The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01
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Record ~ Their Progress Daring fhs
Year.

fn9 81 this society + WORTH wifh is Tot.
afont $500 It's membership IS asons
-. and during the past year i hss helped
20 start two aogrishing societies the MARKET
street ard North seattle Baptist churches.
the latter Of which took forty members
FROM the main church. lev. Robert
Whitaker. who has been pastor for year,
has resigned and viii 20 70 California.
North seattle Baptist CtaaFch--ThiTd
ard ceslaY streets. Passor, Rev. Thomas
Baidwiu. There are At pre- emf sixty mem
hers in the society. It was orxanszed less
than year ago by forty members Of the
First Baptist cnuEeh who withdrew 70
start 4 church nearer to their residences.
Rev. d. !. Pierce has supplied the pulpit
since the organization ard il Is only since
August that the society mss held regular
services IL owns two lots in North Seat
tie worth 90, upon which So 600 neE
church building Is being erected and Is
now nearly completed
Market Street Baptist church-MaTkef
street. between Main and Jackson streets.
pastor. Rev. /. W. Read. This church s As
started IN October of last wear as mission
& the First Baptist church. Monthly
services were held until Nay OF the present
year, at which time the sunday school in
connection had twelve 70 fourteen attend
ants. When Rev. Read arrived, in Noyen4-
Der the society had but six members. Now
it has thirty-seyen. and the average church
attendance II 200. The present building.
erected year ago at q cost OF 5000. III
GLIDING the lot. viii be replaced next spring
by $1,000 ediiice. A second lot has Just
been purchased for this purpose.
BeFAehah Baptist Charch-Ereed's ball.
Ninth street; pastor, Rev. Henry Morgan;
number Of members. 81; average attend
anee. 100: has no charch building.
Norwegian Danish Baptist Church
blanchard aud fifth Streets pastor. Rev.
knute Nelson, number OF members, 90;
average congregation, 90. vFine OF church
property. 5000 a new church building
has just been completed. which is already
too small for the congregation. and new
ediiice is contemplated.
Swedish Baptist Church--Depot and
Eighth streets; pastor. Rev. +. o. Nelson.
Has sixty members and an average at
tendance Of 100. Its new church and lot is
worth about $500.
Baptist Tabernacie-Fo street, be-
tween Washington and Main, in old Gre
morne theateF tent Has no pastor and is
al present mission Of the First Baptist
ehareh. The projectors OF the mission are
contemplating the erection OF = permanent
coffee house. reading room and audience
hall.
First Presbyterian Church-Corner Third
and Madison streets. Pastor. Rev. Elliott
w Brown residence, 81 Madison street.
The present house Of worship was built in
iss5 and rebuilt the present year. Ii now
holds $50 persons and is usually filed on
Sundays. A neat parsonage adJoins the
church and the whole property belonging
to the society Is valued at $4,000. There
are 3ii me mhers on the roll. A commod-
ious and well-equipped readingrSbm has
just been added to the church and a fine
new pipe organ has been ordered and viii
be pat in place in February.
Second Presbyterian Church--Corner
Harrison and Oak streets, North Seattle.
Pastor. Rev. BENJAMIN Parsons; residence,
40 Bell street. The present building was
finished last spring and stands upon a lot
donated by d. T. Denny. Property be-
longing 20 the society is worth 5000 and
there is no debt against the church. 1t
hiss eighty members and the church build
ing seats about 30 and is always well
filed.
Calvary Presbyterian Church--Market
and King streets. Pastor Rev. j. Il. Can
ney. Has about twenty-eight members.
and has only recently been organized.
Their new church. which will be dedicated
in about 3 month, cost 81, 100, including
the lot. When the dedication services take
place the membership wiz be largely IN
creased At present meetings are held in
Z stss,rsf B Slas,
Ballard Presbyterian Church Ballard.
Pastor. Rev. J, Z. Carney. Has a new
church Just completed worth. with the lot.
s. go. Its membership Is about ten, hay-
ing only been organized within the past
month or two.
Lake Union Presbyterian Church-Ere-
mont Pastor. Rev. ]. r Carney. Though
the society only has about ten members,
they are putting up q $500 building. and
the whole property belonging Go the So
ciety is worth about $500. The new
building viii be completed liz a few weeks.
First Methodist Episcopal Church--Cor-
ner of Third and Marion streets. Pastor.
Rev. H. D. Campbell: residence. Marion
street, one door east OF church. Has the
finest church eai6ce IN the city. and Is
worth about S7e,o0a The building was
=
auditorium is elegantly furnished with up
holsteFed opera chairs. and the pulpit IS 81
bronze deliberately designed. Rev. Camp
hse. A. A., has been with the church about
one year. and during his pzstorste II has
increased rs membership by 30. making
the present membership about Sla,
Battery Street Methodist Episcopal
Church Corner Tnird and Battery streets.
North Seattle. Pastor, Rev. F. W. 10y.
residence ore door east CT church. TIE
society was organised five years ago. at
whieh tsH1e the present ehurch building
and parsonage were baiit Including the
parsonage. the society owns about Sls.xa
worth Of property. Few. Ley has been
With the caareh nearly gosr years, and The
membership Is ~ at present TIE church
seAsS About 80 persons. and is capacity IS
81 heavily taxed that The trustees ot the
eanFch arc rev as0ug 50 take STEPS toward
hushiing a $1,000 bTsck ediaee on Two bots
Feeensiy donated goF thas parpsse by u. T.
Benny. A mtssSea j. also about 70 he
started east % Lake nian 20 Acconnso-
date saeuabers in that part of tie city.
Methodist Episcopal Church u adgson
street oscar poser haGseA Pastor. Rev.
". h Mahafhe. numhsF 81 members. "a:
average attendance, -: vaIae Of property.
$3.50. 4 {ass haaigne nex S. ess1chureh.
issv Nshasae assa eondects services on
aisrksS steeeG
N0Fw egtans Danish AetAcssist Eplssaual
Ch@rch sseeneg EsfRh an8 oslve street,.
nassaE Rev, G. J. Eavseas residence Al.
sane 4 assistant pzstoC. Few J. Walhv.
Is Is .ees shan eve uaoatss Sstsce thss ehurrh
eaag saeva 60 gather together aud ossv
ere wTeS sSaee the ere neS cdisce. COSTING