Talk:Laymen's Home Missionary Movement

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Source queries[edit]

1) The biographies come verbatim from www.biblestandard.com/aboutus.htm. Has copyright been cleared with them? If not, it needs rephrasing.

2) The links for Studies in the Scriptures come from network54.com rather than biblestandard.com. Technically, these are not the versions published by LHMM. Tearlach 11:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed work group[edit]

There is currently discussion regarding the creation of a work group specifically to deal with articles dealing with this subject, among others, here. Any parties interested in working in such a group are welcome to indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 17:26, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Layman or Laymen?[edit]

The name of Johnson's movement appears to be misspelled in the article name. Tony Wills' A People For His Name (p.266) refers to the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement. Alan Rogerson's Millions Now Living Will Never Die (p.39) spells it Layman's, but in the index renders it as Laymen's. A search on Google returns 233,000 results for Laymen's and 22,000 for Layman's. The website of The Bible Examiner, the magazine I believe Johnson founded, makes repeated reference to the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in the Q&A section. I'll change the article name unless someone indicates I'm wrong. LTSally (talk) 09:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support--Jeffro77 (talk) 13:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1918 Dating[edit]

The year 1918 may not be correct. http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/archive/en/everybodyspaper/ebp0201-Us-b_E_Bohnet.pdf presents the publication named Everybody's Paper. Volume 2, Number 1 (dated 1910 as per https://wtarchive.wordpress.com/english/everybodys-paper/). Its imprint is the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement: The imprint reads: An Independent, Unsectarian Religious Newspaper, Specially Devoted to the Forwarding of the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement for the Glory of God and Good of Humanity.

Velocipedus (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And similarly this from 1916. Current lede says founded 1920, so the article isn't consistent even with itself! - Jmabel | Talk 20:15, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Laymen's Missionary Movement, the subject of the 1916 piece, originated in 1906. It seems to be a separate group to the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement. It also seems that the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement mentioned in Everybody's Paper (in 1910) is a separate group to the later group established by Johnson (most significantly because Everybody's Paper was actually published by the Watch Tower Society).

Bible Standard Ministries (https://www.biblestandard.com/who-we-are.html) agrees that the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement associated with Johnson was started in 1920.

It does seem that the reference to 1918 in the article for Johnson's group is unfounded though, and the only source provided seems to link to a parked domain.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:29, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]