Data publicării
01.06.1917
Volumul
38
Numărul
11
Turnul de veghe
Views from the Watch Tower
Revistele originale Turnul de veghe în limba engleză
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(163-164) 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
BROOKI.YN, 
N. 
Y. 
the 
peoples 
time 
and 
opportunity 
to 
overthrow 
and 
to 
rebuild 
riots 
among 
the 
common 
people, 
the 
facts 
concerning 
it 
were 
the 
fabrics 
of 
society." 
diligently 
kept 
from 
their 
friends 
and 
brothers 
in 
the 
Russian 
Twenty 
years 
ago 
Pastor 
Russell 
said: 
army, 
and 
the 
soldiers 
detailed 
for 
the 
suppression 
of 
the 
"It 
will 
be 
impossible 
to 
reestablish 
the 
present 
order, 
(1) 
riots 
were 
from 
remote 
districts."-Vol. 
IV, 
pp. 
545, 
546. 
because 
it 
has 
evidently 
outlived 
its 
usefulness, 
and 
is 
in· 
May 
18, 
1917, 
The 
N. 
Y. 
A_merican 
said: 
equitable 
under 
present 
conditions; 
(2)" 
because 
of 
the 
gen- 
"In 
1848, 
when 
Europe 
rose 
llOO 
struck 
for 
freedom, 
thl' 
eral 
diffusion 
of 
secular 
knowledge; 
(3) 
because 
the 
dis· 
rebels 
could 
neither 
mobilize 
nor 
communicate 
quickly 
with 
eovery 
that 
priestcraft 
has 
long 
blinded 
and 
fettered 
thl' 
one 
another, 
hecause 
there 
were 
neither 
railways 
nor 
electric 
masses 
with 
error 
and 
fear 
will 
lead 
to 
a 
general 
disrespect 
telegraphs. 
So 
they 
were 
beaten 
in 
detail. 
for 
all 
religious 
claims 
and 
teachings 
as 
of 
a 
piece 
with 
the 
"In 
1848 
one 
monarch 
could 
and 
did 
lend 
another 
thou- 
discovered 
frauds; 
(4) 
because 
religious 
people 
in 
general, 
sands 
of 
mercenary 
standing 
troops 
to 
beat 
that 
other's 
sub· 
not 
discerning 
that 
God's 
time 
has 
come 
for 
a 
change 
of 
dis· 
jects 
into 
submission. 
pensation, 
will 
i/,'11orc 
reason, 
logic, 
justice 
and 
Scripture 
in 
"In 
1917 
thl"re 
are 
no 
mercenaries, 
no 
standing 
troops, 
no 
defending 
the 
present 
order 
of 
things."-Vol. 
IV, 
p. 
551. 
Pretorian 
Guards. 
They 
were 
a1l 
shot 
to 
pieces 
long 
ago 
on 
May 
18, 
1917, 
The 
N. 
Y. 
American 
said: 
the 
battlefil"lds-nourishing' 
the 
hugest 
satire 
the 
world 
has 
"This 
talk 
llbout 
autocracy 
still 
to 
be 
overthrown 
and 
ever 
seen, 
the 
tree 
of 
univcrsal 
human 
liberty 
with 
the 
blood 
democracy 
still 
to 
be 
saved 
and 
established 
is 
proof 
enough 
of 
tyrant's 
hirelings. 
• 
of 
the 
mental 
incapacity 
of 
so 
many 
men, 
esteemed 
wise, 
to 
CONDITIONS 
OF 
TIDS 
BATTLE 
UNPRECEDENTED 
realize 
what 
has 
happl"ned 
in 
Europe. 
For 
the 
war 
has 
"The 
millions 
of 
men 
now 
in 
the 
camps 
anel 
trenches 
of 
already 
ILchieved 
those 
two 
tremendous 
results. 
They 
are 
ae- 
Europe 
are 
not 
mercenaries, 
not 
hirelings, 
petted 
and 
trained 
eomplished 
facts. 
to 
shoot 
down 
rebellious 
subjects-THEY 
ARE 
THE 
PROLETARIATS 
"The 
basis 
of 
any 
govHnment 
and 
of 
any 
institution 
is 
THEMSELVr<;s. 
