George Alexander.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Kirk on Rutgers Farm | [Frontispiece] |
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| Henry Rutgers | [12] |
| The Rutgers Mansion | [15] |
| Rutgers Tablet | [17] |
| Nathan Hale Statue | [19] |
| First Presidential Mansion | [20] |
| Tablet in Church Vestibule | [22] |
| Philip Milledoler | [23] |
| North Dutch Church | [24] |
| Isaac Ferris | [28] |
| Organ | [29] |
| Old Lecture Room Pulpit | [30] |
| Theodore L. Cuyler at Market Street | [34] |
| Theodore L. Cuyler later | [35] |
| Pew | [41] |
| Bell | [46] |
| Sailors' Home | [50] |
| 52 Market Street | [51] |
| Hanson K. Corning | [52] |
| Edward Hopper | [56] |
| Communion Service | [58] |
| Christian A. Borella | [61] |
| Andrew Beattie | [68] |
| Old Sunday School Room | [69] |
| Alexander W. Sproull | [71] |
| Col. Robert G. Shaw | [72] |
| Kindergarten | [73] |
| Old Church Flag | [78] |
| John Hopkins Denison | [81] |
| Tower Study | [82] |
| 52 Henry Street | [83] |
| Fresh Air Children | [84] |
| New Church Flag | [87] |
| John Denham | [91] |
| Old 61 Henry Street | [94] |
| New 61 Henry Street | [95] |
| Staten Island House when bought | [96] |
| Staten Island House renovated | [97] |
| Kitchen for Cooking Classes | [99] |
| Pulpit | [104] |
| Back of Pulpit | [107] |
I
If there be one thing certain about New York it is that nothing remains unchanged. Not only do public works like the bridges change the face of things, but private activity effaces great structures to build up still greater ones. This march of progress is as relentless as a modern army, levelling all before it.
In other lands churches have been spared tho other buildings went down, but even these in New York have disappeared, whole districts being deliberately deserted because churches were no longer able to maintain themselves there financially. This is especially true of the great down-town section of Manhattan, the Old New York, in which only two churches remain that have stood unchanged for a century. Trinity church let old St. John's go, and sixty churches have disappeared in forty years on the lower East Side alone. We lose much when old landmarks go, when we can not make history more vivid for our children by pointing out where the great men of another day worshipt, men of a day when other public assemblies were rare, and the church was the center that radiated influence. The old building is of value because of the living beings associated with it that were the life of the community.
New York has hardly appreciated what its great families have meant for it in the past. The members of the Rutgers family, for instance, always had a noble share in the day and generation in which they lived. Their ancestor came over in the early days from Holland, spent some time about Albany, and then came to New York, branching out till Rutgers bouweries and Rutgers breweries were found in more than one place.