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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
ELDER OSCAR LOWERY
Elder Lowery was born March 2, 1910. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
ELDER LOWERY WRITES: I was not blessed to grow up in a Christian home. As a young man, without much education, it was necessary to leave home for periods of time to work in fields, growing food and harvesting grains to supply the needs for a large family. Upon meeting a young lady (Pearl I. Lewis) now my wife for sixty nine years. She grew up in an Old Baptist home and had a father very knowledgeable of the Bible. We often had Bible conversations, I didn't understand why.
One night, Elder Charlie W. Miller had an appointment in a courthouse room at Cumberland, Maryland. I hadn't attended many church services and had never been to an Old Baptist service. Elder Miller began discussing the very subject Pearl and I had argued over several nights before. Elder Miller was blessed to preach with such simplicity and I was so overwhelmed, we stayed later than we planned and missed the last bus home. We walked on a railroad in several inches of snow, beside a river, crossed the river on a narrow swinging foot bridge, crossed another railroad and two miles between two mountains to return home. I accused Pearl of having conversations with Elder Miller and she reminded me how impossible this was. There is one answer--the Lord blessed Elder Miller to preach and blessed me to hear.
After marriage, still working hard on a farm, with three small children in our home, Pearl and I were baptized by Elder J.W. Smoot October 3, 1937 in a stream while a cold blustery wind blew. We joined Mount Bethel Church, Three Churches, West Virginia - Elder J.W. Smoot pastor.
Upon leaving the area, we moved to Baltimore, Maryland. We moved our membership to Mt. Carmel Church, at Bel Air, Maryland - Elder F.E. Thompson pastor. One of our greatest joys in witnessing our three son's baptizing of which two remain faithful today.
I am a charter member, ordained a deacon and later, September 25, 1971 at Fellowship Church, Baltimore, Maryland ordained an Elder. Our youngest son, wife and I recently moved our membership back to Mt. Carmel Church at Bel Air, Maryland. |
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