Consolation, February 27, 1946

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Contents

“The Germans Like to Be Governed” (?)

Any Torturer Will Murder

Cabinet and Congressional Findings

Women and Children Burned Alive

'■ Jews Killed in Lots of 2,000

^Trying to Get Rid of-the Evidence

Miseducation Ruined Germany

A Misguided Generation

The Sunday Plain Dealer

“Trut® Advocated”

Hard Going for Religion in the Keystone State 13

The Federal Council Was Perturbed

Attempts to Suppress Free Speech

“Thy Word Is Truth”

The Son versus a Trinity

London Assembly Impressions

U.S. War Expenditure

From a State Hospital for Epileptics

Prying into the Secrets of Blossom Time

The Art of Music

Development of Music

Classic, Romantic, and Modern

Folk Music

Railroads in Time of Stress

Mo Aristocracy in America

"'Railroad Men Not Overpaid

Can the Comeback Be Made Permanent? ' 31

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Irish Enthusiasm

♦ A much-appreciated Canadian Irish* man by the name of Patrick Sullivan, and a good friend of this magazine in years that are gone, writes in to say:

Consolation! It consoles the timid. Glory to you, noble Jehovah's witnesses!

Old Eugene Pontifex Maximus of the Tiber’s Seventy could not suppress you. Never! Papal mobsters cannot annihilate truth. Never! Eugene’s stooges, Hitler, Mussolini, Tiso, Petain, Dollfuss, et al., tried that trick. You know what happened.

Glory to Christ’s little heroic army, Jehovah’s witnesses! You have won the admiration of the world! Grand and noble souls!

Who murdered the Toronto millionaire, Ambrose J. Small ? Who covered up this murder? Who handed this murdered man’s estate ($4,000,000) over to the college of cardinals?

Who murdered Ambrose J. Small’s sister, Gertrude Small, on October 28, 1939? Who covered up this murder? And who got the murdered girl’s estate?

Civilization vs. devilization! But Satan and his gangs are doomed. Their hysterical erics now remind me of the babble of Nazarius, Eusebius and Constantine.

Less than One-Fifteenth of a Cubic Mile of Humans

♦ There are supposed to be 2,200,000,000 humans । in the world. If they may be considered as averaging 6 feet tall, 18 inches wide and 6 inches thick, that would make 41 cubic feet for each human, and the total cubic contents would amount to 9,900,000,000 cubic feet. That means that the "whole living human race could be piled on a plot of land a mile square and about 355 feet high; really, about’ one-fifteenth of a cubic mile of flesh. It isn’t going to be such a colossal job for Almighty God to provide space on earth for resurrected humanity as some people who are impressed with their own cleverness have supposed.

CONSOLATION

(tAnd in His name shall the nations hope. ”—Matthew 12:21, A.S. V.

Volume XXVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, February 27, 1946 Number 690

“The Germans Like to Be Governed”(?)

SEVERAL British newspapers have mentioned, and even commented upon, the terrible sufferings of Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany, but thus far the American press has either claimed that the Nazi persecutions were leveled at the Roman Catholic priesthood, or else they have played up Martin Niemoeller, who, in the same interview (June 5, 1945, at Naples) in which he admitted that while interned he had sought reinstatement as a U-boat commander, made the above declaration. The way he put it, as recorded by the United Press, was: The German people long for authority.

That was one of the reasons which gave Hitler such success. They have very few gifts or instincts to govern themselves in democratic fashion. Maybe they can, but they do not like to.

Confusion as to “Higher Powers'*

The “Higher Powers” mentioned in the Scriptures are the heavenly Father and His Son, Christ Jesus. They are certainly not men, like Hitler or the men at the Vatican that jockeyed him into his last job.

Of conditions at Dachau and Oranienburg (and, mind you, it is universally admitted that Jehovah’s witnesses were treated the very worst of all the unfortunates) Konrad Heiden in his book Der Fuehrer said:

It happened that prisoners employed in road-building were “for fun” thrown into the rotating barrel of a concrete-mixing machine and kept there until their bones were crushed. It happened that one torturer with a sense of humor burned, with a cigarette,

Nothing ever printed could surpass the story of Jehovah’s witnesses’ faithfulness in Germany, as published in the leading article in this magazine, in No. 678, issue of September 12, 1945. It shows that in that land, as in every land, there are indeed some that like to be governed, and the One that they like to have govern them is not some man like Hitler, but the great and good Almighty God. Get .it and read it.

The front of Buchenwald prison camp, near Weimar, Germany. Up to April 22, 1945, some 51,000 humans passed through this gate to death. These deaths were not ordinary deaths, but deaths of torture beyond human thought to conceive. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

holes in the bare chest of his victim to make them look like uniform buttons. To throw prisoners into sewers or drains “by oversight” was also considered a permissible pastime. The most gruesome tortures were often those in which outwardly nothing seemed to happen. Prisoners were compelled to stand ei^ct for many hours under a torrid sun; they . were forbidden to make the slightest motion, not even a quiver of a limb. Cases were reported of this torture being inflicted on hundreds of people for as long as eighteen hours. It happened that people were locked up in boxlike wooden closets, fed with salted herrings, and left without water or any other drink; of course, death was the result.

