Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 10. 8 July, 1970
Seeing the error of her ways?
Seeing the error of her ways?
For the first six months after I left home received letters as frequently as once a day fr [ unclear: om] my parents and from at least twenty o [ unclear: ther] Brethren. All of them asked me to see the [ unclear: error] of my ways, to leave university and to ret [ unclear: urn] home. My parents used to try to see me ve [ unclear: ry] often but the people with whom I boa [ unclear: rd] discouraged this. I was very grateful for this was approached at the university four or f [ unclear: ive] times by members of the sect. When I [ unclear: was] working at a Government office during the M [ gap — reason: illegible] holidays, Lincoln Richards, a member of the se [ gap — reason: illegible] approached me as I was leaving the office day and spoke to me for about forty minu [ unclear: tes] before I got fed up and walked off. The the [ gap — reason: illegible] common to all of the appeals to me was th [ unclear: at] I would be neither happy nor successful and th [ unclear: at] I would be disappointed with all I saw in the wo [ unclear: k] and that the only place where one could real find God was in the Assembly.
At the end of six months, when I had ignore nearly all of the letters sent to me and refused t [ unclear: o] see the various members of the sect who want [ unclear: ed] to meet me, the sect convened in an 'Assemb [ unclear: ly] meeting' to determine that they could no long [ unclear: er] 'walk' with me (this basically meant not taking communion), on the grounds of 2 Tim [ unclear: othy] Chapter 2: "Let everyone that names the na [ unclear: mes] of the Lord depart from iniquity". I was in [ unclear: iquite].