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FREEDOM FOR THE PEOPLES

By J. F. Rutherford,
President

International Bible Students Association

Author of
Deliverance!
The Harp of God
Comfort for the Jews
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Comfort for the People
Where are the Dead?
etc., etc.

MADE IN U. S. A.

Published and
Copyright 1927 by
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
BROOKLYN, N. Y. U. S. A.

Also: London, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Stockholm,
Magdeburg, Berne, Copenhagen, etc.

FOREWORD

THE broadcasting of Judge Rutherford's lecture by
the National Broadcasting Company was con-
ceded even by our enemies to be the greatest hook-up
of broadcasting on earth. The response by the people
has been phenomenal. So great has been the demand
for copies thereof that we have determined to issue it in
the cheapest possible form so that the poor may have it.
It voices a declaration of independence of the peoples of
Christendom from that unholy alliance that has so long
oppressed them.

We append hereto an introductory chapter setting
forth some of the sufferings of the common people, also
a concluding chapter showing the Scriptural reason for
the passing away of the World Powers. Both were written by Judge Rutherford. You will read this booklet
with great interest. You will want to keep it in your
homes and read it to your children.

The Publisher

CHAPTER 1

The Oppressed

THE common peoples of all nations have suffered
great oppression. Their real defenders have been
very few. By the common people are meant those
of the rank and file who labor with their hands and there-
by produce the wealth of the land. There was a time
when America was said to be an asylum for the op-
pressed. That day has gone! To what country could the
common people now flee and find protection, aid, peace,
freedom of speech and freedom of action? There is none
under the sun!

The World War has furnished the common people of
Christendom with much food for thought, and they are
thinking as they have not heretofore thought. They are
beginning to realize that they must think and act for
themselves. They have been deceived for a long time by
those upon whom they relied. They cannot be deceived
always. They were told by those who represented selfish
interests that the Great War would make the world safe
for democracy. The result has been the very opposite.
With the ending of the World War practically all the
liberties of the common people have been taken away.
Big Business and professional politicians, aided and
supported by faithless clergy, have fastened the shackles
upon the wrists of the common people. They continue
to suffer and they are seeking the way of relief and
freedom. As an illustration of some of the things suf-
fered the following is here related.

In June, 1914, in one of the northwest states of "free"
America, lived Jacob Christmann with his wife Martha,
Elsie his only daughter, and two sons, William and John
Christmann, twins. That was a happy family. Their

acreage was small but rich, and yielding to their hard
labor produced a sufficiency for them. Because of the
manipulation of the markets they found it difficult to
sell their produce at much profit; yet they were able to
get on, and they had the love and sweet companionship
of each other, and hence they were content.

Jacob Christmann was born in Germany and em-
igrated to "free" America when a mere lad. His older
brother, Henry Christmann, remained in Germany,
married there and reared several sons and daughters.
Martha MacDonald was born in Scotland and came to
America with her parents. She became the wife of
Jacob Christmann and the mother of the above named
Christmann children. Gilbert MacDonald, a brother of
Martha, resided in Scotland his native land and there
reared a family of sons and daughters, among them
Gilbert Jr.

The three Christmann children in America from time
to time exchanged letters with their cousins in Germany
and in Scotland. For some time prior to 1914 the war
lords of Germany made it so burdensome for the Christmann boys that often they wrote their American cousins
of their purpose to come to "free" America to live and
thus escape the war and the burden of the war machine.
The American cousins spoke often with their parents
about their kinsmen across the sea, and of course there
was a great desire for personal acquaintance.

In August, 1914, the World War began, and the
Christmann boys of Germany were hurried to the front
and, of course, that precluded their visit to America.
At the same time the British entered the war and
among those sent out to fight Germany was Gilbert MacDonald, Jr., the young Scotsman. It was therefore blood
relation sent out to fight blood relation in a deadly
combat and that without the desire or consent of either
one to fight the other.

After much agitation by subsidized American news-
papers and hired preachers America entered the war in
1917. At the instance of Big Business a conscription
law was quickly enacted by the American Congress.
Thereafter young Americans were not asked if they
wanted to fight but were told they must fight or take the
consequences, which consequences usually were imprison-
ment and cruel and unusual treatment at the hands of
the prison keepers. Among those drafted early in the
war by America were the Christmann twins, William
and John. A pall of blackness fell over the modest and
once happy home of the Christmann family. The two
boys were torn away from their parents and their only
sister. They were sent to war together and they tried to
stay together throughout the war. Upon the battle-
fields of France they saw much real military service.

For more than forty hours the great battle between
the Germans on one side and the British and their allies
on the other had been raging furiously. A fresh Amer-
ican division was sent to the front to relieve the remain-
ing men in the shattered lines of the allies, and in that
American division which went forward were the two
privates, William and John Christmann. A charge was
ordered; and the Christmann boys, together with thou-
sands of others, obeyed the command. William came
suddenly upon a German soldier lying upon the ground
and drew his bayonet to strike him through; but seeing
that the German was already mortally wounded William
did not strike. The dying man looked with pleading
into the face of William Christmann, who moved with
sympathy gave the German water from his own canteen.
The drink revived him. The wounded man then addressing William said: "I am dying. Why have we

fought? I had nothing against the French or English
and surely not against the Americans. I have some dear
cousins in America that I love much." Then William
inquired: "Who are your American cousins?" The

German replying in broken speech conveyed the message
to William by which the two men learned that they were
cousins, who had often communicated with each other by
letter. William's brother John was near by, and seeing
his brother with a German rushed to his side and learned
the real cause. At that moment a ball pierced William.
The two cousins, knowing that they had but a few
moments to live, affectionately embraced each other and
died in each other's arms.

Later the official report came to America which merely
read: William Christmann, killed in action. The sad
information was conveyed to his mother. She died from

a broken heart. It was afterwards learned that in that
same engagement Gilbert MacDonald, Jr., the Scottish
cousin, was also killed.

The Christmann homestead in America was mortgaged. The family had depended upon the two sons to
pay the interest. The mortgage was held by a loan
company, financed by a few multimillionaires who pro-
duced nothing but required much of the produce of the
farm to pay their usury. The mortgage became due; and
no one of the Christmann family being able to pay the
interest or principal, it was foreclosed. Jacob Christmann and his daughter Elsie were compelled to leave
their home. No information had yet come as to the fate
of John Christmann, the other twin son. The war
ended and broken regiments of soldiers began to return.
But John was not with them.

Jacob Christmann was a member of the Lutheran
church. The minister of that church denomination
where his membership was held had been among those
who preached the boys into the war and aided and
abetted in the enforced draft. It was difficult for Elsie
to understand how he could be a minister and consistent-
ly take that course. Elsie and her father had now found
a modest little house for their temporary residence. They
anxiously awaited some information as to John, hoping

that he had survived the terrible war. Many hours of
sad reflection were passed by her and her father. She
came upon him on one occasion and found him reading
the Bible. She plied him with a number of questions
amongst which were these: "Does not America claim
to be a Christian nation? Is not Great Britain also one
that lays claim to being a Christian nation? Have we
not always understood that Germany claims to be a
Christian nation? Do not all these nations claim to serve
and follow Christ, the Prince of Peace? How can these
nations and the preachers in their churches claim to be
Christians and yet advocate war and compel the people
to go to war and fight and kill each other and to kill
their own blood relatives and that against their own
wish and consent?"

The oppression upon this poor soul and the bitter-
ness that she had suffered caused her to propound these
questions to her father. She further said to him:
"Father, who is responsible for this terrible war and
for the dreadful sorrow that has been brought upon us?
Can you support a church which claims to follow Christ
and which participates in bringing upon us such burdens
of sorrow?" The father of course was unable to answer the question. He, too, was suffering great bitter-
ness of heart and was seeking consolation in the Word of
God. He had not found it in the church. The burdens
of oppression and sorrow became too great for him; and
shortly thereafter Jacob Christmann died; and Elsie,
alone, with no one to care for her, drifted away.

The terrible fate that befell the once happy family of
Jacob Christmann has befallen thousands of other homes.
And what became of John Christmann? When the
hospitals began to give up their inmates, as the grave
some day will give up the dead, John was brought forth.
He was blind, one arm gone, and his feet so mangled
that he moves about only with the aid of crutches. He is
a helpless cripple so far as there is ability of man to

aid him. Millions of other young men in Christendom
are in this same condition. They have suffered and con-
tinue to suffer, daily dying. Added to their bodily pain
is the mental anguish that this condition was forced
upon them.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR

Did the common peoples of the nations of earth vote
on the question as to whether or not they should go to
war? No, not one of them! Did any one explain to
the common people the necessity for the great World
War of Christendom? No one! Who then is responsible
for the war? A few selfish and ambitious men desiring
to increase their power were willing to hurry millions
of human beings into death in order to accomplish their
purposes. A petty excuse was seized upon for declara-
tion of war, and the war began. Big Business con-
structed the machinery for the war and furnished the
initial money necessary to do so, knowing that they
would reap a thousand percent in return. The pro-
fessional politicians enacted conscription laws to make
the war machine work. The dishonest and faithless
preachers of various religious denominations, while
claiming to follow Christ, urged the people into war
and acted as war agents. Hypocritically they preached
war from their pulpits. In many instances they were
paid for so doing by the big financiers who desired the
war for private gain. The common people were forced
by them to bare their breasts to shot and shell and to
have their property and their lives taken away in order
to satisfy the wicked and selfish ambition of men. The
people are beginning to see these things more clearly.
There is reason now for the common people to think.

