The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, “European Tour — Part IV”
“There would be no reason why Jehovah should have a monument erected in the earth at the end of the gospel age. There is a good reason why he would have a monument erected in Egypt, the Great Pyramid, long before the beginning of the Christian era, and when the time would come that the secrets of this monument should be revealed to students of the divine prophecy, it would be found to corroborate the prophetic utterances and the divine plan”
Part of the Society's own report of its European tour. On p. 243 the report describes a question meeting at the Leipzig convention 'conducted by Brother Rutherford' at which a question was handed in asking whether the Leipzig battle monument, dedicated in 1913, is the monument 'referred to in Isaiah 19:19 and in Revelation 22:1, 2'. The words quoted here are printed on p. 244 under the sub-heading 'NOT OF THE LORD' and introduced as 'Abbreviated, the answer to the question was this'. The report attributes the meeting to Rutherford but does not name the speaker of the answer in so many words. The issue header reads 'Vol. XLIII AUGUST 15, 1922 No. 16'.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, European Tour — Part IV
Confidence note. The bound volume was opened and the passage read in this session; wording, issue and page confirmed. The OCR of this leaf is poor in places (for example 'ha' for 'be', 'm' for 'in', 'Gicat' for 'Great'); obvious misreadings of that kind have been corrected and no word has been supplied that is not present in the scan.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1922' (bound volume). Public domain. The item's page_numbers.json maps leaf 244 to printed page 244, and the leaf's own text carries the numeral.
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Notes. Six years before the reversal, the Isaiah 19:19 argument that the 1928 articles set aside was being used to rule out a rival monument: the reason given for rejecting the Leipzig monument is that Jehovah already had one, in Egypt.
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