Consolation, April 10, 1946
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Contents
Side Lights on Russia
.Humans Slaughtered
At Soma of the Execution Camps
A Sum-up of Poland’s Sorrows
Totalitarianism in Action
‘ The Resurgence of Religion
pie Hierarchy’s Informal Government
Past Masters at Bluffing
“Christ Dieth No More”
The Two Monuments to Servetus
Another Watchtower College Class
’Sows unto the Spirit’
“Thy Word Is Truth”
Easter Egg and Rabbit Not Christian
Theocratic Assembly in the Philippines
Setting the Stage
From Far and Near They Came
The Enemy Strikes
Hierarchy vs. United States Army
The Second Day of the Feast
Half Soles for Horseshoes
Transmuted Building Materials
Railroads Still a Big Factor
Sixteen Tons to Every Soldier
Attention to Big and Little
Dangers and Difficulties
Late Efficiency and Safety Gadgets
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Hierarchy Guilty of Treason
Manila, Bishop Is Accused
Manila, Wednesday, March 13 (U.P,)— Msgr. Cesar Maria Guerrero, auxiliary bishop of Manila, was charged with treason in a thirteen-count indictment returned here yesterday by a people’s court. Msgr. Guerrero, who is also vicar-general and a national assistant in Catholic Action in the Philippines, was accused of spreading Japanese propaganda from the pulpit during the war, [The New York Times, March 13, 1946 j
An AP dispatch in the New York Iler aid Tribune of the same date added that “Cecar Maria Guerrero, auxiliary bishop, "was accused of placing his imprimatur on a seditious Japanese-sponsored magazine, urging intermarriages with Japanese and praying for Nipponese victory’".
Four years ago, when the Japanese hordes were overrunning < the Pacific islands, the Roman Catholic Church threw her lot in with the totalitarians. She sent her nuncio to Japan, welcomed Japan’s envoy to the Vatican, and recognized the Japanese puppet government in the Philippines. All of which makes her a co-partner responsible for and guilty of putting thousands of men, women and children to death.
Four years ago, January 9, 1942, the United Press recorded an official Japanese broadcast which said that
Roman Catholics in the islands have pledged support to the Japanese, the broadcast said.
“M. 0. Daugherty, Irish archbishop for Great Manila, and Bishop Madrigra, papal representative in the Philippines, Thursday pledged full-hearted co-operation with the Japanese forces for the creation of a new order in East Asia,” the broadcast declared.
Now.flie tide has turned; the Vatican collaborationists are in the criminals’ dock charged with treason,
CONSOLATION
CONSOLATION
“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew .12:21, A.5. V, Volume XXVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wodneoday, April 10, 1946 ■ Number 693
Side Lights on Russia
NO HUMAN creature can he indifferent to the evident desire on the part of some that there should be a World War III, with the wiping out of Russia as the main objective. This crops up from time to time in statements of politicians, plutocrats and members of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, so that the subject must occasionally be treated in these columns. Intimations and suggestions, often advanced by the Hierarchy, that Jehovah’s witnesses have any interest in the Russian government, as a government, are as false as the doctrines of the Hierarchy, each and every one of which is a lie.
Russia has 17 percent of the land surface of the earth: 8,764,586 square miles out of the total 51,320,217. And it has 8.5 percent of earth’s population out of the total estimated 2,169,868,000. It is not common sense to say to one’s self, “I do not like their government; I do not like their ideas; I do not wish to know anything about the Soviet Union.” Because one does not like the “eternal torture” and “purgatory” rackets, is that any reason for refusing to learn something about them? So here is something about Russia, as it pops up in the news.
Everybody knows that the Germans were stopped in Russia, and turned back in their tracks, but it is not easy to comprehend what that cost the Russian people. The net result was that more than 1,700 towns and 75,000 villages were destroyed or severely damaged; that 6,000,000 buildings were destroyed and 25,000,000 people were made homeless; that 17,000,000 cattle and 20,000,000 swine were killed or driven to Germany, and an inconceivable like number of horses and poultry disappeared; also, tens of thousands of miles of railway tracks were destroyed in the retreat from the shores of the Caspian sea to the chancellery in Berlin. In November, 1945, there was an acute shortage of labor in all trades and professions. Russia wants to rebuild.
Humans Slaughtered
In June, 1944, the Russian embassy at Washington issued a statement of an event that occurred many months previously at a point 100 miles east of the Crimean peninsula, on the northern shore of the Sea of Azov. Read it and imagine how you would feel if the little boy named were your own: •
You can forgive your own injuries but not the injuries done to children. In Mariupol on October 20, 1941, the Germans led several thousand inhabitants to execution. The doomed people Were ordered to remove their clothing. Tiny Volodya, not realizing what was awaiting him, said, “Mama, are we going to bathe?” Who will dare forgive what the Germans did to Volodya?
Released by the Russian government at about the same time was the information that on October 19, 1941, some 25,000 Odessa citizens, including children, were burned en masse by the Rumanians (not the Germans); but two months later a massacre took place of 55,000 others at a concentration camp near the city; that a preliminary account revealed that about 200,000 Odessa citizens had been murdered. The story
discloses that the city was so thoroughly stripped of everything worth carrying away that 2,000 pianos were shipped to Rumania. All such public places as mu--seums, medical institutes^' laboratories, theater wardrobes and streetcar depots were deprived of everything that could \ be taken.
i The Russian embassy at Washington is authority for the information that farther north, in April, 1943, at Smolensk, 200 miles west of Moscow, the following occurred: An experiment was made with a big metal car, without 'windows and only a sliding door in the rear, stationed at first on the outskirts of the city. Twenty persons, including women, were shoved inside and the door was hermetically sealed. The car was driven by an SS man and his assistant. The exhaust of- the motor was circulated inside the car. It was the thought of the driver, as expressed by him, that “once around the town my passengers will pass out/’. It worked as he thought. When he returned from his round trip, the 20 innocent victims were dead and the bodies were dumped in a pile. The , embassy states that this information is from the Germans themselves, citing the name and official position of their informant. (Looks like an OGPU-forced confession.)
