Consolation, October 28, 1942

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Contents

The New World Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses 3

Germany's War Machine Sows and Reaps (Part 1) 8

The "Black Sheep" 8

Rise to Power 9

Old Reliable 10

Corrupters of Youth 10

"Machines" of Flesh and Blood 11

Mass Production of Man Power 12

"Heritage of the Lord" 13

Turning Wine into Gasoline 15

Opium, Lewisite, and Germs 16

"Thy Word Is Truth"

Standard Against the Enemy 17

Treacherous Japan 19

A Victory Twenty Years Old 19

Appeasement and Treachery 20

The Bushido Code of Hypocrisy 20

Language of the Tanaka Memorial 21

Invention 22

Recent Defeats of Persecution 24

Presenting "This Gospel of the Kingdom"

"Introductions" 26

British Comment

"Doughboys Warned" 29

Government by the 1922 Committee 30

Saved Several Lives by Fainting 30

Poison Gas for the Asking 31

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Do You Want $3,104,591?

◆ If you want $3,104,591 all you have to do is to go to the Union Banking Corporation, 39 Broadway, and prove that you are the rightful owner of that big sum which they now have in their possession. They don't know who owns it. All they know is that the building of the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart in Rotterdam was bombed out of existence, and nobody in the United States knows what has become of its officers, who alone knew to whom the above sum of money belongs. The Rotterdam bank was counted as a Thyssen bank, but whether or not the money belongs to Thyssen, self-confessed backer of the Hierarchy and of Hitler, nobody knows.

Prayers for Hitler

◆ Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, moderator of the Presbyterian church in the United States, wants a day of prayer for Hitler. Why not pray for the Devil, whose child he is? The thing is silly. Such prayers would be an abomination to Almighty God and to every true Christian. Hitler, with all his heart, hates all that is right and true, and is a perfect personification of hate, cruelty, and murder. Moreover, not one thing that he says can be believed, and he would murder his best friend as quickly as he would look at him. No woman that he looks at is safe.

Studies of Nazi Air Engines

◆ Studies of Nazi air engines made by Pratt & Whitney, specialists in America, show that beneath a dull-black body lies the most precise and finished workmanship imaginable. In the German fighter planes the take-off with a cold engine is accomplished in a few seconds. After one minute's flying an automatic throttle comes into play. The design for ignition is marked by simplicity, lightness and efficiency. No inferior materials were used.

CONSOLATION

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

Volume XXIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 28, 1942 Number 603

The New World Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's witnesses

From the key city of Cleveland, Ohio

September 18-20, 1942

LONG before one reached the beautiful and spacious auditorium he was made aware that something new and different was in the air. True, there was a war show on in the city that week-end. This was staged right on the lake front adjacent to the auditorium, but that was not what impressed the people. This new and different thing in their midst far overshadowed even the war show. It was a "new world assembly" of Jehovah's witnesses. The mayor felt the effect of this and sent out a press release calling upon all citizens of Cleveland to stay away from the New World Assembly and support the war show. He advised all and sundry that there was no representative of the city present to welcome Jehovah's witnesses to the city of Cleveland, this despite the fact that representatives of the city sent a very urgent and gracious invitation to Jehovah's witnesses to assemble there. However, the mayor might just as well have tried to bail out Lake Erie with a sieve as try to stop the people of good-will from coming to this Theocratic assembly. The people of Cleveland were conscious of the fact that this "new thing" dominated everything else during the week-end.

Months prior to the assembly the Society obtained and set up the Franklin Auditorium as headquarters for the preliminary arrangements for the assembly and Theocratists from Maine to California and Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico gathered to assist in the preparations for this great assembly. The Lord put His spirit upon them and their efforts were fruitful, to the glory of His name.

Thousands of rooms were obtained in hotels, homes and tourist camps; this despite the very heavy demand for rooms by those attending the war show and other conventions which overlapped this assembly. Each and every one of our brethren was comfortably established and many reported the splendid re reception they received from citizens of Cleveland, a great many of whom keenly resented the unjust and discriminating remarks of their mayor. Some even made it their business to call up the mayor and chamber of commerce to register their objection to the newspaper release and the fact that no representative of the chamber of commerce was there to welcome Jehovah's witnesses who were assembling in Cleveland by the thousands and bringing much business to the city.

New World Theocratic Assembly - Auditorium at the key city.

A striking contrast in publicity

There are people of good-will in Cleveland, and He who promised that a cup of cold water given in His name would receive its reward will see to it that these people of good-will get a blessing. A great many of them were richly blessed as a result of this Theocratic assembly.

The approaches to the city were flanked with massive signboards announcing the assembly, particularly the public address, "PEACE—Can It Last?" Hundreds of streetcars were similarly placarded. Every street intersection within the large downtown sections of the city had its information walkers and magazine publishers courteously placing magazines and giving out announcements to all who passed by. Other hundreds were going from store to store with magazines and announcements, and thousands more going from house to house with literature, recordings, leaflets and personal invitations for the people. This constituted an advertising campaign such as Cleveland never before witnessed. It was a living witness symbolic of the new world being ushered in. Compared with it the lifeless placards, banners and ballyhoo of the smug politicians behind their official pomp, advertising the war show, were dead, and symbolic of the old world that is passing away.

The foregoing is but a very inadequate description of the impression of the Theocratic Assembly that the man of the street and the visitor received before entering the auditorium.

As he enters the auditorium where the assembly was held he finds himself in a spacious foyer or lobby where thousands are enabled to assemble at one time. This foyer is flanked on the right and left with rooms and offices which were used as executive offices, check rooms, ushers' rooms, legal offices, and the other innumerable offices required to efficiently carry on an assembly of this nature. There was space for everything, but always taxed to capacity to meet the requirements of Jehovah's witnesses.

