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  lf evolution is true then doesnt it make sense that other life forms exist on far away planets.?

  by atomant in

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  2. beliefs

  just thought ld throw it out there for discussion.lf we evolved from nothing doesnt it stand to reason that other life forms also evolved from nothing?l mean lets face it time is infinite.

  so given enough time its possible for anything to happen isnt it?

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  ILoveTTATT2

  Your post shows you don't understand the first thing about evolution: evolution and abiogenesis are two different topics.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  This is what Russell should have done. Written to the USDA, trusted scientists instead of the words and claims of "brothers". Wait... that would never have happened. Of course the "brother's words" count more than the "evil" government! The Eagle sent for scientific reports, both in milling and from the USDA. The USDA knew that "Stoner" wheat was in reality the same as "Fulcaster"
  
  September 29, 1911

  $60 ‘MIRACLE’ WHEAT POOR IN COMPETITION, U.S. EXPERTS REPORT

  Department of Agriculture Finds Pastor Russell’s Brand Yields Only One-Half of “Fultz.”

  NOTHING MIRACULOUS ABOUT IT

  Polytechnic Institute Chemist Says Religious Grain Sprouts Only a Little Better Than $1 a Bushel Kind.
  
  Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth street,

  Washington, D. C., September 29—The Department of Agriculture, through its Bureau of Plant Industry, furnished to the Eagle today a statement concerning Miracle wheat, which is being exploited at $60 per bushel, by Pastor Russell, in Brooklyn. The Eagle left with the Bureau a sample of Pastor Russell's wheat for analysis. It turns out to be a wheat well known at the Department, and which it has been growing on its experimental farms. There is nothing miraculous about it. In fact, in competition with another well-known brand of wheat its yield per acre is only one-half. Neither is the sample obtained from Pastor Russell by the Eagle as good in quality as one which the Department has just obtained from its own farm, where it is growing wheat originally obtained from K. B. Stoner, who claims to be the discoverer of Miracle wheat. Dr. B. T. Galloway, head of the Bureau of Plant Industry forwarded this official report to the Eagle bureau today:

  Report of the Department of Agriculture.

  "A number of years ago a variety of wheat called 'Miracle' was brought to our attention by K. B. Stoner of Fincastle, Va., who it was alleged produced it in a miraculous way. The wheat has since been exploited by McCormick and other promoters. Note that this variety does not belong to the group of poulard wheat in which occurs the variety known variously as 'Mummy,' Seven Headed' and 'Egyptian,' is closely related to the ordinary soft winter wheats of the Atlantic coast, of which Fultz, Fulcaster and others are leading types. In our experiments with Mr. Stoner's variety, we have found it to be satisfactory, but not particularly better than other wheats like Fultz and Fulcaster. It does not merit extravagant claims made for it, though it is a little better perhaps in the district where it was developed than the varieties ordinarily grown in Virginia, but chiefly because it was carefully selected strain.

  "A representative of this bureau visited Mr. Stoner's farm and made a report in which the most favorable statements are as follows: 'The yield had been from three to five bushels more per acre than that of other varieties grown on the same farm under the same conditions of culture, except the rate of seeding, which was three pecks per acres, while other varieties were sown at the rate of eight pecks per acre, which latter is the common practice of farmers in that locality. The straw is large, stiff and stands well without lodging. The grain has a red color, is rather hard, and in size is perhaps slightly larger than the grain of other varieties of this class of wheat.’

  33 Bushels of “Miracle" to 66 Bushels of "Fultz."

  “As to the results since obtained with variety which has been under experiment by this bureau, in 1908 on the Arlington farm the wheat ripened several days later than the earliest wheat and from three to five days later than the average wheats. In yield in the nursery rows it compared as follows with Fultz: Miracle, lowest yield per row, 7¾ ounces, highest yield 10 ounces; Fultz, highest yield per row, 20½ ounces. This would allow approximately a yield of 33 bushels for the Miracle and 66 bushels for the Fultz.
  "From an examination of the sample which you left with us a correct identification cannot be guaranteed without heads of the variety.

  "It appears to be the same as that which we are growing at the Arlington farm under our grain investigation No. 2980, which is Stoner's wheats, but the sample is not quite as good in quality as one we have just obtained from our plats.”

