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Theocracy Triumphs over All the NationsParadise Restored to Mankind—By Theocracy!
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There was a confining of many members of the anointed remnant in the military encampments or in prisons. But the nations felt that they had indeed “captured” the spiritual “city” when, during the spring and summer of 1918, they arrested and railroaded off to a federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., seven outstanding members of the Governing Body of the anointed remnant.a
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Theocracy Triumphs over All the NationsParadise Restored to Mankind—By Theocracy!
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a These members of the Governing Body who were imprisoned were seven in number, four of these being members of the editorial committee of the Watch Tower magazine, three of such being also members of the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, one of such being the Society’s president, another its secretary-treasurer, another being a coauthor of the book “The Finished Mystery”; besides the foregoing, there was the other coauthor of “The Finished Mystery,” a fourth member of the board of directors of the Society, and the Society’s office supervisor.—See The Watch Tower as of January 15, 1918, pages 18, 23; June 15, page 178; July 1, page 194; July 15, page 222. (Note that not all members of the Society’s Board of Directors were on the Editorial Committee nor were all members of the Editorial Committee also directors of the Society.)
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