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IHE WARBURTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 
 
 VONKKKS. N. Y. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 ERECTION AND DEDICATION 
 
 THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP 
 
 Markrtnu ^^Ijeime baptist €\mt\r 
 
 YONKERS, N. Y. 
 
 PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 N e \v York: 
 
 t$. JrJolraan, Itfrjnlerj, cor^nei^ of ^en^e and ^hite Streets. 
 
 1869. 
 
INTHODUCTOEY. 
 
 A GOOD deed has in it the element of immortality. 
 The freshness of its early fragrance can not pass away 
 and perish. For a good deed is one that has God in 
 it ; and whatever has God in it, can not die. Even 
 when it has passed from the memory of living men, 
 seemingly bm-ied beneath the tide of the rushing 
 years, it still exists as one of the invisible, but living 
 and carefully guarded forces in God's moral economy. 
 
 A good deed is more than immortal ; it reproduces 
 itself It is life, carrying its own seed, muHiplying 
 itself indefinitely. It acts like an inspiration from 
 above, a breath from the heavens, swelling the sails of 
 indecision, and setting into swifter motion the slowly 
 plodding. Wherever its history is repeated, it kindles 
 and fires the better natures of men into responsive 
 action. The electric thrill runs from heart to heart, 
 and so the one deed reproduces itself in the many. A 
 great good deed can not walk in solitariness. It will 
 draw to itself a great host, to bear it willing, honora- 
 ble company. When David, old and feeble, shorn of 
 the vigor of manhood, and full of infirmities, called 
 the princes and chiefs of the house of Israel about 
 him, and told them what generous provision he had 
 made for the building of God's temple, he kindled in 
 his auditors an enthusiasm more intense than any 
 created by his grandest exploits in war. They were 
 
stuTed to niuniticent emulation, and in a very short 
 time they more than doubled the temple fund. Our 
 own day boasts its Peabody, and Yassar, and Crozer, 
 and scores of others who, by their example, have been 
 stirred to deeds of like far-sighted generosity. 
 
 In this catalogue of honor, John B. Trevor and 
 James B. Coi^gate have fully and fairly earned the 
 right of enrollment. While their benefactions have 
 brought blessings to many doors, the uniqueness of 
 their great gift to the Warburton Avenue Baptist 
 Church, of Yonkers, merits special mention. To 
 furnish a full and reliable account of the origin and 
 progress of this enterprise, the publication of the 
 present pamphlet was conceived. At a regular busi- 
 ness meeting of the Church, held on Wednesday 
 evening, June 30, 1869, a Committee, consisting of 
 the Pastor, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, Deacon Peter F. 
 Peek, Bros. Gr. Hilton Scribner and James Randell, 
 of the Church, and Luther W. Fkost, Esq., of the 
 Congregation, were appointed, " empowered to collect 
 a complete record of all the facts relating to the erec- 
 tion of the house of worship of the Warburton Avenue 
 Baptist Church, the dedicatory services, and the con- 
 gratulatory meeting, and authorized to publish the 
 same under the sanction of the Church." In con- 
 formity to the spirit of the above resolution, the 
 following pages have been prepared, and they are now 
 submitted to the public, — not to minister to vain-glory, 
 or to flatter sinful pride, but in the hope thereby to 
 provoke others to a holy jealousy and a pure-minded 
 emulation. 
 
H I S T K Y. 
 
 YoNKERS, one of the rapidly growing suburban 
 towns of Xew York City, is situated on the easterly 
 bank of the Hudson River, about 15 miles from the 
 centre of the great American metropolis. It has a 
 population of nearly 15,000. A Baptist Church was 
 organized here on May 14, 1849, with 15 members, 
 six of whom are still living and in full fellowship with 
 the Church. The first pastor was the Rev. D. Henry 
 Miller, D. D., now of Elizabeth, New Jersey, who 
 was succeeded in turn by the Rev. J. R. Scott, now 
 deceased. Rev. J. C. C. Clarke, now of Madison, Wis- 
 consin, and Rev. A. J, F. Behrends, whose pastorate 
 dates from May, 1865. The present membership of 
 the Church is 253. 
 
 The first house of worship was built by the Church 
 shortly after its organization. It is of brick, 52 by 63 
 feet, with a square tower on the southeasterly corner, 
 60 feet high ; containing a basement, capable of seat- 
 ing about 200, and a main audience room, which, with 
 the end gallery opposite the pulpit, can accommodate 
 between 300 and 400 persons. 
 
 FORMAL OFFER. 
 
 As early as 1863 at least, the building of a new 
 house in a more favorable location was ao;itated 
 
among a few members and friends of the Church, 
 but the subject did not definitely engage the attention 
 of the Church until the regular Church meeting, held 
 on October 2, 1867,* when the following communica- 
 tion from Bros. Trevor and Colgate was read b}^ the 
 pastor : 
 
 To THE Mount Olivet Baptist CnuRCir, Yonkers. 
 
 Dear Brethren : — Feeling a deep interest in the advancement of the 
 cause of Christ, and under obligations to hira for many blessings, and 
 as expressive of our love for bim and for the Church which he has jour- 
 chased with his own blood, we jjropose to erect and give to you a 
 church edifice (according to the plans herewith submitted), with the 
 ground, being about 218 feet on Ashburton Avenue, and 304 feet, more 
 or less, onWarburton Avenue, besides an additional piece adjoining the 
 easterly side, 50 by 100 feet, free from all debt, on the following con- 
 ditions : 
 
 1. The Churcli, on entering into possession, is to be known as the 
 ''Wai'burton Acenue Baptist Church,^'' instead of ^'■Mount Olivet Baptist 
 Church."' 
 
 2. The Church is to relinquish to the undersigned all its rights, 
 titles, etc. (if it have any), to the eight lots on the northerly side of the 
 Manor House proijerty. 
 
 3. The Church shall not encumber with debt, or sell the said proj)- 
 erty ; and it is distinctly agreed between us that it is to be used as a 
 Baptist place of worship for all time. 
 
 4. The Church is to use the said liuilding and grounds for no other 
 purpose than those of a religious character, all meetings of a i^olitical or 
 secular character being forbidden to be held on the premises. 
 
 5. The Church is to raise the sum of ten thousand dollars in cash, 
 which is to be spent in furnishing the new edifice, under the direction of 
 the architect, E. L. Roberts, Esq.; and should there be any surijlus, it is 
 to be spent toward paying for an organ, to be used in said building. 
 
 * This is the date of the first formal proiDOsition and Church action. 
 Months previous to this, however, and in anticipation of the acceptance 
 by the Church of the formal offer, the lots had been jjurchased ; and sev- 
 eral weeks before the above date, the plans had been drawn, the main 
 contracts had been awarded, and ground had been broken. This note 
 will harmonize the statement on page 10 with the above. 
 
6. In case of any dispute arising hereafter as to what is a Baptist 
 Church, it is to be settled by the creed of the present Church, in which 
 its doctrines are fully set forth. 
 
 Should the Church agree to accept the property on the alwve con- 
 ditions, and instruct its Trustees to receive the same, we agree to deposit 
 in the hands of F. A. Coe, Esq., of Yonkers, a deed, to be held by him 
 in trust, and to be surrendered to your Trustees on these conditions 
 being fully complied with. 
 
 Hoping the above propositions will meet with your approval, and 
 be favored with the blessing of God, we are, dear brethren. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 John B. Trevok. 
 
 James B. Colgate. 
 
 The communication was referred to a Committee, 
 consisting of Bros. Edward Bright, P. F. Peek, and 
 Isaac Gr. Johnson, who submitted the following re- 
 port, whose appended resolutions were unanimously 
 and heartily adopted : 
 
 The Committee, to whom was referred the communication of Bros. 
 John B. Trevor and James B. Colgate, is profoundly impressed with 
 the generous and noble work they propose to do, and the reasonableness 
 of all the conditions upon which the Church is to accept the gift. Such 
 a church edifice as they intend to build at their own expense will be 
 more than impressive, and delightful evidence of the estimation in which 
 they hold their Christian and denominational convictions ; it will also 
 prove to be, as your Committee believes, an inestimable blessing to the 
 commimity in which it is to be located, and to the cause of evangelical 
 truth throughout the world. For it is to be, from generation to genera- 
 tion, the spiritual home of a living church of Jesus Christ, and such a 
 church is everywhere and always the best and most jDotent conservative 
 force in the world. 
 
 The Christian men and women here assembled should, therefore, 
 accept this munificent gift of their brethren with fervent gratitude to 
 God, and with no other thought or purpose than to regard it as a per- 
 petual argument for the existence of a living, united, and ag'gressive 
 church wdthin its walls, — a church that shall evermore hold to and hold 
 forth the truth as it is in Christ Jesus ; the truth as be, and those 
 whom be personally instructed, held and illustrated it. 
 
The Committee recommend, therefore, the adoption of these resolu- 
 tions : 
 
 Hesohed, That in the spirit of tlie sentiment herein expressed, and in 
 tlie hope of the fullest realization of all the blessings herein intimated, 
 this Church does hereby exjjress its profound gratitude to God for the 
 timely, munificent, and noble gift proposed by Bros. John B. Trevor 
 and James B. Colgate. 
 
 Mesolved, That the Trustees of the Church and Society be, and they 
 are hereby, requested and instructed to accept the conditions on which 
 Bros. Trevor and Colgate j)ropose to transfer the deed of the new 
 church edifice, and to take the necessary measures to carry into prompt 
 and complete effect every condition named in their communication. 
 
 Hesolved, That a copy of this report be communicated to Bros. 
 Trevor and Colgate, individually, by the Pastor and Clerk of the 
 Church. 
 
 Edward Bright. 
 Peter F. Peek. 
 Isaac G. Johnson. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF HOUSE. 
 
 The corner-stone of the new house of worship was 
 laid on the 11th of April, 1868, with appropriate 
 services, in which the pastor was cordially assisted 
 by the Rev. U. T. Tracy, rector of the St. Paul's 
 Episcopal Church, the Rev. M. D. C. Crawford, 
 pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. 
 David Cole, D. D., pastor of the Reformed Church, 
 the Rev. D. M. Seward, D. D., pastor of the First 
 Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. L. W. Mudge, 
 pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 
 all of them active pastors within the bounds of the 
 village corporation 
 
 The building is located on the corner of two of 
 the principal avenues in the village, from one of 
 which its name is derived. Its extreme length, in- 
 cluding the two-story chapel in the rear, is 154: feet. 
 
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 and its extreme width in front is 90 feet. Tlie chapel 
 is 90 by 36 feet. Tlie walls are 30 feet in the clear 
 from the water-table to the roof cornice, and the roof 
 has a perpendicular elevation of nearly 32 feet. The 
 main tower and spire are on the southwesterly corner, 
 and rise to an elevation of 160 feet from the water- 
 table, surmounted by a beautiful and symmetrical 
 stone cross. On the southeasterly corner is an octagon 
 tower, 60 feet high. The architecture is the Roman- 
 esque, or round arched. The main audience room is 
 80 by 60 feet, with galleries on both sides and on the 
 end opposite the pulpit. There are 206 pews in this 
 room, of which 148 are on the main floor, and 58 
 in the galleries, giving the house a seating capacity of 
 from 1,000 to 1,200. The furniture is of solid black 
 walnut, oiled and waxed. The ceiling and walls are 
 handsomely frescoed, the coloring being subdued 
 in general tone. The windows are all of stained 
 glass. The organ is still in process of construc- 
 tion under the direction of Henry Erben, Esq., of 
 New York City, and will be of great power, with 
 two banks of keys and 35 stops. There is a fine, 
 spacious baptistery under the pulpit platform, from 
 which there are convenient communications with 
 the robing rooms. These, with a church parlor, in- 
 tended for social gatherings, 37 by 32 feet, and 
 pastor's study and library, occupy the first floor of 
 the chapel. The second floor contains the Sabbath 
 school and lecture room, 69 by 32 feet, with an end 
 gallery for the infant department of the Sabbath 
 school, and separated from the main room by sliding 
 glass-doors. This room is furnished with semi-oval, 
 cane-bottom settees, and the walls and ceiling are 
 
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 painted and lightly frescoed. Botli this room and the 
 audience room are lighted from great reflectors in the 
 ceiling. A great deal of attention has been given to 
 the thorough ventilation of the building, and con- 
 siderable money has been expended on the same, 
 under the very just notion that pure air, and plenty of 
 it, is cheap at any price. The architect pronounces it 
 one of the very best ventilated buildings in the country. 
 The structure, including towers and spire, is built of 
 Belleville freestone, of a handsome browii color ; and 
 the roof is of the best quality of slate. The entire cost 
 of the ground, building, appointments, etc., is nearly 
 $200,000, all of which, with the exception of $10,000 
 raised by the, Church and Society, has been generously 
 and cheerfully contributed by Bros. John B. Trevor 
 and James B. Colgate. 
 
