. When old New York was young . th his parents in his youth, heoften talked to me of this church, and howhe had played among the tombstones whenhe was a boy. But the church seems smallerthan I have imagined it. And then I told him that to me, too, thechurch seemed to grow smaller each year,but this was, doubtless, caused by the tallbuildings growing up around it; and thatthe church had, in the time when his fatherknew it, been considered a giant of a building. The old man nodded his head. ** Yes,yes; doubtless so, said he. Then, on myinvitation, he gladly followed me into thechapel, and I led
. When old New York was young . th his parents in his youth, heoften talked to me of this church, and howhe had played among the tombstones whenhe was a boy. But the church seems smallerthan I have imagined it. And then I told him that to me, too, thechurch seemed to grow smaller each year,but this was, doubtless, caused by the tallbuildings growing up around it; and thatthe church had, in the time when his fatherknew it, been considered a giant of a building. The old man nodded his head. ** Yes,yes; doubtless so, said he. Then, on myinvitation, he gladly followed me into thechapel, and I led the way to the pew, offthe north aisle, where George Washingtonused to sit when he attended service, andwhich has been preserved as he used it. ** So this is the Washington pew ? saidmy companion, as he tenderly tapped the [78] ABOUT OLD ST. PAULS wood-work against which he leaned, andlooked admiringly at the coat-of-arms ofNew York on the wall above. Yes, and you will remember that in1776, when the invading British force Washingtons Pew in St. Pauls Chapel, 1789. the city was fired, Trinity Church wasburned, with all its records, and the flamesswept away a great part of the western sideof the city. St. Pauls Chapel was saved,and here, during the British occupation, [79] ABOUT OLD ST. PAULS Lord Howe, the English commander, andmany soldiers of the King attended when the British left New York, andthe American forces came, Washington andhis army took their places in the to this church, on the day that he wasinaugurated as first President of the UnitedStates, came Washington, and sat in this pewin which we now sit. Those who visitedthe church in Washingtons time have leftthe record that when he was Commander-in-Chief, and in the days when he was Presi-dent, he always attended the church withoutthe slightest display, that he walked in veryquietly, and that when he was in his seat hepaid not the slightest attention to anythingexcept his prayer-book and
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