• Proclaiming the Lord’s Return (1870-1914)
    Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom

    • The publishing of Bible truths took a significant step forward in 1886 with the release of the first volume of a promised series of books called Millennial Dawn, written by C. T. Russell. Volume I was called The Divine Plan of the Ages. It contained studies on 16 subjects, such as “The Existence of a Supreme Intelligent Creator Established,” “The Bible as a Divine Revelation Viewed in the Light of Reason,” “Our Lord’s Return—Its Object, the Restitution of All Things,” and “The Permission of Evil and Its Relation to God’s Plan.” Eventually, C. T. Russell wrote five other books of the Millennial Dawn series.e

  • Proclaiming the Lord’s Return (1870-1914)
    Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom

    • e They were: Volume II, The Time Is at Hand (1889); Volume III, Thy Kingdom Come (1891); Volume IV, The Day of Vengeance (1897; later called The Battle of Armageddon); Volume V, The At-one-ment Between God and Man (1899); and Volume VI, The New Creation (1904). When the Millennial Dawn volumes began to be called Studies in the Scriptures, Volume I was designated as “Series I,” Volume II as “Series II,” and so forth. The name Studies in the Scriptures was adopted in limited editions beginning about October 1904, and the new name was more generally used beginning in 1906.