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Billede af Rose Ball (og hendes ”nye” mand Ernest Henninges. Der er flere billeder og det sidste billede (åbenbart fra Australien) viser Familien sammen med et par venner på bil udflugt.
De ser meget søde ud og det er fint at se deres tøjstil dengang. De grundlagde deres egen ”sekt” i 1908 eller Kristne Kirke og blev naturligvis smidt ud af Jehovas Vidner.
Jo, der var gang I kamera og fotos dengang også. Også Charles Taze Russell var ekspert ud i fotografering både med cameral og filmoptager.
Der er meget mere interessant ang. Rose Ball;
http://ed5015.tripod.com/JwHenningesRoseBall130.html
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USA retsprotokoller:
Rose Ball kom til Russell familien iflg. Maria Russell I; She came to us in about 1884
No, we moved on to Clifton Avenue in 1883. It was about 1889 (sic) (jeg tror der skal stå 1884, men det betyder ikke så meget I den store sammenhæng. Hvem gider om det er et par år senere?/ min kommentar) when she came, just shortly after we moved to Clifton Avenue.
Q. Did she live with you?
A. She was with us for about ten or eleven years - oh, she was with us about twelve yeras.
Previous to this time my husband had suggested to me the idea of separation, and he said if I would agree to a separation, he would give me the house in which we were living. He said we were incompatible.
Q. When was that? CT Russell accusation
A. That was shortly before this objection was made, about 1893. We were still living on Clifton Avenue.
Q. Tell us what you saw and what he said and what was done.
A. One evening I spent the evening downstairs, and our library and our bedroom were next to each other upstairs on the second flour, and I spent the evening downstairs reading, and I went upstairs about ten o’clock to my room, and I supposed that he was either in the library or had retired, and when I went up there I found that he was in neither place, and
I stepped out in the hall, and I found that he was in his night robe, sitting beside Miss Ball’s bed and she was in bed.
Jeg vil lige sige, at det “billede” der fremstilles her ganske godt er illustreret ved det foto der er så megen diskussion om, om det nu er Charles Taze Russell der selv har opstillet camera og udløst billedet eller ej, men hvad betyder det? Billedet synliggøre jo blot hvad Maria Russell har beskrevet og dersom man ikke vil kalde hende en løgner, så bar Charles Taze Russell sig “utugtigt” ad / min kommentar).
(husk Jesu ord, om at "se" på en anden kvinde /som Vagttårnet går meget op i)
On other occasions I found him going in there and I found
she called him in and said she wasn’t well and wanted him in, and I objected to this, and I said that it was highly improper, and I said "We have people about the house, and what kind of a name will be attached to this house if you do that kind of thing?" and he got angry.
Q. You state that you found him doing this at other times. How often after that?
A. I found
him a number of times, I don’t remember how often.
Q.
In her room?
CT Russell accusation
A. Yes, sir. And
I found him in the servants girl’s room as well, and I found him locked in the servant girl’s room.
Q. Did he make any explanation why he was in the girl’s room?
A. No, he did not; he just got angry.
We propose to prove by the witness upon the stand that the plaintiff after observing the conduct as stated by her, of her husband with Rose Ball, she went to the girl and secured from her statement that Mr. Russell at various times embrased and kissed her; that
he called her his little wife and jelly-fish, and told that a man’s heart was so big he could love a dozen women, but a woman’s heart was so small she could only love properly one man: that after receiving this statement from Rose Ball, the plaintiff told
her husband that, and he admitted that is was true.
Objected to as incompetent and irrelevant, and especially because it gives a conversation which, if it occurred would not tend in the slightest degree to prove indignities to the person of Mrs. Russell.
Objection overruled and bill sealed for defendant.
Charles T Russell response
By the Court: We will not permit you to show what Rose Ball told her. We will permit you to show that she went to her husband and told him that Rose Ball had told her that he was keeping her and telling her she was his dear little wife, and that he said that is was true.
Q. You understood the ruling of the Court? You are to tell what you stated to your husband that Rose had said, and his reply to you.
A. I told him that I had learned something that was very serious, and I didn’t tell him right away. I let a day elapse, until I felt I had control of myself and would talk, and then I told him that
I had something very serious to tell him about this matter, and he said:
"What is it?" and
I said, "Rose has told me that you have been very intimate with her, that you have been in the habbit of hugging and kissing her and having her sit on your knee and fondling each other, and she tells me you bid her under no account to tell me, but she couldn’t keep it any longer.