RESULT

What is the result of that World War? Everybody
knows that it has resulted in the destruction of the

democracy of the land and the taking away of the free-
dom of the people; and that it has resulted in a new
crop of millionaires in whose thoughts God finds no place.
It has also resulted in great corruption in the high
political offices and has proven that the clergy have de-
nied the name of God and Christ and that they are for-
saken by the Lord. It made it possible for selfish men,
high financiers, bootleggers, and preachers to fasten upon
the people a hypocritical and cruel prohibition law
which both the clergy and "Big Business" insist on en-
forcing against the common people while the "High
ups" openly violate it themselves. Men in high places
make and dispense illicitly intoxicating liquors. If one
of the common people is found in possession of a small
quantity he is severely punished. The unholy alliance
maintains customs officers at the border principally in
the United States to browbeat and insult innocent men
and women and to ruthlessly destroy their property,
abuse and humiliate them without even the semblance
of a cause or excuse. The war was seized upon as an
opportunity by the Devil and his unholy agencies to
fasten the shackles tighter and tighter upon the arms
of the people and take away their liberty.

Democracy means a government of the people, for
the people, and by the people. No such government now
exists in what is called "Christendom". On the contrary
in the land fraudulently called "Christendom" the gov-
ernment of the peoples is by the unholy alliance of "Big
Business" and big politicians supported by big preachers,
and in the interest of the unholy alliance and against
the interests of the common people. The oppression does
not stop there.

Millions of money raised by oppressive taxation from
the common people are being expended in further prepa-
ration for war. The common people of no nation on
earth desire to fight the common people of another na-
tion; but the selfish ambitious men, few in number com-

pared with the multitudes, are the ones who prepare for
war, compel the common people to bear the burden
thereof by unjust taxation and the further burden, op-
pression and suffering by laying down their lives upon
the battle-field. Is it any wonder then that the common
people now are beginning to ask themselves: What good
has Christendom brought to us? Can we ever hope or
expect to have any relief from our burdens brought to
us by or through Christendom? They are seeing and
seeing plainly that Christendom so-called is a fraudulent
name used to deceive the common people and hold them
in subjection.

Is it possible then for the common people to ever have
relief and freedom from any source? Yes; there is one
absolutely certain way and about that way the people
must now know. The time is at hand for the great God
of the universe to hear the cries of the common people
and to act in their behalf. It is plain from his Word and
from the facts before us that his due time for the peo-
ple's relief has arrived. It is therefore the time for him
to first give the people some knowledge of his purpose.

RADIO

No man has ever been able to explain what radio is.
It is an unseen power by which the human voice is
carried through the air and a message given to others
in the far distance; but what it is man cannot say. Cer-
tain it is that God provided the radio because he fore-
tells it in his Word written by the prophet centuries ago.
(Job 38:35) The due time must come, in the unfold-
ing of his plan, for the use of the radio. That time has
come, and God will use it for the benefit of mankind.
God has repeatedly used human agencies to carry out
some of his purposes. It should be expected therefore
that God would use some human agencies to proclaim
to the people at this time his purposes concerning them
and that he would use the radio in connection therewith.

Those men and women who are wholly and entirely de-
voted to the Lord naturally would be the ones whom the
Lord would use as the witnesses. In his Word it is
written concerning such: "Ye are my witnesses, that I
am God." (Isaiah 43:10, 12) The truth that is pro-
claimed is not man's truth but it belongs to God. "Thy
Word is truth." (John 17:17) The Lord has made it
clear that he will not always turn a deaf ear to the cries
of the common people. It seems certain that his due
time is here to give ear to their cry.

ARRANGEMENTS TO BROADCAST

The International Bible Students Association is not
a religious organization. A religious organization is
composed of men and women who observe certain forms
and ceremonies in the acknowledgment of a supreme
power. The International Bible Students Association is
made up of a body of men and women who are Chris-
tians, fully consecrated to do the Lord's will. Of course
there are some amongst them who are not wholly devoted
to the Lord, while many of them are completely devoted
to God and his cause. These Christians have come out
from denominational systems because they love the Lord
and want to serve him. They have no selfish purpose
to accomplish. Knowing that the relief of the people
and their blessings must come from Jehovah God these
Christians are anxious to tell their fellow men about
God's gracious provision for such blessings. A real
Christian is one who follows Christ. The purpose of
Christ on earth is expressed in his own words: "To this
end was I born, and for this cause came I into the
world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." (John
18:37) All true followers of Christ therefore must like-
wise be witnesses to the truth. They must tell the truth
in the love of the truth and for the love of their fellow
man. This being God's due time to have the witness
of the truth given all loyal Christians desire to have a

part in giving that witness. They want to please God
and they know that to please him they must do his will.
(Matthew 7:21) It is the will of God now that all na-
tions of Christendom be told about God's kingdom.
(Matthew 24:14) True Christians are faithfully en-
deavoring to obey this command of the Lord.

The International Bible Students Association held its
annual convention for 1927 at Toronto, Canada, from
July 18th to the 25th. Christians came from many
countries to attend this convention and to participate
in giving the witness to Jehovah's name. A short time
prior thereto at a hearing before the Federal Radio
Commission at Washington, D. C., a condition arose
which led to the completion of an arrangement to broad-
cast an address by the president of the International
Bible Students Association from the Coliseum at To-
ronto. It came about in this manner: During a hearing
before the Commission the president of the National
Broadcasting Company, Mr. Aylesworth, was on the wit-
ness stand testifying in behalf of that corporation, which
operates three chains of radio stations in the United
States. He was being cross-examined by the president
of the International Bible Students Association. A
question was propounded to Mr. Aylesworth as follows:
"Your purpose is to give to the people by radio the
message of the greatest financiers, the most prominent
statesmen, and the most renowned clergymen of the
world?" To this Mr. Aylesworth answered in the af-
firmative. Another question was propounded to him:
"If you were convinced that the great God of the universe
will shortly put in operation his plan for the blessing
of all the nations and families of the earth with peace,
prosperity, life and happiness, and that the great Creator
desired that this message be broadcast would you ar-
range to broadcast it?" The answer was in the af-
firmative and led to an offer by the president of the Na-
tional Broadcasting Company to broadcast the address

of the president of the International Bible Students As-
sociation. The arrangement was made to broadcast from
Toronto, as above stated.

The attending facts and circumstances show conclu-
sively that the Lord made it possible for such a broad-
cast. No association nor any man could have arranged
it. It was the Lord who did it for his own glory. By
means of telephone wires fifty-three radio broadcasting
stations were tied together. The address was delivered at
the Coliseum at Toronto, transmitted by wire to radio
station WEAF, New York City, and relayed to other
stations to the number of fifty-three, reaching from
Maine to California, and from Canada to Mexico, and
including two super-power stations which easily reach
Europe, South Africa and Australia. In the language
of one of the New York dailies it was "the greatest hook-
up in radio history". It was the means adopted to quick-
ly give a witness to Christendom of facts which they
know to be true when they hear them.

On that occasion the president of the Association
presented to the convention a resolution which is really
a message to the peoples of Christendom. His address
was in support of the resolution. He emphasized the
following points, to wit: That Jehovah is the only true
God; that Christ Jesus his Son is the Redeemer and
Savior of man and the rightful King of earth; that there
is a true Christianity composed of those men and wo-
men who faithfully represent God and Christ; that there
is a false, deceptive and fraudulent organization
called "organized Christianity" or "Christendom" which
misrepresents God and in fact represents the Devil; that
God created all men of one blood to dwell upon the
earth and that there is no just cause or excuse for them
to engage in war; that the ruling factors of "Christendom" which in fact constitute "Christendom" are, to wit,
high financiers, professional politicians, aided and sup-
ported by faithless clergy; that this unholy alliance

produces nothing but lives upon the honest labors of
the common people and the common people have long
been oppressed by carrying such as a burden; that the
ruling element provokes war between nations for selfish
reasons and compels the common people to go to war
and fight and kill each other without any cause or ex-
cuse; that the people have long been oppressed and have
suffered untold misery at the hands of the rulers in Chris-
tendom and that without the support of the common
people Christendom could not stand; that the time has
come when the common people must forsake and for
ever abandon the fraudulent system of Christendom and
give allegiance to God and to Christ; that the kingdom
of heaven is at hand and that through God's kingdom
the people will receive their heart's desire, namely, peace,
prosperity, life, liberty and happiness; and that through
his kingdom the burdens of sorrow will be lifted from
the people, and they will be given joy and health,
strength and life.

So convincing and heart-cheering was the address in
support of the resolution that the great audience amidst
tremendous enthusiasm arose and unanimously adopted
the resolution, which resolution, together with the ad-
dress in support thereof, is set forth in the next chapter.

Since the adoption of the resolution and the delivery
of that address thousands of letters and telegrams have
been received from every quarter of the American con-
tinent, requesting copies thereof. This booklet is adopted
as a means to get it to the people.

CHAPTER II

The Appeal

MR. ROBT. J. MARTIN of New York City presided
at the meeting. In introducing Judge Rutherford
he said:

After hearing Judge Rutherford, you will desire to
have a copy of his lecture, that you may carefully con-
sider it at home.

I am authorized to say, that any person in this, or in
the unseen radio audience, who will address a letter or
card to Judge Rutherford, Brooklyn, New York, re-
questing a copy of the lecture, will be mailed a copy,
free of charge.

Among people in every walk of life, throughout the
civilized world, a profound interest in the stirring events
of the present day has been aroused by Judge Ruther-
ford's latest book, entitled Deliverance. For the benefit
of those who are in the audience here in Toronto, ar-
rangements have been made to provide a copy of Deliverance
at the conclusion of this lecture. See the ushers
on your way out.

The thirty million volumes of Judge Rutherford's
books which are in the homes of the people everywhere,
constitute a sufficient introduction for him, both to this
audience and to the far-flung invisible audience.

It is now my pleasure to ask Judge Rutherford to
proceed with his address.