Poland Always Suffers
On account of its location, Poland always suffers severely in every great war. It is the inevitable cockpit of Germany’s Drang nach Osten. Much has been published in these columns recently regarding the human slaughterhouses operated in Poland in the war just ended. More information is available.
Anna Louise Strong, special correspondent of The Nation, familiar with Russian affairs for two decades, went by plane to Moscow in June, 1944, and on her arrival cabled the following regarding the experiences of some Russian troops in Poland:
In January, 1942, the Germans put thousands of Russian prisoners into unheated boxcars and left them for seven days without food, then drove them into the Minsk streets. Those who couldn’t walk were shot where they fell. From the freight yard to the Academy of Science the streets were filled with dead. Passers-by wept, but any. man or woman who approached the prisoners to offer them water or food was shot.
One of Miss Strong’s informants was a teacher of history in a university and herself witnessed this particular tragedy. Miss Strong went on to say that at another Polish town, Baranovichi, in March, 1942, there was a pogrom in which 6,000 women, children and old people unable to work were put to death. Workers who were not to be put to death received green tickets, their temporary tickets to life. Later, all these greenticket holders, except the more skilled specialists needed by the Germans, were also put to death. One of these specialists, a Jew with relatives in Brooklyn, made the statement, “I had to stand with a green card in my hand and watch my wife put in a gas truck and driven away to death.”
At Some of the Execution Camps
At Maidenek, a mile and a half from Lublin, Poland, the capacity of the death furnaces was 1,900 bodies daily. Corpses were cremated in 12 minutes. AH victims had to die naked; their clothing was sent back to Germany. In a single month a freight train containing 18 cars of clothing, taken from the doomed, was sent back to the Reich. In the death chambers, children from one year up, of 22 nationalities, w’ere killed along with their parents. Ashes of- the dead were used for fertilizer; also were sold in urns as souvenirs. Arrangements were made by which the Nazis could watch their prisoners die. Though some -were shot and some were hanged, the favorite method of killing practiced at Maidenek was by carbon monoxide or poison gas.
At Treblinka, also in Poland, the methods were more crude. The New
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Ydrk Times, referring to a "booklet on the subject, explains:
Between 450 and 500 persons were crowded in each chamber at each execution. On their . way to their doom, the victims were beaten with rifle butts and lengths of gaspipes. To . escape the blows and the dogs that were set on them the groups rushed to their death, the stronger shoving the weaker ones ahead. Prisoners in the camp were forced to remove the . dead from the gas chambers and carry out mass burials under the threat of similar execution. Between 26,000 and 28,000 were gassed each day. .
An Associated Press dispatch from Moscow, published in the New York Times, gives conditions as they existed in camps near Lwow (Lemberg), Poland, which speak for themselves:
Writers, artists and musicians were made to wash the stairways of one seven-story building with their tongues, and then were compelled to pick up garbage with their lips, the reports said. In another incident, the report related, the commander of one of the camps, the Yanov camp, threw two 4-year-old children into the air and shot them to amuse his own 9-year-old daughter. The committee said it was also established that at the three camps, Yanov, Sitadel and Lisenitz, the Gestapo devised the “human icicle” treatment, which consisted of putting bound prisoners into barrels of water and then placing the barrels outside in below-zero temperatures, with guards standing over them until they became frozen in ice.
The Soviet extraordinary commission that issued the foregoing report stated that 700,000 persons had been put to death in these three camps, and that among them were an undetermined number of citizens of the United States and ■ Great Britain.
The little paper News Flashes from Czechoslovakia contained the following . description of what happened to the inhabitants of a Czechoslovak community situated in Poland, and after which the Oregon (U. S. A.) town of Malin is named:
Early, on the morning July 13, 1,500 Germans arrived from the borough of Olyka and surrounded' the villages of Ukra jinsky Malin and Cesky Malin. In both villages, the Germans drove the inhabitants into the church, school and other buildings. They then set them on fire, shooting everybody attempting to escape. Women and children, praying for mercy, were killed and thrown back into the flames. 374 Czechs, including, 109 children and 26 Poles, were murdered. Only those working accidentally in the fields escaped death.
A Sum-up of Poland’s Sorrows
The Y.M.C.A. director of Poland, Andrew Krasicki, on a return visit to the United States, declared that during the German occupation of the country to which he is assigned, 6,000,000 persons were murdered and another 2,000,000 deported; that there are now 450,000 orphans in Poland, while 2,000,000 children and 800,000 invalids and cripples need the food, clothing and care of which they were deprived by the war.
What happened to Poland's once beautiful capital has caused and is still causing much sorrow, and censure of the Russian officials. Before the Russians finally crossed the Vistula, three-fourths of Warsaw had been destroyed, and 770,000 of the prewar population of 1,300,000 had been killed by the Germans.
A report from Warsaw stated that on October 20, 1945, a ton of coal then cost a month's pay; that 100,000 bodies were still in the ruins and breeding great rats; that in Poland as a whole 70 percent of the hospitals had been destroyed; that the country now has only one doctor for each 3,500 people, whereas in the United States there is one for every 700. The dispatch also said that 10,000 Poles are dying each month from tuberculosis, and that from one-tenth up to eight-tenths of the people are tubercular.
Certainly the Russians have made mistakes in their administration of Po-
land, but this magazine feels no responsibility to tell the Devil how to run any of the kingdoms that he showed Christ Jesus on the mountaintop, and the ad-_ ministration of which was offered the ' Savior and was refused. But it is proper to record some good things that have , been done. While less than half of Po-* land had been freed from the Germans, 365 of the big estates were divided into 12|-scre plots for landless peasants and an additional 340 estates were booked for the next allotment. Up to January 11, 1945, prewar holdings of 698 families had been apportioned among 111,000 families, but up to that time none of the huge holdings of the “church” had been allotted and the administrator frankly confessed that the problem was too hard for him to solve, or, as he stated it, “too important for us to decide.”
