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THE HERSE• ♦' i-PASTOR RUSSELLDIES ON TRAIN* ’I- 'Who Built Up A Wonderful* * * *Following and Who Held One ofHis Big'Conventions in Her-k * *. r *shey Last Year. Expected. to Live LongerHershey’s chief sensation last year was the coming of Pastor Russell. Many were’opposed to it but Hershey’s only connection was hiring the halls and other facilities ..at open rates, and the trouble soon subsided- The meeting here, drew large crowds. Pastor Russell came twice kid spoke several times both in the big Convention Hall and in the Park Theatre.. He claimed many things and he expected to live to be a partriarch. . ‘But 'Tuesday afternoon of this week .hedied, This is the statement: Charles * Taze Russell, known as Pastor Russeli, an independent minister ■ and editor of “The Watch Tower” and numerous studies on Scripture died Tuesday afternoon on an Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe train, on the way from Los Angeles to New York.It is believed that heart disease, caused Pastor Russell’s, death. He had complained of feeling ill soon after boarding the train at Los Angeles,, his secretary says, and gradually. grew worse- Hedied while. the train was stopped at♦Pampa, Tex.Charles Taze Russell, president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, a corporation with a capitalization running high up into the hundred thousands, was an ’ independent minister. He had never been ordained, but through persistent advertising made his name familiar throughout the country.Mr. Russel was born in Pittsburgh*• i (in 1852, and spent the earlier years of his life in selling shirts. Later he became r the leader of a church there.In 1879 he married Marie FrancesAckley, who divorced him, alleging im-. * *moral conduct with members of his parish.* ^Mr. Russell appealed this case, five times ahd was. defeated in every attempt.Still later the man sprang into notoriety through, a suit for $100,000 which he brought against The Brooklyn Eagle,”which criticised his action in permitting*the sale of “miracle wheat” in his Brooklyn Tabernacle. This grain which was represented to possess properties un-4 tknown to other varieties of wheat, sold for $1 a pound, the proceeds going to Russell’s society. ‘The Eagle” won the case.The tracts which Pastor Russell published in a dozen different tongues were circulated throughout the world. He wrote most of them himself.
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Hershey Press
Hershey, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1916
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