 Several of his collected sermons were later published in such books as "Seeing Darkly", "The Invisible Things", and "Saved by Hope".The church's pastor between 1887–1900 was Maltbie Babcock, who was formally installed on September 28, 1887.His biography in a 1910 encyclopedia described him as "a fluent speaker, with a marvelous personal magnetism which appealed to all classes of people, and the influence of which became in a sense national.