Publication date
7/15/09
Volume
30
Number
14
The WatchTower
Views from The Watch Tower
The Watchtower Magazines
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(206-211 
) 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
BIl.OOKLYN. 
N. 
Y. 
church 
as 
the 
New 
Testament 
church, 
but 
you 
made 
ll. 
clear 
cut 
of 
it, 
declaring 
that 
the 
New 
Covenant 
is 
not 
yet 
in 
existence, 
that 
it 
belongs- 
to 
the 
Millennial 
age. 
This 
declaration 
dispelled 
the 
mist 
and 
caused 
me 
to 
see 
the 
wondrous 
doings 
of 
our 
God 
more 
clearly. 
The 
Seed 
promised 
in 
the 
Abrahamic 
Covenant 
is 
to 
bless 
Israel 
and 
all 
nations 
by 
the 
arrangement 
of 
the 
New 
Covenant. 
The 
New 
Covenant 
will 
be 
established 
as 
soon 
as 
its 
Mediator, 
Christ 
Head 
and 
body, 
shall 
have 
been 
completed. 
Then 
will 
begin 
the 
great 
transaction. 
Christ 
as 
the 
High 
Priest 
shall 
enter 
into 
the 
Most 
Holy 
with 
the 
blood 
of 
the 
church 
to 
justify 
God 
in 
his 
act 
of 
letting 
the 
world 
go 
from 
the 
chain 
of 
death-legally. 
God 
will 
then 
be 
at 
liberty 
to 
ex­ 
hibit 
his 
wisdom, 
love 
and 
power 
toward 
mankind. 
The 
work 
of 
the 
atonement 
will 
then 
be 
finished 
and 
Christ 
shall 
come 
forth 
as 
the 
Mediator. 
The 
antitypical 
Ishmael, 
the 
Jewish 
na­ 
tion, 
shall 
come 
from 
the 
wilderness 
condition 
to 
the 
promised 
land, 
even 
to 
Mt. 
Zion, 
the 
center 
from 
which 
God 
will 
rule 
the 
world 
during 
the 
Millennium. 
The 
New 
Covenant 
will 
be 
sealed 
and 
the 
precIOus 
work 
will 
begin-the 
work 
of 
taking 
awi:J.Y 
the 
sins 
of 
Israel 
and 
the 
taking 
away 
of 
the 
sins 
of 
the 
world, 
aI,d 
the 
writmg 
of 
the 
law 
of 
God 
in 
the 
hearts 
of 
the 
children 
of 
Israel 
anll 
in 
the 
hearts 
of 
the 
people 
of 
other 
nations. 
You 
have 
brought 
wondcrful 
things 
to 
my 
attention. 
I 
am 
taken 
captive 
by 
these 
things. 
What 
am 
I 
that 
I 
should 
come 
under 
the 
offer 
of 
getting 
the 
choicest 
portion 
of 
the 
.... 
brahamic 
Covenant? 
I 
remember 
the 
days 
when 
I 
was 
reading 
and 
think­ 
ing 
of 
the 
two 
covenants 
mentioned 
by 
Paul 
in 
Galatians 
4, 
but 
I 
did 
not 
understand, 
so 
I 
have 
watched 
and 
received 
eagerly 
whatsoever 
has 
come 
from 
your 
pen 
along 
the 
line 
of 
the 
co\'e­ 
nants. 
How 
precious 
it 
is 
to 
walk 
under 
the 
light 
shed 
upon 
them! 
Precious, 
sanctifying 
truths 
indeed 
they 
are. 
Daily 
I 
remember 
you 
and 
all 
your 
dear 
cola 
borers 
at 
the 
throne 
of 
heavenly 
grace. 
Yours 
in 
love 
of 
the 
truth, 
K. 
P. 
HAMMEB,-Can. 
