Last night I went on a journey, it started with a "Wiki" page about "Splinter JW Groups", from website to website, I learned about men and women, who were left out of the "Proclaimers" book. A Field Service flash back hit me:
The territory we worked, was "seldom worked territory", and the adventure came freshly to mind, the first house we encountered a "Russellite", strange, but (I thought they were all dead?) not too far out there?
Two hours later, a former believer in his late eighties spoke of the "True Slave, whose direction we were not obeying", who was he refering to, Rutherford. His opinion was brother R. was put into a rest-home, while Knorr took the reigns of the "Earthly Charriot" A qoute from Tony Willis "A People For His Name", "The Editorial Committee was dissolved in 1931, after which Rutherford wrote every leading article in The Watch Tower until his death."
One of the friends in our F-350 van, encountered one of the "Evil Slave" members, part of the group who shared sympathy with Ray Frantz, and left the Organization. How come I never asked why Ray Frantz left the Organization, he once loved and slaved for? Asking the "Who, What, Where, When, Why and How is going to cause more problems with Witnesses with internet access.
The Web allows us to research material our parents would have to go to great lenghts to gain access to. I never heard of the "Romanian Group" who broke away in 1990s, because of the "Superior Authorites". The "Dawn Group" (Assemblies in Motel 6 Conference Rooms to this day), nope! The Bible Study Students in England and Europe, (I heard of them) we are told they faded away, perhaps, but the damage is still out there.
The information available allow us to read what really took place, or at least form a opinion of our own. The wrestling of power, the "hard hand tactics" Rutherford's envoy Johnson, who took control of England's Bible students corperation, had fun with their money and power. The more I dig, the more my guts are rolling around, but it's liberating to find out the other side of issues, the "self appointed men" have tried to burry from our sights. Instead of talking at us, why don't the Faithful Slave from New York, meet with the Faithful Slaves from Europe, Asia, Austrialia and South America to establish dialogue? It's arrogant to think New York is more annointed than brethren who have been imprisoned for decades.
Why would Jesus Christ who said "everyone who followed him, would suffer tribulation" allow New York Annointed to be untested, unrefined from Satan's attacks?