The Kirk on Rutgers Farm

Mr. Denison left the church December 31, 1902, to take up work in Boston. It was a great loss, but as one of the officers said: "What shall we do when Mr. Denison leaves? Why, what we always do at Sea and Land: the best we know how."

Dr. William Adams Brown said: "None know better than the people of Sea and Land how costly the contribution which they have been called to make to the spiritual welfare of a sister city."

It was H. Roswell Bates, who, in the Spring Street Presbyterian church, worked out Mr. Denison's plans, as he had helped to formulate them at the old Market Street church while he was resident there.

VII

Mr. Denison was succeeded by his assistant, William Raymond Jelliffe. They had been close friends, Mr. Jelliffe leaving business and entering the ministry while at Sea and Land. He was ordained June 7, 1900, having been at the church since May, 1893. He left December 31, 1905, to join Mr. Denison in Boston, and later came to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church as assistant. Mr. Jelliffe did fundamental work with the Young People's Society, that has been a staunch support of the church ever since.

Rev. Orrin Giddings Cocks next headed the church's work. In his time the financial affairs of the church were further strengthened and Mr. Cocks is still an officer of the church which he has served many years.

Following the custom, Mr. Cocks' assistant, Rev. Russell Stanley Gregory, next directed the work, being ordained June 25, 1908, and taking charge at the close of the year. He was at the church ten years.

In 1909 the old Consistory Building was torn down. It held precious memories for many, for in spite of its limitations it had in its 66 years given a service that had included about everything one could imagine connected with church work. It had sheltered Sunday school, Lylians, innumerable clubs, a kindergarten, not to speak of the earlier days when prayer-meetings, school, temperance and Young Men's Christian Association meetings exerted an influence that went out far beyond its narrow walls. Even the stoop that had been worn by many feet, some very little, had caused a poet to sing. It all went.

The new building that took its place was splendidly planned by Cady & Gregory. It houses every activity of a modern church. Club rooms for girls, boys and men, gymnasium, showers, kitchens, kindergarten rooms, first-aid rooms, and quarters for the ladies in residence. There is a roof garden where on hot summer evenings services and other gatherings may be held.

The friends of the church came to its assistance in such munificent manner that not a single contract was made until subscriptions covering it were in the hands of the trustees, and in every instance the actual cash was in the treasury before payments came due. When, on May 3, 1910, the building was opened with appropriate exercises there was a balance on hand more than sufficient for all claims. It cost $43,000.

Another important achievement comes in this time. For years the church had been moving about in rented quarters for fresh air work, finally landing on Staten Island for several years. An option had been secured on a house with over eight acres of ground at Oakwood Heights, and after a year's occupancy that proved its availability, it was bought December 30, 1912, and next year some additional land was acquired, including ocean front. The funds collected were sufficient to pay for house and land, as well as a new bungalow and thoro overhauling of the old but substantial house. As in the case of the new Sixty One all moneys needed were in hand before they were required. On every occasion the people of the church themselves have contributed amounts that were sacrifices considering their limited means.

The Fresh Air Fund is entirely separate from the General Fund of the church, and each year the expenses are covered by special subscriptions, in the collection of which Mr. George C. Fraser and Mrs. Stephen Baker have greatly interested themselves for many years. In its early days Miss Helen Gould was one of the good friends of the Fresh Air Fund.

Mr. Gregory left December 1, 1913, to go to East Aurora, N. Y., and was succeeded by Rev. John Ewing Steen, who had been ordained at the church on October 13, 1910.

In 1917 Mr. Steen left suddenly for France in company with Mr. Gregory for Young Men's Christian Association work with the army, Mr. Denison being there also.

On Mr. Steen's leaving a hurry call brought Mr. Alfred D. Moore back once more, under whom the preparations for the church's centennial were taken up in spite of stress of war and inadequate assistance.

VIII

Work among the cosmopolitan population surrounding the church has had various phases during these years.

In Dr. Hopper's time the Scandinavian element among Borella's men predominated, and there was also a small Syrian group at the church, but no services in any language but English were maintained.

Later, home classes in German for the parents of many of the children were kept up for a number of years.

Work among the Jews was carried on for several years and with success, if numbers count. But the methods of the leader were not approved and so the trustees after investigation discontinued the meetings. Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth Avenue church, then most prominent, earnestly supported the man, but in afteryears the correctness of the position taken by Market Street was abundantly proven.

Greek services were supported for quite a while, and since 1914 Russian has been maintained under Mr. Nicholas Motin.

