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.May 2-1. 1910
THE NEW CHURCH
This souvenir number of Cayton's Weekly is issued
for and in the interest of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church
of Seattle, Washington, which organization is causing to
be erected a new house of worship and a club house in
connection therewith, which club house will be fitted up
for the boys, youths and young men of the community
without regard to religious creed. The corner stone of
said church edifice is to be laid May 23rd, 1920, under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge of the A. P. and A. M".
of Washington and .Jurisdiction, pictures of both church
and club house appearing as a frontis piece hereof.
The church edifice as planned and now far under
construction, will cost approximately $35,000 and the
lot and club house are valued at $10,000, thus giving the
whole, when completed, an actual value of $45,000.
This new church site is beautifully located on one
of the principal streets of the city running from Sound
to Lake, in one of its high class residential sections,
and invitingly surrounded with magnificent homes. It is
of easy access to every other section of the city, which
niay be reached by four distinct car lines. II is the plan
of the building committee of the church to finish the ex
terior of the building in keeping with its local surround"
ings and to bear a favorable comparison with the mod
ern church edifices of the city. The interior will he
finished witli an eye single to the artistic, yet in keepng
with the sanctity of the cause for which it is being
erected.
The magnificent structure now under eoiiMtruction
is the culmination of long years of preparation and
much hard work. It has required hereulian efforts to
keep the Mt. Zion Baptist church organization of Seattle
in tact, not because of any planned or studied oppo
sition thereto, hut owing to the scarcity of membership
material on which to work. The struggles of the <»r-
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ganization, ;i brief history of which is found below, have
been many, but determination being the motive power
of the world and the few members of the organization
having always been full and overflowing with determina
tion, and as a result thereof the splendid success, which
now seems eminent, is presented to the world in general
and the readers hereof in particular.
At the psychological moment the Rev. W. 1). Car
ter was called to the struggling organization and with a
determined determination he lay hands to the work and
has never since ceased his labors, and while his efforts
do not as yet spell success, yet they do spell near suc
cess. But be it remembered, the credit of near success
is not wholly dy\c to the efforts of Rev. Carter, but
equally due to a united membership, which has from time
to time said unto him, ''where Ihou leadest we will fol
low," and nobly and well have they acted their parts.
The various officers and suborganizations of the church
that have made it possible for the whole to register suc
cess mlay be seen in group cuts on other pages hereof.
The editor of Cayton's Weekly luis lived in Seattle
since the first founding of this, the All. Zion Baptist
THE BOARD OF DEACONS
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
church organization and has been an eye witness to its
struggles for existence and was personally acquainted
with its various pastors from its inception to the present
time, lie lias done much work with the present pastor,
the Rev. \V. I). Carter, for the ueneral uplift in the city
and has endeavored to lend him a helping hand in this
crowning effort of the completion of this, the Mt. Zion
Baptist church organization of Seattle, and he rejoices
with the whole congregation in their final success.
It seems from such Tacts as are available, that the
beginning of the work which finally resulted in the per
manent organization of the Alt. Zion Baptisi Church of
Seattle, look shape under the work and management of
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
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