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Brother Erler, from Dresden

Declaring an Urgent Message

In 1907, about 16 years after C. T. Russell’s brief visit to Prague, an elderly Bible Student (as Jehovah’s Witnesses were then known) began to visit northern Bohemia once a month to distribute Bible literature. This was Brother Erler, who came from Dresden, Germany. He zealously witnessed in Liberec and other towns for two or three days at a time. He distributed C. T. Russell’s book The Battle of Armageddon and proclaimed with conviction that world catastrophe would occur in 1914.