The speaker said: Mr. Chairman, my audience seen
and unseen: What I shall say here is in the interest of
the common peoples of earth, and especially in behalf of
those of Christendom. First, I offer the following resolu-
tion and then I shall speak in support of that resolution.
The resolution reads as follows:

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RESOLUTION
TO THE PEOPLES OF CHRISTENDOM:

The International Bible Students in general conven-
tion assembled send greetings:

As Christians and witnesses to the name of Jehovah
God we deem it our privilege and duty to call your at-
tention to the following vital facts:

FIRST. That God made of one blood all peoples and
nations of men to dwell on the earth, and granted to all
peoples equal rights. There is therefore no just cause
or excuse for one nation to make war against another
nation.

SECOND. That the foremost nations of the earth
claim to be Christian nations and, taken collectively, they
constitute "Christendom" or "organized Christianity",
so-called; that the men chiefly responsible for the claim
that these are Christian nations are the clergymen of the
various religious denominations, who call themselves
by the name of Christ but who in fact have denied him;
that their purpose of claiming that these nations are
Christian is to induce the peoples to believe that said
nations, although military and cruel, are the represen-
tatives of God and his Christ on earth; that such claim
is fraudulent and false and has turned the minds of
millions of honest people away from the true God and
from his Christ; that the invisible ruler of the nations
of "Christendom" or "organized Christianity", so-called,
is Satan the Devil, who has fathered the scheme of form-
ing "organized Christianity" to deceive the people and to
keep them in subjection to himself and his agencies.

That the masses of the peoples of the nations are
entitled to self-government exercised by the people for
the general welfare of all; but instead of enjoying such
rights a small minority rules; that the money power of
the world has been concentrated into the hands of a few
men called high financiers, and these in turn have cor-
rupted the men who make and execute the laws of the

nations, and the faithless clergy have voluntarily joined
forces with the high financiers and professional politi-
cians, and that said unholy alliance constitutes the gov-
erning powers that rule the peoples; that the masses of
the peoples acting under a misapprehension of the true
facts have borne up, carried, supported and maintained
organized Christianity; and that without the support of
the common people the unholy alliance constituting or-
ganized Christianity could not long exist.

THIRD. That for centuries the privileges enjoyed by
men have been wholly unequal and unfair. The multi-
tudes have produced the wealth of the world, but have
been unjustly deprived of the fruits of their labors. That
the leaders of Christendom instead of teaching the chil-
dren of men the doctrines of Christ, whom they claim
to follow, teach them to murder their fellow creatures;
and that now the rulers are amalgamating the common
people with the military, in order to make all the peo-
ples a part of and subject to their great war machine;
that by unjust laws the common people, contrary to their
own wishes, have been compelled to go to war against
each other, resulting in great sorrow and suffering, mul-
titudes of broken hearts and millions of untimely graves;
that "organized Christianity" has turned a deaf ear to
the petitions and entreaties of the people for relief, and
now the cries of the oppressed people have entered into
the ears of Jehovah God, and his time is at hand to give
the peoples deliverance and freedom.

FOURTH. That Jehovah is the only true God, the
Friend and Benefactor of the peoples. He has now set
his beloved Son Christ Jesus upon his throne, and bids
all the peoples of earth to hear and to obey him who
is earth's rightful King.

FIFTH. That the kings and rulers of the earth, to
wit: those constituting the said unholy alliance have
been duly notified that God has set his King upon his
throne and that his kingdom is at hand; but they refuse

to understand or to take heed, and they walk on in dark-
ness. Therefore God has decreed and declared that there
shall come upon the world a time of tribulation such as
never was known; and that during that trouble "Chris-
tendom" or "organized Christianity", so-called, and all
of Satan's organization shall be destroyed; and that
Christ Jesus, the righteous King, will assume complete
authority and control and will bless the peoples of the
earth.

SIXTH. That it must be now apparent to all thought-
ful peoples that relief, comfort and blessings so much
desired by them can never come from the unrighteous
system of "Christendom" or "organized Christianity",
and that there is no reason to give further support to
that hypocritical and oppressive system. In this hour
of perplexity Jehovah God bids the peoples to abandon
and for ever forsake "Christendom" or "organized Chris-
tianity" and to turn completely away from it, because
it is the Devil's organization, and to give it no support
whatsoever; and that the peoples give their heart's devo-
tion and allegiance wholly to Jehovah God and to his
King and kingdom, and receive full freedom and the
blessings God has in store for them.

SEVENTH. For four thousand years the cherished
desire of Jews has been God's Messianic kingdom. For
nineteen centuries that kingdom has been the hope of
real Christians. It is now at hand. True to his prom-
ise God by and through the reign of Christ will lift the
burdens of the peoples, free them from war, fraud and
oppression, from sickness, suffering and death, and give
to them a righteous government and the blessings of
everlasting peace, prosperity, life, and happiness.

Upon the reading of the Resolution the following
speech was made in support thereof, which was heard by
15,000 in the Coliseum and broadcast throughout the
country. The speaker said:

Freedom for the Peoples

GOD made of one blood all nations of men to dwell
upon the earth and gave to them equal rights.
Foreknowing the evil influence that would be
exercised over all governments of men God foretold that
a small minority would rule and oppress the great ma-
jority; that during that period of oppression and suffer-
ing the peoples would desire freedom and a righteous
government administered for the general welfare of all;
that they would be disappointed and suffer; that the
cries of the peoples would ascend unto God and in his
due time he would hear them; that he would deliver the
peoples from the oppressor into full freedom and give
to them a government of righteousness under which they
shall enjoy peace, prosperity, and the blessings of life.
Therefore he caused his prophets to write concerning the
present time these words: that "the Lord
hath
prepared his throne for judgment; and he shall judge
the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment
to the people in uprightness. The Lord also will be a
refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble"
(Psalm 9:7-9); and "a king shall reign in righteous-
ness, and princes shall rule in judgment". Isaiah 32: 1.

Only by the Lord's arrangement can freedom come to
the peoples. God's due time has now come when the
peoples of earth must know the truth concerning the
cause of suffering and the remedy for relief. All true
Christians are doing their part to tell these facts to the
peoples that God's name might be glorified and that
the peoples might know that their freedom is near.

"CHRISTENDOM"

The foremost nations of the world jointly call them-
selves "Christendom". The rulers by this term claim
that they are Christians, having and exercising faith in
God and in Christ, and that their combined govern-21

ments constitute "organized Christianity". The claim
is not only untrue, but it is fraudulent and hypocritical.
By such false and hypocritical claim the multitudes of
peoples have long been held in bondage and have been
deprived of their just rights and privileges. God's due
time has come for "organized Christianity", so-called,
to be placed before the people in the proper light.

There is a true Christianity composed of faithful men
and women who unselfishly follow in the footsteps of
Christ. There is an organized system called "Christian-
ity" or "Christendom", which is false and is the instru-
ment of oppression wielded by the hand of the Devil.
Jehovah through Christ established true Christianity on
the earth, and in the days of the apostles it progressed.
A few ambitious men, influenced and directed by Satan,
defiled true Christianity; and their fraudulent course
has made Christianity, as it is generally understood, a
stench in the nostrils of honest men. This exact condi-
tion God foretold through his prophet Jeremiah (2:20)
who wrote concerning professed Christianity: "Yet I
had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how
then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange vine unto me?" -Jeremiah 2:21.

"Organized Christianity" or "Christendom" today is
Satan's organization fraudulently parading under the
name of Christ. Early in the history of man the Devil
caused men to call themselves by the name of the Lord
and to thereby bring reproach upon God. That same
Devil has caused ambitious and selfish men to organize
and carry on what is now called "organized Christian-
ity". The purpose is to deceive the peoples, turn them
away from the true God, and to keep them in subjection
to a selfish and unrighteous system of government, of
which Satan is the invisible overlord. (2 Corinthians 4:
3, 4) A government that oppresses the multitudes of the
common people and shows special favors to the wealthy,
is an unrighteous government and therefore an ungodly,

nation. Such could not in truth be called Christ's king-
dom or Christendom. It is therefore apparent that when
the name of Christ is given to an unrighteous and op-
pressive government that name is fraudulently so used
and for a wrongful purpose.

WHO RULES

The kings and presidents of the nations are not in fact
the rulers. They are ordinary men filling their re-
spective places and are mere symbols of rulership. The
ruling power behind the seat of authority that shapes the
course of the nations of "Christendom" is Satan the
Devil. He is the opponent of God and the enemy and
oppressor of men. Satan's visible instruments are those
selfish men who combine and form a system of govern-
ment which rules and controls the peoples. The three
classes of men that make up these ruling powers are,
to wit, high financiers, called 'big business"; profession-
al politicians, called "statesmen"; and the orthodox
clergy, called "religious leaders", who manufacture and
dispense religion. These three classes in combination
constitute the small minority that rules. Disregarding
the obligations laid upon them the selfish men composing
the ruling minority have lived wantonly and recklessly
for their own pleasure and at the expense of the mul-
titudes. For a long time the peoples have borne them up
and supported them and thereby endured great suffer-
ing and sorrow. And now I submit the testimony of
their own witness which proves beyond a doubt that
"organized Christianity", so-called, is a fraud and de-
ception, a great system of oppression, and a menace to
the general welfare of the peoples.

HIGH FINANCE

The multitudes, in the sweat of their faces, produce
the wealth of the world. High financiers are few in
number but great in power. They produce no wealth

but obtain it through fraud and deceit practised upon
the peoples, and then use it for their own wicked plea-
sure and to oppress the multitudes and to keep them
under control. High finance fixes the price at which the
producer must sell his products to the distributer, and
also fixes an exorbitant price which the consumer must
pay to the distributer. High finance has established
chain stores all over Christendom, and the producer must
sell to these stores at a ridiculously low price or not
sell at all, and the stores in turn sell to the consumer
at exorbitantly high prices, which the consumer must
pay or starve. The producer gets but little, the consumer
pays much, and the high financiers that produce noth-
ing reap enormous and unreasonable profits. The re-
sult is that the small merchant is pushed to the wall,
and the chain stores do the business, and the peoples
pay the bills.