Before leaving the Polish question, with which the fortunes of Russia are inextricably involved, it seems proper to mention the gist of a memorandum sent to the United States Senate by a Polish American Congress that seems to be quite representative of the Polish people. Briefly stated, the Congress declares that in the march toward Berlin the Russians deprived 1,500,000 Poles of their liberty and deported them to Siberia. It asks for the immediate release of all political prisoners, and the return of the deportees. It wants the getting pp of a government free from Soviet military and police pressure. It wants permission for all Poles to participate freely in Poland’s political life; it wants complete freedom of the press and of political organization. It wants a free hand for the UNRRA, and it wants free access to Poland of all United Nations diplomats and correspondents. A concluding paragraph says:
These are elementary demands of liberty and justice. We ask our Government to use all its influence to promote their realization. We ask this in the name of the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter. We ask this in the name of Poland’s five million war dead, of the heroes who fell in Warsaw’s unforgettable uprising, strangely abandoned by the powerful Soviet army on the other side of the Vistula, of the soldiers of the Polish army in Italy and France who took their own lives in grief and despair when they learned of their country’s betrayal at Yalta. We ask this, finally, in the name of our own sons, and of all the men in the United States armed forces, whose sacrifices should mean freedom for the whole world, not slavery for any part of it.
American Lend-Lease Aid to Russia
Uncle Sam backed up Russia in the big fight. Up to June 1,1945, out of more than $35,000,000,000 property turned over to the Allies Russia had received $8,410,000,000 lend-lease aid, including 13,000 airplanes, 6,800 tanks, 406,000 motor vehicles, 1,045 locomotives, 7,160 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 100 tank cars, and 60 power trains to provide electrical energy for war industries in liberated territories.
Among the things shipped to Russia, via Iran, were two entire truck assembly plants, where already-fabricated parts were put together on a chain basis. The weight of one of these plants was 1,700 tons, and it took 115 railway cars to handle it. In a single month the 2,730 workers employed at one of these plants produced 3,644 cargo trucks, and in 22 months it put together 79,000 trucks, jeeps, scout cars, weapon carriers, tankers, and other vehicles. A third somewhat similar plant put together more than 4,800 fighter, trainer, and light and medium bombing planes for the Douglas corporation.
Totalitarianism in Action
While the war w’as on, and perhaps even yet, if a Russian worker was twenty minutes late for his work, he was fined 25 percent of his wages for six months. Workers who quit their jobs received prison sentences running to five, six and even eight years; so says a dispatch to the Chicago Sun.
As early as January, 1945, there were 10,000 persons working on the reconstruction of the great Dniepropetrovsk dam across the Dnieper river. This great dam, it will be remembered, was blown up by the Russians as the Germans advanced into their country in 1941. It is intended that the new dam shall make the Dnieper one of the world’s great waterways, and a source of cheap power.
Impressed by the experience of World War II, the Russian government now provides down payments and monthly grants to all mothers of families of four children or more. Leaves for births are thirty-five days before birth and forty-two afterward. Prospective mothers receive double rations for three months before childbirth. For rearing families of five a Motherhood medal is awarded; mothers of seven receive the Order or Glory, and mothers of ten are designated Mother Heroines. Bachelors and childless married men must pay 6 percent of their income to the state.
Agricultural and
Engineering Developments
A news dispatch from Moscow published in the Vancouver, B.C., Daily Province' (which paper, by the way, is one of the very best that comes to this office) states that the Soviets have developed a perennial wheat which has actually yielded four harvests within two years from one sowing. It then quotes the famous Jonathan Swift as once stating
that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
The Russians, always trying to make the best use of their vast lands,Tiave developed a new system of pipeless underground irrigation, which, so it is claimed, uses only about half as much water as surface irrigation, and produces good results. The explanation of this does not seem too clear, but here it is as it appeared in the London Cavalcade:
The new method consists of plowing deep with a subsoil plantation plow. A number of cone-headed hollow cylinders attached to the plowshares are forced into the ground, forming an artificial burrow . . . The tightly packed earth around the cylinders hardens fast, after which the lining'cylinders are removed, and the next stretch of the burrow is made in like manner. To prevent the water seeping into the subsoil out of this honeycomb irrigation, small outlets to the surface are made at the end of each burrow'. Owing to the tendency of water to keep to the same level, the water let into the subterranean network from surface irrigation canals seeps upwards towards the roots of the plants.
What Uncle Sam is trying to do in the Matanuska valley, Alaska, Russia is trying to do in northern Siberia, where it gets even colder than it does in Alaska. In the Yana river valley, near Verkhoyansk (1,800 miles north of Vladivostok), well up above the arctic circle, thn temperature drops in winter to 70 degrees below, Centigrade. In the summer the sun shines day and night for six weeks. Here the Russians are now raising lettuce, radishes, potatoes, and cauliflower. Of course, manure is mixed freely with the topsoil, to keep the tender plants insulated from the solidly frozen earth beneath. The method employed is to keep the cabbage plants 45 days in hothouses, after which they ripen in the perpetual sunshine in 55 to 65 days. The sprout method is used with potatoes, which are also given a good start in the hothouses. ' '
As to engineering projects: the two most ambitious schemes ever suggested by man are the embankment on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, by which it is proposed to throw the cold Labrador current under the Gulf Stream and remove the chilly winds that come down the Atlantic coast in the spring of the year, and the like plan, conceived in Russia, for damming the Gulf of Tartary (30 miles broad) between Nikolaevsk and Sakhalin island. If this were done the ice-cold waters of the Sea of Okhotsk would be thrown through the Kurile island group and out under the Japan current. Perhaps the one great idea may have suggested the other. The proposals and expected results are parallel.
