FORTY YEARS 
 
 ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 INSTALLATION 
 
 OF 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER McKENZIE, D.D. 
 
 1 867 — 1907 
 
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 REV. ALEXANDER McKENZIE, D.D. 
 
 as pastor of 
 
 The First Church in Cambridge, 1636 
 
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 The Shepard Congregational Society, 1829 
 
 JANUARY 20-27, 1907 
 
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 176 TO 184 HIGH STREET 
 BOSTON, MASS. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 The First Sermon, by Dr. McKenzie 5 
 
 Sunday School Exercises 17 
 
 Reception 19 
 
 Presentation of Portrait, by the Hon. Arthur P. Stone ... 21 
 
 Acceptance of Portrait, by Deacon Francis Flint 23 
 
 Presentation of Album, by Judge Jabez Fox 24 
 
 Absent and Past Members, by Mr. George S. Chase ... 25 
 
 Presentation of Purse, by Deacon George S. Saunders . . 29 
 
 Response of Dr. McKenzie 30 
 
 Public Meeting 33 
 
 Order of Service 34 
 
 Prayer of Rev. Charles E. Beals 36 
 
 Opening Remarks of the Chairman, Frank Gaylord Cook, 
 
 Esq 38 
 
 Address of the Hon. James M. W. Hall 40 
 
 Address of Major-Gen. William A. Bancroft 47 
 
 Address of the Rev. Reuen Thomas, D.D 50 
 
 Address of the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D.D 54 
 
 Address of the Hon. Walter C. Wardwell 57 
 
 Address of President Charles William Eliot 59 
 
 Address of the Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D 62 
 
 Response of the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D 64 
 
 The Second Sermon, by Dr. McKenzie 68 
 
 Letters 84 
 
 Committees 103 
 
ANNIVERSARY PORTRAIT 
 
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ANNIVERSARY SERMONS. 
 
 THE FIRST SERMON. 
 
 I find it necessary to divide my addresses at this anniver- 
 sary, and I shall to-day give some account of the history and 
 organization of the church, and its method of work ; and next 
 Sunday shall present the internal order and spirit and purpose 
 of the church. Together, these discourses will describe the 
 outer and inner life in their general principles. I take for 
 my text this morning these words: 
 
 I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, 
 though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with 
 you. — 2 Peter 1 : 12. 
 
 If I am to give further account of the history of this church 
 and its life, I shall resume the narrative at the point where it 
 paused five and thirty years ago. We were then about to 
 enter this house, and the last word was the ancient prayer, 
 " The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers." 
 Even to-day our mind reaches beyond our own time to that 
 beginning, and we remember the fathers. It is the work of 
 their hands which, augmented, is established upon us. They 
 are entitled to our reverent thought. Their place has been 
 well asserted in the fine sentence of our neighbor, Mr. Lowell : 
 " That happy breed of men who, both in church and state, led 
 our first emigration were children of the most splendid in- 
 tellectual epoch that England has ever known." 
 
 I delight to praise these men, but I do it now especially for 
 the sake of tracing our lineage, while I claim that this genera- 
 tion is worthy of all which have preceded it. They were indeed 
 men of mark, our founders and fathers. If I may repeat my 
 own words, they made a community which endowed a coUege 
 with a liberality which has not been surpassed; which set up 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 schools and placed wise men over them; which required that 
 children should be trained in some useful employment ; which 
 preserved its own morality and exalted the Christian virtues; 
 which dealt with criminals more humanely than old England, 
 and loved freedom so well that, with slavery thrust upon it, 
 there has not been a slave born in Massachusetts since this 
 church was five years old; which cherished kindness and 
 equity towards Indians and sought their well-being; which 
 kept its place and name till colonies could become a nation, 
 and wrote the first lines in our national annals. They had 
 limitations and infirmities, but they were strong men, bent 
 upon the right, instructed in good learning, and mindful of 
 posterity — which posterity we are. 
 
 The foremost purpose of our fathers was to establish here a 
 church after the New Testament pattern, in which their 
 loyalty to truth and liberty would be unrestrained. They 
 held the old creeds, and they joined in the covenant which 
 embodied the spirit of the creeds, the covenant which has been 
 preserved and is constantly renewed among us : 
 
 " We who are now brought together and united into one 
 church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, our Head, in such sort 
 as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and sanctified 
 to himself, do here solemnly and religiously, as in his most 
 holy presence, promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our 
 ways according to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere con- 
 formity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and 
 respect each to other, so near as God shall give us grace." 
 
 We are able to stand in this compact in the protection of the 
 trust with which they sealed their vows, " so near as God shall 
 give us grace." They made their personal confession of faith 
 and experience, and they, and those who followed them, 
 framed from time to time such systems of administration as 
 were requisite and profitable. No form of words which men 
 devised was binding save so far as it had the warrant of holy 
 Scripture. That principle remains unchanged, and in it are 
 
First Sermon. 
 
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 our wisdom and strength. Yet we are in accord with the 
 essential teaching of the church from its earliest time. We 
 sing the old anthems and the Christian hymns, and we hold to 
 the apostolic succession. We are the children of the fathers. 
 This line of prophets and ministers started with a wise and 
 determined leader, and it was continued in the men whose 
 names are written with his on the tablet before you and 
 beside this pulpit. They are more than names or they had 
 not been cut in stone. This 'course of years was worthy of the 
 men, and we owe it to them and to ourselves to be versed in 
 their history. The time came for another forward movement 
 and the men appointed to it were here. 
 
 It was a great advance when the church, true to itself, 
 came up to this, its sixth house of worship, its new meeting- 
 house. It had been erected in a worthy ambition and 
 creditable faith. It was built for the future, with ample room 
 for an increase of numbers and an extension of influence. It 
 was built with the boldness of the prophetic spirit, and the 
 steadiness of men with rational earnestness I set this in 
 with the notable events of our centuries. I am sure that the 
 hand of the Lord was in it: the God of the fathers. There 
 seems now, as we look back, to have been almost an excess 
 of confidence, and that prudence was held in abeyance. Time 
 has proved that the design was discreet. 
 
 The right man was chief in the enterprise, a man with the 
 hereditary interest in the church, and patriotic reliance even 
 upon the ground which had been secured for its house, with a 
 remarkable blending of courage and caution, preeminently the 
 man for the work. He did not long enjoy the result of his 
 efforts, but I trust that his name will at some time be set in 
 window or wall in the house which owes so much to him. 
 There were great men in the church and parish when this 
 pastorate began. The law was represented by Parker and 
 Washburn; science by Gray and Horsford, and merchants by 
 Whitman and Melledge; and there were men of all the profes- 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 sions. The past had none of higher rank, and recent years 
 have not lessened their fame. Each of the years has had its 
 own men who were worthy of their places. The new house 
 brought new duties, but the men were equal to them. It is 
 no small tribute to the people at large, and to those who 
 have been prominent in the affairs of the parish, that with- 
 out great wealth this house was built and paid for and has 
 been sustained and enlarged, and stands to-day in its grand- 
 eur, a fitting home for generations to come. It is an instance 
 of excellent financial management, to which I am glad to give 
 this grateful recognition. Nothing is lacking to the house 
 but the completion of its windows, and I have in waiting 
 the names of those whose memory should be enshrined in 
 these forms of beauty, with those which already render it 
 homelike and attractive. 
 
 These have been years of activity, in which many have 
 been engaged. They are too many to be named and too well 
 known to need to be named. The officers of the church, from 
 the two deacons whom I found, through the line of good men 
 who have honored the office which gave them honor and con- 
 fidence, have devised and maintained good works, which have 
 conserved and promoted the well-being of the church. Quietly 
 and patiently they have borne their burden and given their 
 thought, in the freshness of young manhood and in the revered 
 dignity of accumulated wisdom. No man has sought his own. 
 In the long catalogue of names Diotrephes does not occur, nor 
 is there one who has sought preeminence among us. That 
 this has tended to harmony is obvious. It accounts in some 
 measure for the continuance of the pastorate, which in its turn 
 may have given by its stability some constancy to counsel and 
 purpose. 
 
 While I speak of the church I do not for a moment forget the 
 men who entirely of their own desire have not been enrolled 
 as communicants, but who have cherished an interest in the 
 affairs of the society with which the church is allied, and have 
 
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 rendered to the church constant and invaluable service in 
 many ways. We are strong in men of this standing, with 
 whom we would most gladly share our closest fellowship. It 
 has been a common usefulness in which we have prospered, 
 with one accord and one intent. Through all our association 
 we have been well agreed. I think that this long agreement in 
 usefulness is worth noting in connection with the independence 
 of thought which has been manifested and the liberty of 
 expression which has never been restrained. It has not been 
 the agreement of men of one mind, content to let things run 
 as they would, but an agreement among men of decision and 
 force, who would have things run as they ought. 
 
 I wish to add to this testimony to the fidelity of the officers 
 of the church and parish this special instance of consideration, 
 that while they have met their own duties willingly, they have 
 done all they could to make my own lighter. I have many 
 times remarked with appreciation their evident purpose to lay 
 upon the minister no burden which they could themselves 
 carry, and to ask of him no work which they could perform. 
 The permanence of membership in the board of deacons is 
 characteristic. We have often spoken of the continuity in 
 the pastorate, where in two hundred and seventy years there 
 have been but eleven pastors, and but one of these has left this 
 church for another. There has been a similar habit among the 
 deacons. Changes have been few, and those who have come 
 into the places of those who retired have been of like opinion 
 and spirit. The sacred office has thus been made the more 
 honorable and delightful. 
 
 I wish to mark another instance of constancy which has 
 been of much service. The value of a meeting-house depends 
 largely upon him in whose care it is. The comfort of a 
 minister, and with this his efficiency, depend in a good degree 
 upon the sacristan, the man in whose hands the house is left, 
 day and night and all days, with its multiplied and often con- 
 flicting demands, and its requirement of serious and unfailing 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 sagacity and fidelity. I should wrong my own thought if I 
 did not make special mention of the two men who, under one 
 name and in one spirit, have administered the office. They are 
 honored in the community which they served and serve in 
 sacred ministrations. When " that good gray head that all 
 men knew " was lost to our sight, we set his name in bronze 
 above his chair, witnessing to his love for the habitation of 
 God's house, and the place where His honor dwelleth. The 
 service continues, and I want to express my indebtedness to 
 the pains and thoughtfulness and indulgence which have done 
 so much to provide the minister's life with all possible ease and 
 content, and I desire to make known my gratitude to my 
 friend, the honored sexton of this church. 
 
 We are, as we should be, a busy church. Membership means 
 that. Whatever we may receive, we are set together not to be 
 ministered unto, but to minister. Each life has its place 
 apart. Many are the men who are thus leagued, and few are 
 the women who have no share in these activities. The call and 
 the opportunity are liberahy regarded. We are completely 
 organized, in all ages and conditions, with much regard for 
 special interests and preferences, and a general regard for the 
 widest usefulness. The men have consolidated their interest 
 and their strength, and we feel the new vigor which their 
 wisdom and energy supply. In our historical society we 
 stand in friendship with all who have been here. Around the 
 the story written by Thomas Shepard for his sons already a 
 valuable collection of historical books and manuscripts is 
 among our possessions. Activity has found ways of imme- 
 diate and daily usefulness. The church which, in good degree, 
 owes its beginning to a woman's courage, has embodied the 
 faith and sympathy of women for widespread beneficence. 
 
 Maturity has its place, transforming its means into benefits; 
 the sons and daughters have their visions to be interpreted; 
 the boys learn to be masters of their hands, and the girls w ear 
 Margaret Shepard's name, while the cradle rocks under our 
 
First Sermon. 
 
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 roof. This means care and toil for the few, but these are 
 cheerfully rendered and openly rewarded. The number of 
 untitled workers, unpaid save in our gratitude and the con- 
 sciousness of the value of their service, easily wins and holds 
 our admiration. Very high among our agencies must stand 
 our Sunday school, one of the oldest and one of the best, 
 standing in modern methods, fashioning its thought and teach- 
 ing in the light of the day, seeking to advance the knowledge 
 of the Bible, and to lead all who consent into an intelligent 
 Christian life. 
 
 These years have been marked among the churches by the 
 earliest rising of the young life, foretold at Pentecost. It was 
 certain that here, where the church doors stand open before the 
 colleges, the young life would assert itself and reach out into 
 the world. At first all was informal. Then concentration 
 came. The Young People's Alliance has been vigorous in its 
 purpose and its influence extended. While the purpose was ac- 
 tive long before it took on this form, it has found advantage in 
 definite organization, but has preserved its independence in 
 action and its freedom in responsibility, and has not consented 
 to formal affiliation with larger and excellent movements. It 
 is in friendly connection with them, but it chooses its own 
 promises and purposes. Few societies have been a greater 
 power for good, or have stood in pleasanter relations with the 
 church. It was the Alliance which carried the name and 
 influence of the church to the river side, and there began the 
 beneficent work in which we rejoice. It is impossible in this 
 hour to tell the full story of our plainest efforts. Enough that 
 we acknowledge the vitality which has wisely confessed its 
 duty and accepted its opportunity. 
 
 This hurried narrative cannot pass without mention of the 
 service of song which is of so large moment in our worship. 
 There have been many changes, but the voice of praise has 
 never ceased to be heard, and voice and organ have raised our 
 minds on high. In these years many have come and many 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 have gone. It is the fashion of the times. But it is now for a 
 long time that one man has conducted this ministry of sacred 
 harmony, bringing ability and fidelity to his high mission; 
 one who has been a pleasant associate in our common interests, 
 wise but kindly, firm but generous, knowing the dignity and 
 beauty of his calling, and content within its bounds. 
 
 It is a fitting close to this part of my narrative that I make 
 thankful acknowledgment of the priceless help which has been 
 given in the two men who have shared my work. After many 
 years it again came to pass that the care of the enlarged and 
 enlarging parish was beyond any man's time and strength, and 
 you placed at my side one who should be my companion and 
 helper; a man whom we knew and who knew us; of long 
 experience, of real wisdom, of entire simplicity and sincerity; 
 who was a counselor and a friend; whose presence brought 
 gladness, a beatitude in the sanctuary and in your homes, and 
 in a marked degree where, in retirement, pious and lonely 
 souls watched for his coming, and rested in his sympathy and 
 prayer. When at last, after more than fifteen years of service, 
 he ceased from his walks among us, from this house which he 
 loved he was carried to his rest. But his memory abides, and 
 every thought of him is for our good. We look upon his calm, 
 spiritual, hallowed face to be glad that he has lived. 
 
 I may not say all that I would, beyond this: from a 
 pleasant village above Lake Lucerne, where the Rigi and 
 Pilatus look down on the quiet waters, my mind and heart at 
 leisure were with you who were here and with our life to- 
 gether. It was a place for quiet reflection and peaceful 
 expectation. I sent across the sea a pastoral letter to my 
 friends, the officers of the church, to pledge my devotion, and 
 to tell them what they knew, that there was still, and more 
 than ever, the need of a man to stand with this ministry and 
 within it. That I wrote and little more. I made no request, 
 and none was needed. The word fell into wise and willing 
 minds, and was at once regarded. Soon the man was seen, 
 
First Sermon. 
 
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 chosen, called by the church, through its own action, although 
 of course with my concurrence. Then the man who now leads 
 our worship on Sunday morning was in his appointed place; 
 in the fullness of his strength, the integrity of his purpose, the 
 abundance of skill and learning which diligent years have 
 given him, and who also has had the advantage of a business 
 training. Already his service is measured by years. We think 
 and work together, day by day, in mutual confidence, in actual 
 independence, with an increasing friendship, and an expand- 
 ing influence. The relation is a comfort and pleasure to me. 
 I have reason to believe that it is a pleasure and comfort to 
 him also. 
 
 Thus I have summed up too briefly the elements of our life 
 and work. Where all is known, little need be said. We are 
 advancing even while we speak. The church stands in 
 strength, strong in the confidence of those who are allied with 
 it. This is the present. I was asked not long ago by an 
 editor what I regard as the largest expression of this pastorate. 
 I had no answer ready. But my mind and my eye turned 
 instinctively to this stately building rs a very substantial 
 creation and memorial. But I did not build the house. More 
 expressive still is the Church itself, the Church of devout 
 souls, with its great membership, reaching into other lands, 
 and beyond the splendid stars. But the Church is not of my 
 making. What was there which I could call mine? I am by 
 no means disposed to deny my part of the work which is 
 embodied in the Church and its house. I have built too many 
 years into both. But they are not mine. Better than that, 
 they are ours, yours and mine, and thus they stand an 
 immovable witness to the years wherein we have wrought 
 together. 
 
 Good years they have been! I came when the young life 
 was making itself manifest. The patient prophecy of prophet 
 and apostle was entering on its fulfillment. A new chapter in 
 church history was to be written. The young life was coming 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 to its own — with open mind, fine ambitions, with its years in 
 front of it. There was no parting from the men who had 
 made possible these activities, but one heart and one strength. 
 This union has helped shape the future. We are young 
 enough to live, and old enough to live bravely and forcibly. 
 There is no demand for new methods, for our methods are 
 already new. The need is for a more complete fellowship and 
 combination of energies, that every one may have his work and 
 its recompense. 
 
 Something might well be said in appreciation of the system 
 of church life in which we stand, as our founders did. This is 
 a church of the people. It has its pattern and warrant in the 
 day when Christianity was simple and its ways natural. It 
 was the only system practicable here when our beginning was 
 made. It worked well. In due time, and in some degree 
 under its influence, the new nation fashioned itself after the 
 same method. I do not claim that the churches shaped the 
 nation; but they have kept the same character. Both are 
 republican. The churches stand in fellowship, but there is no 
 authority of men over us who are here. This we like. This 
 has answered its end. We have met the questions of the 
 times and solved them. We have served the state and have 
 reached into the regions beyond which seem to gravitate 
 towards our shores. We have kept " the faith which was once 
 for all delivered unto the saints." We respect the teaching of 
 later saints and sages. But no word of man stands between us 
 and the New Testament. We can read, and read even the 
 Greek sentences. Variety of interpretation and understand- 
 ing must needs come, but the appeal is always to the New 
 Testament. We are not alone in this, but this is our way. 
 Our churches, with this church, are sending the truth through 
 the world; and with this have furnished liberty and good 
 government, education, righteousness, and all the virtues. So 
 have others done, but none has surpassed us. Our system has 
 proved its sufficiency, and stood all tests. 
 
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 We boast no superiority, but we believe in the way of the 
 fathers, and our loyalty to them makes us prefer the things 
 which they established, content with their wisdom and satis- 
 fied with its actual operation. We are not bound to them by 
 written compact, but it is an added and peculiar pleasure that 
 in our freedom we walk in their paths. Our loyalty is their 
 due. If we are to have claim upon posterity we must be just 
 to our ancestry. We are very strong, yet we can receive 
 enlargement. Agreement we have : there might be a stronger 
 and larger binding of our purposes and forces; a more com- 
 plete devotion to our Saviour, our Lord; an utter faith in 
 God and an obedience which never hesitates before his com- 
 mandments. Then we are ready for the years to come. We 
 have been true to our past. 
 
 The line of ten ministers is unbroken, from the godly 
 Shepard to the learned Holmes; from matchless Mitchel to 
 the venerated Albro. These have found the reward of their 
 fidelity. We have kept the faith. The gifts which we in- 
 herited will make a large bequest. It is the future with which 
 we must now keep faith, and we shall do it; in His name, and as 
 God shall give us grace. The church has many gifts and large 
 wealth, but its choicest treasure is its future, which holds its 
 past and will not let it go. We devote ourselves; we pledge 
 those who shall, one by one, glide into our places and rise 
 quickly to our privileges. For the great blessing is life, and 
 life will be here abundantly — even the power of an endless 
 life. 
 
 What now remains for me to say, but that I give God thanks 
 that he set me into his ministry, and appointed my place here, 
 where I should live, be compelled to live by the life which 
 surrounds us, pervades the air, stimulates the thought, carries 
 us into the light! I bless God for his goodness! I bless you, 
 my dear people, for your kindness! You have been very good 
 to me ; very considerate and patient ; granting me liberty, and 
 as large an opportunity to live as a man could desire. You 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 make greater account than I can of the work of the years. 
 I try to rise toward your estimate. So far as this I come 
 readily : to thank you, to bless God, in all gratitude and cheer- 
 fulness to move on, in the cheer of your confidence, the comfort 
 of your affection, the fellowship of your service, — on along 
 the path which grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect 
 day. 
 
 We will keep faith with God and with one another, and 
 faith with those into whose work we have entered, while we 
 again repeat together the old prayer: " The Lord our God be 
 with us, as he was with our fathers." 
 
MT. AUBURN STREET CHURCH, 
 The place of Installation. 
 
SUNDAY SCHOOL EXERCISES. 
 
 Anniversary exercises, open to the public, were held by 
 the Sunday school directly after the morning service in the 
 church, and the spacious chapel on Mason Street was filled 
 to its utmost capacity. 
 
