Talk:J. Stuart Russell

Great job
What a great entry...great job guys!! This article will likely prove to be an excellent resource for many Bible and history students!! --Virgil Vaduva 21:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Though Russell seems to have claimed that the idea of the second coming's past fulfillment came to him by revelation, it seems more likely that he was keenly aware of eminent Hebrew scholar Samuel Lee's preterist system of interpretation. Their professional lives overlapped by at least five years, and while pastoring in Great Yarmouth, Russell would have been only two score miles away from the famous Lee at Cambridge. This direct influence is even more likely given the earlier connection between the two, with Russell attending Chestnut College in Samuel Lee's home district of Hertfordshire. Considering how similar James' approach eventually came to Samuel's (stopping short of Lee's fully preterist system in favor of a partially preterist one), it is quite likely that he was a close observer of Lee, if not an actual apprentice of some sort. - Todd Dennis, 4 November 2006

The Hundreds of Hertsfordshire: http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/hundreds.htm

Barley (Lee): http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/barley.htm

Chestnut (Russell): http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/cheshunt.htm

Inappropriate tone
I've added an 'inappropriate tone' tag to this article. The text appears to be verifiable for the most part (although i haven't checked), but it is littered with opinions and has a very aggrandising, non-neutral tone. One sentence that stood out to me as particularly comical is this one:

"He bore his sufferings, to the admiration of attendants and medical advisers, with a manly and even cheerful patience, upheld by his Christian faith."

I don't think it's the job of an encyclopaedia to determine the 'manliness' of a person.

Here are a few other statements that clearly have a non-neutral tone:

"He was gifted with winning personal characteristics, which secured for him a devoted following."

"His advocacy of the good cause was in frequent demand for meetings in London and the suburbs."

"Russell was not only an able preacher, but also a man of kindly deportment."

"This work, a rare specimen of serious exposition and logical acumen, drew much attention to the subject on both sides of the Atlantic."

These are only a handful of examples; the entire article really needs to be re-done because it reads like it was written by a relative or a follower of his. On top of that, nothing in the article has citations.

75.173.160.25 (talk) 15:48, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Spurgeon review verifiable?
It does not appear that the Spurgeon review is contained in the "Sword and Trowel" as contained in the Scribd version of the 1878 archive (http://www.scribd.com/doc/23319484/Spurgeon-Charles-Sword-and-Trowel-Vol-5). Recommend deleting the review from the page unless this can be substantiated by another source. As it is, it is highly suspect. Jamesmetzger (talk) 04:36, 10 October 2011 (UTC)