When CTR split from Barbour (1878/9), Paton sided with CTR and became the primary regular contributor of "Zion's Watch Tower" articles. In the first 13 issues, CTR published a total of 48 Paton-authored articles. In late 1879, at CTR's request and partial expense (shared with A. D. Jones), Paton also authored the book, "Day Dawn", which was intended to replace Barbour's "The Three Worlds", which CTR had also financed. Paton also continued to travel to speak on behalf of "Zion's Watch Tower".

However, in 1880, CTR and Paton also began to have interpretational differences. In the October 1880 issue, CTR attached an editorial note to a Paton article in which he tactfully disagreed on part. Thereafter, CTR published 4 Paton articles in the November 1880 issue, one in the December 1880 issue, one in the March 1881 issue, two in the April 1881 issue, and the last Paton article was published in the June 1881 issue.

After CTR and Paton parted company, Paton revised "Day Dawn" in 1882, to reflect his evolving beliefs, but he retained the original title. Also, in 1882, Paton began to publish a magazine called "The World's Hope", which had a small circulation, but was still being published when Paton wrote his autobiography in 1915. Paton also went on to author other books, including more revisions of "Day Dawn" in 1890 and 1892. ZWT articles seem to indicate that A. D. Jones also began to publish some Paton articles around 1883/84.

Curiously, CTR published the following conciliatory Letter (without explanatory comment or reply) in the September 1886 ZWT, which I am assuming is from John Paton (signed "J.P.") of "Michigan".

EXCERPT 

EXTRACT FROM AN INTERESTING LETTER.

Michigan, August 25, 1886.

DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL: I have just finished reading Millennial Dawn the second time, and although the subjects treated were not new to me, but had been studied and digested before, I am delighted with the book, and have experienced great pleasure and profit, and feel like a giant refreshed with new wine, better prepared and equipped for the conflict.

One feature of the book that escaped my notice before, is the wise arrangement of the subjects, and the mild and gentle language used in contrasting the truth with error. Although these truths set forth so clearly, may still be rejected by the so-called great teachers in the nominal church it appears to me it would be impossible for any to take offence. The book is a production well worthy of a Master in Israel, one whose eyes had been anointed with eye-salve. The book will be "meat in due season" to all who are true followers of Christ. I will be anxiously looking for the issue of Vol. II.

I feel deeply obliged to you for any word of advice, encouragement or reproof by letter or in the TOWER. Reproof no doubt is what I need the most, will receive it as from the Lord. Shall feel deeply thankful to you at all times.

All my sympathy is with you in your labor of love.

Yours in Christ,

J. P.

EXCERPTS

About this time I received a copy of the "Herald of the Morning," Bro.
B.[arbour] was its publisher; ...

The paper came in the morning, and I had read it and written to brother B. before noon. I examined more of the time proofs, and though not yet settled with reference to them, made arrangements with brothers B. and Paton to come to Philadelphia, where I was engaged at the time (1876), and hold some meetings, giving evidences, etc., of time, to which I listened with interest, and of the truth of which I felt convinced. Br. B. and I talked over various methods of promulgating these truths and finally decided to travel and preach them wherever men and women would hear, and to thus spend (D.V.) the remainder of the harvest, which we then supposed was three and a half years, and would close in 1878. While I was arranging my affairs, brother B. returned to Rochester to prepare for publication of the "Three Worlds." (We found during the Philadelphia meetings that such a book was necessary to furnish hearers with chapter and verse for what was claimed), and to close up the "Herald" as it could not be properly attended to while traveling, and the suggestion was made that if any new evidences or truths were developed, a paper could at any time be published and issued from any point. In the meantime, to do justice to subscribers and give them reading matter for the remainder of their year, brother B. had parts of the "Three Worlds" book, then on the press, arranged with a heading, "Herald of the Morning Quarterly," which were left with a sister in Rochester to be mailed as they became due.