She said if I was distressed about it she felt she would have to come and make a confession to me, and she has done that."
By the Court:
Q. What did he say?
A. He tried to make light of it first, and I said, "Husband, you can’t do that.
I know the whole thing. She has told me straight, and I know it to be true.
" Well, he said
he was very sorry: it was true, but he was sorry. He said he didn’t mean any harm. I said, "I don’t see how you could do an act like that without meaning harm."
Q. What year was that?
A. In the fall of 1894.
Did you state to your husband at this meeting any endearing terms?
A. yes, sir.
Q. What were they?
A. I said, "She tells me that one evening when you came home" - I asked her when did these things occur.
I said to him, "She says they occurred down at the office when she stayed down there with him in the evenings after the rest had gone, and at home at any time when I wasn’t around."Q.
Now, about the endearings terms.
A. She said one evening when she came with him, just as she got inside the hall, it was late in the evening, about eleven o’clock,
he put his arms around her and kissed her.
This was in the vestibule before they entered the hall, and
he called her his little wife, but she said,"I am not your wife," and he said, "I will call you daughter, and a daughter has nearly all the privileges of a wife."
she was 25 and he 42
Q. And what other terms were used?
A. Then
he said, "I am like a jelly-fish. I float around here and there. I touch this one and that one, and if she responds, I take her to me, and if not, I float on to others," and she wrote that out so that I could remember it for sure when I would speak to him about it. And he confessed that he said those things.
A. …
I said, "Rose has told me that you have been intimate with her, that you have been in the habit of hugging and kissing her and having her sit on your knee and fondling each other, and she tells me you bid her under no account to tell me, but she couldn't keep it any longer. She said if I was distressed about it she felt that she would have to come and make a confession to me, and she has done that.
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Rose Ball (1869–1950) of Buffalo, New York, first encountered the religious cult of Charles T Russell in 1884.
Hun var således
16 år gammel da hun ankom. Boede hos dem omkring 11 år og var således 27 år gammel, da hun åbenbart blev smidt ud af Maria Russell, der beholdt huset indtil videre; (… said if I would agree to a separation, he would give me the house in which we were living) + en lille sum penge.
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Rose Ball var en kunstnerinde og digtede bl.a. her first published poem which reflects the character-training the cult emphasized:
RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME
Renew a right spirit within me,
O Lord, is my prayer;
That only the perfect and holy
May find echo there.
The spirit of faith's adoration—
Devotion to thee;
No more should the world's senseless idols
Hold sway over me.
A spirit of humble submission
Of sweet, lasting peace—
That warring of earthly ambition
Forever may cease.
The spirit of Christ and his teaching—
Thy spirit divine—
Which finds in thy service its duty,
Its pleasure in thine.
A spirit of deep understanding,
Of wisdom and love;
As wise as the serpent, and harmless
And pure as the dove.
Renew a right spirit within me—
All gifts of thy grace;
That all who my character study
Thy likeness may trace.
Oh! Make me a living epistle—
Inscribed with thy name,
And sealed with the blood of the Saviour—
Thy love to proclaim.
R. J. BALL (Zion's Watch Tower, December 1891)
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Ernest Henninges (1871–1939) was a doctor's son. He met Rose at a convention of the cult, converted to Russellism, and joined the staff at Bible House all in 1891!
The staff numbered about ten: "Our office force consists of eight brethren and sisters and two lads, besides Sister Russell and the Editor." (Watch Tower 1896, Dec. 15)
Henninges and Rose ( hun var 2 år ældre end ham / min kommentar) married in 1897 when Henninges also became secretary/treasurer of the Watchtower Society (WTS). They went to England in 1900 and opened the first branch of the WTS outside the United States." (1973 Yearbook of JWs, pp 91-93)
In 1902 they managed the cult's office in Wuppertal, Germany. In 1903 they were sent to Australia and opened an office in Melbourne.
In 1908 Henninges and Rose defected along with 80 out of 100 Australian converts. (by, by, Watchtower /min kommentar)
The JW Yearbook 1983 claims: "While Jehovah prospered his organization, Henninges' group soon died out." (p40) Whether "Jehovah prospered" anything is not testable, but that Henninges' group did not die out is history.
