Jack Ryan

Since Jehovah's Witnesses seem to have made it a recurring event to attend the human rights conferences of the OCSE, I checked the OCSE website if they did so again this year. I found something else that I haven't heard of before: The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses, Religious Freedom Subcommittee Based in UK and/or Belgium this Jehovah's Witnesses' committee submits statements and document to the OCSE, the UN, and others.The submissions are all about protecting the human rights, freedom of religion, and assets of Jehovah's Witnesses. It is unclear whether any official representation of Jehovah's Witnesses actually attended in person some of the meetings and conferences for which submissions or statements were submitted. They have done so in the past for OCSE conferences. A few of the documents submitted by Religious Freedom Subcommittee of The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses: Submission to the Comittee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (20-11-2017) https://rm.coe.int/native/090000168076c93a Statement for the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting 1-2 April 2019, Vienna https://www.osce.org/odihr/415922 https://www.osce.org/odihr/415919 Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee (02-06-2019) https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/GNQ/INT_CCPR_CSS_GNQ_35119_E.docx Contribution to the Report of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (05-07-2018) https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/document/eritrea/session_32_-_january_2019/eajcw_upr32_eri_e_coverpage.pdf Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee CCPR (29-04-2018) https://www.ecoi.net/en/file/local/1443712/1930_1537354367_int-ccpr-ico-eri-26085-e.doc Contribution for the 33rd session (6-17 May 2019) of the UPR Democratic Republic of Congo https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/document/congo_democratic_republic/session_33_-_may_2019/eajw_upr33_cod_e_main_rev.pdf What is the UPR? For the record: I do not deny Jehovah's Witnesses the right to stand up for their interests, and demand from governments and international organizations that human rights are protected. But it's odd that they are so fiercely opposed to political involvement, yet petition governments and ministers on regular basis. It's very odd that Jehovah's Witnesses petition the United Nations to protect their religious freedoms, and at the same time they believe the UN to be the very entity that will attack all religions.

And here's the quote: We will resist with all our strength the spirit of the world manifested in such things as materialism, unwholesome entertainment, overindulgence in food and alcoholic beverages, the plague of pornographic material and the curiosity or temptation that lures one into association with outsiders through internet chat rooms. Our resolve is to be no part of world as we ‘carry on worship that is clean from the standpoint of our God.’ ----------- Well it seems they've missed the boat on materialism [Rolex GBs], onverindulgence [90% of the overweight elders I know], alcohol [TM], pornography [elders and MS], internet chat rooms [my, how this website has grown] - yeah, I think they've missed it here too.

One of the reasons The New World Translation is not called The Bible was because the word Bible is not found in the holy scriptures but I can not find anything online.... The Portuguese (And Spanish) one is now “Biblia Sagrada” whereas the older edition (pre-silver sword) is “Escrituras Sagradas.” I’m wondering what their justification for the change is too. I remember vividly when they were giving all the pros about the new silver sword Aka NWT and the brother said " the reason we call them NWT instead of The Bible is because no where in the holy scriptures the word Bible is present" so I thought that was a good point... But now that I am seeing the new NWT on other languages called La Biblia I'm starting to wonder if they change their mind as people may think the NWT is the book of JW just like the book of Mormon instead of the Bible.... Just wondering...

