Russell-White Debate: A Public Discussion

Charles Taze Russell

1908年1月 · F.L. Rowe

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"This debate was brought about after a correspondence covering nearly eight months of time between Mr. Russell and myself. In June, 1907, Mr. Russell wrote to me that if I would find a 'fair, honorable, straightforward servant of truth,' and a representative man and properly indorsed, he would meet him in public debate. I immediately took the matter up with M.C. Kurfees and R.H. Boll, of Louisville, Ky., and they made selection of L.S. White, of the Pearl and Bryan Streets Church of Christ, Dallas, Texas. In October, Mr. White was presented to Mr. Russell, by correspondence, as the one selected to meet him. The two then entered into correspondence, and after two months decided on the propositions discussed in this book. Mr. White wanted a much longer time given to each proposition. He also requested that the disputants be governed by the rules laid down in "Hedge’s Logic," and that each debater be confined to the proposition discussed. To both of these propositions, Mr. Russell declined to agree. Mr. White came with the indorsements of the best brethren throughout the South and South-west. He has spent fifteen years in the evangelistic field. He has been the champion of seventeen debates, extending from Tennessee to California. While only forty years of age, and in appearance on the platform young enough to be Mr. Russell's own son, he nevertheless handled his part of the program in a manner that proved him to be a master of the occasion. It is also important to state that Mr. D.A. Brown, an expert stenographer of national reputation, was employed by me to take the full debate. Mr. Brown is not a member of either church, and his report can be regarded as the only full and impartial report published"--Back cover.