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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Rev. Thomas Martin, M.A. 

 By Rev. William Workman, Stow. 



It is with the deepest regret we have to record another 

 great loss which the Club has sustained in the removal, by 

 death, of a most esteemed name from our list of membership, 

 that of the Rev. Thomas Martin, M.A., the minister of the 

 Parish of Lauder. The deceased gentleman was a man of 

 ripe scholarship and of the highest culture, possessing a 

 wide and varied knowledge in the departments of literature, 

 science and art, an enthusiastic archsoologist and antiquarian, 

 and a botanist of no mean order. In the affairs of the Club 

 generally Mr Martin took a lively interest, the members 

 acknowledging their sense of the valuable services rendered 

 to the Club by unanimously conferring upon him the highest 

 honour in their power by appointing him President, which 

 office he held in 1903. 



Mr Martin was in every sense of the term a model parish 

 minister, being an eloquent and thoughtful preacher, a most 

 faithful pastor, a safe counsellor, and a true friend, in whom 

 old and young alike placed implicit confidence ; and he was 

 personally identified with, and took a leading part in, all 

 matters pertaining to the public interest and welfare of the 

 Burgh and Parish. 



In Mr Martin's death, which took place at the Manse on 

 the 20th September, 1 904, the Church of Scotland lost one 

 of her most faithful ministers, and the " B.N.C." one of its 

 most esteemed members. 



