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-r esting did I find it &bat 1 could not lay afld I waked down to where he wmit down. I kept on re-ading it as I wdkd * shaking hands with the departing pa- .about a mile to the Presbyterian church. rikioners. I said to him: "Dr. Watson, I'mSince the church doar was still locked, I sat leaving the church."on the cold stone steps mid kept on reading. He said: "I knew it! I knew it! Just asThe organist came along and, noting how soon as I saw you reading that Russellabsorbed I was in wbt 1 was riading, said: stuff. That man, Russell, I wouldn't allow"That must be someing." I replied: "It sSince I so enjoyed the newtruths I was learning, thethought okcumd to me toask the preacher, Dr. Watson,what he thought sfWith that, Albert and Ithis booklet. So that vexywalked uut of the church.evening, I handed himWhat a glorious feelingthe booklet and asked:it was to be free from"Dr, Watson, what dobondage to a religiousyou how Ghid?" @yetern that was teach-& taok the booklet,ing fal$ehoads! How goodwho were so loya'to Cod" Word! On April 51914, in Chicago, Illinois, Itemptuous atl3~hde. took the symbolized my consecration-asbooklet back arid xkllmed away, Iwe used to call dedication-by wa.mhthought to myself: don't care "" 1Wf K- ter baptism.what he thinks about it. This is theI have never regretted thatTRUTH!"shortly before the announcements by theBefore long, on one of his viaits back educatid authorities regarding the out.home, Albert brought me the htthree come of the examinations for the Ceci'volumes of Studies in the Scripture, writ- Rhodes Scholarship, I wrote a letter to thcten by Charles Taze Russell. Albert also got authorities and advised them that I had loslme acquainted with the local congregation interest in the Oxford University scholarof Bible Students, which happened to meet @hip and that they should drop me from thfright next door to the Presbyterian church. liat of contestants. This I did even thouglI was delighted with what I was learning my profeeeor in Greek at the universityand soon decided that the time had come Dr. Joseph Barry, informed me that I hacfor me to sevet my cannection with the bwn &wen to rwivie it.Presbyterian Church. Two months later, or on June 28, 1914So later, when Albert again was visiting the murder of Archduke Ferdinand ojus, we went to one of Dr. Watson's Sun- Au~iAa-Hungm and his wife took pla-L