This video is longer than most. To view it best, click on the video title and view it on youtube. Here it will cut off part of the video and you will miss a large amount on the right margin.
Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
1953 New York City International Convention
Another outside the era we normally consider here. I'm a little dot in this photo. Were you here too?
Friday, May 3, 2024
District Assembly. Identify?
A photo found on ebay. Judging by the cars, this is early in 1950s. Can you add to this?
Small Regional Convention - Early 1930s
Way past the era we research on this blog, but interesting. A note on the back says: "Jehovah's Witness Convention, Charles Parker Farm, Boy River, Minn[esota]
Charles A. Parker was born about 1885 according to the 1920 Federal Census. He was married to Jennie L. Carlson, daughter of a French Canadian immigrant. In 1920 they had two children, a girl six and a boy 9. That's all I know. The photo is for sale on ebay for a very high amount. It is listed as "Original Undated Jehovahs Witnesses Convention RPPC Photo Postcard."
Friday, April 19, 2024
email problems
If you use my AOL mail and have had your communication returned to you as undeliverable, please leave a comment here. That will help me resolve this problem
In other matters, I've been prescribed a very potent medicine that has left me non-functioning. So all my projects are in 'slow motion.' But I'm still forging ahead as I can.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Uncle Daniel's Bible Class Book
The Edgars, brothers John and Morton, are well-known to collectors of Watch Tower history. They were responsible for the volumes of Great Pyramid Passages, as well as a series of small booklets that were widely circulated. One of them, Where are the Dead (not to be confused with the Watch Tower Society’s official publication of that name) was instrumental in Fred Franz becoming a Bible Student. He later served as a Watch Tower Society president.
One book bearing the Edgars’ names that is
available for internet download is called Uncle
Daniels Bible Class Book, and
dates from 1890.
The book was published by Bone and Hulley,
a company that later handled the pyramid books. A close up of the title page
clearly shows the Edgars as authors.
And yet, this is not actually true.
Research has shown that this book was
originally published back in 1850. Then it was simply called The Bible Class Book. The author and
compiler was Charles Baker. Below is the
title page of the second edition which dates from 1860.
The book covers the whole of the OT with
articles, maps, and notes, using the Ussher chronology.
Charles Baker (1803-1874) was a prolific
author. His Wikipedia entry lists around seventy-five works on a variety of
subjects, including the Bible. Although he wrote on the NT as well, there does
not appear to be a companion volume to The
Bible Class Book, which concentrates on the OT. One of his nephews became
the Archbishop of Canterbury. His main focus in life was producing school
textbooks for the teaching of children who were deaf and dumb.
When he died The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent for May 30, 1874, gave a
brief obituary:
Yet 20 years after the last publication of
Baker’s work, the Edgar brothers claimed it as their own.
How could this happen? Modern
sensibilities might question the ethics of giving no acknowledgement to Baker,
but it was all perfectly legal. The British Copyright Act of 1842 granted
copyright to an author for his lifetime and then for seven years after his
death. As noted above, Baker conveniently died in 1874, so by 1890 his work was
in the public domain and the Edgars – or anyone else for that matter - could do
what they liked with it.
The British 1842 Copyright Act was
eventually replaced by one of 1911, which extended copyright to a more
realistic fifty years after an author’s death.
Since the Edgars weren’t going to give Baker
any credit, they took out his introduction, which he had revised for the second
edition. In its place they inserted a Watch Tower advertisement.
This Watch Tower material only took up one
page whereas Baker’s introduction in both editions took up two, so the Edgar
volume simply has an extra blank page following the Watch Tower advertisement.
One assumes this is so that the remainder of the plates would not need their
pagination adjusted.
We are on firmer ground with the Edgars’
pyramid volumes and the series of small booklets which were original and
reflected the Bible Student theology of that time. But as far as “Uncle
Daniel’s” work, all was not as it appeared. It may still be viewed as
collectable, but perhaps not as much as might be hoped.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
"Photo Sheet"
The following is for sale on ebay as "Photo Sheet WATCHTOWER C T RUSSELL UNIQUE RARE IBSA." I need a good scan of this, but in better condition. Can you help?
