"Amongst the great inventions of our day is the typewriter. It came upon the market just forty years ago, in 1874, as a merchantable and usable convenience, after having been seven years in process of development. The Bible, we believe, marks the same year, 1874, as the beginning of the Harvest of this Age. What a wonderful forty years it has been! What wonderful blessings these years have brought to mankind! What evidence they give of the dawning of the New Dispensation, which the Bible teaches began there. Notice some of the great inventions--the telephone, electric light, trolley-car, perfecting printing press, cheap pulp paper, linotype and monotype machines, gas engine, automobile, aeroplane, talking machine, moving pictures, and a hundred other conveniences, improvements, etc., not forgetting the wireless telegraphy.
"Great as the blessing enumerated, none of them surely can compare with the great blessings that God has given his consecrated people, who have in these same years been seeking the light of the New Dispensation in the Word of God. The blessing, joy and enlightenment which they have received is beyond all comparison and all valuation."
Jos kirjoittaja oli noin haltioissaan tuolloin 40 vuotta vanhasta keksinnöstä, niin millaisen hepulin saisikaan nyt jos menisi pääkonttoriin katsomaan MEPS:iä? No sen ainakin tiedän, että oman uskottavuutensa vuoksi ei kannattaisi suureen ääneen muistella vuotta 1874 raamatulliseksi.