Watch Tower History: My copy is defective ...

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

My copy of the United States v. Rutherford et. al. transcript is defective. Can you fill in the missing words?

jerome said...: "I was then interested in the second coming of Christ. As near as I can remember..."

The title of the book he was reading appears to have been deliberately omitted from the transcript.; June 4, 2019 at 9:11 PM
Gary said...: This book title cannot have been considered of any consequence and presumably for this reason was omitted from the transcript. Thankfully the name of The Finished Mystery book wasn't and couldn't be omitted from the trial! As Abram's later noted in Preachers Present Arms (p.183):

"The trial had been played up in the papers everywhere and the verdict met with general approval. In printing and circulating the ... condemned excerpt from the forbidden book, the press did the very thing the Russellites had been sentenced to twenty years for doing, and gave it more publicity than the followers of Russell could possibly have given it."

In this way, the US government, judiciary and press achieved a wonderful thing beyond the caacity of the Bible Students themselves at this time.

Gary; June 5, 2019 at 2:51 PM

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