And 
whenever 
they 
decide 
to 
quit 
slaying 
ont' 
the 
state 
of 
mind 
of 
the 
masscs 
and 
the 
inability 
of 
the 
'Lnother 
lit 
their 
master's 
orders, 
and 
dedde 
to 
go 
home 
and 
masses 
or 
the 
ahility 
of 
the 
masses 
to 
impose 
their 
desires 
take 
over 
the 
control 
of 
their 
own 
countries, 
to 
constitute 
upon 
government. 
themselves 
the 
lawmakers, 
to 
abolish 
the 
institutions 
of 
prop- 
"Kow, 
IIny 
thinking 
mind 
must 
perceive 
that 
the 
masses 
erty 
in 
land 
and 
of 
private 
exploitation 
of 
public 
functions­ 
in 
every 
'eountry 
in 
Europe 
have 
the 
ability 
to 
set 
up 
at 
any 
that 
day 
they 
will 
accomplish 
these 
things 
because 
they 
have 
time 
any 
form 
of 
government 
or 
any 
institutions 
and 
laws 
in 
their 
hllnds 
the 
weapons 
with 
which 
to 
make 
good 
th(>ir 
they 
desire, 
because 
the 
masses 
of 
Europe, 
for 
the 
first 
time 
purposes 
and 
resolves. 
Every 
day 
the 
signs 
of 
this 
coming 
in 
history, 
ARE 
CITIZEN 
SOLDIERS, 
equipped 
with 
all 
the 
weapons 
revolution 
multiply 
faster 
and 
faster. 
and 
munitions 
of 
war 
and 
as 
able 
to 
subjugate 
their 
masters, 
"The 
Russian 
Social 
Democracy 
has 
determined 
that 
a 
to 
coerce 
their 
officers 
and 
to 
overthrow 
their 
govPrnments 
congress 
of 
Social 
Democrats 
shall 
be 
held 
in 
Sweden, 
therE' 
as 
were 
the 
Russian 
citizen 
soldiers. 
to 
formulate, 
NOT 
A 
P~::TlTION 
to 
the 
sovereigns 
and 
cabinets 
Twenty 
years 
ago 
Pastor 
Russell 
said: 
to 
end 
the 
war, 
but 
AN 
ULTIMATUM 
to 
the 
sovereigns 
and 
cab- 
"Where, 
then, 
we 
inquire, 
is 
there 
such 
an 
army, 
under 
inets 
to 
end 
the 
war 
or 
to 
take 
the 
consequences 
of 
domestic 
present 
instruction 
and 
training 
1-an 
army 
before 
which 
revolutions 
with 
the 
armed 
aid 
of 
the 
Russian 
Democracy. 
the 
earth 
[society] 
shall 
quake 
and 
the 
heavens 
[eceIesias- 
"We 
suppose 
that 
no 
man 
familiar 
with 
history 
can 
faii 
ticism] 
shall 
tremble 
(.Joel 
2:10); 
which 
shall 
boldly 
array 
to 
perceive 
the 
exact 
parlllIel 
between 
the 
course 
the 
red­ 
itself 
against 
the 
conservative 
forces 
of 
Christendom, 
both 
capped 
Russian 
revolutionists 
are 
pursuing 
and 
the 
course 
civil 
and 
ecclesiastical, 
and 
hope 
even 
to 
cope 
with 
its 
present 
which 
the 
red· 
capped 
French 
revolutionists 
pursued 
a 
hun· 
strength! 
