From: Light on Mormonism, October-December 1929

 The editor published part of a very long letter from a former Mormon bishop who was "caught" between Mormonism and the Bible Students, attracted to both but part of neither. 

A "COME - BACK" OF RUSSELLISM 

Our article on this active and dangerous sect in LIGHT for December was entirely kindly and Christly, though as plain as need be; just as a surgeon must sometimes be very plain with his knife. But the response of the ex- Mormon bishop in Ogden, Utah, is disappointing. He writes a long letter, in a spirit which we do not like to see in anybody, and which is never justifiable; especially toward one who has been always kind and acted only in good conscience in this matter. We can best show needed facts by quoting a little from the letter. But please remember in reading it that its writer is a combined product of both Mormonism and Russellism, and that both systems are about equally evident in his letter. We hardly need say that from beginning to end there is hardly an assertion that is even based on fact, while most seem only ventings of enmity against the Christian church and its Bible truth, which often characterizes the work of Russellism everywhere.

  

The Bible Students, as you are pleased to call them, are preaching the message of the Kingdom of Heaven which is at hand, and which means the complete deliverance of the race from bondage of sin and death, Priests and Preachers, Hell-fire screachers and blasphemous defamers of God's name in general.

On the other hand, the antitypes of those mentioned above including yourself are preaching that God made man and with a foreknowledge that he would fall, then placed in him a soul that cannot die and prepared a torture chamber called hell in which to forever wreak out upon them the wrath of a God whom the Bible says is love. And remember, Rev., not over 3 percent of the earth's people ever heard of the only name whereby man can be saved.