I'm still not ready to write a review of my advance copy, but for those who have waited for the second volume of this history of the Watch Tower's earliest years, here is an outline of contents.
Intro and first five chapters
Introductory Essay – B. W. Schulz
Historical Idealism
Secondary and Opposition Sources
To the End of the Trail
Introductory Essay 2 – By R. M. de Vienne
Editor’s Note
Acknowledgements and Cooperation
Researching Watch Tower Faith
Formatting and Grammar
My View
What Russell Said The Roots of Watch Tower Belief
Millennialism
Joseph Marsh
Great Awakening and New Lights
Post-Revolution Era
Bibliography
Secondary
2 Seeking Cohesion
Exploring Divergent Views
Satan: Person or Evil Influence?
Foot Washing
Communion
Position of Women
Ango-Isrealitism
Other Issues
Gifts of the Spirit
Water Baptism
Coping with Difference
Personal Issues
Amon Hipsher and Lorenzo Jackson Baldwin
Homer A. King
Persuasion
Entering the Field
Paton’s Preaching Tour
Russell’s Trip East
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania
Newark, New Jersey
Lynn, Massachusetts
Clinton, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts
Fort Edward and Montrose
Berwick, Pennsylvania
Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania
Russell’s Report
Russell’s Second Tour
November 1880
J. S. Lawver and John C. Foore.
Keith, Sunderlin, and Mann
Gathering Together
Doctrine of Personal Responsibility
3 Out of Babylon
Isolated but Engaged
Inspiration
View of Religion
Congregation Culture
Forming Fellowships and Congregations
Called by His Name
Forming Congregations and Fellowships
New Castle, Pennsylvania
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Forced Out
Texas
Virginia
4 Congregation Culture: 1880-1886
Dissension and Disaffection
Who Were They?
Growing Interest
Numbers
Relationship to the Center
Authority Structure and Result
Crisis Years
5 Organizing and Financing the Work
Watch Tower Society Finances
Incorporating Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society
Joseph Firth Smith
William Cook Macmillan
Simon Osborne Blunden
Financial Struggles