Awake!, October 22, 1946

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Peace by World Education?

The education that will win eternal peace is at hand

Delinquency's Harvest

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"

Pioneering the Way to Heaven

The way hlazed for entry by others on earth

Defense Denied in Courts

Right to defend against indictment not allowed Jehovah's witnesses

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CONTENTS

Will World Education Establish Peace? 3

What Sy&tem Shiill Be Adopted 7

Wrong and Right Methods

Education Mnkcs the Difference

Religion 'Void of 1'tnciple

Delinquency’; Harvest

Religion Fenrs to A.dvocate

the Bible Remedy

Slave Women of Japan Freed

Look at Those Autumn Leaves!

Hallowee11

Overthrowing the Kings of the Earth 14

Scientific Savages

Gilead Opeus Eighth School Term

1'Thy Word Is Truth"

Pioneering the Way to Heaven

Pions Pressure on Politieiat:;

Defense Denied Jebovnlt's witnesses

by Courts

Boards Ordered Ministers to War

Courts Rubber Stamps for Boards

Fight Reaches Climax iu Supreme Court 26

Flood of Prosecutions Sweep Out Justice 28

Watching the World

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ZlVUAKE/

Volume XXVI Brooklyn, N. Y., October 22, 1946 Njl.ir.«.

Will World Education Establish Peace?

THERE is no question that there is a need for peace and unity throughout the world at the present time. The question is, How can such desired peace be established ? Since all efforts to outlaw war through treaty agreements have failed, many leaders of the world say that peace will come only through education, education of the whole world.

While many are willing to admit that peace and unity can be attained through world education, not many are willing to agree on the method and system to be employed. "What kind of textbooks shall be used? What system of instruction shall be employed' Who shall supervise the education of the world? These are the knotty questions that must first be decided correctly before any globeencircling peace can be attained through world education.

Hitlor and his gang thought that they could unify the whole world by seizing the children in their cribs and, by brute force, educating them in the Nazi way of thinking. Bnt such totalitarian world education did not and could not establish a genuine and lasting peace. The older method of world education employed by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy during the heyday of the •(Holy Roman Empire" also failed to estahlish peace. Their method consisted of educating. only the clergy to Tead and wdte and speak, while the masses were educated in the art of being silent and subservient to papal Rome.

With the corning of the Reformation light that Dark Ago method of education in superstition and fear vanished from many parts of the earth, and great advancements in science and learning were soon made Even during the last quarter-century a great battle has been won against illiteracy. It is said that 30i000,000 in Inclia, 40,000,000 in China and 100,000,000 in Russia have been taught to read. Nevertheless, peace has not come as a result of such education, but rather wars. The most terrible and peace-shattering wars in all human history have come with the advancement made in the education of the masses. Why is this!

After a year of study the Vienna History Teachers Association of Austria has come to the conclusion that one of the greatest faults in the educational program is in the history books used in the schools of the world. In such textbooks militarism and hero-worship have been stressed, and this glorifying of past wars is thought to be the cause for modern-day wars. Consequently Austria is revising all her history hooks to show primarily tJie history of economic and cultural pnrsnits, with the record of wars placed in a secondary position. It is a mistake, however, to thinli that such revision will lead to world peace, as will be shown subsequently.

What System Shall Be Adopted?

If the educational systems of the de-ftated ''Axis" powers are to he discarded. what svstew is to be used in their lJlace l It:; the American system or the Ttussian type a satisfactory model for world education? Consider for a moment the American system.

A11 will agree that the present generation ol' American 11 ‘n and women have had the greatest educational advantages of any pcopJp 011 this earth. .More of her hoys and girl:-; have gone and are going to college titan hi all the rest of the world put together. However, this does not warrant the conclusion that they enjoy greater peace aud nnHy among themselves than other nations, as a result of such education. The juvenile delinquency aml parpn t eli’ linquenc.y too, the inability of parents tn govern Ilieir immediate fmnil ir’s, do not testi l'y that the educational svstem ol' America is the best. The fact that America has more criminals than all the rest oJ tlte world pnt together does nol ; argue in favor of America's twentieth-century system of education. Nor do the race riots and hatreds of mi-Jiorities in this ronntry recommend the American system ns the means of gaining world-wide unity among a thousand tongues and creeds. No, the American sy:-;tern of education, though admittedly far superior to the totalitarian system of tlte Nnzis or the authoritarian system of tJie Hierarchy, is, nevertheless, wholly inadequate as a means of establishing world peare.

What about the Russian system? Is it an ideal model of edneation? Notwithstanding the fact that Russia spends four times m; much on the education of her people al'i the United States, yet her system must he rejected at the very outset. Common logic will not accept the Russian system, since its very foundation and structure is wrOng. If a totalitarian state brand or education under a label of Fascism or Nazism is a proyed failure, then with like force totalitarian methods of education that bear the Communist label are unsatisfactory.

Corrective Measures

.At its first peacetime conference at Buffalo, N. Y., the National Education Association considered many problems facing the educators oi the country. Much of the time of the 3,000 delegates was spent in discussing the lowering of standards for teachers that took place during the war, nnd ah-m the low wages paid teachers todav. Admitting that incompetence is a present menace, yet the question is asked: Did the high standards teachers had to nwet in prewar days prevent World War II, or will the mere raising of teachers' salaries prevent World War lilt Raise the pny of teachers, and raiRe tlio requirements teachers nave to meet, will this prevent school children from becoming vandals and destroying property worth t Itonsands of dollars, such as they did on sevoral occasions in New York city within the last year! Since international banditry is only a glorified form of juvenile vandalism, more drastic changes than these must be made in the educational systems if world peace is to be secured.

The conference of the National Education Assoriation did not dismiss until it had made its re<'ommendations for solv-• ing the problem of world education a:; a means of establishing pencf'. Mr. Benjamin Fine, who covered the Buffalo meetings for the New York Times, reported:

Looking beyond immediate professional problems, however, the cducalors adopted a world-wide point of view. Complete support was given to the United Nations Educational, Scientific aud Culturol Organization; many of the leaders urged that teachers everywhere build their st'hool curriculum around the work of the United Nations. . . .

