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.IEIIOVA H'S WITNESSES RELIGIOUS MEETING HELD THE AUTHORITIES THANKED Gratitude to the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, and the Superintendent of Police, Mr. J. Cummings, for their "kindlv courtesy and simple common sense" was expressed by Mr. 11. 1. Heid, flic principal speaker at a relijrious cr athering held in the Town Hall i concert chamber last night by J .lehova h's Witnesses. About 300 people! were present and the proceedings were , orderlv. A police constable was | stationed at the back of the hall ; throughout. j In the course of an address, Mr. : Heid said that although Jehovah s Wit-j nesses were at present under a cloud, i they regarded it much as the Children i of Israel regarded the pillar of cloud j which guided them out of Egypt. He ; wished to contradict a report that re- j hgious bodies in New Zealand had entered ..injections to the teachings of ,Jehovah s Witnesses. He bad been informed that no representations had ( been made by any Protestant body in j | the Dominion. Activities Explained I "The Protestant clergy differ from j | us in their appreciation and understand-; I ing of bod's Word," said Mr. Heid. j j "Thev have criticised us in their j magazines, as t.'iey have every right to ; ,i,>. but I have never known them to j oppose God's Word, and I am pleased ! to acknowledge it." ; Explaining the activities of the W ltnoses, lie said that their head was | God Himself, and so far as His Word was concerned they would obey no man. They accepted the injunction in Acts xx. to go from house to house, offering the Truth, and if their message was ret used, simply to depart , leaving the responsibility upon those who refused it. They regarded the complete prohibition of their activities in all the totalitarian countries of Europe as a sign that the end of the age was at hand.
Treatment in Germany Another speaker, Mr. H. Gill, said the first victim of a public execution under Hitler had been one of Jehovah s Witnesses, and 6000 more were in German concentration camps. Judge Rutherford had expressed a hope last July that Britain would receive God s special blessing for the task bcfoic tier. Witnesses in this country would praythat New Zealand Governments might enjoy the same blessing so long as they honoured God s Name. It was announced that further weekly meetings would be held in another hall.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23828, 2 December 1940, Page 9
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