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Check out this excerpt from his book cited below: “I liked their mother, Eugenia, but she was a complicated and unhappy woman, and my affection was born largely of compassion. You see, she suffered from what I can only assume was a type of mental illness, represented most glaringly by an irrational and sometimes paralyzing fear of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Now, I understand that Jehovah’s Witnesses confuse nearly all of us who are not of their particular Christian faith and interpretation, but Eugenia’s feelings about them went well beyond annoyance; she was inordinately terrified of them. I don’t know the origin of this phobia. During World War II, Dutch Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses (among others) were rounded up and hoarded away in concentration camps. I know only that it was excessive and irrational. Eugenia firmly believed that Jehovah’s Witnesses had followed her from Amsterdam and were trying to destroy her. She would pull you aside as if she had a secret to tell you; then she would reveal her fears and suspicions, and eventually get around to asking whether you were “one of them” and intended to do her harm. The first time this happened to me, I mistakenly presumed that she was joking. She wasn’t. Instead, once assured that I wasn’t a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses dispatched to hurt her, she would ask if I had seen any of “them” on my way to her house. Were they lurking nearby? Hiding in the trees, perhaps? I didn’t know how to respond; I simply felt sorry for her. It was clear from the look of abject terror on her face that this nightmarish scenario was entirely real to her. And it was crippling. Irrational and unfounded though it might have been, this fear resulted in Eugenia’s becoming largely a prisoner in her own home. While the boys played music often in front of Jan, their mother was an infrequent presence at concerts. As the wealth of the Van Halen brothers grew, I couldn’t help but wonder whether they had done everything they could to help their mother. Then again, maybe they did. Perhaps there had been private consultations and medication and interventions of one sort or another. I can only assume that they did try, and that their efforts were unsuccessful.” Excerpt from: "Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen" by Noel Monk.

Not being sexist. If the Governing Body want to interpret it so literally, it should only be virgin men according to revelation

Shouldn't they be more spread out than that? (I'm sure they have people from other nations claiming to be anointed from other countries but the vast majority, at least the ones who get the most attention, are from the US).

