Hi tea for two,
I read that link before as well as all of Rusell's Studies in the Scriptures books. I still have them as a matter of fact because there is really good information in them. But as far as Russell's chronology, none of it has proven true. Because if it did, we should have been in the new order already. He said the complete overthrow of Satan and his system would be in 1914. We really will not know the date when Christ will come. We have signs given as a marker to know when he may be near but only Jehovah knows the date. Here is a scripture I'd like to share, it is something Christ said about his coming:
Acts 1:7
He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
In Russell's book, he goes on to add to that above scripture by saying that Christ must have been told the date by Jehovah upond his ascending to heaven. And therefore reasons that Christ must have somehow communicated this to his true followers. He gives the date of this communication to be sometime in the 1800s and of course the followers were Russell's own bible student movement. While Christ may know know the date, it does not really matter. Because nowhere in scripture is their evidence to support what Russell believed about his group being the only chosen ones to know that infomation. His reading into that above text, which is clear and was told the the Apostles, is just merely conjecture. The Lord could not be any clearer than saying "it is not for you to know". If you read Matthew 24 and 25 you will see that the signs he gives were as markers only to know when the time is near. He even compares the signs to a fig tree and knowing when it will sprout and then says just like we see the evidence of the fig tree ready to sprout, we will likewise see evidence that Christ is ready to come. Nowhere does he say the evidence points to his already arriving. Russell taught he already arrive, invisibly and that is how he got his figures. Russell actually got them from the measurments of the Pyramids in Egypt, but that is another story.
Russell should have stopped after his first book the Divine Plan of the Ages. When he continued writting books, he began adding more and more of his own ideas into what was actually written in the bible. His biggest mistake was the chronologies and the invisible presence of Christ. These are not supported by scripture. And these ideas helped to spawn the evil empire we today know as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.