ALEXANDER H. MACMILLAN

by bj 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  bj

  In the book FAITH ON THE MARCH by Alexander H. Macmillan, page 43 it states:
  "In October, 1902, I attended a convention in Washington, D.C., where I was married. My wife and I then spent a year in California, returning in 1904 to Allegheny."
  To my knowledge, the book don't mention her again. Also in his life story (Watchtower 1966 pp. 504-10) it didn't even mention that he was married. Could it be that like Russell and Rutherford, Macmillan faced conjugal problems? If so, why the hush? Any comments.
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  AlanF

  I read somewhere recently that Macmillan's marriage went kaput somewhere along the way. Vague impression that it was over well before 1914. Can't remember more than that, though. :(

  AlanF
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  slipnslidemaster

  What is MacMillan's significance to the organization?

  Slipnslidemaster: I thought you said your dog doesn't bite? That isn't my dog!
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  bj

  Thanks Alain for the information. From what follows in the book:

  "In 1905 I made a nation-wide convention tour with Russell." Gives me the impression that by this time(1905)it was already over.

  Slipslidemaster, Macmillan was chosen by Russell to take over the WTS while he went for his last tour. He was the one who baptised Rutherford, played an important part in his election and also was among the 8 officers of the WTS who went to prison in 1918.
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  JAVA

  Goodness, I haven't thought about MacMillan, and Faith on the March for many years! I used to have a copy somewhere, now I'll need to see if it can be found.

  BTW, there was another guy (was his name Cole) who wrote a book I believe in the 1950s who tried to pass himself off as an unbiased reporter. It soon became apparent he was nothing more than a JW doing an info-mercial for the Tower. Does anyone remember the book title, and author?

  --JAVA

  ...counting time at the Coffee Shop
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  anglise

  Hi Java
  I think the book is
  "20 years a Watchtower Slave" by Marley Cole
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  JAVA

  anglise,

  No, I think you're thinking of, Thirty Years a Watch Tower Slave, by William J. Schnell. However, you could be right about the author's name I'm looking for.

  --JAVA

  ...counting time at the Coffee Shop
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  hippikon

  Java: I remember reading that book by Cole - the title was really quite unique original and thought provoking – It was called Wait for it - “Jehovah’s Witnesses”

  I must say I felt duped when I realised he was really a witness
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  anglise

  Hi Java

  sorry for misleading you.
  Can I blame it on being Friday or am I just losing it?

  Yours A
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  Maximus

  Permit a small expansion, hippikon. It was
  
  Jehovah's Witnesses--the New World Society.
  Vantage Press, 1956

  You can read the whole thing in German on the internet:
  http://www.rofrisch.de/mcole/

  Faith on the March was the Society's attempt to spin and rebut Schnell's book, which they were extremely concerned about. Although mostly written by Mac, the manuscript was read by many at Bethel, including Fred Franz, who did not bother to correct glaring inaccuracies, including the hype about his own college background and the "Rhodes scholar" nonsense. (Fred was a actually a dropout in the spring of his Junior year, falling for the 1914 stuff of the good Pastor, then just months off. He, of course, never took a course in Biblical Greek.) Mac was very outgoing, forceful in personality and in private made no bones about his distaste for the Judge, in comparison to the "saintly" Pastor.

  Maximus