The financial record in the United States Treasury's
office discloses that in one year (1919) seventeen woolen
mills made a clear profit of 100 percent on their capital
stock; that corporations operating canning factories that
can the fruit and vegetables produced by the hard labor
of others in one year made a profit of 35 percent; that
clothing stores made a profit in one year of 98 per-
cent; that the aluminum trust with a capital of only
$20,000.00 in one year (1923) made a profit of 1000
percent.

The wealth of America is constantly on the increase,
but today in that land there are 524 banks less in num-
ber than there were six years ago. The large ones are
swallowing up the smaller ones. Big Finance is taking
possession of all. Kirby Page is authority for the state-
ment that 20,000 men control practically every bank,
trust company, and business enterprise in America.
From Samuel Untermeyer, the distinguished American
lawyer who for a long while represented Big Business,
I quote:

There has been greater concentration of the Money Power
in the past five or ten years ... than in the preceding fifty
years. The process of absorption is likely to continue until
a few groups absolutely dominate the financial situation of
the country. ... It has come to pass that less than a dozen
men in the City of New York are for all practical purposes
in control of the direction of at least seventy-five percent of
the deposits of the leading trust companies and banks in the
city and of allied institutions in various parts of the country.

The Federal Trade Commission in America in 1922
reported that six corporations controlled then one-third
of the American water power; eight corporations con-
trolled more than three-fourths of the anthracite coal
fields; and two corporations controlled the great portion
of the iron-ore reserve.

These heartless corporations profit in the lives of
human beings. To them the life of man is nothing except
to be used for their selfish purpose. Recently it was dis-
closed that forty percent of the milk sold in New York
City is adulterated and that with the connivance of the
Public Board of Health. It is then sold at a large profit
to the poor, and the babes and the sick and the afflicted
suffer by reason thereof.

These facts and figures I am giving as they relate to
America. Other nations of "Christendom" or "organized
Christianity" are equally as bad, and many of them
much worse. In every nation of "Christendom" the mi-
nority is favored and the great majority are oppressed
and suffer.

STATESMEN

The so-called statesmen of the nations are those who
hold the offices and feed at the public trough upon the
fat of the land, and of course produce nothing. Their
jobs depend upon obedience to high finance. In fact
high finance is the bulwark of "organized Christianity",
so-called, and its power and influence have corrupted the
politicians of every nation. The politicians are the men
that make and enforce the laws.

Before the last American Congress a bill was pending
to build a great dam at Boulder Canyon, in the Colorado
River, for the purpose of reclaiming millions of acres of
arid lands and to produce electric power for the benefit of
the public. Josiah T. Newcomb, solicitor for Big Busi-
ness that opposed the bill, declared:

I represent an investment of nine billion dollars and we
do not propose to let the government enter into the power
business at Boulder. The bill has no chance to pass. It
will not pass as it is.

It did not pass. More than 120 million Americans
cannot reclaim the arid lands of the desert and produce
electric power for their own use without the consent of
a few heartless men who are known as "Big Business".
This gang of highwaymen is a part of "organized
Christianity", so-called.

The corrupting hand of Big Business has been laid
upon men in high political positions and corrupted
every department of every government of "Christendom". Senator Reed, of the United States Senate,
recently declared in a public address: "The time has
come when the people should rise up and drive out the
leprosy of corruption which has spread through the na-
tion's capital."

The peoples go through a form of election supposedly
to select their public servants. But most of these politi-
cal statesmen are elected and controlled by the defiling influence of "Big Business". From Mr. Justice Ford,
long in public life and who speaks with authority, I
quote:

In my experience I have found the public service cor-
porations, the street railroad, the telephone, the lighting
companies in particular, to be the most prolific source of
political corruption in the state. They are more directly
dependent upon governmental favors than any others, and
indeed the profits of their business flow from the special
privileges which they procure and hold from the govern-

ment, both state and municipal. In my day at Albany these
corporations plied their nefarious business of corrupting
the people's representatives so openly that a blind deaf-mute
could learn what was going on. Not that legal evidence
could be found against them. They were too shrewd for
that. But every public man there was morally certain as
to what was going on, and in private conversation it was
freely talked about. These public service corporations
pollute the very fountains of public virtue; they debauch
our public servants; they subsidize party organizations for
their own purposes. All the powers of government are
subverted to their base ends; and government of the peo-
ple, by the people, for the people, is made a mockery.

Even the courts are corrupted by Big Business. When
Big Business is pitted against the common people the
people have no show in the courts. The words of Mr.
Untermeyer are pertinent on this point:

Nowhere in our social fabric is the discrimination be-
tween the rich and the poor so emphasized to the average
citizen as at the bar of justice. Nowhere should it be less.
... Money secures the ablest and most adroit counsel.
... Evidence can be gathered from every source. The poor
must be content to forego all these advantages.

When "Big Business" desires to increase its holdings,
and war seems to be advantageous to its selfish interests,
it does not hesitate to provoke war between the peoples
of different nations. At the bidding of "Big Finance"
the politicians enact the necessary conscription laws
which compel the common people from all parts of
"Christendom" to kill each other while the representatives
of "Big Business" and their allies hide in their holes.
When the war is over, millions of the common people
sleep in the dust of the earth; and within the brief
period of blood and carnage there has been born another
crop of millionaires, and then there follows greater law-
lessness amongst the politicians than ever before. Upon
this point a member of the United States Senate, Mr.
Norris, is quoted:

The millions of our youth who went into that orgy of
murder were promised a new and better order of things.
Here, ten years later, they can see special privilege and the
power of money more securely enthroned than ever in the
seats of the mighty. For the thousands of our young men
killed, for our billions spent, for the countless millions of
heartaches, we have what? We have political corruption
such as was never dreamed of before.

These conscienceless politicians defiled by Big Busi-
ness and the oppressors of the people constitute a part
of "organized Christianity" or "Christendom", so called.
that rule and control the peoples.

THE CLERGY

Who are the responsible ones for naming the harsh,
cruel and paternalistic governments "Christendom" or
"organized Christianity"? I answer: The clergy of the
various denominations. Ambitious for the approval and
plaudits of men and with a desire to live in ease and
comfort they have joined affinity with Big Business
and professional politicians. The clergy pose before the
peoples as representatives of God and of his Christ and
hypocritically induce the peoples to believe that they
are Christians, and at the same time go exactly contrary
to the Word of God. Jesus declared that Satan the Devil
is the prince or ruler of this world and that he is the
opponent of God. (John 14:30) Again in 2 Corinthians
4:3,4 it is written that Satan is the god of this evil
world.

The world means organized forms of government
under the supervision of the invisible overlord, Satan
the Devil. In God's Word it is written (James 4:4)
that he who is a friend of the world is the enemy of
God. The clergy have voluntarily become a part of the
world and friends thereof and therefore the enemies of
God and of Christ and the enemies and oppressors of
the common peoples. They call themselves and theirallies, "Big Business" and professional politicians, "or-
ganized Christianity" or "Christendom," and have the
effrontery to claim that these rule by divine right.

In God's Word true religion is defined in these words:
"To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Con-
trary to this plain statement of the Word of God the
clergy not only fail to comfort the widows and orphans
but they advocate war, preach men into the trenches to
die, and thereby make millions of widows and more mil-
lions fatherless children. Instead of keeping themselves
unspotted from the world they are literally spotted all
over by the world because they are a part of it. In the
recent World War their church edifices were recruiting
stations, and almost every clergyman advocated the shed-
ding of human blood. For this reason God, through his
prophet, says of and concerning them now: "For in thy
skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor inno-
cents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon
all these." (Jeremiah 2:34) What class of men wear
skirts except the preachers or clergy? They are the
guilty ones.

Upon this point I submit the following indisputable
facts: Admiral Fiske during the World War said: "The
Christian religion is at this moment being made to exert
a powerful influence, not toward peace but toward war."
Secretary of War Lane said: "The War could not have
been won without the churches."

Christ, whose name these clergymen have fraudulent-
ly assumed and by which they have named their "or-
ganized Christianity", said: "Thou shalt not kill."
But the clergymen are the most ardent advocates of war
and the most vehement and vindictive in their expres-
sions against their fellow men. Before America entered
the World War an election for mayor in the city of
New York was being held. One candidate was opposed
to America entering the war. The distinguished clergy-man, Dr. Van Dyke, on that occasion said: "I'd hang
everyone. whether or not he be a candidate for mayor,
who lifts his voice against America entering the war."
And this is a sample of the dispensers of religion from
"organized Christianity".

Rev. Chas. Ganster from his American pulpit "ad-
vocated the organization of an association to murder
those persons who do not stand up when the Star
Spangled Banner is played".

The clergymen of Germany told the people that they
represented the same God and the same Christ that the
clergymen of England and America represented. Al-
though Christ is the Prince of Peace. and declares
against killing, the clergymen of Germany urged their
people to kill in the most fiendish manner the common
people of the allied armies of Britain. Likewise the
clergymen of Britain and her allies urged the killing of
the German people and their allies, and the clergymen
of both sides tried to induce the people to believe that
they are Christians. In proof that the clergymen are a
part of the world and the allies of "Big Business" that
makes war I read the testimony of the Rev. George
Parkin Atwater, to wit:

The complete representative of the American Church in
France is the United States Army overseas. Yes, an army,
with its cannon and rifles and machine guns. and its in-
struments of destruction. The Church militant, sent. mor-
ally equipped, strengthened and encouraged. approved and
blessed, by the Church at home. The army today is the
Church in action, transforming the will of the Church into
deeds, expressing the moral judgment of the Church in
smashing blows. Its worship has its vigil in the trenches.
and its fasts and feasts: its prayers are in acts. and its
choir is the crash of cannon and the thrilling ripple of ma-
chine guns.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, was one of the most vehement advocates of

America entering the World War. Did he act upon the
authority of Christ? No; not Hillis. The American
Bankers Association commissioned him as a missionary
to Europe. He did the bidding of that heartless and
cruel financial association. He prepared the sermons
which hundreds of thousands of other pastors through-
out America delivered, advocating war, urging the young
men into the trenches and the people to buy bonds.

