borhood.

The New York Daily _Tribune_, of the same date, thus comments on the old
church:

LEAVING THEIR OLD CHURCH HOME.

Yesterday the Allen Street Presbyterian Church held their last
service in their present home. The building has been sold to
Messrs. Ridley & Sons for mercantile purposes. The church moves
temporarily to Market Street, where they will worship with the
Church of the Sea and Land. There were the regular morning
services, followed by communion. The church was tastefully
decorated with flowers, the gift of the Bethany Society of the
Church, in commemoration of their last services. On May 28, 1819,
the church was organized, although the building had been dedicated
on October 25, 1817. This building was in Madison Street, and when
it became too small they moved to their present place in 1834.

In the afternoon the home Sunday-school and the Mission school in
Ludlow Street held a reunion in the home church. The programme in
the afternoon and evening consisted of short addresses and music.
It was a reunion of old members and new, of old pastors and people,
of old officers and those whom they were accustomed to oversee. The
Rev. N. D. Conkling, assisted the pastor, the Rev. D. M. Young in
the services, preaching the morning sermon. There were twelve
persons received into the church on profession of faith.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE ALLEN STREET CHURCH.

NEW YORK, March 2, 1887.

_Whereas_, It has pleased Almighty God, our kind and compassionate
heavenly Father, in the solemn dispensations of His providence to
remove from our midst by death, our dear and highly esteemed friend
and brother, Elder James Knowles, and his wife, Matilda Knowles, of
the Allen Street Presbyterian Church; and

_Whereas_, It becomes us not only as brethren in Christ, but as a
Session of said church, to express our hearty appreciation of their
work in and worth to the cause of Christianity, which they so dearly
loved; and while we bow in humble submission to the Divine will,
nevertheless we strongly realize that, as co-workers together with
them in the Master's vineyard, we have sustained a severe and
irreparable loss by this sad bereavement;

Therefore be it _Resolved_, That as a Session now assembled, we do
hereby tender our heartfelt sympathy and sorrow to the bereaved
family in