Millennial Dawn.
'Millennial Dawn' is the original title of the volumes published by Charles Russell,
and his
teaching is sometimes known by that name. The reader should be advised that Pastor
Russell's works are published under a variety of titles. We give those we know.
'Millennial Dawn' was published in 1886. The same works were re-published in 1911,
as 'Studies in the Scriptures'. Other publications bear the mark of the 'Watch Tower and
Tract Society', Brooklyn, N.Y., and 'Zion's Watch Tower', Pittsburgh, Pa. The followers
of this teaching are known as the 'International Bible Students League' or 'Association ' and should be carefully distinguished from the I.B.R.A. the International
Bible Reading Association, with which it has nothing whatever in common. On the
title page of each of the first three volumes is a statement concerning circulation
:
Series l. 3,358,000 edition.
Series II. 1,320,000 edition.
Series III. 909,000 edition.
If you will not buy these publications they will be offered you gratis. It may be
as well to give
an idea of what they teach on some vital subjects :
The Lord Jesus Christ, before Bethlehem was a spiritual Being, and none other than
the
Arch-angel Michael.
The Lord Jesus, when He was in the flesh, was a perfect human being -- nothing more.
Regarding the keynote of the gospel -- the resurrection of Christ, Russellism teaches
:
'The man Jesus is dead, for ever dead'.
We know nothing, they say, of what became of Jesus' body. It may have been dissolved
into
gas; having been supernaturally removed, it may be preserved somewhere as a grand
memorial.
The above is enough for any child of God, but it may be as well to mention another
harmful
error. Russellism teaches that the second coming of Christ took place in October
1874. The end of the age was computed to be October, 1914. Since then Russell's
followers have revised his
chronology, and the last date for the rapture of the saints of which we have heard
was, we think, 1927.