 THE MEMORIAL TABLET. 
 
 When this enterprise was under serious considera- 
 tion, — the site having already been purchased, and 
 the plans adopted, Louisa S. Stewart, the beloved 
 wife of our brother John B. Trevor, was called home. 
 For many years an active and useful member of the 
 Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and a great but patient 
 sufferer during the closing years of her life, she fell 
 asleep on the 7th of September, 1867, and her body 
 rests in the city of the dead at Greenwood, with God 
 keeping tender watch over her dust. A choice memo- 
 rial tablet of the finest Aberdeen granite is firmly set 
 in the southerly wall of the main audience room, 
 near the southeasterly corner, and a marble vase 
 and flowers, of purest vein and exquisitel}^ carved, 
 
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 set in a projecting Gothic marble frame, and front- 
 ing the encased tablet, seems to perpetuate in 
 silent, solid stone, the delicate fragrance of her pure 
 Christian life. The tablet bears the following in- 
 scription : 
 
 Kit ittcmorj) of 
 
 Louisa S. Stewart, 
 
 WIFE OF 
 
 John B. Trevor, 
 
 Born May 21, 1836. 
 
 Entered into rest 
 
 September 7, 1867. 
 
 Unwavering' in her faith, 
 
 SHE died rejoicing IN 
 
 the Savior. 
 FORMAL TRANSFER OF PROPERTY. 
 
 The following account of a special meeting of the 
 Church and Society, held on Monday evening, June 7, 
 1869, is taken from the columns of the Examiner and 
 Chronicle : 
 
 The deed of the superb gift, made by Messrs. Trevor and Colgate, 
 was formally presented and accepted in a meeting of the Church on 
 Monday evening last. In presenting the deed, Mr. Colgate sj^oke as 
 follows : 
 
 " Mr. Chairman and Brethren: — About thirty years since, in conversa- 
 tion with my friend, Garret N. Bleeker, I expressed to him a hoj^e 
 that I might live to build a house of worship for the service of God. 
 This hope, since then secretly cherished, is about to be fulfilled. 
 
 " Nothing belongs to me in this enterprise which does not belong 
 equally to my associate and friend, John B. Trevor. 
 
 "In the erection of this house of worship, we trust we have been 
 actuated by no motives which will not bear the scrutiny of our Lord and 
 Savior Jesus Christ. 
 
 " We are not careful to reply to those Avho may charge us with 
 extravagance. Such we would refer to the answer of our Lord, in rejDly 
 
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 to the f|uestiou : ' Ought not this ointment to be sold for more than two 
 hundred i)ence and given to the poor V And we wouhl also remind 
 such that the oldest historical fact on record pertaining to public 
 worship is that God had resjject to the sacrifice of Abel, who offered the 
 firstlings of his flock, while he rejected the meaner oft'ering of Cain, as 
 insulting to his Creator. 
 
 " In conveying this propertj', we have imjiosed some conditions, in 
 which we think the Church will cheerfully acquiesce. 
 
 "1. The proi)erty can not be sold, but must be used solely for a Bap- 
 tist church. 
 
 " 2. Its use is restricted to religious purposes only, excluding every- 
 thing secular. 
 
 " 3. The Church is debarred the right to encumber the pro^Derty. 
 " And, brethren, may peace dwell ever with you. May these new 
 walls never reverberate with the strife of brethren, but may they resound 
 with the teachings of God's Word, accompanied with the notes of praise 
 and prayer. May the interesting associations clustering around the old 
 be transferred to the new edifice, and there be entwined with dearer and 
 fresher and more glorious associations; and may 'He Avho dwelleth 
 between the cherubim shine forth' and fill the house with his glory. 
 
 " We now most cheerfully and cordially tender to you this deed of 
 the property." 
 
 The pastor resj^onded in a few words, and G. H. Scribner, Esq., 
 read the carefully drawn document, which, besides being a full deed of 
 conveyance, embodies the complete Articles of Faith of the Church, 
 adherence to which is a jjerpetual condition of the gift. He then moved 
 the resolution by which the Church received the property — one of the 
 largest donations ever made by two individuals to a church of Christ. 
 And the Church will do well to remember that it " is never to be encum- 
 bered" — which, by a free interpretation, must mean that no mortgage is 
 to rest upon its stone and mortar, and no dead formalism is to crush the 
 life out of the worship and enterprise of which it is to be the home and 
 centre. 
 
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 DEDICATOEY SERVICES. 
 
 OPENING OF THE SABBATH-SCIIOOL ROOM. 
 
 Formal possession was taken of the new Sablmth- 
 scliool room on the morning of the day of dedication, 
 June 20, 18G9. The Church School, Bro. Heman L. 
 White, Superintendent, and the Spring Street Mission 
 School, Bro. Edward Bright, Superintendent, marched 
 from the old house hi a solid procession of six hundred 
 strong, preceded by a beautiful silk banner, a gift to 
 the Church School from its Superintendent. Arrived 
 at the new room, which was crowded in every part, 
 addresses of welcome were delivered by Bros. Col- 
 gate and Trevor. Mr. James B. Colgate spoke as 
 follows.: 
 
 31i\ Superintendent, Teachers, and Scholars: — We welcome you most 
 heartily to this new Sabbath home. Your looks and smiles indicate a joyful 
 response to this sentiment. 
 
 The house we have just left is endeared to us by tender recollections of the 
 past. If the ground was hallowed where God spoke to Moses from out of the 
 burning bush, ought not that spot to be loved by us where we have so often 
 met our Savior, and where he has spoken peace to so many stricken hearts ? 
 
 Some DOW present can recall the time when we met few in numbers, and 
 under circumstances greatly discouraging. But even then God had a bless- 
 ing in reserve for us. Year by year we grew stronger, and when that place 
 was too small to hold our increasing numbers, he provided us with this, 
 suited to our present necessities, complete in all its appointments, and where 
 the eye rests satisfied. 
 
 The possession of this house imposes heavier responsibilities ; but, sir, 
 there is no dignity in life ivithoiit responsibility. God, the Church, and the 
 School will expect of us a consistency of life and devotedness of purpose, 
 corresponding to the position we assume. 
 
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 God requires of us that we teacb his truth in simplicity, with earnestness 
 and godly fear. 
 
 The Church requires that we be ourselves examples, to the children, of 
 truth, sobriety, keeping the Sabbath as God's day, and living in all respects 
 conformably to the gospel we profess to teach. 
 
 The School requires of us no idle words, no vain shows unbecoming the 
 house of God, but a decency and propriety which their young minds will not 
 l>e slow to discern. 
 
 These responsibilities each must meet for himself. IMy own heart re-' 
 pponds to the utterance of Joshua of old in the presence of assembled Israel : 
 •■ As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 
 
 Again we say to you, you are welcome, thrice welcome, to this house 
 about to be dedicated to the service of the Most High God. May it prove to 
 many who now hear me a gate to that upper sanctuary, to that " building of 
 God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 
 
 Mr. John B. Trevor followed in a brief speech of 
 welcome, as follows : 
 
 Dear Children: — In welcoming you to this beautiful room, I am reminded 
 of the old Spanish custom of offering a visitor all the house contains; and we 
 now offer yon all the accommodations afPjrded by this building, including its 
 furniture and other appliances, as a free gift to you. We hope, also, that you 
 will consider this as your Sunday home, and that you will, once a week, greet 
 your teachers here, just as some of you every day welcome your fathers when 
 they return from their business in the city. 
 
 You will also be offered here, by your teachers and Superintendent, every 
 Sunday, far more valuable gifts than those now presented to you — I mean the 
 great truths taught in God's A\''ord. And the only return we all ask of you 
 is, that you will show a due appreciation of these latter gifts, which we hope 
 will be blessed to the salvation of your souls. 
 
 You must not, however, sel6shly consider all that has been done as done 
 only to benefit you, but we hope you will realize that the glory of God has 
 been our chief incentive, and that without his aid and blessing all our labor 
 will be in vain. 
 
 These addresses of w^elcome were responded to by 
 Mr. Heman L. White, Superintendent of the Church 
 School, as follows : 
 
 AVe have listened, with grateful emotions, to the cordial words of welcome 
 with which you have greeted us, and in behalf of the school I thank you. 
 
 God has blessed us in the past, and he smiles upon us to-day. Seven 
 years ago, my first Sabbath in Yonkers, I came to this school, where you, 
 with your wives, were teaching. Three are with us to-day, and one has gone 
 
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 before us to the " rest that remaineth." Our numbers, then about seventy, are 
 now nearly seven hundred, and divided in two bands. The Spring Street 
 Mission, a child of six summers, and now outnumbering the old school, is 
 here to-day, and prepared, through its efficient Superintendent, to speak for 
 itself. 
 
 Our hearts are full of joy and rejoicing, while we say : " Not unto us, 
 Lord, but to thy name be all the glory." 
 
 We have just been down to say good-bye to the old home, and the chil- 
 dren and teachers have given me a message, a heartfelt message, to deliver to 
 you, which I will now do. 
 
 The Superintendent then read the following resolu- 
 tions, adopted by the school, and presented a copy of 
 the same to Bros. Trevor and Colgate, severally : 
 
 Resolved, That under a deep sense of gratitude to God, who has watched 
 over and so abundantly blessed our Sabbath school, we desire to return our 
 grateful thanks to Him, the Author of every good and perfect gift, who has 
 given to our brethren and fellow-teachers, John B. Trevor and James B. 
 Colgate, the ability and the willing hearts to provide for us this delightful 
 Sabbath-school home. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to our two brethren the heartfelt thanks of every 
 one of our three hundred teachers and scholars, and we pray God to bless 
 them a hundred-fold for this their great gift to us. 
 
 Resolved, That this expression of our gratitude be presented to our two 
 beloved associates by the Superintendent of our school. 
 
 Short addresses by the Pastor, by Dr. Bright, Su- 
 perintendent of the Mission School, and by Bro. Wm. 
 M. Gray, formerly Superintendent of the Church 
 School, and singing, closed the delightftd exercises. 
 
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 SERYICES IN THE MAIiN' AUDIENCE ROOM. 
 
 At half-past ten the main audience room was 
 thronged with a large, interested audience, who had 
 gathered from far and near to share in the joy of our 
 dedication day. The pastor. Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, 
 Rev. C. D' W. Bridgman, D. D., of Albany, and Rev. 
 Edward Bright, D, D,, of Yonkers, occupied seats on 
 the pulpit platform. After the invocation and the 
 singing of the 933d Hymn in the Psalmist, the follow- 
 ing selections from Scripture were read by Dr. Bridg- 
 man : Psalm cxxii., Acts xvii., 24-28, and 1 Cor. iii., 
 11-23. The dedicatory pra3^er was then offered by Dr. 
 Bright, a member of the church. After the singing 
 of the 338th Hymn, the pastor preached the dedicatory 
 sermon, from Haggai ii., 9, after which the choir 
 sang the sentence beginning: " How beautiful are 
 thy dwellings, Lord of Hosts 1" 
 
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 S E E M N. 
 
