J. Y. MacAulay was first listed as a Pilgrim in the 1928 Yearbook.
ow to find info on who was a Bethelite
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I have a complete listing of who was at Bethel in April 1930, courtesy of the US Census. Herbert W. Armstrong is not on the list.
If he was in according to this sister, it would have been in the late 1920s.
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There is an interesting comment under Andrew N. Duggar. It says that he wrote in conjunction with Jehovah's Witness C.O. Dodd "A True History of a True Religion" and "was later known to be deliberately falsified." Has anyone ever heard of C.O. Dodd?
Judge Rutherford's has been credited with founding the "Sacred Name" groups, because of his insistence of the importancve of making God's name Jehovah known. Eventually others began to investigate this issue. In the mid 1920s, Watchtower Pilgrim C.H. Zook formed "Servants of Yah" claiming Yah was the true name and that Jehovah was actually the name of Satan.
C.O. Dodd was a founding member of the Assembly of Yahweh and first editor of The Faith Magazine. This group still exist.
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Herbert W. Armstrong's autobiography is often available on eBay. In every version of HWA's life story I have read, he stresses that he was NOT one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
And he would be right, because if he had been kicked out by the Judge in the late 1920s, he wold have been a Bible Student, noty a JW.
BTW ... Armstrong also strongly denied ever being a member of the Adventist, yet research came up with a membership in the Church of God, Seventh Day. The Church that eventually gave birth to the Branch Davidians.
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J. Y. MacAulay was first listed as a Pilgrim in the 1928 Yearbook.
Yes, and he then left the Society and became a pilgrim for the DAWN Bible Students Association.
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In the mid 1920s, Watchtower Pilgrim C.H. Zook formed "Servants of Yah" claiming Yah was the true name and that Jehovah was actually the name of Satan.
Interesting. There is an A. B. Zook (also first listed in the 1928 Yearbook) who was a Pilgrim. I assume they were related?
As an aside, it seems that the original ZWT's always capitalized "Pilgrim," whereas the reprints almost always render it "pilgrims." (Also, for example, "Colporteur" vs. "colporteur"). I don't have direct access to the original ZWT's, so, RR, perhaps you can confirm this? If so, it would be an example of the "dehumanization" process that happened under Rutherford's regime, and perhaps partly explains why it took so long for the reprints to be type-set (I can imagine Rutherford standing behind the linotypers, saying "No!!! Spell it this way").
Also, as an historical perspective, this all plays into the turmoil that was happening in the WTS from 1925 thru the 30s, which, of course, the Proclaimers book (read "sanitized history as we would like you to remember it" book) glosses over.
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