 Supt. Hewitt G. Fletcher opened the exercises with a brief 
 prayer, and the church quartette sang, " The King of Love 
 my Shepherd is." Mr. Fletcher then read a scriptural selec- 
 tion, and Deacon Charles F. Stratton offered prayer. The 
 hymn, " How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord," was 
 then sung by the entire gathering. 
 
 Superintendent Fletcher, in his opening remarks, said 
 that the school was glad to give up its regular exercises for 
 the time being and to observe the happy occasion of Dr. 
 McKenzie's fortieth anniversary as pastor of the church. 
 If there is one thing that ought to be recognized at this time, 
 said he, it is that boys and girls should live the life of service. 
 That is the keynote of this church, and that was the keynote 
 of Dr. McKenzie's sermon. 
 
 The superintendent then presented as the first speaker, 
 Hon. J. M. W. Hall. 
 
 A very pretty exercise followed Mr. Hall's remarks, when 
 the little children of the school all entered the room and, 
 passing by Dr. McKenzie as he sat on the platform, one by one 
 laid a fragrant flower before him, and by the time they had 
 finished, his chair was entirely surrounded by their sweet- 
 smelling tokens of the children's devotion. 
 
 Dr. McKenzie was then called upon and spoke with great 
 feeling of his pleasure at the part the Sunday school had in 
 the observance of his anniversary. He expressed his grati- 
 tude for the beautiful flowers laid at his feet by the children, 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 which he should always remember, his appreciation of the 
 service which the superintendent and teachers had rendered, 
 and his thanks for the kind words and good wishes expressed 
 by the members of the school. 
 
 Prayer and the benediction by Dr. McKenzie closed the 
 exercises. 
 
RECEPTION. 
 
 On Monday evening, January 21, a reception was tendered 
 to Dr. and Mrs. McKenzie by the present and past members of 
 the congregation, which was very largely attended. After 
 an hour or more spent in extending to Dr. and Mrs. McKenzie 
 the personal congratulations of those present, the audience 
 was called to order by Deacon Charles F. Stratton, who had 
 been appointed to act as chairman of the formal exercises 
 attending the presentation of a portrait of Dr. McKenzie, and 
 the gift to him of an album and a purse of money, which had 
 been prepared in honor of the occasion. 
 
 Deacon Stratton, in opening the exercises, spoke as follows : 
 
 Having now all had an opportunity to present our personal 
 congratulations to our pastor, the time has arrived we have 
 been looking forward to, and your committees have been 
 laboring for, when we are, as a parish, to express our appre- 
 ciation of this notable ministry of forty years and our love 
 and esteem for the pastor. In point of time, this is the 
 second longest ministry to this church, but measured by the 
 speed with which men have lived in this generation, and by 
 the results accomplished, it is by far the longest and the most 
 fruitful of them all. 
 
 The most notable event in these forty years was the removal 
 from the humbler quarters on Mt. Auburn Street to this 
 stately and beautiful house of worship, built, dedicated, and 
 consecrated by the united devotion, sacrifice, and love of 
 pastor and people. As we look back over these years, a great 
 procession of loyal and devoted men and women who have 
 labored and sacrificed that this house should be consecrated 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 free from debt pass in review before our mind. Of all the 
 true and loyal hearts who officially joined in the invitation to 
 Dr. McKenzie to become our pastor, but one remains with us 
 to this clay, honored and beloved. May his life long be spared 
 to us, a blessing and a benediction. A jew of us remain who 
 remember the beginnings of this ministry, to whom it has been 
 a blessing and a delight all these forty years. We have seen 
 the black hair turn to gray, and the lines deepen on the rugged 
 face, but the presentation of the simple gospel truth has 
 grown in power, force, and beauty with the advancing years. 
 
 No pessimism has found expression from this pulpit, but 
 abounding courage, hope, and faith in God and our fellow- 
 men. 
 
 The tenderest relation of the family life of many of us 
 center about this ministry. Dr. McKenzie has rejoiced with 
 us when the heart was glad and our courage high and life was 
 opening before us, beautiful and strong; and in our periods 
 of depression and sorrow, when our house has unroofed and 
 the rain was beating in, he has ever been a loyal, steadfast 
 friend and counselor who has led the way to the unchanging 
 source of joy and peace and life. He has laid his hand in 
 blessing and consecration upon the heads of even the fourth 
 generation. 
 
 All the powers of body, mind, and soul have been dedi- 
 cated to this people, and we are *glad to-night to express our 
 appreciation of all that he has been to us as a leader, guide, 
 and friend; to let the esteem and gratitude and love which 
 has been growing all these j^ears flow out in free tide. From 
 all parts of this broad land those who have come under the 
 power and influence of this ministry join with us to-night in 
 praise and congratulation and thanksgiving. 
 
 It is fitting that these expressions of our personal and 
 united gratitude and love should take some more enduring 
 form than the expression of the lip and the pressure of the 
 hand, and so the pastor has, at our request, kindly consented 
 
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 to sit for his portrait, that the generations yet to come may- 
 look upon the face we have revered and loved and call to 
 mind the glory and beauty of this long and faithful pastorate. 
 
 The arrangements for this portrait were placed in the hands 
 of a committee of whom Judge Stone is the chairman. 
 
 Judge Stone will present the portrait. 
 
 PRESENTATION OF PORTRAIT. 
 Hon. Arthur P. Stone spoke as follows: 
 
 Next Thursday night in this house there will be a public 
 meeting in honor of Alexander McKenzie, for forty years the 
 pastor of the First Church in Cambridge and the Shepard 
 Congregational Society. At that time men who by fan- 
 effort have won high places in this and other communities 
 will unite in a tribute of admiration for the successful career 
 of one of their peers. This to-night is a far different occasion. 
 We are gathered together in this place bringing with us a 
 message of love in our hearts, the household met together to 
 greet the head of the house. And on such an occasion the 
 remarks that may be made must, of necessity, be an incident 
 of, rather than a reason for, the gathering. 
 
 The committee that have had the exercises of this week in 
 charge deemed it fitting that one feature of the occasion should 
 be the preparation of a painting of Dr. McKenzie to be pre- 
 sented to the parish. 
 
 Of coursel, if you are to have a painting of Dr. McKenzie, 
 it must be by an artist of established reputation, and I feel that 
 we paid Mr. Tompkins the highest compliment in our power 
 when we selected him as, on the whole, best qualified to paint 
 a picture of this man we love so much. A good painting of 
 a man has a great advantage over a photograph, — it not only 
 shows with fidelity the form and figure; but it also, if it is indeed 
 the work of an artist, shows the real man that, after all, is the 
 man we know. But the artist who paints such a man as Dr. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 McKenzie has a difficulty that the photographer cannot 
 realize. In what one of the varied capacities in which he 
 comes before us shall this permanent memorial of him be 
 presented to the public? As the wise counselor in the per- 
 plexities of this life, the pleasant companion in hours of 
 relaxation, the tactful leader in the affairs of the church, the 
 valued participant in public affairs, the welcome friend of 
 every family circle in the parish, or the sympathetic comforter 
 of all when affliction darkens the fireside? In all of these 
 individualities he might claim the artist's attention, and a 
 portrait of our pastor as any of these would be a true portrait 
 of the man. 
 
 But I think that, after all, it is as the preacher of this ancient 
 church that it is most fitting that he shall be portrayed. 
 And so we present him to you in that capacity, — the minister 
 of God arrayed and prepared for his great service to expound 
 the Scriptures to an expectant congregation. 
 
 For forty years he has preached the Word of God in our 
 meetinghouse; for nearly forty years these very walls have 
 echoed and re-echoed with his eloquence. There is a tendency 
 to-day, less pronounced now, I think, than it was even when I 
 was in college, to claim men's attention to the simple truths 
 of religion by eccentric behavior in the pulpit and striking 
 peculiarities in personal life. One would think that such 
 men believed that people should be startled into righteousness 
 by sudden shocks of religious electricity rather than drawn 
 to worship the Almighty by the strong, pure, soul-compelling 
 current of an all-conquering love. And these men, most of 
 them young, I admit, complain that modern times are such 
 that the old-fashioned methods of preaching would leave them 
 empty churches. This old-fashioned man has preached for 
 forty years in a church of reasonable size and does not often 
 complain that he preaches to unfilled pews. 
 
 Possibly he has realized that his one text is good enough 
 for sermon after sermon. I say one text because, after all, he 
 
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 has but one, although he manages to find it every Sunday in 
 a new form somewhere between Genesis and Revelation. 
 It was the inspiration of youth and is now the wisdom of 
 years that makes him, acknowledged leader in his profession, 
 preach Sunday after Sunday with ever fresh significance the 
 matchless story of God's love for man made manifest through 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 Such always has been the message of the preachers of this 
 church. Such is the message that comes to me from the mute 
 lips of this canvas, and such will be the message that it shall 
 tell in the years to come. For we paint his picture not for 
 to-day, but for to-morrow, and those who bear our names, in 
 whose veins runs our blood, whose character is builded on our 
 character, shall in the future reverence the man we reverence, 
 and the children shall look with kindly eyes upon the man 
 the fathers followed. 
 
 And now it is time that this portrait had one owner, for 
 it has, up to now, had many. It has been the artist's, for he 
 painted it; it has been Dr. McKenzie's, for to its preparation 
 he has given much time; it has been ours through our love 
 for him. Now I give it into the hands of an officer of this 
 parish, one who for many years has kept the property of this 
 society with fidelity and careful regard, whose service has 
 been great, and I now impose upon him and upon the officers 
 of the parish the additional charge of this picture of our 
 pastor. 
 
 Alexander McKenzie, pastor, friend, and lover of the people 
 of this house — Puritan Preacher in a Puritan Church. 
 
 ACCEPTANCE OF PORTRAIT. 
 
 In accepting the portrait, Deacon Francis Flint said : 
 
 As representing the Prudential Committee of this ancient 
 church and parish, it is a pleasant task to accept this beauti- 
 ful picture of our beloved pastor. I think he will prize it 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 while he lives as an expression of the universal love and 
 gratitude of the congregation and as a memorial of himself 
 to hang in sight of other generations to come for the next 
 hundred years. 
 
 I notice in this fine portrait he is in a standing position such 
 as we have seen him assume so many, many times, which also 
 reminds us that he has stood by us of the older portion 
 of the congregation all these years in joy or sorrow. I 
 hope I may add without offense that I think also we have 
 stood by him. This Prudential Committee, although seldom 
 heard from, is the finance committee of the parish and has 
 the charge of this church building and property, and will care 
 for the portrait. 
 
 One of the most charming features of these anniversary 
 days to me is the spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm and love 
 from so many hundreds of the past and present members of 
 the congregation. Various memories come to us at this time, 
 but I think we have reason to particularly rejoice in our 
 continuous happy family life together, for we have lived in 
 harmony and love all these years. May this condition con- 
 tinue in the years to come is our sincere wish. 
 
 PRESENTATION OF ALBUM. 
 
 Judge Jabez Fox, in presenting, the album containing the 
 autographs of members of the congregation during Dr. 
 McKenzie's ministry, spoke as follows : 
 
 Dr. McKenzie and I came to town the same year, — he 
 to preach the gospel and make bad people good, and I to 
 furnish suitable material for him to work upon. And I 
 have kept him here, for the doctor is not the sort of man to 
 run off and leave a job unfinished. And when I think of 
 all the excellent qualities, such as courage and perseverance 
 under difficulties, which I have enabled the doctor to cul- 
 tivate and perfect in working on my case I cannot help 
 
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 feeling, — well, I do not like to boast, but it really seems 
 as if I were entitled to some of the credit for the success of 
 his ministry. 
 
 And I suppose it is in recognition of my services in this 
 direction that the committee have asked me to present this 
 album. Let me speak of the merits of this album. In the 
 first place, it is not a photograph album. A good many 
 of us, while not claiming to be experts in penmanship, would 
 rather exhibit our autographs than our photographs. 
 
 In the second place, while this album will make a distinct 
 addition to the doctor's personal estate, it will not add a 
 dollar to his tax bills. 
 
 And finally, all the men, women, and children whose names 
 are here, sent them in without knowing to what they would 
 be made to subscribe, but knowing that no expression of 
 admiration and love for their pastor which the committee 
 could frame would exceed their feeling. 
 
 But this album is unfinished and I will leave my speech 
 unfinished. 
 
 Mr. George S. Chase, chairman of Committee on Invitations, 
 as representing the absent and past members of the church, 
 spoke as follows : 
 
 The founders of this church were immigrants and colonists, 
 and the church has been loyal to the traditions of its founders. 
 From its earliest days men and women have gone out from it, 
 some to found other churches; others to strengthen churches 
 already established. How many have thus gone from us 
 during the past three hundred years I cannot say, but during 
 the forty years of your pastorate this church has granted 
 letters of dismission to nearly four hundred persons, who have 
 thus transferred their allegiance, while retaining their loyal 
 memories. Besides these, there is a great army of those who, 
 never formally withdrawing from our fellowship, have re- 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 moved their residence and at infrequent intervals, if at all, 
 have united in our services. 
 
 To reach these absent ones, to tell them of this memorable 
 occasion, and to invite them to join with us in celebrating it, has 
 been the work of your committee. And here I wish to ac- 
 knowledge the Christian courtesy and brotherly love of those 
 who have helped us in this work. Busy ministers of great 
 city churches, the perhaps busier pastors of country parishes, 
 active business men, clerks of other churches, have taken time 
 from their own affairs to delve in old church records searching 
 the addresses of members who went out from us years ago. 
 And not from our own denomination only, — Presbyterians, 
 Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, have vied with one 
 another in generosity, crowning all with loving words that 
 showed that they were glad to do this to serve one whose 
 name they learned long ago to admire and respect. 
 
 Not all who were sought have been found. Many, especially 
 those of the early days of your pastorate, have entered into 
 rest. Others have changed their church membership again 
 and again until all trace of them is lost. And others still 
 have not used the letters we gave them, or have taken them 
 to other churches than those to which we dismissed them 
 and so are beyond our reach. But, spite of all, our success 
 has been far beyond our expectations. Once traced and our 
 circulars delivered, the answers " have been quick to come. 
 And from so many sources! To you, dear Dr. McKenzie, we 
 may well apply the words of the Psalmist, " Your line is 
 gone out through all the world, and your words to the end of 
 the world." 
 
 From the North and the South, the East and the West, from 
 where the new Canadian wheat fields border on the Arctic 
 Circle, from the steaming heat of Panama, from the spruce 
 woods of Maine and the orange groves of California, from 
 Yucatan and Seattle, from Greece and Bulgaria, from Syria 
 and Turkey, from India and China and the isles of the sea, 
 
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 they have come or are coming, these white messages of love 
 and respect, of grateful remembrance and cordial good wishes. 
 And not names only, but often one has written more fully 
 the thoughts of his heart. Some have written to you direct. 
 Those that have come to your committee we have preserved 
 for you. Of these latter I have time here to read only three. 
 
 Mr. George S. Chase, Cambridge, Mass. : 
 
 Dear Sir, — Nothing would give us greater pleasure than to be of the 
 number of those who commemorate Dr. McKenzie's fortieth anniver- 
 sary, having heard his first sermon in the old church. I fear, however, 
 that ill-health and the weather may prevent our acceptance of the in- 
 vitation, but send our sincerest congratulations, hoping he may live to 
 celebrate his diamond wedding with the Shepard Church. 
 
 Faithfully yours, 
 
 Joseph and Caroline Burgess. 
 
 Wareham, January 13, 1907. 
 Each Sunday, year in, year out, my father, on returning from church, 
 would say: " Well, Mr. McKenzie preached to-day the best sermon to 
 which I ever listened ! " The conclusion reached was that our good 
 pastor was a " growing man "! To-day, I doubt not, his people are 
 thinking the same thought. Breadth and depth, tenderness and 
 exaltation, characterize his sermons and writings. The poet and 
 artist in the man complete the charm to which his audience responds! 
 His prayers epitomize the Psalms of David. Like Moses, after three 
 score years and ten, his intellectual force is " not abated." Long may 
 he live to dignify and adorn the church, honor his Alma Mater, stand 
 for righteousness in civic affairs, and be a bulwark of strength to 
 neighboring churches. 
 
 " Hath he not always treasures, always friends, 
 
 The good, great man? Three treasures, — love, and light, 
 And calm thoughts equable as infants' breath: 
 
 And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, 
 Himself, his Maker, and the Angel Death." 
 
 With highest esteem, 
 
 (Signed) Caroline Sands Burgess. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 Norfolk, Mass., January 14, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mr. Chase, — My father thought that the following gene- 
 alogical sketch might be of interest to you. 
 
 Nicholas Danforth, my ancestor, was born in Framlingham, England ; 
 baptized March 1, 1589; married Elizabeth, who died and was buried 
 in Framlingham, February 22, 1628. He came with the children in 
 1634 to Cambridge, or Newetowne as it was then called. He had 
 a son Jonathan, baptized March 2, 1627-8; who had a son Jonathan, 
 born in Billerica, February 18, 1658-9, died January, 1710-11 ; who had 
 a son Samuel, born in Billerica, September 16, 1692, died about 1749; 
 who had a son Jonathan, born in Billerica, June 14, 1736, died in 
 Williamstown, February, 1802; who had a daughter Phoebe, born 
 August 15, 1767, married Barnabas Cary, and died at Medway, Sep- 
 tember 8, 1843. They had a daughter Pamela Cary, born August 2, 
 1788 ; married in 1814, Darius Ware. They had a son Lyman Cary Ware, 
 who had a son Lyman Eugene Ware, who is my father. Consequently 
 I am a lineal descendant of the Nicholas Danforth mentioned at the 
 beginning. 
 
 This Nicholas, when in England, was a friend and associate of the 
 reverend and honored Thomas Shepard, the namesake of our Cam- 
 bridge church. Although Nicholas lived but four years after his 
 arrival in New England, he led an active life, and was closely identi- 
 fied with the interests of the new town. When the important com- 
 mittee to " take order for a college at Newetowne " was selected, 
 November 20, 1637, he was one of those selected. 
 
 The remembrance of my connection with " Dr. McKenzie's church," 
 the church of which my Danforth ancestor was one of the original 
 members, will always be very pleasant to me. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Pamela Cary Ware. 
 
 And now permit me to say a few words as to the album. 
 This is an age of combinations, of corporations, of trusts. 
 Even literature feels the spirit of the time, and authors col- 
 laborate in their work. You would search far and wide to 
 find so unique a specimen of collaborated authorship as this. 
 
 We know of others equally or more voluminous in our own 
 neighborhood, but they were restricted to special classes, — 
 
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 college students or high school graduates. But here you 
 have authors of all ages and all social positions. One card 
 contains in printed capitals the name of one so young that her 
 baby fingers were hardly long enough to clasp the lead pencil. 
 Not far from hers is an autograph still clear and strong though 
 the hand that wrote it carries the weight of more than ninety- 
 three years. Honored judges, great merchants, shut-in 
 invalids, men and women bent by toil and sorrow, mingle 
 here with youths and maidens full of hope and anticipation 
 and with other men and women who bear the burden and 
 heat of the day. Nearly a thousand authors have here com- 
 bined to tell one story, — the story of their affection for you. 
 
 To me perhaps the most touching and suggestive of all is 
 a group of names known to but few of those here present. 
 They come from across our eastern border, from Nova Scotia 
 and New Brunswick, from Prince Edward Island and Cape 
 Breton and far-off Newfoundland, where the sound of the 
 sea you love so well is ever in their ears. I knew most of them 
 personally when they were members of Dr. Parker's well- 
 known Sunday-afternoon class. Then they were what we 
 called housemaids, a class apart. Now they are sisters well 
 beloved, who take equal rank with us in these pages. 
 
 May God grant in his own good time that all of us whose 
 names are in this album shall find them in that greater book 
 which is being prepared above, — the Lamb's Book of Life. 
 
 PRESENTATION OF PURSE. 
 
 As a further token of the esteem and love of the people for 
 Dr. McKenzie, the sum of seventeen hundred dollars had been 
 subscribed and was presented to Dr. McKenzie by Mr. George 
 S. Saunders, the senior deacon of the church, who said: 
 
 Our dear Pastor and Personal Friend, — I desire to say, in 
 behalf of the committee in charge of arrangements for the 
 various services and gatherings connected with this anniver- 
 
30 
 
 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 sary week, that the hearty and spontaneous response to the 
 invitations has been most gratifying, but especially appreci- 
 ated are the many letters that have come, not only from your 
 present parishioners, but from those who in former years were 
 identified with this church, enclosing loving remembrances, 
 and expressing affection and deepest regard for you, the pastor 
 for two score years of this historic church. It seems not out 
 of place to quote from a few of these many letters. 
 
