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YALE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

1942

Men Who Have Meant
Much to Me
ADDRESSES AND ESSAYS

BY
JOHN B. CALVERT

New York Chicago
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1918
BY
JOHN B. CALVERT

TO

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AUTHOK'S NOTE
THE biographical sketches found in this
volume were in several instances delivered
as appreciative tributes and were printed
at the time either in booklet form, in The Ex
aminer or in The Watchman-Examiner. Some of
these tributes were written under the stress of
sorrow, and can best be interpreted by reproduc
ing the setting that called them forth. Each is
complete in itself. There is no attempt at
sequence nor at relation of one to another. The
only thread that binds them together is that of
personal friendship, running through a long term
of years with men in widely different positions,
all of whom stood close to me in either a paternal
or fraternal relationship. The collection is really
just a "sheaf of tributes" to some of the men who
have meant much to me and who will ever be held
in affectionate remembrance. In no sense is it
to be inferred that this list includes all the friends
with whom it was my privilege to be closely asso
ciated in fellowship and in service, who have now
passed to their reward. Manifestly no mention
is made of any one of the large circle of true and
tried friends now living. These appreciations of
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noble lives are now brought together in the com
pass of this volume with the hope that their in
fluence may be as ennobling and inspiring to
others as they have been to myself. J. B. O.
Irrington-on-Hudson, N. Y.

CONTENTS

I. Maktin Brewer Anderson . . 9
1. Dr. Anderson's Chapel Talks. ... 43
2. Gleanings from Chapel Talks. ... 48
II. Edward Bright  75
Address at the Annual Meeting of the Baptist
Missionary Convention, at Jamestown, N. Y.,
October 25, 1916.
III. George Howe Brigham .... 101
Printed in The Examiner, October 27, 1910.
IV. Daniel Clarke Eddy .... Ill
V. William Alburtis Catjldwell . . 131
Address at the Sunday School Memorial Service
in the Calvary Chapel, March 19, 1893.
VI. James Duane Squires .... 138
Printed in Pamphlet, September, 1913.
VII. Henry Whitmer Barnes . . . 156
Address in the First Baptist Church, Bing-
hamton, N. Y., October 1, 1914. Printed in The
Watchman and Examiner, October 15, 1914.
VIII. Charles Wesley Brooks . . . 168
Address in the First Baptist Church, Watkins,
N. Y, September 23, 1911. Printed in The
Examiner, September 28, 1911.
IX. Lemuel Moss  181
Address to the Baptist Ministers' Conference,
New York, September 19, 1904.
X. Thomas Oakes Conant .... 192
XI. Henry Lyman Morehouse . . . 200

MAETIN BEEWER ANDEESON
NO setting is needed to emphasize the gen
uine worth and the greatness of Dr. An
derson. No office, however exalted, no
words of praise, however well chosen, could add
to the nobility of his soul, to his rugged and forci
ble personality, or make him other than he was in
the esteem of the great majority of his compeers
— one of the foremost educators of his time. Un
like many men who borrow as much from their
surroundings as they themselves possess, Dr.
Anderson had all his greatness in himself, and
gave honor to the office he filled, instead of receiv
ing honor from it.
The farther the passing years may remove one
from the days in which, he sat in Dr. Anderson's
classroom and was made familiar with his appear
ance in Anderson Hall, or about the college, the
more he appreciates the nobility of his character,
the greatness of his intellectuality, and the forcible
influence of his dominating personality. We may
forget his teaching and his words of counsel, but
9

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we cannot forget how great he was, or get away
from the inspiring, uplifting and transforming in
fluence that left an indelible impression on his
students. Of all the forces in human life that go to the
making of manhood, none is so potent as contact
with masterful characters. The biographies of
men who have done any real work in the world
show that their lives were largely shaped and
molded by some other life, or by what emanates
from a strong personality. It may have been a
preacher, like Knox or Wesley; a teacher, like
Arnold of Eugby; a book, like Bunyan's Pil
grim's Progress; an oratorio, like ' ' The Messiah" ;
a long and fraternal friendship, like David and
Jonathan's; a true yoke-fellow in service, as Paul
to Silas ; or a quiet prayerful life like that of the
mother of Augustine. In a subtile and sensitive
way life reacts upon life. The Apostle enunciated
the fundamental law of life when he said, "None
of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to him
self." It is abundantly manifest that "no man
is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest
of him." The influence of those who have lived
and gone abides and has a determining effect upon
the destiny of the generations coming after them.
Lord Byron has truly said:
"The heart ran o'er
With silent worship of the great of old ;
The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns."

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If one attempts to analyze his own life he will
find that this principle has abundant exemplifica
tion in his own experience. In a very real sense
he can say with Tennyson's Ulysses: "I am a
part of all that I have met." Family, church and
social relationships, friends, school-life, teachers,
books, travel, co-laborers in service, every one
and every thing in fact with which he has come in
contact ; some influences overmastering, others less
strong, have all contributed, or are contributing
to the unfolding and establishing of his character,
the making of his life.
Among the myriad influences that have sensibly
or insensibly had to do with the shaping and de
termining of my own Ufe, probably there is none
more potent, certainly none in the notable circle
of my instructors and teachers, and none that has
made a more indelible impression, than that of
Dr. Martin B. Anderson, for thirty-five years the
honored and esteemed president of the University
of Eochester, himself the embodiment of the noble
manhood and lofty ideals he sought to awaken in
others. The impression made by Dr. Anderson upon me
the first time I saw him can never be effaced. He
stands out as vividly to-day, after the lapse of two
score years, as if it were only yesterday that I
saw birr) for the first time at Commencement in
June, 1872, when I went up to the university for
my entrance examinations. His powerful frame,
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over-arching brow, his fine, aquiline nose, his
flowing reddish-broW hair and bristling beard,
suggested the great liberator, Garibaldi, for whom
he was many times taken when he was in Europe.
As Dr. Anderson marched in cap and gown with
the trustees, alumni and seniors from the Second
Baptist church to Old Corinthian Hall, and stood
forth at the close of the orations to give his final
word of counsel and appeal to the graduating
class, my attention was closely riveted upon him,
for it seemed to me I never had seen such a
majestic and mighty man. As he gave vigor and
emphasis to his words, his very soul kindling, and
his voice vibrating with the unfolding of his
theme, he awakened a feeling of awe and admira
tion. He seemed a veritable Boanerges sent to
earth to instruct and awaken the consciences of
men. In all college circles Dr. Anderson was a domi
nant figure. He had the seniors in mental and
moral philosophy, and a class in art on Saturday
mornings. It was his invariable custom to con
duct the religious services held every morning
in the chapel, attendance upon which was com
pulsory. He rarely absented himself from his
college duties, often declining invitations that
meant much for him and for the university, rather
than disappoint himself and his classes by failure
to meet with them. In spite of the frequent sight
of his stately figure, and the almost daily inter
course in the classroom, I never saw him on the

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campus, in the college halls, or in the lecture room,
without something of that first feeling of awe,
of restraint, of instinctively righting myself
physically and morally, as one does involuntarily
in the presence of a superior personage. The im
pression his powerful personality made upon me
in those unsophisticated days continues with me
to this hour. Although he grew more human from
frequent meetings, "With all the humanizing is
he the austere, rugged, inaccessible mountain, its
fiery passions hidden, its head above the forests."
Dr. Anderson was of heroic stature. Like Saul
of old, "from his shoulders and upward he was
higher than any of the people." He seemed to be
the sole survivor of an age of patriarchs. He was
of such gigantic mold that he looked a very king
among men, a veritable Agamemnon.
"Sage he stood,
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to hear
The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air."
Intellectually, morally and spiritually he tow
ered as high above ordinary men as he did phys
ically. He measured up to the conception of an
Old Testament prophet, — a man called of God for
a special task, who lived near to God, heard what
God had to say, and made known God's message
to the people. He united in himself qualities that
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reformer, counselor, general, journalist, jurist,
preacher or publicist.
In his day Dr. Anderson was universally recog
nized as primus inter pares of great college presi
dents and administrators. To those who sat
under his teaching and felt the impress and im
petus of his powerful personality, he seemed equal
to any task. Often I have wished, as I heard him
speak, that he held a place worthy of his powers
at the Capitol in Washington. What a Speaker
he would have been in the Eepresentative Cham
ber! What a Justice on the Supreme Bench!
What a President he would have made for this
great Eepublic! What a preacher of righteous
ness and justice and judgment to come! If he
had followed his own inclinations he would have
gone into public life. On one occasion he said to
Dr. Leighton Williams, of New York, Secretary of
the Niagara Falls Park Commission : "If I could
have had my way, I should be in public life, and
here I am teaching boys." At his own choice he
followed the line of duty instead of his own pref
erences, showing the greater strength of char
acter. He turned away from all other avenues and
devoted his superb strength and energies to
"teaching boys," and to the development of the
newly organized University, of which he laid
solid foundation, and which will always stand
as his monument.
The springs of a great life are always full of
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folding and maturing. Like most great men, Dr.
Anderson was of humble and circumscribed en
vironment. Life for him was cast in a home where
"Poverty, the nurse
That quickens ready wits and strengthens wills,
Taught him in youth to play the manly part,
To do hard tasks with cheerful heart
And sympathize with mortal ills."
He was one of two children of Martin and Jane
Brewer Anderson, and was born in Brunswick,
Maine, the seat of Bowdoin College, February 12,
1815. The other child was a daughter, Maria,
some years younger, for whom her big brother
always manifested a keen, almost fatherly affec
tion and interest. When Martin was about three
years old the parents moved to the neighboring
town of Freeport, to the farm on which the father
was born and reared. The presence of a college
in his native town could not have had much in
fluence upon the little lad, except possibly to im
press on the father and mother the advantages of
college training, and to awaken in them the desire
to give their boy the best education the times
afforded. On his father's side young Martin was of
Scotch-Irish stock, and on his mother's of sturdy
English ancestry. In stature, in complexion and
temperament were manifest the characteristics
peculiar to many other great men of North of
Ireland origin. He bore this testimony to his for-

