Hi Grandpa!
Do you happen to have Russell's World Tour video? Thx!
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No problem!
Pastor Russell's World Tour-English
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Atlantis!
Request--Pastor Russell's World Tour Video in English!
by Atlantis 5 Replies latest jw friends
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Sea Breeze
https://archive.org/details/allaboutonerusse00cook/page/12/mode/2up
Russell's World Tour to investigate missions was little more than a publicity stunt. He met with virtually ZERO missionaries and his ports were what a typical vacation tour would use. He was later interviewed by a reporter and the findings are listed in the link above. He sought to discredit Christian Missionaries and install himself as responsible for the world's Salvation as a result of being the one "appointed over all of Christ's belongings":
Couple of excerpts:1. "The acceptance of Russell as 'that servant' was made a test of fellowship among his followers, we are told, by the written statement of some who had been of that number, but who subsequently joined the large procession that is steadily falling away from 'Pastor' Russell.
This fact gives point to such statements as the following from a 'souvenir' of one of Russell's convention trips, indorsed by a fac-simile of his signature: 'If any oppose the Lord by opposing the Channel (i. e., The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society) and the Servant (i. e., Russell) the Lord has delegated to do his work, to that extent he loses the favor, the Spirit of the Lord; light becomes darkness, and he is soon outside.' This same volume reports addresses, showing supposed Bible prefigurations and prophecies of Russell that are shocking to Christian nonbelievers in Russellism."
On page 298 of his "Watch Tower," of issue of Sept. 15, 1910, it is written concerning his books :
"If the six volumes of 'Scripture Studies' are practically the Bible, topically arranged, with Bible proof text given, we might not improperly name the volumes 'The Bible in an Arranged form.' That is to say, they are not merely comments on the Bible, but they are practically the Bible itself . . .
"Furthermore, not only do we find that people cannot see the divine plan in studying in the Bible by itself, but we see also that if anyone lays the 'Scripture Studies' aside, even after he has used them, after he has become familiar with them, after he has read them for ten years — if he then lays them aside and ignores them and goes to the Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.
2. "As I have studied the faces of hundreds of Russell's followers I have judged them to be mechanics, farmers and small tradesmen. They are the weaklings from among these great groups; the kind of people who always must have a leader; they lend a ready ear to a religion of authority; they like to think that they are studying things out for themselves. Actually, of course, they are gulping down wholesale whatever is given them. They are charmed by the magic of the words "truth" and "light," and the Russell literature is freely sprinkled with these.
Give the average man a guarantee that there is no hell, and you will tickle him in the right place. Tell him that the heathen are not lost, and it meets his heartiest approval. Show him that the worst the very wicked (Russell's few incorrigibles, for it seems that even he is not equal to saving all sinners) need expect is non-existence after death, and he is "with you."
He will wax eloquent in expatiating upon, and in defending such an easy-going, "common sense," satisfying religion, and will subscribe handsomely and voluntarily for its promulgation.
We have observed Russellism for a long time and have never yet known an unregenerate person who looked into it, but who liked it. It is a religion made strictly for the fleshly man, and is a perfect fit.
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Atlantis
Sea Breeze:
Thank you for those comments which will give the readers an insight as to what kind of man Russell was. Absolutely a publicity stunt! The Watchtower even today is very concerned about publicity.
Atlantis!
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fastJehu
Thanks @Atlantis and @Sea Breeze
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Atlantis
Bar-B-Que dinner and a cold one for fastJehu and all the members of the board!
Grandpa!
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Sea Breeze
This same volume reports ....supposed Bible prefigurations and prophecies of Russell that are shocking to Christian nonbelievers in Russellism."
The F&DS has used this tactic in the most absurd ways over the years, taken from Russell's playbook.
Who could forget the locusts in the Revelation book where the F&DS and faithful are "prophetically" identified as locusts? These "locusts" supposedly fly around sitinging (irritating) peole with WT literature while the world falls apart.
