Alan Rogerson in his book (as well as some other books) gives the 1925 Memorial attendance as 90,434, and 1926 as 89,278. However, the 1928 Memorial attendance was only a little over 19,000. With so many of the Anointed now gone, Joseph Rutherford soon turned the message away from the heavenly calling to the earthly Read more…
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Today the Bible Student Movement is united worldwide and even growing in some countries. However, before this re-unification, many schisms occurred after Brother Russell died in 1916. Go to any bookstore or library and look up “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and you will find nine times out of ten the statement; “Jehovah’s Witnesses, a sect founded by Read more… The first ten requests can receive one free copy each of this booklet: C.T. Russell Not Founder of JWs You can order your request by emailing me at BibleStudents1@Gmail.com with your name and mailing address. This information will be kept confidential, but you can request to be included on our event announcement emailing list. Read more… THE RECORDING IS NOW AVAILABLE. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: JMezera_intvw_byRawe On Saturday October 15, Ex-JW and former Circuit Overseer Richard Rawe interviewed Jeff Mezera, an early Watchtower and Adventist Historian. Jeff will talk about his history of studying with the Jehovah’s Witnesses and why he instead decided to become one of the Bible Students. The Read more… The death of Pastor Charles Taze Russell, October 31, 1916, marked a dramatic change in the course of the Bible Student movement.
PASTOR RUSSELL’S MINISTRY During Pastor Russell’s lifetime, he founded the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and other business entities to further the work of proclaiming “Present Truth” to the Read more… This book is a historic reprint of the original scenario book issued for distribution at the Photo Drama showings that toured the US and Canada in 1914. The original book was printed in magenta ink with half tone pictures. It was originally published in both hardcover and paperback. This paperback reprint is a careful reproduction Read more… The recording of this fascinating program is now available when clicking here: Since first going online in 1996, Eric Patterson’s Pastor Russell websites have been seen by nearly 20 million people from literally every state, country and territory on earth. In January 2006 Pastor-Russell.com temporarily entered the top 60,000 websites worldwide. Eric Patterson has been Read more… Coming up in March and April of 2011 are various interviews with Bible Students on the Six Screens of the Watchtower Teleconference Network. Additionally, Bible Students have been offered a once a month spot on Sundays, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST, beginning on March 13, then continuing April 10 and May 8 and Read more… Who are the Bible Students? Where do they come from? These are questions frequently asked by those who seek to identify this movement and its origins. This special issue of The Herald is an expansion of an earlier edition and is meant to answer these queries. Seeking to place the Bible Student movement in a Read more… For Years it has been said that Bible Students are guilty of creature worship. That this “creature worship” led to the largest schism in Watchtower history, and separated the “Faith Slave Class” from the “Evil Slave Class”. What is the creature they are charged with worshipping? None other then Charles Taze Russell, organizer of the Read more… HISTORY OF EARLY WATCHTOWER You can view the Webcast (video and audio) by clicking below: http://biblestudents.na5.acrobat.com/p52379978/ The audio only of this webcast is available by clicking here: 2010-12-03 – Discussion re- JWs Faith In Action DVD The New Jehovah’s Witness Movie, “Faith in Action” covers the history of the early Watchtower, focusing on the life Read more… From 1964 recording, hear Bethelite and Colporteur recount their experiences in the Early Watchtower
During the time of C.T. Russell, in the days of the early Watchtower, Norman Woodworth and Russell Pollock were colporteurs going door to door full time offering subscriptions from the Watchtower and selling the Studies in the Scriptures books. Norman later went to work at the Bethel and C. T. Russell assigned Read more… This passage is taken from page 274 of the book, “Pastor C.T. Russell: Messenger of Millennial Hope” which you can find by clicking this link. Already in 1907, Pastor Russell had executed his Last Will and Testament, which was amended slightly the following year and once more in 1910. Even earlier he had donated his Read more… Pastor Russell explains the history that led up to the starting of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (R5909 : page 170) HARVEST GATHERINGS AND SIFTINGS MANY are the inquiries relative to the truths presented in the STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES and THE WATCH TOWER, as to whence they came and how they developed Read more… |
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