 One writing from a distant city says, " I am happy to be 
 remembered by the church in Cambridge on this occasion, 
 and glad to be allowed to unite with others in an expression 
 of personal gratitude to Dr. McKenzie and high appreciation 
 of his long and faithful service." 
 
 Another with her gift writes: " In loving memory of my 
 mother, who was a devoted friend of the Shepard Church and 
 Dr. McKenzie." 
 
 Another writes: " This small gift comes with a great deal 
 of feeling and much love." 
 
 These and like expressions only serve to indicate the love 
 and regard in which you are held by your parishioners. 
 
 It is, therefore, with great pleasure, in behalf of your pa- 
 rishioners and friends, that I now present to you and Mrs. 
 McKenzie, who has been your helpmeet, and whose wise 
 counsel through all these years has enabled you to carry on 
 your chosen work, this free-will offering of a grateful people. 
 
 RESPONSE OF DR. McKENZIE. 
 
 M r. Chairman and Friends, — You have given me such ample 
 opportunity to say all that I ought to say in connection with 
 this anniversary that I will make but a few remarks at this 
 time. Let me say once for all that I am deeply moved, more 
 than I can tell you, by all that has been said and sung. 
 
 You seem to have recognized the portrait of a friend of yours. 
 I have been trying to recognize the portrait you have been 
 
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 painting in your words. Just now and then I seem to see 
 a slight resemblance. It seems to be the portrait of a man 
 who graduated in the Class of '59. 
 
 When a boy, I had a sister living in Cambridge, and I was 
 brought up to the old church home. The sexton once took 
 me by a secret path under the pulpit where we had to stoop to 
 get through. Benjamin Franklin says that to get through this 
 world we have sometimes to stoop. I have found this out since 
 and I have always remembered this little path. in the church. 
 
 I am very glad to have this album and the cards which 
 I have not yet seen. 
 
 I am the only pastor who knows this church, — not the 
 church of to-day only, but the church of the past. I do not 
 know any church very well. It is rather a collection of 
 individuals, and every individual has a place in my mind 
 and heart. I am sure that every name will be a distinct 
 memory to me. I shall cherish the remembrance. 
 
 This gathering is made up of comparatively newcomers. 
 My mind takes in the entire forty years. I remember those 
 who were here when my ministry began. After them came 
 many good men and women who have now passed on. No 
 man can take away the memory of these people from me. 
 There will be somebody here, by and by, to take the church 
 of that day, but many who have been here will work in that 
 church. The*church of the past is mine. It is impossible 
 that it should be taken from me. It is very dear to my 
 heart. Men in the past have their church and their friends. 
 Men in the future will have their friends. But the church 
 which I have had no man will ever have again. 
 
 The other side of this sacred trust must be borne in mind. 
 I have served this church for forty years and it has served 
 me for forty years. It is a sort of double relationship. Per- 
 haps it is almost as much for me to be had as for you to 
 have me. My life has been under the influence of the place 
 and the people and the great opportunities given me here. 
 
32 
 
 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 I can say very little regarding the future. 
 
 I wish that I were worthy of all that has been said. I am 
 fairly overpowered. It takes considerable to surprise me, 
 but I am downright surprised. 
 
 I have letters on my desk to-day that seem to exceed 
 an)' fiction ever written. It is very kind of the people to 
 say all these things and I can only try to live it out. 
 
 It was my friend Phillips Brooks who said, when, at a public 
 meeting, such things were told of him, " It is very kind, but it 
 is not true, you know." 
 
 It goes very far towards making these things true that you 
 believe them to be true. The longer I live the more I exalt 
 friendship. Friendship is the best possession in the world. 
 I feel very rich in friends who are about me on this anniversary 
 day. 
 
 I used yesterday three verbs in one sermon. I used them 
 very deliberately. It seemed to me that they were true. I 
 believe I spoke the truth when I said that through all the 
 changes, through prosperity and adversity, we have proved 
 one another, we have believed in one another, we have loved 
 one another. We have helped one another in many ways. 
 Your testimony makes me very content. I am grateful for all 
 that has been said. 
 
 I am glad you want the portrait and I hope that you will 
 enjoy it. I am glad I have this book and what is in it. I am 
 glad I have this envelope and what is in it, although I do not 
 know what it contains. I can trust that it is good. 
 
 I can only recall to mind a very happy remark of that very 
 able man whom I have the honor to follow, Dr. Albro, who 
 said, " I should be surprised if it were not that the kindness 
 of my people in the past prevents my being surprised at any 
 kindness in the present." I appreciate and thank you for it. 
 
 We will try, if you will, to go on together changing my 
 verbs into beautiful realities, believing in one another, and 
 loving one another, and helping one another. 
 
PRESENT CHURCH. 
 
PUBLIC MEETING. 
 
 On the evening of the day of the anniversary, Thursday, 
 January 24, 1907, at a quarter before eight o'clock, public 
 exercises were held in the meetinghouse, corner of Garden and 
 Mason streets, Cambridge. For this meeting nearly four hun- 
 dred special invitations were issued to the various public, 
 charitable, religious, and social organizations with which Dr. 
 McKenzie had been associated as an officer or member during 
 his career, and to men prominent in religious, charitable, 
 social, and municipal life. 
 
 The special engraved invitation read as follows : 
 
 The First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 
 and The Shepard Congregational Society 
 invite 
 
 to the Public Exercises in Celebration of the 
 Fortieth Anniversary 
 of the Installation of the 
 Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. 
 in the Meetinghouse, Garden Street, Cambridge 
 Thursday evening, the twenty-fourth day of January 
 nineteen hundred and seven 
 at a quarter before eight o'clock 
 Please reply before Jan. 17th to Please present this'card 
 
 Frank Gaylord Cook, Cambridge at the door before 7.35 o'clock 
 
 Accompanying each engraved invitation was the following 
 card for an informal reception at the close of the public 
 exercises, namely: 
 
 The Invited Guests 
 are requested immediately at the close of the 
 Public Exercises to pass through the door at 
 the rear of the pulpit into the Chapel for 
 An Informal Reception 
 33 
 
34 
 
 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 In addition to these special cards, informal invitations to 
 attend the public exercises were read on the Sunday preceding 
 from the pulpits of the churches in the neighborhood, namel}', 
 St. John's Church, Christ Church, the First Church, Unitarian, 
 the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, the Epworth Methodist 
 Church, and the North Avenue Congregational Church. 
 
 In response to these invitations, although the weather was 
 excessively cold, a large audience assembled, comfortably 
 filling the meetinghouse. The first twenty tiers of pews were 
 reserved for the guests specially invited as above stated. 
 
 The printed program of the exercises was as follows : 
 
 ORDER OF 
 
 Prelude 
 
 Coronation March 
 Ave Maria 
 Andante con Moto 
 Largo (Xerxes) 
 
 Prayer 
 
 SERVICE. 
 
 Organ and Harp 
 Meyerbeer 
 Chas. Gounod 
 John Cheshire 
 Handel 
 
 Rev. Charles E. Beals 
 
 Opening Remarks The Chairman, Frank Gaylord Cook, Esq. 
 Anthem Thine forever! God of Love J. A. Butterfield 
 
 Greetings 
 
 From The First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 
 
 Hon. James M. W. Hall 
 
 From The Shepard Congregational Society 
 
 Major-General William A. Bancroft 
 
 From The Union Conference of Congregational Churches 
 of Boston and Vicinity 
 
 Rev. Reuen Thomas, D.D. 
 
 Anniversary Hymn Tune: St. Ann's (No. 456) 
 
 Written by Rev. Abiel Holmes and sung at installations of 
 Rev. John A. Albro and Rev. Alexander McKenzie, at 250th 
 Anniversary of Church, and at Dr. McKenzie 's 30th 
 Anniversary. 
 
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 Great God! thou heard 'st our fathers' prayer, 
 
 When, o'er the ocean brought, 
 They with a patriarchal care 
 
 A sanctuary sought. 
 
 Hither thy guidance led their feet, 
 
 Here was their first abode ; 
 And here, where now their children meet, 
 
 They found a place for God. 
 
 Thy flock, Immanuel, here was fed, 
 
 In pastures green and fair; 
 Beside still waters gently led, 
 
 And thine the Shepherd's care. 
 
 Here may the Church thy cause maintain, 
 
 Thy truth with peace and love, 
 Till her last earth-born live again 
 
 With the first-born above. 
 
 Greetings 
 
 From The First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian 
 
 Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, D.D. 
 
 From the City of Cambridge 
 
 The Mayor, Hon. Walter C. Wardwell 
 
 From Harvard University 
 
 President Charles William Eliot, LL.D. 
 
 From other Bodies, Religious, Social, and Educational 
 
 Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D. 
 
 Response 
 Doxology 
 Benediction 
 
 Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. 
 
 The Congregation 
 Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. 
 
 Organ Postlude Hallelujah (Messiah) Handel 
 
 At the close of the meeting, guests to whom cards have been 
 sent are requested to pass through the door at the rear of 
 the pulpit into the chapel for an informal reception. Coats 
 and wraps may be left in the pews. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 PRAYER OF REV. CHARLES E. BEALS. 
 
 Eternal God, illimitable Love, we thank thee that we have 
 learned to call thee our Father, and ourselves thy children. 
 
 " Thou hast made us for thyself, and we are restless until 
 we rest in thee"; neither canst thou be satisfied tiU thy 
 nature is imparted to us, thy love established in every heart, 
 till all share life with thee. 
 
 We praise thee that life is not planless. Thy wisdom, thy 
 power, thy love, order our steps and thou dost shape the 
 course of history. 
 
 We know that love is the way and the life because our 
 hearts assure us that love is true, eternally, finally, divinely 
 true. And so, even amidst the storm and stress of life, the 
 bewildering turnings and overturnings, we rest in the calm, 
 sweet confidence of the triumph of love and God. 
 
 We render thee hearty thanks that thy kingdom is coming. 
 As thou dost follow seed-time with blade and ear and bountiful 
 harvest, so we rejoice that thou dost plant ideas in the minds 
 of men, and bring to sure fruitage those great revolutionizing, 
 civilizing, Christianizing principles which make for stability 
 and brotherhood. And so thou art teaching us that they who 
 " work with God at love " can be patient, glad, and strong, 
 knowing that their work is not in vain, but is work that shall 
 succeed and abide. And that we~ are permitted to live just 
 now, when history is making so rapidly and so evidently 
 towards that love-kingdom of which He spoke who best inter- 
 prets the riddle of existence to the man-child, we especially 
 thank thee. 
 
 Thou dost use human beings to accomplish thy divine 
 purposes, and we thank thee for government, and schools and 
 churches, for law, for education, for religion. We thank thee 
 for and pray a blessing upon our nation, state, and city. 
 Only in a country of free people, with institutions which safe- 
 guard our liberties; only in a commonwealth like ours, rich 
 
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 in its heritage of democracy, idealism, education, and morality; 
 only in a citj' favored among the cities of the world with the 
 light of learning, open-mindedness to truth, a citizenship of 
 lofty purposes and high standards of civic righteousness; only 
 under such favorable conditions can such lives be lived and 
 such pastorates be made possible as the life we have gathered 
 i to honor and the pastorate we now celebrate on this glad 
 occasion. For high-souled public servants, and an intelligent, 
 right-minded populace; for government and university and 
 temple worship we bless thee, praying that we may prize and 
 so use these privileges that we may worthily carry on the work 
 begun by those who builded in blood and tears. 
 
 We glorify thee for thy manifold blessings upon thy servant 
 who for these many years has ministered to and in and through 
 this church, bringing vision to the visionless, comfort to the 
 sorrowing, steadiness to the rejoicing. For the broad and 
 deep foundations, for the strength and symmetry and beauty 
 of all his honest, loving, enduring work, we thank thee. 
 Thou hast given him the understanding heart; from thee 
 gained he the warm, generous, tender, human sympathies. 
 Thou hast led and sustained and inspired him through all 
 these busy, fruitful years during which he has builded his 
 life and thy life into the living characters of thousands of thy 
 children. 
 
 For him, their under shepherd, these assembled hundreds lift 
 their gratitude to thee, Great Shepherd of our souls. And for 
 that greater multitude scattered abroad over all the earth — 
 the thousands who have been helped by this Christian minister, 
 we bless thee. And we thank thee for those thy servants 
 who, cheered and comforted by the word and infectious hope 
 of this thy message-bearer, have finished their course in faith 
 and do now rest from their labors. 
 
 We give thee glory for the many visible results of this life 
 dedicated in young manhood to thee and to the service of 
 humanity. And we thank thee for the things that do not 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 yet appear. For past and present and future, receive thou 
 our thanksgivings. 
 
 Give, we earnestly pray thee, unto this thy servant, whose 
 labors thou hast so signally honored, in these sunset years of 
 earthly pilgrimage the glow of heaven. Help him to feel that 
 truly " the best is yet to be." Upon his family and dear ones 
 send thou heaven's choice benedictions. May nothing but 
 good come to him and to his. 
 
 Bless, we entreat thee, 0 Father, this church that has been 
 so lovingly loyal. May its future record new, bright chapters 
 in its story, already so long and luminous. 
 
 We commend to thee for thy blessing all organizations and 
 corporations, political, educational, philanthropic, and re- 
 ligious, represented in this presence before thee, and bound 
 by living ties to the heart of him who has come to fill so 
 large a place in our ministerial, municipal, and national life. 
 
 We entreat thee, help us all to live worthily, as honest fol- 
 lowers of the dear Christ, knowing God, understanding and 
 sympathizing with our fellow-men, bearing a simple, real word 
 of testimony in our day and generation; never shunning 
 labor or difficulty; never flinching before danger; but endur- 
 ing the cross and sharing the joy of joys — the joy of the cross 
 — with Him who hung on Calvary, a witness to those things 
 which are deathless, — life and love and God. We ask it in 
 ihy hallowed and gracious name. 'Amen. 
 
 OPENING REMARKS OF THE CHAIRMAN, 
 FRANK GAYLORD COOK, ESQ. 
 
 It is a great privilege and pleasure, on behalf of the officers 
 and people of this church and society, to bid you all a most 
 cordial welcome. Many of you have come from different 
 churches and from other public and private bodies. Your 
 presence, therefore, is a recognition and expression of Christian 
 fellowship that is peculiarly fitting in this place. Here, in 
 
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 1637, soon after the First Church in Cambridge was founded, 
 assembled the Cambridge Synod, the first general expression 
 of fellowship among the New England churches. Here, six 
 years later, in 1643, met the first convention of their ministers; 
 and here again, in 1648, was adopted the Cambridge platform, 
 upon which the churches have stood together ever since in a 
 common government and practice. 
 
 Your presence is also a conspicuous recognition of the abid- 
 ing dignity and importance of the Christian ministry. Though 
 the minister is no longer the arbiter of politics, as he was in 
 the first generation of New England, he is still the interpreter 
 of the divine law; he is still the man of God, and in his keeping 
 are the issues of life. 
 
 This fact is best seen in a ministry that has been prolonged. 
 A long ministry may permeate fully the various agencies for 
 righteousness in the community that it serves; it may build 
 up a consistent, symmetrical structure of character in the men 
 and women under its teaching; and it may reach outside its 
 own community into the various moral and spiritual activities 
 of the larger fellowship and life. 
 
 Such ministries have become traditional in this church. 
 During its existence of two hundred and seventy years there 
 have been but eleven pastorates; one, that of Dr. Nathaniel 
 Appleton, continued for sixty-seven years, and three others 
 continued for thirty years or more. The present pastorate, 
 the second of them all in length, has now continued for con- 
 siderably more than a generation; and to what extent it has 
 influenced the church, the community, and the outer world 
 others better qualified will presently speak. 
 
 But your presence is most of all a tribute to a personality. 
 For it is not the duration of a pastorate so much as the char- 
 acter of the man who fills it that gives it dignity and power; 
 and if we shall leave this sanctuary with a firmer conviction 
 that he best serves his community, his church, and his God 
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 unselfishly to realize them in his life, we shall not have come 
 in vain. 
 
 In the work of a Christian minister, first in importance is 
 his church, the inner circle of his Christian fellowship. For, 
 while to all members of his congregation he gives his faithful 
 watch and ward, and bestows his other gracious and tender 
 offices, yet to those who with him have shared the same faith 
 and subscribed the same covenant, his relation is most inti- 
 mate and dear. 
 
 Of the church none are so near the minister as are those 
 laymen who have the honored name and office of deacons. 
 They are his cabinet, and they participate with him in the holy 
 offices of the communion. What person, then, is better quali- 
 fied to speak for this church than one who for thirty years 
 here worthily bore the name and performed the duties of 
 deacon, a man who, however often he was called to the service 
 of the city, never neglected his duties to his church, and who, 
 though at present sojourning in a neighboring city, is still a 
 member of this church, — Hon. James M. W. Hall. 
 
 ADDRESS OF HON. JAMES M. W. HALL. 
 
 Some years ago the office of city missionary of Boston was 
 held by a very old gentleman everywhere known as " Father 
 Cleveland," an uncle of President Cleveland, at that time 
 in office. He lived to the very great age of ninety-nine years 
 and ten months, and continued in office to the end. His 
 custom each year, for many years, was to call upon several of 
 the leading merchants of Boston to assist him in eking out a 
 somewhat meager salary by their annual gifts. One member 
 of the firm with whom I had my early business training was 
 one of these givers. On his ninetieth birthday the good old 
 man called at the office to receive his annual gift. The donor 
 said, " Father Cleveland, if you will live to be one hundred 
 
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 years of age, I will give you $100." As each year passed this 
 promise seemed to be stamped more clearly on his memory, 
 and after receiving his annual gift, he would place his hand 
 on the shoulder of this giver, and say, " Now, George, remem- 
 ber, when I get to be one hundred years old I am to have from 
 you $100." The reply was, " You are sure to receive it, 
 Father Cleveland, just as I have promised." On his ninety- 
 ninth birthday, after receiving the annual amount, he said in 
 very pathetic tones, " Now, George, remember, only one year, 
 and I shall be one hundred years old and then I am to have 
 my $100; but if you want to pay that now, I will make a very 
 liberal discount." 
 
 I have thought in connection with the anniversary which 
 we have met this evening to commemorate that we might 
 anticipate the golden anniversary and celebrate it with this 
 fortieth anniversary; but I am sure we would not be able to 
 say more when the fifty years come round, should our pastor 
 be spared to us, than we are only too glad to utter on this occa- 
 sion. So if we should not live to your fiftieth anniversary, you 
 wiU find we have anticipated it in this. 
 
 Some old writer has said, "It is not safe to praise a man 
 until he has been dead a hundred years." A more considerate 
 and accurate rule is to encourage worthy achievement by 
 proper appreciation and expression of it before the actor has 
 disappeared; and so spread flowers in the pathway of the 
 living rather than the departed. The reason why the propor- 
 tions of some lives are not correctly or satisfactorily stated by 
 the historian is because the perspective is too remote to afford 
 accurate or measurable treatment. If " we live in deeds, not 
 years," then the immediate effect of deeds is quite as essential 
 in a true estimate of their value as when time has perhaps put a 
 different interpretation on them from what was intended by 
 their author. 
 
 Dr. Guthrie said of Dr. Chalmers, the eminent Scotch 
 preacher, that his size, like that of a forest tree, could not be 
 
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 measured until it lay prostrate. Quite true, but the value of 
 a forest tree, like that of a human life, can be estimated before 
 it is cut down. We are thankful that with the perspective of 
 these forty years of service, we can pay deserved homage to 
 the man whose worthy deeds we are met this evening to 
 commemorate: and bestow it while he is in active service. 
 
 A good text for an occasion of this character, it seems to 
 me, is the first two verses of the gospel of Luke: " Forasmuch 
 as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration 
 of those things which are most surely believed among us. 
 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the begin- 
 ning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word." 
 
 My part of this occasion is to extend the " Greetings of the 
 Church " to our pastor, on the completion of forty years of 
 service. For thirty-six years of this ministry I can speak as 
 an eye and ear witness. All who were the older members 
 of this church when I came are no longer with us. But I 
 know I speak for them as for ourselves. 
 
 I will refer to but two features of this ministry, which this 
 occasion naturally suggests: One is of the character of the 
 pastoral work as distinct from the work of the preacher and 
 teacher. One of our most eminent physicians said to me 
 recently: " What we need in our religious teaching is more 
 clinical theology." A similar remark was made by the late 
 Professor Park, of Andover, who said, " I learned more 
 theology at the bedside of a poor woman in the almshouse 
 than from all my books." 
 