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16X0DFkCVHbrmNroaHB7cD56QFQAW1MSzh9S0oBJIR5RvMWIsyVYqpmWB_kLosRXPcbgTaMe3003VBRyWiUqosZSHBgmYjnCEpdRum5NNT3rfwkB4CqawH9pFK9b06rBqYY1-6tStmMt5s5e5GpYCWsZuB4ZO60ku_sIPGrS9UqECN-0_nmcwh9n647E/w400-h288/a%20russell%20funeral.png)
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Speakers at the 1919 Convention
<>A photograph was taken of 46 Bible Students who were speakers at the 1919 Cedar Point Ohio convention. Some were directors of the Society and others were Pilgrims. This picture (below) was used in the Governing Body update number 8 for 2023 to show how many Bible Students were now choosing to be clean shaven. With grateful thanks to Bernhard, here is the photograph, then a key to the personnel in the photograph. Only a very few are unnamed.
You may need to click on the image in some
devices to see the photograph in full.
Key to personnel
01
Salter, Walter Frederick
02
Robinson, Frederick Homer
03
Van Amburgh, William Edwin
04
Rutherford, Joseph Franklin
05
Wise, Charles Augustus
06
Sexton, Ernest David
07
Fisher, George Herbert
08
Woodworth, Clayton James Sr.
09
DeCecca, Giovanni
10
Baker, William Arthur
11
Hersee, William Matson
12
Boyd, (unknown)
13
Bowin, Martin Otto
14
Thorn, Walter John
15
Barker, Thomas E.
16
Robie, Rodney Lyman
17
Herr, Maurice L.
18
Thornton, T. H.
19
Sullivan, Ora Lee
20
Boyd, Benjamin H.
21
(unknown).
22
Graham, Alexander M.
23
Adam, Donald
24
Spring, W. H.
25
(unknown)
26
Rice, Vincent C.
27
Gillespie, John A.
28
Toole, Daniel
29
Pottie, P. D.
30
Barber, Richard Harvey
31
Zink, Louie F.
32
(unknown)
33
(unknown)
34
(unknown)
35
Pickering, W. H.
36
Kendall, George Samuel
37
Howlett, Matthew Arnold
38
Bauerlein, John Adam
39
Morton, H. Sydney
40
Edwardes, James Campbell
41
Coward, Evander Joel
42
(unknwn)
43
Riemer, Hugo Henry
44
Whelpton, Ernest
45
(unknown)
46
Eshleman, Jacob A.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Watchtower Museums.
Just a reminder. Never presume the Society has something, and never think, "Why would they want that?" Always ask, either through your congregation secretary or directly to Watchtower Society, 1 Kings Drive, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
A. D. Jones and the Knickerbocker Bank
I need some help with this. I'm pressed for time, but I need a good, clear image of this banknote. It's signed by Jones, and I want to use it as an illustration on volume three. Likely places are the Smithsonian. They have a huge money collection. The American Numismatic Society might have it. The Library of Congress, perhaps. Any of the New York City and State historical societies. So, can you help?
Some browsers will require you to click the image to see it entire.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Martin of Braga c. 520–580 CE
Your thoughtful comments welcome.
bishop of Saint Martin
to the polemic bishop
on the correction of the peasants
To the most blessed and most desirous of
my brothers in Christ, Bishop Polemius, Bishop Martinus.
[1]
I have received the letter of your
holy charity, in which you write to me that for the chastisement of the
peasants, who are still held back by the ancient superstition of the pagans and
pay more reverence to demons than to God, I should direct to you some of the
origin of idols and their crimes, or a few of the many things written to you. But
since it is necessary from the beginning of the world to extend to them even a
little knowledge of reason, as if for a taste, it was necessary for me to touch
upon the vast forest of past times and their actions in the language of
abbreviated, thin accounts, and to prepare food for the peasants in the
language of the peasants. Thus, then, with the help of God, will be the
beginning of your preaching:
[2]
We desire, dearest children, to
announce to you in the name of the Lord what you have either not heard at all,
or, having heard, perhaps you have forgotten. We therefore ask your
charity to listen more attentively to what is said for your salvation. It
is indeed a long order directed by the divine scriptures, but in order that you
may retain even a little of it in memory, we recommend to you a few of the
several.
