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1. NYPRES_150307_034.JPG: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square Civil War to Civil Rights -- Downtown Heritage Trail -- W.4 New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square "The churches are needed as never before for divine services." -- President Abraham Lincoln So said President Lincoln from his pew in New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. While other churches were occupied by the federal government for offices and hospitals during the Civil War, Lincoln insisted this church remain open for worship. The pastor, Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, was the president's spiritual guide through the war and during the fatal illness of Lincoln's young son, Willie, who on his deathbed left his small savings of $5 to the church. President Lincoln regularly traveled the short distance from the White House to attend this church, a congregation founded by Presbyterian carpenters on the grounds of the White House in 1793. Lincoln's hitching post remains outside; his pew still stands in this somewhat enlarged, 1950s replica of the original church. President Lincoln also found solace in the church's midweek Bible classes. He sequestered himself in an adjacent room with the door ajar lest he disturb others with his presence. A document in Lincoln's handwriting, proposing that the federal government end slavery by paying owners to free their slaves, is displayed in the church's Lincoln parlor. The plan was carried out only in Washington, D.C. The church dominates an area now called Herald Square, named for the Washington Times-Herald newspaper that once occupied the white building at 1307 New York Avenue. Here, publisher Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson created the nation's first round-the-clock newspaper, becoming one of the most powerful women in the country. Socialite, businesswomen, and political activist, she was a dominant force in the city's political and social life until her death in 1948.
2. NYPRES_150307_080.JPG: The church tower with the clock and chimes Dedicated to the glory of god in the memory of Abraham Lincoln A pewholder and regular attendant at the services of this church child President of the United States. Donated by Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln and Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham May 26, 1929 (Tower reconstructed in 1931)
3. NYPRES_150307_086.JPG: With malice toward none, With charity for all, With firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right.
4. NYPRES_150307_108.JPG: It looks like an American flag in the molding
5. NYPRES_150307_133.JPG: A. Lincoln 1861-1865
6. NYPRES_150307_151.JPG: Original manuscript of Lincoln's proposal to pay compensation for freeing the slaves, leading to the Emancipation Proclamation
7. NYPRES_150307_162.JPG: On March 6, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln recommended to Congress the passage of a resolution recognizing that the United States "ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery," giving pecuniary aid to compensate for the "inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system." This resolution, which contained no provision for payment of any amount, was adopted by Congress on April 10, 1862. Then on July 14, 1862, Mr. Lincoln for the first time, wrote the two Houses of Congress, attaching a draft of a bill providing for the payment by the United States of a sum to be stated for all slaves in any State abolishing slavery therein. It was his intent that the principle of compensated emanciation of the slaves in any State abolishing slavery therein. It was his intent that the principle of compensated emancipation of the slaves should be embodied in a Federal statute. His letter of transmittal and his draft of the attached bill appear above. The House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee which reported it favorably, but the House adjourned without acting on it. The Senate did not consider it. However, on July 17, 1862, the day of adjournment, Congress enacted the so-called Confiscation Act, under section 6 of which President Lincoln thought he had power to issue a proclamation freeing the slaves. Such a proclamation was presented to his Cabinet on July 22, 1862. In it he stated is purpose of recommending the passage of a bill to pay compensation for slaves liberated by States adhering to the Union, as first set out in terms in the bill appearing above. On September 22, 1962 a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued in substantial accord with that presented to the Cabinet on July 22, 1862 declaring free all slaves in the States in armed conflict with the United States of January 1, 1863. This was followed by the final proclamation of January 1 1863 designating such States and declaring free all slaves therein. Mr. Lincoln presented a draft of the proclamation to Doctor Phineas D. Gurley, the pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, attended by Mr. Lincoln, and solicited his comments. There is considerable evidence that several of Doctor Gurley's suggestions were incorporated in the final document.
8. NYPRES_150307_166.JPG: Fellow citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives Herewith is the draft of a Bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within it's limits, the passage of which, substantially as presented, I respectfully, and earnestly recommend. July 14. 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
9. NYPRES_150418_009.JPG: In honor of those who have served and those who now serve in the armed forces of the United States of America
10. NYPRES_150418_017.JPG: With malice toward none, With charity for all, With firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right.
Wikipedia Description: New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
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The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The church has played an important role in the history of the United States during many crucial junctures.

The Scottish artisans building the White House worshipped on its grounds; they and their families formed a worshipping community that eventually merged with another to form The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, located just three blocks from that original worship site.

President Abraham Lincoln worshipped regularly at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church during the American Civil War. Lincoln rented a pew for $50 a year. Lincoln and the pastor, Rev. Dr. Phineas Gurley, developed a relationship in which they frequently discussed theology. Gurley presided over the funeral of Lincoln's son, William Wallace Lincoln, in 1862, and then over the funeral of Lincoln himself in 1865. Rev. Gurley had an "insider's" perspective of Lincoln's faith, and reported it as follows:

I have had frequent and intimate conversations with him on the Subject of the Bible and the Christian religion, when he could have had no motive to deceive me, and I considered him sound not only on the truth of the Christian religion but on all its fundamental doctrines and teachings. And more than that, in the latter days of his chastened and weary life, after the death of his son Willie, and his visit to the battlefield of Gettysburg, he said, with tears in his eyes, that he had lost confidence in everything but God, and that he now believed his heart was changed, and that he loved the Savior, and, if he was not deceived in himself, it was his intention soon to make a profession of religion.

The Reverend Peter Marshall preached many famous sermons during World War II from its pulpit. (The original church was torn down in the 1950s and replaced with an enlarged structure which slightly resembles the old one.)

The Reverend Dr. George MacPherson Docherty preached a Lincoln Day sermon on February 7, 1954 to a congregation that included President Dwight Eisenhower. The sermon, titled "A New Birth of Freedom," prompted the U.S. Congress to amend the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States, inserting the phrase Lincoln used at Gettysburg, "under God."

Martin Luther King, Jr. preached at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church during the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s.

In 1962, the church started a tutoring program known as Community Club; the program is one of the oldest continuous tutoring program in Washington, DC. Originally started as a social club for returning GI's in the closing days of World War II, the club evolved to become a social and academic support service for middle and high school students in the downtown neighborhoods close to the church. The program has assisted approximately 1,800 students since its inception.

The current pastor (since 2002) is Rev. Roger J. Gench, formerly senior minister of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Gench's wife, Frances Taylor Gench, is a nationally known Biblical scholar and faculty member at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. The church's assistant pastor is Tara Spuhler-McCabe.
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