ALEX claims:
"The first few months of 1914 the clergy and others poured considerable
ridicule upon C. T. Russell and the Watch Tower Society for failing to
see anything happening to the Gentile nations as they were well into the year 1914 with nothing happening.
But all this ridicule stopped when nation after nation and kingdom after
kingdom began cascading into what now is called the first world war 1914 as predicted 40 years before it happened by the Zions Watchtower."
The Watch Tower Society itself demolished that claim in 1930:
"The Watch Tower, and its companion publications of the
Society, for forty years emphasized the fact that 1914 would witness the
establishment of God’s kingdom and the complete glorification of the church.
During that period of forty years God’s people on earlh were carrying on a
witness work, which work was foreshadowed by Elijah and John the Baptist. All
of the Lord’s people looked forward to 1914 with joyful expectation. When that
time came and passed there was much disappointment, chagrin and mourning, and
the Lord’s people were greatly in reproach. They were ridiculed by the clergy
and their allies in particular, and pointed to with scorn, because they had
said so much about 1914, and what would come to pass, and their ‘prophecies’
had not been fulfllled.
One wearing sackcloth usually puts it on
himself. God’s people on earth, after the reproach that came upon them
following 1914, put sackcloth upon themselves as an evidence of mourning. " -- Light, Volume I, p.194.
Alex, that time came and passed, and the reproach came following 1914, because the Society's prophecies had not been fulfilled.
