Watch Tower History

Jim S. in the comment trail asked for the source:

A recent article on this blog discussed the Russells’ (father and son) business venture as music publishers in 1872. This was known in ...

            Accordingly, evangelization of the majority of mankind was reserved for the Millennial Age. In what he called “the gospel a...

The March 1882 Watch Tower quotes at some length from The New York Herald. We need the exact issue by date. Anyone? Never mind, I found it...

I've updated this. Just so you know. Listener: It seems to me that there is a lot of discussion about what Russel was teaching b...

Restrain you excitement, I haven't improved much and I'm not back on a regular basis. I'm posting this for Bruce who is travelin...

Bruce and Rachael: thank you for all the time you have so far dedicated to this immense work, taking it from your life and your loved ones. ...

All we know so far is that he was born in Ontario, Canada, in January 1846. Can you help build his biography? Rachael sent me this: ...

Separate Identity volume 1 contains a full page facsimile of the cover of this sheet music, which is of interest to us because it was pu...

Joseph Lytle Russell stated in his application for naturalization in 1848 that he had been in America for at least five years. It now appea...

I've had several queries about this essay. This is the introductory essay in current form but in rough draft. For the usual reasons this...

Food for Thinking Christians was issued in more than one edition. The original was a special issue of ZWT for September 1881. Below is th...

The last name is also spelled McCormack. All we have are his initials. We know he moved to Chicago [with his wife] in 1882. We need full nam...

Tabernacle Teachings was an early work of CTR first published as a special supplement to ZWT for February 1882. It was later expanded int...

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