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HE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of Frankford was founded May 4, 1770. The first building cost

$2,400 and was used in 1777 to house Hessian prisoners taken during the Revolutionary War. The old building was replaced in 1810; here a Sunday School was organized in 1815. The present church edifice

which was dedicated early in 1860, has been improved and redecorated on several occasions. With the exception of the Friends' Meeting House on Unity Street no other institution in Frankford has continued for so many years in the, same place.

Since 1849, a period of ninety-six years, there have been only two pastorates. The spiritual growth and the history of this church, from 1895 to the present, have reflected the sincere and earnest endeavor of John Baker Laird. For fifty years his unselfish service has influenced and enriched the lives of thousands of people in this and other communities.

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EARLY LIFE Born in Southern Lancaster County. As a boy attended a one room country school; two years at Millersville State Normal School. Lafayette CollegeA.B., 1892; A. M., 1895; D.D., 1903; Princeton Seminary, 1895.

LEADERSHIP

Frankford Presbyterian ChurchMinister since May 1895. Frankford Public LibraryCommittee. Frankford HospitalChairman of Campaign CommitteeTrustee. Frankford Historical SocietyMemberDirector. Moderator of Presbytery of Phila. North and of Synod of Pennsylvania. American Red Cross, Community Chapter, Chairman, 1916-18. Pennsylvania Scotch Irish SocietyPresident, 1912. Dedication AddressPresentation of Frankford Stadium to city, 1921. Board of National Missions of Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., 1904-1940. "The Presbyterian" (Church Weekly), Director. Member of Committee of General Assembly, and of Commission to select Army and Navy Chaplains.

TRUSTEESHIPS

Lincoln UniversityTrustee 25 years, President of Board, 8 years. Lafayette College, 1904-. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1906-. Wilson College, 1904-; President of Board, 1920-; Acting President of Wilson College, 1934-5.

REV. JOHN B. LAIRD, D.D., Minister

ethite'unbap, 01ap 6, 1945

Alorning Morobip, 10:30

ORGAN"Chorale" in a A Minor PROCESSIONAL HYMN 333The Church's One Foundation DOXOLOGY INVOCATION AND LORD'S PRAYER

. Franck

CHOIR"Built on a Rock ................................. Christiansen GLORIA TIBI SELECTION No. 45, Page 567 (Read responsively) GLORIA IN EXCELSIS PRAYER OFFERTORY" Pilgrim's Song" ......................... Tschaikowsky HYMN 334-0 Where are Kings and Empires Now? ADDRESS"Fifty Years in Frankford ........................ DR. LAIRD CHOIR"A Mighty Fortress" ................................ Mu.eller HYMN 365Onward Christian Soldiers BENEDICTION SILENT PRAYER P0sTLuDE"Toccata" from Sixth Symphony.................... Widor

'ethttc'unbap, fflap 6, 1945

lJI4je 130tIj 2nniber0arp of the I'unbap Otbool 12 o'clock

EDWARD P. BAILEY, Superintendent

S.

LLOYD MOOR, Ass't. Superintendent, Presiding

Address by ML ROBERT W. MCCLELLAN

Promotions
CRADLE ROLL TO BEGINNERS AND PRIMARY DEPARTMENTS (Conducted by MRS. R. LUTHER YOUNG, Supt. Cradle Roll)
WILLIAM VERNON HOSTELLEY ETHEL ALICE CROIJSE ROBERT HALSTEAD Moiuus WILLIAM DAVID JOHNSTON THOMAS TIMINGS HOLME CAROL ANN ROBINSON DAVID RITTENHOUSE TOMLINSON MARJORIE ANNE TOMLINSON PERRY EMERY WEISS, JR. WILLIAM HOWARD HOLME

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT TO JUNIOR DEPARTMENT (Conducted by MRS. S. LLOYD MOORE, Supt. Primary Dept.)
VIOLET BAu MARY MARGARET CROZIER JOAN GRIMES EDMUND DAWES ANDREW GALLAWAY DAVID NORMAN LORD JAMES SMITH

