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sale to the new location. [In consequence of this sweeping action, the 

 ruling elders and many of the members withdrew from the church, and 

 eventually united in establishing the First Congregational church in the 

 same vicinity.] On November 8 Mr. Cornelius preached for the last time in 

 the old location ; and during the ensuing week the church edifice was 

 removed to its new site on Worcester Avenue, where it was built-in as a 

 part of the large new structure erected in 1886 on the corner of Colorado 



PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

 English-Gothic Architecture. Photo. 1895. 



Street and Worcester Avenue. During the autumn of 1888 the first mas- 

 sive pipe organ ever brought to Pasadena was put into this church, at a cost 

 of $6,000. 



In January, 1889, pastor Cornelius resigned ; and Rev. Wm. Ormiston, 

 D. D.,L,L, D., preached as " supply " from July, 1889, till December, 1890. 

 Rev. N. H. G. Fife was next called to the pastorate, being installed 

 October 7, 1891, and is still in service — 1895. In the night of December 

 10-11,1891, the lofty steeple of the church was blown down by a fierce 

 wind storm, and fell over into Colorado street. [See page 165.] 



