Oh, I wish I would have copied that audio recording when I first visited this site. I listened to that portion of the talk a few times over the years.
I was just thinking about important years of the bible students/JW's and one of them relates to the publication year of Seola. That novel's date of publication was 1878.
https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php
In the early years of the bible students they thought 1878 was the year Jesus took rulership in heaven. They also thought the rapture was also supposed to occur in that year. Please click the link above about "Failed date predictions of Jehovah's Witnesses" on JWfacts. There's a good amount of details on the 1878 predictions.
It looks at though 1878 was supposed to be the real 1914.