Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), “Chapter 10 — Growing in Accurate Knowledge of the Truth”
“From Mr. Barbour, editor of that publication, Russell also came to be persuaded that Christ's invisible presence had begun in 1874. … They also came to understand that it was in the year 1914 that Christ's invisible presence had begun”
The organisation's own history of the move from 1874 to 1914.
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Provenance and verification note for Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom (1993), Chapter 10 — Growing in Accurate Knowledge of the Truth
Confidence note. Opened on wol.jw.org; wording confirmed; pages from page markers (p. 133 and p. 137).
Corroborated by. src-w-1955-0101-early-voices-1874, src-tf-1943-presence-1914
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-jv-1993-ch10-1874-1914