Back Margaret’s Story I was born and brought up in a Christian home in Burghead in Moray and attended the Church of Scotland there where my Father was a Deacon. I loved the Lord from being a wee girl. I went to the Sunday School and later when I was older I went to the Church twice on Sunday. I attended the Bible Class as well as being in the Church choir. At the start of the Second World War I received my call up papers where it was a case of going into war munitions work or the Army. I chose the Army and was posted to Southampton in the South of England to a big military hospital. Later on I was transferred to General Eisenhower’s staff before D-DAY and later on in parts of Paris and Germany. I was away from home, in with a crowd and got carried away with the crowd doing things that I wouldn’t normally have done at home. On my demob in 1946 I returned home to Burghead and married my husband Sandy on the 21st September 1948, and moved to Hopeman a mile or so along the coast. In the early summer of 1954 Rev. George Brown, who was the Minister at Hopeman Baptist Church at that time, preached on a text from Matthew Ch.24 vs 44. “Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh”. (King James Version of the Bible). I was under conviction. (That is, I knew that as far as God was concerned I had not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.) I knew that I wasn’t ready if I should die. Although I was brought up in a Christian home and believed in God I knew that I wasn’t saved. During the week that I was saved I wrote a letter and wanted to get it posted before I went to bed. To post the latter I had to pass the Memorial Hall in Hopeman. As I got to the Memorial Hall there was a group of young girls waiting to go into the dance. One stepped me out into the middle of the road and looked up at the church clock and said “ It’s Ten-o-Clock”. On my return they had gone inside to the dance. Next morning I heard that the girl who said, “It’s Ten –o-Clock” had dropped down dead at midnight. I was very upset. I thought that if that had been me, I would have gone to a lost eternity. It was through the preaching of the Word (Gospel) the young girl dropping dead along with two other sudden deaths that made me feel that God was speaking to me, telling me how uncertain life can be. I had always believed but I had never accepted Jesus as my Saviour. Although I was trying to be good and going to the Church and trying my best I could see that my friend who lived round the corner from me had an inner “Something” which I hadn’t got and this was always on my mind. “What am I to do, what am I to do, there must be something I have to do”. More

“Therefore be ye also ready...”

Margaret in wartime uniform

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