of these early Methodist days, and it has not changed
its character since then at all, for although larger and
more substantial than the original, it is only a plain brick
building, without exterior beauty, and quite the place one
would expect a great religious movement like Method¬
ism to take its start. It is contemporaneous with St.
Paul's and bids fair to fill a place in the future life of
the city as important as its more famous and more his¬
toric companion. The one hundred and fiftieth anni¬
versary was celebrated with great enthusiasm and
brought together many of the most notable clergymen
of all denominations. Bishop Samuel Dwight Chown,
of Canada, and Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, of Brooklyn,
dwelt specially on the subject of the Allies and com¬
pared their spirit to that of the colonists in 1776, just
about the time when this old church was founded.

All Saints' Church and Slave Gallery

There is an old church in New York where still may
be seen the "Slave gallery"—a not uncommon appur¬
tenance to churches of the early days. Very few New
Yorkers even know that such things ever existed, so far
have we traveled from these dark ages—but there, in
the old church at Henry and Scammel Streets, All Saints'
Church, is the tangible and visible evidence of this fact.
It was the custom of some slave holders to send their
human chattels to church for instruction in humility and
obedience and in this gallery they were gathered to¬
gether, entirely separated from their white masters. This
is the only remaining slave gallery in this part of the
country.

There are other antiquities in the old church which
are interesting and historic—the only remaining "three
decker chancel," consisting of reading desk for clerk,
high pulpit for clergyman, and the small old altar be¬
hind; the original organ and the only remaining Colonial
window in New York. There is also a collection of
Dutch antiquities and manuscripts from 1624. The
Netherlands Art Museum of the church, containing much
interesting material, is under the direction of the vicar,
the Rev. Kenneth vSylvan Guthrie.

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