A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . tsattending the work, the session of the TenthChurch judged it expedient to discontinue themission Sabl)ath-school. I was invited by A. Boardman, the pastor, to participate inthe mournful transaction that was intendedto conclude the efforts to plant a church bythat mission. It took place, I think, in theafternoon of the last Sunday of June, (25th)1865, with appropriate worship of God, re-counting the blessings of the past and acqui-escing in what seemed to be His present will. It was, however, not so to
A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . tsattending the work, the session of the TenthChurch judged it expedient to discontinue themission Sabl)ath-school. I was invited by A. Boardman, the pastor, to participate inthe mournful transaction that was intendedto conclude the efforts to plant a church bythat mission. It took place, I think, in theafternoon of the last Sunday of June, (25th)1865, with appropriate worship of God, re-counting the blessings of the past and acqui-escing in what seemed to be His present will. It was, however, not so to be. There weremurmurs against the action of the the summer dispersion of the teachersof the school took place, consent was got bysome of them to make a further trial. Theprime movers in this were Miss Estabrook andMiss Penrose, and word was spread among theSabbath-school scholars that the school wouldbe opened again in October. What happenedthen and thereafter belongs to the first chapterof the inspiring story of the rise and progressof the Hollond Memorial Miss Ellen a. Estabrook THE NEW LIFE The Rev. Heber H. Beadle, now, and for the pastthirty-three years, pastor of the Second PresbyterianChurch, Bridgeton, N. J., has prepared the followingpaper on a very interesting and important period Inthe history of the school—the period immediatelyfollowing that described by Dr. L,owrie in the preced-ing chapter: It was my good fortune to be connectedwith the Hollond Memorial field in days longpast; it was my misfortune that it was onlyfor a very short service. After a lapse of morethan thirty years my recollections of it aresomewhat indefinite and unsatisfactory. In the fall of 1865, after the church hadbeen for some time disbanded and the schoolhad been abandoned, when the work in thatfield seemed almost hopeless to all except afaithful few—like Miss Estabrook and Misslyydia S. Penrose—I was asked by them to lookover the field and see whether, in my opin
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