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bears, that they were all plain farmers and
mechanics, but "they were honest people, and
patriotic to the core." His grandfather's brothers,
as well as his grandfather, Jacob Anderson,
served in the Eevolutionary War. His father,
Martin Anderson, bore arms in the War of 1812.
He was a man of the people, a ship-carpenter by
trade, was actuated by high ideals, and possessed
great integrity and strength of character. He
had keen interest in all public affairs, was well
informed, and was an intelligent and interesting
talker. A close and tender feeling of intimacy
always existed between father and son, and bound
them firmly together. His mother, Jane Brewer,
was a woman of considerable education, of great
energy and force of character, of firm decision and
of deeply religious convictions.
Little Martin early gave evidence of an active
mind; he was able to read at three. He had an
insatiable desire to know the why and wherefore
of things, and if he had never seen the inside of
a school or college, he would have found some way,
as did Lincoln, to acquire the essential facts and
principles of life, and to become an instructor
and leader of men. He spent his childhood doing
"chores," in growing strong, and in gaining such
knowledge as the meager schooling of that day
afforded. He early became an apprentice in his
father's trade, and in the summer, while other
boys were idling away their time, he was work
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON . 717
audience by saying: "I thank the Lord that my
father taught me when I was a boy what it was
to do a hard day's work." In these early years
his religious training was not neglected. His
mother was a Baptist of the strictest type, and
used to lead him, a little lad, by the hand, two
miles across the fields to the Baptist Church, where
services were maintained by a lay-member read
ing a sermon when the church was pastorless. He
was taught reverence for God and for His day,
and was instructed in those foundation principles
of life and conduct that dominated him all through
his life. He was regarded as exemplary in his
habits and speech, and as a "model" for boys of
less wise and painstaking parents.
When Martin had reached the age of sixteen,
an accident in the shipyard incapacitated the
father from further work at his trade, compelling
him, in order to maintain his family, to turn
his attention to teaching, and was probably a turn
ing point in the young man's life. From that time
the burdens of the household were shifted more
and more from the shoulders of the father to those
of the son, who materially added to the revenue,
and was deferred to in all family matters. About
this time the family moved to Bath, an old sea
port town, noted as a shipbuilding center. Oppor
tunities were thus afforded for larger educational
advantages and for steady and remunerative em
ployment. Two new influences now came into the
son's life. The first was the stimulating effect' of

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the literary and debating club of the town in
which he acquired the habit of "thinking on his
feet," and of patient research and study, which
he carried on through life. The other was the
religious awakening which stirred the town pro
foundly, arousing many to the need of repentance
and newness of life. Among the number that pro
fessed conversion was young Anderson, who
united with the Baptist church, and identified him
self heartily with all its interests. He had now
reached the age when plans are usually formed
and decisions made that have a decidedly deter
mining influence upon one's life-work. He was
serious and full of concern as to what answer he
should make to the question, What he should do,
that was now forcing itself upon him.
From boyhood he had cherished the hope of
going to college, but with no means of his own
and no family resources to draw upon, how could
his eager desire be realized? The claims of his
family made the obstacles loom so large that they
seemed insurmountable. He determined not to
lose hope or to give up. With something of the
sneer with which Nathaniel asked: "Can there
any good thing come out of Nazareth?" we can
imagine men of Bath inquiring : ' ' Can there any
good thing come out of a shipyard?" He applied
himself more diligently than ever to his work in
the shipyard, setting aside a part of his earnings
for the family support, and another part for his
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his preparatory studies. Gradually the way
opened, the obstacles disappeared, or were over
come, and in the year 1836, having turned twenty-
one, he set out on foot with his pack for Water-
ville, now Colby College.
This small Baptist institution in those early
years, because of meager funds, had to face many
struggles and perplexing problems in order to
maintain itself, as did many of its students. Those
were days of hardship and self-denial, of which
young men of to-day know but little. By close
application, and an economical use of his time, the
shipyard apprentice was able to take excellent
rank, and to earn sufficient funds by aeting as
"commissary," and doing "odd jobs," to pay
the bills, which, if not large, were often the most
perplexing problem the boys of his day had to
meet. His early struggles to get an education
gave him a keen sympathy, when he became a col
lege president, with young men who had to make
their way through at Eochester. He would give
thoughtful consideration and effort as to how
he could render the most helpful service, and
assumed financial obligations when to do so
simply was adding largely to his already heavy
burdens. Little is known of his college life outside of
study hours and the lecture room. He must have
been a leader and a masterful spirit among his fel
lows. He probably never took kindly to athletics,
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dents, that there was only so much energy stored
up in a man, and if he exhausted it in football,
baseball or boxing, he would have none for mental
apphcation and study. Probably from his work
in the shipyard he grew fond of the water and
became an expert swimmer. Dr. Kendrick is
authority for the statement that on warm summer
afternoons in college young Anderson found re
freshing pleasure and delight in sporting in the
cool waters of the Kennebec with Samuel L. Cald
well, who afterward became president of Vassar
College, and Benjamin F. Butler, who became a
national figure in political and military Hfe. From
many things said in Dr. Anderson's "Chapel
Talks," and in the classroom, there is good rea
son for thinking that as students, young Ander
son and Butler were antagonistic spirits, and that
they settled several disputed questions other than
by reason and argument. The traits manifested
by Butler as a student clung to him through life,
and may have suggested the warning Dr. Ander
son often gave in his most vigorous style to the
students: "Young men, be careful what you do
in college. A man's reputation in college will
stick to him all through life, as Nessus's shirt to
Hercules." During his four years in college frequent cor
respondence was carried on between the father
and son. The son's letters, many of which have
been preserved, show not only his deep interest
in and affection for those at home, but his alert-

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON ' 21
ness to all the events occurring in the college
world, and to all topics of pubhc and political im
port. He never returned to Bath except for
brief visits. After entering upon his duties as
Professor at Waterville, which he did the second
year after his graduation, he had his family join
him there in 1845, where three years later his
mother died.
At the time of his conversion young Martin's
mind was seriously turned to the ministry. The
question of his life work appeared too momentous
to be decided hastily, so he put it off, determined
to be guided largely by providential indications.
After his graduation, the way seemed to open for
him to follow his cherished desire, and in the au
tumn he entered the theological seminary at New
ton. Possibly from lack of funds, more probably
from the feeling that he should be near his parents
in their advancing years, he decided not to return
to the seminary for the middle year, but instead to
take up the work of teaching. That one year in
the seminary, however, was eventful for him, for
among the students for whom he formed special
attachment was Ezekiel G. Eobinson, who after
ward became the distinguished president of the
Rochester Theological Seminary. The associa
tions of student days were renewed and
strengthened during the years of their residence
together in Eochester. Dr. Eobinson later became
president of Brown University, accepting thus the
office that had been tendered to Dr. Anderson and

