Many dubs and even ex-dubs consider Charles Dazed Russell to have been a sincere, tolerant and kindly man.
He wasn't.
Note what Justice Orlady of the Superior Court in Russell v. Russell, dated October 19, 1908 stated in Chuck and Maria's divorce proceeding:
"After a careful review of the 150 pages of testimony in this case, we are satisfied that the verdict was fully warranted,and was rightly sustained by refusing the defendant's motion..."
(Chuck had previously attempted to dispute Maria's charges of cruel and domineering behavior towards her.)
"His course of conduct towards his wife evidenced such insistent egotism and extravagant self-praise that it would be manifest to the jury that his conduct towards her was one of continual arrogant domination, that would necessarily reder the life of any sensitive Christian woman a burden and make her condition intolerable. The indignities offered to her in treating her as a menial in the presence of servants, intimating that she was of unsound mind, and that she was under the influence of designing and wicked persons fully warranted her withdrawal from his house, and justified her fear that he intended to further humiliate her by a threat to resort to legal proceedings to test her sanity. There is not a syllable in the testimony to justify his repeated aspersions on her character or her mental condition, nor does he intimate in any way that there was any cause for difference between them, other than that she did not agree with him in his views of life and methods of conducting their business. He says himself that she is a woman of high intellectual qualities and of perfect moral character. While he denied, in a general way, that he attempted to belittle his wife as she claimed, the general effect of his testimony is a strong confirmation of her allegations." - Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports, vol. 37 Russell v. Russell, 350, 352
So much for the much vaunted "humility" the WTS said he displayed. He even used "Jehovah's" own Watch Tower magazine to plead his version of the story.
Chuck never consummated his marriage with Maria. Maria stated he told her AFTER they were married that their marriage would not be consummated. Chuck denied this. He refused to pay his Court-awarded alimony of forty dollars a month, forcing her to rent rooms to survive. Romans 13:1, Chuckie boy: Romans 13:1. When the Court finally ordered him to pay her $9,000, he got his followers to pay the tab, even though he had a considerable fortune in his little Watch Tower Empire.
Da Judge Rutherford separated from his own wife Mary decades before his death, and never had anything to do with their son, Malcolm. Neither Mary nor Malcom attended his funeral, either. That speaks volumes about what they thought of him. Some example of a Christian husband, huh?
Nathan Horror Knorr never consummated his marriage with Audrey. She quickly married after he died from braindeadness. I wonder why.
From among all the people in the world, these were Jehovah's hand-picked leaders to set the moral examples and define all the doctrines for His one, and only "true religion(tm)."
Farkel