 This ministry in its forty years of pastoral work has em- 
 phasized this point and made the living experience of religious 
 doctrine the essential in the presentation of religious truth. 
 An oft-repeated verse has been, " If any man will do this will, 
 he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether 
 I speak of myself." (John 7 : 17.) lie has acted on the belief 
 that the verity of our Christian faith is to be tested by experi- 
 ence, rather than by dogma, however venerated, or by higher 
 
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 criticism, however keen. The strongest argument in favor 
 of Christian doctrine is what one has felt and seen of its truth 
 and power, and one such experience outweighs ten thousand 
 such assertions, as " I have not seen, I have not felt." You 
 cannot prove Christian truth or anything else by negatives — 
 but by men and women in whom truths of the gospel have 
 lived and moved. Such has been an impelling motive in this 
 pastoral work. But at the same time he has brought from his 
 well-filled storehouse of learning, things new and old. The 
 best writers, the most advanced thinking, the latest scien- 
 tific discovery, have had careful consideration and wise 
 presentation, but always with one result and assurance to him 
 and us, that " the word of our God standeth sure." " Heaven 
 and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." 
 
 This pastorate has been familiar with the sufferings and 
 sorrows, the tears and disappointments, the discouragements 
 and fears, that are common to us all, as well as the joys and 
 hopes and pleasurable anticipations that come to most. How 
 prompt and comforting has been his ministry when the shadow 
 has fallen on the home, and hearts have been made sad and 
 desolate. How cheering have been his words as they mingled 
 with the voice of rejoicing — " Rejoice with them that do 
 rejoice, and weep with them that weep"! (Rom. 12:15.) 
 This has been a marked feature of this ministry. 
 
 Another feature of this pastoral work has been its study of 
 things that made for peace. A large and influential church 
 as this has been during all this ministry has, of course, con- 
 tained men of many minds. Questions inevitably arise that 
 all are not united on. The most natural appeal is to the 
 pastor. I speak from a most intimate knowledge, as one of 
 the officers of this church for over twenty-five years, and I do 
 not recall one instance where a division has arisen and the 
 pastor has been obliged to express his opinion, but that he has 
 sought and insisted on the things that made for peace. And 
 I may go further and add that where the pastor's plans have 
 
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 occasionally met the criticism of his most trusted advisers, 
 he has been as docile as a child, and as " true as steel " to 
 the spiritual as well as the temporal interests involved, in 
 laying his own plans aside lest they might disturb the peace 
 and welfare of the church. I am sure there are others here 
 this evening who know what this statement means. If there 
 ever was a loyal, true, devoted pastor, it has been this one, 
 of whose work we speak to-night. I do not know of a church 
 of our denomination whose ministry has been more marked 
 in this respect than ours. 
 
 Another feature of this pastoral work has been the constant 
 and faithful attendance on the stated meetings of the church, — 
 the prayer and conference meetings, the ladies' societies meet- 
 ings, the young people's meetings, the social gatherings, the 
 Riverside work, — and what more shall I say of the outside 
 work in church conferences, in the care of the Seaman's Friend 
 Society, as its president; in the work at Wellesley and Am- 
 herst, Princeton and Yale, Cornell and Hampton; and the 
 oft-repeated annual labors in the no-license work in our city 
 and other places where he " wrought righteousness," " ob- 
 tained promises," " stopped the mouths of lions," " waxed 
 valiant in fight "; and, shoulder to shoulder with clergymen 
 of all other denominations, proved himself in all this varied 
 work — " a man called of God." But of this outside work 
 others will speak to-night. Our greetings are extended with 
 memories quickened by experiences of fidelity to trust that 
 has never wavered, and has been willing to spend and be spent 
 in a service that was ever a joyful work and anticipation. 
 
 The other characteristic of this ministry of forty years 
 relates to the service as preacher and teacher. It is very 
 unusual experience that in a ministry of such length, not one 
 Sabbath has found him absent from his pulpit because of ill 
 health. For this we have cause for deep gratitude to God. 
 During all these years seldom have exchanges been arranged 
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 become so well acquainted with the pastors of other churches 
 and the character of their preaching as we perhaps should 
 have. But this is our fault, rather than that of the preacher; 
 he has understood that many would be disappointed if he 
 should be absent; and if a stranger filled the pulpit it was 
 with a general feeling of regret and sympathy — of regret 
 that our pastor was away, and of sympathy for the visiting 
 preacher because of the feeling of regret. 
 
 And why has this preaching been so attractive and helpful? 
 Two reasons certainly can be given. One, the pastoral work 
 has been preparatory to the preaching. The other reason is, 
 the " old gospel " has been preached without a change. As 
 our pastor said once in the preface to a course of sermons: 
 " These sermons will only be popular as the gospel is popular." 
 The character of the preaching of all these years has been 
 consistent and loyal to the fundamental doctrines of our faith. 
 During the last forty years there have been many revisions 
 of creed in Protestant churches. Much has been said as to 
 " higher criticism," " modern theology," " philosophical 
 analysis," " scientific interpretation," " environment," and 
 " evolution," but as 16,000,000 copies of the Bible were sold 
 and distributed last year, and only 6,000,000 copies of the 100 
 leading authors' works of the world, it would seem as if this 
 old Bible was, after all, the most accredited and reliable of 
 books, as we have it and as it has been preached from this 
 pulpit. The preaching here has not varied in all these forty 
 years. To be sure, some expressions, which were familiar 
 years ago, such as the " Perseverance of the saints," was 
 changed to " The constancy of love." But the fundamental 
 doctrines of our faith, such as the Incarnation, the cross of 
 Christ as the fullest possible expression of God's love for men 
 and the only redemptive agency from sin and its penalties; 
 the actual resurrection of our Lord as the only assurance of 
 eternal life to men, and the only possible explanation of 
 Christianity in the world to-day, without which it died and 
 
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 was buried in His sepulcher — these facts of transcendent 
 importance, these have been clearly, consistently, unmis- 
 takably taught and believed. 
 
 This teacher and preacher believes that he holds the gospel 
 in trust as Paul did; that it is neither a discovery nor inven- 
 tion nor construction of man, nor a legacy from the schools, 
 but purely a revelation of God to men, in the person of his 
 only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, and that the preacher 
 has no right to tamper with this trust, either to alter, amend, 
 or obscure it in any way. And this is the message which by 
 the gospel he has preached unto us. 
 
 Our dear pastor and teacher, you have often sent your and 
 our greetings to the crowd of witnesses who were once with 
 us here. To-night we are sure this invisible company are 
 looking on, as we speak for them and ourselves, in memory of 
 these long years of service, and with profound gratitude and 
 love and approval of the way in which you have led us. Few 
 have seen the fruits of their labors as you have — may you 
 live to see the golden anniversary, and may the years to come 
 be filled with continued and still larger fruitage. This is our 
 hope, this is our prayer — we greet you and bid you God- 
 speed. 
 
 The Chairman: In the Congregational polity, there is a 
 larger circle of the people, including the church, which is 
 called the society or congregation, the whole body of regular 
 attendants at the stated services. It is the congregation that 
 sustains the public worship, promotes the manifold work of 
 Christian service, and meets any emergency in the common 
 life. Such an emergency arose near the beginning of the 
 present pastorate, when a debt on this building of eighty-five 
 thousand dollars was raised almost wholly in a single day. 
 For the congregation will speak one who, in a notable career, 
 has proved equally ready and efficient, not only in the service 
 of the church, but also in the training of a college crew, in 
 
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 the administration of a large city, and in the management of 
 one of the largest public utilities in the land, — Major-Gen. 
 William A. Bancroft. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MAJOR-GEN. WILLIAM A. BANCROFT. 
 
 The occasion is one of rejoicing and of gratitude — of rejoic- 
 ing because our pastor has stood at the head of this congrega- 
 tion for so long a period; of gratitude because the congregation 
 during all these years has received his ministrations. 
 
 For three reasons, at least, I come gladly to this happy 
 gathering and share its feelings. First, because you have 
 asked me to represent the congregation — a very pleasant 
 part; but when the size of the congregation, its importance, 
 and its history is considered, it is a part to which I am con- 
 scious I am not equal. Secondly, because of the memory of 
 a pious mother, at one time a member of this church, in which 
 she deemed it a high privilege to listen to our pastor and who 
 would wish me to give this testimony; and, thirdly, on my 
 own account, to speak a word in praise of this extraordinary 
 man, and in commemoration of his extraordinary ministry. 
 It is now nearly thirty-three years since I first heard him 
 preach, and marveled much that a man could preach as he 
 can preach. I have not ceased to marvel. 
 
 In some quarters it is held that words of praise should not 
 be spoken of a man in his lifetime, and certainly not in his 
 presence in this world. That I have considered; but Dr. 
 McKenzie's life in this world has been such that he will receive 
 an abundance of praise from those who meet him in the next. 
 Some of us may not meet him there, and for one I think it 
 prudent to say what I have to say here, while I have the 
 opportunity. 
 
 Why has this man been so long the minister of this church 
 and congregation? One answer is, that his nature, his gifts, 
 his character, respond to this environment. This atmosphere 
 
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 is vibrant with religion, with learning, with patriotism, with 
 public spirit, with the refinements of cultured society; in 
 short, with the influences which make for high intellectual, 
 moral, and spiritual achievement. This community also con- 
 tains its share of those who are subject to, even if they do 
 not exert, these influences — those who are sometimes called 
 the " plain " people. By whatever name they are called, 
 they must be reckoned with, and indeed their character is a 
 good test of spiritual leadership. 
 
 This diverse community, then, has needed and appreciated 
 a man of conviction, but also a man of discretion; a man of 
 zeal, but a man of toleration; a man of profoimd learning 
 and of ripe scholarship, but of deep thought, and of wide 
 observation; a man of fine sensibilities, but full of human 
 sympathy. When to these resources was added the gift of 
 eloquence beyond the attainment of most men, it was only 
 natural that this pastorate, by the favor of the Almighty, 
 should be extended these many years. 
 
 The founders of this community must have had Dr. Mc- 
 Kenzie in mind — he was a part of their plan — when they 
 " dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when 
 their present ministry should lie in the dust." Worthy suc- 
 cessor of the " orthodox and soul-flourishing " Thomas Shep- 
 ard — Harvard College did for him just what it was intended 
 in 1636 that Harvard College should do. If the spirits of the 
 illustrious founders hover about this place of their mortal 
 dwelling, what a congregation must be gathered here! Mingled 
 with our joy and gratitude must be the glad rejoicing of the 
 immortal fathers who see in the very town of their election, 
 in the very church whose fostering care they sought, in the 
 very pulpit whose minister they revered, after nearly three 
 centuries of spiritual fruitage, of whose seed they were the 
 heroic sowers, this crowning glory of a pastorate of forty 
 years. And we, the living congregation, inheritors through 
 the generations, of the great things that were done in that 
 
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 earlier day, acknowledge in the person of our beloved pastor, 
 whom a Divine Providence has permitted so long to lead us, 
 the blessing bestowed upon us and that wider community 
 which Harvard's consecrated teaching has continuously 
 benefited. 
 
 To our pastor, then, the congregation presents its fond 
 greetings. Though his influence has been wider than our con- 
 fines, to us he has been the good shepherd. He has led the 
 flock, wisely, gentty, patiently, kindly. He has guided the 
 well. He has comforted the sick. He has baptized. He 
 has married the living. He has buried the dead. He has 
 spoken tenderly to those whom death has afflicted. He 
 preaches to us to-day as he preached to those who heard him 
 when he came. 
 
 Two generations have called him blessed, and of these two, 
 it is our happiness to be one. 
 
 May the time be far distant when the vacant space on 
 yonder tablet shall be filled. 
 
 The Chairman : Outside a minister's congregation, his most 
 grateful and helpful associations are with the larger fellow- 
 ship of his own order of worship and belief. In recent years 
 our Congregational churches have been checking their be- 
 setting tendency to independence and isolation, and have been 
 drawing together for mutual counsel and encouragement. Of 
 these churches located in Boston and its vicinity, over eighty 
 are now banded in what is known as the Union Conference 
 of Congregational Churches. Many of these churches are 
 represented in this audience by pastor or laymen, and they 
 will be glad to have speak for them on this occasion one who, 
 though born and bred an Englishman, has proved a true 
 American of the highest ideals, and still adorns a pastorate 
 that he has filled for over thirty years, — Rev. Reuen Thomas, 
 D.D., of Brookline. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF REV. REUEN THOMAS, D.D. 
 
 I am very sorry to come into this pulpit, because it looks 
 so much more formal than standing on that platform, but the 
 one thing essential to do is to obey orders, and the chairman 
 has said that the laymen were to speak from the platform, but 
 that it would very much oblige the congregation if the minis- 
 ters would come up to the pulpit. I yield to a higher criticism. 
 
 I don't wish on this occasion, thinking as I do of Dr. Mc- 
 Kenzie, to speak formally. Formal speech would not suitably 
 give the idea and feeling of one who has known him as long 
 and as intimately as I have known him. I feel a great re- 
 sponsibility because I am asked to speak on behalf of the 
 United Conferences of Greater Boston, conferences embracing 
 about one hundred and four churches, and also I am asked 
 on this occasion to represent the Congregational Club, which 
 consists of something like five hundred elect gentlemen. 
 
 I remember one of the members, addressing that club, 
 looked down upon it and said, " I never look down on this 
 audience here but that it seems to me I recognize a mani- 
 festation of more brains and less hair than in any other 
 audience I ever addressed." Well, that is one man's impres- 
 sion of the Congregational Club. 
 
 I remember Dr. McKenzie was the first clerical chairman of 
 that club. Previous to his occupying the chair, laymen used 
 to be supreme in that club, but after Dr. McKenzie took the 
 chair and behaved so well, spoke so brilliantly and so wisely, 
 other ministers were invited in alternate years to the seat of 
 honor. So I represent these bodies on this occasion. Indeed, 
 I represent a more extended circle than that. I represent 
 many people on the other side of the ocean to whom Dr. 
 McKenzie has preached. I have heard from them inquiries 
 of this kind, " Whether that gentleman who formerty preached 
 to them was coming again, because they had not had enough 
 of him or his preaching." So you see for what a large con- 
 
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 stituency I am responsible. Having acknowledged that fact, 
 I want to come into a more inner circle than that which is 
 represented by these associations. 
 
 I suppose there is no man among us who has given himself 
 so faithfully and so largely to this wider ministry outside his 
 church as has Dr. McKenzie. There is no man I know who 
 has given so much of his time and strength to this general 
 ministry without any kind of remuneration, except thanks 
 and appreciation. I stand to-night, however, and specially 
 for a select circle of brethren — intimate friends — who would 
 heartily mingle their congratulations with mine, to the man 
 who has been pastor of this church so long. 
 
 In the first place, we found in him a very deep and a very 
 rich nature. We found a good deal of a mystic, although he 
 does not seem exactly to know it. We found he was leaning 
 on the gospel as the only all-sufficient medicine for broken and 
 contrite hearts. He knew mere moral teaching was not ade- 
 quate to this deeper ministry. He found certain elements 
 essential in order that these broken hearts and sad lives 
 should be met, those people fed. We found also a man, — 
 I don't know what Mr. Hall will think of me, but it is true, — 
 we found a man liberally conservative, also conservatively 
 liberal, a man acquainted with the higher criticism and 
 modern theology. You never know a man until you sit with 
 him in the quiet of his study. You come to him in a heart- 
 to-heart talk and you get his most intimate nature. 
 
 We found him a man of sublime courage. I remember one 
 very eminent man in this country who tried to get the presi- 
 dency of the United States, and in his desperation turned to 
 the leading ministers for help; and among others, he de- 
 pended, I think, upon getting the assistance of Dr. McKenzie, 
 but the doctor was far too wary and too conscientious to lend 
 him that assistance. 
 
 Why, amiable though he seems, Dr. McKenzie is a man of 
 tremendous independence. We ministers were discussing the 
 
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 subject of restricting the length of sermons, and we asked 
 him what he had to say about it, and we found him really 
 almost offended at the question. He said, " I won't be under 
 bonds to any man, in any congregation, as to the length of 
 my sermon. If I have a sermon which requires ten minutes, 
 I will take ten minutes; if it requires one hour, I will take 
 one hour." We found it no use to try to convert him. 
 
 We have crossed the ocean together twice. When you put 
 him on the ocean he seems a different man. He loves the 
 water, loves the sailors, and loves the ship. I remember on 
 one occasion he blossomed out into poetry. It was not some- 
 thing splendid, something out of the ordinary on the ocean 
 that made him poetical. The most common, trivial thing 
 would suggest to him a poetical effusion. If I had anticipated 
 this occasion at all I would have kept those poetical effusions 
 and then you could compare them with Longfellow and Lowell. 
 
 There used to be in this locality a very select club of about 
 half a dozen ministers. On one occasion we had with us 
 Professor Drummond who was lecturing in Boston, and when 
 he left us he said, " I want to thank you for such an enjoyable 
 occasion; to tell you the truth, it is the best thing I have 
 struck since I have been in America," and he had been in the 
 Harvard University. 
 
 Dr. McKenzie belonged to that club. I never knew such a 
 man to ask questions. He would* ask us questions on all 
 portions of the Scriptures. We found out after a time that he 
 was laying up material for what he was going to preach the 
 next day. So when you have heard him on occasions when 
 you thought he was outdoing himself, you may know where 
 he got his inspiration. 
 
 There are many things I could say about our brother. I 
 have real love for him. I have known him so long. I have 
 seen him under various conditions and in various moods, and 
 have recognized that his uniqueness as a preacher had its 
 source in a uniqueness of mental experience. I heard him 
 
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 preach on board ship a favorite sermon of his on the " Royal 
 Bounty," where the Queen of Sheba receives gifts from Solo- 
 mon. After I heard him preach that sermon I thought of 
 his fine ideas of the royal bounty and that I would use it in 
 my own way. When I saw the sermon in the printed volume 
 I wondered why I could not say that in that way. I gave it 
 up. While I might use the same ideas in England, it would 
 not do to use them in this vicinity so near him. 
 
 Another thing I found out: you never could know Dr. 
 McKenzie from reading his sermons. I don't know any man 
 who is so much a part of his sermons as is Dr. McKenzie. 
 Those who come after us will never know from those sermons 
 Dr. McKenzie as we know him who have experienced the 
 ability of speech and the way of utterance which has made him 
 the preacher of national reputation that he is. I hope he will 
 be here for some few years to speak for himself. I remember 
 a man in England saying, " I don't know what we are going 
 to do with our churches. So many of them don't seem to 
 appreciate a man when his whole soul is full of experience." 
 Dr. McKenzie has been preaching the experience that he has 
 gathered from life. That makes him all the more valuable to 
 his congregation. I read a very sensible thing the other day, 
 and I thought I would keep a copy of it and bring it to-night : 
 " And when you have found a real preacher, you have found 
 one who grows bigger and wiser and in every way more useful, 
 aye, and younger, too, as he grows older." 
 
 The Chairman: In any anniversary connected with this 
 church there is a neighboring church whose sympathy and 
 cooperation we always claim and always receive, and that is 
 the church which shares with us a common heritage and 
 name, — the First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian. To that 
 church, as well as to this, belongs the precious memory of the 
 men eminent in piety, in learning, and in holy service who are 
 enrolled in our early membership; and the ties that bind the 
 
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 two organizations in mutual respect and in Christian service 
 grow stronger every year. It is with great pleasure, therefore, 
 that I introduce the pastor of " the other branch," who not 
 only is a preacher of distinction, but also ranks among our 
 chief essayists and humorists, — Rev. Samuel McChord 
 Crothers, D.D. 
 
 ADDRESS OF REV. SAMUEL M. CROTHERS, D.D. 
 
 There are certain grammarians who are very anxious to 
 keep the purity of the English language and who object greatly 
 to one of our ordinary forms of speech. We must never say 
 the " two first "; there may be one first, but there cannot 
 be " two first." Are we no better here in Cambridge? We 
 have two churches, each of which claims to be the first, but 
 gladly acknowledges the claim of the other to be the first, and 
 I am glad to speak for this other branch of this " First Chinch 
 in Cambridge." 
 
 The reason we put so much value on that term is simply 
 filial love that is in our hearts and the sense of continuity of 
 religion. Since the church is something more than a body 
 of people gathered together with the same opinions, something 
 more than an institution of a day, — it is firmly rooted in 
 the past, has sacred memories as well as sacred hopes, — it 
 must cherish its own history. Here in Cambridge it is not 
 simply that we are proud of the past; it is that we feel 
 that we owe our life to that past. 
 
 Now, there is one thing which both pastors of this church in 
 Cambridge feel, one thing which united generation to genera- 
 tion, and that is character, the kind of men and women who 
 actually are working and waiting; and I think there is 
 nothing which so impressively shows the continuity of religious 
 life as to go back to the beginning of this church in Cam- 
 bridge, ask ourselves what kind of men those Puritans were 
 who built this town; and what kind of ministers they most 
 loved. 
 
