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Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement. He was an early Christian Zionist.
Charles Taze Russell (born Feb. 16, 1852, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 31, 1916, Pampa, Texas) was the founder of the International Bible Students Association, forerunner of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Mar 24, 2023 · Charles Taze Russell was the founder of a religion that eventually became the modern-day Jehovah’s Witnesses. His example demonstrates how untrained and un-discipled people can twist Scripture to fit their own preferences and spread those errors to others.
Among that group of sincere Bible students was a man named Charles Taze Russell. While Russell took the lead in the Bible education work at that time and was the first editor of The Watchtower, he was not the founder of a new religion.
Mar 23, 2014 · He is Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Charles Taze Russell was born on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the second of five children born to Joseph and Ann Russell.
May 29, 2018 · Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), American religious leader, founded a sect known as Russellites or Millennial Dawnists, which provided the nucleus for the Jehovah's Witnesses sect. Charles Taze Russell was born on Feb. 16, 1852, in Pittsburgh.
Charles Taze Russell. February 16, 1852 - October 31, 1916. In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after the style of our masonic brethren."
The renowned Christian preacher and Bible scholar Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) is known to many as the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses. But few realize that Pastor Russell was an early advocate of Zionism and that he predicted the imminent return of the Jewish people to Israel.
This era of millennial expectation also produced Charles Taze Russell, spiritual father of the group known as the Jehovah's Witnesses. Born February 16, 1852, Russell was a haberdasher's son. Reared to be a businessman by his widowed father, he was a religious boy who supplemented his modest secular education with extensive reading of religious ...
Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement. He was an early Christian Zionist.
