Well Ona, I think if you are publishing a magazine which thousands subscribe to, and your running a publishing organization, and you are allowing to be published , in your magazine, letters from readers which letters claim you are the emissary of God....You are living dangerously.
I dont doubt that Russell would have, did, fall into the adulation / ego trap just like all the rest. Lets face it, what kind of a person would write an interpretation of scriptural prophecy and
believe that he had discovered the TRUE meaning of
Prophecy. ?? Truly, only a man who was full of his own greatness could believe such a thing. Im sure Russell is burning in whatever hell there is, along with Jim Jones. Mao. and Rutherford.