from "The 300th Anniversary of the Gravesend Reformed Church", Rev. Kenneth Howard Kerr, 1955

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That Thanksgiving Day, 1905, Mr. Van Buskirk invited the Methodist
congregation to join with us for the Thanksgiving Day service, also in-
viting Rev. Bronson to preach the Thanksgiving Sermon.  The following year
the Dutch Reformed group were the invited guests of the Methodist group. It
was a most pleasing comradeship.

Near the northern boundary of the old Town of Gravesend there lived a group of
German people of the Protestant faith. Some of the parents would occasionally
walk to the Gravesend Church for services and some of the older children
came to the Sunday School. The little ones were unable to walk the distance.

Miss Cornelia Lake, one of the members of the Gravesend Reformed Church,
who lived within the northern limits of the town, distributed tracts and
Sunday School papers to these people.

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