I hasve a couple of questions and some comments about things I have noticed.
If you have found the same problem at least I'll know it isn't my computer.
When I open some of the pdf files I have found on the internet they look good. Well the cover page looks good. But if I go further into the book it all begins to look greek to me. I'm not kidding. It looks Greek. The font changes. Now this confuses me.
- If the text looks OK in the beginning then why would it change?
- If the original file was a text document then wouldn't my computer be able to read it even if I didn't have the same font?
- Is it possible that there is a bug in whatever program is used to create the file, especially if they are not using Acrobat? - I use PrimoPDF and have noticed a couple of times that the program will create the first 2 pages and then nothing else. Rebooting the computer allows me to recreate the file and have it include all the pages
- Here is a file that is almost all Greek to me http://www.reexamine.info/pre1920/1898_bible_vs_evolution.pdf Can someone check it to see if it does the same for them please. In this case it seems to be only a couple fo pages in the beginning of the book.
- One other thing I have noticed is that it looks good when it isn't at 100% but as you move up to 100% the more garbled it gets.
Another issue that has come to my attention is the Millenial Dawn/Studies in the Scriptures sets by Russell. I have downloaded a few copies of these books. Mostly they are labeled as Studies. What I am looking for is the set called Millennial Dawn. I found one copy but when I opened it it was another Studies set. So . . .
- Does anyone have a link to a set that really is Millenial Dawn?
- Is there anywhere that actually compares the 2 sets. This has gotten my interest because Russell himself who was the author of both sets was telling colporteurs to manipulate people into buying the Studies books even if he knew they already had the Millenial Dawn books.
There is a pdf file called The Curse of Death. I have found a few copies of this and when you open the file the real title is the Cause of Death a 1932 booklet.
Another thing I have come across is that when a book has been rereleased by the WTS (example: Make Sure of all Things) there are two different file names with the different years. But once opened the dates on both files are the first book.
A few times I have looked at a page of downloads and seen the same title with two different years. Sometimes it is a revised version but sometimes it is a book and a booklet/brochure/tract. It pays to check.
Speaking of booklets, brochures and tracts. What exactly is the difference? I expect number of pages is one clue but is there some specific thing that makes the difference?
And now speaking of size sometimes it pays to get two pdf files of the same book. A pdf scanned copy and a pdf text copy. The sizes will be different but if you want to know what the original book said (minus those sneaky edits) it is good to have the scanned copy. I have found those files tend to be much larger that the text-pdfs
I might have more comments or questions later.
I have found that Maria Russell wrote two books:
This Gospel of the Kingdom and The Twain One
I will be pulling some interesting quotes from the second book.
THE TWAIN ONE:
A BIBLE STUDY OF A VITAL SUBJECT.THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM:
A CUP OF COLD WATER FOR A THIRSTY SOUL.
BY
MARIA FRANCES RUSSELL
Copyrighted 1906 BY MARIA FRANCES RUSSELL
To The valued Christian Friends whose faith and courage have been a bulwark of strength, this volume is dedicated.
PREFACE.
If any apology is needed for the publication of this small work, it is the very general misconception of the teaching of the Word of God as to the social standing of one half of the human race, involving also, to a very large degree, the best interests of the other half. For so united are the interests of the twain that God made one, that if one suffers injustice and oppression the other will suffer also, either directly or indirectly. If the wives and mothers are enslaved and degraded, the husbands and sons will miss the tender ministries of that refinement and culture which can never flourish in any other atmosphere than that of the freedom and happiness which God designed, and posterity must inevitably feel the blight.
It looks very interesting