[3]
When God had made heaven and earth in
the beginning, in that heavenly abode he made spiritual creatures, that is,
angels, who stood before him and praised him. One of whom, who had become
the first archangel of all, seeing himself shining in such glory, did not give
honor to God his creator, but said he was like him; and for this pride he
was thrown down with the other numerous angels who agreed with him from that
heavenly seat in that air which is under heaven. and he who had previously
been an archangel, having lost the light of his glory, became a dark and
terrible devil. In the same way, those other angels who had agreed with
him were cast out of heaven with him and, having lost their splendor, became
demons. But the rest of the angels who were subject to God continue in the
glory of their brightness in the presence of the Lord; and they themselves
are called holy angels. For those who, with their prince Satan, were cast
down because of their pride, are called fugitive angels and demons.
[4]
After this angelic fall it pleased God
to form man from the clay of the earth, whom he placed in paradise; and he
told him that if he had kept the commandment of the Lord, he would succeed
without death in that heavenly place, whence those fugitive angels had fallen;
but if he had transgressed the commandment of God, he would die death Seeing
therefore that the devil had therefore become man, that he might succeed in the
kingdom of God in his place, from whence he fell, he was led by envy to urge
man to transgress the commandments of God. For this offense man was thrown
from paradise into exile in this world, where he suffered many hardships and
pains.
[5]
Now the first man was called Adam, and
his woman whom God created from his own flesh was called Eve. From these
two men sprang every race of men. Those who, forgetting their creator, the
god, committed many crimes and provoked the god to anger. For this reason
God sent a flood and destroyed them all, except one righteous man, named Noah,
whom he reserved with his sons for the restoration of the human race. From
the first man, Adam, until the flood, two thousand two hundred and forty-two
years passed.
[6]
After the flood, the human race was
again recovered by the three sons of Noah, who were saved with their wives. And
when the growing population began to fill the world, men again forgetting God,
the creator of the world, began to worship the creatures, forsaking the
creator. Some worshiped the sun, others the moon or the stars, others
fire, others deep water or fountains of water, believing that all these things
were not made by God for the use of men, but that they themselves arose from
God.
[7]
Then the devil, or his servants, the
demons, who were cast down from heaven, seeing ignorant men, released by God
their creator, wandering among the creatures, began to show themselves to them
in different forms, and to speak with them, and to expect from them, as on high
mountains and in leafy forests they offered sacrifices to him and worshiped him
as a god, imposing on him the names of wicked men who had spent their lives in
all crimes and crimes, so that another would say that he was Jupiter, who had
been a sorcerer and incestuous in so many adulteries that he married his
sister, who was called Juno , he corrupted his daughters Minerva and Venus, and
disgraced his nieces and all his relatives. But another demon called himself
Mars, who was the author of quarrels and discord. Then another demon chose
to call himself Mercury, who was the cunning inventor of all theft and fraud; to
whom men, eager as if to the god of gain, pass by at the cross-roads, throw
stones and heaps of rocks as a sacrifice. Another demon also ascribed to
himself the name of Saturn, who, living in all cruelty, even devoured his own
children at birth. Another demon also confided herself to be Venus, who
was a harlot. She was not only a prostitute with innumerable adulterers,
but also with her father Jupiter and her brother Mars.
[8]
Behold, what were these lost men like
at that time, whom the ignorant countrymen honored most wretchedly by their
inventions, whose names the devils therefore attributed to themselves, that
they might worship them as if they were gods, and offer sacrifices to them, and
imitate their deeds, whose names they invoked. The demons also persuaded
them to make temples for them and to place there images or statues of wicked
men and to set up altars for them, on which they would pour out for them the
blood not only of animals but also of men. In addition to these, many
demons from among those who have been expelled from heaven preside over the
sea, or rivers, or springs, or forests, whom likewise men, ignorant of God,
worship as if they were gods, and sacrifice to them. And indeed they call
Neptune in the sea, Lamias in the rivers, Nymphs in the fountains, Dianas in
the woods, all of which are evil demons and wicked spirits, who harm and harass
unbelieving men, who do not know how to defend themselves with the sign of the
cross. However, they do not harm without God's permission, because God is
angry with them and do not believe with all their heart in the faith of Christ,
but they are so doubtful that they name the very names of demons every day, and
call the day Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturn, which
have no they made the day, but they were the worst and most wicked men in the
Greek nation.
