REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirteen -Counsel on 'Becoming Rich' -Conclusion

 Taking the lead among these awakening Christians was Charles Taze Russell, who, in the early 1870's, formed  a Bible study class in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  When he started his search for truth, Russell as in partnership with his father and on his way to becoming a millionaire.  But he sold out his chain-store business interests and spent his fortune in helping to finance the  publishing of God's Kingdom in all the earth.  In 1884 Russell became the first president  of the corporation now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.  In 1916 he died on a train  near El Paso, Texas en route to New York, exhausted by his final preaching tour of the western United States.  He set an outstanding example of storing up spiritual treasures in heaven, an example that is followed by hundreds of thousands of self-sacrificing pioneer ministers in these late 1900's. - HEBREWS 13:7; LUKE 12:33, 34; compare 1 CORINTHIANS (:16; 11:1.

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