The books of Russel and Rutherford can be read online on this website (link provided by Blondie, thnx):
http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/csoon.html
...now, heres the fun part: The website is run by a faithful JW, and his motivation for publishing these books, is that these books can also be read at "apostate" websites. So, it is to prevent young, faithful witnoids from visiting apostate websites that he is providing this "spiritual food". And this is what he has to say about "apostate websites" (barf alert):
"Some Things To Bear In Mind Regarding Apostates
If you were to do a search on the internet for the writings of Charles Taze Russell, it is likely you would arrive at sites of apostate origin. True, they will have the writings on their site but often these sites use the opportunity to attack modern Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watch Tower Society. It is worth bearing in mind that: They will rarely - if ever - discuss doctrine. They tend to focus on the areas of personal attack, or attack 'controversial' topics. Very often, I suspect, these are areas in which the site's author has particular difficulty. For instance, it may be that they do not like preaching from house-to-house, so efforts are made to try to show that such a practice is unnecessary - or even unscriptural. Perhaps they have been disfellowshipped; then they try to show that this scriptural practice is somehow wrong. The most common areas seem to be:
- Disfellowshipping
- Blood transfusion
- The authority of the Watch Tower Society
- Child abuse issues
- Are Jehovah's Witnesses prophets?
Yet, while they are trying to focus attention on these matters, they ignore the fact that the beliefs of Jehovah's witnesses are based on the Bible. While they attempt to focus your mind on these subject, please bear in mind the following:
- Where did you learn the truth from the Bible? From the churches?
- Where do you see genuine love in action?
- Where do you see the Bible's moral standards being enforced?
Let us briefly examine these points:
Did the churches teach you the truth about the soul? hell? the Trinity? Of course not! They have consistently taught untruth regarding these topics. They downgrade the Bible's authority in favour of traditional teachings.
Genuine love is seen in the congregations of Jehovah's witnesses, and in their worldwide organization. Do the churches support war? Yes!! Are they divided by nationalism? Yes!!
Do the churches support the Bible's moral standards? No!! Consider the subjects of homosexuality, abortion, sexual activity outside marriage. Only Jehovah's witnesses consistently apply Bible standards of behaviour wherever in the world you are.
And one other point to consider - Jehovah's witnesses make Bible literature available in many languages at no charge. Why? To make profits? Hardly! Obviously from an altruistic motive - to help people apply the Bible in their life, and to have a good relationship with God. Do you see the churches rushing to make their literature available free of charge? or their ministers serving without charge? No!
It is evident that the apostate sites are not interested in truth, only with trying to attack the Watch Tower Society on other matters. It is rather like someone refusing to discuss your personal beliefs, but pointing to some supposed indiscretion of yours to try to discredit you in the eyes of others. Whether or not you made a mistake in the past is not the important point, it is what are you doing now that matters. How would you view such a person who consistently tried to blacken your character? I'm sure you would not seek out their company! Treat apostate sites the same way."
So, there you have it folks, "words of wizdom" from the Watchtower. I particularly liked the " They will rarely - if ever - discuss doctrine" - comment. I`d say discussing doctrine takes up at least 50% of this website.