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Chosen no: R-705 a, from: 1884 Year. |
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Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society.
If our charter is granted in a few days as we
expect, voting certificates will at once be issued to all whose donations to
the Society's funds shall aggregate Ten Dollars or more. Each ten dollar
donation representing one voting share according to our charter.
A few have evidently misunderstood the matter of
obtaining a Charter and feared it was either an attempt to obtain protection or
recognition, from a government of this world; or an evidence of lack of trust
that God could and would carry forward his own work no matter who lived or
died.
These are mistaken ideas. While we trust fully
to the Lord's care of His own cause, it is our duty to so arrange our affairs
and His, that in case of one death it would not require miraculous
interposition to prevent disputes, and law suits from swamping the Society and
annoying our successors in its management. So far as the Government is
concerned we ask only those rights which it accords to aliens as
well as citizens. And a charter such as we are asking for is such a right; it brings us under no obligation whatever.
W.T. R-705a : page 7 - 1884r
