On one hand, there is the clamor from an increasing section of the white population insisting that integration and advancement of the Negro is moving too fast.
A general assembly was called, and some clamored for him to be hanged in order to frighten any who may have wished to join his religion and give up the local customs.
They also clamored for the Bible in the vernacular, and at that time the Roman Church allowed portions of the Scriptures to be translated for the clergy and the nobility.
Some modern liberals practicing a “new morality”—actually immorality—clamor for acceptance of some of these forbidden sexual acts, while others who are very conservative would add to these prohibitions.
For instance, mothers can feel help from the Spirit even when tired, noisy children are clamoring for attention, but they can be distanced from the Spirit if they lose their temper with children.
Ever since a balloon was found in the stomach of a dead whale that washed ashore in New Jersey in 1985 and another was found in a dead leatherback sea turtle, children throughout the nation have been clamoring for a ban on balloons, believing that thousands of animals have been killed by eating stray balloons.
This clear understanding of “the superior authorities” has served as a protection to Jehovah’s Witnesses, especially in those lands where surges of nationalism and clamoring for greater freedom have resulted in outbreaks of violence and the formation of new governments.