We, Bros. Barbour, Paton and myself, traveled, lectured, etc., for some months, when it seemed advisable to us all that a paper should go continuously to those who were hearing, thus keeping alive and watering seed sown. This seemed good to us all, and while brother Paton and I continued lecturing, brother B. went to Rochester and fitted up our office, type, etc., for which I furnished the money. ...

That it was a new paper, or had at least undergone a change of management, was witnessed monthly by the heading of its fourth page where it expressly states that it is "Published by C. T. Russell and N.
H. Barbour." Since the paper's change of form, July 1878, this has been omitted. ...

Note 2. When I first mentioned another paper to brother B. January last, he suggested that I take editorial charge of the Herald, which I then declined; ....

These excerpts are Charles Taze Russell's words regarding his relationship with John H. Paton:

"... I at once wrote to
Mr. Barbour, informing him of our harmony on other points and desiring to
know particularly why, and upon what
Scriptural evidences, he held that Christ's presence and the harvesting of the Gospel age dated from the Autumn of 1874. The answer showed that my surmise had been correct, viz.: that the time arguments, chronology, etc., were the same as used by Second Adventists in 1873, and explained how Mr. Barbour and Mr. J. A. Paton of Michigan, a co-worker with him, had been regular Second Adventists up to that time, and that when the date 1874 had passed without the world being burned, and without their seeing Christ in the flesh, they were for a time dumb-founded. ...

But there were no books or other publications setting forth the time-prophecies as then understood, so I paid Mr. Barbour's expenses to come to see me at Philadelphia (where I had business engagements during the summer of 1876), to show me fully and Scripturally, if he could, that the prophecies indicated 1874 as the date at which the Lord's presence and the harvest began. He came, and the evidences satisfied me. ...

I therefore at once resolved upon a vigorous campaign for the truth. I determined to curtail my business cares and give my time as well as means to the great harvest work. Accordingly, I sent Mr. Barbour back to his home, with money and instructions to prepare in concise book form the good tidings so far as then understood, including the time features, while I closed out my Philadelphia business preparatory to engaging in the work, which I afterward did, traveling and preaching. ...

After a time I conceived the idea of adding another harvest laborer and sent for Mr. Paton, who promptly responded and
whose traveling expenses were met in the same manner.

But noticing how quickly people seemed
to forget what they had heard, it soon became evident that while the meetings were useful in awakening interest, a monthly journal was needed to hold that interest and develop it. It therefore seemed to be the Lord's will that one of our number should settle somewhere and begin again the regular issuing of the "Herald of the Morning". I suggested that Mr. Barbour do this, as he had experience as a type-setter and could therefore do it most economically, while Mr. Paton and I would continue to travel and contribute to its columns as we should find opportunity. ...

But while I was thus helped to clearer
views and brighter hopes, and while I
diligently endeavored to help others, the Spring of 1878 proved far from a blessing to Mr. Barbour and to many under his influence. ...

To our painful surprise Mr. Barbour
soon after wrote an article for the Herald denying the doctrine of the atonement-- ...

Immediately I wrote an article for the Herald in contradiction of the error, showing the necessity "that one die for all"-- "the just for the unjust"--and how Christ fulfilled all this as it had been written, and that consequently God could be just and forgive and release the sinner from the very penalty he had justly imposed (Rom. 3:26.) I also wrote to Mr. Paton, calling his attention to the fundamental character of the doctrine assailed, and pointing out how the time and circumstances all corresponded with the parable of the one who took off the wedding garment when just about to partake of the wedding feast. He replied that he had not seen it in so strong a light before, that Mr. B. had a strong, dogmatic way of putting things which had for the time overbalanced him. I urged that, seeing now the importance of the doctrine, he also write an article for the "Herald", which, in no uncertain tone, would give his witness for the precious blood of Christ, which he did. Those
articles appeared in the issues of the "Herald" from July to December, 1878. ...