  John C. Olsen, consulting chemist of the Polytechnic Institute, today submitted a report of a test he has made of Pastor Russell's "Miracle" wheat, showing that 89 per cent. of the Russell wheat sprouted as against 83 per cent of an ordinary $ 1 a bushel wheat used in competition.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  This one's fairly long. But here are the highlights:
  
  1) The Eagle found out that the "Alaska" wheat followed the same pattern: A person finds a plausible "miraculous" wheat that at first glance will produce a lot more, makes an amazing story about it, sends the story and a circular to newspapers, starts selling it to whomever believes it, until the Post Office or the USDA stop the fraud. EXACTLY THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH MIRACLE WHEAT AND K.B. STONER. The Alaska wheat sold for $20 a bushel (20 times more than regular wheat), and THAT was a scandal. Even more so with Russell foolishly selling this fraudulent wheat at $60 a bushel. Everyone knew the huge implications of finding a wheat that produced a lot, including becoming very rich.
  
  If the WT was "divinely guided", then why did the entire society fall prey to a con artist?
  
  September 27, 1911

  MIRACLE WHEAT HAS AN ALASKAN COUSIN

  Brought $20 a Bushel Until Petulant Government Got Out Fraud Stamp.

  FARMER ADAMS' BONANZA.

  30,000,000 Acres Still Waiting for Marvelous Seed Found by Mysterious Stranger.

  Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

  Washington, September 26—This is the sad story of a little grain of wheat. No, that's wrong. Not a little grain—a whopping big grain—a whole head of whopping big grains. To quote Holmes' Dr. Watson, it was “simply marvellous." [sic] Not as marvelous, perhaps, as Pastor Russell's Miracle wheat, because that sells for $60 a bushel, whereas the wheat of this tale brought only $20, and was, therefore, only one-third as marvelous. But it was wheat with a big W; wheat that was going to revolutionize husbandry, make a multi-millionaire out of the humble farmer and fill the grain elevators of the world until they groaned in agony and finally burst scattering their golden bounty to the four winds and feeding the wide, wide world forever and ever. All these benevolent things might it have done had not the United States Government, in a moment of petulance, stamped “Fraud” in big letter all over the rosy dawn of a new agricultural era and turned a Utopian future into a pathetic past.

  This was “Alaska Wheat” – near relative of the “Seven Headed Wonder,” “Egyptian Mummy” and other wheats of high degree, which perform all kinds of feats except when the experts of the Agricultural Department come to watch, in which case they seem to become victims of stage fright and are unable to give any better account of themselves than the plain farm varieties that go into our daily bread. Alaska wheat had fine prospects until the government stepped in. Its discoverer and promoter is said to have reaped several thousand dollars from it, at the rate of $20 per bushel. His tale had a pleasing beginning in mystery. His head of wheat came to him out of the great and little known Northland, where everything is big – the nuggets of gold, the beds of coal, the trees of the forests, the Kodiak bears and the mountain that was not climbed by “Doc” Cook.

  Mysterious Stranger Gives Marvelous Wheat to Farmer Adams of Idaho.

  Abram Adams, farmer, of Julietta. Ida., is the hero. Farmer Adams had been raising wheat off and on for years down home, but when he met a mysterious stranger while returning from a trip to British Columbia, and when that stranger handed him a single head of wheat, his eyes grew big with wonder and admiration. “I just picked it up in Alaska,” said the stranger. The year was 1904, a memorable one for Farmer Adams, for he carefully carried that head of wheat back to Idaho, put it in the earth in the fall of the year and then paced up and down restlessly until the springtime should read the riddle for him.
  
  The history of that mysterious head of what is told in the records of the Postoffice [sic] Department, in that particularbureau [sic] which Is devoted to detecting fraudulent users of the mails. In the year 1908 articles began to appear in newspapers here and there, and that in at least one widely circulated weekly from the pen of Oscar F. Day, concerning a "marvelous" wheat discovered by Farmer Adams. Two hundred and twenty-two and a half bushels to the acre was its record! Agricultural folks who read these articles wrote by next mail to Farmer Adams, asking how about it. In return they received printed circulars, with halftone engravings and big type and the word "Alaska," with an exclamation point after it, and the information that a limited supply of this prodigy of nature could be obtained from the Adams-Hobe Seed Grain Company, price $20 per bushel. It was the “cereal marvel of the world," to quote from this Idaho farmer's literature. According to his tale he had devoted a lot of time to perfecting this wheat. Afterward he admitted to the Government that he had not, but had simply planted the single head received from the mysterious stranger in British Columbia.

