Commentary
Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence, 1904
Zion’s Watch Tower (C. T. Russell, editor)
Zion’s Watch Tower for 1904, edited by C. T. Russell. Its article of 15 November, “Further Confirmation of Our Chronology,” draws the millennial day of a thousand years from the end of the Gentile Times in October 1914, and a millennial reign of 1000 years from 1874.
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Edition and location
Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Allegheny, Pa.), 15 November 1904, unsigned article “Further Confirmation of Our Chronology,” pp. 343–344 (reprint p. [3460]): the paragraph on Diagram No. 3 from “Diagram No. 3.—This diagram presupposes” through “the end of the millennial day.”; the first two sentences of the next paragraph; and the paragraph on Diagram No. 4. Diagram No. 3 marks “1000 Yrs” after “1914 A.D.” with the words “Restoration by second Adam”; Diagram No. 4 marks a “Millennial reign 1000 Years” from the “End of 1874 AD” to the “End of 7000 yrs after Adam’s fall.” Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine: Internet Archive item magazines-zions-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1904, BookReader leaves 165 (running head “November 15, 1904”) and 166. Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals rendered in title case (“Diagram”, “Dawn”) or with capitals (“A. D.”, “B. C.”); “Millenium” kept as printed; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; omissions marked “…”. C. T. Russell was editor.
pp. 343–344