I therefore, after a most careful though unavailing effort to reclaim the erring, withdrew entirely from the "Herald of the Morning" and from further fellowship with Mr. B. ...

I therefore understood it to be the Lord's will that I should start another journal in which the standard of the cross should be lifted high, the doctrine of the ransom defended, and the good tidings of great joy proclaimed asextensively as possible. Acting upon this leading of the Lord, I gave up traveling, and in July, 1879, the first number of "Zion's Watch Tower and
Herald of Christ's Presence" made its appearance. ...

For a time we had a most painful experience: the readers of the "Herald" and of the TOWER were the same, ...

It was at this time that Mr. Adams espoused the views of Mr. Barbour and likewise forsook the doctrine of the ransom. And, true to our interpretation of the parable of the wedding garment as given at the time, Mr. Barbour and Mr. Adams, having cast off the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness,
went out of the light into the outer darkness of the world on the subjects once so clearly seen--namely, the time and manner of the Lord's presence; and since then for ten years they have been expecting Christ, Spring or Fall, down to the present Spring, which was their latest disappointment.

During this ordeal, or we might truly
call it battle, for the cross of Christ, we had the earnest co-operation of Mr. Paton, who, up to the Summer of 1881, was an appreciated co-laborer and defender of
the doctrine of coming blessings through Christ based upon the ransom for all given at Calvary. The book "The Three Worlds" having been for some time out of print, it seemed as if either another edition of that, or else a new book covering the same features, should be gotten out. Mr. Paton agreed to get it ready for the press and Mr. Jones offered to pay all the expenses incident to its printing and binding and to give Mr. Paton as many copies of the book as he could sell, as remuneration for his time spent in preparing the matter, provided I would agree to advertise it liberally and gratuitously in the TOWER--well knowing that there would be a demand for it if I should recommend it, and that his outlay would be sure to return with profit. I not only agreed to this but contributed
to Mr. Paton's personal expenses in connection with the publishing, as well as
paid part of the printer's bill at his
solicitation.

In the end I alone was at any financial
loss in connection with that book, called "Day Dawn", the writer and publisher both being gainers financially, while I did all the introducing by repeated
advertisements in the TOWER as well as in "Food for Thinking Christians", of which over a million copies were circulated. We need to give these particulars, because of certain one-side and only partial statements of facts and
misrepresentations, which have recently been published and circulated in tract form by Mr. Paton, who is also now an advocate of that "other gospel" of which the cross of Christ is not the center, and which denies that he "bought us with his own precious blood." Mr. P. has gotten out another book, which, though called by the same name as the one we introduced, being on another and a false foundation, I cannot and do not recommend, but which I esteem misleading sophistry, tending to undermine the whole structure of the Christian system: yet retaining a sufficiency of the truths which we once held in common to make it palatable and dangerous to all not rooted and grounded upon the ransom rock. ...

The little history of the way in which
Mr. Paton came to turn from us and the
ransom, to oppose that which he once
clearly saw and advocated, is important, as it became the occasion of another sifting or testing of the WATCH TOWER readers, by that time a much larger number; because Mr. Paton had been a respected brother and co-worker with us, and because as a traveling representative of the TOWER and its doctrines, his expenses being met in part by TOWER subscriptions and renewals, as well as by money from me, he was personally known to a larger number of the readers than was the editor of the TOWER. It came about thus:--

In the year 1881, Mr. Barbour, still
publishing the Herald, and still endeavoring to overthrow the doctrine of the ransom, finding that on a preaching tour I had used a diagram of the Tabernacle to illustrate how Christ's sacrifice was typified in the sacrifices of typical Israel, etc., wrote an article on the atonement, in which he undertook to show that the sacrifices of the Day of Atonement typified almost anything else than what they do typify. ...

