Consolation, December 10, 1941

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Contents

Jesuit Destroyers (Part 2) 3

Relentless Jesuits 6

The Past Linked with the Present 7

The New Earth 10

Plenty of Nuns and Jesuits 11

The New Government

"Here Am I; Send Me!" 12

What a Reward! 12

Jehovah's witnesses on the Burma Road 13

Counsel by J. F. Rutherford

Abortive Peace Move 16

Theocratic Assembly (Mexico) 16-17

"Hell Ain't So Hot" 18

A Terrible Winter 19

Under the Totalitarian Flag

"France's Greatest Need: More Clergy" 20

Observations Regarding Jesuits 21

Imagination for Understanding 21

Mixed Up on the Catechism 22

Spain Signs Accord Giving Catholicism Greater Authority 23

The Catholic Encyclopedia on "Jehovah" 23

Theocracy Exploits in Oregon 24

A Little Banter Now and Then 24

British Comment

Tyrants Are Always Cowards 29

The Difficult Burma Road 29

Picked the Wrong Scientist 30

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Notanda

The Pope Behind the Scenes

◆ Before Wells, an Englishman writing under the pen name of David Wilkie made it clear that Nazi-Fascism is another name for Jesuitism. This author was quoted in the November 20, 1935, issue of Consolation. He corroborates the facts which have been repeated to Americans often, that Hitler, Shirach (then leader of the Nazi Youth movement), Goebbels, and Goering are Roman Catholics. Goebbels was educated by the Jesuits, and Hitler's education, as well as that of many others in the Nazi cabinet, was influenced by this religious gestapo. Wilkie says: "Hitler became chancellor of Germany, and later 'constitutional' dictator, purely and wholly by Papist intrigue."

Describing the post-"election" murders of 1933 after the Reichstag fire, Wilkie writes, under the title "The Pope Behind the Scenes": "Broadcasting to Britishers on July 3 [1933], a Mr. Crossman, an eyewitness of the scenes during the Hitler murders, said that whenever he had spoken to the German people, from Munich to Berlin, all, without exception, told him the same thing, i.e., that 'the pope was behind the whole of the trouble'."

Wilkie then quotes Ludendorff, German writer, statesman, and soldier: "'Fascism' (meaning 'Nazism' too), wrote Ludendorff in his book The Coming War, 'is a fighting instrument of the pope.' 'Fascism is the offspring of the Jesuits.' 'The ways of the Church of Rome and Fascism are identical.' " "Papen and Hitler 'saved' Germany for the Jesuits, just as Mussolini 'saved' Italy for the '[Catholic] Church'."

Since then Hitler has "saved" France for the pope, who openly approves the Petain regime set up by the Nazi butcher. The Nazi Defender of the Catholic faith also returned Greece to the fold by Jesuit methods. Now Hitler is "saving" Russia!

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXIII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, December 10, 1941 Number 580

Jesuit Destroyers

(In Two Parts—Part 2)

THE basic principles of the Roman Catholic Church are at complete variance with the American principles of freedom and equality. Catholicism is therefore the very opposite of Americanism. The two are irreconcilable, as far apart as the poles. Any man who says otherwise declares his ignorance of all Papal encyclicals and official utterances of spokesmen for the Roman Church. Examples could be multiplied, but for the present purpose a few will suffice:

The absurd and erroneous doctrines, or ravings, in defense of liberty of conscience, are a most pestilential error, a pest of all others, to be dreaded in the state.—Encyclical Letters of Pope Pius IX, August 15, 1854.

Let us examine that liberty in individuals, which is so opposed to the virtue of religion, namely the liberty of worship, as it is so 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.—Great Encyclical Letters, Pope Leo XIII, pages 149-150.

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.—Same authority, page 122.

If Catholics ever gain a sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious freedom is at an end. So our enemies say, so we believe.—The Shepard of the Valley, official journal of the Bishop of St. Louis, November 23, 1851.

A man who has been ex-communicated by the Pope may be killed anywhere . . . because the Pope has an indirect jurisdiction over the whole world.—Bussabaum-Lacroi, Theologica Moralis, 1757.

" 'I do not doubt, if they were strong enough, that the Catholic people, would hinder, even by death if necessary, the spread of heretical errors among the people, and I say rightly so.' This statement was made by the Rev. Mr. Harney, a Paulist Father, in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, in New Brunswick, N. J., Friday evening." New York Herald, May 7, 1901.—Quoted from the book Religion, page 299.

"All loyal children of the [Catholic] church [are] to assist our worthy President with all [our] strength to see that the individuals comprising the United States Supreme Court shall obey the President's injunctions and if necessary we will change, amend or blot out the present Constitution so that the president may enforce . . . our humanitarian program on all phases of human rights as laid down by our saintly popes and the holy mother the church."—Priest O'Brien, of Syracuse, New York, quoted from newspaper L'Aurora, Philadelphia, in Fascism or Freedom (copyright, 1939), pages 14, 15.

"Moreover, we declare, affirm, define and pronounce it to be necessary to salvation to every human creature to be subject to the Roman [Pope]."—Cardinal Manning; quoted from the English Catholic journal Tablet, October 9, 1864.

In The Papacy and the Civil Power, written, in 1877-8, by Richard Wigginton Thompson, then secretary of the United States Navy, the following statement appears: "Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the Church of Rome prevail here, our constitution would necessarily fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of popular government everywhere."

