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VOL.
XXXIII
BROOKLYN,
N.
Y.,
OCTOBER
1,
1912
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.
19
ZIONISM
FAVORED
BY
TURKEY
Palestine
lifts
up
its
head
with
hope.
The
new
Governor
of
.Jerusalem
has
recently
made
a
most
sympathetic
pronounce
ment.
It
is
believed
that
he
voices
the
sentiment
of
the
Turkish
Government.
Everywhere
the
Pacha,
Muhdi
Bey,
is
enthusias
tically
received
by
the
Jewish
colonists.
The
principal
of
these,
Richon-Ie-Zion,
gave
a
gala
dinner
in
the
Pacha's
honor.
At
it
the
colonists
expressed
unswerving
fidelity
of
the
Jews
to
the
Ottoman
Constitutional
Government.
The
Governor
made
quite
a
lengthy
speech,
the
substance
of
which
is
reported
as
follows:
"Gentlemen,
allow
me
first
of
all
to
thank
you
for
the
hearty
reception
you
have
accorded
me.
"You
have
undoubtedly
heard
from
both
people
and
press
abroad
that
our
Government
objects
to
Zionism.
This
is
incor
rect.
'Ve,
Ottomans,
know
the
Jews
too
well
to
suspect
them
of
disloyalty.
"'Ve
know
that
the
Jews
do
not
come
to
Palestine
for
mere
political
reasons.
It
is
the
holy
associations
connected
with
this
land
that
act
magnetically
upon
them;
therefore
our
Otto
man
Government
has
no
reason
to
oppose
Zionism.
"History
proves
that
Turkey
has
always
welcomed
the
Jews
in
times
of
persecution
and
distress,
and
we
have
embraced
with
open
arms
the
exiles
from
Jud::e-phobian
countries.
"vVe
rejoice
to
see
the
wonderful
progress
you
have
made
in
Palestine
during
the
few
years
of
your
indefatigable
labors,
and
you
are
this
day
a
model
for
the
Arab
villagers
around
you.
You
are
an
object
lesson
to
your
native
neighbors,
who
can
neither
read
nor
write,
that
they
may
see
the
great
possibilities
of
the
land.
I
therefore
lay
before
you
the
following
proposi.
tion:
THE
GOVERNMENTAL
PROPOSAL
"In
order
that
your
life
and
property
may
be
placed
beyond
jeopardy,
it
is
your
bounden
duty
to
establish
yourselves
on
a
firm
basis,
and
this
is
what
you
should
do.
"Choose
from
among
yourselves
a
municipal
head,
whose
appointment
will
be
ratified
by
the
Government,
to
administer
justice
and
execute
judgment
according
to
the
rules
and
regu
lations
of
the
Ottoman
provinces.
"You
will
have
to
appoint
guards
and
gendarmes,
whose
names
will
be
registered
by
the
local
government,
which
will
provide
them
with
uniforms
and
all
necessary
accoutrements
and
invest
them
with
authority.
"You
must
also
install
telephonic
communication
between
colony
and
colony,
village
and
village,
so
that
any
attack
or
outrage
may
at
once
be
notified
at
headquarters
and
the
marau
ders
be
apprehended
and
punished.
"I
know
there
are
unlimited
possibilities
in
this
land,
but
we
are
unfortunately
still
handicapped.
I
trust,
however,
that
little
by
little
the
goal
will
be
reached,
to
the
great
benefit
of
the
rountry.
"For
my
part,
I
will
try
to
put
you
in
possession
of
the
sand
hills
bordering
on
the
seashore
and
give
you
legal
title-deeds
for
the
same.
"A
part
of
it
I
will
allot
yon
for
a
capacious
Government
Building
which
will
serve
as
your
central
administrative
prem
ises.
"Bn,thren
alHI
kinsmE-n.
give
your
helping
hands
to
the
Gov
prnmE-nt,
and
the
Government,
on
her
part,
will
aid
you
on
to
further
progress."
"THY
KINGDOM
COME"I
The
following
from
a
worldly
standpoint
sticks
rlosely
to
the
prE'dirtions
of
thp
Bible,
hE'nce
we
reproduce
them
from
1rnman's
lror/ll:-
JUST
A
FEW
GROWING
PAINS.
"Coal
strikes
in
England
and
America-revolution
in
Mex
ico-anarchy
in
China-Italy
at
the
throat
of
Turkey-woman
clamoring
for
the
vote!
