'Millennial Dawn' is the original title of the volumes published by Charles
Russell, and his teaching is sometimes known by that name. The reader should
be advised that Pastor Russell's works are published under a variety of titles.
We give those we know. 'Millennial Dawn' was published in 1886. The same works
were re-published in 1911, as 'Studies in the Scriptures'. Other publications
bear the mark of the 'Watch Tower and Tract Society', Brooklyn, N.Y., and 'Zion's
Watch Tower', Pittsburgh, Pa. The followers of this teaching are known as the
'International Bible Students League' or 'Association ' and should be carefully
distinguished from the I.B.R.A. the International Bible Reading Association,
with which it has nothing whatever in common. On the title page of each of the
first three volumes is a statement concerning circulation :
Series
l. 3,358,000 edition.
Series II. 1,320,000 edition.
Series III. 909,000 edition.
If you will not buy these publications they will be offered you gratis. It may be as well to give an idea of what they teach on some vital subjects :
The Lord Jesus Christ, before Bethlehem was a spiritual Being, and none other than the Arch-angel Michael.Regarding the keynote of the gospel -- the resurrection of Christ, Russellism teaches :
The Lord Jesus, when He was in the flesh, was a perfect human being -- nothing more.
'The man Jesus is dead, for ever dead'.We know nothing, they say, of what became of Jesus' body. It may have been dissolved into gas; having been supernaturally removed, it may be preserved somewhere as a grand memorial.