[9]
But God Almighty, when He made the
heavens and the earth, He then created light, which, through the distinction of
God's works, has been turned seven times. For first God made light, which
was called day; secondly, the firmament of heaven was made; thirdly,
the land is divided by the sea; in the fourth, the sun, the moon, and the
stars were made; on the fifth quadrupeds and birds and birds; the
sixth man was fashioned; and on the seventh day, when he had completed all
his world and his ornaments, the god called rest. The one light,
therefore, which was first made in the works of God, by the distinction of the
works of God, having passed seven times, is called a week. What kind of
madness is it, then, that a man baptized in the faith of Christ, does not
worship the Sunday on which Christ rose, and says that he worships Jupiter, and
Mercury, and Friday, and Saturn, which have no day, but were adulterers, and
magicians, and wicked men, and who died evilly in the province his own! But,
as we have said, under the guise of these names veneration and honor are
offered to demons by foolish men.
[10]
In the same way, this error creeps in
on the ignorant and rustic, so that they think that January is the beginning of
the year, which is absolutely false. For, as the Holy Scripture says, 8 Cal. The
beginning of the first year was made in April at the very equinox. For it
is read thus: And God divided between light and darkness . But
every right division has equality, as in 8 Cal. April has as many hours in
the day as in the night. And therefore it is false that the calendar of
January is the beginning of the year.
[11]
Now, what is to be said about that
most foolish mistake with pain, because they observe the days of moths and
mice, and if it is true that a Christian man worships mice and moths instead of
God? If, by way of protection, a cup or an ark is not brought to them, or
bread or cloth, they will by no means spare what they have found for the
holidays presented to them. But without reason the miserable man himself
makes these prefigurations, so that, as if at the beginning of the year he is
satisfied and happy with everything, so it may happen to him throughout the
whole year. All these observations of the pagans are elaborated by the
inventions of demons. But woe to that man who has not had the mercy of God
and has not been given by him the fullness of bread and the security of life! Behold,
you make these vain superstitions either secretly or openly, and never cease
from these sacrifices to demons. And why do they not guarantee you that
you are always satisfied and secure and happy? Why, when the god is angry,
do not vain sacrifices protect you from locusts, mice, and many other
tribulations, which an angry god sends you?
[12]
Do you not clearly understand that the
demons are lying to you in these observations of yours which you hold in vain,
and in the omens which you attend to, they often play tricks on you? For
as the wisest Solomon says: divination and omens are vain ; and
the more a man fears them, the more his heart is deceived. Do not give
your heart to them, because they have offended many . Behold, the
Holy Scripture says this, and it is most certainly so, because for so long
unhappy men persuade demons with the voices of birds, until they lose the faith
of Christ through frivolous and vain things, and they themselves fall
unexpectedly into the destruction of their own death. God did not command
man to know the future, but that, always living in fear of him, he should seek
from him the guidance and help of his life. It is only for God to know
before anything happens, but men play with vain demons with different
arguments, until they lead them to offend God and drag their souls with them
into hell, as they did from the beginning through their envy, lest man should
enter the kingdom of heaven, from which they were cast out.
