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 The Blue Banner: The Presbyterian Church of Saint David - Halifax, Nova Scotia Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 44° 38.676 W 063° 34.469
20T E 454443 N 4943631
Many Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in Canada became United Churches with Church Union in 1925. Grafton Street Methodist, however, went a different direction, changing from Methodist to Presbyterian.
Waymark Code: WMRT1H
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/31/2016
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In 2008 this 352 page book, entitled " The Blue Banner: The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and Presbyterian Witness in Halifax", was published by Mcgill-Queens University Press. It was authored by Barry Cahill. Primarily, it covers the latter history of this 1852 church, from the time it became a Presbyterian church in 1930.
The Blue Banner is a case study of the survival of historic denominationalism grounded in resistance to church union. It traces the origins and near demise of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia and the development of Saint David's from its beginnings as a new congregation and the only site of Presbyterian witness in metropolitan Halifax. The authors look at various aspects of congregational life - corporate structure and governance, education, worship and music, volunteerism, mission and outreach, and stewardship of the historic site and building that has been home to Saint David's since the beginning.
From Mcgill-Queens University Press
The first Grafton Street Methodist Church was built in 1852, only to burn in one of Halifax's many fires on February 23, 1868. The small cemetery beside the church predates even that church, having been used from 1793 to 1844. It was known as the Old Methodist Burying Ground and is now one of the holiest sites of Methodism in Eastern Canada.
The present Grafton Street Methodist Church replaced that church, opening for services on November 7, 1869. The building remained a Methodist church until June of 1925, when Church Union in Canada made it redundant.
The few Presbyterians who resisted union established The Presbyterian Church, Halifax in 1925. Very soon afterward the church bought this building and in 1930 it was renamed to become The Presbyterian Church of Saint David.
The Presbyterian Church of Saint David was born in 1925, when its parent, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, was in danger of disintegrating in the face of inter-denominational church union among Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists.
The Presbyterian men and women who resisted union did so positively and constructively by first forming the Halifax chapter of the Presbyterian Church Association in 1924 and then establishing The Presbyterian Church, Halifax (incorporated, 1925).
Soon afterwards, the Presbyterians leased and then purchased the former Grafton Street Methodist Church as a congregational home. Built in 1868-69, in the early English style of Trinity Methodist in Charlottetown, the building was designed by David Sterling, architect of Fort Massey Presbyterian (now United) Church in Halifax, and is a registered [Provincial] heritage property. It stands over and in the midst of the Old Methodist Burying Ground of Halifax, one of the most sacred sites of Maritime Methodism.
From Saint David's Presbyterian![]()
ISBN Number: 0773533583
Author(s): Barry Cahill, Laurence DeWolfe and Lois Yorke
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