NAZI PERSECUTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 11

NAZI PERSECUTION

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES PROTEST FPvOM WANGANUI. Iu common with other branches of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the Wanganui company of Jehovah’s witnesses have adopted the following protest relating to the treatment of their brethren by the Nazi Government in Germany:— “for many years Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany, unitedly working under the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, have engaged in bearing testimony to the name and kingdom of Jehovah God. During the past year the German Government without cause or excuse has wrongfully seized, confiscated and destroyed the Bibles, song books, furniture and otner property of these faithful Christians, prohibited them to meet together and worship God according to His commandments, and has cruelly persecuted and imprisoned many of them, anil, like Pharaoh of old,' that government has wickedly opposed Jehovah and defamed his name.

“Therefore, we their brethren as followers of Christ Jesus do earnestly and vigorously protest against sucn unwarranted treatment of Christians by the German ruling power, and we call upon all true Christians and fairminded people throughout the eartti to join in this vigorous protest and demand that Jehovah’s witnesses, without let or hindrance on the part of the German Government or others, shall be permitted to go on in their worship and service of Jehovah God in the manner which he has commanded, and we register our protest by declaring against Satan and all such oppression and by taking our stand on the side of Jehovah and his kingdom and his people.”