Having read up on Rutherford, but certainly not all that is out there by any means,[ so if it has been discussed point me in the right direction] one thought keeps coming to mind. When he brought himself to the 'top of the ladder' as Ray Franz brought out he had a Chronological nightmare, 'he was faced with two choices: rectifying by
frank admission of error, or trying to justify the predictions of his
Predecessor. He chose the course of justification'.[or in plain English BS his way out]
My question is having the legal knowledge, seeing how and where the war was going, having the ability to write and stir people up, could he have purposely set out to put himself [and others?]in jail "a martyr for the cause" so to speak. He may have had to include a few close confidants, but knowing how he liked to keep everyone as mushrooms, properly not.
Also I once read where someone said that Rutherford said he spoke in Jehovah's name, at a public talk at Madison Square Park, and the talk was written up in a watchtower, if true, could someone pleas provide me the reference.
I'll leave with this thought, probably been used before but I haven't spotted it . We all know he was an alcoholic. So I thought these words had a humorous ring to them:
Three days later, on Friday, September 5, which was called Co-Laborers' Day, Brother Rutherford further stated: "In sober moments a Christian naturally asks himself, Why am I on the earth? And the answer of necessity must be, The Lord has graciously made me his ambassador to bear the divine message of reconciliation to the world, and my privilege and duty is to announce that message."proclaimers ch7 p77
Says two things to me 1: He would never have known why he was on earth.
2: If one needed to have 'sober moments' for 'The Lord' to do what is described there, then by his own admissions he was never chosen. FF