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May 15, 1917 THE We made judicious use of the newspapers in advertising these meetings and feel that we had excellent results. We used mostly “Readers” scattered through the papers. The total cost of the four meetings will reach about $380, which WATCH TOWER (143-163) was all pledged before we started the series for the public. We feel richly blessed and more determined than ever to go on to the end. With fervent Christian love to you all, Your brother by his grace, C. B. SuutL.—Ohio, FOUL SCANDAL’S DANGER “Brakes on! Go slow! you do not know, You are not sure that it is so. A vagrant whisper overheard, A sneer, a shrug, 3 dastard word Are not sound evidence—you may Unjustly hurt a man today. The thoughtless things that people say. The vandal 1umors gossip spreads, The ‘I have heards’ and ‘Someone saids.’ And like remarks, destroy and blight Without a chance to prove the right. Noblesse Oblige! Who knows when you May stand in need of fair play, too? A thousand men and women die At heart each day because a lie— Some ill-considered, vicious fling— Has robbed their lives of everything.” ANGELOPHONE COMPANY REORGANIZED In a recent issue of the THE Warcn TowER we announced that the Angelophone Company was going out of tusiness. We are glad now fo inform our readers that this work will continue, some brethren having taken over the Company and reorganized it, There was a lega] question raised as to whether or not the Society had authority under ita charter to sell talking machines, together with the records. It ia our desire to be strictly law-abiding. There could be no question about the right of the Society to manufacture and sell talking and singing records, because this is another method of preaching the Gospel. The records made by Brother Russell proved unsatisfactory, but there has been such a demand for them that the Socrery has arranged to have these records made again, which is now “WHY DO THE The announcement that there would be a new issue of Volunteer literature has awakened many to the importance of ordering the first Volunteer matter—Vol. 9, No. 1—“The World on Fire’—gnd distributing it. We believe that the time is more propitious now than ever for the Lord’s people to_work, and “The World on Fire” is excellent to begin with. People are thinking now as never before. We believe, too, that the Lord expects us to keep on witnessing as long as it is “called day.” It will be time to stop when the night has so far come upon us that no one can work. . The leading article of the new volunteer matter will be: “Why Do the Nations War?” Many orders have been received for it. When ordering it please mention Vol. 9, No. 5. We had thought to make it eight pages, but after considering every being done by the same person who made the PHoro-DRAMA REcorDS so great a success. The new records are clear and distinct, and easy to be understood, and wil! be much appreciated by every one, especially by those who enjoyed Brother Russell’s discourses. These records will be handled by the Angelophone Company, which still has on hand a few sets of records in the voice of Brother Russell. Because of the increased cost of rerecording and remaking, and the increased cost of material, the Angelophone Company is compelled to sell these records at 25¢ each or $5 per get of twenty-five. Even at this they are cheaper than any other records on the market. Orders should be sent to us or to the Angelophone Company, 184 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. NATIONS WAR?” detail, it was concluded, the Lord willing, to issue another volunteer number before the summer ends. The printers are at work now upon the new issue, and orders will be filled as rapidly as the printing proceeds. There should be no delay in putting it out when it reaches you. A combined effort and systematic distribution would be best! Whenever there are classes, orders should be sent by the Secretary, and orders should he carefully estimated ov a basis of one copy for each English-speaking family. Where there are no classes individuals may order, based upon the same estimate, The literature is furnished free; but we do not pay the transportation charges. “Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might!” —— Vou. XXXVITI BROOKLYN, N. Y., JUNE 1, 1917 No. 11 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ‘THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL'’ . We append an editorial from the New York American of May 18, which we believe sets forth without exaggeration present conditions throughout the world. After certain parts we have inserted some paragraphs from Vel. IV, “THe BATTLE or ARMAGEDDON,” of the series of “Sruprms mm THE ScarTURES.” The “Battie or ARMAGEDDON” was written twenty years ago, and so faithfully does it picture present events leading up to their climax, “Tg BarTLe or ARMAGEDDON,” and the introduction of earth’s new Government, the kingdom of God’s dear Son, that we could wish a copy of it in every home throughout the whole earth, Truly there lived among us in these last days a prophet of the Lord; and although now he has passed from human sight, his works remain an enduring witness to his wisdom and his faithfulness! Following is the editorlal referred to with the insertions from “THE BaTTLe OF ARSAGEDDON”: “BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY’ May 18, 1917, The N. Y. American said: “The official mind seems to take it for granted that when the governments have made peace and have arranged the division of whatever spoila there may be, the peoples are going quietly back to work for their former masters, to live under the same institutions, to be, in short, the same nations, fded and controlled by the same financial, aristocratic and iplomatic eastes that have ruled them for many centuries.” Twenty years ago Pastor Russell said: “It is becoming more and more manifest to the masses of men that in the present order of things they are between a nether and upper millstone. whose rapid revolutions must eventually, and at no distant date, grind them down to a miserable and ignoble serfdom, unless interfered with in some way. Such indeed is the actual condition of things: human necessity is the feed-pipe which presses the masses between the millstones; the lower millstone is the fixed Jaw of supply and demand which is crowding the rapidly increasing and growingly intelligent population of the world closer and closer to the pressure of the upper millstone of organized selfishness, driven by the giant power of mechanical slaves, assisted by the cogs and levers and pullevs of financial combinations, trusts and monopolies.”—Vol. IV, p. 372, par. 2. May 18, 1917, The New York American said: “These seem to be also the views and conceptions of the public journals and of most private citizens, who naturally have no other sources of information and of opinion than the public journals, “We can excuse the private citizen, but it is amazing that men who are hailed as statesmen cannot see what is going on before their eyes; cannot see that the Europe of 1913 has vanished as completely aa the Europe of the dark ages; cannot see that the proletariats have at last in their hands the weapons and in their minds the thought and in their hearts the resolve to do away with all the old distinctions and social inequalities; that the institutions of government and laws which still seem to be solid and enduring edifices are in reality only hollow shells, mined and ready to be blown to pieces when relief from the pressure of outside war gives £6091)