 THE TRUE GLORY OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 *' The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith 
 the Lord of hosts !" — Haggai ii., 9, 
 
 The glory of a thing is the fulfilhnent of its mission. 
 By so much as it fails of the full exhibition of its im- 
 planted energies, by so much is the crown of its glory 
 tarnished and dimmed. Glory is not an arbitrary in- 
 vestiture, an artificial coronation ; but the free, full 
 development of natural powers, the attainment of the 
 divine purpose in creation. A mote flying in the sun- 
 beam, a flower by the wayside, has its glory, if the 
 mission of its being is reached ; the winged seraph, 
 however vast his achievements, forfeits his right to a 
 seraph's crown if he fail of being what Grod would 
 have a seraph be. The glory of manhood consists not 
 in extent of possessions, in breadth of culture ; but in 
 the noble expansion of a soul into what God has made 
 it possible for soul to be. It is not the cut of a man's 
 coat, the fineness and costliness of its material, the 
 elegance of his habitation, the number of his attend- 
 ants, that confirm his right to the title of gentleman or 
 nobleman. Nobility is of the soul, not of the garment. 
 Who was the great man, Paul chained in an inner 
 dungeon, or Nero on the throne of imperial Home ? 
 The glory of a land, what is it? Is it extent of domain, 
 grandeur of mountains, wealth of mineral resources? 
 Can you represent the glory of good government by 
 
statistics of agricultural loroclucts, by the measurement 
 of its ocean coast, its telegraphs and railroads ? A 
 nation's glory is not in these, but in the virtue and 
 patriotism of its citizens. Better to belong to cold, 
 rocky, but wide-awake, clear-headed, brave-hearted 
 Scotland, than to hail from the luxuriant, but sleepy 
 tropics. 
 
 So the glor}^ of a temple can not be carved out of 
 stone by the hands of men, traced by the brush of 
 artist, reached by architectural proportions and orna- 
 mentation. The fulfillment of its mission, is the glory 
 of a house of prayer. That glory may dwell in and 
 shine forth from plain, humble walls ; it may be want- 
 ing in the massive, costly structure. It found its way 
 to, and filled an upper room in Jerusalem ; it never 
 consecrated St. Peter's at Rome. The temple reared 
 by Zerubbabel was not as costly as that built by Sol- 
 omon ; yet the glory of the latter house was greater 
 than that of the former, because it remained until He 
 came, of wdiom Jewish temple and Jewish ritual were 
 but a silent, continuous prophecy. The courts of Zerub- 
 babel's temple were hallowed by the personal presence 
 of the Son of man ; and one pressure of his foot con- 
 veyed more glory than all the gold, and cedar, and 
 purple, that could be found on altar, and cherubim, 
 and veil. And this is still the glory of a house of 
 praise, that it echo to the footsteps of the Son of 
 God. 
 
 Pursuing the thought that the glory of a thing is 
 the fulfillment of its mission, we can easily determine 
 in what directions we ought to seek for the glory of 
 this house. What is the jhssiox of a church of 
 Christ ? 
 
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 I. — That mission includes, first, the proclamation 
 
 AND DEFENSE OF SPIRITUAL TRUTH. 
 
 "Ye shall be witnesses unto me," said Christ. The 
 grand duty of a witness is to be true to facts. In- 
 ferences are not good evidence. He, who knowingly 
 so adjusts the different parts of his testimony, so pro- 
 jects his philosophy upon the facts, that a false impres- 
 sion is left upon judge and jury, is as guilty of perjury 
 as if he had sworn to a statement positively false. 
 And a perjured man is a disgraced man, whatever his 
 name and station. 
 
 There may be many things in Scripture that are 
 distasteful to my neighbor, that arouse his prejudices, 
 that inflame him to enmity ; still, as a witness, I am 
 guilty of perjury if I tamper with the facts. I may 
 not deny or modify one to save another. I may 
 not project my philosophy upon them, and so spirit 
 them out of existence ; every truth written on the 
 broad page by the finger of God must be left to j^ro- 
 duce its legitimate impression. My philosophy may 
 be insufficient for the elimination of every troublesome 
 factor, for the harmonizing of apparently conflicting 
 statements ; but God is greater than the soul, and 
 truth a vast sea on which philosophy floats as the 
 expiring bubble of a moment. What does the sea- 
 gull, that has felt the spray of an ocean-wave on its 
 wings, and skimmed over its surface for a few leagues, 
 know of the wealth of life and mystery beating be- 
 neath its agitated bosom ? 
 
 A witness is expected to speak only of what he per- 
 sonally knows. The reports of other men, however 
 well confirmed, however intrinsically probable, are not 
 legal evidence. The teaching of experience is not only 
 
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 the best, but the only one that carries any authority 
 with it. For a man to say that he beUeves in the 
 Nicene Creed, or in the decisions of the Synod of Dort, 
 or in the Thirty-Nine Articles, and to regulate his 
 teaching accordingly, without that living experience of 
 head and heart, that earnest, whole-souled search for 
 truth which results in the personal, vital appropriation 
 of a creed, is as mean a piece of thieving as for one 
 man to steal another's coat and then go to church in 
 it. The testimony of a disciple, of a church, is not 
 summed up in the repetition of doctrinal formulas, and 
 propping them up by proof-texts. Recitation is not 
 teaching. Beginning at the point where the Living 
 Spirit touches the heart, quickening the understanding, 
 rectifying the conscience, we are to preach from per- 
 sonal knowledge the power and grace of the Son of 
 God. 
 
 The different sects into which Christendom is di- 
 vided are simply the natural outgrowths of a faithful 
 adherence to this first principle of all true teaching, — 
 personal conviction. Denominational organizations are 
 but the formal expressions of the distinct, personal 
 convictions of large bodies of men. And as long as 
 they embody thought and conscience, they are not to 
 be decried as dishonoring to God, and a blot upon 
 Christian charity. It is better to live on the rocky 
 ocean coast, where the waves beat high on the shore 
 and the wild storms rock the habitation, than on the 
 banks of a stagnant pool, whose surface is never stir- 
 red by a ripple. Better, infinitely better, the stirring 
 life of Protestantism, with all its accompanying strife, 
 than the iron-bound uniformity and stagnant corrup- 
 tion of Romanism. 
 
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 A man's power lies very largely in his personal 
 identity, in the force of independent conviction, in the 
 strength of individual purpose. And the power of a 
 church depends very largely upon the clearness and 
 force with which her particular creed is presented and 
 illustrated. It will be neither honorable nor wise in 
 you to lower the distinctive banner under which you 
 were organized. If that banner is not worth uphold- 
 ing, you ought long since to have disbanded. Not that 
 I would have you teach and defend the Baptist faith 
 as of more importance than Scripture ; but as being, in 
 your conscientious judgment, its equivalent and its fair 
 interpretation. Consider well, then, and apprehend 
 clearly, the great principle underlying our denomina- 
 tional structure. It has been quaintly said, that the 
 Baptist way of housekeeping differs from any other 
 only in the quantity of water used. And the impres- 
 sion is a very general one, that our war is a watery 
 war, — a fight about the size of the baptismal font, and 
 the posture of the candidate in the administration of 
 the ordinance. That is but the shell, by no means the 
 heart, of our great • controversy. Dr. Bushnell came 
 much nearer the truth when, in his " Lectures on Chris- 
 tian Nurture," he said that the first grand error of the 
 "Baptist theories of religion," was a denial of the ''or- 
 ganic connection of character f^ a denial in which he 
 intimated all Protestants were more or less implicated. 
 We do believe in an organic unity of the family, of the 
 race ; but not in such an organic oneness as does not 
 leave every man's conscience inviolable, every soul en- 
 dowed with full, undivided, and indivisible responsibil- 
 ity, and all religion a matter of personal experience. 
 The " Baptist tlieory of religion " is simply the princi- 
 
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 pie of Calvin and Luther carried out to its logical 
 results. "The just shall live by faith," was the rally- 
 ing cry of the Reformation. To it we shout,. " Amen." 
 And if faith be what the theologians have ever, and 
 justly, defined it to be, " the assent of the understand- 
 ing and the consent of the heart," the Baptist theory 
 of religion, which leaves every soul, in its submission 
 to the ordinances of the Church, to give expression to 
 its personal faith in Christ, is the true one. Whether 
 just or false, this is the great principle underlying our 
 distinctive organization : Conscience inviolable; religion 
 not by inheritance^ but by personal faith and repeMance ; 
 and the rites of the Church intended to be the formal 
 ex2)ressio72s of that faith and repentance. 
 
 The Church is a witness to the truth of God. But 
 her mission is judicial also. To her have been given 
 the keys of the kingdom. She has poAver to bind and 
 loose. That authority is not ecclesiastical, but moral. 
 It consists not in the anathemas of churchly excom- 
 munication, in cursing by "bell, book, and candle;'' 
 but in her right of passing judgment upon every ques- 
 tion that touches the interests of men. It belongs to 
 her to fling the broad, pure light of the eternal world 
 upon all that takes hold on the thoughts, and con- 
 sciences, and lives of men. All the spheres of truth 
 are under her legitimate supervision. Upon every 
 department of human toil, whether of brain or of 
 hand, she is to bring the pressure of her eternal 
 verities. Clear as the sound of silver bells, her notes 
 of warning, her judicial decisions, are to ring above 
 and through the din of life, until jarrings shall cease, 
 swords be beaten into plowshares, and spears into 
 pruning-hooks. 
 
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 "The glory of this latter house shall be greater 
 than of the former," if truth he allowed unlimited 
 range and freest expression. And she will not lend 
 her glory to these walls, if she may not appear hero 
 in the garb, and with the mien, and on the throne, of 
 a queen. 
 
 II. — But the arrow of truth must be winged from 
 the bow of love ; and so the mission of a Church of 
 Christ includes, secondly, the exhibition of a broad 
 
 CATHOLICITY OF FEELING. 
 
 Truth itself must be loved. 
 
 " Thy soul must overflow, if thou 
 Another's soul wouldst reach ; 
 It needs the overflow of heart 
 To give the lips full speech." 
 
 Only a great heart can adequately grasp a great 
 truth for purposes of effective communication. Truth 
 is modest ; she remains closely veiled, showing her 
 features indistinctly to the cold, critical observer ; she 
 reveals the queenly beauty of her countenance only to 
 the enthusiastic admirer, and the unwearied lover. 
 Truth, to be properly appreciated, must be seized at 
 white heat by a glowing heart. The time between 
 sleeping and waking, when the eyes are open, and the 
 light of day is regnant, but when the shadow of slum- 
 ber is still upon the senses, is the season of indistinct 
 perception. Then it is that objects assume fantastic, 
 ghostly shapes. For purposes of correct observation, 
 there must be the full light of day, and senses wholl}^ 
 disenthralled from the power of sleep. There is no 
 truth so insignificant that it leaps into well-defined 
 outline at the bidding of a dreamy soul. Enthusiasm 
 
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 is everywhere and always the indispensable condition 
 to clearness of moral and spiritual perception. 
 
 Men must be loved, Nothing is more repulsive to 
 feeling and ineffective in result than official, perfunc- 
 tory teaching. The whole history of the Church 
 proves this. In j)roportion as the ministry has been 
 separated from the people, and organized into a class 
 by itself, with official prerogatives, and left to "do 
 rehgion" for the masses, it has failed to move the eon- 
 science and to mould the character. Such men have, 
 and do yet inspire awe and terror ; men's knees have 
 trembled when they met a scowling priest, but the 
 severest frowns and harshest anathemas failed to pro- 
 duce a three months' reformation. The fear generated 
 in the confessional has been drowned in the next day's 
 drunken spree. 
 
 We must love men if we would reach them. And 
 we can not love them, be in living sympathy with 
 them, until we lay aside official vestment and churchly 
 prerogative, and interpret the heart-throbs of a 
 neighbor by the beating of our own. 
 
 That sympathy must be so comprehensive and cath- 
 olic, that no unloveliness of character, no diversity of 
 opinion, shall move us to the repudiation of our com- 
 mon brotherhood. It is no great stretch of virtue for 
 a man to do good to his own kith and kin : " For if ye 
 love them which love you, what reward have ye ? Do 
 not even the publicans the same ?" It belongs to the 
 Christian disciple to do the more difficult thing of 
 loving his enemies, blessing those that curse him, 
 doing good to those that hate him, that, by so doing, 
 he may prove his right to a place in the family of 
 God. The evidences of adoption centre in the repro- 
 
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 duction of that spirit which leads the Divine Heart to 
 exclaim : "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall 
 be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, 
 they shall be as wool." 
 
