Exclusive by-path

Christine Wood

I think Exclusive By-Path fills a historical gap in Brethren biographies. While exact dates are not given, Christine Wood’s book appears to cover the period from the late 1930s to somewhere in the 1960s, and describes life among the Exclusive Brethren in Surrey and Brighton from the war years until about 1960. The book was not published until 1976. The early chapters describe an unhappy home life and a rather unhappy school life, including encounters with good and bad examples of Christians. Through attending a young people’s society called The Crusaders, Christine became a committed Christian, and made it her life’s ambition to follow Christ and learn more about God’s ways. It was as an earnest, sincere, but gullible seeker after truth that she came under the influence of a man called Clive, who seemed to know all the answers to her questions, even though some of the answers...

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