Alexander H. Martin to Charles W. Chesnutt, 1921 Alexander H. Martin Stephanie P. Browner Kenneth M. Price Transcription, encoding, and annotation Ballard, Chaun Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. McMullen, Kevin Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School 2025 The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive
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 Alexander H. Martin to Charles W. Chesnutt, 1921 1921 Transcription derived from scan of original. Western Reserve Historical Society Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers MS 3370 1 1 Correspondence typed letter signed Martin, Alexander H. Cleveland, Ohio Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Cleveland, Ohio Unknown Laura K. Weaklyreview Laura K. Weaklyreview Antje Andersonannotated, further corrections Chaun Ballard transcribed, encoded
1864 1921 Mt. Zion Congregational Church East 31st Street Near Central Avenue Rev. Harold M. Kingsley, Pastor Phone Prospect 4518 Rev. W. H. Jones, Ass't Pastor Cleveland, O.
FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE: Mr. Alexander H. Martin, Chairman Mr. W. H. Jones, Secretary Mrs. T. W. Fleming Mrs. J. W. Wills Mrs. R. K Hodges
Dear Friend and Co-Worker,-

Mt. Zion Congregational Church sends you greetings:

We would respectfully announce the rapid culmination of the movement to bring, through Mt. Zion as a medium, the help of a practical, applied Christianity to the solution of the problems of the Central Avenue District and of our group in this City.

This is a pleasing accomplishment to mark the 58th year of the church, and THIS EVENT and THIS YEAR we celebrate.

You are cordially invited to join with us in a fitting commemoration of our 57th anniversary. We have prepared a program for Sept. 11th to Sept. 14th, inclusive, which will entertain and edify you and send us forward with enthusiasm, power, consecration and your support for the sucessful accomplishment of the larger, better work of the future.

May we ask you to send us in the enclosed envelope on acknowledgement of the receipt of this letter, accompanying the same with a birth day present for the Mt. Zion? Is ONE PENNY for each YEAR she has stood here holding aloft the Banner of the Cross, a fitting suggestion of a MINIMUM for your offering in this behalf?

We shall be glad to see you frequently at Mt. Zion and to be assured of your assistance as we seek to make her a TEMPLE for llall, ministering helpfully to all the people.

Yours for Christ and the Church, THE ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE A. H. MARTIN, President W. H. JONES, Secretary 300 sent Sept 23/21