Do Jehovah's Witnesses eat Miracle Wheaties for breakfast?

Question

Just wondered since their founder Charles Russell use to sell wheat and called it "miracle wheat".

Hmmm, someone sold wheat for 25% more than a dollar a pound in the 1800s, what scammers! They should have convicted them for fraud just like Russell had been.

I love revisionist history. Funny the court records and testimony of Russell say something different. Like the admission of fraud.

Answer 1

Yes. Yes they do. Full of fiber to help work things out too!

Answer 2

Anti-Witnesses have proven themselves willing to use and misuse any information or misinformation in their attempts to demean and insult Jehovah's Witnesses; that is the nature of this so-called "question".

It's true that there are a few details from a century ago (or longer) that current Jehovah's Witnesses may find embarassing, but the facts regarding the so-called "miracle wheat" matter are not among them.


The following is a discussion of the matter from the Jehovah's Witness journal "The Watchtower" of May 15, 1953, page 319:

No immoral action was ever proved against the Watchtower Society’s first president, Charles Taze Russell. ...The facts about “Miracle Wheat” are equally perverted. Brother Russell was interested in anything related to the Scriptural prediction that the desert would blossom as a rose and the earth yield her increase. So, when the public press reported a new and unusual strain of wheat, called “Miracle Wheat” by its original grower, Brother Russell reported this in The Watchtower, along with a government report on it. Some Watchtower readers contacted the grower, who was in no way connected with the Watchtower Society, and purchased some of the wheat. When theirs produced seed they offered it as a contribution to the Society. The original grower sold the seed at $1.25 a pound, so they suggested their contribution be priced at $1.00, and all the money received be given to the Society. The Society made no claim for the wheat on its own knowledge, though it won several State Fair grand prizes before it wore itself out. Brother Russell neither named it nor profited from it; the money went as a donation into Christian missionary work. When others criticized this sale, all who had contributed were told that if they were dissatisfied their money would be returned, and the money was held for a year for this purpose. Not a single person requested it back. The only critics were those who had no real knowledge of the matter, which was purely a donation sale for the benefit of the Society—as open and aboveboard as a church cake sale.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/g/2000/6/22/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2001/8/1/article_02.htm

Answer 3

Where did you here that from? And no I don't think there is such thing as Miracle Wheaties not any more at least. Personally I don't eat any miracle wheaties nor does any witness I knew ate that. From one source I just read, he did not invent the name "miracle wheaties" it already was in existence. According to the accusation he was charging high prices for the wheat, and was wrongly portrayed as greedy and wicked. In actuality it was already on sale by the grower 25% more than his price. Therefore Russell was only being reasonable by acting on the suggestions from others. The fact that this rather petty controversy has stayed alive for over a century says more about the opposers than Charles Taze Russell. You might want to check the link I'm quoting this from.

Answer 4

Do they use Miracle Whip on their sandwiches too?

Answer 5

Why the chip on the shoulder ?

Answer 6

I thought it was rent boys' sp*nk that they started the day with...

Answer 7

No, just Golden Scams

Answer 8

Well I suppose that is probably the only time they can eat them.. they certainly can't on birthdays or xmas.

Answer 9

No they eat Holy Oats.

Answer 10

No. And they don't like to be called Russellites any more.