One of the first jobs for UNESCO, the educators suggested, might be a revision of textbooks to eliminate hiasetl and ultranation-alistic statements. It was proposed that a universal history book, presenting 311 impartial and fair account of the contributions of every nation, should be prepared for general school use. Similarly. other texts, cleaused of biased material, could follow.

That Buffalo conference thus set the stage for the world conference of educators that took place n few weeks later.

World Organization

At the International Education Conference held at Endicott, N. Y., during the last two weeks in August of this year some thirty different countries were represented. Their deliberations resuJted in the drawing up of a constitution for what is called the "World Organization of the Teaching Profession". Article II of that charter reads:

The purpose of this organization shall be to secure world-wide eo-operation with the teaching profession in order:

(1) To make the highest standards of full and free education available to all without discrimlna tion.

(2) To improve the professional status of the teachers of the world and to promote their intellectual, material, social aod civic interests and rights.

(3) To promote world-wide peace through the building of good-will founded upon co-operatioo between nations in edurational enterprises, hascd upon pertinent and accurate informal ion.

(4) To ndvisc the appropriate organs of the United Nations and of other international bodies on educational and professional matters.

Be it noted that the purpose to establish world peace and unity is shovt-d into third and fomth place by this new organization. Other things absorb the interest of this organization, as noted by the New York Times.

The dcliberatioos of these delegates over recent days have tourhed on a wide range of subjects; the desirability of setting up an international university, a world campaign lo reduce illiteracy, the Med for more foreigu-langnage study as a I’ond to peace and better understanding, revision of curricula to emphasize interculttarnl relations, exchange on a broader' basis of teachers and students from nation to nation, and the elimination of bias in textbooks.

Though the runhitiont' of these internationally minded educators are great, and their motives are, no doubt, the highest, yet their undertah-ing is much greater than their abilities.

Wrong and Right Methods

What conclusion are we to di'aw from all of this sfu- among the educational profession of the world i Are we to accept the theory that th'Y will establish peace and nnity in this world ol chaotic confusion? Or should we challenge their nice-sounding theories with the bard hut honest facts 1 Better it is to know the truth thaji to believe a li<'. Better it is to know now that their e tiort:,; to estah-Ush peace through world education will not succeed, hut arc doomed to fall.

Notwithstanding the fact that the setting up of the World 0 I'ganization of the Teaching Profession was "hailed by the educators ai:! a landmark in education and as a new era in world understanding"', such efforts will fail as a peacemaker. Probably the hest way to prove this assertion is to draw a comparison. Compare these proposed educational methods that are wrapped up in the United Nations organiznlion with the tried and proved methods used by the "Glad Kations" of the Watchtower organization.

T1je Watchtower Society is an international organization of teachers known as Jehovah':; witnesses. Their chief textbook iis tlte Bible, portions of which are published in over a thousand languages. In addition therp-to they have Bible helps and handbooks printed in 8S languages, which publications have been distrilLrnted among the people to the extent of -!68,-000.000 copies. With the use of these publications .Jehovah's witnesses spend millions of hours every year teaching the people the truth.

Tile results of this educational work were openly manifest at the recent international convention of these teachers held at Cleveland, Ohio, August 4-11 (see the September 22 issue of Awake!). At that convention there were upward of 60,000 delegates in attendance, from 32 nations, and sessions were held in 20 different languages. Officially H was designated the "Glad Nations" Assembly, and indeed it was the most marvelous demonstration of gladness. unity and peace ever held. VVhat a contrast lietween that "Glad Nations" assembly and that quarreling so-called "United Nations" gathering!

Education Makes the Difference

If the sanie education were given in the public schools of the world as given Jehovah's witnesses, then tlteTe would be no strife between men, no hatred between races, no wars between nations. Like Peter, they would exclaim: "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation be that feareth Jim, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him."—Acts 10:34, 35.

It is no fanciful word-picture that is here painted. It is a fact that is testified to by the thousands upon thousandR of men and women of every nationality, namely, Jehovah's witnesses. Did anyone ever hear of these witnesses' being Nazis or Fascists or Communists, though they Jived in those countries? No, Jehovah's witnesses were the ones that were tortured in the concentratjon camps at. the hands of the totalitarians. Did anyone ever hear of the "witnesses" of one nation fighting their brethren of another nation on the Lattlefields' No, never f But the world has heard of Catholics of Italy fighting Catholics of America, and Protestants of Germany fighting Protestants of Britain, all because of their wrong education.

History Is Important

To say that history as taught in the past is the cause of war is foolishness. The fact that God's true worshipers are lovers and -pursuers of peace is not because they have avoided reading presentday history books. History is important. By studying secular history lovers of righteousness learn how selfish politics, greedy commerce and hypocritical religion have heen the moving forces behind every war that lias ever been fought. Consequently, when tlu>Re elements whip up an open conflict today righteously disposed persons, heeanse of their right education, avoid becoming involved.

Today, when reactionary forces are so anxious to seize the history books ann censor from them the history of man's past bloody course on this ear-th under the pretense that it wil establish peace lovers of freedom of aU nations should rise up n1 vigorous protest. What or-gmiizatimis hnve iii times past burned Bibles ancl destroyed histoi’Y books? All wlto know their history well know that Ilie Roman Catholic Hierarchy is notorious for its Bible-burning exploits. They know, too, that the Catholic-supported Fascist and Nazi regimes of Italy, Spain and Germany have ravished. the Hln’aries of those countries, destroying much historical evidence of the Vutican's rage and rape of the nations. Beware, then, ye liberty-loving educators, when sinister forces today endeavor to "cleanse" the books oJ ‘vhat the Hierarchy calls “biased material": for such Jesuitic proposal to rewrite the history books is in a wrapper falsely Jaheled democracy.

Again the question is forced upon us: Wil peace be established by education of the world? This time we have the answer at hand. There can be no peace ; not nnJess there are more radical changes made than the ones that are now proposed by the world's ediiNttors. It is all too obvious that uo effort to educate the world by any modification of this old world's systems, by rewriting the textbooks, or by any confederate super world organization with its censorship

and suppression of the truth, will ever pave the way to a lasting peace on earth between the nations. Peace on earth will be established only when the hearts and minds of men of good-will are educated in the precepts and commandments of the great Theocrat, Jehovah, who is the ''God of peace".—Bomans 16:20.

