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Title: Church and Sunday-school work in Yonkers: its origin and progress
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Kirkwood, Agnes E
Subjects: Yonkers (N.Y.) — Churches
Publisher: New York, G. L. Shearer
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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William Jones, Senior Warden of St. Johns Church, Fell Asleep Feby 17TH, 1843. Also his Wife Hannah Watson Jones. Entered into rest Septr 22D, 1839. Easter,] Born in London, died at Yonkers. [1873. This was the first memorial window erected in thechurch. Two other windows are in memory the one ofMrs. John G. Christopher and the other of Edward Under-bill and his wife, which are to the right of the main en-trance to the church. A very interesting and deeply impressive service washeld in St. Johns Church on Friday evening. May 4, 1888,when the unveiling and dedication of an elegant BaptismalFont, erected in memory of Miss Minnie Putnam Cobb, onlydaughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Lyman Cobb, Jr., who enteredinto the Palace o the King May 26, 1886, took place. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 39 There were present of the clergy the Rev. Wm. S.Langford, D. D., the Rev. Wm. H. Mills, D. D., the Rev.Wm. S. Coffey, of Eastchester, the Rev. Alexander Mann,of Orange, N. J., the Rev. Alexander B. Carver, rector.

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the Rev. August Ulmann, the Rev. Alexander Forbes, andthe Rev. Lyman Cobb, Jr., and a very large congregation. The Rev. Dr. Langford preached the sermon, taking forhis text a portion of the fourth verse of the tenth chapterof the Acts: A memorial before God, and in closing hesaid: It is beautiful to make memorials, and it is much 40 CHURCH AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK. more fitting to place such in the house of God, where theycan be specially useful. This font, this pulpit, and thesewindows are all valuable memorials because of that. Thisbeautiful font will be lovingly associated for many genera-tions, though the people who kneel here may have scarcelya thought of her whose gentle life procured it; but theywill, nevertheless, be beholden to her memory. . . . Min<nie Putnam Cobb, when I took charge of St. Johns Church,eighteen years ago, was one of the children of the congre-gation. How memories cluster around me, how faces comeback, as I recall those times! Some have passed withinthe vei

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