by Terry 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Both mine and mary's copies state that there were 5 to choose from as replacements. Both list 6 following names, w rutherford's included. This is a great find, terry.
So simple, too!
Is it sinister?
Is it duplicitious?
A legal instrument has to be precise to be enforceable. Lawyers are charged with specificity and due dilligence in enumerating matters of this nature. I find it rather telling that a designated FIVE does not match an enumerated SIX.
Make of it what you will.
RR writes: Russell never stated that they were to only publish his writings. What he said was that the Society was to never publish another journal, meaning they could only publish The Watch Tower, which is why when the Judge began to publish The Golden Age, he did so against Russell's wishes, and he published it under a different name.
Thanks, RR! You are correct, indeed. I didn't state it correctly. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out.
What he said was that the Society was to never publish another journal, meaning they could only publish The Watch Tower, which is why when the Judge began to publish The Golden Age, he did so against Russell's wishes, and he published it under a different name.
Vitally important to realize this, too! Pastor Russell was clearly nipping in the bud the ambition of leadership and authorship problem. Rutherford clearly shows his colors in defying Russell in this way.
To state it matter-of-factly: The Golden Age and later Awake! publications were in clear violation of Pastor Russell's stated objection in his Last Will and Testament.
The power play of Rutherford effectively purged Russell's loyalists from among the ranks and left Rutherford loyalists in their place.
There was nothing that man wouldn't do for his own manipulative machinations
Is it possible Russell added the extra name and didn't change the "five" to "six"? He was advancing in his years, so it's hard to say. Also, was Rutherford the official lawyer for Russell to handle his will and testament? If so, it's easy to see how he could put his name into the will.
So this will was done in 1907, but Russell lived until 1916?
I wonder if the other persons mentioned ever realized until after the fact that Rutherford had staked out a plan to take over for himself for all that time?
Jeez - this sounds like J.R.Ewing on Dallas sneaking into the lawyer's office to get a look in advance at Jock Ewing's will:
"Where there's a will, there's a way..."
That wt is from 1916. Maybe the original will and the 1916 wt differ. Rutherford attempted to clean up after himself.
S
No one has seen the original will, perhaps Barbara Anderson did, I don't know, but consider this.
WILLIAM E. PAGE
WILLIAM E. VAN AMBURGH
HENRY CLAY ROCKWELL
E. W. BRENNEISEN
F. H. ROBISON. The names of the five whom I suggest as possibly amongst
the most suitable from which to fill vacancies in the Editorial Committee are as follows: A. E. Burgess, Robert Hirsh Isaac Hoskins, Geo. H. Fisher (Scranton), J. F. Rutherford Dr. John Edgar.
What are the chnaces of the original will (not the one printed in the Watch Towers reads like this:
WILLIAM E. PAGE
WILLIAM E. VAN AMBURGH
HENRY CLAY ROCKWELL
E. W. BRENNEISEN
F. H. ROBISON. The names of the five whom I suggest as possibly amongst
the most suitable from which to fill vacancies in the Editorial Committee are as follows:A. E. Burgess
Robert Hirsh
Isaac Hoskins
Geo. H. Fisher (Scranton)
J. F. Rutherford
Dr. John Edgar.
It would have been easy to sandwich his name between Fisher and Edgar, if the list read down, but someone may have notice the handwriting, so in the Watch Tower, they simply write it across, leaving the reader to assume that it was an error on the part of Russell, because sandwiching a name across, would be so obvious.
Of course John Edgar died in 1910, so Russell could have made the change, but one would think he would have cross out Edgar's name.
Just a thought!
RR
was Rutherford the official lawyer for Russell to handle his will and testament? If so, it's easy to see how he could put his name into the will.
He was legal counsel for the Society, however, Russell gave him a thousand dollars and sent him to California, as far away as possible. But the Judge still had co-conspirators. VanAmburg and MacMillan.
Here is something you won't find in any Watch Tower publication:
Menta Sturgeon who was travelling with Russell when he died, wired his wife at Bethel regarding the Russell's death. However A. H. MacMillan intercepted the telegram and wired J. F. Rutherford with five words: “The old man is dead." The Judge was just a few states away attending a convention in Oakland, Maryland. He told MacMillan “do nothing until I get there”. It wouldn’t have taken him long to get to Bethel, considering that most likely most of the directors were with Russell. He went straight to Russell's office locked himself in and the rest is history.
RR
How exactly did Rutherfraud get control of the Borg anyway?? I know there was a power struggle at one point, but how did it ever get that far?
RR says: Here is something you won't find in any Watch Tower publication
Nope, you'll find it here, though:
http://www.heraldmag.org/2006_history/06history_8.htm 1916--1918 Troubled Years
