Even in Colonial days conservative English society in New York assembled on Sunday with a devotion directed not less to fashion than to religion.

We must not forget that America was really not America then, but Colonial England.

A graceful militarism was the order of the day, and in the fashionable congregations were redcoats in plenty.

The Church of England, as represented and upheld by Trinity Parish, was the church where everyone went.

If one were stubborn in dissenting--which meant, briefly, if one were Dutch--one attended such of those sturdy outposts of Presbyterianism as one could find outside the social pale.