Did Rutherford love his wife?

by VM44 24 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Mary

  Did Rutherford love his wife?

  I didn't even know he had a wife.
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  Leolaia

  Mary.... And her name was Mary.
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  free2beme

  I disagree. I know several men who work away from their wives, especially in their later years when the kids are grown and they love each other. Hell, my grandparents did not sleep in the same room for the last 30 years of their marriage and yet my grandmother was heartbroken at his death. I think we want to think this, as we are negative to the man's actions with the religion.
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  VM44

  Here are a few sentences about Judge Rutherford from the article "Armageddon, Inc." by Stanley High that was published Sept. 14, 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.

  "His associates are as loath to talk about him as they are to open the way to his presence. The movement, they say, is not of man but of God, and the less said about personalities the better.

  One or two personal items were unearthed. Apparently there is a Mrs. Rutherford. There is also a son. Whether they are Witnesses, no one seemed prepared to say."

  Note that Rutherford's associates did not want to talk about "The Judge" and also could not answer if Rutherford's wife and son were Witnesses.

  That is because his associates NEVER saw them and so did not know if they were Witnesses!

  Rutherford's associates probably also didn't want to talk about Rutherford to the reporter for fear of getting into trouble later for saying something about him that they shouldn't have.

  --VM44
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  katiekitten

  Hell, my grandparents did not sleep in the same room for the last 30 years of their marriage

  Yea, but they probably lived in the same house.

  Or maybe the same state.

  I dont sleep with my partner every night because he snores and farts, but I concede to sharing a house with him! And I dont take man totty assistants with me when I travel and lodge them in adjoining rooms with internal connecting doors.

  Although I have thought about it.
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  garybuss

  I never met or even saw Rutherford, he died two years before I was born. The legacy Rutherford left and the culture he created wouldn't have been any problem except my dad adopted it all hook, line, and sinker, and he used it to make my life hell.
  
  From Rutherford's writings and from testimony from people like Paul Johnson and William Schnell, Rutherford was a crook and a scoundrel. The gang he created called "Jehovah's Witnesses" still show Rutherford's mean spirit well preserved by people like Knorr, Franz, and Milton Henschel. The Rutherford legacy mean man team now is Adams, Larson, and Van De Wall.
  
  
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  Ray

  Here are the note from web site somewhere.

  "Mr. Russell's character as a man was nothing of which to
  boast. The courts of Pennsylvania ruled that he tried to
  perpetuate a fraud upon his wife and denied his plea of being
  penniless when his wife sued him for divorce. It later
  developed that he had transferred $317,000 to the Watch-tower
  Bible and Tract Society, of which he was president, seemingly
  with the intent to avoid paying his wife alimony. His wife
  obtained her divorce from him on account of his unmanly
  conduct and gross familiarity with other women. Open court
  testimony concerning his character recorded him saying of
  himself, 'I am like a jelly-fish; I float around here and
  there; I touch this one and that one, and if she responds, I
  take her to me, and if not, I float to others'." (Churches of
  Today, Tomlinson, pg. 97.) There are many other unscrupulous
  actions taken by Russell which are engraved upon the pages of
  authentic history.
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  plmkrzy

  yep he was raging alcoholic and a bootlegger
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  Rooster

  http://www.geocities.com/paulblizard/thejudge.html
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  freetosee

  Thank you Rooster, good link!