Riding on the heels of the United States’ Second Great Awakening, the Bible Student Movement (the precursor to modern-day Jehovah’s Witnesses) seemingly appeared overnight, and grew at an alarming rate. In fact, the Jehovah’s Witnesses had their earliest beginnings in the Bible Student Movement. Its charismatic founder, Charles Taze Russell, instantly drew the attention of pastors and church leaders around him, as thousands left traditional churches to attend Russell’s. As potent as it was controversial, Russell’s teaching both attracted many and disturbed many, sparking debates and prompting publications of books and tracts in response. This collection comprises works of strong opposition to Russell’s teachings by prominent American and Australian ministers in the early twentieth century. Concern over Russell’s movement—then known variably as the Bible Student Movement, Russellism, Millennial Dawnism, and later, Rutherfordism—and its rapid growth are evident throughout these 10 ...

American evangelist John Elward Brown takes a strong stance against movements in the United States, such as Mormonism, Eddyism, and Russellism. Brown states, “If a man is helping to promulgate a religious theory that is all out of harmony with the fundamentals of God’s holy Word, then we do him the greatest possible injury by assisting him, even in silence, in his destructive work.” In this volume, Brown addresses the dangers he sees in such movements to orthodox Christianity.