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Autorité et obligation de rendre des comptes · Claim record

La notice nécrologique de Russell parue dans La Tour de Garde dit qu’il “was educated in the common schools and under private tutors”. Prédicateurs du Royaume de Dieu rapporte qu’à onze ans il est devenu l’associé de son père dans un magasin de vêtements pour hommes. La Tour de Garde du 15 mai 1953 le cite reconnaissant devant le tribunal qu’il n’avait été instruit ni en latin ni en grec, les deux langues des Écritures qu’il a passé sa vie à expliquer.

Claim ID claim-authority-educationConcerns 1 décembre 1916Déclaration explicite
Déclaration explicite · 1 décembre 1916 Vérifié

La notice nécrologique de Russell parue dans La Tour de Garde dit qu’il “was educated in the common schools and under private tutors”. Prédicateurs du Royaume de Dieu rapporte qu’à onze ans il est devenu l’associé de son père dans un magasin de vêtements pour hommes. La Tour de Garde du 15 mai 1953 le cite reconnaissant devant le tribunal qu’il n’avait été instruit ni en latin ni en grec, les deux langues des Écritures qu’il a passé sa vie à expliquer. The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, 1 décembre 1916Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), 1993The Watchtower, 15 mai 1953

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : La Tour de Garde du 15 mai 1953 dit expressément que “Brother Russell had specifically said that he did not know Greek”, et cite le compte rendu du tribunal de Hamilton dans lequel il reconnaît qu’il n’avait été instruit ni en latin ni en grec.

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “Biography”

1 décembre 1916 · pp.354-356 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Charles Taze Russell, known the world over as Pastor Russell, author, lecturer and minister of the Gospel, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., February 16, 1852; died October 31, 1916. ... He was educated in the common schools and under private tutors. ... He was married in 1879 to Maria Frances Ackley. No children blessed this union. Seventeen years later they disagreed about the management of his journal and a separation followed. ... He was the greatest religious teacher since St. Paul ... He was not the founder of a new religion, and never made such claim.”

The official obituary biography published in the first issue after Russell's death, printed above his will. It is the source of the sentence about his education, of the Society's one-clause account of the separation, and of the “not the founder of a new religion” formula that the organisation still uses.

Numérisation de l’original

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Read in the Reprints volume for 1916. The Biography opens immediately after the masthead “VOL. XXXVII … BROOKLYN, N. Y., DECEMBER 1, 1916”, on the Reprints page following the marker [5995], and runs past the marker [5997]; the running head printed over it reads “(354-356)” (the second running head in this run is damaged in the OCR). Proclaimers (1993) independently cites the “not the founder” sentence as page 356 of this issue, which agrees.

Provenance de la numérisation. The Internet Archive item titled “The watch tower and herald of Christ’s presence, 1916” is the Watch Tower Reprints volume for 1916: it reproduces each issue with its masthead, and every page carries a continuous Reprints page number in square brackets together with the original magazine pages in parentheses in the running head. Read in the item’s OCR text file.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-jv-1993-p707-not-founder

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-wt-1916-1201-biography

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), “Chapter 5: Proclaiming the Lord's Return (1870-1914)”

1993 · pp.42-60 (quoted passage: 47-48) · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“C. T. Russell, though, felt that to withdraw from the Herald was not enough; the ransom doctrine must be defended and Christ's presence must be proclaimed. Hence, in July 1879, Russell began publishing Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence. Russell was the editor and publisher, with five others originally listed as contributors to its columns. The first issue had a printing of 6,000 copies.”

The chapter is the organisation's standard modern life of Russell: born at Allegheny 16 February 1852; a partner in his father's clothing business at eleven; repelled by eternal torment; steadied in 1869 by hearing the Adventist preacher Jonas Wendell; indebted to George Storrs and George W. Stetson; persuaded by N. H. Barbour in 1876 that Christ's invisible presence had begun in 1874; separated from Barbour in 1879 over the ransom.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Whole chapter read on the Watchtower Online Library; the document’s own citation code is “jv chap. 5 p. 42 – p. 60” and the quoted sentences straddle the page marker for 48. The chapter contains no mention of the Ross prosecution, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle litigation, Miracle Wheat, or the marriage and its court proceedings.

Notes. The chapter quotes Russell's own disclaimer: “Our work … has been to bring together these long scattered fragments of truth and present them to the Lord's people—not as new, not as our own, but as the Lord's.”

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-jv-1993-ch5-life

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers”

15 mai 1953 · p.319 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“The “perjury” charge was not made in court, but in a tract written later by an irresponsible slanderer against whom Brother Russell had brought a libel case. The official record of the case in question (Police Court of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, March 17, 1913) says: “Q. You don't profess, then, to be schooled in the Latin language? A. No, sir. Q. Or in Greek? A. No, sir.” After this he was asked if he knew individual Greek letters, and it was over this that the question of his knowledge of Greek arose. ... Not only has the question they “quote” been reworded, but Brother Russell had specifically said that he did not know Greek.”

A reader asked whether tract charges that the Society's first president was immoral, profiteered from “miracle wheat” and committed perjury about Greek were true. The article answers “No. They were deliberate falsehoods,” and deals with all three.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the page marker in the document is 319 and the citation code printed in the page is w53 5/15. The organisation here quotes a transcript of the Hamilton hearing of 17 March 1913 and concedes that Russell said he was not schooled in Greek; it disputes the wording of the version circulated by critics, not the underlying admission.

Corroboré par. src-ctr-ross-1913-some-facts-more-facts

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-ctr-w-1953-0515-qfr-charges

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