Consolation, April 26, 1944
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Contents
Notandum
Laval the “Strong”
A “Peace at Any Price” Man
His Master’s Most Active Tool
How to Figure Memorial
A Passing1 Actor, Protestantism
Preachers of' Righteousness Needed .
A Strange Alliance
Demagogues Crowd Closing Scenes
The Sacramental Dog
The Rapi of Bhopal
The “Goats” and the “Sheep”
Jehovah’s witnesses at Beverly Hills
“Thy Word Is Truth”
The Invisible Presence
Colombia in a New World
Plant Life Galore
Yellow and Liquid Gold
Uses of Fluorescent Light
Some Facts Concerning the Earth
The Aurora Borealis
Pondering the Creator’s Wisdom
Chicago’s Prayer Strike
Ethide Kills the Insects
“Religion’s Big Brother”-—Interest
Presenting “This Gospel of the Kingdom”
Why Bible Chapter-Reading Falls Short
Justinus
He Knew the Scriptures
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The Tunnels from the Monastery
♦ Do you remember that place where the Lord and the apostles shut themselves up in a monastery and dug tunnels deep underground, hooking up with cellars that led them to “wine, women and song”! No! Peter was a decent man; he had his own wife; so had John, to whose home Mary went after Jesus’ death; and, i indeed, when the apostle Paul asked the question in 1 Corinthians 9: 5, he seems to have implied {Diaglott translation) that “the other apostles” all had their own homes. .
So these stories that fill the newspapers about the tunnels in Cassino, Italy, that crisscross the town but all , lead to' and from the Benedictine Monastery, and have led the German soldiers f to and from every part of the city, and ’ caused the death of nobody knows how ; many Allied soldiers, make a dark tale. '
The newshounds swing their whitewash brushes desperately, trying to make out that these saintly monks were not just drunken rakes. The Scranton Times, March 25, under the caption “Sought Buried Treasures” has this:
Three tunnels dug under the town in the Sixteenth Century, in connection with searches for buried treasure, according to local tales, enabled the Germans to move their troops in from one strong point to another, a headquarters spokesman said. . . . These underground passages, believed to be sixty feet below the surface in some sectors and ten to twenty in others, probably explain how so many Germans survived the furious Allied aerial bombardment that virtually obliterated the town on March 15, how the enemy has been able to bring up reinforcements despite the way the Fifth Army’s artillery has been raking the outskirts of Cassino, and how more Nazis suddenly appeared in the Continental Hotel [good place to sleep off a jag] after its garrison appeared to have been wiped out.
The truth may come out even yet. Nobody can hide anything from Jehovah.
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Volume XXV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 26, 1944 Number 642
Laval the “Strong”
T ABELED by the pope as the “strong” J-J man of the German-controlled Vichy government, Pierre Laval has the unique distinction of being a man nobody can trust. He occupies such a peculiar position with reference to France that it seems necessary to give some attention to a man who otherwise is beneath the notice of decent men.
Nobody likes to come right out and bluntly accuse Laval of having made his money as a panderer, but the fact is often hinted at. The Socialist papers say he had the art of selecting the most glamorous women in France for his establishments, and that the reason no open charges are made is that there were too many prominent men involved. A few citations, read between the lines, show how this “strong” man managed to pile up his millions:
He has been, in turn, a schoolmaster without education, a lawyer without knowledge ■l
of the law, a politician without a party. . . . Laval has a soft voice, and that is one of his charms. It can make the most astonishing statements sound sincere. . . . A string of provincial newspapers and a table-water bottling business are the obvious sources of his wealth, although how they came to be acquired is a mystery. There were often threats of inquiry, but there were always too many who were interested in avoiding scandal. —P. J. Philip, former Paris correspondent of the New York Times.
It is dangerous to tread the line of honor with anzenemy, if one is in earnest; dirty if one isn’t. Petain himself followed it, babbling of his own honor and Hitler’s honor, while he assisted the vice and mineral water rack
eteer Pierre Laval in pinioning France before handing her over to the Nazis. ... If anybody had told Georges Clemenceau at the end of the World War I that twenty-two years later Petain would share control of France ■jointly with a German corporal and the then defeatist and petty swindler Laval, he wouldn’t have seen the joke.—London Cavalcade.
Laval is one of the cleverest men in France.
He has a dominating personality. His versatility and capacity for work are almost without limit. He claims to be a realist, like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. He never bothers about
principles, never having had any. National honor, the plighted word mean nothing to him,
and he would have greeted with a sneer Patrick Henry’s immortal cry, “Give me liberty
or give me death!”—Henry Noble Hall, first secretary of the British embassy in Paris, in New York World-Telegram.
A “Peace at Any Price” Man
Having no principle, as the above extracts disclose, Laval has always been a “peace at any price” man. That's simple enough. All one has to do is to go along with every crooked government in everything they have on hand. Anybody can do that. In 1931 Laval, then France's premier, was hailed as a great man because of the deal arranged in Berlin that thenceforth France and Germany would be at peace because of the Franco-Germanic Economic Commission. Two years later Hitler was in the saddle, and since then there has been much to pay all round.
Four years later Laval was in Rome on the same errand, which was also successful, on paper. On that trip he did something that not another member of the French government had done since the establishment of the French Republic. He called on the pope and made an agreement which it was even then claimed would result in the reuniting of church and state. In other words, as the then French foreign minister, he betrayed his country. The Franco-Italian accord reached on that occasion, between Mussolini and Laval, was hailed as one more grand peace-making agreement. Five years later Mussolini stabbed France in the back. This shows how much confidence can be placed in a deal between two politicians, when neither' one of them is trustworthy.
APRIL 26, 1944
Shifted back into the premiership again a year or so later Laval lost his job because of joining up with the papal plan of splitting Ethiopia, thus doublecrossipg the League of Nations. He was egged along by the papal legate. Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, went down with him. But Laval is never down for long. ‘ '
Selling Out to Hitler
The Germans were no sooner in Paris than Laval was there, as Petain’s representative, to see what he could do to please the conquering Germans by aping in Vichy France their methods of government. He got in trouble a few months later when he threatened Petain with personal violence, and was put on the shelf for a year. .:
Laval hates Britain so much that at press conferences he is said to have almost frothed at the mouth when tile
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country was mentioned. .....
