Presbyterian worship in Marlin began in 1852 in the Falls County Courthouse, where the pulpit was drawn up into the rafters when not in use. Presbyterians organized a church in the Carolina community in 1853 and held missionary services in Marlin. On May 2, 1874, the Rev. Levi Tenney and the Rev. Hilary Mosely, commissioned by Central Presbytery, Synod of Texas, organized this church. Charter members were Mrs. S.K. Bartlett, A.M. Chatam, William McPherson, W.L. Patillo, K. Sewall, and Dr. and Mrs. E.S. Weisiger; Agnes Patillo Clark, W.S. Clark, and Mrs. H. Singer soon joined. Ruling elders were Patillo and Dr. Weisiger. After years of worship in borrowed quarters, the congregation erected its first building in 1893 at the corner of Fortune and Perry Streets. Motte Martin, who joined the church in 1894 as a youth, became in 1902 one of the earliest missionaries to the Congo. The present edifice, completed in March 1918, was the site of the city's Thanksgiving service on Nov. 11, 1918, at the end of World War I. The Synod of Texas met here in 1922, the educational building was erected in 1954, the present manse in 1966, and since 1972 Marlin has been in Presbytery of the Covenant in the Synod of Red River.