DEAR 
BROTHER 
Russl<;u.:- 
For 
some 
time 
I 
have 
wanted 
to 
write 
and 
tell 
you 
how 
greatly 
I 
have 
been 
blessed 
since 
making 
the 
Vow 
my 
own, 
which 
I 
did 
at 
11: 
15 
p. 
m., 
January 
9 
last. 
Words 
fail 
to 
ex­ 
press 
the 
peace 
of 
mind 
I 
experienced 
as 
soon 
as 
I 
registered 
it 
with 
our 
heavenly 
Father. 
I 
am 
happier 
now 
than 
I 
have 
been 
since 
I 
came 
into 
present 
truth, 
and 
can 
truthfully 
say, 
each 
day 
I 
have 
received 
more 
light 
and 
knowledge 
and 
have 
in­ 
creased 
joy 
in 
the 
Lord 
and 
in 
his 
service. 
My 
heart 
overflows 
with 
gratitude 
and 
extreme 
thankfulness 
to 
our 
heavenly 
Fath, 
er 
for 
his 
goodness 
to 
me. 
Dear 
Brother 
Russell, 
I 
grieve 
very 
much 
when 
I 
think 
of 
the 
things 
I 
believed 
and 
thought 
of 
you. 
I 
am 
very 
deeply 
im­ 
pressed 
by 
the 
way 
in 
which 
you 
have 
taken 
this 
trial 
and 
by 
your 
love 
for 
the 
brethren 
amid 
such 
terrible 
persecution, 
and 
I 
want 
you 
to 
know 
y'0u 
have 
my 
heartfelt 
sympathy. 
I 
pray 
that 
those 
who 
are 
still 
in 
opposition 
may 
also 
have 
the 
eyes 
of 
their 
understanding 
opened 
before 
it 
is 
too 
late. 
May 
the 
Lord's 
blessings 
be 
with 
you 
all 
in 
"Bethel 
Home." 
May 
I 
ask 
you 
to 
pray 
on 
my 
behalf? 
With 
much 
Christian 
love 
to 
you 
all, 
Your 
sister 
in 
the 
blessed 
Lord, 
M. 
L. 
JAMEs,-Pa. 
DEAR 
BELOVEJ> 
BROTHER 
RUSSELL:- 
I 
rejoice 
to 
tell 
you 
that 
Saturday, 
April 
24th, 
the 
anni­ 
versary 
of 
the 
day 
I 
registered 
my 
"vow" 
to 
the 
Lord, 
found 
me 
"safe 
in 
the 
arms 
of 
Jesus," 
much 
grace 
having 
been 
obtained 
in 
time 
of 
need. 
I 
love 
the 
Vow's 
sanctifying 
power 
and 
protec­ 
tion. 
The 
Lord 
bless 
thee 
abundantly. 
With 
sincere 
love 
and 
prayers, 
By 
his 
grace, 
C. 
W<HITE,-Texas. 
DEAR 
BROTHER 
IN 
CHRIST:- 
"Grace 
to 
you, 
and 
peace, 
from 
God 
our 
Father, 
and 
the 
Lord 
Jesus 
Christ." 
"We 
give 
thanks 
to 
God 
always 
for 
you, 
making 
mention 
of 
you 
in 
our 
prayers 
daily," 
"Remembering 
without 
ceasing, 
your 
work 
of 
faith 
and 
labor 
of 
love, 
and 
pa­ 
tience 
of 
hope 
in 
our 
Lord 
Jesus 
Christ"; 
making 
request 
that 
your 
trip 
among 
the 
dear 
ones 
abroad 
may 
be 
prosperous 
and 
assist 
in 
"building 
up 
many 
in 
the 
most 
holy 
faith." 
I 
want 
to 
tell 
you 
what 
a 
great 
blessing 
the 
vow 
has 
been 
to 
me--and 
especially 
so 
since 
Brother 
Brown 
went 
home 
and 
1 
have 
had 
no 
earthly 
one 
to 
lean 
upon. 
