. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ns were now stirring both congrega-tions. The American Revolution was at hand. Mar-ket Street and Pine Street were preparing to join handsagainst a common foe. George DufBeld was amongthe foremost advocates of the absolute independence ofthe colonies. His spiritual and patriotic fervor waspoured forth in sermons of marvelous power and elo-quence, which stirred the whole city. Even his foesacknowledged him as a great leader of men. The sequel will show that the long and bitter con- 5
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. ns were now stirring both congrega-tions. The American Revolution was at hand. Mar-ket Street and Pine Street were preparing to join handsagainst a common foe. George DufBeld was amongthe foremost advocates of the absolute independence ofthe colonies. His spiritual and patriotic fervor waspoured forth in sermons of marvelous power and elo-quence, which stirred the whole city. Even his foesacknowledged him as a great leader of men. The sequel will show that the long and bitter con- 54 History of Old Pine Street. flict between the two churches ended here. The ec-clesiastical question over which they had fought so longhad been fully settled in the Synod of 1773. Althoughthey waited long for their legal title, Pine Street peopleremained in undisturbed possession of the church intowhose walls had been builded the love and devotion ofthe mother church. If the victory was for Pine Street,it was much more for the King who is above everyKing, whom mother and daughter served with field GEORGE DUFFIELD A. B. (Princeton); D. D. (Yale) Chaplain to Continental Congress and Pennsylvania Militia dur-ing the Revolutionary War; first Stated Clerk of Gen-eral Assembly; first Pastor of the church, andburied in the churchyard From the portrait in Independence Hall
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