The Resurgence of Religion
The confusion that religion and Christianity are one and the same thing, whereas they are exact opposites, prevails in Russia as elsewhere. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury, quotes Stalin as saying recently:
Religion cannot be stopped. Conscience cannot be stilled. Religion is a matter of conscience and conscience is free. Worship and religion are free.
So religion is once more “looking up” in Russia. A. step tow’ard more religion for the common Russian (fed up when the cotton saints were exposed years ^go) is seen in the recently announced union in Moscow of the Baptists and Evangelical Christians. Both groups practice immersion, and claim a following of around 4,000,000 inhabitants.
Just what significance it had is not known, but there must have been something religious in the visit in March, 1945, of Edward J. Flynn, former Democratic National Committee chairman, first to the Yalta conference, then to Moscow to have a private interview with Stalin, and then to Vatican City for an unusually lengthy interview with the pope.
Because of Russia’s dominance of Poland, it is in order to conclude with a word about the religious business in that unhappy land. The efforts of the pope to make it appear that his religion was persecuted by the Nazis are as ridiculous as that it is now being persecuted by the Russians. At hand is a half column from the Camden, N.J., Evening Courier. It tells about how one of the big shots of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy was “persecuted” by the Nazis and how he was “delivered” with all the newspaper trimmings at just the right time to get a good place in the papers. It is really funny, to one with his eyeteeth cut.
The story is entitled “Primate of Poland Liberated by Yanks; Arch Foe of Nazism Gives Thanks to Americans; Plans Rome Trip”. You read it with suspicion, born of experience. First you* find that instead of standing his ground in Poland he -slipped across the border into Rumania early in the war. There was nothing heroic or unusual about that stunt. Then he took a trip to Italy. ■There w'as nothing remarkable about that either. Then he ■went to Lourdes, the famous health resort in southern France. It is a nice place to go if you have money, and the Hierarchy chieftains always have plenty of that. Then he went into a Benedictine monastery in Haute Savoie, which overlooks Lake Geneva on Switzerland’s ■western border. That also is a nice place to go. Then he went to Paris, another nice place. Then he became the chief attraction, the guest of honor, of a convent at Widenbrucck, Germany. This must be a nice place, located in the 'woods somewhere, probably; and the woods are nice in the summertime. August Hlond (Cardinal Hlond, primate of Poland), the gentleman’s name, said, “1 was not exactly a prisoner.” Of course he ■wasn’t. He told the truth, the exact truth. Without a doubt he had the run of that beautiful convent; and what more could he "want except publicity? Well, he got even that. The newspapermen have to send in about so much of what they call “slop” in order to hold their jobs. So the half column in the Evening Courier wound up with this thrilling tale of Mr. Blond’s “sufferings”:
When the Americans arrived at Widen-brueek the night before Easter, the Cardinal said they found “the whole town full of joy”. The first American he met was Father Stephen P. Kenny, a Ninth Army chaplain.
Now notice what the story has done: it has falsely made out that Mt. ITlond is a martyr; it has mentioned Home; it has worked in the -word Easter; it has worked up a popular “joy”; it has managed to glorify a Roman Catholic chaplain ; it has dragged in the United States army, and finally, brother, it has a half column more of free advertising, and that is what it was all about.
If Stalin wants more religion in Russia he knows how* to get it. In the meantime, Jehovah’s witnesses rejoice in the good news that in the dispersions incident to the war several hundred of Jehovah’s faithful witnesses have been scattered all over Russia and Siberia, and it is certain that at this moment they are “every where preaching the word”.—Acts 8: 4.
The Hierarchy’s Informal Government
THE Hierarchy, which, politically speaking, is inconceivably stupid, is, nevertheless, too clever to try to grab entire political power in the United States all at one fell swoop. Its policy is to grab one thing at a time, and hang on to it, and then, as soon as the excitement dies out, to grab something else, and so on down the line.
Nobody but a Roman Catholic would ever figure that because he had the job of being postmaster general it was up to him to consult the moguls of his church to have them determine for him what the United States government should allow to go through the mails; but that is the way that Bishop Noll, of Fort Wayne, Ind., came to be America’s informal censor of American publications. The columnist Drew Pearson gave the facts as to how the censorship was established. No law was invoked; the pi'o-» ce edings were lawless, anarchistic, as a matter of fact. And the farce of it all is that Bishop Noll’s own paper, Our Sunday Visitor, is on record as soliciting an advertisement irt Esquire, one of the papers that the informal censor just named particularly censored.
There is no freedom of the press in any country that is under the formal control of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The Swiss newspaper Gazette de Lausanne., telling about conditions in northern Italy, said in a perfectly matter-of-fact way that the bishops of Pied-APFHL 10, 1946
mont and Venice had “pointed out that ecclesiastics were forbidden to write for the press without the authorization of their superiors”. What about “Reverend Father” Charles E. Coughlin? Did he, or did he not, have the authorization of his superiors for the sheet which he published, Social Justice, many issues of which were an incitement to revolution?
Commenting on Bishop Noll’s informal seizure of control of the press, the American Freeman says lugubriously:
Bishop Noll is repeating the tactics used in getting the movies under clerical control. First th ore’s a great commotion over sex. Then follows the pay-off: all publications that print material not acceptable to the hierarchy are given the works. It’s suggested that since the campaign worked like a charm when applied to Hollywood, it seems likely that the American press will, in time, bow down to the clerical obscurantists. In the Esquire case the P. 0. Department couldn’t make the obscenity charge stick, so Postmaster General Walker, determined to carry out the orders of the hierarchy, dug up a 75-year-old law that had never been enforced since its enactment. Now the publishers of Esquire are notified that their second class privilege will be withdrawn on February 28 because their magazine does not meet the requirements of being “originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts or some special industry”. If that can be made to stick, the
Post office Department, With orders from Bishop Noll’s organization, will have the power and right to pass on the editorial contents of every publication in the country. The clerical gang will be judge, jury and hangman.