The 
dear 
Lord 
has 
been 
very 
near, 
guarding 
and 
strengthening 
me 
for 
the 
daily 
battle 
with 
"the 
world, 
the 
flesh 
and 
the 
adversary." 
"May 
he 
who 
is 
able 
to 
guard 
you 
from 
stumbling 
and 
to 
let 
you 
before 
the 
presence 
of 
his 
glory, 
without 
blemish, 
in 
exceed· 
ing 
joy," 
be 
with 
you 
to 
the 
end 
of 
your 
life's 
journey. 
Your 
sister 
in 
the 
Anointed, 
MARGARET 
REID 
BROWN. 
VOL. 
XXX 
BROOKLYN, 
N. 
Y., 
JULY 
15,1909 
No. 
14 
VIEWS 
FROM 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
EVOLUTION 
AND 
CHARACTER 
all 
corresponding 
with 
differences 
in 
material 
civilization 
be- 
In 
his 
book 
on 
"The 
Wonderful 
Century," 
published 
ten 
tween 
civilized 
and 
savage 
races 
today. 
There 
is 
good 
years 
Rg-O, 
Alfred 
Russel 
Wallace, 
the 
distinguished 
scientist 
reason 
to 
believe 
that 
some 
of 
the 
lowest 
savages 
today 
(per­ 
and 
co-discoverer 
with 
Charles 
Darwin 
of 
the 
theory 
of 
Evolu- 
haps 
all 
of 
them) 
are 
the 
deteriorated 
remnants 
of 
more 
civi­ 
tion, 
asserted 
his 
conviction 
that, 
in 
the 
matter 
of 
mechanical 
lized 
peoples." 
discovery, 
the 
human 
race 
llad 
made 
more 
progress 
in 
the 
nine- 
MENAOE 
OF 
YELLOW 
JOURNALISM: 
tecnth 
century 
than 
in 
all 
the 
preceding 
eighteen 
centuries. 
It 
One 
of 
the 
severest 
and 
keenest 
indictments 
of 
yellow 
jour- 
is 
somewhat 
llifficlllt 
to 
reconcile 
this 
statement 
with 
the 
atti- 
nalism 
ever 
written 
has 
lately 
appeared 
in 
The 
American 
Mag­ 
tude 
he 
takes 
in 
his 
latest 
article 
on 
"Evolution 
and 
Character" 
azine 
from 
the 
pen 
of 
Prof. 
W. 
I. 
Thomas, 
of 
the 
University 
of 
in 
The 
Fortnig-htly 
Review. 
He 
has 
evidently 
grown 
more 
pes- 
Chicago. 
He 
takes 
the 
ground 
that 
the 
yellow 
papers 
pub­ 
simistic. 
He 
declares 
now 
that 
it 
is 
doubtful 
if 
there 
has 
been 
lished 
and 
spread 
broadcast 
in 
our 
American 
cities 
today 
are 
"any 
considerable 
improvement 
in 
man's 
average 
intellectual 
"a 
positive 
agent 
of 
vice 
and 
crime," 
makin~ 
for 
all 
kinds 
of 
and'moral 
status 
during 
the 
whole 
period 
of 
human 
history"; 
immorality. 
Our 
failure 
up' 
to 
the 
present 
tIme 
to 
regard 
the 
and 
he 
savs 
further: 
yellow 
press 
as 
an 
immoralIty 
and 
to 
take 
steps 
to 
exterminate 
"In 
comparing 
a 
savage 
with 
a 
civilized 
race, 
we 
must 
11.1- 
it 
is 
due, 
he 
thinks, 
in 
part 
to 
the 
fact 
that 
we 
have 
been 
re­ 
ways 
remember 
that 
the 
amount 
of 
acquired 
and 
applied 
luctant 
to 
lose 
a 
time-honored 
faith 
in 
the 
printed 
page, 
and 
in 
knowledge 
which 
we 
possess 
is 
no 
criterion 
of 
mental 
superior- 
part 
to 
the 
slowness 
with 
which 
we 
carry 
generalizations 
into 
ity 
on 
our 
side, 
or 
of 
inferiority 
on 
his. 
