Excellent spiritual fare reached truth seekers through Zion’s Watch Tower and kindred publications. C. T. Russell himself penned six volumes of Millennial Dawn (later called “Studies in the Scriptures”) from 1886 to 1904.

19, 20. (a) How did the Bible Students use a newspaper syndicate? (b) Describe the Photo-Drama of Creation.

¹⁹ The Bible Students kept Scriptural truths before the public also through an international newspaper syndicate that they organized. At one time about 3,000 newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe were publishing C. T. Russell’s sermons. However, for years the Bible Students had declared that the 2,520-year-long Gentile Times or “appointed times of the nations” would expire in 1914. (Luke 21:24) As that year approached, Russell conceived of a bold new way to declare the good news.

²⁰ Motion pictures were still in their infancy. Commercially successful synchronization of film and sound had not yet been achieved; nor had color motion pictures been perfected for general use. But in 1912 Russell determined to give a great witness through this medium. He wrote and produced the Photo-Drama of Creation, an eight-hour-long slide, motion picture and sound production outlining the divine purpose for the earth and mankind from creation down to the end of Jesus Christ’s thousand-year reign. (Rev. 20:6) Shown in four parts, the Photo-Drama combined phonograph recordings with slides and motion pictures. It was seen by millions and was a grand witness concerning Jehovah’s purposes.