"'Vhat
of
it?
There's
no
cause
to
be
pessimistic-nothing's
really
the
matter
with
the
world-just
growing
pains!
"Progress
has
set
herself
a
sudden
and
terrific
pace,
The
earth
has
been
spinning
faster
in
the
last
twenty
years
than
it
ever
before
whirled.
Naturally,
there's
a
bit
of
displacement
in
spots,
but
nothing
hurt.
"We
can't
very
well
apply
electricity
to
a
thousand
uses,
go
snooping
among
the
clouds,
universalize
education,
introduce
penny
journalism,
and
give
science
a
free
rein
without
some
trivial
consequences.
"Old
viewpoints
are
sure
to
shift,
old
creeds
must
give
way
to
new
ideals,
society
is
bound
to
readjust
its
divisions.
"The
ancient
molds
of
thought
and
economics,
religion
and
government,
are
splitting.
Our
eyes
see
truths
which
our
an
cestors
could
not
behold
and
by
their
light
we
perceive
their
errors
and
their
inadequacies.
"The
greatest
revolutions
that
have
ever
swept
the
universe
will
break
within
the
coming
hundred
years.
"Before
this
century
is
closed,
the
last
king
shall
have
lost
his
throne,
the
last
battleship
shall
be
scrapped.
the
last
army
shall
have
junked
its
guns.
East
and
West
shall
meet
in
a
thousand
common
causes
and
the
Five
Races
join
hands
in
brotherhood.
"Perfected
wireless
telephony
and
telephotography,
mile-a
second
trains
and
airships
will
condense
the
seas
and
continents
into
ponds
and
back
lots.
"Africa
will
become
a
week-end
resort
for
the
New
Yorker,
and
the
Canadian
farmer
will
press
a
button,
lift
his
receiver
and
exchange
crop
gossip
with
his
son
in
Siberia.
"Pain
will
be
banished.
Surgery
will
have
accomplished
the
relief
of
insanity
and
blindness.
Cancer,
tuberculosis,
paraly
sis,
will
be
as
easily
cured
as
sprains
and
lumbago.
"There
will
be
no
waste
in
food
nor
in
land.
The
air
will
yield
its
wealth
of
nitrates
to
the
condensers
and
every
arable
acre
will
luxuriate
with
vegetation.
"The
stored
heat
of
the
sun
will
furnish
power
and
warmth
for
all
humanity.
Plagues
and
pests
will
disappear.
"Eugenics
will
regulate
societv;
men
and
women
will
mate
by
definite
laws;
efficient
organization
will
check
economic
spendthrifty
and
eradicate
poverty;
engineering
will
solve
the
problems
of
eompetent
housing,
ventilation
and
fmnlight;
the
standardization
of
health
and
of
welfare
will
extirpate
prosti
tution
and
crime.
"A
dream?
Not
a
bit
of
it!
"A
far-fetched
vision?
You
are
wrong!
"No
imagination
can
pierce
the
horizons
that
cloak
the
to
morrow
from
our
sight.
"The
farthest-flung
optimism
can
only
estimate
a
fragment
of
man's
coming
glories.
How
can
you
sneer!
"Turn
back
and
view
~he
fifty
years
bl'hind
you.
What
prophet
in
your
father's
youth
would
have
dared
proC'laim
the
many
magics
of
today?
"Strikes,
revolts
and
wars
are
but
chips
that
fly
beneath
the
chisel
of
progress.
"There
will
be
many
wars,
mobs
will
rage,
battles
will
wage,
tyranny
will
c1ut('h
with
strangling
fingers,
bigotry
will
plot,
avarice
will
scheme-but
to
what
will
these
avail
1"
THE
NEW
CREATURE'S
RESPONSIBILITY
TO
DIVINE
LAW
PART
3-RESURREOTION
OF
CHURCH
DIFFERENT
FROM
THAT
OF
WORLD
We
shall
now
consider
some
texts
which
are
not
generally
(the
Anointed)
is
an
offer
which
is
restricted
to
the
"called
and
understood,
but
which
will
enable
us
to
set
forth
clearly
the
chosen
and
faithful"
church
of
the
Gospel
age.
The
Apostle
is
sharp
distinction
between
the
resurrection
of
the
church
and
here
referring
'to
those
who
have
been
begotten
of
the
holy
that
of
the
world
in
general.
