. Church and Sunday-school work in Yonkers: its origin and progress . ew church enterprise. As the wind and waves be-came contrary, Dr. Dowling said to his companion, Dea-con Peek, you take one oar and we will call that work, andI will take the other oar and we will call that faith, where-upon he took the oar and the honored clergyman and thegood deacon did their work nobly, and notwithstandingthe wind and tide, which were both against them, in duetime they reached the shore in safety. Was their experi-ence prophetic of future events ? Not many days after this occurrence there came agreat wind
. Church and Sunday-school work in Yonkers: its origin and progress . ew church enterprise. As the wind and waves be-came contrary, Dr. Dowling said to his companion, Dea-con Peek, you take one oar and we will call that work, andI will take the other oar and we will call that faith, where-upon he took the oar and the honored clergyman and thegood deacon did their work nobly, and notwithstandingthe wind and tide, which were both against them, in duetime they reached the shore in safety. Was their experi-ence prophetic of future events ? Not many days after this occurrence there came agreat wind which blew down the rear wall of the churchbuilding then in course of erection. This unexpected WARBURTON AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. 169 catastrophe furnished a theme for their young preacherfor a discourse, and the next Sunday morning he preacheda sermon from these words found in Ezek. 13: 10, 11 : Onebuilt up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untemperedmortar, etc. The preacher, after alluding briefly to thebuilding of the church and the event which had recently. MOUNT OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH.* transpired, concluded his discourse with an earnest exhor-tation to his hearers to remember that they were all build-* The engraving shows the first home of the Baptists in Yonkers,which was situated on North Broadway between Dock Street andWells Avenue on the lots where the Temperance Hall now the completion of the new church building known as the War-burton Avenue Baptist Church, the old church was taken down and thematerials in it used for the erection of the Nepperhan Avenue BaptistMission Sunday-school building. 170 CHURCH AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK. ers who were rearing each the fabric of his own day the walls of the fabric were rising higher andhigher. He exhorted them to see to it that what theybuilded should be silver, gold, and precious stones, thatmight last and shine for ever—not the wood, hay, andstubble of vanity and worldliness, which must all perish
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