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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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Amsterdam. He was evi-dently a man of considerable mental attainments, for at NewAmsterdam he preached at times in the French language tothe Walloon settlers. His sole literary remains of which wehave knowledge are to be found in a letter to the fatherland,bearing date August 11, 1628, in which he appears to bean earnest and patient minister of the Christian religion,struggling against more than common trials in the newcountry in which he had cast his lot.1 Both Dominie Michaelis and his congregation must haveoften found themselves contrasting painfully the new condi-tions surrounding them with the old. Among the men andwomen who met here to worship, there were those who remem-bered the Oude Kerk — the old church — of Amsterdam,with its thirty environing chapels, dark with the very rich-ness of their stained glass adornment, and where a score ofmany-branched lustres shed a soft light on the benches of the 1 See the letter, with notes of Doctor OCallaghan, in 2 N. Y. Col. Doc. 763.
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DOMINIE MICHAELIS AND HIS CHURCH 157 grave magistrates of the city, and on the marble tombs of greatmen who had died for their country on land and on sea, in theyet unfinished war for Dutch independence; others had mem-ories of the great church of St. Lawrence at Rotterdam, look-ing down majestically upon the placid canals which environedit, and upon the statue of that giant of intellect, Erasmus;some had listened to the chiming of the four hundred bells ofthe New Church of Delft,or had contemplated with reverencethe tomb of William the Silent in that famous edifice; somehad worshipped in the sublime cathedral of Antwerp, the loftyand solemn Gothic arches of which were a sermon in them-selves. Now, from the windows of their unadorned loft overthe bark mill on the edge of Blommaerts Vly, they lookednorthward over a rough pasture-field gently sloping up to alow ridge of hills, where the trees which then covered thePine Street and Cedar Street of to-day were gradually disap-pearing under

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