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 Cotton Mather said of Jonathan Mitchell, " Our Lord com- 
 plains that the children of this world are wiser in their genera- 
 tion than the children of light. But our Mitchell was wise 
 in his generation and exercised his wit that his generation 
 should be accommodated in all their interests. He was en- 
 dowed with a certain soaring and serious greatness of soul 
 that rendered fly-catching too low a business for him. He 
 nourished in himself a generous disdain of little low trifling 
 matters, and was of a leading spirit when hard service was 
 called for, and of a public spirit for doing good to as many as 
 he could. His thoughts moved in a large sphere of useful- 
 ness, and he was continually projecting how to do good in the 
 most extensive manner to more than the whole country. 
 He was a circle whereof the center was at Cambridge, and 
 the circumference took in more than New England. Mr. 
 Baxter hearing him said, ' If an ecumenical council could be 
 obtained, Mr. Mitchell were worthy to be its moderator.' " 
 
 Mather adds that " the disposition of charity in him was 
 rewarded with the respect which he formed from learned and 
 pious men who were not of his persuasion," and he says, 
 " Had the spirit of this good man been expressed by all good 
 men, most of the ecclesiastical differences in the world would 
 have been evaporated, and it would not have been so long 
 before the name of Congregationalist and Presbyterian had 
 been melted clown into that of United Brethren." 
 
 It seems to me the historic continuity of the Christian 
 churches is best shown by the men and women who lived so 
 many generations ago. The virtues of those who met of 
 old in this meetinghouse, this evening we reverently and 
 gratefully acknowledge, — the public spirit; the willingness 
 to have the mind go out to a large circumference; the catholic 
 temper of the mind; the kindness, justness, and generosity 
 of the old times here in Cambridge. Men used to say, " This 
 is just like our Mitchell," and we come here together and say, 
 " This is just like our McKenzie." 
 
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 Here we, the members of other churches, come this evening 
 in sympathy and with the wish to express our admiration 
 and our own loyalty and love. There has not been in all these 
 many years a good cause which has not looked to Dr. McKen- 
 zie for leadership and counsel. Again and again in social 
 meetings in other churches where I have been I have always 
 found Dr. McKenzie, not as an outsider, but as a friend, 
 taking part in them. 
 
 A large, human public spirit is what has made these forty 
 years so beautiful, not only to this single church, but to this 
 whole community. Amid all the differences of thought, all 
 the changes in these forty years, this ministry speaks of the 
 continuity of the church. 
 
 It seems to me that Dr. McKenzie has had this rare happi- 
 ness to unite in his own ministry two elements, puritanism 
 and catholicity. No one is more proud of the Puritan than 
 he, but he has always been lifted up above the mere puritanism 
 into the catholicity of the one holy church of God. It is that 
 ministry that he has nobly adorned here in Cambridge. This 
 church has been happy, this city has been happy, in his min- 
 istry. We would say of him as of his predecessor of long ago, 
 that if other good men felt and acted as this good man has, 
 if other good men preached the truth they saw in life as he 
 has been preaching, many of our sectarian differences had 
 been forgotten. 
 
 To-night we meet here as united brethren, and we are glad 
 of the work, the long, happy work, of this, our honored brother. 
 
 The Chairman: Although to-day voting is no longer 
 restricted to church members, and the minister is not consulted 
 by candidates for office, yet his voice is still influential for 
 civic righteousness. It is safe to say that, without the help 
 of the ministers, Cambridge would not have banished the 
 saloons. In fact, we do not realize what a powerful, though 
 silent, force for law and order the church is in the com- 
 
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 munity. This fact is best known and felt by him who is 
 responsible for the city's welfare, — his Honor the Mayor. 
 And we are glad to welcome to-night the man who has lately 
 won that high office by his courage and persistence, his 
 unfailing courtesy, and his long and valuable service to the 
 city, — Hon. Walter C. Wardwell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF HON. WALTER C. WARDWELL. 
 
 As a representative of the city of Cambridge, it is my pleas- 
 ant duty to offer congratulations to Dr. McKenzie upon his 
 fortieth anniversary as pastor of this large and popular church. 
 Forty years of faithful service is something to be proud of, 
 and when the doctor looks about him and sees the results of 
 his work, he may well feel proud, and he well merits the 
 applause and approval of the community in which he has so 
 long lived and worked. 
 
 He has been a power for good, not only in the church, but 
 in the city where he has lived. 
 
 Soon after he settled as pastor he became interested in the 
 public schools, and served upon the school committee in the 
 years 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and again in 1881. 
 His wise counsel and influence on this board are well known 
 to the men who served with him, and the effect they made 
 to-day are in evidence in no small degree by the high standard 
 of the public-school system in Cambridge. He has always 
 been interested in civic affairs. At the time of the dedication 
 of the Soldiers' Monument on the Common, Dr. McKenzie 
 was the orator of the day. 
 
 The veterans of the War of the Rebellion would feel that 
 Memorial Day was lacking in its most principal part if Dr. 
 McKenzie's kindly presence and eloquence were missing from 
 our midst. 
 
 In all public movements of good he has ever been ready to 
 serve the best interests of the community. For twenty years 
 
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 the city of Cambridge has been entirely free from the curse of 
 the saloons. It was Dr. McKenzie, the Rev. Father Scully, 
 Rev. Dr. Beach, the Rev. Francis G. Peabody, and many other 
 noble Christian gentlemen who realized the evil of the saloons 
 and organized the movement which put them away from 
 Cambridge, we hope and believe, forever. It is, therefore, 
 fitting and proper on this occasion of this fortieth anniversary 
 that the city of Cambridge should officially recognize this 
 event, and I am proud to stand here to-night and extend con- 
 gratulations both to Dr. McKenzie and to this congregation, 
 and to publicly thank him for the services he has rendered 
 our city, and to wish him the prosperity, contentment, and 
 peace of mind that he has so well earned and so richly 
 deserves. 
 
 The Chairman: From the start the ministers of The First 
 Church in Cambridge have served the college in many capaci- 
 ties, and in many instances have been honored by her. Of the 
 eleven ministers on our roll all but three were graduates, one 
 was president, and five were fellows of the college, and from 
 the college three have received a doctorate in divinity. Of 
 them all it is doubtful if any one has served the college in 
 more capacities than has the present pastor. He has been a 
 lecturer in the divinity school, a college preacher, an overseer, 
 and for twenty-five years secretary of the board of overseers. 
 But of this the one best fitted to speak is the president of the 
 University. It is interesting to note that his term as president 
 has been but two years shorter than Dr. McKenzie's pastorate. 
 His administration has embraced a new and distinguished era 
 in education, not only in Harvard University, but also in all 
 grades of study, and throughout the United States; and of this 
 era he has been the chief leader and interpreter. Indeed, his 
 public services have been so varied and beneficent, touching 
 not only the educational, but also the social, political, and 
 economic welfare, that Cambridge is proud to count him 
 
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 among her most eminent citizens — President Charles W. 
 Eliot. 
 
 ADDRESS OF PRES. CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT. 
 
 I think I have known Dr. McKenzie longer than any one 
 else here present. It is now fifty-one years since I first saw 
 him enter my class-room to study with me the subject of 
 geometry; for two years I taught him mathematics, — 
 geometry, algebra, and trigonometry, — the only subject in 
 which the human mind can arrive at certain, demonstrated 
 truth. 
 
 Now, the young McKenzie was an admirable student, — 
 laborious, assiduous, and punctual, and with great accuracy 
 and facility in reciting. This facility was prophetic. And 
 the first quality of his life on which I want to congratulate 
 him is its laboriousness. He has lived a laborious life, day 
 after day, and year after year, putting all his strength into 
 his work, and working for noble ends. He is first and chiefly 
 to be congratulated on the work he has done in the world of 
 thought and feeling and prophetic hopes. 
 
 The next thing that I want to congratulate him on is the 
 fulfillment in his case of one of the best wishes that ever man 
 uttered for himself: " Give me neither poverty nor riches." 
 That exactly describes Dr. McKenzie 's situation throughout 
 his long life. He has enjoyed that felicity. He has had 
 neither poverty nor riches. 
 
 Then I want to congratulate him on the institutions he 
 has served. It is a part of the serviceable man's immortality 
 that he has served institutions of permanent worth, institu- 
 tions which go on generation after generation with increasing 
 serviceableness, with always added power. Now, Dr. Mc- 
 Kenzie has served just such institutions. He has served 
 Harvard College. He was for twenty-six years secretary of 
 the board of overseers. That was the first board instituted 
 
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 by the Great and General Court to create and administer 
 the college. He has served the University in another way, 
 and greatly served it. In 1886 a unique experiment was set 
 on foot by the overseers. They proposed and in concurrence 
 with the president and fellows ordained that attendance at 
 all religious services in Harvard University should be made 
 voluntary. This was an anxious experiment. The corpora- 
 tion and overseers engaged six men, all eminent in their 
 calling, to conduct those religious services. These six be- 
 longed to four different denominations, denominations which 
 many persons feared could not work together in the conduct 
 of the same religious service in one church. Dr. McKenzie 
 was one of those six men. The others were Phillips Brooks, 
 Edward Everett Hale, George A. Gordon, Francis G. Peabody, 
 and Richard Montague. The last named, because of ill-health, 
 never served. The five men conducted the services, and those 
 five men proved that the experiment was to succeed. They 
 gave that historic demonstration. I am inclined to think 
 that this particular piece of work, in which Dr. McKenzie 
 had a part, and a great part, will live longest in human 
 memory of all his works; because it was a great step in 
 advance toward Christian unity. 
 
 Dr. McKenzie has also greatly served this church. This 
 is an institution with a long history already behind it, but 
 longer still will be its life hereafter. It has been an instru- 
 ment of civil and religious liberty. It has contributed to the 
 advancement of all the ideals which animate and guide re- 
 publican government. This Congregational church he has 
 greatly served. The felicity of laying a few bricks in the 
 walls of a precious institution he has enjoyed. 
 
 And now the glow of the sky is in the west and not in the 
 east, and the night cometh. What shall we congratulate Dr. 
 McKenzie on for the future? First, on the living influence 
 which has taken effect on the lives of thousands of men, and 
 still lives and will long live, an influence which comes back 
 
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 to him to-day from grateful, living hearts. And then we 
 congratulate him on an influence of which he is all unconscious. 
 It sometimes seems to me that this unconscious influence is 
 the greatest and most enduring influence that human beings 
 exert: it is the influence of a word spoken and forgotten by 
 the speaker, which lives in the life of the hearer, and is trans- 
 mitted from that life to countless other lives — the uncon- 
 scious influence of character, of goodness, of wisdom. Dr. 
 McKenzie knows something of the results of his public preach- 
 ing, and of the consolation he has brought to the suffering 
 and the afflicted; and many people speak to him now of the 
 good he has done them ; but more than all these remembered 
 and conscious influences are the spiritual powers he has ex- 
 erted without knowing that his face shone. He has forgotten 
 the timely word. He has forgotten the kind look, the tender 
 tone, the sympathetic touch; but those things live, and will 
 live, and will be transmitted down the future, a broadening 
 stream of light and leading. 
 
 The Chaikman : Often the activity and usefulness of a man 
 is, in a degree, measured by the number and character of the 
 religious, social, and charitable organizations to which he 
 belongs. It is so in this case. There are represented here 
 many such bodies with which Dr. McKenzie has been associ- 
 ated at some time during his career. Were there time, it 
 would be interesting to hear from them all. But their pres- 
 ence alone is eloquent, and he who is to speak for them will 
 be accepted gladly as their spokesman. For over twenty 
 years he has been the honored and beloved pastor of the Old 
 South Church. Moreover, true Scotchman that he is, he has 
 a strong bent toward religious inquiry and discussion, and by 
 his books has become recognized as one of our leading theo- 
 logians, — Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 ADDRESS OF REV. GEORGE A. GORDON, D.D. 
 
 The chairman told me the reason why he sent the ministers 
 to the pulpit was because there was a clock there. I notice 
 that did not seem to have any effect upon those who went 
 there, and I claim the privilege of the laymen to stand here 
 upon this platform. 
 
 There is one distinction which belongs to my subject; I 
 represent a large constituency, but I must begin in bringing 
 the greeting from my own church, the church that I represent. 
 
 Twenty-three years ago next April, not the first day, but the 
 second day, the present minister of the church was installed. 
 A prominent minister was invited to offer prayer on that 
 occasion; he declined. He did not wish to run the risk. A 
 prominent person who was to give the right hand of fellowship 
 deserted at the last moment and your minister took that part, 
 and in a speech of rare felicity and warmth welcomed the 
 young minister and cheered him under his sense of respon- 
 sibility, and greeted him as a fellow alumnus of Harvard Col- 
 lege. The church of which I am minister has never forgotten 
 that service. Dr. McKenzie's ministry has extended, as we 
 all know, all over the land. I mention only some of the 
 places where his power has been felt: Wellesley College, Wil- 
 liams College, Amherst College, Yale University, and other 
 similar centers of influence, — )'ou can think of them faster 
 than I can name them, — places where his great gift of speech 
 has brought cheer and comfort and inspiration. As I have 
 observed successful pastorates, they have been largely owing 
 to the operation of this principle, a due balance between the 
 devotion to the particular church and the recognition of the 
 claims of the larger community beyond. 
 
 I have in my thought now two pastorates where men of 
 distinguished ability served, where the preachers were not 
 nearly so successful as they should have been. One erred by 
 giving nearly all his time outside and neglected his own parish, 
 
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 and the other erred in forgetting the claims of the city in 
 which he served. I think the example of success of your 
 minister has been due in no small degree to the perfect balance 
 which he has maintained between devotion to his church and 
 the recognition of the larger community upon his mind and 
 heart. This rhythm between the individual and the universal 
 and the local and the general accounts for a great deal of his 
 power. 
 
 You recall that during the last week of Jesus' life on earth 
 he went into the city every morning and went out into the 
 country every evening. He had an arduous, a stupendous 
 task in the city. He went out into the country and brought 
 to that task something of the freshness and grandeur, the 
 width and glory which were out there. The particular sermon 
 preached here, the particular prayer offered here, the par- 
 ticular services done here, have been greatened, freshened, 
 have taken on largeness and character and power, from the 
 fact that your preacher has come to them from a great fellow- 
 ship. As I have listened to the preceding speakers as they 
 dwelt upon the noble history of this church, I have thought 
 again how much of greatness all this lends to the office of the 
 minister. The minister of this church comes with purposes 
 that are high and a spirit that is great, but the office into which 
 he is inducted and in which he stands puts into him a new and 
 greater character. You see it in every magistrate in the 
 country. A great and noble judge, recognizing his office, 
 girds up his loins and brings all the stability, the honor, and 
 dignity of his mind into his office. 
 
 What is it that is the last and final consolation of the min- 
 ister of the gospel? Mr. Hall speaks of the stability of Chris- 
 tian doctrine. We have lived during the last twenty years 
 in times of great instability, and thousands of honest men have 
 been unable to find anything except flux and change, and yet 
 the higher spirits in all ages of change and revolution have 
 found that which abides. Shelley says of his cloud : 
 
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 " I am the daughter of Earth and Water.. 
 And the nursling of the Sky; 
 I pass through the pores of the Ocean and Shores : 
 I change, but I cannot die." 
 
 At the whirring loom of time we ministers weave the living 
 mantle of God. He is the breath and soul of all our being; we 
 are all poor prodigal sons, lost in the wilderness of change, 
 until by faithful following of the Spirit we come to the land 
 in which the Lord abides. God bless you. 
 
 The Chairman: And now we would gladly hear him whom 
 to-night it has been our delight to honor; and as he looks 
 into the faces of his friends and recalls the memories of these 
 forty years, we ask what words of cheer and hope he has to 
 offer in response to these kindly greetings. 
 
 RESPONSE OF REV. ALEXANDER McKENZIE, D.D. 
 
 In the many years in which I have stood in this pulpit 
 I have seldom felt so little like making an address as I do 
 to-night. When I look upon this gathering of friends, and 
 listen to the very kind words which are spoken, and think 
 of the letters which I am receiving clay by day, I feel only 
 like standing up and saying, " I thank you," and letting it all 
 rest with that. I am not a little embarrassed and, to borrow 
 a familiar expression, I am very much at sea. I could not 
 find out for a long while of whom these friends were speaking 
 and writing. At last I have found my bearings. It was only 
 yesterday that I reached the conclusion that they had been 
 saying what they really believed, and that all I had to do 
 was to believe and act upon it. I did not know that these 
 things were true, I never dreamed of them or aspired to them, 
 and if I were left to myself I should not accept them. But 
 these men are of discerning mind in other things, and they 
 are in the habit of telling the truth. All I have to do, therefore, 
 
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 and ask you to do, is to believe this which we have heard. 
 It is a very comfortable conclusion to reach. I have 
 often had occasion to accept the opinion of others, for in- 
 struction and confidence, and now and then for humiliation. 
 But now I feel grateful and hopeful as I look along the way 
 before us. I have been extremely fortunate in my friends. 
 I am surprised when I think what men I have been permitted 
 to know, and what men have really been my friends. I came 
 to Boston a boy, with not a man in the city with whom I had 
 more than a nominal acquaintance. I was taken into a count- 
 ing-house on Milk Street, the youngest of all in the service. 
 I never knew why it was, but it was not very long before the 
 head of the firm, whose name was held in honor, singled me 
 out and invited me to his home on Beacon Street for Christmas. 
 It was the beginning of an association which grew intimate and 
 has been prolonged. When I left the counting-house for col- 
 lege the firm gave me all the money I thought I needed to 
 bring me to the ministry. It was at that time that the home 
 of the Hon. Edward Everett was opened to me, and I was 
 favored with his generous friendship, which has been among 
 the treasures of my life. I came to Harvard College when 
 Dr. James Walker was president, a man to whom my class 
 paid homage, whose memory I venerate. I recall his counsel 
 when I was a student, and I keep his sermons within reach 
 even now. It meant much to look up to him, to hear his 
 voice, to watch him as he made his way wearily across the 
 yard. The tutor of our class, — you have just heard his 
 voice, — his title has been changed, but he is the same man ! 
 When I came back to Cambridge we were on another plane; 
 but I account it one of my rare privileges to know the president 
 of the University. I have walked behind him these many 
 years, yet near enough to touch him. If he remembers what 
 I have told him, he knows my indebtedness to his influence, 
 his friendship. It has been a real advantage to stand here 
 with such men before me as Parker and Washburn, Horsford, 
 
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 Russell, and Asa Gray; to meet Longfellow on the street and 
 Lowell in the bookstore and Agassiz in the car. Later days 
 have brought me close to other men of like mind. It was 
 good to live in the same town with Dr. Andrew Peabody. I 
 knew Thomas Scully, and I recall the words and acts in which 
 he expressed his friendship. I cannot name them all — not 
 one of them is forgotten. I do not forget at this hour that for 
 my knowledge of these men and for their confidence I am 
 indebted to my place as minister of this ancient church beside 
 the college. In the many letters which have come to me 
 nothing has impressed me more than the frequent use of a 
 word which men do not often use among themselves. Again 
 and again men have told me of their love. I feel the meaning 
 of the witness of one whom we all esteem, " It is a great thing 
 to have the love of men." I have an old letter that I cherish 
 which bears this signature, — "Yours affectionately, Henry 
 Lee." When another friend, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, 
 wrote of him he spoke of Colonel Lee's successful life, and then 
 denned his word, — " a successful life is one which the man would 
 like to live over again." He might have gone even further 
 and said, a life which a man's neighbors would like to have 
 him live over again. I am obliged to believe, on the testimony 
 of these truth-telling men, that, in a less degree, I may comfort 
 myself with this assurance. If it be so, it is the gift of God. 
 I should be glad to take up my life again. I would be born 
 in a sailor's home in New Bedford; I would have a few j^ears 
 of a business career among young men; I would have four 
 years in Harvard College under President Walker and Tutor 
 Eliot; I would sit at the feet of Park and Phelps and Shedd; 
 I would for five years be the minister of the church at the 
 capital of Maine; and then I would retrace my steps and come 
 here, and stay here as I have done. I cannot expect this. I 
 do remember it with thronging, grateful recollections; and, 
 with a steadfast hope, I look on and move on into a future 
 which is not altogether strange. If I may add a last word, it 
 
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 shall be to my friends who themselves are Christian ministers. 
 I would ask them to rejoice in their calling as they go forth 
 to the work which it is given them to do, — the works which 
 He did and the greater works. There was never a time when 
 an opportunity so grand was offered to men; when so much 
 truth was known and so great demand for it was made, and 
 there was so much freedom in learning and declaring the 
 divine thought, and calling men to the glad obedience of the 
 divine will. Oh, my brothers, do not sleep this night until 
 upon your bended knees you have thanked our Redeemer and 
 our Lord for his goodness in choosing you, and appointing 
 you, and sending you out in his name, at a time like this. 
 
 I thank you all, my dear people, and you my friends who 
 gladden this sacred hour. I believe you, I believe in you. 
 What can I say more than the prayer of our fathers, God be 
 merciful unto us and bless us! 
 
