. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. PineStreet has stayed; and will ever stay. Only there aremore phases to the work. Sunday services are as theywere. Pastoral visits are as they were; only the pastornow goes to the ends of a great city and its suburbs,even as his people come to him and to the dear oldchurch. There are merely added duties, and newphases of church work. On Friday nights there is aprayer-meeting of Hungarians in the church, in theirnative tongue, with a native minister; the marriageregister of Old Pine
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. PineStreet has stayed; and will ever stay. Only there aremore phases to the work. Sunday services are as theywere. Pastoral visits are as they were; only the pastornow goes to the ends of a great city and its suburbs,even as his people come to him and to the dear oldchurch. There are merely added duties, and newphases of church work. On Friday nights there is aprayer-meeting of Hungarians in the church, in theirnative tongue, with a native minister; the marriageregister of Old Pine Street records a half dozen Hun-garian marriages; and the roll of communing memberscontains the name of a Hungarian that was receivedby the Session through an interpreter. Dr. Gibbonsand his assistant visit old aristocratic mansions, wheretwenty families live in as many rooms, and placeswhere the police might go to the advantage of the com-munity. This is foreign missionary work at home. At the beginning of Dr. Gibbons pastorate the Ses- 1 James B. Thompson in the Old Pine Street Church News,February, JOSEPH B. DETW1LER A devoted Ruling Elder and Trustee of the present Sessionand Board
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