THE GOLDEN RULE It Is Practical -People Who Apply the Golden Rule

People Who Apply the Golden Rule

Are there people in our time who really live by the Golden Rule?  Yes, and not just when it is convenient.  For example, during World War II in Nazi Germany, Jehovah's Witnesses maintained  their faith in God an love for neighbor and refused to compromise the Golden Rule.  While the State enforced a campaign of hate and discrimination against all Jews, the Witnesses continued to follow the Golden Rule.  Even in concentration camps, they kept on caring for fellow humans, sharing food, though scarce, with starving Jews and non-Jews alike.  Furthermore, though commanded by the State to take up arms to kill others, they refused to do so, just as they did not desire to be killed by others.  How could they kill those whom they were to love as themselves?  For their refusal, many of them were sent not only to concentration camps but to their death.. -Matthew 5:43-48.

As you read this article, you are benefiting from another example of the Golden Rule at work.  Jehovah's Witnesses realize that today many people suffer hopelessly and helplessly.  Because of this, the Witnesses voluntarily take positive action  to help others to learn about the hope and the practical direction found in the Bible. It is all part of a global educational work now being done on an unprecedented scale.  The result?  As prophesied at Isaiah 2:2-4,  'many peoples," in fact over six million individuals around the world, have been  'instructed in Jehovah's ways and walk in his paths.'  Figuratively, they have learned "to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears."  They have found peace and security in these troublesome times.

Next time: THE GOLDEN RULE  It Is Practical -What About You?

The Watchtower, 2001