[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] be caught at the blue bills ot the Hudson. To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so ipiietly, one would think thai there at least the dead might rest in peace.' •'It has sometimes been proposed to restore the church and make it as it originally was, to w hich it is to be said that no man knows how it origin-ally was. The church, which was altered ill 1S:!7, was not in lis first condition. Alter the American Revolution its interior w as changed and repaired; no doubt the improvements, as they were thought lobe, were very decided. The exterior has always been pretty much as we now see it. The tradition is that it was begun at least as early as (he year 1694, when thi' church was organized. Every one is familiar with the story that Lord I'hilipse, aided by his wife 1 atherine Van Cortland!, w ho ap-pears to have been the much more zealous of the two, began to build the church two or three years before he finished it. He laid the foundation and then began his mill-dam. The dam being built, a freshet came one night and carried it away; whereupon he built a bi tter, Stronger dam, and a freshet washed it away. In bis great distress he was approached by his old slave, Harry, who said he had bad a it ream repeated for several nights. It was that <!od was displeased with his master for stop-ping work on the church in order to build bis dam. Let him Bulsh the church, and then the dam and it would stand.