New Fun Game! "Name that Watchtower Book"!

by Nathan Natas 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Nathan Natas

  Here's how it works: I post an unaltered exerpt from a Watchtower publication, and you tell me the title of the book.

  Sounds like fun?

  YOU BET!

  Here's your first stumper:

  Suppose a farmer owned a sheep that had been bad, and was condemned to die. Suppose the owner of the sheep also had a fine shepherd dog and, after explaining that the disobedient sheep must die unless some other sheep die in its place, would make this proposition to him : "Trust, if you will agree to let me transform you from a dog into a sheep, and then consent to die in the place of that sheep, I will then transform you into a man like myself.” Here would be a proposition for Trust to consider. If he consents, the master changes him into a sheep. This is a complete change of nature. He is not part dog and part sheep, but all sheep. Then, instead of letting the first sheep be put to death, the master puts the second one to death in its place. The life of one sheep has been given for the life of the other sheep. That releases the first sheep, and permits it to live. The law is complied with.

  But what about sheep number two, the one which had been a dog? His master had promised that he should be brought to life as a man. The master keeps his promise. Sheep number two died as a sheep, but is resurrected as a man. What a change! Was not the prize of securing human life worth the suffering as a sheep? How much better to be a man than a shepherd’s dog! No injustice is done any one. Sheep number one is set free; the dog humbled himself to become a sheep, then died as a sheep, and was rewarded for his sacrifice by being exalted to be a man. He would never want to be a dog or a sheep again. The law holds the life of a sheep as punishment for the transgression; so the law is satisfied.

  I predict this will be 'way bigger than "Who Wants To Marry a Pioneer?"
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  Justin

  This sounds like a book written for children by one of the Society's directors (Van Amburgh?) shortly after Russell's death, and it was privately published and therefore was not actually a Watchtower publication. (This sort of thing was allowed back then.) But I can't remember the title.
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  Justin

  It was The Way to Paradise, by W.E. Van Amburgh in 1924. But again, I think he published it on his own.
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  VM44

  Who would make a law that said someone must die if someone was bad, and that it didn't matter if the one who was bad died, just that SOMEONE had to die because of the badness!

  What would be the point of such a law?

  --VM44
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  Nathan Natas

  Justin, my congratulations! You have NAMED THAT BOOK!

  However, you are wrong about how it was published.

  It was published by the International Bible Students Association and the 1924 copyright was held by Peoples Pulpit Association of Brooklyn NY. Judge Rutherford wrote the introduction.

  It was advertised in both the Watchtower and the Golden Age. It was a Watchtower publication through-and-through.
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  Nathan Natas

  VM44,

  I don't know -- Jehovah?
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  TD
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  Justin

  I stand corrected on the publication. Looks like I got the date of publication wrong as well (should have been 1925, not 1924).
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  AlmostAtheist

  (should have been 1925, not 1924).

  There was no zero year, throws alot of people off. Don't feel bad, common mistake.

  :-)

  Dave
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  Nathan Natas

  The original publication year was 1924. It was published in following years but by 1926 it was no longer mentioned in the Watchtower's catalog of titles.