Every Day for Fourteen Days

Michael McPartland, West Hartlepool, England, a merchant seaman, 46, was taken to Germany as a prisoner, escaped three times, and finally got away and got home. The first time he escaped, all his top teeth were knocked out with the butt of a revolver, and he was put on bread and water for three months. After the second escape, the Gestapo cut round the nails of all his fingers and toes and then pulled off each nail with pincers. But let him tell it:

Then they pushed red-hot needles down my fingers and twisted them when it hurt most. My fingers and hands swelled to an enormous size, but I got no medical attention. I wished many times I was dead. The knowledge that I had to go back for more at the same time every day [Mr. McPartland was tortured for one hour ever;’' day for 14 days] was almost worse than the pain. 4

Along toward the last, the German military were making use of all the sol- -diers they could muster, even if they ' had but one arm or one leg. A Swiss paper explained how this procedure came into being:

A new method to instill “enthusiasm” has been introduced in the German army. It consists of an electric-shock treatment for soldiers who feel incapable of front service because of previous injuries. The treatment is continued until they finally beg to be sent back to their units. The procedure is this: the apparatus is attached to some part of the body, usually the leg or arm, and at short intervals the victim receives a shock of 250 volts. The German soldier calls this treatment being “ironed”. No one who has expe-' ri eneed it will ever forget it. It is simply a form of torture by which wounded men are induced to return to the front. Many soldiers are said to prefer suicide to this agony.

Other forms of torture have been mentioned by responsible writers, such as the injection of drugs that rot away the vital organs; also, “another Gestapo favorite is to tie parents up, and make them watch a daughter being violated.”

Any Torturer Will Murder

It is axiomatic that any person that will torture another will murder him; and “no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him”. The history of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy shows that it gloats in its torture chambers. It also boasts of its murders of those whom it calls “heretics”, though it is itself the most heretical organization on earth. Its only god is the Devil himself. It has put a woman in general charge of the future. But God is not taking orders from women, nor from men. .

Tales come through of two German prison camps for women. The first one, at Auschwitz, Poland, contained 350 members of the Union of French Women, which aimed at developing resistance and sabotage in the German factories where they worked. In three years the deaths reduced their number to 60; and in another six months only 4 of the 350 survived. ■

At the other camp (not named in the dispatch from Paris which conveyed the information) there were 30,000 French, Polish, Russian and Czechoslovak women who resented the conquest of their honri lands. They were crowded, five into each two beds, with no hygienic features, and no washing facilities, and forbidden to speak to each other. The young women guards beat them regularly “for the fun of it"; they were fed soup twice a day; they became covered with lice; they were compelled to work in munition factories or at construction work. When they mutinied, vicious dogs literally tore them in pieces. The French woman who saw this, Mme. Graviella Canaz-zi (mother of two children in France), says that she also saw women beaten to death by women wardens because they were too ill to work. The least punishment for communicating by note with another prisoner was twenty-five lashes and three days’ imprisonment in a windowless ceil without food. Mme. Canazzi was herself repeatedly beaten with bare fists on her naked body until she fainted, when a doctor revived her so that she was able to stand more beating.

When the American soldiers got to Buchenwald concentration camp, they forced 2,000 Germans, including men, women, boys and girls, to visit the camp and sec for themselves the horrible conditions, including the execution room, the laboratory for the vivisection of humans (this was bound to emerge eventually), and the crematorium before which were stacked 200 corpses to be burned; and when some of the women saw what was being done they had hysterics or fainted. Before bringing in the visitors, the Americans had removed the fifty gallows which were a part of the camp’s equipment.

Cabinet and Con

gressional Findings

In the fall of 1944 President Roosevelt’s cabinet board, consisting of Secretary of

State Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Secretary of War Stimson, presented a 25,000-word detailed report of the atrocities committed in German concentration camps, and this was confirmed in detail by the 12-man Congressional delegation which returned from Europe May 9, 1945, The cabinet committee reported that many prisoners were simply beaten to death by their overseers during work, and without the slightest provocation. It also said: '

It is a fact beyond denial that the Germans 1 have deliberately and systematically murdered millions of innocent civilians, Jews and Christians alike, all over Europe.

The Congressional committee, which actually visited the scenes before the camps were broken up, said that the torture methods “reached depths of human degradation beyond belief”, and, of the camps in general, that

although differing in size, they all carried into effect the same pattern of death by hard labor, starvation, disease, brutality, gas chambers, filthy and unsanitary conditions which meant inevitable death eventually to every imprisoned person.

That fellow in the foreground was there three years. He weighs exactly 88 pounds. Those barracks are like the one* we lived in while in garrison, except that the Germans put 1,700 persons in a single one of them. There was no running water. There was no toilet or bath of any kind. The prisoners slept like sardines in a ean. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

The British had their investigators -too, and their findings were the same. One of them told the British writer A. C. Cummings what he had himself seen at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Versailles, * where there is a cellar lined wdth asbestos, with .one wall pierced with holes, the edges of which were blackened by fire. He said:

Outside the cellar were found four flamethrowers of the kind used in the German army, still intact. One can readily grasp what the torture was. The Gestapo, as was their invariable custom, stripped their prisoner naked, locked him in what was really an ' asbestos-lined cell and then turned a burst of white-hot flame upon-him through the wall. To save himself from a horrible death the victim leaped upward clawing at the asbestos wall in a frantic 'effort to save himself. A most pathetic sight were those marks of despairing human hands upon the asbestos partitions. Some were tiny—those of women; some were so small they may have been children’s.

Dislocation of the shoulder blades, a favorite sport of the Inquisition, was also practiced. There was also the shooting of wooden bullets into men’s faces or shoulders, the object being to cause the wounds to fester. Prisoners were also burned down the spine and on the soles of the feet with red-hot irons. There was also the dreaded electric brush.

In one solitary-confinement cell some God-fearing person (quite probably one of Jehovah’s witnesses) had written on the plaster, “To love God and your neighbor, that is the law of God, the Creator,”

Women and Children Burned Alive

The Chicago Sun's correspondent, writing from Orador, France, tells of what happened there on June 10, 1944, when Uncle Sam’s boys and the British and Canadians were swarming into France. German soldiers scoured the town for all the men, took them in groups of 40 to five garages and four barns, and there machine-gunned them -all. Four men crawled up from beneath the dead bodies of their friends and • neighbors, climbed through windows, after the executioners departed, and made their escape.

