The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-21
CORNER STONE LAID
INTERESTING EXERCISES AT
NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
Congregation of the Southside
Church Gathering at Sunset and
Participated in an impress
sive Ceremony.

The cornerstone of the South Side
Baptist Church was laid YESTERDAY even
ing at sunset with simple but impressi We
exercises.
The members of the congregation and
their friends assembled at the corner of
Hull Street and Cramer Avenue 20 take
part in the ceremonies. No formal SER
mon was preached, and no address was
delivered. but in placing the articles, Sc
lected by the officers, in the stone, the
pastor of the church. Rev. D. P. Lee,
fervently and eloquently expressed wish
that good might result from the work
which had been undertaken. He also ut
tered the wish that the members of the
congregation might be firm and sustained
in their faith to each other as the stone
which they had put in place was to the
building.
Preceding the ceremonies attendant
upon the laying of the cornerstone. the
members of the Sunday school assembled
at the old church building on Winnie
Street and escorted by the pastor and the
Sunday school teachers. marched to the
new building, where the congregation
ha gathered.
The exercises began at 6.15 o'clock and
continued until twilight. The program
began with the song, How Firm Foun-
dation," in which the entire assembly
Joined.
The entire program was as follows
Song-"How Firm a Foundation"
Prayer by Rev. ]. F. Gable.
Placing stone by Building Committee
Scripture reading by committee:
(a) First Chronicles, xxx, l0-l7. Z. L.
Gay.
co. Psalms cxxvii 1, ]. P. Martin.
(c) Psalms, &c. 1911, ]. E. Brooks.
d) Psalms lxxxvii, 1-3, w. ]. Burch.
(e) Psalms cxxxii 1915. Sunday school
teachers.
90 Psalms cxviii. 22-24, ]. B. Collier.
(g) First Corinthians, Iii, II, entire
Sunday school
Placing articles in the stone, with APP
propriate remarks by the pastor.
Benediction, Rev. II. w. Provence
The following was inscribed on the
printed program:
1--WE Law this corner stone of a house
TO be built and set apart from all worldly
uses for Divine worship, in the name OF
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
The articles placed in the corner stone
were the roll Of membership or the
Church. the names of the trustees, the
Church officers, the Building Committee
the officers and teachers of the Sunday
School the roll of the Ladies' Aid Soci-
etv. a COPY of The Advertiser of July l.
1902 containing an account of the organ
ization of the new church and copy OF
The Advertiser of August 20 containing
an advance notice of the corner stone eX-
ercises.
The roll of the Sunday School was
nIaced in the stone by Superintendent j..
r. Collier who spoke of its rapid growth
since 1894, when it was organized in the
South Montgomery Church, to its pres
ent splendid membership.
The officers of the church are j. b.
Collier. j. P Martin. j. E. Brook c. l..
Gay and w. ]. Burch.
The trustees are, j. b. Collier, j. +.
Martin and Charles l.. Gay.
The Building Committee Is composed OF
C, L. Gay, Rev. A. F. Dix, j. P. Martin
and George w. Ellis and the officers and
teachers of the Sunday School are, j. b.
Collier. Superintendent; Miss May Hill,
Secretary and Treasurer; Teachers Rev.
D. p Lee, Miss AeOlian Spear, Miss Jo-
hanna Spear Mrs. F. f. Davenport, Miss
Willie Wilson: Organists. Mrs. Heard
and Mrs. Davenport
The new church Is situated on Bellinger
Heights. in one of the most importont
and most rapidly growing suburbs in the
CITY. It begins life hopefully with more
than $50 members. The church will be n
frame structure with a handsome exte-
rior and interior. The total cost OF the
structure will be about $500.
IT is to be built to afford convenient
church facilities to the large and increas-
ing number IF Baptists in the southern
norton of Montgomery.