Russell referred to „the truths I present as God's mouthpiece”, and stated:
„God's due time has come; and if I did not speak, and no other agent could be found, the very stones would cry out.” (WT, 15 July 1906, 229)

His admirers were even less restrained:

„. . . if any oppose the Lord by opposing the Channel and the Servant the Lord has delegated to do his work, to that extent he loses the favor, the Spirit of the Lord, light becomes darkness, and he is soon outside.” (Preface, 1909 Convention Report)

„Charles Taze Russell, thou hast, by the Lord, been crowned a king; and through the everlasting ages thy name shall be known amongst the people, and thy enemies shall come and worship at thy feet.” (WT, 1 December 1916, 376-377)

“. . . no one . . . can honestly say that he received a knowledge of the divine plan from any source other than by the ministry of Brother Russell . . . the Lord's Servant. Then to repudiate him and his work is equivalent to a repudiation of the Lord.” (WT, 1 May 1922, 132)

“He listened to the word direct from the mouth of God . . .” (The Finished Mystery, 1918 ed., 387)

“It will be found that the place next to St. Paul . . . will be occupied by Charles Taze Russell.” (Pastor Russell's Sermons, 1917, 3)

“. . . Satan has attempted . . . to cause the Lord's people to believe that Brother Russell was not the only channel by which the Lord would lead his people.” (WT, 15 September 1922, 279)

“Brother Russell . . . was made ruler over all the Lord's goods.” (WT, 1 March 1923, 68,71)

“The idea adopted by many was that C.T. Russell himself was the "faithful and wise servant." This led some onto the snare of creature worship. They felt that all the truth God saw fit to reveal to his people had been presented through Brother Russell . . . In February 1927 this erroneous thought . . . was cleared up.” (1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1974, 88)

„Who is preaching the teaching of Pastor Russell? Certainly not Jehovah's Witnesses! . . . they neither quote him as an authority nor publish . . . his writings.” (Awake, 8 May 1951, 26)

„Russell and his copmpanions forthrightly championed . . . Bible teaching.” (Let Your Kingdom Come, 1981, 143-144)

„. . . a marvelously used servant of Jehovah God.” (Then is Finished the Mystery of God, 1969, 111)

„ . . his faithful service and his record of integrity . . . provides a stimulating record . . . Prejudice against his name still lingers. In spite of it, however, the facts speak for themselves . . . Jehovah's Witnesses admire the qualities he possessed as a man.” (Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose, 1959, 62-63)

„. . . angels are delegated by the Lord to convey his instruction to the members of his organization on earth. Just how this is done is not necessary for us to understand.” (WT, 1 December 1933, 364)

“One who . . . no longer considers himself to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses . . . is renouncing his standing as a Christian.” (WT, 15 September 1981, 23)

“True religion, as represented on earth by Jehovah's Witnesses . . .” (WT, 15 January 1981, 15)

“. . . a name that would distinctly identify Christ's true followers in this day . . . Jehovah's Witnesses. This name has properly distinguished Jehovah's true Christian worshipers from others who claim to be Christian today.” (Jehovah's Witnesses -- Unitedly Doing God's Will Worldwide, 1986, 11)

“The one organization that Jehovah is using in the earth today.” (WT, 15 August 1981, 28)

“Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise.” (WT, 1 July 1973, 401-402)

“. . . the one approved channel representing God's Kingdom on earth . . .” (WT, 1 March 1981, 24)

“Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using . . . we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do.” (WT, 1 December 1981, 27)

“Jehovah's organization alone . . . is directed by God's holy spirit.” (WT, 1 July 1973, 401-402)

“He does not impart his holy spirit . . . apart from his visible organization.” (WT, 1 July 1965, 391)

“To serve and praise the Universal Sovereign, one must associate with the organization of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.” (WT, 1 July 1973, 401-402)

“The Bible cannot be properly understood without Jehovah's visible organization in mind.” (WT, 1 October 1967, 587)

“Only Jehovah's Witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the Supreme Organizer, have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by Satan the Devil.” Watchtower 1989 Sep. 1 p.19

“Similarly, Jehovah is using only one organization today to accomplish his will. To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it.” Watchtower 1983 Feb. 15 p.12

