It was replaced by yearbook comments in with the 1927 Yearbook, published late in 1926.
Old Goat
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Daily Manna book - anybody have one?
by dropoffyourkeylee inin the russell days they had a 'daily manna' book which had a daily text, as well as a page to list all your friends birthdays.
they had the same 365 daily texts every year.
when was is replaced by the current daily text?
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Daily Manna book - anybody have one?
by dropoffyourkeylee inin the russell days they had a 'daily manna' book which had a daily text, as well as a page to list all your friends birthdays.
they had the same 365 daily texts every year.
when was is replaced by the current daily text?
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People's Pulpit?
by bcpenney ini believe there was a magazine or newspaper published during russell's time called the people's pulpit.
i'm specifically trying to locate vol.
can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Old Goat
Penny,
I don't know of any place on line you can find these. What picture were you looking for?
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People's Pulpit?
by bcpenney ini believe there was a magazine or newspaper published during russell's time called the people's pulpit.
i'm specifically trying to locate vol.
can anyone point me in the right direction?
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People's Pulpit?
by bcpenney ini believe there was a magazine or newspaper published during russell's time called the people's pulpit.
i'm specifically trying to locate vol.
can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Old Goat
People's Pulpit v 2 no. 1 has two sermons by Russell, Gathering the Lord's Jewels and Thrust in Thy Sickle. These are followed by an attack on 7th Day Adventism. There are no photos. -
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When Did Higher Education Become Taboo?
by Wild_Thing ini have been reading about the early history of russelites/jws and in the beginning, it seems the organization was formed and headed by quite a few educated people.
lawyers, doctors, businessman.
you could buy voting rights within the organization for $1000, which by today's standard would be somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, something most of us do not have on hand, unless you are highly educated and/or wealthy.
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Old Goat
After 1884 a cumulative ten dollar (not $1000) donation gave you one share. You had to ask for it. Few voted it.
Anti-intellectualism stems from the Russell era. Russell drew educated people to himself, but the Watch Tower was filled with statements against a false education that spawned an anti-Bible stance. Most of this was directed at Clergy. And, if you read late 19th Century religious matter, you might find some justification for this. The clergy were a sorry, self-entitled bunch.
Anti-Intellectualism developed more fully under Rutherford. It is a way to minimize contrary belief.
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Schulz and de Vienn
by Old Goat interry started a thread on schulz and de vienne's book, separate identity, which you should read.
they've posted a partial, rough draft of their current work here:
http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
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Old Goat
Terry started a thread on Schulz and de Vienne's book, Separate Identity, which you should read. They've posted a partial, rough draft of their current work here:http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/
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A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion’s Watch ... By B. W. Schulz
by Terry inenter:.
https://books.google.com/books.
a separate identity: organizational identity among readers of zion’s watch .
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Old Goat
Russell's religious 'home' from 1870 to 1876 was within Age to Come belief. He read The Restitution and continued to do so long after starting his own paper. When The Object and Manner of Our Lord's Return was published in 1877 he turned to The Restitution and to The Prophetic Times to help circulate it. They were not Adventist publications. Adventists hated The Restitution.
Some point to his association with G. Stetson as proof he took up Adventism. This is shallow research. Stetson wrote about his adoption of Age to Come belief. By the time Russell met him Stetson was writing for The Restitution and for a British journal, The Rainbow. His congregation in Edinboro, PA was a mixture of both. But when they had a church conference in 1875, it was only advertised in The Restitution.
People are easily swayed by what they read on the internet. Above someone cut and pasted the wickipedia article on Barbour. That article was almost entirely written by R. M. de Vienne. Dr. de Vienne will tell you, and does in Separate Identity, that Russell was never an Adventist.
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A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion’s Watch ... By B. W. Schulz
by Terry inenter:.
https://books.google.com/books.
a separate identity: organizational identity among readers of zion’s watch .
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Old Goat
There is no evidence that Russell met Darby. However, Russell mentions Plymouth Brethren and was familiar with their teaching. He was somewhat dismissive.
The roots of Russell's teaching are in Age to Come doctrine. The chart posted in this thread attached that to Millerism. In fact age to come was the standard approach to prophecy in America from the colonial era. It was called Literalism in the UK, and sometimes it was called that in the US. Literalists rejected any "spiritualizing" of Bible prophecy unless warranted by the Bible itself. So they believed in a literal return of the Jews. Adventists rejected that. Literalism was not a denomination, but an approach to exegesis.
Russell's congregationalist pastor wrote a pamphlet on prophecy taking the Literalist approach. Russell was prepared by his Congregationalist and Methodist connections to see prophecy through Literalist / Age-to-Come eyes.
He tells us what he read, sometimes naming the author or their books. Other times we find him paraphrasing the works of contemporaries. So we have a long list of people that influenced him if in nothing else a negative way. None of his doctrines were uniquely Adventist. He rejected Adventism and self-identified as a millinarian. Literalists were as interested in last-times prophecy as were the Adventists. They preceded Millerism by centuries.
Long before Miller even thought about prophecy, Literalist journals and books flooded the UK, Europe, and America. For instance The Christian Observer, an Anglican journal, was republished word for word in the United States. It frequently dealt with prophetic themes always in Literalist ways. J. Aquila Brown, an English silversmith turned prophetic expositor, wrote at least one article for it in 1810. During the Millerite misadventure The Literalist was published in Philadelphia. It reprinted works by major English and Scottish writers on prophecy.
Barbour had been an Adventist. Russell suspected he was one. but found their beliefs similar. Barbour wrote back saying he had been one, but was one no longer. People identify Barbour with the Advent Christian Church. He wasn't an Advent Christian. His doctrine, while still an Adventist, was colored by the Life and Advent Union.
The Life and Advent Union is usually identified with Adventism. In point of fact G. Storrs left Millerite Adventism in 1844. While many LAU adherents remained Adventist, a significant portion of them rejected Millerite doctrine and were united with them only on the basis of a shared view of the resurrection. When Russell met Storrs, Storrs was preaching Age to Come doctrine and vilified in the Adventist press.
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A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion’s Watch ... By B. W. Schulz
by Terry inenter:.
https://books.google.com/books.
a separate identity: organizational identity among readers of zion’s watch .
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Old Goat
By the time Russell met Barbour, Barbour was no longer an Adventist. Russell says this. Barbour switched to Mark Allen's version of One Faith, the Church of the Blessed Hope.
Read chapter four in Separate Identity. Learn something new.
Schulz and de Vienne dissect Russellite doctrine in detail, showing sources and books they read. Russellite doctrine is not Adventist.
