Was Charles Russel, Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Freemason?

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Charles Taze Russel (or Russell) is reported to have said, in a Convention discourse "The Temple of God"

Although I have never been a Mason, I have heard that in Masonry they have something which very closely illustrates this ... Many Masons shake hands with me and give me what I know is their grip; they don't know me from a Mason. Something I do seems to be the same as Masons do, I don't know what it is; but they often give me all kinds of grips and I give them back, then I tell them I don't know anything about it except just a few grips that have come to me naturally.

Russel appears not to have been an entirely honest man, but nevertheless is unlikely to have been hiding a secret allegiance to the Freemasons, as he talks of such societies consuming valuable time in foolish, senseless rites and ceremonies.

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