We do not have the source of this leaflet or the date, but a little detective work strongly suggests that the talk was given on Wednesday evening, December 2, 1914. The blurb shows the talk was given after the start of World War 1 in 1914. The subject matter would not have gone down so well after America entered the war in 1917, by which time, JFR was very much occupied in New York. Although it has not been possible to find a newspaper report of the talk in Versailles, JFR was featured in several newspaper reports giving the same talk in St Louis, Missouri, in the last week of November 1914. By road today the distance between the two locations is about 170 miles and there is a good rail link.
Perhaps something new will be added to this issue by Watch Tower, July 1, 1927, p. 207. The title of this lecture is mentioned there. (From Benek)
ReplyDeleteThe title was quite a common phrase if you do an internet search. The talk given in 1927 was in British Guiana and had a disappointingly small audience, so I doubt it had any connection to JFR's talk with the same title over a decade before.
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