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declined by him. Under Dr. Eobinson 's able ad
ministration "Old Brown" enjoyed again some
thing of the enviable reputation that it attained
under President Wayland. Dr. Eobinson won dis
tinction in the educational world as a scholar and
as a teacher and theologian.
In the autumn following young Anderson's year
in the Newton Institution, he was chosen tutor in
Latin, Greek and mathematics in his Alma Mater
in Waterville. He rendered acceptable service in
this department for three years, when he was ap
pointed to the chair of rhetoric, for which he felt
in many ways he was especially qualified. In the
days of his college presidency, years later, he
seemed to show a keener interest in the conduct
and development of this department than in any
other, although he was qualified to take the classes
of any department in a professor's enforced ab
sence. While professor at Waterville he passed
through the painful experience of seeing the young
lady to whom he was engaged, stricken, gradually
weaken, and finally pass away, breaking up many
cherished plans and filling his days with gloom.
As his own health afterward appeared to be
somewhat impaired, he decided to spend the
winter vacation of 1842-43 in the more genial
climate of Washington, D. C. He supplied the
pulpit of the E Street Baptist church of that city,
and afterward had the opportunity of preaching
in the House of Eepresentatives, where he made
so deep an impression that his friends in and

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outside Congress endeavored to persuade him to
settle as pastor in Washington. He declined to
listen to their pleadings, for he cherished the firm
hope of returning to Newton. Possibly the way
would open for him to do so the next autumn. The
development of a weakness of the throat, causing
at times an almost entire loss of voice, a trouble
from which he suffered all through his life, de
cided him, however, to give up all thought of the
ministry and to devote himself to teaching.
About two years later Professor Anderson
made a visit to New York, and supplied the pulpit
of the Tabernacle Baptist church, situated at
Tenth Street and Second Avenue, at that time one
of the strong, substantial churches of the city.
One of the active, influential men in the church
was Deacon Joshua Gilbert, a man of large busi
ness affairs and a brother of the wife of Wilham
Colgate, much esteemed in Baptist circles in the
city. After the morning service the young pro
fessor-preacher was invited by Deacon Gilbert to
his home for dinner. The house was of the home
like, hospitable, Southern type occupying a large
open plot on West Fourth Street. The family
consisted then of Deacon and Mrs. Gilbert, one
son, Joseph, and two daughters, Ann and Eliza
beth Mary. The meeting of Martin and Eliza
beth, like many such "accidental meetings," if not
a case of love at first sight, was of such mutual
understanding as soon to ripen into an engage
ment which terminated, because of the sudden

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death of Deacon Gilbert shortly afterwards, in a
speedy marriage.
In all externals, the bride and groom were the
opposites of each other. It was the marriage of
ruggedness to refinement, of greatness to gentle
ness, of early struggles and hardships to careful
and cultured city breeding. But as opposites are
said to have more tastes and traits in common,
they seemed bound together by more than usual
bonds. Their married life was one of rare union
of interests and happiness. The marriage took
place in August, 1848, and Professor Anderson
took his bride to Waterville, where she made a
home for the father and sister of her husband,
who had been living quietly by themselves since
the mother's death. For two years they con
tinued to live in Waterville, years marked by
happiness and peace in the home, but full of dis
quietude and unrest for the young husband, be
cause of the deep sense of restricted environment,
and of longing for some larger field of usefulness
and service. The animated teacher felt within
him the stirrings of a larger, fuller and more
responsible Hfe ; something possibly of the power
ful educational force he was to become as the
head of a growing college in another State. In
Eochester, in after years, the students who came
to know and appreciate Mrs. Anderson found
that, in appearance, taste, carriage and dress, she
was a lady of the type rarely seen to-day. She
was an unfaihng source of helpfulness and in-

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spiration to Dr. Anderson. Like Mrs. Gladstone,
she was always to be found close by the side of
her husband, loyaUy supporting him in every good
endeavor. In all matters of moment Dr. Ander
son sought her counsel, and, in rendering his de
cisions, relied upon her clear, almost infallible in
sight. She possessed great tact, artistic and
cultured taste, admirable judgment and rare
gentleness and grace of manner. While she was
deeply interested in all that pertained to the wel
fare of the University, about the only opportunity
the students had of meeting her was at the senior
reception or the president's levee of commence
ment week, when she was the main attraction of
the largely attended and enjoyable gatherings.
WThile he was restless and impatient under the
routine work of the class-room, the tender of the
editorship of The New York Recorder, a Baptist
weekly, pubhshed in New York City, was made
to Professor Anderson. The opportunities
afforded by a great city, and the wide influence of
an editor were considerations that appealed
strongly to him, and in 1850 he resigned his pro
fessorship at WaterviUe and went to New York
to assume the editorial conduct of The Recorder,
which he continued for three years. Associated
with him in the new undertaking was Eev. James
S. Dickerson, D.D., who gave his special attention
to the financial management of the paper. At
once, on the new 'editor assuming charge, the
paper came into marked prominence, exert-

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ing a compelling and inspiring influence in
the field of rehgious journaHsm, and increased
notably in circulation. Dr. Anderson's editorials
bore evidence of alertness, fearlessness, great wis
dom and sound judgment, while the new editor
showed vision, profound conviction and tactful
leadership, — qualities essential to a successful
journahst. The two great questions then prominently en
gaging the attention of Baptists were Bible re
vision and the removal of Madison University
from Hamilton, N. Y., to Eochester, a stirring city
in the western section of the State. Editor Ander
son gave much space, wise discretion and great
discernment to the discussion of these questions
of momentous import at that time to aU Baptists.
He was also an ardent advocate of the cause of
foreign missions, and did all he could to stimulate
a larger interest in the churches and to further
the efforts to enlarge the work. In the contro
versy which resulted in the formation in 1850 of
the American Bible Union by a majority who
withdrew from the American and Foreign Bible
Society for the purpose of "procuring and circu
lating the most faithful version of the Word of
God throughout the world," The Recorder boldly
championed the opposition against such advocates
as Drs. Spencer H. Cone, Thomas Armitage and
Thomas J. Conant.
With respect to the "removal controversy," the
paper from the first had been favorable to the

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change, and gave the majority of the trustees and
of the committee, who had espoused the removal
project, efficient aid and support through its
columns. Legal difficulties, however, arose, mak
ing the transfer of the property interests impos
sible. Those who had committed themselves to
the undertaking, however, were not to be baffled.
They obtained a charter and in November, 1850,
the University of Eochester was organized in the
city of Eochester with a faculty of five professors
from Madison University and "more students,"
Dr. Raymond said, "than we had reason to ex
pect." The springing of the University into
being fully equipped, like Minerva from the head
of Jove, according to John N. Wilder, first Presi
dent of the Board of Trustees, furnished Ralph
Waldo Emerson an illustration of Yankee enter
prise. In a humorous vein Emerson thus pictured
the rapid development of the university: "A
landlord in Rochester had an old hotel which he
thought would rent for more as a university, so
he put in a few books, sent for a coach-load of
professors, bought some philosophical apparatus,
and by the time green peas were ripe had gradu
ated a large class of students." Emerson showed
himself to be a better prophet than historian
when he said of the university some years later to
Professor Joseph H. Gilmore: "I have watched
over it in its cradle. I am very certain I shall
never follow it to its grave."
At the beginning, hopeful as aU the leaders in

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the enterprise were, the prospects were not flatter
ing. At the best it was largely an experiment.
There was no broad campus, with over-arching
trees, and no imposing array of buildings, no body
of alumni to give solidity and support, and no en
dowment. The college was domiciled in a plain,
unattractive building located on West Main
Street, adjacent to the canal, known as the "Old
United States Hotel." This served as dormitory,
chapel and recitation rooms for all depart
ments of instruction, the whole equipment being
sheltered under one roof. The students' rooms
were heated with small box stoves, and the boys
had to cut their own wood in the basement and
carry it up stairs, thus providing a kind of
athletics, as Dr. Morehouse once termed it, which
many did not appreciate keenly. Editor Ander
son and The Recorder continued to give loyal and
substantial support to the new educational under
taking. The second year showed marked develop
ment and a settled conviction that the future was
assured. The men charged with the success of the new
enterprise did not believe that buildings and a
campus make a college. They rather were actu
ated by something of the conviction that President
Garfield had when he said : " A college is a student
at one end of a log and Mark Hopkins at the
other," and they began to look about for a presi
dent of the stamp of Mark Hopkins. Their choice
fell upon Martin B. Anderson, the young editor of

