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East and West Chapel Windows (5 of 5)
The two Chapel windows present scenes of Presbyterian history. In the left (or West) window some important events of American Presbyterian history are recorded - the Log College; George Duffield serving as clerk of the First General Assembly; John Witherspoon signing the Declaration of Independence, the only minister to do so; Frances Makemie, known as the father of organized American Presbyterianism, on one of his missions of proclaiming the Gospel. The second (or East) window represents three prior buildings occupied by the Abington congregation. Outstanding Presbyterians identified in this window are the Reverend Malachi Jones, Abington Church's first minister; George Whitefield, prominent evangelist of the Great Awakening Era who spoke in the Abington Church yard to a congregation of over two thousand people; President Benjamin Harrison and John Wanamaker, then the postmaster general of the United States, as they were greeted at Abington on their way to the anniversary celebration of the Log College; and William Jennings Bryan, the two hundredth anniversary speaker at Abington Church.