Born
Again: On a Wednesday Night in 1932
Place: Humphries School House,
Crockett County
Age: 14
My Testimony
I attended a Wednesday night prayer meeting at Humphries School in Crockett
County with some of my classmates. I realized I was lost and I went to the
mourner's bench. I tried to pray and finally my burden was gone and everything
looked different. I no longer felt like praying for myself, but I remember
wanting to pray for a girl I was seeing. My family didn't go to church,
so I didn't go either. I was twenty-two before I joined Mt. Nebo Baptist
Church in Buena Vista, Tennessee, and was baptized. I entered the military
service and fought in World War II in South Africa. We had to sleep on the
ground and I got pneumonia and was discharged. The influence of the military
and the war caused me to stray from the Lord. When I returned home, I lived
near Westport Baptist Church and felt that I needed to return to the Lord.
Being under a heavy conviction because of the life I had led, I asked Westport
Church to forgive me. Since that time, I have tried to serve the Lord to
the best of my ability. I met Evie Ellis Hall at Westport and we were married.
We have been together in God's service ever since.
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake."
[Psalm 23:1-3]
Max was a Deacon of Huntingdon M. B. Church and he and his wife Evie
were devoted members for many years. Max went to be with the Lord on November
9, 2006. He will be missed.
