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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.


— Joseph Franklin Rutherford


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Macmillan however related details of Rutherford's home preaching in 1905 or 1906 when he was baptized and a 1975 article quoted several Witnesses relating their experiences with Rutherford in the house-to-house ministry in the 1920s. This included an operation on November 5 1941 some two months before his death which found "carcinoma of the rectal sigmoid" and was given less than six months to live. In 1928 Rutherford began to teach that the Cedar Point convention and the events resulting from it fulfilled the prophecy of the 1290 days at Daniel 12:11.

He also instituted training programs for public speaking as part of their weekly meetings for worship. Rutherford began a career in law working as a court stenographer trial lawyer and prosecutor. He wrote twenty-one books and was credited by the Society in 1942 with the distribution of almost 400 million books and booklets.

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