[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] vane at the western end is of equal antiquity or not. Mr. Irving, w ith bis gentle humor, cannot resist making the quiet, not ill-natured remark that these two vanes, like most ecclesiastical vanes, usually point in contrary directions. The bell, which swings in the belfry still, was cast to order in Holland. It is richly ornamented and Is-ars the following inscription : 'Si Dens pro nobis quis contra nos, 16f>"i.' Ths communion table and silver service were onlered from Holland at ths same time. The table, which is an extension table, is of massive oak in-laid with ebony, and the beakers are of solid silver. This table and service are still in use by the First Reformed Church. The baptisuisl bowl used to be placed in a socket or bracket which extended out from the pulpit. It may be added that the one beaker bearing the name of Catherine Van Cortlandt, the baptismal bowl, the communion table and a damask doth of specified dimensions were given by will of Mrs. I'hilipse, in 17:10, to her son-in-law, Adolpb Philipse, ' in trust to and for the congiegation of the Dutch Church, erected at Philipsburgh, by my husband, deceased, according to the Synod of Dort.' "There are only two or three things that give us any idea how the orig-inal church, the church which was altered after the Revolutionary War, looked on the inside. It is quite plain that the original seats had no backs to them. In the gallery may still he seen two or three of these scats.