From the main foyer one entered the large auditorium, with its tremendous balcony, which is capable of seating 12,000 people; a magnificent auditorium indeed. The first thing that one's eyes lighted upon as he entered the door was a beautiful silken banner hung so that it stretched across the center of the stage about ten or twelve feet above the floor, reading, "Blameless in the day of our Lord." This stood out so strikingly that it must have impressed everyone entering the auditorium, particularly in view of the old world's being on its way out and the new world growing until it fills the whole earth.

Beyond the massive stage was another smaller auditorium, with its balconies, capable of seating up to 3,000 people, and so arranged that all those seated were facing the stage in the center. When the heavy dividing curtains on the stage were removed the audiences in both auditoriums saw and heard the speaker. The acoustics were excellent. The witnesses did an excellent job of decorating the stage. Ferns and flowers of every imaginable hue banked both ends of the stage and along the front. An excellent orchestra composed of consecrated Christians, Jehovah's witnesses, completed the setting for this assembly as far as the auditorium was concerned.

These two auditoriums were entirely inadequate to hold the vast audiences at Saturday's and Sunday's meetings. It was necessary to fill up the basement, which was capable of holding up to 10,000 more people.

When entering the foyer one walked down a wide and beautiful stairway and found himself in the midst of the cafeteria. The basement of the building was used for cafeteria, book room, territory assignments, and room assignments. The cafeteria served delicious meals three times each day. For breakfast, fruit, cereal (hot and cold), boiled eggs, coffee, tea, and milk. Throughout the rest of the day cooked meats, fish, vegetables in abundance, as well as deserts, were available; all good, wholesome food. The way the conventioners went for these provisions for the physical man showed their appreciation of the Lord's provision in this respect. Over 1,300 pioneers were provided with meals free, as were the auditorium crew, from the head man to the cleaner-ups, who always showed up at mealtime and were treated with New World hospitality. They could not understand it as they told us that at other conventions they were generally the goats for everyone and everything that happened. Here they found no difficulty in handling the crowd and were supplied with all they could eat. They reciprocated by cooperating fully and sympathetically.

The cafeteria had twelve lines going to capacity between the meetings. It took approximately 200 witnesses to care for the cafeteria requirements.

The book room did a rushing business, particularly after the release of the new Bible. Woe unto anyone that stood in the way of the pioneers when they were told they could have a copy of this "sword of the spirit" free, and then when The New World was released they were back again for their copy. Words are inadequate to describe the joy of the pioneers as they assembled for these provisions of the Lord.

All who were not otherwise engaged hurried to the territory department to get their assignments. By Friday night all information-walking and magazine territory was gone; all that was left in Cleveland was a little business and residential territory, in which all worked during Saturday and Sunday to see that an adequate witness was given to the people of Cleveland and an invitation to attend the public discourse.

The room assignment department was a busy place, particularly Friday and Saturday mornings, but all of the witnesses were well and comfortably cared for. Many Clevelanders who at first, because of the mayor's statement in the press, were reluctant to let Jehovah’s witnesses have rooms, were calling up before the convention was over and anxious to obtain some of Jehovah’s witnesses to stay with them, after they had found out from their neighbors what really fine people Jehovah’s witnesses are.

First aid was kindly and efficiently administered for all needing it.

All of the foregoing details, while very necessary, were only incidental to the real feast (represented in the various talks) which the Lord had in store for His people. From the moment the chairman stepped on the platform at 8 p.m. on Friday evening, to officially open the convention, until its close the audience at each assembly was spellbound, particularly during those speeches which were delivered over the network by the president and other brethren.

The keynote speech, on “The Only Light”, which started at 8:05, and the fifteen-minute speech which followed, by the president presenting “The Sword of the Spirit”, were received with great enthusiasm, and particularly over this new instrument which the Lord provided. All in the audience held their seat until the last minute, seeming reluctant to leave lest they should miss some feature of the wonderful thing called to their attention.

Saturday morning everyone who was available responded for field service at nine o’clock. Witnessing continued until well after noon. The afternoon talks were well received, particularly the discourse on “Fighters for the New World”. The revelation of the Jephthah picture was thrilling beyond words. In a flash the audience understood the illustration of the joyous maiden meeting her warrior father as shown on the cover of the program. Every consecrated heart present concurred with the unfolding of Jephthah as representing Christ Jesus, the Head of the Lord’s organization, and His faithful instrument on earth, the Watch Tower Society. Those of the “other sheep” present greatly rejoiced as they saw themselves represented in Jephthah’s daughter joyfully accepting their responsibility in harmony with Jephthah’s vow in presenting themselves for more zealous temple service. The concluding resolution was heartily supported by the 17,500 fighters for the new world in the audience. Everyone present realized the power and the spirit of the Lord in evidence at this assembly, and the revealing of His purposes to His people, leading them onward to victory. During this meeting the audience remained gripped with the force of the picture and the power of the presentation, all recognizing their individual and collective responsibility. The evening talks were well received also.

Pioneer applications were eagerly sought at the conclusion of the meeting.

The brethren rejoiced greatly in the new organization instructions and the provisions that the Lord has made to comfort them in the final days of battle.

As the various features of the battle to date were recounted in “Victory”, the closing speech of the day, the brethren recognized the power of the Lord preserving and leading His people in the great fight to accomplish the good pleasure of His will.

Sunday morning 459 candidates for immersion presented themselves and went forward to be immersed, while the others of those in attendance went to the field to further advertise the public lecture that afternoon and invite and bring all they could to the meeting. By the time the speech “Peace—Can It Last?” by N. H. Knorr, was put on, Sunday afternoon, there were over 26,000 people in attendance. The two large auditoriums visible to the speaker were packed to capacity, and all the space in the basement, as well as the ballroom, was filled. The foyer had a large number of people who were served by the Auditorium’s sound equipment, and loud-speakers were provided for people on the outside who could not get in. Cleveland responded with enthusiasm to the invitation received, despite efforts of the mayor and other representatives of the enemy organization to hold them back.