The magazine Friday, in its issue of November 22,1940, contains five splendid illustrated pages by Andre Simone entitled “T’accuse! The.....Men Who
Betrayed France”. See what he has to say as to who ruined France, and the place in that list of infamy which he accords to this man Laval:
During the almost seventy years the Third French Republic existed, many governments came* and went, over a hundred of them, but all the while the country was actually governed by the fifteen regents of the Bank of
France. It constituted a “money wall” which no government was able to breach. In 1931 the capital of the Bank of France was divided among 31,000 shareholders. But of these only 200 had the right to vote at general meetings of the Bank. These 200 shareholders were called “the 200 Families of France”.
The fifteen regents came from the great banking houses, from commerce and industry. They controlled the money of the nation; hence they dominated most of its industrial mechanism. They enjoyed the closest connections with the leading members of the military caste, many of whom sprang from collateral branches of the same families. Their sons, nephews and sons-in-law held key positions in the Foreign Office,' in the Finance Ministry and in the State apparatus. They furnished the diplomats who represented France in foreign countries. They financed, and lavishly, their own political parties and groups. They were the extremist backers of extremist groups ; the most important of these, the Croix de Feu, was led by Colonel Casimir de la Rocque. Originally a non-political exservicemen’s group, the Croix de Feu was now organized along fascist lines. It was already common gossip that its arms and weapons came from military arsenals. From the first days of Hitler’s regime the “200 families’^ gazed with envy across the Rhine. By 1934 they judged France ripe for remodelling in the image of Italy and Germany. . . .
It was Laval who laid the foundations for the future defeat of France. Laval had helped Hitler win a smashing success in the Saar plebiscite; he allowed the Fuehrer to commit the first open breach of the Versailles Treaty by introducing military conscription in Germany; he signed the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance only to do everything to render it valueless. He backed Mussolini in his war against Abyssinia. He ruined the system of Collective Security. Laval came originally from the French Socialist Party. He achieved prominence just prior to the
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:war (1914) as a “poor man’s lawyer”. By • 1935 Laval’s fortune was estimated higher than $3,500,000. He had entered politics in 1914 penniless. His main source of income [after his first “enterprise”] came as a result of his conjaections with Francois de Wendel, the potentate of the Comite des Forges (French Steel Trust) land one of the world’s most contemptible crooks]. ’
His Master’s Most Active Tool
It was Laval’s regime that turned French In do-China over to Japan. As Hitler’s most active tool in France it is now his task to make the French people hate the British and Americans, and with all his other work he actually retains and makes use of the Ministry of Propaganda. Goebbels is helping him in this, and between them they fill the Paris and Vichy papers with invective against the United Nations and praise of Hitler and the “New Order”. The pope is carefully kept .out of sight, as very few of the French have any use for the one that is at the bottom of the world’s present troubles.
Perhaps no expression of disgust with a man could be more complete than was shown at Washington when five members of the French embassy staff resigned when Laval regained power on April 22, ■ 1942. One of these was the counselor of the embassy who said he could not serve under a German agent, and such he con-I sidered Laval to be. It is generally held that Laval has staked his all on a German victory, with the idea in the back of his head that he will be an important figure at the peace conference. And, in the light of his visit to the pope, he may he even at that.
One of the most reprehensible things Laval ever did was to close 1,300 French factories, with the idea of forcing the former employees to seek -work in Germany, at the rate of three expert able-bodied workers in exchange for one disabled prisoner of war. On this subject he said:
I have grave reasons for asking them to go and work in Germany. It concerns something more than our daily life. France cannot remain passive and indifferent before the immensity of the sacrifices which Germany is making to rebuild a Europe in which we must take our place. We shall have to negotiate peace one day. Workers of France, it is to you that our prisoners will owe their freedom.
In other wmrds, here is a man who confesses that he cannot remain passive and indifferent when he sees one man robbing another, but wants to turn in and help make it a good job, in the hope of making something out of it in the long run. And he is in a hurry about it, as in the same speech he said:
I have the certitude, and do not doubt for an inst ant that I am speaking the truth when I say that if Germany should be beaten the Soviets wmuld dictate the law of Europe.
To a man who has scooped up $3,500,-000 (don’t ask howT he got it) that means a lot. Laval is afraid that the Russians (who, in this case, correspond to the police) might want an accounting.
Cruelty to Refugees
After their escape into France, in February, 1939, some 100,000 Spanish Republicans w’ere concentrated in Vichy France, under intolerable conditions. Among them were 3,000 members of the International Brigade. These soldiers were the first in the world to fight against ‘ Fascism, but Pope Pius XI, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini and the Jesuits were too much for them, and, as nbithbr Britain nor the United States wmuld help them, they were compelled to flee to what was then believed to be a land of liberty. This man Laval ordered that these unfortunates must either go willingly to Germany as laborers or go back to Spain. Whichever way they go, they are almost sure of torture and death. Mexico alone, of all the so-called “civilized nations” of the earth, has done anything w’orth while to help these unfortunates. The United Nations are now belatedly taking up the
fight for the four freedoms exactly where these Spanish Republicans left off.
Again, when Belgium was overthrown some members of the Belgian cabinet streamed into France, along with about 2,000,000 others fleeing from Hitler’s panzer divisions. These men should have been given protection, as they were officials of France’s former allies, but Laval f r
had all of these men arrested, and, though two of them were sick, they were all obliged to walk twelve miles to the police headquarters to be questioned.
Laval is responsible for the attempt to draft Frenchmen between 21 and 50 and Frenchwomen between 21 and 35 to produce war materials for Germany, or else migrate into Germany in order to relieve Germans for duty at the front. There were immediate outbreaks. At Lyons and Amberieu 55 persons were killed and 400 injured when Mobile Guards fired on the crowds. To dissuade Frenchmen from making munitions for Germany, a broadcast was issued by the United States government, in the French language, notifying all concerned that all munition factories are subject to bombing, no matter where located.
