{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3480", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3380", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "-o}ltq\\nTHE\\nCELEBRATION\\noy TtlE:\\n^TER-MILL\u00c2\u00a3iV,Y5j\\nANNIVERSARY\\nOE- TMEI\\ni;|e{ji0iriiieil pi;i0fifdaiiit mnkh %lmuh\\nOF TMB mtf QF\\npL-:^^ ^p III\\nigen-biatbt muuht maifet.\\nj^he (ploijy of (^hildijen ai{8 theivi athmis.\\nIn the Church, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Ninth Street\\nliii-ii^i", "height": "3380", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "A^\\nS.IS30", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\n|)vcfator}3 Koticc.\\nScruifcs in tl)c Afternoon\\n}lr. 0rmist0n*s Eemarl^s.\\nBr. tiermilye s Hiscaxarsij.\\n0ciDicc6 in tl)c ^Dcning:\\n|tddri3ss Cxi iha Ei3U. Br. Mx.\\nJtjddtjess o-t the Eeu. Br. liagers.\\nAddress at the iivx^.u. 3 r. ^rusbt).\\nJiddtess 0f the Eeu. 3- r. Jinderson.\\nliddress 0f the Eeu, Br. Tiffaiit).\\nliddress at the llev. Br. Storrs,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE PROCEEDINGS.\\nAt a meeting of the Consistory of the Reformed\\nProtestant Dutch Church of the City of New York,\\nheld September 5th, 1878, the Rev. Dr. Chambers\\ncalled attention to the fact, (of which he said that he\\nhad recently been reminded by the Rev. Dr. Corwin,\\nof Millstone, N. J.), that the present year was the\\n250th since the organization of this church. The\\nevidence of the fact is contained in the second volume\\nof the Documents relating to the Colonial History of\\nthe State of New York, published some years ago\\nby order of the Legislature, The appendix to this\\nvolume gives at length a letter describing the first\\nvisit of an ordained minister to the Island of Manhat-\\ntan. The letter was first printed about twenty years\\nago in the Kerk-historisch A r chiefs a periodical\\nissued in Amsterdam, and in the year 1858 was trans-\\nlated and published in this country by the Hon. Henry\\nC. Murphy, then minister at the Hague. It was", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Quarter- Millefiniai Anniversary of the\\naddressed by die Rev. Jonas MIchaelius to the Rev.\\nAdrianiis Smoutius, of Amsterdam. The writer had\\nserved as chaplain abroad in San Salvador and Guinea\\non the west coast of Africa, but in January, 1628,\\nsailed to New Amsterdam, to labor under the super-\\nintendence of a committee of ministers appointed by\\nthe Synod of North Holland. The present letter is\\nthe first written after his arrival, and bears date\\nAugust II. In it, after an account of the voyage and\\nits hardships, occurs the following passage\\nWe have first established the form of a church [geineentc) and\\nas Brother Bastiaen Crol very seldom comes down from Fort Orange,\\n[Albany], because the directorship of that fort and the trade there is\\ncommitted to him, it has been thought best to choose two elders for\\nmy assistance and for the proper consideration of all such ecclesiastical\\nmatters as might occur, intending the coming year, if the Lord permit,\\nto let one of them retire and to choose another in his place from a\\ndouble number first lawfully presented by the congregation. One of\\nthose whom we have chosen is the Honorable Director himself, and the\\nother is the store-keeper of the Company, Jan Huyghen, his brother-\\nin-law, persons of very good character as far as I have been able to\\nlearn having both been formerly in office in the church, the one as\\ndeacon, the other as elder, in the Dutch and French churches respect-\\nively, at Wesel.\\nWe have had at the first administration of the Lord s Supper full\\nfifty communicants not without great joy and comfort for so many\\nWalloons and Dutch; of whom a portion made their first confession of\\nfaith before us, and others exhibited their church certificates. Others\\nhad forgotten to bring their certificates with them, not thinking that a\\nchurch would be formed and established here and some, who had\\nbrought them, had lost them unfortunatelv in a general conflagration,\\nbut they were admitted upon the satisfactorv testimony of others to", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church.\\nwhom they were known and also upon their daily good deportment,\\nsince we cannot observe strictly all the usual formalities in making a\\nbeginning under such circumstances. We administer the Holy Sacra-\\nment of the Lord once in four months, provisionally until a larger\\nnumber of people shall otherwise require. The Walloons and French\\nhave no service on Sunday, other than that in the Dutch language, ot\\nwhich they understand very little. Some of them live far away and\\ncould not come on account of the heavy rains and storms, so that it\\nwas neither advisable, nor was it possible, to appoint any special service\\nfor so small a number with so much uncertainty. Nevertheless, the\\nLord s Supper was administered to them in the French language, and\\naccording to the French mode, with a preceding discourse, which I\\nhad before me in writing, as I could not trust myself extempora-\\nneously.\\nAfter the reading of this document, it was Resolved,\\nthat this Consistory will observe the 250th anniversary\\nof the origin and founding of this church, and that a\\ncommittee of three be appointed to confer with the\\npastors and report on the time and manner of the\\ncelebration. Messrs. Theophilus A. Brouwer, James\\nAnderson, M. D., and Henry Van Arsdale, M. D., were\\nappointed the committee. At a subsequent meeting\\nof the Consistory this committee reported, recom-\\nmending that the celebration take place on the 21st\\nof November, in the church on 29th Street and 5th\\nAvenue, and suggesting such services as they consid-\\nered appropriate to the occasion. The report was\\nadopted, and the same committee was continued, with\\npower to take charge of the anniversary and make\\nthe necessary provision for the exercises suggested.\\nThese were an historical discourse by the senior", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Qiiartci -Millemiial Anniversary of tJie\\npastor in the afternoon, and a series of addresses of\\ncongratulation and sympathy in the evening, by repre-\\nsentatives of the different denominations in our city,\\ntogether with devotional services rendered by honored\\nbrethren of our own communion, the whole inter-\\nspersed with suitable music. The committee accord-\\ningly made the requisite arrangements, issued invita-\\ntions, prepared programmes and gave due notice, so\\nthat when the day arrived, although the weather was\\nunfavorable, large audiences were in attendance, that\\nof the evening being greater than the seating capacity\\nof the church, and the entire plan was carried out, as\\nshown by the reports herewith given, in a very\\ngratifying way. At the next meeting of the Consistory\\n(December 5) that body, by a formal vote, tendered\\ntheir thanks to the committee for the able and highly\\nsatisfactory manner in which they had discharged their\\nduties.\\nThe buildino- in which the services were held was\\ntastefully decorated for the occasion with flowers and\\nbanners. In the pulpit alcove, midway between floor\\nand ceiling, was fastened a wreath of red and white\\nroses encircling a white dove. A delicate festooned\\nspray of ivy ran up above in graceful curves, meeting\\nthe edge of an American flag on the left and the edge\\nof the Holland standard on the rieht. The flag^s\\nswept down to the floor, and between them hung an\\nanchor of white roses and pinks. The wall on each\\nside was draped with American flags. The front of", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church.\\nthe preacher s stand was festooned with arbutus. A\\nmass of white and yellow roses, pinks and carnations,\\nin the centre of which in red flowers was worked the\\nnumber 250, adorned the front of the desk. On\\nthe church wall, at the left of the pulpit, in the centre\\nof a square frame of evergreens on a bank of white\\nflowers, was worked 1628, and on the right, in a\\nsimilar manner, 1878. Colored silk banners floated\\nfrom the gallery rail, inscribed Faith, Hope,\\nCharity, Obedience, Love, Genius, Cour-\\nage, Mercy, c. Praise God from whom all\\nblessings flow, was written over the organ pipes.\\nThe atmosphere of the church was redolent of the\\nperfume of the flowers.\\nThe music, under the direction of Dr. S*. Austen\\nPearce and Mr. W. E. Beames, rendered by several\\ncombined choirs, numbering over seventy trained\\nvoices, aided by the organ and appropriate brass\\ninstruments, was of a very high order of merit.\\nSeats vv^ere reserved on the right hand of the pulpit\\nfor ruling elders and elders of the Great Consistory,\\nand on the left for deacons in office and deacons of\\nthe Great Consistory. The officiating ministers occu-\\npied seats in the pulpit. They were followed from\\nthe vestry by Mayor Ely, Consul-General Burlage,\\nfrom Holland President De Peyster, of the New\\nYork Historical Society; President Monroe, of the\\nY. M. C. A.; Hon. John Jay, William E. Dodge, and\\nother well-known residents of New York. Many", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lO Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nmembers of the St. Nicholas and Historical Societies\\nwere among the congregation, and an unusually large\\nnumber of clergymen, both of the Dutch Reformed\\nChurch and of all the other evangelical communions,\\noccupied seats which had been reserved for them in\\nthe front of the church.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Protestant Refonned Dutch Church.\\nII\\nPresent \u00c2\u00a9ffuers of tl)e \u00e2\u0082\u00acl)urcl).\\nRev. THOMAS E. VERMILYE, D.D., LL.D.. installed October\\n20, 1839.\\nRev. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D.D., installed December 2, 1849.\\nRev. WILLIAM ORMISTON, D.D., installed September 11, 1870.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00ac{Ux%,\\nJAMES ANDERSON,\\nWILLIAM BOGARDUS,\\nTHEOPHILUS A. BROUWER,\\nROBERT BUCK,\\nPETER DONALD,\\nJOHN GRAHAM,\\nDANIEL P. INGRAHAM,\\nSAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN,\\nGAMALIEL G. SMITH,\\nJOHN L. SMITH,\\nHENRY VAN ARSDALE,\\nJOHN VAN NEST.\\n5cav0U^.\\nHENRY W. BOOKSTAVER,\\nWILLIAM L. BROWER,\\nJOHN S. BUSSING,\\nROBERT DORSETT,\\nWILLIAM H. DUNNING,\\nJAMES S. FRANKLIN,\\nALEXIS A. JULIEN,\\nHENRY E. KNOX,\\nNEILSON OLCOTT,\\nWILLIAM B. RUNK,\\nABR M V.W.VAN VECHTEN,\\nCHARLES H. WOODRUFF.\\nClerk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 GEORGE S. STITT, Esq.\\nTreasurer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JAMES PHYFE.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nQuar-tcr-Millemiial Anniversary of the\\n\u00c2\u00ael)c \u00c2\u00aercat \u00e2\u0082\u00acon5i6torj).\\nRICHARD AMERMAN,\\nJAMES ANDERSON,\\nABRAHAM BEEKMAN,\\nABRAHAM BOGARDUS,\\nWILLIAM BOGARDUS,\\nORLANDO M. BOGART,\\nHENRY W. BOOKSTAVER,\\nJAMES H. BRIGGS,\\nTHEOPHILUS A. BROUWER,\\nWILLIAM L. BROWER,\\nROBERT BUCK,\\nJOHN S. BUSSING,\\nCORNELIUS C. DEMAREST,\\nPETER DONALD,\\nROBERT DORSETT,\\nWILLIAM H. DUNNING,\\nJAMES S. FRANKLIN,\\nWILLIAM C. GIFFING,\\nDAVID GILLESPIE,\\nJOHN GRAHAM,\\nSTEPHEN HASBROUCK,\\nDANIEL HOWELL,\\nWILLIAM P. HOWELL,\\nDANIEL P. INGRAHAM,\\nGEORGE T. JACKSON,\\nPETER A. H. JACKSON,\\nALEXIS A. JULIEN,\\nCALVIN E. KNOX,\\nHENRY E. KNOX,\\nJOHN LABAGH,\\nFREDERICK T. LOCKE,\\nFRANCIS T. LUQUEER,\\nEBENEZER MONROE,\\nELBERT B. MONROE,\\nEDWARD A. MORRISON,\\nNEILSON OLCOTT,\\nJAMES PHYFE,\\nWILLIAM B. RUNK,\\nSAMUEL B. SCHIEFFELIN,\\nGAMALIEL G. SMITH,\\nGEORGE SMITH,\\nJOHN L. SMITH,\\nGEORGE S. STITT,\\nHENRY SNYDER,\\nHENRY VAN ARSDALE,\\nJAMES VAN BENSCHOTEN,\\nJOHN VAN NEST,\\nABRAHAM V. W. VAN VECHTEN,\\nJASPER T. VAN VLECK,\\nCHARLES VAN WYCK,\\nEVERARDUS B. WARNER,\\nPETER R. WARNER,\\nWILLIAM WOOD,\\nCHARLES H. WOODRUFF,\\nJOHN S. WOODWARD,\\nWALLACE P. WILLETT.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 1 3\\nJProfppbings in f|p 3\u00c2\u00a3ffprnoon*\\nThese were eo.ndueted preeiselt) in aeeorrlanee\\nwith the t0n0u;ing: ptugramme^", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nQuarter-Millennial Anniversary of tlie\\n^Programme for Jflcnioon Sertrttc.\\nBev. Milliani l5)i|mi8ton, l^^.B. pi|esiding,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0t ;4livv.vt.v.Yti ^fiiaise @od ftjom whom) j- ((^aiji i-i j jt)\\n1 gfl.\\\\0l(J9tl all blessings flow, j ^unc, l|)ld Hundred\\n2 ^UtllCm (pod, when ^hou appeaiiest. ^lozaijt\\n3 ^alirtUf^ |i(^atUn0 by Hev.Mm. 1. Campbell, B.:t-^. f |2i\u00c2\u00b0\\ngniy^j:\\nby lev. S5. ^tJutton, B.B.\\nS ftymw 92^\\nJune, ^t. iVnns\\nI. Our God, our help in ages past,\\nOur hope for years to come,\\nOur shelter from the stormy blast,\\nAnd our eternal home\\n3. Time, like an ever-rolling stream,\\nIJears all its sons away;\\nThey fly, forgotten, as a dream\\nDies at the openmg day.\\n2. Before the hills in order stood,\\nOr earth received her frame,\\nFrom everlasting Thou art God,\\nTo endless years the same.\\n4. Our God, our help in ages past.\\nOur hope for years to come,\\nBe Thou our guard while troubles last,\\nAnd our eternal home", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 1 5\\n^rognnnmc for Afternoon cf crbttt.\\n6 fti.StOVical ^\\\\$tiS\\\\\\\\X$t by Bev. Thomas 33. Vm|milyc, BJ?).\\n7 ftpm S59 t^unc, $t. (j;hon.a8\\n1. I love Thy kingdom, Lord, 3. If e er to bless Thy sons\\nThe house of Thine abode, My voice or hands deny.\\nThe church our blest Redeemer saved These hands let useful skill forsake,\\nWith His own precious blood. This voice in silence die.\\n2. I love Thy church, O God 4. If e er my heart forget\\nHer walls before Thee stand, Her welfare or her woe,\\nDear as the apple of Thine eye, Let every joy this heart forsake,\\nAnd graven on Thy hand. And every grief o erflow.\\n5. For her my tears shall fall,\\nFor her my prayers ascend\\nTo her my cares and toils be given\\nTill toils and cares shall end.\\n8 fiallcUljlTlt (!lharu.5i Beethoven\\nto ^^tt^rtidiOtt bn Bev. m. Moodbrklge, :)^.:JD. jsem.nary Tet\\nJ t) Brunswick, N.J.\\nMusic will lie under the direction of Dr. S. Austen Pearce.\\nMr. W. E. Beames will preside at Organ.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Di4tch CkurcJi. 1/\\nMfFPnoon jSpptiirp,\\n^t three a elach the liieu. Br. 0rmistan taak\\nthe ehair, and after the appointed masical and\\ndeuotional services had heen rendered, made\\nthe foUaitjing: remarhs intraduotanj to the xlis-\\neaurse af the necasian.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 1 9\\nDR. ORMISTON S REMARKS.\\nFor a nation, church or family to commemorate\\nmarked events and special periods in their past\\nhistory is as instinctively natural as it is eminently\\nprofitable. To recall with reverence and pride the\\nmoral worth, the noble deeds, and the heroic endur-\\nance of a devout, faithful and valorous ancestry is not\\nmore grateful than it is dutiful. Such an exercise is\\nfitted to quicken piety, deepen gratitude, inspire\\npatriotism, and stimulate to high and emulous en-\\ndeavor.\\nOf late, in all parts of our land, centennial celebra-\\ntions have been frequent and various, connected with\\nevents relating to the independence of the country\\nand the formation of its o-overnment. Doubtless these\\nservices have availed much in deepening the senti-\\nments of patriotism and reverence in the hearts of the\\npeople.\\nMany churches, also, have taken a retrospective\\nsurvey of their origin and progress, with a view to\\nfresher effort for greater achievements in the future.\\nThis is the purpose of our assembly to-day. We", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 Ouartc]--M}llciiiiial Aiuiivi rsary of the\\npropose reverently and gratefully to refer to the or-\\nganization and history of a congregation whose origin\\nis coeval with the first settlement of the country, and\\nantedates the founding of our city. It is probably the\\nonly Protestant church organization in the United\\nStates which has attained its two hundred and fiftieth\\nyear.\\nShortly after the exploration of the Hudson by the\\nadventurous navigator whose name it bears, emigrants\\nfrom Holland, then a powerful state and the home of\\ncivil and religious liberty, came to the Island of. Man-\\nhattan and the banks of the Hudson for purposes of\\ntrade. They brought with them an open Bible and\\nreligious ordinances, and were the first evangelists in\\nthe state.\\nTheir interesting story will be eloquently told by\\nmy revered colleague, the senior pastor of the church,\\nto whom, with great propriety, that duty has been\\nassigned.\\nI would only further say, that, without detracting in\\nthe slightest decree from the merits and services of\\nother early settlers and churches, we may, with perfect\\nsincerity and becoming modesty, claim, for our Dutch\\nforefathers, a prominent place in establishing the civil\\nand religious institutions of this republic.\\nThe Reformed Protestant Church of the Nether-\\nlands, whence they came, was characterized by a sound\\nscriptural orthodoxy and a liberal, enlightened charity.\\nSteadfast in principle and catholic in spirit, her rela-", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch CImrch. 2 1\\ntions with the churches of Great Britain were intimate\\nand friendly. The persecuted of other countries\\nsought a refuge in that land and received a cordial\\nwelcome from the church. Freedom of conscience\\nwas the common privilege of all citizen and stranger\\nalike. The Pilgrim Fathers themselves, whose fre-\\nquent eulogiums are well merited, found there a home,\\nand a school where they learned much concernino- the\\nmanagement of both civil and ecclesiastical affairs,\\nwhich gready affected their views and policy in mould-\\ning the institutions of the new world where they\\nfound a permanent home.\\nWe may be honesdy proud of the founders and\\nfathers of our venerable church. Faithful in their\\nadherence to scriptural doctrine and the rights of con-\\nscience insisting on an educated ministry for the\\nchurch and good common schools for the children\\nstaunch and daundess in the maintenance of civil\\nfreedom and free insdtudons industrious, fruo-al and\\nhome-loving in their habits, they were fit founders of\\nthe insdtutions of a new land, and worthy ancestors\\nof a free, God-fearing posterity. Direcdy and indi-\\nrecdy we owe them much, and we lovingly revere\\ntheir memory.\\nNor would I claim too much were I to say that,\\nthough we may differ from our honored ancestors in\\nmany things, yet as a church we still retain the same\\nlove for the truth of God, and the same zeal for its\\nmaintenance, defence and extension and sustain to-", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 Quarter-Millennial Ainiii crsary of the\\nwards all other evang-elical churches the same loving,\\nbrotherly regards.\\nHolding the same system of doctrine maintaining\\nthe same ecclesiastical polity observing the same\\ncustoms with but little variation, and evincing the\\nsame spirit of christian catholicity, the Reformed\\nChurch of to-day exhibits many lineaments which un-\\nmistakably indicate her hereditary family likeness.\\nCherishing tenaciously her own time-honored customs,\\nshe profoundly respects the conscientious convictions\\nand established practices of all sister churches, with\\nwhom she seeks to live in the unity of the Spirit, as\\nchildren of the same Father, and servants of the same\\nKing. May our precious heritage be the inheritance\\nof our children.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 23\\nDR. VERMILYE S DISCOURSE,\\nPRELIMINARY REMARKS.\\nThe speaker prefaced the address with the follow-\\ning remarks I have received many visits, and a\\nnumber of letters from various quarters, which show\\nthe profound interest everywhere taken in this anni-\\nversary. One of these is from a lady in Philadelphia,\\nwhose possession of the time-honored prefix Van,\\nvouches for her rip-ht to send a letter of concrratula-\\ntion. I have also here a copy of the charter, granted\\nby William III, in 1696, to the minister, elders and\\ndeacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of\\nthe City of New York. Among the incorporators are\\nnames still found among us William Beekman and\\nJacob Kip.