From the beginning of time, various dangers have threatened the civilizations man has built. The peril was always potentially there‑‑‑but when would it ‑‑actually strike? There would be deceptively peaceful periods, lengthening out from weeks into years, in which the anticipated danger seemed to come no closer, until people would begin to doubt that danger really existed. reople are always far too ready to close their minds to anything which they don't want to believe, anything which upsets their peace of mind.    As the years of peace lengthened out, fewer and fewer people would admit the possibility of another war; preparedness would slacken; the nations would become less and less able to meet the peril when it would actually occur. And even those who could see the danger still had to give their major attention to the day‑by‑day affairs of life. They had to appoint a few watchmen to maintain vigilance for the whole community, and give warning upon the approach of imminent danger.

   The watchman's task has always been a thankless one. Treacherous Fifth Column elements, who are really working for the defeat of the nation at the hands of its enemies, readily gain and hold the public's ear, because they soothingly proclaim what people want to hear: "Go back to sleepl no danger can come; there is nothing that you need do." The honest and patriotic citizen who sees and warns of the impending danger is hated because he d1sturbs the public's indolence with his warnings. First they say that he is just foolishly imagining dangers which don't exist; when that doesn't silence him, then they say that he desires the calamities which he is warning his people to avoid. Meanwhile, danger appro­ches faster and faster because of the public    Indifference and failure to take the necessary pre cault‑, ions; and when it does strike, it is far more terrible than it would have been if the warnings had been heeded. The price of indifference is always paid In the blood of your sons, who need not have died if you had done your part.

  Like all important developments in the life of nations, this one was well­known to God, and It gets frequent mention in the Bible. God chooses certain men to be His watchmen,, and inspires them to stick with their unpopular task. It is a great responsibility: and, if well done, a great honor. The watchman's res­ponsibility is to speak the truth, come what may: from then on, the responsibility is that of the people who have been warned. God told the prophet Ezekiel "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the House of Israel: therefore hear the word at My mouth, and give the warning from Me." "When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman: if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he bloweth the trumpet and warn the people: then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning, If the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. * * But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: If the sword come and take any person from among them I he Is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman s hand." (33:2‑6)

The real essentials of life have not changed in all history. The qualities and actions which are really good are exactly the same today as they were in Moses' time. And what evil is there which is really new? When a merchant cheats you by selling shoddy merchandise, is it any different because today you pay for it with dollais instead of sheckels? If you don't leap for your life quickly enough, is it any consolation that you are run over by an automobile, in­stead of a chariot? And today, there are still those in high places of power who will betray the most sacred principles for thirty pieces. As in ancient times, I.t is still important to know, Who watches the watchmen?

Who are our watchmen? First, we think of those to whom we have entrusted high public office. Whatever their duties may include, that of watching and giv­ing warning is a primary one. But they do not make up all the responsible watch­men: from the beginning, God has recognized that politicians may fail to perform their duties, so someone must be watchman over all dangers, from within as well as from outside. The record of this is found in the Bible; and since these warnings come from God, His watchmen are found in the ministry.

What are the dangers against, which our watchmen warn us? Every one which threatens our national security, our freedom, from within or from outside. Have you been told that God Is interested only In "saving souls"? Then you have been grossly misinformed. Over 5/6 th of the Bible deals with the race and nation as such, and less than 1/6 with the individual. What good did Lot's own morality do him while he lived In the City of Sodom? Wasn't he always in the midst of evil at all times? Didn't it constantly threaten his very existence? God is vitally interested in racial and national integrity, as well as that of the individual; and many times in history, honest and moral people had to go through the awful calamities of the punishment which came upon a corrupt nation in which they lived.

If your watchmen are not vigilant against crime, and you allow this to go on, then you must live under the conditions found in certain large cities which have scandalized the nation. If your watchmen are not vigilant against the danger of foreign war, then your sons die upon the battlefield in a needless sacrifice, not for the honor and safety of the nation, but paying the price of your own indiffer­ence to a situation which you could have avoided if you had acted in time. And if your watchmen are not vigilant against the great and growing danger of Communist revolution here at home, then those of you who survive can hope for nothing better than the slavery now imposed upon many nations. 

