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Title: The kirk on Rutgers farm
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brückbauer, Frederick, b. 1864
Subjects: Rutgers, Henry, 1745-1830 Church of the Sea and Land (New York, N.Y.) Market Street Dutch Reformed Church (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: New York : (Revell)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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Hemstreet. Historic New York: Half-Moon Papers. The Leaven in a Great City: Lillian W.Betts. The Better New York: Tolman and Hem-street. The New York Public School: A. Emer-son Palmer. Helping the Helpless in Lower New York:Lucy S. Bainbridge. The Fire on the Hearth: Edward Hopper.132 The Kirk on Rutgers Farm One Wife Too Many: Edward Hopper. Old Horse Gray: Edward Hopper. Echoes from the Song of Songs: Mar-garetta Hopper. An Oriental Land of the Free: John H.Freeman. One Hundred Poems: Jane A. Van Allen, American Notes: Charles Dickens. Valentines Manual of the Common Coun-cil. New York Genealogical and BiographicalRecord. Records of the Market Street Dutch Re-formed Church. Records of the Presbyterian Church of theSea and Land. The Sea and Land Monthly. Handbooks of the Presbytery of NewYork. Printed in the United States of America. 133
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Churcti of the Sea a,nd Land THE KIRK ON Rutgers Farm By/Irederick Brucktauer ItttLstratcd hyPauline JS t one ^l? 5 1995 Printed byPeter F. Mallon, Inc. / To the Men and Women who gave that the old church might refitain at Market and Henry Streets INTRODUCTION IT is evident that the preparation of thisvolume has been a labor of love. Of the sanctuary which, for one hun-dred years, has stood on the comer ofMarket and Henry Streets, the author, likemany others who have put their lives intoit, might well say: Thy saints take pleasure in her stones, ^Her very dust to them is dear. The story of The Kirk on RutgersFarm is one of pathetic interest. In itsfirst half-century it sheltered a worshippingcongregation of staid Knickerbocker type,which, tho blest with a ministry of extraor-dinary ability and spiritual power, suc-cumbed to its unfriendly environment andperished. In its second half-century it became thehome of a flock of God, poor in this worldsgoods, but rich in faith, to whom the enkirkonrutgersfar00br

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