In 1922 new emphasis was placed on door to door selling of books and magazines by Judge Rutherford. A set of 10 of his own books would eventually be sold for about $ 2.50 (about twenty five dollars in today's money).
The colporteur work under Russell was not too dissimilar to Fuller Brush salesmen or vacuum cleaner sales. Rutherford would prove to be as prolific a writer as Russell and kept the pressess churning out his angry screeds which attacked Roman Catholics, Jews (Big Business), Government and imagined conspiracies with the Devil. He also whined about Prohibition, naturally, being a tippler himself.
What is my point?
The brothers and sisters who go door to door think they are "feeding" the flock. They imagine their "preaching work" to be something lofty and noble and divinely commissioned by Jesus Christ. It isn't and it wasn't in the past.
Why?
Because, the stuff they have always been peddling isn't "food" at all. It is ravings and imaginary scenarios feebly connected to interpretations of Bible verses.
Feeding the Sheep-like ones crap is not a noble pursuit.
The magazines and books throughout the Watchtower's history are just so much dusty garbage on bookshelves. This isn't a polemic claim on my part. NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO USE THESE BOOKS according to the Watchtower itself.
The "food" spoiled all by itself by not being true or valuable in a historic or prophetic sense!
It was garbage at the beginning and it is just so much garbage now.
It isn't useful for anything other than PROVING it is garbage!
