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	Joseph Franklin Rutherford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Franklin Rutherford 8 November 1869—8 January 1942, is best known as the second president of the Watch Tower Society, the legal organization used by Jehovah's Witnesses.
		Rutherford served as President of the Watch Tower Society until his death in 1942 and was known as a strong preacher.
		Rutherford was succeeded by Nathan Homer Knorr as President of the Watchtower Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Franklin_Rutherford (829 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rutherford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron 1871-1937, British physicist, b.
		Rutherford, Joseph Franklin 1869-1942, American sectarian leader, b.
		Rutherford Webb eases foreign currency burden for European expansion at Tessella.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Rutherford (675 words)

	JUDGE RUTHERFORD
		Rutherford was the force that transformed Charles Taze Russell's passive and obscure Bible Students into zealous, doorbell-ringing Jehovah's Witnesses.
		Rutherford replaced Russell's books with a steady stream of his own, insisting that doctrinal changes were "new light" cast on Scripture by Jehovah.
		Rutherford reformed the Society by condemning holidays and Christian symbols as pagan (but look at this issue's cover photograph, which shows Rutherford engaged in Christmas festivities a few years before instituting his reform).
	www.cfpeople.org /Apologetics/page51a029.html (779 words)

	Undoing the Judge:"Jehovah's Organization" or Joe's Organization?
		Rutherford studied law under an apprentice system and passed his bar exams in 1892, later serving on occasion as a substitute judge, from which occasions his nickname was derived.
		Rutherford: Rutherford banned the celebration of birthdays and holidays as pagan, disfellowshiped those who joined the military or attended other churches, banned the use of blood, and rejected the cross as a pagan symbol, saying that Christ died on an upright stake.
		Rutherford claimed that Christ returned to his temple in 1918 (establishing the identity of the faithful and wise servant), and that he cleansed the temple in 1932 (allowing him to understand the identity of the Great Multitude in a new way).
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/joes_organization.htm (4282 words)

	Skepsis: The Successor Problem
		Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who had become attorney for both the Society and Russell himself and probably helped Russell to draft the will, was listed in it only as one of the five alternative members of the editorial board (and, as we will see, even this can be questioned).
		Joseph Franklin Rutherford was born of Baptist parents on a farm in Morgan County, Missouri, U.S.A., on November 8, 1869.
		Rutherford, however, claimed that according to the charter of the WTS, a Pennsylvania corporation, all directors had to be reelected annually in that state (something that had not happened since the headquarters moved to New York).
	www.skepsis.no /articles_in_english/the_successor_problem.html (20526 words)

	Shaun's Research on the Jehovah's Witnesses
		Rutherford slowly introduced “new light” that was eventually aimed at transforming the doctrines and devotion that held Russell as “that servant”.
		By 1928, Rutherford was comfortable enough to announce in the publication “Prophecy” that the Elijah class (period under Russell) had passed in favor of the Elisha class (time under Rutherford) which had a “double portion of the spirit”.
		Rutherford was in sole control and author of the publications of the Watchtower Society, hence he and only he was dispensing meat in due season.
	www.jwfiles.com /rutherford.htm (1049 words)

	THE MYSTERY YEARS OF "THE JUDGE" JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD
		Ironically, given the later anti-democratic ploys of their son Joseph, they were active in a church less than a mile from the farm which was called the Freedom Baptist Church.
		Rutherford was cited for contempt of court on at least three occasions.
		During Rutherford's years in Missouri as well as today in 1999, if one is a county's prosecuting attorney then this means he has been elected as such for a two year term.
	www.freeminds.org /history/mystery_years.htm (1446 words)

	Reorganization of the Watchtower Society?
		In 1919 and 1920 Rutherford's adverseries distributed amongst JWs an article titled "The Church Organized in Relation to the Society", written by Paul S. Johnson, a former director of the WTS and intimate of Russell.
		At first Rutherford did not change this, but invited all congregations from 1919 onwards to "to ask the Society to register it as a "service organization." Then a director, or service director as he came to be known, not subject to yearly election, was appointed by the Society.
		Rutherford justified this dismissal by arguing that the directors were never legally elected.
	www.watchtowerinformationservice.org /reorg.html (2812 words)

	watchtower.observer.org :: an eye on the jehovah's witnesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Judge Joseph Franklin "Booze" Rutherford, the second president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society hated the alcohol prohibition.
		Rutherford was an alcoholic, and was furious about liquor prohibition.
		Rutherford was the force that transformed Charles Taze Russell's passive and obscure Bible Students into...
	reexamine.org /wtobserver/apps/pbcs.dll/section11bc.html?... (891 words)

