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THE
WATCH
TOWER
BROOKLYN,
N.
Y.
ices,
before
their
relatives
or
acquaintances
discover
their
mental
impairment;
so
they
say"
They
have
gone
insane
over
religion."
The
souree
may
be
that
in
themselves
they
feel
a
loss,
a
sense
of
insuffieiency,
and
in
searehing
for
help
turn
to
any
or
all
forms
of
faith.
I
am
sure
we
do
not
wish
to
give
the
demons
more
glory,
eredit
and
notoriety
than
we
can
help
J
Only
a
week
ago
a
bright,
attractive
woman
was
brought
to
the
hospital,
and
to
my
usual
question:
"What
do
you
think
is
the
cause'?"
put
to
two
of
the
family
separately,
the
prompt
reply
from
each
was,
"RusseIlism."
They
were
shown
that
she
had
been
insane
seven
years
before
she
attended
a
meeting.
'fhis
is
the
third
case
in
which
this
cause
was
given
with
Ollt
any
hesitation,
and
in
each
case
the
fallacy
of
the
reason
ing
was
made
apparent
to
the
relatives.
Credulity
is
such
a
common
weed!
and
it
flourishes
because
it
requires
so
little
to
feed
upon.
But"
0,
the
blest
morning
already
is
here
J
"
Your
sister
in
the
glorious
hope,
MARY
CHRISTIANCY
(M.D.).
Of
State
Hospital
for
Insane.
VOL.
XXXV
BROOKIJYN,
N.
Y.,
AUGUST
15,
1914
No.
16
VIEW
FROM
THE
TOWER
The
long
expected
shaking
of
the
social
earth
is,
we
be-
determination
of
the
internationals
to
oppose
the
war
is
liel"e,
already
in
progress.
The
great
war
for
which
Eurore
drowned
by
pUblic
sentiment.
has
bepn
drilling
its
'troops,
preparing
its
treasuries
and
THE
WAR
CLOUD'S
SILVER
LINING
armamenb"
is
shaking
eycry
nation
of
the
world,
financially,
But
after
the
shock
of
battle-
'VhaH
Such
a
war
as
is
s()(-ially,
politically.
Strong"
as
the
nations
feel
themselves
to
now
progressing
wm
surely
bring
no
great
victory
to
:llJY
he,
al1
tr('mhle
in
dread
at
the
results
of
the
conflict
now
in
single
nation
or
to
any
combination
of
nations.
The
winners
progr('ss.
Only
the
Bihle
can
or
does
speak
authoritativdy
in
the
war
will
surely
pay
a
high
price
for
every
victory.
respeeting
results.
In
the
same
hreath
it
tells
of
disaster
and
Civilization,
falsely
styled
Cln-istendom
(Christ's
kingdom),
of
hlessings-disaster
to
the
nations,
111lt
ultimate
blessings
drenched
with
blood
and
terribly
impoverished
at
the
end
of
to
the
people
through
the
new
government
of
Messiah's
king-
the
war,
will
have
been
only
partially
shaken.
The
great
dom.
~rmageddon
battle
of
the
Scriptures
will
have
been
only
par-
St.
Paul,
referring
to
our
day
and
to
present
conditions,
bally
fought.
The
remnants
of
armies,
returning
to
their
declares
the
Lord's
message,
"Yet
once
more
will
I
shake,
Lot
homes
sour
and
discouraged
with
defeat
or
costly
victory
will
the
earth
only,
but
also
the
heavens."
By
inspiration
the
be
war-sick
and
mad
against
their
rulers
who
led
to
the
car~age.
Apostle
informs
us
that
this
will
be
the
last
great
shaking
Then
the
great
Armageddon
of
the
Bible
may
be
expeetell.
which
the
world
will
ever
have,
because
in
this
troubled
time
Every
man's
hand
will
be
against
his
neighbor.
Various
fac-
in
the
early
dawn
of
the
Millennium,
everything
shakable
win
tions
and
parties
will
proclaim
panaceas,
and
will
endeavor
to
he
shaken
and
destroyed
so
thoroughly
that
nothing
will
remain
force
them
upon
the
public.
As
a
result,
fordold
in
prophecy
except
that
which
is
unshakable-that
which
will
fully
have
"there
shall
be
a
time
of
trouble,
such
as
never
was
since
ther~
the
divine
approva1.
The
Apostle
says
that
the
only
thing
was
a
nation.
"-Daniel
12:
1.
remaining
unshakahle
1"ill
he
the
kingdom
of
God
in
the
The
shaking
process
will
continue,
the
A
postle
tells
us,
hands
of
The
Christ-Head
and
hOdy.-Hebrews
12:
1827.
until
Messiah's
unshakahle
kingdom
shall
assert
itself
and
We
should
not
get
the
thought
that
the
shaking
of
the
take
control
of
the
world's
affairs.