Words are inadequate to describe the power, eloquence and effect of the presentation of "Peace—Can It Last?" As the 17th chapter of Revelation unfolded, each and every one could clearly identify the "beast", see its beastly effect upon the nations and the people of the world in the past, and could clearly recognize the harlot mounting upon the "peace beast" to dominate the nations and peoples of the earth. All could clearly recognize, as the speaker presented the facts, that human efforts could not establish a lasting peace. Then as the picture unfolded, and those nations that were supporting the Hierarchy were seen to turn on her and destroy her, enthusiastic applause greeted this. All in the audience were anxious to get a copy of this speech and also to take a number of copies for their friends, which were provided free. It was recognized by all present as the most powerful and clear denunciation of the enemy that we have had to date.

The further speeches of the evening were well received by all present, particularly when it was called to the attention of the audience that the committee representing the city of Cleveland forwarded a letter of invitation to the Society inviting them to be present and enjoy the hospitality of the city, whereas, contrasting with this, was the mayor's denunciation in the paper clearly indicating, as the speaker said, that the invitation was simply "hooey".

The reports by representatives from Norway, Australia, and Britain, indicating the progress of the work in Africa, Australasia, and the British Isles despite war restrictions and legal ban, were enthusiastically received by the audience. The concluding "Message from the President" was very touching, acknowledging in the presence of all the goodness of the Lord in pouring out His spirit so richly upon the Assembly. All present were deeply stirred by these concluding remarks. Hundreds of telegrams were received from the other 51 cities in the United States, as well as from assemblies in England, South America, Hawaii, and West Africa, all indicating similar blessings poured out upon them by the Lord. At Springfield, Ill., Little Rock, Ark., and Klamath Falls, Oreg., the enemy tried desperately to stop the message. Despite intense opposition and threats of bodily injury the brethren carried forward and completed the Assembly, with the Lord's blessing at all points.

The entire audience, with the exception of the very few that could not possibly do so, stayed until the very last meeting, and seemed reluctant to break away. Expressions heard throughout the Assembly were, "If this assembly lasted any longer we wouldn't be able to hold the blessings we received," "We are unable to hold any more surprises." It was clearly evident to all that the Lord opened the windows of heaven and poured out upon His people a blessing that they could not hold, and what is true of the city of Cleveland is also true of the 51 other points throughout the United States. The same preparations were made, the same advertising efforts put forth, same rooming accommodations provided for those in attendance, same provisions for their care and comfort, and the same food provided on the Lord's table for all who were in attendance. This was undoubtedly the most blessed assembly of the Lord's people ever held upon the earth, and by far the largest. The total attendance at the 52 points was 126,000 people. When this is viewed from the standpoint of existing conditions in the country, limitations in transportation, by railway, bus, and air, and in rubber and gasoline, and other handicaps that had to be overcome, it is a clear evidence that nothing but the Lord and the spirit of the Lord could accomplish it; and all praise and thanks were continually rendered unto Him each day for His goodness toward His people.

Germany's War Machine Sows and Reaps

(In Two Parts—Part 1)

THE overwhelming flood of German arms in victorious sweep through the low countries and into France during the eventful year 1940 has caused much comment on the intense organization and attention to minute detail which made such blitzkrieg possible. The co-ordination of ground and air forces, men and machines, fighting troops and engineer corps, and the maintenance of adequate supply lines for fighting on such gigantic scale and on many far-flung fronts, left all the world wondering, and portions of it reeling under the impact of its devilish destruction. Such God-defying destruction of life in violation of the everlasting covenant relative to the sanctity of life could originate only with the great arch-demon, Satan himself. Nevertheless, he had accomplices, willing ones, on the earth. These chief dupes of his had in turn their own tools to carry out the diabolical job committed to their trust by the god of this world. They have sown death; they shall reap the same.

The Devil has always had a goodly crop of ruthless murderers at his disposal, from Cain onward. Often he has contrived to put such butchers at the head of peoples organized into nations, starting with Nimrod. Down through the centuries their bloody trail may be traced but not adequately described. Now it is the twentieth century. The peoples of earth have religion, and are getting "more religion" every day. They are now civilized. A golden flood of peace and prosperity the result? Alas, no; rather the Devil has a bumper crop of thugs, religious civilized ones, if you please, but they nevertheless make the "old-timers" pale into insignificance.

The "Black Sheep"

Catholic Hitler, Catholic Mussolini, the Catholic and papal-"blessed" Spanish "Butcher" Franco, the new convert Hirohito, and their satellites, in their lust for power and world domination, zealously forge link after link in their chain to bind the world to their "new order". Little matter if in the process the world be turned into a slaughterhouse. One of the present crop of totalitarians, however, is a bad man! He has no religion! He is not a "Christian gentleman". 'Philanthropic' Hitler, the biggest frog in the Axis puddle, cannot bear to see his Communistic brutalities spread. He must be converted. How? A crusade. It has usually been the prescription; the leopard does not change its spots. So now, in 1942, the German juggernaut is crusading deep in Russia teaching the essentials of "Christianity", a la papacy, not according to the great Prince of Peace. But why mention Him? He never was a religionist, nor was He popular with the world. He didn't advance "Christianity" as did Charlemagne, Torquemada, Philip II of Spain, and other church "swords". In a world gone mad, Jesus of Nazareth is the real "forgotten man". That's why it's mad.

Their aim of world domination is likewise mad. They shall never wrest the dominion from Jehovah's anointed King, Christ Jesus, and this shall be manifested soon to all.