All the women and children in the town, 345 of them in all, wete taken into the village church. The entire interior was soaked with gasoline. Then the church was set afire, and as it burned the women and children' were machine-gunned. One woman got through a window, and lives, but with a broken back. Pope Pius XI was morally responsible for all this. He encouraged Hitler’s men to annihilate the Catholic inhabitants of Guernica, because he was wild to see the Spanish Republic, destroyed, so that the Hierarchy could get back on the necks of the common people. Naturally, the men that had killed Catholics in Spain to please Hitler and Pius XI would figure that it was all right for them to kill Catholics in France to please Hitler and Pius XII,

When American troops liberated the prisoners from the Siegenhain, Germany, prison camp, April 1, 1945, they 1 also freed 900 Jewish women between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five, who had been imported from Hungary as slave laborers for farms and factories. These Jewish women told the Americans that they had seen sick girls, unable to work, stripped, thrown into trucks with ■ dead girls, and hauled off to be cremated. (New York Times, April 2,1945)

At Buchenwald on April 21, 1945, Representative Clare Boothe Luce, of Connecticut, found among the emaciated prisoners a 6|-year-old boy who had been imprisoned 24 years. He had been picked up in Paris because he was out after curfew. On this occasion Representative John Kunkel, of Pennsylvania, declared:

No one could visualize these horrors without seeing them. It is hard to believe that such

brutality' existed anywhere in the world, but it certainly did here, .It is incredible that some of the people were able to survive such an awful ordeal. '

As the Russians entered Germany they' uncovered a huge underground arsenal built by the Todt organization. The workmen were war prisoners:

Their barracks were encircled by walls of barbed wire charged with electricity. Packs of German police dogs and wolfhounds especially trained to hunt men ran around the camp day and night along special tracks in barbed-wire corridors. Arriving in Todt Organization, a man lost his name. His number was branded on his chest. Upon completion of construction, the slaves were subjected to a medical examination and all the sick men and weak were killed immediately. Those who could still work were sent to build another secret arsenal. Todt officials kept a strict account. Not a single builder of the underground arsenals of the German General Staff was to escape death.

Jews Killed in Lots of 2,000

ihere seems no reason to question the accuracy of the claim of the American Jewish Conference and the World Jewish Congress, made January 10, 1945, that at that time only 1,200,000 Jews had survived out of the 5,600,000 that were in European countries outside of the Soviet Union before the Nazis began their systematic, efficient campaign of extermination. Hitler had threatened their complete extinction, but didn’t get away with it.

At the Auschwitz slaughter grounds, in Poland, the Jews were killed in lots of 2,000 at a time. Lieut. Gen. Ernst Kaltenbrunner was the awthor of the system, but Hitler and Himmler agreed and co-operated. A 15-year-old Czech lad that worked at the plant explained to inyesti-gators that the people were driven into the gas chambers with sticks and, when they became full, children were tossed in through the windows. The gas was then let in through three ventilating shafts and within three minutes most of the inmates died in screaming agony. The few still alive were finished off when the German guards opened the doors.

Mr. Anselm Reiss, head of the Jewish rescue committee in London, furnished the Los Angeles Daily News with detailed information as to just how the whole system of extermination was operated, and how the poor victims set apart for slaughter were deceived right up until the time that they were thrown into the extermination chambers. He said: '

This powerful empire, armed to the teeth, with a fanatically wild and disciplined Nazi police, did not have the courage to tell the Jews outright what its purpose was. They were told they would be sent to work camps where there were more opportunities for hous-

This is where the Germans hung the prisoners who were too weak from starvation to be able to continue to work. The small pile of ashes in the background is what is left of 200 bodies after they were burned in the large furnaces. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

ing, employment, and even mea»s of entertainment. When the deportations were started the highest officials gave their word of honor that “there was nothing wrong about the deportations”. The Jews from Holland, France, etc.', were sent to Treblinca, the. mass exter--^mination center for that area. As an indication of the people’s total unawareness of what was ahead, they eagerly asked, when weary of traveling; “Where is Treblinca?” The situation was similar in Poland. German tactics went so far that trains with Jewish deportees were halted before they reached their destinations and the Jews were given an opportunity to write to their families that they had arrived at their places of work and all was well. Railway employees were changed: replaced by Nazis who took over the service to cover up the business in hand. Despite these precautions, the truth began filtering through.

Oddly enough, though Germany officially surrendered unconditionally, on all fronts, May 7, at 2:41 A.M. (at Reims, France), yet a murder plant was in full operation at Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, as late as Monday, July 2. A Reuters telegram published in the Erie Daily Times stated that

virtually every inhabitant of Kaufbeuren was aware of the fact that human beings were both being used as guinea pigs and being systematically butchered. The perpetrators or passive collaborators were in no way conscious of a sense of guilt and, with few exceptions, they were Germans and not Nazis. Some were even Catholic sisters and nurses. The chief nurse, who confessed without coercion that she had murdered “approximately” 210 children in two years by intramuscular injections, asked her captors simply, “Will anything happen to me?” The chief doctor was captured and his second in command hanged himself the night before the investigators arrived. Another sister confessed with a stony grill that she had poisoned “at least 30 to 40 persons”. ’

Primary methods of extermination practiced at Kaufbeuren and its branch institute at Irsee were scientifically-directed starvation and the administration of chemicals. Those to be starved were divided into two categories, those receiving a rapid starvation diet and those receiving slow starvation. The former were killed in about three months while the latter took considerably longer. Poisoning was handled by injections of scopolamine and doses of luminal or veronal, given in food, death occurring after two to five days, the patient normally contracting a lung ailment or pneumonia which was usually given as cause of death on certificates sent to parents or other relatives. Sturdier patients were given overdoses of both poisons. [Sister] Woerle [who confessed to the 210 killings of minors and drew a monthly bonus of 35 marks therefor] freely confessed that when luminal or veronal failed she administered' injections. Drugs for the killings were received directly from Berlin.

