“When in 1872 I came to examine the subject of Restitution from the standpoint of the Ransom‐price given by our Lord Jesus for Adam, and consequently for all lost in Adam, it settled the matter of Restitution completely, and gave me the fullest assurance that ALL _must come forth_ from their graves and be brought to a clear knowledge of the Truth and to a full opportunity to gain everlasting life through Christ. The years following, to 1876, were years of continued growth in grace and in knowledge on the part of the handful of Bible students with whom I met in Allegheny. We progressed from our first crude and indefinite ideas of Restitution to clearer understanding of the details; but God’s due time for clear light had not yet come. During this time, too, we came to recognize the difference between our Lord as ‘the _Man_ who gave Himself,’ and as the One who would come again, a _Spirit Being_. We saw that spirit beings can be present and yet invisible to men.... It seems that not long after their 1874 disappointment, a reader of _The Herald of the Morning_, who had a copy of the _Emphatic Diaglott_, noticed something in it which he thought peculiar—that in Matthew 24:27, 37, 39, the Greek word _parousia_, which in our Common Version is rendered ‘_coming_,’ is in the _Diaglott_ translated ‘_presence_’—evidently the correct translation of the Greek. This was the clue; and following it, they had been led through prophetic _time_ toward proper views regarding the object and manner of our Lord’s Return, and then to the examination of the time when the things indicated in God’s Word as related to Christ’s _parousia_ should take place. Thus God leads His children often from different starting points of Truth. But where the heart is earnest and trustful, the results must be to draw all together. “There were no books or other publications setting forth the time prophecies as then understood. So I paid Mr. Barbour’s expenses to come to see me at Philadelphia (where I had business engagements during the summer of 1876), to show me fully and Scripturally, if he could, that the prophecies indicated 1874 as the date at which the Lord’s _presence_ and the Harvest began. He came, and the evidence satisfied me. Being a person of positive convictions, and fully consecrated to the Lord, I at once saw that the special times in which we live have an important bearing upon our duty and work as Christ’s disciples; that since we are living in the time of the Harvest, the Harvest work should be done; and that Present Truth is the sickle by which the Lord would have us do a reaping work everywhere among His children. I inquired of Mr. Barbour as to what was being done by him and _The Herald_. He replied that nothing was being done.”—Z. ’16‐170, 171. Pastor Russell took the place of Mr. Barbour who became unfaithful and upon whom was fulfilled the prophecies of Matt. 24:48‐51 and Zech. 11:15‐17.