Okay, My bad. After reading the comment by scenic viewer I did find it. for some reason using the find function did not pull it up for me. But it is interesting to read it in context of the article. Doesn't quite say he is rejected by today's witnesses. Not that it matters cuz they are goofy as hell anyways. but I did find it interesting.
A handy CHRONOLOGY of the life and times of Charles and Maria Russell
by Terry 34 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE regularly reported on the activities of "Pastor" Russell. Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) was the founder of the cult known as Millennial Dawn (and as "Russellism") which in 1931 morphed into Jehovah's Witnesses.
Headline: RUSSELL FOLLOWER ON "FALLEN ANGELS" (Jan. 22, 1913)
The "fallen angels" referred to Russell's doctrine that supernatural demons could assume human shape and impersonate him and make "improper advances" to women.
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Contents of a letter written to the Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
"Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
"I learn with considerable interest of the articles your paper is publishing relative to the notorious Pastor Russell, late of Allegheny, Pa., and now of Brooklyn. I have not had the pleasure of reading your strictures, but should very much like to do so, as would very many more in this country. Will you kindly send me all that you have published on this matter and keep me posted with the accounts of the coming action for slander that I have been told Mr. Russell has lodged against you?
"Mr. Russell has a pretty good following in this country, but numbers have left him owing to his extraordinary and insane teaching that he and his followers are dying in behalf of the world. That of course means that he is dying for the editor of The Eagle too!
"He has also deluded thousands of followers into believing that Christ returned to this earth in 1874, though in a spirit body and therefore invisible to the natural eye. Very many have gone so far as to sell their homes over here, expecting to die before 1914 (at the latest), and many others have so arranged their affairs as to last till that date only.
"I myself was connected with his movement for twelve years, but my eyes, thank God, are now opened.
"When one leaves their society because of enlightenment, Mr. Russell at once advises his followers to shun such an one and counsels his followers never to read anything emanating from any other source but his own pen!
"I could write to you for a week telling of the bitterness and sorrow that this man Russell has left in many a Christian home here in England. With best wishes for your success in your fight against hypocrisy and humbug."
"A.G. BULL"
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And finally....
The Eagle's 1916 article continued with:
For several years Pastor Russell has done little if any preaching in Brooklyn. Last year he won some more undesirable publicity because of charges by Mrs. Elizabeth Galbraith of Atlantic City, N. J. that he had spirited away her 17-year-old daughter, Ruth, an heiress, and was preventing the girl"s return home. Mrs. Galbraith won out in habeas corpus proceedings instituted to get back Ruth.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I haven't read all of the posts, but the OP's date of 1881 for the acquisition of the Beecher home at 124 Columbia Heights is, I think, wrong. I think they were still using the Bible House in Allegheny until 1906 or 1907, then bought the Beecher home and moved to Brooklyn. I'm going from memory, so if I am wrong, let someone correct me
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Earnest
dropoffyourkeylee, Terry is correct to say that the Watch Tower Tract Society was formed in 1881 (although it was only legally incorporated in 1884). The Henry Ward Beecher mansion at 124 Columbia Heights was purchased in 1908 and occupied in 1909.