400 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



for the pulpit, and communion table. The church just burnt contained, 

 besides the monuments to Doctors Wilkins and Jackson, a beautiful 

 sculptured slab in early English style of variegated marble containing a 

 head of Christ, which is said, alone, to have cost $1,500, adorned with 

 the monogram of I.H.S., an ancient Labarum, and bearing the following 

 inscription : — 



IN MEMORY OF 



GOVERNEUR MORRIS WILKINS, 



born November 4th, 1797, 

 Died February 7, 1871. 

 Erected by bis widow. 



"I am the resurrection and the life." 



The late chancel window, which was an exquisite production of fine 



art in stained glass, designed and executed in London expressly for this 



church in 1876, represented the reward of the righteous as given by our 



Blessed Saviour in His parable recorded by St. Matthew, xxv: 35, 36 : 



' ' For I was an hungered, and ye ye gave me meat ; 

 I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, &c." 



It consisted of six medallions containing figures, representing the six 

 works of mercy with a scroll, in the centre, beneath which were the 

 sentences in Latin placed upon olive branches interlacing or covering 

 the entire window. a This beautiful memorial was erected by the relatives 

 of the late Mrs. Catharine Wilkins, (widow of Governor M. Wilkins,) to 

 commemorate with gratitude the constant deeds of love and chanty 

 which she maintained to the closing days of her life on earth. 



The chime of three bells, but little damaged by the fire, contain the 

 following inscription : 



3 Keyed Bells, 



D. B. G. 

 754, 908, 1222, 



JOHHES & HlTCHOOOK,' 



Foundry, Troy, New York. 



3 Keyed Bells, D. B. G. Presented to the Ep. Church, 



Westchester, A.D. 1857. George T. Adee, Governeur 



Morris Wilkins, Denton Pearsall, William Watson, 



Edward Haight, William K. Strong, John 



M. Furman, Alfred Seaton, William 



Whitehead, D. Lynch Lawrence, 



William L. Youle, Daniel M. 



Edgar. 



(Parishioners.) 



a By a happy coincident, altogether fortuitous, the above mentioned window was seen in its 

 place by the congregation for the Brat time at morning service on the fourteenth Sunday jfter 

 Trinity when the twenty-tlfth chapter of St. Matthew was th s appointed second lesson. Gov- 

 ernour Wilkins, Esq., gave the white marble font. 