When the Esquire case got to the United States Supreme Court that body gave the Hierarchy idea of censorship one of the worst rebukes it has ever received. It said in so many words,
A requirement that literature or art conform to some norm prescribed by an official smacks of an ideology foreign to our system.
The official in question was Postmaster Genera] Frank C. Walker, predecessor to Robert E. Tlannegan, and if he had not been parochially trained he would have known better than to try to act as a censor at the very time that World War II was on and fighting for, among other freedoms, freedom of the press.
The Supreme Court said to Mr. Walker, and through him to Our Sunday Visitor and Bishop Noll and Mr. Pacelli and all other Roman Catholics:
■ Under our system of government there is an accommodation for the widest varieties of tastes’ and ideas. What is good literature, what has educational value, what is refined public information, what is good art, varies with individuals as it does from one generation to another. . . . From the multitude of competent offerings, the public will pick and choose. What seems to one to be trash may have for others fleeting or even enduring values. But to withdraw the second-class rate from this publication today because its contents seemed to on’e official not good for the public would sanction withdrawal of the second-class rate tomorrow from another periodical whose social or economic views seemed harmful to another official. . , . Congress has left the postmaster general with no power to prescribe standards for the literature or the art which a mailable periodical disseminates.
Past Masters at Bluffing
Our Sunday Visitor is a beautiful example of the bluffs that have carried the Italian religious racket so far and enabled it to accomplish such incredibly unreasonable things. A recent issue contains an article under the title “Paddy the Cop and Pope Pius XII”, which seeks to create the impression that the population of the United States consists of 30,000,000 Catholics, 30,000,000 mixed-up Protestants, and 70,000,000 other Americans that “haven’t even the religious consolation a Biblical jigsaw puzzle can give”.
The facts are that in 1940 the population of the continental United States was 131,609,275. Of this number, 55,807,366 were listed as church members, wuth 19,914,937 of these listed as Catholics, i.e., about 15 percent of the population, And this 15 percent, it should be explained, includes the Catholic babies in the cradle. Talk about nerve! Talk about gall! Of whom are these 15 percent that would grab this country composed? The ansiver is that, in proportion to their numbers, they include many times more criminals than any other people in the country.
The impression that the whole country is just about to pitch headlong into the hands of the gangsters that ruined the republics of Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other countries too numerous to mention, is carefully nursed bv skillfully staged spectacles. Thus, Spellman comes back from one of his trips (at government expense) to see the pope. An ordinary altar won’t do. It has to be fifty-one feet high, and out on the Polo Grounds, where all can see. The big idea is, how would Baal know if the whole show were not put on in a big way. Everybody that attended got one of the cards showing the fifty-one-footer and was supposed to send it on to somebody else and tell him he was there and participated in the show. Eleven bishops, fifty monsignori, 700 priests, 750 choristers and 3,000 altar boys helped put it across. The prayers were an abomination in the sight of God.-^Proverbs 28: 9.
' “Christ Dleth No More”
THERE is not the slightest shadow of excuse for anybody to plead.ignorance of the fact that the foundation of Christianity is laid “first of all” in the truth that “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures”. (1 Corinthians 15: 3) Him “God hath raised up” (Acts 2: 24), and if He had not done so Christ would still be dead.
The next point is that Christ’s death is finished business. He was sacrificed but once, having been “once offered to bear the sins of many”. (Hebrews 9: 28) The Scriptures are perfectly plain on this:
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. —Romans 6:9. '
In view of these plain statements, the following remarks published in the Holyoke, Mass., Transcript Telegram for July 1, 1944, and attributed to “Reverend Father” John C. McMahon, pastor of Holy Rosary church, can only be denounced as the wickedest kind of blasphemy :
But, my brethren, there is one still greater; there is a man, who every day opens the gates of heaven, and addressing himself to the Son of the Eternal God, says to him: “Descend from thy throne, eome, that I may place Thee where I wish, that I may give Thee to whom I please, that I may immolate Thee to Thy Father; and He comes, this Omnipotent God comes to become incarnate in the hands of this man, and to obey His voice. This man is the Priest! He is truly all powerful in Heaven, he is all powerful on.earth! A man has fallen into sin, bound by the chains of Satan; “What power can deliver him?” Angels cannot; the ever-glorious Mary, Mother of God and Queen of Angels and of men, can pray for the unfortunate wretch, but she cannot absolve him from his slightest fault. But the Priest speaks, and his chains are broken; he says: “I absolve thee,” and his sins are blotted out forever. Thus, the priest, powerful as God Himself, can in an instant snatch the sinner from hell and render him worthy of Heaven. God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His Minister, and to refuse or grant forgiveness according as the priest refuses or grants absolution; for Jesus has said to His priests: ‘“Whatsoever you shall bind upon earth shall be bound in Heaven, whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed in Heaven.”
Priests All Mixed Vp
It is not necessary to suppose that McMahon (he said this at an ordination service) was viciously trying to teach something that anybody can see is directly out of accord with the Scriptures that have already been cited in this article. Like other priests, he has confused Jesus* pronpses to His apostles that the books that they should subsequently write, and which they did write, would be, and they are, inspired. What they bound is bound; what they loosed is loosed. But while he Was at it, glorifying the new priest in the eyes of those that would henceforth fork over to him much of their wages, he wanted to make him seem as important as possible. Here are some, more things that he said, and that are just as wild and foolish:
From what has been said, you can see the greatness of the powers of the priest, which extend to all that is highest in Heaven, the Body of Christ on the Throne of God; to everything that is most precious on earth, the soul of man; to that which is very deepest in Hell, Sin! Let us all here present this morning, during this first Holy High Mass celebrated by Father Authier, thank our loving Savior most fervently for instituting the priesthood, and beseech him to preserve His priests, for without the priesthood the Church must perish.