Enough, at present, for those willing killers. Their consuming and ambitious greed and their utter depravity is apparent to all not under the same demon spell. But what about all the individuals that go to make up the aggressor-army, both at the fighting front and the vast civilian force behind the lines, each one a vital cog in the war machine? How is it possible to delude entire nations into following devils?

Jehovah God gives the answer, at Revelation 16: 13, 14: "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." Hitler claims to hear voices, and to be guided by the spirits; it's his one claim that's true. The "voices" and guiding spirits are the demons. Those same demons by divers means inexorably draw the peoples living under the governments of the dictator kings into the maelstrom. What are some of the visible means used?

Rise to Power

Mr. Ted Lawrence, one of Jehovah's witnesses who resided in Germany for twelve years and has just recently returned to this country, sent in a lengthy communication in regard to conditions in the German Reich, and had the following to say concerning the ascendancy of the Nazi star:

It was Bruening, I believe, who went to Paris to appeal for more favorable terms than those dictated by the Versailles treaty, and when turned down, warned of the danger of an insurgent power under a man named Hitler. Bruening was laughed at derisively for even suggesting that such a mountebank might conceivably be a threat or danger to them.

The Nazis began their rise to power in 1930 when they received over a hundred seats in the Reichstag, whereas they had only eight prior to that year. The Bruening government was hampered by the Nazis. Every time a bill was introduced which had the aspect of possibly improving conditions in the Reich, it was vetoed by the votes of the Nazis in order to disrupt everything which the democratic government tried to do and then to have the people blame the government.

Bruening, in desperation over the nation's financial plight, issued his emergency laws, decreasing the salaries and wages of the German officials, clerks and laborers, and increasing the taxes of the merchants.

The Nazis, who were backed by the great industrial kings, did everything possible to cause strife between capitalism and labor. It is an open secret that together they did much to frustrate the efforts of the democratic government, and were largely to blame for the unemployment situation. Because of the backing of such industrial leaders as Thyssen, Krupp, and Kipsdorf, Hitler had the means at his command to enable him to create and conduct a tremendous propaganda campaign. Food to the hungry! Labor for the unemployed! Return to the comparatively high standard of living of 1914! In so doing he did not have to explain his part in the conditions that led to the helping-hand policy. Always the good Samaritan. With the financial help he gave every man who joined his party, especially the S.A. (Sturm-Abteilung, or storm troopers), and three meals a day to the underfed, thus baiting the poor man and the unemployed, he soon had a sizable following.

Up to 1932 the Communist party was a party without an able leader; it was just like an enormous balloon without any driving force; but in 1932, with the rise of the Nazis, the Communists began to give them a semblance of competition, and many Nazis dropped their membership in the party and joined the Communists. On the other hand many Communists joined the Nazi party. There were Nazi stool pigeons in the Communist camp. When Hitler became chancellor, they betrayed their friends and had them thrown into concentration camps. It is my opinion that Communism would never be accepted in Germany. The German people are educated to be nationalistic, not communistic. But Hitler frightened them with his warning that Communism was inevitable if he were not elected to power to fight the menace. The Communist scarecrow frightened the sparrows to seek the protection of the hawk! The man in the street frequently whispered that Nazism and Communism have many things in common, namely, food rationing, clothes rationing, concentration camps, the Nazi four-year plan and the Soviet five-year plan, the general party organization, their common theory of supremacy of the State, dictators and their secret police,—in Germany the Gestapo murder the people who do not bend to their will or obey their orders, as do the G.P.U. in the Soviet Republics.

Old Reliable

Communism has always been the Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s pet “bogeyman” to instill fear into the minds of the people and thus scare them into the arms of their reactionary totalitarianistic schemes. Catholic Hitler used it, and by it bluffed his way into power. In the early part of 1933 Hitler became Reichschancellor and his power steadily increased, and proportionately increasing with it the cruelties of the gestapo and concentration camp to hold it secure. The rearmament of the German nation began, at first quietly and unobtrusively, but soon was done openly. In the years immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II she defiantly flaunted her military might before the world, and the German people, whatever hopes they may previously have had for peace, knew now they were being led to war. But it was too late to escape: the people had been caught, and the grip of the hand that ruled was as steel!

Propaganda played its role in uniting the nation. Most men are satisfied with opening their mouth and sticking their own foot in it. Not so with the Nazi loudspeakers: they open theirs and stick the feet of the whole country in; and certainly there’s room enough. The Nazi spellbinders piped, and the people blindly followed. The newspapers lamented the “cruel treatment” of German nationals in Austria, and they were “liberated”. Czechoslovakia “terrorized” the Germans residing in that land, and that must cease. Every tirade against “oppressors” meant an impending major crisis. The peace of the world was each time placed in jeopardy. It was the “horrifying” acts of the “bloodthirsty” Poles that finally “exhausted Hitler’s patience”, and the world took up life where it had left off in 1918.

Corrupters of Youth

Another requisite, and one recognized by Hitler, to keep the people following the state is early childhood training. These cradle-robbers look ahead to a far larger crop of mobsters to keep the “new order” going for its scheduled 1000 years. This is just another of the policies of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy which Catholic Hitler so heavily draws upon to shape his demoniacal rule. The Hierarchy says that if it has a child to train when it is young, the child will not depart from the church when it is old. If Hitler gets the youth and educates them according to Nazi ideology, he feels that he is making secure in German hands the future of the world.