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COA affirms ruling in colonoscopy case Defendant’s motion for summary disposition denied By: Thomas Franz in News Stories August 22, 2019 A Michigan Court of Appeals panel affirmed an Oakland Circuit Court ruling in denying a defendant’s motion for summary disposition in a medical malpractice case following the death of a 79-year-old woman after a colonoscopy. In Estate of Effie Taylor v. University Physician Group (MiLW No. 07-100797, 15 pages), the COA determined in a published opinion that questions of fact existed in the case. Surgery Medical Malpractice MAINJudge Elizabeth L. Gleicher wrote the opinion, joined by Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens. Judge Colleen A. O’Brien dissented. Background The case stems from a colonoscopy performed by Dr. Manuel Sklar on Effie Taylor. The COA wrote that during the operation, Sklar observed lesions in Taylor’s colon that he believed were arteriovenous malformations (AVM). Sklar biopsied the lesions. Three days later, Taylor developed colorectal bleeding and died despite the emergent removal of her entire colon. Legal argument The plaintiff claims that Sklar breached the standard of care by biopsying the lesions since Taylor, who was 79 years old, had recently taken blood thinner and was a devout Jehovah’s Witness who refused blood transfusions. The plaintiff’s expert witness, Dr. Todd Eisner, testified the biopsies caused the bleeding that led to Taylor’s death. Sklar’s defense focused on causation, the COA wrote. Sklar’s expert witness, Dr. Veslav Stecevic, performed an emergent colonoscopy on Taylor a day before she died. Stecevic testified that the bleeding originated at the site of a ruptured diverticulum and claimed that to be incidental to the biopsies and a random event. The COA wrote that the defendants argued that Stecevic’s testimony must be believed and demanded the entry of summary disposition in favor of Sklar. Sklar acknowledged during his deposition of being aware that Taylor had been taking a blood thinner before the colonoscopy. She was instructed to stop taking the blood thinner five to seven days before the procedure but didn’t stop until three days prior. Eisner said Taylor still had the blood thinner in her system during the colonoscopy, and that would be another reason to not take biopsies in a Jehovah’s Witness. Sklar’s report of the colonoscopy noted that Taylor’s ascending colon appeared to have multiple small blood vessels suggesting extensive AVM malformation. The report also noted that biopsies were taken and the final diagnoses were diverticulosis and arteriovenous malformations. Sklar confirmed at his deposition that he biopsied a lesion and the COA wrote that his records don’t support that he biopsied a diverticulum or reported any diverticular bleeding. Three days after the colonoscopy, Taylor went to Beaumont Hospital with rectal bleeding. Stecevic performed a colonoscopy to locate the bleeding’s source. He claimed he didn’t see any AVMs during the exam and further claimed that Sklar had not biopsied an AVM despite Sklar’s records and testimony supporting that he did. Stecevic said Taylor was bleeding from a diverticulum, and that just happened to be a random event that it occurred three days after the original colonoscopy. Stecevic injected epinephrine into what he thought was a bleeding diverticulum, and he noted it was successful in staunching the hemorrhage coming from Taylor’s colon, according to the COA opinion. However, Taylor continued to bleed and died after a surgeon removed her entire colon. Eisner disputed Stecevic’s theory of the diverticular bleeding by stating it’s very rare for a person of any age and it’s not a complication of a colonoscopy. The defendants filed a motion for summary disposition based on Stecevic’s testimony and argued that Eisner ignored their evidence. The plaintiff pointed out that her claim involved informed consent as well as Sklar’s negligence in biopsying an AVM. The trial court denied the defendants’ motion by asserting the plaintiff produced sufficient expert testimony to establish a question of fact regarding whether the defendant negligently performed biopsies that caused the fatal bleeding. Analysis The COA wrote that the testimony of the three doctors created a question of fact regarding the source of Taylor’s fatal bleed. Regarding the medical malpractice claim, the COA wrote that the defendants’ arguments were flawed based on Sklar’s and Stecevic’s differing views. “The evidence supports several reasonable factual conclusions relevant to causation, including that Mrs. Taylor had both an AVM that caused unchecked bleeding after it was biopsied, and a bleeding diverticulum,” the court wrote. “Multiple conflicts in the evidence give rise to genuine issues of material fact regarding the cause of Taylor’s fatal bleed, precluding summary disposition.” The court went on to write that while the doctors’ opinions are based on facts of record, their testimony is still subject to being challenged since their views are based on their perceptions of visual images. “Dr. Stecevic’s testimony that a diverticulum was bleeding is subject to challenge for precisely the same reason that a jury may disbelieve that Dr. Sklar biopsied an AVM,” the COA wrote. “Both are subject to credibility challenges, Dr. Sklar as a defendant, and Dr. Stecevic as a retained expert.” Due to the many questions of fact, the COA addressed in the opinion, it affirmed and remanded the case to the circuit court to continue. Dissent In her dissent, Judge Colleen A. O’Brien wrote that Stecevic testified that he looked for an active bleed at the sites where Sklar biopsied, but couldn’t find one. Stecevic took pictures of the areas he searched, and O’Brien wrote that the photos show that Stecevic had a clear view of the area. “His testimony established that, at the time of Taylor’s second colonoscopy, she was not bleeding from the areas biopsied by Dr. Sklar,” O’Brien wrote. “If Taylor was not bleeding from the biopsy sites, the plaintiff cannot establish that Dr. Sklar’s biopsies caused Taylor’s death, and defendants are entitled to summary disposition.” O’Brien continued to write that the plaintiff didn’t offer any evidence to establish a question of fact whether Taylor was bleeding from the biopsy sites during the second colonoscopy. “Instead, Dr. Eisner testified that he believed that the biopsy sites continued to bleed because it was the most likely explanation for the blood in Taylor’s colon. But it is unclear why Dr. Eisner discredited Dr. Stecevic’s testimony that he searched for but could not find an active bleed at the biopsy sites,” O’Brien wrote. Attorney’s comments Plaintiff’s attorney Mark R. Bendure of Bendure & Thomas in Bloomfield Hills said the case was relatively straightforward from a strategy standpoint. “I think we also had a two-pronged argument that even if the cause of the hemorrhage was the way they claimed, that was still the result of the anticoagulant therapy,” Bendure said. “We were able to say we win on causation, but even if the cause was the way the defendants claim, that still sets forth a question of fact for the jury based on the anticoagulant theory.” Defense attorney Anita Comorski of Tanoury Nauts McKinney & Garbarino PLLC in Livonia said the defendants are weighing additional appellate options following the COA ruling. “Defendants believe that the majority opinion misinterprets both the facts and the applicable law,” Comorski said in a written response to questions on this case. “As was recognized in the dissent authored by Judge O’Brien, summary disposition in defendants’ favor was proper since ‘plaintiff did not offer any evidence to establish a question of fact whether Taylor was bleeding from the biopsy sites.’” Comorski said the ruling violates case law stemming from Badalamenti v William Beaumont Hospital-Troy (1999). “The apparent conclusion by the majority … violates the rule that expert testimony is inadmissible if it is inconsistent with the testimony of a witness who personally observed an event, and the expert is unable to reconcile his testimony except by disparaging the witness’s power of observation,” Comorski said. https://milawyersweekly.com/news/2019/08/22/coa-affirms-ruling-in-colonoscopy-case/