The
Lord
through
the
nations
is
just
beginning,
but
rather
thtlt
the
shaking
that
Prophet
Haggai
tells
us
this,
saying,
"I
will
shake
all
nations
has
heen
in
progress
for
some
time
is
now
reaching
its
violent
and
the
desire
of
all
nations
shall
come."
(Chapter
2:
7)
stage.
For
years
Europe
has
been
trembling
with
oceasional
All
people
really
desire
peace,
joy,
happiness,
blessing,
such
as
violent
revolutionary
shocks;
but
now
it
is
preparing
for
the
God
purposes
to
provide
through
Messiah's
kingdom.
The
great
shock,
the
great"
earthquake,"
as
the
Bible
symbolically
world
really
wants
what
God
purposes
to
give
them;
hut
they
styl('s
it.-Revelation
16:
18.
do
not
comprehend
their
needs,
and
are
seriously
misled
as
Knowledge
is
power.
For
the
past
fifty
years
in
particular
to
the
methods
by
which
they
might
be
obtained.
knowledge
has
heen
preparing
the
masses
of
humanity,
and
We
as
Bible
students
are
coming
more
and
more
to
their
power
has
been
growing
apace.
Proportionately
the
appreciate
the
fact
that
the
divine
plan
presenteil
in
the
Bihle
errors,
superstitions
and
serfdoms
of
the
past
have
been
is
wonderful
in
its
simplicity
and
its
comprehensivE'ness.
More
obliged
to
yield.
A
social
revolution
has
proportionately
ana
more
we
are
coming
to
see
that
our
error
in
the
past
has
progressed,
different
in
its
kinil
from
anything
of
the
past.
been
that
we
studied
not
the
Bible.
hut
the
cri'eils-and
cor-
Socialism
is
a
revolution
based
upon
increase
of
knowledge,
respondingly
had
darkness
instead
of
light.
even
though,
as
we
shall
seek
to
ilemonstrate,
much
of
its
SYMBOLIC
SHAKING
AND
BURNING
reasoning
is
fallacious,
and
much
of
its
work
likely,
in
the
Note
again
St.
Paul's
quotation
of
the
Lord's
1yords,
"Yet
future,
to
be
terribly
injurious;
in
fact,
if
110t
eventually
over-
onee
more
I
shake
not
the
earth
only,
hut
also
heaven."
(He-
ruled
by
Christ-'s
kingdom,
nothing
would
escape
its
misguided
brews
12:
26)
We
have
seen
what
the
shaking
of
earth
signifies
di'structiveness.
as
respects
society,
governments,
social
order.
In
the
same
NATIONS
HURRYING
TO
ARMAGEDDON
symbolic
language
of
prophecy
the
heavens
r('present
the
Europe
is
honeycombed
with
Socialism,
which,
like
yeast,
i'cclesiastical
systems,
as
the
earth
represents
the
social.
The
is
fermenting
the
entire
social
fabric.
Kings
and
emperors
meaning
of
the
Lord's
words
is,
therefore,
clear;
the
coming
dare
not
oppose
it
too
openly,
and
all
of
their
secret
intrigues
trouble
is
not
to
he
merely
one
upon
the
world
of
man
kin
a;
have
failed
to
hindE'r
its
development.
The
general
war
now
hut
in
a
very
special
sense
it
is
to
signify
a
shaking
of
the
hegun
has
inspiration
from
different
quarters.
Politics
have
church-the
ecelesiastical,
or
spiritual,
or
he:1venly
powers.
to
do
with
it-a
desire
to
enlarge
national
boundaries.
Reli-
There
are
douhtless
saints
in
every
church,
in
every
sect,
gion
has
something
to
do
with
it-the
Greek
and
the
Roman
in
every
party.
And
these
alone
constitute
the
true
church,
Catholic
churches
being
opponents,
the
sympathies
and
preju-
the
saints
of
God-'
,
the
church
of
the
first-barns,
whose
names
dices
of
the
people
are
directed
accordingly.
are
written
in
heaven."
(liehrews
12
:23)
The
masses
of
But
Socialism
is,
we
believe,
the
main
factor
in
the
war
Christians
of
all
denominations,
according
to
this
prophecy,
now
raging
and
which
will
be
earth's
greatest
and
most
terrible
will
be
shaken-shaken
in
faith,
shaken
from
their
self-conceit,
war-and
probably
the
last.
Socialism
is
related
to
the
war
by
superstitions
and
bigotries.
Only
the
true
church,
only
those
th('
fact
that
kings
and
emperors
hope
that
patriotism
and
who
are
in
vital
union
with
Christ,
only
the
saints,
will
remain
self-defense
will
cement
the
interests
and
sympathies
of
their
unshaken
in
the
strenuolls
storm
described
by
the
Apostle.
peoples,
now
tending
to
disintegrate
under
the
influence
of
While
Socialism
has
heen
shaking
the
political
earth
for
Socialism.