Italian services have been of all these most successful. Rev. Joseph A. Villelli, who was ordained June 23, 1910, has managed these with tact and ability "and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." A separate Sunday school is maintained, but with the idea of gradual amalgamation, a process that is also proving its wisdom along other lines of the church's work.

The advice and active support of men great in business have for many years been at the disposal of the church. From the days of Matthias Bruen, the merchant princes of this great city have been loyal friends, to mention only Hanson K. Corning, father, daughter, grandson, William E. Dodge—for three generations,—and John Crosby Brown and his family.

Along with the sainted Denham should be mentioned Benjamin F. Pinkham, who for twenty years acted as treasurer of the church. He was a quiet man, faithful in every duty, averse to discussion. When the Lord called him home his accounts were in perfect order: a few minutes proved his balance, a space was left for next Sunday's collection in his book.

There were sweet singers in Israel, too, who as precentors and choir leaders have brought out the best there was of tuneful harmony, men like Henry Carpenter, George T. Matthews, Henry Edwards, Allan Robinson, William P. Dunn.

Thru the years some who have cared for the buildings stood out. Charles Greer in the early days, Evan Price, a sturdy Welshman, who died in service, Christian C. Pedersen, who returned to the same post years afterwards. In Mr. Denison's time David J. Ranney served, attaining later to the dignity of city missionary and an autobiography. John A. Ross will be remembered for his omniscience as to people and things about the old church.

So the old Kirk on Rutgers Farm has stood a hundred years. From its vaulted dome have echoed with no uncertain sound the voices of men like the scholarly Milledoler or the indefatigable Denison, a hundred leaders of men whose words and works have swayed the hearts of men.

Down the broad aisles walked the stately Dutchman, the proud Knickerbocker, the great merchant, the stolid seaman, the busy New Yorker,—to go out and by deeds of victory in times of peace and unflinching loyalty when war's heavy heels trod the land they helped make a great city greater and a mighty nation mightier still.

Never has this been a selfish, self-contained organism, but a living, throbbing influence that went out beyond the shadow of its gray walls, prodigal in giving to others the good things of the gospel that were fostered there. Many a church at home and abroad has cause to bless Market Street for the men and women that she brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

"We are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, a great multitude, which no man could number." All who have come have felt the spell of the place, for in its dim seclusion still speak the men of old. It is peopled with a long procession of saints and sages, mariners and merchants, scholars and poets, now of the church triumphant: memories that consecrate the souls of men and banish ignoble thoughts. Here is an altar sacred to hosts of men and women, the holy of holies of their noblest aspirations.

"Mark well her bulwarks, that ye may tell it to the generation following." As the years roll on children and children's children will arise and call those blessed whose fidelity thru a century has preserved for them a holy place where "men still renew their youth."

JESUS, SAVIOR, PILOT ME

THE OLD CHURCH

THE OLD FLAG

April, 1861.

RALLY SONG

The Banner.

The White.

The Blue.

The Red Cross.

The Spade and Anchor.

THE SHADOW OF THE WALL

MINISTERS

STUDENTS AT MARKET STREET CHURCH, ORDAINED LATER

"It has been the high purpose of this church to train a type of minister for whom the hard places of life are places of honor, and who have been going out from there spreading the contagion of that idea in the ministry of to-day, making this church a great training school for a new order of ministers."—George Alexander, D.D.

• Thomas B. Anderson.
• W. K. Anderson.
• David Baines-Griffiths †.
• H. Roswell Bates †.
• C. G. Bausmann †.
• Andrew Beattie, California.
• Samuel Boult †.
• Russell Bowie.
• Herbert H. Brown.
• Edward S. Cobb, Japan.
• Orrin G. Cocks, New York.
• Henry J. Condit.
• Fred W. Cutler.
• Avac Cutujian, Syria.
• Gustave J. d'Anchise.
• William O. Davis.
• J. Hopkins Denison, France.
• Tyler W. Dennett.
• Bayard Dodge, Syria.
• Ray C. Donnan.
• Charles E. Dunn.
• William P. Dunn.
• Dwight W. Edwards.
• Carl Elmore, France.
• Robert Elmore.
• Chester B. Emerson.
• Robert Falconer.
• Frank Fitt, Illinois.
• Luther Fowle, Turkey.
• John H. Freeman, Laos.
• Herbert Gallaudet.
• Robert G. Gottschall.
• Walter Grafton.
• Russell S. Gregory, East Aurora, N. Y.
• W. R. Grigg.
• Rowland B. Haynes, New York.
• Lewis B. Hillis.
• George Hughes.
• Alexander F. Irvine.
• W. Raymond Jelliffe, New York.
• Olin C. Jones.
• Francis W. Lawson.
• E. Trumbull Lee.
• Edwin C. Lobenstine, China.
• Herman Lohmann.
• Joseph A. Lucey.
• Martin F. Luther.
• Donald B. Macfarlane.
• A. Maclaren.
• Farquhar D. MacRae, Canada.
• R. George McLeod.
• Alfred D. Moore, New York.
• DuBois S. Morris, China.
• J. Grant Newman, Ohio.
• E. R. Perry.
• John Pigott.
• Jesse Povey.
• William G. Ramsay.
• Maxwell Rice.
• John Romola.
• Boudinot Seeley.
• J. Andrew Siceloff.
• John E. Steen, France.
• Charles F. Taylor.
• I. Paul Taylor.
• Henry H. Tweedy.
• Archibald S. VanOrden, New Jersey.
• Joseph A. Villelli, New York.
• Ernest L. Walz, Jr.
• Clarence E. Wells.
• Irving E. White.
• D. K. Young.

