Just in case you ever start to forget what he was...
Watchtower. June 15, 1922
Article: "Seventy years desolation"
Subheading: "Records falsified by kings"
(selective quotation by me)
"Pagan kings did not hesitate to falsify inscriptions. They left out whatever did not suit them,and altered the records of facts when that pleased their arrogant boastfulness....Assyrian kings never record their failures....entire reigns of kings are omitted in the inscriptions at the option of succeeding monarchs".
Subheading: "untrustworthiness of archeologists"
Rutherford is here selectively quoting a speech by one "doctor Brown" to prove his point.
quote:
"Advance is through guesses...great and infectious enthusiasm,but a sad lack of...scholarly patience...everything has been swallowed,the simplest rules of critical inquiry have been forgotten. There has been blind trusting to authority...an assumption of fact upon mere say so...a constant and enforced shifting of ground....he must not treat the hypothesis as an established fact and build a dogmatic exposition around it.They ought to demand that fact be sharply distinguished from guess....playing fast and loose with historical documents...hailing them eagerly when they say what you want them to say but discrediting them when their utterances are troublesome to you..."
"ENTIRE REIGNS OF KINGS ARE OMITTED AT THE OPTIONS OF SUCCEEDING MONARCHS"!!
Burn Rutherford.Burn!