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(Continued trom Fage 1) a drink. Now, I’ve never been in a bar room in my life,” he assured his listeners. “But folks have told me about it.”
“Charlie Hall converted,” Mr. Thornhill added. “I don’t remember how it happened. I was nothing but a kid myself in those days.”
Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill and Mr. Johnson all looked back with pride at the way the people of their church have helped each other through the years. In the 1920s and 1930s, even when times were bad, members of the congregation got together and extended a hand to those struck by fire, flood, death or other tragedy. “There wasn’t too much money to be handed out to anybody but there was always plenty of food and clothes. Even during the Depression and the terrible drought of 1930 when it didn’t rain from the second Saturday in May until the third Sunday in October, people managed. They shared their canned goods and whatever else they had." Mrs. Thornhill said.
After one disaster, the tornado in Woodville that destroyed three churches, the Baptists in the village attended services at Mt. Lebanon. “There was a movement to put the two churches together. They were both small churches. But the ladies wanted to keep them separate," Mr. C. B. recalled, chuckling. “The ladies always had plenty of mouth, even in those days!”
For all of his jokes and funny stories, Mr. C. B. takes seriously his service to his church. Has he done a lot for Mt. Lebanon?
“That’s for other people to say,” Mr. Johnson disclaimed.
"He’s been a mainstay at Mt. Lebanon, particularly with the children,” said Mrs.
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