MEN WORKERS AT MARKET STREET CHURCH

• Donald A. Adams.
• Harry L. Adams.
• Robert C. Armstrong.
• George M. Bailey.
• Charles D. Baker †.
• H. Blackwood.
• Christian A. Borella †.
• Thatcher M. Brown.
• Anthony T. Bruno.
• Lester L. Callan.
• Henry Carpenter †.
• Percy Cocks.
• Arthur P. Dawson.
• Horace Day †.
• Moreau Delano.
• John Denham †.
• Earl M. Dinger.
• William Dollar †.
• Edward Dowling †.
• Theodore Dwight.
• Winthrop E. Dwight.
• William B. Easton.
• Henry Edwards.
• Fred Elmore.
• J. Langdon Erving.
• J. Howard Fowler.
• Arthur W. Francis.
• Joseph A. Goodhue.
• George Graff.
• Thomas Gregory.
• Charles H. Grosvenor.
• Coleridge W. Hart.
• J. W. Herring.
• Howard I. Hill.
• H. E. Hopkins.
• Nicolas Joannides.
• Fritz A. Judson.
• Clarence D. Kingsley.
• Sterling P. Lamprecht.
• George Larson.
• W. S. Maguire.
• George T. Matthews.
• John R. Miller.
• Nicolas Motin.
• Arthur Moulton.
• A. Wheeler Palmer.
• Christian C. Pedersen.
• Edward Pepper †.
• Lewis Perry.
• W. Smith Pettit.
• J. Raymond Ramsay.
• Allan Robinson.
• Willard C. Roper.
• George G. Scott.
• William W. Seymour.
• Frank L. Shoemaker.
• A. Karl Skinner.
• Floyd Smith.
• John M. Styles.
• W. S. Sullivan.
• Fred A. Suter.
• Walter Swanton.
• Harry E. Terrell.
• Henry A. Underwood †.
• Paul Van Dewenter.
• William White.