The 
average 
Zulu 
or 
practice. 
In 
connection 
with 
this 
last 
point 
he 
writes: 
Fijian 
may 
be 
very 
little 
lo\\er 
mentall~r 
than 
the 
average 
"Moral 
exactions 
never, 
in 
point 
of 
fact, 
reflect 
the 
most 
Eng-lishman; 
and 
it 
is, 
I 
think, 
quite 
certain 
that 
the 
average 
advanced 
states 
of 
consciousness. 
Our 
practices 
run 
behind 
Britain, 
Saxon, 
Dane 
and 
Norseman 
of 
a 
thousand 
years 
ago- 
our 
judgments 
by 
a 
generation 
or 
two, 
but 
that 
we 
do 
slowly 
the 
ancestral 
stockfl 
of 
the 
preseYJ.t 
English 
race--were 
mentally 
and 
surely 
carry 
our 
generalizations 
into 
practice 
is 
indicated 
our 
equals. 
For 
what 
power 
has 
been 
since 
at 
work 
to 
improve 
by 
the 
fact 
that 
society 
has 
since 
the 
beginning 
been 
constantly 
them? 
There 
has 
certainly 
been 
no 
special 
survival 
of 
the 
more 
changing 
the 
content 
of 
its 
commandments, 
and 
practices 
which 
intellectual 
and 
moral, 
but 
rather 
the 
reverse 
. 
. 
. 
. 
When 
we 
at 
one 
time 
were 
not 
the 
objects 
of 
moral 
judgment 
(slavery, 
consider 
further 
that 
the 
effects 
of 
education 
and 
the 
arts 
are 
polygamy, 
blood-vengeance) 
have 
come 
to 
be 
classed 
as 
im­ 
not 
hereditary, 
we 
shall 
be 
forced 
to 
the 
conclusion 
that 
we 
moral. 
At 
the 
present 
moment 
there 
is 
a 
focus 
of 
conscious­ 
are 
today, 
in 
all 
probability, 
mentally 
and 
morally 
inferior 
to 
ness 
containing 
commandments 
in 
the 
makin~. 
In 
it 
are 
10­ 
our 
semi-barbaric 
ancestors!" 
cated 
questions 
of 
political 
graft, 
monopolistIc 
manipulation, 
The 
Romans 
and 
the 
Greeks, 
Mr. 
Wallace 
reminds 
us, 
looked 
the 
tyranny 
of 
labor, 
patent 
medicine 
fakes, 
impure 
foods, 
the 
down 
on 
their 
ancestors 
with 
just 
as 
much 
contempt 
as 
we 
race 
question, 
the 
woman 
question, 
and 
the 
question 
of 
the 
yel­ 
look 
down 
on 
Kaffirs 
and 
Red 
Indians. 
It 
is 
quite 
superficial 
low 
journal. 
These 
are 
now 
being 
agitated 
and 
revalued 
by 
to 
conclude 
that 
because 
people 
are 
in 
a 
savage 
or 
barbarian 
public 
opinion 
and 
the 
legitimate 
press, 
and 
when 
we 
have 
state 
as 
regards 
knowledge 
and 
material 
civilization, 
they 
are 
made 
our 
reconstruction 
we 
shall 
have 
some 
new 
command­ 
necessarily 
inferior 
intellectually 
or 
morally. 
"I 
am 
inclined 
ments 
and 
some 
new 
crimes; 
and 
among 
them 
will 
be: 
Thou 
to 
believe," 
says 
Mr. 