found this little gem on the IRS website: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-purposes The exempt purposes set forth in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and the prevention of cruelty to children or animals. The term charitable is used in its generally accepted legal sense and includes relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged; advancement of religion; advancement of education or science; erection or maintenance of public buildings, monuments, or works; lessening the burdens of government; lessening neighborhood tensions; eliminating prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by law; and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency. Not only does the WTBTS not prevent cruelty to children, they aid and abet in the cruelty to children. And I'm guessing that making a contract with minors and holding them to it, is a violation of human rights. Should the IRS be notified?

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August 2019 update Coorparoo Kingdom Hall Camp Hill For Sale $1,150,000 Coorparoo congregation now attending New Farm Kingdom Hall https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-camp+hill-131673554?fbclid=IwAR0ZeUb1zGkCH2ldnSfcFrt207P9xI6ViBQQSQsI5dcd3zd2G8YY1C1A8mg Triabunna Kingdom Hall Tasmania For Sale $355,000 plus GST https://www.realcommercial.com.au/property-other-tas-triabunna-503308642?fbclid=IwAR2L5hSCAu7ER4mNNUScOaM9VGnqSWeRjLz-mv_7oEJzPx1vFZMs92xRi_Y

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police are trying to find the man who left a backpack near a church early Friday morning, prompting a bomb scare. Someone reviewing surveillance footage at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Forest Home Ave. spotted a man around 2 a.m. They said the video shows the man setting the backpack down and walking away. Church officials then called Milwaukee police, who sent officers and a hazardous materials team to investigate. They closed Forest Home near the church while they investigated. Police said the backpack had cans of spray paint inside but did not pose a threat to anyone. They are now trying to find the man who left it there. All streets in the area have reopened. https://www.wisn.com/article/police-investigate-suspicious-package-near-church/28870889

On Thursday someone posted a video of the new IKEA catalogue, the video was made by a JW and sent to an ExJW. They were really happy about Ikea using the ’My Book Of Bible Stories’ in their Swedish paper catalogue. So a few of us took to Twitter to Tweet IKEA about why we had a problem with this. I then emailed them an in-depth email with Watchtower links to the Child Sex Abuse and Domestic Violence articles. IKEA were very quick to respond to my email and have changed the book in the 5 catalogues I’ve seen online so far. I’m impressed by how they acted on this. Due to JwOrg having corrupt and harmful policies i thought it was necessary IKEA knows about it. I will add the e-mails and Tweets in this vid. IKEA’s reply was good.

