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Title: Centennial history of the First Presbyterian church of Easton, Pennsylvania : 1811-1911
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: First Presbyterian Church (Easton, Pa.) Stewart, Charles, of Easton, Pa
Subjects: First Presbyterian Church (Easton, Pa.)
Publisher: (Easton, Pa. : The Church
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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h, which was in 1851, disbanded, and most of itsmembers joined the American Reformed Church. March 5th,1853 thirty-four members were dismissed to form the BrainerdChurch. On December nth, 1853 twenty were dismissed toorganize the First Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, N. J.,whose daughter is the Westminster Church of Phillipsburg, N.J., organized in 1886. In 1881 the South Side Church wasorganized. In 1896 the College Hill Church was organized, andOlivet in 1899. Thus our First Church is the mother of onecollege and five self-supporting churches, and grandmother ofa sixth, and still has two daughters as yet under mothers super-vision, healthy and growing into beautiful symmetry. Believing as all good Presbyterians certainly do, in the im-mortality of the soul, and that at death the souls of believers doimmediately pass into glory, may we not tonight think of ourpredecessors in the work of this church in days long past, asinterested spectators, looking down upon us from the battle-
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Rev. Frances S. Haines1891-1903 43 rnents of Heaven, and rejoicing with us over souls here ransom-ed from the guilt and defilement of sin by Christs redemptivework, now clad in robes washed and made white in the bloodof the Lamb; and as educing sweetest, grandest music fromtheir golden harps that reverberates through all the mansionsof the blessed, while the accompanying angelic chorus sings OfHim, to Him and through Him, are all things—to Whom bethe glory forever and ever. We have shown our deep interest in the genesis and earlyyears of Lafayette College, and are presumptuous enough to de-sire a share in the pride she takes in some of her eminent alumni,such as Rev. David Coulter of Missouri, Rev. J. B. Ram-say, D. D. of Virginia, Rev. Prof. W. Henry Green of Prince-ton, Rev. Ninian Bannatyne of Washington City, Hon. WilliamA. Porter of Philadelphia, Rev. John M. Lowrie, D. D. of FortWayne, Ind., Rev. W. D. Howard of Pittsburg, Dr. Thomas C.Porter and Dr. Charles Elliott of Lafayet

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