Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
The amount of work that Pastor Russell performed _is incredible_, and it
is doubtful whether it was ever equalled by any other human being. When he
was in his twenties he was refused the lease of a property because the
owner thought he would surely die before the lease had expired. For fifty
years he suffered constantly with sick headaches, due to a fall in his
youth, and for twenty‐five years had such distressing hemorrhoids that it
was impossible for him to rest in the easiest chair; yet in the past forty
years he traveled a million miles, delivered 30,000 sermons and table
talks—many of them 2‐½ hours long—wrote over 50,000 pages (of this size)
of advanced Biblical exposition, often dictated 1,000 letters per month,
managed every department of a world‐wide evangelistic campaign employing
700 speakers, personally compiled the most wonderful Biblical drama ever
shown; and with all that, he found time in the course of each year to
personally aid thousands with his fatherly counsel. At one time his
writings were subjected to an analysis of 20,511 Scripture expositions.
These were assembled in Biblical order and disclosed but six points of
inquiry, all easily harmonized. No writer, not even excepting the writers
of the Bible, have ever had such critical readers. His works have been
published in 35 languages. During the last eight days of his life he had
appointments in California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and New York; and
though for several days manifestly dying, with cystitis (caused by
excessive travel and speaking), he declined to cancel any engagements, and
went out of this life October 31, 1916, on a railroad train en route to
his Kansas appointment. At the age of 30 he had accumulated a fortune of
over $300,000, but died penniless, his own fortune, as well as all the
large sums contributed to the cause, having been used up in the Master’s
service. He was beloved everywhere by those who “follow the Lamb
whithersoever He goeth.”—Rev. 14:4. For further particulars of Pastor
Russell’s service of God’s people see Memorial Number of _Zions Watch
Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence_.
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