Lawrence Fernsworth, liberal Catholic, wrote for the Protestant Digest, August-September 1940 issue, an article entitled "The Heresy of Freedom", in which he strongly criticizes the leaders of his own faith: "Turning to the Jesuit press one finds that the American system is 'pseudo-democracy, . . . Protestant, rationalist and definitely anti-Christian in its inspiration'; and further: 'This business of teaching every child indiscriminately how to read and write results in nothing more than mass illiteracy. The indiscriminate "education" applied to all alike under a state system is the result of the heresy of the equality of man.' [The Jesuit journal America, April 13, 1940, and October 31, 1941]"

Fernsworth (who was New York Times correspondent during the Franco rebellion, and found that the Times would not accept his version written from the Spanish front because it discredited the Catholic Church) summarizes the situation with Catholic regrets:

A compendium of even the most recent [Catholic] attacks upon liberalism in America would fill volumes. When one has sifted out their applications and meanings one finds that nothing, absolutely nothing, is left of those principles of liberty and freedom upon which Americans place a high value. One sadly reaches the conclusion that officially the [Catholic] Church does not believe that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, nor that men, being born free and equal, have the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The individual has no right to decide wherein his happiness, consists. That is done for him by an ecclesiastical authoritarianism and his liberty consists in the freedom to stay within bounds. [In plain English this means he does what the priest tells him.] The principle of equality of man is a "heresy". It becomes all too evident as the Jesuit speaker in Boston set forth, that, "Of course, liberalism and Catholicism cannot live under the same roof."---Also from "The Heresy of Freedom".

The past, the present, and what is left of "future" for the Roman Catholic Church, finds her the avowed enemy of all that Americans cherish. When Galileo discovered the revolution of the earth, he was forced by Pope Urban, on pain of death, to deny this fundamental truth. Two hundred years later a Spanish orator, himself a Catholic, declared, "There is not a single progressive principle that has not been cursed by the Catholic Church."---Castelar, 1869.

This is but a small portion of the record of Rome. At this day she has lifted up her head against the God of heaven and His THEOCRACY under Christ Jesus. Her venom is directed against Jesus' brethren in a vain effort to stop the message which foretells destruction for this Devil-begotten institution. It is dreary business even to recall how her crimes have befouled the earth, and the presumptuous hypocrisy of labeling herself with the Lord's name adds to the score which will be settled at Armageddon. "For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name ['Christendom', including the Catholic Hierarchy], and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts."---Jeremiah 25:29.

With these facts in mind it can well be understood why the Hierarchy has conspired for more than a hundred years to gain control of the United States. Reduction of the proud land of freedom is necessary to her plans for world domination. Some of the acts performed in this conspiracy to destroy "the heresy of freedom" are recounted in this and other articles in Consolation that honest people might be warned of the deep malice pointed at the bosom of America. Seeing this they should seek safety under Jehovah's organization and put no reliance on the vain babblings of His enemies. Neither the pope nor his priests can save; only Jehovah can do that.—Psalm 3:8.

Resuming now the study of the enemies of the American Republic: George Washington, a staunch Mason, realized the attacks upon our liberties and institutions would be disguised as acts of "patriotism". His warning stands out with prophetic significance: "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

The Marquis de Lafayette revealed the quarter from which the attack might be expected: "American liberty can be destroyed only by the Popish clergy."

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code, wrote an entire book to give warning, entitled Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, 1836, which emphasizes: "Popery is the antagonist of our free system."

Five years later, according to Burke McCarty, the conspirators took the life of William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States. Harrison's popularity, which swept him into the presidency, was the result of his military exploits against the Indians and the British. He had been the hero of the battle of Tippecanoe, in which Tecumseh, chief Indian trouble-maker of the time, was defeated (1811); and also the battle of the Thames, in which the British forces and their Indian allies were routed and a large portion captured, and Tecumseh slain, in the war of 1812. He participated in the growth of the young republic until his election to the presidency, in 1840. Just 31 days after his inauguration, he died of poisoning.

President Harrison was a stalwart American. His father, Benjamin Harrison, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and his grandson, also named Benjamin Harrison, became the twenty-third president of the United States. It is said that, besides his military exploits in behalf of the hated republic, these words of Harrison's incensed the Hierarchy more than any others: "We admit of no government by divine right."

Zachary Taylor, redoubtable victor of the Mexican War, became the twelfth president of the United States, 1849. Although a slave-holder himself, he leaned toward abolition, strongly favored the Union, and was preparing a message recommending California's admission to the Union as a free state, when he died suddenly in 1850. At this time the slavery issue was becoming paramount, and the fires of hatred were constantly aggravated. In view of the subsequent open attack on Lincoln, it appears that Taylor was poisoned by the Catholic conspirators because of his stalwart support of the Union. In his first message to Congress he stated:

"But attachment to the Union of States should be fostered in every American heart. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. . . . In my judgment its dissolution would be the greatest of calamities, and to avert that should be the aim of every American. Upon its preservation must depend our own happiness and that of generations to come. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it. . . ."

In 1850, these were the circumstances of his death:

"On the Fourth of July, arsenic was administered to him during a celebration in Washington at which he was invited to deliver the address. He was in perfect health in the morning and was taken ill in the afternoon about five o'clock and died on the Monday following, having been sick the same number of days and with precisely the same symptoms as was his predecessor, President Harrison." (Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, page 48)

It seems clear that the slavery issue was made use of by the Jesuit conspirators to divide the North from the South, set them at each other's throats, and then triumph over the miseries of both. With this in mind the effort to poison James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, has a definite meaning.

It was on Washington’s birthday, 1857, that Buchanan’s opposition to the Catholic party of Jefferson Davis became known. What happened is graphically described by the New York Post of March 18, 1857: “On Washington’s birthday, Buchanan’s stand became known and the next day (23rd) he was poisoned. The plot was deep and planned with skill. . . . The President was known to be an inveterate tea drinker; in fact, Northern people rarely drink anything else in the evening. Southern men prefer coffee. Thus, to make sure of Buchanan and his Northern friends, arsenic was sprinkled in the bowls containing the tea and lump sugar and set on the table where he was to sit. The pulverized sugar in the bowls used for coffee on the other tables was kept free from the poison. Not a single Southern man was affected or harmed. Fifty or sixty people dined at the table that evening, and as nearly as can be learned, about thirty-eight died from the effects of the poison.