I saw at once that these new developments would probably prove a stumbling block to some, as well as a great blessing to others who were ready for it. Instead, therefore, of publishing it in the next TOWER, I determined to first present the matter privately to the more prominent brethren; --remembering Paul's course in a similar matter.-- Gal. 2:2. Accordingly I sent invitation and the
money necessary for traveling expenses to four of the more prominent brethren, requesting a conference. Mr. Paton from Michigan was one of the four, and the
only one who rejected the fresh rays of
light. Nor could he find any fault with
the exegesis, though urged, as all were, to state anything which might seem inconsistent or to quote any passages of Scripture thought to be in conflict. But there were none, and every question only demonstrated the strength of the position
more fully. I therefore urged that what was beyond the criticism of those most familiar with the plan of God must be the truth, and ought to be confessed and taught at any cost, and especially when it arranged and ordered all the other features of truth so beautifully. I pointed out, too, how necessary it was to a logical holding of the ransom, to see just what this showed-- viz.: the distinctions of nature --that our Lord left a higher nature, and took a lower nature, when he was made flesh, and that the object in that change of nature was, that he might, as a man, a perfect man, give himself a ransom for the first perfect man, Adam, and thus redeem Adam, and all lost in him. I also showed how, as a reward for this great work, he was given the divine nature in his resurrection--a nature still higher than the glorious one he had left, when he became a man. But either his mental vision or his heart was weak, and he never took the step, and before long, alas! he too, as we had foreseen and forewarned him would be the natural course, forsook the doctrine of the ransom. Yet he still uses the word, ransom, while denying the idea conveyed by the word, nor can he give the word any other definition, or otherwise dispute the correctness of the meaning, which we attach to it-- which may be found in any English dictionary and is true to the significance of the Greek word which it translates.

Notwithstanding our best endeavors to
save him he drifted farther and farther
away, until I was obliged to refuse his articles for the TOWER for the same reason that obliged me to refuse to longer spend the Lord's money entrusted to me to assist Mr. Barbour to spread the same pernicious theory.

It was about this time that Mr. Jones
informed me that the copies of the book
"Day Dawn" which I had purchased last
were all that were left; and announcing it so that no more orders for it might come to the TOWER office, I took occasion to promise MILLENNIAL DAWN, which should present the Plan of the Ages in the clearer, more orderly manner made possible by the new light shed upon every feature of it by the lessons from the Tabernacle.

About this time Mr. Paton concluded that he would publish another "Day Dawn", revised to harmonize with his new views ignoring the ransom, ignoring justification
and the need of either, and teaching
that all men will be everlastingly saved-- not in any sense as the result of any sacrifice for their sin by Christ, but as a result of each one's crucifying sin in himself-- the Law under which the poor Jews tried to commend themselves to God, but which justified none.

During this time I was busied by an
immense work known to many of you--
the issue and circulation of over 1,400,000 copies of the two pamphlets entitled
"FOOD FOR THINKING CHRISTIANS" andthe "TABERNACLE TEACHINGS", whose united matter was in sum about the same as Dawn, Vol. I.; and besides this I was flooded with thousands of joyous and joy-giving letters, from those who had gotten and were reading the pamphlets thus distributed, and asking questions and more reading matter. To add to our throng, financial complications came, and thus for four years I was hindered from fulfilling my promise of MILLENNIAL DAWN. Nor will our promise be fulfilled for several years yet; for though two volumes are now out and a third on the way, I purpose several more, as the Lord shall give grace and strength, in connection with the other features of his work entrusted to my care. But because, during those four years in which we were struggling through an immense amount of labor and many draw-backs (all cheerfully undergone for the sake of the Lord and his saints), when each year we hoped afresh to be able to gather the hours necessary to complete the first volume of MILLENNIAL DAWN, and after the old edition was exhausted, notified all applicants that the "Day Dawn" advertised and recommended by us was out of print and could no longer be supplied, I have
been made the target of innumerable petty misrepresentations too small to notice, and malicious insinuations told in a sly but slanderous manner and circulated in print, which a noble nature would disdain, but which are often successful, as intended, in stirring up bitterness, and injuring the influence of the truth. What do I do about it? I thank the Lord for the privilege of suffering some of the reproaches of Christ and the cross, and for grace sufficient that none of these things move me from the utmost determination to always hold up Christ and him crucified, as the Redeemer, who in due time shall restore whosoever wills to all that was lost in Adam. ...

