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A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD MARTYR
A LETTER has just been received from Wellington, New Zealand,
saying that one of the Bible Students of that vicinity, fourteen years old, had
been imprisoned for refusing to register for military service because of
religious objection to participation in war in any sense of the word. He was
permitted to come out of his prison to partake of the Memorial Supper, April
16th, and then returned [R5922 : page 206] to
prison. It seems very remarkable the hold that militarism is gaining on the
whole world.
Word comes to us from England
that some of the Bible Students there were ordered to report for military duty.
These registered their objection, but were refused immunity from
service--receiving, however, the assurance that they would be put in
non-combatant positions in the war. This promise was afterward neglected, and
they were put into regular service at once. We are not to forget that
practically all the world is claiming to be Christ's Kingdom, and yet that any
who seek to follow the Words of Jesus seem to be thoroughly disrespected and
hated of all men and all nations. What a proof we have here that Messiah's
Kingdom is future! How glad we are that it is nigh, even at the door!
W.T. R-5921 b : page 206 - 1916 r.
