JW History is Pictures #2

by Wild_Thing 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  Wild_Thing

  This is from the February 4, 1917 edition of The Sun, a newspaper in New York, NY. It is from a full feature article about Charles Taze Russell and the Russellites. The article is called "Remarkable Activities from Unusual Religious Sect". The pdf can be found here: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-02-04/ed-1/seq-52.pdf

  
  

  
  
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  Wild_Thing

  From the above article:

  
  

  
  
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  Wild_Thing

  Another sampling .. too much to share, so you will have to read the pdf file! :)

  
  

  
  
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  baker

  The writer of the story must not have liked the group as noted in the 2nd paragraph when he calls the group a "queer" society. Amusing
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  Wild_Thing

  I think it's funny they are called "one of the oddest communities that ever existed in this country."

  There have been some pretty "odd communities" here in the States, so that is really saying something!