. What McMahon said is horrible in the extreme, but the cardinal archbishop of Salzburg went him one worse when he used this language;
One may even speak of the omnipotence of ■ the priest, of an omnipotence which is beyond that of God Himself.
Many priests do not know it, but everything about the sacrifice of the mass is unscriptural and therefore is of the Devil 100 percent. It is pathetic to read how others than the priest are to reverently pick up the pieces of bread (supposed to represent Christ) which are blown into a thousand pieces in a bombing raid. Do they really think that the one that has ‘all power in heaven and in earth’ (Matthew 28:18) is in any danger of being blown to pieces in an air raid?
Confused About the Altar
All religionists are confused on the subject of altars of sacrifice. In the few places in which the subject is mentioned by the Lord and the apostles there is no hint that the Lord had in mind that there should be any formal place of sacrifice; hence the newspaper accounts of revolving altars usable for Protestant, Jewish and Catholic clergymen are perfectly ridiculous. And, anyway, who would be so foolish as to imagine that God would wish first one side of a revolving table should be presented to Him and then another, and that He would look with favor on one edge and with disfavor on the other two? It is silly.
All Catholics expect to get a good cooking in “purgatory”, even the bishops, and so there was no surprise that when Bishop Hartley (age 85) of Columbus,, Ohio, died there were hundreds of nuns present at a mass said for him. The mass, is intended to eut down the heat, but is not of the slightest benefit to the dead. They are dead.
Catholics are also taught about the “limbo” of the patriarchs and the ‘limbo” of unbaptized children. A cat that walks a back fence at night knows more about astronomy than a priest can tell about a “limbo” that never existed. There is no hint of “limbo” or “purgatory” in the Scriptures. The latter say plainly that David is not ascended into heaven; that he went to the Biblical (not the theological) hell, and is there yet, but is coming out in God’s due time.—Acts 2: 27, 34, 29; John 5: 28, 29.
There is great confusion about what occurs when one dies. Thus “Reverend Father” Kelly, 1140 West Jackson Boulevard, Drawer X, Chicago, in one of his form letters, says:
I asked you for help for little George whom God took from us last April.
God did nothing of the kind. It is Satan that has the power of death. This is perfectly illustrated in the babes whom Herod caused to be slain. The Scriptures say that they went to the ‘land of the enemy”, but that they are coming out of it. The Devil caused their death, and the little folks are in the Biblical (not the theological) hell until their resurrection.
The Two Monuments to Servetus •
YOUR recent article on Michael Servetus brought back many memories. For some years prior to November, 1939, I was pioneering in and around Geneva, and during the summer of 1934 I lodged in Rue Jean Calvin. At one end of this street Calvin’s house still stands, just across the Place St. Pierre from St. Peter’s Cathedral, and it was from here that Calvin ruled Geneva as tyrannically as ever the Johns, Benedicts and Eugenios ruled “Christendom” from the other St. Peter’s at Rome.
Later on, I remember witnessing around Champel, situated on rising ground to the east of Geneva itself, where Servetus was so cruelly done to death. It is here that the local religionists placed the monument, an irregular block of stone, mentioned at the end of your article. “Slight compensation,” indeed ! And well may you italicize' the word "expiation” in the inscription, for it was no-thing of the sort. Actually, it was an attempt at face-saving, and thereby hangs a tale the title of which might well be, “The leopard does not change his spots, but he does try to whitewash them.”
Some years prior to the erection of that stone a group of “free-thinkers”, and hence mostly atheists or agnostics, impressed with the fight which Servetus put up for freedom of thought and expression, opened a fund to erect a monument to his memory. They achieved their object, and a statue of Servetus was offered as a gift to the town of Geneva. One would have thought that the town which so prides itself on the part its people and its institutions played in the Reformation, and its battles for freedom of conscience, which has as its motto “Post tenebrax lux” (After darkness light), would have welcomed such a gift. But no 1 The city fathers thought otherwise. What right had a group of unbelievers to make a hero of a man who so successfully withstood their sainted Calvin that the latter was constrained to liquidate his opponent, and which act was the darkest stain on Calvin’s history? Of what good to hold forth Calvin to the young folks of Geneva as the upholder of Christianity in a period of stormy persecution, when such a monument to his infamy was there to remind them of what he really was? No! Let sleeping dogs lie! The offer was refused.
Not to be outdone, the Freethinkers crossed the border into France and offered their statue to the town of Anne-masse, some four ipiles away in the ultra Catholic province of Savoy. Here it was accepted and placed in Hie public square, one of the first things one sees on coming from Geneva. There is nothing heroic about it. Servetus is depicted much as Calvin must have seen him during the last days of his life, his face drawn with suffering, his clothes in tatters, his manacled hands clasped on his knees. On the four sides of the pedestal are in
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scriptions. One* gives a brief biographical sketch, speaking of Servetus’ scientific studies and his fight for intellectual freedom, of his trial in absentia at Lyons, how he was burned in effigy at Vienna, and finally in reality at Geneva. Another gives a fragment of a letter written by Servetus from his prison in Geneva; he describes his condition, “only one shirt and that an evil one” . . . “the lice devour me”, and affirms that Calvin seems determined on his destruction. (He was obviously given a “trial” similar to those accorded occasionally to Jehovah’s witnesses.) A third inscription tells the story of the monument and how it came to be erected at Annemasse.
Subsequently the expiatory stone at Champel was erected.
Protestantism, like Roman Catholicism, is slow to learn. It was, I believe, in 1937, that the leaders of the “Reformed Church” of Geneva put on a show to whip up the steadily waning interest of the population in religion. They organized a public meeting at the Monument of the Reformation, a long stone wall in one of Geneva’s public parks, with statues of the Reformation leaders placed at intervals along it. There, before a statue of Calvin several hundred Genevans swore an oath to uphold the principles of the Reformation.