Religion Vaid of Principle

Disrespect

Cl. On September 11, 1946, Mrs. Ida Stover Eisenhower died in Abilene, Kans. Private services were conducted at the home, and publie services followed at the graveside. Both services were handled by an army chuplain irom Ft. Riley. Was that in respect for Mrs. Eisenhower f Pnllbea;:er$ were three American Legionnaires nnd three Veterans of Foreign Wars. Was that appropriate Y

Though Time magazine claimed Ida Stover Eisenhower was a member of the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect, Time was merely con tinuing its consistent policy of slander in all that pertains to .Jehovah's witnesses. She was never a River Brethren. She was one of Jehovah's witnessps, Th<‘ frst study in the Watchtower magazine in Abilene, Kans., started in her home n 1895. Her bnme \'\'tiS the meetingplace till 1915, when a hall was obtained. She continued a reegular publisher with Jehovah’s witnesses till 1942, when failing health rendered ber inactive; but she remained a stannch be-iiever.

In 1942 her husband, also one of Jehovah's witnesses, died. One of Jehovah's witnesses preached the funeral service. Mrs. I. S. Eisenhower, like nll Jehovah's witnesses, believed religion a rucket and the clergy in general, including army chaplains, to be hypocrites. She harbored no special pridc for "General Ike"; she was opposed to his West Point appointment. It was gross disrespect l.o the deceased for an army Chaplain to officiate nt the funeral.

As for the pallbearers. The American Legion particularly, and a]so the Veterans of Foreign Wnrs, are repeatedly ringleaders in mob violence against Jehovah's witnesses. Hundreds of instances could be cited, but ilhistrn-tive s the one occurring the Sunday before Mrs. Eisenhower's death, in near-by Imva. There wu veterans broke utp a public Bible OCTOBER 22, 1946 meeting of .Jehovah's witnesses, doing much physical violence. HuCUy appropriate, then, was it, for such to act as pa.lbearers'

Only death could keep the body of Mrs. Eisenhower from wnlking away from a funeral so disrespectful of all that she stood for.

Murderers

Cl. Fifty-four prominent clergymen of New York have signed a statement approving euthanasia, or "mercy" killing. They declared in their statement that such killing "should not be re-gtnded as contrary to the teachings of Christ or to the principles of Christianity".

Clergy-like, they offered no proof. The fact that they say it makes it unquestionable, they reason. Once mnre they would lead the people astray. We wouldn't expcrjt the fifty-four presumptuous ones to know it, but the Bible re-e.ords a "mercy" killing. In anguish wounded King Saul asked a young man to kill him. The man did, because he was "sure that he could not live after th&t be was fallrn". But God's representativr, King David, ordered the mercy-killer e'!ecutcd. (2 Samuel 1: 5-15) The defenseless sick, such as incurable lepers, were not to lie killed in mook "mercy". The Bible is against it. The Nazis practiced it, and now clergy sponsor it here.

Blasphemy

Cl. The Dodgera of Brooklyn, baseball club in the National League, finished their season under a handicap. A foolish "Reverend" Benson launched a blasphemous prayer campaign on behalf of "Dem Bums", the Dodgers. The club lost the next game; also the pennant. The hypocrite's cheap stunt was only to horn il on Dodger publicity. He got it, his picture praying in front of a grinning crowd appealing in the paper. He has his reward. Only it is a shame he is so conceited that he cn:nnot see the crowd s laughng at him. What a modem Pharisee I

Delinquency's

■11 Harvest

ARIS!NG tide of immorality rolls over the earth. And on the crest of tile wave perches the grim specter of venereal diseases. Desperately hut vainly frantic hmuanity tries to unseat this unwelcome rider of the tide. Excited forums chatter out thE'i: proposed hattie strategies against the dreaded foe. Wagging tongues of religious and social workers husily flood out their remedies, talking, talking, talking. But in their multitude of words doeR an enr attuned to God": Word ever catch a mention of the only real remedy, the remedy that is so siu e, yet so simple and well known 1 If so., it is soon drowned in the din of cminary babble. lt is like a •voice crying nut in the wilderness’ to call for a square-faeing of the issue and to advise God's remedy. This old world that so prides itself on being realistic cannot take that remedy. It plugs its cars and struggles desperately to go on in its lustful way in immunity, to mock Gocl by sowing evil without reaping the results.

Bu1 Jehovah god is not mocked. not by this world':-; social workers, not by its educator’s, not by its religious advisers, no, not even by the brightest minds of its brainiest scientists. All their' remedies return unto them void; evil crops sown are gathered in time of harvest. God's Word is true wlien it says: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh ::;baJI of the flesh reap corruption; hut he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everla::;ting.” (Galatians (j; 7, 8) Or, to make the text more pointed through the modern English of An American Translation, it may read: "God is not to be sneered at. A man wil reap just what lie sows. The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the main who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal lite from the spirit.''

In other words, and bluntly put, moral degeneracy brings with it many woes, among which are venereal djseases. At a forum held in Louisiana on March 4i Hl46, Dr. Agee, formerly connected with the ::;tate department of health, declared that one of the main indexeg of syphilis has shown 44 out of every 1,000 persons in the Uuite.d States to be infected, and warned that it was steadily becoming a greater public menace. He further stated : "The number of deaths directly at-trihutable to syphilis are surprisingly higli. A large percentage of ou:r insanity cases ean he traced to a venereal disease, while at feast 15 percent of all blindness can he blamed on the same thing. Heart disease may be caused by the same disease j while we liate to admit this fnei, it nevertheless is true.” According to this doctor, the_life expectancy of one infeetecl is cut 18 to 30 percent.

Sulfa Drugs and Penicillin

When the vaunted sulfa drugs and penicillin were discovered a few year::; back, loudly were they hailed as rapid cures for venereal diseases. They came as a license to sow immoralities without l'ear of the dreaded harvest of disease. Thousands flocked to rapid-treatment centers for social diseases. Gonorrhea was supposed to he routed after one day of treatment, with syphilis requiring hospitalizaiion uurl ireatment of from eight days to three weeks, d.eppnding on the stage of infection. This was considered a glorious victory, in view of the year-and-a-half’s tinw formerly required as miuiiiinm t reatment for syphilis.

But, ala:;. ‘‘‘itereal disease, commonly symbolized \"'1>, was down Imt not ont. Wonder-working peni<' i 11 in and snl fa drugs scored early triumphs against VD, hut they did not always win the final decision. ‘the m dicos how admit that “antibiotics, wliit h inelude tlu:> ::;ul fa drngs and penicillin, fail to work after a time. The reason is that bacteria adapt themselves to the antibiotics”. The Cnit-cd States army dropped its issue of sulfa drugs to the men ror their nse whf’n wounded on the battlefield. Not only dill the drug::; l'ail to lieal wounds satisfactorily, but too many of the soldiers misused them. A dispatch in the New York Times teJis why:

The reason for abandoning the eight sulfa tablets was mainly that too many nwn saweil up the issues to ww the t ablets [or gonori’liiw. There is one serious risk in self-curos of this venereal disease: If a man does not take enough he not only fails to cure the disease, but afterward his germs nrc likely to have an immunity from the sui fas which makes it difficull to eure him at al!.

Penicillin's reverses and YD's comeback are headlined in the Providenee, H. J_.. BN'Win.CJ Bulletin of March 14, 1946, as follows:

PjcNrcILLIN Losing Puxuu As Tough GERMS INCREASE

Penicillin is losing its punch so rapidly tlint it was predicted today this wonder drug may heeome almost completely useless in a few years for a number oJ' the most prevalent <lisrtis(‘s. The trouble is not in penicillin, but in special strains of germs, present iii many diseases. which are able to resist penicillin, and which are spreading rapidly while their fellows are being destroyed by the drug.

In some hospitals the cures of gonorrhea by penicillin have dropped from 1he original almost 100 percent to about 50 percent. Similar decreases are going on in other dLseases, but not so rapidly. In gonorrhea more than 30 different strains of germs are known. It makes no difference to the patient which one causes the disease, except that some of these strains resist penicillin. . . . for some time other physicians have been dsscussing the pos-sihility that these resistant strains in the venereal disease, hceause they remain untouched, will spread until they are universally scattered.

Dr. Joseph E. Moore. of Johns Hov-ldjjs Medical College, in a tall before the National Academy of Hcienees ill Washington. D.C.. declared: “A bombshell was dropped in our ranks when we oL-taiiiecl a solution of K type [penicillin] and biological tests agniiiKl syphilis in rabbits demonstrated that it wal:i ineffective against the disease." The article in the New York Smulaj News that reported this further said: '•The dh;-closure of this ineffectiveness set up a state of alarm among patients who ltad previously Wu treated for syphilis/'

Increase of Disease

As immorality increases, so does its companion, VD, far from beaten. A flis-patch from Reattle, Wash., and published in the New 'York Bw«ul«y News of September 8, 1!J4ti, stated :

Incj'eusing white settlement in Alaska has not boci3 an unmixed blessing. According to Don Foster, general superintendent of native affairs, tuhei'i'ul osb and venereal disease are causing luwm? among Eskimos, Indium; and Aleuts. Poster estimates that 50 percent. of the natives have tuberculosis and "about as mauy as the army normal” have venereal disease. But other Aluska sources canvassed t hvoughout om- vixit put tlw TB rate at. 78 percent anil the YD figimes u1. from 75 percent in t he cities to iwar 100 percent in the vicinity of military camps and construction project s.

Foster is bitterly indignant at the attitude of the army authorities toward natives. "We have more than 500 illegitimate half-white children to care for, the progeny of GI or construction workers, who have skipped out of the Territory,’" he said. “It would seem that the army deliberately encourages this promiscuity. Whenever our department tries to catch up with a soldier who has seduced or made a mother of a native girl, the army covers him up and nvariably transfers him out of Alaska before we can reach him."

Isn't civilization a boon to the ahorigi-nesY Or is it?

The News Chronicle, July 13, 1946, reports:

More tlian one in evpry four American troops in Germany hus venereal disease, the chief U. S. surgeon in Frankfurt disclosed today. Incidence is now higher than ever before and possibly the highest in American history. Two hundred and sixty-four American troops in every 1,000 had venereaJ disease on June 21, compared with 74 per 1,000 on VE Day. The announcement added that the disease rate W08 still increasing.

Following is the chaplain-supported countermeasure adopted by the army, but not the one recommended by God's •Word. It was published in the New York Herald Tribune, August 30, 1946.

German Girls Put in 'Rogue's Gxiann'Y'

Frankfurt am Main, Aug. 29—A "rogues' gallery" which includes the picture of every gii'l in the Bavarian city of Landshut who has been found to be infected with venereal disease has been posted on every company bulletin board of the American 16th Infantry Regiment, as a new contribution to the fight against the rising YD rate. The girls whose pictures are placurded were picked lip n spot raic.ls by vice squads in night clubs and other iiu;tallations frequented by G.I.s. . . .

The Chaplains Corps wil actively participate in a drive throughout the American oc-cupa.t.ion zone of Germany, opening September 1, to reduce the VD rate which has become the highest in army history.

That is a rather lopsided approach to the problem. Infected women are identified as rogues to be shunned as dangerous, but infected men go ou to specially concentrate on clean girls. That program should insure the contamination of ali women, in time. Women who ai’e clean are benefited by no warning “rogues’ gallery" of infected men. But this selfish, nationalistic approach is not the noteworthy point so much as is the religious chaplains' support and their pinning hopes 011 the remedies and arrangements of men. If they are God's servants, if they are champions of His commandments, why are their tongues silent on the very basic nrjd elementary remedy clearly expounded in the Bible?

Religion Fears to Advocate

tlze Bible Remedy

That sure remedy is simply put in the seventh of the Ten Commauiments: "Thou shalt not commit adultery.” In five little words the world has the remedy. Wlia.t sJia.rp contrast with the volumes of babblings that gush forth froui the worlds false physicians and healers ! Of course, it is true the Mosaie law was replaced by a new covenant at the time of' Christ's tirst advent; but the righteous principle of this Seventh Commandment was carried over. The apostle Paul wrote under inspiration: "Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminatei nor abusers of tHetnselves witJi mankind, iior thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."—Exodus 20: 14; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10.

