New Boy,
Private tutors was formal education in the Russell era.To put it in perspective, Russell was as well or better educated than most clergy of the day, some of whom were functionally illiterate.
Posts by vienne
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17Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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vienne
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Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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vienne
There is no comparison between the Common School system and American High School systems. Before I retired from teaching I would present problems from sixth readers and math books. Few of them could solve the problems.
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Question....Did Charles Russel Ever Finish High School?
by new boy ini saw john cedars show last night about when he visited the headquarters and this was mentioned.. this is the first i heard of this.
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vienne
Russell finished the Common School System, then current in the US. That meant he 'graduated' when he finished seventh grade. There after he took course work through a YMCA system.
From Separate Identity, volume 1:
The YMCA gave him the opportunity to “do some good.” The YMCA was not the social club it is today. It existed to rescue sinners and to promote Christian work. He joined the Association in 1865 or 1866. The Pittsburgh Association was originally founded in 1854 but had become moribund. It was reorganized in 1865 and became a social force in the two cities. The Association offered evening classes in Commercial Law, Public Speaking and Parliamentary Law, Engineering Mathematics, Arithmetic, Working Mathematics, Electricity, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Architectural Drawing, Mechanical Drawing, Freehand Drawing and Designing, French, Spanish, German, Italian, English, and Spelling, Vocal Music, Bookkeeping, Stenography and Penmanship. To us this strongly suggests what Russell meant when he said he was educated by “private tutors.”[1] The Pittsburgh Association also maintained an active street evangelism. Leland Dewitt Baldwin in his excellent history of Pittsburgh wrote that the YMCA “fought nobly the vanities of the world, particularly the theaters.”[2]
[1] Sarah H. Killikelly: The History of Pittsburgh: Its Rise and Progress, B. C. Gordon Montgomery Company, Pittsburgh, 1906, pages 410-411. The claim that he was instructed by “private tutors” was made by Russell in the biographical material provided to The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. See the main entry in Volume 12, page 317.
[2] L. D. Baldwin: Pittsburgh: The Story of a City: 1750-1865, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1937, 1995 edition, page 260.
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Past 12 months, #watchtower has obtained more than 36 unique subpoenas
by Not_Culty inhttps://twitter.com/mark_j_odonnell/status/1095514606657851392.
"in the past 12 months, #watchtower has obtained more than 36 unique subpoenas to identify the people who have posted their documents, leaked videos, & images from their publications.
this #watchhunt is a coordinated effort to locate & punish the leak sources.".
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vienne
Secretiveness is unbecoming the religion of Christ.
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I wish all Witness men were like this ...
by vienne inmy intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.
my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.
why aren't more witness men like this?
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vienne
N. Blue,
If you mean me, I would be hard to disfellowship since I'm not and never have been a Witness.
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I wish all Witness men were like this ...
by vienne inmy intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.
my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.
why aren't more witness men like this?
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vienne
Slim, the offenders believed that if they appealed to my writing partner, he would scold me and make me change my text. That's sexist thinking. It's typical of a certain class of Witness male.
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I wish all Witness men were like this ...
by vienne inmy intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.
my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.
why aren't more witness men like this?
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vienne
Yup, Crofty, that about sums it up. And he'd be the last person to try that.
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I wish all Witness men were like this ...
by vienne inmy intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.
my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.
why aren't more witness men like this?
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vienne
Slim, that is based on the offenders appealing to my writing partner and a blog editor, both male, to get me to delete key elements from my essay.
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I wish all Witness men were like this ...
by vienne inmy intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.
my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.
why aren't more witness men like this?
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vienne
My intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy. My writing partner, a retired educator and a Witness, responded. Why aren't more Witness men like this?
https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2019/01/please-read-this.html
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Anyone notice JW old publications are going way up in price?
by Tobyjones262 ini have long collected the older books and magazines that show the jws crazy cult history.
they used to be very cheap and i have had people just give me books.
but now it seems the older stuff that shows the crazy cult history is really going up in price.
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vienne
I buy many antiquarian books, and prices asked have gone up uniformly. Often sellers do not get the ask price. I shop on ebay for material relevant to my research project. Have patience; eventually one will show up for a reasonable price. But with WT stuff, why buy what you can download for free?