Editing Charles Taze Russell (section)

====''Studies in the Scriptures''====
Russell devoted nearly a tenth of his fortune, along with contributed funds, in publishing and distributing ''Food for Thinking Christians'' in 1881. That year he also published ''The Tabernacle and its Teachings'' and ''Tabernacle Shadows of the Better Sacrifices''. In 1886, after reportedly not making back most of the money spent publishing these three titles, he began publication of what was intended to be a seven-volume series. The volumes were collectively called ''Millennial Dawn'', later renamed ''[[Studies in the Scriptures]]'' to clarify that they were not novels. Russell published six volumes in the series:{{Citation needed|date=December 2012}}
* ''The Plan of the Ages''&nbsp;– later renamed ''The Divine Plan of the Ages'' (1886)
* ''The Time is at Hand'' (1889)
* ''Thy Kingdom Come'' (1891)
* ''The Day of Vengeance''&nbsp;– later renamed ''The Battle of Armageddon'' (1897)
* ''The At-one-ment Between God and Men'' (1899)
* ''The New Creation'' (1904)

The delayed publication of the seventh volume became a source of great anticipation and mystery among Bible Students. Following Russell's death in 1916, a seventh volume titled ''The Finished Mystery'' was published in 1917; this was advertised as his "posthumous work". This seventh volume was a detailed interpretation of the [[Book of Revelation]], but also included interpretations of [[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]] and the [[Song of Songs|Song of Solomon]]. Controversy quickly surrounded both its publication and content. It soon became known that much of the contents were written and compiled by two of Russell's associates, Clayton J. Woodworth and [[George H. Fisher]], and edited by [[Joseph Franklin Rutherford|Joseph Rutherford]], by then the new president of the Watch Tower Society.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Franz | first = Raymond | author-link = Raymond Franz | title = Crisis of Conscience | publisher = Commentary Press | year = 2004 | location = Atlanta, Georgia | pages = [https://archive.org/details/crisisofconscien00raym/page/61 61–62, 206–211] | isbn = 0-914675-23-0 | url = https://archive.org/details/crisisofconscien00raym/page/61 }}</ref>