At Sete, a coastal city in southeastern France, 50 Jews who had been hiding in the woods hanged themselves, after first hanging their children, when it became clear that Laval’s police would soon seize them and turn them over to Hitler. As a result, when the police did arrive, they found only dead bodies hanging from the trees. Not a single J ew remained alive; so says the California Jewish Voice, October 2,1942. Laval, by his course, was the real murderer of these unhappy men, women and children.
Less fortunate than these were trainloads of Jews shipped to Germany marked “Material for the Wehrmacht: whoever seeks to open this car will be shot”. Those who listened near the cars at the railroad sidings could hear the sobs of the doomed on their way to slavery or death. The French now describe these unfortunates as “battues”, which means ‘hunted animals’.
A Villain Unmasked
Laval has shown himself to be the villain of the tragedy enacted >n Vichy France. The New York Times says of his efforts to- send these and other slaves to work in Germany: “This is the final indignity, the ultimate betrayal, the last mile in the French retreat from Verdun.”
Laval makes no secret of the fact that he wishes the J esuits to win the war. In a broadcast, he put it like this:
Germany, with all those fighting on her side, is checking Bolshevism and preventing it from sweeping oyer Europe. If Germany were beaten the Soviet Union would rule* Europe tomorrow. It would be an end to the independence and patriotism of the nation. It would also be an end to this human and generous policy—in a word, to that real socialism which on the ruins of a capitalism which abused its power will force itself tomorrow on Europe, respecting all the time the proper genius of each people [provided, of course, they admit that the Nazis are the master race, and they are willing to be slaves and laborers for it].
Old Mr. Petain “resigned” after he had made Laval chief of state and explained that Laval could now make laws by merely writing them and signing them. What a farce to hand such a bouquet to an international pimp I Laval has forgotten that 2,000,000 American soldiers visited France in 1917-1918 and that Uncle Sam never got anything for it but abuse from those whose liberties he then saved. Now he says that the landing of the American armada in Northwest Africa is because Uncle Sam is trying to steal France’s colonies. What a joke!
What a manly reply President Roosevelt made when Laval broke off diplomatic relations. Read it again:
No act of Hitler, or any of his puppets, can sever relations between the American people and the people of France. We have not broken relations with the French. We never will. This government will continue as heretofore to devote its thought, its sympathy and its aid to the residue of the 45,000,000 people of France from enslavement and from a permanent loss of their liberties and free institutions.
It was Haile Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia, who sized up Laval in few words when he said: “The blood of my people is on the hands of the white-shirt-fronted M. Laval. He is the traitor who destroyed the independence of Ethiopia and who killed the League of Nations.”
Laval hasn’t hit bottom yet. He has already been called France’s “strong” man by the Vatican. That’s a start. But the crowning shame will come when the Vatican either makes him a Knight of Saint Gregory, like Manton the justiceseller, or when it finally makes of him one of its “saints”. They have “saints” for the special “protection” of those in every line of business.
How to Figure Memorial
SOME asked how to figure the Memorial date for 1944.
Astronomically, the new moon rose in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 24, at 6:36 a. m. That, being the new moon nearest to the spring equinox, marks the beginning of the month Nisan, the first month of the year in Jehovah’s calendar.
The time shown is Eastern Standard Time, four minutes faster than Washington, D. C. , •
The place where Jehovah caused His temple to be erected, and where He put His name, is Jerusalem. There Jesus was born (Bethlehem is a suburb), and there He died on Calvary. So there is the proper place to begin to count time. Jerusalem is 7 hours 25 minutes faster I.
than Washington, D. C.
Adding 7 hours 21 minutes (4 minutes already added) to 24 March 6:36 a.m. brings to 24 March 1:57 p.m. This is the astronomical moment the sun and moon passed each other at Jerusalem. But visibility of the new moon never occurs until at the very least 16 hours have passed.
Adding 16 hours to 24 March 1: 57 p.m. brings to 25 March 5: 57 a.m., when the moon could hardly be seen in the extreme southwestern sky because of dawning day. So the watchers in Jerusalem could not possibly report at the temple that they had seen the new moon until nightfall of that day. The new month, how
ever, did not begin until sundown the next day, March 26. Its fourteenth day was “March 39”, which is April 8. The day of 14th Nisan began at sundown April 8, which, therefore, was the correct • day to observe the Memorial.
Jacob Israel Was Only Six
♦ In 1936, in the city of Los Angeles, Alvin F. Payne, a Negro janitor, became enamored of the form of spiritism taught by the Negro fakir who masquerades under the name of “Father Divine”. Then and there he was, so he says, reborn, and was given the cognomen of Jacob Israel. So it came about that when the Selective Service Act came his way in 1942 he paid no attention to it, because, saith he, “I’m only 6. I didn’t think it necessary.” The F.B.I. thought otherwise; so he was jailed.
Dogs and Cats Have Value
♦ In the early days of the war Britain made the mistake of underestimating the value of cats and dogs. Too many were destroyed. As a consequence the discovery was made that rats and mice multiplied and millions of dollars’ worth of valuable materials were ruined. So don’t be in too big a hurry to kill your cats and dogs.
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A Passing Actor, Protestantism
JUST what is happening to the Protestant churches today does not seem to be a matter of general concern. Their church functions are more often than not relegated to the small-news columns. However, the Protestant faith still claims more than forty million adherents to one or another of its denominations in America; and as an institution which once vigorously supported the principles of Americanism against all opponents, especially the Papal, it is of interest to scan the most recent condition of an ailing power. Its present status is one to note, if not to lament. From the facts gleaned in the press, and commented upon below, Protestantism appears to approach its tinal death throes, which will be the less remarkable because of the long duration of the illness. The passing of an invalid is never surprising. But the failure to maintain integrity, which would have invigorated its powers, shows a startling contrast to past deeds of Protestant valor.