The New York Sun of June 17, 1942, says pointedly:

It is conceivable that when Nazi and Fascist are arraigned before the bar of history the greatest crime with which they will stand charged will be their debauchery of the hearts and minds of the youth of their own countries. Robbery, pillage, massacre, torture and the turning of continental Europe into one vast slaughterhouse will, of course, weigh heavily against them. But back of these things, and making them all possible in this century, is the neo-Satanism by which masses of German and Italian young men have been perverted into acceptance of the bloody and horrible cult of racism. As Sir Gerald Campbell so well said in his Flag Day speech, never in history has there been such a thorough and successful maiming and crippling of the human mind:

“What future is there for these insane children of the insane Nazi? They die with the cheap blasphemous catchwords of mechanized tyranny on their lips, or they live in fear as the hated jailers of Europe. Their dreams are the tinsel finery of Wagnerian opera; their motives, the fear of the drill sergeant or the neurotic desire to kill and destroy; their ambitions, to impose upon the world the slavery to which they are themselves subjected.”

The Youth Movement in Germany dominates the life of every child, boy or girl, from the age of six to eighteen. Then they are ready for the military service towards which all their training has been directed. All the textbooks used in the schools conform with the Nazi ideology. Hitler is their fuehrer, their leader, even their deity. Family relationships have changed. Children no longer belong to their parents, but to the state; that is, so long as they are potentially of use as storm troopers or state mothers. But if the child "cracks" under the gruelling tutelage he is graciously returned to the parental fold. From Education for Death, by Gregor Ziemer, the following description of Hitler youth at "play" and its frequent results vividly illustrates the point:

I remember in particular a "prisoner" brought into headquarters. His hands were tied behind him so firmly that the wrists were swollen; he was gagged with adhesive tape; his eyes were pasted shut. He was kicked along and called foul names.

When I ventured to suggest that the boy was suffering, the leader asked with an oath if I thought this was an old ladies' Kaffeeklatsch. His boys might as well get used to seeing other human beings suffer. Some day, he hoped, they would get their hands on a real prisoner, an Englishman, a Russian. "I don't expect the other side to grant my boys mercy when they get captured. The idea is not to get caught."

One day an old friend, Dr. Schroeder, asked me to pay a visit with him. "I thought you might like to see what Hitler and his ideology have done to a young German boy," he whispered in the privacy of his car as we drove through Berlin.

A haggard woman of 40 answered the doorbell and led the way to a bedroom. "Here's my patient," Schroeder said. "Age nine, pneumonia."

On a cot lay a boy with an emaciated face. When the doctor touched his wrist to take his pulse, he tore his hand away, shot it high, and shouted deliriously, "Heil Hitler!"

I looked at the mother. "If only they had not made him march," she said. "They knew he was not well. But they said he had to march to Leuchtenburg, where they were going to promote him to Jungvolk. His father is a Storm Trooper; he said the boy had to go. He did not want a weakling for a son."

From the cot came shrill words: "Let me die for Hitler. I must die for Hitler!" Over and over, pleading, accusing, fighting against life, fighting the doctor, fighting to die.

This will suffice to show the distorted fanaticism instilled into the mind of the German soldier-in-the-making. How unlike the schooling of children raised according to Jehovah's counsel; rather it is 'bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Devil'. Satan's aim is to rule or, failing in that, to ruin, destroy all. His demons twist his subjects' minds to do likewise. They pervert the natural instinct to live to a desire to die. According to Hitler, he who has a nation's youth has that nation's future. A postwar generation having the above-described psychological outlook would be a constant menace to the peace of the world.

"Machines" of Flesh and Blood

From such a childhood, though it can hardly be called that, comes the German soldier of World War II. Ericka Mann, German expatriate and British propagandist, speaking on the fanatical faith of these soldiers and showing the results of the training received, said:

A friend of mine, in Paris when the Nazi hordes arrived, told me it was not the approaching enemy, nor the fact that the city had fallen, that caused the sheer horror in her soul, but the very faces of those German boys, faces that did not appear quite human. Hitler's youth has become an army of robots, very efficient robots at that. Their eyes are expressionless. They respond to orders like perfect machines. There is perfect co-ordination in everything they do; an army machine that is faultless, and chilling to behold.

As further evidence of the complete regimentation of the German mentality, note the statement of a seaman aboard the Netherland submarine that sank the German U-95, to the effect that the U-boat commander and twelve survivors swam from their craft "in perfect formation". None uttered a sound until ordered by the commander to do so. Then in unison they cried for help. Such are the "machines" of flesh and blood that man those of iron and steel. And, like the rest of the war machine, they come according to an insured production arrangement, not left to chance.

Mass Production of Man Power

The economic principle of supply and demand is recognized as pertains to the human flesh in which they traffic. Moral principles are left for those derisively termed "putrid democracies". No such encumbrances of decency retard Nazism's march to hell. Nazi ideology has been streamlined by Satan!

Matrimony is not necessary; the Third Reich is organized to make it unnecessary. Bund Deutscher Mädchen, an organization for girls, initiates over a half million new members each year. Those who do not join are "unpatriotic". The girls work in the fields to provide food, exercise in a heavy sports program to provide themselves with strong bodies, and learn of the duty of women in the Third Reich to provide future storm troopers. In the evenings they talk, and sing, and go for walks. There are labor camps of healthy, hot-blooded young men located near by. There are no objections if boys and girls meet. In one class of eugenics the instructress said: "All of us women can now enjoy the rich emotional and spiritual experience of having a baby by a healthy young man without the restricting ties of the old-fashioned institution of marriage."

It must also be a "rich emotional experience" to their mother hearts, as they hold their babies in their arms, to contemplate the end for which their infants were born. They must well know as they gaze upon their offspring that these are destined to be soldiers, trained as cold, ruthless instruments to slaughter, and be slaughtered, in the cause of totalitarian conquest. It is just another one of the season's new crop, to be later harvested by another Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, or pope.

