Typed as spelled and written
by Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 61
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, December 21, 1907
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DR. J. H. GAMBRELL ACCEPTS.
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Becomes Pastor of the Marlin
Baptist Church Jan. 1.
Jr. J. H. Gambrell of Dallas has notified the committee of the First Baptist
church that he accepts the call to the pastorate which was extended him some
weeks since.
Dr. Gambrell is well known among the Baptists of Texas and the South and is a
strong man. He was pastor at Tyler for several years and later editor of
the Baptist Standard at Dallas.
He expects to be in Marlin by January 1 to begin his work.
About the New Pastor.
The following from the Dallas news of Wednesday is of interest:
"After having considered a call for several weeks, Dr. J. H. Gambrell yesterday
tendered his resignation as secretary of the Dallas branch of the Anti-Saloon
League and will accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Marlin.
The resignation becomes effective about Jan. 1, at which Dr. Gambrell will go to
Marlin.
"For about ten years Dr. Gambrell has been in ministerial and editorial work in
Texas. Prior to that he was in Mississippi. The entering into the
anti-saloon work in Texas came as a natural sequence to the earlier work of
Gambrell. From 1890, the time of his graduation from the seminary, he was
for about ten years state organizer in Mississippi for the state prohibition
movement. AT the same period Bishop Galloway was president of the
organization. As a result of the work of the league all but seven counties
in Mississippi declared for prohibition. Dr. Gambrell has within the last
few days received a letter from Gov.-elect E. F. Noel, who declares there is
every indication that within the next month the entire state will be swept by
the prohibition movement.
"After the temperance work Dr. Gambrell was pastor at Brookhaven.
Afterwards he was pastor of the First Baptist church in Greensboro. It was
bout ten years ago that he came to Texas as pastor of the First Church at Tyler.
He remained there for six years. Then he became the editor of the Baptist
Standard, and occupied that position for more than three years. It was in
this time the paper was reorganized and enlarged, with a considerable increase
in the capital For about six months he has been secretary of the Dallas branch
of the Anti-Saloon League.
Dr. Gambrell declares that while he goes into the regular pastorate gain, he
is still in the temperance movement and will work for its success all over
Texas."
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