Just a little experience I came across when I used to attend the Hall. I was studying with a popular sister within the congregation. We were studying the Book of Revelation together.
She was noted as one who was outstanding in the congregation, and all the sisters looked up to her. This went on for months, and we got to know each other quite well. Her son was a aux Pioneer, and he himself was very popular. Nice looking to. All the girls in the cong. were always hoping that it would be them that he would ask out.I admired this lady and thought she was a rock (or pillar as they say). UNTIL; her son chose to date a girl that the mother disapproved of. She struggled to put in more hours to please everyone, so she would have a better favour shown towards her, obviously she did this not for herself, but to be approved by others and accepted. One day I was having the study, and you should have seen the hatred towards this poor girl who had done nothing except to be involved with her son, and the woman did not think she was good enough in the hall to warrant having her son. The woman whom I had admired, suddenly I saw the other side of. She was so bitter, red in the face with hatred, and called her and her family fit to burn.I thought this cannot be right. I then stopped the study with her as she was having an effect on myself. There were many other instances of this nature I witnessed, like one day going to the hall, I was walking with a brother, who suddenly came out with the statement, why did you marry a black-man, were there not any white men you could have gone with, Obviously I was shocked by this.I told one of the elders, and he just said never mind him, he is just weak.
I have seen so many happenings of this nature, is there anyone with similar stories I would like to hear them Thanks.