The Hon. Jaime Torres Bodet, in an address at the Pan-American Round Table in Mexico, April 14, 1942, aptly said:

Totalitarian nations are endeavoring to convert your sisters into submissive instruments of large-scale mass production—of children doomed to slavery. Their sole duty would seem to give them birth. After that their rights as mothers vanish. A modern Minotaur seizes hold of the childslave from that very instant. True, he does not actually devour him, but reserves him for an even more terrifying fate. He will pervert his conscience, and bind his every act in chains. He will instill into his soul, by his own strange and subtle methods of teaching, the sublimated poisons of icy hatred, methodical vengeance, and mechanized resentment.

The dictatorships have made of that touching human blossom, a new-born infant, the blueprint for a mere machine for aggression. Schools first, and after that workshops or barracks, soon distort the child of yesterday into the barbarian of tomorrow.

It is all very much like the breeding and raising of livestock. And the market is always good and the butchers are always plentiful from the Vatican hatchery. The methods of the modern breeders of livestock are based upon well-defined scientific principles. The breeder's first principle of success is to select the best specimens to breed from. Here's how the Nazi cattlemen eliminate undesirable dams:

We slipped into surgical aprons and climbed some stairs to a gallery which was separated from a well-illuminated operating room by a glass wall. Down below six doctors were at work.

What I saw drove the blood from my face. Hospital beds came and went with methodical precision. The doctors made quick, deft incisions in white abdomen walls, spread the slit, and applied surgical clamps. They probed, delicately lifted a tube which they wrapped and cut. The wound was sewed and the bed wheeled off, to be replaced by another.

"What are they doing?" I asked.

"Sterilizing women," he said.

For more than an hour I saw women come in with the cradle of life intact, and leave empty shells. I asked what type of women were thus disciplined, and was informed they were the mentally sick, women with low resistance, women who had proved through other births that their offspring were not strong. “We are even eradicating color blindness in the Third Reich,” my guide told me. “We must have soldiers who are not color-blind. It is transmitted only by women.”

He could not tell me how many women were sterilized yearly; but in this clinic six doctors operated four days a week. The process had been going on in all larger German cities since 1933.—Education for Death, by Gregor Ziemer.

“Heritage of the Lord”

In deadly earnest the Nazis fight against God. The totalitarians not only say who may and who may not exercise the right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience, forbidding the activities of Jehovah’s witnesses and declaring His organization “illegal”, but now arrogate to themselves the power to say what women may or may not exercise the function of bearing children. Even those who are graciously permitted to do so must dedicate their babies to the service of life-takers and not to the service of Jehovah the great Life-Giver. Dictators are not content with murder after birth, but must destroy also the “cradle of life”. They prevent entrance into the world and hasten exit out of it. The State deprives women of their God-given heritage of bringing children into existence. Such perverters of Jehovah’s arrangements and destroyers of His reward will have terrible recompense wreaked upon them soon. “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Psalm 127:3) Their meddling with a heritage from God will cost them their lives!

Sterilization of those opposed to the Nazi regime is also ruthlessly pursued. According to the anti-Nazi paper Die Zeitung, the systematic extermination of the Polish race is under way in dead earnest; both the boys and girls are being sterilized. The girls are arrested on the streets or in their homes, and are sent in trainloads to Germany, where they receive injections three times a week until the desired results are obtained. The boys are sterilized in lots of one hundred at a time. Demons, not men, pursue such policies!

Later dispatches indicate that now, instead of sterilizing all the Polish girls, some of the healthiest are taken to Germany and bred to German soldiers to help meet the increasing demands for cannon fodder. These girls, like German women, are given the honorable name of “war mothers” and their illegitimate children cared for by the German state. Any Poles who support the Nazi regime are allowed the same privileges as the Germans. They receive the superior food rations accorded the Germans and enjoy the same use of public conveyances and the same purchasing privileges in German stores. He is also likely to enjoy the same “supreme honor” of service in the German war machine. So the “master race” must become ‘contaminated’ with Polish blood to try to satisfy the insatiable blood-lust of the “new order” beast. The abomination purports to reign a thousand years. A hundred years of its blood-spilling tyranny would find the earth emptied of life.

One Overlooked

The further cold and inhuman “efficiency” of the Nazis is shown in the murdering of their unfortunates, the grounds being that they are a “burden to the community”. It is calculated that at Grafeneck, Hartheim and Pirna 100,000 of the mentally deficient have been put to death. They are transported to their death chambers in buses whose windows are painted black so that people would not see the doomed. They are locked in shacks, into which are released poison gases. The Germans are respecters of persons; otherwise they would also asphyxiate their führer. Nor does symsympathy or gratitude characterize the treatment of German soldiers wounded in the battles for the fatherland. A United Press dispatch from London dated February 6, 1942, says:

The Dutch newspaper Vrij Nederland claimed today that the Germans are "eliminating" by euthanasia German soldiers so badly wounded that they would be unable to fight again. "Wounded certain to be a liability to the Third Reich," said the paper, "or who by the scarcity of medical personnel and equipment imperil their comrades with infection are being killed. There is a standard method—the doctors inject air into their arteries, producing what is known as air embolism."

Similar "treatment" of patients is claimed in the hospitals of Warsaw, where in December of last year 300 German soldiers returned from the eastern front with serious cases of typhoid were put to death by order of the German military authorities.

Such are the methods of breeding, rearing and discarding those who bear up and support the dictator kings. But men, trained and blindly obedient men, are not all that made a war machine capable of destroying Poland in 18 days, sweeping aside the low countries and gobbling up France in the spring of 1940, conquering the Balkans and occupying or dominating the Baltic states, and launching the as yet undecided thrust deep into the heart of Soviet Russia. In addition to the all-important fifth column, the mechanization of the Nazi hordes played a vital part in the victories won, and much has been written of its terrible efficiency.