 At the conclusion of the above program the guests to 
 whom cards had been sent passed into the Mason Street 
 Chapel and were received informally by Dr. and Mrs. McKen- 
 zie, Miss McKenzie, and Prof. Kenneth McKenzie; and an 
 opportunity was given to inspect the Anniversary Portrait 
 of Dr. McKenzie, painted by Frank H. Tompkins. 
 
ANNIVERSARY SERMONS. 
 
 THE SECOND SERMON. 
 
 Text : That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but 
 in the power of God. — 1 Corinthians 2 : 5. 
 
 Having spoken of the organization and method of our 
 church life, I am now to speak more particularly of its inner 
 spirit and method. 
 
 I wish to trace from their source some of the influences 
 which have entered into this ministry and given it direction. 
 If I may begin at the beginning, as it has been my habit to do, 
 I have to recognize the town by the sea where my life had its 
 start. It was a cosmopolitan place, for in its ships it lived on 
 distant seas and in foreign lands. Strangers from remote 
 countries and islands were upon its streets, and the mind of a 
 boy wandered at its will and knew a world larger than his 
 township, and nations older than his own. This might well 
 have an effect which cannot be traced, and this was more 
 evident in that households were divided, and fathers were 
 separated from their children, so that thought and prayer had 
 a large compass, knowledge was extended, and affection was 
 enhanced as it moved from the mild waters of the sperm 
 whale to the Arctic homes of its hardier kindred. It was of 
 great significance that in many households the father was 
 away for long periods, — two years, often three years, or more, 
 — so that the care of the boys and girls rested upon that 
 woman of whom I cannot trust myself to speak, the sailor's 
 wife; alone, patient, disciplined; with a judgment which did 
 not fail and a courage which never faltered. 
 
 Such was the home in which this life was nurtured. I pass 
 over the inheritance and the early training, to recall an hour 
 
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 when the young life reached its great transition. Religious 
 counsel was abundant in the church and the Sunday school, 
 and had its value. But it was at its best in the home, and it 
 became effective when a young man came to be the family 
 pastor, who, in the beautiful simplicity and sincerity of his 
 heart, reached out to the boy, if he might lead him into the 
 truth. Under the advice of two women of more than the 
 ordinary discernment, he called the boy to him and gave in 
 simple, practical terms the counsel of an elder brother, and 
 from that pastor's house the boy went to his home, and into his 
 room, and even as he had been instructed, offered his heart 
 and life to the divine Redeemer. It was honest and artless, 
 and promptly the offering was accepted, and the covenant 
 was made. A new purpose came to the young life and a new 
 song to the lips. " Here, Lord, I give myself away, 'tis all 
 that I can do," received the clear response, " My dear boy, it is 
 all you have to do." From that night the boy never doubted 
 that Christ and he were in an eternal friendship, with con- 
 stancy always on Christ's part; on the other's part, inconstant 
 hours, deflections and imperfectness, increasing need of for- 
 bearance and forgiveness; but never has the golden cord 
 been quite broken which binds the life of the man with the 
 covenant of the boy. With confidence in you who hear me, 
 I am bold in this confession which I speak, not as a matter of 
 biography, but as making the distinct initial point of this 
 ministry; and further than that, because the truth and 
 experience of that night have virtually controlled these years. 
 
 The next period in this preparation was mercantile. I could 
 not go from the school to college as I wished, but I was taken 
 into one of the large business establishments in Boston, where 
 I was in connection with the more active life, with its demands 
 of accuracy, promptness, diligence. The conditions were 
 most favorable and the associations helpful in all ways. But 
 beyond that which was done in business hours was the contact 
 with other young men, similarly placed. I learned their 
 
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 nature and desire, their habit and taste. In the intimacy of 
 the free life I came to know them, and the knowledge has been 
 of greater service than I could then anticipate. At the same 
 time I had my place in the church and my share in its life, with 
 its variety. There was a natural maturing which led up to 
 the college life, which, while delayed, fell in a fortunate time. 
 Here I should recall the decisive influence of another minister 
 and his wife, into whose home I was taken for the summer 
 months, by whom I was persuaded to resume the hope of 
 earlier days, and to leave business and study for the ministry. 
 That man is unknown to you all, even his name, but his retired 
 life touches the life of this church. Thus I came to Harvard. 
 
 The college was small in comparison with its present estate, 
 and many of its ways seem primitive. But it was strong in its 
 purpose and in the men who served its interest. Dr. James 
 Walker was president, and with him were other men of more 
 than national fame, whose presence was itself an education. 
 It was of advantage beyond the immediate instruction to look 
 on these men and to receive of their learning and life, while 
 others, members of my own class, were numerous enough for 
 real acquaintance with men, and lifelong friendships. I must 
 add as a part of the college training the weekly hour in the 
 study of the pastor of this church, with whom a few students 
 read the Greek Testament with the benefit of his teaching. 
 This led the way to more distinctive theological instruction 
 under the great master of that tune and his associates. But 
 through the college and seminary years the church connection 
 was maintained, with varied instruction which would be 
 helpful afterward, and with experience even in churchly con- 
 tention for which I have had no use, and with a manifold 
 practical discipline which presently extended into preaching, 
 which was certainly profitable, at least to the preacher himself. 
 
 I was thus brought to the day of ordination, and to the 
 pastoral care of one of the most important churches in Maine ; 
 of a congregation which included a large portion of the strong- 
 
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 est men of the capital city, and which through the legislature 
 brought into its fellowship many of the ablest and most noted 
 men of the state, some of whom were prominent in the councils 
 of the nation. It was a difficult position for a beginner, and 
 would have been beyond him but for the confidence and 
 unfailing assistance of older and wiser men. 
 
 Five years in this admirable training and practice brought 
 me back to the old place ; to this church, which, with all that 
 it offered in itself, had an augmented claim and a resistless 
 attraction in that it once more gave me a home beside my own 
 college and a share in its life. I did not know all which this 
 meant, but in my thoughts the church and the college have 
 stood together and have received an undivided allegiance. 
 Like others who have been the ministers of this church, I have 
 been permitted to serve both, and I know that it was of rare 
 advantage to me to be in close association for nearly thirty 
 years with the overseers of the college, — men chosen for their 
 wisdom, whose daily interests were to a great extent apart from 
 mine, who looked upon the world with a vision of their own, 
 and brought to the counsels of the college learning and 
 ability, power of statement and debate, which it was a privi- 
 lege to a minister to see and feel. I count my years with the 
 board of overseers an excellent schooling in many qualities 
 which have been useful. There were other unforeseen 
 relations which were to be established in these familiar places, 
 and the position has offered increasing opportunities for service 
 which has always been in alliance with the established duties 
 of this pastorate. Of all this I cannot now speak more par- 
 ticularly. You who have shared and helped the life know 
 what it has been. 
 
 I think that I have fulfilled my intention to trace some of the 
 influences which have entered into these years. There seems 
 to me to have been a prolonged and gracious discipline, and 
 enlarging preparation, an extended and various experience, 
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 study and thought, giving to the life much of its method and 
 temper. This I acknowledge in humility and thankfulness. 
 It was not all in my plan It was not always as I would have 
 arranged it; but I like to believe that a divine hand was 
 girding the man for the work to which he was appointed. 
 
 You will allow me for this time to bring to the light some 
 principles which cannot have been entirely concealed from 
 you. I go back again to the boy's room in a sailor's house for 
 the beginning of the Christian life — not my own merely, 
 but the life itself. In that eventful hour, and the unbroken 
 experience which has followed it, I find the Christian. He is 
 simply one who has joined his life to the life of Christ. It is 
 more than knowledge and more than feeling, though it has a 
 measure of both. It is devotion; the receiving of divine 
 grace and truth into an open and ready mind, and the consent 
 and purpose to do those things which please Christ. The path 
 is not clearly seen in its extent, but the boy, the man, enters 
 upon it in assurance, intending to walk in it forever. It is all 
 personal, soul with soul; the spirit of man with the spirit of 
 God, by whom Christ is made known hi his grace, in his 
 persuading and attracting power. All is natural after nature, 
 in its simplicity. Hope is ardent, joy is real. Shadows may 
 come, the path may have hard places, but not then. It is the 
 confidence of a child. He believes Christ and believes in Him; 
 accepts his teaching, relies on his promises, consents to his 
 commands. The entire life is involved in these few elements, 
 which may be better understood as they enter the maturer 
 thought and fashion the broader career. Out from this 
 beginning flow the principles of the life. I think that it has in 
 some measure directed my study and my preaching that I 
 came through the life of the outer world to the study of the- 
 ology, and not merely through the schools into the world. 
 Studies devout of necessity had reference to actual life and 
 principles were tested by their working. Preaching might 
 easily have less reference to systems of belief, and more to 
 
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 real conditions in a veal world. I cannot trace this now, but 
 I am confident of the influence. 
 
 It is evident that this has been a doctrinal ministry. The 
 doctrines are the teaching of the New Testament and they 
 have been learned in experience. The teaching has rested in 
 the Bible, whose trustworthiness has been constantly asserted. 
 The doctrine of God, our Father; of Christ, our Redeemer; of 
 the man's birthright as the child of God; of his need of the 
 regenerating grace which is freely offered him; of the Holy 
 Spirit bringing the soul to the Saviour, who accepts it and 
 enables it; the doctrine of life and immortality, — these have 
 been the spirit and the truth of these years. They were 
 personal truths then, apprehended in an artless way; to be 
 better known and clearly taught in the process of the years. 
 
 But this has not been distinctively a theological ministry- 
 It has not labored overmuch with philosophies, definitions, 
 decretals. It has never left the truths to ramble in their 
 suburbs, in beautiful parks with artificial fountains. Thus 
 the doctrine of the Trinity has been taught in New Testament 
 terms, but never critically analyzed. The true deity of the 
 Saviour has been taught, but the mysteries of the Godhead 
 have not been unfolded. Redemption has been the central 
 theme, and it has been explained and illustrated; but always 
 with reliance on the words of the gospel itself; for I have 
 believed and taught that Christ is the Lamb of God, and that 
 He is the Good Shepherd giving his life for his sheep, seeking 
 and saving that which was lost; and I have seen as the center 
 of heaven the throne of God and the Lamb. 
 
 Yet always I have believed in theology, have studied it con- 
 stantly, and have striven to give it a practical form for the 
 shaping of both life and thought. I accept the general and 
 enduring creeds, with a permitted freedom in translation, hold- 
 ing that the words of men must be subject to the wisdom of 
 men. Knowledge ought to grow when it is planted in reason 
 and reverence. I have believed in all advanced study, in the 
 
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 effort to know the Bible, the book and its contents, its history 
 and its meaning. If at any time the attempt seemed too bold, 
 it was not to be restrained through any fear. It would come 
 upon disaster, if it departed from the verities. Truth has its 
 quiet revenges. We have a common interest in knowing what 
 is true, and what is truth. It could not be otherwise here, 
 where scholars of the highest and widest attainment have been 
 worshipers. But while many things of interest have been 
 learned, nothing has come to my watchfulness which has taken 
 from the sacredness of Christ's teaching, or in any wise changed 
 the meaning of that early and initial hour. After all is writ ten 
 and said, I still find myself there, and come forth again to 
 repeat what then was true, and which every year's service has 
 confirmed. 
 
 In a similar spirit, the effort has been to establish ourselves 
 in the obedience of Christ, rather than to draw lines for men to 
 walk upon. Consecration pledges obedience, and in Christ are 
 the guidance, the motive, the inspiration. We are likened to 
 soldiers. The soldier's life begins with enlistment, when he 
 comes under orders, and his patriotism is effective, and his 
 skirmishing becomes orderly, through a supreme command. 
 Every man's first and immediate duty is enlistment, devotion; 
 then life has its rule wherein is freedom. Economics and 
 politics have not been preached so much as the principles 
 which should govern them. I have taken this course because 
 it seemed the wisest, and was broad enough to demand all my 
 time and force; because also I was not wiser than those who 
 heard me and who would, as I hoped, do as they pleased. I do 
 not claim that my method has been the most prudent and 
 efficient. Other men, whose devotion I could not surpass, 
 have taken another course and have had wide influence. I 
 have at times admired their facility in dealing with popular 
 themes. It is not without design that I have taken my course, 
 but the pressing need of a personal loyalty to Christ, out of 
 which would readily come good citizenship, good neighborli- 
 
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 ness, wise reforms, and a generous social science and system, 
 has kept me to that which was of primal and intense impor- 
 tance; while also I have thought that men who for six days 
 were obliged to consider public, political, and social questions 
 needed, and would prize, the truths which appeal to their 
 spiritual nature and give them a higher courage and purpose. 
 Surely one day in the week, and one hour of that day, could 
 not be more than the larger enduring interests of men re- 
 quired. I could have said with Robert Leighton, that if 
 others were preaching up to the times one poor man might be 
 allowed to preach up to eternity. 
 
 We have kept to the old paths. We are an ancient Puritan 
 church, as we often remind ourselves; one of the group of 
 churches which made the colony and then helped make the 
 nation, and we have preserved the old simplicity. We have 
 no novelties in government or ritual and worship, small belief 
 in histrionic attractions and temporary excitements, and great 
 confidence in permanence. And we have been preservative in 
 our thought and way. Happily, we have never been driven 
 into expedients. It is to be said with gratitude that our sim- 
 plicity and steadiness appear to have had favor and to have 
 brought a liberal prosperity. We seem to have kept in the 
 line from Thomas Shepard down. 
 
 It is in keeping with all which has been said to make special 
 mention of the importance which has been attached to motive 
 and action. We have believed that all worship must be in 
 spirit and in truth; and that purity of heart is shown by 
 purity of life. We could not overlook the persistence with 
 which the Lord insisted upon character, that is, obedience. 
 This was to be the proof of love. The good life was the wit- 
 ness to good opinion and intention. He made the second of 
 the two commandments like unto the first. It is " not he that 
 repeateth the name, but he that doeth the will" who is 
 accepted of God, and this is the rule for the entire life. 
 
 It is to this end that wisdom is promised and that we are per- 
 
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 mitted and instructed to make our requests known to the 
 Father in heaven, and to bring into life the inspiration of 
 prayer, which is petition and more : the communion of the soul 
 with its Maker, for his pleasure and for our own comfort and 
 strength. Prayer is not an assistance merely, an adjunct, an 
 occasional act of devotion, but a vital and essential part of the 
 divine life to which every man is called. This we have be- 
 lieved, and we have sought to open and shut the closet door in 
 every house, and to summon all to the place of common prayer. 
 Upon prayer we have relied, and the response in blessing has at 
 least been equal to the fidelity in hearkening to the counsel of 
 Him who by prayer strengthened His soul for the redemption 
 of the world. 
 
 We have regarded the church as a household, a family; a 
 conception naturally suggested by the truth that God is the 
 Father and that we are his children, and that the Son of God 
 was willing to call men his friends and his brethren. We are 
 the children of God, and his heirs and joint heirs with Christ. 
 He is the Son of man. In this spirit and under this thought we 
 have lived " in mutual love and respect each to other." We 
 have meant to be helpers of one another, sharing our burdens 
 and our blessings. If we have not perfectly attained to this, 
 it has not been absent from our thoughts and purposes, and in 
 a good degree it has been realized in our common life. It is in 
 accordance with this intent that the children of the church 
 have been baptized and that their names have been placed in 
 the ancient records. We have liked to regard our meetings 
 for prayer as the gathering for family prayers, after the sacred 
 custom of our homes; and we have received the sacrament of 
 the Eucharist, the holy communion, under the simple name of 
 " the Lord's Supper," wherein his friends with one accord 
 sit at his table. Nor have we failed to remember those who 
 in these centuries of our church life have been translated; and 
 especially to those whom we have known and loved have we 
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 with us. We cherish in living confidence and delight " the 
 Communion of Saints." 
 
 Yet our fellowship has not been limited to those who are 
 enrolled with us under the covenant. We have sought to 
 share all that we have with all who come with us to the house 
 of the Lord and join in his worship and service. In this larger 
 fellowship has been a unity for good works which have been of 
 help among our neighbors, and have reached over the land and 
 upon the sea and beyond the seas. We have carried the 
 world in our sympathies, " for the sake of the Name." 
 
 We have known, and more and more have felt, the reality of 
 the divine presence. This is the day of the Holy Spirit. 
 Through him we know God, and by him the spirit and love 
 and work of the Son of God are manifested to men. To him, 
 therefore, we look for inspiration, for instruction and guidance, 
 for the perfecting of life. For we believe in the sanctifying of 
 the redeemed soul; the work of grace begun here and ad- 
 vanced here, and continued when these limits are overpast, and 
 we live in the freedom of the spirit. The highest promise 
 made to us is in the words of the disciple whom Jesus loved, 
 " We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." We 
 are coming more deeply to feel that we have kept it too 
 distant — the influence of the Spirit of God in our life, and 
 have unduly set his bounds. For through his presence will 
 come the ennobling of our own spirit, for our immediate good, 
 in the dominance of the spirit for health, comfort, gladness, 
 power. This we have always known, long before it became in 
 some measure a popular teaching. But the truth has become 
 more forceful, for the enlargement and enrichment of our 
 being. Under the influence of the Spirit of God, spirit of 
 truth and life, we who ourselves are spirit shall ascend to 
 clearer and happier light. But in all we shall be held to Him 
 who is the light of men, the light of the world and the worlds, 
 by whom life and immortality were brought to light. Though 
 we know only Christ and him crucified, we have in him the 
 
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 beginning of all truth, for he is the truth — infinite, perfect, 
 all-embracing and eternal; he is the truth. He that followeth 
 him has the light of life and the life of light. 
 
 If, now, any one should think that a ministry thus denned 
 would be limited in its range, he would be right; yet so far 
 beyond us is the boundary that we have not reached it. If 
 one should think the teaching of such a ministry would involve 
 repetition, line upon line, precept upon precept, he would be 
 right. Yet even thus there has been, in the mind of the 
 preacher, and it is believed in the minds of the hearers, a 
 freshness and variety which have kept it a delight " to tell the 
 old, old story," of which they have not wearied. To the 
 preacher no book is so fresh, so quick with vital and interesting 
 truths, as the New Testament, and it must be an increasing 
 delight to think and speak and hear of Him whose name is 
 above every name, whose love is beyond all other love. It is 
 eternal life to know God and Him in whom God's love is 
 manifested before us and within us. 
 
 One thing is apparent: that under this system and by these 
 principles we have advanced. The church was never stronger 
 than to-day; its influence never more extended and more deep; 
 and in gratitude and contentment we confront the years which 
 are to come. There is no disposition to depart from the coun- 
 sel of St. Paul: " Whereto we have already attained, let us 
 walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing." Not 
 as though we " had already attained, either were already 
 perfect." 
 