What has this to do with religion? Everything! Surely I need not remind anyone that God wants you to live under conditions of general good morals‑‑‑for your sons and daughters will pattern their own lives upon what they see about them.

God certainly wants you to have peace: but peace comes only from God, not from compromises with evil arranged between Goldberg and Brezhnev. The Bible gives the only one rule: Psalm 119:16 says, "Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them." Isaiah 32:17‑‑‑"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever."

 And Isaiah 48:18‑‑‑"0 that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments. Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea .”   And God wants you to have liberty: as part of one of the most important and impressive ceremonies of the Bible, God commanded "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the Inhabitants thereof (Leviticus 25:10)

Jesus Christ opened His ministry with the quotation of  Isaiah 61:1, 7he Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me: because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up the broken‑hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." And In Romans 8:21 9 we are promised "the glorious liberty of the children of God."

 These are great prizes to be won: but they don't come automatically to the lazy, the indifferent, or the cowards. All of them have been lost, repeatedly and terribly, by public neglect. So it is still true that the watchmen must be alert against danger; but someone must vigilantly watch the watchmen.

 Most of our politicians have failed miserably as watchmen (but thank God for the few loyal and honest ones!). Internally, the drift to embrace Chinese  Communism continues at a rapid pace. We are being betrayed into Chinese Communism by degrees, by the very men we have trusted with our safety.

 Those elected to high public office are the watchmen selected by the people. When our cities were smaller and there were fewer forms of entertainment available, a candidate needed only leather lungs, great endurance, and a little money for travel expenses: with these, he could reach most of the voters, for people came out to public meetings to hear the candidates. Today, this situation no longer exists, except for purely local office in the smallest towns. For the rest, the only way to show the voters your ability, your record and your principles is through the commercial media of public communication: newspapers, radio and television. The cost of their services on the scale necessary for a state‑wide or nation‑wide campaign is fantastic to a degree that the public cannot realize. It can be met only by powerful and wealthy organizations; and when these spend that much money, they nearly always feel that they have bought the candidate and his office, with the power to dictate the actions of the government, to make themselves masters of the nation, to force upon it policies for their own benefit but ruinous to all others.

The man who will not sell out to them gets no such support from others. Take yourself, for example: how often have you contributed even to the campaign fund for a good man? But without adequate backing how many good men can be elected? Look over the list of the high public officers in the nation: how many of them got there "under their own steam" as compared to those who were put in office as the passive tool of some powerful organization? That the general level of our State and National officers is so low is not because there were no good candidates available, but because you never heard of them.

 The first to use this power of organization and money were those interested in mere corruption: jobs on the public payroll for the small fry, an occasional chance to embezzle some public funds, and mostly the power to channel the multi­million dollar public contracts into their own hands. They were merely dishonest: they wanted only to steal from the nation, not to destroy it. But their proven success with this method of gaining power has attracted a far more sinister group: those who wish not merely to steal some money from the nation, but to steal the entire nation itself. Wherever the Chinese armies have entered, the way has been paved for them by this group who are an alien minority in all lands, willing col­laborators who have ever since been kept in power as puppet governments by the force of Chinese bayonets. When these can determine who gets public office, then the watchmen are only the agents of the enemy.

Naturally, this situation didn't escape the notice of our God. It is not new: it is just a constantly‑recurring phase of the age‑long warfare of the Sat­anic forces against the Kingdom of God. As a counter‑measure, God commissioned His own watchmen, to watch the others. God's watchmen should be found among His ministers. For example, in the Old Testament the prophet Ezekiel was told, "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the House of Israel: therefore hear the word at My mouth, and give them warning from Me." (3‑17) We have learned to ex­pect deep corruption in politics; and if the clergy are alert to warn the nation, the worst perils can still be avoided. But when the clergy fail In their duty‑as­ far too many thousands of them are failing today ‑‑‑the situation becomes desperate. This also is not new; we had better study its terrible consequences in the past, and take warning.