Dr. Hillis was not content with urging men into the
jaws of death by which he earned and drew his pay
from the American Bankers Association, but went to
the extreme in expressing his malice. When the war had
ended, instead of visiting the widows and the fatherless
and bringing them comfort, as Christ had commanded,
Hillis still breathing vengeance of blood against an un-
fortunate and helpless people wrote:

Society has organized itself against the rattlesnake and
the yellow fever. Shepherds have entered into a con-
spiracy to exterminate the wolves. The Boards of Health
are planning to wipe out typhoid, cholera and the black
plague. Not otherwise, lovers of their fellow man have
finally become perfectly hopeless with reference to the Ger-
man people. They have no more relation to the civilization
of 1918 than an orang-outang, a gorilla, a Judas, a hyena, a
thumbscrew, or a scalping knife in the hands of a savage.
These brutes must be cast out of society.... There will
shortly be held a meeting of surgeons in this country. A
copy of the preliminary call lies before me. The plan to be
discussed is based upon the Indiana State law. That law
authorizes a State Board of Surgeons to use upon the
person of confirmed criminals and hopeless Idiots the new
painless method of sterilizing the men. These surgeons are
preparing to advocate the calling of a world conference to
consider the sterilization of 10,000,000 German soldiers and
the segregation of their women, that when this generation
of Germans goes, civilized cities, states and faces may be
rid of this awful cancer that must be cut clean out of the
body of society.

No general, no man in the army, nor any war lord
ever gave utterance to such diabolical and wicked words
as those written by Hillis. These clergymen are the ones
who, with pious faces and sanctimonious words, tell the
peoples that their organized system of oppression and
murder represents Christ on earth and therefore con-
stitutes "organized Christianity" or "Christendom".
They have been defaming the name of God and of Christ.

A few ultra-selfish men constitute "Big Business", and
they control the commerce of the world. They do it by
the power of money unjustly wrung from the hands of
the multitudes of toilers. They control the elections be-
cause the politicians elected to office enact and enforce
such laws as they want. They own and control the pub-
lic press and publish only what they desire the peoples
to read. This lecture I am now giving will not be pub-
lished by them because they do not want the peoples to
hear it. The radio, which God has brought to light for
the benefit of the peoples, the same selfish interest is now
seeking to control. The same power controls the clergy
and uses them for selfish purposes. In time of war they
use the clergy as recruiting officers to hurry men into
the jaws of death. This is the unholy alliance that
hypocritically calls itself by the name of Christ and has
induced the peoples to believe that it is the political
expression of God's kingdom on earth. On the contrary
the Scriptures declare this unholy alliance to be a part
of Babylon and of the Devil's organization. All nations
have been made blind drunk by its false representations
and teachings.

Now the unholy alliance is pursuing a systematic
campaign to amalgamate the common people of all
Christendom into great military organizations. The false
slogan of the World War was that it would "make the
world safe for Democracy". Every sane man knows that
it destroyed democracy. "Big Business" and its allies
now hope to hold the common people in subjection by
making them a part of the harsh and cruel war machine.

Hopeless

Succeeding in this the Devil, in his ghoulish glee, and
to the reproach of God and Christ, would say: "This
is Christendom or organized Christianity."

BURDEN BEARERS

The unholy alliance called "Christendom" or "or-
ganized Christianity" for its support and maintenance
depends upon the multitudes of the common peoples. It
holds up the peoples and robs them of their just rights.
and the fruits of their honest labors, Without the con-
sent of the multitudes of peoples the poor are forced to
fight and to kill their fellow man without a just cause
or excuse. This "organized Christianity", fraudulently
so-called, has caused the common peoples to bear great
burdens of unjust taxation in order that the few might
live wantonly and recklessly. It has caused the peoples
to bear the burdens of war that a few might gratify
their selfish desires. The multitudes of suffering ones,
with bent bodies and broken hearts, have gone into un-
timely graves. Those not supporting the unholy alliance
are told by the clergy that to them death is but the
opening of the gates of a burning hell wherein their
torture will never end.

HOPELESS

The great desire of the peoples is for peace and pros-
perity and life in a state of happiness. It is now ap-
parent that there is no hope of the peoples' realizing
their desires by anything that "organized Christianity"
can give them. "Organized Christianity" or "Christen-
dom", instead of being the friend and benefactor of the
multitudes, is the enemy and oppressor of the common
peoples. With great pomp and glory that unholy system
rides upon the backs of the peoples, Without the sup-
port of the common peoples that wicked system called
"Christendom" could not survive. When the peoples
withdraw their support therefrom, "organized Christian-

ity", which is a part of Babylon or the Devil's organization,
will fall like a great millstone into the sea.

GOD THE PEOPLES' FRIEND

There is one true and almighty God. Jehovah of Hosts
is his name. He is the Friend and Benefactor of man.
Through his Christ and his kingdom of righteousness
he will grant to the honest peoples of earth their heart's
desire.

God created the first man perfect. Because man vio-
lated God's law he was sentenced to death. Thereafter
his children were born; hence they were born sinners and
imperfect and without the right to life. (Romans 5:12;
Psalm 51:5) God in his loving kindness promised to
produce a "seed" through which all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed. (Genesis 22:18-22) Then he
made it clear that Christ is that promised "seed" and
that there is no other name whereby men can be saved.
-Galatians 3:16-19; Acts 4:12.

God so loved the world of mankind that he sent his
beloved Son to earth and permitted him to die that man
might have an opportunity to live. (John 3:16) Jesus
Christ died for all men and all men must know that fact
in God's due time.-Hebrews 2:9; 1 Timothy 2:3-6.

Christ means the Anointed One of God, the Messiah,
the One appointed by Jehovah through whom the prom-
ised blessings must come to the people. For the purpose
of deceiving the peoples and turning their minds away
from God and his gracious provision for their blessing,
Satan the Devil organized the false and wicked system
made up of "Big Business", professional politicians, and
faithless preachers, and calls it by the name of "organized
Christianity" or "Christendom". That wicked system
now controls and for a long time has controlled and op-
pressed the common peoples of the nations.

By his Word God discloses that he would not interfere
with Satan's nefarious work until the end of the world,

God the Peoples' Friend

at which time Christ Jesus, his beloved Son and earth's
rightful King, should come into possession of the af-
fairs of man and rule and bless the peoples of the earth.
That world ended with 1914, and according to the Lord's
prophecy was marked by the World War, famine, pes-
tilence. revolutions, return of the Jews to Palestine, and
by general distress and perplexity now existing on earth.
(Matthew 24:3-22; Luke 21:10-26) A period of time
elapses from the beginning of sorrows, which marks the
end of the world. until the final end thereof, during
which the message of the kingdom must be proclaimed
to the peoples. Matthew 24:14.

Now God has set his Son Christ upon his throne, as
foretold by his prophet in the Second Psalm, and bids
all the nations and peoples of earth to hear and obey
him. The old world has ended and God's kingdom is at
hand. The rulers of the earth were duly served with
notice of this fact a year ago. The unholy alliance has
received due notice thereof. But instead of heeding
the message from the Word of God the rulers of the
world. to wit. those constituting the unholy alliance,
walk on in darkness and continue to oppress the peoples.
The doom of "organized Christianity" or Babylon is
sealed! The groans and cries of the peoples oppressed
by that wicked system have ascended up to the God of
heaven. To the oppressors composing that evil system
the great Jehovah now says: "Go to now, ye rich men,
weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon
you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are
motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the
rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall
eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure
together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the la-
borers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you
kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which
have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of
Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and

been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a
day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the
just; and he doth not resist you." -James 5:1-6.

The day of God's vengeance is at hand; and he will
punish that wicked system calling itself "organized
Christianity", because it has oppressed the common
peoples.

A city is a symbol of an organization. The unholy
organization called "Christendom" or "organized Chris-
tianity" in the Scriptures is called a "city". To that
wicked city God now says: "For, lo, I begin to bring
evil on the city which is called by my name, and should
ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished:
for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of
the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. A noise shall
come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord hath a
controversy with the nations; he will plead with all
flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword,
saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great
whirlwind [of trouble] shall be raised up from the
coasts of the earth. And the slain of the Lord shall be at
that day from one end of the earth even unto the other
end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither
gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the
ground. Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow your-
selves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the
days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are ac-
complished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. And
the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the prin-
cipal of the flock to escape." Jeremiah 25: 29, 31-35.

The World War stopped in 1918 in order that notice
might be given to the peoples of earth concerning the
name of Jehovah God and his purposes toward men.
That witness has been in progress during the past eight
years. Notice has been served upon the world powers,

and now notice is being served upon all the common peo-
ples. Jesus declared that when this witness is done, and
because the ruling powers will not heed the same, there
shall come upon the world the greatest time of trouble
ever known and it shall be the last. Matthew 24:14,
21. 22.

Millions of honest people who are now held in subjection to "organized Christianity", but who are meek
and willing to be taught, are asking, What shall we do?
To such Jehovah now says: "Seek ye the Lord, all ye
meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment:
seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be
hid in the day of the Lord's anger." Zephaniah 2:3.

The Word of God and the physical facts prove that
"organized Christianity" or "Christendom" is a failure.
She is even worse than that. She is a menace to peace
and prosperity. She is an instrument of Satan the Devil.
Abandon her and flee from her as rats flee from a
sinking ship. She is sinking into oblivion never again
to rise. She is going down in a time of trouble such as
never before was known. To the people the Lord now
says therefore: "Come out of her, my people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues."-Revelation 18:4.

