Watch Tower History

I need a volunteer to transcribe an article written by Parish B. Ladd against The Plan of the Ages. Ladd was a 'free thinker', that ...

We need a clear scan or photo of the sample packed mentioned in an 1886 Watch Tower: To this end, as an aid to such laborers we have p...

I didn't ask his permission before posting this, so for now I'm leaving his name off this post. But herewith are his comments: By...

But I agree with this professor's approach to nonsense ...

From Andrew G. Bruce:   The book is not too long. It is the stories that matter. Don’t condense it. My own congregation histo...

I can published volume 2 as a single book, or as a part A and Part B both as aprox. 300 page books. Total cost will be about the same. But ...

As someone who has been proof reading Separate Identity volume 2 for Bruce I have been invited to make some personal comments. At the tim...

Some comments from advance readers of volume 2 have been heartening. That's always pleasing. One reader thinks the book is too detailed ...

Students of the Bible have poured their lives and thoughts into understanding the Bible's prophetic message for centuries.

For a more up-to-date captioned photograph see more recent post on February 10, 2020 You may need to click the image to see it entire...

In response to the previous post, here are the two photographs of the Bible Students on the Mount of Olives, taken in 1910. The first com...

There are two photos of the bible students in front of Jerusalem one from the watchtower Sept 1, 1910, and one more. The difference is t...

Sent in by a blog reader who noted the address in the last letter.

We've asked before for anti-Russell booklets published in his lifetime. We have some, we need more. There are many in the UK but we have...

If you would, please. I cannot read this handwriting. You may have to click on image to see entire.

I need a good biography for G. Leferry aka Le Ferry, once a Baptist clergyman, but a convention speaker in the early 1900s. I don't have...

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/a/r/k/harkvang.htm

I can't read this handwriting, and I can't translate this. Can you?

His Die Ernte-Sichel: "Was der Mensch säet, das wird er ernten" is in the University of Basil library. I do not have access from ...

Outside of the era we're now considering, but interesting.

Von Zech published the German language version of Zion’s Watch Tower until about 1891, replacing it with Die Ernte-Sichel: Monatliche...

Or I will disallow your comments.

A temporary post. Usual rules. Never rely on a temp. post. They may change in final version. Do not circulate off the blog; this creates cop...