. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ineStreet people were to deed their lot on Lombard Streetto the new organization, and in addiiton pay them incash twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty dol-lars. Certain families of the new church were to re-tain their right of burial in the Pine Street the other hand, those passing from Old Pine Streetinto the new organization were to renounce all claimswhatsoever upon the entire remaining property of PineStreet. Thus was the Sixth Church founded in the year1814. I
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ineStreet people were to deed their lot on Lombard Streetto the new organization, and in addiiton pay them incash twelve thousand seven hundred and twenty dol-lars. Certain families of the new church were to re-tain their right of burial in the Pine Street the other hand, those passing from Old Pine Streetinto the new organization were to renounce all claimswhatsoever upon the entire remaining property of PineStreet. Thus was the Sixth Church founded in the year1814. It was situated on Spruce Street above Fifth,about two squares from Pine Street. The house stillstands, and is now occupied by the Horace Binney Pub-lic School. The Sixth Church continued in existenceuntil 1873, when it was united with the Seventh Churchto form the Tabernacle Church, which has recentlyerected its fine house of worship at Thirty-seventh andChestnut Streets. Old Pine Street has naturally felt THE TABERNACLE CHURCH Thirty-seventh and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia—a daughterof Old Pine Street. The Second Fight for Independence. 173 the deepest interest in the building of this new sanc-tuary, which is so largely the monument of the long andsplendid pastorate of Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook. The body of Old Pine Street people, who were toperpetuate the church, were greatly surprised and deeplydisappointed at the award of the arbitration commit-tee. They simply could not believe that it was equi-table. But they said: It is the price of independenceand of peace. We shall look for restitution from Himwho has so faithfully kept and so greatly blessed ourfathers. They did not look in vain. Within lessthan three months after the award was announced,the sixty pews vacated by the departing brethren weresold for five thousand three hundred and twenty-fivedollars; and within a year ninety-three persons were re-ceived into the communion of the church to take theplace of the sixty
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