While this remains a commentary on the weakness of Protestantism, be it noted that in one thing some strength remains: the activity of the Bible Societies, especially the American Bible Society and the Gideons. In 1941, the former distributed 8,096,977 copies; while the year 1942 showed considerable increase although complete figures are not available. Demand for the Bible everywhere, especially in Europe, was phenomenal. Almost every European country is faced with a shortage of Bibles, increasing rapidly where “certain governments clamped down on the printing of the Bible"’, making the need there acute. Editions of the Bible in Italian are exhausted; in Rumania the supply will last only three months; the Czech supply will last about a year. These facts • are revealed in an article by George Dugan entitled “The Bible Is Still the Best Seller”, published in the Birmingham (Eng.) News, December 16, 1942.
In Germany the Bible has outsold Mein Kampf. Many other sections of Europe have been supplied through the American Bible Society. To France and Belgium, particularly through the Reformed Church of France (Eglise Reformee de France) 400,000 Bibles have gone out. Also by the Society funds have been furnished to print Russian Bibles in Finland, Hungarian Scriptures in Hungary, Alalgasy Gospels in France and Madagascar. It plans to print also in Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian, all in Europe, as soon as funds are available. Through their good offices Bibles have gone through the barbed wire to prisoners of war in Germany, Italy, France, Egypt, India, South Africa, and the West Indies. Many have gone also to Germans and Japanese interned here and in Canada.
Preachers of Righteousness Needed
It now appears all that is needed are preachers of righteousness to help these unfortunates who seek Jehovah, to find the way to knowledge of life. This, also, the Lord has promised to supply.— Hebrews 11:6; Lamentations 3:25,26.
Tn view of this worthy effort to bring the Bible to most of the world by a Protestant Society it seems that the Protestant churches would lead the way in the much-needed study of the Bible. Unfortunately in this lack appear again the sure symptoms of Protestantism’s demise, and that by their own admission. A typical statement by “Rev.” Morris C. Robinson that the church had failed drew this comment from a soldier: “Because spiritual leaders know not the message of the prophets . . . , the church is itself bewildered and dismayed and laymen have had to take over the leadership.” (Minneapolis Sun Tribune <& Star Journal, December 13, 1942) A. writer for The Christian Century says: “In f wide areas of our national ’life, we are • going ahead with what should be the church job without the church.” (Issue of September 3, 1942) Futility of Prot-i estantism is again reflected in a question by the editor of the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, December 1, 1942, who asks: “Are the churches ready for the ‘new world’ they are perpetually talking about?” And answers, “they are losing, . and that rapidly, any position of moral ' and spiritual leadership just because , they are apparently impotent to provide leadership.”
■ Dorothy Thompson makes a blanket : criticism of all churches, the facts of which must be admitted by the intelligent of every creed. She begins this castigation of “Christendom” entitled “The World Crisis of Christianity” in this wise:
That there is a crisis in the Christian church and in the Christian faith is undeniable. The World War that rages over the entire globe had its origins in Christendom . . . He whose ■ ■ birthday we celebrate with tinseled trees and an exchange of gifts preached the unity of all mankind in God, a concept absolutely irreconcilable with nationalism. ... The Christian faith commands an imposing priesthood and pastorate, and vast institutions for worship and for charity. Yet the Christian idea is estranged from the characteristic institutions of our civilization. It does not govern in the field of economics, or international relations, or education. These are secular and mundane. . . . The church feebly survives in Russia as an outlaw. In Germany the swastica is hung above the altar and a cynical attempt is made to co-ordinate the swastica with the cross. . . . The Christian idea, like Mary with her unborn child, is homeless in the modern world.
Such is the glaring fault of “Christendom”, as seen by the journalist. To say that her criticism is just is an understatement. Yet clearly envisioning the false, her eyes are too blind to see or too prejudiced to discern the true Christian in a world full of antichrists. The only ones on earth today who teach as Christ taught and suffer as He suffered, and whose works and lives are patterned after that of the despised Nazarene, are Jehovah’s witnesses. Another evidence thus appears of the folly of worldly wisdom. While a brilliant and learned writer, well-versed in current affairs, finds no evidence of Christianity in the world of high repute, and glances not at the humble Christians of no repute, and while those of distinguished talents and attainments stumble along in darkness, little children are seeing and learning how to become Christians.—1 Corinthians 3; 19;2 Corinthians 4:4; Psalm 8: 2.
A Strange Alliance
Again is highly advertised the perfect teamwork between Catholic, Protestant and Jew. In the Mosaic law it was forbidden to yoke up the ox and the ass. (Deuteronomy 22:10) Just how abominable before Jehovah is the hookup between these three sects of religion, each of whose tenets of faith condemn the others, and yet who profess friendship to make the religious world appear as a vast brotherhood, may be judged from many Bible denunciations of hypocrisy. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy has long been, engaged in the extermination of Protestants and Jews. The ancestors of the Jews killed Christ, and their descendants hate His name. The very birth of Protestantism was a bloody war with the armies of Papal Rome. Now in this day of hypocrisy gone-to-seed comes the announcement that sweet friendship has sprung up among the three. In the Chicago Her aid-American appear pictures of the clergy of the three religions, each smiling beatifically from the midst of his printed prayer. Dr. W. E. Garrison, of Chicago University, echoes the sentiment, “3 Faiths Allied by Year of War.” (New York Times, December 26, 1942) From many such advertisements they hope that Americans will conclude that the closest unity exists between Catholic, Protestant and Jew, and turn
to this great religious bulwark. But its abominable purpose is to hide God’s kingdom, and it will not cohere.—Isaiah 8:9,10. , ,
Nor does the declaration of the firm co-operation between Catholic and Protestant voiced by the conclave of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America add any permanent glue to the tie-up. The largest affiliation of Protestant groups in America held a convention in Cleveland last December. A resolution cited “increasing evidences of Protestant-Catholic co-operation in Great Britain, the United States as well as in Nazi-dominated countries”. This organization speaks for 25 denominations and plans the merger of 60 “nonRoman” denominations, which it is estimated will include “30,000,000 churchgoers from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle”. (Columbus Evening Dispatch, December 27, 1942) “Six pillars for world peace” were also brought forth, the result of two years’ deliberation.
