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Charles Taze Russell
17 documents for Charles Taze Russell
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[Russell] lies beneath a relatively simple headstone (shown in foreground), but nearby is a second, showier memorial: a four-sided pyramid, added eight years after his death, by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society, then the name of Russell's ministry and publishing house. The names of a few deceased believers are etched on each of its sides; one side is marked "Dead With Christ," and lists "Chas Russell Age 64" below.
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Not if you ask the late Minister Elijah Muhammad. He could not agree more with the conclusions reached by Pastor Charles Taze Russell, the "founder" of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. (The Witnesses contend that Jesus Christ is their real founder.) Russell's scathing denunciations are proof to many that the "paleface" can indeed be honest in his self-appraisal. That's why Muhammad, though calling the White Man the Devil, did not include Russell, and later Joseph Franklin Rutherford, second president of the Watch Tower Society after Russell's death, in this characterization. In fact, Karl Evanzz, in his book, The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad, said that "without Fard as his guide, Muhammad became increasingly dependent upon Rutherford's [radio] broadc...
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Despite Worthy and [Lynn Irvin]'s view of themselves as modern, the Jehovah Witness message is old, dating back to the 1870s. It was first practiced in Allegheny County by a small Bible study group led by Pittsburgher Charles Taze Russell. That small group has turned into a following of about 700,000 Jehovah Witnesses. We don't believe Jehovah talks to people. Rather we believe he inspires us through the Holy Spirit and teaches us through the words of the Bible to do as Christ did and that includes going from village to village and door to door to spread the word," said Irvin. Meanwhile, another woman sees her talking and asks for a pamphlet. Worthy says she likes when young people stop and talk to her because others always follow their lead. "They're like magnets [young people], once ...
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[Charles Taze Russell] was also impatient with church doctrine. Among other things, he had a hard time accepting that a merciful God would punish sinners in hell for all eternity. He also doubted such Catholic concepts as papal infallibility, and Protestant ideas like the belief that souls were predestined to go to heaven or hell. As a teen-ager, Russell broke with his Presbyterian upbringing, and later began devising a new cosmology based on his own reading of scripture. By the late 1870s, Russell had devised the tenets of what he called the "little flock," but would later be called the Jehovah's Witnesses. Russell believed that in 1914, God and Satan would share rulership of the world and eventually do battle over it. Once the battle was on, a "heavenly class" of 144,000 believers wou...
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..., became Chief Justice after Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes left the Court, and two new justices ...Its founder, Charles Taze Russell, was raised a Presbyterian, joined the Con...
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It seems certain that to make the earth into a paradise like Eden, such as the prophecies picture, and a fit place for the restored race [of humans], some great changes of climate, etc., must occur. Looking back, we find that some important changes of climate, etc., took place at the time of the Deluge...These changes occurred at the end of the first world or dispensation...and we think that a proper time to expect another change to a better condition would be at the close of the present evil dispensation, at the threshold of 'The world...to come,' wherein dwelleth righteousness. That these changes will be sudden we do not believe." (Italics his.) [Russell] understood that in the Bible "world" and "earth" sometimes meant people. For instance, Genesis 11:1, King James Version, says that...
... Precise Prediction." Why? Because Pastor Charles Taze Russell, the second president of the Zion's W...
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Jehovah's Witnesses claim an international presence of some 6 million believers, but the group's beginnings were much more modest. The faith grew out of a Bible study group, led by Charles Taze Russell, that began in the Pittsburgh area in the 1870s.
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Artist Lindsay O'Leary lives, works and plays in the Mexican War Streets. She has become one of those Pittsburghers who she swore she wouldn't become -- one who never crosses a river. And she is, mostly, at peace with this fact. O'Leary moved to Pittsburgh in 2002 to blow glass at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. She says she'll still cross the Allegheny River once in a while to get to the glass studio. But, for the most part, she is content to ride her bike back and forth to work at the Mattress Factory, where she holds the title of membership coordinator/development assistant.
...The Mexican War Streets is where Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the precursor to the ...
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Of course, the etymology of "gorilla," according 'to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, is "believed to be the name of an alleged African tribe of hairy women"; some dictionaries say, 'African man.' The Washington Post, in its September 17,1993, issue, carried an apology for AT&T in the form of an article entitled; "AT&T Apologizes, for Racist Illustration." Then there's the Greek word "pygmy." OJSD says it all "Formerly applied to the chimpanzee and other anthropoid apes as the assumed originals of the pygmies of ancient story....Of [Black] persons and animals...often used in the names of species of animals. Obama the "Hero": Though [Rupert Murdoch] and those of his ilk want [Barack Obama] out of the way, most people see him as a hero according to a Harris Poll conduct...
... year as The Negro A Beast was released, Charles Taze Russell-a well known White minister-countered...
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'Why can't people see that abortion is murder?' To the Editor:
... congregation started by a gentleman named Charles Taze Russell. "Pastor" Russell claimed to be a "s...