 We do well to remember our history, for it is one and un- 
 broken. The years which followed the founding of this 
 church have been among the most eventful the world has 
 known. It was an heroic beginning, rich in courage and 
 faith. From the colonies, in which Massachusetts Bay had a 
 leading place, in due time came this republic, midway of the 
 years of our church life. We can readily imagine the thoughts, 
 the projects, the conversation of the people who were here, as 
 
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 they sat by their firesides, or walked along the roads. We 
 know what they had in mind in their prayers, and what, as 
 their affairs came to the crisis, must have g'ven tone to their 
 life. The years which have followed have preserved and 
 enlarged the republic. Through them the church has lived, 
 the only institution whose life has not been interrupted or 
 changed. These continuous years under the old covenant are 
 simple, but magnificent. We can run down the annals and 
 set events in their places. Our minds go before us, but they 
 are loyal and wise and grateful. That which has proved its 
 merit has claim upon respect and confidence. We do not 
 originate, we continue. Our life is the lengthening of the life 
 of our fathers, our duty is that which they began. Their 
 purposes were large and have had notable advance, but they 
 still reach before us. Greater than their intent was the 
 divine purpose which brought them to this wilderness, the 
 waiting ground for the new work which they were to do. Of 
 controlling importance in the minds of John Winthrop and 
 his associates stands, in their own terms, " To carry the 
 Gospell into those parts of the world." This they did, and in 
 this intent they founded this church, which has kept its fealty 
 to their intention. But " those parts " have been enlarged 
 beyond any vis : on of theirs. They reach from this end of the 
 earth to the distant lands which return upon it. " Those 
 parts " are to-day the whole globe. Geography is modern, 
 and only the latest map is to be trusted; and swift ships 
 driven by winds, like their own, or impelled from within unlike 
 theirs, have brought remotest countries and peoples into con- 
 tact. " Those parts," indeed! Their thought is our trust, 
 under these undreamed conditions. It is to our credit that, 
 though it be late, we accept the trust, and are beginning to 
 " carry the Gospell " into those parts which the recent years 
 have opened before us. Let us mark the historic significance 
 of the enterprise we name missions, whose germ was in the 
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 But our work is not all afar off. Even the country to which 
 they gave being reaches far beyond their visions, broad as 
 these became. We take our place among those who are to 
 carry the "Gospell" with its liberty and light, through the land. 
 The nations meet upon our field. We have inherited the duty 
 which was first our fathers'. Our best monument to them 
 will be in lives like theirs. The first word of the Puritan was 
 God. Like unto it was the Puritan word man. They were 
 men set to make men; so are we. The work is made simpler 
 by the accumulation of the material within our easy reach. 
 Out of this diverse material we are in our turn to make men, 
 by schools, churches, industries, homes; men who shall con- 
 stitute the state. We are compelled by our own history, of 
 which we boast, to extend the things which have served us 
 well. Standing against our past, I look forward with entire 
 confidence regarding our purpose and our achievement. We 
 are committed to our duty. We are certainly moving in the 
 right direction. We know our way. This period of formation 
 and reformation is nearing its transition into firmer purposes 
 and manners; into stable convictions and permanent realities 
 of belief and conduct. What could be shaken has been 
 shaken, and the rest will remain. Our memories forbid our 
 fears. We cannot disown our history. The church had 
 never more right to be conscious of its strength. The Holy 
 Bible is ours, and is of increasing worth, the book of religion 
 and of life. The Word of God is not bound; it is living and 
 active; it abideth forever. Truth is constant. Knowledge 
 is wide and widening and it must grow from more to more. 
 We have to teach the truth, if we are true — even as our 
 fathers sought to do, and in their light did to the end. Science 
 will instruct; philosophy and philanthropy will illumine. 
 Time and duty will give their inspiration. The spirit of truth 
 will guide into larger truth, for the soul, the mind, the body of 
 man, and of men dwelling together. Our crude attempts at 
 life will be more accurate and efficient. The church which has 
 
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 not failed to see this necessity will address itself more dis- 
 tinctly to meeting it. If I have rightly interpreted this min- 
 istry, these things it has believed and proclaimed. It has 
 taught manhood and the humanities. It has sought to meet 
 men. It has not cared overmuch for names, but it has 
 studied the realities. Action has defined and illustrated 
 principles and theories. Thus it has seldom spoken the 
 popular and useful and indefinite word " sociology," but it has 
 taught the science and practice. We have borne our part in 
 numerous efforts which belong under this designation; in our 
 Christian associations, our associated charities, our homes for 
 the sick and the old and the orphaned. One work is peculiarly 
 our own, where, under the influence -of our young life we have 
 taken our place at the river side, and have there begun a 
 practical exposition of the science, and one of increasing 
 promise. In the same spirit we are sending across the land, 
 and out upon the sea. The sailor cannot be absent from our 
 thoughts while he is indispensable to our designs. This 
 church came in a ship and ships are always in its service. All 
 this work for men will be taken in deeper earnest, as the em- 
 bodiment of Christianity and the maintenance of our fathers' 
 devotion. While we cherish our long history we must live up 
 to it. We shall. This which I have sketched we shall preserve. 
 We are not alone. There are many of the like mind. Yet 
 from its age, its history, its position, the church may well stand 
 forth in its strength, a clear and constant witness to the 
 Puritan faith and order, as these are confirmed and tempered 
 in the advance of the centuries. The place is appointed for the 
 church. There is certainty in the call; there will be no uncer- 
 tainty in the response. You ask concerning our future on 
 whose confines we are. It is one with our past. It stands in 
 the truth once for all received and constantly proclaimed, — the 
 living truth which rules our life. How shall I better assert 
 it than in the words of our saintly scholar with whom we took 
 sweet counsel? This is our future, — this truth embodied 
 
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 in our life, — " the central and all-conquering truth of Chris- 
 tianity is personal loyalty to a personal master, the crucified, 
 risen, reigning Christ." Far beyond our time, or our children's, 
 the church will move toward the day when the holy city as- 
 cending from the earth shall meet the city coming down out of 
 heaven. 
 
 What remains for me in this last moment but to rejoice with 
 you in the coming time which will be ours and our fathers'? 
 What remains for me but to bless God for his goodness, and to 
 give you thanks and praise? 
 
 It is a serious thing when the whole of a man's life is set in 
 one place. Greater than its incidents is the inclusive fact of its 
 being where it has been. It has meant much that this pas- 
 torate has been prolonged. But a church in its personality 
 changes. The minister stands and sees the coming and the 
 going. We have been reasonably stable, but we cherish 
 recollections. Nearly my entire manhood has been here. 
 I should like to begin it again and begin it here. Here 
 have I lived and worked. I am grateful that He, in whose 
 hand my life is, brought me here, back to the old college, and 
 into the ministry of this historic church. For all the way of 
 His leading I give thanks; for the " beneficial lines " He has 
 drawn before me and around me. I find myself repeating the 
 words of the good old hymn : 
 
 " In each event of life, how clear 
 Thy ruling hand I see! 
 Each blessing to my soul more dear 
 Because conferred by Thee." 
 
 I am grateful for my blessed home, and for the house you 
 gave me wherein the home is enshrined. I am grateful for 
 your homes where I have had friendship and fellowship. I 
 have held your children in my arms for baptism; I have shared 
 the joy of your wedding days, and have walked with you 
 through the shadows which fell beneath our feet, while we 
 
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 passed to the portal the risen Christ left open for our coming. 
 We have lived together, and it is well! I am not boasting, but 
 giving thanks. Thanks to God, whose blessings are not the 
 less his in that so many have come of your hands. These 
 days crown your goodness, and the years are bright before us. 
 Non nobis, Domine. Not unto us, but unto thee, 0 Lord! 
 How much it has meant! How much it means! I cannot say 
 it as I would. My heart blesses you. 
 
 In your indulgence I have many times crossed the sea, but 
 I have not cast loose from home. Whether in England and 
 Scotland, among the mountains of Norway and Sweden, in the 
 old cities of Russia, among the ranges of Switzerland, on the 
 fields of Italy with its history, or Greece with its arts, in the 
 Orient, on the Bosphorus, in Damascus, heavy with its ages, or 
 Baalbec, impressive with its fallen temples; in Egypt by 
 its pryamids and along its river, among the Arabs and Berbers 
 of Algeria and Morocco, or the past splendors of the Moors in 
 Spain; or in Palestine, from Nazareth to Jerusalem, by the 
 Jordan and the lakes — everywhere my mind has been con- 
 stant in its allegiance, and I have thought of this spot, and 
 prayed for the peace of this city of God. I have never for- 
 gotten our Jerusalem. Let us close up and move on. We 
 may at least sing in the spirit of my Class song, which we 
 shall in thinning ranks repeat with trembling lips, " Heart to 
 heart, and hand to hand." Thus we move on, in the light, up 
 the steeps of light, to the new near day which is forever, in the 
 power of an endless life. 
 
 My dear friends, these years such as they have been, you 
 have had the whole of them, — now take the rest. 
 
LETTERS. 
 
 The Old Cambridge Baptist Church to the First Church of 
 Cambridge, Congregational, Greeting: 
 
 Dear Brethren in Christ, — By a duly appointed committee named 
 below, and with sanction of our whole body convened for public wor- 
 ship Lord's day, January 20, we beg you to accept our congratulations 
 that in the gracious providence of heaven you are enabled to celebrate, 
 on January 24, 1907, the fortieth anniversary of the settlement of 
 your present minister, the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, S.T.D. 
 
 We felicitate you upon an event so beneficial and honorable to 
 pastor and flock, to preacher and hearers, to citizens and community, 
 state and country, throughout the wide extent of which the man and 
 his work have become known, as also beyond the seas. 
 
 We rejoice with you in a term of clerical office with one parish, so 
 rare in these days, but so consonant with the old and creditable customs 
 of our Commonwealth, and of our town, cradle of church, college, and 
 school. 
 
 When to so noteworthy an incumbency, in point merely of time, are 
 added quality and variety of service by your minister as prophet and 
 divine, historian and eloquent orator, devoted shepherd and bishop 
 of souls, you have indeed been, as we also with you in part, exalted 
 in privilege, as he abundant in labors. 
 
 This pleasant opportunity of joining in the tributes to one so beloved 
 and respected begets review of incidents and relations concerning our 
 churches here in what was the village of Old Cambridge, and the 
 college about which, at changing points, they have clustered, topics 
 such as Dr. McKenzie has adorned with pen and voice. 
 
 Your house of worship is now under the Washington Elm, and our 
 first seat, bought from and resold to the college, was by the green 
 from which, a fortnight before Washington arrived to take command, 
 the Americans marched to Bunker Hill, after prayer by President 
 Langdon. 
 
 Your pastor as well as the present president of the university and 
 members of our respective societies were graduated at commencements 
 held in the First Parish Church, with its undying traditions, there and 
 on an earlier site, of civic and sacred eloquence. And far back of these 
 
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 associations, in the very beginning, are names that are common 
 treasures for the pious and learned annalist like your pastor, and for 
 his humblest fellow-citizen, if only he be one who can appreciate the 
 wise and good. For besides his patriotic researches and eulogies, Dr. 
 McKenzie, a worthy successor of the best of the Puritan clergy, has 
 shown us in his ecclesiastical history of Middlesex County, that New 
 England as well as Old had its " Judicious Hooker," and how de- 
 servedly Shepard has been a name and a praise chosen for memorial 
 by your society. If our own shall some day wear upon its front as 
 well as cherish in its heart that of one who, like Dr. McKenzie, served 
 in his day and generation your church as well as the college — the 
 name of Dunster — whom President Eliot has canonized as a saint 
 of Harvard, whom, while his name is a prized inscription upon your 
 roll, we also venerate as our patron and spiritual ancestor, — let such 
 action, together with renewed thanks at this time for your hospitality 
 once and again in the past, be only an additional tie that binds our 
 hearts in Christian love. 
 
 Thrice and four times happy may you and your honored head yet 
 be in the continuance of all precious memories, present blessings, holy 
 motives, and inspiring hopes, attaching to this long and endeared 
 pastoral relation! 
 
 OLD CAMBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH, 
 by 
 
 Rev. Woodman Bradbury, Minister. 
 Nathan G. Gooch, 1 
 Ray Greene Htjling, S.D., J> °* the 
 Jambs L. Paine, j Deacons. 
 
 James A. Wood, Moderator. 
 Prof. Benjamin 0. Peirce, Ph.D. 
 Rev. George H. Whittemore, Chairman. 
 Cambridge, January 20, 1907. 
 
 Telegram. 
 
 New York, January 23, 1907. 
 
 Frank Gaylord Cook: 
 
 Deeply regret important unexpected duties prevent presence at Dr. 
 McKenzie's fortieth anniversary to-morrow. Please extend him my 
 cordial good wishes and congratulations. 
 
 (Signed) Robert C. Ogden. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 January 26, 1907- 
 
 Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. 
 
 My dear old Friend, — I declined other engagements in order to be 
 with you last Thursday and was not well enough to come after all, 
 so enduring is the effect of grippe in these days! But I will not let 
 the occasion pass without a word of affectionate sympathy and remem- 
 brance; for I remember you when you were passing your entrance 
 examinations in 1855, and we all were young. You were one of the 
 old friends whose neighborhood drew me home to Cambridge sixteen 
 years ago to live among the old companions of our youth while the 
 closing days draw nigh. You have done a good work for many more 
 than you know, and I owe you much more than you ever imagined, I 
 presume. And I want to say, among the crowd which has gathered 
 in kindliness about you at this time, I too claim a place, and wish to 
 do you honor and say for myself a special word of good-will after more 
 than forty years of respect and friendship. 
 
 Ever yours, 
 
 (Signed) Edwin H. Abbot. 
 
 Wadsworth House, Cambridge, 
 January 5, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mr. Cook, — I regret that the fortieth anniversary of the 
 installation of Dr. McKenzie does not take place ten days earlier, when 
 I should be in Cambridge. On the 24th of January I shall have 
 returned to New York and my engagements there will prevent my 
 giving myself the pleasure of attending the anniversary exercises. I 
 should like, however, through you to extend my congratulations, both 
 to the church and to my friend, Dr. McKenzie, on his long, useful, 
 and honored pastorate. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) Lyman Abbott. 
 
 Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 
 January 5, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook : 
 
 Dear Mr. Cook, — I greatly regret, in consequence of prior engage- 
 ments, that I shall be unable to accept the invitation to attend the 
 public exercises in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the in- 
 
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 stallation of Dr. McKenzic, but I would congratulate the church most 
 heartily on that occasion. 
 
 He has been not only a power for good in Cambridge, but throughout 
 the land, and we are all grateful for the Christian influence which he 
 has exerted during his unusually long and successful ministry. 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 (Signed) L. Clark Seelte. 
 
 Court House, Boston, January 19, 1907. 
 My dear Dr. M cKenzie, — I regret that I shall be unable to attend 
 the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of your installation at 
 Cambridge, to which I have been kindly invited. There is no one to 
 whom I would more gladly do honor than to you, and no one whose 
 abilities, public services, and long continued devotion to a noble work 
 challenge admiration and love in greater degree than you. I must 
 instead content myself with sending you this slight expression of my 
 warm affection, and my heartiest congratulations and good-will. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Robert R. Bishop. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., January 7, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — I am unable to be present at your fortieth 
 anniversary of installation, but I hasten to assure you that Central 
 Church and its pastor are rejoicing in all that God has permitted you 
 to be and to do during those fruitful and honored years. No period 
 of ministerial service in America has been more sustained in true re- 
 sults, more exemplary in the qualities pertaining to your great office, 
 and more rich in inspiration for your fellow-presbyters in the gospel of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Now as the shadows lengthen and there are spicy gales blowing 
 from the blessed shores where we, even the youngest, shall soon make 
 a landing, you go into the eventide encompassed by our love and 
 followed by our prayers. May that eventide be mellow and nothing 
 hasten to disturb it ! 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 (Signed) S. Parkes Cadman, 
 Pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 Boston, Mass., January 24, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — I am hoping to be at your church this 
 evening and bring personally my greetings. But besides this, I want 
 to tell you what an inspiration and help you have been to me. Begin- 
 ning away back in the old vestry in Winter Street Church when you 
 first began to study for the ministry, you commenced to mold my 
 life for good and you have been doing it ever since. Some of the 
 things you said years ago I have used to help others. It is a glorious 
 record of service for the Master in which you may greatly rejoice, for 
 you have been a blessing to thousands. May you continue to lead us 
 many years to higher and better things. 
 
 With warm regards, I am, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Samuel B. Capex. 
 
 Boston, Mass., January 14, 1907. 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — Please allow me to add my hearty con- 
 gratulations to those of the multitudes of your friends all over the 
 country and in other lands as well, on the notable anniversary of your 
 pastorate, which is so near. It seems to me that it has had few, if 
 any, parallels in the history of our country. Though there have been 
 other pastorates as long, no others have been in such an important 
 university pulpit, to my knowledge, and during such decades of prog- 
 ress and mental unrest. I feel that your work has been of immense 
 value to a very wide circle and that the young people in whom I am 
 particularly interested have profited not the least by your words on 
 the platform and in the pulpit and by your published articles and 
 addresses. 
 
 I hope that you will round out full fifty years in the same pulpit, 
 and that the richest blessing of heaven may always be yours. 
 
 Faithfully your friend, 
 
 (Signed) Francis E. Clark. 
 
 New York, January 21, 1907. 
 
 Frank Gaylord Cook, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I beg you to accept my thanks for your kindness in 
 sending me an invitation to attend the celebration of the fortieth 
 anniversary of the installation of the Rev. Dr. McKenzie. It would 
 give me great pleasure to be present, if circumstances did not make 
 
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 this impossible. In common with the great number of his friends 
 and with the Christian public generally, I rejoice in Dr. McKenzie's 
 long and distinguished ministry. He has had a much larger parish 
 than that which is around him in Cambridge, and his stimulating words 
 and example have been of great help to a host of other ministers. It 
 is a cause of rejoicing that he is able still to continue his work, and I 
 join with you in the hope that he may minister to you, and to those 
 also who have not the pleasure of hearing his voice, for many years 
 to come. 
 
 Begging the privilege of expressing to him through you my sincerest 
 regards and congratulations, I am, with great respect, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 (Signed) Edward B. Coe. 
 
 New York, January 23, 1907. 
 
 Dear Dr. McKenzie, — Mr. Ogden and I were both hoping to run 
 on to Cambridge to express by word of mouth our congratulations on 
 your fortieth anniversary. I do not know another man that has had 
 a ministry of forty years that has meant as much as yours. I want to 
 express the feeling of gratitude which we all have toward you at 
 Hampton, not only for the inspiration and help that has come from 
 your presence and words there but because of the loyal support that 
 you have given the school through all the years. 
 
 It is a cause of deep regret that an important engagement here seems 
 to make my stay here essential. I am pressing upon Mr. Ogden, whose 
 southern trips have made the date of anniversary uncertain, the 
 importance of deciding, so that we may on no account be deprived of 
 the pleasure of having you with us in the spring. 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 H. B. Frissell. 
 Columbus, Ohio, January 7, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook: 
 
 Dear Sir, — I greatly regret that it will be impossible for me to 
 attend the exercises in celebration of Dr. McKenzie's fortieth anni- 
 versary. I shall be one of many thousands who will give thanks to 
 God for his long and fruitful ministry, and who will pray that his last 
 days may be his best. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed) Washington Gladden. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 New York, January 15, 1907. 
 Dear Air. McKcnzie, — I was so very sorry not to be able to come 
 to see you in Boston, but 3 r ou will understand tbat good Miss White 
 made my engagements, and I was unable to keep up with them, they 
 were so many. I hear that you are to celebrate the fortieth anniver- 
 sary of your pastorship. I remember with very great profit your 
 brief visit to Battle Harbour. If it has pleased God to bless you in 
 proportion to the many others that you have been working for during 
 all these years, then indeed you must have a joy that cannot pass 
 away after service of four decades. Please accept my very affectionate 
 regards, and believe me ever to remain, 
 
 Your affectionate friend, 
 
 (Signed) W. T. Grenfell. 
 
 S. S. " Korea," April 10, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gavlord Cook: 
 
 My dear Sir, — While in Japan, an invitation reached me to attend 
 the public exercises in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the 
 installation of the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. It is with great 
 regret that I have found it impossible to accept this invitation, and 
 at this late date, to the committee my keen appreciation of its courtesy 
 in inviting me and my delight in thinking of all the occasion implied 
 from every point of view. Dr. McKenzie I have honored and loved 
 for many years. Some years ago it was my privilege to preach on two 
 successive Sundays in his church, and I have never lost, and never shall 
 lose, the sense of privilege and blessing that came to me in connection 
 with those services. I rejoice with you and your associates in the 
 treasure which you possess in your church and society; and I hope 
 that even greater usefulness and blessings are to abide there in the 
 days to come. 
 
 I have the honor to remain, dear sir, 
 
 Very gratefully yours, 
 
 (Signed) C. Cuthbert Hall. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y., January 7, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook: 
 
 Dear Sir, — With deep regret I am compelled by circumstances to 
 forego the pleasure of accepting your invitation for the 24th of January. 
 Dr. McKenzie will appreciate how much it costs me to decline it. He 
 is one of my most cherished friends. We have been friends for nearly 
 
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 fifty years. During all that time I have watched his brilliant career, 
 and every year my admiration of his great abilities and my affection 
 for himself and my gratitude to God for the way he has used his power 
 have grown greater. 
 
 All men appreciate his genius. Only those who know him well can 
 adequately appreciate his character. For great as is his brain, his 
 heart is greater. With sincere regards, 
 
 Your respectful servant, 
 
 (Signed) Wm. B. Wright. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y., January 7, 1907. 
 
 Deai- Dr. McKenzie, — Even you can scarcely appreciate how much 
 it has cost me to write Mr. Cook the note I have just penned declining 
 the invitation to be with you on the 24th of January, for you cannot 
 know how much I admire and love you. For nearly fifty years I have 
 known you and every year has made me long to know you better. In 
 my judgment you have taken rank among the half dozen foremost 
 preachers in America, second to none in the six. I have never said 
 that to you, but I have said it of you to many. Your charge to 
 Murray's people, with that golden sentence that has been a Star of 
 Bethlehem to me ever since I heard it, " Simon of Cyrene carries the 
 cross more easily than Jesus of Nazareth," fixed my expectation of 
 what has since come from you. That foreign missionary address you 
 gave at Lowell so long ago was the greatest, and by far the greatest, 
 in that line I have ever heard or read. I can almost repeat it to-day. 
 Though I have not been able to hear you often, I have never lost an 
 opportunity to do so, and I never heard you speak without delight and 
 a mental " Thank God for such a man." 
 
 But my admiration for yourself has been greater than for your 
 genius. You have received, not flattery, for flattery means undeserved 
 praise, but such recognition of your God-given powers as might well 
 have spoiled most men, without the least taint of vanity or presump- 
 tion; but have laid every crown you earned at the Master's feet. For 
 this most of all I love you and thank God for you and count it one of 
 the chief blessings of my life that you rank me among your friends. 
 
 Be sure to send me everything you can that occurs on the 24th, for 
 everything that concerns you is always and will be of prime importance 
 in my eyes. 
 
