d dollars. For years the
church did not prosper, and was on the point of selling its
property, when the Rev. Absalom Peters offered to act as Pastor for
a time without salary. He pulled the society through its troubles.
The present building was erected in 1833 at a cost of twenty
thousand dollars. Since then the church has been humbly prosperous.
For the present, until a site is secured, the congregation will
worship in the Church of the Sea and Land, in Market Street.

On the same date, under the heading of "After Fifty-four Years," and
"The Last Services in the Old Allen Street Church," the same paper
says:

Another of New York's old churches will soon be torn down.
Yesterday the last services were held in the Allen Street
Presbyterian Church, near Grand Street. For many years the church
has been a sort of half-way house between up and down town, and its
congregation has been an ever-changing one. It has never been a
large nor a rich church, although it has had among its members many
who are to-day wealthy, and its total membership, since its
organization, is much greater than that of many a larger church.

The last services were made interesting, not only by the presence
of nearly all the present members, but of members of twenty and
twenty-five years ago, who came from churches further up town and
from Brooklyn. In the afternoon there was a union service of the
church, Sunday-school, and the Ludlow Street Mission. Later the
young people held a prayer-meeting, and in the evening reunion
services were held. The pastor, the Rev. D. McNeill Young, read
letters from many former members who had left New York, all
regretting the necessity for demolishing the old building. The
reading of the letters was interrupted by the puffing and rattle of
the elevated trains directly in front of the door--one of the
principal causes of a change of location--that made more prominent
the fact that, though sentiment might desire to save the church, it
could never again be a pleasant place of worship. After the letters
were read familiar hymns were sung, and, without any formality, the
older members and their former associates gave reminiscences of the
early days of their church.

As a proof of its spiritual power not less than _fourteen hundred and
forty-three_ persons have been connected with it in the servi