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. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Past date th< RANDALL TREVOR HAZZARD Late President of the Board of Trustees, who died while this volume ivas in press,, and whose service as Ruling Elder and Trustee covered the entire period of the present pastorate ut-. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 249 During these months many clergymen had beenheard. Rev. William Hutton, of the Greenwich StreetChurch, was moderator of the Session, and communionservices were conducted and members received by Pro-fessor Robert Ellis Th
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Past date th< RANDALL TREVOR HAZZARD Late President of the Board of Trustees, who died while this volume ivas in press,, and whose service as Ruling Elder and Trustee covered the entire period of the present pastorate ut-. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 249 During these months many clergymen had beenheard. Rev. William Hutton, of the Greenwich StreetChurch, was moderator of the Session, and communionservices were conducted and members received by Pro-fessor Robert Ellis Thompson, of the University ofPennsylvania, now the beloved president of the CentralHigh School. At the request of the Committee of Nine, a congre-gational meeting was called for May 26, 1881, and onthat date the Committee presented to the congregationone name,—the Rev. Hughes Oliphant Gibbons, of An-napolis, Maryland. The election was unanimous, anda committee consisting of John C. Farr, R. T. Haz-zard, and R. M. Schick was appointed to prosecutethe call before Presbytery. The salary was fixed attwenty-five hundred dollars, and the Committee ofNine were delegated to sign the call. The call was accepted, and Hughes Oliphant Gib-bons was installed the eighth pastor of Old Pine StreetChurch on the evening of October 11, 1881. Dr.
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