“President Buchanan was poisoned, and with great difficulty his life was saved. His physicians treated him understandingly from instructions given by himself as to the cause of his illness, for he well understood what was the matter.”

This attempted assassination greatly frightened Buchanan. It may account for his apathy at the secession of seven states, and the taking of seven forts, four arsenals, one navy yard, and the U. S. Mint at New Orleans, all of which occurred during his administration. His last remark as president just before the arrival of Lincoln at the White House was: “As George Washington was the first president, so James Buchanan will be the last president of the United States.”

The successful plot of the Jesuits which ‘eliminated’ Lincoln was fully described in Part 1 of this article. At the trial of the eight conspirators in the summer of 1865 it became perfectly clear that many priests were implicated in the murder. There appeared to be some effort on the part of the Government to suppress the connection of the Jesuits with the case. This was done, according to official explanation, to avoid stirring religious animosity in a country already bitter and bleeding from the war between the States. So the Jesuit viper was allowed to remain in the bosom of the country, hatching new treacheries, until her wickedness has come to the full in this day. “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever.”—Psalm 92:7.

Relentless Jesuits

It has been observed that the policies of the Jesuits do not change. They were organized in 1540 to combat the Protestant Reformation, and to that end they continue to fight. Today Catholic spokesmen generally blame the disaster in Europe on this Reformation and the subsequent division or scission of the Protestant denominations from the Church of Rome. They now look to Hitler to return all the world to the Catholic yoke. Part and parcel of this scheme for world domination is the subjugation of the United States, without which the Papacy will not be sated.

Few Americans can understand the deep and unchanging hatred of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy for anything that repels her authority. Most hatreds die with the bosom that contains them, but not so with this politico-religious institution, whose 1500 years have been spent in fighting righteousness. Every weapon is employed to reduce her opponents, and the fires of the Inquisition are kept burning to torment any foe that falls within her grasp.

Consequently, the death of Lincoln did not stop the relentless fury of the Jesuits. America was still free, still progressing, and some part of Rome’s treason had been publicly aired. During the fifty years after the Civil War her efforts were not entirely successful, but the assassinations of Garfield, in 1881, and McKinley, in 1901, show no abatement in murderous resolve.

Theodore Roosevelt had much to do with the success of the American Navy against the Spanish, and was also the hero of San Juan Hill (Cuba). Elected vice-president, he took office as president after the death of McKinley. Throughout his eventful career Roosevelt terrorized grafters of high and low degree. On a visit to Rome he was snubbed by the pope, and "Teddy's" response was not complimentary to the pontiff. In 1912 the assassin's bullet struck down Roosevelt, but he recovered to live seven more years, to the end a doughty American.

But the end of men is not the end of Jesuitism. Only the Lord can and will destroy this malignant part of the Devil's organization, which will be consumed root and branch by Jehovah's Theocratic Government at Armageddon. Ex-Jesuit E. Boyd Barrett's book, Rome Stoops to Conquer, shows that the Catholic Hierarchy has infiltrated every part of government and society in this nation, with the objective of controlling state, press and people. This is corroborated by George Seldes' The Catholic Crisis, and daily declared by both friends and enemies of the Jesuits.

The Past Linked with the Present

There is a connection between the assaults upon the American democracy, carried on for more than a century by the Hierarchy, and the recent attacks on Jehovah's witnesses, in that both were directed by the Jesuits. The Hierarchy exhausted their vocabulary of anathemas in reviling Lincoln, who was merely a political enemy. How much more terrible is their hatred against the ambassadors of THE THEOCRACY, the NEW GOVERNMENT which will bring their everlasting doom!

What are the conditions today that show the continuance of that vicious fight of the Devil's visible representatives against God's kingdom? What is the evidence that the prophecy is in the course of fulfillment which foretold that all nations would hate God's servants who announce these truths? (Matthew 24:9) How do the plain facts show today that no earthly system can offer salvation, but only those who seek and find THE THEOCRACY will live?

In the earth there is a babel of voices shouting different ways to safety. The pope has declared that the "new order" which is cut out with the Nazi sword is the European ideal. Hitler is now engaged in what is termed a "holy war" to make the world safe from "atheistic Communism". In a recent broadcast the pontiff "attributed the sufferings of war to divine providence punishing the sins of mankind", referring evidently to the scission from the Catholic Church. (AP, the Ithaca, N. Y., Evening Journal, June 30, 1941) Meanwhile it is manifest that the pope foreknew and approved Hitler's plan for the Russian campaign; because a United Press dispatch of June 23, 1941, (New York Journal-American) says significantly: "Despite Soviet atheism, the Holy See had been training priests for duty in Russia in event of a religious change there, it was learned."

Headlines in the New York Times of June 25 further emphasize the pope's backing for Hitler: "PREACH HOLY WAR IN REICH. German Catholic Bishops Order Sermons Against Russia." The issue of June 23 says that the Germans made this promise to Russian Catholics: "We will allow you to organize religious parishes." "Rumanian Troops Go into 'Holy War'" to "Recapture of Lands and Fight for Church". Radio announcements that Hitler has received "token" armies from Sweden, Spain, Austria, Italy and Finland indicate international Catholic approval of his bloody religious mission. The Roman Catholic Episcopate calls the German invasion of Russia a "War for Christianity".—UP June 25.

Thus we may observe the combine between the religious and the military of Satan's organization, pictured by the "feet part of iron and part of clay". For many years past Judge Rutherford has repeated that God's Word plainly teaches that politics, commerce and religion would ally themselves against His kingdom. The book Prophecy, published in 1929, is a review of many prophetic statements, and contains the Scriptural proof of conditions obtaining today. It was only in the light of God's revealed prophecy that the following truth could be expressed: "Politicians and commercial giants may try to reform the conditions; the clergy may talk of bringing about ideal conditions on earth; and all together they may make peace pacts and declare that they will bring about lasting peace, but the joint efforts of all will fail. There is no power on earth now that is able to remedy earth's ills." This is quoted from the book Prophecy, written by Judge Rutherford, under the direction of Jehovah, more than twelve years ago!