The clergy of Christendom know these Bible commands, but they do not vigorously preaeli them because such religious leaders fear to swim against the rising tide of delinquent humanity, many of whom are pious church members. The clergy betray their trust to adults, to youth, and to God. They rear men more thau they fear God. They fear to face an issue, to be •unpopular with the crowd or wi tli "this preseii t evil world'', to meet up with any possible persecuti on. Moreover, they fear a los::; of revenue in the church roffers; ami hence tlwy babble ont their vain philosophizings anU eartickling platitudes to court the approval of m ,n. God is too far removed from them for them to take Him into consideration. AVhy, the leading religions sect of Christendom claims to grant absolution, for a money consitlerat iun, for immorality; bnt sucli fakery brings no absolution from the ravages of VD.

No, it seems that the Bible command ''Thou slialt not commit adultery" is not acceptable to the nations colleetively and hypocritically called "Christendom”, or to their armies or navieH, or to their broad-minded chaplain; anU clergy gE:m-erallv. These jneii who love to I.Je titled "Jteverend” and "F'atlwr" and "Rabbi", contrary to Bihlo commands (.Job 32: :21, 22; Matthew 23:1-12), carry the Bible only for effect, Just ns tl h? scribes and Pharisees of Jesns' day donned an outward form of godliness merely to be seen of men. So these popular worldly religionists have not the courage to emn-paign for morality aml deceucy till a time of proper marriage with a clean companion as the remedy for VD. Such clean conduct, like tLe Bible, is considered too old-Fashioned for the delinquents of this modern world, this smart world, whose wisdom is foolish to God and His Word, the Bible.—1 Corinthians 3:19.

The moral degenerates raucously claim their lewd conduct is only natural. PTiey err. Naturalness is to live clean lives and marry and have children and raise such children decently. Lust is to roam about and satisfy perverted passion indiscriminately and without regard for consequences or responsibility, without regard for anything, in fact, hut oneself'. That is not naturalness, but ultraselfishness. Delinquents cannot blame the Creator for their immoralities, in a futile attempt at ::;elf-justification.

So on comes the mounting tide of immorality, and still 011 the crest of its wave triumphantly perches the grim specter of venereal diseases. It is Noah's day of a wicked world all over again; it is the perilous times of the "last days". (Genesis 6: 5-7; ~ Matthew 24: 37-39; 2 Timothy 3: 1-5) Newly discovered wonder-working remedies may come in like a flood from scientific laboratories, hut still man will reap as he sows. Final reaping will come at the battle of Armageddon. "God is not to be sneered at." AnU Inf’tful delinquents who scoff at aU the foregoing are reminded that in so doing they supply another of the foretold sig’ns of "the last days": “There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts/'—2 Peter 3 : 3.

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Slave Women of Japan Freed

^ .Japon has exploited its women as a "naturlll resouree”. Foreruost in Big Business trailing in girls is the Gf'islw Association. Inciclcnl ally, the institution of geisha as duneing und singing entertainers jins long since chungecl into undisguised prostitution. Girls are leased or sold by the heads of their’ families, and earnings are divided among the Geisha Association, the member bouses to which the girls an sent, the girl;' furuilies, nncl the girls. The sale of daughters illto the slavery of prostitution is a centurit’s-old ctu;tom of Japanese families.

Now tbut custom has ended. General MueAxthur ordered Lhat Japun must obey the section of the Potsdam DecJaratiou guaranteeing "respect for Lhe fuud!lieutal human rights”. Under it Japan must annul al laws permitting sale of girls and nullify presp.nt cnntraets.

I^Smter w couJil ['ail that. And

t pbOR-! rtfwa^ou ever seen nl'UTg’? 011ly s<>tu>' Master a giant; }!rush and palette ie whole countryside like

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This Great Artist picks np His brush and tnrns out a mnsterpiece o£ multicolored leaves, not onco a year, but twire. orice in the northern and once in the

sonthern hemisphere. (This age is driving us to ltecoiiw global minded.) In the north temperate zone astronomers say autumn hegins about September 22 ajid ends ahout December 21; iu AnsfraUa it astronomically begins about March 22 anU ends about June 21. But most of us are not ;a-t rornrnmrs,. ami so in our common language aiitumtU-pjiH-or I'alltin^e designates that season oi year between summertime aml wintertime. Autumn in England comprises tJie months of August, September and October, while iu America Septemhcr, October and November are known as fall.

Now, which is the proper nmue for this season, autumn or fall? For the benefit of ajiy who might prefer one name uhove the other it might be well to stop long enough to quote one auth ority on the subject.

Fall is better on the merits thon mttunm, in every way: it is short, Saxon (like the other tluce season names), picturesque; it reveals its derivation, to everyone who uses it, not to the" scholar only, like aittumm: and we [the English] once had as good a right to

it ns the Americans; Imt we have chosen to let the right lapse, and to use the word iiow is no hotter than larccny.-The King's English.

But, regardless of wltat the season is called, its beauty is there just the same, beauty in its ^ayes tlint is hard to describe. How d:oel! Master Artist paint these Jeavest <.\n(l whence does He get

- Look at Those

AUTOMN LEAVES!

His colors into which to dip His invisible brush r These are questions that immediately pop into mind as one beholds a radiant October landscape in the late afternoon when the sun is clipping toward the horizon.

Meii who are aitists mix pigments with their oils to produce theirr colors, and the:-;e pigments are definite chemical compounds. Investigation by scientists has ::;ltown that similar <:ht>mieal compounds are found in the leaves of the trees. and it is these substances called pigments that produce the delightful hues.

Bnt wltere do these pigments come from at a time when the trees have stopped growing for the year? After wearing their summer green for some fune the leaves seem to quickly change to gay, festival colors of yellows, oranges, reds, Jmrplcs and browns. How this Is done is very interesting.

The green coloring mutter in leaves is called chlorophyll. It is produced hom carbon dioxide, water and sumligbt by a process known as Jhiotosynthesis. Besides this green colormg matter there are other color snbstaiices present in the leaves. For example, there is caro-te?'J-e (the yellow pigment found ill high percentages in carrots). and there is also present chemical compounds caUed anthocyanins. These pigments are present in the ]eaves during the summer, but because there is so much more chloro-rresent all tlte time to show up. And Le-Nmse iiot aU the lenves are bitten to the same degree at the flame time by the frost, tliere is an iniinite variety of changing colors presented over the countryside.

phyll present it overbnlances the other colons. .