Another chapter in our experience needs
to be told, as it marks another shaking
and sifting. Mr. A. D. Jones proposed to start a paper on the same line as the
WATCH TOWER, to republish some of the simpler features of God's plan and to be a sort of missionary and primary teacher to draw attention to the TOWER, etc.

MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN.

This is the title of a new book we are about to publish. It will contain some matter already published, and much that will be new. It will contain a statement of what we understand to be the plan of God, an explanation of the most prominent symbols of the book of Revelation, together with comments on many of the "parables and dark sayings" of Jesus and the Apostles, and the Scriptural time proofs showing our present whereabouts on the stream of time, written in a clear and pointed, yet as condensed a manner as possible.

It will not only be such a book as you would desire to loan to interested ones, and would want to study yourself, but it will be arranged with a view to making it a BOOK OF REFERENCE on almost all theological subjects.

It will contain matter from the pens of several brethren well known to the readers of the WATCH TOWER, yet the work will not mention the name of any writer. We have thus arranged for several reasons: First, we shall thus have the benefit of the ability of several writers, each of whom may excel in his own peculiar channel; Second, such a method will serve to restrain personal pride and egotism, so often lamentably noticeable among men who have "written a book"; Third, it will be advantageous to you as readers, teaching you to lean not on the words or opinions of any man, but to test all things solely and only by the Word of God --"that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Lastly and chiefly, we hope that by thus veiling humanity, the glory of truth's Divine Author may the more appear.

The price will be fixed at such a sum as will place it within the reach of all--just about cost and postage, probably 50 cents for cloth bound.

This work is made necessary, not only by reason of the edition of "Day Dawn," published in 1880, being about exhausted, but also from the fact that since its publication, many precious and brilliant jewels of truth have been found. By reason of our being in "The path of the just which shineth more and more unto the perfect day," no book could be written which would long be a fresh and full expression of the ever unfolding beauties of our Father's Word and plan.

"And still new beauties shall we see,
And still increasing light."

The name which we have selected will distinguish it from the old "Day Dawn," and yet is sufficiently like it to identify it with the edition which we have advertised the world over in the "Food." However, after the present edition of Day Dawn is exhausted, you may, for abbreviation and convenience, use the same name for the new work, and it will be understood by us.

We have on hand about 100 COPIES OF "DAY DAWN," cloth bound, the price of which, we will reduce to 50 cents each to close them out before the new work appears. Address, C. T. RUSSELL,
No. 101 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

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This followup article was published in the next May 1882 Zion's Watch Tower:

"MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN."

We desire to correct an error into which some of our readers have fallen, relative to this work, which we hope soon to put in press, and a notice of which appeared in our last issue. We wish you to understand that this work is not a revision of the book called "DAY DAWN, OR THE GOSPEL IN TYPE AND PROPHECY." It will be a totally different book, except that some of the same subjects will be treated, among others. We would have the new work and all our publications judged on their own merits, as in or out of harmony with the Word of God; therefore would not wish to have them confounded with others.

Our object in calling our forthcoming publication, "MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN," is this: The pamphlet "Food for Thinking Christians," published in England and in this country, and circulated to an enormous extent, contains a reference to a book called "Day Dawn." The work we desired to commend to them by that notice was the old "Day Dawn," the edition of which is now almost exhausted. And we now desire that notice to apply to the "MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN." To secure to the readers of "Food" and others, a work in harmony with the teachings of that pamphlet, is the object in publishing our new work; and to associate the advertisement and the book we desire the readers to have, is our object in including in its name the old name.