  53,000 Pounds of Wheat at $20 a Bushel.

  Now, what happened to that head of wheat was this, according to the circular: It harvested seven pounds in 1905. Farmer Adams treasured that seven pounds until the spring of 1906. Then back to the soil it went. Presto! In the fall of 1908 he reaped 1,545 pounds. Step up, gentlemen! This is the marvel of the age. Only a few left, etc., etc.! Into the earth (always according to the circular, went that 1.545 pounds of cereal marvel, so that the year 1907 yielded 53,000 pounds. Not quite such a good record, gentlemen, we admit. But think of the hailstorms we had. Besides, 53,000 pounds at $20 a bushel was a pretty good little nucleus for a mail-order business.

  By this time Farmer Adams' wheat was attracting not only bucolic, but scientific attention. The Department of Agriculture. the Ohio Agricultural Station, the Colorado Agricultural College and Professor Elliott of Washington State College all addressed themselves to the American farmer on the subject. Unfortunately, they all said it was a fraud. On September 28, 1908, the Agricultural Department was unkind enough to write to the Postoffice Department: “This wheat is an ordinary variety, grown in numerous places in mountain valleys, and is of low grade for flour and is only an ordinary yielder."

  Post Office Department Takes a Hand

  So the Postoffice Department sleuths investigated. They found that the Adams-Hobe concern was owned by Farmer Adams and his son-In-law, O. K. Hobe—who was perfectly willing to put his O. K. on Alaska wheat. The first two crops, it also appeared, had been planted in Farmer Adams' garden, where the soil was very fertile and drilled thin. For the two years the wheat had been sown in ordinary fields the yield had been no better than that of other varieties, and in some places not so good. Farmer Adams admitted in an affidavit that when the wheat was sown outside of his magic little garden it yielded from 25 to 30 bushels per acre—not 222½ . It also developed that his circulars had been prepared by Mr. Day, who had written the newspaper and magazine articles, and that the Adams-Hobe Company was doing its mail order business with the East and South; practically none in the West.

  On November 25, 1908, the Postoffice Department told the postmaster at Julietta to hold up any more mail that might come for Farmer Adam’s concern, and then notified the farmer that it was from Missouri and would have to be shown a few things about the cereal marvel before he could get his letters.

  Farmer Adams came to Washington in a hurry and began to admit things. He admitted that his wheat, planted under ordinary farm conditions, yielded only about thirty bushels per acre, and that it was “not what was hoped for” He admitted that the claim of 222½ bushels per acre in “large tracts” was not true, and that the only large yield was the crop of 1906. But to back up his claims for Alaska wheat he brought down from Brookline. Mass., F. M. Slagle, who averred that he had knowledge of wheat, and believed that the Alaska grain would be a great yielder; better than other varieties.

  Experts Find Nothing Marvelous in Alaska Wheat

  They sent Adams and Slagle over to the Bureau of Plant industry, in Tama, Jim Wilson's department, to show Dr. Galloway and his experts what the cereal marvel could do. Now, it takes a mightyiIndustrious plant to startle the Plant Industry Bureau, which on January 20, 1909, advised the Postoffice Department that there was no evidence to show that Alaska wheat was anything but the well-known Seven-Headed Egyptian, or Mummy, wheat, already cultivated in a small way in the Northwest. It appeared to be analagous [sic] to Little Club in yielding qualities, which at best is ranked about half way between the best and the poorest of milling wheats. Farmer Adams was told that if he could give Alaska wheat its right name, state that it was to be ranked with Little Club, both in quality, average yield and breadmaking properties, the department would have no objection to his selling it.

  On February 25, Adams made an affidavit to the Postoffice Department, in which he agreed to allow the mail that had accumulated at Julietta to be confiscated, promised to destroy the circulars that he had on hand and also promised that if any new ones should be issued they should be in accordance with the views of the Agricultural Department.

  Bobs Up Again at Rate of 206 Bushels to the Acre.

