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cost”. The whole six volumes, “bound in cloth, embossed in silver”, sell for the ridiculously small sum of $2.25— 37 cents each! The object is to scatter this literature through- out our country, Canada, and other lands, for we are assured that it is translated into no less than a dozen different lan- guages. So it is asserted in the first volume. Some idea of the circulation may be had from the state- ment made in the title page of each of the first three volumes: “Series I. 3,358,000 edition”. “Series II. 1,132,000 edition”. “Series III. 909,000 edition”. The enormous circulation of the books serves to show how industriously “Our Society” is propagating its literature, and the vast number of readers it is reaching, i. e., if these figures tell .the tru th ! That the teach- ing of Dawnism has done immense harm is certain; that it is calculated to subvert the faith of Christians by substituting for the truth of Jesus Christ the calamitous doctrines of Mr. Russell cannot be denied; for the whole system is anti-Scrip- tural, anti-Christian, and a deplorable perversion of the Gospel of the Son of God. In the discussion of the system it is the doctrines of Mil- lennial Dawn that are arraigned, not the author, Mr. Russell. I t is conceivable that he is self-deceived, as some think, and that he believes that what he has published is the truth of the Bible. This is within the range of possibility, of course. Personally, however, the present writer withholds his assent to this opinion. That Mr. Russell is being used of the Evil One to subvert the truth of God, that the Christ he commends to men as an object of trust, love, and worship, is not the Christ of God, is the profound conviction of not a few who are familiar with his views. This is a grave indictment, but it is deliberately made. To establish it beyond peradventure and contradiction is the aim of this paper. A summary of the chief errors and heresies embodied in Millennial Dawn is here submitted.
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