Earliest memory: My mother reading to my brother, sister and me from the orange book From Paradise Lost To Paradise Regained (late 50s). I loved the smell of the publications and preferred the violent pictures to the ones that depicted lions and lambs sleeping together in open fields.
My grandfather also gave me his copy of the book by Judge Rutherford entitled Jehovah (I can't remember when it was published). I think the inside front cover and first page had a colour depiction of Jesus, depicted as a crowned king, along with his host of angels(?) on horses coming over the darkening hills bringing vengeance upon the wicked. What a stirring picture it was!! Ah, if only it had been true!!!