When did the Youthful Worthies start to mingle with the Little Flock or with the Great Company?

E15, p.652 (see also PT 1944, p.174 and PT 1949, p.121): "A word on the Youthful Worthies as to the witness of the Spirit. Not being sons of God yet, they, of course, are not by the witness of the Spirit, the Truth, given proof that their standing is one of sons, new creatures. Hence they do not now get, by the witness of the Spirit, the same as the Little Flock and the Great Company get. They get the same witness of the Spirit as the Ancient Worthies got, i.e., that they are friends and servants and prospective sons of God. Hence, whatever in the seven witnesses of the Spirit given sons is applicable to friends and servants and prospective sons of God, is given to them. Hence as the Ancient Worthies got all of the Truth due in their days, so the Youthful Worthies get all the Truth due in our day. Hence it is their privilege as they are loyal to get all the Truth that is due the Little Flock and Great Company, dependent on whether they mingle with the Little Flock or with the Great Company. The facts of experience show this to be true. Some object that not being Spirit-begotten, they cannot see the deep things. To this we answer, the Scriptures teach for all times that the due Truth is for all the consecrated. Hence, in the Old Testament times the Ancient Worthies got all of the Truth due in their times. In the next Age, without Spirit-begettal, the Ancient and Youthful Worthies and the restitution class will come to understand everything in the Bible (Is. 11: 9; 29: 18, 24; 35: 5; 40: 5; Jer. 31: 34). Why? Because it is always the privilege of the consecrated to see the Truth due in their times. St. Paul's words in 1 Cor. 2: 5-16 denying that the unbegotten of the Spirit are able to understand the deep things are limited to the time of the general call, during which to be Spirit-begotten and to be consecrated meant the same thing, hence all the consecrated were then Spirit-begotten, which was not the case before the call to the high calling opened. Hence, after the general call ceased St. Paul's pertinent words do not apply universally. But the rule that applies always is that only the consecrated can see the due Truth. Therefore, the Youthful Worthies do have as a witness of their being friends and servants and prospective sons of God, the due Truth on the deep things."

According to these references, there were no Youthful Worthies from 1878 to 1881 since all of the consecrated were Spirit-begotten up until the general call ceased.

J.K. Seeks To Unfix Fixed Individuals

PT. 1956 Pg. 75 Col. 2

In trying to establish a premise upon which to build his desired superstructure, J.K. cites E Vol. 8, pp. 48, 49 (please study this carefully), in which Bro. Johnson shows that in the unfinished picture of the Gospel Age, when there was no Great Company class or Youthful Worthy class as such, the Levites in their divisions, as distinct from the priests, typed the tentatively justified, who were classified, not as fixed individuals, but as "classes of workers according to the character of their work," with some individuals laboring awhile in one division, and then later possibly in another, or possibly in several at the same time; next he states, "It remains to be seen whether the Transitional Levites the Epiphany Levites—will in the finished picture have the peculiarity that we have just noted in the Gospel Age Levites. . . .

We must remember that there are three time sets of antitypical Levites

Answer to a question in PT September, 1943 (see page 143):

"(1) the Gospel Age Levites, i.e., the tentatively justified Levites: (2) The Epiphany Levites, i.e., the vitalizedly justified Levites, i.e., the Great Company and the tentatively justified Levites, i.e., the Youthful Worthies; and (3) the Millennial and post-Millennial Age Levites, i.e., the Ancient Worthies, the Great Company and the Youthful Worthies."

"While some Scriptures applicable to the Gospel Age refer to the Great Company as Levites, this is done from the anticipatory standpoint of the finished picture of the extreme end of the Age, the Epiphany. It would be a mistake to call the Great Company the exclusive Gospel-Age Levites; yea, it would even be a mistake to call them the only Levites of the Epiphany, since Youthful Worthies are also such Levites, though tentatively justified merely."

Bro. Johnson lists the Youthful Worthies as being Epiphany Levites. Notice what he says about the anticipatory standpoint of the Great Company.

Lapsing of the Tentative Justification of the Unconsecrated Tentatively Justified

PT March 1955, p. 29 (also in Question Book):
"Let us notice also E. Vol. 4, p. 322 in this connection: 'During the Transitional [Epiphany] Period those Levites, the tentatively justified, who will not consecrate lose their tentative justification, i.e., cease to be tentative Levites and are put out of the Court [italics ours; note carefully the implications of this definition of losing one’s tentative justification: it does not mean that such a tentatively-justified one necessarily loses faith in Christ as his Savior, but that because he does not consecrate during the 40-year Transitional (Epiphany) Period, when the call to Youthful Worthiship, the last call for Gospel-Age elective purposes, is open, he loses his standing in the Court as a tentative Levite and drops back into the Camp; thus, as far as Gospel-Age elective purposes are concerned, he receives the grace of God in vain (2 Cor. 6: 1, 2)]; while those who do consecrate, the Youthful Worthies, retain their tentative justification and remain in the Court as Gospel-Age Levites.' Hence we understand, in harmony with E. Vol. 11, p. 473, that the tentative justification of all the unconsecrated faith justified lapsed by Oct. 1954, but only in so far as Gospel-Age elective purposes are concerned. ’55-29"

Those who do consecrate when the call to Youthful Worthiship is open retain their tentitive justification and remain in the Court as Gospel-Age Levites. Notice the 40-year length of time for their call.