The pope talks of peace, meanwhile backing the Nazis. The New York Times of June 30, under the headline "Pope Keeps Silent on Axis 'Crusade'", gives a broad hint: "It is understood that this negative attitude will quickly be supplemented by private instructions to Bishops throughout the world." Everyone who has studied the actions of the Papacy knows what these instructions will be. In the main they will repeat anxiety for Hitler's success in "Godless Russia" and advise the strictest secrecy and control of the press especially in the United States. Thus is foisted upon the world the two-faced policy, fostered by the Jesuits, and designed by the Devil!

The Americans are about the only great nation under the sun who do not understand that Hitler is the instrument of the pope. The English dare not advertise the fact, for fear that all their Catholic subjects will follow the example of Quebec and Ireland. The Irish Catholics and the French-Canadian Catholics are manifestly pro-Axis. The famous British writer H. G. Wells and many others have exposed this link between Vatican and Nazi-Fascism. His article entitled "Why Don't We Bomb Rome?" asks the government why the sacred immunity of Vatican City while British churches have been wrecked by Italian and German planes.

As evidence that the English are not in the dark as to the duplicity of the Vatican, note the following editorial quoted from the April 4, 1941, issue of the London and Manchester Daily Mirror:

"MORAL MATTERS"

"Now that Matsuoka has met the Pope we are informed by discrete Vatican 'circles' that the Japanese envoy confined himself to the discussion of 'moral and religious matters'.

"Such as the morality of bombing and torturing the Chinese? Such as the religious aspect of assault of rape and murder?

"We leave you to compose an imaginary conversation between the Yellow Peril and the Vicar of Christ on Earth. — W. M."

[Here read Notanda, page 2]

With these facts in mind, can any unprejudiced man, of whatever faith, doubt the pope's interest in Hitler's tank-tour to convert the Bolsheviks? Does any such doubt that the Papacy is greedily anticipating the return of vast riches flowing from a Russia reconquered for the Catholic Church? The "new order" for Russia will be, "Pay the Pope."

At this writing both the Nazis and the Russians claim to have killed more than a million of the other. When cleared of the smoke-screen of Papal propaganda, the campaign appears as nothing more than murder and robbery to enrich the coffers of the Nazis and the pope.

What we witness today in Russia is a duplication of the Roman Catholic Inquisition with modern weapons. In the Dark Ages the Catholic "conversion of heretics" was accomplished by sword, rack and thumbscrew. Then the victims were customarily plundered and their wealth divided between the local Defender-of-the-faith and the pope. Now the pope rejoices that the tank and bomb are quicker and more effective!

Hitler makes the old Inquisitioners, Torquemada, "Bloody Mary," and Catherine de Medici appear like "small fry". It is no wonder that Catholic Bishop Raskowski praises Hitler as the "Fuehrer and Supreme Commander" of "the German Catholic Troops".—A Pastoral Letter to the German Catholic Troops.

Even Franco, knighted by the pope for "saving" Spain for the Roman Catholic Church, did not "convert" so many. That Defender-of-the-faith, more commonly known as "the Butcher", only killed a few Catholics who did not want to starve to death even for the Catholic Church. But Hitler is carving new empires for which the pope has been training an effective collection agency of priests!

This explains ex-Ambassador Cudahy's statement to the press after his interview with Hitler at Berchtesgaden: "What I am afraid of, terribly afraid of, is another 'Thirty Years' War'. The parallel is very striking." (PM, June 10) This also accounts for the expressed determination of Hitler to dictate the final peace terms at historic Munster in Westphalia where the "Thirty Years' War" was officially ended in 1648. But due to Catholic censorship in school and press, how many Americans know that the "Thirty Years' War" was fought between Catholics and Protestants and that that war broke up the "old Holy Roman Empire" of Papal domination?

Journalists at home and abroad have pointed out this alliance between the Hierarchy and the Nazis. But the American press continues to bat for Rome. The editorial staffs of most newspapers are so completely dominated by Catholics that you can pick up nearly any edition and hear the Papacy talking. While Hitler takes full advantage of the pope's backing abroad, in the United States the Hierarchy is doing a good job pulling the teeth of the opposition that such a course might arouse in this country.

One of the means of discounting this complicity between Nazis and official Catholicism is the often-repeated lie that the Catholics are persecuted in Germany. If any Catholics are persecuted it is individuals who are opposed to Nazi-Jesuit purposes. Likewise the Catholic population is not considered at all, but butchered without mercy to sate the pope's greed. If there were any discord between Hitler and the Vatican, the pope has an immediate remedy, the excommunication of Hitler. But they are partners in the spoils, and will remain so until the Lord turns them against each other, when the totalitarians will rend the Papacy with fire and plunder her rich treasuries.—2 Chronicles 20:23; Revelation 17:16, 17. See also explanation in the Watchtower magazine.

Now the Hierarchy is engaged in "saving" the United States for the Roman Catholic Church. That hypocritical religious organization finds it convenient to call all opponents "Communists". They even call Jehovah's witnesses "Reds", even though these have repeatedly called attention to the fact that Communism is a scheme of the Devil. (Note Judge Rutherford's lecture "Violence", 1938.)

The Catholic Hierarchy has long made use of mobs, riots and pogroms. The history of the United States records many instances of mob action directed against Protestants and others who criticized the Papacy. In Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas, lecturing ex-priests were attacked, beaten, and several killed. On April 4, 1916, the Boston Post reports: "Big Riot Rages in Haverhill; Many Beaten; Militia Called." In this case "Reverend" Thomas E. Leyden, Papal critic, had aroused the Hierarchy. So indignant were many Protestants over this mob action that resolutions were drawn up among them, one by the Protestant Clergy of Greater Boston which says: “We want to know whether this sort of thing is to continue, whether it is possible that we are entering upon an era of Catholic tyranny in this state, whether criticism of one church [namely, the Roman Catholic], and only one, is to be indulged in only at the risk of life and limb.”

