7. What had the remnant’s eyes of understanding never envisioned before 1914, but were their “blind” eyes opened?

⁷ Never before the end of the Gentile Times had the eyes of understanding of the spiritual Israelites been opened to see that the world trouble that was due to break out in 1914 would terminate with a remnant of them still here on earth. Nor did they see that they and the “great crowd” of “other sheep” would be favored with the privilege of giving a worldwide witness to the establishment of God’s Messianic Kingdom. So it occurred that in 1919 the spiritually blind eyes of the remnant were opened, and what a vision of the immediate future those opened eyes perceived!

8. What effect did the two Cedar Point, Ohio, conventions have on the spiritual ears and tongues of the restored remnant?

⁸ At their conventions in Cedar Point, Ohio, in 1919 and 1922, they received some intimation of the work that lay ahead. They bounded to the task before them. Their spiritual ears were unstopped to hear the electrifying message of the Kingdom of God and the need to advertise it.

“At that time the eyes of the blind ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be unstopped.

Isaiah 35:5-7.