Trying to Get Rid of the Evidence

At 5 a.m., September 19, at the Klooga labor camp, in Estonia, all prisoners, including some pregnant women, were ordered from their barracks, and each was required to come at once to a forest glade near the eamp and bring along one or more pine logs. The logs were placed on the grass in a row, A Vilna attorney who escaped told the balance of the story to W. IL Lawrence of the New York Times:

After this was done the Germans counted a group of people corresponding to the number of logs and told them to lie down with their faces turned to the ground as close to one another as possible. After this, SS men shot these people with tommy guns. The noise of the shooting could not muffle the screams of the people. One of them tried to run away, but a tommy-gunner shot him and brought him back to the logs. Then the Germans compelled a second group of people to place on the dead, bodies another row of logs and to lie down on those logs. Again they were shot by .tommy-gunners. Thus it continued until there were four or five rows of corpses. Finishing with the first group, the SS men took a second one. By noon there already were four hills of dead bodies.

Another supply of logs had been prepared,

but the Germans were in a hurry [to escape from the onrushing Russians]. They poured gasoline <in the corpses, set them afire and hurried to the barracks. The SS men drove those who still remained alive, including women and children, into the barracks, forced them to lie down on the floor, and shot them. Then the barracks also were set afire.

Tn his story recording this matter Air. Lawrence said, and his story ought to make anybody that Jias a heart pray for God’s kingdom:

Where they burned them to death. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

I have seen and counted recognizable parts of 438 complete and partly burned bodies of men, women and children, including one child who could not have been more than three months old, but whose skull had been shattered by a bullet and who lay on the arm of her dead mother.

Before the Germans retreated from the neighborhood of the extermination camps near Lwow, Poland, the bodies were extracted from the pits and were first laid on specially-constructed platforms in stacks of 1,200 to 1,600 bodies each; tar and gasoline were then poured over them and they were burned. Tn five months 1.10 kilograms of gold were sifted from the ashes of these bodies and dispatched to Germany. The ashes were scattered on the fields or buried. Large bones were collected and crushed in a bone crusher, specially designed to speed up the work.

Miseducation Ruined Germany

Tt cannot be questioned that Germany was ruined by miseducation. This subject cannot be examined here at any length. Tt was fully discussed in this magazine, in No. 644, issue of May 24, 1944. The opening sentence of that article is:

The most highly-educated people on the globe are the Germans, and, as might be expected in a world ruled by the one who offered Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, their education is the most Satanic.

You might get that article out and read it over. Its concluding sentence is:

Any rational person should be able to see from the foregoing that the long-anticipated release of the demons from their restraints is an accotn-plished fact, and that the most highly cultured people in the world have been their first objective, writh disastrous results.

The Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who is also president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, retnrimd from an extended trip to Europe remarking on his return that “in countries in which the Roman Catholic Church has a strong majority, full religious liberty is denied to minority groups’’ and, also, that (and following as a natural consequence, because Hitler was an ardent “practical Catholic”)

the educational system of Germany, together

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with all other approaches ta the mind, were controlled by the Nazi party. Hitler insisted that the state had the right to determine the philosophy to which every person who lived within the state must give assent.

Needless to say, Hitler was Jesuit-trained and wholly without principle. An ^unnamed German major said, as early Jib October, 1944 :■

The only question is when will the war end. It would end today if the German people could order it. But there is no way for the people to express an opinion. All of their organs of expression have been usurped, and they dare not complain.

German refugees in Switzerland testify that Hitler’s plan for conquered Europe was, as to conquered countries, no schooling for girls after the fourth grade, and none for boys after the sixth; industries of ■ the conquered ^countries were to be rationed by Germany; the Germans ■would serve in the various factories only as overlords for the 'individual direction of the work.

A Misguided Generation

A misguided generation of Germans has grown up. As American soldiers marched along German streets as prisoners, women spat at them, men jeered them and boys threw stones at them. At the prison camps they were robbed of all their personal' property, in marked contrast wTith the generous treatment of German prisoners in American camps.

As the victorious American troops entered Nuremberg, boys and girls of 8 to 14, who should have been differently taught, were every

where shooting with rifles, and throwing hand grenades out of the windows. The American boys hated to kill the youngsters, but had to do it. Drew Middleton, in a wireless dispatch to the New York Times, said:

The Germans have regarded themselves for two generations as a people for whom all the laws of God and man are suspended.

At Oberndorf a German girl falsely, as she afterwards admitted, denounced another German girl for having had relations with a Polish worker. The poor innocent Pole was hung before her eyes. Hitler youth spat in her face and jeered her. Her hair was shaved, publicly. She was sentenced to two years in prison. That night she hung herself in her cell. Yet, three weeks later, when the liar confessed that she had told the story to spite the victim’s mother, nothing was done about it.

Realizing that miseducation is at the bottom of the Nazi deviltry in Germany, one of the first orders of the combined chiefs of staff was that neither secondary nor higher schools may be opened without their consent. New textbooks, entirely stripped of the Nazi political and militaristic doctrines, are being printed for use throughout Germany. Denazified kindergartens were opened in Aachen before Berlin fell.

Here are some bodies that the Germans did not have time to burn. They kept their prisoners’ heads shaved, evidently using their hair for making something. This pile of bodies was covered with branches of trees, lime, and some old clothes. Close observation showed that some of the dead had been beaten with clubs and gun. butts; also, some had their hands cut off, .while others had their eyes punched out. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

The Weekly KAP Review of European Facts and Problems published the following report on Nazi education as made by a soldier of the Polish Underground in September, 1944. It bears internal evidence of truthfulness and shows how much, how very much, there is need right now, among the German people, of just what they are going to get, i.e., a faithful witness from Jehovah’s liberated witnesses, bearing testimony to the kingdom for which Jesus taught His followers to pray.