[13]
For which reason also, when God saw
the wretched men so deceived by the devil and his evil angels that, forgetting
their creator, they worshiped demons instead of God, he sent his son, that is,
wisdom and his word, to bring them back to the worship of the true God from the
error of the devil . And because the divinity of the Son of God could not
be seen by men, he took human flesh from the womb of the virgin Mary, conceived
not by the marriage of a man, but by the Holy Spirit. Born therefore in
human flesh, the Son of God, an invisible God hidden within, but a visible man
outside, preached to men: he taught them, leaving idols and evil works, to get
out of the power of the devil and to return to the worship of their Creator. After
teaching, he wanted to die for the human race. He suffered death
willingly, not unwillingly; He was crucified by the Jews under the judge
Pilate Pontius, who was born in the province of Pontus and presided over the
province of Syria at that time. He was taken down from the cross and
placed in the tomb. on the third day he rose alive from the dead, and for
forty days he conversed with his twelve disciples, and, in order to show that
his true flesh had risen, he ate after the resurrection in front of his
disciples. After forty days had passed, he commanded his disciples to
announce to all the nations the resurrection of the Son of God, and to baptize
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit for the
remission of sins, and to teach those who had been baptized to depart from evil
works, that is, from idols, from murders. from theft, from perjury, from
fornication, and what they would not do to others they would not do to
themselves. And after he had commanded these things, in the sight of the
disciples himself, he ascended into heaven, and there sits at the right hand of
the Father, and from there he will come at the end of this world with the very
flesh which he took up with him into the heavens.
[14]
But when the end of that world comes,
all the nations and every man who traces his origin from those first men, that
is, from Adam and Eve, will all rise again, both good and evil; and all
will come before the judgment of Christ, and then those who have been faithful
and good in their lives will be separated from the bad and will enter the
kingdom of God with the holy angels, and their souls will be with their flesh
in eternal rest, never to die again, where there will no longer be anyone for
them neither toil nor pain, neither sadness, nor hunger nor thirst, neither
heat nor cold, neither darkness nor night, but always happy, full, in light, in
glory, they will be like the angels of God, because they have already deserved
to enter into that place from where the devil came. He fell with the angels who
agreed with him. All those who have been faithful to God will remain there
for eternity. For those who have been unbelieving, or have not been
baptized, or certainly, if they have been baptized, after their baptism have
returned again to idols and murders or adulteries, or to perjury and other
evils, and have died without repentance, all who are found to be such are
damned with the devil and together with all the demons whom they worshiped and
whose works they did, and are sent into eternal fire with their flesh in hell,
where that unquenchable fire lives forever, and that flesh, now recovered from
the resurrection, is tormented eternally. He longs to die again, that he
may not feel the punishments, but he is not permitted to die, that he may
endure eternal torments. Behold, the law speaks this, the prophets speak
this, the gospel of Christ says this, the apostle says this, all holy scripture
testifies to this; which we have simply told you, or a few of the many. It
is yours from now on, dearest children, to remember what has been said by us,
and either by doing well to hope for a future rest in the kingdom of God, or
(which is far from it!) to wait for a future eternal fire in hell by doing
evil. For both eternal life and eternal death are placed at the discretion
of man. Each one will have what he chose for himself.
[15]
You therefore, the faithful, who in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit have come to
Christ's baptism, consider what kind of covenant you have made with God in
baptism itself. For when each of you gave your name to the fountains, for
example, Peter or John or any other name, you were asked by the priest:
"How are you called?" Either you answered, if you were already
able to answer, or at least he who made faith for you, who received you from
the fountain, and said, for example: "It is called John." And
the priest asked: "John, do you deny the devil and his angels, his cults
and idols, his thefts and frauds, his fornications and drunkenness, and all his
evil works?" And you answered: "Abandonment." After
this renunciation of the devil, you were asked again by the priest: "Do
you believe in God the Father Almighty?" You answered: "I
believe." "And in Jesus Christ, his only son, our God and Lord,
who was born of the Holy Spirit from the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was crucified and buried, descended into hell, rose alive from the dead
on the third day, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father,
from thence shall He come to judge the living and the dead? Do you
believe?" And you answered: "I believe." And you were
asked again: "Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church,
the forgiveness of all sins, the resurrection of the flesh, and eternal
life?" And you answered: "I believe." Behold, then,
consider what kind of covenant you made with God in baptism. You have
promised to renounce the devil and his angels and all his evil works, and you
have confessed that you believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
and that you hope for the resurrection of the flesh and eternal life at the end
of the world.
