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    Jehovah's Witnesses - A Classic Article on the History of and Philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses
    Jehovah's Witnesses - A Classic Article on the History of and Philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses
    Jehovah's Witnesses - A Classic Article on the History of and Philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses
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    Jehovah's Witnesses - A Classic Article on the History of and Philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses

    By J. Oswald Sanders

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    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Jehovah's Witnesses" contains information on the history and philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses. It is intended to illustrate aspects of the religion and serves as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMar 6, 2013
    ISBN9781444659627
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      Jehovah's Witnesses - A Classic Article on the History of and Philosophy of Jehovah's Witnesses - J. Oswald Sanders

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      JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

      DURING the brief but unwelcome reign of Napoleon, certain solid old Hollanders were shocked by the manner in which the French soldiers exercised their supposed male or soldierly privileges. The good Hollanders were pacified with the following rule in the Code Napoléon: La recherche de la paternité est interdite. There was to be no inquisitiveness: all children were born legitimately.

      One wonders why Charles Taze Russell was so unwilling to acknowledge his sources when his system of errors reveals so plainly the traces of Mrs. Ellen G. White. It would not make a great deal of difference but for the fact that Russell assumed an air of I know it alone. Nor would we complain of Russell’s lack of originality if he had plowed with a better heifer; after all, one does not reject Dvorak’s charming Humoresque because it reminds one of Beethoven’s celebrated Minuet in G.

      As to the system known as Russellism, it has dropped Seventh-Day Adventism’s peculiar views of the Sabbath. But it has taken hold on its doctrines of the sleep of the soul in death and the annihilation of the wicked. The first doctrine it has changed somewhat, improved upon it, let us say; the second it has elevated to the cornerstone of its granite building of denial and vituperation.

      HISTORY

      The unparalleled boldness of Russell runs all through the man’s life and religion. When Mr. Russell was asked in court to state under oath, Do you know Greek? he replied, Oh, yes. He was then handed a copy of the New Testament in Greek, by Westcott and Hort, and when asked to read the letters of the alphabet on the top of the page he could not do so. Asked the attorney Now, are you familiar with the Greek language? No, said Mr. Russell, without a blush.

      When in some other court Mrs. Russell sued her husband for divorce because of improper relationship with Rose Ball, he denied the truth violently until, when cornered, he admitted embarrassing circumstances. His wife did not receive a divorce because of adultery but because his conceit and domination were such as to make life intolerable to any sensitive woman.

      He then was dragged into the court again because he practiced fraud upon his wife. He transferred his property to corporations and societies over which he himself had absolute control, and thus he tried to avoid paying his former wife alimony.

      He was charged by The Brooklyn Eagle with causing Miracle Wheat to be sold at sixty dollars a bushel (in court he admitted that there was some element of truth in that). He was also accused of inducing sick people to make over their fortunes to his organizations.

      Yet this man incessantly intimated that the churches were in the business for money, and he advertised No Collection meetings. And though, again under pressure, he admitted in court that he had never been ordained, this self-styled pastor replied to ministerial attacks upon his unscriptural teachings, with the charge that the preachers did not like him because, We have not ordained you.

      He undertook a hurried trip to Japan and China, returned in a short while and called a mammoth meeting in the New York Hippodrome where he denounced the work of six hundred warring denominations in China. When pressed hard he admitted that he had met neither missionaries nor prominent people in China.

      And so it went continually. His boldness was so extraordinary that he calmly announced in the opening pages of his Studies in the

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