Invitations to Church Anniversaries

Download or read book Invitations to Church Anniversaries written by Mt. Moriah Baptist Church (Kershaw County, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly invitations to church anniversaries commemorating "January 22nd, 1866, [when] about 102 of our fathers and mothers, just out of slavery, and being granted letters of dismission from the First Baptist Church (white) formed themselves into an organization known as the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church." Invitations include details on improvements to the church property (the 64th anniversary invitation, for example, notes that an Estey Pipe Organ had recently been installed). Anniversary services typically included "jubilee songs ... as sung by our mothers and fathers in the organization ... years ago."