  But Alaska wheat was not to be thus summarily cheated of its bright future—as a mail order proposition. On April 5 following, the Agricultural Department tipped off the Postoffice Department that a circular was going out over the name of the Alaska Wheat Seed Grain Company, of Julietta, Idaho, and St. Paul, Minn. It was the same old friend—Alaska wheat, now running as high as 206 bushels to the acre in Idaho, and selling, gentlemen, for the small sum of $20 per bushel. E. H. Hobe, brother to son-in-law O. K. Hobe, was running the St. Paul office. It was a perfectly good circular, with pictures and promises and injunctions like this:

  DON'T WASTE TIME
  Start Your Fields to Bringing You Big Money.
  30,000,000 of Acres are Waiting for Alaska Wheat Seed.
  
  Well, the Post Office Department acted sort of short and suddenlike. On April 19, 1909, it clapped a fraud order on the company and put an end to the mail business. The 30.000,000 acres are still waiting. Not only was it a fraud, declared Assistant Attorney General R. P. Goodwin, but it was a violation of promises made to the department, because the company had submitted one innocuous circular to the Government authorities and then issued an entirely different one to the public. Mr. Goodwin decided that the scheme could be treated "only as a deliberate and intentional scheme to defraud a credulous public."

  So ends the story of Farmer Adams and the bead of wheat presented to him by the mysterious stranger from British Columbia. In one of his circulars Farmer Adams admitted that he had heard of such a thing as Miracle Wheat, and Seven Headed Wonder, and Egyptian Mummy, but he did not claim to know anything about them. All he knew was Alaska wheat. Simple arithmetic shows that Miracle Wheat must be three times as good as Alaska wheat, because it costs three times as much. Just what the Post Office Department may or may not do to Miracle Wheat its hard hearted officials will not say. But over in the Bureau of Plant Industry even the stenographers giggle when you ask about it.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  Here the Brooklyn Eagle starts really mocking Russell. He quickly became the laughingstock of many thousands of people, others offered to "help" by giving him normal wheat and having him (or the Watchtower Society) keep the profit. Again, people who know wheat immediately recognize it as regular wheat. The Post office started a fraud investigation, so things were getting serious for Russell.
  
  September 25, 1911
  
  MIRACLE WHEAT IN DEMAND ON THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE

  Brokers Ask for Quotations on Pastor Russell’s “Divine” Grain.
  
  HAVE SOME “JUST AS GOOD.”
  
  Postal Authorities to Test True Value of Religious $60-a-Bushel Stuff.

  Chief Postal Inspector W. W. Dickson, in Manhattan, said today that he was "Preparing a case" in connection with the “Miracle” wheat which is on sale at Pastor Russell's Tabernacle in Hicks street, Brooklyn, the price still being $60 a bushel, with small lots to be had at $1 a pound. Inspector Dickson said he expects to have the case ready within a few days to place in the hands of Postal Inspector John N. Parsons, who handles Brooklyn Post Office investigations.

  "My men have been pretty well tied up with the Flagg case in Manhattan and with handling the 'aerial special delivery' service at the aviation meet." Inspector Dickson explained today. "I am preparing a case in the matter of 'Miracle' wheat and expect to turn It over to Inspector Parsons in Brooklyn soon.

  "It Is not true that Inspector Kinkade has issued an order against this wheat being sent through the mails. This would not be done unless we know for a certainty that this 'Miracle' wheat hadn't the yielding qualities claimed for It. We have no way of knowing this yet and at present no such order will be issued."

  Chance for Brother Dockey to Make $59 a Bushel.

  It was learned today that a complaint regarding the "Miracle" wheat being sold here has reached the office of the chief inspector of the Post Office Department in Washington. Chief Inspector R. J. Sharp has turned the complaint over to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, division of classification, and the matter, according to a letter written by inspector Sharp, will be given proper attention at the earliest date practicable.

  "Miracle" wheat is a matter of discussion these days on the Produce Exchange in Manhattan. Brokers are asking one another with some amount of sarcasm if they have "any 'Miracle' wheat for sale this morning.” Benjamin. F. Schwartz, a member of the Exchange. announces that he will supply Pastor Russell with wheat just as good as that sold at the Tabernacle at $60 a bushel and will charge Brother Dockey or Brother Bohnet or any other "brothers" only about $1 a bushel for it, giving persons interested in the success of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society a chance to make $59 a bushel profit.

  Alexander Forbes, vice president of Peter Henderson & Co.. 35 Cortlandt street, Manhattan, one of the oldest seed firms In the country, says that offers of "Miracle" wheat have often been made to the company but that the company would “run away” from any grain that carried the term “Miracle” with it.

