« The forty years which closed the Jewish age, beginning with John the Baptist and ending A. D. 70 with the destruction of Jerusalem, was the harvest period for typical Israel. It witnessed the gathering into the Gospel garner of all true wheat and the entire setting aside of the remainder, the chaff, in a great time of trouble, symbolically called fire. The Lord, in Matthew 13, intimates that in the end of this Gospel age there will be a similar harvest. Many believe it began in 1874 and will end in 1915. » — Magazine : The watch tower and herald of Christ’s presence, December 1 1913, pages 364-365 [5363] § 7.