They
1vould
rather
risk
a
general
war
than
face
the
past
thirty
years,
other
forces
have
been
shaking
with
great
a
social
revolution.
severity
the
ecclesiastical
heavens.
Inquire
where
we
may,
we
Already
press
reports
tell
us
that
in
Russia
patriotic
find
that
not
only
ignorance
and
superstition
have
been
letting
enthusiasm
is
healing
dissension.
They
tell
us
further
that
go
their
hold
upon
all
Christians,
but
additionally
many
of
the
differences
between
the
Nationalists
and
the
Ulsterites
of
God's
professed
people
have
been
shaken
loose
from
faith
in
a
Ireland
are
being
forgotten
in
the
presence
of
the
war
crisis,
divine
revelation-many
even
shaken
loose
from
faith
in
a
per-
which
has
involved
Great
Britain.
Doubtless
the
same
is
true
sonal
God.
Indeeil,
it
is
the
habit
of
Christian
ministers
to
in
Germany
to
a
considerable
extent.
The
various
political
hoast
amongst
themselves
that
they
have
lost
faith
in
the
Bible
factions
are
ignoring
their
differences
in
the
presence
of
a
-under
the
influence
of
what
is
known
as
higher
criticism,
national
danger.
Austria-liungary,
four
distinct
peoples
with
formerly
styled
infidelity.
varying-
interests
and
centrifugal
t(>ndencies,
wiII
doubtless
Probably
not
more
than
one
in
ten
of
all
the
Protestant
be
welded
together
in
self-defense.
Similarly,
the
discontented
ministers
of
the
world
would
today
acknowledge
that
he
still
of
France
and
Italy
are
having
their
attention
diverted
tem-
holds
fast
his
faith
and
confldence
in
the
Bible
as
God's
in-
porarily.
For
a
time,
at
least,
the
peace
propaganda
and
the
suired
message.
The
other
nine-tenths,
if
cross-questioned.
[5516J
(243-244) ices, before their relatives or acquaintances discover their mental impairment; so they say ‘‘They have gone insane over religion.’’ The source may be that in themselves they feel a loss, a sense of insufficiency, and in searching for help turn to any or all forms of faith. I am sure we do not wish to give the demons more glory, credit and notoriety than we can help! Only a week ago a bright, attractive woman was brought to the hospital, and to my usual question: ‘‘What do you think ig the cause?’’ put to two of the family separately, the prompt reply from each was, ‘‘Russellism.’’ They were shown that THE WATCH TOWER Brooktiyn, N. Y. she had been insane seven years before she attended a meeting. This is the third case in which this cause was given without any hesitation, and in each case the fallacy of the reasoning was made apparent to the relatives. Credulity is such a common weed! and it flourishes because it requires so little to feed upon. But ‘‘O, the blest morning already is here!’ Your sister in the glorious hope, Mary CuHrRISTIANCY (M.D.). Of State Hospital for Insane. Vou. XXXV VIEW FROM The long expected shaking of the social earth is, we believe, already in progress. The great war for which Europe has heen drilling its troops, preparing its treasuries and armaments, is shaking every nation of the world, financially, socially, politically. Strong as the nations feel themselves to he, all tremble in dread at the results of the conflict now in progress. Only the Bible can or does speak authoritatively respecting results. In the same breath it tells of disaster and of blessings—disaster to the nations, but ultimate blessings to the people through the new government of Messiah’s kingdom. St. Paul, referring to our day and to present conditions, declares the Lord’s message, ‘‘ Yet once more will I shake, rot the earth only, but also the heavens.’’ By inspiration the Apostle informs us that this will be the last great shaking which the world will ever have, because in this troubled time in the early dawn of the Millennium, everything shakable wil be shaken and destroyed so thoroughly that nothing will remain except that which is unshakable—that which will fully have the divine approval. The Apostle says that the only thing remaining unshakable will be the kingdom of God in the hands of The Christ—-Head and body.—Hebrews 12:18-27. We should not get the thought that the shaking of the nations is just beginning, but rather that the shaking that has been in progress for some time is now reaching its violent stage. For years Europe has heen trembling with occasional violent revolutionary shocks; but now it is preparing for the great shock, the great ‘‘earthquake,’’ as the Bible symbolically styles it.—Revelation 16:18. Knowledge is power. For the past fifty years in particular knowledge has been preparing the masses of humanity, and their power has been growing apace. Proportionately the errors, superstitions and serfdoms of the past have been obliged to yield. A social revolution hag proportionately progressed, different in its kind from anything of the past. Socialism is a revolution based upon inerease of knowledge, even though, as we shall seek to demonstrate, much of its reasoning is fallacious, and much of its work likely, in the future, to be terribly injurious; in fact, if not eventually overruled by Christ’s kingdom, nothing would escape its misguided destructiveness. NATIONS HURRYING TO ARMAGEDDON Europe is honeycombed with Socialism, which, like yeast, is fermenting the entire social fabric. Kings and emperors dare not oppose it too openly, and all of their secret intrigues have failed to hinder its development. The general war now begun has inspiration from different quarters. Politics have to do with it—a desire to enlarge national boundaries. Religion has