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 29
The New York Recorder. After mature delibera
tion and on the advice of many friends, chief
among whom was Dr. William R. Williams, pastor
of the Amity Baptist church, New York, who was
one of the first and firmest advocates for the re
moval, Dr. Anderson accepted the responsible
office and entered upon his new duties with the
opening of the college year in the autumn of 1853.
Dr. Anderson had the highest regard and esteem
for Dr. Williams, and when his engagements per
mitted would be found in Amity church among
Dr. Williams 's most attentive listeners. He often
accompanied him to his home after the evening
service, and while Dr. Williams was resting, re
clining on his couch, they would have long and
interesting conferences on subjects of mutual and
absorbing interest. Dr. Anderson often expressed
the earnest hope that someone would "Boswell"
Dr. Williams.
In the same year that Dr. Anderson became
president of the University of Rochester, his
friend and fellow-student at Newton, Dr. EzekLel
G. Robinson, then pastor of the Ninth Street
church, Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected to the chair
of theology in the theological department of the
University. In recognition of the honor that had
come to its former student-professor, Waterville
College conferred, in 1853, upon the new presi
dent of the University of Rochester the degree of
Doctor of Laws. During the three years of Dr.
Anderson's editorial management of The Re-

30 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
corder he had made his home in Brooklyn. His
church affiliations were with the First church of
WiUiamsburg, known as the Eastern District of
Brooklyn. His father during these years served
as deacon of this church. His only sister, Maria,
in whose education and advancement he had
always manifested keen interest, died while the
family resided in Williamsburg. It is interesting
to note that Rev. Morgan J. Rhees, D.D., the fifth
pastor of the Williamsburg church, — its pastor
during the greater part of the period of Dr.
Anderson's membership, his pastorate extending
from July, 1850, to his death in January, 1853, —
was grandfather of Dr. Rush Rhees, now the
esteemed president of the University of Rochester.
Although Dr. Anderson entered upon his duties
as president of the University of Rochester in the
autumn of 1853, his inauguration did not take
place untU the January following. No immediate
change or marked development was manifest on
the coming of the new president. Not until three
years had gone did the number of students show
any large accessions. In 1856 the entering class
numbered forty-seven, and the whole number en
rolled was 163. This increase brightened the out
look and led to a movement for a new location and
a new building or buildings, as the old quarters
had become inadequate and wretchedly out of
date. The burden of responsibility and leader
ship for the new undertaking feU upon the
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 31
canvass for funds, but met with many discourage
ments and rebuffs. He secured the appropriation
of $25,000 from the State Legislature, provided a
like sum was contributed by private individuals
and friends of the University. He was also
cheered and surprised by some large and unex
pected gifts. By the autumn of 1859 he had suc
ceeded sufficiently to justify the trustees in be
ginning work, and the new building was dedicated
with appropriate exercises November 22, 1861.
The site secured for the college was an open
field on University Avenue, eight acres of which
were given by Hon. Azariah Boody and the re
mainder obtained by purchase ; and at the time of
dedication, by unanimous action of the trustees,
the plain massive stone structure was designated
"Anderson Hall." When the college moved into
its commodious quarters, the seminary, as a dis
tinct department, under the presiding genius of
Dr. Robinson, continued to occupy the "Old
Hotel" until by the generosity of Mr. John B.
Trevor, of Yonkers, N. Y, a substantial home was
provided for it on East Avenue. From time to
time new buildings have been grouped about An
derson Hall until now the campus, with broad,
beautiful avenues, over-arching elms and a fine
array of buildings, presents an attractiveness
of which the founders could have only faintly
dreamed. The outbreak of the Civil War, heralded by the
shot on Sumter in 1861, had a disquieting influence

32 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
upon the college, and aroused to a high pitch the
patriotism of a man of the antecedents of Dr.
Anderson. From the first "the conservative was
transformed into a radical." As he himself said:
"I have turned myself into a professional agitator
during the time." He gave voice to his patriotic
loyalty in chapel. He thundered out his indigna
tion and righteous wrath in the pulpit. He swayed
by his eloquence vast audiences that gathered in
Corinthian Hall. He was recognized as a "leader
in every civic or miUtary meeting which it was
possible for him to attend. " At a great meeting
in Rochester just after the attack on Sumter, it is
said, he became so impatient with the indecision
and indirectness of the speaker that he arose from
his seat on the platform, waved him aside with
his right arm, gripped the audience by his first
words, aroused and thrilled them with his force
ful eloquence and enthusiasm, and raised a regi
ment on the spot. A few days later, through his
efforts this regiment was equipped and ready to
go to the front. He shared the fervor of Pro
fessor Isaac F. Quinby, of the mathematical de
partment (a graduate of West Point), who
"raised the first two-years' regiment in the State
of New York, and served until the close of the
war." Dr. Anderson found himself greatly per
plexed when he came to advising the students
about enlisting. Of the forty-five in aU, — twenty
from the under-classmen and twenty-five from the
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 33
to the front, — ten never returned. Their names
are commemorated on a marble tablet in the
chapel of Anderson HaU. They were also in
scribed in the heart of the president, who could
never speak of them or of those stirring days
without signs of deep emotion. The stress of
those stirring and strenuous days, foUowing
closely upon the anxieties of the building project,
told heavUy upon Dr. Anderson's health. To
avoid a complete breakdown, toward the end of
the year 1862 he and Mrs. Anderson sailed for
Europe for a year of recuperation and rest. Dur
ing his absence he made an extensive collection of
etchings and engravings, which he afterward used
effectively in his popular Saturday morning lec
tures, open to the students and to lovers of art
in the city.
On his return he found the University suffering
from the effects of the war. The number cf stu
dents had diminished, and funds were low and
hard to get. FuU of apprehension, Dr. Anderson
felt that the college should have an additional en
dowment of $200,000. Just when the days were
darkest, in the spring of 1867, the presidency of
Brown University was tendered him with strong
pressure for him to accept. There was much in
the new offer that was alluring. While he was
giving the matter serious and thoughtful con
sideration, a meeting of Rochester citizens was
held to protest against his going. As an outcome
Dr. Anderson declined the offer. About $30,000

34 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
was raised for a house for the president, funds
were obtained for a new laboratory building, and
the university entered upon a new era of quiet,
healthy growth and of strong, molding influence
upon the Hfe of the city and of the denomination
with which it was affiliated. New honors came to
Dr. Anderson, who began to be known as "the
Prince of College Presidents," and as "the Peer
less President." He was appointed a member of
the State Board of Charities, and of the Commis
sion "to preserve a pubhc park at Niagara
FaUs." He was also made a member of the com
mission "to consider the better government of
cities." An honor that came to him in 1872,
which he valued highly, was his election to the
membership of the Cobden Club of England.
When Dr. Anderson went to Rochester his
father accompanied him there and made his home
with him during his last years, passing away in
1875 at the age of eighty-six. One of the beautiful
pictures that always comes vividly before me
when I take a retrospective look Rochesterward
is the towering form of Dr. Anderson and his
aged father, with white flowing hair, and spare
but erect figure, locked arm in arm, taking their
"constitutional" out University Avenue, or
around the campus. The tender devotion and
ready helpfulness which the stalwart son ex
hibited toward the frail father was as beautiful as
it was rare.
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 35
of his powers, and the college was enjoying the
greatest prosperity it had ever attained in 1872,
the year of my enroUment among the students.
The University of Rochester at that time was
everywhere recognized as one of the best of the
smaUer colleges. Dr. Anderson was never favor
able to the idea of a large college. His conception
of a college was as far removed as possible from
that of the great universities of to-day. His
friends believed he could have gone before the
Legislature and secured a large appropriation for
a great university in the western section of the
State, if he had been so disposed, but he did not
want it; "would have none of it." He questioned
whether some of the larger colleges were not out
growing the training functions proper to an
American coUege. His idea of a coUege was that
the professors should all be men of recognized
standing, and that there should never be so many
students that each one could not come in close
contact with the professors, and the professors in
personal and intimate relations with each of the
students. He did not favor the employment of
tutors in any department. He emphasized the
moral and religious side of instruction, and at
tendance upon chapel exercises was compulsory.
Students were required to attend daily the
lectures in their different subjects, and to be pre
pared to recite when called upon, or be marked
accordingly. Excuses were only granted in cases
of sickness or extreme necessity. Men were put

