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Charles Taze Russell was born to Scotch-Irish parents, [8] immigrant Joseph Lytle/Lytel / ˈ l ɪ t əl / Russell and Ann Eliza Birney, on February 16, 1852, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Russell was the second of five children, of whom two survived into adulthood. His mother died when he was nine years old. [9]
William Henry Conley, a Pittsburgh industrialist and philanthropist, served as president, with Charles Taze Russell serving as secretary-treasurer. [14] The society's primary journal was Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence , first published in 1879 by Russell, [ 15 ] founder of the Bible Student movement . [ 16 ]
Macmillan provides a first-person account of the early history of Jehovah's Witnesses from his meeting of Charles Taze Russell in 1900 to the time of the writing of the book (1957). He served with three of the Presidents of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society : Russell, Rutherford , and Knorr (who wrote the book's introduction).
In 1905 Paul S. L. Johnson, one of Russell's pilgrims and a former Lutheran minister, pointed out to Russell that his doctrines on the New Covenant had undergone a complete reversal: until 1880 he had taught that the New Covenant would be inaugurated only after the last of the 144,000 anointed Christians had been taken to heaven, [1] but from 1881 he had written that it was already in force.
[4] [5] He developed an interest in the doctrines of Watch Tower Society president Charles Taze Russell, which led to his joining the Bible Student movement, and he was baptized in 1906. He was appointed the legal counsel for the Watch Tower Society in 1907, as well as a traveling representative prior to his election as president in 1917.
The writings of Henry Grew influenced George Storrs, and later, Charles Taze Russell.Henry Grew and George Storrs are both mentioned as noteworthy Bible students in the October 15, 2000 issue of The Watchtower magazine, published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Photo-Drama of Creation, or Creation-Drama, is a four-part audiovisual presentation (eight hours in total) produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania under the direction of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement. The presentation presents their beliefs about God's plan from the creation of ...
Oh, the Blessedness! in 1966 [9] addresses the two dates in Charles Taze Russell's prediction – the "beginning of the Master’s second presence" in 1874, and the "times of the Gentiles" end in 1914, recognising as did Russell himself in 1907 [10] and 1916 [11] that the predicted "foretold harvest" of saints did not end in 1914 and still is ...