REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Three -The Second Woe -Armies of Cavalry

 Remember, the heavenly angel has just sounded the sixth trumpet. Responding thereto, the sixth of the series of Bible Students' annual international conventions was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  The program there on Sunday, July 24, 1927, was aired through a chain of 53 radio stations, the most expensive broadcast network up to that time.  That spoken message went out to an audience of possibly many millions.  First, a forceful resolution exposed Christendom as spiritually dead and extended the invitation:  "In this hour of perplexity Jehovah God bids the peoples  to abandon and forsake 'Christendom' or 'organized Christianity' and to turn completely away from it . . .;[let] the peoples  give their heart's devotion  and allegiance to Jehovah God and to his King and Kingdom." Freedom for the peoples " was the title of the public talk that followed.  J.F. Rutherford, president of the Watchtower Society, delivered this in his usual dynamic style, appropriate to "the fire ad the smoke and the sulphur" that John next observes n vision. 0

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