Suddenly a change hikes place. The temperature drops, th ere is a sharp frost, and shortly thereafter tlm leaves b^in to turn. The cold has killed the green chlorophyll, and in fading out it permits the other pigments that were

Another thing that adds to the panoramic beauty is that not all trees arc of the snine species or family. There aro oaks and maples and many other kinds in the picture. Each of these has its own particular chemical personality. The luaples are high in sugar content, and becmise of their sweetness they display the brightest colors. 'Phe hickory is a tough fellow. low in sugar content, and shows it by having the deepest browns in his leaves. The different shades of reds and purples are caused by varying degrees of acidity in the leave:-;.

Of course. tnan's Jniowledg<> of the;o;e mysteries is very limited. Only after years of study has he learned w hiat little ]w knows of the handiwork of ,'Jehovnli God, the Master Craftsman, whose glory stretches l ikt» a canopy over the heavens, whose beauty is spread before the children of men upon a thousand bills.

So look at those nuhmm lenvei’! Worry not it' yon do not tmdersland their (•limnical make-up, hut know that those autumn leaves, bespeaking the l'act that summer is past, will soon fade and fall to the ground. There. beneath your feet as vou walk tlmmgh tlte woods, their dry rustle will tell you that winter is nigh.

HALLOWEEN

A FREAKISH mixture of pagan mythology and Catholic tradition, hatched among the

Celtic natives of Britannia many centuries ago, is todny lmown as Hnllowcen. The Druid's religious harvest festival in honor of their god Baal, held about November 1, ceutcred around boufh-es culled "bcltamc fires". The Encyclopedia Bi'itamniau points out that "beltane" is usually regarded as a eombimitinn of the nunu! of the god Bel or Baal wiU1 the Celtic teine, fire. l'.!Jis is supported by the fact that in the early <lu;vs the Druids sacrificed hwmm victims in the bonfires, the sumo as the Baal-worshiper11 rlicl in Bible lands. The custom of lighting Halloween fires continued until rceently in Scotlnnrl untl Wales.

The religious Di’uids, believing the Devil's doctrine of ''immoitnlity of the soul", thought that ghosts and witches wandered abroad on tint particular night. This super),ltitiou.s idea slil.l persists. Says the Eiicyalopcediu, “in parts of Ireland October 31 is still known as Oidhehe 81tamlma, 'Vigil of Saman.' This s directly conijeeted with the Druitli<: belief in tlle calling together of certain wicked souls on Halloween by Saman, loi'd of Ut?ath."

l'he pag11n Romans nlllo eelehratetl a feast about Novernher 1 m honor of Pomona the goddess of fruits and seed. So when Caesw's armies moved into llrilauuia they grafted on to the DruiUie celebration the use of apples and unts.

Later cume the Catholic priests with the idea, us stated by Cardinal Newtnan, that "the very insh’timents and appendages of demon-'lvotship" may bt> transoioted to an evangelical use and ire "snnetilied by Iheir adoption into the Cburch". Taking over the Baal practiee of tb.e Druids the Catholic pagans called October 31 the “feast of All Souls", llll the next day the "feast of All Saints" or Alliallows. The night bt>fore was then Uesigiiated Allhallow Eve, which was coutr!lctetl to Halloween.

Today the old pagan belief iu witches, black eats aud ghosts is associated with Octo-her 31, nnd the ignorant and soperstitious continue to observe Halloween. But true Cln'is-tinns avoid snch Gncl-dishonoring practices aoe^ontinually pray "Our Father which art in -heaven, Hallnwed be thy narne".—Muttbew 6: 9.

Overthrowing the Kings of the Earth

^^URING the last year, the first in this postwar era, the world has witnessed the toppling of several kings from

their thrones. Japan's ancient dyuasty of the mikado has been ''democratized".

The Italian House of Savoy has been ousted. The king of Siam was shot to death under suspicions circumstances. The people of Bulgaria overwhelming})? votP(l to exile their king. Only Greece and Trans-Jordan seemingly have gone against this popnlar tide.

The trend of the past thirty years seems to point to a date in the not too distant future when royalty will disappear altogether, being classified among the extinct races. The people of the present generation, most of whom have never lived under the deHpotism of a monarchy. should take a last look at this disappearing race of regal "blue-hloods", especially in view of the fact that the monardiial system is one of the world's oldest institutions.

Jt was that mighty lumter Nimrod who set up the first kingdom, at Babel, on the banks of the Euphrates, shortly after the flood of Noah's day. Nimrod the king was exalted and worshiped as being even above or before Almighty God. (Genesis 10:8, 9) In such historical fact is found the origin of the doctrine “the divine right of kings".

Since then despotic rulers, whether calling themselves king, emperor, czar or mikado, have followed the original pattern and have blasphemously claimed that they rule "by the grace of God''. Under this cloak of "divinity" kings of the earth have regimented their subjects and warred upon neighboring kingdoms. Indeed the chapters of man's history contain the story of one bloody struggle after another bebveen one king and another, between one dynasty and another.

Egypt witb its Pharaohs was the first world power. Assyria, to the north, in time became the second; and Babylon, the third empire to dominate the world. Then came the .Medes and Persians, later the Greeks, and in time the iron rule of the Roman empire under its Caesars he-C'ame the dominant world power. This was followed by an incompatible mixture of dnurdi and states known as the "Holy l{omnn Empire".

The Reformation did mnch to drain continental Europe of the foul stench caused by that illicit pope-king decadent rule. Howe\er, such reforms did not remove the hean-, burdensome and unproductive clan of society called '•royalty''. That bejeweled clique, for the greater part. continued to hang on the necks of the people as a curse until the twentieth century.

Twentieth-Century Purge

At the outset of \VorlU War I, in 1914, there were some 41 sovereign rulers sitting upon the thrones of their ancestors in Europe. Not more than 15 were on their thrones at the end of the war. The rest tumbled down with the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Oer-man-A.ustro-Hungarian federations.

During tJie years that followed that great war one by oM the crowns on the heads ol the remaining kings began to slip. Some found it expedient to abdicate and go into exile, where they lived hi luxury, hoping that their people would some day heg them to return. Their greatest loss, so it would seem. was the glory, praise and worship that they thought their due. In some instances it was this \anity, wliich they preferred to call "dignity”, that came between them and the dictators that replaced them.

