, with notes by Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock, has this note regarding Peter and rock: "T. In the Syriac tongue, which is that which Jesus Christ spoke, there is no difference of genders, as there is in Latin, between petra, a rock, and Petrus, Peter; hence, in the original language, the allusion was both more natural and more simple."
Thus by an appeal to the Syriac Version of the Gospel account of the apostle Matthew the Roman Catholic backers of Peter as the first pope try to hold up their argument and to get around the Greek manuscripts, as well as the Latin, on Matthew 16:18, to wit: "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter [(Greek) petros; (Latin) petrus—masculine gender]; and upon this rock [(Greek) petra; (Latin) petra—feminine gender] I will build my church."
The standard version of all the Syriac churches, Nestorian and others, is the Bible translation known as the Peshitta. The Peshitta was produced at Edessa in A.D. 411 and is in classic or Edessene Syriac. The Syriac Peshitto Version is the one that James Murdock, D.D., has translated into English and which is at times quoted in WATCH TOWER publications. The four "Gospels" were translated into Antiochene Syriac in or about Antioch before A.D. 170, probably by Christians from Palestine. This is called the "Old Syriac" or "Sinaitic Syriac" or "Syro-Antiochene" Version, and is represented by a single Palimpsest manuscript found at Mount Sinai in Arabia by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, who is recognized as an authority on Syriac. From her book entitled “Light on the Four Gospels from the Sinai Palimpsest”, published by Williams and Norgate, London, England, in 1913, we glean the following:
Jesus, who was raised at Nazareth in Galilee, spoke the Galilean dialect of Aramaic, and this dialect bore the same relationship to the literary or Edessene Syriac as does Doric Greek to Attic Greek or as Scotch to English. If our Lord Jesus had spoken Edessene Syriac, then in that crucial period of His sufferings on the tree on Calvary He would have said: “Lemana shabaqthani?” instead of “Lama sabaqthani?” [“Why hast thou forsaken me?”] as set forth at Matthew 27:46. The first specimen of spoken Aramaic to be found in the Bible is in Genesis 31:47.
Mrs. Lewis expresses regret that before the Sinai Manuscript was turned into a palimpsest, that is, before A.D. 778, it unfortunately lost the leaf which must have contained Jesus’ words, at Matthew 16:18, concerning Peter and the “rock”. But Mrs. Lewis adds: “But we are happily not without a witness as to what the reading of the Old Syriac here [at Matthew 16:18] was. The Curetonian Manuscript, which is supposed to give us a revision of the Sinai text, and the Peshitta, which is the Authorized Version of the Syriac Church, agree about it word for word. We must explain that the Syriac language has two genders only, the masculine and the feminine, the feminine doing duty for the neuter [gender]. It is well known that KEPHA, ‘a stone’ (rather than ‘a rock’), is feminine. But St. Peter can never in Syriac be mistaken for a stone; because, where he is furnished with a verb or with a relative pronoun [to wit, ‘Thou art’], these are always in the masculine; whereas when a stone is meant, these adjuncts [to wit, ‘upon THIS rock’] are feminine,—just as in French we say, ‘Cette pierre a été roulée [This stone has been rolled]’, but in the case of a boy, ‘Ce Pierre est méchant [This Peter is bad]’. . . .” Thus putting Matthew 16:18 into literal French it would read: “Tu es le Pierre, et sur cette pierre je bâtirai mon Eglise.”
Thus the appeal of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy to the Syriac Version of the Bible is exposed as failing to establish their point, and the correctness of the presentation by Judge Rutherford in the booklet Uncovered, page 27, ¶ 1, is further established, to wit:
“Previously, as above stated, Jesus had named Peter ‘Cephas’, which also means a stone. When Peter gave the answer above quoted Jesus addressed Peter: ‘Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ (Matthew 16:17, 18) The very language here employed by Jesus shows that he did not refer to Peter as the Stone upon which his church will be built. Why should Jesus use the word ‘also’ if the stone referred to Peter? Clearly this is what the words mean, which I paraphrase: ‘Peter, my Father in heaven has revealed to you that I am the Stone or Rock, Christ the Messiah, whom my Father foretold by his prophets; also your name means a stone; upon this Stone [Myself], the anointed of God and commissioned by Jehovah God] I will build my church.’ In view of the repeated prophecy of Jehovah that the Messiah, Christ, is the Foundation Stone or Rock of His kingdom, how could anyone seriously consider that Jesus would attempt to change the announced purpose of Jehovah and use Peter as the foundation of His church, contrary to God’s expressed purpose? To conclude that another would be substituted in the place of Jehovah’s anointed King not only is wholly unreasonable, but is blasphemous.”
(To be continued) COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford
Return of the "Princes"
THE facts that have recently come to pass showing the fulfillment of sacred prophecy conclusively prove that the time for the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" is very near and that in that battle all of God's enemies shall be destroyed and the earth cleared of wickedness, preparatory to the complete establishment of righteousness for ever. The affairs of the earth then will be under the complete control of the Messiah, God's Anointed King over His Theocracy; and the faithful men of old, from Abel to John the Baptist, will be resurrected from the dead as perfect creatures and will act as the representatives on earth of that Theocratic Government. (Hebrews 11: 1-40) The Scriptural evidence also abundantly shows that those faithful men will be back on the earth at the beginning of the final battle of Armageddon. From the Scriptures it appears absolutely certain that some of the faithful "remnant" of Jehovah's anointed witnesses will yet be on the earth when those faithful men appear, and certainly those persons of good-will toward God and who shall compose the "great multitude" of Armageddon survivors will also be on the earth, and all of these will meet and greet earth's new "princes". Concerning God's anointed King of The Theocracy it is written (Psalm 45 : 16) : "Instead of thy fathers [they] shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make PRINCES in all the earth."
In this day of judgment upon the nations many persons are, by reason of the warning being published throughout the earth by Jehovah's witnesses, seeing that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and other faithful men of old will be the earthly representatives of the invisible, heavenly Theocratic Government of Jehovah God by Christ Jesus the Messiah, and that therefore those faithful men will be in God's kingdom organization. At the same time they see that the religious Jews, the natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their modern-day counterparts, the religionists of the present time, will be cast away. The religious practitioners hear the message of warning as it is proclaimed to those of good-will toward God, and they hear the announcement made by the Lord that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets shall be in the Kingdom organization, and that the religionists are cast out; and that makes them very mad; and, being exceedingly angry, they gnash their teeth against the witnesses of the Lord. In this day of judgment the great Judge, Christ Jesus, says to those hypocrites: "Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye [who claim to be the spiritual successors of God's covenant people Israel] shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. And they shall come from the east, and from the west, . . . and shall sit down in the kingdom of God."—Luke 13 : 27-29.
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