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Jehovah's 50,000 Witnesses

Southworth, H. Rutledge | August 10, 1940 issue

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In forty-one states of the Union members of Jehovah's Witnesses have been the victims of mob violence and police persecution during the past two months. Jehovah's Witnesses are believers in the Biblical interpretations of Pastor Charles Taze Russell, who died in 1916, and of seventy-one-year-old Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, his spiritual successor. Their creed, a belief in the second coming of Jesus, is a primitive American folk faith arising from the same soil that produced Mormonism and Adventism. The Witnesses insist that their movement, though basically Christian, is not a religion. "Religionists have an ambitious desire to rule the world in the place and stead of God and Christ.

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JEHOVAH'S Witnesses; RUSSELL, Charles Taze; RUTHERFORD, Joseph Franklin; CHRISTIAN sects; GOD -- Name; VICTIMS

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