. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ationed at the door below, with instructions tosignal the bellman to ring if the Declaration was passed. Thehours rolled by, the crowd became impatient, and as the shadowsof the State House lengthened, the gray-haired veteran sighed,and said, Theyll never do it! Finally the door of the hallopened, and the sergeant-at-arms stepped out and whispered tothe boy, who, nodding assent, bounded up the steps two at a time,and to the bellman in the tower he shouted the message, Theyvesigned i
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ationed at the door below, with instructions tosignal the bellman to ring if the Declaration was passed. Thehours rolled by, the crowd became impatient, and as the shadowsof the State House lengthened, the gray-haired veteran sighed,and said, Theyll never do it! Finally the door of the hallopened, and the sergeant-at-arms stepped out and whispered tothe boy, who, nodding assent, bounded up the steps two at a time,and to the bellman in the tower he shouted the message, Theyvesigned it, signed it! Ring! Ring! Ring! Thrilled with emotion,the old man seized the iron tongue of the bell, and hurled it backand forward a hundred times, his long queue keeping time to itsmotion. And brave men listened gladly, for it rang out the heart-less and hopeless past, and rang in the promise of a helpful andhopeful * 1 See page 94. 2 Rhoades Story of Philadelphia, page 215. THE GRAVE OF WILLIAM HURRYBell-man of the State House, who rang in the liberty of a nation Junction of East and South The Churchyard and Its Dead. 327 In late years the grave of William Hurry has beenmuch sought for. It was known that he rested in theOld Pine Street churchyard, but it was feared thatthe hand of time had crumbled his stone. In the listingof the graves it was discovered, sunk some three glance at the photograph opposite this page willshow the line of the ground. The inscription on theportion that was buried is as clear after a century asif it had been cut to-day. This stone and its foot-piece were raised immediately after the is merely an instance of many stones that areprobably similarly buried, but which will be raisedagain systematically and carefully. Tradition tells offamous people buried in Old Pine Street churchyard,whom we have not mentioned here. Only those whomthe stones clearly record are claimed. The far-seeing men who initiated the Endowmen
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