The Germans who are actually occupying Europe are entirely different from those whom European people knew in 1916. Eleven years of a totalitarian regime and of a totalitarian education have molded a new German generation, a generation of men of conscious and willed bestiality. German schools and German organizations are serving only that purpose. In bringing up children and older boys special stress is being laid upon training them in ruthlessness, upon making of them individuals deprived of any feelings of pity or sympathy, but blindly devoted to their superiors and to the aims of the state.

Let me give you a few examples of that education.

A German public school. The boys in the room are on .the average eight years old. The teacher talks of the greatness of the Vater-land, of national heroes, of their devotion to their country. He tries to impress the children by painting vivid pictures of heroism. Then he asks suddenly; ‘Are you ready to sacrifice yourself for the Vaterland?” The children, as a matter of course, answer that they are.

‘All right,” says the teacher, “now let each of you take a sheet of paper and a pencil, and write down what you consider your dearest possession.”

The children do so. They write down their individual preferences. One loves the most his dog, the other a rifle, the third some toy, etc. “Well,” says the teacher, after looking over the papers, “it is up to you to sacrifice all these things to the Vaterland, to the Fuehrer. You mustn’t do it in the future, but right away, right now. Go home, and tomorrow you will tell me whether you have accomplished your task.”

The children are also told that they have to watch each other; those of a stronger character must supervise the weaker ones.

Here is another pile of bodies of those who were starved and tortured to death at Buchenwald prison camp. Some of these also had their fingers and toes cut off and their eyes punched out. [Statement of soldier supplying photograph]

The following day the teacher asks them sueees- ,* sively: “Did you kill your dog?” “Did you destroy your rifle ?” “Did you break up your toy?” A pupil declares that another boy didn’t accomplish his duty thoroughly, that the rifle’s buttend may be repaired. “Shame on you,” remarks the teacher. “You are a weakling. You must destroy it tomorrow so that it be beyond repair.”

A boy that has thus been brought up is being admitted after a few years to the Hitler-

Jugend. If he behaves well he is being rewarded by obtaining permission to attend an execution. He is allowed to look at the shooting down of defenseless people, and to pick up the corpses. He is taught how, when lie reaches his fifteenth year, he would have to act as executioner himself without losing his nerve. Between the ages of sixteen and | eighteen they are promoted to the SS officers’ school. After graduating from that institution they conclude their education by a six months’ stage as guards in a concentration camp. Only then do they become “supermen”.

Five thousand pupils of an SS officers’ school were recently brought to a concentration camp to attend the execution of 3,000 prisoners. They thus had the opportunity to observe the mass-slaughter for several hours, an indelible impression for the rest of their lives. A graduate from such a school can be relied upon: he most assuredly won’t shirk the perpetration of any erime ordered by his superiors. The results are but too evident.

The commander of the concentration camp in Poniatov noticed among the boys of a new transport of prisoners a nine-year-old youngster strikingly resembling his late son. He took him to.his luxurious apartment, supplied him with good clothes, took care of his tuition; in short, he treated him as his own child. He bought the boy a pony and both went together horseback riding. The commander had found a child; the child, a father. They became used and attached to each other. Suddenly came the order to “liquidate” the camp. The German didn't hesitate a moment. He shot the boy dead in his own house.

In conclusion: Jehovah’s ways are always right and true, and He has already begun to apply the remedy that the Germans need, and to which they are entitled. This is made clear from the following extract from a letter just received from one of Jehovah’s witnesses now in France, and who has recently been in Germany:

I learned that many of the brethren that were in the concentration camps in Germany, upon being liberated, went straightway^ into the work of house-to-house witnessing with whatever literature they had. The people were most astonished to see them again. Many asked where the brethren got their literature, and said, in substance, “We see that there is a greater power behind you people than there was behind the Fuehrer. We will surely look into and study these books now.”

The Sunday Plain Dealer

THE Cleveland Sunday Plain Dealer prints 400,000 copies of a 138-page paper. That necessitates' removing all the timber from 102 acres of forest land. The total output from the presses for that one issue comes to 441,600,000 columns, or 88,320,000,000 lines, or 529,920,000,000 words. Suppose you had to do all that by hand. What a job it would be! The one issue takes about 500,000 pounds of paper, which is about 250 tons, or

about ten freight-car loads, if you prefer to measure it in that way. That is only one of the big Sunday papers. There are too many of them. They are a curse to the people, not a blessing. A man with his head packed full of only the contents of a Sunday paper has no interest in the Scriptures. To him they seem foolishness. The Sunday papers are always seeking to undermine the authority of God’s Word, the Bible. being done by Jehovah’s witnesses and at various places bore witness to it as follows:

“Truth Advocated”

AWAY back in the year 1812, four in the encyclopedias, wrote a book beargenerations ago, a man named The- ing the above title. In that book he ophilus R. Gates, whose name is not even seemed to see quite clearly the work now

And now commences an era of light and suffering, when the corrupt churches (with the kings of the earth and great men united with them) being about to be wholly brought down, make one general muster against Christ and his true worshipers. These things are clear to me as a ray of light; and whoever lives at this time will see as great opposition and ijpite to the true way of righteousness then set forth, from sectarians and professors generally, as there was from the Jews towards Christ and his testimony: and also, like the Jews, at the very time they oppose the true way of the Lord with all their might, they will no doubt make the greatest possible show of religion, and will think that they are the true church. . . .

The authors of this testimony will, , . . unlike to all who go before them, attack the evil gt its root, and expose the deceit, hypocrisy and wickedness of the different sects in a way that has never before been done; for which they will suffer the greatest persecution. . . .