Henninges and Rose founded the New Covenant Publishing Company, published The New Covenant Advocate (NCA) magazine, and produced many publications including the jointly-authored books:
• Bible Talks For Heart and Mind (1909)
• The Parables of Our Lord (1912)
• The Church and Its Ceremonies (1914)
• Daniel The Prophet (1920)
Their Bible group became the New Covenant Fellowship (NCF).
Henninges died at 67 and was buried in Melbourne's Burwood cemetery. Rose was buried at the same site but her name is not on the headstone. A photo of Henninges c.1910 appears in the NCA 1939, February 1.
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An Internet forum further revealed that Rose was not an orphan:
The death certificate also states that she (Rose)was born in Buffalo, New York… In the 1880 census we see Rose Ball, the daughter of Catherine Ball, 10 years old, living in Buffalo, New York…
…both her father and mother were alive when she was married in 1897. I have their death certificates. Both died in 1911.
The 1910 census for Buffalo, New York…shows both of her parents alive living with their son Richard L. Ball and daughter Lillian M. Ball.
Considering the lies, concealment and bribery surrounding the Russell-Rose affair it's probable their private intimacies exceeded published admissions.
The Bible House workers previously lived there too but had all been removed — except Rose Ball who now acted as go-between, taking messages from Russell to Maria.
The Court heard of: "the utter desolation of her [Mrs Russell] house and the withdrawal of all support [which] to her mind pointed to one conclusion, namely, that he proposed to deal with upon the pretext of insanity." (Barbara Harrison, 1978, Visions of Glory, Chapter 2)
Mrs Russell was forcibly ejected from Bible House with the words "Get out of here, you blasphemer." Another time when she complained of having less rights than a dog Russell told her, "You have no rights at all that I am bound to respect."
In a letter of July 1896, Russell wrote: "…under the circumstances it properly devolves upon you to make the advances on the line of social amenities between us.
It would be improper for me to take the initiative in the matter of amenities such as, 'good morning,' 'good night, 'etc."
When Maria had erysipelas (en slags helvedes ild der paradoksalt nok blev kalst "hellig ild"/ min kommentar) in early 1897 Russell declared it God's judgment. Stephen Porter, attorney for Mrs Russell in 1906, questioned Russell:
Q. What did you say?
A. Miss Ball, who was her special friend, and who I knew would tell her, I told her in my opinion, this was a judgment from the Lord on her.
Q. And you intended Miss Ball to tell her that?
A. Yes, sir. I wished her to. I thought she ought to know it.
Q. (By the Court): Was that the time she had erysipelas?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you believe that was the judgment of the Almighty?
A. I think so.
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Russell also called secret meetings (September 4 & 5, 1897) of cult members at which he declared his wife weak minded and under Satan. He wrote letters to her relatives and friends warning against communicating with her.
Attorney Porter's summary said: "The atmosphere of this home from July, 1896, to the time when she withdrew from it in November, 1897, was filled with unbearable silence and utter neglect."
In November 1897 Maria finally fled, and moved in with relatives.
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Ernest Charles Henninges died on February 3, 1939. His sect the "New Covenant Fellowship," is still active and offers his books and copies of the "New Covenant Advocate and Kingdom Herald."
Henninges defection caused the second largest split in Watch Tower Society history, second only to the 1917 - 1931 schism.
Ernest C. Henninges was also married to Rose Ball. When in England Henninges sought and found suitable premises in Forest Gate, East London, to accommodate an office for the British branch of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
On Monday, April 23, 1900, E. C. Henninges opened the first branch of the Society outside the United States.
He also formed a branch in Germany in 1902, and one in Australia in 1904.
By 1908 he was no longer working with the Watch Tower Society.
Rose Ball Henninges died on November 22, 1950.
http://pastorrussell.blogspot.dk/2009/04/ernest-c-henninges_25.html
http://www.lilydalecemetery.com.au/contact/burwood-cemetery.php
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Rose and Henninges married about this time, and Henninges was appointed secretary/treasurer of Russell's Watch Tower Society. As mentioned, Russell sent them to Australia in 1903 where they defected in 1908.
TRAIN ACCIDENT 1910
Rose experienced a train accident in 1910 and received compensation, which rescued the NCF's flagging finances:
…Yet we have been greatly hampered by lack of capital to open out the publishing work…
Mrs. Henninges and I were making this a matter of prayer…
On the evening of Monday, November 21st, 1910, we were returning together from a Bible Class held in a Melbourne suburb…
When this train was within a few hundred yards of its destination it was run into by a locomotive which was running on a line diagonally crossing the one we were on.