German Weapons

The Germans are not credited with so many of the great inventions of modern days, such as the steamship, airplanes, radio, etc., but their scientists make many improvements on such inventions and fiendishly adapt them to war use. Here are some of their latest innovations:

The military expert, Hanson W. Baldwin, is of the opinion that the Germans have solved the problem of hooking up radio locators, used to detect enemy planes, with the ground guns. The astonishing effect of this is that on a single night 37 British bombers, mostly four-engined heavy craft were lost. The target plane is located by shortwave radio beams; its altitude, direction and course are plotted, and its speed. Then the guns are elevated and trained to follow the magic eye of the radio detectors, and the subsequent firing, even at planes over 30,000 feet high, too high to be seen, is uncomfortably accurate. It is definitely known, however, that the Germans have developed a tapered-barrel gun of exceptional hitting power for use against tanks and aircraft. Mr. Baldwin also cites the technical development of submarines capable of submerging as far as 600 feet, and which use smaller torpedoes, enabling them to carry more and increase their operation.

The Germans have developed a new 24-inch siege gun hurling shells which, according to Dr. Frank Thone, Science Service staff writer, "must weigh two tons or more apiece." The sixteen-inch shells used in British and American ordnance vary from 2,100 to 2,400 pounds, fourteen-inch shells from 1,600 to 1,700 pounds. From these figures the conclusion is reached that the 24-inch shell must top 4,000 pounds. While two-ton bombs have been dropped from planes by both sides, artillery shells have several advantages over the bombs. In artillery fire, a poor aim may be corrected before the next shot is fired, and even so massive a piece as the 24-inch gun can fire every 15 or 20 seconds. A plane, carrying only one massive bomb, after dropping it, must return for another, and hours elapse and the problem is entirely new again on its return. Another advantage of the shell is its superior penetrating and smashing power. A shell hits with some of the tremendous push of the powder charge still behind it; a bomb only drops. That means the shell can plow through a much greater thickness of earth or structure before exploding, and thus greatly augment its destructiveness.

The German bombers now flying over Britain carry cable-cutters, weighing 700 pounds, designed to cut the cables of barrage balloons flying over every important British objective to counter low bombing. These cable-cutters reduce the speed of the bomber by twenty miles an hour and cut down the bomb load carried. The British also have light cable-cutters fitted on the edge of the wings of their planes.

According to John T. Whitaker, war correspondent on the staff of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the leading aircraft manufacturer of Germany told him that the long-range bombers are now perfected, and ready for mass production, and that they can fly to New York in seven hours with a full bomb load. If that is true, then their speed must be in the immediate neighborhood of 500 miles per hour. This information was given out before the United States was an active participant in the war, however, and might well be a part of the German propaganda launched at that time to dissuade this country from becoming a combatant. The bluff did not work.

The New York Daily News, May 26, 1942, under the headline "Nazis Fly Baby Tanks into Fight for Kharkov", says in part:

"Germany is throwing air-borne baby tanks into the battle for Kharkov in an attempt to stem the advance of reinforced Russian armies who have captured another strategic railway junction and repulsed a violent German counterattack on the Izyum-Barvenkova flank, front dispatches said tonight. Big German transport planes with midget tanks nestled in their bellies were reported carrying reinforcements, including parachute troops, to distressed garrisons on the Kharkov front. Some reports said the tanks themselves were being dropped by parachute."

Times Have Changed

An army travels on its stomach, which formerly called for plenty of the proverbial "beans". Now the bellies of iron and steel monsters must be filled, and that requires "black gold", huge quantities of it. Oil is the very lifeblood of these "men" of steel; without it they are useless, dead. For Hitler's famed Panzer divisions to march, they must have oil. There is oil in the Caucasus. It is there that the road signs directing the Nazi mechanized forces point. They have arrived; the fight is on; but the victory is not yet won. Therefore the ingenuity of Germany's scientists is focused on the vital need of oil. Their resourcefulness in this respect is shown in various ways.

According to Eugene Varga, the Soviet's foremost economist, the German engines of war are lubricated with olive oil. He estimated the German army is using 1,000,000 tons of gasoline a month on the eastern front and 100,000 tons a month elsewhere, and that the Reich cannot produce from all occupied sources that amount and therefore must be depleting her reserves.

It is reported that the Germans are using wood alcohol in their planes. If that is true, and if the results are satisfactory, it would seem that possibly it is not so necessary for Germany to seize the Russian oil fields as had been supposed. Others are now studying the subject, to see if suitable gas can be obtained from vegetation, if it can be compressed into liquid form, if it is inexpensive and efficient and safe for handling. But most developments of such a startling nature have to run a long gamut of experiment before available for large-scale use.

Turning Wine into Gasoline

The Lord turned water into wine, for a wedding. The Germans in France are turning wine into gasoline, for funerals. Years before the present war the German War Office had it all figured out in advance just how much industrial alcohol they could make out of the French wines gathered and held in storage. The French people, accustomed from time immemorial to having wine with their meals, are now forbidden the use of wines three days a week, and the quantities they may otherwise consume are extremely limited. But the German armies, according to the Germans, must drive forward in southern Russia until they tap and make available for their use the Caucasus oil fields, whether the French have wine with their meals or not. From reports, the meals themselves are not too regular.

The most unique development, if true, is the report that Nazi pilots carry portable oil-refiners for providing their own fuel from captured oil fields, and U. S. army engineers termed the report as “entirely feasible”. The New York Times of February 6, this year, in reporting the story, says:

The report that the Nazis may have perfected such a device came from private Elmore Leppert, 28, of Muskegon, who taught English at a private school in Baghdad last Spring. Mr. Leppert, who returned to America on a freighter, said he obtained the story from an American and a British engineer who said they had seen the portable refineries. The two had been taken prisoners and later released by the Nazis. According to Mr. Leppert, no refining facilities exist in the Iraq fields, the crude oil being pumped directly to Palestine. His informants told him that they had seen Nazi airmen operate portable equipment in the field and obtain gasoline for their planes.

