« I have noticed that which seems to be a pointed corroboration of the parallel which you gave in the Tower a little while back when you showed that the culmination of the “time of trouble” might be expected in 1915, since the Gentile powers have a lease which runs to the end of 1914. I refer to the first dispensation and its culmination in the year of the flood. I think this year with all of its particularized events is intended as a forecast of the year of trouble, 1915. A. D. I will put my thoughts as briefly as possible. » — Magazine : Zion’s watch tower and herald of Christ’s presence, A voice from over the sea, April 1906, pages 110-111 [3756] § 1.