Spirit,
and
later
have
fallen
asleep
in
death.
In
1
Thess.
4:
14,
16
the
Apostle
Paul
mentions
two
classes-
But
they
are
not
to
be
considered
dead
in
the
same
sense
in
"those
who
sleep
in
Jesus"
and
"the
dead
in
Christ."
Our
which
the
world
is
dead
in
Adam.
"The
dead
in
Christ"
are
the
Lord's
ransom-sacrifice
accomplished
on
Calvary
has
changed
dead,
who
are
to
have
the
resurrection
of
the
dead-the
first
the
future
of
the
Adamic
race,
so
that
they
may
now
be
said
resurrection-the
chief
resurrection.
The
others
will
be
of
the
to
"sleep
in
Jesus."
The
world,
therefore,
is
not
to
be
consid-
subsequent
resurrection.
We
are
not
to
understand,
however,
ered
as
extinct,
eternally
dead,
but
as
asleep,
waiting
for
the
that
these
"dead
in
Christ"
were
dead
as
Jlew
creatures,
but
time
foreordained
of
the
Father,
when
"all
that
are
in
the
that
as
far
as
the
flesh
was
concerned
their
death
was
fully
ac
graves
shall
hear
his
voice
[the
voice
of
the
Son
of
God]
and
C'omplished.
shall
come
forth."-John
5
:28,
20.
The
tPI"m
"asleep"
has
been
applied
to
both
classes.
Those
"The
dead
in
Christ,"
however,
is
an
expression
applicable
of
the
world
who
go
down
into
death
are
still
in
the
uJlsatisfac
only
to
the
elect
church.
The
call
to
be
baptized
into
Christ
tory
condition
in
which
they
died
and
will
come
forth
in
the
[5107]
(303-308)
VoL. XXXII BROOKLYN, N. Y., OCTOBER 1, 1912 No. 19 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ZIONISM FAVORED BY TURKEY Palestine lifts up its head with hope. The new Governor of Jerusalem has recently made a most sympathetic pronouncement. It is believed that he voices the sentiment of the Turkish Government. Everywhere the Pacha, Muhdi Bey, is enthusiastically received by the Jewish colonists, The principal of these, Richon-le-Zion, gave a gala dinner in the Pacha’s honor, At it the colonists expressed unswerving fidelity of the Jews to the Ottoman Constitutional Government. The Governor made quite a lengthy speech, the substance of which is reported as follows: “Gentlemen, allow me first of all to thank you for the hearty reception you have accorded me. “You have undoubtedly heard from both people and press abroad that our Government objects to Zionism. This is incorrect. We, Ottomans, know the Jews too well to suspect them of disloyalty. “We know that the Jews do not come to Palestine for mere political reasons. It is the holy associations connected with this land that act magnetically upon them; therefore our Ottoman Government has no reason to oppose Zionism. “History proves that Turkey has always welcomed the Jews in times of persecution and distress, and we have embraced with open arms the exiles from Jude-phobian countries, “We rejoice to see the wonderful progress you have made in Palestine during the few years of your indefatigable labors, and you are this day a model for the Arab villagers around you. You are an object lesson to your native neighbors, who can neither read nor write, that they may see the great possibilities of the land. J therefore lay before you the following proposition: THE GOVERNMENTAL PROPOSAL “In order that your life and property may be placed beyond jeopardy, it is your bounden duty to establish yourselves on a firm basis, and this is what you should do. “Choose from among yourselves a municipal head, whose appointment will be ratified by the Government, to administer justice and execute judgment according to the rules and regulations of the Ottoman provinces, “You will have to appoint guards and gendarmes, whose names will be registered by the local government, which will provide them with uniforms and all necessary accoutrements and invest them with authority. “You must also install telephonic communication between colony and colony, village and village, so that any attack or outrage may at once be notified at headquarters and the marauders be apprehended and punished. “J know there are unlimited possibilities in this land, but we are unfortunately still handicapped. I trust, however, that little by little the goal will be reached, to the great benefit of the country. “For my part, I will try to put you in possession of the sandhills bordering on the seashore and give you legal title-deeds for the same. “A part of it I will allot you for a capacious Government Building which will serve as your central administrative prem1ses. “Brethren and kinsmen. give your helping hands to the Government, and the Government, on her part, will aid you on to further progress.” “THY KINGDOM COME’’! The following from a worldly standpoint sticks closely to the predictions of the Bible, hence we reproduce them from Woman's World :-— JUST A FEW GROWING PAINS, “Coal strikes in England and America—revolution in Mexico—anarchy in China—Italy at the throat of Turkey—woman clamoring for the vote! “What of it? There’s