 And that charity is falsely named, which brooks not, 
 or barely tolerates, honest differences of interpretation. 
 The spirit that says : "We are the men, and wisdom 
 will die with us," is worthy of no other answer than 
 that of silent contempt. Truth is not an apple, that you 
 can hold between thumb and finger, turn around in a 
 moment, eat at a single meal, and digest in an hour. 
 Truth is a sphere so vast, with such broad continents, 
 and wide, unfathomable seas, with mountains of such 
 grandeur, plains of such reach and varied beauty, and 
 mines of such inexhaustible treasure, that- no one man 
 is sufficient to survey its surface and probe its mys- 
 terious depths. Truth is vaster than the grandest 
 generalizations of human or angelic thinkers, more 
 than creeds, and philosophies, and churches. Truth 
 is a great sea, on which we float, and through which 
 we plow our way under guidance of compass and star, 
 but whose broad expanse and hidden treasures have 
 been swept by, and revealed to, no human vision. An 
 honest diversity of judgment must be expected. And 
 while every man must be boldly true to his own con- 
 victions, he may not allow the stream of charity to be 
 choked by the drift-wood of scholastic disputation. If 
 the great Father, under whose one roof-tree we all 
 find shelter, can look benignantly on us all, his open 
 hand dropping blessings on the churches of every 
 name, we are guilty of a great wrong to insist upon 
 doctrinal uniformity as a condition to the heartiest 
 Christian fellowship and co-operation. Denominational 
 
suspicions and jealousies are the very meanest a hu- 
 man heart can harbor. Their presence proves a dis- 
 creditable absence of broad, generous confidence in 
 the divine management. Truth must and will triumph. 
 And though our organizations perish, every redeemed 
 soul will join in the pgean of victory, when the Lord 
 shall come on the clouds of heaven, with "ten thou- 
 sands of his saints." 
 
 " The glory of this latter house shall be greater than 
 of the former," if love beam from every countenance 
 and pervade every gathering, if these walls never echo 
 to the sound of strife, or reflect the frown of suspicion 
 and the look of pride. 
 
 III. — The mission of a church of Christ includes 
 
 THE MAINTENANCE OF SIMPLICITY AND SPIRITUALITY OF 
 WORSHIP. 
 
 Two things are essential to true worship : the ab- 
 sence of vain repetitions, of Pharisaic pretension, and 
 spirituality of devotion. Simplicity promotes spirit- 
 uality ; and spirituality is uneasy and oppressed 
 under a needless multiplication or extension of form. 
 Of public worship, the service of song and the sermon 
 are of greatest prominence. Both should be pervaded 
 by combined simplicity and spirituality. They fail to 
 express or inspire devotion, and impart healing, when 
 they are turned into opportunities for display. 
 
 Singing is an important part of public worship. It 
 belongs to the congregation, and can not be delegated 
 to one man or to a dozen, either by general consent or 
 formal vote, or assumed by arbitrary usurpation. In 
 the one case the act is one of moral delinquency, in 
 the other it is tyranny. It is, however, often er delin- 
 quency on the part of worshipers, congregational 
 
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 indifference, than high-handed usurpation, that results 
 in a monopoly of song. Choirs, like ministers, are 
 only human ; and if they are left to do all the singing, 
 as some ministers are the praying, they will do it, and 
 they are not to be blamed under such circumstances 
 for consulting their own tastes. But if a congregation 
 will sing, has the heart and the voice to sing, insists 
 upon its right to sing, every sensible choir will not 
 only gracefully yield, but, with a clear knowledge of its 
 legitimate work, gladly lend its influence to popularize 
 good singing. Good singing ; for it is, to say the kast 
 as grievous a wrong to murder a tune by nasal drawl- 
 ing or careless expression, as to leave it to the tender 
 mercies of a few amateurs. Expression, precision, 
 harmony, are all in good taste ; they are not hin- 
 dranc2s to, but promoters of, spirituality, provided 
 the element of congregational participation be not 
 excluded. 
 
 Here it is but just to recognize and emphasize the 
 incontestable claims of certain hymns never to be 
 separated from their corresponding tunes. God seals 
 marriage vows through other than official lips. By 
 the voice of his providence, by the instinctive demands 
 of Christian propriety, the bans are proclaimed and 
 the union sealed ; and what God so joins together, let 
 not man dare put asunder. It is an act of violence, 
 offensive to good taste and delicacy of feeling, to di- 
 vorce what God has married. And certain hymns are 
 wedded for all time to certain tunes. "All hail the 
 power of Jesus name," is shorn of half its beauty and 
 grandeur unless it move to the royal strains of " Coro- 
 nation ;" Edson seems to have caught the spirit of 
 Charles Wesley's " Blow ye the trumpet, blow," when 
 
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 he composed " Lenox ;" and Hastings'' " Rock of Ages" 
 can find but one hymn in our language to bear it fit- 
 ting company. And such tunes as Arlington, Balerma, 
 Hamburg, Dundee, Peterhoro, and Heber, about which 
 lingers the fragrance of a thousand services of Chris- 
 tian song and prayer, have a claim to polite treatment 
 and occasional use. It is not fair to cut an old friend, 
 because the new one has a more gloss}^ coat. 
 
 Preaching fails equally with song to accomplish its 
 mission, unless it be simple, direct, spiritual. Culture 
 is no hindrance, beauty of diction no incongruity, rich- 
 ness of illustration not forbidden ; but the end of all 
 preaching must bo clearly apprehended, and unw^ea- 
 riedl}^ pursued. That end is not the production of 
 astonishment, the passing of an hour in kaleidoscopic 
 exhibitions, but the instruction of the conscience and 
 the moving of the will. And if that will can not be 
 moved on the line of gentle entreaty, there should be 
 a return to the charge from another direction. If the 
 rock can not be broken by drill, wedge, and hammer, 
 try blasting, only let there be a hreaking. If an ordi- 
 nary leverage can not effect the purpose, put an earth- 
 quake under men, but by all means move tliein. It is 
 for you to say whether such shall be the nature of 
 your preaching or not. Efficient pastors give direc- 
 tion and tone to the character of the churches to 
 whom they minister ; but churches, in their right 
 to choose, call, and dismiss their pastors, have larg-^e 
 power to determine the nature of their pulpit minis- 
 trations. 
 
 " The glory of this latter house shall be greater than 
 of the former," if you jealously guard and maintain 
 the simplicity and spirituality of public worship. 
 
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 IV. — Finally, the mission of a Church of Christ in- 
 cludes, pre-eminently, the winning of souls. 
 
 To win souls is not merely to draw them within the 
 circle of church-membership, but so to train them and 
 provoke them to good works, that the lineaments and 
 lustre of the divine image, marred and obscured by sin, 
 shall flash in fresher glory from every royal attribute. 
 Of such lively, living stones is the true temple of God 
 built. All other structures are but temporary, and 
 subservient to this. Temples of stone are but the rude 
 scaffolding for the rearing of this temple of unfading 
 splendor. 
 
 It is not an easy thing to collect the material, and 
 fashion it fittingly into such a living, abiding structure. 
 To overcome ignorance by truth, "line upon line, 
 precept upon precept," to vanquish prejudice and hate 
 by love, to draw men out of selfishness into broad 
 philanthropy, to make them lovers of God and defend- 
 ers of his law, is not an insignificant task. But the 
 valuable in possession is ever arduous of attainment. 
 You must dig for gold, and dive for pearls. 
 
 From the great, rough quarry came the stone that 
 has been fitted into this building. The rude, shape- 
 less masses covered all the ground ; and they who 
 passed by had but little conception of the prophecy of 
 beauty hidden in the rugged blocks. Yet in them 
 slumbered shaft and capital, arch, turret, cornice, and 
 cross. Men, dexterous in the handling of chisel and 
 mallet, came and fashioned the rude heap according 
 to the patterns furnished by the master-workman. 
 An unskilled eye discovered no unity of plan, no 
 grand, overruling, shaping ideal, to which the labor of 
 a score or two of men was being adjusted, but only a 
 
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 monotonous movhio; to and fro, while the ear was 
 saluted with an uninterrupted click of hammer. To 
 the architect, the monotony was expressive elo- 
 quence, and the clicking, — music, for they moved in 
 harmony w^ith the final design. And so the founda- 
 tions were laid, the walls rose above them, the arches 
 were sprung, the roof was fitted, the turrets appeared, 
 the graceful spire mounted slowly upward, and the 
 top-stone, laid with rejoicing, completed the edifice. 
 Then its stately proportions, its massive strength, its 
 chaste beauty, stood revealed. Every eye could see 
 them, and every lip acknowledged them. 
 
 So God bids us go into the rough quarries of the 
 world's life to gather material for his spiritual temple. 
 We look on men, and see but little to stimulate zeal 
 and inspire hope. Yet in every soul slumbers a sub- 
 lime prophecy of glory ; every heart is the habitation 
 of a score of royal tenants, each having a divine right 
 to wear a crown, wield a sceptre, and rule a kingdom. 
 We need but patiently to hew according to the pat- 
 tern furnished us in the divine Word and in the divine 
 Man, and move in obedience to the direction of the 
 great, superintending Architect, to find, in the day 
 when our work is completed, that glory flashes from 
 every part. How monotonous is our task ! How unpo- 
 etic, often, in pulpit, prayer circle, and Sabbath school ! 
 How our patience is tried, and discouragement seizes us 
 sometimes ! How we cry in our despondency : " How 
 long, Lord ; how long !'' Yet is the monotony of 
 our strokes music in the ears of the divine Architect, 
 because it moves to the stately tread of his great de- 
 signs. The foundations are being laid, the walls are 
 rising, and soon the top-stone will be laid amid the 
 
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 shouting of the great sacramental host of God's elect : 
 " Grace, grace, unto it !" 
 
 From what we have seen here every day for more 
 than eighteen months, let us learn a lesson. Let us 
 labor as unweariedly and patiently and obediently on 
 the spiritual temple, as strong hands and willing 
 hearts have labored on this structure of stone. And 
 as over our local habitation has been set the cross, 
 earliest Christian sign and symbol, — the emblem, not 
 of Romanism, but of Christian faith, — so let the cross 
 tower over all that we plan and do within these walls. 
 Be that the end and crown of all our work. Let the 
 silent preacher of stone never be contradicted or dis- 
 graced. Here let the true cross be exalted, — the cross 
 on which Christ died to save the ungodly, — the cross 
 that rebukes all pride and selfishness, and incites men 
 to humility and brotherly love. 
 
 To sum up the whole in one closing thought, it will 
 be the glory of this house if God deign to dwell here, 
 if he cast over these walls the folds of his mantle, and 
 enter to own his truth, to kindle the fires of universal 
 love, to inspire joy in worship, and to reveal his power 
 in the saving of men. So " the glory of this latter 
 
 HOUSE SHALL BE GREATER THAN OF THE FORMER." 
 
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 AFTERNOON SERVICE. 
 
 At lialf-past three o'clock P. M. the house was 
 crowded to its utmost capacity, hundreds being un- 
 able to gain admittance, by the members of the 
 various village churches and congregations, to join in 
 a general, Christian congratulatory service. A por- 
 tion of Scripture was read, and prayer offered by the 
 Rev. L. W. MuDGE, pastor of the Westminster Pres- 
 byterian Church. The pastor of the church, in the 
 opening address, extended a most hearty Christian 
 welcome to the pastors who were present, and 
 through them to their respective churches, and was 
 met with a response of equally outspoken cordiality 
 in addresses by the Rev. M. D. C. Crawford, of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. Cole, of 
 the Reformed Church, and the Rev. Thomas A. Jag- 
 GOR, rector of the St. John's Episcopal Church. The 
 meeting was one of marked heartiness, and inspiriting 
 to the highest degree. 
 
 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 In the evening a very large audience listened, with 
 unwearied interest, to a forcible plea for "Faith in 
 God," from the Rev. C. D' W. BridGxMan, D. D., pas- 
 tor of the Pearl Street Baptist Church, Albany. The 
 sermon appears in these pages much condensed, but 
 the summary is full and unmutilated in point of ex- 
 pression. 
 
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 S E E M N. 
 
 " Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid 
 from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast 
 thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the 
 Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is 
 weary ?"— Isaiah xl., 27, 28. 
 
