August 4 Today in OPC History

The Presbytery of Philadelphia meeting on August 4, 1936, celebrated the 87th birthday of Ruling Elder John W. Dulles. Mr. Dulles, son of Secretary of State John W. Dulles, and uncle to future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and future CIA Director Allen Welsh Dulles, was a founding member of the Presbyterian Church of America (renamed Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1939) when it was constituted on June 11, 1936. He also helped establish Calvary Church, Germantown, which would eventually become Calvary Church, Glenside. Mr. Dulles would go to be with the Lord in glory on August 26, 1946.

Picture: Listing of names on the first Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension of the Presbyterian Church of America.