The assembly, however, did not look upon Rome with unmixed favor. The council went bn record as upholding Protestant’ missions to South America and deplored “the pretension of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to circumscribe the religious freedom of Protestant Christians” in South America. This came in answer to the manifesto of the Catholic “Seminar” which had declared with typical Catholic “generosity” and “tolerance” as follows: “Every effort to rob [the peoples of South America] of their Catholic religion [by conversion to Protestantism] or to ridicule it or to offer them a substitute for it is deeply resented by the peoples of these countries and by American Catholics.” Thus the Protestants are firmly told to stay out of South America by their so-loving ‘brethren” the Catholics. The Scriptures indicate that it is not long ere the Hierarchy will “request” other religions to remove themselves not only from South America but from the earth. This would seem to foretell the end of any affiliations between the Hierarchy and other groups, which delude only' the simple.
While the Catholic claim to the sole right to educate in religion or proselyte to Catholicism received but a slight tap in 1942, it was not always thus. Condemnation of Rome was vigorously uttered over thirty years ago. In 1911 the Presbyterian General Assembly issped a resolution (“Protest Against Romanism”) viewing “with serious concern the pernicious activity of that powerful politico-religious organization known as the Roman Catholic Church, which is and always has been a menace or a blight to civil and religious liberty of every kind”. In Bristol, Tenn., a similar assembly of Methodists declared that “the Church of Rome is a menace in proportion to its power”.
Quoted in the same pamphlet is “Advice to the Pope” by a Methodist bishop, who admonishes:
Be quiet, pope. The world has sliced by you. . . . You have used the sword more against the friends than against the foes of Christ. . . . The pandemonium of Rome must give place to the kingdom which is not of this world. . . . Fall into line! Give the people the Bible. Ask the next council to take back its silly decree of papal infallibility, which every sensible man ridicules. You (the pope) are nothing but a man, and you know it; and all the fawning flattery cannot make you ■ believe that you are anything more than a poor, ignorant mortal like the rest of us. —Bishop Charles C. McCabe, who died in 1906.
Protestantism had some fiery zeal in those days. Occasionally today comes a spark from the otherwise inanimate. The January, 1943, issue of the Protestant Times, Liverpool, describes the Roman Catholic organization as a “centipede having many feet all in different camps”. To illustrate the position of Rome in ' the present conflict, where she trims her 1 sails to meet and use the winds of con- j troversy, the Times related a story 1 about the famous French diplomat 1
Talleyrand. Watching a revolt brewing in the streets below his window Talleyrand remarked: "I see that our side is winning.” When asked by an attendant which side was meant, he remarked, “I don’t know yet; it is the side that is going to win.”
Demagogues Crowd Closing Scenes
When the vitality and the heart are gone only the corpse remains. The organization that once did some real protesting is now reduced to representation by ignorant fanatics, ranting demagogues, and even outright gunmen. Surely this is the end for all its high principles. Typical of this downward trend in Protestantism is the career of Norman Peale, publicized by PM (December 24, 1942) under the taunting “Rise of Pastor Norman Peale, or Sink or Swim on $25,000 a Year”. An excellent description is brought to mind by the following: “Round-faced and a bit on the roly-poly side, Pastor Peale exudes geniality. That is not to say he is oversweet; there’s exactly the right tartness in his spiritual back-slapping, a sort of crisp heartiness which (helped out by a handclasp just the right bit short of bone-crushing) stamps him as a man’s man.” Though once pastor of a small Methodist church in Fiatbush, Peale is now orator for the wealthy Marble Collegiate Reformed church on Fifth Avenue. His fortunes now lie with the rich, and his sermons are calculated to protect his investments. His chief discourses are devoted to attacking President Roosevelt, smashing labor unions, halting the limitation of incomes to $25,000, which bring rejoicing and applause from a very rich and sympathetic : audience. PM finds that the connection ; between his sermons and Holy Writ “seems remote”. For those interested, ; however, a good description of the : gentleman and his flock will be found ! at Jeremiah 25: 34-36; and further ref> erence elsewhere, such as at James 4: 4. j APRIL 26, 1944
Cottage Grove, Wis., numbers among its pastors a clerical conjurer. Louis Bultema amuses his congregation, holds the children spellbound, by pulling rabbits out of hats, “swallowing” a thimble and then taking it out of his ear. It seems that Bultema learned magic through a professor at a San Francisco theological seminary. Magic would appeal to those seeking to instruct in anything except the Bible. The account states also: "At his first regular charge, in Idaho, he startled his congregation by pulling rabbits out of hats. Later his congregation became used to their pastor’s pulling such stunts. He says the magic attracts attention and helps 'sell religion.” Compare Revelation 22:17, and Isaiah 55:1.
Other Unique Types
There are other types quite as unique as the pastoral Houdini, A party who describes himself as "Rev. D. F. Billington, Pastor and Founder of the Akron Baptist Temple”, makes his money hawking the “hell-torment” feature, the most blasphemous and the most irrational of God-libeling falsehoods, to certain superstitious ones in Ohio. In a newspaper invitation and program which gives some Scriptural misquotations and misinterpretations, the temple pastor makes a left-handed attack on Jehovah’s witnesses as "people who are standing on street corners saying to you there is no such thing as a place called heU". Seeing that proving the non-existence of hell-torment would be quite a loss to the “temple collections”, Billington cites Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus to “prove” that the Lord torments all except those who have laden the collection plate. (For a Scriptural explanation of the parable see the Watchtower booklet Refugees.) Anyone unreasonable enough to. believe that the great Creator, who marks the sparrow’s fall (Matthew 10:29), feeds the young ravens (Psalm 147:9), numbers the hairs of the head, and is of tender and enduring mercy,
would provide a place of torment—only such have the deficiency of intelligence to take Billington seriously. “Hell,” as Billington well knows, means the grave.