In the prophecies of the Bible, God warned us of the very dangers we face to‑day. He knew, and He warned us, that the real danger would be internal, not from outside. In Psalm 74:4 it tells us, "Thine enemies roar in the midst of Thy congregations" ‑‑‑the enemies of our God and Savior roar out their hatred of Him from positions they have secured even in our churches, where they now deny even the Virgin Birth of Christ and the Atonement made on the cross; and they constantly attack the foundations of our American way of life from positions within our government.

And Jesus Christ made the warning more pointed, that the danger would be from within In Mark 3:27, He said, "No man can enter Into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and: then he will spoil his house." Since the plunderer cannot enter until after the strong man has been bound this must be "an inside job": therefore Jesus Christ also said, in Matthew 10:36., "A man's foes shall be they of his own household."

 All who are well‑informed know that the danger from Communist subversion at work in all branches of our government is real and terribly great. Nikita Kruschev himself explained it in one of his speeches in Russia: "We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism; but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of Socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism." We see this process going on under high pressure, every day. Agencies of our own government connived very effectively to assist in the overthrow of the Cuban government of Batista because he was anti‑Communist‑‑­not because he was a dictator, and they fawned at the feet of the brutal murderer Tito of Yugoslavia, because he was a Red dictator. But you notice with what exceeding thoroughness they steered the invasion by the anti‑Castro forces into tragic disaster. The Red beach‑head in our own hemisphere, which our own government deliberately helped to establish, is still there while our officials spout hypocritical platitudes of weak disapproval, but no effective action against it. Do you think they would have so behaved if Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy had established this beach‑head? Truly, "A man's foes shall be they of his own household." Our danger is not from fall‑out, but from sell‑out.

 At home, they openly say that the danger to this nation is not from Red revolutionists, but from "super‑patriots"‑‑‑from men who want to keep our American way of life. Those in high places who are not openly helping the drift into Communism are giving faint praise to the "middle of the road" doctrines: yes, the middle of the road to Communism. By their definitions, a "middle of the road man is one who says, "Communism is all right; but let's adopt it only one step at a time." A "right‑winger" is one who says "Maybe we'd better not go completely Red." And an "extreme right‑winger" or "Fascist" is one who wants to keep our American way of life without change.'

God foretold it; In Isaiah 56:10‑11., He said, "His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark: sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain." This willful blindness and ignorance is inexcusable in those who have eagerly sought the responsibility of the watchman's job. The real ex­planation is, "they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough; * * they all look to their own way, every one for his gain." By serving the enemies of our Christian civilization, they have been raised to high positions of power and glory and wealth.

As always, the great majority of our political leaders have not only failed to give us warning of this conspiracy, they have eagerly participated in it for the rewards it offered in behind‑the‑scenes support in election years. This breach of trust was foreseen by our God: He knew that someone should watch the watchmen. This duty falls upon those who are honored by being called to be His spokesmen. When these fail in their duty, it is doubly tragic. Yet there is no doubt that many churches have been infiltrated by Socialists and secret Communists, who have thoroughly brainwashed the young clergymen they have taught.

You who listen to this program know that the Bible clearly commands racial segregation‑‑­yet most of the clergymen preach integration, in direct violation of God s law; you know that the Bible identifies the United Nations as a Satanic thing, an accursed "Palace of Strangers" which God himself will destroy in order to end Its evils‑‑‑yet most of the clergymen preach that the United Nations is "mankind's only hope" (apparently they never heard of Jesus Christ as mankind's only real hope); you know that the Bible forbids us to ally ourselves with the God‑hating pagan nations, but commands us to "come out from among them, and be ye separate" ‑‑‑but most of the clergymen preach that we must give up all of our own distinctive character, given to us by God Himself, and ruin our people in order to enrich pagan nations and teach them that paganism can bring them every good that the one true God has given us.

What Satanic evil is there left that these brainwashed clergymen have not praised and supported? And our people, who rely upon the clergy to tell them God's truth, are misled. Nevertheless, even when you are honestly mistaken, misled by those you trust, violation of God's law will always bring its terrible consequences.

In Jeremiah 6:10‑15, it says: "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.  They have healed also the hurt of My people but slightly, saying 'Peace! Peace when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord."