. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. reme Court, naturally confirmed Dr. Brain-erd in his conviction that his position throughout hadbeen entirely sound. The difficulties in constructingthe Presbyteries were perplexing enough to have justi-fied any man in losing his patience. But Dr. Brainerdwas a man of the same spirit as the pastor of theFirst Church, and met all these annoyances with perfectequanimity. We can have no doubt that it was theironeness of spirit that bound the hearts of Albert Barnesand Thomas Brainerd t
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. reme Court, naturally confirmed Dr. Brain-erd in his conviction that his position throughout hadbeen entirely sound. The difficulties in constructingthe Presbyteries were perplexing enough to have justi-fied any man in losing his patience. But Dr. Brainerdwas a man of the same spirit as the pastor of theFirst Church, and met all these annoyances with perfectequanimity. We can have no doubt that it was theironeness of spirit that bound the hearts of Albert Barnesand Thomas Brainerd together in love like that ofDavid and Jonathan. With the history that these twomen have made before me, I cannot but regret thatmy Old School forbears, from whom I received soexcellent a training for the ministry, were so intenselydevoted to ecclesiastical order, and to the severitiesof Calvinism, and gave me so little light upon thegreat principles that developed such preachers andpastors as these men. Dr. Brainerd was eminently practical and beginning his work in Old Pine Street, his coun-. THOMAS BRAIXERD When he came to Old Pine Street. This reproduction of an old engraving shoius the church as it appeared before the alteration of 1857, and St. Peters, in the back ground, before the steeple was built
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