must be done: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations, and then the accomplished end will come.” (Matt. 24:14) Before the accomplished end of this world at Armageddon, a witness must be given concerning God’s established kingdom and what it will soon do to this wicked world. Popular sermons are not giving this witness.

What, then, do we behold? Just what British prelate H. R. L. Sheppard, onetime dean of Canterbury Cathedral and canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, observed in his book The Impatience of a Parson:

“I am compelled, with the greatest reluctance, to believe that the Churches have corporately so misunderstood the message of their Founder . . . that what survives and does duty nowadays, through the Churches, as Christianity is a caricature of what Christ intended. The Churches need much more than patchwork repair. There must needs be a Christian Society founded on the revelation of Jesus Christ; but if that Society is to be according to the mind of Christ, I fancy it will have to be so wholly different in breadth and outlook from any Church that exists today, as to be scarcely recognizable as belonging to the family of Churches as we now know them.”

What a revealing statement—that if people are to practice Christianity according to the mind of Christ there will need to be a society vastly unlike the organized churches of Christendom! Well, then, do we see a society of Christians living according to the mind of Christ, preaching the mind of Christ and who are so unlike the organized churches that this very fact is striking?

Do we see a society of Christians whose sermons explain the world, explain the root cause of wickedness, explain why things are as they are in the world?

Do we see a Christian society that is witnessing to the good news of God’s kingdom already established in the heavens and that is sounding the warning of Armageddon’s imminence?

Do we see a society of Christians whose sermons are helping people live by the Bible’s moral principles, whose sermons are warning people with the hope of everlasting life on earth in God’s new world, and whose sermons are pointing out the only way to survive Armageddon into God’s new world?

Indeed we do! That society’s identity is obvious; for there is only one organization in the world today that is preaching all this, doing all this. That is the New World society of Jehovah’s witnesses. At the Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s witnesses—and it is likely that one is in your neighborhood—you may hear these sermons, sermons that say what they should. There is no collection, no cost to you. So in the words of the Bible: “Come, buy grain without money, and wine and milk without price! Why should you spend money for what is not bread?”—Isa. 55:1, 2, AT.

Coincidence

The following item appeared in the San Bernardino (California) Sun of January 20, 1958: “A couple of $100 bills that took off down E St. on the wings of the wind are back in the pocketbook of Mrs. D. W. Glennie of Hemet. She had hung on to another as she left the bank at Court and E Sts. Wednesday and a fourth that engaged in free flight was found and returned shortly afterward by Mrs. Laura Hodge, 1942 Washington Ave. The two bank notes were returned Saturday by Dorothy Butler, 775 Base Line, who snatched them after they came in for a landing at 3rd and E Sts. Coincidentally, both finders are Jehovah’s Witnesses.”