. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. JOHN ADAMS Signer of the Declaration of Independence; first minister toFrance; second President of the United States; a com-municant in Old Pine Street From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. :oq b moil Pastorate of George Duffield. 63 Independence, and the part which he had in shapingpublic opinion. John Adams had been drawn to thePine Street Church, and became a regular attendantupon the preaching of Duffield, and a communicant inthe We find several descriptions in the diaryof
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. JOHN ADAMS Signer of the Declaration of Independence; first minister toFrance; second President of the United States; a com-municant in Old Pine Street From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. :oq b moil Pastorate of George Duffield. 63 Independence, and the part which he had in shapingpublic opinion. John Adams had been drawn to thePine Street Church, and became a regular attendantupon the preaching of Duffield, and a communicant inthe We find several descriptions in the diaryof Mr. Adams of preachers which he heard at Duf-fields These indicate that he gave GeorgeDuffield a first place among the preachers of the compares him with the pastor of the Second Churchin these words: Mr. Sproat is totally destitute ofthe genius and eloquence of The followingindicates the value which he put upon the sermons ofthe pastor of Pine Street: The seventeenth of May was Sunday (1776). Mr. Adamswent to hear the Rev. Mr. Duffield preach upon the signs of thetimes, who likened the conduct of George the Third to that ofPharaoh to the Israelites, and concluded that Providence in-tended the liberation of the Americans, as it had done auditor return
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