…After the appearance of The Present Truth, especially Nos. 1, 6 and 12,
this same resentment increasingly manifested itself the world over. In varying forms
these dear brethren showed their great disappointment at coming too late for the High Calling. Their sorrow and disappointment have been great, and we are sure that the entire Priesthood has deeply sympathized with them; for theirs has been a terrible disappointment, which, however, affecting them with more or less resentment, has occasioned them as a class to contend strongly with the Lord ("they did chide with him sharply")
at their not being called in time to have had the privilege accorded to the Very Elect exclusively, i.e., unto a completion and in the proper spirit to engage in antitypical Gideon's first battle, to smite Jordan the first time, to confess the sins over Azazel's Goat, to execute the Gideon judgment written. In not a few cases we have received letters from some of these dear
brethren blaming us, as if it were our fault that they came in too late for the High Calling, and as if our announcing the Truth on the subject caused them the loss of this special privilege. Seemingly such dear ones forget that our setting forth the Truth on this subject did not cut off further access to the High Calling;
for the opportunity of the Spirit-begettal had ceased nearly four years before we learned of it; and the sealing of the Elect had ended about two years before we learned of it. In complaining against us on this account they are, as the type shows, really murmuring against the Lord, the antitypical Gideon,
as do all of those Youthful Worthies who, without blaming us, resent their not having been favored with the High Calling…
E. Vol 5 - Par. 55 Page 231- ...All must admit that some time in the Lord's Plan the time for gaining the last member of Christ would have to set in, and this having set in would necessitate the withholding of the invitation of the High Calling from all others. Scripture, Reasons and Facts prove that that time has already set in with the indicated results...
Despite "Scripture, Reason, and Facts," the current Executive Trustee's "present view" of the Youthful Worthies having its beginning in 1878 is completely contradictory to Bro. Johnson's teachings on the matter. If there truly had been a Youthful Worthy call beginning in 1878, instead of 1914, Bro. Johnson could have eliminated the above explanation of their disappointment that the High Calling ended when they were discovered, and identified as "The Youthful Worthy Class" in 1919 - See PT. 1919 Page 34
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