« The Scriptures give unmistakable testimony to those who have full faith in its records, that there is a great time of trouble ahead of the present comparative calm in the world—a trouble which will embroil all nations, overthrow all existing institutions, civil, social and religious, bring about a universal reign of anarchy and terror, and prostrate humanity in the very dust of despair, thus to make them ready to appreciate the power that will bring order out of that confusion and institute the new rule of righteousness. All this, the Scriptures show us, is to come to pass before the year 1915 (See Millennial Dawn, Vol. II., Chapter IV.)—that is, within the next twenty-three years. And in view of these calamities the Lord’s consecrated ones are told not to be alarmed, knowing what the grand outcome is to be. » — Magazine : Zion’s watch tower and herald of Christ’s presence, January 1892, pages 19-21 [1354] § 4.