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135 YEARS AGO

The Fly Creek M.E. Church under the pastorate of Rev. J.S. Southworth has been enjoying a year of prosperity unsurpassed in its history. The church property has been greatly improved and beautified, and the spacious auditorium is filled from Sabbath to Sabbath with an intelligent and devout people whose aim is to worship God in the beauty of holiness. During the year there have been one hundred added to the church on probation, and some fifteen taken in full connection. The Sabbath School under the efficient management of Mr. J.S. Bayard as Superintendent was never in a more prosperous condition.

March 21, 1890

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