WORLD WAR I
(See also 1914)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
appreciation for Awake! articles on: g95 7/8 30
beginning: g 6/11 8; dp 261-262; jv 61
Bible Students: w18.10 3-5; w16.11 27-30; jv 191-192, 552, 577
clergy instigation of movement to stamp out: re 168; jv 552; w89 5/1 4; ws 33-34
clergy opposition: re 168; jv 69-70, 423-424, 552, 647-656
examples of neutrality: yb17 172-173; w16.08 32; yb16 174-175; kr 149; w13 5/15 31-32; g04 2/22 12-13
field ministry: w18.10 4-5; w16.11 27-29; w12 2/15 8; jv 423-425
Germany: w16.08 31-32
neutrality issue: yb17 172-173; w16.08 31-32; w16.11 29-30; yb15 173-174; kr 56, 148-149
persecution: w18.10 4-5; w16.11 29-30; kr 22; jv 69-70, 423-425, 552, 577, 647-656, 675; w89 6/15 27
spiritual condition during: re 164-168; w87 6/15 15-16
book Preachers Present Arms:
clergy instigation of movement to stamp out Witnesses: re 168; jv 552; ws 33-34
clergy support of war effort: jv 191; ws 31
casualties: w14 2/1 3; re 94; w90 10/15 16; gm 137-138; w88 10/1 5; w88 11/1 3-4
military deaths: g 10/12 26
Christmas: w12 12/1 8; w94 1/15 5
cigarettes: g86 4/8 6
clergy responsibility: w14 2/1 4; w94 1/15 6; jv 191; w89 4/15 23; ws 30-31
combatants:
beliefs: g02 8/8 5-6
compared with previous wars: g 4/07 8; w88 11/1 4; g88 4/8 5-6; tp 76-77; Lmn 24
contributing factors: w14 2/1 3-5; g 8/09 19-21
assassination of Archduke of Austria-Hungary: yb14 171; g 6/11 8; g 8/09 19-21; g94 11/8 3-5
attempts to explain: g94 11/8 6-7
desire for war: g94 11/8 6-7
countries participating: w88 10/1 5
declarations of war: w90 10/15 16
Denmark:
personal impressions of sister: w90 4/1 26-27
discussion: w14 2/1 3-7
disease:
typhus kills three million: w92 9/15 3
effects: w14 2/1 4-5, 7; w98 4/15 9-10
on Africans’ view of churches: w92 9/1 7, 9; w87 5/15 31
on morality: g 4/07 4-5
on soldiers: g89 10/8 4
on youths: g87 3/8 11-12
rise of Nazism: g87 5/8 20
end: w09 7/15 24; g05 12/22 4; jv 77
England:
zeppelin attack on Essex: w88 11/1 4
experiences:
imprisoned Witnesses: w95 10/1 19-20
France:
first battle of the Somme: yb16 173; re 190; g89 10/8 4; w88 11/1 3
Germany:
Schlieffen Plan: g 8/09 21
leftover munitions (Europe): g02 1/8 28; g99 2/8 28-29
leftover underground vaults collapse, derailing train: g94 11/22 29
memorial monuments: g88 4/8 4-5; g88 9/22 28
religious involvement: g 1/11 5; g 8/09 20; w89 4/15 23; gm 35; ws 30-31
significance: w14 2/1 4-7; re 190-191; w93 3/1 4-5; g88 4/8 5-6
Anglo-American world power emerges: w12 6/15 15, 19; w12 8/15 30; g 5/11 15
kings of north and south (Da 11:29, 30): dp 261-262, 264; w93 11/1 14
turning point in history: w09 3/15 16-17; g 4/07 4-5; w05 10/1 4-5; w04 2/1 20; g99 3/8 32; w98 9/15 32; g94 11/8 5-11; w92 5/1 3, 5; rs 239-240; g89 7/8 20
testing of professed Christians during: re 162-163; jv 61-71
unexpected: re 106; w92 5/1 4-5; yb87 124; w86 2/15 5; w86 11/1 6
veterans:
avoid war movies: g87 5/22 30
number still alive (U.S.): g88 4/8 13; w86 2/15 5
weapons: gm 138; w87 3/1 26
Yugoslavia: g 8/09 19-21; g94 11/8 3-5
wine dug up after 90 years (Macedonia): g 3/08 27
Quotations
age-old certainties were lost: rs 239
all evidence is against the probability: re 106
assaulted moral standards: w92 5/1 5
band of scorched earth dividing that time from ours: w01 6/1 5; g94 11/8 9; w92 5/1 3
church became part and parcel of the war system: w94 3/1 10-11; ws 31
civil war among Christian sects: g96 4/8 6
clerics gave the war its passionate spiritual significance and drive: w94 3/1 10-11; ws 31
collective attack of muddleheadedness: g94 11/8 11
conflict appeared less likely in 1914 than in 1911, 1912, or 1913: w92 5/1 4
conflict not of army against army but nation against nation: g 4/07 8
destroyed the 19th century: w98 9/15 32
duration, intensity, scale exceeded anything previously known or expected: kl 100; g88 4/8 5
end of an era: g 10/12 26; w86 2/15 5
enormous, chaotic, monstrous, it still drags us in its wake: re 190
epoch-making breach: w05 10/1 4-5
fought between the most highly civilized peoples in Europe on an issue which a few level-headed men could easily have composed: w88 11/1 4
fulfilled extraordinary prophecy: re 105; jv 60; wj 23
great turning point of history: pc 30; re 106
guardians of God’s word led the martial chorus: w89 4/15 23
humanity finally lost its balance, never to recover it to this day: rs 240
lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime: w93 1/15 8
last remaining vestiges of the old order had been swept away: g94 11/8 11
led to the greatest economic depression in history: tp 80
little or no evidence of “snowballing” of conflicts: w86 11/1 6
major powers appeared to be more settled than they had been for many years: w86 11/1 6
marked by discoveries scientists had believed devoted to peaceful aims: g92 1/8 32
more devastating to civility and civilization than World War II: w09 3/15 17
most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth: kl 99-100; g88 4/8 5
“nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom,” was literally fulfilled: tp 76-77
necessary prelude to the spread of self-rule: re 191
new scope of war, first total war: kl 100; g88 4/8 5
no one in 1914 took the dangers of war seriously: w92 5/1 4
one world had ended and another begun in August 1914: g 4/07 4; w04 2/1 20; w95 11/1 18
really did change everything: w09 3/15 17
sense of security which has never since existed: w09 3/15 17
sharpest break with the past, economically and socially no less than politically: g94 11/8 11
slaughter debased the value of human life: g 4/07 5
spirit of the West has never really recovered: w95 7/15 6
ushered in a twentieth-century “Time of Troubles”: ct 178; g94 11/8 6; rs 239
war came and the world changed—utterly: w96 4/1 19
war to end all wars: w08 4/1 3
watershed the other side of which is a foreign past: g89 7/8 20
world really blew up about World War I and we still don’t know why: jt 7; g93 3/22 11; br78 7