History of Zion Church 29
credit her with the orange blossom, the bridal wreath, the laurel and the palm of happy victories.
An interesting document would be the compilation of the deaths, the marriages and the baptisms, that have taken place in the congregation during the last five decades.
May Zion, in her prospective new dwelling of brick and stone, in the coming generations, go on prospering and to prosper, under the smile and blessing of God, never less than in the old wooden walls, in the years and generations that are away, with a pastor to whose qualities as a leader, guide and man we have paid tribute, at the head of a people whose hearts go out to him in love, and whose sympathies are with him in all his works. It is not hoping for too much, to hope for the realization of our hopes.
Zion's dead for the year 1898, comprise John Scott, Donald MacLeod, Thomas Vessey, Rev. David Sutherland (pastor), Mrs. William Mutch, Mrs. James MacLeod, and Miss MacKay ; for the year 1902, Mr. Thomas B.Alchorn, Sheldon A. MacLean, Lawson Clark, Charles Walker, Henry VanIderstine, Mrs. Henry Davidson, Miss Margaret Morrison, Mrs. Hector MacDonald, Mrs. Charles Town— shend, Mrs. Simon Fraser, Miss Catherine MacLeod, and Miss Moila I. Garrett. The roll of dead since 1902, as it is given in the annual reports issued, is already noted in the foregoing pages, while some hundreds are now unknown, save in the memories of those near and dear. Tempom hominesque mutantur.