	BIBLE STUDENTS
		Joseph Franklin Rutherford, a lawyer and pilgrim in the service of the Watch Tower Society, gained control of the Society shortly after the death of Russell in October 1916.
		Those who gave up their Christian freedom stayed and in 1931, Rutherford, in deciding to differentiate between the two groups renamed his; and thus the Jehovah's Witnesses were born.
		Joseph Russell operated a clothing store; "Russell's Haberdashery." Young Russell dedicated his time to his father's business, he learned the business well, so well, that his father would send him on business trips.
	www.webspawner.com /USERS/BIBLESTUDENTS (2194 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses - How the Jehovah's Witness religion started.
		After Russell died in 1916, Joseph Franklin Rutherford A.K.A. "Judge" Rutherford, was elected as the new leader of the Jehovah's Witness movement.
		Rutherford picked Brooklyn, New York as the headquarters for the Watchtower organization and the Jehovah's Witness faith grew faster than it did under Russell.
		Once Rutherford died on January 8, 1942, Nathan Horner Knorr became the next president of the organization.
	www.soulright.com /origin.html (603 words)

	Welcome To DOUKNOW.NET
		Rutherford largely avoided end-times prophecies after the failure of his prediction that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be resurrected in 1925.
		The reason for this is that Witnesses baptized after "Judge" Rutherford ended the "heavenly calling" of the 144,000 in 1935 are automatically assigned to the "great crowd," destined to live forever on earth.
		Rutherford's victory resulted in the reversal of a number of doctrines the Watchtower Society had taught under Russell, including Russell's posthumous removal as "faithful and discreet slave" and the pyramid Russell advertised as "God's stone Witness" being renamed "the Devil's Bible."
	www.douknow.net /jw_withering.htm (4466 words)

	CULT 010 THE HISTORY OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESS Charles Taze Russell, born Feb. 16, 1852, was th
		Joseph Rutherford or "Judge Rutherford" as he was called, was sent to the Atlanta penitentiary for sedition in 1918, and was released in March, 1919.
		Rutherford was a lawyer and a special judge in the absence of the regular judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Boonville, Missouri prior to 1909.
		Knorr had been a bodyguard for Rutherford, so he was familiar with the duties of the President.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys2/jw.htm (481 words)

	Jehovah Witnesses’ History
		Russell died in 1916 and was buried with a large stone pyramid as a tombstone.
		In 1917 a Missouri lawyer Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the second president of the watchtower society.
		In 1929 Rutherford had Beth Sarim, a mansion, built in San Diego and deeded to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to show the end was just around the corner.
	www.biblefacts.org /cult/jwhist.html (792 words)

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		Rutherford largely avoided end-times prophecies after the failure of his prediction that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be resurrected in 1925.[9] In fact, referring to that prophetic failure he later admitted, "I made an ass of myself."[10] NATHAN HOMER KNORR Vice President Nathan Homer Knorr inherited the presidency upon Rutherford's death in 1942.
		This is a secondary class of believers who receive salvation on the coattails of the above "body of Christ," but who are not born again or anointed and hence are not part of this "faithful and discreet slave class" from whom leaders must be selected.
		Dying members of the Governing Body will have to be replaced with men not eligible under today's arrangement, and doctrines attached to expired dates will have to be replaced with new ideas that may prove unpalatable to large segments of the organization.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0157a.txt (3881 words)

	Jehovah's Witnessess
		Joseph Franklin Rutherford then took control of the organization.
		He published The Finished Mystery, a book which predicted that in 1918 God would destroy churches and millions of their members, and claimed that by 1920 every kingdom would be swallowed up in anarchy.
		Rutherford taught that the only way to escape the impending judgment and destruction was to join the Watchtower organization.
	www.seafox.com /jehovah_witnesses.html (2542 words)