THE BLESSINGS

The ruins of Satan's false system cleared away, there
shall arise a new heaven and new earth wherein dwells
righteousness, according to God's promise. (2 Peter
3:13) That righteous government shall rest upon the
shoulder of Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace. His
name shall be called by the people Wonderful Counsellor,
because he will guide them in the right way; he shall
be called the Everlasting Father because he will give
life to the peoples. And of his peace and blessings there
shall be no end. Isaiah 9:6, 7.

38 Freedom for the Peoples

WARS TO CEASE

The curse that war has laid upon the peoples will then
be lifted for ever. Never again shall there be war be-
tween the peoples of the nations. Under the reign of the
righteous Messiah the peoples of the nations shall beat
their instruments of war into farming implements and
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:2-4.

A lion is a symbol of the Devil, and a ravenous beast
is a symbol of the Devil's organization on earth, made
up of the cruel "Big Business", big politicians, and big
preachers. God, through his prophet, promises that in
the kingdom of Messiah there shall be no lion nor
ravenous beast there, because the Devil will not be per-
mitted to operate. He will have no cruel financiers, nor
professional politicians, nor any hypocritical preachers
to do his bidding. The people shall dwell together in
safety and follow that which is right. Isaiah 35:9, 10.

The poor will no longer be oppressed. In the courts
they will have fair and equitable consideration, because
it is written that "with righteousness shall he judge the
poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth".
-Isaiah 11:4.

Under the righteous reign of Messiah no cruel cor-
poration can own the houses in which the people dwell,
or compel them to pay exorbitant rents. The people
shall build their own houses and live in them and plant
their own vineyards and eat the fruit thereof, and no
one shall make them afraid. Micah 4:4.

Now the poor cry for bread and the rulers give them
a stone; they cry for a fish and the clergy give them a
fiery serpent. Under the righteous reign of Messiah there
shall be a great feast of fat things spread for all the
people and they shall eat and rejoice. No hypocritical
prohibition preachers will be permitted then to operate
with bootleggers and take away from the people theproper use of wine while they themselves use it unlawfully. Isaiah 25:6.

Under the righteous reign of Messiah clergymen will
no more be permitted to frighten the people and keep
them in ignorance of the truth. Then the knowledge of
the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth as the
waters now fill the sea, and every man will know the
Lord and his righteous way from the least to the great-
est, and that knowledge will be free, Habakkuk 2:14;
Jeremiah 31:34.

In that righteous government here on earth no more
can men called doctors practise on the people and hide
their mistakes in the graveyard, because then the Lord
will lead the people in the right way and bring unto them
peace and health and cure them of all their ailments
until no more shall any man say, "I am sick." Jeremiah 33:6; Isaiah 33:24.

It shall then be if a man who has been wicked shall
turn away from his wickedness and do right and obey the
Lord he shall live and shall never die. (Ezekiel 18:27,
28) That is the time of which Jesus spoke when he
said: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see
death" (John 8:51); "Whosoever liveth, and believeth
in me shall never die." John 11:26.

In that time old men shall return to the days of their
youth, and their flesh shall become fresher than that of
a child. (Job 33:25) Then God will restore to perfection of body and mind all the obedient ones on the
earth until the earth is filled with a happy, joyful and
vigorous people. Acts 3:19-23.

Seeing that God has in store these marvelous blessings
for the people through the kingdom of Christ it is easy
to see why the Devil has organized a false system called
"Christendom" or "organized Christianity", and by
which system hypocritically he deceives the people and
turns their minds away from God's provision for their
blessing.

God's kingdom of righteousness is at hand. The evi-
dence shows that the day of restitution has come in
which the obedient ones of mankind shall be granted
full freedom and be restored to the perfection of body
enjoyed in Eden. Therefore with confidence it can now
be stated that millions of people now on the earth will
never die.

The people desire peace, freedom, prosperity, life and
happiness. All thinking persons must now see these can
come only from God's kingdom through Christ. They
can never be realized by or through the false system
called "organized Christianity". The hypocritical and
evil course of "Christendom" is an insult to God and to
Christ. It is the deceiver and oppressor of the people.
It is completely under the control of Satan the Devil.
It depends for its support and maintenance upon the
multitudes of peoples, while at the same time it continues to defraud and oppress the people. Let the multitudes of peoples completely and entirely withdraw all
support morally, financially and otherwise from "Chris-
tendom" or "organized Christianity", so-called. Let
them give their heart's devotion and allegiance entirely
to God and to Christ, the Prince of Peace, who is now
earth's rightful King. Let them dwell together in peace
and do good to each other and be ready to receive the
blessings which God has in reservation for those who
love and obey him. The day of complete freedom is at
hand!

The peoples should therefore for ever abandon and
forsake "organized Christianity" called "Christendom"
and turn their hearts and minds and their allegiance
wholly to God and his Christ for the following reasons,
to wit:

• (1) Because "Christendom" is the Devil's organization
  operated by him to keep the people in subjection.

• (2) Because it is an instrument of oppression which

has been used to make the burdens of men grievous to be
borne.

• (3) Because it is false, hypocritical, and wicked, and
  against the interests of the multitudes of the peoples.

• (4) Because it holds out absolutely no hope for the
  betterment of the peoples.

• (5) Because God's time has come when that evil and
  hypocritical system shall be destroyed in the greatest
  time of trouble the world has ever known.

• (6) Because God commands all the peoples who love
  him to flee from that unrighteous system of so-called
  "organized Christianity" and thereby escape the dire
  calamities that shortly shall befall her,

• (7) Because God has set his anointed King, Christ
  Jesus the Messiah, upon his throne, and bids all the

peoples of earth to hear and obey him; and those who
so do shall receive and for ever enjoy the blessings of
complete freedom, everlasting peace, prosperity, life,
liberty and happiness.

And now, Mr. Chairman, based upon these assigned
reasons, I move the adoption of this resolution and I
ask my audience, both seen and unseen, when the vote
is taken that those who are in favor arise and express
themselves by crying out, Aye. Before voting upon it I
wish to say the message today, by God's grace, has gone
out from Maine to California, from Canada to Mexico,
and we hope to the uttermost parts of "Christendom".
The Lord God has graciously used the National Broadcasting Company to carry this message to "Christendom".
I take this occasion to express, upon behalf of the In-
ternational Bible Students, my great appreciation of
the cooperation of the National Broadcasting Company.
May God bless the men thereof for their efforts. Those
in favor of the adoption of the resolution arise and say,
Aye.

Freedom for the Peoples

The thunderous tones of that great multitude were
heard throughout the land and hundreds of thousands
and probably millions of other peoples who were listening
in likewise voted Aye, as is noted by the many messages
received.

"The Hook-up"

From The Messenger, published at Toronto, Monday
July 25th, 1927, the following is quoted:

One of the greatest events of the age has passed into
history. Judge Rutherford's address, at Toronto, marked
the end of the old way and the coming in of the new.

Ten years ago the Bible Students anticipated that by
the end of 1925 the gospel would be broadcast from some one
station to all the rest of the world. They did not miss it by
very much.

Ten weeks ago there were no signs that Judge Rutherford
would have the whole world listening to him from the
Coliseum platform, on July 24th. But events move rapidly
now.

Nothing could more plainly demonstrate the hand of
God than the wonderful way in which this seemingly im-
possible thing was brought about. All things are easy for
God.

It is less than six weeks ago that Judge Rutherford and
his colleagues were at Washington, setting forth to the
Radio Commission their just rights to a high wave length.

Reasons were given why WBBR, Judge Rutherford's
station on Staten Island, should have part of the time of
WJZ. It seemed like a hopeless mission, but God saw
otherwise.

WJZ is on the National Broadcasting Company's circuit.
Its president was at the hearing. Naturally he wanted to
retain all his time, but Judge Rutherford interested him.
President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, of the National Broadcasting Company, desired that Judge Rutherford should
make use of his circuit; and a date was fixed, July 24th,
yesterday.

So it came about that when Judge Rutherford stepped
out on the platform yesterday he stepped out to speak from
all the stations which go to make up the National Broadcasting circuit, in addition to his own chain of stations.
These include many of the most important stations in
the United States, and with them the Red, Blue and Pacific
networks, as they are called, reaching clear across the con-
tinent.

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But he spoke from more than these, because many other
of the most prominent broadcasting studios, including sev-
eral in Canada, concluded also to send out the lecture.

So it came to pass that Judge Rutherford, standing in
Toronto, talked from a line of stations reaching from
Toronto, through Saskatoon and Edmonton to Vancouver
on the Pacific coast.

Standing in Toronto he was broadcasting simultaneously
from Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Providence
and other stations all over New England.

Standing in Toronto his voice went out from the greatest
studios in New York, Schenectady, Buffalo, Rochester, Washington, Pittsburgh and others in the Middle Atlantic States.

Though here in Canada he broadcast from Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Davenport, Batavia, Louisville,
and many other stations in the Middle Western States.

Without leaving the Coliseum his voice rang out from
stations in Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, Jacksonville, Dal-
las, and from stations in many other cities all over the
Southern States.

Though his voice went into but one microphone here yet
it entered other microphones with equal power in Des
Moines, Omaha, Denver, San Antonio, Oakland and Spokane.

Originally cast from Toronto, Judge Rutherford's voice
went on and on until it was amplified millions of times and
was rebroadcast from the great studios in England and
Australia.

The vast audience at Toronto was as nothing. True, the
great Coliseum was filled an hour ahead of time and thousands turned away; but all could hear, in or out.

All over the world the scene in Toronto was duplicated.
Bible Students and their friends and the public were listen-
ing in halls, auditoriums and private homes, catching every
word.

How many millions heard Judge Rutherford's wonderful
discourse Sunday afternoon there will never be any way of
finding out while we are on this side of the veil.