 No man in Israel had such reason to be hopeless as 
 he who wrote these words. His failure had been pre- 
 dicted when he was commissioned to his work ; his 
 words had died like echoes into air ; his life seemed 
 ending in defeat. Yet with such reason to be sad, I 
 know no work so charged with hope, so exultant and 
 elastic in its joy, as this song of the gray-haired seer, 
 the sublimest in all literature, — the epic of Messiah's 
 reign, — Isaiah's Paradise regained. Yerily, it is from 
 deepest wells men see the stars most brightly. The 
 words of loftiest cheer are ever spoken by the men 
 who voice their hope in sadness, and who have learned 
 in suffering what they teach in song. Consider, 
 
 I. — That the prophet here reaches and rests upon 
 the foundation qf the faith^ and hope of mankind — the 
 LIVING God. 
 
 Creation rests upon God's hand ; man rests upon 
 His heart. We rest on nature with a most tranquil 
 confidence in the stability of its order. No doubt sad- 
 dens our gaze on the sunset splendor, lest its glories 
 should never more be pictured before a weary world. 
 In harvest fields the scythes will soon be flashing at 
 
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 their summer task, and binders' hands be busy with 
 the yellow sheaves. Only the bare, brown stubble 
 will tell where the wheat once shimmered in the ripen- 
 ing sun. But no fear darkens in the laborer's heart, 
 lest nature should not again bring harvests to their 
 birth. He has faith in nature ; his plans rest on it • 
 but, in truth, they are resting only upon God. 
 
 What his power is to the material creation, God's mor- 
 al nature is to the spiritual universe. Here the conflict- 
 ing elements exceed in number and power those of the 
 lower realms. The clang of conflict fills the air ; the 
 confusion is often bewildering ; and the good seems 
 born to a heritage of defeat and dishonor. Where the 
 prophet rested, we must rest — on Jehovah's supreme 
 and everlasting strength. Beyond that he could not, 
 — we can not — go. This is the one grand refuge 
 against despondency and despair ; the one ultimate 
 answer of the Bible to all the questions that perplex 
 the intellect of man, — that the everlasting God faint- 
 eth not, neither is weary, that He lives and reigns. 
 Blessed is he who has this faith and keeps it. Consider, 
 
 II. — The encouragements that have been given us 
 to the exercise of faith. 
 
 God's Word. There is something of majestic grand- 
 eur in the appeal of Isaiah in this chapter : " Lift up 
 your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these 
 things, that bringeth out their host by number. He 
 calleth them all by names ; not one faileth." There 
 they were above him, bright hosts that gleam forever 
 with the everlasting Presence, — flocks of God, pastured 
 in the meadows of the night and folded every morn- 
 ing by the veil of sunrise, — uttering their protest 
 against this earth's despair. 
 
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 We are of more value to his heart than such soul- 
 less things. God tells us, if words can tell, that the 
 creation culminates in man ; that, grand as are the 
 interests involved with the upliolding of these outward 
 things, they were made for man, and for the uphold- 
 ing of man's life, and shrink to nothing before the 
 grandeur of that struggle which goes on in the arena 
 of one solitary human heart. We have been taken up 
 into his deepest counsels ; we are the burden upon 
 his thoughts ; involved in his supreme and everlasting- 
 purpose. 
 
 GocVs Love. That love is revealed in the name that 
 He delights to use, — a name revealing a depth and 
 strength of tenderness that language can not exhaust 
 — Father. God here declares that we are not only 
 involved with his most cherished counsels, but that 
 we are needed to satisfy the yearnings of his fatherly 
 affection. For his own sake, for the sake of some- 
 thing deeper in him than his purpose, God seeks the 
 world, yearns over it from age to age, and strives to 
 bind it in its sufferings and struggles by the cords of 
 his truth and love unto himself. 
 
 But God's love reaches its highest exhibition in the 
 Cross. Listen to those grand old words, which we 
 have heard so often that we have forgotten they were 
 ever new : " God so loved the world that he gave his 
 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
 might not perish, but have everlasting life." There is 
 the crowning argument for faith. The Father marked 
 the tottering steps of the victim who bore the cross ; 
 He heard the shout of the murderers as they hurried 
 to their horrible deed ; He saw the thickening gloom 
 as the death-shadows gathered around his thorn- 
 
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 scarred brow : He heard the piercing cry of the victim 
 as the siu of the world let ft^ll its crushing burden on 
 his heart, — and still He held the cup of death to the 
 sufierer's lips, and for your dear sakes did neither 
 shrink nor spare himself the agony of that sacrifice. 
 It was the Father's love which the Son was reveaUns: 
 in his own. And there the record stands, — the re- 
 cord of the afronv and abandonment, of the sufFerino- 
 death, and victory, to speak when stars are dumb, and 
 tell each suffering, struggling human spirit that heaven 
 is for him in the battle, and to rejoice in tl:ke living, 
 everlasting God. Let us now, 
 
 III. — Apply these principles to those seasons in our 
 experience when faith in God is our only inspiration 
 to hopefulness of spirit, and to constancy of effort. 
 
 1. Xo man with any depth of nature passes through 
 life without knowing moments when the deepest root- 
 fibres of his faith in God are strained and ready to lose 
 their hold. There are calamities which touch not 
 hfe only, but what is moie precious than life, and 
 which compel the cry, ''0 that I now might die!*'" 
 Argument is useless. There is one word alone that 
 touches the central strength, — " Have faith ix God.'' 
 The way may seem hidden ; God may seem to have 
 forgotten us. — but the cross is there, — God's pledge 
 of everlasting love, and does not that sacrifice hght 
 up the mvstery, and constrain the utterance. "Though 
 He slay me, yet will I trust Him?" We must be 
 brought, as Job was brought, to rest on the unchang- 
 ing love and fidelity of God. 
 
 2. In the weary search of intellect for truth. There 
 are hours in every man's experience when life seems 
 a riddle to which he can find no clew. We faint 
 
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 before the difficalty of knowing what we would know 
 of nature, and hfe, and Grod, There is no rest save 
 that which conies with our faith in God. He sees 
 what we can not see ; He understands what we can 
 not grasp ; He has a method, though it transcends our 
 thought. Tlie shadows of these mysteries are the 
 darkness which encompass the throne, and it will 
 break away and reveal the righteousness and justice 
 which inhabit it. And to sav this, is to sav that Grod 
 intends that I shall understand the mystery in due 
 time. 
 
 3. In those crises of history, when truth, and virtue, 
 and manhood seem perishing from the world. 
 
 There is a tide in the moral, as in the physical order 
 of the world. There are ages when the heavenly 
 currents seem to flood the channels of the world's 
 activity, and ages when they seem to ebb again, and 
 leave the coasts all bare and drv. The worst times, 
 however, have been the nurses of a future good : and 
 yet, whenever the denser darkness has set in, the 
 Church has been tempted to renounce her hope of 
 progress, and to proclaim that the terrible day of the 
 Lord was near. The age of the captivity, of the 
 destruction of Jerusalem, the tenth century, the 
 fifteenth, were regarded by the earnest spirits of the 
 time as the end of this earth's history. But the deeper 
 darkness in each case was but the herald of a better 
 day. Evil as these times are with the plottings of lust 
 and deeds of violence, corrupt as are our politics, 
 profaned as are our sanctuaries of justice and our 
 halls of legislation, darker days may yet be coming: 
 we mav touch a lower deep. What then ? Sliall we 
 take up the cry of coming tribulation, coming judg- 
 
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 ment, coming redemption of tlie elect by the strong, 
 stern hand of the King who shall rule the nations with 
 a rod of iron, and dash them into pieces like a potter's 
 vessel ? Oh ! none of this. The world has lived 
 through all such ages in the past, and come forth 
 brighter, younger, from the baptism of suffering it 
 endured. As God lives, reforms will come, the evil 
 be conc|uered and purged away, and the fair aspects 
 of His Kingdom shall be revealed more broadlj^ 
 brightly, in the face of heaven. Though it seems as 
 if the evil were having way, and goodness were being 
 trampled under foot, yet God's word breaks out into 
 voices of hope and cheer. Through the thick darkness 
 we catch the shouts of the watchmen as they call to 
 one another from the heights of revelation, and our 
 faith strengthens while we listen — "God liveth, God 
 reigneth, and all's well." 
 
 4. And this, beloved, is the grand inspiring motive 
 which impels and sustains the Church in all her enter- 
 prises for the glory of our Lord, and the salvation of 
 the world. If God's thought, God's life, be in them, 
 they shall survive all seeming failure, and come unto 
 a glorious harvest at the last ; and they who have 
 staked their hopes, their lives, upon them, will have 
 their share in the magnificent reward. 
 
 It is said that the Douglas took the heart of his 
 great captain, Bruce, inclosed in a silver case, to the 
 wars against the infidels. Whenever the battle went 
 hard against the soldiers of the Cross, he would un- 
 clasp it from his neck, and fling it far on before them 
 into the midst of the enemies' war, shouting: "Pass 
 on, great heart, into the midst of the battle as oft 
 thou hast done. The Douglas will follow thee, or 
 
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 die." One loves to see a man daring, as it were, to 
 cast his heart on in advance of him. "There is the 
 line of progress ! There is the beckoning finger of 
 God's Providence ! Press on, great thought, warm with 
 the life-blood of a beating heart, press on ! Man will 
 follow thee, or die." No, none have ever died in 
 such a battle ; far on as they may project their spirits, 
 they shall live to pass onward, and yet onward. 
 
 men and women, working for God's kingdom in 
 these days of discord and corruption, this is the 
 glorious inspiration with which God urges us toward 
 great ventures, lofty sacrifices in the carrying forward 
 of our work for him. His promise stands between us 
 and despair: "Fear not; I will help thee ; I will 
 help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the 
 Holy One of Israel." Our way may seem hedged up 
 at times ; deep seas roll between us and the land of 
 our desire. But victory will, must come at last, — 
 for our faith is in the everlasting God, the Lord, the 
 Creator of the ends of the earth, who " fainteth not, 
 
 NEITHER IS WEARY." 
 
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 CONGEATULATOEY MEETING. 
 
 A CONGRATULATORY meeting was held in the audi- 
 ence room of the new church edifice on Monday even- 
 ing, June 21, 1869. Special arrangements had been 
 made with the managers of the Hudson River Railroad 
 for the accommodation of visitors from the city, many 
 of whom had expressed a strong desire to attend the 
 meeting. The day, however, proved to be very un- 
 propitious, in marked contrast with the preceding Sab- 
 bath. Sunday was a day of days, bright, sunny, and 
 cheerful; the intense heat of the afternoon being 
 relieved by a most welcome, refreshing shower : — on 
 Monday, the rain poured down in torrents, and all 
 through the day gave no promise of abatement. 
 Toward evening the violence of the storm passed 
 away, but the heavens continued to present a threat- 
 ening appearance, preventing many from venturing 
 away from their homes. The fears of some, however, 
 that the attendance would be very small, proved to 
 be groundless. The body of the house was well filled 
 with an audience whose attention and interest were 
 fresh and unwearied from the beginning to the close. 
 The large attendance at this meeting, under such 
 unfavorable circumstances, was not the least of the 
 many evidences expressive of the appreciative recog- 
 nition, by the Church and the community, of the great 
 gift of Bros. Trevor and Colgate. 
 
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 The pastor, Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, presided. 
 After prayer, the chah'man stated the object of the 
 gathering in the following introductory address : 
 
 The call for this meeting originated in the spontaneous expression of a 
 very strong desire on the part of prominent members of the Church, that the 
 munificent gift of our brethren, Trevor and Colgate, be formally and appro- 
 priately recognized and responded to. On Friday evening, June 11th, a Com- 
 mittee was raised by vote of the Church and Congregation present, consisting 
 of the Pastor, P. F. Peek, G. Hilton Scribner, Luther W. Frost, and 
 James Randell, with full power to call the proposed meeting and conduct 
 the same, draft resolutions, and secure speakers. In this movement, they are 
 happy to say, the Committee have since been joined, through formal petition, 
 by a number of prominent citizens, not members of the Church or of the Con- 
 gregation, thus enlarging the scope and significance of this meeting. 
 
