Just Where You Stand

In 1844 Abingdon Berkshire England John weds Lenore. He drinks far too much and cruelly abuses wife and children. Twenty years later lying on her deathbed the downtrodden woman tells her grown son George she is not good enough for Heaven. In 1889 not long after Lenores death George marries Ellen. While he and Ellen start up and run a successful milk dairy for ten years he spends any spare time seeking a Christian church which does not condemn a sinner and therefore perhaps his deceased mother to Hell. An exciting new controversial sect lures him but meetings take place in Reading a distant location. Fully won over George ups and sells the dairy and moves the reluctant family close to the Russelites meeting place. Income dwindles. Seeking satisfactory work he has everyone including a new son-in-law immigrating in 1913 to Toronto Canada. The son-in-law is Jack husband of daughter Gertie. Jack will himself become addicted to the Russelites eventually to be named Jehovahs Witnesses. What do the wives do in such controlled circumstances? The reader might well reflect that nothing ever really changes for them - yet will be impressed and uplifted by their courage and stamina.