| 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. |