I remember giving a talk about the Big A and one of the elders wives, in her 80's and in poor health came up to me at the end and thanked me as she said she hopes to see the end before she died...she died a few years ago and of course she never saw the end...since it will not come.
But she was an old timer, her hubby was one of the first elders/cong servants in the UK!!! They were old skool...
So this thread reminds me of her...these poor folk who serve their whole life believing the end is so close...I'm just a bit happy to have got free when I did.