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who therefore appear to be best suited to fill the re- 
spective positions designated for service.’”’ 
16 Surely it must now appear to all of God’s people 
that the time is here for a better and more completely 
harmonious organization for the service of the Lord 
and that now is the time for peace and righteousness 
in God’s visible organization, and in which time every- 
one in the organization and in the service should main- 
tain peace and righteousness in the advancement of 
the kingdom interest of the Lord’s organization. A 
harmonious organization is required by the Lord, and 
full unity in action must be maintained. Such is the 
Lord’s commandment, and his commandments must 
be obeyed. (Acts 3:23) Does it not, therefore, clearly 
appear to the anointed that Jehovah God has now 
fulfilled the terms of the prophecy at Isaiah 60:17, 
and that as gold is better than silver and the other 
materials therein named by way of comparison, so 
now God has brought in a better understanding and 
condition in his organization and that now he has 
brought forward and made his approved servants peace 
and righteousness and that he requires of all full and 
complete harmony and unity in action? In times past 
many who have ruled amongst the professed people 
of God have ruled with force and with eruelty. God 
promised that he would cause such a condition to 
cease, and therefore he said: ‘‘With foree and with 
cruelty have ye ruled them. Thus saith the Lord God, 
Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will re- 
quire my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease 
from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds 
feed themselves any more: for I will deliver my flock 
from their mouth, that they may not be meat for 
them.’’—Ezek, 34:4, 10. 
17 This prophecy applies to all who have manifested 
the wrong spirit amongst the people of God, and spe- 
cifically including the clergy and the ‘‘clective elder’’ 
‘element and others who have showed the disposition 
to boss and ‘lord it over God’s heritage’. Oceasionally 
a report comes to the Society that in a certain com- 
pany the ‘‘elective elder’’ or boss spirit is manifested 
by some claiming to be anointed, and who act arro- 
gantly toward both the remnant and the Jonadabs. 
Let it now be clearly understood that it is the duty 
of the servants in the church, and in fact all of the 
temple company, to comfort one another and to com- 
fort the ‘‘other sheep’’. In the commission given to the 
anointed temple company these words appear: ‘‘To 
proclaim , .. the day of vengeance of our God; to 
eomfort all that mourn.’’ Therefore it is the clear 
duty of the remnant to declare the day of God’s venge- 
ance and to do this with absolute unity in action; 
and it is likewise the duty of the remnant to comfort 
‘fall that mourn’’, which specifically refers to those 
of good will who are in distress because of the con- 
ditions that prevail about them. (Ezek. 9:4) The 
Lord will not tolerate bosses, troublemakers, mur- 
murers, harsh or cruel rulers in his organization or 
She WATCHTOWER. 
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any part thereof, whether factory, farm or field serv- 
ice. The Lord now clearly reveals his purpose to have 
peace and righteousness in his organization, and it 
therefore follows that all who will not joyfully get 
in line in obedience to this commandment the great 
Executive Officer by his angels will gather out. (Matt. 
13:41) It is the time of war against the enemy, and 
therefore the time of united action of all of those in 
God’s organization. It is the time of peace, righteous- 
ness and complete unity, and hence harmonious action 
in service amongst all of those devoted to Jehovah. 
Let everyone in God’s organization see to it that he 
thus walks humbly or obediently with his God (Mic. 
6:8), that is, with Christ Jesus, ‘‘the Mighty God,’’ 
and with Jehovah, the Supreme One. 
HIS DUE TIME 
18 Tn his own due time Jehovah reveals to his faith- 
ful people whatsoever it is his will they should know, 
and this he has proved by his manner of dealing with 
them during the past few years in particular. He has 
now shown his people that it is his time when they 
shall rise up against the cnemy in war. There must 
of necessity, therefore, be complete harmony in the 
ranks of God’s organization. Let all quibbling, strife 
and discord cease. Zion is now builded up, and all 
of Zion must know and do the will of God. King Solo- 
mon was a type of Christ Jesus, who is the builder 
of the real temple of God, and what was recorded 
coneerning the building of the typical temple, amongst 
other things, ‘happened unto them as ensamples, and 
they were written for our admonition’... ‘and were 
written for our learning, that we through patience 
and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.’ 
(1 Cor. 10:11; Rom. 15:4) By having this clear 
and positive information the following comparison 
of what came to pass with reference to Solomon and 
the typical temple, and what has been performed by 
Christ Jesus, the Greater-than-Solomon in the real 
temple, may be considered with profit. 
19 And it came to pass, in the four hundred and 
eighticth year after the children of Israel were come 
out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solo- 
mon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif [bloom] 
which is the second month, that he began to build 
the house of the Lord.’’ (1 Ki. 6:1) The time here 
mentioned was 1035 B.C., and the second month 
thereof, second day (2 Chron. 3:1,2), appears to 
correspond with the year (A.D.) 1918, about the 15th 
of April of that year, about the time of the appear- 
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ at the temple. In the 
year 1918 the Memorial was celebrated on the 14th 
day of the first Jewish month, or, to wit, our time, 
March 26, 1918. Jewish kings were formally enthroned 
and crowned in the spring of the year. Hence though 
the ‘‘seven times’’ of ‘‘the times of the Gentiles’’ 
ended in the fall of 1914, about October 1, yet accord- 
ing to the Jewish type Jehovah would induct into 
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