\\nI hold in my hand (Dr. V. exhibited a handsome\\ngold-headed cane) an interesting memorial, pre-\\nsented in commemoration of this occasion by one who\\nis a Van of the Vans. It is made of a piece of the\\nwood used in the construction of the old North\\nChurch in William Street, recently taken down, and", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 Quartcr-HIillcnnial Ainiivcrsary of the\\nwithin the top is placed a thimbleful of the soil of the\\nNetherlands mingled with a little earth taken from\\nthe spot where the first Dutch Church on this conti-\\nnent was planted, thus aptly symbolizing, as the donor\\nhappily expresses it, the union of the two countries in\\nthe commingling of their soils. Upon the head is\\nengraved the name of Dr. Vermilye, and upon the\\nsides those of Drs. Chambers and Ormiston, with the\\nyears 1628, 1728. I shall keep it and prize it dearly\\ntill I die.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 25\\nDISCOU RSE.\\nWe meet by the invitation of The Consistory of tlie\\nReformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New\\nYork, to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of its\\nexistence the Mother of the Dutch Churches in this City,\\nand, in a sense, of the entire denomination: of regularly\\norganized churches the eldest, we believe, of the Protestant\\nfamily on the continent the forerunner, commissioned like\\nthe Baptist in the wilderness, to herald on the shores of the\\nnewly discovered world the sublime command, Prepare\\nye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a\\nhighway for our God. The occasion appeals naturally to\\nthe sympathies, not of the people of this particular congrega-\\ntion or of our communion only, but to the descendants of\\nthe Dutch wherever and in whatever religious connexion\\nthey may be found to our fellow christians of every name\\nno less to the student of history, the man of letters, the\\npatriot who is interested in the development of the state\\nto every one who intelligently notes the march of events, and\\nhopes and believes in human advancement. The Consistory\\nhas assigned to me the duty and the honor of giving the\\ncommemorative discourse. And without delaying upon\\nthe cxordiinii reuiotiini of our ancient form, and without\\nformal approach by rhetorical preliminaries, I pass at once\\nto the subject before us.\\nOf the people who early settled this continent from the\\nvarious parts of Europe, two, or rather three, nationalities\\nwere especially present. And these, let it be marked, were\\nthe most advanced in ciyil liberty, and the most determined\\ndefenders of the Protestant faith the English, who first\\nsettled Virginia, but afterwards were more largely represented", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nby the Puritans of New England and the Dutch, who\\nfounded Manhattan, spread along the Hudson as far as\\nAlbany, west into New Jersey and down upon the Delaware.\\nWith subsequent immigrations came the Huguenots in con-\\nsiderable numbers, flying from the fiery persecutions in France.\\nAnd, although companies of them located in Maine and\\nMassachusetts, where their names and some interesting relics\\nstill exist and others found a home in and about Charleston,\\nSouth Carolina, and are yet represented there by worthy\\ndescendants the largest portion established themselves in\\nthis region. Their social and flexible character caused them\\neasily to assimilate and become one with the Dutch, while\\nthey in turn exerted a very happy influence upon the people\\nwith whom they mingled and to this day, places and families\\namong the most noted and honored in the land, bearing\\nHuguenot names, attest the excellent quality of that element\\nin the formation of our social, and religious, and political life.\\nBut from Holland came the founders of our Cit}- and\\nState our Alban Fathers and the walls of lofty Rome.\\nIt is a singular territory. There, man, under the most un-\\npropitious conditions, in the words of the poet, has scooped\\nout an empire and usurped the shore. It lies on the border\\nof the sea almost the sea opposite the south-east coast\\nof England and has been formed evidently by the detritus of\\nthe rivers, the Rhine especially, brought down even from the\\nhigh Alps, and by the sand thrown up from the abyss of the\\nocean originally a morass, which the tide overflowed, and\\nwhich no sagacity could have predicted would become dry\\nland fit to be inhabited the accretions of ages and persistent\\nskill have brought it forth. The rivers have flowed on and\\nleft their deposits the ocean has piled up the sand for soil,\\nand pebbles and stones which formed the downs and by\\nvast labors of man they have become a solid bulwark against\\nthe farther encroachment of the waters, securing a safe and\\ncommodious hs^bitation. Many parts lie much below the level\\nof the sea, protected from inundation only by the dykes. And\\nit was very exciting in riding through the beautiful park at", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 27\\nRotterdam, to pass along the base of this wall and see sea-\\ngoing steamers and ships, of the largest bulk, at anchor\\napparently more than a hundred feet directly above us. The\\ndyke was the only protection. And as I gazed, I realized\\nthe grandeur of the divine interdict, Hitherto shalt thou\\ncome and no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be\\nstayed. Much of the soil thus recovered from the sea, with\\nincredible toil and cost, would be thought too poor to\\nrecompense the husbandman. But the patient industry of\\na free people, expended upon it for centuries, has made it\\nproductive almost beyond imagination. And those parts\\nrecovered directly from the ocean, and at first but sand, were\\nmade among the most productive of all. Everywhere rich\\nvegetation appeared. Populous and thriving cities grew up\\nlike lodcfes in a o-arden of delifrhts. The canals also, so\\nreadily constructed and supplied with water, became an easy\\nmeans of internal communication like the blood vessels of\\nthe human system conveying life and vigor throughout the\\ncorporate body.\\nBut besides its agricultural character, and perhaps almost\\nby a natural necessity, from its proximity to the sea, Holland\\nbecame a maritime power. Its hardy sons were trained to\\nface the storms and breast the billows of every ocean, and\\nbring home the treasures of the gorgeous East and the open-\\ning West. Thus by the operation of natural causes and the\\npersistent labor of an energetic race was the country gradually\\nprepared for a high destiny. Small in size scarcely appear-\\ning upon the geographical map of Europe and most un-\\npromising at the beginning, instead of remaining a sterile\\nand desolate shore, where only the fisherman spread his nets,\\nit has supported in abundance and happiness a greater number\\nof people in proportion to its area, than any other country\\non the globe. Other lands needed but to be cleared for\\noccupation this to be created. Its existence show^s how\\nintelligent, untiring industry, against almost insuperable diffi-\\nculties, can make the desert blossom like the rose. As its\\nhistory will likewise teach us what man himself may become", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nunder the pressure of great and urgent necessities. I am\\nreminded of a pleasant anecdote told by the late Hermanus\\nBleecker. When he was minister near the Hague, he was\\naccompanied on one occasion by a gentleman of high position,\\nto the top of the main church in Amsterdam, from which\\none might take in at one view almost the entire seven\\nprovinces. As they looked around, the gentleman exclaimed\\nwith great animation and pardonable pride, we are a small\\nterritory, Mr. Bleecker, l)ut we are a great people.\\nAnd in truth their history is even more remarkable than\\nthe physical characteristics of the country. As far back as\\nauthentic records penetrate, the people of the Low Countries,\\ne. of the northern provinces, which we intend when we\\nspeak of Holland, as distinguished from the Highlands, to\\nwhich the country rises from the sea on the east and the\\nsouth, and whose inhabitants were originally from a different\\nstock and have always showed somewhat different traits from\\nthe earliest annals the people of the lowlands have borne one\\ncharacter: simple, frugal, honest, patient of toil; intelligent\\nrather than imaginative not propense to war, yet indomita-\\nbly bold, full of endurance, and prompt to maintain their\\nliberty and rights. Their local situation would seem to\\nindicate that the peaceable occupations of agriculture and\\ncommerce were their natural destiny. Enterprise would be\\nexpended in trade for the acquisition of wealth rather than\\nin the pursuit of military renown, the extension of territory,\\nor the enlargement of power. Yet no country in Europe\\nhas been so often the theatre of sanguinary wars not of her\\nown seeking, but in defense of her soil or, as the convenient\\nbattle ground of her neighbors where their common liberty\\nwas vindicated. And their endurance and successes are the\\nastonishment of the world. It would seem as if an invading\\narmy might march over the level land almost without resist-\\nance. But Caesar s trained legions were boldly met and\\nchecked by the intrepid Belgae. Voy eighty years the conflict\\nwas prolonged with Spain, the strongest power in Europe.\\nThere William of Orange, in the spirit of his memorable", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Churcli. 29\\nmotto 7C viaintain I zcill hold on; now beaten, and\\nthen victorious, kept the French at bay and Marlborough\\nsucceeding him, at length foiled their best armies until the\\nGrand Monarque was ruined by the struggle. They had\\nconquered the land from the ocean they held it against all\\ncomers. And Holland achieved the glory of a nation of\\nheroes as by her commerce she subsidized the east and the\\nwest, gathered their wealth into her treasury and became the\\nrichest people in the world. So was it with the Queen of\\nthe Adriatic. And in many respects the history of these\\ntwo most singular countries is not dissimilar.\\nBut Holland was not merely a field of arms, or a nation\\nof traders. She became also the chosen seat of learning. The\\neducation of the young was carefully regarded. An evidence\\nof a very interesting character survives in the school of our\\nchurch, still flourishing as ever, under Mr. Dunshee, its able\\nprincipal; the first literary institution probably in the country;\\nestablished in 1626, and the teachers brought from Holland\\nat that early date. It proves the value the Dutch placed on\\nright education. Their universities, Utrecht and Leyden es-\\npecially, were among the foremost in a learned age. Men\\nof renown filled the professorial chairs, and students came\\nfrom all parts. The founding of the university at Leyden\\nrises to moral sublimity. When, by the unconquerable bold-\\nness of her sons, the tide of Spanish invasion had been rolled\\naway, the Prince of Orange, in remembrance and acknowledg-\\nment of their deeds, offered to make Leyden the seat of an\\nannual fair which would bring wealth to the city, or of a\\nuniversity and the citizens grandly chose the University.\\nThere it has stood and stands the monument of the great\\nstruggle and of the heroism of their fathers but still more\\nthe monument of their nobility of thought; perpetuating their\\nintellectual and moral life the life of culture, of progress, of\\npower, of a free people, which the blood of the sires purchased\\nfor their sons. Few things are so impressive as to stand,\\nas I have done more than once, in its council chamber, and\\nrecall its origin, and look upon the portraits of scholars and", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 Quartcr-JSIilloniial Atniivcrsary of tJic\\nstatesmen, orators and soldiers, whose names are the glory of\\ntheir own land, and whose figures stand boldly out upon the\\nhistoric canvass of the great men of all times.\\nThe invention of printing, the art of arts, contested by\\nseveral and especially by Gutenberg, of Mentz, belongs\\nalmost demonstrably to Koster, of Haarlem, about 143S;\\nalthough improved and perfected, it may be, by Gutenberg,\\nfrom models secretly conveyed, it is said, from Koster.\\nAnd it is worthy of note, that the Latin Vulgate was\\nprobably the first complete printed volume, done by Guten-\\nberg, at Mentz, about 1455. In Holland, the press was\\nfree from censorship, which continued in England as late as\\n1694 so that authors interdicted there printed their books\\nabroad. Tyndale s translation, 1535, not allowed to be print-\\ned in England, was thus printed abroad and carried back and\\nsecretly distributed at home. Thus Germany and Holland\\ndeserve the credit, beyond their age, of just and advanced\\nthought and corresponding action, in this great means of\\npublic enlightenment and progress and by its liberal course,\\nHolland, in its full measure, became the printing and publish-\\ning house of Europe much to its own advantage as well\\nas that of letters. Milton would there have found no cause to\\nfulminate his grand, indignant sentences, to the men of the\\ngreat commonwealth, on unlicensed printing and Locke, as\\nlate as 1694, would have had no call to utter protests on the\\nsame subject, happily, the last protests needed in free and\\nenlightened England.\\nFrom such causes and the toleration there existing, scholars\\nas well as persecuted religionists, and even political refugees,\\nlong found a safe and quiet asylum in the Low Countries.\\nBurnet and Locke, with others, driven from England, took\\nshelter there and freely pursued their studies. These latter\\nremarks apply, however, most strictly to the times when and\\nafter the Republic was inaugurated. The period of her great-\\nness was one of those epochs in which mind seems to be\\nuncommonly active, and all the wheels of life roll on with\\nuncommon energy. From 1500, onwards, for nearly two", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed DiitcJi C/uircIi. 31\\ncenturies, Holland performed the most illustrious part on the\\ntheatre of events. She seemed the pivot on which Europe\\nmoved. It was the time of her greatest sufferings, and of her\\nmeridian splendor. She was the mainspring and seat of\\npolitical negotiations the arena of battles the mediator of\\npeace the retreat of the persecuted for conscience sake from\\nother lands the strength of the weak, and the light-bearer\\nof the times. Her statesmen read law to the nations her\\nwarriors fought the battles of freedom and shattered the arm\\nof arbitrary power her scholars instructed the mind of the\\nage her divines expounded the faith by which Protestantism\\nyet lives. We give this as a true description of Holland s\\nplace and influence in the time of her maturity; and from this\\nland of wonders, from such a stock, at just about the culmi-\\nnating point of this great social and national development,\\ncame the discoverers and first settlers of Manhattan.\\nThe juncture of time was of most auspicious omen. In\\nthe year 1609, the long conflict with Spain was suspended at\\nthe suggestion of Philip III, by a truce for twelve years. The\\nindomitable Dutch were reluctant to accept it, so little did\\nthey bend under their burden so warlike had they become.\\nFor during the whole continuance of the struggle they were\\ncarrying on their commerce and actually augmenting their\\nstrength. The truce was in reality a confession on the part\\nof Spain that she was vanquished, and practically established\\nthe independence of the United Netherlands. Henceforth,\\nHolland was acknowledged among nations as a free, self-\\ngoverning Republic. It was in the very same year that\\nHudson sailed on the voyage which resulted in the discovery\\nof the river that bears his name, which he explored to Albany\\nand in the acljuisition by Holland of the vast region extending\\nfrom the Capes of Delaware to Canada, styled the New\\nNetherlands. True, discoveries had already been made by the\\nEnglish in Virginia the Huguenots in Florida the French\\nin Acadia, now Canada. But the wide region I have mention-\\ned was yet unknown. The Dutch explored Long Island\\nSound and discovered the Housatonic and Connecticut rivers,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 Quarter-Millennial Anjiivcrsary of the\\nand rightly claimed the adjoining territory which the English\\nwrested from them nor were content until they had gorged\\nNew Amsterdam also. The admirable adaptation of this\\nisland as a mart of trade with the natives, and of the harbor\\nfor commerce was quickly understood. In [614, the New\\nNetherlands Company was chartered for four years, and made\\nManhattan a trading port. In 162 1, the West India Company\\nwas formed to conduct commerce in the west, and Manhattan\\ncame under their power in fee. And it should never be\\nforgotten that the island first held by discovery and occupancy,\\nthe right of might, was in 1621 fairly purchased from the\\nnatives, thus admitting their ownership, for twenty-four dollars.*\\nThe West India Company appointed its own governors\\nof the island, and of course its affairs w^ere conducted on\\nDutch principles, as well as by Dutch men. The principles\\nwere integrity and strict honor the men righteous and often\\ndogmatical governors.\\nHitherto I have not spoken of Religion. It was not to be\\nimagined that a people so reflective and earnest should be\\nindifferent on such a subject either at home or in their colonies.\\nAlways. their national life had been invigorated by religious\\nfaith. When, then, the Reformation arose, it was a thing of\\ncourse that the new movement, which upheaved the founda-\\ntions of society in the nations around, should at once awaken\\ndeep interest and sympathy in Holland, and that the sim-\\nplicity of form and purity of doctrine of the new teachers,\\nwhen once understood, should be preferred by very many to\\nthe corrupt teachings and elaborate and sensuous ceremonial\\nof Popery. And they had the charm of novelty. But there\\nwas a special cause which, beyond question, had great influence\\nin confirming this feeling. The nation with* which they\\nOur honored president of the Historical Society has made a curious calcula-\\ntion that by this time, computing interest, the $24 would reach a sum almost\\nbeyond the power of figures. It brings to mind an incident in the early history of\\nMassachussetts, when a large portion of the town of West Springfield, one of the\\nmost beautifnl parts of the Connecticut river, was sivapped for a wheelbarrow.\\nWhat that barrow would be worth at this time (in fiat money) I cannot say.\\nBut it should Ijc an Alpine heap.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Protestant Refonned Dutch CJiurch. 33\\nwarred, their cruel and relentless oppressor, was Catholic\\nwho forbade all freedom of action and even of thought upon\\nreligious subjects who had pursued them in ferocious war\\non that account whose determined purpose it had been\\nfor eighty years to force Popery upon them with its hellish\\ninquisition, its servility and chains. They had resisted unto\\nblood in maintaining the better part; and it had the power\\nover them of dearly purchased right. The system they chose,\\nhowever, was not derived from Germany, as might have been\\nexpected, but from France or Geneva. They became Calvin-\\nists and Presbyterians not Lutherans and that was the form\\nthey introduced into the colony. The precise time of planting\\nthe church here was also significant. It was not only at the\\nperiod of Holland s supremacy, in social elegance, in learning,\\nin jurisprudence and politics but it was during the agita-\\ntions attendant upon and succeeding the sitting of the celebra-\\nted Synod of Dort a fact which very discernably exerted an\\ninfluence upon the church of the colony, as it did upon all\\nthe interests of church and state at home. Of that famous\\nSynod let us then say a few words. It was convoked by the\\nStates General was composed of delegates from the several\\nprovinces; and from the foreign churches the Church of\\nEngland included, and only the French Reformed absent, by\\nthe interdict of their king. It met at Dort on the 13th of\\nNovember, 16 18, and was called to consider and settle the\\ntheological controversy which arose from the teachings of\\nJames Arminius, professor of theology at Leyden, which\\nwere opposed by Francis Gomarus, likewise professor. Hence\\nthe parties were designated as Arminians and Gomarists but\\nfrom a remonstrance presented by the minority, they were\\nalso more generally known as remonstrants, who were the\\nArminians, and contra-remonstrants, who were Gomarists or\\nCalvinists and certainly of the straighter sort. It was sub-\\nstantially the old controversy of Augustine and Pelagius, and\\nlater of the Semi-Pelagians. It was before Augustine; for of\\nsuch controversies, whether of form or substance, it may be\\ntruly said, there is nothing new under the sun nor was it", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 Quarter-Mill omial A]inivcrsary of tlie\\nfinally disposed of in his time. And although the points in\\nissue were thoroughly discussed at Dort, it was not then termi-\\nnated and we ma)^ predict it never will be to the universal\\nagreement of minds tha t think, as free minds will think, from\\ndifferent positions upon different lines. The more imperative\\nthe reason for toler3.nce and charity. The Synod held 152\\nsessions, and was dissolved in May, 1619 the president\\ndeclaring that its miraculous labors had made hell tremble\\na prominent member saying that in that Synod there were\\nsome things divine some things human and some things\\ndiabolical. The proportions Jiowever not precisely stated.