  “lf Pastor Russell or anyone else came in here and offered us 'Miracle' wheat, Mr. Forbes said, "we would politely show him the door."

  M. Reilly, a grain dealer at 175 Pacific street, offers to sell Pastor Russell wheat which is, says Mr, Reilly, as good as the advertised "Miracle" wheat, at 10 cents a pound, giving the Tabernacle people a chance to make 90 cents a pound profit.

  Still Better Chance to Make $59.05 Profit.

  J. C. Jube, superintendent of the Hecker flour mills in Manhattan, was shown a sample of “Miracle” wheat. He sent for his head miller, who examined the “divine” grain with great interest. Then the head miller disappeared and returned later with a sample package of No. 2 Red, soft winter wheat. In appearance it was the same as the “Miracle” wheat, and Superintendent Forbes said he would stake his reputation as a wheat man for years that the wheat the head miller brought in - it sells at 95 cents a bushel – was just as good as the “Miracle” brand. Both wheats were grown in Ohio.

  The “Miracle” wheat was first grown in Pennsylvania, according to Pastor Russell. Brother Bohnet’s contributed grains were grown in Ohio and Brother Flemming’s in Indiana. The best wheat, according to grain experts, comes from none of these States, but from the North-west and Canada.

  According to Dr. John C. Olsen, the Polytechnic Institute chemist and an authority on pure foodstuffs, it is not possible to take the best Pennsylvania grain, plant it in Ohio and then have Pennsylvania quality grow. The result will be Ohio quality, for climate and soil will be determining factors. Dr. Olson does not see, accordingly, how “Miracle” wheat grown in comparatively poor wheat soil of an Eastern State can have extraordinary qualities when planted in also comparatively poor wheat soil this side of the region where the country’s best wheat is grown.
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  Email Request-Do You Have the Stanley-Russell Murder Letter?

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  atlantis, would you happen to have a copy of the stanley-russell murder letter that was posted by rr one of the bible students?

  the image of that letter has not been seen since he posted it and several people have searched everywhere for it and it just can not be found.

  thanks in advance!..

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  Interesting. Investigating on the Miracle Wheat, I think Rutherford was heavily involved in making the fiasco as big as he could, and then pretending to defend Russell.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  I will start commenting in this color so that my comments are separate from the article.
  
  Again, we see Russell's pride. It was not that Stoner had prayed for it, it was whatever he thought was "undoubtedly" the explanation for it.
  
  We see that sensible people, people who actually knew about wheat, would write to the USDA and would accept scientifically validated results. Not Russell. If "Brother Bohnet" says it produces, it produces!
  
  This is what the Brooklyn Eagle of September 24, 1911 had to say (emphasis mine):
  
  The "miracle wheat" which is being sold at Pastor Russell's Tabernacle in Hicks street at $60 a bushel—small lots at $1 a pound—is not the only "miracle wheat" of which the Agricultural Department authorities at Washington have knowledge.

  There is a wheat company in Philadelphia which is also selling the "miracle" brand of grain. The company bears the name of Stoner. Pastor Russell said yesterday that it was the Stoner brand of "miracle" cereal from which Brother Bohnet, who supplies some of the wheat sold at the Tabernacle in Hicks street secured the first grains, which Pastor Russell indorses.

  The Stoner concern, in Philadelphia., sells its "miracle" wheat at only $5 a bushel. Careful calculation in arithmetic shows that this is $55 less than is charged at Pastor Russell's house of worship for the same brand of "miracle" grain.

  "Does Not Merit Extravagant Claims Made for It."

  The Agricultural Department has examined the Stoner brand of "miracle" wheat, the same grain from which Pastor Russell says that sold at his Tabernacle sprung, and an official of the Department has stated in a communication to H. W. Collingwood, editor of The Rural New Yorker, that "it does not merit the extravagant claims made for it."

  The Rural New Yorker has a high reputation among agriculturists as an investigator of newly-discovered gifts from Mother Earth. When the editor heard about "miracle" wheat being advertised he wrote to the Agricultural Department, and the Department sent him a letter, as follows:

  "As you know, the name 'miracle' is used interchangeably with others such as 'mummy,' seven-headed, "Egyptian,' etc., to designate the group known as Triticum compositum. To this group belongs also the 'Alaska,' which nearly three years ago was offered at the exorbitant price of $20 per bushel and was pronounced a fake.