May I be forgiven for indulging in a little fanciful dream? I see those hundreds mouthing words they neither mean nor understand, before the image of a bigot who used the cloak of freedom to cover his tyranny. A breath of wind , comes down from the long dark wall of the Jura mountains to the west, and carries the echo of their voices up to Annemasse, and the poor, drawn face of Servetus relaxes in a bitter smile.
But when Servetus does smile again, it will be a happy one. He will be glad that he was true to the light he had in an age of darkness, and thankful to his Creator for the chance to see that light “increase into the perfect day?.—Contributed from England.
Another Watchtower College Class ‘Sows unto the Spirit’
ONCE again another group of fine _ Christian men and women have been called to the Watchtower Bible College of Gilead to associate together for five joyous months to study the precious things of God's Word, “the sword of the spirit.” They comprise the seventh college class. Like their hundreds of predecessors they are fully ordained ministers of the gospel who have assembled to further 'sow unto the spirit’. (Galatians 6:8) Indeed it is a joy to behold such clean-cut men and women in the days of their youth diligently remembering their Creator. They have completely , turned aside from the course of this old world which is busy sowing seeds of selfishness.
While educational institutions consecrated to this old world of carnal-mindedness find themselves engulfed in postwar turmoil the Watchtower Bible College of Gilead quietly on schedule enrolled its second postwar class, which began its studies on February 21, 1946. At this college there is no confusion as to student-housing shortages, overcrowded classrooms, or an instructor deficiency. There are no controversies as to the curriculum, debating what cultural course should be included. Further, there are no heated discussions as to administrative postwar educational policies. Why is the Watchtower Bible College so singularly blessed? Because it is a college consecrated to God’s new world of righteousness, being dedicated with a fixed purpose to a set course. Its course is set to be attuned to the unshifting ' purposes of the great Universal Sovereign, Jehovah, who in highest justice is determined to fully vindicate His name. Jehovah, as the Great Educator, has lovingly provided and preserved His counsel in His textbook, the Bible. It is this library of 66 books today comprising our Bible that forms the basis for almost all the courses offered at the college. Thus being moored to this great fountain of truth there is no uncertainty as to educational courses of study. Furthermore, it is the object to offer this advanced Bible training to Theocratic ministers in preparation for foreign missionary service.
The week-end following the exhilarating Baltimore Assembly (February 8-10), students of the seventh Gilead class began to arrive at Kingdom Farm, South Lansing, N.Y. For four days the new arrivals, together with their baggage, constituted a large amount of the traffic between Ithaca and Kingdom Farm, nine miles to the north. Though a snowstorm was in progress, with accompanying drifts covering the roads, nothing daunted the eager travelers in successfully reaching their journey’s end at Gilead. They came a few days early to get settled in the dormitories as well as to make acquaintances with their many new student associates. At a special get-together assembly Wednesday evening in the college auditorium songs were sung, many experiences were related by both men and women, who came to the platform to tell their story, and finally questions were answered by the president as to his recent mission in Europe, describing the many missionary activities of Jehovah’s witnesses in those lands.
Thursday, February 21, was opening day. The president of the college, Mr. N. H. Knorr, gave the opening address. He compared this day’s service with that of the opening of the first college class, February 1, 1943, more than three years ago. He restated the founding principles and purposes of the college and showed how many of the objectives have been largely achieved. Of the 556 graduates in the previous six college classes he remarked that nearly 200 were now stationed in foreign fields in 26 countries of the earth, there busily discipling the nations, feeding and educating men of
good-will in harmony with their com-mission‘from Almighty God. Yes, hundreds are the "other sheep” that have been gathered into the “one fold” by the Good Shepherd, Christ Jesus, through the ministerial efforts of Watchtower Bible College graduates. Surely the Lord has blessed the establishment of the college, and now this new student body will have the privilege of being trained in like manner to aid in the piling up of a world-wide heap of witness. President Knorr spoke on the further subject of the fruits of the spirit (Galatians, fifth chapter). He emphasized Paul’s counsel that as they sow to the spirit so shall they reap abundantly the fruits of the spirit, which are love, joy, peace, goodness and faithfulness. The more diligent and greater their efforts in studying during the next five months, the more abundant will be their stored-away spiritual treasures. Likewise the more efficient they will be in their ministry in the strenuous days of Theocratic warfare abroad. He reminded the students that the field work abroad will not be easy and no student at this time should have any delusions as to conditions in the foreign fields. If any feel they will not be able to physically'stand the rigors of the foreign service, it is not too late now to withdraw. The foreign field requires men and women wholly devoted to the Lord who are willing to make a sacrifice giving their all in eon-secration to the Kingdom interests.
After having introduced the instructors and their respective courses, President Knorr dismissed the assembly, enabling the students to file to their several classrooms for their first day at college. Of necessity the class schedule for the day was limited, nevertheless permitting the students to become further acquainted with their instructors and their course of study and to receive textbooks and supplies. The day passed all too quickly for most of them, while leaving a few others in a bit of a whirl. As experienced in previous class-
APRIL 10, 1046 es, all will become accustomed to their new routine, getting thoroughly acquainted with their new surroundings, associates and studies. Learning how to study effectively and to concentrate are the chief battles to be early won by most students. Counsel and coaching are rendered by the instructors toward this end.
The seventh college class is an international one, even as were previous ones. Of the total enrollment of 105 (58 males and 47 females) 18 are students from other lands. Students are registered from Canada, Brazil, Philippine Islands, as well as two from Vienna, Austria. It is worthy of mention that fpr the first time students from a war-torn country of Europe are represented. It is hoped that they are merely the forerunners of scores of faithful European witnesses, Theocratic ministers who have maintained their integrity through the horrors of war, to be privileged to travel to America to share in the joys and privilege of advanced training. The president further announced that four of the students of this new class were already assigned to travel to Italy upon completion of their studies.