“During the final period of the “ancient world” that perished in the Flood, Noah was a faithful “preacher of righteousness.” (2 Peter 2:5) In these last days of the present system of things, Jehovah’s people are making known God’s righteous standards and are declaring good news about the possibility of surviving into the new world. (2 Peter 3:9-13) Just as Noah and his God-fearing family were preserved in the ark, survival of individuals today depends on their faith and their loyal association with the earthly part of Jehovah’s universal organization.” Watchtower 2006 May 15 p.22 "Are You Prepared for Survival?" Paragraph 8

“But Jehovah’s servants already belong to the only organization that will survive the end of this wicked system of things.” Watchtower 2007 Dec. 15 p.14

“But if we were to draw away from Jehovah’s organization, there would be no place else to go for salvation and true joy.” Watchtower 1993 Sep. 15 p.22

“Only Christian witnesses of Jehovah who successfully pass this test will survive and come forth like fire-refined gold for God's use in his precious new order". Watchtower 1985 Mar. 1 p.14

“And while now the witness yet includes the invitation to come to Jehovah’s organization for salvation, the time no doubt will come when the message takes on a harder tone, like a “great war cry.” Watchtower 1981 Nov. 15 p.21

“But Jehovah God has also provided his visible organization, his “faithful and discreet slave,” made up of spirit-anointed ones, to help Christians in all nations to understand and apply properly the Bible in their lives. Unless we are in touch with this channel of communication that God is using, we will not progress along the road to life, no matter how much Bible reading we do.” Watchtower 1981 Nov. 15 p.27

“The Bible cannot be properly understood without Jehovah's visible organization in mind.” (Watchtower, Oct 1, 1967, pg. 587)

“He does not impart his holy spirit and understanding and appreciation of his Word apart from his visible organization.” (Watchtower, July 1, 1965, pg. 391)

“Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book.” (The Watchtower; 7/1/1973, p 402)

“We all need help to understand the Bible, and we cannot find the scriptural guidance we need outside the 'faithful and discreet slave' organization.” (Watchtower, February 15, 1981, p.19)

“Avoid independent thinking...questioning the counsel that is provided by God's visible organization.” ... “Fight against independent thinking.” (Watchtower, Jan. 15, 1983 pg. 22, 27)

“The evidence of the holy spirit in the quality and content of the writings published by the Watchtower Society (Watchtower magazine) should be the thing that satisfies, that convinces, together with a comparison of these things with the inspired Word of God, the Holy Scriptures.” (Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1959, p. 607-608)

„...God has not arranged for that Word to speak independently or to shine forth life-giving truths by itself. ...It is through his organization that God provides this light that the proverb says is the teaching or law of the mother. ...we must recognize not only Jehovah God as our Father but his organization as our mother." -- The Watchtower May 1, 1957, page 274

“He wants his earthly servants united, and so he has made understanding the Bible today dependent upon associating with his organization." -- The Watchtower November 1, 1961, page 668

“He [God] does not impart his holy spirit and an understanding and appreciation of his Word apart from his visible organization.” -- The Watchtower July 1, 1965, page 391

“Put faith in a victorious organization!” -- The Watchtower March 1, 1979, page 1

“We all need help to understand the Bible, and we cannot find the Scriptural guidance we need outside the 'faithful and discreet slave' organization.” -- The Watchtower February 15, 1981, page 19

“Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book” (Watchtower, July 1, 1973, p. 402).

“Thus the Bible is an organizational book and belongs to the Christian congregation as an organization, not to individuals, regardless of how sincerely they may believe that they can interpret the Bible” (Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1967, p. 587).

“We should eat and digest and assimilate what is set before us, without shying away from parts of the food because it may not suit the fancy of our mental taste...We should meekly go along with the Lord's theocratic organization and wait for further clarification, rather than balk at the first mention of a thought unpalatable to us and proceed to quibble and mouth our criticisms and opinions as though they were worth more than the slave's provision of spiritual food. Theocratic ones will appreciate the Lord's visible organization and not be so foolish as to put against Jehovah's channel their own human reasoning and sentiment and personal feelings” (Watchtower, Feb. 1, 1952, p. 79-80).

“It should be expected that the Lord would have a means of communication to his people on the earth, and he has clearly shown that the magazine called The Watchtower is used for that purpose” (1939 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, p. 85).

“We all need help to understand the Bible, and we cannot find the Scriptural guidance we need outside the 'faithful and discreet slave' organization” (Watchtower, Feb. 15, 1981).