something to do with it—the Greek and the Roman Catholie churches being opponents, the sympathies and prejudices of the people are directed accordingly. But Soeialism is, we believe, the main factor in the war now raging and which will be earth’s greatest and most terrible war—and probably the last. Socialism is related to the war by the fact that kings and emperors hope that patriotism and self-defense will cement the interests and sympathies of their peoples, now tending to disintegrate under the influence of Socialism. They would rather risk a general war than face a social revolution. Already press reports tell us that in Russia patriotic enthusiasm is healing dissension. They tell us further that the differences between the Nationalists and the Ulsterites of Ireland are heing forgotten in the presence of the war crisis, which has involved Great Britain. Doubtless the same is true in Germany to a considerable extent. The various political factions are ignoring their differences in the presence of a national danger. Austria-Hungary, four distinct peoples with varying interests and centrifugal tendencies, will doubtless be welded together in self-defense. Similarly, the discontented of France and Italy are having their attention diverted temporarily. For a time, at least, the peace propaganda and the BROOKLYN, N. Y., AUGUST 15, 1914 THE TOWER determination of the internationals to oppose the war is drowned by publi¢ sentiment. THE WAR CLOUD’S SILVER LINING But after the shock of batthe—What? Such a war as is now progressing will surely bring no great victory to any single nation or to any combination of nations. The winners in the war will surely pay a high price for every victory. Civilization, falsely styled Christendom (Christ’s kingdom), drenched with blood and terribly impoverished at the end of the war, will have been only partially shaken. The great Armageddon battle of the Scriptures will have been only partially fought. The remnants of armics, returning to their homes sour and discouraged with defeat or costly victory, will be war-sick and mad against their rulers who led to the carnage. Then the great Armageddon of the Bible may be expected. Every man’s hand will be against his neighbor. Various faetions and parties will proclaim panaceas, and will endeavor to force them upon the public. As a result, forctold in prophecy, ‘‘there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation.’’—Daniel 12:1. The shaking process will continue, the Apostle tells us, until Messiah’s unshakable kingdom shall assert itself and take control of the world’s affairs. The Lord through the Prophet Haggai tells us this, saying, ‘‘I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come.’’? (Chapter 2:7) All people really desire peace, joy, happiness, blessing, such as God purposes to provide through Messiah’s kingdom. The world really wants what God purposes to give them; but they do not comprehend their needs, and are seriously misled as to the methods by which they might be obtained. We as Bible students are coming more and more to appreciate the fact that the divine plan presented in the Bible is wonderful in its simplicity and its comprehensiveness. More and more we are coming to see that our error in the past has been that we studied not the Bible, but the creeds—and correspondingly had darkness instead of light. SYMBOLIC SHAKING AND BURNING Note again St. Paul’s quotation of the Lord’s words, ‘‘ Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.’’ (Hebrews 12:26) We have seen what the shaking of earth signifies as respects society, governments, social order. In the same symbolic language of prophecy the heavens represent the ecclesiastical systems, as the earth represents the social. The meaning of the Lord’s words is, therefore, clear; the coming trouble is not to be merely one upon the world of mankind, but in a very special sense it is to signify a shaking of the church—the ecclesiastical, or spiritual, or heavenly powers. There are doubtiess saints in every church, in every sect, in every party. And these alone constitute the true church, the saints of God—‘‘the church of the first-borns, whose names are written in heaven.’’ (Hebrews 12:23) The masses of Christians of all denominations, according to this prophecy, will be shaken—shaken in faith, shaken from their self-conceit, superstitions and bigotries. Only the true church, only those who are in vital union with Christ, only the saints, will remain unshaken in the strennous storm described by the Apostle. While Socialism has heen shaking the political earth for the past thirty years, other forces have been shaking with great severity the ecclesiastical heavens. Inquire where we may, we find that not only ignorance and superstition have been letting go their hold upon al) Christians, but additionally many of God’s professed people have been shaken loose from faith in a divine revelation—many even shaken loose from faith in a personal God. Indeed, it is the habit of Christian ministers to hoast amongst themselves that they have lost faith in the Bible ——under the influence of what is known as higher criticism, formerly styled infidelity. Probably not more than one in ten of all the Protestant ministers of the world would today acknowledge that he still holds fast his faith and confidence in the Bible as God’s inspired message. The other nine-tenths, if cross-questioned. [5516]
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