In 1928, Roy Goodrich, a Jehovah’s Witness, went to an E.R.A. practitioner on the advice of Watchtower Society representatives. What he witnessed convinced him that the E.R.A. methods were spiritism and the operator of the oscilloclast was a spirit medium. He began a one man campaign to eradicate the use of this medical procedure from Jehovah’s Witnesses. After a shouting match with the Society’s president, J.F. Rutherford over this issue, Goodrich wrote an article for The Golden Age in 1930 explaining his views. The Society had a “Bethel” doctor, Mae Work, write a response for a subsequent issue, declared the matter…
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Ken Raines The Radio Disease Killer (photo from American Artifacts) Some notes on the RDK In 1926, The Golden Age printed a short article by William Hudgings that he was quitting his ERA medical practice to serve the Lord “unencumbered”: FOR the information of readers of THE GOLDEN AGE who frequently write to me personally concerning the Abrams diagnosis and treatment, and about the electronic home treatment machine known as the RDK (“Radio Disease Killer”), I wish to explain that I have severed my relationship with the RDK Corporation of America and also with the Brooklyn Electronic Institute, in order to be…
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Jerry Bergman, Ph.D [This is an edited version of a paper published in the JW Research Journal, vol. 6, #2, July-Dec., 1999.] . . Abstract It is commonly reported even in authoritative works about President Eisenhower that he was raised as a River Brethren by parents that were active in the River Brethren church. In fact, Dwight D. Eisenhower was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, a sect commonly called Russellites or Bible Students until 1931. His mother was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she died. Eisenhower’s father was also an active member, although after…
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