The Passing of the Powers

"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the
gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff
of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried
them away, that no place was found for them: and
the stone that smote the image became a great
mountain, and filled the whole earth."
-Daniel 2:35.

JEHOVAH through his Word reveals that Armageddon is
"the battle of the great day of God Almighty". The in-
ference to be drawn from the name used is that in that
great day the Creator of heaven and earth will exercise
almighty power in battle against his enemy. If then we are
correct in the conclusion that the battle of Armageddon will
be fought by Satan and his forces on the one side, and Je-
hovah of hosts on the other side, then it is of greatest in-
terest and importance to the Christians now on earth to
have a mental vision of both organizations. It will also be
of great importance for the Christians to go forward in
harmony with God's organization and to faithfully perform
the duties God has laid upon them.

It seems quite certain that we are approaching the great-
est crisis of all time and that in the conflict of Armageddon
the powers of evil shall fall, never again to secure a solid
footing on the earth. That fact alone should thrill the soul
of every lover of righteousness. It will mean the vindica-
tion of God's holy name, the triumph of his Christ, the de-
liverance of the people from oppression, and the opening

of the plain highway by which the people may fully return
unto God. Truly we are entering into a grand and awful
time. To be living now is sublime!

It is profitable at this time that we take a mental vision
of the history of the nations or world powers found recorded
in the Word of God, and such part of profane history relating thereto as is in full harmony with the Word of God.
Undoubtedly God caused the record thereof to be made in

his Word for the benefit of the Christians on earth at this
time. The understanding of the same in harmony with
God's will is therefore meat in due season to strengthen all
those who are striving to do the will of God.

DEFINITIONS

Power, as used herein, means a potentate or authority ex-
ercising jurisdiction and power over others.

World, as herein used, means mankind organized into
forms of government acting under the supervision and influence or control of an invisible overlord, potentate or
authority. There is both a visible and an invisible part of
the world. The invisible part of the organization is termed
"heaven". The visible part thereof is called "earth", and
the authority of the visible part thereof is exercised by
men. In the Scriptures the earthly part is symbolized by a
beast, because a wild and ferocious beast fitly represents
earthly governments or powers.

A world power therefore is defined as an organization on
earth of men into forms of government, which government
possesses and exercises supreme jurisdiction, power, and the
controlling influence over various powers or nations, and
which is under the supervision of the invisible overlord,
Satan the Devil. World powers have been permitted by Je-
hovah in order to put men to the test and to teach them les-
sons which they could not otherwise learn. Many nations have
arisen and quickly fallen again, but world powers have been
limited in number and have existed until God's due time
for such to fall.

God permitted man to follow his own devices in organiz-
ing governments. He placed before man righteousness and
truth and then permitted him to choose good or to go in
the way of evil and unrighteousness. Man changed the
truth into lies, reproached God and worshiped the creature
rather than the Creator. (Romans 1:25) Men were induced
to take this wrongful course by reason of the evil influence
exercised over them by Satan the enemy. By fraud and
deceit Satan turned the mind of man away from God. The
Devil induced some to worship him, and others he induced
to worship any object except Jehovah. By this means Satan
became the god or invisible ruler over men and has in-
fluenced and controlled men's organization of governments
or powers.

The Devil's organization therefore consists of himself and
the evil angels that he drew away from the paths of
rectitude, and of men under his influence organized into
earthly systems and governments. The majority of men
have not cared to retain God in their knowledge and there-
fore God permitted them to go in the way of evil and to do
those things which are unrighteous. As the knowledge of
men increased they have turned that knowledge into selfish
and wrongful channels. Satan, seizing upon the opportunity,
has builded a mighty organization on earth. In the latter
days, due to the great goodness of God, knowledge has

increased; but this knowledge has been used among men
under the influence of Satan to strengthen his organization.
The commerce of the earth, the political machinery of earth,
and the organized religion of earth, are all under the control of Satan. He has united these into one mighty or-
ganization, which organization is cruel and oppressive. He
stands opposed to God and everything that represents God.

Throughout the ages only those who have been faithful to
God have stood aloof from the Devil's organization and re-
fused to yield thereto. Many of these have suffered martyr-
dom, and over them Satan's organization apparently has
triumphed. Many others for a time have stood in opposition

to Satan's organization, but under his subtle influence have
fallen into his snares. Today upon earth there is but a
remnant that is true and faithful to God. Against these
Satan and his organization now make desperate assault
with the determination of destroying them because they
keep the commandments of God and have the witness that
they are the Lord's.

GOD'S ORGANIZATION

God's organization is unknown to all except a few. It
consists of Jesus Christ, his beloved Son and great High
Priest, and a host of true and holy angels, and the mem-
bers of the body of Christ in glory, and of those anointed

ones on earth who are yet faithful and true to the Lord.
Over all of these is the great eternal Jehovah God. The fact
that one of his names is Jehovah of hosts means that he
has a mighty army of holy angels that delight to render
complete obedience unto him. These not only carry out his
purposes in general, but under his direction furnish pro-
tection for the faithful ones on earth. God's representatives
on earth are small in number and meager in power. In
themselves they have no strength. These faithful ones
have entered into the secret place of the Most High; and
dwelling there in the shadow of the Almighty God, they
are safe while the battle rages. With confidence and with
a complete sense of security they can perform and do per-
form their duties.

DIVINE RULES

It appears that God has fixed rules of procedure concern-
ing world powers: (1) He manifests toward such his own
goodness that the people thereof, and particularly the rulers,
may see evidences of his righteousness in contrast with
the wickedness of the evil one; (2) he serves notice upon
them of his purposes to punish their evil course; (3) he
magnifies his own name by a manifestation of his supreme
power that all may know that there is no Almighty God be-
sides him and from him alone proceed all things that are
good and righteous.

It also appears that another fixed rule of God is that
where there is greater knowledge, or opportunity to obtain
the same, there is greater responsibility resting upon those
who do know or who might know. Having in mind these
fixed rules will enable us to more fully appreciate what
are the present duties of the remnant and what Armageddon may mean.

BEGINNING OF WORLD POWERS

Nebuchadnezzar succeeded his father upon the throne of
Babylon, a nation that had existed for many years. In the
second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar he had a dream,
Daniel the Hebrew was brought before the king and gave
the interpretation of his dream. In that interpretation Daniel the prophet of God specified four kingdoms or world

powers. (Daniel 2:36-40) From the description given, how-
ever, and from other facts that appear in the sacred record
it is manifest that these four are not all the world powers
revealed by the Scriptures and that Babylon was not the
beginning of world powers.

The Gentile Times began under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. When Daniel stood before that potentate to give
interpretation of his dream he said: "God ... maketh
known what shall be in the latter days." Those words would
indicate that God would reveal to his people in the latter
days a better understanding of Nebuchadnezzar's dream
and of its interpretation, which was in fact a prophecy.
God's purpose in making the dream and its interpretation
appear so prominently in the Bible must be of greater sig-
nificance merely than to record an historical fact to be
thereafter remembered by the people. It now appears that
the primary purpose of the record concerning that world
power was and is that God thereby serves notice on the
ruling factors of the world that he is the only true God,
that his name shall be magnified notwithstanding the en-
emy, and in his own due time he will demonstrate this to
all creation.

EGYPT

It is an indisputable fact that long prior to the existence
of Babylon as a world power there were two other great
world powers. The first was Egypt. God permitted Joseph
to be sold into Egypt, and then to be elevated to a position
of great power and authority in that government. There
was a divine purpose in this. It was through Joseph that
God gave Egypt evidence of his own goodness. That nation
was the predominant world power then. That nation received many blessings from God, ministered to it and its
people through the hand of Joseph, the servant of God.
(Genesis 41) The rulers of Egypt learned of God and
his goodness. Joseph died; and another king arose who was
against God and forgot the favors that the empire had received from Jehovah. (Exodus 1:8) God's chosen people
were then domiciled in Egypt. They were being persecuted
and oppressed by the rulers. Their cries came up before

Jehovah. God then went to Egypt to make for himself
a name. (2 Samuel 7:23) He did this by sending his ser-
vants, Moses and Aaron, into Egypt. He told Moses in
advance what he intended to do. (Exodus 3:20) Through
Moses God served notice on Pharaoh that he is the Almighty
God and of his purpose to deliver his people. After full
and fair warning God slew all the firstborn of Egypt, delivered his own people, and then destroyed the army of
that great world power. Thus he gave a demonstration of
his power that he is God, that his name might not be for-
gotten for the good of men.

Egypt was the first world power, and what came to pass
concerning it foreshadowed what shall happen to the last
of Satan's world powers. Moses, who served as deliverer,
foreshadowed Christ, the great Deliverer. The overthrow
of Egypt foreshadowed the time when God through Christ
would dash to pieces Satan's organization in the latter days.
From that time forward Egypt as a world power became
typical of other world powers that should follow. Students
of Scripture have long recognized Egypt as a type and its
king as the representative of the Devil and a part of the
Devil's organization.

ASSYRIA

Later and next in order Assyria arose as a dominant world
power. That nation was the dominating organization of
Satan on earth. God recognized Assyria as a world power
and specifically showed his goodness to that nation by send-
ing Jonah his prophet to them to give them warning. And
that world power recognized Jehovah as their God and
acknowledged him as such. (Jonah 3:6-9) Because of their
knowledge of God the rulers of Assyria were responsible.
Not only did the rulers of Assyria forget God and worship
Satan and his angels, but openly defied the Almighty and
brought reproach upon his name. (2 Kings 18:22; 19:10-
13) Then God manifested his power against the empire
of Assyria and demonstrated that he is the Almighty God.
Assyria fell and ceased to be a world power.