36 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
upon their honor; their sense of integrity was
appealed to; they were expected to be manly in
their deportment and conduct. There were no
dormitories at Rochester, because Dr. Anderson
regarded the dormitory system as of doubtful
value. In a highly intelluctual, moral and re
hgious city like Rochester he believed it was better
for the boys to find room and board in private
Christian homes than to be grouped together in
buildings set apart for them on the campus. The
brisk walk in the open air to and from the coUege
afforded exercise which many would not have
taken if they had Hved under the eaves of the
University. Dr. Anderson was a born disciphnarian. By
nature he was made to command. He would have
found the career of a party leader, a cabinet mem
ber, or a general congenial. The boys aU stood in
awe of him. When they were lining up ready for
a rush on the campus, if Dr. Anderson suddenly
appeared, they would scatter as leaves before the
wind. When they were engaged in "gum-shoe
fights" in the halls, and Dr. Anderson called from
the stairway or his office door: "Boys! What
does this mean?" they would instantly drop their
arms to their sides and march in dignified silence
into their classrooms. His towering figure and
his dominating personahty exerted a strong re
straining influence about the college. While
among themselves the boys usuaUy spoke of him
as "Prex" or "Our Prexy," they had such regard

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 37
for him, they never transcended the bounds of
propriety in their jokes at banquets or reunions.
His name was invariably joined with Dr. Ken-
drick's, who was a great favorite with all classes
and was affectionately spoken of as "Kai Gar."
Nothing was more dreaded by an under-c]assman
than to be summoned into Dr. Anderson's private
office, or to receive his reprimand. Well do I
remember the day when he tapped me on the
shoulder, as I was walking through the hall, and
said: "Come to my room immediately after
chapel Thursday morning." WTiat it could mean
filled me with confusion and great perplexity
until the stated hour arrived. When I appeared
before him the meeting was anything but what I
had conceived. Looking at me with his piercing
gaze as if he looked right through me, he said:
"I have been wanting to talk with you about your
work in college ; how you are getting on, and what
your plans are for your life-work." He expressed
a deep interest in my future, asked me to come to
him any time that I felt he could be of help to me,
and then inquired about my exercise. "You are
looking pale," he said. "Walking is the best ex
ercise. You must keep out in the open. Walk
more, walk more!" A classmate who had been
asked to report to Dr. Anderson's room was so
frightened by the summons that he would not go
until he found some student willing to go with
him. At length he was successful, although
greatly embarrassed by his classmate's kindness.

38 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
His appreciation soon took wings, however, when
he learned on presenting himself at the presi
dent's office that the other man had been ordered
to come at the same hour. But it was in such
personal interviews, and in seeking to know the
Hfe and needs of the students, that Dr. Anderson
supplemented and strengthened the work of the
lecture-room, largely guiding and shaping the
lives of the boys to his will. In my own case,
after my interview, on the street, in the coUege
hall, or at his home, he would speak a word, or
give a bit of counsel, showing his eyes were upon
me and his interest alive to my future.
To strangers, probably to most of the students,
Dr. Anderson appeared blunt, brusque, rigorous
and autocratic. He always awakened wholesome
respect and fear. But under his rugged surface
there was a tender heart and a sensitive spirit.
A friend who knew him well said: "He is the
easiest man in the world to snub." He looked
upon all the students as "his boys," for it was
a grief to him that he had no children of his own.
He had a fatherly affection and concern for his
students while they were in college. One autumn
Saturday afternoon the members of two classes
were playing a match game of baseball on the
campus. It fell to my lot to keep the score. My
friend, Duane Squires, was at the bat. He was
eager to make a run and batted with such force
as to wrench his knee out of place and feU in a
heap over the plate. The boys picked him up

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 39
and carried him to Anderson Hall, where they
made him as comfortable as possible. Dr. Ander
son, coming out of his room, manifested the great
est interest, spread the large cape he used to
wear over him, and remained with him until he
felt it was safe for him to make the effort to get
to his home. Then Dr. Anderson helped him up
tenderly, told him to take his arm and lean heavUy
upon him whUe he walked slowly with him to the
avenue and put him on the street car that passed
his door. Dr. Anderson also had great pride in
the success of his boys after they had left college.
When the affairs of the university or engagements
to lecture or speak brought him to New York he
made it a part of his duty to call upon as many of
his former boys as his time would permit, in
order that they might be reassured of his unbroken
interest and that their love for their Alma Mater
might be quickened amid the many absorbing de
mands of a great city. In the days of my manage
ment of The Christian Inquirer he caUed on one
occasion at the office in Temple Court. It was
only a hurried interview; but the fact that he
sought me out, that he put himself to any trouble,
and that his few words were fuU of encourage
ment, made a deep impression and drew me closer
to him than ever.
Dr. Anderson possessed comprehensive and
liberal scholarship. His attainments were many
and varied. In his case " one science only ' ' would
not "one genius fit." He compassed all sciences.

40 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
He took his classes through mental and moral
phUosophy and pohtical economy, including bank
ing, wealth, taxation, protection and free trade.
He made a careful study of such subjects as edu
cation, jurisprudence, international commerce,
treaties, and evolution, and was much in demand
as a lecturer in cities, east and west, and as a
speaker at conferences and conventions. He was
as far removed as possible from an animated
cyclopedia or a perambulating parchment. Knowl
edge with him was not the "be-all and end-aU."
It was not an acquisition so thrust into the fore
ground that you could see nothing else, but the
instrument, subordinate in character, that he used
with great effectiveness because of the harmoni
ous coordination of aU his faculties.
Dr. Anderson had a compeUing and masterful
personahty. He had the ability to do for his
pupils what Tmmanuel Kant said David Hume had
done for him: He eould wake them from their
dogmatic slumbers. He illustrated in a notable
way what MUton said :
"Under his forming hands a creature grew."
He stamped himself upon the college, upon
every department, upon the students, and upon
everything with which he had to do. He believed,
and he made every student beheve, that character
is the greatest thing in education. It is not so
much what one learns as from whom he learns it.
One may not as a rule remember much of what

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 41
he learned in college, but if he had a great teacher
he cannot forget the lasting impression that was
made upon him.
As a college president Dr. Anderson stood in a
class by himself. To his remarkable personality
and high scholarly attainments were joined un
usual abUity as an organizer and administrator.
He gave his personal attention and supervision to
aU the affairs of the college, and to the conduct of
each department. Everything that concerned a
teacher or student was of vital concern to him. He
was often brought in contrast with Dr. Ebenezer
Dodge, his contemporary president of Madison,
now Colgate University. They were the presi
dents of the two Baptist colleges in the State, and
occasionally appeared on the same platform.
They were both taU and of dignified and impres
sive bearing. While strikingly unlike in other
particulars, the emphasis they put upon funda
mentals was the same. At the head of the larger
colleges of that time were Eliot of Harvard,
Dwight of Yale, Barnard of Columbia and MeCosh
of Princeton, among whom in no way was Dr.
Anderson an inconspicuous figure.
Dr. Anderson had his own conception of what
a college should do for a man. President Patten
held that it is "better to go to college and loaf
than not to go at all." President Wilson, his suc
cessor, said: "If you do not go to college to
study, better not go at all." Dr. Anderson was
nearer right, it seems to me, when he said : "The

42 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
benefit of a college training is to learn how to
study. ' ' His injunction was : ' ' Spend much time
in the Hbrary; become familiar with the title-
pages of books. Do not try to read everything,
but learn where things are, so you can use them
when you want to." The chief value of a college
education, as Dr. Anderson was given to saying,
is to be able "to bring things to pass." His
chief business was "to make men." He knew
what was in a student, and the process needful
to bring it out. In the class-room when with
piercing gaze he looked upon the student who was
reciting and asked: "Just what do you mean
by that?" the student felt those eyes could look
right through him. Pretense and shamming were
soon unmasked in his presence. No young man
could take the course at Rochester without having
Dr. Anderson's "mark" stamped upon him. This
came to be regarded as the best possible passport
to young men entering professional life or having
in view an important post in some large financial
or industrial enterprise.
Probably the most singularly notable thing
about Dr. Anderson's long educational career was
that he published no book. No work compUed by
him stands to his credit giving the result of his
long years of patient research and study. He felt
that he had something bigger to do. In 1882 Dr.
Anderson wrote to a friend: "The alumni have
for two years requested me to take a year's rest
and prepare some manuscript or printed matter

