Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
(Missing) Year - Number 52
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, February 27, 1902
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THE STARKVILLE, MISS, CHURCH.

       We take the following from "The Baptist" published at Jackson, Miss., referring to a former citizen and minister of Marlin:--
       "The church at Starkville, under the leadership of Pastor M. K. Thornton, seems to have adopted the Pauline motto in "Forgetting these things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before."
       With such a pastor as they have nothing less could fairly be expected of the Starkville Baptists than a continuous forward move all along the line of educational and mission work.  And they enjoy it too--indeed they do.
       If a Baptist, or any one for that matter, can go to Starkville and spend but a few hours only in the company of such men as Pastor Thornton, and that good and grand old man, Dr. J. T. Freeman, together with Deacons Roberts; Hagan, Glenn, Maxwell and others that might be named and then go away without feeling better he must be either a confirmed dyspeptic or an incurable pessimist."

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