\\nAnterior to the meeting of the Synod the matters in dispute\\nhad convulsed the universities and churches and families, and\\ninvolved the peace of the state. Nor did the decisions of the\\nSynod which were on the side of the Calvinists, they being\\nthe majority, allay the storm. Alas that such dire effects\\nshould flow from such causes. Yet this is human nature.\\nAnd all history teaches that the wildest excitements and the\\nfiercest wars, have sprung up on just such apparently inappro-\\npriate grounds. I do not think that they who most cordially\\nadopt the theological conclusions of the Synod are bound,\\nat this day, to defend the spirit which, for a large part, anima-\\nted its leaders. In many of their utterances and deeds they\\nmanifested anything but christian meekness and were vindic-\\ntive and cruel. But private interests became deeply implicated,\\nand passions were embittered and furious. And, in judging the\\ncase, candor bids us remember that Calvinism was the long\\nsettled creed of Holland that the Arminians were the ag-\\ngressors that in the pulpits and even in the theological\\nchairs they persisted, contrary to earnest expostulation in\\nteaching doctrines which the Calvinists sincerely believed not\\nonly to be contrary to the standards, but subversive of the\\nfaith delivered to the saints. And the experience they had\\nhad in the Catholic church, showed them the power of ideas\\nto corrupt made them more intense in their beliefs and\\nwarned them against principles which they imagined led by\\nlogical sequence, to some of the worst errors of Rome. They", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 35\\nmay have been wrong, but, no doubt, they were sincere.\\nThe question involved is a very plain one. It is not whether\\nmen shall teach and act according to their convictions, but\\nwhether it is honest and to be tolerated, that they shall use\\nthe advantages of position and emoluments they have received\\non specific conditions, to undermine and overthrow sentiments\\nand institutions they solemnly pledged themselves to uphold.\\nAnd he has read very superficially, who has not learned that\\nheresiarchs, while unchallenged, easily to their own satisfaction\\nreconcile their defections from the old paths with rectitude\\nparticularly if their interests are concerned. Sometimes, no\\ndoubt, it is because they do not fairly realize how far they have\\ndeflected from the right line but oftener, probably, because\\nself-opinion stands for divine illumination, and they imagine\\nthey have been elected by supernal wisdom to pour light upon\\nthe darkness of all preceding ages. That one s convictions\\nrun counter to the principles or practices of an association is a\\nvery good reason why he should not enter or should leave it\\nbut a very bad reason that he should enter or remain in bad\\nfaith to subvert what he is appointed to defend. Arminians are\\napt to look only on their side, and then the Synod of Dortwas\\nan unparalleled atrocity, and its theology necessarily unsound.\\nSo, a class of religionists seem to see on the long, dark page\\nof martyrology, but one sentence: Calvin burned Servetus.\\nThat easy but false formula, they would have us think, refutes\\nCalvinism, and demon.strates Socinianism. Happily a brighter\\nlight has dawned or a better .spirit has come to our times\\nnot we would hope from mere laxness of conviction but a\\nwidening of intelligence and love and a rigid Calvinist may\\nnow believe, without incurring the penalty, de hcvretico coinbu-\\nreudo, that an Arminian can be saved.\\nBut that Synod was not all polemical and diabolical.\\nMany measures were adopted for the advancement of practical\\nreligion, having no connexion with controversy. A new\\ntranslation of the Bible was likewise directed a work begun\\non the order of the States by S. Aldegonde as early as 1594,\\nand discontinued at his death. Six eminent scholars were", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 Qiiartcr-Millciuiial A)iiiivcrsary of the\\nappointed as translators, and six substitutes, in case of the\\nfailure of the translators, of whom two died during the progress\\nof the work. A company of final revisers was also appointed\\nall most approved scholars. The translators and their families\\nwere collected at Leyclen, and supported at the public expense\\nand after the most careful elaboration, the work was finished\\nand printed in 1637, at a cost to the States General of twenty-\\nfive thousand pounds sterling, and ordered to be usecl in the\\nchurches. The translation has been as highly prized by the\\nDutch, as our English version, which came into use about\\nthe same time, has been cherished by the English speaking\\nrace and the notes and comments of the translators, also pub-\\nlished, are held in high estimation by Biblical scholars.\\nI may be excused for having enlarged upon this Synod,\\nfor it supplied the theological life-blood of the Dutch church,\\nwhich yet has not all run out.\\nAlthough the advent of the colonists to Manhattan was\\nin those troublous times, they were not fugitives, as were the\\nHuguenots, from Popish, or the Puritans from Protestant\\npersecution. They belonged to the ruling party in the Mother\\nCountry, and brought with them, as a thing of course, the\\nestablished church order and the Calvinistic creed, and some-\\nwhat perhaps of the spirit of the contra-remonstrants. And\\nthat creed, symbolized in the Heidelberg CatccJiisin, adopted\\nat a Synod of Dort as early as 1574, and re-affirmed by the\\ncelebrated Synod in 1619, has ever prevailed in the Dutch\\nchurches in this country. As the Synod stamped it with the\\nseal of orthodoxy, the immigrants held it fast as living truth\\nthe more that great and holy men had so strenuously con-\\ntended for it at home. This will account, in measure at least,\\nfor the steady adherence of the Dutch church among ourselves\\nto its doctrines while conceding to others full liberty in their\\nown communions. Just as in Holland all fugitives found a\\nrefuge but she would tolerate no faithlessness in her own\\nchurch.\\nWise policy as well as just principle directed the West\\nIndia Company to supply their trading posts and colonies with", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 37\\nthe means of education and religion and such provision, we\\nare assured, from the first was made for Manhattan. We\\nknow that in 1626 two pious school masters came over with\\nDirector Minuet. Their duty, besides instructing the youth in\\nsecular learning, was to conduct religious services on the\\nsabbath day, by reading the Scriptures, the creed and a\\nsermon (much like the deacons meetings in New England)\\nand they were to minister to the sick until such time as an\\nordained minister should be provided. From the latter duty\\nthey were called Ziekoi-troosters, i. c. Comforters of the\\nsick. Until recently, it was thought that the first ordained\\nminister was the Reverend Everardus Bogardus, who came\\nwith Governor. Wouter Van Twiller in 1633 and that he\\norganized the church in that year. But a letter discovered by\\nMr. Murphy when he was minister at the Hague, written by\\nthe Rev. Jonas Michaelius, says, he arrived at the Island of\\nManhattan the nth of August, 1628; and adds: we first\\nestablished the form of a church and it has been thought\\nbest to choose two elders for my assistance one of them is\\nthe Hon. Director himself We had at the first administration\\nof the Lord s supper full fifty communicants Walloons and\\nDutch. This was five years before the arrival of Dominie\\nBogardus; and fixes the origin of the church in 1628; which\\ndate will make the Dutch, the oldest organized Protestant\\nchurch in the New World. At least I am not aware of any\\nearlier regular organized body. And the primitive organiza-\\ntion lives in the collegiate church whose were the fathers\\nwhich retains the title the charter the unbroken succession of\\nthe ministry and consistory the records from the beginning\\nand the property from time to time bequeathed to the\\nReformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York\\nat least so much as remains. Of these funds a liberal use\\nhas always been made by the consistory for the benefit of\\nother churches and for objects of general utility to the denomi-\\nnation. I think I am justified in saying that, excepting for\\nthe building of their church edifices, a very liberal proportion,\\ncompared with their own expenditures, has been thus dispensed", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 Quarter-Millefinial Aiudvcrsary of the\\nin past times to their brethren. Whether such aid does not often\\ninjure, by impairing the feehng of self-reliance, is a serious doubt.\\nThe ruling- power of each Dutch church is in the consist-\\nory for it is Presbyterian and representative, and not Con-\\ngregational. The ministers, elders and deacons, compose the\\nconsistory the minister, according to apostolical commission,\\nto preach, administer ordinances and exercise the pastoral\\nsupervision the elders to assist him in spiritual matters, but\\nnot to preach or administer the sacraments the deacons, as\\nat the first, to attend to the poor and serve tables. Thus we\\nsee in each church a regular order. From the letter of\\nMichaelius we learn that he ordained two elders. Necessarily\\nthat organization was imperfect. But as the church grew in\\nnumbers, it at length assumed its normal form of consistories,\\nclasses, particular and general Synods a complete system for\\nthe denomination and thus it is at present constituted. Ac-\\ncording to the ancient rules, to the consistories pertained the\\ncontrol of temporal as well as spiritual matters, as now in\\nmost of our churches. But several years ago, in courtesy to\\nthe popular craving for a share of whatever office or power\\nmay exist, authority was granted by legislative enactments in\\nthis State, to commit the temporalities to a Board of Trustees,\\nelected by the pew-holders. This practice has been adopted\\nin some of our churches, but is by no means generally accepted.\\nA peculiarity of Dutch, as compared with Scotch or Irish\\nPresbyterianism, is the rotation of the lay members of con-\\nsistory. Their election for two years, instead of for life,\\nalthough eligible to re-election, is thought to possess these\\nadvantages that a larger number of the male members may\\nbecome interested in the affairs of their, church, and thus a\\nBoard of Trustees is superfluous and also, that a troublesome\\nor unqualified member may be quietly dropped a great bless-\\ning often to pastors, consistories and people.\\nOur church, both here and in the Mother Country, has\\nalways demanded an educated ministry, and has shown no\\ninclination to be long satisfied with sound for substance,\\nranting for reason, or professions for piety. The first preachers", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 39\\nwere men of solid parts, imbued with the excellent learning\\nthat at that day abounded in Holland. It was long the\\ncustom and for a time a necessity for the churches in the\\ncolony, not only to obtain their ministers from the Mother\\nCountry, but, also, to send thither young men of promise,\\ndesiring the ministry, to be educated and ordained. Utrecht\\nand Leyden received such from all parts. Alas how changed\\nThree years ago, when at Leyden, a learned professor informed\\nme that of the 800 students, but eight were pursuing theology.\\nAnd, with a meaning glance, he was at the pains to tell me\\nthat the theologues were the stoutest Darwinians in the\\nUniversity. If so,, the fewer their numbers the better. At\\nUtrecht there were somewhat more. Heidelberg had about\\nthe same small number. And from good authority I learned\\nthat reverence for the inspired word was much diminished by\\nthe influence of modern ideas, called science, and that personal\\nreligion seemed at a low ebb. Dr. Livingston settled here in\\n1770, more than 150 years after Manhattan was founded,\\nhaving spent four years at Utrecht, in preparation for his\\nwork. He was one of the last, or the last, so educated, and\\nbrought the Holland mode of preaching by logical, orderly,\\nbut, perhaps, too precise and numerous divisions and when\\nmade professor at New Brunswick, he used the Holland style\\nof theological tuition the much spoken of Classis argu-\\nmcutoruui systematic, thorough as far as it went dry as a\\nbone, but really teaching theology, and vastly to be preferred\\nto a hap-hazard method that teaches nothing. The Dutch\\ndescent and Dutch training of Dr. Livingston, no doubt,\\nconduced very largely to his popularity among his people.\\nHe occasionally preached in that language for the comfort of\\nsome of the aged but Dr. Kuypers was the last who did\\nso. The connexion of New Amsterdam, as it was then\\nnamed, with Holland, had much relaxed after it passed under\\nEnglish sway in 1664 and became New York. Many returned\\nhome and few came. Intercourse was much with England\\nlittle with Holland. The colony was estranged, though not\\nalienated. And while at the transfer, all the rights of the", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 Qiiaytcr-jMillejiiiial Ainiivcrsary of the\\nDutch church were secured by treaty, and the language\\ncontinued in use in social life and in religious services, yet\\nEnglish being that of the ruling class, of course, encroached\\nupon and gradually supplanted the Dutch. Hence, arose the\\nstrife, chiefly between the young and the old people, in regard\\nto a change to English preaching which, when yielded and\\ndetermined by the calling of Dr. Laidley in 1764, just one\\nhundred years from the English occupation, sent off a large\\nportion of the opponents of English preaching with true Dutch\\nspunk and admirable consistency to the English church.\\nIn like manner, the foreign education of the ministry and de-\\npendence of the churches upon the classis of Amsterdam, led\\nto the CiVtHS and Coifcroitie controversy, which resulted in the\\nfinal independence of the American churches and ministry, and\\nin the establishment of our own Classes, and of the Institution at\\nNew Brunswick. It was not strange that the Dutch language\\nand customs declined rather it was perfectly characteristic\\nand highly creditable to the steady people, that their attach-\\nment to Holland, its language and whatever was Dutch should\\nhave lingered among them so long, under such adverse cir-\\ncumstances. Yet, natural as it was, no one can now doubt,\\nthat the pertinacity it assumed at several junctures, was injur-\\nious to the church as there can be as little doubt that a too\\nfacile yielding to innovations in more recent times, has been\\nequally disastrous.\\nThe pastors of the Collegiate church have always been on\\nan equality, excepting the deference which christian and gen-\\ntlemanly courtesy has yielded to the senior. Until quite lately\\nthey performed in rotation the same services in all the\\nchurches. They wore, and continue to wear, the Geneva gown\\nand bands, in which costume they were accustomed to walk\\nfrom their dwellings to the church on the sabbath-day. As\\nthat practice might now be thought to savor of ostentation, it\\nis discontinued, and the ministers are robed in the vestry.\\nWith the portraits of the ministers the walls of the consistory\\nchamber are adorned I say adorned for really they form a come-\\nly and intellectual-featured gallery, not speaking of the living.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Chnrcli. 41\\nThe public worship was arranged of course in conformity\\nwith that of the mother church. The order became a part of\\nthe constitution, and was made obhgatory, so as to secure a\\nproper uniformity throughout the denomination, and was not\\nleft to the taste, or want of taste, or caprice of individual\\nministers or congregations, which destroys the similitude of\\nthe service and ensures disorder. There was sufficient form to\\nengage reverential attention and not allow religion to be\\nstripped bare yet there was not so much formality that it be-\\ncame perfunctory and exhausted devotion in rites and ceremo-\\nnies. The psalmody was also fixed by law. In church the\\nelders sat in the pew on the right, the deacons on the left of the\\npulpit. At the close of the service, when the minister descended,\\nthey stood to receive him, and each gave the right hand of fel-\\nlowship and approval. The clerk, in his desk beneath the pulpit,\\nopened the morning service by reading the commandments\\nand announcing the psalm to be sung, when the organ pealed\\nforth and the whole congregation united in praise. And never,\\nI think, in Spurgeon s tabernacle in London, nor in the great\\nchurches in Holland, have I heard such impressive congrega-\\ntional singing as when Mr. Earle led and the vast assemblage\\njoined in the old Middle Church, or Mr. Sage in the North.\\nWhile singing the minister entered, stood for a few moments\\nreverently at the foot of the pulpit stairs in silent prayer, his\\nback to the people, ascended the pulpit and conducted the ser-\\nvice. Preceding the second, or long prayer as it is some-\\ntimes termed, came the salutation, reading the S. S. and\\nthe exordium rciiiotiim an address having, as the name\\nexpressed, a remote, and often a very remote, bearing on the\\nsubject of the sermon. In the old churches tablets were hung\\nupon the walls, indicating the psalm to be read or sung.*\\n*Over the pulpit, in the North Church, hung the Harpendinck coat of arms, as\\nit was thought to be but perhaps, as Dr. DeWitt reasonably thinks, a memorial,\\nplaced there by the Consistory, in remembrance of the donation of his farm to the\\nConsistory a large tract of land, then a pasturage, now occupied by stores from\\nwhich has come the most of the property of the Collegiate Church. The motto\\nwould seem to confirm this idea \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Dando Conscrvat by giving, he keeps.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nThis was the order still observed in my youth in the old Mid-\\ndle and North Churches, so that when in Holland, although I\\nunderstood nothing of the language, the service was not\\nstrange. And at Haarlem the crowd that collected at the\\ncathedral evening service brought vividly to my mind the great\\ncongregation which, on sabbath evenings, used to fill the old\\nMiddle Church with people gathered fi-om the various\\nchurches around.\\nOn baptismal and communion occasions the entire forms\\nwere always read. The mother presented the child and at the\\nLord s Supper the participants sat at tables spread through the\\naisles, filled frequently three or four times and as addresses\\nwere made at each table the service was often greatly protracted.\\nIt was also the usage of the Dutch church to observe the day^\\nof special religious memorial as Christmas, Easter, and those\\ncommonly observed by the Protestant communities in Europe.\\nNor did they feel that by thus emphasizing the great facts of\\nChristianity they were guilty of any obsequious and irreligious\\nimitation of mystic Babylon.\\nFrom the first it was required of the ministers that on the\\nLord s day afternoon they should expound the Heidelberg\\nCateeJiisni going through it once every year. In time this\\ncustom naturally became repetitious and formal, and lost very\\nmuch of its interest with the people and a change was or-\\ndained by constitutional authority. When the old Middle\\nChurch was being dismantled and converted into a post-office,\\nDr. Knox, of sacred and beloved memory, and I, there met\\ngood Dr. Milner. As we stood in the pulpit, looking on the\\nruin, and recalling the days of old, the years of many genera-\\ntions of worshippers in the venerable edifice. Dr. Milner said\\ndo you keep up the custom of preaching on the catechism\\nevery Sunday afternoon? No, Sir; replied Dr. Knox, in\\nhis mild tone it has been directed that we shall go through\\nit once in four years instead of one. That is, retorted Dr.