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 43
for the press. The idea of leaving my work and
devoting myself to manufacturing books is to my
mind sheer nonsense." Dr. Anderson's chief con
cern was to make men, and he wanted no other
monument than brave, strong, fearless, Godly
men, "doing with their might what their hands
found to do" in the great task of furthering the
inteUectual and moral progress of the world. He
did, however, find time to lecture and to write a
great deal on a variety of themes. A series of
articles by him appeared in the Christian Review,
and numerous articles, lectures, discourses and
reports were pubHshed in various periodicals, in
pamphlet form and in Johnson's Cyclopedia, of
which he was associate editor. In his last year,
as his strength would permit, he occupied himself
with revising some of his addresses with a view to
publication. Since his death a compilation of his
addresses has been made and pubHshed in two
volumes under the title, "Papers and Addresses,"
the editing being a labor of love by Professor
William C. Morey, the junior professor in the uni
versity, under Dr. Anderson.
Dr. Anderson's Chapel Talks
The distinguishing feature of Dr. Anderson's
college administration, and that which probably
contributed more largely than he knew to the suc
cessful carrying out of his purpose, making a
strong moral impress upon every student, was

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his "chapel talks," in which he exercised what he
termed the "editorial function of the teacher."
These talks were sometimes suggested by the
passage of Scripture which he read at the chapel
exercises and sometimes by the local, State or
national questions that occupied the attention and
thought of the day. That some idea may be
gained of the nature of his "chapel talks" based
on a Bible selection the following report, printed
in the Campus of 1883, may serve as a sample.
The morning Scripture lesson was Ecclesiastes
VII, and after reading the fifth verse: "It is
better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a
man to hear the song of fools," Dr. Anderson
paused and said:
"The capacity to bear rebuke or criticism is a
capacity which hardly comes naturally to young
men; but you will do well to cultivate this habit
of profiting by the criticism you everywhere re
ceive — by hostile and unfriendly criticism, as weU
as by that of friends. Be sure that your enemies
wiU shoot their critical arrows at the joints of
your harness. They pretty generally hit those
places. They know you better than you know
yourself. Be careful then, I say, to profit by
the criticism of those opposed to you — those who
are hostile to you.
i ( There are some men in the world who seem to
have a divine commission to set things right with
reference to other people. They are meddlesome,
disagreeable persons, but you cannot afford to

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neglect even their criticism. No man knows him
self fuUy. People are not always conscious of
their own blunders. Always profit by the advice
of every critic — no matter how fastidious, or how
hypercritical. "Another kind of criticism is that of friends.
Of such a character are the suggestions and advice
of your teachers and associates, and such is the
criticism in your society relations. Although you
may not agree with your critics, think over what
they say. There may be more in it than you real
ize at first.
"The same applies to men in society, in busi
ness, on the street. Everywhere and always hold
yourself ready to profit by the criticisms and re
bukes of others. Every man, or almost every man,
has clinging to him some idiosyncrasy — some
peculiarity of manner, some pecuharity of pro
nunciation. No one of us is free. Be patient
then; and accept with thankfulness all criticism
that you receive.
"I have had some curious experience in this
direction. I remember once being put in charge
of a junior class. Among other duties I was
obliged to correct their orations and essays. I
remember, in particular, one young man's oration.
He was a man of splendid intellect, but expressed
himself very clumsily. His thought was excellent ;
but I spent, I remember, several hours in correct
ing his work, and then sent for the young man to
come to my office. I was troubled with young-
ness, I know, but I went over the matter as judici
ously as possible. But the young man was hurt.

46 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
He never got over it. He ever afterward looked
at me askance. Another man came to me with an
essay which he wished to have corrected. I went
over it once, and he re-wrote it and brought it to
me again. A second time I went over it, and a
,second time did he re-write it ; and it was not until
his work had been criticised and re-written three
times, that I felt I could safely leave it. The man
was terribly vexed; but his production gave him
the first place at Commencement. Well, that man
— he died not long after (laughter) — always had
a sense of dislike toward me. I did what I did
from a sense of duty. It would have been much
easier for me to allow his work to pass as it first
came to me.
"This state of mind, however, all of you are
liable to fall into, and I would caution you to pre
pare yourselves and train yourselves carefuUy to
bear criticism. It is an excellent thing to be able
to bear the 'rebuke of the wise.' There are plenty
of men, though, who would rather hear the 'song
of fools.' You know how this is. It is so easy
to do as 'our men' do.
" 'For as the crackhng of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fool.' This is manifest,
also. 'Say not thou, what is the cause that the
former days were better than these? for thou dost
not inquire wisely concerning this.' Here is
hinted the universal tendency among men toward
pessimism. I was talking with a gentleman last
evening who constantly looks upon the dark side
of things. Every day the world is worse; each
day it is becoming more wicked. WeU, I sug-

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gested that I could see no indications of the truth
of his lament. So far as I could see, the world
wagged on about as usual. You meet everywhere
a class of persons who take this view of Hfe:
The world is to-day worse than it ever was before !
Nothing to them is done as it should be. The
country is on the brink of ruin! We are in the
midst of a crisis! Well, we are always in the
midst of a crisis. I have seen the country ruined
time and again. But somehow we have come out
all right. There is a Providence in this country —
a providence which teaches us of the presence of
the power of God and a general over-ruling of
men's blunders and failures."
The "talks" suggested by the events of the day
were usually more vehement and vigorous. Those
were stirring times in the 70 's, and Dr. Anderson
found in the "current events" — State, national,
international, civil, educational and rehgious, —
frequent topics too suggestive of moral lessons to
be allowed to pass without comment. He often
had so much to say that he did not hesitate to cut
largely into the lecture hour f oUowing the chapel
exercises. As he warmed to his subject his eyes
would flash and his whole face and manner would
express his moral indignation and wrath, as he
gave emphatic and stirring utterance to his pro
test and hatred of wrong and crime in high places,
often raising his powerful arm and striking with
his clenched fist upon the desk with a force that
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was left but splinters. He appeared to be on such
occasions a veritable Jove on some lofty Olympus
thundering against the evils of his time.
In those days it was my custom to make notes
of some of the most pointed and striking phrases
of Dr. Anderson's chapel talks, that I might have
something that not only would serve to recall
these impressive scenes of college days, but would
be a source of inspiration in the years to come.
Out of my several note-books I have made the fol
lowing selections, which may help to freshen the
memories of some of the boys, and may awaken
regard and esteem for the man on the part of those
who never knew him.
Gleanings from Chapel Talks
Since the war young men have been eager
to go into business. They even want to leave
coUege to go into business to make money.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was a good student
and was not in a hurry to get into a profes
sion. His success afterward was largely due to
the completeness of the foundation that he laid
in his coUege course. More than ninety per cent
of the men who go into business fail. There are
great risks in business. A young man might
better start in a profession with a small income
and work up. He will not have a chance to make
a great fortune, but he will have less risk to
run and a better prospect for a useful, contented
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good common sense and a disposition to work.
A fresh and attractive way of putting things is
needed in the pulpit, above everything else. It
is better for the young minister to call the church
than for the church to call him.
I consider good hand-writing a Christian duty.
I often get a letter that I can hardly decipher. I
look at it from one position and then from another
and still another, and try to read it. Such a writer
steals my time. He is just as guilty as if he
stole my money. Men have no business to be bad
writers. You let yourself all out in a letter. You
show your culture in a great many ways. A letter
or an essay lets a flood of light right through you;
they let one into you in a wonderful manner.
A man sees what he has eyes to see. A man
goes all the way to Rome to see the Pantheon.
When he gets there he is surprised to see nothing
but a bunding. He sees nothing in it, for it calls
up nothing to him, none of its history, none of its
associations, none of the ideas connected with it.
An uneducated man asked my friend while pass
ing along the streets of Rome who Pont. Max was,
supposing it stood for a man's name and not
knowing that it was an abbreviation for Pontifex
Maximus. Gentlemen, it will be harder for you to get your
intellectual kites up in your time than it was for
me. You will have greater competition.
A man cannot doubt his own existence. If he
does, he has no pou sto. Neither can a man prove
his own existence. He cannot go back of those

