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Question: Charles Taze Russell -- "the most widely known and celebrated Christian minister of his day"?

According to a new biography, "Charles Taze Russell: His Life and Times--The Man, the Millennium, and the Message" by Fredrick Zydek. Zydek has taught theology at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, and is the author of dozens of religious articles and nine volumes of poety. His work has appeared in America, Catholic Digest, Conscience, The Presbyterian Record, Christianity Today, U.S. Catholic Sojourners, and many others.
What is your opinion of Russell?
The Freemasons declare that "Russell was not a freemason."

http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry03.html

The biographer is not a follower of Russell, and says so in his book.
The question is simple: What is your opinion, do you agree with the biographer's statement, or disagree with it?

Answer: Quite true.

I pulled this from the 1927 biography of Bro. Russell (as included in Vol. 7 of "The Finished Mystery")

Pastor Russell organized and conducted s Lecture Bureau which constantly employed seventy Bible lecturers, who traveled and delivered lectures on the Scriptures. He organized and managed an auxiliary lecture bureau of seven hundred men who gave a portion of their time to lecturing on Bible teachings. Each year he wrote practically all of the copy for the BIBLE STUDENTS MONTHLY, the annual distribution of which amounted to approximately fifty million copies.

His weekly sermons were handled by a newspaper syndicate. More than 2000 newspapers, with a combined circulation of fifteen million readers, at one time published his discourses. All told, more than 4,000 newspapers published these sermons.

The Continent, a publication whose editor often opposed Pastor Russell, once published the following significant statement concerning him :

"His writings are said to have greater newspaper circulation every week than those of any other living man; a greater, doubtless, than the combined circulation of the writings of all the priests and preachers in North America; greater even than the work of Arthur Brisbane, Norman Hapgood, George Horace Lorimer, Dr. Frank Crane, Frederick Haskins, and a dozen other of the best known editors and syndicate writers put together."

Bro. Russell was also a pioneer of technology. His 1914 film, "The Photo-Drama of Creation," was the first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides. Worldwide, it was viewed by a then astonishing 9,000,000 people.

P.S. to Greytower: that was 9 million WORLDWIDE, as in a whole bunch of people knew about him internationally. He also organized quite a bit of missionary work overseas (Jamaica, Africa, Europe, ect.). So yes, he was quite well known outside of the US.

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