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and this, because the thought — without God, all
is vain — was the very marrow of his theology.

A pulpit in those days was the symbol of au¬
thoritative utterance. The congregation subscrib¬
ing twenty-five beavers and the Company adding
seventy-five guilders, a wineglass-shaped structure
was sent over from Holland, in which many godly
and eloquent men have stood. As a precious relic
it is still preserved. The Company, also, gave a
bell, which long rang out with its silvery tongue the
invitation to worship. The notable church adorn¬
ments consisted of wapen, or coats of arms, of the
principal families, wrought into the glass of the
windows. Besides the most illustrious of these
names, the Schuylers, Wendells, van Rensselaers,
etc., there were hundreds of others, now listed
and accessible in the Year Books of the Holland
Society of New York.