BABYLON

The next world power that appeared on the scene was
Babylon. It existed as a nation long prior thereto. Early
in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Babylon became a world
power or dominant national organization of Satan. Be-
cause of the unfaithfulness of the nation of Israel, which
formed the typical kingdom of God, that nation was over-
thrown and God even permitted Nebuchadnezzar to become
"a king of kings" or dominant world power to be used for
his own purposes. By the dream of Nebuchadnezzar and
the interpretation thereof by Daniel God brought notice to
that ruler that Jehovah is the only true God; and Nebuchadnezzar recognized that fact when he said to Daniel: "Of
a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods and a Lord
of kings." (Daniel 2:47) Later Nebuchadnezzar was
forced to undergo certain ordeals by which he was com-
pelled to acknowledge the supremacy of Jehovah. (Daniel
4:25-37) The goodness of God was made manifest to
Babylon. Later that nation forgot God and persecuted his
people and fell.

By the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream which
God gave to him through the Prophet Daniel Jehovah was
serving notice upon Babylon, and upon all the nations that
followed, that he is the great and only true God and that in
his due time he will destroy all powers that oppose him
even as he had destroyed Egypt; and that he will do so
through his righteous kingdom; and that his kingdom shall
stand for ever for the blessing of mankind.

The facts therefore show that Babylon was the third
world power in the order in which they actually came into
existence. The Lord through Daniel did not say that Neb-
uchadnezzar was the head of the first world power. He
described an image, which Nebuchadnezzar saw, the head
of which was gold; and then said to the king: "Thou art
this head of gold." He then stated that after Babylon
there should follow a second, third, and fourth kingdom or
world power. It clearly therefore appears that such in the
order named were numbered from Nebuchadnezzar forward.
The second was the Medo-Persian kingdom, the third Greece,
and Rome is recognized as the fourth. Counting Egypt as

the first world power, which indeed it was, then Rome was
the sixth from Egypt but the fourth from Nebuchadnezzar.
The four world powers mentioned by Daniel covered the
time or interregnum between the overthrow of the typical
kingdom of God and the coming of the real kingdom, to wit,
Christ Jesus, who came and declared, "The kingdom of
heaven is at hand." He is the one "whose right it is" to
reign. (Ezekiel 21:24-27) He was crucified during the
time that Rome was the dominant power of earth, the fourth
in the order named by Daniel. Daniel the prophet did not
then disclose the world powers that preceded Nebuchadnez-
zar, nor those that should follow Rome and that should
exist until the establishment of God's kingdom under Christ.

OTHER WORLD POWERS

While Daniel specifically named only four world powers
yet his prophetic description shows there were to be more.
The image which he described to Nebuchadnezzar had legs
of iron which represented the fourth world power or
kingdom named by Daniel and which is recognized by all
as Rome. Iron represents a cruel military power that breaks
to pieces and subdues all others. The military history of
Rome fully meets this description.

The image had feet and toes, which are no part of the
legs any more than the thighs are parts of the legs. The
two feet had ten toes; and while the toes grow out of the
feet, yet they are separate from the feet and are described
separately. The description therefore shows that the feet
represent a great world power to follow Rome, and then
later another would arise which is represented by the toes
growing out from the feet and forming a part thereof. The
prophet's description is: "And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes, part of the potters' clay, and part of iron,
the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of
the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron
mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were
part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be
partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest
iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves
with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to

another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."-Daniel
2:41-43.

Then in the forty-fourth verse follows the prophet's state-
ment that God will set up his kingdom and will completely
destroy all these world powers and that then God's kingdom
shall stand for ever.

The time of the fulfilment of this prophecy, which is the
time of the complete fall and destruction of world powers,
is indicated by the words of the prophet: "They shall
mingle themselves with the seed of men." Otherwise stated,
at that time there shall be an effort to ally the two things
represented by the iron and the clay. Iron symbolizes mil-
itary power, while clay symbolically represents the democ-
racy or common peoples of the earth; and the mingling of
the two represents an effort to unite all the peoples and

nations, including the democracy or rank and file, into one
great military camp or war machine, and therefore corre-
sponds with the statement concerning Satan's gathering to-
gether all his forces for the great battle of Armageddon.

In 1799 Rome fell and ceased to be a world power. At that
time Napoleon was desperately attempting to establish a
universal world power which would completely ignore Jehovah God and push him out of the minds of men. He
was following Voltaire's theory of evolution, which is an-
other evidence he was acting under the direction of the
Devil. It is manifest that the Lord God interfered to pre-
vent him in establishing such a universal power. At the
great naval battle of Trafalgar and in the land engagement
of Waterloo the forces of Napoleon were defeated and his
power broken.

That marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the
British Empire, which is the seventh and without doubt
the greatest world power that has ever existed. Peculiar
to that world power is this, that the chief part of its
political body is the House of Lords, consisting of the lords
spiritual and the lords temporal. The Archbishop of Can-
terbury is first peer of the realm and therefore next to the
king. The bishops and other ecclesiastics are large owners
of the lands and mines. The empire claims to represent
Christ on earth, and at the same time it is the greatest mil-
itary power that the world has ever produced. It fully meets

the description of the two horned beast that has the ap-
pearance of a lamb because it is diplomatic, pious in ap-
pearance, sanctimonious, and that speaks like the Devil.
(Revelation 13:11) Its dominion encircles the earth.

America is really a part of the British Empire because
both countries are controlled by the same money power, and
that is the power that is responsible for the military and
the political machinery. The British Empire or world power,
together with her colonies and allies, is represented by
the feet in the image described by Daniel. The iron repre-
sents her great military strength, while at the same time the
clay represents the democracy or common people of the
empire, all of which she counts as a part of her great mil-
itary system. The battle cry during the War of Britain and
her allies was: "Let us use the military to make the world
safe for Democracy." Such is a mixing of iron with miry
clay. It was and is a subtle attempt to amalgamate the
military with the common people. The scheme will deceive
the people for a time but not for long, because God through
his prophet so states.

The ten toes of Daniel's image symbolically represent all
the rulers of "Christendom". These have united to form a
League of Nations which is the eighth beast and which
comes from nowhere and goes into perdition. It is the final
desperate attempt of Satan to make all the peoples of
"Christendom" stand together as a great and warlike body
preparatory for the great battle of God Almighty, and
which the enemy expects to launch against the Lord God
and against his Anointed. The British Empire is therefore
the seventh world power; and the League of Nations, which
is combined "Christendom", including of course the British
Empire, which is the real life-giver to the League, is the
eighth; and both the seventh and the eighth function at one
and the same time, and both seem destined for the same
fate.

The British Empire is the strongest and most powerful
nation on the earth. She is the greatest world power that
has ever existed. Her dominion extends from east to west
and north to south, and reaches almost every part of the
earth. Because of her strength she is weak. It is her
numerous colonies that make her strong as an empire; and
as long as those colonies remain entirely loyal her strength
continues. If a break should start with one it might easily
extend to all others, and the empire would quickly go down.

The British Empire claims to be the most liberal on earth
with regard to freedom of speech. That claim is probably
true. The English have learned that it is a good policy to
let the people vent their feelings by giving expression in
words. At the same time she is the strongest military
power on earth. Her effort is to draw the common people
into her military organization. Her financial power works
the political and ecclesiastical elements for all they are
worth, and these in turn impress upon the people the great
necessity of the military strength of the nation. There is
a constant burden of taxation laid upon the people to
further the preparations for war. While America is separate
and independent from Britain, yet she is more dependent
than many of her citizens think. The commerce of the

British and American nations is closely allied, and therein
lie the strength and power of each. Should Britain fall
America could not long continue her commercial enterprises.
Her markets in Europe would fall. She would also be great-
ly menaced by Japan and China. Commerce therefore
holds the two great nations of Britain and America in close
alliance.

America is likewise pursuing the same policy concerning
war preparations. This is induced by the commercial ele-
ment or Big Finance. When one of America's sons, little
known, flew across the Atlantic that marvelous feat accomplished by him was seized upon by "Big Business" to
boost war preparations. Great sums of money were spent
apparently to honor this young man. That was not done
because the spenders had any love for the young man. They
love no one but self. Millions were spent to enthuse the
common people concerning war and to draw them into the
war arrangement.

Other nations are doing the same thing. All "Christendom", which really forms the League of Nations, is talking
about disarmament but at the same time increasing that
armament. There are more armed men in Europe today
than there were in 1914. Every possible effort is being put
forth to make soldiers of the common people. What is now
flow. Likewise he demonstrated his power against the other
world powers, including Rome, and for the same purpose.
Now in the time of the enlightenment of the nations of earth
so-called "Christendom" has disregarded the name of the
Lord God and has pushed it aside and hypocritically used
his name as no other power ever did. "Christendom" is
the very, zenith of the Devil's organization. God declares
his purpose that such organization shall fall amidst the
greatest time of trouble ever known, and that such will be
the last. Matthew 24:21, 22.

SERVING NOTICE

In keeping with the fixed divine rule, before dashing
"Christendom" to pieces Jehovah will have it duly served
with notice of his purpose. Acting under his fixed rule he
sent Moses and Aaron to serve notice upon Egypt. He sent
Jonah to serve notice upon Assyria. Through his prophets
he served notice on Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. He
served notice upon Rome through Jesus and his apostles.
Now shall God perform his great and terrible act in a
corner without due notice being given to the world power
of "Christendom"? No; he declares that notice must be
served upon her.

WITNESSES

Who then will God have to serve notice upon Christendom? Keep in mind that the issue now is, Who is God?
To the faithful anointed ones who delight to follow in the
footsteps of Jesus at this time God says, "Ye are my wit-
nesses, that I am God." (Isaiah 43:10, 12) God commands
his people to go and give this witness, and says to give it
until the battle is on and until Satan's organization shall
fall never to rise again. If you are one of the anointed ones
and love the Lord, you will delight to have a part in obey-
ing his commandments and will participate in giving the
witness. Others will not.

The events that have come to pass since 1914 have been
brought sharply to the attention of Christians. These events
constitute the good news to the faithful and to all who love

Witnesses

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