no cause to be pessimistic—nothing’s really the matter with the world—just growing pains! “Progress has set herself a sudden and terrific pace. The earth has been spinning faster in the last twenty years than it ever before whirled. Naturally, there’s a bit of displacement in spots, but nothing hurt. “We can’t very well apply electricity to a thousand uses, go snooping among the clouds, universalize education, introduce penny journalism, and give science a free rein without some trivial consequences. “Old viewpoints are sure to shift, old creeds must give way to new ideals, society is bound to readjust its divisions. “The ancient molds of thought and economics, religion and government, are splitting. Our eyes see truths which our ancestors could not behold and by their light we perceive their errors and their inadequacies. “The greatest revolutions that have ever swept the universe will break within the coming hundred years. “Before this century is closed, the last king shall have lost his throne, the last battleship shall be scrapped, the last army shall have junked its guns. East and West shall meet in a thousand common causes and the Five Races join hands in brotherhood. “Perfected wireless telephony and telephotography, mile-asecond trains and airships will condense the seas and continents into ponds and back lots. “Africa will become a week-end resort for the New Yorker, and the Canadian farmer will press a button, lift his receiver and exchange crop gossip with his son in Siberia. “Pain will be banished. Surgery will have accomplished the relief of insanity and blindness. Cancer, tuberculosis, paralysis, will be as easily cured as sprains and lumbago. “There will be no waste in food nor in land. The air will yield its wealth of nitrates to the condensers and every arable acre will luxuriate with vegetation. “The stored heat of the sun will furnish power and warmth for all humanity. Plagues and pests will disappear. “Eugenics will regulate society; men and women will mate by definite laws; efficient organization will check economic spendthrifty and eradicate poverty; engineering will solve the problems of competent housing, ventilation and sunlight; the standardization of health and of welfare will extirpate prostitution and crime. “A dream? Not a bit of it! “A far-fetched vision? You are wrong! “No imagination can pierce the horizons that cloak the tomorrow from our sight. “The farthest-flung optimism can only estimate a fragment of man’s coming glories. How can you sneer! “Turn back and view the fifty years behind you. What prophet in your father’s youth would have dared proclaim the many magics of today? “Strikes, revolts and wars are but chips that fly beneath the chisel of progress. “There will be many wars, mobs will rage, battles will wage, tyranny will clutch with strangling fingers, bigotry will plot, avarice will scheme—but to what will these avail?” THE NEW CREATURE’S RESPONSIBILITY TO DIVINE LAW PART 3—RESURRECTION OF CHURCH DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF WORLD We shall now consider some texts which are not generally understood, but which will enable us to set forth clearly the sharp distinction between the resurrection of the church and that of the world in general. In 1 Thess. 4:14, 16 the Apostle Paul mentions two classes— “those who sleep in Jesus” and “the dead in Christ.” Our Lord’s ransom-sacrifice accomplished on Calvary has changed the future of the Adamic race, so that they may now be said to “sleep in Jesus.” The world, therefore, is not to be considered as extinct, eternally dead, but as asleep, waiting for the time foreordained of the Father, when “all that are in the graves shall hear his voice [the voice of the Son of God] and shall come forth.”—John 5:28, 29. “The dead in Christ,” however, is an expression applicable only to the elect church. The call to be baptized into Christ [5107] (the Anointed) is an offer which is restricted to the “called and chosen and faithful” church of the Gospel age. The Apostle is here referring to those who have been begotten of the holy Spirit, and later have fallen asleep in death. But they are not to be considered dead in the same sense in which the world is dead in Adam. “The dead in Christ” are the dead, who are to have the resurrection of the dead—the first resurrection—the chief resurrection. The others will be of the subsequent resurrection, We are not to understand, however, that these “dead in Christ’? were dead as new creatures, but that as far ag the flesh was concerned their death was fully accomplished, The term “asleep” has been applied to both classes, Those of the world who go down into death are still in the unsatisfactory condition in which they died and will come forth in the (303-308)
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