Where 
is 
the 
army 
that 
in 
the 
near 
future 
will 
dred 
and 
twenty 
years 
ago; 
nor 
can 
fail 
to 
remember 
that 
dare 
deny 
Christendom's 
time·honored 
doetrines, 
its 
state- 
when 
the 
French 
revolutionists 
started 
out 
to 
aid 
revolution 
craft 
and 
priestcraft~ 
that 
will 
sullenly 
ignore 
all 
its 
an· 
and 
repUblicanism 
in 
other 
countries 
of 
Europe, 
their 
tumultu­ 
athemas, 
spurn 
its 
orders, 
and 
hurl 
back 
its 
thunderbolts 
of 
ous 
sans-culotte 
armies 
were 
irresistible, 
and 
drove 
before 
authority 
and 
organized 
power? 
that 
will 
face 
the 
roar 
of 
its 
them 
in 
battle 
with 
the 
same 
fierce 
ardor 
to 
the 
same 
head· 
Vesuvian 
artillery, 
defy 
its 
missiles 
of 
shot 
and 
shell, 
plow 
long 
rout 
the 
trained 
troops 
alike 
of 
Prussia 
and 
Austria, 
of 
through 
its 
fleets 
and 
naval 
armaments, 
and, 
snatching 
the 
Holland 
and 
of 
England, 
of 
Italy 
and 
of 
Spain. 
diadems 
from 
crowned 
heads, 
topple 
the 
kingdoms 
into 
the 
Twenty 
years 
ago 
Pastor 
Russell 
said: 
midst 
of 
the 
sea 
1 
that 
will 
set 
the 
heavens 
on 
fire, 
and 
melt 
"In 
all 
those 
leading 
causes 
which 
culminated 
in 
the 
ter- 
the 
earth 
with 
fervent 
heat, 
thus 
making 
one 
vast 
universal 
rors 
of 
the 
French 
Revolution 
we 
see 
a 
strong 
resemblance 
wreck 
of 
the 
old 
order 
of 
things 
as 
predicted 
by 
the 
prophets? 
to 
similar 
conditions 
today 
which 
are 
rapidly 
and 
surely 
lead· 
"That 
such 
an 
army 
is 
coaning 
into 
existence 
and 
prepar· 
ing 
to 
the 
foretold 
similar 
results 
on 
a 
world-wide 
scale. 
ing 
for 
the 
desperate 
conflict 
we 
are 
none 
the 
less 
forcibly 
Mark 
the 
growing 
animosity 
between 
the 
privileged 
classes 
assured 
by 
the 
signs 
of 
the 
times 
than 
by 
'the 
Ilure 
word 
of 
(roy,alty 
and 
aristocracy) 
and 
the 
working 
classes, 
the 
dis­ 
prophecy.' 
And 
it 
is 
the 
recognition 
of 
this 
fact 
(without 
cusslons 
of 
the 
rights 
and 
wrongs 
of 
the 
people, 
and 
the 
de· 
any 
reference 
or 
knowledge 
of 
the 
word 
of 
prophecy) 
thltt 
cline 
of 
respect 
for 
both 
civil 
and 
ecclesiastical 
authority. 
is 
now 
filling 
the 
heart 
of 
Christendom 
with 
fearful 
fore- 
Note 
also 
the 
revolutionary 
current 
of 
popular 
thought 
and 
boding, 
and 
impelling 
statesmen 
everywhere 
to 
take 
extra· 
expression-the 
increasing 
dissatisfaction 
of 
the 
masses 
of 
the 
ordinary 
measures 
for 
protection 
and 
defense. 
people 
with 
the 
ruling 
powers 
and 
the 
institutions 
of 
govern- 
"But 
in 
these 
very 
measures 
for 
self-defense 
devised 
by 
ment. 
And 
if 
the 
American 
Declaration 
of 
Independence, 
with 
'the 
powers 
that 
be,' 
there 
is 
probably 
a 
snare 
which 
tbey 
do 
its 
proclamation 
of 
human 
rights 
and 
of 
the 
foundation 
of 
not 
realize. 
