The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, ““As Deceivers and Yet True””
“My suit against The Eagle for slanderous defamation of reputation has been decided in its favor. A jury of twelve men have decided that The Eagle was justified in making its vicious onslaughts upon me, notwithstanding the Judge's charge that, according to the law, the cartoon, at least, was a slanderous, vicious libel in fact. ... I have no complaint, nor murmuring against the divine providences which permitted what I consider to be a very unjust verdict.”
Russell's own report to readers immediately after the Brooklyn Daily Eagle libel trial. In the same article he sets out his account of the Miracle Wheat sales, says the seed was donated by two readers and that “we merely acted as intermediary”, and complains that the Eagle's counsel “was allowed to ridicule the ‘Miracle Wheat,’ although I had nothing whatever to do with it, nor with the naming of it”.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “As Deceivers and Yet True”
Confidence note. Read in the Reprints volume for 1913. The article opens on the Reprints page whose running head reads “[5188] FEBRUARY 15, 1913 THE WATCH TOWER (61-62)” and runs on to the next page, [5189]; it is followed by the masthead of the 1 March 1913 issue at [5190]. The magazine pages are therefore 62-63.
Scan provenance. The Internet Archive item titled “The watch tower and herald of Christ’s presence, 1913” is the Watch Tower Reprints volume for 1913: 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.
Corroborated by. src-ctr-ad-1915-0507-russell-v-eagle
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-ctr-wt-1913-0215-as-deceivers