. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. o the Pres-bytery, no doubt as the result of the opposition to himby those who had protested against his election. On November twenty-eighth, the Pine Street congre-gation called Mr. Samuel Eakin, who came to theSecond Presbytery as a licentiate. No opposition tothis choice of the congregation was shown. The callwent to Presbytery, was put into his hands, and ac-cepted on December twenty-seventh. It would seemthat he at once began his work, although he was notordained and installed
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. o the Pres-bytery, no doubt as the result of the opposition to himby those who had protested against his election. On November twenty-eighth, the Pine Street congre-gation called Mr. Samuel Eakin, who came to theSecond Presbytery as a licentiate. No opposition tothis choice of the congregation was shown. The callwent to Presbytery, was put into his hands, and ac-cepted on December twenty-seventh. It would seemthat he at once began his work, although he was notordained and installed until August 3, 1769. We can-not enter into the painful experience of the church withthis young man. He forsook his charge, and was sus-pended from the ministry for serious cause, but wasrestored again, and became a useful minister of Immediately after Mr. Eakin was called a sessionwas chosen for the church. Of these first ruling eldersof the church we have four names—Lile, Bailey, Mooreand Armitage. Concerning the next step in the or- 1 Records of the Presbyterian Church, pages 418, 428, WILLIAM SHIPPEN, JR. A. B. (Princeton); M. D. (Edinburgh) First Professor of Medicine in America, at the University of Pennsylvania; Director-General of all hospitals in the Revolutionary War; one of the original Trustees of Old Pine Street From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. The Founding of the Church. 31 ganization of the Pine Street congregation, there werewidely different opinions. One opinion is clearly ex-pressed in the first article of the paper given above,which was presented to the congregational meeting ofApril 6, 1767, which reads as follows: That thereshall be one general committee chosen from the wholesociety that shall statedly assemble in both houses totransact all the secular business of the body. Theother opinion is found in the proposals made to theSecond Church, when they were asked to join in thebuilding of a third Presbyterian house of worship. Thethir
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