There is a book published called "DAY DAWNING," and we learn of one soon to be published entitled "DAY DAWN OR GOSPEL IN TYPE AND PROPHECY" --"REVISED EDITION," advanced sheets of which, we have received. Neither of these works are in harmony with the book "Day Dawn," advertised in "Food," nor with any publications issued from this office. We make this statement in order that none shall confound MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN" with any other.

We still have a number of copies of old "DAY DAWN," cloth bound, at the reduced price of 50 cents each.

We have written, suggesting to the Christian brother who is about to call his new work, "Day Dawn," etc., that some change should be made in its title, as it is liable to be confounded with the original work of that name. Since the two works will be fundamentally different, each should stand on its own merit.

Should the author persist in calling his forth-coming work by precisely the same name, he should not be surprised if the inference drawn, is, that he desires to appropriate the world-wide advertisement given the original "Day Dawn," both by its publisher, Bro. A. D. Jones, and through the WATCH TOWER publications.

WATCH TOWER publications gave over sixteen hundred thousand (1,600,000) free notices and warm commendations of "Day Dawn" without money or price, because of the TRUTHS which it contained. (Not that we have ever considered it free from all error, but because of its many and fundamental truths.)

"MILLENNIAL DAY DAWN."

In answer to numerous inquiries we would say that this work is progressing, and will issue as soon as possible, though doubtless that will not be for some time. We desire that when issued it may be not only a book for study, but valuable for reference on all Bible topics. We request your patience.

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This article was published in the July 1886 Zion's Watch Tower:

MILLENNIAL DAWN.

We have concluded on the above name rather than the one at first proposed, Millennial Day Dawn. It is with pleasure that we announce the first volume of this work as about ready. It will doubtless be in the hands of those who at once send in their orders, before our next issue. Orders sent us will be filled in rotation as received.

We would regret the delay since the first announcement of this book, had it not been unavoidable. But we now see the Lord's hand in it, working together for good. The preparation of our monthly issue of the TOWER, together with the large correspondence which it entails, and other needful privileges and duties, have necessarily limited the time available for the preparation of the book; and the plan we at first proposed of having different subjects prepared by different brethren, was soon found wholly impracticable from various reasons.

Besides and above all this, we found that the subject spread itself far beyond our calculations. Soon it was found that one volume would be too bulksome, and by and by we found that two volumes would not properly set forth what we desired. In consequence we have settled upon a plan which we trust will meet the approval of all our friends; namely, of making several volumes of the work, we cannot yet say definitely how many. The first volume, which is now about ready, will treat exclusively of the "Plan of the Ages;" the second of the Times and Seasons of Scripture, and succeeding volumes as may be hereafter announced.

Volume I. contains sixteen chapters, and is a neat volume of 351 pages bound in cloth. The price of the volume will be one dollar; but we will supply Vol. I and the TOWER for one year for one dollar and twenty-five cents, or what is the same, will charge those at present subscribers to the TOWER seventy-five cents --postage prepaid by us.

This, we believe, will not only be just the book you will want for your own reading, but one you will desire to lend, perhaps more than any of the succeeding volumes. It takes up the subject at a point where the skeptically inclined will be deeply interested, and proceeds step by step in the order we deem best calculated to reveal the truth without stumbling the truth seeker. We commit this work to the care of the Lord and to you as his stewards. May it be so faithfully used as to prepare the way in your hearts as well as in the hearts of your neighbors for the next volume when it shall be ready--which will not be so long a time as you have waited for this--probably in less than a year. May it be in your hands an implement furnished of God by which you may be enabled to serve and honor him, and bless his children about you, with a knowledge of His glorious plan.

We might remark that if the proceeds of the sale of this volume shall exceed its cost, such excess will still be in the Lord's service and will go toward the further spread of the truth and to glorify His name.