Wallace, 
"that 
an 
unbiased 
examination 
shalt 
not 
have 
the 
perversion 
of 
truth 
for 
a. 
gainful 
occupa­ 
of 
the 
question 
would 
lead 
us 
to 
the 
conclusion 
that 
there 
is 
no 
tion." 
good 
evidence 
of 
any 
difference 
in 
man's 
average 
intellectual 
Professor 
Thomas' 
first 
and 
fundamental 
objection 
to 
yel­ 
and 
moral 
status 
during 
the 
whole 
period 
of 
human 
history 
at 
low 
journalism 
is 
based 
on 
its 
appeal 
to 
what 
he 
calls 
the 
"hate 
[4430] 
(206-211) church as the New Testament church, but you made a clear cut of it, declaring that the New Covenant is not yet in existence, that it belongs to the Millennial age. This declaration dispelled the mist and caused me to see the wondrous doings of our God more clearly. The Seed promised in the Abrahamic Covenant is to bless Israel and all nations by the arrangement of the New Covenant. The New Covenant will be established as soon as its Mediator, Christ Head and body, shall have been completed. Then will begin the great transaction. Christ as the High Priest shall enter into the Most Holy with the blood of the church to justify God in his act of letting the world go from the chain of death—legally. God will then be at liberty to exhibit his wisdom, love and power toward mankind. The work of the atonement will then be finished and Christ shall come forth as the Mediator. The antitypical Ishmael, the Jewish nation, shall come from the wilderness condition to the promised land, even to Mt. Zion, the center from which God will rule the world during the Millennium, The New Covenant will be sealed and the precious work will begin—the work of taking away the sing of Israel and the taking away of the sins of the world, aud the writing of the law of God in the hearts of the children of Israel] and in the hearts of the people of other natiuns. You have brought wonderful things to my attention. I am taken captive by these things. What am I that I should come under the offer of getting the choicest portion of the Abrahamic Covenant? I remember the days when I was reading and thinking of the two covenants mentioned by Paul in Galatians 4, but I did not understand, so I have watched and received eagerly whatsoever has come from your pen along the line of the covenants. How precious it is to walk under the light shed upon them! Precious, sanctifying truths indeed they are. Daily I remember you and all your dear colaborers at the throne of heavenly grace. Yours in love of the truth, K. P. HAMMER,—Can. Dear BROTHER RUSSELL: — For some time I have wanted to write and tell you how greatly I have been blessed since making the Vow my own, which I did at 11:15 p. m., January 9 last. Words fail to express the peace of mind I experienced as soon as I registered it with our heavenly Father. I am happier now than I have been since I came into present truth, and can truthfully say, each THE WATCH TOWER Brooxtyn, N. Y. day I have received more light and knowledge and have increased joy in the Lord and in his service. My heart overflows with gratitude and extreme thankfulness to our heavenly Father for his goodness to me. Dear Brother Russell, I grieve very much when I think of the things I believed and thought of you. I am very deeply impressed by the way in which you have taken this trial and by your love for the brethren amid such terrible persecution, and I want you to know you have my heartfelt sympathy. I pray that those who are still in opposition may also have the eyes of their understanding opened before it is too late. May the Lord’s blessings be with you all in “Bethel Home.” May I ask you to pray on my behalf? With much Christian love to you all, Your sister in the blessed Lord, M. L. JamMes,—Pa, Deak BELOVED BROTHER RUSSELL :— I rejoice to tell you that Saturday, April 24th, the anniversary of the day I registered my “vow” to the Lord, found me “safe in the arms of Jesus,” much grace having been obtained in time of need. I love the Vow’s sanctifying power and protec tion. The Lord bless thee abundantly. With sincere love and prayers, By his grace, C. WHITE,—Texas. Deak BROTHER IN CHRIST:—— “Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.” “We give thanks to God always for you, making mention of you in our prayers daily,” “Remembering without ceasing, your work of faith and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ”; making request that your trip among the dear ones abroad may be prosperous and assist in “building up many in the most holy faith.” I want to tell you what a great blessing the vow has been to me—and especially so since Brother Brown went home and I have had no earthly one to lean upon. The dear Lord has been very near, guarding and strengthening me for the daily battle with “the world, the flesh and the adversary.” “May he who is able to guard you from stumbling