\\nMilner very pleasantly, you are obliged to make it four times\\nas tedious as before. Yet while the pleasantry was relished,\\nand the former custom might have been irksome and a change", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church. 43\\nmight have become desirable, it seems a simple dictate of rea-\\nson and prudence, that some method should be adopted in all\\nchurches by which the people may receive distinct and system-\\natic instruction in the evidences and articles of their faith.\\nNever, probably, was careful elementary exposition, and a\\nclear unfolding of doctrine, more imperative than in what is\\nproudly called our enlightened age when multiform specu-\\nlations of strange import are thrust upon the attention of\\nthe people when preaching on taking themes and in the\\ntreatment of subjects, seems to aim often at novelty to amuse or\\nstartle, rather than substance to instruct and when vagueness\\nof conception exists painfully in the common mind in regard,\\noftenfto some of the first principles of the oracles of God.\\nThe consequence to be feared is, that many being less rooted\\nand grounded in principles than those of farmer times, and\\nbeing unfurnished with tlie armor of God, unguarded by\\nthe panoply of an intelligent conception of christian doctrine,\\nwill not readily detect the specious falsehood and may fall\\ninto pernicious errors. It is said, philosophically, that re-\\nligion is first intuitional and emotional and after it so exists,\\nit is formulated into a system and becomes theology. The\\nscholar may thus theorize if he please. But, practically,\\nChristianity exists in the great facts of the Bible alone, which\\nare its doctrines, its principles of belief and practice. And\\npersonal Christianity does not first develop itself from some\\nvague sentiment of natural veneration it is not a deposit\\nfrom our own reasonings, which crystalize into christian\\nconviction but so far as it is christian experience, its very\\nessence is specific truth revealed in the Bible, received into\\ngood and honest hearts, and lived in the life. And for this\\nend, instruction in the articles of faith is necessary. Any\\nother religiousness will prove evanescent, unreliable, dangerous.\\nThe intuitional and emotional must flow from the Word and\\nkeep close to it, or it becomes wild fire the mother of all\\nmonstrous, all prodigious things, under the name of religion,\\nit may be, but without fruit unto life eternal. Christians\\nare those who believe in Christ as He is set forth in the", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 Quarter-Millennial Anni-ocrsary of the\\nGospel. And they should be so instructed as to give a\\nreason of the hope that is in them, because it is a most\\nreasonable thing. Hence, in pastoral work, the importance\\nof doctrinal preaching. Go! teaehf reads the great com-\\nmission teach those distinctive principles, doctrines which\\nare the sinews and strength of the christian revelation. Thus\\nwill the church become the pillar and ground of the truth.\\nBut, indeed, it is not our catechisms, which are now dis-\\ncredited, but our very Bibles. Instead of, In the beginning\\nGod the philosopher now reads In the beginning, the\\npotentialities of physical forces. Physical science leads the\\nage and it is very much in the hands of men manifestly\\nwithout religious sympathies inclining them to look through\\nnature up to nature s God or men avowedly or covertly hostile\\nto Christianity. It is pure, cold, materialism anti-superna-\\ntural anti-spiritual for a large part blank atheism. Yet are\\ntheir speculations no novelties. The universe came, say they,\\nand was not created. It fell into beautiful, grand, exquisite\\nforms and adaptations, by accident, and not by intelligent\\ndesign. And, mind, the most wonderful existence of all,\\nevolved itself out of inert, senseless matter and at the moment\\nof its appearance was as marvellously endowed in the first\\nman as now, and this miraculous power of evolution ended and\\ndied. Thus the Bible our spiritual and immortal being moral\\ndistinctions God, heaven, hell, are swept away as without\\nauthority or utility and in a very literal and appalling sense,\\nthis philosophy proclaims over the departing Dust thou\\nart and unto dust thou shalt forever return. Even where\\nsuch an extreme of atheism is not reached, this same un-\\nbelieving spirit cavils at the plain interpretation and authority\\nof the Bible. It is, says the Judas critic, a good book in\\nmany respects, but is not in any special setise inspired and\\ninfallible. Science discredits many of its representations. It\\nno longer satisfies the reason of the age. And the history\\nand teachings of Jesus Christ, and those of His Apo.stles, must\\nbe received, explained or rejected, as our new light may\\ndecide. All idea, however, that the book had a special, su-", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Protestant Rcfonncd Dutch Church. 45.\\npernatural origin, was, in a strict sense, a directly inspired gift\\nof God, more than many other writings, is absurd. And you,\\ntheologians and Christians, had better take the kindly warning\\nand not make yourselves ridiculous by insisting upon old\\nwives fables. But, again, this boasting is not new. So\\nPorphyry and Celsus proclaimed the overthrow of Christianity\\nin primitive times. So spake the Deists of the sixteenth and\\nseventeenth centuries, and so the French encyclopedists. And,\\nall, singularly enough, with the same assumption and arro-\\ngance, and scorn of christian faith, which has ever puffed up\\nthe infidel objector, as if his cause were already triumphant\\nand Christianity put to rout. Yet it has survived, and they\\nand their works caused no real impediment to its progress.\\nIt lives its power over the soul is unabridged it is cherished\\nby growing numbers but where are they and their confident\\npredictions of its downfall? Not an outpost has been fairly\\ncarried, and the citadel yet stands impregnable and defiant.\\nThe truth is, there exists in the human soul, implanted by its\\nMaker, a conviction of the supernatural, and of immortality\\nand retribution, which the pride of philosophy may silence in\\na few, but which, in the mass of human kind, not all the phi-\\nlosophy on earth can extinguish. And also of all the religions\\nwhich have appeared, (and religion in some form man cannot do\\nwithout), of all these it is felt that Christianity alone fully meets\\nthe case. It rests upon its own proper evidence, both external\\nand within, and is realized to be reasonable, elevating, satisfying,\\nsufficient. His Bible teaches the humble believer a more\\nsensible cosmogony than theirs his catechism unfolds sublimer\\ntruths to them his best reason assents, and scorns the other.\\nTo his Bible, the catechism of his youth, the faith of his fathers,\\na divine Redeemer and immortal hope through Him, he\\ncleaves, against all the wisdom of the wise which is foolishness\\nwith God. And the best way to foil the unbeliever and confirm\\nthe faithful is to keep before the people the direct proofs and\\ndoctrines of the Bible; at proper times even by simple catecheti-\\ncal rehearsal. Hence, the wisdom of the church in making\\nsome authoritative provision for this end. The practice of thus", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of tJie\\nkeeping the great doctrines of the Bible prominent will also\\nserve to correct another tendency of the times, which is to\\nreduce religion to a mere philanthropy, and of course to con-\\nfine its range very much to this world and physical wants,\\nrather than to give it its true scope, the life of God in the soul\\nand the life eternal. There is indeed much suffering and sorrow\\nwhich demand tender sympathy and aid, but which no human\\npower can remove, and which the spiritual power of the Bible\\nalone enables men to support with hopeful submission. And\\nthose influences will ever prevent the rebellious suicide from\\nseeking relief by breaking feloniously into the sacred house of\\nlife. Poverty and vice, and degradation there are. But they\\nare not to be expelled by closing your Bibles, your churches,\\nyour missions, and sabbath schools, and scattering the wealth\\nof the industrious and skillful among the idle or vicious.\\nThese evils will always exist, but the only assuaging emollient,\\nthe only panacea, is the elevating power of Christianity, as is\\nseen by comparing communities where it operates with those\\nfrom which it is absent. True religion evermore brings forth\\nthe purest and most sustained philanthropy; but philantropy\\nis not all of religion.\\nI have pointed out our ecclesiastical origin in the established\\nchurch of Holland. For forty years, the Collegiate was the\\nonly church in New Amsterdam. At first, 1626, they wor-\\nshipped in a large upper room over a horse-mill, which was\\ntheir house of prayer for seven years. In 1633, at the in-\\nstigation of Dominie Bogardus, a wooden building was put\\nup near what is now the Old Slip where they continued to\\nworship until 1642, when a new stone edifice was erected in\\nthe fort, at the south-east corner of the Battery, and this they\\noccupied for fifty years, until 1693, when Garden Street was\\nopened although the location had been seriously opposed as\\nbeing too far out of town which objection has also been\\nurged at the erection of each successive new church edifice.\\nUntil the erection of Garden Street, the rights of the church\\nand its property had been held by general laws. But in\\n1696, a regular charter was obtained from the Dutch William,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Protestant Reforified Dutch Church. 47\\na year or two before that of Trinity. And the names of the\\nconsistory chartered are some Dutch, some Huguenot, still\\nfound among us. In 1729, the Old Middle, on Cedar and\\nLiberty Streets, long called the New Dutch, and since the\\nPost Office, was dedicated. And in 1769, the North, corner\\nof William and Fulton, then in the fields. Dr. Laidlie\\npreached the dedication sermon, and English preaching was\\nfully established. The old church in the fort was named St.\\nNicholas, the name of the Dutch tujelary saint, not yet\\nforgotten among those of the true lineage. It has not been\\nin my plan, however, to relate the details of church erections,\\nthe lives of the pastors, or minute incidents, occurring through\\nthe long history of our ecclesiastical existence. That work\\nhas been done by several hands. Much information will be\\nfound in Broadhead s History of New York in Dunshee s\\nHistory of the School in Judge Disosway s volume on The\\nEarly Churches of Nezv York and in the sermon of my late\\nrevered colleague. Dr. DeWitt, preached at the re-opening of\\nthe North Church, in August, 1856. This last is so thorough,\\nas well as authentic in its gatherings, that scarce a few stray\\nsheafs remain wherewith a gleaner may fill his bosom.\\nWith the increase of trade, and for agricultural objects, the\\ncolony spread over Manhattan, to Brooklyn, up the river, and\\ninto New Jersey and missions among the Aborigines were\\nalso established. It has been claimed that the first Dutch\\nChurch was at Fort Nassau or Orange, now Albany. The\\nhistory of that ancient church is very interesting but the\\nclaim to priority is, I think, without historical foundation. It\\nshows, however, that with the Dutch immigrants, religion\\nwent hand-in-hand with commerce. In process of time, after\\n1664, as the colony grew, other types of worship appeared.\\nBut it should be noticed that, with the exception of a few\\nPortuguese Jews who fled to Holland and came here for traffic\\nand with the exception of the Catholics in Maryland, and\\nalso some Spanish Catholic settlements in the extreme South,\\nthe whole of eastern North America, now included in the\\nUnited States, was discovered and settled by Protestants.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 Quarte7 -I\\\\Iillen)iial Anniversary of tJie\\nAnd it will remain theirs so long, but only so long, as they\\nare faithful to the trust of civil and religious freedom,\\nextorted from persecuting powers, and confirmed to them as\\nby the last will and testament of the martyrs of the cross\\nby the church under the cross, as that of the early Dutch\\nProtestants was significantly named. In consonance with the\\nexample of the mother church, ours has always displayed a\\ncatholic spirit in its intercourse with its neighbors a spirit by\\nno means incompatibie with its love for its own fold. When\\nthe English took possession, the chaplain of their forces held\\nservice by invitation in the church at the Fort, as also did Mr.\\nVesey, the first rector. When Garden Street was opened the\\nconsistory invited him to occupy it part of the day. When\\nhe was inducted into the rectorship of Trinity, the English\\nGovernor named two of the Dutch ministers to represent the\\nbody. On several occasions the consistory has very cordially\\ninvited our Episcopal brethren to use our church edifices\\nand the Episcopal ministers of the olden time on Sabbath\\nevenings attended the Dutch church and sat in the elders pew,\\nas was the custom with our own ministers. Thus was the\\ngood will expressed, that long united England and Holland\\nin ties of mutual advantage and confidence which was broken\\nfrom commercial rivalry by Cromwell and the witty and\\nvile Charles II, but which was resumed when William of\\nOrange drove out the Stuarts and bestowed constitutional\\nliberty on England and on America. It has been remarked\\nthat social considerations greatly influence the church re-\\nlations of individuals. And between the Dutch and Epis-\\ncopalians early intermarriages and the intimate social in-\\ntercourse they produced, established a very fraternal feeling,\\nwhich embraced the churches, and which jias not yet been\\nlost among their descendants. Indeed, i believe the original\\nDutch families are now more numerously represented in that\\nbody than in our own. In like manner a cordial, friendly\\nfeeling and ready co-operation in good works with brethren of\\nother evangelical denominations have always prevailed in the\\nDutch Church. Yet her spirit was conservative in doctrine ad-", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Duteh CJiitreh. 49\\nhering to the Calvinism originally professed equally removed\\nfrom Antinomianism on one side and Arminianism on the\\nother; and in practice inculcating not a dogmatical and\\nformal, but spiritual, active piety believing in true revivals, but\\nopposing the dreams of dreamers and the machinery and ex-\\ncesses of fanaticism. She has been less determined than per-\\nhaps she should have been to enlarge the place of her tents\\nand stretch abroad the curtains of her habitations; and does\\nnot at this day occupy so wide a space as early advantages\\npromised, and as might well be desired. But this fact is by\\nno means to be attributed to her creed or her forms. Many\\nadverse causes have been in operation. Naturally the Dutch\\nare not aggressive yet they have found on their borders some\\nof the most aggressive and self-reliant people on the face ot\\nthe globe, who, in settling the New World, have far outstripped\\nthem. Again, the persistent use of the Dutch language was\\nvery detrimental. The changes also, authorized many years\\nago when a new constitution was adopted, introduced the idea\\nthat she needed greater assimilation to surrounding forms, to\\nmake her more popular and give her better vantage ground\\nand that idea, entirely.erroneous as it has appeared to me, has\\nbrought forth a brood of innovations, not for her own internal\\ngood, nor for the good she was doing and was qualified to do\\nin the general Protestant family and the community at large.\\nThe Dutch Church had, by inheritance, a name, a history, an\\nopen Bible, a Protestant faith, an earnestness of spiritual life,\\nwhich gave her the affection and respect of all the Reformed.\\nHer worship was orderly and devout; her customs and usages\\nconsonant with propriety and good taste, and were endeared\\nto her people by the tender and sacred associations of childhood\\nand antiquity. The Collegiate Church had its own high position\\nin the city as the Collegiate Dutch Church. And all voices of\\nthe past and reasonings toward the future seemed to admonish\\nher with concurrent emphasis, to stand on the old paths and re-\\nbuke novelists, and admit only such changes as the change of\\nconditions rendered manifestly imperative. A heedless digging\\nat the roots of an ancient oak may strike and sever those fine", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 Qiiartcr-Millciuiial Anniversary of tJic\\nfibers that run far down into the soil and give it its nutriment, its\\nleafy glories, its fruit, its long life, and hold it upright and\\nsteady in its place. And then a slight wind may shake and lay\\nlow the pride of the forest. Yet the old church is not over-\\nthrown. Vital power and large resources she has, and wisely\\ndirected they will keep her in her proper position of eminence\\nand usefulness. As a teil tree and as an oak whose substance\\nis (yet) in them when they cast their leaves, so the holy\\nseed is the substance thereof\\nThe completion of one-quarter of a thousand years brings\\nout an interesting review. The church of the horse-mill has\\nbeen succeeded by nine church erections, most of them large\\nand imposing structures. Twenty-eight pastors have officiated\\nin the pulpits five of them still living. Devout men and\\nwomen in large numbers have filled the seats, formerly in not\\na few instances, the same pew being occupied by several gen-\\nerations. Nearly twenty-seven thousand children have re-\\nceived baptism. The fifty Walloons and Dutch, who\\npartook of the first Lord s Supper in that upper loft, have\\nincreased to nearly eleven thousand communicants. And of\\nthe funds, nearly $400,000 have been given to other churches\\nand ministers, chiefly within the present century. Besides\\nthe direct blessings in the conversion of sinners, and in the\\npure lives, and happy, hopeful deaths of the many pious wor-\\nshippers, who can compute the indirect influences exerted by\\nsuch an institution upon the morals, the peace and prosperity\\nof the community? Eternity alone can unroll the record.\\nWould that this memorable day might be to us as that day\\nwhen the reading of the long, forgotten law aroused Israel\\nto remember God s dealings with their fathers, and to covenant\\nanew to walk in his statutes, and observe his ordinances to\\nkeep them. Then should our altars glow with fresh flames,\\nand our churches anew would be filled with the divine presence\\nand glory.\\nI place myself in imagination upon the tongue of Manhattan\\nIsland, two hundred and fifty years ago. All nature is clothed\\nin the garments it wore at the creation. The rivers roll quietly", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protesta?it Dutch Church. 5 i\\non, and the beautiful bay spreads out its waters unruffled,\\nexcepting as the canoe of the Indian shoots across its bosom.\\nBut gradually the scene changes. The city rises to view and\\ngrows, until it becomes the largest of the Western World, the\\ngreat heart of the continent, sending the strong pulsations of\\nintellectual, commercial, political, social, religious life, to the\\nremotest extremities. North and South and East and West,\\nthe vast wildernesses have been cleared away. In place of\\nsparse tribes, who made the forests their hunting grounds,\\nand the streams their fisheries, appear myriads of the most\\nintelligent and enterprising people in the world hamlets have\\ngiven place to populous cities, the wigwam to the palace,\\nadorned with all that wealth can buy, or taste can create.\\nInstead of the whoop of the savage that scared the solitude,\\nthe roar of machinery and the bustle of untiring industry\\nanimates the rivers, the great lakes, the plains and now, by\\nmodern inventions, time and space seem annihilated, and the\\nNorth speaks to the South, and the voices on the Atlantic are\\nechoed from the Pacific shores. The colonies have passed\\ninto the greatest Republic the world has known, which is felt\\nto be a power among nations, an essential factor in the ad-\\nvancement of the race. The whole primeval wilderness teems\\nwith civilized men; the wide domain is infused and impelled\\nby the thought and principles of Christianity, and a new con-\\ntinent is set as a brilliant star in the crown of Im manuel.