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🗓️ 29 January 2018
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0:00.0 | It's Palm Sunday, 1938, a week before Easter. |
0:19.4 | In New Haven, Connecticut, in early April, the trees were still there. |
0:24.8 | Spring was coming slowly. |
0:27.0 | But Armageddon, according to Newton, was coming fast. |
0:35.4 | Campwell and his two sons, Jesse and Russell, were ringing doorbells across the small city. |
0:43.2 | When a resident answered, they would explain how they were Jehovah's Witnesses that they |
0:48.4 | believed the end of days was near. |
0:51.6 | And then they would say, could I play you a record about my faith? |
0:55.8 | They'd pull out a portable phonograph, wind it up, and put on a recording of Judge |
1:01.3 | Rutherford, the leader of Jehovah's Witnesses. |
1:05.0 | If the person was interested, Campwell and his sons would ask for a donation, and then |
1:21.0 | they'd reach into their bags for books and pamphlets. |
1:25.5 | But not too many people were interested that day. |
1:31.9 | The Campwells were walking down Pachea Street in New Haven, a street one block long by the |
1:38.2 | train tracks where almost all the residents were Catholic. |
1:43.8 | They weren't having much luck at the homes, so one of the sons, Jesse, Campwell, stopped |
1:49.8 | two men on the sidewalk and asked them if he could play a record. |
1:54.2 | He said, sure, and Jesse held out the phonograph, wound it up, and put on a recording called |
2:00.8 | enemies. |
2:01.8 | Many of the nations of the earth call themselves Christian nations because within the borders |
2:06.5 | there are. |
2:07.5 | There are many who claim to be servants of God, such persons, and particularly the leaders |
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