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ENDORSEMENT
S OMEONE writes an anonymous letter to The Watchtower as follows: ? The Golden Age recently published an article entitled ?That Delusion Called ?Love??, in which a warning is given to God?s consecrated people to shun love-making with the opposite sex because it is one of the things the Devil has fostered and leads away from undivided devotion to Jehovah and therefore brings reproach upon His name. Many brethren would like to know whether The Watchtower is of the same opinion and would give the same advice to those desiring to be wholly devoted to Jehovah, seeing that this article puts the matter in rather a new light.?
Had the writer been studying The Watchtower since 1925 to date he would not have found it necessary to ask this question. This is not putting the matter in ?a new light.? T he Watchtower fully endorses the article in The Golden Age, above mentioned. The article gives the same advice, identically, to those who desire to serve Jehovah. There are two forces operating toward all persons: (1) Passion, which is induced by the influence of others upon the person that is influenced; (2) principle, or law, that is, God?s law or rule of action, prescribing the way that is right and proper. Those who are devoted to Jehovah are governed by his law and follow his commandments. The publications of the Society for the last ten or twelve years have emphasized the very thing that is set forth in the article in The Golden Age.

shotgun

I knew it...I knew it...sex is EVIL...Cigars and booze are ok though...in fact the prohibition was Satans idea...that silly old J.F Rutherford.

When God called out brains he thought they said trains and he knew that's how C.T Russell died.

J.F Rutherford had to be a sock puppet for Satan or maybe he was Satan?

gumby

Are they talking about un-married people here? If not.......this blows me away!

How in the heck did you find this gem Craig? (btw.......mornin ya bastard.)

Gumby

Love_Truth

I'm speechless. Who in the world could possibly turn down God's second greatest gift to mankind, Sex?

shotgun

Gumby ...Craig is always searching the Inspired writings of the Fateful and Discreet Slave to find justification for his celibacy.

I was confused when he shared these feeling with me so I asked him if he believed in Budda,he said yes but I prefer margarine

gumby

So then.......how would Rutherford justify sleeping with his wife and doin the 'nasty'????????

Gumby

Gretchen956

OMG, finally a doctrine I can live with:

warning is given to God?s consecrated people to shun love-making with the opposite sex because it is one of the things the Devil has fostered

Gretchen

aunthill

LOL at Gretchen!

Billygoat

lol@Gretchen

Interesting morning, huh?

onacruse

((Gretchen)) Hang tough, eh?

It just occurred to me...I think there was something in "The Vow" about abstaining from sex? I'll have to do a little digging, or maybe one of you has a link handy?

edit to add: I found it (my recollection of the wording was somewhat faulty ):

*** yb75 pp. 51-52 United States of America (Part One) ***
At Bethel was located C. T. Russell?s study. Downstairs was the dining room, with a long table that would accommodate forty-four persons. The family would assemble here to sing a hymn, read the "Vow" and join in prayer before breakfast. At the beginning of the meal a Bible text was read from Daily Heavenly Manna for the Household of Faith, and this was discussed during breakfast.
Would you like to hear the vow that was daily impressed on their minds? Entitled "My Solemn Vow to God," it goes like this:
"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. May thy rule come into my heart more and more, and thy will be done in my mortal body. Relying on the assistance of thy promised grace to help in every time of need, through Jesus Christ our Lord, I register this Vow.
"Daily will I remember at the throne of heavenly grace the general interests of the harvest work, and particularly the share which I myself am privileged to enjoy in that work, and the dear co-laborers at the Brooklyn Bethel, and everywhere.
"I Vow to still more carefully, if possible, scrutinize my thoughts and words and doings, to the intent that I may be the better enabled to serve thee, and thy dear flock.
"I Vow to thee that I will be on the alert to resist everything akin to Spiritism and Occultism, and that, remembering that there are but the two masters, I shall resist these snares in all reasonable ways, as being of the Adversary.
"I further Vow that, with the exceptions below, I will at all times and at all places, conduct myself toward those of the opposite sex in private exactly as I would do with them in public?in the presence of a congregation of the Lord?s people, and so far as reasonably possible I will avoid being in the same room with any of the opposite sex alone, unless the door to the room stand wide open:?In the case of a brother?wife, children, mother and sisters excepted. In the case of a sister?husband, children, father and brothers excepted."
Recitation of this vow was later discontinued among God?s people at Bethel and elsewhere. Yet, the high principles embodied in its words are still sound.

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