. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 279 and since that time the church has had a missionary toassist Dr. Gibbons in ministering to the large and dif-ficult field that has been left to Old Pine Street. TheRev. John Campbell was the first missionary, and hehas been followed by the Rev. Dr. John C. Thompson,a former pastor of German Street, Rev. Frank H. Bur-dick, Holmes D. Eastburn, Rev. Wilson T. M. Beale,Rev. Frederick A. Walter, Rev. Edwin J. Russell, andMr. Herbert Adams Gibbons
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 279 and since that time the church has had a missionary toassist Dr. Gibbons in ministering to the large and dif-ficult field that has been left to Old Pine Street. TheRev. John Campbell was the first missionary, and hehas been followed by the Rev. Dr. John C. Thompson,a former pastor of German Street, Rev. Frank H. Bur-dick, Holmes D. Eastburn, Rev. Wilson T. M. Beale,Rev. Frederick A. Walter, Rev. Edwin J. Russell, andMr. Herbert Adams Gibbons. In announcing from thepulpit this new and great work which the GermanStreet Fund enabled Old Pine Street to engage in, said, Let us seek the gift of the Holy Ghost,and apply earnestly and faithfully all instrumentalitieswithin our reach to purify and elevate and save thispart of our great city. It is in this spirit that themissionary work has been done. The Endowment Fund of Old Pine Street wasstarted in 1863 by a bequest in the will of Bailey, one of the first legacies to the church.
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