This is a story of how an apparent account of
Charles Taze Russell speaking at an Age to Come conference in 1895 raised
questions on the reliability of sources, even those that on face value seemed irrefutable.
Questions were raised back in 2011 but the queries were not solved until 2015,
and then only by accident. It’s a lesson on the need to always check historical
“sources” carefully, and take the checking as far as you can if something
doesn’t seem right.
Three articles follow – the first two from 2011 and then
one from 2015. Ideally they should have just been rewritten into one composite
whole, but that would have been a lot of work for what might be deemed a
peripheral issue. So all three articles are simply reproduced here in date
order, and there will be an overlap of material in them. Those interested, but
without the stamina to read the lot, should probably go straight to article
number 3 which is also illustrated.
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