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The Jehovah’s Witness Tradition - Advocate Health Care
The origins of the Jehovah s Witnesses go back to1879, when a Pittsburgh businessman namedCharles Taze Russell (1852-1916) began publishingthe magazine Zion s Watch Tower and Herald ofChrist s Presence. Two years later he founded Zion sWatch Tower and Tract Society, which was incorpo-rated in 1884 in Pennsylvania. Within ten years, asmall Bible study group had evolved into scores ofcongregations. In 1909 the society moved itsheadquarters to Brooklyn, New York, where itremains today. The name Jehovah s Witnesses wasadopted in 1931 (Watch Tower Bible and TractSociety of Pennsylvania [hereafter cited as WatchTower Society] 1974: 149-51).
Clayton J. Woodworth, the editor of The Golden Age and Consolation magazines, was influential in this area: he regarded the American Medical Association as “an institution founded on ignorance, error, and superstition,” denied the germ theory of disease, attacked the use of vaccination as a violation of God’s law, and
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