 With all the love of all the years, 
 
 Yours, 
 
 (Signed) Wm. B. Wright. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 New York, January 5, 1907. 
 Mr. Frank Gatlord Cook, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 M y dear Sir, — It is a distinguished occasion to which you invite 
 me at the fortieth anniversary of the installation of Dr. McKenzie. 
 His career and record have been unusually notable. It is not simply 
 that he has remained for forty years as pastor of the First Church in 
 Cambridge, but also that his interest and influence in matters of educa- 
 tion and public affairs, as well as in the church, have been known of 
 all men. 
 
 I wish very much I could be present among those to do him honor, 
 but it will not be possible. As I am myself on the fortieth year of 
 my service where I now am, I feel a special sentiment for this reason. 
 
 I trust that he may for not a few years to come remain in active 
 connection with the First Church of Cambridge. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) Wm. H. Ward. 
 New York, January 6, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gatlord Cook: 
 
 Dear Sir, — Permit me to express my thanks for the invitation to 
 the anniversary exercises on the 24th. 
 
 There is' no man in the American church to whom we would render 
 more honor than to Dr. McKenzie, and it is with great regret that I 
 find myself unable to be in Cambridge at that time. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Wm. R. Richards. 
 
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 New York, February 3, 1907. 
 
 Dear Dr. McKenzie, — Some kind friend sent me an invitation to the 
 exercises at your recent anniversary, an invitation which I should have 
 loved dearly to accept. I hope it is not too late to say how deeply 
 interested I have been in such accounts as have reached me. You 
 come in among my very earliest memories as we used to have the 
 privilege of welcoming you at our house on Sunday evenings, and it 
 has been a joy and pride to us all to know of j-our great ministry in 
 that most influential pulpit and parish. 
 
 The recent death of my mother has made those early recollections 
 more sacred to me, as it has also made the Christian hope more sure. 
 
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 I suspect that you have been overwhelmed with messages from all 
 quarters, but I know that you will let me claim this small part in the 
 chorus of gratitude and congratulation. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Wm. R. Richards. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass., January 5, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mr. Cook, — I am very sorry to find that I must be absent 
 from Cambridge at the time of Dr. McKenzie's fortieth anniversary. 
 I have promised to be in Pittsburgh at the celebration of the twenty- 
 fifth anniversary of Bishop Whitehead. 
 
 I would like to express through you to Dr. McKenzie my deep 
 appreciation of all that his influence means to this community. He 
 has shown the great advantage which comes to the church by the long 
 continuance of a good man in one place. The circle of influence widens 
 year by year. Dr. McKenzie has made himself a part of our whole 
 Cambridge life, and it is better in every way because of his residence 
 amongst us. He has the regard and reverence and affection of all his 
 neighbors. 
 
 Always faithfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) George Hodges. 
 
 New Bedford, Mass., January 22, 1907. 
 Dear Dr. McKenzie, — Let me add my little word of affection and 
 esteem to the many which I know have been coming to you on this 
 glad anniversary. I feel that no general word can mean as much to 
 you, from me, as my frank and sincere statement of the personal in- 
 spiration and help which have come to me from your words with your 
 own true self within them. I thank you. 
 
 Your friend, 
 
 (Signed) M. C. Julien. 
 
 New Bedford, Mass., February 9, 1907. 
 Dear Dr. McKenzie, — Now that the public exercises of the anni- 
 versary have come to a close, I thought it might interest you to know 
 how it was appreciated by the people of the Trinitarian Church here 
 in New Bedford. Last Wednesday night one of the delegates sent to 
 represent the church made his report of the anniversary. The dele- 
 
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 gate was Mr. James C. Briggs, whose whole ancestry and life experi- 
 ences have turned him into salt — not like Lot's wife, for his salt has 
 not left its savour, and his " looking back " is surely in line with the 
 Divine favor. His report was not the haphazard extemporaneous 
 talk of a layman, but he had carefully taken notes, and wrote up his 
 impressions that same night in his room in a Boston hotel, and com- 
 pleted the written report the next morning — save for corrections of 
 matters of fact gathered from the published reports. It was most en- 
 thusiastically and yet discriminatingly done. The people listened with 
 that earnestness which showed the genuineness of their interest, not 
 only in the report but in the subject. As one of the most intelligent 
 and best educated of the church said to me, — a man over eighty years 
 of age but of wide experience as a teacher and exceptionally clear- 
 headed, — " That was the best report, without exception, that I ever 
 heard given of such an occasion." And if you will permit me to add, 
 what I am afraid may read like a bit of gossip, I was told by one who 
 was present that while the addresses were all very interesting and 
 impressive, " the crown of it all was Dr. McKenzie's closing speech." 
 The hearts of the people here are with you after the anniversary just 
 as fully as ever. With kindest regards, 
 
 Yours, 
 
 (Signed) M. C. Julien. 
 
 Stockbridge, Mass., January 21, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — May send a line of congratulation among 
 the many that will reach you, and express the hope that for many 
 years more you may prolong 3 r our useful and honored work. I have 
 been but thirty-five years in my parish, and consider myself, compared 
 with you, a novice. But I know something of the satisfaction of a 
 long pastorate. What pleasure Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lawrence, were 
 they still here, would take in your anniversary ! 
 
 Believe me, dear sir, 
 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) Arthur Lawrence. 
 
 Boston, Mass., January 6, 1907. 
 My dear Neighbor M cKenzie, — I am so sorry that absence in Wash- 
 ington will prevent me from being present at your fortieth anniversary. 
 I must, however, send you my congratulations upon a good work well 
 done. To have ministered for forty years to the people of Cambridge, 
 
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 to Harvard officers and students, to have done what you have as a 
 citizen, to have led many souls to righteousness in colleges and cities 
 throughout the land, is a privilege indeed. As one contemplates the 
 contrast of your life as it might have been in Uncle Sam Lawrence's 
 office and as it now has been, one realizes the great opportunities of 
 the ministry. You rejoice in the affection of a grateful people and 
 the regard of all who know you. May God give you happiness and 
 serenity in your declining years. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) William Lawrence. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., January 9, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — I have had the honor to receive an invita- 
 tion to be present at the public exercises in celebration of your fortieth 
 anniversary as pastor of the First Church, to take place on Thursday, 
 January 24. It would be a great and special pleasure to me to be 
 present in person upon that occasion, but I am under engagement to 
 attend an American Board Conference that week in Chicago. 
 
 May I not, therefore, in this informal fashion, but with all my 
 heart, count myself one among the great throng whose loving jubila- 
 tion will gather about you on that glad day, signal and splendid as 
 it is in its commemoration of a ministry so long, so rich, so rare in 
 the constant beauty of its inspiring power. 
 
 You have made two generations of our ministers your debtors. 
 Every " man-Jack " of us glories in the unique distinction of your 
 genius and your work. 
 
 May heaven grant that you may yet long be spared, that some 
 immortal white heather from your ancestral Scottish " braes " may 
 find itself always fresh in your hands, and that still another decade 
 may be added to the mellowing and golden fullness of your pastorate 
 in Cambridge. 
 
 Most faithfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) Albert J. Lyman. 
 
 Hartford, Conn., January 5, 1907. 
 
 Rev. Alexander McKenzie : 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — I regret that I have been compelled, by 
 an important engagement in New York on January 24, to write stating 
 my inability to attend the public exercises which are to be held on that 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 day in your church. It would have been a great personal satisfaction 
 to me to be able to attend. Surely you must look back with immense 
 delight and profound thankfulness to a ministry such as you have 
 had. I trust that out of this celebration there may come to many 
 young men the call to give themselves to a life work capable of such 
 noble fruition. Will you please convey my kindest regards to Mrs. 
 McKenzie and your daughter, whom it will be a great pleasure to meet 
 at some date in the future. 
 With warm regards, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) W. Douglas Mackenzie. 
 
 Hartford, Conn., January 5, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook: 
 
 My dear Sir, — It is with much regret that I find myself prevented 
 by an important engagement in New York from attending the cele- 
 bration of the fortieth anniversary of the installation of the Eev. 
 Alexander McKenzie, D.D., as pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. 
 It would have given me the utmost pleasure to attend and so to ex- 
 press my regard for Dr. McKenzie himself and admiration for the 
 ministry exercised for so long with such brilliant power in a position 
 which few men could sustain. 
 
 With regards, 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 (Signed) W. Douglas Mackenzie. 
 
 Boston, Mass., January 8, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mr. Cook, — I am sorry that an engagement will keep me 
 away from the public exercises in celebration of the fortieth anniversary 
 of the installation of Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., Thursday 
 evening, the 24th of January. 
 
 It would be a great pleasure to attend this celebration, and to offer 
 my sincere congratulations to Dr. McKenzie. He has had a remark- 
 able ministry, and still holds his place with such power that his friends 
 are all astonished at his endurance. Let me join with a large com- 
 pany of friends in extending to Dr. McKenzie sincere felicitations upon 
 his successful ministry in Cambridge. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) W. E. Huntington. 
 
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 Andover, Mass., January 25, 1907. 
 Dear Dr. McKcnzie, — I felt grateful for the privilege of attending 
 the exercises at the Shepard Church last evening. In view of the 
 extreme severity of the weather I thought it prudent not to stay so 
 late as to be obliged to reach home after midnight. Hence to my 
 keen regret I was obliged to lose all the public exercises after Dr. 
 Thomas's address, and the reception. May I now add my congratu- 
 lations on the anniversary and the admirable exercises which honored 
 it so fitly. I am the only member of our faculty who was here when 
 it was attacked in 1886. Let me say that I never can forget the brave 
 and generous attitude you maintained during that trying time. 
 There came to my recollection more words of warm sympathy for 
 Dr. Smyth which you spoke on the platform of the American Board, 
 after he had been removed from his place in its prudential committee. 
 How heartily would he have expressed his gratitude for them, and 
 his gladness in your happy anniversary, if he were here! I believe 
 that one of your strongest claims in the gratitude of the churches is 
 the stand which you took at that time for freedom and justice. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) Edward Y. Hincks. 
 
 Wellesley College, February 6, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — After dinner this evening, we all went 
 into Miss Dennison's sitting-room, and there I saw, occupying an 
 honored position, a fine likeness of yourself which came from the 
 Congregationalist. As we stood around the picture, a group of your 
 Wellesley friends of many years, I resolved to write to you — and 
 to write with my own hand! 
 
 At the time of your anniversary honors, I was not in Wellesley. 
 The Christmas season is a busy time in my office and I usually take 
 my vacation rather later, after the others have returned. Thus I was 
 not one of those who were of the great number that assembled in your 
 honor and I had not the pleasure of hearing your address which, as I 
 read it, justifies all the praise which I have heard from those present. 
 A Cambridge paper addressed to the college and sent perhaps through 
 your thoughtful kindness, reached my desk and was full of interesting 
 matter in connection with the day. The Manager of College News 
 took much pleasure in making an abstract for her paper, and I shall 
 see that you have a copy. The same issue contains memorials from 
 
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 the faculty and the Science Club with reference to the death of Miss 
 Cummings, and thus will be of deep interest to you. 
 
 I hope that the many engagements belonging to your work and to 
 your anniversary have not cost you serious fatigue. Soon the spring 
 will come and then your Sunday at Wellesley, to which we look forward 
 with great enjoyment in and gratitude for the present. I shall think) 
 as I always do, when I first heard you speak, on " The power of an 
 endless life," and shall recall the evening in the old chapel when you 
 gave us an address on Christ's College in commemoration of Mr. 
 Durant's life and work. 
 
 Will you not remember me to Mrs. McKenzie, whom I once met in 
 Cambridge? Her gracious reception then encourages me to send my 
 best wishes now. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Mary Caswell. 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., January 11, 1907. 
 Frank Gaylord Cook, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 My dear Sir, — The invitation to the exercises in celebration of the 
 fortieth anniversary of Dr. McKenzie's pastorate is received and I 
 wish it were possible for me to be present. I thank you for the courtesy 
 of the invitation. I have for many years had the same feeling of ad- 
 miration for Dr. McKenzie that is held by so many people in the East. 
 One of the most pleasant things in my recent trip was to meet him 
 and hear him speak at the Boston Congregational Club. The little 
 incident in the speech of Gipsy Smith when he laid his hand so affec- 
 tionately on Dr. McKenzie's shoulder is one that I can never forget. 
 The doctor has done a noble work there many years. Please give 
 him my love and congratulations, as well as to the church. 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 (Signed) Geo. C. Adams. 
 
 Harpoot, Turkey, March 6, 1907. 
 Dear Dr. McKenzie, — Please permit a distant member of your 
 church at this late date to extend hearty congratulations on the com- 
 pletion of forty years of service with the Shepard Memorial Church. 
 I have been much interested in the accounts I have seen of the occasion 
 and only wish I could have been present in person. The next best 
 thing was to have my daughter, Winifred, there. Mr. Browne, who 
 is now with us, also had an account of the occasion from his wife. 
 
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 There are larger churches than the Shepard Memorial, but I doubt 
 if there are many that are having a more extensive influence. Pray 
 that all her sons and daughters may be true to the ideals which they 
 have received there. 
 
 From the enclosed report you will see that one feature of my work 
 seems to be to try to develop out of our orphanage work something 
 like a Hampton or Tuskegee Institute for this land. We have the 
 nucleus, and must now see if it will be helped to grow. With very 
 warm regards and with the hope that I may be present at the Jubilee 
 of your connection with the Shepard Church, believe me, 
 
 Yours most sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) Geo. P. Knapp. 
 
 Lakehurst, N. J., January 14, 1907. 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — Accept from me very cordial congratu- 
 lations upon your attainment of the fortieth anniversary of your 
 installation as pastor of the Congregational Church in Cambridge. It 
 would have been to my personal advantage had my life been lived 
 nearer you and your preaching. I remember so distinctly a discourse 
 of yours to which I once listened in your church, that I am sure if I 
 had been within reach of your ministry, I should have been a stronger 
 man. I think I referred to that discourse in the course of a sermon,, 
 more or less fortunate in its character, which I delivered in the Central 
 Church in Boston. 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) C. H. Parkhurst. 
 
 Boston, January 16, 1907. 
 My dear Mr. Cook, — It will afford me much pleasure to be present 
 at the exercises in honor of Dr. McKenzie, on the 24th. My long and 
 intimate association with him as a member of the committee for pub- 
 lishing the Proceedings of the Historical Society has been among the 
 pleasantest circumstances of my life; and I was much gratified, in 
 looking up the record a few days ago, to find that it was on my 
 nomination that he was elected a member of the society. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) Chas. C. Smith. 
 
 Frank Gayi.ord Cook, Esq. 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 Boston, January 24, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — I have been hoping all day that the ex- 
 treme cold would moderate enough to make it prudent for me to go to 
 Cambridge this evening, that I might testify in person my regard for 
 you and congratulate you on the interesting occasion which will draw 
 many of your friends together ; but it does not seem prudent for me 
 to try. The many years — no small part of a man's lifetime — during 
 which you and Dr. Young and I have been associated in the Publishing 
 Committee of the Historical Society have been among the pleasantest 
 of my life, and I am always glad to look back on them. It was with 
 mingled surprise and gratification that I found some days ago that 
 both you and he were elected into the society on my nomination. In 
 the Publishing Committee there has never been the slightest jar, and 
 your part of the work has always been faithfully and promptly done, 
 as I know that all your other varied work has been done. 
 
 With my warmest congratulations and my best wishes for you in 
 the years to come, I am, 
 
 Always sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) Chas. C. Smith. 
 
 Rev. Dr. McKenzie. 
 
 Cambridge, January 25, 1907. 
 My dear Friend, — I was much stirred and moved by many mem- 
 ories last evening at your church and should like to send you one 
 further word of neighbor ly greeting. What career could be more 
 honorable and rewarding than these many years of continuous, gen- 
 erous, and wise service! You have shown us all the scope of the 
 Christian ministry and the undiminished part which it holds both in 
 the work and the affection of a modern world. It is a happy memory 
 to me that I have had the privilege of sharing with you some of these 
 experiences and to watch the large effect of your words and your work. 
 My only regret last evening was that nothing happened to be said of 
 your service at Hampton, the welcome which is always awaiting your 
 words there, and the unique expression of affection which meets you 
 jimong those devoted teachers. It is one of the sweetest parts of our 
 visits there to see this appreciation showered upon you and deserved 
 by you. I have been planning all this winter to look in on you quietly 
 in your study, and, as Brandt Storer used to say, " hold hands," but 
 I have been much restricted by a turn of rheumatism, which has liter- 
 ally tied me with a very short rope, so that I have not walked as far 
 
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 as your house for months. May you have a long and fruitful 
 autumn of life, full of the autumn fruits of admiration and affection, 
 which are glowing about you to-day 1 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 No answer! (Signed) Francis G. Peabody. 
 
 Rev. A. McKenzie, D.D., Cambridge. 
 
 New York, January 13, 1907. 
 
 My dear Dr. McKenzie, — While it will be impossible for us to be 
 personally present with the multitude who will throng your church 
 next Sunday and the Thursday following, we are most appreciative 
 of the cordial invitation. 
 
 We may, I am sure, have a part in the congratulations and thanks- 
 givings of these occasions. How significant they are, both as testi- 
 mony to the past and as assurance for the time to come! Let me 
 assure you of the admiration with which I look upon yourself and the 
 fruitful years which now round out the two score, and of my gratitude 
 to Almighty God for the power which he has so long made manifest 
 in you and your ministry. May the celebration be all your heart 
 can wish. 
 
 Ever cordially, 
 
 (Signed) Frank Mason North. 
 
 Young People's Christian Alliance 
 of the Trinitarian-Congregational Church. 
 
 New Bedford, Mass., January 20, 1907. 
 
 To our dear Dr. McKenzie, — The child of the Trinitarian Church, 
 long gone out from among us, doing a strong man's work in the service 
 of Christ's kingdom on earth, we are glad that you have come to see 
 this anniversary day. 
 
 A wise New England philosopher once said : " We do not count a 
 man's years till he has nothing else to count " ; so we, your old-time 
 friends, make no reckoning of the days and the years of this happy 
 pastorate. Its value to the people and its satisfaction to yourself can 
 be calculated in no such terms. They are rather in the friendships, 
 the affections, the inspirations, and the memories which link you to 
 the people and the people to you. We send you our glad greeting, 
 and rejoice for all the good that has come to you, and for all the good 
 
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 Fortieth Anniversary. 
 
 you have done, and for all that you are going to do. May the good 
 Lord bless you now and always is the prayer of your friends of the 
 New Bedford Trinitarian Church. 
 
 (Signed) Jas. C. Briggs, Clerk. 
 
 New York, January 5, 1907. 
 Frank Gatlord Cook, Esq., Cambridge, Mass.: 
 
 Dear Sir, — I desire to acknowledge the receipt of the invitation to 
 attend the public exercises upon the celebration of the fortieth anni- 
 versary of the pastorate of the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., on 
 the evening of Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of January. 
 
 Grateful for the opportunity of thus expressing my affectionate 
 regard for Dr. McKenzie, I am, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) Robert C. Ogden. 
 
COMMITTEES. 
 
 Arthur P. Stone. 
 
 PORTRAIT. 
 
 Frank Gaylord Cook. 
 Edward S. Chapin. 
 
 Charles F. Stratton. 
 
 ALBUM. 
 
 George S. Chase. 
 
 FINANCE. 
 
 Charles F. Stratton. 
 Erasmus D. Leavitt. 
 Byron T. Thayer. 
 George F. Kendall. 
 George E. Saunders. 
 Robert J. Mellidge. 
 
 Mrs. H. N. Tilton. 
 Mrs. W. A. Bancroft. 
 Mrs. W. G. Farlow. 
 Mrs. Ezra F. Taft. 
 Mrs. W. B. Durant. 
 Mrs. John B. Kempton. 
 
 PUBLIC EXERCISES. 
 
 Frank Gaylord Cook. Mrs. George F. Moore. 
 
 George S. Saunders. Mrs. H. W. Magoun. 
 
 John A. Lansing. Mrs. F. S. Cutter. 
 
 H. G. Fletcher. Miss A. B. Mackintire. 
 
 Prof. J. H. Ropes. Miss Cornelia B. Fiske. 
 
 L. B. Grover. Miss Sarah C. Bent. 
 
 George S. Chase. 
 Charles W. Spencer. 
 James L. Love. 
 Dr. Newton S. Bacon. 
 Dr. Marshall W. Bailey. 
 H. Porter Smith. 
 
 INVITATIONS. 
 
 Mrs. A. J. Wallace. 
 Mrs. M. J. Jones. 
 Mrs. E. G. Brandau. 
 Miss M. K. Horsford. 
 Miss Emma G. Alden. 
 Miss M. Althea Dorr. 
 
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Gaylord Bro». 
 Makers 
 
 Syracuse, N Y 
 
 MT. MID. I|, 1908