Watchtower, miracle wheat?
In class at the Criswell College in Dallas, I am taking a class about cults. This is not a class on how to start a cult this is a class that brings understanding to cults that are all around. Recently we have been discussing the beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witness Religion, so I became interested in a few articles dealing with Jehovah’s Witness at the Watchmen Fellowship website. I was looking through a few of the articles and I ran onto one that caught my attention that was called “Pastor” Russell’s Miracle Wheat. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society throughout the years has had many instances where they are caught in their deception and fraud. In this article it talks about how pastor Russell in one of his Watch Tower publications wrote in an advertisement about Wheat seed that was for sale for $1.00 per pound. In this article it said that it was quite expensive for the time period. To really make things worse the advertisement read Miracle Wheat that was guaranteed to grow five times as much as any other brand. It didn’t take long for this new wheat to reach the public as a joke. Pastor Russell was embarrassed at an article written by the Eagle, and sued the Eagle for $100,000. The suit was won by the Eagle, because this new miracle wheat was rated low in government testing. You should look into this article as well as others at the website linked above. Also you should check out an interesting article on the Home for the Prophets that are mentioned in Hebrews 11.
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Nat Simmons 
February 1, 2007 at 9:45 am
Ya ya ya… so the Jehovah’s Witnesses want to make a little extra cash. Big deal right? YES! Very big deal! These fools arn’t interested in glorifying God. The only thing they are interested in is glorifying their pocketbook. They are missing out on the most important part of the bible, and that is JESUS! They decide to exclude him from their lives, and beliefs which excludes them from God’s Kingdome. This makes me very sad. I know some people who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and they are very stubborn. All we can do is pray for them.
November 19, 2013 at 5:01 am
Charles Taze Russell himself had no “Miracle Wheat”. Russell himself originated no claims for the wheat. There was no fraud, however, associated with Stoner’s Miracle Wheat. Many farmers testified in court regarding the veracity of Stoner’s claims for Miracle Wheat, plus the governor of Virginia confirmed the claims. One lone witness presented what was alleged to be tests performed by some government agents who gave the wheat a low rating. Earlier, however, an official of the US Agricultural Dept had confirmed Stoner’s claims. Russell himself did not sell the wheat, but the Bible Students who sold the wheat priced it lower than Stoner had been selling the wheat. Russell lost the suit because he was not permitted to bring forth witnesses to prove that the Eagle was guilty of libel, which required that he prove the Eagle’s intent. Not being able to prove intent, he lost the case.
http://ctr.rlbible.com/?p=980
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