Joseph Franklin Rutherford. President, 1917-1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford (November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942) was raised by a Baptist farm family in Missouri. He was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
... continued from blog of 12-15 And so it begins It was in 1881, as we chronicled earlier,that he becameco-founder, with Mr. Conley, of the Watch Tower Tract Society. Many “tracts” followed. His first serious publication was called...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Charles Taze Russell. President, 1884-1916 Charles Taze Russell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1852. His parents were devout Presbyterians. Dad owned several men’s furnishing stores in Pittsburgh, where the family moved early in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
William Henry Conley. President, 1881-1884 Strangely enough, the first elected President of the organization that would become the Jehovah’s Witnesses, was not exclusively a “Witness” at all. William Henry Conley was a resident...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There were giants in the land in the 19th century. Good guys and bad guys. Among the former we could include Moody and Sankey, Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor, Fanny Crosby, David Livingstone. Aimee Semple McPherson began in those days too. The entire...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
(continued from Monday)...No, the falseness remains. Even if we had been able to chase them out of Albany Park, they’d have shown up somewhere else. This book is not for them. They are not going to listen, except by a work of the Holy...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Witnesses?” Are you kidding me? From Orwell’s 1984, this apt quote: “Whatever the Party holds to be truth, IS truth…2 + 2 = 5 if the Party says so.” The Party. Speaking of Communism. How appropriate is a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