 An occasion like the present is not without its embarrassments. "We 
 ought to be enthusiastic, yet our enthusiasm ought to have the flavor of com- 
 bined dignity and delicacy. Virtue is commendable, but if the commendation 
 partake of the character of fulsome praise, virtue's cheek mantles with the 
 blush of shame, not with the glow of delight. There are seasons when 
 silence, or partially checked utterance, is more eloquent than the flow of 
 rounded sentence. A glance may speak volumes, and carry a more precious 
 weight of meaning than a whole shelf of cumbersome folios. And I feel 
 that words are not able to embody the throng of thought and feeling sug- 
 gested by the walls within which we have gathered. No engrossed resolutions, 
 no burning words from lips of men, who have grasped the greatness of this 
 undertaking, and appreciate the noble generosity that prompted it, are half 
 so expressive as this symmetrical, massive pile itself. This house is itself the 
 best recognition of the large-hearted benevolence of our friends. Their 
 reward abides in the rocky foundations of this structure, in the strength 
 of these walls, in the grace and symmetry of shaft and spire. These will 
 speak when we have passed away, and our children have grown old ; and 
 like wine that men hoard in cellars, time will only improve the worth of their 
 testimony. 
 
 Yet out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. We owe 
 our brethren the tribute of a proper and public recognition. The heart is 
 full, full to overflowing ; let the lips find full expression. Let us seize the 
 greatness of the hour, and do fitting honor to the same ; never forgetting that 
 the praise due to our brethren is but a faint reflection of the glory due to 
 Him, whose is the gold and silver of earth, and who appoints men the 
 stewards of his bounty. 
 
 On behalf of the Committee, I have the honor to present the following 
 preamble and resolutions for your approval and adoption : 
 
 Whereas, Our brethren, Johx B. Trevor and Jasies B. Colgate, have 
 
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 manifested a spirit of liberality and an intensity of interest worthy of the high- 
 est commendation, in the munificent gift of a beautiful house of worship to 
 the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church, and so transferring the same that the 
 Church can not fail to have a thoroughly furnished local habitation, and enjoy 
 the highest opportunities for the effective prosecution of Christian work, as 
 long as the spirit of worship remains in the body of her membership ; and 
 
 Whereas, It is, and ever must continue to be, a matter of just village 
 pride that within the boundary lines of our local habitation there have been 
 nourished a benevolence so large-hearted and an execution so painstaking, and 
 that our soil has been honored with so great and enduring a monument of 
 Christian liberality and devotion ; and 
 
 Whereas, This noble act of Christian generosity, noble in conception, in 
 the amount of money expended, in the care personally given to the enterprise, 
 and in the free heartiness of its conveyance to the Church for the use of a 
 Baptist house of worship forever, is a significant expression of the full 
 indorsement by our brethren of the principles of the denomination of which 
 they are honored members ; therefore 
 
 Resolved, That, as members of the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church 
 and Congregation, we unite most cordially in this formal expression of our 
 thorough appreciation of the noble generosity of our brethren, Trevor and 
 Colgate, earnestly praying " that these new walls may never reverberate with 
 the strife of brethren, but resound with the teachings of God's Word, accom- 
 panied with the notes of praise and prayer, that the interesting associations 
 clustering around the old may be transferred to the new edifice, and here be 
 entwined with dearer, and fresher, and more glorious associations, and that 
 " He who dwelleth between the cherubim " may shine forth, and fill the house 
 with his glory. 
 
 Resolved, That, as citizens of the village of Yonkers, as admirers of the 
 beautiful in art and of the enduring in construction, as lovers of good order, 
 promoted more by schools and churches than by police and prisons, we hail 
 with hearty joy this noble addition to the place of our habitation, and rejoice 
 in this added assurance of peaceful Sabbaths and unmolested homes. 
 
 Resolved, That we hail the generous act of our brethren as calculated to 
 inspire a just pride in the hearts of all who throughout our broad land are 
 bound to them by ecclesiastical associations, and as an eloquent plea to the 
 men of means in our denomination to consecrate during life their substance to 
 the Lord. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, engrossed, be, by the Commit- 
 tee appointed to draft the same, duly certified and presented to Messrs. John 
 B. Trevor and James B. Colgate, severally, as an abiding memorial of this 
 occasion. 
 
 John M. Bruce, Jr., Esq., of Yonkers, moved the 
 approval and adoption of the above resolutions. The 
 
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 motion having been seconded by A. F. Decker, Esq., 
 the first resolution was responded to, on behalf of the 
 Church, by the Rev. Edward Bright, D. D., editor 
 of the Examiner and Chronicle, as follows : 
 
 AVe are told that when a favorite servant of a Roman Centurion was ill 
 in Capernaum — that city which overlooked the Galilean sea, much as our 
 own beautiful town overlooks the Hudson — Jewish elders were commissioned 
 to intercede with Jesus for the sick man's cure. They hastened upon their 
 merciful errand with the plea that he was "' worthy " for whom the Savior 
 was asked to do this, because he loved their nation and had built for them 
 a synagogue. 
 
 AVe come this evening, in the fullness of our hearts, to acknowledge a 
 richer gift than Capernaum received from the Roman soldier ; and if the 
 Great Healer was made the more willing by that Centurion's benefaction to 
 bless his home, may we not come with even more than the Centurion's faith, 
 to implore that same sympathizing and mighty Jesus to bless the persons and 
 the homes of those who have built for us this large, massive, elegant, and 
 complete house in which to worship God. Lord I those for whom we ask 
 thy benedictions love our nation more than a Roman Centurion loved the 
 land over which he watched ; and have built for us, not the temporary syna- 
 gogue of a religion that is passing away, but a house in which we, and our 
 children, and our children's children, from generation to generation, may hear 
 the truths and celebrate the institutions of a religion which liveth and abideth 
 forever I AVilt thou not give those who have done this for us and for Thee, 
 thy ceaseless care, thy abiding love ? 
 
 I need not seek to impress any mind here with the greatness of this gift by 
 illustrations of its money cost. There is too much eloquent illustration in 
 what our eyes see to call for the help of arithmetic to-night. The spacious- 
 ness, the solidity, the symmetry, the tastefulness of this place, proclaim it to 
 be one of the superbest gifts ever made to a Christian church. I have won- 
 dered how the gentlemen who made it must have felt all day yesterday, as 
 they saw the demonstrations of appreciation and gratitude on the part of pas- 
 tor, church, and congregation. But late last night, one of the sweet and mem- 
 orable sayings of the Lord Jesus came to me, as a clew to what they must 
 have felt. Then I thought : AVell, if it is more blessed to give than to receive, 
 our brethren, Trevor and Colgate, must have had blessedness akin to that 
 of the seraphic apostle, when not quite able to make up his mind whether he 
 was in the body or out of the body. 
 
 Bat nothing, in this world, is so good or so great as to escape the touch 
 of a complaining criticism. There are men who have not much money, and 
 do not expect to have much, bat who know precisely bow other men, who 
 
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 have raucli, should spend it. I have heard some such persons take the large 
 sum expended on this house, and divide it so as to give a portion to four 
 or five other objects, leaving, as they say, all that was needed for a Baptist 
 church edifice in such a village as Yonkers. But really I do not know why 
 the Baptist church edifice of Yonkers should not be the best church edifice in 
 Yonkers ; and who can tell me what kind of a place this village of ours will 
 be, in its population and wealth, when half a century shall have left its marks 
 on the solid structure in which we meet to-night ? And can any one tell me 
 why people look complacently on the princely private residences and grounds 
 which line the banks of this splendid river, and demur at the expenditure of 
 less than the cost of some of them in building a house which is to be the spir- 
 itual home of one of the families of God for successive generations ? One of 
 the forcible things John Ruskin has said is, that the costliness of church archi- 
 tecture is not to be' determined so much by the poverty that surrounds it, as 
 by the wealth that centres within it. The good King David sorrowfully said : 
 " I dwell in a house of cedar, but the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains ;" 
 and Nathan the prophet advised him to do all that was in his heart. The 
 King and Prophet thought that the house of the King of kings should 
 be, at least, equal to the house in which a king of Israel lived. But our 
 friends who have built this beautiful temple have the advantage of King David. 
 They have done what he unshed to do ; from which I infer that it is better to 
 be successful in forecasting the issues of such conflicts as they have in Wall 
 Street, than to be a successful " man of war" such as David was. 
 
 The house is finished, and we have joyfully af'cepted it, as the precursor 
 and the pledge of the unity, the perpetuity, and the growth of the Church 
 which is to occupy it. And as if to put special emphasis upon certain things, 
 our thoughtful pastor has invited an eminent gentleman, not of our own de- 
 nomination, to be one of the speakers this evening. Whatever else his pres- 
 ence here may denote, it must be an intimation that no one of the better half 
 of the congregation, worshiping in this house, is ever to excuse herself for not 
 being " at church " on the ground that she has " nothing to wear." I could not 
 question the taste or the gallantry of the gentlemen who have given us this 
 perfect edifice ; and yet 1 am sure they did not intend it to be used for a 
 weekly display of elegant millinery and expensive dress-making. Indeed, the 
 best-dressed woman in a Sabbath congregation, is she who so dresses that it is 
 not easy to recollect what she had on. " The poor," you know, " we have 
 always with us, and when we will we may do them good." Let us not forget 
 that one of the ways to do them good, is to make as little display as possible 
 of superior advantages in the house of a Father to whom every child, however 
 poor, is more precious than a world. 
 
 But we, who receive this noble gift, have more to do than to express our 
 obligations, in glowing resolutions and enthusiastic speeches. It is for us to 
 be a perpetual embodiment of the highest forms of gratitude ; and one of the 
 highest forms of which I can conceive, is such a cnuRcn life, within and 
 
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 beyond these walls, as shall prove that those who have received this great 
 property know how to use it for the sublimest ends. 
 
 We have a Church, fashioned in its faith and practice after what we be- 
 lieve to be the New Testament model. In our estimation, every truth, and 
 every ordinance, and every command of Jesus Christ, is a thing to be believed 
 in and observed with unquestioning fidelity. We can not accept the theory, 
 that one form of church government is as good as another, or that one sum- 
 mary of Christian doctrine, or one way of administering Christian ordinances, 
 is as right as another. We hold the only right way of observing divine in- 
 stitutions to be the way which is divinely revealed and illustrated ; and hold- 
 ing these views conscientiously and unwaveringly, we are constrained to 
 believe and to do that from which many other Christian people dissent, and, I 
 am sorry to say, not unfrequently misconceive and misinterpret. 
 
 But while we are Baptists, and have no thought of exchanging our faith and 
 practice for those of any other denomination, let us demonstrate in our church 
 life, to reiterate and reaffirm one of the best utterances of yesterday, that this 
 house is not the spiritual home of a people having a keener eye for the faults 
 than for the virtues of those who differ from them ; and a readier tongue to 
 speak of others in terms of disparagement than of praise. That sort of church 
 life which makes a sect the end of all endeavor, and goes forth with a blood- 
 hound scent after those who are not of their fold, is not the church life that 
 brings light, and love, and hope in its train. It can not be the true church 
 life of a peo^jle who abhor persecution for opinion's sake, and have always and 
 everywhere contended for the supremacy of an untrammeled conscience in 
 matters pertaining to religion. The rights we claim for ourselves, we are to 
 be forward in awarding to others ; and in so doing we shall show how possible 
 it is for a Christian Church to stand by its own beliefs and usages with un- 
 swerving persistency, and, at the same time, to have " malice toward none 
 
 AND CHARITY FOR ALL." 
 
 But the .sphere for the development of a true church life is as wide as the 
 obligations we owe to ourselves, to the community of which we are part, and 
 to the world. The friends who have built this house for us have made it so 
 admirable, that the social life, the real ' how-do-you-do' and ' I-am-glad-to-see- 
 you' life of the church will have special facilities for its nurture. If church 
 parlors, made attractive and accessible, are not to be classed among the 
 " means of grace," they can not be other than first cousins to such means. The 
 social cup of tea, with its attending chat, would have saved many a church 
 from grief, and imparted freshness and force to all its enterprises. 
 