William Henry Conley (11 June 1840 – 25 July 1897), was a Pittsburgh philanthropist and industrialist. He was married to Sarah Shaffer (1841-1908). Together, they provided organizational and financial support to religious institutions in the United States. William Conley was trained by his uncle in the printing business for ten years. Conley was co-owner of the Riter Conley Company, which provided steel and manufactured goods during the Second Industrial Revolution. Bethel Home Mission The Conleys frequently held prayer meetings and events in their home ministry. Adventist minister George Stetson lived for a time with the Conleys during a prolonged period of illness until his death. The Conley home was sometimes kept open for weeks at a time in support of religious and charity efforts. According to Zion's Watch Tower, annual celebrations of the Memorial of Christ's death were held at the Conleys' home. Conley's home mission was described as Bethel (literally, "house of God"). The first recorded mention of Bethel in association with Conley appeared in 1890, in reference to the missionary house of Miss Lucy Dunne, established by William and Sarah Conley in Jerusalem. Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society From 1881 until 1884, Conley was the first president of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society. Charles Taze Russell, who initially served as the Society's secretary-treasurer, had been publisher and editor of the Society's flagship periodical, Zion's Watch Tower (now known as The Watchtower) since 1879, and later claimed that the Society was started in 1880 and had been functioning informally even before that. In December 1884, the Society was incorporated with Russell as president. In 1896, the Society was renamed Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and later became associated with Jehovah's Witnesses. Conley provided practical assistance to other religious publications, including the three-volume series, Theocratic Kingdom by George N. H. Peters; Peters dedicated the work partially to Conley, claiming to be "deeply indebted for sympathy and pecuniary aid in the prosecution and publication of the work."While Conley was still president of the Society, the May 1883 issue of Zion's Watch Tower criticized Peters' work, recommending that readers not purchase the title. In 1894, Russell introduced a letter from Conley as written by "a member of the early Allegheny Bible Class" rather than the Society's first president. Following Conley's death in July 1897, Zion's Watch Tower provided no obituary, nor any statement of Conley's involvement with the Society. In an obituary for Conley in the unrelated publication, The World's Hope of August 1897, Zion's Watch Tower correspondent J. H. Paton wrote of the Conley home, "I have shared the generous hospitality of that Christian home. Often has the spacious parlor been opened for the purposes of praise and prayer, and for the proclamation of the good tidings. It has been to many a Bethel—the house of God and the gate of heaven." The previous month, Zion's Watch Tower had used the phrase, "Bethel, House of God, a gate to heaven", in connection with the apostle Paul. Christian and Missionary Alliance Conley was a member of the board of managers of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), and was instrumental in funding and organizing it at local, state and national levels through the International Missionary Alliance (IMA). In 1889, Conley funded and organized the CMA mission in Jerusalem under control of his home mission which would later come under the auspices of the IMA and eventually the CMA. In the same year, the International Missionary Alliance was legally incorporated with W. H. Conley's $5000 contribution. The Pittsburgh branch of the Christian and Missionary Alliance was formally established in 1894. Conley was elected president of both the Pittsburgh branch and at the state level, an office which he retained until his death in 1897. Business and charitable interests William Conley worked his way from bookkeeper to co-owner of the Riter Conley Company, a worldwide supplier to the drilling, mining, manufacturing, and marine industries. Conley was also director and a stockholder of the Third National Bank of Allegheny. William and his wife were active in several Pittsburgh charities, including an orphanage and school for African-American children, as well as a local hospital. Death William Henry Conley contracted influenza (indicated in one obituary as "La Grippe") early in 1897, from which he never fully recovered. His health was relatively stable until June, at which time he suffered a relapse, after which he seldom left his home. He became bedridden in the last week of his life; on the evening of July 25, 1897, his health rapidly declined, and he died at about 8:30pm. A funeral service was conducted at his home in Pittsburgh. William Conley was survived by his wife Sarah. After a period of prolonged illness, Sarah Conley died October 1, 1908. In honor of her husband's memory, Mrs Conley left much of her estate—estimated at a value of nearly $500,000 (current equivalent, about $12.18 million)—to the Wylie Avenue Church and the Pittsburg Bible Institute. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 12/13/2010

