It is well, at this point, we inquire concerning the incentive which, within a period of a few years, brought about the cooperative activities which we have just described. Did the Dawn come into being as a medium for the dissemination of the new light? Were the friends stirred to action because something had been found and was being proclaimed through The Dawn? No!

The Lord’s consecrated people throughout the world are, as a whole, well satisfied with the truth as it was brought to them through the ministry of Brother Russell. The brethren directly responsible for what appears in the Dawn are well satisfied with the truth. They have no new doctrines to proclaim, and no new formula for Christian living. They see no need for instructions along doctrinal or devotional lines which are contrary to those which we have in the Studies in the Scriptures.

No, the revival of activity was not due to the proclamation of a new Divine plan. Certainly it was not induced through fear of the second death; nor was it, even in the remotest sense, a rallying around a new-found leader, or leaders. Rather, it came about as a result of the operation of the Spirit of God in the hearts of his people as a whole, just as it was the Spirit of God in Brother Russell’s heart that impelled him to sell his business and devote himself to the publishing of the glorious jubilee message of truth. And it is the same Spirit which actuated the “truth people” generally throughout the happy years when Brother Russell was with us.