Dawn Heresy AN EXAMINATION Of Pastor Charles T. Russell's Teaching Concerning the Pur- By E. L. EATON, D. D. Cincinnati: EATON AND MAINS THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY FEB 20 1918 HARVARD 445,219 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY FOREWORD While Pastor of the North Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh, I had a chance to study Russellism at close range, for that city was at that time the home of Pastor Charles T. Russell. He frequently assumed what seemed to me a belligerent attitude, and declared that orthodox ministers dare not meet the issues which he championed. Believing his whole system erroneous, and that it ought to be exposed, especially for those to whom it most strongly appealedpersons the least able to discover its errors- -I proposed to him that we publicly debate those views which he was putting forth in opposition to the current theological opinions. Six debates were accordingly arranged, and these took place in Carnegie Music Hall, Allegheny City, in the Autumn of 1903. These debates were printed in the city papers, the Pittsburgh Gazette containing the fullest reports of them. At the close these were gathered into one number of that paper of which a very large edition was printed and extensively circulated. I felt from the beginning that these reports-taken at the time by Mr. Russell's stenographer, I having no chance to edit my part of the debate-did |