. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. t future that his clear vision saw aheadfor the Sunday-School movement in America. A col-ored school was maintained for many years in GaskillStreet during the early part of Dr. Brainerds ministry. But the great school for which the credit was largelydue to the devoted men and women of Old Pine Streetwas the Robert Raikes School, on Sixth Street, nearFitzwater. The greatness of its work cannot be esti-mated. One of the leading spirits in this, and in allthe missionary enterprises of
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. t future that his clear vision saw aheadfor the Sunday-School movement in America. A col-ored school was maintained for many years in GaskillStreet during the early part of Dr. Brainerds ministry. But the great school for which the credit was largelydue to the devoted men and women of Old Pine Streetwas the Robert Raikes School, on Sixth Street, nearFitzwater. The greatness of its work cannot be esti-mated. One of the leading spirits in this, and in allthe missionary enterprises of the young people of OldPine Street, was Ezra Calhoun, a truly consecratedservant of God, who came to Old Pine Street fromthe German Street Church in the late forties. He wasquiet and retiring in manner, but a man whose leader-ship needed no assertion. He was a power in OldPine Street as he grew in years and in favor with Godand man, serving as trustee, and subsequently as rulingelder, until his death, November 26, 1885, in the fifthyear of the present pastorate. 1 In Connells Memorabilia of Old Pine EZRA CALHOUN Trustee and Ruling Elder of the church; a consecrated manwho was a leader of young people
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