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Show Witnesses Conclude Meet in Tooele The first convention of Jehovah's Jeho-vah's Witnesses ever held in Tooele came to a successful conclusion con-clusion as 917 attentive delegated dele-gated listened to a climax Bible discourse, "Who Will Rule the World?" John P. Sutherland, principal i speaker and district supervisor, ) boldly and without mincing any words, said, "No political power, whether it be godless communism commu-nism or dictatorship or democracy democ-racy has been given the power to rule the world by Almighty God. The Bible promise is that all kinds of governments, regardless regard-less of their origin or noble purposes, pur-poses, will be completely destroyed de-stroyed by God's will at the coming com-ing battle of Armageddon. "Therefore atomic weapons, missiles, chemical or bacteriological bacterio-logical warfare or fall out shelters shel-ters will be of no protection from such things as anti-matter, natural nat-ural powers, fire from heaven and supernatural weapons used 1 - A. T 1 . oy me one wno nas oeen given the right to rule and who will show his might by destroying all such governments set up by man kind." Further, Mr. Sutherland said, "Almighty God himself has appointed ap-pointed the world ruler. He alone has the power and authority to do so. That ruler, Christ Jesus, followed the course of divine wisdom, gave his life for his subjects of his Kingdom and was rewarded by God with authority and power, and no government can strip him of his rightful inheritance." in-heritance." Fred Vandres, presiding minister min-ister of the Salt Lake City congregation, con-gregation, pointed out that all received much valuable Bible counsel and instructions which will be applied in the local territory ter-ritory in the days to come. |