Watch Tower History

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by Jerome (Photographs supplied by AW, BK, CG and DB with thanks) The Pyramids of Egypt were all looted in antiquity, and no do...

Even a 'thank you' matters.

We promised in volume 1 to report on an examination of 2nd Presbyterian Church records. They're on microfilm held by the LDS genealogy l...

C. B. Downing was the first Watch Tower missionary in China. She began reading Zion's Watch Tower in 1882. She was originally a Presbyte...

Now if just half of these visitors had left a comment, we'd have a more vital community. [Click on map to view entire.]

Just so you know, and assuming you can read English, google identified you as spammers over a year ago, and none of your posts show up. Keep...

by Jerome The United Cemeteries burial plot where CTR is interred has featured on this blog on several occasions in the past. Back in 20...

Russell was non-Trinitarian as were many Adventists and Millenarians in his era. The Proclaimers book mentions Emlyn's intensely intere...

Literalists and Adventists disagreed about the fate of natural Israel. This is a Literalist tract related to that debate. Russell adopted th...

This tract was published anonymously, but it is known to have been written by William Kelly. Twenty thousand copies were printed in 1866. We...

Please read the article Human Teachers appearing in the June 1882 issue of Zion's Watch Tower. I will appreciate any observations no ma...

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Bruce mentioned Aaron Kinne in his essay. This is from our research collection:

As with the Literalist mentioned and shown in my previous post, The Christian Observer is mentioned on Separate Identity volume 1 and will ...

We refer to this periodical in Separate Identity v. 1 and again in volume 2. Few if any of you will have seen one. Published in Philadelphia...

that there would be more comments on our blog articles and photos.

Jerome, whom I tend to listen to even when I don't want to, says I was too hasty in removing an earlier post. So here it is again with s...

I'm very busy. I don't anticipate posting anything for a week or so, maybe longer. No-one really comments here anyway. This blog exi...

Since there is some interest in Watch Tower relevant material, I'm posting another ebay item. This is not by a Watch Tower, Adventist or...

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Please read this carefully and comment . Re-read the portions you've already read. There are some changes. Look for logic flaws and mis...

I don't know if we're interesting anyone in these. I'm not trying to sell stuff for people I do not know, but here is another bo...

"Two Pastors Who Appreciated Russell’s Writings" - w2002 4/15 pages 28, 29 Daniele Rivoire [the picture in w2002 is wrong] ...

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Some of you have read his Apostles of Denial, in our opinion a really disreputable book. But I'm more interested in  your observations t...

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            Stroup [Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1945, page 8] wrote: “Even some of Russell’s own followers came to consider him as ‘this boldl...

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Rufus Wendell was Jonas Wendell's nephew and a long-time associate of George Storrs. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1886-The-HOLY-BIBLE-Rufus...

Some of you may be interested, though the price is very high http://www.ebay.com/itm/Second-Adventists-Terrys-Island-1873-ASCENSION-END-of...

            I don’t feel well, and I belong in bed, but I’m writing this anyway. We sometimes get research questions in the comment tra...

This in very rough draft is an extract of Bruce's preface to volume 2 of Separate Identity. It is here for comment. We need your input. ...

Opposition voices are part of Watch Tower history. We need scans of tracts and articles written by those opposing the Watch Tower. We'r...

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            We’ve revised our outline, dividing a chapter finished in rough draft in two and enlarging the new chapter. This is diffic...

by Jerome (Republished and updated from Blog 2) The Bible Students embraced the new medium of motion pictures to spread their mess...

by Franco The first issue of the French Watch Tower was printed in October 1903 and was identical to the first issue in Italian. It w...