. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. even weeks as a probationerin the church was remarkably blessed. Mr. Ely left Philadelphia a week before his time hadexpired, and went on a missionary journey to Washing-ton. The evident reason for this is a revelation of hisspirit and character. The annual meeting for the newBoard of Trustees was at hand, and he could not havebeen ignorant of what was going on in the minds ofthe people. That meeting was held on September 20,1813, and was the most largely attended of any similarcong
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. even weeks as a probationerin the church was remarkably blessed. Mr. Ely left Philadelphia a week before his time hadexpired, and went on a missionary journey to Washing-ton. The evident reason for this is a revelation of hisspirit and character. The annual meeting for the newBoard of Trustees was at hand, and he could not havebeen ignorant of what was going on in the minds ofthe people. That meeting was held on September 20,1813, and was the most largely attended of any similarcongregational meeting in the history of the were present one hundred and thirty electors, allof whose names are recorded in the minutes. Although the Session under Dr. Alexander had beenmore clearly defined as the first ecclesiastical court ofthe church, the custom of continuing to elect all theelders in the Board of Trustees had not been had served in the Board during many years. Butnow, not one of the four elders constituting the ma-jority of the Session was re-elected. It seems that. >endence. HUGH STEVENSON A Trustee for half a eentury and President of the Board fonearly thirty years ?
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