and to set you before the presence of his glory, without blemish, in exceeding joy,” be with you to the end of your life’s journey. Your sister in the Anointed, Marcarer RED Brown. Vout. XXX BROOKLYN, N. Y., JULY 15, 1909 No. 14 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER EVOLUTION AND CHARACTER In his book on “The Wonderful Century,” published ten years ago, Alfred Russel Wallace, the distinguished scientist and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of Evolution, asserted his conviction that, in the matter of mechanical discovery, the human race had made more progress in the nineteenth century than in all the preceding eighteen centuries. It is somewhat difficult to reconcile this statement with the attitude he takes in his latest article on “Evolution and Character” in The Fortnightly Review. He has evidently grown more pessimistic. He declares now that it is doubtful if there has been “any considerable improvement in man’s average intellectual and moral status during the whole period of human history”; and he says further: “In comparing a savage with a civilized race, we must always remember that the amount of acquired and applied knowledge which we possess is no criterion of mental superiority on our side, or of inferiority on his. The average Zulu or Fijian may be very little lower mentally than the average Englishman; and it is, I think, quite certain that the average Britain, Saxon, Dane and Norseman of a thousand years ago— the ancestral stocks of the present English race—were mentally our equals. For what power has been since at work to improve them? There has certainly been no special survival of the more intellectual and moral, but rather the reverse. ... When we consider further that the effects of education and the arts are not hereditary, we shall be forced to the conclusion that we are today, in all probability, mentally and morally inferior to our semi-barbaric ancestors!” The Romans and the Greeks, Mr. Wallace reminds us, looked down on their ancestors with just as much contempt as we look down on Kaffirs and Red Indians, It is quite superficial to conclude that because people are in a savage or barbarian state as regards knowledge and material civilization, they are necessarily inferior intellectually or morally. “I am inclined to believe,” says Mr. Wallace, “that an unbiased examination of the question would lead us to the conclusion that there is no good evidence of any difference in man’s average intellectual and moral status during the whole period of human history at all corresponding with differences in material civilization between civilized and savage races today.... There is good reason to believe that some of the lowest savages today (perhaps all of them) are the deteriorated remnants of more civilized peoples.” MENACE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM One of the severest and keenest indictments of yellow journalism ever written has lately appeared in The American Magazine from the pen of Prof. W. I. Thomas, of the University of Chicago. He takes the ground that the yellow papers published and spread broadcast in our American cities today are “a positive agent of vice and crime,” making for all kinds of immorality. Our failure up to the present time to regard the yellow press as an immorality and to take steps to exterminate it is due, he thinks, in part to the fact that we have been reluetant to lose a time-honored faith in the printed page, and in part to the slowness with which we carry generalizations into practice. In connection with this last point he writes: “Moral exactions never, in point of fact, reflect the most advanced states of consciousness. Our practices run behind our judgments by a generation or two, but that we do slowly and surely carry our generalizations into practice is indicated by the fact that society has since the beginning been constantly changing the content of its commandments, and practices which at one time were not the objects of moral judgment (slavery, polygamy, blood-vengeance) have come to be classed as immoral, At the present moment there is a focus of consciousness containing commandments in the making. In it are located questions of political graft, monopolistic manipulation, the tyranny of labor, patent medicine fakes, impure foods, the race question, the woman question, and the question of the yellow journal. These are now being agitated and revalued by public opinion and the legitimate press, and when we have made our reconstruction we shall have some new commandments and some new crimes; and among them will be: Thou shalt, not have the perversion of truth for a gainful occupaion. Professor Thomas’ first and fundamental objection to yellow journalism is based on its appeal to what he calls the “hate [4430]

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