E5 Author's Foreword, written in 1938

"...so during the Parousia, specifically Epiphany truths could not be seen. Thus when the Parousia ended, 1914, all error was removed from the Parousia truths, i.e., the truths needed for the development of the Little Flock. But by the same token not all error was by 1914 removed from matters pertinent, to the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies. This will have taken place by 1954, each of these things being set forth respectively by the purification of the mother of a son in forty, and that of a mother of a daughter in eighty days (Lev. 12). Hence as the Epiphany advances the immaturities on the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies of the Parousia and of the past Epiphany times give way to clearer light, even as this same principle operated during the Parousia as to its immaturities. Thus 'the path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect [full] day' (Prov. 4: 18).

Accordingly, no new Truth for the development of the Little Flock for the Kingdom has come since the Parousia's end; all of it that has since come is for the development of the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies..."

Since 1954, the Lord has been building the Epiphany Camp. This work will continue until the times of Restitution. The servants gave us the truth concerning the Youthful Worthies. Instead of trying to rewrite history, the correct course to take is to support their "Truth as Due" of building the Epiphany Camp!

Didn't Bro. Russell have charge of the Storehouse?

P.T. 1992 Page. 68 Col. 1, on the Youthful Worthies:
"(4) He forecast the non-Spirit-begotten but Spirit-enlightened class that we call Youthful Worthies. He told of them first as individuals from 1881 onward for whom no crowns were available, and forecast that later, i.e., in the Epiphany, they would come forth as a class, when all consecrations would be without subsequent Spirit-begettal (see, e.g., F 156, 157; Z 4836, 5761; Question Book, pp. 151, 152, 154, 156-158). He did not use the term Youthful Worthies in describing this class, but spoke of them as consecrating between the Ages, as a class not begotten of the Spirit, who would be given a nature and reward with the Ancient Worthies. Some Spirit-begotten and non-Spirit-begotten ones among Truth people, either through ignorance or self-will, insist that they are of the Little Flock. If they do this in ignorance, they should seek to learn the Truth more thoroughly; if they do it in self-will, they should seek more carefully to do God's will, or they may lose out entirely."

According to the current Executive Trustee of the Bible Standard Ministries and his "present view", we've been living in error since Bro. Russell's time. Along with those living NOW who support that Servant's view, would that make Bro. Russell, Bro. Johnson and Bro. Jolly sifters too?

Our Forty-Sixth Annual Report

PT Jan-Feb, 1965: "The articles in the P.T. give abundant evidence that the Truth continues to advance, and that the Lord, our loving and faithful Shepherd, continues abundantly to feed His sheep. We may well rejoice in this advance of the Truth; it is not digression of error, which in certain quarters is claimed to be advancing Truth. The advancing Truth has these characteristics--it holds to the past light and projects it into details not formerly seen, but harmonious with what was formerly seen. This is manifest in further unfoldings of Truth on the Epiphany Court and Camp conditions..."

The "present view" on the Youthful Worthies does not have these characteristics.

Giving and Spreading The Seasonal Truth

PT 1974 Page. 75 Col. 2:

"The 1874-1974 century has witnessed marvelous things in the giving of and circulation of the promised seasonal Truth, the meat in due season (Prov. 4: 18; Matt. 24: 45-47; Luke 12: 37; 2 Pet. 1: 12; Rev. 3: 20). This included the truth on various features of the doctrines of the Ransom and Restitution..."

"Among other truths that the Lord gave through Bro. Russell and that were spread widely, were those on the Thousand-year Reign of Christ and the binding of Satan beginning in 1874, on the Epiphany as a period beginning in 1914, on the non-Spirit-begotten consecrated (the Youthful Worthies), on the last related acts of Elijah and Elisha in type and antitype, on the separation of the Little Flock and the Great Company, etc. After his death the truth on these subjects expanded and clarified, and was set forth by Bro. Johnson, along with many other expositions, reaffirmations and defenses of the Parousia Truth. These are presented mainly in the PT and in the Epiphany Volumes, and concern especially the two Epiphany elect classes—the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies."

Bro. Johnson was congruent with and supported Bro. Russell's view. It's the reason why he titled E4 "The Epiphany's Elect." Since 2004, the "present view" contradicts the correct view of the Spirit Begotten.