  "A number of years ago, however, a variety of wheat called 'miracle' was brought to our attention by a Mr. K. B. Stoner of Fincastle, Va., who claimed to have produced it in a miraculous manner —that is, as the result of prayer that he might discover or in some way produce an extraordinarily profitable wheat; hence the name 'miracle.' This wheat was afterward exploited by promoters.

  This variety does not belong to the ' Group T compositum before mentioned, but is closely related to the soft winter wheats of the Atlantic Coast, of which Fultz, Fulcaster, etc., are leading types. From our experiments with Mr. Stoner's variety we have found, it to be satisfactory, but particularly for the region where it was first grown; it does not merit the extravagant claims made for it. It is a little better, perhaps, than the varieties grown in Virginia and vicinity only because it was carefully selected strain."

  Pastor Russell Does Not Credit Production by Prayer.

  From the above it may be seen that the Stoner wheat, that is selling at $5 a bushel in Philadelphia, is claimed to have been produced through prayer. Pastor Russell said yesterday that he didn't have any faith personally that "miracle" wheat had sprung up because Mr. Stoner had prayed.

  "In Ezekiel the Lord said: 'I will call for corn and increase it,' " quoth Pastor Russell yesterday. "Now I think this miracle wheat is a sign that the Lord is increasing the wheat of the earth. As to Mr. Stoner having produced his brand of wheat through prayer, I do not believe that he did. But undoubtedly the Lord is signifying through this wondrous grain that He is now preparing to keep His word."

  So far as the bread-making quality in "miracle" wheat is concerned the "divine" grain has nothing in it to make it worth fifty or sixty times the ordinary wheat dealt in at the Produce Exchange in Manhattan.

  Dr. John C. Olsen, analytical and consulting chemist at the Polytechnic Institute, who is secretary of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, yesterday analyzed some of the "miracle" wheat sold at the Tabernacle in Hicks street, to determine if the protein, or gluten, or "bread-making" quality, was developed to any remarkable extent.

  Dr. Olsen's analysis shows that "miracle" wheat contains 14.07 per cent. protein. Government reports show that the maximum amount of protein in domestic wheat is 17.15 per cent., the minimum 8.58 per cent. and the average 12.23.
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  Medical Tourism and Medi-Coin - investing in bloodless medicine

  by OrphanCrow in

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  2. medical

  meet mr. michael columbus - a jehovah's witness who has a personal financial interest in keeping the watchtower's noblood doctrine alive and kicking.. .

  michael j. columbus - jehovah's witness extraordinaire.. linkedin profile.. summary of columbus' accomplishments:.

  for more than 30 years i have been involved in blood management.

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  Hemodilution and Cell Saver both are technically autologos blood transfusions but are allowed. But storing your own blood and then reinfusing in the operation is not allowed. Welcome to the wonderfully contradictory world of Watchtower.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  September 24, 1911

  It started with this:
  
  
  

  The Brooklyn Eagle had been reporting on it for just THREE DAYS, and it already had the recipe for a massive WT PR disaster. The USDA knew that the "Stoner" wheat was no good as far back as 1908, three years before it was sold through the Watchtower. The USDA might have forced Stoner to reduce his price from $75 a bushel to $5 a bushel, right about the time when the Watchtower was selling at $60 a bushel. The Watchtower got itself into trouble from the second the first pound was sold!
  
  I will put the rest of the september 24, 1911 article soon.
  
  
  
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  September 23, 1911, Brooklyn Eagle:

  SKEPTICAL UNCLE SAM SEEKS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT 'MIRACLE' GRAIN

  Postoffice Inspector Dickson Will Have the Wheat Sold in Tabernacle Tested, He Says.

  PASTOR RUSSELL IS LOYAL,

  But He Doubts the Faith of Those Who Are Not Members of His Faithful Band.

  Uncle Sam has decided to make an official test of the "Miracle" wheat sold at $60 a bushel at Pastor Russell's Tabernacle in order that the faithful who have invested their money, and a waiting world as well, may learn more fully of the astonishing merits of the precious grain.

