Many attempts have been made…to revive the Spirit of the Lord among God's people, but each effort has failed in reaching its objective.  However, when the “fullness of time” came at the end of forty years,—that often repeated number of Bible years—after the official announcement that the S.D.A.'s had rejected God's ‘most precious message,’ the Lord sent another message, which was handed in writing to thirty members of the General Conference Committee while assembled at the 1930 San Francisco Conference session.  But as this message of 1930, like the one of 1888, was not accepted by the brethren, the fact soon became evident that if the message of 1930 was ever to reach the people, it must be published and distributed throughout the denomination.  This resulted in the book entitled “The Shepherd's Rod,” Volume One. This circumstance gave rise to The Universal Publishing Association which, while located in Los Angeles, edited and published both, volumes One and Two besides several pamphlets making up the series of “The Shepherd's Rod” publications, until finally in 1935 when, for lack of room, and to be more centrally located for the two Americas, the Association removed to its present location—Mt. Carmel Center, Waco, Texas.—Victor Houteff