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

I'lanted by the IGvers of \\'atrr." and " Rest andRestitution."Throughout all his public ministry, tile doctor's principdaim was to induce others to study for themselves thewritings of Pastor Hr~scll; but to those who had alreatlpgained a knowledge of the Plan of God. and were walkingthe narrow way of consecration. he -.as a constant stimi1111sby example and precept. His very presence was lirlpfr~l.The sight of his bright. loving face as hc cntcred the ronnrhad a beneticil influence. As one of his patients remarked," The doctor comes like a ray of sunshine to us sick folks."But many felt they did not require to be sick to feel thetvarmth and glow. The zeal and enthusiasm engenc1ert.dby his love for the Troth were "catching," and his firm;rssarance that tre are living in the closing years of theChspel Dispensation, together with his ability in presentingthe proofs which formed the foundation of his faith. tcndcdgreatly to disarm ciiticism and opposition,He was thoroughly convinced of the importance of thetime-features of God's plan. Bitter experience of others,as well as his own, taught him the opprobrium that restedon all attempts to intcrptet the timeprophecies of theJ3ible, and he often referred to the lack of logic evidencedin the objections offered to the studv of Hibtical dates.Because. he would say, some have failed to interpretproperly the obscure prophecies of the Scriptures in tllcpast, it does not folloto that these propl~ccies \\ill neverbe understood. Men do not use such an argument inconnection with any of the sciences, and why thereforeshould they use it in connection nit11 the time-fmtnresor other prophecies of the Scriptures ? The real fact isthat men refrain from believing tlre HilAe. for belief in tlreWord of God brings responsibilitr. Our brother believed'hat, even as Martin Luther llad- been chosen as a fittingnstrnment by God to unfold truths then due to be knot- nlIbe firzt thrn of these Wpfd ad^^ can now be pmed in bool.;t-tfonn, uniform in size with this brochtirc.23 E