The report of this and other mob action incited by Romanists is recorded in “Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”, written by Burke McCarty, Philadelphia, 1924. In this book she recited the damnable account of the Jesuit murder of Lincoln and three other presidents. These assassinations were some of the first fruits of the “Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States” warned against in a book by that title written 88 years before by the inventor Samuel F. B. Morse. (See Consolation for a review of this and another book, Confessions of a French Catholic Priest, also sounding the warning to Americans.)

Yesterday it was other Americans who disagreed with Papal Rome. Today it is Jehovah’s witnesses who have stirred the ire of the Vatican. The people of this nation can now be advised that Jehovah’s witnesses will not be the only victims when the Jesuit-Nazis have complete control of this country, where freedom was once its proud boast.

These are some of the facts that the public press hides from the people. They cover up the assaults on Jehovah’s witnesses. They laud hypocrisy and eulogize idolatry. In answer to this combine of tormentors we reply: “The Lord is our defense.”—Psalm 89: 18.

“The battle is not yours, but God’s.” (2 Chronicles 20: 15) “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”—(Romans 12: 19) Let the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the Catholic Legion, the Catholic Press, and every Catholic hanger-on, remember this when they go to bed at night and when they get up in the morning: The pages of the Bible record are strewn with the bodies of God’s enemies. The Hierarchy is next on Jehovah’s timetable!

It is no wonder that Boake Carter said of world conditions: “It is my belief that the world is in the grip of forces now entirely beyond the control of man.” (Note Revelation 12: 12.) The Bible shows that the chief cause of these conditions is religion. This is the Devil’s instrument which did “weaken the nations”. (Isaiah 14: 12) Jehovah’s warning to the Israelites applies with greater force to professed Christians today: “Neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.” (Deuteronomy 7: 16; Exodus 34: 12, 13; Judges 2: 3) “The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”—Proverbs 29: 25. (See also the book Religion, Chapter 2, “A Snare.”)

The New Earth

This text last quoted contrasts the results of yielding to religion with the salvation to be found by seeking THE THEOCRACY. Surely the intelligent now realize that no hope can come from the Nazi-Jesuit combine which is devastating Europe. They that seek righteousness will not throw in their lot with the Papacy, which prates of peace while it promotes bloodshed. All this combine is against THE THEOCRACY. They claim the right to rule the earth, which right has been bestowed on Christ by the Owner of the earth; therefore the Papal totalitarians are “the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains.” This abomination will soon be violently ejected!

Let those who desire to live, therefore, turn their eyes to the picture of Jehovah’s beautiful “mountains”, the “new heavens”, which will administer blessings to the “new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness”. (2 Peter 3: 13)—Elton Groves.

Plenty of Nuns and Jesuits

TIME magazine is distressed because, it says, there is an alarming shortage of nuns in the United States. Got the information from a Jesuit, and therefore, of course, there is no truth in it. As a matter of fact, there are in the United States 152,159 nuns. This is at least 150,000 too many. There is said to be over 500,000 nuns in the world. They are to be found everywhere. The present queen of Egypt, although she is a Moslem, was educated by Catholic nuns, and her father was educated at a Jesuit college.

The Japanese government and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are congratulating each other that the Catholic church is now duly recognized as one of the Shinto religions of Japan.

In Manila, Philippine Islands, the publisher of the Philippine Magazine grew weary of the attitude of the Jesuits in behalf of dictators and in favor of abolition of all rights secured to the people by the Constitution. At length he wrote a letter to the "Most Reverend" Michael O'Doherty, D.D., archbishop of Manila, asking him to speak up and say something; but all in vain. A part of the letter to the archbishop reads as follows:

As an editor and publisher, I should welcome the opportunity to be of service in contributing to a settling of the doubts that have arisen in the minds of so many people. And while the silence maintained by your Grace and other Catholic leaders here during the seven months that this controversy has lasted would seem to justify the suspicion of those who identify the Church as a whole with the Jesuit propagandists, I do not wish—disregarding my own private opinion—to emphasize this conclusion unless it should be substantially supported either by definite statements to that effect by the authorities of the Church themselves or by their continued silence in the face of such open propaganda. Even obvious facts, such as the support given by the Church to the dictatorships in Spain, Portugal, and other countries, and the fact that characters like Father Coughlin are permitted to retain their place in the clergy, may not be sufficient proof that the Church as a whole supports in all parts of the world the dictatorship principle and the abolition of civil and human rights, the exacerbation of national and racial hatreds, and the war-lord adventurings that are necessary elements in fascist ideology and practice. It can not be denied that many events and developments appear to support the accusations against the Church, while very little has come forth to refute them. In the interests of the country to which, as an editor and publisher, I have for many years devoted my best efforts, I suggest that a word be spoken by your Grace, the highest authority of the Church here, as to the official attitude of the Church, in this country in particular, toward dictatorship and fascist measures in general, especially with reference to the fundamental democratic principle of the elective representation of individual citizens in government.

The Retrogression of Nuns

◆ Anyone who knows anything about nuns knows that they are nearly all like children; for, under the ironclad, narrow and restricted rule, the sisters retrograde from the day they enter, and as time goes on they become as the rule itself—bitter and heartless, from a sense of morbidness and from the unnatural conditions, circumstances and environment surrounding them. There are the sisters who are childish and silly; others who are the cunning hypocrite. The latter type become the schemers among the sisters for the system, and believe me, they will leave nothing undone to gain favor with the heads of the order and the priests that they might gain some high office for themselves.—From The Demands of Rome, by Elizabeth Schoffen.

