WHAT is the Dawn Bible Students Association? What are its policies? What is its work and how are its affairs managed? These are questions which arise in the minds of many of the brethren as they come in contact with   the activities among the Lord’s people in which this Association is privileged to cooperate. We are happy to answer these questions.

The Dawn Bible Students Association is incorporated under the laws of the state of New Jersey for the purpose of carrying on, in a businesslike and legal manner, the work of publishing Studies in the Scriptures, The Dawn magazine, and other truth literature; and also to sponsor radio programs and to conduct other activities for promulgating the truth. Its membership, nearly all   of whom are elders of ecclesias throughout the country, once each year elects a board of twelve trustees to whom is delegated the responsibility of the work. The trustees, in turn, elect the officers of the Association. To prevent the possibility of individual headships developing, the bylaws of the Association preclude any officer from holding the same office for more than two years in succession. The bylaws also make provision for visitors who wish to attend meetings of the trustees. There is no financial consideration attached, either to membership  or to trusteeship in the Association.

The policy of the Dawn Bible Students Association is to provide what the brethren need in order to carry on a general ministry of the truth; but only as a supply depot, not as supervisors of the ecclesias. It is a strict policy of the Association to recognize the sovereign right of each local ecclesia, no matter how small, to conduct its own affairs in harmony with its own wishes. The Dawn Bible Students Association offers to cooperate with brethren of “present truth” everywhere who are desirous of building up  one  another  spiritually,  and  publicly  witnessing  to the truth in its purity as set forth in Studies in the Scriptures.