WOMEN WORKERS AT MARKET STREET CHURCH

• Miss Acker.
• Miss E. Adams.
• Mrs. Alley.
• Miss Alice Antisdale.
• Miss Mary M. Axtell.
• Miss Mary Baker (Mrs. Fitch).
• Miss Georgine Bjersgard.
• Miss Elizabeth Bliss.
• Miss L. G. Birch.
• Miss Edith M. Bostwick.
• Miss Rose Brandt.
• Miss Florence Brooks (Mrs. Edw. S. Cobb).
• Miss Elsa Brown (Mrs. Barnes).
• Miss Mae M. Brown.
• Miss Sidney M. Brown (Mrs. J. J. Rigby).
• Miss Brownell.
• Miss Katherine E. Bruckbauer.
• Miss Edith Burnett.
• Miss Mary Cable.
• Mrs. H. Carpenter †.
• Miss Edith R. Catlin (Mrs. Stowe Phelps).
• Miss E. B. Close (Mrs. J. Broomell).
• Mrs. Collins.
• Miss Margaret C. Condit.
• Miss Caroline E. Cooper.
• Miss Emma J. Couse.
• Miss Frances Cox.
• Miss Anna E. Crawford. †
• Miss Eleanor J. Crawford.
• Miss Sophie Crawford.
• Miss Fanny Crosby.
• Mrs. Cumly.
• Miss Marion Darlington.
• Miss E. Day.
• Miss Virginia Deems.
• Miss Mary S. Dodd.
• Miss Maria Dowd (Mrs. F. W. Patterson).
• Miss Henrietta A. Downes †.
• Miss Florence Durstine (Mrs. Hamilton).
• Miss J. Florence Eldredge.
• Miss Josephine England.
• Miss Edith N. Fairfield.
• Miss Margaret B. Fairfield (Mrs. Stone).
• Miss Margaret B. Fergusson.
• Miss Forrest †.
• Miss Freeman (Mrs. B. F. Ross).
• Miss Ella M. Ganow.
• Miss E. Garbold (Mrs. Benedict).
• Miss Hazel Gardiner (Mrs. O'Niel).
• Miss Helen Gildersleeve.
• Miss Margaret D. Golde.
• Miss Anna A. Golding.
• Miss Goodale.
• Miss Gould (Mrs. Hallock).
• Miss Irene L. Gregory.
• Miss Virginia P. Grimes.
• Miss Eleanor Hague.
• Miss Z. Haines.
• Miss Anna L. Hall (Mrs. M. L. Luther).
• Miss Esther Hall.
• Miss M. O. Harris (Mrs. McCullough).
• Miss Lydia A. Hays.
• Miss Helen Hickok.
• Miss Ida M. Hickok.
• Miss Irene Hickok.
• Miss Alice Hinman.
• Miss Jane E. Hitchcock.
• Miss Leonora Hogarth.
• Miss Caroline E. Horton.
• Miss Hotmer.
• Miss Mary Hubbard.
• Miss Hudson.
• Miss Daphne Hutton (Mrs. Stretch).
• Miss Roscbelle Jacobus.
• Miss Helen T. Kenneally.
• Miss E. E. Kirke.
• Miss Catherine M. Kitchell (Mrs. W. R. Jelliffe).
• Miss Gertrude H. Kitchell.
• Miss Kittridge.
• Miss Sarah K. Kliem (Mrs. Willis).
• Miss J. E. Knipe.
• Miss Josephine Knox (Mrs. Livingston).
• Miss Elizabeth H. Kunz.
• Miss Dorothy Kyberg.
• Mrs. Belinda C. Lefler.
• Miss Dorothy Leider.
• Miss Jessica Lewis.
• Miss Marjorie Lewis.
• Miss R. Lobenstine.
• Miss D. J. Luder.
• Miss Katherine Ludington.
• Miss McCormick (Mrs. Slade).
• Miss Susanne McFarland.
• Miss Mary McKelvey (Mrs. W. R. Barbour).
• Miss Ruth McKelvey.
• Mrs. Mary Mackenzie.
• Miss Lillie Malken †.
• Miss Caroline B. Mills.
• Miss Christine A. Mitchell.
• Miss Gertrude Morrow (Mrs. Henry J. Condit).
• Miss Neilson.
• Miss Mary E. Newell.
• Miss Adele Norton (Mrs. Fairbank).
• Miss Martha M. Norton (Mrs. A. K. Skinner).
• Miss Marjorie Nott.
• Miss Louise F. Oswald.
• Miss Otterbein.
• Miss Rhoda Packard.
• Miss Maud L. Parks.
• Miss Charlotte Paulsen (Mrs. G. H. Roth).
• Miss Lydia Paulsen (Mrs. H. D. Schlichting).
• Mrs. Pendleton.
• Miss Phebe Persons (Mrs. Geo. G. Scott).
• Miss M. E. Perdue.
• Miss Lois Pett.
• Miss M. G. Revell.
• Miss Edith M. Rockwell.
• Mrs. Eliza E. Rockwell †.
• Miss Bessie Rogers.
• Miss Florence E. Roper.
• Miss Anna C. Ruddy.
• Miss Helen Rumsey.
• Miss Runyon.
• Miss Alice Sanford.
• Mrs. Savidge.
• Miss Shotwell.
• Miss Shumard.
• Mrs. Mary Sibertson.
• Miss Angelina Simonson.
• Miss Eleanor C. Smith.
• Miss Rose Spenser.
• Miss Georgina Spooner.
• Miss Margaret H. Steen.
• Miss Mary Steen.
• Miss Mary Stevenson (Mrs. J. J. Hines).
• Miss Marie M. Stevenson.
• Miss Marion Sturgis.
• Miss Elsie Street.
• Miss Sarah Swift.
• Miss A. J. Taft.
• Miss H. N. Taft.
• Miss Georgina Taylor.
• Miss M. Thompson.
• Miss Alice Townsend.
• Miss Edith W. Townsend.
• Miss Jean A. Travis.
• Miss Pearl C. Underwood (Mrs. J. H. Denison).
• Miss Henrietta Van Cleft.
• Miss Elizabeth Van Rensellaer (Mrs. Benjamin W. Arnold).
• Miss Katrina Van Wagenen (Mrs. Briggs).
• Miss Mollie B. Walsh (Mrs. S. K. Higgins).
• Miss Carrie B. Wasson.
• Miss Fannie Wells.
• Miss Christine T. Wilson.
• Miss Frances Wheet.
• Miss Irma Wiss.
• Miss C. Ziegenfuss.

