God’s Mouthpiece
A tract produced by the Roman Catholic The Evangelization Station, entitled “A Brief History of the Watchtower,” states: “Russell called himself God’s mouthpiece.” The statement, as stated, is true enough. Of course, Russell did believe that God has used him in a general way to bring forth many truths from the storehouse of the Bible. The evident desire of this statement, however, is that Russell was claiming to be the sole authority on God.
The tract immediately follows, however, with the statement: “He made his living at the time as a haberdasher.” This makes it appear that in some way while Russell was a haberdasher that he claimed to be God’s mouthpiece. We do not know that Russell claimed such while he was in the haberdashery business, but we do know he made such a statement of himself after he got out of that business.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that Russell spoke, not only of himself as God’s mouthpiece, but he also spoke of any who are servants of Jesus as God’s mouthpieces.
We are providing some Google searches below of Russell’s works related to Russell’s usage of the words “mouthpiece” and “mouthpieces.” (While most of the results are words of Russell, one should note carefully since many times the statements are not made by Russell, but by another.)
ctrussell.us site
agsconsulting.com site
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