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Sunday, 21 February 2021

The Herald of the Morning

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The Herald of the Morning (originally entitled The Midnight Cry and Herald of the Morning) started publication at the end of 1873. Shortly...
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Monday, 15 February 2021

The Watch Tower and the Koreshan Unity

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If a search engine has brought you here please check the revised and expanded article posted on this blog in June 2022. The comment trail fr...
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Monday, 1 February 2021

Food for Thinking Christians

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Following the booklet Object and Manner of Our Lord’s Return , CTR’s first major work was the small book Food for Thinking Christians publi...
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The Tabernacle and its Teachings

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After publishing Food for Thinking Christians as a special ZWT supplement in September 1881, CTR followed it shortly thereafter with a larg...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Wherefore art thou Thomas - 1

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The beauty of a wide readership of a blog is that sometimes someone can come up with a suggestion that may solve a mystery. This post (and t...

Wherefore art thou Thomas - 2

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  The previous article attempted to unravel three possible dates for the birth of CTR’s older brother, Thomas. One date was provided by the ...
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Friday, 8 January 2021

A New Book?

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Well, it isn’t really, but a print version of something produced some years ago has now been published. To explain:   I am hoping to use...
Thursday, 7 January 2021

ZWT and the YMCA

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Zion’s Watch Tower soon found a readership outside the obvious Age to Come and Adventist connections. In 1881 it found a regular home in a Y...
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Saturday, 26 December 2020

The Russells' Music Publishing Business

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As well as the haberdashery stores, the Russells (Joseph Lytle and son Charles Taze) were involved in various business ventures, some of the...
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Thursday, 24 December 2020

Debates

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Debates sometimes featured in the early Bible Students’ witnessing efforts. CTR was featured in two famous ones, against E L Eaton in 1903 a...
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Monday, 30 November 2020

Bernhard's book

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 If you recently bought Bernhard's book on Bible House, there is now an extra section of material that will be incorporated into future ...
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Friday, 20 November 2020

Pastor Russell's chair

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Some of us collect books. Some of us collect newspapers, postcards, magazines and ephemera, all in connection with a love of early “truth” h...
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