DIED IN SERVICE

• Henry Rutgers † February 17, 1830.
• William McMurray † September 24, 1835.
• Henry Smith † March 19, 1873.
• Evan Price † August 7, 1887.
• Edward Hopper † April 23, 1888.
• James Murphy † August 15, 1893.
• Benjamin F. Pinkham † March 22, 1897.
• Horace Day † July 19, 1899.
• William Boyce † February 18, 1901.
• Anna E. Crawford † December 18, 1905.
• Edward Dowling † June 6, 1906.
• Eliza E. Rockwell † March 14, 1908.
• John Denham † February 4, 1910.

CHURCH OFFICERS
1919

SESSION

• Rev. Joseph A. Villelli, Moderator.
• Rev. Alfred D. Moore, Minister.
• Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, Minister.
• Frederick Brückbauer, Clerk.
• Artemus R. Richtmyer, Elder.
• Willard A. Hildreth, Elder.

TRUSTEES

• James F. Coupar, President.
• Herman D. Schlichting, Secretary.
• Frederick Brückbauer, Treasurer.
• Louis J. Audley.
• Orrin G. Cocks.
• George A. Ferris.
• George C. Fraser.
• Willard A. Hildreth.
• Artemus R. Richtmyer.

OLD CHURCH BUILDINGS

• 1766 St. Paul's chapel, Episcopal, Broadway and Fulton Sts.
• 1819 Church of the Sea and Land, Dutch Reformed. 1866 Presbyterian, Market and Henry Sts.
• 1820 Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal. 1853 Roman Catholic, Mott and Park Sts.
• 1825 First Moravian church, Baptist, then Episcopalian, 30th St. and Lexington Ave.
• 1828 All Saints' church, Episcopal, Henry and Scammel Sts.
• 1829 St. Mark's church, Episcopal, Stuyvesant Place. Rebuilt 1858.
• 1833 St. Mary's church, Roman Catholic, Grand and Ridge Sts. Brick front recent.
• 1836 Spring Street Presbyterian church, 246 Spring St.
• 1836 Allen Memorial church, Methodist. 1888 Jewish Synagog.
• 1838 St. Peter's church, Roman Catholic, Barclay and Church Sts.
• 1841 John Street church, Methodist, 44 John St.
• 1841 St. Teresa's church, Presbyterian. 1863 Roman Catholic, Rutgers and Henry Sts.
• 1842 St. Andrew's church, Roman Catholic, Duane St. and City Hall Place.
• 1843 Mariners' Temple, Baptist, Oliver and Henry Sts.
• 1846 Trinity church, Episcopal, Broadway at Wall St.

EAST SIDE STREETS

• Chatham Square, after William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, our friend in 1776.
• Bayard Street, after a mayor, nephew of Peter Stuyvesant.
• Canal Street, had a forty-foot canal in center, fine shaded houses at sides.
• Division Street, the dividing line between the Rutgers and the DeLancey farms.
• East Broadway, formerly Harmon Street, after a Rutgers.
• Henry Street, after Henry Rutgers.
• Madison Street, after the President, formerly Bancker Street, after a Rutgers son-in-law.
• Monroe Street, after the President, formerly Lombardy Street.
• Rutgers Place, site of the Rutgers Mansion.
• Hamilton Street, after Alexander Hamilton, formerly Cheapside.
• Cherry Street, formerly a cherry orchard.
• Oliver Street, formerly Fayette Street.
• Catherine Street, after Catherine Rutgers.
• Market Street, formerly George Street, after King George of England.
• Pike Street, War of 1812, formerly Charlotte Street, after a queen of England.
• Rutgers Street, after the Rutgers family.
• Jefferson Street, after the President.
• Clinton Street, after Governor Clinton.
• Montgomery Street, after the general who fell at Quebec in 1775.
• Gouverneur Street, after a New York family.
• Jackson Street, after the President; formerly Walnut Street.
• Corlears Street, after Jacobus Van Corlear.
• Chrystie Street, after an officer of War of 1812.
• Forsyth Street, War of 1812.
• Eldridge Street, after Lieut. Joseph C. Eldridge, War of 1812.
• Allen Street, after Capt. William Henry Allen, War of 1812.

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