[16]
Behold, what kind of warning and
confession is held by God! And how come some of you, who renounced the
devil and his angels and his cultures and his evil works, just return to the
devil's cultures again? For to set fire to rocks and to trees and to
fountains and by paths, what is else but the culture of the devil? To
observe divinations and auguries and the days of idols, what else is it but the
culture of the devil? To observe the Vulcans and the Kalends, to decorate
the tables, and lay the laurels, and to observe the feet, and to pour grain and
wine in the hearth upon the trunk, and to cast bread into the spring, what else
but the culture of the devil? For women to name Minerva in their cloths,
and to observe Friday as the day of marriage, and to attend to the day on which
she goes out on the road, is this anything else but the culture of the devil? Enchanting
herbs to do evil and invoking the names of demons by incantation, what else is
the culture of the devil? And many other things that take a long time to
say. Behold, you do all these things after renouncing the devil, after
baptism, and, returning to the culture of demons and the evil works of idols,
you have crossed your faith and broken the covenant you made with God. You
have given up the sign of the cross, which you received in baptism, and other
signs of the devil, by birds and sneezes, and by many other things attended to
you. Why does the augury not harm me or any righteous Christian? For
where the sign of the cross has preceded, there is no sign of the devil. Why
does it hurt you? Because you despise the sign of the cross, and fear that
which you set as a sign for yourselves. Similarly, you let go of the holy
incantation, that is the symbol that you received in baptism, which is I
believe in God the Father Almighty , and the Sunday prayer, that is our
Father who art in heaven , and you hold diabolical incantations and
songs. Whoever, therefore, despising the sign of the cross of Christ,
looks at other signs, has lost the sign of the cross which he received in
baptism. Similarly, he who holds other charms found by magicians and
evildoers, has lost the charm of the holy symbol and of the Lord's prayer,
which he received in faith in Christ, and has inculcated faith in Christ,
because God and the devil cannot be worshiped at the same time.
[17]
If, therefore, my beloved children,
you have recognized all these things that we have said, if anyone realizes that
after receiving baptism he has done these things and broken the faith of
Christ, he will not despair of himself, nor say in his heart: "Because I
have done so many evils after baptism, perhaps God will not forgive my sins
my." Do not doubt the mercy of God. Only make a covenant with
God in your heart, that you will no longer worship the cults of demons, nor
worship anything other than the God of heaven, nor commit murder, nor commit
adultery or fornication, nor commit theft, nor destroy. And when you have
promised God this with all your heart, and you will not commit these sins any
more, trust in God's forgiveness, because thus says God through the prophetic
scripture: On whatever day the unjust has forgotten his iniquities and
done justice, and I will forget all his iniquities . God
therefore waits for the repentance of the sinner. But this repentance is
true, so that a man no longer does the evils he has done, but asks for
forgiveness for past sins, and for the future he is careful not to return to
them again, but rather, on the contrary, performs good works, so as to give
alms to the hungry poor, to refresh the weary guest. and whatever he wishes to
be done to him by another, he must do to another, and what he does not wish to
be done to him, he must not do to another, because in this word the
commandments of God are fulfilled.
[18]
We beseech you therefore, dearest
brothers and children, that these precepts, which God deigns to give you
through us humble and little ones, keep in memory and think how you can save
your souls, so that you do not only deal with this present life and the
transitory benefits of this world, but remember that which in the symbol you
promised to believe, that is, the resurrection of the flesh and eternal life. If,
therefore, you have believed and continue to believe that there will be a
resurrection of the flesh and eternal life in the kingdom of heaven among the
angels of God, as we have already told you above, then think as much as you can
about this, and not always about the miseries of this world. Prepare your
way in good works. Frequent to pray to God in the church or through the
holy places. Do not despise Sunday, which is therefore called Sunday,
because the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, rose from the dead in him, but
worship it with reverence. Do not do servile work, that is, field, meadow,
vineyard, or any other heavy work, on Sunday, except so much as it pertains to
the necessity of restoring the body for cooling food and the necessity of a
long journey. And in nearby places it is permissible to make a way on
Sunday, not for bad occasions, but rather for good ones, that is, either to
walk to holy places, or to visit a brother or friend, or to console the sick,
or to bring advice or help to someone in trouble for a good cause. In this
way, then, it is proper for a Christian man to honor Sunday. For it is
quite unjust and disgraceful that those who are pagans and do not know the
Christian faith, worshiping the idols of demons, worship the day of Jupiter or
any other demon and abstain from work, when certainly no day was created or
possessed by demons. And we, who worship the true God and believe that the
Son of God rose from the dead, the day of his resurrection, that is Sunday, we
have not come at all! Do not, therefore, do wrong to the resurrection of
the Lord, but honor it and worship it with reverence because of our hope which
we have in it. For just as our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is
our head, rose from the dead on the third day, so we, who are his members, hope
to rise again in our flesh at the end of the age, so that each one may either
have eternal rest or eternal punishment. as he did in his body in this world,
so let him receive.
