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| − | the direct supervision and control of the Lord Jesus
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| − | Christ at the temple, who is the Head of Zion.
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| − | 12 Jehovah God is the great Theocrat, and Christ
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| − | Jesus performs all the official acts of Jehovah, includ-
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| − | ing the appointment and discharge of servants. The
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| − | organization is God’s, and not man’s; and since the
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| − | Society is the Lord’s representative on earth, he uses
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| − | it for his purpose. As King Solomon exercised like
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| − | power in a typical manner, so now the Greater-than-
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| − | Solomon, Christ Jesus, exercises full power and puts
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| − | out the ‘‘evil servant’’ and raises up and puts into
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| − | office and action the ‘‘faithful and wise servant’’,
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| − | which latter he uses for his purpose—1 Ki. 2: 1-6,
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| − | 26-35; Matt, 24: 45-51.
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| − | 13 The kingdom is actually here, and the King is
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| − | performing his functions, and, that being true, there
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| − | could be no further occasion to employ the ‘‘Elijah
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| − | period’’ method or democratic form of government
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| − | in the companies or congregations of God’s people by
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| − | voting for or against those put forward for service.
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| − | ‘*God ruleth in Jacob [his anointed ones] unto the
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| − | ends of the earth.’’ (Ps. 59:18) Since the coming of
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| − | the Lord Jesus in 1918 there is therefore a reorgani-
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| − | zation of the Lord’s servants, even though the con-
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| − | secrated come to a knowledge thereof some time after
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| − | the change is made. It is the sole prerogative of the
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| − | great Theocrat to appoint the members and set them
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| − | in their places in the body of Christ as it pleases him.
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| − | (1 Cor. 12: 18, 28) He acts by his Chief Officer, Christ
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| − | Jesus, who is the great Judge for our time. (Acts
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| − | 17:31) He is pouring out his holy spirit upon ‘‘all
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| − | flesh’’, that is, all of the temple company in the flesh,
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| − | from A.D. 1922 onward, and therefore God has not
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| − | set up a separate and superior clergy-class or so-called
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| − | *tholy orders’’, but all of Zion are on a common foot-
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| − | ing, and ‘‘one is [their] Master [(Greek) kathegetes,
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| − | guide, leader, director, commander, and teacher], even
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| − | Christ’’.—Matt. 23:8, Parkhurst.
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| − | 14 All share in one general fulfillment of the com-
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| − | mission God has given to the remnant, but necessarily
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| − | there are different places of service in the theocratic
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| − | government, just as there were in the tabernacle serv-
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| − | ice. Officers or titles are nothing, because the service
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| − | can be performed in one name as well as in another.
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| − | The Head, Christ Jesus, properly bears any and all
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| − | titles. He shows his complete submission to the great
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| − | Theocrat. Christ Jesus joyfully bears the name ‘‘elect”’
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| − | “‘servant’’, ‘‘my servant.’? The remnant constitute
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| − | ‘‘the feet of him’’, and therefore all are properly
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| − | called servants. In harmony therewith the Society,
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| − | in the recent past, has designated all in the organi-
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| − | zation as ‘‘servants’’, and that without reference to
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| − | the place one fills. The assignment and designation
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| − | of a certain one in a certain place means that the
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| − | servant is assigned to certain duties within a restricted
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| − | area, and all the servants are working harmoniously
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| − | to one end,
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| − | Fhe WATCHTOWER.
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| − | BROOKLYN, N. Y.
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| − | The Lord has gradually revealed to his people
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| − | the proper meaning of ‘‘his organization’’, and now
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| − | it clearly appears from the Scriptures that all serv-
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| − | ants in the various positions of the organization of
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| − | the remnant or anointed ones of God’s people on the
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| − | earth are properly named by the Society as the vis-
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| − | ible representatives of the Lord at the temple, and
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| − | that such obligation of naming their servants is not
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| − | laid upon each separate company, to act in the demo-
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| − | cratic fashion of casting votes for and against. The
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| − | company of God’s people at London, England, some
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| − | time ago saw this situation and by resolution requested
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| − | the Society to appoint servants of the company. There-
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| − | fore, acting in obedience to the Scriptures and in har-
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| − | Mony with such request, the London company was
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| − | organized as one company, composed of several units,
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| − | and one company servant appointed over all units
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| − | and a eaptain or unit servant for each of the units
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| − | which composed the company. The Greater New York
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| − | company, the Chicago company, the Los Angeles com-
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| − | pany, and other companies, have been organized and
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| − | are now operated in a like manner, At the request of
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| − | each of the companies the Society has reorganized the
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| − | Service organization and appointed the servants. It
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| − | therefore appears to be entirely Scriptural, and in
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| − | order, that a company of God’s people may request
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| − | the Society to carry out this organization arrange-
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| − | ment, and this may be done for each and every com-
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| − | pany of the Lord’s people. Each local company may
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| − | properly suggest the names of those who appear to
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| − | be best qualified to fill the respective positions of serv-
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| − | ice, and then place before or send such request to the
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| − | Society at the Brooklyn headquarters or to the head-
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| − | quarters in the various countries of the earth, and
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| − | such names will be considered in making such appoint-
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| − | ment. The anointed have full faith that the Lord will
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| − | direct that the proper course may be taken. That will
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| − | not mean that there will be no mistakes, because some,
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| − | after being appointed, may prove unfaithful, and the
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| − | Lord has made full arrangements in removing such.
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| − | Let all companies of God’s people who see that such
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| − | is the proper and Scriptural arrangement adopt a
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| − | brief resolution and send it to the respective head-
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| − | quarters above mentioned, which resolution may be
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| − | in the following form, to wit:
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| − | ““We, the company of God’s people taken out for
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| − | Hig mame, and NOW At ecresesscenscsecnersnscnnmennesanenememeein , rec-
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| − | ognize that God’s government is a pure theocracy and
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| − | that Christ Jesus is at the temple and in full charge
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| − | and control of the visible organization of Jehovah,
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| − | as well as the invisible, and that ‘‘Tur Socrety’’ is
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| − | the visible representative of the Lord on earth, and
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| − | we therefore request ‘‘The Society’’ to organize this
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| − | company for service and to appoint the various serv-
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| − | ants thereof, so that all of us may work together in
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| − | peace, righteousness, harmony and complete unity.
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| − | We attach hereto a list of names of persons in this
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| − | company that to us appear more fully mature and
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