With this clear understanding regarding the condition of the dead, Charles Taze Russell, first president of the Watch Tower Society, wrote back in 1896: “We find [in the Bible] no such place of everlasting torture as the creeds and hymn - books, and many pulpits, erroneously teach.
न काम न युक्‍ति न ज्ञान और न बुद्धि है । ” — सभोपदेशक ९: ५, १०.