Then there is the “Reverend” Charles Monroe, rector of fashionable St. Paul’s Episcopal church in New Orleans for sixteen lucrative years, who shot the husband of his former secretary in a running gun-and-knife battle. The husband objected to his sending checks to his wife after she had terminated her employment with the rector. Before going to the house where the fracas took place the “Reverend” prayed for thirty minutes. His father heard him, no doubt. —John -8: 44.
Could anyone doubt from the facts found in the press, of which the foregoing are samples picked at random, that the dissolution of Protestantism is at hand? Compromise with Rome and partaking of its spirit is to embrace death. Unprotesting Protestantism is a passing actor, passing rapidly and for ever, together with its elder sister, Rome. Having forsaken the Lord, they have been forsaken by Him.
The Sacramental Dog
N THE Dominicans’ convent it happened that a lady who had a lap dog, which she always used to carry along with her, went to receive the sacrament with the dog under her arm, and the dog looking up and beginning to bark when the friar went to put the wafer in the lady’s mouth, he let the wafer fall, which happened to drop into the dog’s mouth. Both the friar and the lady were in a deep amazement and confusion, and knew not what to do; zso they sent for the reverend father prior, who resolved this nice point upon the spot, and ordered to call two friars and the clerk, and to bring the cross, and two candlesticks with two candles lighted, and to carry the dog in from the procession into the vestry, and keep the poor creature there with illuminations, as if he was the host itself, till the digestion of the wafer was over, and then to kill the dog and throw it into the piscina. Another friar said it was better to open the dog immediately and take out the fragments of the host; and a third was of opinion that the dog should be burnt on the spot. The lady, who dearly loved her Cupid (this was the dog’s name), entreated the father prior to save the dog’s life, if possible, and that she would give anything to make amends for it. Then the prior and friars retired to consult what to do in this case; and it was resolved (1) that for the future the dog should be called El perillo del sacramento, i. e., The sacrament’s dog; (2) that if the dog should happen to die, the lady was to give him a burying in consecrated ground; (3) that the lady should take care not to let the dog play with other dogs; (4) that she was to give a silver dog, which was to be placed upon the tabernacle where the hosts are kept; and (5) that she should give twenty pistoles to the convent. Every article was performed accordingly, and the dog was kept with a great deal of care and veneration.—Narration of a historical matter of which Francis Gavin had knowledge when he was a priest at Saragossa, Spain. Recorded by him in The Great Red Dragon, page 138.
Cloth from Casein
♦ More and more attention is being paid to the cloth made from casein. It takes 100 pounds of skim milk to make three pounds of casein, and that makes the new yarn more expensive than rayon or cotton, but nevertheless it is less costly than fur or wool. It can be cut into any length from a half-inch to a half-mile, and has been well received by the textile industry as to tensile strength, abrasion, and other desirable qualities.
The Rani of Bhopal
IT IS awkward for a wife who thinks her husband has been safely cremated 1 to have him unexpectedly turn up, as good as ever, and be recognized by his sister and grandmother. This occurred in the ease of the rani of Bhopal, India, and the story came hitherward in the columns of the once comatose but now very much alive Australian Consolation. A rani is the wife of a raja, and in this ease she thought she was a widow of a raja supposedly dead and cremated at Darjeeling in the year 1909. Also, and this is important, she supposed that she was the one entrusted with the disposal ; of an income of £100,000 a year. Nice little job that.
The awkward part of it was that the raja supposedly died in the night, and on ' the same night, at midnight, was taken to : the crematory, which was built on the open and loose style that finds favor in India. A great thunderstorm came up. The attendants fled for shelter. The storm awoke and refreshed the raja, and f he concluded to postpone the festivities i for a time and went out for a walk. He had amnesia, but amnesia, while it is i bad, is not nearly as bad as being baked i until one is nothing but ashes.
After some years of wandering around he finally came to himself, and said, in substance, “I have a fine palace at "Dacca, and an income of £100,000 a year; why should I go on a tramping expedition ; when T can go back home and live on the : fat of the land? I have a grandma there, and a sister, and, oh yes, 1 also have a wife; I had almost forgotten about her.” This was sound reasoning; so he headed for home. Grandma recognized him, so did sister, but not the rani, with her j income, which used to be his, of £100,000 a year. So he took it to court at Calcutta, ■ and after two and a half years the High s Court, having examined 1,500 witnesses, i ruled that somebody had substituted for the raja on the funeral pyre, and that , he was rightfully back Lome in his palace, and that the rani could have only part, and not all, of the £100,000 that she had been pocketing every year.
The “Goats” and the “Sheep”
♦ While at the Minneapolis “Free Nation’s” Assembly, I stopped in at Al’s barber shop, 404 East Franklin avenue, Minneapolis, to get a shave. A nicely dressed man walked in ahead of me, and there was a man in the chair getting a shave and haircut. Subsequently another man came in and sat down beside me on the settee.
The nicely dressed man then began to say that everything Jehovah’s witnesses do is wrong; so I said, “That is too general; let us have something specific and we will discuss it.” He repeated his first statement and added, “They should be run out of town.” Shortly the man in the chair began putting in his two bits, the barber rather egging the conversation along.
We discussed various church doctrines and who is responsible for all the trouble there is in the world. Cardinal Gibbons’ hook The. Faith of Our Fathers was mentioned, and wliat it says about studying the Bible; thereupon the man in the chair remarked, “So we Catholics believe that book more than we do the Bible?” I replied, “The book itself says just that; that the opinions of the fathers of ‘Christendom’ (the Boman Church fathers) are all that is necessary.” He then admitted that that is true and from then on agreed to ail the points made. Meantime the well-dressed man kept up a barrage of sarcastic remarks.