Our carriage was forced from the rails, and there was a sound of woodwork being wrenched and crunched as the colliding locomotive tore away the footboard from the carriage we were in; and when stopped, the colliding locomotive was just at our compartment…
Mrs. Henninges has suffered from this much more than I, but is now, after seven months' incessant pain, making good progress…
The Railway has awarded compensation that will be a help to us in the publishing work… (New Covenant Advocate, 1911 July, p60)
This input of funds exactly when "needed" was, Henninges claimed, "miraculous". The event, therefore, probably motivated
an attempt in 1917 to repeat the "miracle".
1917
The Commonwealth Law Reports (Volume 22, 1917, pp 481-485) reported an appeal in the High Court of Australia (Melbourne) brought by Rose Ball against the Victorian Railways Commissioners to recover damages for negligence.
Her case was previously brought in the Victorian County Court where she maintained that when a locomotive was linked to the train she was in, she fell off the seat and this made her "neurasthenia" worse (en form for træthed, hovedpine og smerter i ledene/min kommentar).
The complaint Rose claimed was exacerbated, "Neurasthenia", is defined by Bailliere's Nurses' Dictionary (18th edition) as "an outdated term for a state of general debility, both physical and mental." (ledsmerter, hovedpine, psykiske uligevægt og nærmest kronisk sovesyndrom.)
The County Court jury ruled against Rose and decided no negligence was involved. She appealed to the Supreme Court of Victoria for a retrial. This was granted by a single Justice who decided the jury was improperly instructed by the trial judge.
However, the Victorian Railways Commissioners appealed to the High Court of Australia claiming the Supreme Court Justice had erred and that the jury was properly instructed. The High Court approved the appeal, making it clear Rose had received a fair trial and her claims were false. Page 483 says:
On the question of damage the plaintiff's case was that she was extremely ill for a long time suffering from neurasthenia, and, if that was so and the defendants were responsible for it, she was entitled to substantial damages.
Medical evidence was called to support that view. Medical evidence was also called on the other side, which, if believed, would show that she was not really injured at all by the accident, and that either she was a conscious impostor or her story was unconsciously imaginative.
It was for the jury to say which evidence they accepted…
The jury saw her in Court, and one of the medical witnesses deposed that, having seen her behaviour in Court and having previously examined her, he was of opinion that her alleged condition was purely subjective and imaginary.
CONCLUSIONS
With Henninges' death in February 1939 the NCF's evangelizing efforts declined.
Rose edited the NCA from 1939 to 1944. After that she continued to evangelize via letters and poems, and received a positive write-up in the NCA (January 1, 1951) after her death.
Her writings, and positions of authority in two cults, suggest intelligence, competency and charisma. But in her intimacies with Russell and her attempted fraud against the Railways she failed the ethical standards advocated in her 1891 poem.
The New Covenant Fellowship now numbers under 100. They publish The New Covenant News and still hold meetings and summer camps.
http://ed5015.tripod.com/JwHenningesRoseBall130.html
allerede I 1908 var Ernest Henninges blevet smidt ud af deres sted I Australien, The Tabernacle og senere etablerede Jehovas Vidner mødesal I Frimurernes sal.
At the rear of the house, numbered 20-A George Street, was a small building (actually the old stable) that became known to the brothers as The Tabernacle.
In 1925 a vertical Miehle printing press was received from the United States. William Schneider, and later Bert Shearmur, operated this printing press at The Tabernacle, where tracts and other literature were printed and sent out to the whole of Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to this, all printing was done by outside firms. From earliest times the Melbourne ecclesia, or congregation, used the Masonic Hall on Collins Street for meetings.
In 1907, property, consisting of two identical houses side by side, but with separate deeds, was purchased on George Street, East Melbourne. This housed the Bethel family of that time. The office was eventually situated in a building on Collins Street, Melbourne.
At the rear of the house, numbered 20-A George Street, was a small building (actually the old stable) that became known to the brothers as The Tabernacle.
In 1925 a vertical Miehle printing press was received from the United States.
William Schneider, and later Bert Shearmur, operated this printing press at The Tabernacle, where tracts and other literature were printed and sent out to the whole of Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, all printing was done by outside firms. From earliest times the Melbourne ecclesia, or congregation, used the Masonic Hall on Collins Street for meetings.
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