During the equally wretched administration of Kieft, the governor, listening to the reproaches of a guest, who quoted the example of New England, where the people were wont to build a fine church as soon as they had houses for themselves, was incited to build a stone church within the fort.

There seems to have been little else that he did for the kingdom of heaven.

Pastor Bogardus is entitled to the respect of later ages for the chronic quarrel that he kept up with the worthless representatives of the Company.

At length his righteous rebuke of an atrociously wicked massacre of neighboring Indians perpetrated by Kieft brought matters to a head.

The two antagonists sailed in the same ship, in 1647, to lay their dispute before the authorities in Holland, the Company and the classis.