Imagine ray surprise when, after a few minutes, the man in the chair got up and backed into his collar, and it fitted him. It was “Father” O’Leary, a Catholic priest. I then told him how responsible he is before Jehovah, in claiming to be a teacher of God’s Word
and yet digressing from it to uphold the precepts of men; also that if he wanted to learn the truth I would be glad to help him. He thanked me and walked out. I subsequently learned that before this man had entered the barber shop he had been driving around block after block and shouting at the magazine publishers, “You wouldn’t kid us, would you?” When he came out of the shop he got. in his car and drove away without a word.
Then the well-dressed man who had been sitting beside me in the shop got in the chair, still keeping up his sarcastic remarks about our work. I asked him questions, trying to draw him out, but he would not stay on any one point long enough to admit anything. At length, however, he got around to the flagsalute matter, and the barber said, “They are right on that question because the United States Supreme Court has decided that they are right; and they are right not only on that point but on about 65 others, just recently.” That stopped him for a minute, but he finally countered with the remark that there are, no doubt, many anarchists and Communists among Jehovah’s witnesses. This was easily refuted by Scriptures; so he became silent until the barber was through with him, and then left the shop.
After he had left the barber said, “That fellow is a Protestant preacher.” That almost floored me; to have two such prominent goats there together was certainly something one might hear about but would seldom see. Then the man beside me picked up my magazine bag and asked, “Is there anything in here that I can read?” He was quickly supplied with literature, and then while the barber was cutting my hair he asked many questions.
It developed that he was a college man and had mistaken me for one. I had to tell him that all I know the Lord has taught me in my spare time. He then said he had studied philosophy and religion while in college and had been on debates both as a debater and as a judge and that never in all his life had he heard anything like the conversations just concluded between the two religious leaders and myself; that it was the most wonderful thing he had ever heard in all his life and that he was going to find out all about it. The barber also was very much impressed and took some booklets.
That evening one of the workers was warned, “You had better keep that man (meaning myself) out of that barber shop or he will get his throat cut.” It was thus apparent that one of the goats had bleated to his stooges. But when the barber was subsequently called on, and the veiled threat was repeated to him, he said that that conversation was the best thing he had ever heard in his shop, and that I need not worry about anything happening to my throat while I was in his shop.
This interesting experience has been very helpful to me in house-to-house and back-call work with Catholic friends who are beginning to see the truth; one such is coming to our study now.—Fred P. Tilton, Washington.
Jehovah’s witnesses at Beverly Hills, California
N A neat, uncluttered hall on one of the main streets of Beverly Hills, Calif., Jehovah’s witnesses have their Watchtower Bible study and service meetings. (See No. 1 on the next page.) Taking the good news to the people in store-to-store witnessing is a regular feature of the work of finding other “sheep” that belong to the fold of the Great Shepherd. (No. 2) The officers of Beverly Hills are intelligent and appreciative of the good work Jehovah’s .witnesses are doing. (No. 3) And (in No. 4) you see a publisher who does not wait for passers-by. to come up. She approaches them and finds a listening ear.
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The Invisible Presence
OUR minds must be made up at once that the Bible testimony concerning the manner of the coming of the New World’s King is to be taken as conclusive. A careful examination of this will disclose the fact that the Bible does establish definitely and reasonably the manner of the royal Messiah’s appearing.
Many have supposed and yet suppose that earth’s Rightful Ruler comes again in His human body of humiliation, the very body in which He was impaled on the tree at Calvary and which body has the marks upon it; and that such is to be visible to human eyes. The words of Jesus Christ disprove this conclusion. When instructing His disciples just before His hanging on the tree, Jesus said: “Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.” (John 14:19) Thus He establishes the fact that His faithful disciples will see Him as He is, but that the world will see Him no more. And why is this true? Because the Scriptures plainly state that Jesus was raised from the dead, not a human, but a spirit, clothed upon with immortality. He now has a glorious body, which no man has seen nor can look upon directly and live. (See 1 Timothy 6:15, 16.) Examination of the Scriptural evidence will show that no one of the diff erent organisms or bodies in which Jesus appeared to His disciples after His resurrection was His glorious body, but that such bodies were created by Him for the purpose of showing himself at the time.
Jesus was put to death a human; He was raised from the dead a spirit. So say 1 Peter 3:18 and 1 Corinthians 15: 45. The apostle John definitely shows that the body in which Jesus will appear is not His human body, because he says: “It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but . . . we shall be like him.” (1 Jolm 3; 2) Jesus is no longer human, but divine; therefore we could no more expect human eyes to see Him than to see Jehovah God. He is now the express image of Jehovah. (Hebrews 1:3) Because He is no longer human and has not a body of flesh, but a spirit body, the apostle Paul wrote, under inspiration: “Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him [so] no more.”—2 Corinthians 5:16.
After His resurrection Jesus was exalted and given a name above every name. (Philippians* 2:9) He then sat down at the right hand of the Father in heavenly glory and power. (Revelation ‘3:21) Of Him the apostle Paul writes: “Now the Lord is that Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) Jesus explained to the Jewish ruler Nicodemus concerning the spiritual condition, saying : “Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. . . . The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit.”—John 3:4-8.
Seeing, then, that Jesus Christ is a glorious spirit with a divine organism that is impossible for human eyes to behold, could not He be present and yet not be observable by any natural eyes? That is exactly according to the facts. Satan is a wicked spirit. For many centuries Satan has been the god or invisible ruler of the present evil world; yet no human eyes have seen Satan, although men have felt his influence and still feel it. (2 Corinthians 4:4) Satan is not only
the god of this world, but also the chief one of his wicked organization, which is invisible and which is called “the heavens which are now3', such being composed of Satan and the other fallen angels who exercise power over humans. But, says the apostle Peter, “we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dw'elleth righteousness.” (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1-5) The coming kingdom of the Lord is the new heavenly kingdom. This new ruling power, the Messiah, is invisible, and will be invisible to human eyes, but will establish in the earth visible agencies and representatives of His government of righteousness. We should not, therefore, expect the Lord’s second coming to be in a body visible to human eyes, but should expect that He wmuld be present, exercising His power in His own sovereign way.
