. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. THOMAS BRAIXERD When he came to Old Pine Street. This reproduction of an old engraving shoius the church as it appeared before the alteration of 1857, and St. Peters, in the back ground, before the steeple was built. Pastorate of Thomas Brainerd. 211 sel at once settled the question of enlarging the church,which had been discussed for so many years. Heshowed the cautious men, who had the interests of OldPine Street at heart, that the debt on the church wasan argument for, and not ag
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. THOMAS BRAIXERD When he came to Old Pine Street. This reproduction of an old engraving shoius the church as it appeared before the alteration of 1857, and St. Peters, in the back ground, before the steeple was built. Pastorate of Thomas Brainerd. 211 sel at once settled the question of enlarging the church,which had been discussed for so many years. Heshowed the cautious men, who had the interests of OldPine Street at heart, that the debt on the church wasan argument for, and not against, the proposed im-provements. This judgment, which he then so posi-tively ventured, was fully confirmed by the sale ofnew pews, after the completion of the thirty-nine of these pews ten thousand dollarswas realized. It is understood that this was paymentwhich enabled the person to hold the pew perpetuallyby an annual pew-rent. He took the sound positionalso, that it would be very poor policy to dwarf thecongregation, and impede its work, simply for thesake of preserving the exact form of the original build-ing. Before a year of his pastorate had passed thesingle story gave place to a two-story church, upon theoriginal foundations and walls. The pulpit was re-moved from the east side to an alcove b
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