	~ Wither The Watchtower? Unfolding Crisis for Jehovah's Witnesses ~
		After securing the headquarters complex and the sect's corporate entities, Rutherford turned his attention to the rest of the organization.
		Rutherford also forged a huge radio network and took to the airwaves, exploiting populist and anti-Catholic sentiments to draw thousands of additional converts.
		Rutherford largely avoided end-times prophecies after the failure of his prediction that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be resurrected in 1925.9 In fact, referring to that prophetic failure he later admitted, "I made an ass of myself."10
	members.fortunecity.com /thetruth7/jwcrisis.html (1461 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		- Rutherford carried on and intensified the organizations assertion that it is the sole repository of God's truth.
		This is a shift from being at least somewhat "Christ" centered to being centered on Jehovah of the Old Testament.
		1936 - Rutherford increases the Society's alienation from Christendom by proclaiming the cross is a pagan symbol.
	home.comcast.net /~neirr/jwschrono.htm (1235 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses
		Following Russell's death in 1916 Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the leader of the organization.
		Rutherford wrote over a hundred books and fundamentally shaped the group's theology.
		Rutherford, who was born in 1869, died in 1942, leaving behind an organization which has continued to grow at a remarkable rate.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/jehovahs.htm (1399 words)

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		Upon Russell's death in 1916, Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford, a Missouri lawyer who had defended Russell in several of his legal battles, succeeded him as president of the society.
		Rutherford officially incorporated the group in 1931 as the Jehovah's Witnesses with the legal title, "The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society." Rutherford developed Russell's ideas into a formal doctrinal system.
		From 1920, Rutherford proclaimed that "millions now living will never die"; he also expected the "princes of old" - - Abraham, Isaac, and the others -- to come back to life by 1925 as rulers over the New World.
	members.tripod.com /~Emmaus1/Jehovah.html (944 words)

	Joseph Franklin Rutherford — FactMonster.com
		Rutherford, Joseph Franklin, 1869–1942, American sectarian leader, b.
		Under the direction of Rutherford the Witnesses' attack on the existing social order took on an increasingly revolutionary tone.
		In 1918 he served a year's imprisonment in Atlanta, Ga., for his encouragement of conscientious objectors.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0842762.html (104 words)

	Facts About the Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchtower Society
		Rutherford (1869-1942) also used the threat of Armageddon to intimidate Jehovah's Witnesses.
		In the meantime, however, Rutherford conveniently moved into the mansion.
		Six years after Rutherford's death in 1942, the Old Testament saints still had not arrived, so the Society quietly sold "Beth Sarim," thus closing an embarrassing chapter in their predictive history.
	www.irr.org /English-JW/jwfacten.html (3380 words)

	Rutherford — Infoplease.com
		Samuel Rutherford - Rutherford, Samuel, 1600–1661, Scottish clergyman.
		William Hale White's (Mark Rutherford) Revisions to the Second Edition Preface of His Translation of Spinoza's Ethic.
		Congressional relations and "public relations": in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes.(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0842764.html (180 words)

	144,000 Anointed
		He was succeeded by Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford who, by and large, embraced most of what Russell taught with some modifications.
		Back in the early 1930's Rutherford anticipated rapid growth of the organization and visualized the membership rising beyond 144,000.
		Rutherford was now confronted with a big problem.
	www.macgregorministries.org /jehovahs_witnesses/144000_anointed.html (998 words)

	Charles Russell
		His life ended on October 31, 1916 and Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the President of Watch Tower Society.
		Joseph Rutherford (1869-1942) was raised in Missouri as a Baptist.
		Rutherford's writers became widely distributed through Watch Tower, both in the United States and abroad.
	www.allaboutcults.org /charles-russell-faq.htm (257 words)

	Dealing With Jehovah's Witness Custody Cases
		The mantel was then passed on to his personal attorney, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who ruled with an iron hand until 1942 (Zygmunt, 1967).
		Rutherford was far more militant than Russell and changed the direction of the movement considerably (White, 1967).
		His teaching to resist military involvement resulted in major conflicts with the American government, and Rutherford and seven other Society officers were eventually convicted of conspiring to obstruct the recruiting of soldiers (Penton, 1985).
	www.watchtowerinformationservice.org /custody.html (10777 words)

	Differences between JWs and Bible Students
		Joseph Rutherford paid his own way through school.
		At twenty years of age, Joseph Rutherford became the official reporter for the courts of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit in Missouri.
		Rutherford began practicing law at Boonville, Missouri, as a trial lawyer with the law firm of Draffen and Wright.
	www.biblestudents.net /forum/index.php?topic=187.msg2523 (5419 words)

	What Lutherans Believe
		Rutherford was largely responsible for the rapid growth of the Watchtower Society.
		Rutherford increased his control over the Watchtower Society and devised what he termed the "theocratically controlled" organization of the Jehovah's Witnesses movement.
		In 1931, the name "Jehovah's Witnesses" was officially adopted to distinguish the followers of Rutherford from those who had left to form their own organizations.
	www.lifeoftheworld.com /believe/jw.php (1473 words)

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