The 
armies 
upon 
which 
they 
depend 
for 
de- 
government 
in 
contract 
and 
the 
consent 
of 
the 
people, 
inspired 
fense, 
be 
it 
remembered, 
ABE 
THE 
ARMIES 
OF 
THE 
COMMO=-< 
the 
masses 
of 
the 
French 
with 
a 
desire 
for 
liberty 
and 
inde· 
PEOPLE; 
these 
millions 
of 
disciplined 
warriors 
have 
wives 
and 
pendence, 
it 
is 
not 
surprising 
that 
the 
successful 
experiment 
BOns 
and 
daughters 
and 
brothers 
and 
sisters 
ang 
cousins 
and 
of 
this 
government 
of 
the 
people 
and 
by 
the 
people, 
for 
a 
friends 
in 
the 
ranks 
of 
the 
common 
people, 
Wlth 
whose 
in- 
century 
past, 
and 
the 
measure 
of 
liberty 
and 
prosperity 
here 
terests 
their 
own 
are 
linked 
by 
nature's 
strong 
ties; 
and 
their 
enjoyed, 
are 
having 
their 
effect 
upon 
the 
peoples 
of 
tbe 
old 
serviee 
of 
thrones 
and 
kingdoms 
is 
only 
secured 
by 
impera- 
world. 
The 
ever-eontin"ous 
tide 
of 
emigration 
from 
other 
tive 
orders, 
and 
made 
endurable 
- 
by 
a 
remuneration 
wkieh 
countries 
to 
this 
country'is 
another 
evidence 
of 
the 
impression 
ther 
are 
fast 
comin~ 
to 
consider 
as 
no 
satisfactory 
compen- 
which 
this 
experi~ent 
has 
made 
upon 
the 
peoples 
of 
other 
satlOn 
for 
the 
hardships 
and 
privations 
which 
they 
and 
their 
nations. 
families 
must 
undergo, 
not 
to 
mention 
perils 
of 
life 
and 
limb 
"And 
ret, 
the 
liberty 
and 
rrosperity 
here 
enjoyed 
are 
far 
a.nd 
health 
and 
fortune. 
Year 
by 
lear 
these 
armed 
hosts 
are 
from 
satIsfactory 
to 
the 
people 
here. 
They 
crave 
a 
still 
less 
-and 
less 
infatuated 
with 
the 
glory' 
of 
war, 
more 
keenly 
better 
condition 
and 
are 
seeking 
measures 
to 
attain 
it. 
Ko­ 
alive 
to 
its 
sufferings 
and 
privations, 
and 
less 
and 
less 
de· 
where 
throughout 
Christendom 
does 
this 
determination 
assert 
voted 
to 
the 
sovereign 
powers 
that 
command 
their 
services, 
itself 
more 
positively 
and 
boldly 
than 
here. 
Every 
man 
is 
on 
while 
the 
armies 
of 
toilers, 
of 
the 
common 
people 
at 
home, 
the 
qui 
vwe 
to 
assert 
his 
real 
or 
fancied 
rights. 
the 
trend 
of 
are 
becoming 
more 
and 
more 
irritated 
and 
dissatis1ied 
with 
thought 
here, 
as 
elsewhere, 
is 
in 
the 
current 
of 
revolution, 
and 
their 
lot, 
and 
more 
and 
more 
apprehensive 
of 
the 
future. 
is 
daily 
becoming 
more 
so. 
"All 
of 
these 
things 
are 
indications 
of 
at 
least 
a 
possibilitr 
"The 
French 
Revolution 
was 
a 
strug~le 
of 
a 
measure 
of 
that 
in 
the 
crisis 
approaching 
the 
mighty 
armed 
and 
diecl- 
light 
against 
gross 
darkness; 
of 
the 
awakening 
spirit 
of 
lib­ 
pUned 
hosts 
of 
Christendom 
may 
turn 
their 
powers 
against 
etty 
aWtinst 
long 
established 
oppression; 
and 
of 
a 
measure 
the 
authorities 
that 
('aIled 
them 
into 
being. 
instead 
of 
to 
up- 
of 
truth 
agllinst 
old 
errors 
and 
superstitions, 
long 
encouraged 
hold 
and 
preserve 
them. 
That 
such 
a 
possibility 
has 
not 
and 
fostered 
by 
civil 
and 
ecclesiastical 
powers 
for 
their 
own 
been 
entirely 
unthought 
of 
by 
the 
rulers 
IS 
witnessed 
by 
the 
agwandizement 
and 
the 
people's 
oppression. 
