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Charles "Taze" Russell - Russellites sentenced...
Charles "Taze" Russell - Russellites sentenced...
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March 25, 1919
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Georgia, March 25, 1919
* Rutherford & other Russellites
* Atlanta Prison release (day of)
* Pastor Charles Taze Russell followers
* Christian restorationist minister
* Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses
The top of page 9 has a one column heading: "Russellites Will Get Liberty Today" (see image)
Complete with 14 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, mainly along the spine, generally in good condition.
wikipedia notes: In early May 1918, US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory condemned The Finished Mystery as "one of the most dangerous examples of ... propaganda ... a work written in extremely religious language and distributed in enormous numbers". Warrants were issued for the arrest of Rutherford and seven other Watch Tower directors, who were charged under the 1917 Espionage Act with attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, refusal of duty in the armed forces and obstructing the recruitment and enlistment service of the U.S. while it was at war.
On June 21, seven of them, including Rutherford, were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Rutherford feared his opponents would gain control of the Society in his absence, but on January 2, 1919, he learned he had been re-elected president at the Pittsburgh convention the day before, convincing him that God wanted him in the position. On March 26, 1919, the directors were released on bail after an appeals court ruled they had been wrongly convicted; in May 1920 the government announced that all charges had been dropped..
Category: The 20th Century
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