Freeminds offers education on cult religions like Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower. Jesus, the cross and other Christian doctrines discussed. http://freeminds.org/organization/pre-russell/feed/atom.html 2010-03-21T13:39:51Z Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management 2009-03-25T19:03:22Z 2009-03-25T19:03:22Z http://freeminds.org/organization/pre-russell/russell-not-first-president-of-watchtower.html Randall Watters randy@freeminds.org

<div>from an eBay auction at now delisted:<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The item at auction is a "cover", or "used envelope" from 1903. In the upper left-hand corner (sender's name and address) is the imprint of "Riter-Conley Mfg. Company, Iron and Steel Construction, Pittsburgh, PA."</div>

<div>from an eBay auction at now delisted:<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The item at auction is a "cover", or "used envelope" from 1903. In the upper left-hand corner (sender's name and address) is the imprint of "Riter-Conley Mfg. Company, Iron and Steel Construction, Pittsburgh, PA."</div> 2008-12-26T23:21:27Z 2008-12-26T23:21:27Z http://freeminds.org/organization/pre-russell/who-was-the-first-president-of-the-watchtower.html Barbara Anderson andersonsinfo@hotmail.com

<div>When I was researching for the Proclaimers book, I had GB permission to go anywhere in Bethel to search for Watchtower historical or archival material. During one research expedition, I made an extraordinary find, that of the first accounts book of the Watch Tower Association, established in 1881. I found the book buried in old files which were in file cabinets located in the concrete vault in the middle of the Treasury Dept. at 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.</div>

<div>When I was researching for the Proclaimers book, I had GB permission to go anywhere in Bethel to search for Watchtower historical or archival material. During one research expedition, I made an extraordinary find, that of the first accounts book of the Watch Tower Association, established in 1881. I found the book buried in old files which were in file cabinets located in the concrete vault in the middle of the Treasury Dept. at 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.</div> 2009-04-24T22:18:32Z 2009-04-24T22:18:32Z http://freeminds.org/organization/pre-russell/abner-jones-a-real-jehovah-s-witness.html Randall Watters randy@freeminds.org

<div>Here is a most historical find in "PSALMS OF DAVID;" one of the very rarest bible books from the 1800s. This bible book of Psalms is so rare even in its condition it may be worth thousands. However it is really priceless from the standpoint of its contents as you the reader please take care to note everything below, as here is a book of Psalms in songs that glorifies the true God by using his name Jehovah threw out its entirety. This book was over a decade and a half before the Watchtower Bible And Tract Society was formed by Charles Taze Russell.</div>

<div>Here is a most historical find in "PSALMS OF DAVID;" one of the very rarest bible books from the 1800s. This bible book of Psalms is so rare even in its condition it may be worth thousands. However it is really priceless from the standpoint of its contents as you the reader please take care to note everything below, as here is a book of Psalms in songs that glorifies the true God by using his name Jehovah threw out its entirety. This book was over a decade and a half before the Watchtower Bible And Tract Society was formed by Charles Taze Russell.</div> 2009-04-25T02:02:49Z 2009-04-25T02:02:49Z http://freeminds.org/organization/pre-russell/sect-state-relations-accounting-for-the-differing-trajectories-of-seventh-day-adventists-and-jehovah-s-witnesses.html Ronald Lawson poddy1@gmail.com

<div>Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses share common roots. Adventists grew directly out of the Millerite movement: They were one of several fragments which survived the "great disappointment" of October 22, 1844, the date which Baptist lay preacher and biblical chronologist William Miller had set for the Second Coming of Christ (Judd 1987:33). Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the International Bible Students, later renamed Jehovah's Witnesses, was heavily influenced by members of other Millerite fragments, especially Advent Christians. </div>

<div>Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses share common roots. Adventists grew directly out of the Millerite movement: They were one of several fragments which survived the "great disappointment" of October 22, 1844, the date which Baptist lay preacher and biblical chronologist William Miller had set for the Second Coming of Christ (Judd 1987:33). Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the International Bible Students, later renamed Jehovah's Witnesses, was heavily influenced by members of other Millerite fragments, especially Advent Christians. </div>