[19]
Behold, we, under the testimony of God
and the holy angels who hear us, just speaking, we discharge our debt to your
charity, and we have lent you the Lord's money, as we have commanded. It
is your duty to think carefully and take care how each one will represent what
he has received to the coming lord with interest on the day of judgment. And
we pray for the mercy of the Lord himself, that he may keep you from all evil,
and make you worthy companions of his holy angels in his kingdom, by the
excellency of him who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Herald of the Morning, April 1881
Barbour's comment on A. D. Jones. This is totally puzzling; do we at all know where Barbour got this idea? AND do we have a better image of this page?
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Jones and Littell
A. D. Jones stores started as Jones and Littell. Who is the Littell of this partnership?
No issue remains. See below:
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Criss G.
Way back in the day, 2008 I think, you sent me a copy of a past-in that A.D. Jones stuck inside the copies of Millennial Dawn he sold through the Day Star. Will you please resend it.
Bruce
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Check in
Many of our old-time readers have disappeared from the scene. I know some have died. But leave a comment below if you're alive and well.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Albert and Carrie Jones
New Jersey birth records tell us that the Jones had a still born daughter. Date of birth is June 5, 1884. Do we know more?
Their divorce record tells us they had three living children in 1889. I only know the name of one, Ella L. Can we find the names of the other two?
Carrie's full name, according to New York records is: Caroline Maria Bown
Friday, February 9, 2024
Translation Help, Please
For another project. I cannot read this handwriting. Can you translate it to English. Your help is appreciated.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
A Photodrama Advert
This would be a modern News Service / Public Relations dream. A full page from The Waco Tribune for May 27, 1914.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Pasadena Photo Drama
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Joseph up a Ladder
It is always nice
to see snapshots of well known people, not posing but caught in some action. This
little article is about a casual snapshot of Joseph F Rutherford (Judge
Rutherford) perched on top of a ladder. It was taken at the 1924 Columbus,
Ohio, convention.
The quality is not
very good, but below is the complete picture as found in a photo album
belonging to someone who was there.
The photographer had written in the book:
The book belonged
to Lillian C. M. Engelhardt. Her name is written on the cover.
Another photo in the book shows Lillian behind a nice “IBSA” and “Millions” display on the back of a car.
A further photo in
the book shows Lillian with a young man, and the picture caption reads “Us.”
However, on the reverse of the photo are two names – H. W. Carpenter and Lillian’s.
How could Lillian
and H.W. be “Us?” A check on Ancestry shows they were both single at that 1924
convention. Nevertheless, they viewed themselves as an “item” and were subsequently
married on November 6, 1926. Their marriage certificate shows they were married
by a minister of the International Bible Students Association.
Herbert M
Carpenter (1896-1977) and Lillian Caroline M Engelhardt (1902-1999) were to
have one daughter, Rose Joy Carpenter, born in 1929. Trade directories show
them having a clothes cleaning (laundry) business in Houston, Texas. They have
an entry on the Find a Grave site.
Their subsequent
history is unknown. It may be that, although Joy later married, the direct family
line died out. This could explain how, sadly, their photographic record ended
up with strangers on eBay.
But it does provide us with a nice little candid shot of JFR on top of a ladder!