I scanned one of the pages I'm trying to read. I get the drift, but need a good translation which is beyond my ability. I've done this reluctantly because the book is very fragile. If you can translate this page, starting from where we left off in the previous post, please do so.
The author is Dr. Franz Meffert. The title is "Bibelforscher" un Bibelforschung under das Weltende. This was one of the first Anti-Watch Tower tracts/books published in Germany. My intent is to quote parts of this in the last chapter of Separate Identity vol 3.
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Excuse me please, I put my translation in the wrong place - under the wrong text.
Next try, I´m just repeating everything here.
Here we go. With mistakes. Correction welcome.
…, he lacked the scientific ability. So he is carrying with him all the trash of suspicions and he passes it on to others unchecked!
This said, we have made personal acquaintance with the founder of the sect, with
Mr. Charles Taze Russell,
whom his followers, in really magnificent modesty, call „the greatest religious teacher since the apostle Paul“. Born in 1852 in Pittssburgh in the state of Pennsylvania, he becomes a merchant and happens to get into the sect of the Adventists, getting acquainted with their fantasies about the imminent end of the world. Now, without having ever had the slightest contact with scientific-theological research, on his own initiative he starts to present himself as an authority for explaining the bible.
This turns out to be quite profitable, because in America you can make money out of everything under the condition that you are active and industrious. 1872 he marries a devout listener to his bible wisdom, a certain Miss Frances Ackley, but the marriage ends up in a divorce after 17 years, although his wife had been a reliable co-worker as his assistant editor. When the lady claimed for maintenance, the new founder of a religion , as we say here, „settled in legally“ which means he transferred his assets to the society he had founded and of which he was the president, and so he wanted to let the lady go empty-handed, because he was poor and penniless! The court called by the lady didn´t share this opinion, and „The court of civil matters“, as wrote the Brooklyn newspaper, „The Brooklyn Daily Eagle“ of May 6, 1912, „where Mrs Russel had filed a lawsuit against her husband for maintenance, rejected Pastor Russell´s objection that he was poor and penniless. It was ascertained that he had transferred his assets of 317,000 Dollars to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. The purpose of this activity, the court determinded, was to rob Mrs Russell of her dowry, that means of her maintenance.“ (Compare Scheurlin, Sekten der Gegenwart ((Contemporary sects)) S. ((Seite, page)) 24 Anm. ((Anmerkung, comment)) 2) So „the greatest religious teacher since the apostle Paul“ hat to pay! The real reason for the couple´s separation was that the wife, too, had developed the awareness of being a prophet herself, but the main prophet could not bear a prophetess beside him. It seems absolutely ridiculous when „the greatest religious teacher since the apostle Paul“ tries to defend himself (Watchtower 1907) telling that it had been his wife who had first … the works ...
April 8, 2023 at 7:20 AM
German Girl,
Excellent help. Thank you!
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