. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ITie Past, lol er PHILIP M1LLED0LER A. B. (Columbia); D. D. (Pennsylvania) Moderator of General Assembly; Founder of American Bible Society; President of Rutgers College; third Pastor of the church e chi From a poi trait in possession of the The Pastorate of Philip Milledoler (1800-1805). There was a period of five years from the time thatthe broken health of Dr. Smith compelled him to giveup the pastorate of Old Pine Street and leave Philadel-phia until the third pastor wa
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ITie Past, lol er PHILIP M1LLED0LER A. B. (Columbia); D. D. (Pennsylvania) Moderator of General Assembly; Founder of American Bible Society; President of Rutgers College; third Pastor of the church e chi From a poi trait in possession of the The Pastorate of Philip Milledoler (1800-1805). There was a period of five years from the time thatthe broken health of Dr. Smith compelled him to giveup the pastorate of Old Pine Street and leave Philadel-phia until the third pastor was settled. This periodwas, indeed, divided into two parts by the few weeksof Dr. Smiths second pastorate. But the Session andthe Trustees, under the care of Presbytery, were re-sponsible for the congregation during all this unity and strength of this leadership was found,no doubt, in the fact that the elders were members ofthe Board of Trustees. The special disadvantage ofthe vacant pulpit was that few came into the com-munion of the church during these years. During thepastorate of Dr. Smith, the yearly average accessionsto the communicants roll were thirty-two. During thethird pastorate the average was thirty-three. AlthoughDr. Smith came back to the church during his stayat Union College, held communions, and received mem-bers, the average n
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