Annals of the classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch church, and of the churches under its care: including, the civil history of the ancient township of Bergen, in New Jersey . work then undertaken ; and theremembrance of past joys and sorrows, experiencedin that sacred house, affected many. The work wasarduous and expensive. Many questioned its expe-diency—some indulged forebodings of ill. Godsprovidence pointed onward, and confidence in him,blended with holy prayer, and pious activity, couldand would avail. Under the superintendence of an excellent buildingcommittee, consisting of Messrs.
Annals of the classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch church, and of the churches under its care: including, the civil history of the ancient township of Bergen, in New Jersey . work then undertaken ; and theremembrance of past joys and sorrows, experiencedin that sacred house, affected many. The work wasarduous and expensive. Many questioned its expe-diency—some indulged forebodings of ill. Godsprovidence pointed onward, and confidence in him,blended with holy prayer, and pious activity, couldand would avail. Under the superintendence of an excellent buildingcommittee, consisting of Messrs. Jacob D. Yan Winkle,Garrit Sip, and Abraham Yreeland, the work was be-gun on the next day, (26th July). The old sanctuary-was demolished in a few days. The stones of it, soprecious, were to be re-incorporated in the new edi-fice, and as fast as needed, were conveyed to the newsite, whereon was demolished, at the same time, thefirst parsonage house, in which the first pastor livedand died. LAYING OF THE COKlSrEK STONE. On the 26th day of August, 1841, the corner stoneof the new church was laid, with appropriate solemni-ties, by the Eev. Benjamin C. Taylor, the pastor of. Reformed Dutch Church. BergexV, N, J. Erected 1841. DUTCH CHUKCH AT BERaEN. 147 the Clinrch. The site is very commanding and beau-tiful. Tlie edifice, sixty-fom- feet in width, by eighty-four feet in depth, with a portico of ten feet in front,is of stone, excepting only the front and columns of theportico, which are of brick, coated with stucco. It issurmounted with a cupola of due proportions. Tliewhole, suitably ornamental and convenient. Thereare one hundred and forty-four pews on the floor, andseventy-eight on the galleries—capable of seatingcomfortably twelve hundred persons. On this occasion, about a thousand persons werepresent, a considerable number of whom were fromJSTew York and Newark. Among them was the agedwidow of the former pastor, Eev. John Cornelison,and two other mothers in Israel, who were
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