\\nWe turn to the East, and the ocean, over which small\\nshallops brought adventurous men to unknown lands is cross-\\ned in every direction by multitudes of ships, carrying the\\nstores of both continents to and fro, and hundreds of thousands\\nof voyagers. Meantime, Europe has more than once been\\nshaken to its foundations and presents a new aspect. Some\\nof the old monarchies survive but thrones have been\\ncast down old institutions have vanished the masses have\\nbeen elevated; the stately grandeur and arrogance of the i^v^\\nhumbles itself before the many, and political forms appear,\\nin which the people are considered as an element in the\\nstate. Literature, science, the mechanical arts, have made", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 Quarter- Millennial Anniversaiy of the\\nastonishing progress, and changed the very face of life.\\nPopery and Mohammedanism have lost their significance, and are\\nmanifestly hasting to their predicted end. The Oriental world\\nhas thrown down its separating walls, and the faith, enterprise,\\ncivilization, religion of the west are introducing new ideas, a\\nnew faith and new soul into their effete systems. Eastern\\nJava now kneels with the native of the farthest west and\\nworships. No former period of history, not the rise and\\nsupremacy of Imperial Rome when it spread Roman power,\\nand thoughts and institutions over the nations nor when the\\nempire broke into the ten prophetic kingdoms behind which\\nthe little horn came up to seduce, and subdue, and crush all\\nother power; no portion of recorded time has wrought such\\nchanges upon man s earthly habitation, and thoughts and\\nmodes of living as have occurred during the life-time of this\\nchurch. The politician and the historian see truly, but see\\nonly the effects of man s agency and rest in second- causes.\\nThe Christian surveys the scene in another spirit, and recog-\\nnizes the march of the King of Kings whose goings forth\\nhave been from of old, from everlasting. He sees in all the\\ncourse of time, and especially in these later events, the acts of\\nJesus Christ whose is this world and who seems now hasting His\\npreparations to take full possession of His purchased Kingdom,\\nthe earth and the fulness thereof He sees and adores.\\nBut what eye can pierce the darkness what human sagacity\\ncan forecast the events of the next 250 years It is not given\\nto man to read the future. But the Scriptures utter divine\\nrevelations, and say let him that readeth understand.\\nUpon that darkness, then, we turn the lamp of prophecy, and\\nwondrous scenes are unfolded to the eye of faith. Long be-\\nfore those years shall have run their course the millennial\\nglory, as we believe, shall have overspread the earth. Not in\\nthe degradation of the mediator, Christ, to a human shape,\\nsurrounding himself with the pageantry and low splendors of a\\nworldly monarchy shall it be. But upon the throne to which\\nHe ascended, sitting at the right hand of the Father, He shall\\nsee the travail of His soul the life of sorrow the agony of the", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 5 3\\ngarden the impalement of Calvary the disgrace of death His\\nincarnation and atonement in their blessed fruits, and shall be\\nsatisfied. The church shall continue its offices, not, as we\\nbelieve, all merged in one, but still diverse in form to suit\\ndiversity of tastes, yet truly one in mutual recognition, and\\nbrotherhood and love. Governments will exist, and they not one,\\nperhaps, but several. Social and civil life will go on as now, for\\nmen will still be men, but good men. And learning and the\\narts of life, inventions and discoveries which even in our day of\\nwonders we can scarce imagine, will be in full operation. Wars\\nand rumors of wars shall be no more heard. Commerce shall\\ninterchange the riches of all climes and bring all people into\\nkind fellowship. All these various agencies in harmonious\\naction, which are God s providence over the world, and above\\nall, Christianity, the one acknowledged religion, pervading and\\nanimating all hearts, all relations, all duties; these and such\\nshall be the days of the Son of Man on the earth and they shall\\nlast a thousand years. Then, and now speedily perhaps, shall be\\nheard the gratulations of a renovated race. The prophetic sea\\nof peoples, and nations and tongues, so long at strife, shall have\\nrocked itself to rest. And diverse languages shall make no\\ndiscord, but become the several parts in the one hymn of\\npraise and there shall go up from all peoples and tongues\\nunder heaven, earth s grand hallelujah chorus, and the burden\\nshall be Now is come salvation and strength, and the\\nKingdom of our God and the power of His Christ.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Chnrc/i. 55\\n$n\\\\i\\\\m in i-^F ^tiFning.\\nThese vuere eanditcted accarding to the follotuing\\npr0gratnme, luhich uias carried out\\nto the minutest particular.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nQitartcr-MillciDiial A)i)iivcrsary of the\\nIrocjramim for (l^faemng Scrb ite.\\nBeu. ^albot (M ^hambci|8, B.B., pijesiding,\\n1 ie geum\\n3 ftyum 557\\n^ijendelssohn\\nby Hcv. m. I. B. ipayloii, B3. L^tcZr,\\nOf the\\nI. Glorious things of thee are spoken,\\nZion, city of our God\\nHe whose word cannot be broken,\\nFormed thee for His own abode\\nOn the Rock of Ages founded.\\nWhat can shake thy sure repose\\nWith salvation s walls surrounded.\\nThou mayst smile at all thy foes.\\nChurch\\nSee, the streams of living waters,\\nSpnnging from eternal love.\\nWell supply thy sons and daughters,\\nAnd all fear of want remove\\nWho can faint, while such a river\\nEver flows their thirst to assuage\\nGrace, which, like the Lord, the Giver,\\nNever fails from age to age.\\n5 g^tldf^^^\\n7 ^aar(?!s$\\nRound each habitation hovering.\\nSee the cloud and fire appear.\\nFor a glory and a covering.\\nShowing that the Lord is near\\nThus deriving from their Banner\\nLight by night, and shade by day.\\nSafe they feed upon the manna\\nWhich He gives them when they pray.\\nby BevJ. iPoiigan Bix, !t?).B.\\nOf the\\nProtestant\\nEpiscopal Church\\nby ilicv. l^. Bogeiis, !t?).B.\\n^h\u00c2\u00abs Iteavens aijc felling.\\nOf the\\nefornied\\ntch Church\\nlllaydn\\nby Bev. lowajjd (^Jiosby, B.B. c hurch\\nOf the\\n8 g^ddresi^\\nby Beu. ^homas B. nderson, H^^b. {Baptist church", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch CliurcJi. 57\\nIrogramme for \u00e2\u0082\u00acbetung ;rbia.\\nO plpui X _ ^uue, i^anctus\\nI. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty\\nEarly in the morning our songs shall rise to Thee\\nHoly, Holy, Holy merciful and mighty\\nGod in Three Persons, Blessed Trmity I\\nHoly, Holy, Holy all the saints adore Thee,\\nCasting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea.\\nCherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,\\nWhich wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.\\n3. Holy, Holy, Holy Though the darkness hide Thee,\\nThough the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see.\\nOnly Thou art Holy there is none beside Thee\\nPerfect in power, in love, and purity.\\n4. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty\\nAll Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea\\nHoly, Holy, Holy merciful and mighty\\nGod in Thi-ee Persons, Blessed Trinity Amen.\\n1 %mxm by Bev. 1. I^iffany, :i?).B. 1,,,^\\n1 1 ^(Ulr^lSi.Si bij Beu. Eicbaiid ^toims, B.B. c\u00c2\u00b0 g-g^4\\n12 galklujaft ^\\\\\\\\tsxn :^andel\\n13 goxMogjI fgnm574. ^vme, i^-)H fundiied\\nI. P rom all that dwell below the skies 2. Eternal are Thy mercies, Lord\\nLet the Creator s praise arise Eternal truth attends Thy word\\nLet the Redeemer s name be sung Thy praise shall sound from shore\\nThrough every land, by every tongue. to shore\\nTill suns shall set and rise no more.\\n1^ \u00c2\u00a7ewc(lktiatt\\nMusic will be under the direction of Dr. S. Austen Pearce.\\nMr. W. E. Beames will preside at Organ.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Diiteli ClutrcJi. 59\\n\u00c2\u00aeI)C 2lili!VC6SCS.\\nAt half-past seven o clock the Rev. Dr. Chambers\\ntook the chair, and the pulpit was occupied by the\\nother pastors and the officiating clergy, At the close\\nof the preliminary music and devotions, the president\\nsaid\\nThe purpose for which we are gathered this even-\\ning is to listen to some words of sympathy and con-\\ngratulation from brethren representing the different\\necclesiastical communions by which we are surrounded.\\nThe oldest of them dates its origin back to the\\nEnglish conquest, and came naturally to be called at\\nthat time the Engrlish church, while we were known as\\nthe Dutch church. The speaker this afternoon re-\\nminded us of the pleasant relations which then existed\\nbetween the two bodies. Those relations have con-\\ntinued unchanged from that day to this. There was,\\nat the close of the last century, a ripple of controversy\\non a doctrinal point between one of the ministers of\\nthis church (the Rev. Dr. Wm. Linn), and one of the", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6o Quartcr-Milloinial Anniversary of tJie\\nassistant ministers of Trinity, (the Rev. Dr. Benjamin\\nMoore, afterwards Bishop of the Diocese), and it\\nresulted, as such controversies usually do, in each party\\nbeing more firmly persuaded of his own opinion; but\\nit was conducted without personalities, without bitter-\\nness, and left no sting behind.\\nI have the pleasure of introducing to you, as the\\nrepresentative of that church, one whom we honor for\\nhis own sake, and for his father s sake, and for the\\nsake of the official position which he occupies the\\nRev. Dr. Morgan Dix, Rector of Trinity Church.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch ChurcJi. 6 1\\nDR. DIX S ADDRESS.\\nReverend Fathers of the Consistory of the Collegiate Church,\\nand dear friends and brethren\\nIn the name of the most high God, whose dominion is an\\neverlasting dominion and His kingdom from generation to\\ngeneration, under whose protection we are gathered together\\nhere, and to whom alone we look as the giver of every good\\nand perfect gift, I bring to you, on this two hundred and fiftieth\\nanniversary, the message of good will and peace. Peace be\\nto you in this your spiritual house peace be to you in your\\nhomes and in your liearts and love with faith from God the\\nFather and the Lord Jesus Christ and grace be with all them\\nthat love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.\\nLet me begin by disclaiming for myself the very high honor\\nof occupying the first place among the speakers of this even-\\ning. That honor belongs to the office I hold, not to the person\\nwho fills it. Every one familiar with our metropolitan history\\nknows that the rector of Trinity Church for the time being\\nwould, as a matter of course, be present on this occasion.\\nThe corporations which you and I represent are the oldest in\\nthe City of New York. The Collegiate Church and Trinity\\nChurch have long, long histories, which began when this\\ncity was comparatively a mere village, and have run on, side\\nby side, in cloud and sunshine, under the providence of Al-\\nmighty God. We have always been good friends through\\nsome special perils, common to us both have we been brought\\nin safety our relations in the earliest days were very intimate;\\nand although those relations no longer exist, yet the mutual\\nhonor and regard have not failed. Thus it is meet and right\\nthat on this great day of your rejoicing we should see each\\nother face to face, and that I should bring to you a kind word", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 Qiiaj-tcr-Miliennial Anniversary of the\\nfrom my people, and in their name, as well as on my own\\npart, wish you health and prosperity.\\nChanges have come with the growing years to your house;\\nbut while we keep this feast the thoughts revert, as by instinct,\\nto the Dutch era of our history and the old Dutch Church.\\nWith accuracy have you counted the days back into the past.\\nIn 1623 the first permanent agricultural settlement was made\\nin New Netherland, and in 1628, five years later, the first\\nDutch minister arrived at Manhattan, and began the regular\\nexercise of his ministry. That period of our history is appre-\\nciated more and more as time passes on. I was trained from\\nmy boyhood to honor and love the good old Dutch forefathers,\\nand to admire their simple, homely ways the studies of mature\\nyears have added force and depth to those first impressions.\\nThe latest of our historical writers, in treating of those times,\\nsays that it is plain that under the Dutch rule New York\\nmust have been the happiest, though not the most progressive,\\nof the American provinces. That happiness, he adds,\\nwas due to the simplicity and contentment, the easy-going\\nindustry and love of harmless amusement, and to the liberal\\nand kindly spirit which marked the men and their manners.\\nThey worked steadily, governed their households wisely, and\\npersecuted nobody. No wonder that they enjoyed life; no\\nwonder that our restless, pushing, driving, ambitious, and dis-\\nsatisfied people do not enjoy it. Talk as we may of modern\\nenterprise and progress, they do not always bring happiness\\nthey are apt to banish peace and breed discontent and disgust.\\nThe happy days are gone, to return no more till men will\\nmoderate and curb their desires, and relish, as of old, a quiet,\\nsimple life.\\nYou all know that the first form of Christianity professed in\\nthis place was brought hither by the settlers from Holland.\\nYour ancestors did nothing without religion. Hither came\\nthe dominies, the schoolmasters, the comforters-of-the-sick,\\nalong with the first colonists and on those humble foundations\\nwhich they laid was invoked the benediction of Almighty God.\\nYou know, also, that the Dutch were a liberal and tolerant", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Refonncd Protestant Dutch Church. 63\\npeople; and that, as a consequence of their generous temper\\nand policy, this island became an asylum for the persecuted\\nand oppressed in adjacent parts. It is one of the brightest\\nfeatures in your history; it explains, perhaps, the cordiality\\nwith which your invitation to rejoice with you this evening has\\nbeen accepted.\\nBut while we, descendants of English Churchmen, thus do\\nhonor to the virtues of the Dutch and to the spirit of that\\nform of Christianity which they established here, we may\\nclaim credit and commendation for the way in which our\\nancestors behaved themselves when the first period of the his-\\ntory closed. New Amsterdam was taken it became New\\nYork and the Church of England was planted where the Classis\\nof Amsterdam had been the supreme and only ecclesiastical\\nauthority. But observe how scrupulously the rights of your\\nforefathers were respected. There is nothing like it in history\\nnever did conquerors treat the conquered with such deference\\nand consideration. As far as possible the old customs\\nwere preserved private rights, contracts, inheritances, were\\nscrupulously regarded and as for the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, it seems to have been treated as a sacred thing. It\\nwas more than protected it was actually established by law\\nby an English governor under English auspices. This was,\\nperhaps, no more than a fair return for the good deeds done\\nby your people. When your turn came to be under the yoke,\\nit was said to you in substance You shall still be free\\nnot one of your old customs shall be changed until you\\nchange them yourselves by us you shall not be meddled\\nwith keep your places of worship, your flocks, and all you\\nhave, in peace. And so, to their old church of St. Nicholas,\\ninside the fort, did your people continue to wend their way in\\nabsolute security, though English sentries were at the gates\\nand within the walls over which the standard of England\\nwaved did the good Dutch dominie speak his mind as freely\\nas ever to his spiritual children nor was it until they had\\nfinished their devotions and withdrawn that the English\\nchaplain ventured within the same house of worship to read", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 Qnartcr-Millcniiial Anniversary of the\\nhis Office from the Book of Common Prayer. I see in this\\nwhat does credit to humanity here be kind consideration,\\nmutual respect, and on both sides a study of the things that\\nmake for peace. Nor is it strange that when the Episcopal\\nministry was at length set up, and my reverend predecessor,\\nWilliam Vesey, had appeared in New York, in deacon s and\\npriest s orders, and having his commission as first rector of\\nTrinity Church, the civil ceremony of induction should have\\ntaken place in the new stone church in Garden Street belong-\\ning to the Dutch congregation, and that among the subscribing\\nwitnesses should have been two of the ministers of your faith.\\nIt was on Christmas-day, in the year of our Lord 1697, that\\nhe was duly inducted into his office by Governor Benjamin\\nFletcher and in the same building, for about three months,\\nuntil the completion of the church of the English congregation,\\ndid your Dominie Selyns and our Rector Vesey officiate\\nalternately, the one in the Dutch language, the other in the\\nEnglish tongue.\\nIt is not only on the religious side, however, that you chal-\\nlenge our respect as a historic body; your church was the\\npioneer of education in this place. The good old Dutch fore-\\nfathers believed that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of\\nwisdom and so wherever they sent the minister they also\\nsent the schoolmaster, that learning might go on abreast with\\nreligion, and that religion might give its blessing to learning.\\nWhen the colony passed under English rule the old system\\nwas exactly maintained; with this sole difference, that school-\\nmasters must get their licenses from tl,ie Archbishop of Can-\\nterbury instead of the Amsterdam Classis. It is generally\\nacknowledged that the existing system of education in the\\nState of New York owes its origin, in part, to the character,\\npolicy, and customs of your predecessors, whose scheme, in\\nits general features, was adopted by the English, and whose\\ninfluence thus remained active long after the reins of civil\\npower had been taken from their hands.\\nOf such as these specimens are the other parts of the\\nhistorical record of your venerable household of faith and", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 65\\nfor these good beginnings are you justly held in honor by\\nthe intelligent citizens of New York. What has been the\\nhistory of your denomination, from those early days to our\\nown, you know better than we who are exterior to your fold\\nbut, in observing you, we think that we find among the\\nchildren many of those qualities and traits which pleased us\\nin the fathers. You have little or nothing to do with sensa-\\ntional religion you seem a sober-minded, steady-going folk\\nyou do not shock us by exhibitions of unwholesome excite-\\nment, nor do you, by your manners or words, rob religion\\nof her dignity, or weaken the habit of reverence in the hearts\\nof the young. It has been my fortune to become acquainted,\\nofficially, with some individuals of your number I am now\\nconnected in the same way with others, by duties which bring\\nus frequently together and in these cases, what was at first\\na professional acquaintanceship has ultimately taken the\\nhigher form of sincere respect and affectionate regard. In\\nparticular I recall the venerable form, the benevolent features,\\nof one whom I came to honor and love, and on whose\\nmemory I shall ever dwell as that of one who seemed a\\npattern of Christian virtues the Rev. Thomas De Witt, whose\\ncolleague I was for several years in the fulfillment of an im-\\nportant trust, a man whom it was a help and blessing to know.\\nIf he and men like him were fair examples of the result of\\nyour principles and the quality of your religion, you cannot\\nbe thought to have degenerated, even though in name, and\\nperchance otherwise, changes have passed over your house.\\nTo that house I cheerfully bring greeting from our people,\\nassuring you of our good will, and trusting that, as years go\\non, we may work together, under the providence of the Lord\\nof all, for those ends which shall best promote His glory, the\\nsalvation of souls through Christ, and the peace and order\\nof the commonwealth.