In many places in our Bible referring to the second coming of the Lord the word translated into the English as coming is properly translated presence. The Greek word parousia means presence, arid refers to the invisible presence of the Lord Jesus and is used in the following Scripture texts. Note below these texts as they appear in the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, but showing in brackets [ ] the word as the marginal reading of the American Standard Version Bible renders the Greek word parousia:
“What shall be the sign of thy coming [Um. Stan. Ver.) presence], and of the end of the world1?”—Matthew 24: 3.
“As the days of No'e were, so shall also the coming [presence] of the Son of man be. . . . the flood came, and took them all away.; so shall also the coming [presence] of the Son of man be.” —Matthew 24:37,39.
“Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming [presence].”—1 Corinthians 15:23.
“Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming [presence] ?”—1 Thessalonians 2:19.
“To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameablc in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming [presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ” —1 Thessalonians 3: 13.
“We which arc alive and remain unto the coming [presence] of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep?’ —1 Thessalonians 4:15.
“I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming [presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—1 Thessalonians 5:23.
' “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming [presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ.”-—2 Thessalonians 2:1.
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming [presence] of the Lord, . . . stablish your hearts: for the coming [presence] of the Lord draweth nigh.” —James 5: 7, 8.
'Scoffers shall come, saying, Where is the promise of his coming [presence] ?’ —2 Peter 3: 3, 4.
When Jesus was taken up into heaven, the angels standing by the disciples said to them: “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11) The manner of His going or being taken away was quiet, without observation by the world which was to see Him no more; only the few faithful disciples saw Him after His resurrection, that they might be trustworthy witnesses of His being alive again, even though invisible to human eyes. At His second coming only those faithfully ■watching for the Scrip-turally predicted signs marking His arrival would be the first to observe His invisible presence. And of His coming He said, “Behold, I come as a thief.” (Revelation 16:15) A thief comes usually in the night, and none see him. Even so the Lord Jesus comes in the nighttime of the end of the old world, just before the dawn of a new day; and none discern His presence at first except those who watched for it as they were instructed to do,
Colombia in
IN A very real sense Nueva Granada, as the Republic of the United States of Colombia was once called, has become a new state, and is becoming newer and newer every day. It has always been a place of magnificent possibilities, but with tremendous physical obstacles in <the way of its development. These obstacles are now being overcome, and so the title "The Coming Country, Colombia” given to an account of this development by the writer J. K. Zalles, in The Grace Log, was a good title.
It is easy to say as two works of reference put it, that "it has a coast line of 782 miles on the Pacific and 1,056 are no good natural harbors”, or, as another good reference book puts it, that “the country has an extreme length from north to south of 1,050 miles and an extreme breadth of 860 miles. The area is 448,794 square miles”. But one cannot dismiss in that manner a portion of the Creator’s blessings on this planet that is. considerably larger than all that section of the United States north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi.
The province of New Granada was ruled by a viceroy from Lima until the year 1718. Most of Venezuela and Ecuador were included in the new state then formed. Venezuela and Ecuador withdrew in 1829, and since then the country has borne its present name. There is in Colombia every kind of climate that anybody could want. Most of the principal cities are located between 7,500 and 10,000 feet above sea level, and are thus in what is called “the vertical temperate zone”. The country as a whole is well watered. The year in general is divided into a dry season and a wet season, but nature thereabouts is prodigal and some sections have two dry seasons and two wet seasons.
If one wants torrid heat, in Colombia he can get it; for the whole country lies
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in the tropical zone. All he has to do is to come down from the high plains into the low ones. A glance at a map will show that more than half of the interior consists of low-lying plains in the watersheds of the Orinoco in the north and the Amazon in the south. Those in the Orinoco area, called llanos, are alternately flooded and parched, but are excellent for cattle-raising. The jungle area of the Amazon is nearly impenetrable.! Until recently the Pacific coast, because of its unhealthful nature and because of the high mountain barriers, played but a slight role in the country’s development.
Plant Life Galore
Colombia produces one-third of the mild coffee of the world, having 600,-000,000 coffee trees in production. Sugar, bananas, beans, cotton, tobacco’, cacao, rice, indigo, barley, corn, oranges, wheat, oats, pineapples, potatoes, sisal, fique, pita, hemp, and tropical fruits and vegetables are grown. Coconuts, rubber, tagua nuts (vegetable ivory for making buttons), mangoes, papayas, alligator pears, and practically all the fruits and vegetables known in the. United States are grown somewhere in Colombia.
Orchids are abundant in the forests, and these forests cover most of the republic. Out of them will yet come an endless stream of mahogany, lignum vitae, Brazil-wood, pine, walnut, cedar, oak, eucalyptus, balsams, dyewoods, vanilla, quinine, ipecac, sarsaparilla, gums, resins, waxes, castor beans, chicle, copaiba, divi-divi (for tanning), aloes, tonka beans (for scenting tobacco), and time would fail to tell of what else.
There- are very few plows or other agricultural implements and there is little or no use of fertilizers. • Much valuable timber is destroyed by the most common method of preparing land for cultivation, which is merely to burn it over.
? In a land where food is so plentiful ; it would follow that animal life does well; and though there is considerable diversity in the works of reference as to livestock in the country in the year 1937, there is a record of 9,167,450 cattle, 1,865,185 swine, 1,018,267 horses, 913,990 sheep, 517,510 goats, and 815,923 mules ! and asses there in that year.
Also, since man is an animal, maybe , this is as good a place as any to mention that there are 9,523,200 humans in Colombia, of whom 35 percent1 are said to be pure whites, 5 percent Negroes, 2 percent Indians, and 58 percent mixed. : Large families of 12 to 14 children are common among the native whites. Among • the Indians (reckoned in number as low ■ as 105,807) there are alleged to be about 100 languages spoken, but these lan* guages belong to very small and isolated communities, and the traveler in the country hears nothing but Spanish along the ordinary routes of travel.
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