It may well astonish the reader when we have to say it does. Imagination has run completely riot with "Pastor" Russell. He said: " Since the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, then two beings are immortal; and, amazing grace, the same offer is made to the Bride of the Lamb being selected during the Gospel age. Yet not all of the great company who are nominally of the Church will receive this great prize, but only that little flock ' of over-corners who so run as to obtain it.. These, when born from the dead in the resurrection, will have the divine nature and form. This immortality, the independent, self-existent divine, nature is the life to which the narrow way leads " (Vol. 1, page 211).
One feels inclined to rub one's eyes, and wonder if one can be dreaming. But no, this is word for word extracted from MILLENNIAL DAWN. Not content with two beings having " independent immortality," he added indefinitely to their number. Could self-flattery go further? Could bribe be more specious, if it were not so utterly untrue? Charles Taze Russell and his faithful dupes to be equal in deity with God the Father and the Lord Jesus. I put it down in its repulsive nakedness, for it will take that, and nothing less, to awake out of their foolish dreams those who have been duped. Again, where is there a line of Scripture to justify such folly? Not one.