It was with some trepidation that we acceded to the suggestion to write a brief account

of the early history of the movement that has grown out of the witness of The Berean

Expositor.  In the series entitled "Less than the Least" which commenced in

Volume XXXV,  the personal element could not be avoided, simply because the

stewardship of the truth involved had been so evidently entrusted to a single person.

Without the loyal and self-sacrificing fellowship of a devoted few this witness, speaking

humanly, must have succumbed to the arduous circumstances of its birth. The final

responsibility, however, has always rested from the beginning upon one frail and very

earthen vessel.

The true object of this series, however, was not so much the story of the earthen vessel

as to set forth the treasure that by grace had been poured into it, and as the peculiar

character of that teaching is known, for good or ill, as "Dispensational Truth" we are glad

to announce the completion of a work entitled "An Alphabetical Analysis" of some

1,000 pages which is devoted to "terms and texts" that relate to Dispensational Truth.

The first volume of this new work is now ready and covers the letters A to E and

subsequent volumes will be issued at convenient intervals.

At first we limited ourselves to dispensational features, and much regretted that while

we could stress the need for "Right Division" we could not at the same time set forth the

claims of the "Word of Truth" to its divine inspiration. In the same way, while we could

enlarge on the dispensational place of the "ACTS", we had to pass without comment such

a theme as "ATONEMENT". This, however, we are in process of rectifying and the

volume with which the series will close will be devoted to outstanding doctrines, without

which dispensational truth is without basis.

We commend this series to the reader and trust that it may prove to be indeed a blessed

"Tool" for the "Unashamed Workman".