“The present is a time of testing, we believe, to many of the Lord's people. Have we in the past been active merely because we hoped for our glorious change in A. D. 1914, or have we been active because of love and loyalty to the Lord and his message and the brethren!”

— Charles Taze Russell

The Watch Tower, reprints (March 1, 1915) p. 5649.

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Founder of the Bible Student Movement 1852–1916

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