And 
yet, 
it 
ex­ 
,act 
that 
in 
Russia., 
when 
the 
famine 
prevailed 
and 
led 
to 
hibited 
the 
danger 
of 
liberty 
unguided 
by 
righteousness 
and 
[6092J 
(163-164) the peoples time and opportunity to overthrow and to rebuild the fabrics of society.” Twenty years ago Pastor Russel] said: “It will be impossible to reestablish the present order, (1) because it has evidently outlived its usefulness, and is inequitable under present conditions; (2) because of the general diffusion of secular knowledge; (3) because the discovery that priestcraft has long blinded and fettered the masses with error and fear will lead to a general disrespect for all religious claims and teachings as of a piece with the discovered frauds; (4) because religious people in general, not discerning that God’s time has come for a change of dispensation, will ignore reason, logic, justice and Scripture in defending the present order of things.”—Vol. IV, p. 551. May 18, 1917, The N. Y, American said: “This talk about autocracy still to be overthrown and democracy still to be saved and established is proof enough of the mental incapacity of so many men, esteemed wise, to realize what has happened in Europe. For the war has already uchieved those two tremendous results. They are accomplished facts. “The basis of any government and of any institution is the state of mind of the masses and the inability of the masses or the ability of the masses to impose their desires upon government. “Now, any thinking mind must perceive that the masses in every ‘country in Europe have the ability to set up at any time any form of government or any institutions and laws they desire, because the masses of Europe, for the first time in history, ARE CYTIZEN SOLDIERS, equipped with all the weapons and munitions of war and as able to subjugate their masters, to coerce their officers and to overthrow their governments as were the Russian citizen soldiers. Twenty years ago Pastor Russell said: “Where, then, we inquire, is there such an army, under present instruction and trainingi—an army before which the earth [society] shall quake and the heavens [ecclesiasticism] shall tremble (Joel 2:10); which shall boldly array itself against the conservative forces of Christendom, both civil and ecclesiastical, and hope even to cope with its present strength? Where is the army that in the near future will dare deny Christendom’s time-honored doctrines, its statecraft and priesteraft? that will sullenly ignore all its anathemas, spurn its orders, and hurl back its thunderbolts of authority and organized power? that will face the roar of its Vesuvian artillery, defy its missiles of shot and shell, plow through its fleets and naval armaments, and, snatching the diadems from crowned heads, topple the kingdoms into the midst of the sea? that will set the heavens on fire, and melt the earth with fervent heat, thus making one vast universal wreck of the old order of things as predicted by the prophets? “That such an army is coming into existence and preparing for the desperate conflict we are none the less forcibly assured by the signs of the times than by ‘the sure word of prophecy.’ And it is the recognition of this fact (without any reference or knowledge of the word of prophecy) that is now filling the heart of Christendom with fearful foreboding, and impelling statesmen everywhere to take extraordinary measures for protection and defense. “But in these very measures for self-defense devised by ‘the powers that be,’ there is probably a snare which they do not realize. The armies upon which they depend for defense, be it remembered, ARE THE ARMIES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE; these millions of disciplined warriors havé wives and sons ahd daughters and brothers and sisters ang cousins and friends in the ranks of the common people, with whose interests their own are linked by nature’s strong ties; and their service of thrones and kingdoms is only secured by imperative orders, and made endurable-by a remuneration which they are fast coming te consider as no satisfactory compensation for the hardships and privations which they and their families must undergo, not to mention perils of life and limb and health and fortune. Year by year these armed hosts are less and less infatuated with the ‘glory’ of war, more keenly alive to its sufferings and privations, and less and less devoted to the sovereign powers that command their services, while the armies of toilers, of the common people at home, are becoming more and more irritated and dissatisfied with their lot, and more and more apprehensive of the future. “All of these things are indications of at least a possibili that in the crisis approaching the mighty armed and disetplined hosts of Christendom may turn their powers against the authorities that called them into being. instead of to uphold and preserve them. That such a possibility has not been entirely unthought of by the rulers is witnessed by the fact that in Russia, when the famine prevailed and led to THE WATCH TOWER Brooxiyn, N. Y. riots among the common people, the facts concerning it were diligently kept from their friends and brothers in the Russian army, and the soldiers detailed for the suppression of the riots were from remote districts.”