“While such a development would indeed be novel, it is entirely feasible,” said Captain Max F. Mueller, post ordnance officer and engineer. “I have never heard of such a refining unit, but so many changes have taken place in such equipment in the last five years that it isn’t impossible.” Some engineers believe that recent developments in German aircraft engines have eliminated the use of a carburetor, with a resultant decrease in the need for fuel of a high octane rating. The Germans have been at a handicap for high octane gasoline.

So it goes. The men are trained, from the cradle to the grave, to deal out death. They are well-equipped for their work. Science has done its part. More is involved. What are some of the other problems facing the Third Reich? How does she attempt to solve them? Retributive justice is on its way; Germany will reap the harvest she has sown. When?

(To be continued)

Opium, Lewisite, and Germs

SOME time ago the Altoona Mirror mentioned in an editorial the statement of an Altoona man, Harry J. Anslinger, head of the federal narcotics agency, that the Japs are using opium to debauch and “soften up” nations they plan to conquer.

At first view this would indicate about the lowest level of depravity to which the Japs could go in their desire to win a victory at any price; reports from China indicate that they have even dropped beneath the gutter strata.

These reports, thoroughly substantiated by American sources, prove that the Japanese have used the most fiendish gases ever used in warfare, including the skin-searing Lewisite, against the Chinese. Americans have seen the victims.

The Japs have been using the Chinese war as a vast laboratory in which to try their new weapons. But the most horrible of all are the products of Jap bacteriological laboratories. On a number of occasions the Nipponese have sprayed civilian territories far behind the Chinese fighting front with cultures of bubonic plague and typhus germs. Americans have definite proof that Chinese died agonizing deaths from these diseases.—Altoona Mirror, March 3, 1942.

"THY WORD IS TRUTH" - John 17:17

Standard Against the Enemy

SEVEN centuries before our Anno Domini period the inspired prophet, looking down to our day, declared: “So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.” (Isaiah 59:19) What is that standard against the enemy?

Isaiah lived in the days of the second world power of history, Assyria, when its king Sennacherib came down and laid siege against the holy city of Jerusalem. The Assyrians had standards for their besieging forces, and concerning this The International Bible Dictionary says: “The Assyrian standards were emblematic of their religion, and were therefore the more valuable as instruments for leading and guiding men in the army. The forms were imitations of animals, emblems of deities, and symbols of power and wisdom. Many of them were crude, but others were highly artistic and of great cost. The Egyptian standards were designed in the same idea as those of the Romans, exhibiting some sacred emblem, or a god in the form of an animal, a group of victory, or the king's name or his portrait as of lower and of upper Egypt, or an emblematic sign.” It was therefore but natural that the Assyrian, Egyptian and Roman hosts treated these standards with reverence and struck religious attitudes toward them.

That such practice harks back to the time of Babylon founded by Nimrod is confirmed by a recently published report, reading: “A few years ago in northern India, Sir John Marshall, head of the archaeological service of the government of India, discovered two abandoned cities; one at a site now called Mohenjo-Daro, the other at Harappa, cities which are believed to have thrived about 3,500 B. C. and which were in close contact with the earliest civilizations of Babylonia. Among the objects found in the former city was a seal, used to sign documents, depicting a procession of seven men carrying square standards, held aloft on poles like modern flags. These ancient ‘flags’ were not made of cloth but were rigid solids, like boards.”

There is no Scriptural evidence that God’s typical Theocratic nation of Israel used such standards in their offensive operations against their heathen enemies, and certainly they did not perform acts of obeisance or any religious practice toward such. Such would have been abhorrent to them, because they were in a covenant with Jehovah God, which covenant forbade them to worship creatures or man-made objects and authorized the worship and adoration to Almighty God alone. The faithful Israelites heeded the prophet Moses’ words, at Deuteronomy 4:15-19: “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them.”

The abhorrence of the Israelites to giving religious obeisance to standards and even to having the standards of the heathen present in the holy city of Jerusalem is instanced in the days of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator or resident governor of Judea who delivered over Jesus Christ to be nailed to the tree at Calvary. Concerning this instance the Jewish historian, Josephus, in his Antiquities, Book xviii, 3, 12, and Wars of the Jews, ii, 9, 2-4, says:

“One of Pilate’s first acts was to remove the headquarters of the army from Caesarea to Jerusalem. The soldiers of course took with them their standards, bearing the image of the emperor, into the Holy City. Pilate had been obliged to send them in by night, and there were no bounds to the rage of the people on discovering what had thus been done. They poured down in crowds to Caesarea, where the procurator was then residing, and besought him to remove the images. After five days of discussion he gave the signal to some concealed soldiers to surround the petitioners and put them to death unless they ceased to trouble him; but this only strengthened their determination, and they declared themselves ready rather to submit to death than forego their resistance to an idolatrous innovation. Pilate then yielded and the standards were by his orders brought down to Caesarea. No previous governor had ventured on such an outrage. Herod the Great, it is true, had placed the Roman eagle on one of his new buildings; but this had been followed by a violent outbreak, and the attempt had not been repeated. The extent to which the scruples of the Jews on this point were respected by the Roman governors is shown by the fact that no effigy of either god or emperor is found on the money coined by them in Judaea before the war under Nero. Assuming this, the denarius with Caesar’s image and superscription of Matt. xxii must have been a coin from the Roman mint, or that of some other province.”—McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia, Volume VIII, page 200.

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