The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-10-05
"ARMAGEDDON AT
HAND, DECLARES
HEAD OF BIBLE
STUDENTS ASSOC.


With street car transportation
swamped, with roads and thorough
fares choked with traffic and hundreds
Of people coming from points as far
as San Diego to hear the famous lee
ture, "Armageddon," given by Judge
Rutherford, president of the Interna-
tional Bible Students Association at
the Coliseum, Exposition Park, Sun
day afternoon, a new rescOrd was es-
tablished in Los Angeles for attend
ance at a public gathering.
By 2:3O o'clock, $4,000 people had
fought their way along the traffic
blocked roads and the overcrOwded
street cars and were gathered in the
giant coliseum.
These were supplemented by the
hundreds that waited in cars out in
Exposition Park, where they were able
to hear every word of the lecture by
means of a speakers device erected
by the Western Electric Company for
the purpose above Judge Rutherford's
had in the speaking stand.
MUSICAL PROGRAM FIRST
The Judge was preceded by must
cal program which included flute solos
by William Z. Hullinger, followed by
a number of selections by a quartet
composed of Mrs. E. D. Sexton, H. H.
Rehner, w. R. Mitchell and Mrs. Alice
Ripper, Arthur Hewlett, choir master,
led the singing.
A sabbath quietness lowered over
the great audience as Judge Ruther-
ford took the stand. By means of a
radio device, his speech was broad
casted over all parts of the county,
and returns from Kansas City, parts
of Texas and other states today indi-
cate that the Judges audience reached
over the entire United States.
TO REVISIT OLD WORLD
The Judges lecture VISA based upon
actual conditions which he found upon
a recent tour of Europe. Always a
student of world events, the judge
viii again visit the nations of the old
world within a few months, where he
expects to gather material for future
lectures ard perhaps resolve his in
formation into book form,
Judge Rutherford is conceded to be
one Of the best lectures on public plat
forms today. He succeeded the late
Pastor Russell, not only as president
of the International Bible Student
association, but in the hearts of his
followers as well.
Outspoken and frank in his opinions
the Judge makes all his issues clear
leaving no doubt in the minds of his
hearers of his sincerity and his wis
dom.
ENDS CONVENTION
Because he left an intensive lecture
campaign to fill the Los Angeles en-
gagement the Judge will retire to his
country home at MOnrovia, where he
will rest a few weeks before his next
European venture.
With the Sunday lecture, the con
vention held by the International Bible
Students association at Trinity Audi
forum comes to an end.
The convention has attracted thou
sands from all parts of the country
and has been pronounced as one Of
the most successful ever held by the
association.
Here is a full synopsis of Judge
RutherfOrd's address:
"And he gathered them together in
to a place called in the Hebrew tongue
ArmageddOn. "-RevelatiO 1916.
1t becomes the duty of every Chris
tian and every Order-lOving person t.
sound the alarm announcing the ola,
of Gods judgment and vengeance up
on Christendom and pointing the PEG
pie to the divine way of peace and sal
walton. The old world has ended ant
is in travail and distress. The great
est crisis of the ages is upon the ma
tiOns of earth. Men who think ar
alive to the fact that the collapse O
the old order is at hand. From som,
Of these we quote:
"There is no settlement in Europe
Governments can do nothing. The,
are afraid to do anything, and the,
stand by and allow things to go from
bad to worse. 1928 is worse thai
1914. Ramsay Macdonald, M. P.
NEW CHAPTER
A new chapter opens in the histor,
of Europe and the world, with a eli
max of horror such as mankind ha
never yet witnessed. Lloyd George
"Airplanes, poison gas and hatre,
mixed together are spelling the doom
of civilization. America is preparing
for war on a scale so colossal that
has no parallel in the history of tn
world Our civilization will perisl
unless we strive for internationa
peace. Frederic J. Libby.
''NO man unless he is drunk wit
optimism can deny that the world i
very sick, and it may be a sickness
unto death. Sir Philip Gibbs.
For this reason fear has taken hol
upon the governing powers and is ex
tending to all classes of people.
WHY FEAR AND DISTRESS?
Why, do these conditions now exist
Jehovah, the great God of the univers
answers: 1t is the day of the Lord
vengeance. Come near, We nations
to hear, and hearken, We people; x x
for the indignation of the Lord i
upon all nations. Isaiah "a: 1, 2,
According to the Bible chronology
Gentle times began COG B. c., were t
endure for 1920 years, and ended Au
gust /, 1914. During that period Sa
tan has been the God of this world O
order of society. The end of the worl
marks the beginning of the exercise O
kingly authority by the Lord Jesus
the King of kings.