At age 16, Maxwell worked for a period as a literature evangelist, before becoming a copyreader at Stanborough Press.
On May 3, 1917, Maxwell married Rachel Elizabeth Joyce, a proofreader at the office, with whom he had four sons and two daughters.
[1] Maxwell began writing articles for British Adventist journal The Present Truth.
In 1920, Maxwell became editor of The Present Truth and until 1927 was also manager and treasurer of the Stanborough Press, pastor of a nearby church, official Adventist spokesman for church-state affairs in Britain, and editor of a health journal.
[1] In 1936, Maxwell and his family moved from England to Palo Alto, California, in the United States.