. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Iden c! THE CHURCH FROM FOURTH STREET Showing window of original building in the rear, and Brainerdmonument i .;y-:.;^V. The Churchyard and Its The Christian world in the olden days buried itsdead around the churches where they had worshippedGod. It was a beautiful tribute to the hope in manof immortal life and the resurrection of the body thatthe churchyard was his resting-place, and that hisfeet were invariably turned to the East, so that, whenthe Angel Gabriel blew his hor
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Iden c! THE CHURCH FROM FOURTH STREET Showing window of original building in the rear, and Brainerdmonument i .;y-:.;^V. The Churchyard and Its The Christian world in the olden days buried itsdead around the churches where they had worshippedGod. It was a beautiful tribute to the hope in manof immortal life and the resurrection of the body thatthe churchyard was his resting-place, and that hisfeet were invariably turned to the East, so that, whenthe Angel Gabriel blew his horn, he might face the risenLord. The modern world has changed all this. In cities,land is too valuable for churchyards, and, even whereit could be purchased, the abnormal conditions of citylife would make interments a menace to the publichealth. In villages, the eyes of the people are on thefuture, when they, too, shall become cities. So havearisen the cemeteries, which now universally replace theold churchyards, and the family vaults under the shadeof church walls. When Old Pine Street was founded, Philadelphiawas but a village, and the churchyard for the dead wasconsidered, in the creation of a new church, as im-portant as t
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