dropoffyourkeylee

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  C.T. Russell (the Faithful and Wise Servant) was identified by God as being 'the man in linen, the man with the writer's inkhorn' through an unsuspecting -- get this -- Sign Painter!

  by ScenicViewer in

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  i was just now looking up one of the old references to c.t.

  russell being the faithful and discreet slave, of mt.

  24:45, in the finished mystery.

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  LOL, The Finished Mystery must have been really stupid. And to think that is the book which got Rutherford and associates put in jail.
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  Please track baptisms with attendance numbers at 2017 Regional Conventions here. (U.S. locations) Thx

  by Gayle in

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  i always like to hear baptism with attendance numbers at rcs.

  observe if the bigger amount baptized are jw children?.

  convention.

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  These figures are an interesting metric which I find interesting. The last few years, the ratio of baptisms to attendees has been running 0.3% to 0.6%, and the numbers so far are in that range as well.

  Please keep posting
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  Completing the Scan of All WT Publications - Bibles List

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i am working with paul grundy from jwfacts and with the administrator of avoidjw.org, and they are ok with me doing the work that i am doing right now, which is to try and complete, as much as possible, the availability of everything the wt has ever published, in pdf format.therefore, i will start listing in this thread what i have not been able to find anywhere online.

  please let me know where i can find the pdf's for the following:(now, i know that there are multiple versions of these and that there are some that seem the same but they are not.

  i am looking for the wt published versions of these publications.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The 1972 Bible In Living English is currently available on the JW's own tablet, I believe.
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  Please track baptisms with attendance numbers at 2017 Regional Conventions here. (U.S. locations) Thx

  by Gayle in

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  2. friends

  i always like to hear baptism with attendance numbers at rcs.

  observe if the bigger amount baptized are jw children?.

  convention.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Aren't there more assemblies than this in the US? I'm a bit, (OK, more than a bit) out of touch, but surely there are more than 12 this year.
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  Russell's aleged freemasonry on JWfacts.com

  by NikL in

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  paul has written an interesting piece on jwfacts.com .

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/blog/russell-not-a-freemason.php.

  anyway, it jogged my memory and reminded me of something i thought i would pass on to you.back in the late 80s i had the opportunity to chat with ray franz on the phone and i asked him about this very thing.he didn't say yes or no to russel's masonic connection but what he said was something like, "he is buried in the masonic section of the cemetery so draw your own conclusion.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I have no reason at all to think Russell lied when he stated: "I have never been a Mason." (Sermon: The Temple of God)
  

  I'm glad someone finally located this quote, as I had remembered reading it before. WT bibliophiles are sometimes only aware of what was published by the WT society officially, and are not much interested in other books which were produced individually by different Bible Students. A couple of really interesting ones were 'What Pastor Russell Said' and 'Pastor Russell's Sermons'. In one of those books I remember reading the Pastor Russell stated he was not a Mason. Whether those books are still being reprinted or not I do not know.
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  Russell's aleged freemasonry on JWfacts.com

  by NikL in

  1. jw
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  paul has written an interesting piece on jwfacts.com .

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/blog/russell-not-a-freemason.php.

  anyway, it jogged my memory and reminded me of something i thought i would pass on to you.back in the late 80s i had the opportunity to chat with ray franz on the phone and i asked him about this very thing.he didn't say yes or no to russel's masonic connection but what he said was something like, "he is buried in the masonic section of the cemetery so draw your own conclusion.

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  I'm surprised no one has brought up in this discussion the underlying anti-Masonic rhetoric in the northeast US (particularly upstate New York) during the 1800's. The Wikipedia article would be a good place to start:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party

  Maybe this doesn't have a direct connection to Russell, but it provides some context to the historical environment in which he lived.

  The point being that there have been many people over the years who have had (and still do have) a deep suspicion of the 'secrecy' of the FreeMasons.
  
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  JW Flag Salute Cases in Florida

  by Kenneson in

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  i was doing research on a certain topic this afternoon at the state library, and ran across a jehovah's witness related article that i would like to share.

  it's from "citrus, sawmills, critters, crackers: life in early lutz and central pasco county" by elizabeth ruiegler macmanus and susan a. macmanus (tampa: university of tampa press, 1998), pages 351-353. lutz is located near tarpon springs, florida.

  the heading of this article is :"importance of schooling.".

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  I stand corrected. MacMillan's book Faith on the March says that he was married in 1902, but after that there is no mention of his wife that I could find.
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  JW Flag Salute Cases in Florida

  by Kenneson in

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  2. friends

  i was doing research on a certain topic this afternoon at the state library, and ran across a jehovah's witness related article that i would like to share.

  it's from "citrus, sawmills, critters, crackers: life in early lutz and central pasco county" by elizabeth ruiegler macmanus and susan a. macmanus (tampa: university of tampa press, 1998), pages 351-353. lutz is located near tarpon springs, florida.

  the heading of this article is :"importance of schooling.".

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  I've never heard or seen that AH MacMillan was ever married. So I have to question the news article in the OP that states that a Mary MacMillan who was teaching school in the 1940's was his wife. He would have been over 70 by then as well. It's possible, I suppose, but I find it doubtful.
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  Russell's aleged freemasonry on JWfacts.com

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  paul has written an interesting piece on jwfacts.com .

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/blog/russell-not-a-freemason.php.

  anyway, it jogged my memory and reminded me of something i thought i would pass on to you.back in the late 80s i had the opportunity to chat with ray franz on the phone and i asked him about this very thing.he didn't say yes or no to russel's masonic connection but what he said was something like, "he is buried in the masonic section of the cemetery so draw your own conclusion.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Love the chart Finklestein, I haven't seen that for a while. Good for a laugh
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  what is the rarest JW book?

  by dogon in

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  what is the rarest jb book ever printed?

  i just bought a copy of the finished mystery and it can be a bit rare.

  but i bet there are others much more rare.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I have something totally unique. A family member worked in the bindery at Bethel in '79 and he made a copy of the Commentary on the Letter of James for me with Blue embossed letters on the cover (the standard letters were gold). Pretty neat.