*** w87 5/1 p. 25 Looking Back Over 93 Years of Living ***I was delighted with what I was learning and soon decided that the time had come for me to sever my connection with the Presbyterian Church.
So later, when Albert again was visiting us, we went to one of Dr. Watson’s Sunday night lectures. Afterward, Albert and I walked down to where he was shaking hands with the departing parishioners. I said to him: “Dr. Watson, I’m leaving the church.”
He said: “I knew it! I knew it! Just as soon as I saw you reading that Russell stuff. That man, Russell, I wouldn’t allow him to step inside my door!” He then added: “Fred, don’t you think we had better step up to my vestry and have prayer together?” I told him: “No, Dr. Watson, I’ve made up my mind.”
With that, Albert and I walked out of the church. What a glorious feeling it was to be free from bondage to a religious system that was teaching falsehoods! How good it was to be taken into the congregation of the International Bible Students, who were so loyal to God’s Word! On April 5, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois, I symbolized my consecration—as we used to call dedication—by water baptism.
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Could it be he considered his consecration on November 30, 1913 but not sealed by water baptism on April 5, 1914. The anointed back then considered their dedication the true act with God and baptism an outward symbol for humans.
It seems by this account that Franz left his church and was baptized by the Bible Students.