WILLIAM CONLEY FIRST WTS PRESIDENT (Investigator 140, 2011 September) HISTORY REVISED For over 100 years Russellites and Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) forgot William Conley who helped get their religion started. Pittsburgh businessman William Henry Conley (1840-1897) was a founder of the Watchtower Society (WTS) in 1881, and its first president prior to its incorporation. The better-known Charles T Russell was the president from its incorporation in 1884. This was discovered by Barbara Anderson when working as research assistant for the WTS book Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993) which mentions Conley on page 576. Anderson was a JW for 43 years and a member of the WTS's Writing Department. She subsequently defected from the sect and maintains a website with extensive collections of information. THE WTS IN THE BEGINNING The WTS, initially named Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, was founded in February 1881 as an "association". Its President was Conley; Vice President Joseph Russell (C T Russell's father); and Secretary/Treasurer C T Russell. Conley donated $3500 of the original $5000 capital, Joseph Russell $1000, and C T Russell $500. In its first year the WTS spent $40,000 (donated mainly by Conley) on the book Food For Thinking Christians and other free literature. Conley and his wife Sarah (1841-1908) were among the five original Bible Students with which the Russell cult started in 1872/73. The other three were C T Russell, his sister Margaret, and their father Joseph Russell. The Conleys and Russells became acquainted about 1870 at the Advent Christian Church where they listened to Second Adventist preachers such as Jonas Wendell, George Stetson, and George Storrs. Advent Christians experienced controversy in the 1870s due to belief in Christ's imminent return and the burning up of the world. This possibly led Conley & Russell to start separate meetings. The Russells had built J. L. Russell & Son, a chain of five men's clothing stores. Conley was much wealthier — he was co-owner of Riter-Conley Company, a metal fabrication company that supplied mining and other industries. In the late 1880s Riter-Conley had over 600 employees. In 1876 the Russell-Conley sect amalgamated with some Second Adventists led by Nelson Barbour. Barbour's cult had predicted Christ's visible return for 1873/1874/1875 and then opted for an invisible return that occurred 1874. (This is the origin of the JW doctrine of Christ's invisible second coming, which until 1930 they placed in 1874 before transferring it to 1914.) The combined Barbour/Russell cult predicted the "rapture" for 1878 when the "living saints" would ascend physically to heaven. Some of them gathered in white robes on a bridge in Pittsburgh on Passover night but the prophecy failed. A H Macmillan (1877-1966) who became known as the "grand old man of the [JW] movement" referred to this event in his WTS approved book Faith on the March (1957). He asked Russell about it and Russell said, "However, some of the more radical ones might have been there, but I was not." In 1879 Russell and Barbour separated. Russell started the magazine Zion's Watch Tower and also predicted 1881 for the rapture. At this stage Conley was still important in Russell's cult. In 1880 and 1881 the Allegheny City venue for the annual remembrance of Christ's death was Conley's home. (Zion's Watch Tower, April 1881, p208) But in 1882 the venue was the home of Joseph Russell. (March 1882, p325) Another important split-up occurred in 1882. Barbour's former co-editor, John H Paton, had sided with the Russell faction in 1879 but split from Russell in 1882. The reasons were: • Russell's false prophecy for 1881; • Paton's belief in universal salvation which Russell called "heresy"; • The Trinity doctrine, which Russell rejected in 1882; • The ascent of the living saints to heaven which Paton placed near 1914 but Russell still awaited sooner. Conley's loyalties also changed. In 1882 he stopped giving large donations to Russell and his name stopped appearing in Zion's Watch Tower. In 1884 Russell incorporated the WTS to more effectively handle legal and financial matters and Conley disappeared as president. Conley joined the Presbyterian Church which believes in the Trinity and conscious eternal punishment for the wicked. It did not believe that Jesus returned in 1874 nor believed in Russell's reinterpretation of the 1878 date, which was that Jesus set up his Kingdom in 1878 and dead Christians were resurrected to heaven. Conley's religious shift, therefore, suggests extensive repudiation of much of what he previously believed. Apparently he also accepted Lutheran beliefs since the book Theocratic Kingdom (1884) by Lutheran minister George N H Peters included an acknowledgment of financial assistance from Conley. Later Conley also supported an orphanage, school and hospital in Pittsburgh, sponsored religious conventions, and organized and funded a Christian mission in Jerusalem. A letter from Conley in Zion's Watch Tower in 1894 (June 