  W. W. Dickson, chief of the postal inspectors in Manhattan, has received a communication regarding the notice which appeared in Pastor Russell's semi-monthly, The Watch Tower, setting forth the unusual qualities of "miracle wheat." He promises to set going the wheels of inquiry. He says the Watch Tower notice may or may not represent grain that yields from ten to fifteen times the amount sown, and may be worth $1 a pound, as advertised. But he wants to find out. Accordingly, he has mapped out a plan. It is likely that Inspector John N. Parsons, who generally conducts investigations into Brooklyn affairs, will have the task of testing the yielding qualities of "miracle wheat." Pastor Russell said today that he had full confidence in the qualities of the grain, as noted in the Watch Tower, but he admitted that his confidence was based only upon letters written to him by “brothers” of the "millennial dawn" sect, and that he had never supervised the sowing and growing of "miracle wheat.”

  Inspector Dickson will ask that he be furnished with a sample of "miracle" wheat. It will be analyzed by Government chemists in Manhattan. Along with the sample, Inspector Dickson's men will find out who bought “miracle” wheat from Brother Dockey, the watchdog of the cereal treasury, so that it may be learned what interstate shipments were made of "miracle" grain.

  Brother Dockey Says Supply of Wheat Is Limited.

  Pastor Russell could not state today just how much "miracle wheat" there was on hand at the Tabernacle. He telephoned Brother Dockey to come right over to Pastor Russell 'shome [sic] at 124 Columbia Heights. Brother Dockey did so. Brother Dockey announced that the supply was limited. It is still selling at $60 a bushel, only there isn't enough for any one person to buy as much as two bushels. So Brother Dockey is selling preferably by the pound, still at $1 a pound. He had 20 pounds left a few days ago, but someone—he thought it was another "brother"—telegraphed from California that he must have 100 pounds. So Brother Dockey is reserving 100 pounds until the Californian sends on $100. This leaves 100 pounds still in sale at the Tabernacle. Brother Dockey was loath to name the amount until Pastor Russell gave him permission.

  An Eagle reporter yesterday bought one pound for $1. Brother hockey wouldn't sell it for less, though the reporter shamelessly tried to "beat him down." Today Pastor Russell, in Brother Dockey's presence, made an offer to the reporter.

  Pastor Russell Would Buy Back Reporter's Wheat.

  "If you will bring that pound of wheat back I will pay you what you gave for it," said Pastor Russell. The reporter indicated that his pound of "miracle wheat" was not for sale.

  "It's pretty late to plant it now, unless you send it down South," reminded Brother Dockey.

  Brother Dockey stated that less than 5 per cent of all the "miracle wheat" sold at the Tabernacle went to people other than Pastor Russell's followers. "Other people than my own," explained Pastor Russell, "wouldn't believe that this wheat contains extraordinary qualities. It is too much of a miracle for them to comprehend."

  "It wouldn't do to try to fool our own people, either," Brother Dockey interpolated. "If we did that they would never have confidence in us again."

  Pastor Russell says that as long as Brother Bohnet, Brother Flemming and other "brothers" continue to display generosity enough to hand over the proceeds from the sale of "miracle wheat" to the society, the grain will be sold' at the Tabernacle. Regarding the advertisement in the Watch Tower, Pastor Russell says that, as Brother Dockey said yesterday, no guarantee is offered that "miracle wheat" possesses powers of extraordinary yield. Pastor Russell does say, however, that he was responsible for the notice being inserted in the Watch Tower and that he believes in "miracle wheat" and intended to have his readers, all over the world, fully understand that he thought highly of it.

  
  

  Here we see that Russell had fears that the Miracle wheat was not going to work, he had elitism even for the wheat, he was deluded to think that wheat would produce or not based on "faith", that there WERE ads placed in the Watchtower, that he had responsibility for the ad, and that he knew he was respected. It also shows that there was a "cult of personality". If Russell liked it, than people would buy it.
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  Analysis of Brooklyn Eagle Articles related to Miracle Wheat

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  this article appeared in the september 22, 1911 brooklyn eagle.

  notice the "general counsel".

  church a salesroom for 'miracle' wheat at $60 per bushel .

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  On September 23, 1911, in the Brooklyn Eagle, this picture appeared.
  
  Russell sued the Eagle for libel because of this picture, and lost the case.
  
  The picture implied that Russell was making easy money, and that if he could manage to get his followers to buy Miracle Wheat at 60 times the regular price, then he could be of much "help" in the corrupt Union Bank.