—Vol. IV, pp. 545, 546. May 18, 1917, The N. Y. American said: “In 1848, when Europe rose aml struck for freedom, the rebels could neither mobilize nor communicate quickly with one another, hecause there were neither railways nor electric telegraphs. So they were beaten in detail. “In 1848 one monarch could and did Jend another thowsands of mercenary standing troops to beat that other’s subjects into submisston. “In 1917 there are no mercenaries, no standing troops, no Pretorian Guards. They were all shot to pieces long ago on the battlefields—nourishing the hugest satire the world has ever seen, the tree of universal human liberty with the blood of tyrant’s hirelings. CONDITIONS OF THIS BATTLE UNPRECEDENTED “The millions of men now in the camps and trenches of Europe are not mercenaries, not hirelings, petted and trained to shoot down rebellious subjects—THEY ARE THE PROLETARIATS THEMSELVES, And whenever they decide to quit slaying one another at their master’s orders, and decide to go home and take over the control of their own countries, to constitute themselves the lawmakers, to abolish the institutions of property in land and of private exploitation of public functions— that day they wil! accomplish these things because they have in their hands the weapons with which to make good their purposes and resolves. Every day the signs of this coming revolution multiply faster and faster. “The Russian Social Democracy has determined that a congress of Social Democrats shafl be held in Sweden, there to formulate, Nor A PETITION to the sovereigns and cabincts to end the war, but AN ULTIMATUM to the sovereigns and cabinets to end the war or to take the consequences of domestic revolutions with the armed aid of the Russian Democracy. “We suppose that no man familiar with history can fail to perceive the exact parallel between the course the redcapped Russian revolutionists are pursuing and the course which the red-capped French revolutionists pursued a hundred and twenty years ago; nor can fail to remember that when the French revolutionists started out to aid revolution and republicanism in other countries of Europe, their tumultuous sans-culotte armies were irresistible, and drove before them in battle with the same fierce ardor to the same headlong rout the trained troops alike of Prussia and Austria, of Holland and of England, of Italy and of Spain. Twenty years ago Pastor Russell said: “In all those leading causes which culminated in the terrors of the French Revolution we see a strong resemblance to similar conditions today which are rapidly and surely leading to the foretold similar results on a world-wide scale. Mark the growing animosity between the privileged classes (royalty and aristocracy) and the working classes, the discussions of the rights and wrongs of the people, and the decline of respect for both civil and ecclesiastical authority. Note also the revolutionary current of popular thought and expression—the increasing dissatisfaction of the masses of the people with the ruling powers and the institutions of government. And if the American Declaration of Independence, with its proclamation of human rights and of the foundation of government in contract and the consent of the people, inspired the masses of the French with a desire for liberty and independence, it is not surprising that the successful experiment of this government of the people and by the people, for a century past, and the measure of Uberty and prosperity here enjoyed, are having their effect upon the peoples of the old world. The ever-continyous tide of emigration from other countries to this country is another evidence of the impression which this experiment has made upon the peoples of other nations, “And yet, the liberty and prosperity here enjoyed are far from satisfactory to the pedple here. They crave a still better condition and are seeking measures to attain it. Nowhere throughout Christendom does this determination assert itself more positively and boldly than here. Every man is on the qui vive to assert his real or fancied rights. The trend of thought here, as elsewhere, is in the current of revolution, and is daily becoming more so. “The French Revolution was a struggle of a measure of light against gross darkness; of the awakening spirit of liberty against long established oppression; and of a measure of truth against old errors and superstitions, long encouraged and fostered by civil and ecclestastical powers for their own agerandizement and the people’s oppression. And yet, it exhibited the danger of liberty unguided by righteousness and [6092}

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