A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ?™^^^5»^»ii^BsS™p^,^n»i^ NORTH DUTCH CHURCH, FULTOiN STREET he was not a particularly attractive preacher. Anoth-er Presbyterian church stood on Cedar Street, and afourth on Rutgers Street. Theologically the denomi-nation was a power. Drs. Rogers, McKnight, Mille-dollar, Romeyn, and Samuel Miller were men of won-derful strength in the pulpit, as were also Dr. Mason, 194 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Cedar Street,and Dr. McLeod, of the Covenanters Church, in Cham-bers Street. Drs.
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ?™^^^5»^»ii^BsS™p^,^n»i^ NORTH DUTCH CHURCH, FULTOiN STREET he was not a particularly attractive preacher. Anoth-er Presbyterian church stood on Cedar Street, and afourth on Rutgers Street. Theologically the denomi-nation was a power. Drs. Rogers, McKnight, Mille-dollar, Romeyn, and Samuel Miller were men of won-derful strength in the pulpit, as were also Dr. Mason, 194 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Cedar Street,and Dr. McLeod, of the Covenanters Church, in Cham-bers Street. Drs. Miller and Mason were the intellect-ual leaders of the New York pulpit in their day, theironly rival being Dr. (afterwards Bishop) Hobart. It. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WALL STREET A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 195 used to be said of Dr. Livingstone, of the DutchChurch, and Bishop Provoost, of the Episcopal, that when they met on Sunday and exchanged saluta-tions, they took upthe entire street,and reminded be-holders of two frig-ates under fullsail, exchangingsalutes with eachother. In the Methodistchapel, on JohnStreet, still occu-pied for worship,Whitefield used topreach like alion. The Meth-odists had other churches on Forsyth and Duane streets. Baptist meeting-houses were erected on Gold, Oliver, andRose streets before this century had opened, andwere flourishing. The Lutherans built their firstchurch at the corner of William and Frankfort streets,and the German Reformed people were housed on Nas-sau, near John Street. The pastors of these churches,Drs. Kunze and Grose, were among the group thatstood back of President Washington when he took theoath of ofifice. The Moravians had a church on Ful-ton Street, near William. The Quakers
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