To avoid mistakes we will again name
the price of Vol. I. Millennial Dawn:

One copy,.................................. $1.00 One copy and one Z.W.T. subscription, 1.25
One copy to those already subscribers, .75
Four copies and one Tower subscription, 3.00
Seven copies " " " " 5.00

Fifteen copies " " " 10.00

The above includes postage or expressage prepaid by us. Be sure to send your full address very plainly written. Where you order but one or two copies send only your Post Office address; but where you order more, mention your nearest Express office as well as your Post Office, that we may send by the least expensive way.

Those who upon the first announcement sent in fifty cents as the price, need send nothing additional. We will fill their orders first of all.

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This article was published in the August 1886 Zion's Watch Tower:

MILLENNIAL DAWN.

We are now prepared to fill the largest or smallest orders for Volume I of the Dawn. We have published 4,500 copies in cloth binding handsomely embossed, and we believe its outward appearance will meet your approval. And though delicate about eulogizing our own effort to set forth the glorious divine plan, we can surely say in all modesty that we believe the contents will be very interesting and very profitable to you. It presents the Plan of the Ages in a much more complete and connected manner than was possible through the TOWER. If its reading shall afford you a tithe the blessing it has been to the author it still will be rich.

Some will doubtless regret that the time proofs and treatment of Revelation are not a part of the contents of this volume, but we doubt not your judgment will concur with ours, that it is best not to try to crowd too much into one volume; that it is better to treat the subject more thoroughly than could possibly be done in one or two even large volumes. The next volume, now in course of preparation, will treat of the Times and Seasons of Scripture.

One great advantage of the present arrangement is, that if you loan the book to friends or neighbors to read, in glancing over it they will not be "choked" and "stumbled" with dates and figures, the value and necessity of which, they at first cannot see. The study of prophecy, especially time prophecies, has come to be considered the exclusive privilege of the denomination called "Second Adventists;" and their failure to apprehend the "plan" and the intended and needful office of time prophecies, as related to that plan, has made the subject odious to many. Hence it is a part of our duty to be "wise" (Matt. 10:16) and not stumble our brother with our "meat." When vol. I. "The Plan of The Ages"--the plan of salvation, --is thoroughly digested, then, those who appreciate it, will be prepared and anxiously waiting for vol. 2, The Times and Seasons.

We quote the price of vol. I. as follows:--

One copy,................................... $1.00 One copy and one Z.W.T. subscription, 1.25
One copy to those already subscribers, .75
Four copies and one Tower subscription, 3.00
Seven copies " " " " 5.00

Fifteen copies" " " " 10.00

"THE WORLD'S HOPE."

An exchange by this name comes to our table. Its hope for the world is very much confused. It falls into the error of supposing that a perfected human nature would be a "Divine nature," and evidently does not see that the "Divine nature" is higher than the "nature of angels," though both are spiritual. It seems blinded by its theories to all differences of nature among spiritual beings.

From this false premise it gets into a terrible confusion relative to man --his past and future condition. It fears to say, as the Scriptures teach, that Adam was perfect, lacking experience, because this would prove that a perfect man could never become more than a perfect man --could not increase in perfection by becoming a spiritual being, any more than would the perfecting of a dog cause him to become a man. Such conclusions it cannot reach, simple and logical though they be, because it has a theory that a perfect human nature is a spiritual nature, which is a divine nature --the absurdity of which needs scarcely to be mentioned. If a human nature is a spiritual nature, why does Scripture mention them as distinct and separate?

Its conglomerate theory seems to be, as nearly as we can arrive at it by its illogical deductions --that God made men bad, --evil, --imperfect, --about as all are now; and that he fettered man with this evil nature, in order that he might develop strength by breaking his own chains, freeing himself. And this is really its hope for the world --that each individual (the devil not excepted) will eventually succeed in breaking the chains in which God had fettered him, and that finally all will unite around the throne in heaven as partakers of the perfect (human --spiritual --divine-- which?) nature.

