. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. EZRA STILES ELYWhen he came to Old Pine Street From an etching in possession of Dr. Louis F. rrfoJa na moiH The Second Fight for Independence (1812-1814). The title of this chapter is suggested by the remark-able parallel between the conflict in which the churchwas born and that herein described. It may not bemore than a coincidence that these two events syn-chronize with our two wars for national independence,and yet war does affect the temper of the social atmos-phere. Wh
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. EZRA STILES ELYWhen he came to Old Pine Street From an etching in possession of Dr. Louis F. rrfoJa na moiH The Second Fight for Independence (1812-1814). The title of this chapter is suggested by the remark-able parallel between the conflict in which the churchwas born and that herein described. It may not bemore than a coincidence that these two events syn-chronize with our two wars for national independence,and yet war does affect the temper of the social atmos-phere. When tribulation came again to Old PineStreet, it was not a favorable time for the cultivationof the spirit of peace. The parallel, however, is in thefact that, in both these events in the history of thechurch, the great majority of the congregation main-tained the God-given right to call the man of theirchoice to be their minister. Referring to the Pine Street congregation, the biog-rapher of Dr. Archibald Alexander wrote: The pre-dominating ingredient in the congregation was the old-fashioned Scotch and Irish Presbyterianism, with itssalient points of good and evil, with which the newpastor was I
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