Golden Age Goodies (page 22)

chasson

The Golden Age January 15 1936

"Some ideas on health" with a great gag Page 227 concerning "elimination" in the morning..

Bye

Charles

Leolaia

Lots of good tidbits in that issue.

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Further Distressing Reports
The work goes on, under great difficulties. A writer in a Nazi paper Drehscheibe, quotes a page from The Crisis and then says: "The time is short. Jehovah is gathering His troops. In America sits His war minister, Judge Rutherford, a man with a very long and sharp pen. The army of fighters against Jehovah must become more and more numerous. We must get the start of Him by a preventative war." At the conclusion of his article the writer last quoted said: "We shall meet again in the battlefield of Armageddon."

This accords so well with Rutherfordian ideology (i.e. that Rutherford himself was fulfilling Bible prophecy and represented God's people on earth), that I have to wonder about the accuracy of this quote, or whether this was a piece of sarcasm that the Golden Age is taking literally.

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Jehovah's witnesses in the Fiery Furnace
...It should also be explained that these innocent Christian people now falsely accused by the Roman Catholic and other clergy as conspiring against the German state are the very same people that were accused falsely, in 1918, of being pro-German. Judge Rutherford was one of those thus falsely accused, and was sentenced to eighty years in Atlanta Penitentiary.

This statement is strikingly similar to the Watchtower letter sent to Adolph Hitler: "The Brooklyn administration of the Watch Tower Society is and in the past has been exceedingly friendly to Germany. For this reason, the president of the Society and seven members of its Board of Directors in the United States were sentenced to 80 years imprisonment because the president refused to use two magazines published by him in the United States for war propaganda against Germany". What is funny is that when the Watchtower Society was writing to Hitler about the 80-year-sentence, it described itself as pro-German, whereas when it wrote against the German government, it cited the same 80-year-sentence as due to a false accusation that they were pro-German!

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"Und Drei Kleine Kinder"
...May Jehovah, the true and loving and almighty God fulfill the imprecations of the Psalms upon the souls of these beasts that have insulted God by killing one of His witnesses and at the same time have deprived "three little children" of their father and caretaker. It is bad enough for the frau to be deprived of her life companion, but for the poor "drei kleine kinder", the three little kids, all one can do is to cry for Armageddon to come soon.

Again, Armageddon is so close.....and now over 70 years later, those children are in their twillight years, if they have even survived to live this long....

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'All the World Wondering'
AS POINTED out in Light, Book One, all the world is now literally wondering at the recovery of the "beast", Germany, that received the deadly wound and has since been healed. (Revelation 13:3) Today Germany is first in the number of aircraft, in trained pilots and in factories for aircraft construction, and is now virtually able to challenge the whole world in the air. It is also first in devilishness.

Seemed like a pretty striking fulfillment of Bible prophecy at the time!! Too bad then that World War II did not lead into Armageddon. So...in the 1940s there was a brand new interpretation, and the Beast shifted from "Germany" to the "United Nations". This just shows how pliable their "fulfillments of Bible prophecy" are.

"Wholesale Murder of Protestants Soon" is a stunning little paranoid piece on p. 25. The author envisions a future just ahead when Catholic Jesuits will use machine gun-toting Mafia mobsters to slaughter Protestants wholesale, thereby enslaving 85% of the population of the United States to the 15% of Catholics.

Here is an interesting piece on the Jews:

*** g35 10/9 p. 26 Making America Fascist ***
Meanwhile there has been received in this office a copy of The Gentile Front, showing the strange cooperation with this scheme of very many able American Jews, among whom are listed Bernard M. Baruch, Donald R. Richberg, Professor Felix Frankenfurter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Henry Morgenthay, Sr., Henry Morgenthay, Jr., Professor Rex Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, Edward A. Filene, Frances Perkins, Harold S. Ickes, Samuel Untermyer, Joseph B. Eastman, Samuel DIckstein, and many others. On the other side of the story is the fact that two of the United States Supreme Court justices, Louis D. Brandeis and Benjamin N. Cardozo, are said to be Jews, and their opinions helped to kill the New Deal. The probable fact is that the reason why there are so many Jews in prominent places in the national government and in the New York state government is that there are so many able Jews in New York city, which city is, in fact, the largest Jewish city in the world. The governor of New York state, Herbert H. Lehman, is a Jew, and nine of the ten New York state supreme court justices for Manhattan and The Bronx are Jews. The Gentile Front asserts that in the New Deal at Washington 85 percent of the advisory and official positions are held by Jews, and that of the Russian Communistic setup, composed of 554 members, all are Jews but less than 20. The Gentile Front seems to be Nazi propaganda. It maintains the so-called "Protocols of Zion" are of Jewish origin, despite the fact that this has been proved false wherever the courts have looked into it. Nothing could be more devilishly narrow-minded, more fiendish, more contemptible, than the so-called "New Germany" to which The Gentile Front looks up and upon which The Golden Age looks down with loathing inexpressible. The Jews are money-lovers, granted; but they are not pig-headed wild beasts.

More on wishing and hoping for Armageddon to happen:

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The Regular Daily Dose of Poison
All the relief work was stopped in Idaho at the first of the year. In shacks that would not keep a horse warm I have seen a mother with two to eight children watching a lone aluminum pot boil with some beans or potatoes in it. Under the conditions it seemed to me that a dose of strychnine would have been more humane than that regular daily dose of poison. How I have hoped and prayed for Armageddon!

This next wish for Armageddon in a recipe for a laxative is hilariously out of place:

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An Effective Laxative
SOPHIA E. SCHWAB, O.D., optometrist, Colorado, recommends the following laxative from natural foods as wonderfully satisfactory: "1/4 pound each of cashew nuts, raisins, cocoanut and senna leaves, and 1/2 cup honey. Grind dry ingredients through food chopper and mix with the honey. Left in a large ball it keeps fresh a long time. Take a piece the size of a small walnut at night, and reduce as needed. Keep in icebox. Jehovah, the eternal King, supplies us with all good things. The Devil and his hordes begrudge mankind a healthy moment. The day of slaughter is near."