The building accommodates eighteen hundred worshippers, and in emergencies, twenty-five hundred.

It is a model of cheerfulness and convenience, and is so felicitous in its acoustics that an ordinary conversational tone can be heard at the opposite end of the auditorium.

The picture of the Church in this volume gives no adequate idea of the size of the edifice; for the Sunday School Hall and lecture-room and social parlors are situated in the rear, and could not be presented in the photographic view.

I fear that too many costly church edifices are erected that are quite unfit for our Protestant modes of religious service.

It is said that when Bishop Potter was called upon to consecrate one of the "dim religious" specimens of mediaeval architecture, and was asked his opinion of the new structure, he replied: "It is a beautiful building, with only three faults: you cannot see in it--you cannot hear in it--you cannot breathe in it." I need not detail the story of my happy Brooklyn pastorate; for that is succinctly given in the closing chapter of this volume.