 There is a cheerful, gushing, enthusiastic way of doing things, instinct 
 with the spirit of an all-animating life. Things thus done fill up congrega- 
 tions, the Sunday school, the prayer meeting, and react upon the pulpit like 
 an inspiration from God. This is the life we need ; and this house, spacious 
 as it is, will not be large enough for its blessed manifestations. It will go forth 
 in a thousand forms of beneficence, to soothe the sorrowing, to instruct the 
 
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 ignorant, and to save the vicious. It will gauge the wants of every district of 
 the town in which we live, and see that it has the means of a divine regenera- 
 tion. It will go out into the waste places of our own great land, and of the 
 yet vaster world, to multiply, on every hand, the triumphs of Him who is the 
 way, the truth, and the life. Under the power of such a spirit, this Church 
 will become, not only a " pillar " and " ground of the truth," but a school in 
 which men and women are educated for the grandest achievements of Chris- 
 tian love ; and this house, so satisfying to our eyes, and so grateful to our 
 hearts, will be hallowed in our associations, as one of the courts in which re- 
 deemed souls shall be evermore fitted and attired for the coronation awaiting 
 them in heaven. 
 
 May this life warm and expand the sympathies of the Church which is 
 here to perpetuate and magnify the truth, as the truth is in Jesus. 
 
 "William Allen Butler, Esq., of Yonkers, respond- 
 ed by invitation of the Committee, and at the sug- 
 gestion of prominent citizens not members of the 
 Church or of the Congregation, to the second resoki- 
 tion, as follows : 
 
 There is a peculiar satisfaction in the contemplation of every finished 
 work, whether it is the product of the labor of one pair of hands and of a 
 single day, or of the combined efforts of many, through a long period of time. 
 This is not wholly, as we are sometimes tempted to think, because all human 
 plans are apt to fail and all human success is apt to be fragmentary and in- 
 complete ; but because this sense of satisfaction is a part of our moral constitu- 
 tion, derived from the divine Architect who is represented to us, on almost 
 the first page of Scripture, as " resting from all his work which he had 
 made," and pronouncing it " very good." In proportion to the dignity and the 
 character of the completed work is the degree of satisfaction which it inspires. 
 " The end," says the old classic adage, " crowns the work," and a noble work 
 well done wins and wears its crown by a divine right. 
 
 It is in the spirit of this sentiment that we are here this evening, as resi- 
 dents of the village of Yonkers, to unite our congratulations with those of this 
 Society and the great religious denomination of which it forms a part, upon 
 the successful completion of this beautiful house of worship. The occasion, so 
 full of interest and of sympathy, seems to me to resemble the sacred edifica 
 whose walls encompass us, in this, that it presents a two-fold aspect, — interior 
 and external. To those who arc to worship here and to those who sympathize 
 with them in denominational views, the chief attraction of this service springs 
 from the fact, that here a new home is assured for Christian doctrine and cul- 
 ture, according to their own chosen forms and standards, and a new centre of 
 Christian activity, according to their own chosen methods. But those for 
 
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 whom I am to speak are not sharers in these intimate and home-like sympa- 
 thies. Ours is an exterior view. I can only bring you " the good report of 
 them which are without," of those who as residents and citizens of Toukers 
 have watched with interest the progress of this noble structure, as it slowly 
 rose from its foundation to its topmost stone, and who now claim a part in 
 the expressions of satisfaction which belong to this auspicious hour. Fortu- 
 nately, the public sentiment which I have been asked to express is so univer- 
 sal and so unanimous, that any one may take leave to give it utterance ; and I 
 feel that I do not speak without full warrant when I say, in obedience to my 
 own impulse, as well as to the promptings of others, that I tender to you, 
 sir, as the pastor of this Christian Church and Congregation, and to all in 
 your circle of Church communion and fellowship, our most sincere and hearty 
 congratulations. 
 
 I am glad that, as a layman and a Presbyterian, I stand upon the safe ground 
 which has thus been marked out for me. Were it otherwise, coming as I do 
 between two eminent divines of the Baptist Church, I should feel very much 
 like the unfortunate inquirer who could only define his position by comparing 
 himself to the blank leaves in the Bible between the Old Testament and the 
 New Testament. He had been converted from Judaism, but he had not been 
 converted to Christianity. After listening to the eloquent and appropriate 
 remarks of Dr. Bright, I certainly could not find it in my heart to say a word 
 against the Baptist denomination ; and before listening to Dr. Kendrick, my 
 education has been so far neglected that I have nothing special to say in its 
 favor. I must avail myself, therefore, of a lawyer's privilege, and resorting to 
 a kind of legal fiction, ask leave of my audience to transport them bodily out- 
 side of these surrounding walls and to place them upon one of the neighboring 
 eminences, where we can survey this sacred edifice from a point of view wholly 
 divested of any associations save those which cluster around any Christian 
 Church in which a pure gospel is preached and a pure piety exemplified. 
 
 In this view our first glance will be at the beauty and symmetry of the archi- 
 tectural proportions of the edifice. We might apply to the slow and some- 
 times apparently tedious mechanical toil by which the skilled laborers fitted 
 each separate part of the structure, the familiar lines of our New England poet : 
 
 " They builded better than they knew, 
 The conscious stones to beauty grew." 
 
 And now, as the fruit of all this patient toil, a new feature is added to our 
 landscape. The eye, as it turns from the rocky heights of the Palisades, meets 
 here a strength and solidity in harmony with those enduring walls, while the 
 towering spire tends upward with a grace and beauty kindred to that with 
 which the native trees on our surrounding hills point to the skies. 
 
 Church architecture has had its periods of efflorescence and decay, and has 
 doubtless been made to serve the purposes of superstition and a corrupted faith. 
 But we may rejoice that the time has come when religious thought and culture, 
 advancing along the path marked out by Providence, can freely avail them- 
 
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 selves of whatever tends to make the place of worship beautiful and attractive, 
 and when Protestantism no longer needs to protest against idolatrous abuses 
 by stripping the house of God of every external decoration. The New England 
 meeting-houses, crowning the green hills with their glaring white clap-boards 
 and stunted towers, with nothing outside to relieve their native ugliness, and 
 destitute within of a single accessory except the stove pipe, command our en- 
 forced respi'ct, though we can not admire them. They " point a moral," though 
 they certainly " adorn " nothing. They tell of resistance to spiritual tyranny 
 and of freedom of conscience and of worship, and thus they have served a 
 noble purpose. But, happily for us, such testimonies are no longer essential, if 
 they were ever necessary. 
 
 It seems strange that a Church whose divine Founder made all Nature 
 subservient to illustrate the doctrines which he taught, and who, in the only 
 sacraments which he enjoined, made the symbol stand for the substance of the 
 truth which it declared, — the purifying water for the washing of regeneration, — 
 the broken bread for his crucified body, — the poured wine for his atoning blood, 
 — should ever have shrunk from using in the service of her Master, within 
 proper bounds, whatever in nature or in art could make his gospel more 
 eBBcient or more attractive. At the very time when our Savior took the cup 
 and gave it to his disciples the pagan worshipers were pouring their liba- 
 tions to Jove and Diana, but he did not hesitate to make the pressed juice of 
 the vine the symbol of that redeeming work which he accomplished when he 
 trod the wine-press alone. To a certain extent all architecture must be 
 symbolical. The severe lines of the Parthenon harmonized with the grace and 
 symmetry of the Grecian culture. The dome of the Pantheon borrowed its 
 dignity and grandeur from the visible firmament. But the spire is essentially 
 Christian. It symbolizes the risen and ascending Redeemer, and the cross in 
 which it fitly terminates, and which here so beautifully crowns the spire, as it 
 attracts the gaza of every eye recalls his prophetic words : " And I, if I be 
 lifted up, will draw all men unto me." 
 
 This completed edifice also stands as the visible expression of the noble 
 Christian benevolence which prompted and which has presided over its erec- 
 tion. As the representative of our fellow-citizens who, without distinction, 
 have well appreciated this wise munificence on the part of our highly esteemed 
 townsmen, Messrs. Trevor and Colgate, I should feel at liberty to speak with- 
 out hesitation or reserve if I dared to do so. But it is the ripe, matured fruit, 
 whose bloom and beauty we most admire, that we most fear to spoil by touch- 
 ing. So it is with such rare benefactions as this. In the great Cathedral of 
 St. Paul, after the eye has wandered over its wide spaces and grand propor- 
 tions, it falls upon the slab beneath the centre of the dome, which marks the 
 resting place of the architect, with the simijle inscription, in classic phrase — 
 " If you seek his monument, look around you." It is so here. These mute 
 walls best speak the praise of those who have built them. We read in the 
 sacred narrative, that when the alabaster box was broken, and its costly 
 
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 contents poured on the Savior's feet by reverent and loving hands," the house 
 was filled with the odor of the ointment." It has seemed to me that this house 
 is filled to-night with the fragrance ofa Christian beneficence inspired, I doubt 
 not, by a kindred spirit of reverence and of love, without which the richest 
 gift is a vain oblation, and with which the widow's mite outweighs the 
 wealthiest offering. 
 
 But this completed work is more than a mere architectural ornament to our 
 village. It is more than a noble monument of Christian liberality. It stands 
 as the instrument and the local habitation of an active, organized Church, 
 equipped and provided for its proper influence and work. The resolution to 
 which I am speaking expresses our congratulations as a community, in view of 
 this new and powerful auxiliary in aid of good morals, of social order, and the 
 general well-being of society. These are not mere phrases. Education and 
 religion, the school and the church, placed side by side in the resolution, as 
 they stand side by side on this declivity in our growing village, are the great 
 conservative elements of our social state. Every living church, especially, 
 stands related to society by the most vital ties. The Church is the great bul- 
 wark of the Sabbath, which was made for man, indispensable alike for his 
 physical and his moral wants. It is the guardian of the family, which, like the 
 Sabbath, was also made for man. It is the aid and ally of all human law 
 which rests on the basis of the divine law, and the best friend of whatever is 
 truly remedial in every form of human philanthropy and benevolence. If we 
 wish to measure the extent of this influence, let us imagine for a moment, if 
 we can, that every organized Christian society on either side of this great 
 river, from its source to its mouth, were blotted out of existence, and the mass 
 of society left without a trace of the leaven of their refining and elevating 
 power. Who can doubt that we should be remitted at once to a barbarism 
 as much worse than that which reigned along these shores when Hendrick 
 Hudson first sailed beside them, as the modern implements and enginery of war 
 are more terrible and destructive than the bows and arrows of the aborigines ? 
 But this merely conservative power is not the limit of the influence of the 
 Church upon society. It stands as the living witness of the great facts of the 
 Christian system. I say nothing of doctrines, for in respect to these churches 
 differ and good men are divided. I speak of the great cardinal facts which lie 
 at the basis of all Christian faith and activity, and which men need, first of all 
 and most of all, to believe,— the fact of the existence of God, which the 
 Bible begins by assuming and does not stop to prove ; the verities of human 
 guilt, and of a living Savior, who was born and lived and died, and rose again 
 from the dead on the third day, and who now and ever lives. The question 
 propounded by his lips still remains unanswered — " When the Son of man 
 Cometh shall he find faith on the earth?" — and until he comes the Church 
 must needs be the witness to the world of the facts of his gospel, just as the 
 apostles at the first were ordained by him to be the witnesses of the great 
 central fact of his resurrection. 
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 And may we not add, that this finished church stands also as the symbol 
 of the final and completed triumph of the truth. Long after every eye which 
 has looked to-day on its fair proportions is closed in its last sleep, and every 
 ear on which these words of congratulation have fallen is filled with dust, 
 these walls shall stand on the same enduring base, and this spire shall point to 
 the same overarching skies. Let us hope that here the imperishable truths of 
 the gospel may find a centre of ever-widening influence and success, until the 
 time shall come when the whole expectant Church, with trimmed lamps and 
 girded loins, shall go forth at the midnight cry : " Behold, the Bridegroom 
 cometh !" 
 
 The Rev. J. R. Kendrick, D. D., pastor of the 
 Tabernacle Baptist Church of New York City, re- 
 sponded to the third resohition, on behalf of, the 
 denomination, as follows : 
 
 The service to which I have been called on this jubilee occasion, while 
 grateful enough in itself, is rendered severe and almost cruel by reason of my 
 position on the programme of the evening. The inexorable requirements of 
 logical order, it is said, have put me last, when other fitnesses demanded that, 
 if appearing at all, I should come first. It would be sufficiently hard to follow 
 the most popular preacher in our ranks, who discourses weekly from his edito- 
 rial tripod to more than one hundred thousand auditors ; but, worse than this, 
 I am doomed to the unhappy dignity of succeeding a poet, whose graceful 
 numbers and sparkling satire have given him a world-wide celebrity, and 
 whose address just closed shows that he is equally master of the arts of elo- 
 quence and of verse. Both the speakers who have preceded me have con- 
 spired, it would seem, to reduce me to a condition even more dilapidated, for- 
 lorn, and unpresentable, than that of a certain afflicted heroine to whom allusion 
 has been made — to leave me with nothing to say. They have appropriated and 
 displayed all the fine broadcloths and costly velvets of thought and rhetoric, 
 and abandoned me to cut a sorry figure in their cast-off raiment, or in thread- 
 bare and faded garments of speech. I must accept the situation, however, 
 with all its hard conditions ; and so must you. 
 