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fundamental principles that underHe the behef in
any existence.
Goethe attracts me less than any of the modern
poets. He is a man of transcendent genius, but
a passage in Scripture appHes to him more than
to any other, — earthly, sensual, devilish. Byron's
poems are a relief compared with those of Goethe.
Byron carries the antidote along with the disease.
Shelley was an honest infidel, if there is such a
thing, and many of his poems give good lessons ;
but Goethe is wholly bad, nothing redeems him,
in my estimation. He dwelt apart from his peo
ple, caring Httle for them. He had no patriotism,
no sympathy with his own age or time. He held
the same relation to the people and conditions of
his time that Erasmus held to the Reformation, —
that it was weU enough so long as it did not in
terfere with his affairs.
Men get into grooves, or into such habits of
mind that they become almost automatic. For ex
ample, a man in the habit of swearing, or drink
ing, or gambling, has a tendency to becoihe more
and more under the influence of the habit. "He
that commits sin is the servant of sin." This is
the most fearful thing about sinning at all. And
then a man's habits are generally transmitted to
his chUdren, habits of mind and of body. One of
the most distressing things in my experience is to
have to do with a young man so weighted in the
race of life by the sins of his father that he
has no chance with other men. Every man is
conscious of some inherited weakness. We must
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evil tendencies, this drift or current which takes
us right off our feet.
There is this difference in men; some control
their ideas, and some are controlled by their ideas.
John Brown was at first right in his convictions
and notions, but after the death of his sons he
began to be unsettled and to be controlled by his
ideas. A man who devotes his whole thought to
inventing or discovering something new, after a
while gets so he can see things only one way, and
is entirely controlled by his ideas. A man who
rides a hobby is a man who is controlled by ideas.
It is a good thing to have some hobbies, if you
will only ride them at different times. A man
might as well be possessed with the devil as to
be possessed with one idea. A man's mind is
often upset by religion, politics, or some subject
to which he has given his mind entirely, and
thinks a great deal about it. If you go into an
insane asylum and inquire into the history of the
various cases, you will find that nine out of ten
of the inmates have been brought to their sad
condition by giving their entire attention to one
idea and thinking about it all the time. If you are
going into a profession, take up some subject
alongside your vocation. By this means you will
keep your mind healthy. A man grows faster
by adopting this method. Reading one subject all
the time is like eating one kind of food all the
time. You cannot do it. A man with a general
education has this advantage, that he has tastes
for different subjects.
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he should guide his life, but you ought to see to
it that they are principles. I do not know of a word
that is used to mean so many things and in so
many senses as this. A man may have certain
crotchets or whims about things and say, "I can
not do so and so from principle," or "I have
principles against such and such actions," or, "I
do not see how you can violate your principles
so." By general principles many wrong actions
may be justified in the begging of the question,
or in trying to interpret them in a wrong way.
When it is advertised that Mr. Jones is going
to play the organ, and Miss Smith is going to
sing, and nothing is said about the minister who
is to preach, it shows that the sermon is only the
bitter part of the pill, and the other the sugar
coating to make it go down easUy. People
make a great cry about eloquent men, eloquent
preachers, but the time has passed when men
will be listened to on account of their eloquence.
In Parliament they hoot a man down who merely
plays with adjectives. In the House of Repre
sentatives they will not let a man make a long
speech, but say "Give a page to print," and he
sends it off to the printer, who says that he said
so and so when he did not say a word of it.
Religion is like heat; it does not descend very
well, but rises readily and easily. If you will
get hold of the lower classes and convert them
you will get the upper classes. But if you aim
to get hold of the higher classes only you wiU
hardly ever get hold of the lower classes. This
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Greece. The reason why the Reformation took
such a hold upon all the country was because it
took hold of the common people and after
ward permeated all classes, even the high and
aristocratic. I know of nothing that will so upset a religious
teacher or preacher as great flattery or adula
tion, especiaUy if the teacher or preacher is a
young man. I think this was what weakened the
power of Napoleon. He got so that he trusted
in his star. He thought he could do anything.
Horace Greeley is another excellent example. He
was surrounded with a body of flatterers, who
tried to use him and did use him, and when he
awoke at the close of his life to the way he had
been flattered and fooled by his colleagues, it had
a terrible effect upon his mind.
Everything in nature seems to work by a sort
of rhythmical law. I do not know that it is an
improper generalization to say that men of genius
show themselves at certain periods in the history
of the world. For example, the time of Raphael
was a period when there were a great many nota
ble men. This was followed by a period in which
there were no very great men. This was fol
lowed by another period of men of great intelli
gence. Genius is the power to work faster and
better than other men, or as Webster puts it,
"Genius is power to work." We are awed when
we think of the amount of work that Michael
Angelo and Raphael did. I cannot account for
this amount of work except by supposing that
they drew the pictures and painted the most diffi-

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cult parts and left the other parts for the pupils
to fill up. This is illustrated in Hterature. Mr.
Gay and WiUiam Cullen Bryant are about to
publish a history of the United States. Now Mr.
Gay does all the work, while Mr. Bryant criticises
and gives it his approval.
There is a sort of notion that men are not appre
ciated in their own time. Milton and Dante are
cited as examples. But this is hardly true.
Milton was a republican and would not dance at
tendance to the Court, so he was put down as
much as possible. Milton and Dante made their
impression on their own age. A man must im
press himself upon his own age and time if he
would have a posthumous reputation. Arnold
said: "I wish to make an impression upon my
own age and time," Httle thinking that he was
doing the very thing to make him popular in
after time. Raphael's elements of popularity
were kindness of heart, no envious disposition,
and symmetry of power. He was not the greatest
anatomist of his time, nor was he the most power
ful in emphasis of expression; Michael Angelo
shows the greater power of expression. His pic
tures make one think that he said : " I will paint
a picture that shows the greatest power of expres
sion ever painted." Raphael combined better
than any other painter all the elements that make
a good picture. When you first look upon one of
Raphael's pictures you have to say, if you are
honest, that you are disappointed. This is not
much of a picture. As you return to it, however,
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you see it you think it better. There is a class
of men who after a few years can be easily com
passed or exhausted. You go around one of that
class ; you find him unchanging, always repeating
himself. Others are always changing, always new,
always growing. You can never exhaust them.
In the times of Erasmus a man might go over
the greater part of the literature then in exis
tence, especially the good Hterature. But we can
not do it now. It is useless to try to do it. It is
not necessary, for books are made now so that
we can get at them much easier; labor-saving
machines you may call them. All should know
what they are, or where you can get them. Dic
tionaries of law, of oratory, of science, are such
books. Besides, there are cyclopedias which are
indispensable. A man taking up a profession
finds it necessary to know something of the his
tory of the noted men in his profession. They
are landmarks by which he can get his bearing.
In no other way can he learn his position, or
know what has been done by men for his profes
sion. Get this burnt into you : Look up men of
note. Every man has his weak points. We all have a
screw loose somewhere, and if we cannot find it,
others will. Agassiz, the greatest naturahst of
America, left much of his work in an unsatisfac
tory condition, and many of his theories will be
overthrown. So with Cuvier, so with Owen, so
with men in every profession. The nearer we
get to them the more we see their faults and
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ceases to work. Some men have their eyes in the
back of their head and live in the past. They
relate experiences and talk only of times gone by.
Remember the Scotch proverb: "He who sups
with the devil must have a long spoon." You
cannot touch tar without being defiled. You can
not wrestle with a coal-heaver without getting
smutty. You cannot associate with bad men with
out being affected by it. Be careful about your
associates. Be careful with whom you become in
timate. So universally evident has it become that
"a man is known by the company he keeps" that
it has passed into a proverb "noscitur associis."
This is not strictly true, but it is true enough to
become almost a universal rule. The sad thing
about the Beecher trial is that Mr. Beecher ever
allowed himself to be intimate with men who had
no regard for anything but themselves, and who
when they found they were going to be reviled or
overthrown were willing to drag other men down
with them. If such men have been Mnd to one,
or done one any favor, so much harder do they
make it for him. They have something to pry
upon then, and something on which to get a good
ground for making a case against them.
Be sure to put your points clear and sharp so
that anyone can understand them. But you run
a risk if you do it. You run a great risk. If you
put a thing clearly, so that anyone can under
stand it, so that an uneducated man can see it
readily, so that it coincides exactly with what he
thought, he will say: "That is all right. That
is just my thought." "Them's my sentiments."