For one reason or another the "divine rigli ts" of the Bourbons of Spain, Zog of Albania, Carol of Rumania., Leopold , of Belgium, Peter of Yngo8lavia, Hirohito of Japan, the House of Savoy of Italy, the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family of Bulgaria, and George II of Greece ( notwithstanding the fact tba t he is now back 011 the throne for the third time) have ali been trampled upou during recent years. Today there are only a handful of inwnarchs left.

WJmt have been the benefits to the world since the jewel-ei-owned rulers have descended io the level of other- peo-ple'Y Has there been ushered in an abundance or freedom and liberty with an enduring peace '1 One has only to look at the chaotic confusion in the world today for the answer. But what is the causin' Is it because the mmiarchies, as bad as they were, were tLe Lost form of rule • that men can devise? Or did the people miscalculate and think they were getting rid of despotism when they broke the scepter of their kings?

Let no royalist say that the tuTmoil of the world is due to the replacement of monarchies witJi other forms of government. Let no earthly lting rejoice in the suffering of the people luider their present rulers. Satan the Devil and his demons are in control of earth's affairs today even as they were when monarchs bela the spotlight of worship.

But some God-fearing men may say: ''The Bible prophesied that wlien the kings of the earth were overturned then a righteous government would be established. Why, then, instead of peace, is there so much trouble in the earth since the eclipse of the kingly houses of the Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Romanovs, Savovs and kwazolms t" It is because the prophecies did not refer exclusively or particularly to these individual sovereigns called "lings". "IGnings of the earth," as that term is used in the Bible, refers to the rulers who hold in their bands the power of government and who exercise rule over the people, regardless of whether they are called king, emperor, czar, generalissimo, il Duce, caudillo, der Fuehrer, mikado, or are just culled j)remier, regent, or piesi-dent. In Bible language they are all "kings”, for they hold the scepter of power. For example, no king or potentate ever exercised greater power over a larger populatioji than did the president of the United States during World \Var II.

E'rrthermore, it is the rulers of today tliat ind themselves in the position spoken of in the second Psalm: "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against Jeho-vah, and against his anointed" King, Christ Jesus. (Am. Stan. VeL It is these rulers tliat tJie "spirits of devils" are gathering together in a world combine, as it is written: "The spirits of devils • . . go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty’’ to "a place ailed in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon". -—Revelation 1G: 14, 16.

There, at that place, these kingly rulers, together with tlieir god the Devil, will lie overthrown and destroyed. Then eternal peace will settle down over the globe under the righteous administration of the "Prince of Peace".—Isaiah 9: 6.

Scientific Savages

Dtt. LAtBACn, who devised an easy method of teaching illiterates to read, W was asked if he believed "1\'bnt Alexander Pope once wrote: "A little learn-f. ing is a dangerous thing..” Laubach replied: "All lcurni.ug is daugerous

if the heriut knowledge for the same arrow. The skieo. of the

wholesale destructiou."

is savog^e. Much knowledge is more dangerous tluw little reason that a bomber is more dangerous than a bow nod world today are full of the latest scientific inventions for

Gilead Opens Eighth School Term

ON OPENING day forthe eigltllt class til the WWatchtower Bible Hcliool of Gilead President Knorr said : "This is a day I have long l ooked forward to:' What did he mean! Reven previous openings had been held, al Hilend; wheTe-in Wt\1) th is one different, so that it called I'nrth 1'i.wh special comment ? Well, the Watchtower Bible School was not established j ust for training ministers from tlte United t-itates or the Western Hemisphere, but was pm'}Josed for instrncting mis::;ionaries frorn all parts of the earth. However. the overwhelming majority of the graduates of the ::;even prenous classes were from the Western Hemisphere. But now, in this eighth clas:-;, the internationalness of its scope comes to the fore. Countries represented by the 102 enrollees nmnber eighteen: Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark. England, Finland, Hawaii, India, nlt>x:i-ro, the Netherlands. Newfoundland, Norway, Siam, South Africa, Sweden. Switzerland and the United State::;. The opening of such a class had heeu a day ‘‘long looked forward to" by all of .Teho-vah’::; witnesses.

Groundwork for this influx of ministers from man v nations had been laid by the Society's pi‘E'$-ident when, in the fall of 1945, he had made a business tour of Europe and the British Isles. At that time he invited those 1'aWi fully serving Jehovah llod as fulltime ministers of the gospel to attend tlte eighth class of the Watchtower Bible School. He instructed those who were unable to speak English to begin stidy-ing inunediately. looking forward to having a working knowledge of English by opening day, September -!, HJ46. Fiually that day came.

Aetivities of the day began with an assembly whereat the Society's president addressed the new student hoch witli genpral remarks nf welcome and or the purpose l'or which they hml heen called to the Watchtower Bible School. All tlti" students were faithful anti qualified ministers ol' the gospel hefore coming to <Hh‘ivl. nevertheless during the • next twenty-three weeks they would Iw even better equipped to serve Jehovah Hod. and especially so in the field or mis-siouary work in foreign lands. That is the pu q)():-;(> of the School of Gilead. Such preliuinary comments led into a discourse on " Whose Witness Are You 1" Cl ear exposilion, backed by abundant Scrijjture proofs. established that a Christian is and must be a witness of Jehovah God and under the direction of His now reigning King, Christ Jesus.

Thi:-; morning assembly was followed by the holding of regular classes, but nridafternoon found the new students once again seated in the general assem-hly room, to now hear general counsel and admonition as to getting ou well during the school term and making the most of tlte opportunities presented.

Earnest effort would entitle th e student to daim the Rcriptural promise that .Jehovah God and Christ Jesu:; would be his teach-en; and to expec’t Jehov-afs spirit to quicken liiR mind for learning.

J elwvah’s witnesses throughout the earth are interested iii the classes going through the Watchtower Sdwol of Uilead, hut this eighth das::; from eightpen nations and Hpeak-ing ten or more different languages will he 11 :-pecial focus of intprt>:->t. It marks a milestone of progress in the •Watchtower Bible School of Gileatl.