Weeks and months of hard study amidst pleasant surroundings will be the blessed lot of this new student body. Theirs will also be the joy in sharing in the construction of a new college building on the campus. Surely as they now earnestly sow to the spirit they wTill reap joys a hundredfold in the days to come in that part of the Lord’s vineyard that lies waiting for them far afield from these shores.
New Corks
♦ Enter a new cork. It is made of finely-ground peanut shells, vegetable glue, sugar and glycerine. This new product, called noreseal, has the same properties as cork itself and bids fair to make the United States independent of natural cork products.
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Easter Egg and Rabbit Not Christian
IN THE King James Version Bible the word “Easter” occurs once, at Acts 12:4; but in the Roman Catholic Douay Version it reads “pasch”, to agree with pascha of the Greek original text. That “Easter” is not of Christian origin is plainly stated in any true Bible Dictionary, From McClintock & Strong’s Biblical Cyclopedia, under “Easter”, wTe quote the following: "Easier is a word of Saxon origin, and imports a goddess of the Saxons, or, rather, of the East, Estera, in honor of whom sacrifices being annually offered about the Passover time of the year (spring), the name became attached by association of ideas to the Christian festival of the resurrection, which happened at the time of the Passover; hence we say Easterday, Easier-Sunday, but very improperly; as we by no means refer the festival then kept to the goddess of the ancient Saxons. So the present German word for Easter, Ostern, is referred to the same goddess, Estera or Ostera.”
From The Catholic Encyclopedia, under the heading “Easter”, we quote the following: “2. Easter Eggs.—Because the use of eggs wTas forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead wms probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. ... 3. The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for wrhieh reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan sym- ’ bol and has always been an emblem of fertility (Simrock, Mythologie, 551). 4. In France handball playing was one of the Easter amusements, found also in Germany (Simrock, op. cit, 575). The ball may represent the sun, which is believed to take three leaps in rising on Easter morning. Bishops, priests, and monks, after the strict discipline of Lent, used to play ball during Easter week, ...”
The association of Easter and its pagan customs and pastimes with God’s greatest miracle of resurrection has brought great reproach upon Jehovah God and Christ Jesus, and religion is responsible: Instead of smothering over God’s miracle by Easter paganisms, let us say clearly in vindication of God and Christ these truths: At the time that Jesus was anointed with God’s spirit at the Jordan river, in which He had been baptized, He was given the promise of immortality and the “divine nature”. His faithfulness in performing the work which His heavenly Father gave Him to do would guarantee Him that great reward. In due time the perfect man Jesus died, and His perfect life laid down in death corresponded exactly with the perfect human life that Adam possessed in Eden before he sinned. Jesus was dead and in hell (the grave) for three days.
Prior to that time God’s prophet had written concerning Jesus: “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shewT me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psalm 16:10,11; Acts 2:30-33) Three days from His death His Father, Jehovah God, raised Him up out of death. If Jesus was God incarnate, then for three days the universe was without a God. Certainly the
trinitarians are wrong on this ‘"God incarnate” doctrine, just as they are on Easter, The divine record as to God’s raising up Jesus is: “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy [spirit] and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. And we [apostles] are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly,”—Acts 10: 38-40. ■
Call to mind that Jesus stated that His Father had given Him the promise of immortality, or “life in himself”, as recorded at John 5: 26. The man or human creature must remain dead forever, if Jesus gave His flesh for the life of the believers in Him, By that is meant that Jesus could not be raised up out of death as a man or human creature if He laid down His perfect human life as a ransom or redemptive price in behalf of sinful humankind. In harmony with His promise, Jehovah God raised up Jesus Christ out of death to life immortal as a glorious spirit creature. Note the apostle Paul’s argument in this connection. Before the Son of God became a man He was a spirit creature in the form of God, Unlike the unfaithful Lucifer, He did not seek to grasp that which justly belonged to Jehovah God, but divested himself of His spirit properties and became a man. Being a perfect man, He humbled himself willingly unto death and then God raised Him up to immortality as a spirit. “Who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Wherefore-also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the
APRIL. 10. 19« name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”—Philippians 2:6-11, Am. Stan. Ver.
Christ Jesus was put to death as a man but made alive as a spirit creature. So says the apostle Peter, at 1 Peter 3:18: “Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,” (Am. Stan. Ver.) He was exalted to the position of glory and immortality with His Father. (Revelation 3: 21) After His resurrection Jesus declared: “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” (Revelation 1:18) God, therefore, gave Him immortality even as He had promised to do.
On His resurrection day, on which day the Jewish high priest offered to God, not red-colored eggs laid by rabbits, but the first-fruits of the grain harvest, Jesus appeared and said to Mary Magdalene: “Touch [hold] me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: hut go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” (John 20:17) When clergymen, who mix up Jesus’ resurrection with Easter eggs and bunnies, say that Jesus was God incarnate, very man and very God, they ignore Jesus’ words just quoted. He was not then a man, although He appeared in flesh just as many angels before Him had done. Peter says He was raised from the dead a spirit person. Was He God Jehovah himself? The Easter-celebrating clergy say, Yes. But Jesus said, ‘No, Jehovah God is my Father, I have not yet ascended to Him, but I will ascend to Him who is my God and your God.’ Jesus told the truth. Will you believe Him or the religious clergy?
Theocratic Assembly in the Philippines November 9-11, 1#4# '
DOMINATION of the earth has been a hotly contested issue during the ’ past frightful decade. Not only have European dictators aspired to conquer the world, but the Japanese warlords have 1 endeavored to seize control of the opposite side of the globe. The war-crimes and atrocity trials begun in 1945 have dramatized the utter failure of all such totalitarian forces.
Another issue, however, of far greater importance than the mere domination of the earth’s surface and people, has also been before creation. It involves the domination of the entire universe, and, therefore, is frequently referred to as the issue of Universal Domination. Briefly, it is the issue between Satan the Devil and Jehovah God, the issue of “AVho is supreme?” It is the question as to whether creatures will worship and serve Jehovah or Satan.
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