why was it "unjust" imprisonment - because they say so. and of course tying the pneumonia to prison makes it sound like it was contracted in prison. who knows. actually someone probably does and may comment on it.
Beth-sarim, my dear
by jambon1 35 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Leolaia
I too once thought erroneously that Rutherford contracted pneumonia while in prison. But the 1975 Yearbook (p. 194) and the Proclaimers book (p. 76) both claim that he caught it in 1919 after his release. Rutherford himself referred to his bout with pneumonia just a year later in 1920:
*** g20 6/23 p. 607 Comment on the Foregoing By J. F. Rutherford ***
THE article by Dr. [J. W.] Coolidge concerning the application of radium as a vital force is interesting to me. About a year ago I suffered from a severe case of pleuro-pneumonia, and Dr. Coolidge was my physician. During the period of convalescence he provided me with a radio-solar pad, or belt, which I wore with great profit to myself. I have since recommended it to others, who have likewise benefited by it.
Incidentally, John Wesley Coolidge was a homœopathist from Scranton, Pennsylvania who in 1920 lived in Los Angeles, CA, where Mary and Malcolm Rutherford lived at the time. Mary also later moved away from her son (where they had lived as next-door neighbors) to Monrovia less than a mile away from the Pottenger Sanatorium, which specialized in the treatment of lung diseases. We don't know when Mary moved but it could have happened in the early 1920s when Rutherford may have still had a relationship with his wife. However we know that Rutherford began wintering in San Diego instead by the mid-1920s, for Alta Eckols then began to be a close associate of Rutherford. Clayton Woodworth in the May 5, 1937 issue of the Golden Age described Rutherford's rather painful ankylosis as a complication of his pneumonia and noted that Rutherford had been under his chiropractor's care. The treatment for this condition, Woodworth continues, was alcohol. Jim Penton also learned from locals in San Diego that Rutherford was prescribed large quantities of liquor. I think a likely scenario is that Rutherford experienced a really bad bout of pneumonia in 1919, he tried medical quackery (a radioactive belt), and then when that failed he started going to the Pottenger Sanatorium for treatment. That too failed. Then Rutherford stopped spending his winters in the Los Angeles area and entered into Alta's care in San Diego, where liquor and Eckol's chiropractice became the new medicine. Then in 1929 Alta's son Albert Eckols purchased two lots in San Diego for Rutherford where Beth Sarim would be built.
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Think About It
Lung problem? Does anybody know if Rutherford smoked or not?
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Leolaia
I seriously doubt it. But who knows. Clayton smoked, IRC.
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fresia
Nathan said: It is especially amusing how when the WTB&TS finally sold the Beth Sarim property, the WTB&TS said it "had fully served its purpose."
In the deed to the property and in public relations efforts, the WATCHTOWER said the mansion would serve as a residence of the soon-to-be resurrected "men of old;" yet it was not occupied for one nanosecond by any of the "ancient worthies".
It WAS occupied by the spirits of Jim Bean, Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels and other distillers of repute.
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Fully served it purpose! yeah to provide a home for a bludger and alcoholic during the depression, while being seperated from his wife, and playing house with his secretary.
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littlebird
If I had known about this stupidity before i got baptized I would have saved myself years of aggrevation.