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 Qiiaiicr-Miiiciinial Anniversary of the\\nAt the conclusion of the foregoing- address, Dr.\\nChambers said\\nIn the early part of this century, one of the congre-\\ngations of the Collegiate church separated itself from\\nthe main body and became independent. This was\\nthe Garden Street church. When its house of wor-\\nship, then, I think, the oldest in the city, w^as de-\\nstroyed by the disastrous fire in 1835, it divided itself\\ninto two branches, one remaining in the lower part\\nof the city, the other removing up-town. The last\\npastor of one of those branches, the Rev. Dr Hutton,\\nhonored us with his venerable presence this afternoon,\\nand took part in the services. The present pastor\\nof the other, the Rev. Dr. Rogers, for many years\\nminister at Albany, in the church, of what two centuries\\nago was called Fort Orange, an organization next in\\nage to our own, has consented to speak to us in the\\nname of the other Dutch churches of the island.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Refonned Protestajit DutcJi Church. 67\\nDR. ROGERS S ADDRESS.\\nDear Brethren\\nIt is a matter of congratulation to myself that the duty\\nassigned me on this occasion is one which does not call for\\nlengthened or elaborate address. I come here as one of the\\nchildren of the ancient household, visiting the old paternal\\nroof, and bringing the congratulations and good wishes of the\\nfamily circle to the old folks at home. And it is a pleasant\\nthing that it comes just at this season of the year, when we\\nare to keep our annual thanksgiving service which brings\\ntogether the scattered children of the household, who come\\nback in so many instances throughout our land to see the\\nspot that gave them birth, to see the parents who brought\\nthem into being and reared and cherished them, to thank them\\nfor all they did for them in their infancy and youth, and to\\nspend a few hours in sweet family union and communion\\nbefore they separate again to go back to the work and the\\nwarfare of life.\\nThere are many of my brethren here to-night, sir, who\\nmight more appropriately, more effectively, and more elo-\\nquently discharge the duty which the kindness of your Con-\\nsistory has assigned to me but there is not one of them all\\nwho can do it with a warmer heart, or with a more true affec-\\ntion, or with a higher appreciation of what the Dutch Church\\nin New York owes to this ancient and venerable body. And\\nyet, sir, I have been in a measure perplexed as to the question\\nof identity and propriety here. Why, as I sat this afternoon\\nand listened to that glowing and eloquent description of the\\nhistory of the Dutch Church of New York, all it had done,\\nall it was, all that God had enabled it to be and to do, I sat in\\nthe most comfortable and pleasant state of mind, thinking", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nthat I was part of all that, and that my church, having been\\nfor nearly two hundred years one of this circle of churches,\\nwas the oldest of them all. I find when I look at that docu-\\nment which called me to my native city, after years of absence,\\nto take a pastoral charge here, that I was called by the elders\\nand deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in\\nGarden Street, in the city of New York, to be their pastor\\nand I learned this afternoon what I knew well before, sir, that\\nthat old Garden Street church in the city of New York was\\nthe very first of the Dutch churches of this city, and for many\\nyears was the oldest church in this connection. And so I be-\\ngan to feel really it was a very indelicate thing for me to take\\nany public part in this service, as I was one of the family, and\\nshould rather sit and absorb all these delightful and pleasant\\nthings which our friend Dr. Dix has begun by saying, and\\nwhich these other excellent brethren are to continue to say\\nthis evening. And yet it is a fact that seventy-two or seventy-\\nthree years ago Garden Street did become independent of this\\nvenerable body and so by a strange transformation trans-\\nmigration, I should say one of the fathers has come to be\\none of the sons, and I am sent here now to speak for the rest\\nof the children. Well, sir, I am glad to be counted as one of\\nthe sons, and to have the honor of speaking in behalf of such\\na respectable family. Sir, I bring you, then, the congratula-\\ntions, good wishes, and grateful thanks of the other churches\\nof our faith and name in this great city and vicinity. We\\nhonor you we love you we are grateful to you we thank\\nGod that we belong to the same family circle, and we are\\ngrateful to you, grateful to this church, that for this two hun-\\ndred and fifty years it has held up on this Island and in this\\nland the banner of Christ witl% such a firm, true, and loyal\\ngrasp, never trailing it before the foe. Many a trumpeter\\nblowing the silver trumpet of the Gospel has ascended your\\ntowers during this two hundred and fifty years, but in not a\\nsingle case has the trumpet given an uncertain sound. The\\npure faith of God s Word, the faith dear to our fathers, the\\nfaith transmitted by them to us, the faith sent across the sea", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 69\\nto bear fruit in this Western wilderness, has been upheld by\\nthem during all this two hundred and fifty years with a true\\nChristian fidelity and Christian heroism and the children,\\nspeaking in their name, are strengthened in their attachment\\nto this ancient faith and these ancient forms by the noble ex-\\namjDle of fidelity which this church has set us during all these\\ntwo hundred and fifty years. No man who has sat under the\\nministry of those men of God whose portraits grace the room\\nin the rear of this building, at which I wish all this vast as-\\nsembly could look, for they could not see in any portrait gal-\\nlery in the earth a nobler set of men men of God, men of\\nculture, men of scholarship, men of devotion no man can\\nsay that the trumpet has in a solitary case given an uncertain\\nsound, but the truths which, as we heard this afternoon,\\nhave been testified to by the sufferings and blood of the\\nfathers in the old land, have been presented by the sons with\\nequal fidelity, and have borne abundant fruit in this new world\\nand all the children, the thousands and tens of thousands of\\nchildren that have been trained up in this church have been\\ntrained, up in the same faith. And if you will remember the\\nhistory of the men who have been reared up in this church\\nand have gone out in the various walks of life, whose names I\\nmight recount here, you would say that their history and\\ncharacter were the natural influence of such a thorough and\\nearnest training.\\nWhat shall I say of the men themselves who have stood on\\nthese towers and preached this faith I remember some of\\nthem. I shall remember them as long as I live. Take the\\nthree men who were the pastors of this church in my child-\\nhood, who, as I met them sometimes on the Sabbath arrayed\\nin their canonicals, impressed-my youthful imagination more\\nprofoundly than it has ever been impressed since those days\\ntake these three men, so unlike and with so much individu-\\nality about them, and yet such men of poAver and of such\\nwonderful character Knox, Brownlee, and De Witt. If these\\nthree men alone were to go down to posterity as the repre-\\nsentatives of the ministry of this church, their testimony", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Quaytcr-Millcit)ti(xl A)niivcrsan of tin\\nwould be one which never could be gainsaid. It would carry\\nconvincing power to the very end of time in behalf of the\\nchurch which had chosen and sat under the ministry of men\\nlike these. So 1 might speak of the laymen of the church\\nmen \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\o, in the various branches of life, at the bar, minister-\\ning to the sick, in the walks of trade and finance, have been\\nmen distinguished for integrity, for uprightness, for devout-\\nness, for the fear of God and the love of all that was good in\\nman such men as Wood, Woodruff, Frelinghuysen, Slosson,\\nSmith, Nelson, Van Nest, Suydam, Sturges, Jeremiah, and\\nBrower and other men whom I cannot recall at the mo-\\nment, but whose names are household words in the walks\\nof trade and among the brethren of the bar, and their\\nchildren and their children s children. The church that has\\ntrained up and sent forth such men is certainly entitled to the\\ngratitude of all this community.\\nAnd, sir, I feel that we owe a debt of gratitude to\\nthis church because she has maintained always the exter-\\nnals of worship, not only in their purity, but in their\\nbeauty, in their liberality, and in their propriety. My\\nexcellent friend who preceded me alluded to this. Surely\\nsomething is due of gratitude from the children to the parents\\nwho have maintained the house of God in its beauty, in its\\ndignity, and who have kept its pulpit sacredly free, as has so\\nwell been said, from anything like sensationalism, anything\\nthat ministers to the lower tastes of the populace. I thank\\nGod that the Dutch Church has no place in it for sensation-\\nalists, and if any ever appear for a time among us, they very\\nsoon find that they are in an uncongenial atmosphere, and\\nthey gravitate inevitably to their own place. I thank God\\nthat our Church has always preserved the order, the decorum\\nand dignity of its pulpit, and the beauty and simplicity of its\\nforms of worship. And I am grateful that it has set an ex-\\nample to all churches respecting caring for the ministry of the\\nWord. Her arrangements for them have always been of the\\nmost becoming and liberal character. It was said in regard\\nto a certain distinguished New England divine, many years", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Diitcli Churcli. y i\\nago, during his call to a certain prominent pulpit, the commit-\\ntee said We hope that if you accept our call, you will trust\\nGod to keep you humble you may trust the church to keep\\nyou poor. That has not been the principle of this church.\\nShe has never had one standard of spirituality for her dominies\\nand another for her members. She has provided things, not\\nonly honest, but liberal in the sight of all men, and as believ-\\ning in the cardinal principle of God s own word, that the\\nlaborer is worthy of his hire. And in that she is entitled to\\nthe gratitude of her children, and is an example to all her\\nsisters. But, sir, I must not enlarge in fact, I feel the time\\nis sacred to the representatives of other churches, and that I,\\nas one of you, have nothing to say except we are glad to come\\nback to our own home to see our parents, and to rejoice in\\ntheir vigor. Why, they are two hundred and fifty years old,\\nbut there is not a wrinkle on their brows. Who would sup-\\npose that he who enchanted us so long this afternoon was the\\ns2n;or minister of this church Why, the church is two hun-\\ndred and fifty years old but what is two hundred and fifty\\nyears? We are just beginning our work just beginning our\\nlife. May you go on and set us a good example in all those\\nthings to which I have referred, steadfast to the truth of God,\\ncaring for the order and dignity of God s house, respecting\\nand honoring the faithful ministers of God, training up the\\nchildren in the fear of the Lord and in the faith of Jesus\\nChrist, and giving largely to benevolent causes, and to assist\\nfeeble churches. I might have said much on that score, but\\nyour character is too well known to need any enlargement.\\nMay the past be prophetic of the future. For whatever may\\nbe the signs of the times in regard to denominational pros-\\nperity and growth, one thing is certain, the power that this\\nchurch has exerted, and the prosperity to which it has attained\\nin these two hundred and fifty years, has been due to the fact\\nthat its foundation was God s truth, the cross of Christ and\\nthat foundation still stands, and on that foundation in years to\\ncome this church, still resting and trusting to the power of\\nGod s Spirit, has nothing to fear from the progress of time.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 Quarter- Milli juiial AiDih crsarv of the\\nWe only hope that when generations and generations still,\\nhave passed away, and we who are now the children, fathers,\\nand grandfathers, go down to our graves, others will arise up\\nafter us to come up to such convocations as this in days to\\ncome, and thank God then that this church lives, has done, is\\ndoing, and will do a blessed work for God, for truth, for our\\ncountry, and for the world.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 73\\nAfter the performance of the anthem, The Heav-\\nens are TelHng, Dr. Chambers said\\nThe next oldest denomination in our city is one\\nclosely resembling our own in doctrine, and order,\\nand spirit one with which we have always held in\\ntimate and affectionate correspondence. It will be\\nrepresented here this evening by one equally distin-\\nguished in letters, in the professorial chair, and in\\nthe pulpit one who was born and spent the most of\\nhis life in this city, and one peculiarly dear to us as\\nspringing from an ancestry which for generations has\\nbeen honored and loved in our Church. I have the\\npleasure to introduce to you the Rev. Dr. Howard\\nCrosby.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Refoniicd Protestant Dutch Church. 75\\nDR. CROSBY S ADDRESS,\\nThe Presbyterian Church most joyfully takes its place in\\nthe ranks of those who to-night would honor and congratu-\\nlate the oldest sister church on the Island of Manhattan. We\\nthink we hold a very desirable position, chronologically, in\\nthe Protestant family in New York. We look to our older\\nsisters, the Reformed Dutch and Episcopal churches, with an\\naffection that is somewhat tinged with reverence, while we\\nlook upon our younger sisters, the Baptist, the Methodist, and\\nthe Congregational churches with an equal warmth of affec-\\ntion, but, perhaps, tinged somewhat with a patronizing, or,\\nrather, niatroiii.ziiig spirit.\\nWe draw from our older sisters that dignity and conserva-\\ntism which have always marked them, while we also are able\\nto exhibit some of that plastic adaptedness which so charac-\\nterizes our younger sisters. We think we stand midway be-\\ntween these for great good to ourselves. And yet, historically,\\nthere is one fact concerning us which makes us not a little\\nproud in comparison with them all. If we look for that which\\nconstitutes a mark of a church s genuineness, we look for\\nmartyrdom, for persecution and wie boast of being the only\\nchurch in the city of New York that began its career amid\\nthe storm of persecution. Let me carry you back, if you are\\nnot aware of the story, to a fact in the history of this Island\\nof Manhattan. I touch for a few moments (for only a few\\nmoments are given me) on the history of the Presbyterian\\nChurch here. Let us go back to the month of January, 1707,\\na cold January day, and we will take a look into the Govern-\\nor s house. There never was a Colonial Governor in New\\nYork who so completely aped the monarch as Lord Cornbury,\\nHe was own cousin to Queen Anne, who was then upon the", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 Quarter- MillciDiial Anniversary of tlu\\nthrone. He was determined to make the colonists understand\\nhis relationship to the sovereign and so he carried a little\\nregal state with him in his gubernatorial home. We come to\\nthat Governor s house and see those royally-furnished apart-\\nments, and behold the Governor himself covered with gold\\nlace, proud of his dignity, sitting at his dinner-table, and at\\nthe table, as invited guests, two very marked men one es-\\npecially you would note for his noble bearing, a man who wa\u00c2\u00a3\\na scholar a man of fascinating appearance and manner, but\\nwith a broad Scotch dialect. These two guests had but lately\\narrived in New York, and the Governor, Lord Cornbury, had\\ninvited them to visit the regal mansion, there to dine with his\\nlordship. They had accepted the invitation, and before that\\nrousing wood fire and the brass andirons in the big chimney,\\nthey were enjoying the repast at the Governor s table. What\\ncould be more friendly than that Four days afterward those\\ntwo men were languishing in the city jail, and there they spent\\ntwo long, weary months, at the bidding of that same Governor,\\ntheir host of four days before. One of those men twenty-five\\nyears before had come from Scotland as a Presbyterian minis-\\nter, first to Barbadoes, and then to the colony of Maryland.\\nThat Roman Catholic colony of Maryland, and the Quaker\\ncolony of Pennsylvania, and the Baptist colony of Rhode\\nIsland, were the only three colonies that opened their doors\\nwide to Christians of all denominations.\\nThe Presbyterians had gone into Maryland and into Penn-\\nsylvania the Synod of Picnnsylvania had been established in\\nthe year 1706, and the outlying churches of that Synod ex-\\ntended into New Jersey, and even into Long Island. This\\nminister came from Maryland, where he had been stationed,\\nand had done a great and good work, northward to look at\\nthe land, to New York and New England, and on his arrival\\nin New York had been so courteously (as we have seen) in-\\nvited by the Governor to take dinner with him, but on the\\nnext day, which was Sunday, in the house of one William\\nJackson, in Pearl street, this same man preached a sermon,\\nheld divine service and baptiz.ed a child, while his friend, John", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Diiteh ChnreJi. jj\\nHampton, also went to Newtown, Long Island, and there\\npreached in the church. For this offence of preaching in a\\ncolony where there was not only one established church, but\\ntwo established churches, the Governor felt that his dignity\\nand the dignity of the Crown was assailed. The men were\\narrested, and it was two months before they were let out of\\njail and allowed to give bail for their appearance for trial.\\nNow that was the beginning of the Presbyterian Church in this\\ncity. At that time there were but four church buildings in\\nthe city. There was the old Garden Street Dutch Church\\nthere was Trinity Church at the head of Wall street, and then\\ntwo other churches allowed by the government, because the\\nservice was conducted in a foreign language, and for the bene-\\nfit of the foreign exiles the French church in Pine street,\\nthe Eglise du St. Esprit, and the Church of the Lutherans, on\\nthe site that was afterward covered by the old Grace Church\\non the corner of Broadway and Rector street. These were\\nthe only four churches at that time in the city, and the city\\nextended only to Maiden Lane, except upon the East River\\nshore. And yet, twelve years after that, in 17 19, the Presby-.\\nterian church-building in Wall street was erected such a\\nchange had come over the public opinion. In 1741 a new\\nphase of Presbyterianism marked the city, and the Presbyte-\\nrian Church in the country from this reason. The old Scotch\\nand Irish Presbyterians had been mingling largely with Pres-\\nbyterians from England, Wales, and New England. Those\\nwho had come from England, Wales, and New England ha^l\\nrather more liberal views with regard to some practical mat-\\nters than the old staunch men of Scotland and Ireland, and\\nthe opinions began to differ and the preaching to be made\\nmuch wider, until at last, in 1 741, there was a complete divis-\\nion, the old side representing the Scotch and Irish Presbyte-\\nrianism, who made a great deal of what they called literature,\\nand on the new side the English, Welsh, and New Eng-\\nland members, principally, who made a great deal of personal\\npiety not that all the personal piety was on their, not\\nthat all the literature was on the other side, but these were", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 Quarter- Milk )inial Aiuiivcrsary of the\\nemphasized especially on the two sides. Then this breach\\nwas made, and the Synod of New York was constituted then\\ncame the College of New Jersey as a helper to the new side,\\nfirst planted at Elizabeth, then at Newark, and then at Prince-\\nton. After seventeen years of this separation, in 175 8 they\\ncame together again. This was the origin of Presbyterianism\\nin this city and in this part of our country.