Charles Taze Russell never identified himself as a Jehovah`s Witness and neither did any of his followers .
Incidentally the Jews of Isa. 43:10-12 and after , never identified themselves as Jehovah`s Witnesses (the word Jehovah never even existed then ) and Jesus when on earth never chastised the Jews for not taking up the name Jehovah`s witnesses ( again the name / word Jehovah never existed then )
Jesus himself never uttered the name Jehovah or any equivalent in either Greek,Hebrew or Aramaic
The earliest time the Jehovah`s Witnesses could have arisen is in the thirteenth Century when a Catholic Monk first coined the word/name Jehovah
However this never happened
Not until J.F.Rutherford took over the control of the I.B.S.A. in the 1930`s and renamed it Jehovah`s Witnesses. simply to differentiate his religion from mainstream Christendom .
And as they say the rest is history. or is it .?
JW`s like to keep revising their history over and over again.
Why are they so ashamed of their own early history ? Are they ashamed of what they were teaching in those early publications ?
Are they embarrassed by what they were teaching in those early publications .?