The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

Ir occasion was 'Srrhml and Citizen- I had measured up to the requireship."All three speakers were given a menla for gaining the scho1arship, and, 7handsome round of applause. I wasnow in normally, this would have been very grati-1 my 18th year of life.My parents allowed me to go on with myeducational career, so I entered the Univer-"Thh t the Truth!"sity of Cincinnati, taking the lihdWe dl that on one occasion Jesuscourse. I had now decided thd T wo his disciples: "You vvillgoing ta &come 61 e)TBtruth, and the truth willprbaeher,free." (John 8:32) 'J?bTo the continued ~tudy ofyear previous, 1913, myLatin, I now added thebrother Albert got "thestudy of Greek. What atruth" in Chicago. How didblessing it was to studyAlbert get W.e .traW?Bible Greek under Pro- One Satur&q&5ght infessor Arthur Kinsellti!the spring d l.S&l, Al-Under Dr. Joseph Harry,. bert had gone to bid garanauthor of some Grwkly in the dormitoq afworks, I &o studied thethe YMCA, wh~re he wqsclassical Gmek. I knewliving w&Ie working inthat if I wmtd to be-aicago. LaLer, his roomcomea Presbyterian eler-mate bur& into the roomgyman, I: had to have ato qlain a difficulty. Hecommand of Bible Greek.was invited that night toSo I furi~usly applied mpelfthe home of a Mr. andand got passing grades.Mrs, Hindmaa, and theirdaughtm Nora was to have aand Latin at scnd there at the house.would too lnuch forrnmate to handle bytime how much I would be able to use + ramDuring the course ofBpanish in my Christian ministry.s roommate was get-A high point in my academic life was 4tiag. dong qub famously with the twowhen Dr. Lyon, the university" pmident, pwng ladiw. But Mr. and Mrs. Hindmanannounced to an assembly of students in ccmmntrated on Albert, introducing to himthe auditmiurn that 1 had been cho~en to go 5btwahings of the Watch Tower Bible andto Ohio State Univ~mity to taka mmpeti- Troet Society.tiw examinations with others to win the Mhrt then sent me a booklet entitledprize of the Cecil R h d &hlarsh3pip,~ qual- mrtf Are the h d ? written by a Scottishifying me for adrrais~ion &&E, John Edgar, a member af the Glasaityin England. h e d.f@I hapegation of the Inte~~aLi~nal Bioutrankedme with reg&Btudents. At first, I laid the booklet& but because of my comparable gradas, they aside, Then one evening, having a little.wanted to send me, alongmy hands before going to choirlL Oxford University. I apyI began to red it. 80 inter- A