This website is dedicated to the memory of the author’s paternal grandmother Julia Amelia Hilborn, born 17 April 1876, died 10 June 1953. Though I have memories of meeting her only once, when I was very young, I owe to this woman a debt of gratitude. Not only did she give birth to my father, Harold Hilborn Reilly, she is to large extent responsible for nurturing his Christian faith. Julia was a Quaker, her siblings were Quakers, so also were her parents and grandparents and their siblings, this because Quakers were required to marry Quakers or else be ostracized by the community of Quakers, and excluded from the communal meeting house. No matter. Julia left the fold, but did not abandon her faith. On the 1st day of January 1907 she married my grandfather James Reilly, after whom I am named, and the rest is history.
Julia died in Vancouver BC in 1953. According to family tradition, passed on to me by my mother, on her deathbed she had a private audience with each of her five children, four boys (my father included) and an only daughter. I am not privy to the details of those conversations, but I do know that my father returned to our Winnipeg home a changed man. He was suddenly ultra-religious, and the family began attending an ultra-evangelical church. From the month of June in 1953 the author was exposed to biblical teaching which, seventeen years later, led to his conversion to the Christian faith, and ultimately to the publication of this series of papers.
Thank you Julia.
Julia died in Vancouver BC in 1953. According to family tradition, passed on to me by my mother, on her deathbed she had a private audience with each of her five children, four boys (my father included) and an only daughter. I am not privy to the details of those conversations, but I do know that my father returned to our Winnipeg home a changed man. He was suddenly ultra-religious, and the family began attending an ultra-evangelical church. From the month of June in 1953 the author was exposed to biblical teaching which, seventeen years later, led to his conversion to the Christian faith, and ultimately to the publication of this series of papers.
Thank you Julia.
