The kirk on Rutgers farm . g address inwhich he offered a sincere prayer thatits old walls may still stand, and that itmay continue to be the birthplace ofsouls into the kingdom of Christ. Theprayer has been answered. Thus ended the Protestant ReformedDutch church in Market Street after justfifty years. 47 Ill WHILE the Market Street Re-formed Church was fighting itslast fight, a little congregationhad come to life in the parlor of a sailorsboarding house. It was intended chieflyfor seamen and others, the others re-ferring mostly to those who no longersailed the seas. The first meeting washeld
The kirk on Rutgers farm . g address inwhich he offered a sincere prayer thatits old walls may still stand, and that itmay continue to be the birthplace ofsouls into the kingdom of Christ. Theprayer has been answered. Thus ended the Protestant ReformedDutch church in Market Street after justfifty years. 47 Ill WHILE the Market Street Re-formed Church was fighting itslast fight, a little congregationhad come to life in the parlor of a sailorsboarding house. It was intended chieflyfor seamen and others, the others re-ferring mostly to those who no longersailed the seas. The first meeting washeld June 7, 1864. Those were the daysof sailing vessels; the New York of thethirties had been the ship building centerof the world, especially from Pike Streetup. At every pier sail boats were moored,coming from all over the World, and asthey dismist their crews on arrival itleft the men on shore unoccupied untiltheir meager wages were gone, when theywere crimped for another voyage. Low 49 The Kirk on Rutgers Farm SailorsHome. dance halls and worse were all along theriver front and the sailor was their American Seamens Friend Societysprang into being to improve the situation,and erected a fine building in CherryStreet, to give the men surroundings thatwere clean physically and the present federal laws for the pro-tection of seamen the condition in thesixties can hardly be appreciated. Where Fulton had built his first steam-boat fifty years before huge yellow dry-docks now rose. Additional land hadbeen gained so that Water, Frontand South Streets grew out of theriver. All along the river frontsailing vessels pushed their bow-sprits and gilded figureheadsfar over the streets almostinto the windows of the sail-lofts that were numerous alongSouth Street. For these men then the so The Kirk on Rutgers Farm Presbytery of New York on December29, 1864, at 52 Market Street, organ-ized the Presbyterian Church of the Seaand Land, with thirty-two Phillips,
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