 It is certainly fitting that the denomination at large should have a repre- 
 sentation and a voice in this Baptist jubilee at Yonkers. This is far more 
 than a sacred festival of simply local import and interest. It sustains relations 
 to the great Baptist family, very intimate and important. One member, in 
 particular, of that family, the church of which I am pastor, claims the privi- 
 lege of sharing your exhilaration over this accomplished enterprise, and fully 
 entering into all your sentiments of thankfulness, joy, and pride. If you now 
 dwell in a solid and gorgeous temple, while we still linger " in curtains " — in a 
 modest Tabernacle,— is it not because you have appropriated our members and 
 
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 resources ? Is not one of the gentlemen whose munificence has reared this 
 structure, in regular standing and full fellowship with us ? And was not the 
 other for years a prized and useful member of our body ? And do not both 
 of them, when iu the city, cheer our congregation with their presence, and 
 promote our interests by active sympathy and substantial aid ? Who shall 
 deny that they may have been educated, inspired, qualified, for their extraor- 
 dinary service here, by the wholesome instructions and discipline of the Taberna- 
 cle Church ? Not I, certainly. I look around and see many others compos- 
 ing and adorning this Church and Congregation, — among them the first speak- 
 er of the evening, — who are the children, or who once enjoyed the fostering 
 care, of the dear mother that, still fresh and well-preserved, keeps open 
 house on Second Avenue. In truth, I am, half inclined to claim for the Tab- 
 ernacle Church the whole credit of this Yonkers phenomenon. However 
 much you might resent such pretensions as exorbitant and absurd, you will, 
 at least, promptly own that nobody outside of your immediate circle has a 
 better right to rejoice and give thanks with you this evening than we of 
 the Tabernacle Church. 
 
 But this occasion, while specially related to my own flock, reaches much 
 farther, and touches and thrills a vast association of kindred communities scat- 
 tered over this broad land and bound with a sacred fellowship by one Lord, 
 one Faith, and one Baptism. In the name of those communities, — on behalf 
 of the Baptists of this continent, — I come to you bringing congratulations, 
 thanksgivings, and fraternal greetings, on the completion of this great enter- 
 prise. Assuming to represent the denomination at large, I confidently adopt 
 the language of the resolution to which I am speaking, and declare that 
 " we hail with just pride," — with a sacred enlargement, elevation, and elation 
 of soul, — that work whose achievement you now celebrate. 
 
 In only ordinary cases, and when only ordinary means are employed, a 
 house of worship is a noble monument of the intelligent and pious zeal of all 
 who have been concerned iu its erection. It subserves the loftiest purposes, — 
 directly promotes those objects dear to the heart of God and vital to the wel- 
 fare of man in all his varied relations. Christian beneficence seldom tates a 
 wiser and worthier direction, than when engaged in rearing edifices in which a 
 pure gospel is to be preached and the simple ordinances of that gospel are to 
 be administered. It is a noble appropriation of money to found a college or 
 a theological seminary, or to endow a chair in such a seminary, or to estab- 
 lish an orphan asylum, or a home for aged disciples oppressed with indigence 
 and infirmity, but sometimes, at least, it is a better service in the cause of God 
 and humanity to build a house for him and his people. 
 
 So the Baptist denomination at large rejoices in the simple fact, that the 
 Church at Yonkers now possesses what it greatly needed, a new church edi- 
 fice. We feel no envy, but delight rather and only, that this is so stately and 
 excellent a house. It is none too good, — none too imposing, commodious, and 
 elegant. This is no structural vanity, — no ambitious and futile attempt to 
 
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 embody and express in symbolic stone and mortar the spiritual truths of 
 Christianity, — no pretentious fabric blazing with meretricious ornaments, and 
 involving a prodigal outlay of money. It is simply a massive and beautiful 
 edifice, congruous in its architectural proportions and decorations with the 
 culture, taste, and resources of this thriving suburb of the great metropolis. 
 It is wisely built for the future, as well as the present, and contemplates the 
 not remote day when the city in its gigantic strides will be here, and Yonkers 
 will have become to New York proper, in point of distance, what Harlem 
 now is. 
 
 But it is not so much, of course, the mere fact that you are in possession 
 of a noble house of worship, that gives the entire Baptist family joy and pride, 
 as it is the manner in which this house has become yours. There are circum- 
 stances which make this occasion singular, unique, almost without a prece- 
 dent or parallel in our annals, and impart to it a special significance. We 
 can not forget that this has been mainly a private enterprise, — that this mag- 
 nificent structure, turned over to the Yonkers Church in absolute possession, 
 is the result of the generosity of two Christian men. These men want no 
 words of praise from us. Certainly they do not want our adulation. This, I 
 am sure, would be as offensive to them as it would be unworthy of us. Doubt- 
 less they feel that they have had too much of recognition already. Very 
 likely this emphatic recognition has been oppressive and painful to them, and 
 they have virtually been saying, as many another benefactor has had occasion 
 to say ; 
 
 ■" "We've heard of hearts — kind deeds 
 With hate or scorn returning ; 
 Alas I the graiilude of man 
 Has oftener left us mourning." 
 
 But we mud speak — not for them — not to please them with flattering or 
 even appreciative words — but for ourselves and for others. It would be a 
 shame and a crime if we did not utter and emphasize our profound and 
 grateful sense of the broad Christian sagacity, the deep and more than 
 chivalrous loyalty to our distinguishing religious tenets, as well as the princely 
 liberality which instigated this enterprise. Inhere can be no doubt, surely, of 
 the estimate which James B. Colgate and John B. Trevor place upon the 
 principles and usages of the people called Baptists. They have not simply 
 put their sign manual to the Baptist creed ; they have consecrated this great 
 property to the custody and propagation of this creed, and that forever. 
 Like the sturdy barons who would not consent that the laws of England 
 should be changed, these brethren are satisfied with the simple faith of their 
 fathers, and they have reared this structure as a solid protest against innova- 
 tions in that faith. The protest is seasonable, assuring, and inspiriting. 
 
 It is pre-eminently, however, as an example, replete with suggestion and 
 inspiration for other minds and hearts, that I love, as a member of the 
 Baptist brotherhood, to think of this structure. A good deed shines some 
 
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 distance in this naughty world of ours ; and this great, good deed — this accom- 
 plished, unencumbered, conspicuous fact must shine afar. It will prove an 
 " eloquent plea" indeed, saying to others : " Go ye and do likewise." As the 
 palace steamers of our American Rhine glide past this place, crowded with 
 their living freight of eager gazers, the question will often be asked : *' What 
 church is that?" And the answer will be : " It is a Baptist Church ; the best 
 one in the land, if not in the world. And do you know its history ? Why, 
 siV, it was built by two Wall Street Christians at a cost of something like 
 $200,000, and was presented to the congregation without so much as a far- 
 thing of debt upon it!" Can such a thing be done and told without setting 
 rich men and rich women to thinking, and stirring them to a generous emula- 
 tion ? I look for great results from this splendid pioneer deed of benevolence 
 in the way of church building. I shall not be surprised to hear shortly that 
 houses similar to this, and under somewhat similar circumstances, are in pro- 
 cess of erection at Tarrytown, at Poughkeepsie, at Rhinebeck, at Newburg, 
 and other neighboring points. Nay, it may be that brethren of ample sub- 
 stance will come forward to provide the old Tabernacle Church of New York 
 with a worthier home, while her present habitation is reserved, if possible, for 
 the use of the denomination. In that event — I blush to make the suggestion, 
 for it does sound rather shabby, and seems like pushing the " free horse " very 
 hard — still, in that event, I should not be surprised if the brethren who 
 have shown such astonishing power of draft here, would give us a strong 
 pull. Or, to change the figure, having endowed the fair young daughter so 
 munificently, they would scarcely refuse to '• come down " handsomely in ren- 
 dering the advancing years of the dear old mother somewhat more comfortable, 
 respectable, and useful. Indeed, what limit is to be set to the influence of a 
 noble work like this ? It will extend across the continent ; it will aid in 
 rearing houses for God along that highway of the nations, the Pacific Rail- 
 road, and may electrify with a kindred liberality the solid Baptists of Sacra- 
 mento and San Francisco. 
 
 The resolution before me justly and felicitously says, that this generous 
 act of our brethren " is an eloquent plea to men of means to consecrate during 
 life their substance to the Lord." Truly it is so — a plea that should be heeded. 
 It is a simple rule of very wide application. Longfellow has shown, in one 
 of his poems, how important it is in affairs of courtship : " If you would have 
 a thing well done, do it yourself." The rule is specially worthy of adoption 
 in charitable donations. Here a Christian man is surely the best executor of 
 his own will. He knows best what he wishes done with the funds which he 
 proposes to devote to Christ's cause, and how to compass his ends. What 
 infinite troubles and mischiefs — what long and vexatious lawsuits — what 
 quarrels amongst children and heirs — what mismanagement and perversion 
 of charitable bequests — would all be avoided, if men of large means and 
 liberal purposes would themselves supervise and control their contributions 
 to religious objects. That illustrious philanthropist, Mr. George Peabody, 
 
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 displayed singular wisdom in organizing and fairly setting in motion his 
 grand educational cliarity, while vigor of mind and body remained to 
 him. Degrading enough to the merest worldling — infinitely unworthy of the 
 disciple of Jesus — is that most odious of prides, 
 
 " The pride of dying rich, 
 The loudest laugh of hell." 
 
 Standing in this beautiful temple of religion — ^_just dedicated to the high- 
 est of purposes — I almost envy the men who have loved their principles and 
 their people so well as to build for them a synagogue, who have had the 
 money and the grace to set so sublime an example. They have reared for 
 themselves a monument more noble than the proudest mausoleum which be- 
 reaved afifection, aided though it were by royal treasures, could construct. 
 Would you see that monument? Look around. Blessings on them! Blessings 
 on their basket and their store, their homes and ofBces and commercial trans- 
 actions ! So long as they continue I'ich in grace, and in this grace of giving, 
 I care not how freely they receive and how opulent they become. 
 
 And blessings on you, my brother, the pastor of this flock, and on the 
 church and congregation that are the favored and grateful recipients of tiiis 
 extraordinary generosity. Peace be within these walls ! For mij brethren and 
 companions' sake, throughout the land, I will now say. Peace be ivithin ijoa! 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously and enthusias- 
 tically approved and adopted by a rising vote. The 
 Doxology was then sung, and the congregation was 
 disniissed. 
 
bo 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 As a fitting conclusion to tliese pages, tlie follow- 
 ing little poem is inserted, written by Mrs. J. H. 
 Uhl, of Yonkers. The new edifice was dedicated 
 on what is known in the Episcopal Communion as 
 "St. John's Day.'' 
 
 ST. JOHN'S DAY, 1869. 
 
 The day of good St. Jobu 
 
 Witli fervid splendors shone, 
 Distilling sweets from every rose of June ; 
 
 Blue waters laughed in light, 
 
 Blue ether wooed the flight 
 Of birds, Avhose matin songs were all in tune. 
 
 This day of summer days 
 
 Its purple pomp displays 
 To grace a gift more regal than its own ; 
 
 For Nature's wealthiest dole 
 
 Shows poor beside the soul 
 Of "cheerful giving," which His love doth crown. 
 
 More sweet than rose of June, 
 
 Than bird-song more in tune, 
 Than sky or water brighter and more fair, 
 
 This dual gift shines forth, 
 
 And for its noble worth, 
 Claims in all Christian hearts their thanks to share. 
 
 John-Baptist's holy day, 
 
 Its benediction lay 
 Upon the doers of this generous deed ; 
 
 And may the holy spell 
 
 Rest on their work as well, — 
 All Christian hearts must pray for it, "God speed !" 
 
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