Some snippets from various older publications are below. I want to do some more research and also makes some comments after each of his quotes. Stay tuned…
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The endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects, culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the papal system, and thereby the gospel, the one faith that Paul and the other apostles set forth, was lost- buried under the mass of uninspired decrees of popes and councils. The unity of the early church, based upon the simple gospel and bound only by love, gave way to the bondage of the church of Rome…Each new reform movement has made the failure of attempting to make a creed just large enough for its prime movers.” p.l572 9/1893 WT
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“…we have pointed out continually the tendency of Christian people toward union, showing, too, that such a union is predicted in scripture; but that its results, while designed to be good, will really be bad; and this because it will be a mechanical union instead of a heart unity.”–WT, Mar 1893, p. 1504
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Good quotes! So much for brother Russell’s words. The JW’s fell right into this trap it would appear.
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