The "Pastor Russell Roud-the-World Tour" article reads like an advertisement for a CT Russell appreciation society!
The article includes even two endorsements as to his Pyramid interpretations, one from Dr. Piazzi Smyth, and the other from the Edgar brothers.
Actually, the changing of a pyramid measurement value in the 1905 edition of the book, shows Russell's complete LACK OF INTEGRITY!
How so? Because Russell CHANGES the MEASUREMENT but keeps Dr Smyth's comments of endorsement!!!
Dr Smyth was sent the pyramid chapter manuscript for review in 1890. He commented upon the text that became the first edition. In that first edition the Descending Passage measurement was 3416 inches. In 1905 Russell changed the numeric value for the Descenting Passge to 3457 inches, but left untouch the following statement concerning the corrrections supplied by Dr Smyth in 1890 for the first edition:
"The Professor's [Symth's] answer to that letter, together with the MS. copy sent him, which bore his marks of criticism, when received were sent to the author. We thank Bro. Wright and Prof. Smyth for their kindness, and have followed the corrections indicated; which, however, only three in all, we were pleased to note were not of special importance. Only one of the criticisms was upon measurements, and it showed a variance of only one inch, which we gladly corrected."
Dr Symth only criticism was one measurement that was off by one inch, and that was corrected in 1890 in the first edtion of the book.
If CT Russell's integrity was to be maintained, the statement that Smyth found only one measurement was off by an inch should have been removed in all post 1905 editions.
And did Russell remove that statement from all future editions? NO! HE DID NOT!
A reader of any edition of the Studies in the Scriptures, Vol 3 printed after 1905, would think from reading the text that Dr Symth approved of the new Descending passage value of 3457, as there is no indication that the Descending Passage number was changed from the value Smyth read in the pre-publication manuscript.
This is a DISHONEST attempt to obtain approval of the new calculation from an authoritative source. It shows CONTEMPT towards the reader, and is ACADEMICALLY DISHONEST!
This one example is enough to show that Charles T. Russell, although he might have believed what he wrote, was not an honest person when it came to his own writings.
--VM44
