So I'm in a meeting today with two web developers. I mentioned in passing that I use LaTeX, and that led to me showing off a couple documents I've prepared. I showed them the version of Kelly's Lectures on the Church of God, because it has some Greek and Latin characters that are difficult to represent accurately in a word processor.
One of them says, "You read William Kelly?"
"Oh yeah!" I reply, "Do you?"
"I have all his books," he says, "I like Ironside too."
"My favourite author is J. N. Darby," I respond.
"I have all his books too," says the web developer.
Who'd have guessed? Here I am working at this ultra-liberal university, and it turns out one of the web developers---a web developer!---is reading Kelly, Darby, and Ironside.
This might well be the most exciting morning I've had since moving out here.
4 comments:
Yeah it has been an exciting day for me too.
But does he read FWG?
I have read a Little FWG but mostly WK, JND, and Ironside. I also really enjoy some of the more modern writings in pamphlets that were put out by Bible Truth Publishers. Some of these tend toward legalism which I am no fan of, but there are some real treasures.
Uh..."ultra-liberal university"? The one YOU work at? Amazing, how you can't tell books by their covers...or which shelf they're on. Stop me if this metaphor isn't working.
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And, in other news, would you believe there are terrible, evil people attending ultra-conservative churches? No, seriously.
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