. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. P; JAMES F. SCOTTA devoted Riding Elder of the present Session ;mder Dr. Gibbons. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 263 ancient custom of the church, the Session was largelyrepresented in the Board of Trustees, and no disagree-ment occurred between these two official bodies. In the year before Dr. Gibbons came to Old PineStreet, however, a question did arise. The trusteesmaintained that, under the constitution, they, as con-trollers of the church property, had the right to giveo
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. P; JAMES F. SCOTTA devoted Riding Elder of the present Session ;mder Dr. Gibbons. Pastorate of Hughes Oliphant Gibbons. 263 ancient custom of the church, the Session was largelyrepresented in the Board of Trustees, and no disagree-ment occurred between these two official bodies. In the year before Dr. Gibbons came to Old PineStreet, however, a question did arise. The trusteesmaintained that, under the constitution, they, as con-trollers of the church property, had the right to giveor withhold permission for meetings in the churchbuilding. The Session, on the contrary, maintainedthat, inasmuch as the church was for the use of Godin worship, and they had oversight of the spiritual in-terests of the church, this prerogative was theirs. Aftermuch friendly discussion the Session won the day. had made a special study of church polity, andin his Annapolis charge, had been, under the con-stitution of that church, President of the Board ofTrustees as well as Moderator of the Session. So hehad enjoyed exceptional opportunities of looking atthis, and other question
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