. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. wn ap-pointed field, but often did he enter other avenues ofministerial service. His voice was heard upon thestreet, and in the old Second Street Market House,where he sought to reach the ears of those who didnot appear in the Sabbath congregations, and yet whoneeded so deeply the glad tidings of salvation. Dr. Brainerd was thoroughly a Presbyterian. Heknew and fully accepted the polity of the PresbyterianChurch. Few pastors have equaled him in the skilfulapplication of this polity
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. wn ap-pointed field, but often did he enter other avenues ofministerial service. His voice was heard upon thestreet, and in the old Second Street Market House,where he sought to reach the ears of those who didnot appear in the Sabbath congregations, and yet whoneeded so deeply the glad tidings of salvation. Dr. Brainerd was thoroughly a Presbyterian. Heknew and fully accepted the polity of the PresbyterianChurch. Few pastors have equaled him in the skilfulapplication of this polity for the control and develop-ment of the life of a church. He fully realized thedifficulty of holding an even balance in the exercise ofthe two great principles of liberty and order. He wasfully in accord with the people in their historic strug-gle for their personal and constitutional rights. Andyet he was a strong advocate of representative govern-ment in the church. He believed in the due constitu-tional exercise of ecclesiastical authority in the highercourts of the church: his contention had always been. SAMUEL McCLELLAN, M. D. Uncle of General George B. McClellan, and Professor in Jeffer-son Medical College; a Ruling Elder in Old Pine Street From a steel engraving in possession of the church, Pastorate of Thomas Brainerd. 217 against the irregular and tyrannical pressing of suchauthority. He taught his people that the Holy Spiritdwells in the body of believers. In the congregationalmeetings of the church, perfect harmony did not alwaysexist. He had a number of turbulent, crooked spiritsto deal with. But his firm, kind hand always wonconfidence and respect. These facts we readily readin the records of the church. He honored his Session, and the ruling elders hon-ored him. Nor did he show less respect to the body oftrustees in their sphere of duty. When his pastoratebegan, the Session consisted of John C. Farr, R. , William Nassau, and John R. McMullin,Jr. There w
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