JUNIOR DEPARTMENT TO SENIOR DEPARTMENT (Conducted by Miss ELSIE ALLEN, Supt. Junior Department) Girls
ELIZABETH LOUISE HAithIsoN NANCY WALTON TINSMAN GRACE ELIZABETH KEDDY NINA GARSED REMMEY DOROTHY DESCHAMP FRANCES LANCASTER ROBERTA E. MLARY MARY ELEANOR GRAY JOAN DIANE MILLER JOAN BAIJMANN MILDRED BELL KEDDY SYLvIA LEIGH DOANE DEBORAH GRIMES GRETCHEN FUGES

Boys
WILLIAM TITUS MOYER JOSEPH PREBBLE HENRY ANDERSON ALBERT C. PRICE HENRY DOUGLASS SMITH JACK WoonwARD ROBERT P1LKINGTON ROBERT TINSMAN

'ethite'unbap, JRap 6, 1945

tbenina Worobip, 7:45

ORGAN(a) "Bells of St. Anne de Beaupre ..................... Russell (b) "Marche Heroique" ........................ Saint PROCESSIONAL"Fairest Lord Jesus" HYMN

Saens

414"God of Our Fathers"

INVOCATION

A CAPPELLA CHOIR OF OLNEY HIGH SCHOOL

DirectionTHEODORE NITSCHE
a. "Communion Verse" ........................ Gretchan.inoff b. "Life of Life ................................. Tschesnokov c. "Joshua" (Spiritual) .................. arr. PRAYER

by Noble Cain

Oi'rERTokY"Caprice"

.....................................

Kreiser

ADDRESS ................................REV. REID

A CAPPELLA CHOIR

S.

DICKSON, D.D.

a. "Listen to the Lambs ................................ Dett b. "Cherubim Song" .......................... Arkhangelsky c. "Watchers of The Stars .............................. Cain BENEDICTION CH0RALE"The Lord Bless SILENT PRAYER P0STLUDE"Hymn of Joy" ..................................... You

You and Keep You.................. Lut kin

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7:45 o'clock

ORGAN

W. CLovlus BRENEISER "Huldigungsmarsch" ..................................... Grieg "Kammenoi Ostrow" ................................ Rubinstein

. MR.

HYMN

411"0 Beautiful for Spacious Skies" M. S.

KIEFFER

INVOCATION ...............................DR. WILLIAM INTRODUCTION ..............................MR. ANDREW

HAINES

GREETINGS

from the Community............ DR. CHARLES N. STURTEVANT from the Board of National Missions.. DR. E. GRAHAM WILSON from Lafayette College.............. DR. WM. MATHER LEWIS from Princeton Seminary...... DR. JOHN ALEXANDER MACKAY from Wilson College ................. DR. PAUL SWAIN HAVENS from the Congregation .......... MR. ROBERT J. HARBISON, JR.
RESPONSE ...................................DR. JOHN BAKER LAIRD BENEDICTION ................................REV. HERMAN

F.

GOHN

Following the benediction, it is requested that the audience be seated. Directions concerning the formation of a reception line will be announced. After personal greetings to Dr. Laird and Miss Laird, light refreshments will be served in the. Sunday Schoolroom.

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ien anb women of the Cjurb in the ZIrmeb Jotted

REV. RoBERT

(Former Members of our Church, now in the Chaplaincy) L. LoGAN, D.D. REV. ALBERTUS GROENDYKE

Howard H. Adamson Edwin A. Anderson Albert Bailey Louis R. Bailey* William C. Bailey Leonard F. Bender, Jr. Lester D. Bergman John Berry John B. Bertram Charles D. Bissett Robert G. Blum Robert D. Boutilier Ellin Brooke J. H. Brooks Richard G. Brotemarkle Stanley Brown* Clifford S. Buckley* Alfred F. Buckman, Jr. Albert W. Campbell William J. Carson James R. Chaffinch Dr. James H. Closson, 3rd Arthur F. Collins Robert H. Crawford William B. Crouse John Dascher Richard H. Davidson Jean E. Dawes Robert G. Dawes Burton Dawson George W. Dietz, 3rd Edward H. Doering Robert L. Donaldson John W. Eastes Eugene E. Ecreman George R. Engle James L. Ford Dr. John W. Froggatt Richard D. Gerges Charles F. Getman Harry Getty William Gibat Albert Graham Edward T. Graham

