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What was some of Charles Taze Russell's publications?
In 1881, Charles Taze Russell published his first work to gain wide distribution: Food for Thinking Christians.
How was Charles Taze Russell's Food for Thinking Christians received?
It had a circulation of nearly 1.5 million copies over a period of four months distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain by various channels.

Question: How did the Christian community view it?
Self-contained rewrite: How did the Christian Community view Charles Taze Russell's Food for Thinking Christians?