In this theory there is no need of a Saviour to redeem or ransom men. No, each must fight his own way through,-- or, as this paper expresses it, each must destroy the enmity for himself. According to this unscriptural theory, Jesus was a benefit to men only by setting a good example as a pattern. But, tell us, Why would not the good example of Abel, or Enoch, or Isaiah, or Jeremiah have been equally forcible? These were noble, self-denying heroes for truth, and suffered even to being stoned and sawn asunder. Their examples of how to live and how to die, for truth and righteousness, were good.

But we need not dwell on the inconsistencies of such a theory; it must be apparent to all familiar with Scripture, that such a theory gives the lie to the teachings of the Apostles relative to the introduction of the present condition of sin, imperfection and death. They teach that "by one man's disobedience many (all) were made sinners," and that death and misery is the result, and not that it is the result of God's having imperfectly done his work in creating man. In harmony with this, too, is the Apostle's statement, that Jesus by his death destroyed the enmity (curse) for all who had been cursed in the first man's disobedience. He was "made a curse (he suffered as an accursed one) for us" (Gal. 3:13. See Rom. 5:17-19).

Our object in calling attention to this contemporary is, that we wish to awaken and put on their guard, any of its readers whom we may reach, against its teachings on the fundamental doctrines of our Christian religion, as pointed out in our last issue under headings--"Your building," and "On what are you building?"

This paper denies and ignores the very basis of true hope for the Church or the world-- viz.: The Ransom --our being "bought with a price." It claims that the Adamic race needed no ransom. This, as we have heretofore shown, is the impending avalanche of unbelief, denying that the Lord bought them (2 Pet. 2:1). This is the rock which Christendom is even now striking against and being broken in pieces. (Matt. 21:44)

If this contemporary plainly stated itself as numbers of others do, we should have no special need to single it out among others for criticism. But it does not. It covertly attempts to steal the hearts of God's children and engraft this "damnable heresy" (2 Pet. 2:1) upon their minds, by quoting freely enough of the passages which contain the words "bought with a price," "redeemed," "ransom," etc., disclaiming, without attempting to disprove their meaning, or to deny their genuineness.

It insinuates and argues in such a way as to rob these words of their correct import in the mind of those who possess no English dictionary, or are too careless to use it; or who presume, that the English words may have a different significance from the Greek ones which the Apostles used, but which they do not understand.
We have heretofore shown that the Greek words rendered "bought," "ransom," "redeem," etc., in referring to the work of Jesus for men, are no less pointed, but, if possible, more so than their English equivalents. So far, then, from being an exponent of the world's hope, or the church's either, our contemporary is being used by the adversary in a covert, and therefore all the more dangerous way, to undermine the only hope held out for the world in Scripture --the ransom.

To put this matter fairly before its readers, (to most of whom we send a copy of this issue) we shall propose to it the same questions which in our last we propounded to the "Day Star", and which it has not answered--probably because it did not wish so plainly to show its real belief. We are well aware that neither of these contemporaries will relish these questions.

We have tried to so state them that any attempt to dodge the real issue, will, we hope, be so apparent as to attract the attention of any who might be inclined to think our criticisms too severe.

The questions are as follows:--

(1) Why did Jesus die?

(2) How does it affect our sins?

(3) How did he put away sin by the sacrifice of himself?

(4) In what way did he give "himself a ransom (Greek, antilutron--an equivalent price) for all?"

(5) In what way was he a "propitiation (satisfaction) for our sins?"

(6) In what sense were we "bought with a price?"

Now, fair warning; if our contemporaries do not answer these queries fully and squarely, it can only be construed as moral cowardice, and certainly will substantiate our claim that they are dealing underhandedly with their readers, and "handling the word of God deceitfully." (2 Cor. 4:2) The questions at issue are not trivial--not such as brethren might honestly differ on; for they are the very foundation of Christianity, without which the whole doctrinal structure reared by the Apostles falls.