11, p1664) supported Russell when a further rift occurred and four elders tried to remove Russell from power. Zion's Watch Tower introduced the letter by presenting Conley as "a member of the early Allegheny Bible Class" without disclosing that he was the Society's first president: Another brother who was a member of the early Allegheny Bible Class writes as follows: My Dear Bro. In Christ:— I have read carefully pages 92 to 119 of A Conspiracy Exposed and Harvest Siftings with special interest, and must say my recollection of events named by you are very much like your own; and while there are some details, in some cases, of which I know nothing, and hence cannot speak as to them, yet I do know there were such transactions as you name, and at the dates given. I am quite conversant with some of the dealings, and am surprised at the very merciful manner in which you speak of those with whom you were associated. "The servant is not greater than his Lord." "If they have done these things in a green tree, what will they do in the dry?"—"Perils among false brethren," etc., etc. As to myself, you can rely on one thing, viz., All reports stating that I deny the ransom are absolutely false... W.H. Conley CONLEY'S DEATH Conley's death (July 1897) was not announced in Zion's Watch Tower — although the deaths of Stetson and Storrs (1879) and Joseph Russell (1896) merited notices. John H Paton, however, announced Conley's death in his magazine The World's Hope, and stated that he had stayed at the Conley home many times "over the past 20 years": It is with deep sorrow that we are called upon to record the death of one of our most valued fellow-laborers…and one of the few princely Christian merchants... We refer to Mr. Henry Conley, of Pittsburg, Pa., who passed away at his home in Pittsburg on Sabbath evening, July 25th, after a brief illness of only about a month…. Mr. Conley was a business man of very high standing in Pittsburg, and a vast concourse of his fellow citizens gathered at his funeral to pay their last tribute of respect and affection to his memory. The funeral services were conducted at his home in Pittsburg [and] referred in appropriate terms to his high character and great usefulness. Mr. Conley…carried the spirit of business enterprise into his Christian work and did nothing by halves. He was one of the few Barnabases of the church and it is easier to supply a dozen preachers than one such whole-hearted Christ-filled business man. But God remains and He is equal to every need. Mr. Conley's heart was much in the work of, and his spontaneous liberality has largely helped to keep in operation the blessed [evangelizing] which has been so successfully carried on by our friends in Pittsburg. But his heart had also caught the Master's greater thought for the evangelization of the world. And he has been for many years in the very front of the great missionary movement… The inspiration of Mr. Conley's life and the theme of his constant testimony was the coming of the Lord Jesus… CONCLUSION The article John H Paton: Forgotten Co-founder of a Sect in Investigator 18 presented Paton as the "Forgotten Co-founder" and as "one of five men who were significant in helping Charles T Russell start the Watchtower movement." We can now recognize William Conley as a sixth "significant" man as well as another forgotten co-founder. http://users.adam.com.au/bstett/JwConleyWH140.html

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William Henry Conley. Co-owner of the Riter Conley company that provided steel and manufactured goods during the second industrial revolution. The first president of “Zions Watchtower” which would later be replaced with Charles Taze Russell. Conley eventually didn’t want to be associated with Russell, he didn’t agree with his pyramid theories and thought his 1874 prediction of Armageddon was ludicrous. So he disassociated himself to care for his wife whom he felt was more important than Russell’s cult following at the time. Russell went on to use Conley's $11 million today equivalent to fund his exhibition, and then Conley went on to believe the organization only wanted him for his money which he went to his grave believing. Upon his death, all trace of his existence and founding of Zions Watchtower was erased. An announcement was not made in Zions Watchtower, Russell did refer to him as “an original Allegheny bible student” though. Russell once believed Conley to be anointed, but do to “succumbing to worldliness and falling out, may be given another chance to awake with the great crowd on an earthly resurrection as a man who was hardworking and loyal.” THAT'S all Russell had to say about the president, the first president and founding member. This information wasn’t found out until 45 years later. Even the @The Librarian mentioned him in his articles such as this one: Birth 11 Jun 1840 Death 25 Jul 1897 (aged 57) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA Burial Highwood Cemetery • Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA Plot Section R Memorial ID 62936475 · View Source