[Miss Schoffen was for many years a mother superior of a convent, but became disgusted with the racket and quit.—Ed.] RIGHTEOUS RULER

THE NEW GOVERNMENT

"Here Am I; Send Me!"

◆ One bright Sunday morning in March we had group witnessing in our area in a small town. After trudging around blocks for several hours, I finally played the phonograph for a lady and her cousin. The lady was not in position to subscribe for The Watchtower, but when I suggested that she take Religion and Satisfied she willingly agreed. Her cousin then asked if we had meetings anywhere. I informed him of the time and place of the company service meeting, Watchtower study, and Religion book study, in his area.

He expressed a desire to attend the next Friday night service meeting, so we took him with us. After the meeting he said he would not take a great deal for all he learned in so short a time, and asked if he could go out in the service with us the next day. We worked from door to door in rural territory in the morning and then on the street corner in the afternoon and evening.

It was very encouraging to see his enthusiasm as he witnessed to those he knew. He said he enjoyed himself very much the whole day, and is going to spend as much time in the service as possible. He has attended Watchtower, Religion and Model Study meetings, and says he gets more interested and increases his knowledge at each meeting. All the actions of the enemy are not worth mentioning as we visualize how Jehovah is gathering to Him His "other sheep".—Betty Dillon, Oregon.

The Burma Road. (See also items under "British Comment", pages 29-31.)

What a Reward!

A young Jonadah writes: "The book Enemies was left with one of my brothers who had taken it through kindness and courtesy. I read and reread this book and, by the Lord's grace, within a week the curtains were withdrawn and I could see how hypocritical and rotten the Catholic church was which I had been attending regularly for so many years. I, of course, refused to attend church right then. This didn't go very well with the rest of the family. Some of them made threats, and all of them turned quite cold toward me. I at once realized that it was an issue of either compromising or leaving home. With the Lord's help I left home, and within a few months I joined the pioneer work. Now, in 1941, I look back and I can see how the Lord used me as an instrument to help the other members of my family to see the difference between religion and Christianity. My leaving home made them investigate the matter, and now the whole family has quit going to the Catholic church. One of them is a very active publisher. Two more are attending the studies regularly, and the rest are quite interested in the literature. All of this makes me rejoice greatly in the Lord."

Jehovah's witnesses on the Burma Road

◆ On the 10th of February, 1941, I started to travel 1,500 miles in mountainous country on a G.M.C. truck with my luggage and Kingdom literature.

After traveling 38 miles from Lashio, Burma, darkness set in; so the Chinese driver and myself slept in a broken-down hut amongst men of all nationalities.

Next morning I set off for the border, 90 miles away. On the way hundreds of trucks coming and going made driving very difficult. At the border, which separates Burma from China, customs officials and police were very busy.

Trivandrum convention, Travancore, India. Street witnessing with sound-car and magazine bags.

It was not long before our truck was on its way through the newly built road to Free China. Climbing the high mountains, which were 8,000 feet or more above sea level, many trucks miscalculated these Alpine bends, and their destiny was over the side, many thousand feet below. Such trucks in two days' time would be a skeleton, owing to highway truck robbers.

On the highway hundreds of coolies, men and women, are breaking stones by primitive methods. One outstanding point I noticed was that the coolie women bound their feet, being only about 4 inches in length.

Reaching Paoshang, some 400 kilometers [250 miles], one could see a beautiful town partly in ruins, owing to the Japanese bombing. The religious habits of the people in these parts were very noticeable. Firecrackers are much in demand, especially when erecting a building. Before the main beams are knocked together, the prominent men of the town set alight many fireworks in order to drive away the bad spirits. My food in these parts was mostly taken with the Chinese drivers. One has to learn to use the chopsticks well when six or more dishes of food are put on the table, as it is a race until it is finished. Putting the bowl of rice to the mouth and shoving it down with two sticks is no joke.

Since the road has been opened up the people are becoming more Westernized. Refugees from all occupied enemy towns are making their homes here in Yunnan-fu. The buildings, made of mud bricks smeared over with a little lime, make a good shelter. The Devil and his wicked crowd have been very busy trying to destroy these honest laborers. Farming is prominent. Many ingenious methods are used in irrigating the rice and other crops. Goods for market are carried on the backs of ponies some fifty miles or more.

In the latter part of winter bathing is not to be seen very much, as the water is icy cold. In the larger towns it cost four dollars a bath. It surprised me very much after having three baths a day in Burma.

After witnessing Paoshang and being held up for one day, owing to an air raid, I started for Kunming, where the road is very rough because of the thousands of trucks passing every few days. The mountain we climbed was about 7,000 feet high, and on looking down below there was certainly a beautiful sight; all the small mountains were covered with green vegetation; and the road winding down the precipitous mountain, with many hairpin bends, made driving very difficult. Four days it took me to reach Kunming, where there is a population of about 500,000 people, mostly Chinese, also a hundred foreigners. The town has been badly bombed, but that does not dishearten the Chinese. There is plenty of mud and lime and bricks; so a home can be built within four days, and on goes life just the same. The wheat fields are the only shelter, but many miles away the people travel into the mountains.

My trip to Chungking from Kunming is about 1,100 kilometers [685 miles]. I met up with many difficult experiences; the Devil did not want me to go any farther, as the trucks were breaking down every hundred or so kilometers. After changing my luggage into seven trucks (from one to another) we managed to crawl into Kyeewang, about 600 kilometers [375 miles]. The weather was far from the best; it was drizzling rain, and icy cold, which made traveling uncomfortable. Also the seat was hard. The population of Kyeewang is about 10,000 Chinese, many being able to speak English. The greater number of these Chinese are refugees from other parts of China.

Theocracy magazine publishers, Trivandrum convention, Travancore, India

Witnessing at Kunming shortly after a Japanese air raid had done considerable damage

After waiting many days for a truck I managed to get started on my journey. The scenery here was colorsome; reminded one of the garden of Eden as we see illustrated: flowers that we would prize in our homes are growing along the roadside in thick clusters; fruits of all description—peaches, raspberries, blackberries, oranges, and all kinds of stone fruits—are to be found along the journey.

