TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

PART ONE:  IN THE OLDEN TIME

CHAPTER  I

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Wall Street Presbyterians: 1706-1765.....       3

The New Minister.—Eariy History of the Presbyterian Church
in New York City.—Condition in 1765.—John Rodgers.—
His Youth.—His Early Ministry.—Call to New York.—
A Revival Follows.—The Wall Street Church Inadequate.

chapter ii

The New Church:  1765-1767........17

Petition for Land.—New York in 1765.—"The Angular Lot."
—^The Grant.—Raising the Building Fund.—Appearance
of the New jChurch.—Its Name.—Right of Incorporation
Denied.—^The Collegiate Arrangement.—^The New Church
Congregation.

chapter iii
Colonial Days:  1768-1774..........33
 

Dedication Service.—^The Church's Debt to Mr. Rodgers.—His
Fitness for Leadership.—His Doctor's Degree.—^The
Church Prospers.—Departments of Work.—^The Pastor:
Public Worship and Visitation.—^The Session: Discipline.
—The Deacons and the Parish Poor.—^The Church's Early
Maturity.

chapter iv

*The Presbyterian Junto'*:  1752-1775.....43

Contemporary Political Affairs.—Seldom Alluded to in Session
Minutes.—Attitude of New York Presbyterians.—Of Dr.
Rodgers.—Revolutionary Record of the Members to be
Included in the Church s History.—Presbyterians in the
Whig Club, 1752.—"The Triumvirate'^: Livingston,
Smith, and Scott.—Alexander McDougal.—Presbyterian
Leaders in the "Sons of Liberty."—Events on the Com¬
mon, 1765-1770.—McDougal's Arrest.—Presbyterians Out¬
voted in the Committee of Fifty-one, 1774.

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