John Graham* Percy Graham Thomas Graham Harry Gregor Andrew S. Haines, Jr. Robert J. Harbison, 3rd Thomas B. Harbison Howard T. Hardie Charles J. Harter William Healey Richard Henkels William W. Hepworth John A. Hoffman Newton H. Holden Justus M. Holme Thomas T. Holme Charles W. Hornblower William A. Hughes John H. Humpton, Jr. Robert E. Kelchner William H. Kelchner, Jr. Robert L. Kunzig Alfred J. Laupheimer, Ji Alexander Laverty Edmund Lilly* Frank G. Lockhart George Lockhart, 3rd George T. Lord Margaret MacMillan Edward A. Majka Andrew Mariner John Matlack, Jr. Jeannette McM. Mayers Lemuel J. McCaulley Samuel J. McCaulley Robert W. McConnell, Jr. Edmund J. Menelley Lothar H. Miller S. Lloyd Moore, Jr. Wilmer W. Morgan John C. Most Joseph Odgers Louis Olivet, Jr. Henry P. Paulsen

Winthrop G. Pierrel Adolph Pilkington Elizabeth Price William H. Price Donald Pye John A. Raynor, Jr. Daniel P. Reese Charles D. Robinson Albert H. Rosen James Rosen John D. Rowley John R. Scott, Jr. George F. Seibold H. Clifford Shallcross Franklin L. Sidebottom John B. Sidebotham, 3rd Norman C. Sidebotham John Slack John G. Sonneborn, Jr. Michael C. Staffieri Samuel Staffieri William H. Stewart Clarence K. Stretton Robert L. Suter David Tamaccio George A. Tamaccio Ralph A. Tamaccio Roland L. Tamaccio Edmund H. Thomson John R. Thorpe William H. Toy Howard S. Tuman, Jr. David B. Walker William T. Walker Frank R. Walther Perry E. Weiss James Whittle Thomas H. 'Whittle James Wilson* George S. Wolf William B. Woodington, Robert Woods Bruce Wright Richard Yerkes

REV. JOHN B. LAIRD, D.D., Minister MR. R. W. MCCLELLAN, Student Assistant MR. W. C. BRENEISER, Organist and Choir Director

iffitembersi of the beton

MR. SAMUEL D. MILNER, Secretary MR. R. LUTHER YOUNG, Treasurer MR. WILLIAM B. O'HARA MR. EDWARD P. BAILEY MR. WESLEY R. GERGES MR. NORMAN S. CASTOR MR. GEORGE E. BORIE MR. HORACE W. THORP MR. HENRY A. DEERWECHTER MR. ELBERT Ross MR. HARRY J. TOMLINs0N MR. JOHN M. CROZIER MR. ROBERT E. EPPEHIMER MR. HIRAM A. SMITH MR. HERMAN DAVIDSON MR. RALPH Al. CROZIER MR. FR-,K D. DAY

flHenther9 of the 36oarb of Mrumeez

MR. ROBERT J. HAIsoN, JR., President MR. THOMAS N. MURRAY, Secretary Mu. ROBERT W. MCCONNELL, Treasurer MR. JOSEPH S. PARKER MR. CLINTON Y. WILGUS MR. S. LLOYD MooRR MR. WILLARD B. DEGENER Ma. WALTER Z. ADAMSON

Mu. WILLIAM E. ROYLE Ma. JESSIE L. PURNELL Ma. WILLIAM WARREN O'HARA
MR. WILLIAM VROMAN MR. AARON L. DEETER