Before reaching Chungking I was informed that 45 kilometers [28 miles] before my destination night road bandits have been known to shoot motorists without warning and loot the truck. It was about five o'clock in the evening and the driver was hurrying the truck along; we came to an incline; the brakes failed, the clutch jammed; so the driver finished stripping the gears, and landing right on the spot aforesaid. The police were sent for, and with fixed bayonets they guarded the truck all night, while we slept in a hut not far away. Next morning we arrived in Chungking, sore, cold, and tired.

Witnessing to The Theocracy on the streets of Kunming, China. The bank's messenger shows interest.

Many big towns can be reached from Chungking. The city has a population of about 1,000,000 people; many foreigners.

On my return trip to Burma I traveled the whole journey to Rangoon in 91 traveling hours, the distance being 2,000 miles; a record for the road. The whole journey was by truck. On reaching Rangoon I stayed three days, and then, with another witness, and much luggage, started on the trip again. We witnessed every town possible. In Kunming we placed much literature, and had many bombs drop around us while lying out in the fields for shelter while an air raid was on. Of course, we could see the manifestation of Jehovah's power when fifteen planes flew above our heads bizz, bang, the wind taking them into the town.

Well, folks, we are now in Chungking, having air raids every day; but that doesn't dampen our zeal: we are piling up the stones as in the river Jordan, meeting many who would like The Theocratic Government to come soon. We have much hill-climbing to do when witnessing. The heat [July, 1941] is terrible, but with a bellyful of tucker [Australian slang for food] and a bag full of books and, far above anything else, the Lord's protection, we go still witnessing to His name amongst people who have never heard of the Kingdom message before. There is much territory to do, and, by the Lord's grace, we will do with our might what our hands find to do.

Theocratic love to all.

Your brethren in Kingdom service,

F. J. PATON, H. G. OATES.

The good news of The Theocracy brought consolation to the proprietor of this damaged building in Kunming.

(To be continued) COUNSEL by J. F. Rutherford

Abortive Peace Move

TWO years ago, under the spell of so-called "Christmas", the president of the United States, on December 23, 1939, first announced the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican, the chief headquarters of religion on earth. That ambassador is sent to the pope, as the president stated, "as my personal representative in order that our parallel endeavors for peace and the alleviation of suffering may be assisted." (Of course, the American government foots the bill, and that without consent of the people, and the one hundred and thirty million people of the nation are made to recognize the pope as the chief religious leader of the earth, and that he is now in league with the United States government.)

Continuing, the letter of the chief executive to the pope says: "When the time shall come for the re-establishment of world peace on a surer foundation, it is of the utmost importance to humanity and to religion that common ideals shall have united expression. . . . I trust, therefore, that all of the churches of the world which believe in a common God will throw the great weight of their influence into this great cause." (This does not mean Jehovah God, since He is not the common God of religion and politics, and they do not fear and obey Jehovah God, but oppose His Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus.)

As evidence that the president, as a political power and one of the world rulers, ignores the Creator and relies on man, note this part of his letter to the pope which says: "This world has created for itself a civilization capable of giving to mankind security and peace firmly set in the foundations of religious teachings. Yet, though it has conquered the earth, the sea, and even the air, civilization today passes through war and travail." (Note the boasting and loud language, to wit: "The world has created for itself a civilization capable of giving to mankind security and peace firmly set in the foundations of religious teachings.")

The ambassador appointed to the Vatican is Myron C. Taylor, a former head of the United States Steel Corporation, one of the greatest corporations on earth, which devotes most of its energy and money to building equipment for the destruction of human lives. Surely no sensible person would say that such a one represents the great "Prince of Peace", Christ Jesus. (Isaiah 9:6, 7) At the same time the president announced that he had invited the president of the Federal Council of Churches, which ostensibly is Protestant, and also the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which practices the Jews' religion, to consult with him and to act as spokesmen for American Protestantism and American Jewry, in the common cause of the three "faiths", thus proposing a closer relationship, if possible, between religion, politics and finance to govern the earth in opposition to the Almighty God and Christ His King.

THEOCRATIC ASSEMBLY (MEXICO)

One of the most blessed conventions ever held in Mexico, and the first THEOCRATIC general assembly, was held in Mexico City on September 12-16. A nice theater was engaged, with 1,000 capacity, which was just enough for the friends attending it. Plenty of instructions for service were given, and some of the subjects used at St. Louis were here presented in Spanish. For the first time in Mexico we introduced the rooming arrangement for convention. Friends are rather poor here, and up to now were all accommodated free at headquarters or at the friends' homes. But this was now impossible; so we engaged rooms for those requesting this service in the corresponding blanks. Economic conditions hindered quite a number from coming, and, also, many friends from the States were unable to assist for this reason (many had spent their savings going to St. Louis), and for the added reason of passport requirements. But, all in all, it was a blessed and busy time to the honor of JEHOVAH and for the joy of those that were able to attend it and of all others that love Him in Mexico.

--Here is a concrete example and the most persuasive proof that religion, politics and commerce are closely linked together for the purpose of establishing peace, regimenting the people, and ruling the earth, and which is a claim by man of being able to do what alone Almighty God can do. This, in connection with the boast of the "civilization" which the "world has created for itself", is assuming to do what is impossible for man to accomplish. "Blasphemy" is properly defined to be a claim by man to do that which God alone can do. The combination of religion, politics and commerce is in open opposition to Jehovah's Theocratic Government by Christ Jesus. Therefore the boasting words of the combination are clearly blasphemous. Jesus, the King of The Theocracy, says: "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." (Matthew 12:30) Clearly, then, the religious, political, commercial combine does not gather with Christ Jesus the King, but opposes Him; which is further proof that it is "the god of this world", Satan, who is using religion, politics and commerce to deceive the people and to plunge them into destruction.

