Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, also known as "Judge" Rutherford, was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. He played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1869
CountryUnited States of America
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THE harp is a musical instrument invented many centuries ago. When properly strung and played upon it yields sweet music, making glad the heart.
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Early in the history of man he put God out of his thoughts; consequently the vision of man was limited to things he saw with his natural eye.
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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
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What is known as the Old Testament was written by holy men of old who were moved upon by the invisible power of Jehovah to write it.
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God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.
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Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
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The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.
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God made the earth suitable for animal life that is found upon it. The animal creation eats and drinks and enjoys existence and in due time perishes.
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The knowledge of the great Creator, as he reveals himself in his creation of man and his provision for man, was preserved by a very few.
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The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man.
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Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
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The Bible is the fountain of truth.