ELDER H. R. BESTBro. Best’s mother died when he was small. She was a Christian. But he was deprived of that choicest of heaven’s blessings, a mother’s Christian counsel. He was born in the Ozark mountains in Southwest Missouri, Nov. 5, 1872. His father spent much time in traveling and carried the boy with him. But when eleven years old, he found himself almost alone in the big world, and thrown upon his own resources. At the age of 18 years he came to Eastland county, Texas, and began work on a farm. Soon afterward he met a lovely, Christian girl, Miss Lena L. Kinnison. The reader need not be told the rest. Like many other boys, whom the Lord calls to preach, young Best tried his best to be an Infidel. But his young Christian wife and the recollection of his mother under God’s blessings, won him from skepticism, and to the Lord Jesus. After struggling with impression for a year, he decided to preach, and on the advice of Dr. B. H. Carroll, entered Baylor University Sept., 1895. He is now pastor of Robinson and Hillside, two of our best churches, half time with each. He is a young man of pleasing address and an acceptable preacher. J. L. Walker and C. P. Lumpkin, History of the Waco Baptist Association of Texas (Waco: Byrne-Hill Printing House, 1897), pp. 238. |
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