Life of Robert R McBurney Author:Lawrence Locke Doggett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: his death. It was in the membership of this church that he became acquainted with Hon. Benjamin F. Manierre, through whom he was later introduced into his life w... more »ork. During the years following his arrival in New York, McBurney, while not given much to speaking in public, was very zealous in Christian work. He said later: "As a young man I was very active, often on Sunday attending a class meeting and preaching service in the morning, a mission Sunday school and meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association in the afternoon, and then after a hurried tea going out to church service or some missionary meeting in the evening." While a member of the Methodist Church, at times he attended others, one of his favorites being the Market Street Reformed Dutch Church, of which Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., was the pastor. In after years, he told Dr. Cuyler that his preaching had strongly influenced him, quoted some of his texts, and called himself " one of his boys." In writing to McBurney during his last illness, Mr. Dickson, secretary of the Twenty-third Street Branch, said: " Dr. Cuyler came in this morning to inquire about you. He said a number of times over, ' Be sure to give my love to Robert.' He wanted me to tell you that yesterday he went down to ' Old Market Street,' and that everything about the church was just as it was ' when Robert and McAlpin used to sit in the gallery.'" St. Paul's Church established a mission school in the neighborhood of Elizabeth Street, and about 1856 McBurney went to Mr. Manierrewith an invitation to become its superintendent. This Mr. Manierre consented to do, and McBurney worked with him in this Sunday school as a teacher, and rendered what other service he could. Mr. Manierre remembers him in this connection as most diligent, as one of th...« less