. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. 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
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. 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-five who had EZRA STILES ELYA. B. (Yale); D. D. (Washington)Moderator of General Assembly; -fifth Pastor of the From a portrait, in possession of the church
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