" A stripling's arm can sway A mass no host could move."

At a short distance from the house stands a neat Gothic church of stone. This edifice was erected in 1843, and consecrated to the service of Almighty God, by the name and style of Christ Church, Pelham, on the 15th of October, the same year.b The act of incorporation bears date 25th of September, 1843. Richard Morris and Henry Grenzebach, wardens, Isaac Rosevelt, George F. Mills, John Jay Bolton, William Jay Bolton, Peter N. King, Jacob Le Roy, Cornelius Winter Bolton, and Robert Bolton, Jun., vestrymen. The Rev. Robert Bolton is the first and present incumbent.

The bell of Spanish manufacture was presented to the church by Lydig Suydam, Esq. It carries a Latin inscription and weighs 156 pounds. The communion plate was the gift of Mrs. C. L. Spencer. It bears the following inscription " Christ Churchy Pelham, May llth, 1844." A chalice has also been

a Rocking stones were called •'' rogan stones" by the Saxons, from the old Saxon principal of the verb " rogg," to shake, which is used by the poet Chaucer. " And him she roggeth and awaketh soft." -- Legend of Good Women.

b By an instrument of donation, dated the same day, the rector appropriated and devoted the church to the worship and service of Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, according to the provisions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, See, &c.