\\nNow we take great pleasure to-night in recapitulating this\\nhistory to know that all our course in this city has been hand\\nin hand and heart with heart with this glorious old mother\\nchurch the Reformed Dutch Church. We rejoice to know\\nthat even while differencees have broken out among ourselves,\\nwe have never had any differences with this Church, that we\\nalways have honored, and honor still more now than ever\\nbefore. When we may be accused of now and then harbor-\\ning some elements of sensation among ourselves, we draw\\nnearer to these conservative brethren and are strengthened;\\nand we believe that one of the designs of Providence in main-\\ntaining the Reformed Dutch Church in the city of New York\\nwas to help our own Presbyterian Church to walk straightly\\namong you. But I will not enlarge. It is from the bottom\\nof our hearts that we, as Presbyterians, give our congratulations\\nto-night. We like such meetings as these. We like to see\\nall who love the Lord Jesus Christ banded together in one\\nservice. We wish we could have them from week to week\\nwe wish that all distinctions might be obliterated except the\\ndistinctions between those that love Jesus and those who do\\nnot; and we shall be just as glad when Trinity invites us to\\nits two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and come there and\\ntake our part and say our words of congratulation, and rejoice\\nwith just as great sincerity as we would for our own two hun-\\ndred and fiftieth anniversary when that may come.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. yg\\nAt the conclusion of Dr. Crosby s address, Dr.\\nChambers said\\nThe brother who is next to address us appears for\\na denomination which could dispute, and I think with\\nsome justice, the claim to the special distinction\\nof martyrdom which has been made by the speaker\\nwho has just sat down. The honor of being cradled\\nin persecution does, indeed, belong to the vener-\\nable body which he so worthily represents. But\\ntwenty years before the occurrence of the incident\\nwhich Dr. Crosby related to us with so much pictur-\\nesque vividness, a Baptist minister came to Manhattan\\nIsland, and although he was not put in jail, he found\\nit convenient to leave the Island much more quickly\\nthan he came. This body of Christians, from whom\\nwe are separated by order and discipline, but with\\nwhom we are most closely united in substance of doc-\\ntrine this body, which is identified with soul liberty\\nand soundness of faith, is represented to us this even-\\ning by a brother who has long held an important\\npastoral charge in this city, and has frequently, in\\nunion efforts of prayer and conference, been associ-\\nated with the ministers of our church, and particularly\\nwith the one who last went to his rest. Dr. DeWitt.\\nI have the pleasure to introduce to you the Rev.\\nThomas D. Anderson, D. D., of the Baptist Church.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch CJiurcJi.\\nDR. ANDERSON S ADDRESS.\\nI thank you, Mr. President, for taking away from me the\\nsomewhat unpleasant duty of referring to our page of mar-\\ntyrdom.\\nBeloved BretJiroi in Christ\\nTo stand on the rock of Plymouth shore first touched\\nby the foot of the landing Pilgrim to enter the hall in the\\nold State House at Philadelphia, where, with bold but reverend\\npens, the Declaration of Independence was signed to walk\\naround the simple tomb by the side of the Potomac at Mount\\nVernon, where quietly sleeps the dust of Washington, awak-\\nens, by the associations surrounding these inanimate objects,\\nthe emotions of every patriotic heart.\\nTo read the very sentences of the Compact drawn up in\\nthe cabin of the Mayflower, moulding the elements of gov-\\nernment beneath the sanction of the Almighty to dwell on\\nthe distinguishing characteristic in the charter of Providence\\nPlantations, according to every man, as a right, religious\\nfreedom to slowly read the lines of the original document\\nof the Constitution of the United States, that blend in indis-\\nsoluble union personal liberty, state rights, and national sov-\\nereignty, we come still nearer, as the communicated thoughts\\npossess the mind, to the sources of those ideas which have\\ngiven to our people individualism, to our communities order,\\nand strength to our nation. In either case, however, we touch\\nnot life in the former, only the inanimate object, in the\\nlatter, impersonal idea. But to-night, in reviewing the rise\\nand progress of Christianity and a Christian civilization on\\nour Island and in our State, our contact is with personal life.\\nOne living- organization in all its vig-or stands before us that", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 Qiiartcr-]\\\\IilU)inial Ajuiivcrsary of the\\nhas spanned the entire period of two hundred and fifty years,\\nsince the planting of the Dutch colony at New Amsterdam\\nuntil the present evening; We are not called to tread, within\\nour Battery, on the consecrated spot where early stood the\\nchurch within the fort nor to decipher the venerable parch-\\nments containing the symbols of this ancient body; but we\\ngrasp living hands which have been joined to others in un-\\nbroken succession from that day to this we respond to the\\npulsations of the eternal life, transmitted through renewed\\nhearts from those first believers in Christ, until they throb\\nagainst our own in the breasts of these brethren whom we\\nare here convened to greet, and who so generously share with\\nus the inspiration of this memorial hour.\\nGathering up the faith and love, the impulses and achieve-\\nments, the history and prophecy of all these years as they are\\nconserved in this living church only to be put forth again a\\nthousandfold in the multiple forms of Christian activity, have\\nwe not, brethren, a beautiful image of the Body of Christ of\\nwhich He is the Head\\nIf, of the multitudes which, from the vast population of this\\nmetropolis, have come to bid you hail on this quarter-millen-\\nnial birthday, all are not of your own household of faith,\\nshall it be thought to detract aught from your greatness,\\nbecause in one external ecclesiastical body they do not all\\nbow at one altar? Conditioned as the mind is in our present\\nimperfect state, with an open Bible in our hands, is it not well\\nthat all outward restraint be removed, and the soul be allowed,\\naccording to its convictions, to shape its faith and practice be-\\nneath no other authority than that of God Is it not to the\\nhonor of 2i first Church that around it others have arisen to\\nemulate its excellence and share its sympathies Is not the\\nstrength of the Collegiate Church greater, sharing, as it does,\\nthe spontaneous joy in her prosperity of these sister denomi-\\nnations, which is only less than her own, and aided in her\\nefforts by their fraternal co-operation, than it would be if the\\nmonotony of an imposed unity had quenched the generous\\nrivalries of different churches It may well be considered as", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant DutcJi C J lurch. 83\\nan additional wreath of bays around your brow, that Episco-\\npahans and Congregationahsts, Presbyterians and Baptists,\\nReformed and Methodists, ask the privilege of laying their\\ntribute of love and prayer on your altar to-night as a testi-\\nmony to the oneness in Christ of all believers, which, in your\\nkindly relations to other churches, you have so beautifully\\nillustrated.\\nI have been selected to represent our denomination, not\\nfrom any special fitness for the service beyond the possession\\nof a heart most deeply to appreciate it, but because I have\\nthe honor to be the pastor of our oldest church in this city,\\nwhich, now through me in behalf of all of like views, extends\\nits hand of fellowship and of cheer.\\nOur Church has lived by your side for more than half of\\nyour long lifetime, and, therefore, we have a right to speak with\\nsome authority when we testify our liking for you. We like\\nyour coiisei vatisin, for amid necessary changes we can have no\\nprogress, unless we hold fast that which is good. You hold,\\ndoubtless, in your creed some articles from which we dissent.\\nBut while you hold them as convictions prayerfully drawn\\nfrom the Bible, our common standard, we would be, not only\\nungenerous, but untrue to our most dearly-cherished princi-\\nples if we withheld our honor from your steadfastness. Still\\nfurther we honor you, not merely for holding your convictions,\\nbut also for maintaining inviolate the order by hich provis-\\nion is made to have them statedly presented to your congre-\\ngations, that they may be thoroughly furnished for every good\\nwork. Against indifferentism and the wayward liberality of\\nthe age, we honor your conservatism.\\nWe like yoMv facile practicalness. What is to be done seems\\nto meet with all instrumentalities ready at hand, without en-\\ngrafting on the system questionable and untried devices.\\nAlthough we are taught to believe that no church has a\\nstauncher order, yet nothing stands in the way of the freest\\nengagement in all true enterprises for the moral and spiritual\\nimprovement of men. Indeed, your ecclesiastical system ap-\\npears to us outsiders never to feel a strain while it gracefully", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nbends to all the requirements of Christian benevolence through\\nall its manifold workings. In this facile comprehensiveness\\nthere seems to be a place for every temperament, for every\\norder of talent, and for every grade of ministration.\\nWe honor you above all for that ricli evangelical vein that\\nruns through the writings of your authors, through the ser-\\nmons of your preachers, and through all the agencies you use\\nfor the advancement of Christ s kingdom. It is this which\\nqualifies the Dutch Church to work so harmoniously in union\\nefforts when those efforts have for their object only the glory\\nof God and the well-being of man. For these things, with\\nothers not named, we, as Baptists, honor you. Yet, while\\nfrankly expressing our regard, we lay no claim to a monopoly\\nof the esteem which I am sure is held by us in common with\\nthe other Christian denominations.\\nApparently, casual circumstances often hold within them\\nprophecy and symbol. The church within the fort, provided\\nas one of the earliest resting-places for Jehovah Shammah on\\nthis Island, bears to my mind such a significance. Let the\\nfort stand for the State, and the inclosed tabernacle for God\\nwith us, and by this piece of heraldry we are taught that the\\nstability of the State is secured 6nly as within her borders\\nGod abides. He only is the strong tower, the entrenched\\ncitadel into which the nation can resort for safety. Walls, and\\nbattlements, and the ocean are a defence only when they offer\\ntheir homage to Jehovah Jireh. Is the fort the nucleus of the\\nState, through whose openings along the avenues of com-\\nmerce, population, trade, education, and government she will\\nproject her future forces Along with all these, as from a\\nvital centre, must radiate the influences of Immanuel.\\nIs it too much to say that by some invisible guide this\\npeople have been taught to read the prophecy of the church\\nwithin the fort, and to follow its teachings along the line of\\ntheir history So, at first, they sanctified by worship the\\nbeginnings of the State so they dedicated the commerce of\\nthe week to the Lord of the Sabbath, for the earth is the\\nLord s, and the fulness thereof; so from the fort they accom-", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Reforuicd Protestant Dutch C/uiirh. 85\\npanied population from the Battery to Garden street, to Lib-\\nerty street, to Fulton street, to Lafayette Place, to Twenty-ninth\\nstreet, to Forty-eighth street, flanking their march uptown by\\nchapels, Sunday and industrial schools, and missions on the\\nright and left, that there might be none to say in this crowded\\ncity, No man careth for my soul.\\nWhen the language of Manhattan changed, with the gov-\\nernment, from the Dutch to the English, the vital spirit of the\\nchurch within the fort transferred the same glorious Gospel\\nfrom the sonorous speech of Holland to the English vernacu-\\nlar through the ministries of the sainted Laidlie and Living-\\nston. When trade usurped the dwellings of home, the\\ninforming Christianity must not be driven from its central\\nposition. It entered the busy mart, and at the hour of high\\nnoon, in the .heart of traffic, true to this prophecy, the prayer-\\nmeeting was enshrined, the Fulton Street Prayer-meeting that\\nhas offered up before the Throne the prayers of a world.\\nEver may this church continue a centre of spiritual power,\\nnot alone upon this Island, but throughout this nation. Such\\nis the prophecy whose lessons have been so well learned and\\nfollowed by the Collegiate Church.\\nWlien the State shall have passed away, and instead of this\\nearthly metropolis the holy city, the new Jerusalem, will\\ncome down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride\\nadorned for her husband, although there will be no commerce,\\nfor there shall be no sea although the gates shall not be\\nclosed, for there shall be no night there although the minis-\\ntries of relief will be ended, for there shall be no more pain\\nalthough the sun ^nd moon shall withdraw their light because\\nof the glory of the Lamb and although in the midst of this\\nfour-squared city, with its walls of jasper, its foundation of\\nprecious stones, and its gates of pearl, there shall be no tem-\\nple when the assembled multitudes, the one hundred forty\\nand four thousand, with the innumerable company which no\\nman can number, shall hear the voice out of heaven saying,\\nThe tabernacle of God is with men, and Ke will dwell\\namong them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nshall be with them and be their God, then and there, beloved\\nbrethren, shall we behold, with admiring gratitude, the radiant\\nglory of our earthly emblem, The Church within the Fort.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Duteli CJiurch. 87\\nHere the congregation united in singing Bishop\\nHeber s fine anthem, founded on the Trisagion, after\\nwhich the chairman said\\nThe next speaker on the hst is from the youngest\\nof the o-reat Protestant communities of our country.\\nIt is not much more than a hundred years ago when\\na Methodist minister landed in this city and set up\\nhis banner in the name of the Lord and when we\\nthink of what resuhed from that venture, the aggres-\\nsiveness, the fiery zeal, and the wondrous success\\nwhich attended the efforts of those brethren, we are\\nreminded of the verse of Bishop Berkeley\\nTime s noblest offspring is the last.\\nThe brother who has kindly consented to represent\\nthat communion on this occasion was the pupil of\\nDurbin and McClintock, and well holds up the banner\\nwhich they unfurled. I have the pleasure of intro-\\nducing, to you the Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of St. Paul s\\nMethodist Episcopal Church.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Diitcli Churek. 89\\nDR. TIFFANY S ADDRESS.\\nFathers and Brethren\\nAt the close of the very interesting and admirable discourse\\nto which we listened this afternoon, when my name was\\nannounced in the list of speakers for the evening, a clergyman\\nwho sat next to me asked, And what relations have you to\\nthe Dutch Church? This question I now propose to an-\\nswer by saying that I belong to a Church which, though one\\nhundred and fifty years younger, has had many similar ex-\\nperiences, and has providentially adopted many of the same\\nmethods. I think it may be of interest to you to know some\\nfacts which may have hitherto escaped your observation.\\nThe one hundred and forty-three years, from 1623 to 1776,\\nexactly represent the interval between the arrival in this\\ncountry of your krank-besoekers from the Netherlands\\nand our class-leaders from Ireland. These men performed\\nsimilar duties in each church in the absence of clergymen\\nthey visited the sick, read and expounded the Bible, and ex-\\nhorted men to Christian duty and the activities of a Christian\\nlife. Your krank-besoekers met in a room over a horse-\\nmill, our class-leaders met in a sail-loft. Last month we\\ncelebrated the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the dedi-\\ncation of our first meeting-house in John street, and I felt\\nquite a veneration for our antiquity until I came under the\\nshadow of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the\\nDutch Church. Though so long an interval separates the\\norganization of our churches, yet I find that history repeats\\nitself, and we have many things in common. Each church\\nwas felt to be a necessity, and the abundant fruitage harvested\\nby each justifies the wisdom of its separate existence. Both\\nwere born in the throes of a spiritual revival, and both were,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 Quaytcr-Millciuiial Ainiivcrsary of the\\nin some sense, nursed in persecutions, for the title, The\\nChurch of the Netherlands niidcr the Cross had a meaning\\nin the sixteenth century not unlike that attached to the term\\nMethodist in the seventeenth. You took the fields for\\nyour pulpits a century before Whitefield and Wesley were\\ncompelled to resort to them, by reason of the circumstances\\nwhich surrounded them. Your hymn^ of praise and songs\\nof salvation were sung in full voice by the congregation of\\nworshippers long before God raised up Charles Wesley to be\\nthe sweet Psalmist of our modern Israel. You have always\\nhad authorized, but not obligatory forms for public service.\\nIf I read aright the motto on the shield of the old North\\nChurch, and daiuio co/iscivat is an expression of your finan-\\ncial policy, it is only a more classic expression of the plan of\\nJohn Wesley, who built chapels and carried on his work by\\nmeans of a penny a week and a shilling a quarter from\\neach member of his societies. Your plan of rotation in the\\npulpits of the Collegiate Churches we have enlarged into an\\nitinerancy which belts the globe.\\nBut you adopted the Calvinistic interpretation of God s\\nBook, and we the Arminian. You, for reasons clearly set\\nforth this afternoon, largely limited your activities to the\\nneighborhood of your first planting, and have in consequence\\nbuilt up a solid character and a robust conservatism, while we\\nhave taken a wider range, are less conservative and sedate,\\nmore open to the charge of sensationalism, because we have\\nbeen more largely moulded by the spirit of the age and the\\no-enius of more modern institutions. And so, as we come\\nto-night and sit among you, the youngest of your guests, we\\noffer you our hearty greeting, with genuine appreciation of\\nyour steadfast adherence to your principles and an honest\\nadmiration of your vigorous age.\\nThe service of to-night, however, impresses me more in its\\nbearing on the future than in its relation to the past, for while,\\nin a just sense, it is the culmination of a period in history, in\\nanother it is the opening of a field for prophecy. And as, in\\nyour admirable and felicitous introduction, Mr. President, you", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 91\\nhave spoken of the gentlemen who have preceded me as repre-\\nsentatives of olden times and older churches, and of me so\\nkindly as a younger member of a younger church, let me, now\\nthat the old men have told the dreams which they have dreamt,\\ntell of the vision which this night suggests. The invitation\\nof the oldest Church to all the younger branches, and the\\nhearty response given to these invitations by the presence of\\nso many notable men from all the churches the coming to-\\ngether on this platform of so many men who represent so\\nmany phases of belief and so many forms of worship, is to\\nme an indication that Christian forces are answering Christ s\\nprayer for the unity of His disciples. It indicates that the\\ndays of exclusion and separation are giving way to days of\\nfraternization and brotherhood. Union takes the place of\\ncontroversy the theological champions and disputants are\\nretiring within their appropriate spheres, the schools and\\nseminaries and the churches are ceasing to dispute, and are vic-\\ning with each other in love and good works. The contro-\\nversialist of the former days was the product of an age when\\na man was mighty according to the thickness of the trees\\nagainst which he lifted up his axe he has no more a place\\nfor his denunciations, nor an audience for his declamation.