AWAI1.EI

\VORD is

Pioneering the Way to Heaven

FAITHFUL men, from the first martyr, Abel, clown to John the Baptizer, lived and died prior to the death and resurrection of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. Hence they were ahead of time as far as heavenly opportunities are concerned. At Hebrews 2: 10,11 the apostolic writer Paul says that it was proper fmr God, «in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect throng] i sufferings. For both lie that sanctifietli and they who are sanctified are all of one [God]: for which cause he [Jesus] is not ashamed to call them brethren." Tn the right order of things, the ••Captain of their salvation" should he first among all these hrethren of His. That hs according to God's rule as regards HiF; only begotten fion: ‘'That in all things he might have the pre-eminence." Hence before-’ .Jesus Christ there were no sons of <Toil to be brought out from among sinful men and brought unto the heavenly glory. He being their Leader anJ Commander. He must be first and they must become Ron:-of Go<1 after Rim and must follow His steps and follow the example He left. They must learn from Him how to suffer in faithfnlnt>SR and integrity toward Jehovah God in order to merit the heavenly prize. Then they would he, worthy to share the glory above, into which their Captain was the first to be brought by Jehovah God.-—See Colossians 1:18; 1 Peter 2 : 21.

There was a distinctive reason why Jesus was the first son of God on earth among men sinee the time of the perfect OCTOBER 2S, 1946 umn Adam in Eden. •Jesus as .such Son of God had the .!\lost High God as JliR Father. ami not a man. J osE.'ph first became the husband of the Jewess Mary after she had conceived Jesus. The angel Gabriel came to thil' unmarrieJ Jewess three months or more before Joseph took her: "Anti the angel an:-;wering, tiaid to her, 'Hohy spirit will come upon thee, and power from tlte Most High will overshadow tlmc; and the refo re ihot begotten, being holy, will lie called a Son of God.' ” (Lukt> 1:26-35, The Emplwtic Dinglofl) Although .Tesul:l was born in the ftesh, no human father was concerned in His birth. Tn His prehuman state He was called "the Word of God'': "And the Word was made flesh. and dwelt. among us, (and we heheld his glory, •the glory as of the only begotten of the Father L full of graee and truth/’ •'And his name i 8 callecl The \\'ord of God." (.John 1 : 14; Rcvelati011 W: 13) Leaving His hitherto heavenly life and station and becoming a mau, a perfect, sinless lmman, Jesns was made lower than the spiTit angels. His being born thus as a human Son of God was not for earthly gloTy. To what, then, was it ? Hebrews 2: 9 answers: "But wp behold .Jesus, on account or the suffering elf tlcath crowned with glory and honoj". having been made for a little while inferior to angel:-;, so that, by God's favor, he might taKtf' of l}rath 011 Jw-half of t-very one.’’-—Diajlott.

Jesn$ was wade flesh })rimarily to suffer therein at the hands of Satan and liil' wicked servants. Why? To prove that His integrity toward Jehovah God was unbreakable tuicler the most diabolical persecution and thereby prove that Sn-tan the Devil is a liar, ami so vindicate God's name and universal rulership. Jesus’ human death as a martyr also served to provide a ransom sacrifice in behalf of every tuan and woman that ac-eepts Him as Savior and obeys Him. —Hebrews 5: S, 9.

Jcsus' heing a fleshly human creature wf.s meant to he only temporary; for the sufferings in the fiesli must \)e the. patli He must tread to heavenly glory. Thus, too, He must pioneer the way to heaven for all His followers who are faithful to the death. This required a special way in which God must deal with Jesus in order tn bring Him foi-tb as a Son unto glory. This act must also l)e by means of the spirit or active foree of God, just as it was so in the case of .Jesus' human birth. However, in bringing Him to glory, the procedure was just the reverse of His being horn as a man. Forasmuch as the glory to come was heavenly and came after His death as a man, therefore God dealbwitb Jesus to bring Him forth anew as a heavenly Son, able to eiijoy the glory above. Once more no human father, and, in fact, no human parent at all, not even Mary, was involved in this bringing forth of Jesus as a Son unto heavenly glory, as the Captain of the salvation of those who should be His spiritual brethren. Again the spirit of God was put into action, and this was at the time that Jolm baptized Jesus. The Emphatic Diaglott * translation of Matthew 3:16, 17 reads: •'And Jesus being immersed, went up from the water; and, behold! instantly the heavens were opened, and the spirit of God appeared, descending, like a dove, and resting on him. And, behold! a voice from the heavens, saying: "This is nry Son, the beloved, in whom I delight.' "

God's acknowledgment then of Jesus as His beloved Son is open proof that Jesms was there begotten of the heavenly Father and that begetting was by the spirit or active force of God. It was not the ljegettal in the womb of any human virgin: such liegettal was already past for Jesus and had served its purpose. Jesus was for years a human Son of God, and, now that He was turning His hack npon things human and was denying himself to take up the course of suffering even to a human death, God begot Jesus by the spirit to become a spiritual Son of God with heavenly gloi'y m view.

It was therefore as a spiritual Son, and not as a human Son, that God testified concerning Jesus by the voice from heaven. Jesus' baptism in water was to symbolize His consecration to God to do His Father's will, and God's will was that Jesus should suffer to the death in proof of His faithfulness to God and that thereafter He should live as a spirit creature in heavenly glory. rhus Jesus, with Gocl's wwil definitely set before Him and with a heavenly calling and hope of life, now had GoTs spirit Test-hig upon Him and was a new creature, a spiritual son of GoU with heavenly exaltation in view. This was the first time such a thing had eNer occurred on earth, and thus Jesus was a pioneer in this way to cplestial glory. It illustrates how Jesus' followers, who, just as He was, are human to begin with, may become sons of God.—2 Corinthians 5: 16j 17.

That Jesus by His course opened up this opportunity for His followers, we rend, at John 1:11-13: "He carne tmto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [authority] to becmne the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were horn, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesli, nor of the will of man, Jut of God." And concerning His advance entry into heaven in hehalf of His church of faithful followers we 1 ead, at Hebrews 6 : 20: "Whither as a forermmer Jesus entered for us, having become a higli priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." —Am. Stan. Ver.

Pious Pressure on Politicians

THE international Conference of Church Leaders on the Problem of •World Order met in Cambridge, England, August 4-7 chiefly to consider how they might influence the politicians of the world and bring them into line with what the religious gentlemen considered proper order. Twenty mttions, represented by 75 delegates, were expected to be present, but those actually in attendance numbered 70.

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