The president's letter to the pope, and his appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican, and his calling leading Protestants and the leading Jew religionists to join with him in establishing world peace, was hailed by the press as the greatest news of modern times. Will that scheme, originating with "the god of this world", to establish peace amongst the nations, succeed? For a brief time only; and this conclusion is fully supported by the Scriptures. It must be expected that soon the nations will arrive at some kind of peace agreement, and then the religious and political leaders will receive great honor and praise at the hands of the deluded masses of the people. Likening the beastly world rule to a wild animal, the Scriptures point out that then those who have yielded to religion and have come under the influence and power of the demons will say concerning the world rule by religion, politics and commerce, the symbolic "beast": "Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Revelation 13:4) Then will the unholy combine, drawn together and acting as the visible representatives of the Devil, announce to the world, 'We have brought about peace,' and will also say, "Peace and safety!" Then what shall follow? The Scriptures answer (1 Thessalonians 5:3): "When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

The pope received the message of the president then, in 1939, with real satisfaction and notified him that his ambassador would be well and gladly received. Then on the 28th day of December, 1939, the pope made a personal call upon the king of Italy; concerning which the Press report said: 'Pope Pius today, in a brief speech after the ceremonial meeting with the king and queen, said "the visit resealed the happy accord between church and state".' These facts constitute further proof of the confederacy between religion and politics, supported by selfish commerce, to establish a so-called "peace of the world" and to rule the earth in complete defiance of the Word of Almighty God. Shall the efforts of such men succeed? Jehovah, speaking to that unholy combine, says: "Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces."—Isaiah 8:9-12.

Let it be conceded that the purpose of the aforementioned persons to establish peace in the earth is sincere; yet that does not alter the matter in the least, because their announced purpose is exactly contrary to the announced purpose of the great Theocrat, Jehovah God, and in defiance of His Word. For years attention has been called to the fact that the alliance of religion, politics and commerce is against Jehovah's kingdom. The evidence should convince all who believe in Jehovah and Christ Jesus that by means of religion the Devil is leading all the nations of the earth into the ditch. The declaration sent out now by religionists, politicians and commercial giants is directly against the Almighty God and His King and is in defiance of Jehovah's words, to wit: "Behold, my servant [Christ Jesus] whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall declare judgment to the Gentiles [the nations]. . . . And in His name shall the Gentiles [nations] hope." (Matthew 12:18, 21, A.R.V.; see Isaiah 42:1-7) God's announced purpose must be and shall be carried out, because He has so stated.—Isaiah 46:11.

"Hell Ain't So Hot"

◆ I was hurrying home when I noticed her standing by the roadside signaling for a ride. She was neatly clad and something about her face attracted me, something beside the color, for she was a colored girl around twenty years of age.

The rear seat of my car was empty, and feeling that, after all, we are all of one blood, I stopped to pick her up. The foreign element is very small here and her Southern brogue was entertaining; therefore I let her do most of the talking. After a while I let her know I was one of Jehovah's witnesses, and the poor girl was overjoyed. She said, "Oh, yes, Jedge Ruderfohd and Jehovah witness. I used to listen to de jedge ovah de radio. A Jehovah witness lived next doah to where I worked; she took me in her car to Watchtowah studies; I suah learned sumping theah. I learned hell ain't so hot and when yo is daid yo is jus daid and that's all til yo is resorected."—Cont'b'd.

Spain

A Terrible Winter

◆ Those who passed through the winter of 1940-1941 in Spain report the experience as horrible beyond words. The poverty beggared description. Almost everybody was starving. The best hotels in Madrid had meat only about once in three weeks, and that was generally horsemeat or dog. An American motoring through the country gave some stale bread to garage mechanics who repaired his car, and they were so grateful they burst into tears. It is quite evident that the people are unable to rebuild their country to what it was, after the treachery of a Britisher put it in the hands of Franco. Typhus was prevalent. Travelers report seeing men die under their eyes and their bodies immediately turn black. Prisoners were being murdered daily. Torture was common. A current mode of torture was the application of electrodes to the breasts of women. It is claimed that during the entire winter there were twelve German divisions in Spain, and that Hitler has been directing Spain's national and international policies since October, 1938.

3,000,000 Children Near Starvation

◆ James Wood Johnson, health expert, visiting Spain in the spring of 1941, reports that half the children in Spain have been so weakened mentally and physically that they can never be brought back to health even with normal feeding. Eight out of ten women in Spain no longer are able to nurse their babies. Of those who do, only 1 out of 4 can provide the necessary milk; so only 1 out of 20 babies is normally fed. Large numbers of children are born at 2 1/4 to 3 pounds. A Spanish woman who gives birth to a child loses 25 to 30 pounds in weight, and cannot regain it. The same conditions are now noticeable in France and in every other country where the "new order" is getting under way.

This Farmer Talked Too Much

◆ Near the city of Vitch, Spain, a farmer thumbed a ride on a truck which was carrying a coffin. It was raining, and the farmer got inside the coffin to get out of the wet. Down the road a piece two other hitchhikers got aboard. After a bit the farmer raised the lid and said, "It's stopped raining." So it had, but he spoke out of turn. The two riders didn't realize how much the change of weather meant to the farmer, so they both took a flying leap. One was killed and the other was seriously injured. So there was work for the coffin anyway; but the farmer talked too much.

Life would be rather dull if nobody ever said anything, but it must be admitted that silence is often wisest.

Helping Franco in His Deviltry

◆ The work of arresting Spanish Loyalist leaders in unoccupied France, and turning them over to General Franco to be tortured or executed, goes on unceasingly. Señor Caballero, 73 years of age, one-time premier; Señor Anso, a minister of justice; and Porta Valladares, one-time prime minister of the Conservatives, are among recent victims.

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