J say, when such a testimony as this goes forth, as it sooner or later will, no wonder that the sects, all with one accord, should set'them-selves against it, call it heresy, declare it will ruin the churches if it is not suppressed, , , ,

All the reformations which go before this last great reform will only be partial and temporary. They will only lop off the branches, or, at the most, only strike at the body of the corrupt tree, while the roots remain untouched and uninjured. But when this last testimony goes forth, the very roots of the corrupt tree will be attacked. ...

This happy period I never expect to see; but known unto the Lord only are all things. I Jrnow that such a time will be; for we are assured by the angel. These are the true sayings of God; and I also believe that it will take place within two centuries from this time.

Hard Going for Religion in the Keystone State

IT IS the general view, of religionists that if we had a few more sects than the present 256, or at the very least a few more in each of that number, things would be in pretty good shape, and the Lord could come at almost any time and say, “That is very well done; almost as well as I could have done it myself”: then the saints would be physically and literally eaught up in their rapture and the Millennium would be here in dead earnest.

It must have been a shock, therefore, when a subscriber for The Messenger, Philadelphia, boldly declared: “Not only -is there no Christian country, there is not even a Christian city in the whole wide world. A Christian city would be a city without slums, without jails, without poverty, without unemployment, without injustice, without drunkenness, without vice, without jealousy, without hatred, and without bitterness.” Yet who can deny that he told the truth?

Standing at the exit of a school ground in the same city of brotherly love, a minister handed to each child a card with a penny glued on it. On the card was the following mimeographed statement:

Here’s a penny for you. Pull it off and keep it. Here’s how to get another one. Fill out this card on the other side and bring it to the gospel hour for boys and girls at Calvary chapel next Tuesday October 2nd, at 7:00 o’clock. Here’s how to get more! If you bring someone else who doesn’t have a card, you will receive another new penny for each one you bring.

The back of the card calls for the name, address, age and grade of the pupil and whether he attends Sunday school, and where. Of course, a penny is not an awfully big bribe, but it surely does look as if the man that handed out the pennies felt sure that something desperate had to be done to get them coming in the other direction.

The Federal Council Was Perturbed

The Federal Council of Churches, meeting at Pittsburgh in the fall of 1944, was perturbed, and this time it was because the council thought that one of the 256 varieties had too much political drag. The council declared, in effect, ‘that for America to have diplomatic relations with the little Vatican state would be the equivalent of having diplomatic relations with the Roman Catholic Church, for the reason that, in practice, the Vatican is both a church and a political institution. Thus, thought the council, the continuance of an official connection between the United States government and the Vatican would encourage the un-American policy of a union of church and state, and would put this government in* the position of according preferential status to one only of the 256 sects doing business beneath the stars and stripes.

At the same meeting, Dr. Cavert, the general secretary of the council, made this statement:'

We gratefully acknowledge the spiritual influence both of faithful priests and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church, whom we think of as true servants of Christ and as our Christian brethren, .

How Dr, Cavert could make a statement like that wdien he could so readily learn, if he does not already know, the truly devilish spirit of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, is something for him to settle with Almighty God. If the Roman Catholic Church, with its record of countless assaults upon true Christians, is a servant of Christ, then so is the Devil himself, for they both have one spirit.

The council elected a new president, Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, of New York, and that gentleman stirred things mightily a year later when, in an address at St. Louis, he said:

Protestants are gravely concerned over what they believe to be an attempt upon the part of the Roman Catholic Church to exercise political domination here, similar to the control exercised in many nations. Protestants will fight to preserve religious liberty, not only for Protestants but for Roman Catholics and Jews and other faiths.

The Protestant pledges himself to accept, and in humility calls upon his Roman Catholic fellow Christian to practice, a very simple principle of religious liberty, "Do unto others as ye would be done by.”

Protestants have been subjected to serious misrepresentation in the Roman Catholic press. When Protestants have protested their protests have been called intolerance.

It is not intolerance to protest against Roman Catholic activities that seek, through boycott, to threaten newspapers and therefore to control them in Roman Catholic'interest. This is to endanger a free press and to destroy civil liberty.

It is not intolerance to protest against actions of certain Roman Catholic leaders to deny Protestant ministers access to the radio by threatening station owners with the loss of consumer support of products advertised.

It is not intolerance to insist upon the separation of church and state and therefore to object to the use of public funds for private and sectarian education. .

It is not intolerance to refuse to accept dictates that would deny Protestant churches the right to engage in missionary work in other lands at the very moment the Roman Catholic Church affirms its right to carry on missionary work in all lands.

It is not intolerance to protest against Ro-mSn Catholic support for the fascist regime of Franco Spain when our sons die to destroy fascism everywhere and to preserve democ-1 racy for mankind.

It is not intolerance to point out that Protestantism will oppose the clericalism that has cursed other lands.

It is not intolerance to insist that a chureh must be a church, that it cannot be both church and state. Protestants, therefore, oppose the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. This is no lack of respect for the distinguished, devoted, brilliant and brotherly Christian who is the present pope.

It is not intolerance to point out the Roman Catholic position on religions liberty that in effect means a demand for religious liberty when the Roman Catholic is in the minority but denies it in practice where the Roman Catholic is in the-majority.

. At its 1944 meeting the council, it is ' said,

Declared the churches as favoring, in principle, a fixed date for Easter and approved a committee report which suggested the second Sunday in April as nearest the historic date of the Resurrc.ction.

It should be explained, for the benefit of the council, and such others as will hear, that the word “Easter" is a heathen and not a correct Scriptural term. “Passover” is*the right word; anc^the time for the observance of the Passover was fixed by Almighty God, land not by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and was quite out of hufiian control. The Passover day wTas the 14th day of the month Nisan, which month begins with the new moon nearest the spring equinox. Nisan has no relation whatever to the Gregorian, papal calendar, and cannot be adjusted to it in any wTay at all.

