DOROTHY PAGE.



  "Speak, Dorothy, do we not belong to each other"
  "I do not deny it."
  Never had the town witnessed a more beautiful mar-
riage than that of Dorothy Page and Gilbert Sterling.
That was the verdict of the people when the blissful
pair smiled their adieus at the depot and moved off
on their wedding tour.
  It amounte(l to a sensation when the rich Presbyte-
rian  elder -!evered his connection  with his great
church and joined the Baptists. It meant a bright era
for the BaptiAt church. Before a year rolled around a
handsome new building had been erected on a coni-
manding lot in the center of the town. Without of-
fering any opposition to his old Presbyterian church,
Sterling plunged into the work of his new charge with
-whole-hearted devotion. He made a study of the Bap-
tist denomination in the state of Kentucky and in the
South and North. One of his first acts was to sub-
scribe for several Baptist papers, and it was interesting
to Dorothy to note with what eagerness he read every-
thing in the papers, and each time his reading was
punctuated with exclamations of surprise at the world-
Nwide activities of the Baptists as he saw them recorded
in the columns of the papers. Ile found himself en-
thusiastic about their history and their present enter-
prises. The efforts of the State Mission Board greatly
interested him, and he determined to get into elose
touch with it. lie tol(l his wife that le intended to
identify himself wNith all these denominational move-
ments and share their burdens.
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