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Les Étudiants de la Bible portaient un insigne représentant une croix et une couronne comme signe de reconnaissance, et le même emblème a figuré sur la couverture de La Tour de Garde de 1891 à 1931.

Claim ID claim-doctrine-cross-worn-and-printed-until-1931Concerns 1931Explication de l’organisation
Explication de l’organisation · 1931 Vérifié

Les Étudiants de la Bible portaient un insigne représentant une croix et une couronne comme signe de reconnaissance, et le même emblème a figuré sur la couverture de La Tour de Garde de 1891 à 1931. Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, 1993God’s Kingdom Rules!, 2014

Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : L’organisation présente ce changement comme une lumière progressive : lors de l’assemblée de Detroit de 1928, il a été montré que ces insignes étaient non seulement inutiles mais répréhensibles (‘shown to be not only unnecessary but objectionable’).

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Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, “Chapter 14: “They Are No Part of the World””

1993 · pp.199-201 · main text p. 199; box ‘Practices That Have Been Abandoned’, pp. 200-201 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“This holiday was celebrated yearly even by members of the Watch Tower Society’s headquarters staff at the Bethel Home in Brooklyn, New York. … For years, Bible Students wore a cross and crown as a badge of identification, and this symbol was on the front cover of the “Watch Tower” from 1891 to 1931. … In their “Daily Manna” book, Bible Students kept a list of birthdays.”

The chapter says the headquarters staff and the British and Swiss branch staffs decided to stop sharing in Christmas festivities, ‘so no Christmas celebration was held there after 1926’. A box headed ‘Practices That Have Been Abandoned’ carries the cross-and-crown and birthday statements, together with a photograph captioned as the last Brooklyn Bethel Christmas celebration, in 1926.

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Chapter opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026. The Christmas sentence follows the page 199 marker; the box is labelled in the text itself as ‘[Box/Pictures on page 200, 201]’. The three quoted sentences come from those two places and are separated by ellipses.

Corroboré par. src-chg-p-kr-2014-ch10-refining

Notes. The same box also records the abandonment of the Great Pyramid teaching, which the site covers separately.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chg-p-jv-1993-ch14-abandoned

Publication primaire des Témoins de Jéhovah Vérifié

God’s Kingdom Rules!, “Chapter 10: The King Refines His People Spiritually”

2014 · pp.102-105 · pars. 8-9, 12-13; boxes on pp. 102 and 105 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Yet, the Bible Students did not at the time clearly see the need to stop celebrating Christmas. It continued to be celebrated even by members of the Brooklyn Bethel family. … For many years, the Bible Students viewed the cross as an acceptable symbol of Christianity. … they proudly wore a cross-and-crown pin as an identifying badge. … Beginning in 1891, a cross-and-crown symbol appeared on the cover of the Watch Tower.”

The chapter dates the Christmas change to the years after 1926, quotes a letter of 14 November 1927 from Frederick W. Franz saying ‘The Bethel family has voted not to have Christmas anymore’, and lists the steps by which the cross was dropped: the 1928 Detroit assembly (‘not only unnecessary but also objectionable’), Preparation (1933) p. 239, The Golden Age of 28 February 1934 p. 336, and The Golden Age of 4 November 1936 p. 72 together with Riches (1936) p. 27 for the teaching that Jesus died on a stake. A separate box gives the earliest references against Easter (1928), Valentine’s Day (1929), birthdays (1936) and New Year’s Day (1946).

Source officielle

Note de provenance et de vérification

Note sur la fiabilité. Chapter opened on the Watchtower Online Library and re-opened for audit on 19 September 2026 and read in full. The Christmas sentences follow the page 102 marker; the cross sentences are in paragraph 12, which straddles the page 104 marker, so the first of them is on page 103 and the rest on page 104. The box on other holidays is headed ‘Exposing Other Holidays and Celebrations’ and follows the page 105 marker. Of the publications the chapter cites, only The Golden Age of 4 November 1936 was separately opened.

Corroboré par. src-chg-p-jv-1993-ch14-abandoned, src-chg-p-ga-1936-1104-cross

Notes. The box on other holidays gives the earliest published objection, not the date on which Bible Students stopped observing each one.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chg-p-kr-2014-ch10-refining

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