. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. lso been started, and con-tained sixteen hundred and fifty dollars; and there werethe Pearson and Sparks Funds. The aggregate totalwas not twenty thousand dollars. Dr. Gibbons was at first opposed to church endow-ments, but he was soon convinced by the wise men whoknew the needs of Old Pine Street and looked prophet-ically into the future, that the salvation of the churchlay in its full and ample endowment. At a meeting ofthe Board of Trustees on December 5, 1882, a com-mittee was a
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. lso been started, and con-tained sixteen hundred and fifty dollars; and there werethe Pearson and Sparks Funds. The aggregate totalwas not twenty thousand dollars. Dr. Gibbons was at first opposed to church endow-ments, but he was soon convinced by the wise men whoknew the needs of Old Pine Street and looked prophet-ically into the future, that the salvation of the churchlay in its full and ample endowment. At a meeting ofthe Board of Trustees on December 5, 1882, a com-mittee was appointed to confer with the Session uponthis question. The Session joined hands with theBoard, a congregational meeting was held, and eightthousand eight hundred and fifty dollars was subscribedto the Fund, in sums ranging from ten dollars then it has steadily climbed, until it has reachedthe seventh notch out of the ten towards the hundredthousand dollar mark. In 1888 six thousand dollarscame from the sale of the Brainerd Memorial the rest has been raised by gifts and legacies from. STEPHEN D. HARRIS Treasurer of the Endozvment Fund, Ruling Elder, and Trusteesince 1867 Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 281 children of the church. No money has ever beensolicited from outside sources. The Burial Trust Fundhas increased fivefold, and other endowments havebeen established, which are enumerated below. At the present writing, the invested endowments ofthe church aggregate over one hundred thousand dol-lars. Of this sum only two-thirds, however, is in theBrainerd Memorial Endowment Fund, the income ofwhich goes to the trustees for the general maintenanceof the church. So it will be seen that this fund mustbe largely increased to make it thoroughly efficient,and it is the hope of the men who have given their lifefor the church and sacrificed so much for her welfarethat this general maintenance endowment will reachin itself the sum of one hundred thousand d
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