Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,595,500 Edition), “Chapter X — The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt”
“Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation”
A printing issued after 1914 had come and gone still carries the sentence in the future tense, and still carries, on p. 364, the statement that ‘The four years from 1910 to the end of 1914 … will doubtless be a time of “fiery trial” upon the Church’.
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Provenance and verification note for Studies in the Scriptures, Series III — Thy Kingdom Come (1,595,500 Edition), Chapter X — The Testimony of God's Stone Witness and Prophet, the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Confidence note. Pages 342 and 364 opened and read in this session, the printed numbers read from the running heads. The title page was also opened as an image and is clearly legible: 'SERIES III / Thy Kingdom Come / 1,595,500 Edition / INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION / BROOKLYN, LONDON, MELBOURNE, BARMEN, COPENHAGEN, OREBRO, CHRISTIANIA, GENEVA / 1918', with a University of Illinois accession stamp of 4 February 1920 above it. The year 1918 is the title page's own, not the Internet Archive catalogue's. The printing also carries Russell's Author's Foreword dated 1 October 1916.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive scan. Public domain. Page-level text was extracted from the item's djvu.xml, one block per leaf, and the printed page number read from each page's own running head.
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Notes. A printing made four years after 1914 still carries the sentence about 1914 in the future tense, and still carries on p. 364 the statement that the four years from 1910 to the end of 1914 "will doubtless be" a time of fiery trial upon the Church.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-pyr-ss3-1918-descending-3457-1915