Attempts to Suppress Free Speech

Everybody knows that America stands for freedom of speech, and everybody with any education at all, or any brains at all, knows that the Roman Catholic Church does not stand for freedom of speech, and is always seeking some halfwitted politician to shut off the flow of free speech in the land of its origin.

With this objective in view, the Pittsburgh city council adopted a resolution which attempted to outlaw the publication of any material which “exposes any racial or religious group to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy”. When this attempt Yas made the Pittsburgh Press said editorially (February 7, 1945):

The question is: Will it work! It won’t. Who, for instance, is going to determine whether or not any certain publication is guilty of willful effort to create an attitude of “hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy” toward any group ? And how free is that authority itself of racial or religious prejudice? Will it be up to every individual policeman to judge whether or not the ordinance has been violated? Or will there be an all-high commission, or board of exceeding wisdom and impartiality, which will decide such questions? The ordinance doesn’t say.

Councilman John T. Duff, who introduced the ordinance, says he did so at the request of “certain minority groups”. What is a “minority group”? Republicans? Socialists? Baptists? Holy Rollers? Methodists? Catholics? Jews? Negroes? Greeks? Syrians? Irish ? Isn’t any group a “minority group” ?

Fifty days went by, and the same paper, the Pittsburgh Press, that had said on February 7 that such a law would not work, published the information that three bills, to accomplish the same impossible because intolerant objectives, had been introduced in both the Senate and the House at Harrisburg, providing penalties of $500 to $5,000 and one year in prison for those who are feund guilty of what, for the sake of giving it a name, is called “group libel”.

If any group on earth was ever basely libeled it is Jehovah’s witnesses, but they have more sense than to invoke the use of any such law as Mr. Duff and his colleagues have framed for those who wanted it framed.

One more religious item from Pittsburgh is that the 1944 Methodist conference raised the minimum salary of pastors from $1,200 to $1,800. With the war still on, and money flowing in the streets, that looked all right; but soon now, very soon, trade will be dull and jobs will be few. There is going to be, first, one grand rush for those $1,800 religious jobs, and once the jobs have been secured there is going to be another grand rush to get the $1,800 out of the long-suffering Methodists that long ago ceased to get a “blazing hell” for their money and now get nothing at all. The religious business is in trouble up to its neck.

-John 17:17

TnyWoid) is Truth*

The Son versus a Trinity

TO King David of old Jehovah God said: “Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.” (Psalm 89:27) The “Son of David”, as Jesus Christ was called upon earth, is this firstborn Son of God, The name in the Holy Scriptures which designates Him in His life before human birth is The Word, or Ho Logos; which means the One who is the mouthpiece, or word, or speaker, as Jehovah God’s instrument. He was the beginning of God’s creation, and from and after His creation the Logos was the active agent by whom Jehovah God created all things that were thereafter created, as the Greek text of John 1:1-3 states.

The great Jehovah is The God, or Elohim, according to the Hebrew Bible. (Genesis 2: 4) His Son, the Logos, is a god, or El, according to the Hebrew text of Isaiah 9: 6, where He is called “The mighty God”. This has nothing tn do with heathenish polytheism. In the Bible the title god (or El) is applied to mighty ones, even to angels and to human magistrates. (Psalm 82: 6; John 10:34; Exodus 22:9; Psalm 8:5) The name god is therefore properly applied to Jehovah’s Son, because He is .a mighty one. The name god is fitting to Him because He is the agent used by the great Creator in the Creation of all other things. The names Jehovah, Almighty God, and Most High are never in the Bible applied to Jesus, God’s Son.

Jesus himself testifies that He is the beginning of God’s creation, saying: "The faithful and true witness, the beginning [not the author] of the creation of God.” (Revelation 3:14) Also, He said: “Jehovah possessed [(margin) formed] me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was. When there were * no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there: when he set a circle upon the face of the deep,' when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong, when he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth; then I was by him, as a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.”-Proverbs 8: 22-31, Am. Stan. Ver.

Hence, when the time came for the starting of the sons of men, manifestly ' it was to this "master workman”, His Son the Logos, that Jehovah God addressed these words: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26) Later, when man had sinned and was to be expelled from Eden, manifestly Jehovah addressed the Logos when He said: “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.”—Genesis 3:22.

Thus the Holy Scriptures definitely show,that Jehovah God, the great Creator, used another as His mighty instrument by whom to carry forward His purposes. That great One whom He has used as His instrument is Hi# Son, the Logos, who became Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul, with authority from God, wrote concerning Jesus as the One “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”-—Colossians 1:15-17,

Thus the foregoing scriptures clearly show the distinction between God, the great First Cause, and the Word or Logos, the beginning of the creation of the great Creator God. Adam, the perfect man, became alienated from God by sinful disobedience, and this led eventually to the birth of the first-begotten Son of God as a human creature on earth. At that time Jehovah God transferred the life of His beloved Son from heaven to earth that He might be the One to take away sin and furnish the basis for reconciliation to God. In plain phrase the Sacred Record says: “The Word [Logos] was made flesh, and dwell among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”—John 1:14.

That a babe was born of a virgin, the Jewess Mary, at Bethlehem, and grew to manhood’s estate and died upon the tree at Calvary, both sacred and profane history abundantly testify. Who was that man? The so-called “clergy” of religion, in order to support their false dogma of the trinity, have been forced to accept from the Devil another lie and to teach it, namely, that the child born of the maiden Mary and which grew to manhood and was impaled was God hims’elf and hence a God-man; that while on earth He was a spirit and that the body of flesh that He used was merely an incarnation of a spirit person; that is to say, that Jehovah God took upon himself the form of man and went about in this body of flesh for thirty-three and a half years, being known during that time as the man Jesus Christ. Their contention is that, He being born as a man child, the second person of a “trinity” assumed a human body and that during all the time He was on earth Jesus was both God and man. Frequently such religionists say:/Jesus was very God and very man; He was God incarnate.’

