my weird family (info on past religious experience

by Mulan 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Mulan

  I am a genealogy freak!! My maiden name was Maxfield, and I have found probably, all there is on my line, going back 260 years.

  One of the books, written by a distant cousin, telling about his grandfather, has this reference that I HAD to share. I had to wonder if he is talking about the old WBBR broadcast. The rest is self explanatory. Gives me the creeps. Originally, the family were Quakers. Many of them still were until the mid 20th century.

  Every Sunday morning he listened to the church service on the radio in the dining room. Earlier he regularly attended the Stroudwater village church. Aunt Emily said repeatedly that the Maxfields and Doles were "strong orthodox," but I do not know what she meant by that. In response to a query Grandpop took me up to his room to tell me about the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and on another occasion to explain a point about the Bible.
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  musky

  "Grandpop took me up to his room to tell me about the Great Pyramid in Egypt,"

  That almost sounds like the followings of Russell.
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  onacruse

  That ref to the Great Pyramid sorta gives it away, doesn't it?

  However, I have a book in my library (God's Plan Through The Ages, C.A. Chader, 1938) first published in Sweden in 1934, that is virtually a carbon copy of Russell's chronology (colored spread chart and all). Swedenborg's "Revelation series" also comes to mind.

  Perhaps there were other groups who promulgated and broadcast similar theologies?

  Craig
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  DJ

  Oh Mulan,

  That's too weird, eh? I just found out that my granpop was a mason! I never met him, he died before I was born. Didn't they believe in pyramids stuff too. Wow, we must have a generational thing going here! That's kinda spooky. Love, Dj
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  Mulan

  My husband always likes to say "your family leaned toward the mystic". And they did: Quakers, Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses.

  On my grandmother's side, they were Congregationalist ministers, way back, for generation, following generation...........back into the 1500's. And the name was Smith, of all things. Every single generation, the men were preachers.

  I guess I didn't have a chance.
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  Nanoprobe

  My family were french utopians. Left France in 1856 and moved to Dallas to be part of a commune. I think it's time for our family to get out of UTOPIA mindset.