“From time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of Jehovah's people those, who, like the original Satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude...They say that it is sufficient to read the Bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home. But, strangely, through such 'Bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by Christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago...” (Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1981).

“We cannot claim to love God, yet deny his word and channel of communication” (Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1967, p. 591).

“All who want to understand the Bible should appreciate that the "greatly diversified wisdom of God" can become known only through Jehovah's channel of communication, the faithful and discreet slave” (Watchtower, Oct. 1, 1994, p. 8).

“We will also increase our joy if we prayerfully and diligently study God's spirit - inspired Word and Christian publications prepared under the spirit's guidance." Watchtower 1992 Mar. 15 pp.21-22

„When the time comes to clarify a spiritual matter in our day, holy spirit helps responsible representatives of “the faithful and discreet slave” at world headquarters to discern deep truths that were not previously understood. (Matt. 24:45; 1 Cor. 2:13) The Governing Body as a whole considers adjusted explanations. (Acts 15:6) What they learn, they publish for the benefit of all.” Watchtower 2010 July 15 pp.22,23

“Under the guidance of his holy spirit and on the basis of his Word of truth, Jehovah provides what is needed so that all of God's people may be "fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought" and remain "stabilized in the faith." (1 Cor. 1:10; Col. 2:6, 7) Surely we are grateful for Jehovah's spiritual provisions in these last days. Thus, "the faithful and discreet slave" does not endorse any literature, meetings, or Web sites that are not produced or organized under its oversight.” Kingdom Ministry Sep. 2007 US Edition

“They do not claim that this slave class is infallible, but they do view it as the one channel that the Lord is using during the last days of this system of things.”" Proclaimers p.626

“Consider, too, the fact that Jehovah's organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God's holy spirit or active force. (Zech. 4:6) Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book. Many persons of the world are very intelligent, capable of understanding complex matters. They can read the Holy Scriptures, but they cannot understand their deep meaning. Yet God's people can comprehend such spiritual things. Why? Not because of special intelligence on their part, but as the apostle Paul declared: "For it is to us God has revealed them through his spirit, for the spirit searches into all things, even the deep things of God."” Watchtower 1973 July 1 p.402

“"In 1942 the "faithful and discreet slave" guided by Jehovah's unerring spirit made known that the democracies would win World War II and that there would be a United Nations organization set up.” Watchtower 1960 July 15 p. 444

“The Watchtower is not the instrument of any man or set of men, nor is it published according to the whims of men. No man's opinion is expressed in The Watchtower. God feeds his own people, and surely God uses those who love and serve him according to his own will. Those who oppose The Watchtower are not capable of discerning the truth that God is giving to the children of his organization, and this is the very strongest proof that such opposers are not of God's organization.” Watchtower 1931 Nov. 1 p.327

“It is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the "slave" as we would to the voice of God, because it is His provision.” Watchtower 1957 June 15 p.370

„Such thinking is an evidence of pride....If we get to thinking that we know better than the organization, we should ask ourselves: ‘Where did we learn Bible truth in the first place? Would we know the way of the truth if it had not been for guidance from the organization? Really, can we get along without the direction of God’s organization?’ No, we cannot!” The Watchtower, January 15, 1983, p. 27

@Aqwsed12345: nekiállok xD
köszönet!

Várom és köszönöm a munkádat.

Gondolom az első magyarázat, ami Russell spekulálásaira adható, a növekvő világosság a teljes délig. Ha ez így van, akkor a Szervezet igencsak sötét éjszaka indult még útjára, ha a korai hamis tanokat nézzük.

Én anno azt kérdeztem a vénektől, hogy ha régen voltak tévedéseik, mi a garancia, hogy ma nincsenek. És ha ma is lehetnek, miért kellene egy ilyen "hűtlen és bölcstelen" rabszolgát követnem? Nem tudtak semmi értelmeset reagálni a szokásos hápogáson kívül.

Megint egy új fajta választ kaptam egy testvértől: "Nem hitehagyott irodalom Russell munkássága, de nem kell olvasnunk és nem kell vele foglalkoznunk, nem kell róla beszélgetnünk, mert előre kell tekintenünk."

xD

@Johnny Joker: Evvel a mentalitással az egész Bibliát félre lehetne tenni... a GYAKORLATBAN úgyis az Őrtorony a Szentírás! Korábban erről írtam itt: zsotza.blogspot.com/2009/09/szentiras-bibliavagy-az-ortorony.html