Strange it is that sensible men could ever be deceived by so unreasonable a doctrine. Such doctrine leads to absurdities which embarrass the trinitarians. Their doctrine is: God is one, made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; which trinity of gods is really borrowed from the heathen that practice polytheism. The logical conclusion is that, when God left heaven and took upon himself the form of man, which form He assumed for over thirty years, heaven during all that time was without God; and so heaven must have operated itself. At the end of that period God, that is to say, Jesus Christ, died an ignominious death upon 'the tree, at which time, however, He cried out: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46; Psalm 22:1) He cried thus either sincerely or for a fraudulent purpose to fool men.

Since the Bible teaches that Jehovah God is immortal and can not die, the trinity dogma of incarnation leads unavoidably to the conclusion that the so-called “dying” on the tree was just a sham and that Jesus did not die at all. Furthermore, His words of agony were merely a subterfuge to deceive the people. If the one dying on the tree was really God, w’hy would He say to himself: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Otherwise, if Jesus Was Jehovah God himself and also the Holy Ghost, to whom-was Jesus crying wdien on the tree? Suppose you put these questions to your religious clergymen. Do' not be surprised if they look wise and say: “It is a mystery.” If you know your Bible, you know that the fact is that it not only is “mystery” but is a delusion and a snare and a greatly magnified untruth that does dishonor both to God and to His Son.

London Assembly Impressions

THE eagerly anticipated visit to Brit* ain of the Watchtower Society’s president is now in the past. Perhaps a few impressions of the London assembly and the mammoth public meeting at the Royal Albert Hall, from one of the rank l and file, may be of interest, and serve as * a supplement to other reports (published in the Watchtower magazine).

' The hopes of a January assembly somewhere in Britain, to follow the president’s continental tour, had been running high. Suddenly word was officially sent around that the Society’s president was returning to this country, and was undertaking a brief tour of Scotland and the north of England. And then came the crowning piece of news. There was to be an assembly in London on January 12 and 13, culminating in a great public meeting at the Royal Albert Hall. This assembly was being arranged for the benefit of the witnesses in the south of England.

Some of us had often journeyed to London assemblies in the days when Pastor Russell and Judge Rutherford had come over, but always had it been in the summer. Prospects of winter rain, snow and fog loomed up momentarily. But the term “convention weather” has become a commonplace over here, and fears were quickly banished. Nevertheless, the day before we started the rain came down ceaselessly and relentlessly, and the official radio weather forecast was a continuation of the same. But the weather prophets with the all assistance of their meteorological and other sources of information were wrong, for the two days of the assembly were exceptionally bright and sunny for January.

And what an event it was I Witnesses, a great multitude, streamed in from all over the southern half of England, from Wales, from Ireland, and, it was said, from the Channel Islands. One could not but feel how appropriate was the year’s text, “Be glad, ye nations, with his peo-pie,’’ for joy and gladness shone from the bright faces of the Kingdom publishers on every side.

Time and space will permit of only a brief reference to the high lights of the assembly. At the special Saturday evening meeting, arranged for the witnesses at the Royal Albert Hall, one was amazed to see the huge crowd assembled, and the thought came to the mind, ‘How would all the public find room the next day, even in London’s greatest hall! Thrilling indeed was the president’s narration of his continental experiences. How we longed for the facts concerning the persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses to be broadcast throughout the land!

Sunday morning came, and the rendezvous was Seymour Hall. Coming out of a London station, I engaged a taxi. “Seymour Hall!” said the driver, with more expressiveness than understanding of his own figure of speech, "Eve just been there. There’s a tremendous crowd there. What’s on?” Explanations followed. '

For the afternoon three halls were wired in together, Seymour Hall, the Metropolitan Theatre and Kingdom Hall, and all were needed. Outstanding was Brother Knorr’s speech, “Strong Hearts in the Postwar Era.” How encouraging! But one must press on, and relate a few happenings at the great public meeting.

Surely Jehovah God had provided that at the very time the United Nations Organization was opening in London, the president of the Watchtower Society should speak in London’s largest hall on the Scriptural theme, “Be Glad, Ye Nations!” What a contrast! All the efforts in the field during the assembly had been directed to announcing that lecture. Leaflets had been distributed from house to house. Information walking had been engaged in. And even here a division of the people had been manifest. Some had refused to be glad

• with His people, and had frostily declined even to accept a leaflet. Others in better heart condition had smilingly, ac. cepted. ' '

Nearly two hours before the meeting was due to commence I took my stand in the already long queue, standing beneath an illuminated sign which said, “Artists.” There we 'waited in patience for the doors to open. The time passed quickly, being relieved by conversation and various incidents. For instance, a party of strapping American soldiers passed through the crowd, and were admitted at the artists’ entrance. Then a car quickly rolled up, and out stepped the speaker of the evening, President Knorr, and passed quickly in. Then a religionist, walking along the immense queues of people, ejaculated as he went, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,” “Wonderful Jesus,” and the like.

Finally we are admitted. “Where shall we be directed?” We are not long left in doubt. Up the stairs we go. Up, up. At last we come to the huge balcony at the top, high above the arena. Looking down one almost feels dizzy. The people are massed in huge sections, and the layout of the hall suggests nothing so much as a large central flower bed, surrounded by other banks of flowers.

The memory brought to mind former

occasions when Pastor Russell and Judge Rutherford had spoken in the ' same hall. But now there is a splendid amplifying apparatus. The speaker’s voice comes up as clear and incisive as the trenchant words. I marvel at .this, for the previous night I was on the platform, quite close to the speaker, and had then been conscious of a slight echo. But not so now. ■

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