\\nIn an advanced light men have been able to recognize the\\nhidden good which underlies apparent errors. Beneath\\nthe differentials of creeds and formulas there is an integral\\nbinding principle of life. As a humanness underlies all the\\nvarieties of tribe and race, linking men to God and to each\\nother, so a divineness of consecrated living forms links of\\nunion among men of varied creeds a principle of natural\\nselection formulated by Christianity centuries ago, when it\\nconstituted fraternal love the test of discipleship, saying:\\nWe know that we have passed from death unto life because\\nwe love the brethren.\\nIt may be, Mr. President, that in these past days we have\\nall builded unwisely, even though each one s honest effort hsts\\nbeen to reproduce his idea of the pattern shown him in his\\nmountain of communion each building to exhibit his own", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 Quarter-Millennial A)inivcrsary of tJic\\ninterpretation of God s plan. Sometimes, mayhap, we have\\nbuilt over against one another. Sometimes there has been\\nin one hand a sword for destruction, while the other held a\\ntrowel for construction but at best we have erected only\\nindividual columns, which, however beautiful in our own eyes,\\nscarcely realize Christ s ideal by which the world was to be\\nconvinced. May not these individual pedestals and columns\\nbe united by a girder of Christian activity and brotherhood,\\nand surmounted by a dome of Christian thought and scholar-\\nship, so that each one s best work shall be found to consist in\\nits being part of an holy temple in the Lord Jesus Christ\\nhimself being the chief corner-stone on which the apostles\\nand prophets have built as a foundation\\nWe heard this afternoon the wonderful announcement that\\na rigid Calvinist would not invalidate his orthodoxy if he\\nbelieved that an Arminian might be saved. After this pro-\\ndigious step in advance, is it unreasonable to hope for a day\\nwhen, if the wolf and the lamb may not actually dwell to-\\ngether, and the leopard lie down with the kid, and the calf\\nand the young lion and the fatling together, yet an Arminian\\nand a Calvinist may walk arm in arm, and be closely followed\\nby priest with presbyter, and the procession be enlarged by\\ntwo agreeing bishops, though one of them may have received\\nhis office by the holding up of hands in election, and the other\\nby the laying on of hands in consecration and all these be\\nseeking for some gathering, be it conference, convention,\\ncouncil, consistory, synod, classis, or assembly, where the only\\nshibboleth for admission shall be supreme love to God, and\\ncorresponding love to the brethren.\\nAnd now Mr. President, so far as I may presume to repre-\\nsent the Church of which I am a member, I say, in the lan-\\nguage of one of old The Lord God of your fathers make\\nyou a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you,\\nas He hath promised you.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. 93\\nWhen Dr. Tiffany had conckided, Dr. Chambers\\nsaid:\\nThe last speaker on our programme belongs to a\\nbody which is at once the oldest and the youngest.\\nIt is the oldest, because in New England its origin\\nwas coeval with our own, and yet the youngest, be-\\ncause it was within the present century, indeed, some\\ndistance in it, that it made a permanent lodgment\\nupon this Island. The relations between the Dutch\\nChurch and the Congregationalists have not always\\nbeen pleasant. Whoever reads the history of the\\nfirst hundred or hundred and fifty years after the set-\\ntlement at Plymouth and on this Island will see rec-\\nords of questions which were sometimes very ardently\\nprosecuted as to conflicting jurisdiction and I re-\\nmember to have heard the story which, no doubt, is\\nauthentic, that a gigantic rooster, such as used to be\\nplaced upon the top of the steeples of our churches\\ndown in the Fort, was always found pointing, no mat-\\nter from which direction the wind came, toward the\\nEast. It scented danger from that quarter. But\\nthese are reminiscences of the past. We bring them\\nup to smile at them. Now, cordiality, friendliness,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nmutual regard, the strongest desire for each other s\\nwelfare and co-operation in efforts for that one cause\\nto which we are all sworn, bind us closely together.\\nThe brother who is to speak to us needs no introduc-\\ntion. Although his residence is beyond the East\\nRiver, and another city claims him as its ornament,\\nyet so often have audiences in New York as numerous\\nas this, and more so, been chained by his words of\\neloquence and wisdom, that I need only mention his\\nname, the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., of the Con-\\ngregational Church, whom I now have the pleasure\\nto introduce.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant DnteJi ChurcJi. 95\\nREV. DR. STORRS S ADDRESS.\\nyi/r Christian Friends\\nIt is not, I think, altogether to the discredit of the Congrega-\\ntional communion, that it has been planted in this great city\\nmore recently than the others, the representatives of which\\nhave spoken to us so eloquently this evening. Dr. Chambers was\\nmistaken, I am sure, in the inference which he naturally drew\\nfrom the attitude of that historical rooster. He was up there\\nlooking out for recruits Our churches, at Plymouth, if not at\\nSalem, began earlier than yours, but for centuries Congrega-\\ntionalism w^as so interested in the progress and success of other\\ncommunions that whenever it sent any of its representatives\\nto New York, it sent them under a sort of implicit pledge to\\nbecome either Dutchmen or Presbyterians. Our friend Dr.\\nBethune used to say did say once, certainly, in commenting\\nupon a speech from some one who, as he thought, had un-\\nduly exalted his own denomination that he felt bound in\\njustice to his own Church to declare that he presumed that in\\nheaven all Christians would be Reformed Dutchmen. How it\\nmay be in heaven I do not know, but a great many Congrega-\\ntiorial Christians have come to be Reformed Dutchmen when\\nthey came to New York. When you have had a promising\\nyoung man born and bred here, of whom you wanted to make\\na pillar and an ornament in the Church, you sent him to New\\nEngland. We Congregationalists have taken him and put him\\nin one of our churches, for five or six years, and then sent him\\nback to you to do grand service, by eloquence and by character\\nlike your venerable senior pastor, Dr. Vermilye. We did the\\nsame thing with Dr. Rogers; and if you have got any more\\nsuch young men, send them along, and we will fit them for\\nyour Collegiate pulpits", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 Quartcr-MilloDiial A)iniversary of tJie\\nIt is very delightful to me, my Friends, to stand here this\\nevening, if only to renew the associations of my heart with\\nthose men whom I have known, and honored, and loved, in the\\npulpits of this Collegiate Church, and in the other pulpits of\\nthe same communion in this city, with whom in my earlier\\nor later ministry I was familiar, who have passed now into the\\nheavens. I remember well those men to whom reference\\nhas been made Dr. Knox, Dr. Brownlee, and Dr. DeWitt,\\nclear and venerable names Dr. Milledoler had not ceased\\nfrom his labor upon the earth, though he had closed his min-\\nistry I remember him as graceful and beautiful, Dr. Brodhead\\nas majestic and charming, in old age. Dr. Dwight of the First\\nDutch Church of Brooklyn, the successor of Polhemus and\\nSelyns, officiated in an important service at my installa-\\ntion in my church there, thirty-two years ago this week. I\\nnever think without fond remembrance of his beautiful face, of\\nhis courtesy of manner, of his tender interest in all good men\\nand good things, and of the prayer on which that evening he\\nlifted us all toward the heavens. And the wit, the poet, the\\naccomplished scholar, the careful theologian, the eloquent\\norator, the devout and adoring Christian, Dr. Bethune, whose\\nfuneral I attended in this very church sixteen years ago, was for\\nyears my nearest neighbor, almost, and among my most inti-\\nmate friends. I cannot but think if he were here to-night, to\\nutter his kindling and lofty thought, in his impassioned elo-\\nquence, with his voice that spoke like a harp and rung like a\\ntrumpet if he were here to-night, to utter his love and venera-\\ntion for the Church to which his manhood and his age had\\nbeen given, and in which his heart was garnered up, how silent\\nour lips would be and how our hearts would throb within us\\nThese have gone into the heavens. Ah yes, but they are\\nthe representatives to us, let us not forget, of all who have\\nascended with them, in the history of this Church for two\\nhundred and fifty years. Back to the forest and the swamp,\\nback to the days of the tomahawk and the Indian bow, of the\\nwampum and the birch canoe, this history carries us. How\\nmany have gone up, through the ministry of truth here, rising", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutcli CJnirch. 97\\non the wings of prayer and adoration on earth, and then rising\\nwith the angelic cohorts in the heavens, whose thought may\\nbe with us to-night The mountains are full of the radiant\\npresence. More are they that have ascended than they who\\ntarry. The greater, the nobler, and the lovelier company is\\non high. Ah my Friends, the church on earth and that\\nabove but one communion make; and it is beautiful to stand\\nhere, in that communion, and to feel ourselves surrounded and\\nover- watched by this great cloud of witnesses, by this celestial\\ncompany\\nTwo hundred and fifty years. Yet, as I have sat here this\\nevening, I have been thinking, my Friends, how small a part of\\nthe real history that is How the roots of this history run back,\\nfar beyond that, into a grand and heroic preceding age. The\\nhistory of the Church in Holland, of which this was here the\\nearliest representative, is the most illustrious and sublime\\nhistory of modern Europe. The communion with which I\\nhave been associated, in all my public life, sprang from a\\nparallel movement in England, but it never was marked by\\nthe same heroic endurance, the same frequent sacrifice unto\\nmartyrdom, which was familiar in the Church in Holland. I\\nremember what the historian tells us, of the 18,000 whom\\nAlva burned or butchered or buried alive, to trample out the\\nReformed religion in the Netherlands. I remember the\\nmassacres at Antwerp, at Naarden and I say again that there\\nis no page in the history of modern Europe so magnificent\\nas that.\\nIt was true of the Dutch Church, as it has somewhere been\\nsaid of Christianity itself, that it sprang up under the axe, it\\nflourished in the blast, and it blossomed in the flame. It had\\na grand renown, back of New Amsterdam, back of this conti-\\nnent, and of the ocean before us. You trace your lineage\\nto the most royal workers and champions of the truth in\\nmodern times. No wonder you cherish that magnificent\\nrenown It is a sublime inheritance. And standing here\\nto-night, with the thought which the last brother has suggest-\\ned, that this occasion looks forward as well as backward,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 Quarter- Millennial Anniversary of the\\nwe certainly, representatives of other communions, can ask for\\nyou no greater blessing, no richer endowment of God, than\\nthat the same sublime qualities which were illustrated in that\\nhistory may continue in you and in your children to the end\\nof time the same constancy of faith, the* same sovereign\\ndevotion, in the gospel of God.\\nWe have heard to-night, and it has been truly said, that\\nthis Church has been conservative of the truth. It could not\\nhave been otherwise, without being supremely unfaithful to its\\nillustrious history. It was not a gospel of mush and\\nnonsense for which men met death with untrembling hearts,\\nand women submitted to be buried alive. It was a gospel\\nwith not one prophecy too many, pointing forward to the\\ncoming of the Lord, with not one miracle too many, to\\nillustrate His divine power and supremacy a gospel in which\\nwas the offer of forgiveness through the atonement, and of\\npurification by the Holy Ghost, and a heavenly promise for\\nthose who receiyed it.\\nCarry on that gospel, so majestic, and glorious, and divine,\\nappealing so powerfully and vividly to the faith of the fathers,\\ninto your subsequent history as a church and it shall be the\\npower of God, upon you and with you, for all the centuries\\nCarry on, as well, their spirit of self-sacrifice.\\nChurches grow by self-consecration. That motto I remem-\\nber which Dr. Tiffany has referred to daudo conscrvat the\\nchurch .stands and grows by giving. The church comes to\\nbe what it ought to be by communicating. The fervent mis-\\nsionary zeal of the Church in Holland was one great secret\\nof its magnificent rise and power. Men like your missionaries,\\nScudder, Abeel, beloved disciples, going to carry the go.spel\\nto the heathen on distant shores, are working for your en-\\nlargement, for your permanent continuance, as truly and as\\neffectively as though they were at home.\\nCarry on the same spirit which was in the fathers, of love\\nfor liberty and for learning. We remember that splendid\\nexample given by the citizens of Ley den, when after their\\nlieroic endurance of the siege, in reward or recompense of", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant DittcJi CJiurcJi. 99\\ntheir valor and patience, they were permitted to take their\\nchoice between the remission of a certain heavy and perpetual\\ntax, or the establishment of a University. Now, I don t know,\\nI won t undertake to say, what the citizens of New York\\nwould do if such- a proposition were made to them but the\\ncitizens of Leyden, hunger-bitten, famine-stricken, staggering\\nin their wan and wasted frames along the streets that had been\\nsmitten as by the blast of fire in that terrific siege, chose the\\nUniversity. All honor to the memory of their wisdom and\\nnobleness! I remember, too, that in the hall, I think, of\\nthe Universit}^ at Utrecht, around the dome were placed or\\nplanned words which declared that the seat of learning is\\nthe natural cradle of liberty.\\nYes, it is true that the hall of human wisdom has been the\\ncradle of liberty, there and elsewhere. It is for us joyfully\\nto remember that the Declaration of Independence, written\\nby our fathers, caught its spirit, and even its terms, in part,\\nfrom the Declaration of Independence signed at the Hague in\\n1581 and that the union of the American colonies followed\\nclosely the example of the union of Utrecht, which was the\\ncorner-stone of the Netherland Republic.\\nAs long as this sovereign constancy to the gospel, as long\\nas this sublime spirit of consecration, fortitude, and self-sac-\\nrifice, as long as this love of learning and of liberty com-\\nbined, remain in the Dutch Church, its future is secure.\\nWealthy or poor, numerous or few, that makes no difference.\\nThe church which has these elements within it, and which\\ndoes its work in the inspiration of them, is the Church of the\\nFuture in America.\\nTwo hundred and fifty years How utterly incredible, how\\ninconceivable, this city would have seemed to those who\\nfounded this church in its feebleness two hundred and fifty\\nyears ago, looking out from the fort of which Dr. Anderson\\nhas told us seeing in prophetic vision these vast avenues,\\nthese populous squares, these thundering trains along the\\nstreets this city sweeping upward and outward, eastward,\\nnorthward, westward, and on every hand, and already beating\\nLefC.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 Quarter-Millennial Anniversary of the\\nwith the tread of milHons of feet incredible, indeed They\\ncould not have conceived it. How httle can you and I con-\\nceive what this city is to be, two hundred and fifty years in\\nthe future what miUions of population are to be gathered\\nin it how its piers are to throb with the commerce of the\\nworld, crowding against them how its influences are to go\\nout over all the land, and to the ends of the earth The same\\nfaith in the gospel, the same constancy, fidelity, and self-sacri-\\nfice, the same love for liberty and for learning, and the same\\nhospitality toward other communions, which were the glory of\\nthis Church in its earlier life, and have been ever since, will\\ngive to that city of the Future influences that shall keep it\\npure and make it purer, and will give to the semi-millen-\\nnial anniversary of this Church a glory that we cannot\\nprefigure, and can only vaguely anticipate. God grant it\\nI remember the. inscription on the monument of the great\\nAdmiral Van Tromp, in the old church at Delft, written in\\nLatin, the close of which may, perhaps, be not unfairly trans-\\nlated thus At last, in battle with the English, himself un-\\nconquered, if not the victor, he ceased at the same moment to\\ntriumph and to live. I hope that the epitaph of this Dutch\\nChurch never will be written, while the continent stands but\\nwhen it is written, or spoken, in the last consummation, when\\nthe Lord himself appears in the air, I trust it may be said, and\\ntruly said of it, that if not itself the conqueror over all forms\\nof sin, it was itself unconquered, and that it ceased to triumph\\nfor the Master only when it ceased to live", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.\\nlOI\\njSurrpssion of JPasfopx*\\n1628-1878.\\nJonas Michaelius, {circa})\\n[628-\\n1633\\nEVERARDUS BOGARDUS,\\n[633-\\n1647\\nJohannes Backerus,\\n[647-\\n[649\\nJoannes Megapolensis,\\n[649-\\n[669\\nSamuel Megapolensis, _ _\\n[664-\\n[668\\nWiLHELMUs Van Niewenhuysen,\\n[671-\\n682\\nHenricus Selyns,\\n682-\\n701\\nGualterus Du Bois,\\n[699-\\n[751\\nHenricus Boel,\\n^713-\\n754\\nJoannes Ritzema,\\n744-]\\n784\\nLambertus De Ronde, _\\n751-\\n784\\nArchibald Laidlie, _ _ _\\n764-\\n779\\nJohn Henry Livingston,\\n77c^]\\n812\\nWilliam Linn,\\n785-1\\n805\\nGerardus Arense Kuypers,\\n789-1\\n833\\nJohn Neilson Abeel\\n795-1\\n812\\nJohn Schureman,\\n809-\\n811\\nJacob Brodhead,\\n809-\\n813\\nPhilip Milledoler,\\n813-1\\n825\\nJohn Knox, _-----.]\\n816-]\\n858\\nPaschal Nelson Strong,\\n816-]\\n825\\nWilliam Craig Brownlee, _\\n826-]\\n860\\nThomas De Witt,\\n827-]\\n874\\nThomas Edward Vermilye, _\\n839-\\nTalbot Wilson Chambers, i\\n849-\\nJoseph Tuthill Duryea, _\\n862-]\\n867\\nJames Meeker Ludlow, _\\n868-]\\n877\\nWilliam Ormiston, -_-_-]\\n870\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Reformed Protestant DntcJi ClinreJi. 103\\n^he ensuing .^tanzas, fi|om the feiitile and gijaccful pen of Milliam\\ninland Bourne, Bsq., ai|e tahen fijom the columns of the\\n^hijistian Xntelligencei| of the weeh\\nfollowing the celebijation\\n\u00c2\u00a7gmii.\\nS-iggested by the Tivo Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Collegiate Church, City\\n0/ New York, Thursday, November 2 ist, rSjS.\\nGod of our Fathers I Thee we praise\\nEternal King our sovereign Lord I\\nFor all Thy love our songs we raise,\\nForever be Thy name adored.\\nThrough changing years, and scenes that pass\\nLike shadows on the path of time,\\nThy mercies all our praise surpass.\\nEnduring as Thy truth sublime.\\nThe promise spoken by Thy Son,\\nThy samts in holy trust believed,\\nIn tears and blood their course they run\\nTill they the conqueror s crown received.\\nLo I I am with you to the end\\nWe praise Thee for the Word divine\\nGive grace, O Lord all hearts to blend\\nIn love to this dear Church of Thine.\\nGive to this Zion life and light\\nBuild up its walls and altars strong\\nTill all its love and labor bright\\nShall end in Heaven s eternal song.", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I04\\nQuarter- Mill ejinial Anniversary.\\nNote.\\n^he following diagram accur(ately \u00c2\u00bb|epi|escnt8 the lettci|ing upon\\nthe top of the litflemoiiial (^ane, pijcsented on the day of\\nthe commemot|ation to the i] enioi| Ifastoij, by\\nJ^. H. W^. l^an ^echten, :Ssq., as noticed\\nin the ptiefatotiy i^emaiihs by\\n!te)t|. ^eijmihje.\\n^-nCTOft^\\n:pOCTO ?S\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2YERMILVT/ CP\\\\\\nJONES S.CO.\\nINTERS. 114 FULTON ST.,", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3255", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 108 829 4", "height": "3479", "width": "2147", "jp2-path": "celebrationofqua00coll_0116.jp2"}}