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But if you put your points in rather a blind way,
they will say: "How smart our minister is!
How fine a student!" I remember once that a
man said: "Our pastor ought to preach about
the metaphysics of religion all the time; he is
so smart, so learned; he knows so much about
such great things." I knew the man, and knew
that he knew nothing about that subject. You
may look at a mud-puddle by the side of the road,
and it may look to be two thousand feet deep for
all you know. Wayland used to say of his brother
John, "He dives deep enough, but he always
comes up muddy."
A man is not to be blamed for changing his
views on minute points. A man who does not
change his views must be either omniscient, or a
fool. A man who does not change gives evidence
thereby that he has stopped growing. You must
make a distinction, however, between a man who
changes his views for good reasons and one who
floats about, who has no basis or foundation.
John Henry Newman held impHcitly what it took
a long time to show exphcitly. Once I used to
look upon a man who took the position of Keble
as dishonest, but since I have read more I look
upon a man of this kind with more leniency. Gen
erally men do not change in fundamental princi
ples, but they will change in details as they grow.
A man may write a work or works in different
years, but at sixty the same statement wiU be
greatly modified from what it was at thirty. Every
man in his own experience can look back to his
crude, coarse statements or ideas. Man's educa-

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tion is better now, so far as it affects details.
Fundamental principles are the same. Funda
mentals may crop out under new names, but they
remain about the same. To some extent, every
man stands on the shoulders of those that have
gone before him.
The idea of reducing the body to zero, of
fasting, of shutting one's self out from the world,
of wearing poor clothes and sleeping a few hours
at night, is a heathen idea. It is not Christian at
all. The Christian idea is not to destroy the body,
but to sanctify it and make it holy. We speak
sometimes of this asceticism as belonging to the
Roman Church. It belongs to human nature. It
cropped out among the Jews. It shows itself
among the Mohammedans, and every Christian
sect has had some dash of it. John Wesley had
pome of it, but he was wise enough to keep it
under. The Society of Friends is another example
of the same thing. We think that we should be
good Christians if we had no body : that we would
not eat too much, nor be so vain or lustful, if we
had no body. Paul's idea was to keep the body
under by controUing, not by destroying it. God
did not make a mistake in making the body; and
we must not make a mistake in f ailing to govern it.
The influence of a name is wonderful. CaU a
dog "mad," and he will be stoned to death. Be
careful how you use names, and how you are
controlled by them.
Nations that are strong and • powerful will
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will rush into a vacuum. Men, too, who are strong
intellectually will seem to over-reach other men,
or over-top them. Nineteen men out of every
twenty are waiting to be led, waiting to have
someone tell them what to do., It is a moral duty
for a man to be strong; to go up to that height
where men are scarce. There is always room at
the top for strong men. It is always a moral
duty to be courageous, to go forward.
Build up a reputation and stay by it. A country
minister, having a little reputation, thinks he is
able to take a higher place and sets out for New
York. He cannot take his reputation with him.
He cannot box it up in his trunk. It evaporates.
After he has been in the city a while, he finds
that he has lost it all. Make it a rule to stay
where you are. If you leave, do not let anyone
dislodge you. Fight, fight! Remember the fable
of "The Fox and the FHes." A fox was in a
swamp, so entangled that he could not move.
Flies came and sucked out half his bood. A
swallow flying by says: "I will eat these flies."
"No," said Mr. Fox, "If you eat these flies who
are full of blood, others wiU come and take away
aU the blood I have." Your present cares and
trials may be annoying, but others in another
place will be just as hard to bear.
It is hard work for men to change or to do
differently from what they have been accustomed
to do. A teacher after forty or fifty years teaches
just as he did at the beginning. He cannot change.
So men in business foUow the way they were
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career. A new idea or thought on this account is
accepted slowly. The followers of Aristotle had
got into a rut, and did not want to change. Now-
a-days lawyers object to a new code, and ministers
to any new system. An English railway con
tractor in Hindustan thought he would teach the
natives the use of the wheelbarrow in making a
railway. He had a lot of wheelbarrows shipped
out there, and showed the men how to use them.
After practicing a while with them he went away.
When he returned he found them using them, but
filling them with dirt and then putting them on
their heads and carrying them away and dumping
them. They were accustomed to carrying dirt on
their heads in baskets, and they could not change.
Be careful, and do not get hide-bound and stiff,
or form the habit of always looking back. Never
say : the times are degenerating, the girls are not
so pretty, the men not so good and earnest, the
ladies not so educated. Do not have your eyes
always in the back of your head. Also guard
against the opposite tendency. Do not get the
habit of always saying, "Everything is better
than it used to be. ' ' The world is advancing, but
it is a long way from perfection yet.
People segregate Newton apart from aU the
rest of his age, and when the law of gravitation
is mentioned, they instinctively think of Newton.
But the fact is, he only happens to be the one by
whom the law was finally arranged. Others had
done as much as he toward discovering it.
There is no question of the fact that there was
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 61
account of the French Revolution. All the stron

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able-bodied men were required to fight battles,
so that nobody was left at home but boys and
old men and cripples. The next generation was
weak and sickly, weak in mind, in body, and in
every respect. This is true of every country in
which there have been many wars.
Some want to know what is the use of studying
Latin and Greek. Those peoples all died long ago.
What use are their languages now? What is the
use of studying the history of medicine? Modern
books are twice as good. Why spend so much
time in studying up the processes of development,
when the results can be so readily and easily
obtained? Just for this reason, that the study of
the processes of development by which men arrive
at results are more profitable than the results.
Take the history of the barometer, from Pascal
down to Faraday. The results may be learned in
a short time, but the different experiments these
men performed and the processes by which they
arrived at the result are vastly more important.
The law against treason which is embodied in the
Constitution is short and can be learned in a few
minutes ; but in order to understand that law and
why it was put in the Constitution instead of the
law against stealing, involves the knowledge of
English history and the feudal law. Men are all
the time inventing and applying for patents,
spending much time and painstaking labor, but
When they visit the Patent Office they find in many
cases that their ideas had been worked out long

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ago. This is a practical illustration of men work
ing, not knowing the history of any of the patents.
One of the hardest things for us to understand
as Protestants is, what sort of thoughts and ideas
are in the minds of the Catholics when they wor
ship the saints and the Virgin Mary: WTiat
motives and feelings do they have? We cannot
understand how the priests get hold of the people
in such manner. We may say that Romanism is
baptized heathenism. The priests have gotten
hold of the old mythology of the heathen and
baptized it. Castor and Pollux have been ex
changed for St. Helena, and Venus has been ex
changed for Mary.
I shall never feel right tUl I have thrashed a
plumber. I have a moral indignation against the
whole class, on account of the poor way they work.
They ought to have their noses held over the
mouth of a sewer until they have been impreg
nated with the gas and the fever has threatened
them, so that they could see how they Hke it.
The common prayer over the whole of Europe
was, "Deliver us from the Turks, the devU, and
comets." The Turks were once strong, rich and
powerful, but they became, on account of their
riches, licentious and fast livers, and therefore
weak and effeminate. Nobody would now think
of getting anything uphfting from the Turks.
They have no armies, no naval system. They
became just such men as are to be found on Fifth
Avenue to-day. New York men who live between
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are up nights; who are pale, thin, sickly, with
sunken chests and spare legs, running out in one
generation. The servants in the kitchen come
up and occupy the parlors which they furnished.
At a dinner given in 1816, Commodore Decatur
gave the foUowing toast : "Our country, may she
always be in the right, but our country, right or
wrong." This phrase had a large run, but it
embodies a principle that is not right. If it
means anything, it means that our interests and
obHgations to our societies, to our church, to our
country, transcend our obHgations to the ever
lasting distinction between right and wrong. It
is on this account that evU comes out of being
connected with a secret society, such as Masons
or Odd Fellows. It is this that led most of the
Southern States into the late war. The majority
of the people were not in favor of secession, but
for the sake of obHgations to the South they were
led to do wrong; to do what they did not de
sire to do.
A bad habit wiU stick to a man like the shirt of
Nessus to Hercules. A man's reputation in col
lege wiU stay by him in life. A man noted for
being tricky in coUege will find that it will stay
by him, and if he ever tries to get a place, peo
ple will be afraid of him, and wUl fear lest he
play the same tricks upon them. The worst repu
tation a man can have is to be noted for being
tricky, or having two faces under one hat, of liv
ing two lives. The hardest thing for a young
man to learn is "to suffer wrong rather than to do
wrong." A man as president of a bank, as presi-

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dent of an insurance company, or of any com
pany or organization, will do things that he would
no more do as a man than he would sever his
right hand from his body.
You cannot afford to be ignorant of foreign
countries and peoples. The world has shrunk. It
is not half so large as it used to be. Places are
nearer to each other. It wiU be just as much a
disgrace for you to be ignorant of China as for me
to be ignorant of the Carolinas.
Some think that an extempore speaker gets up
and originates aU his thoughts and ideas on the
spur of the moment. This is aU nonsense. He
only draws upon his past knowledge, the convic
tion and views that he has settled before. He gets
hold of one word and pulls it out, and by that
another, and so on. They may come tail first,
but they come if his mind is full. Tap an empty
barrel, and nothing will come out of it; tap a
barrel full of muddy water, and muddy water wUl
run out of it.
There is a good deal of philosophy in the
phrase, " Go it while you are young. ' ' If you feel
impressed with the idea of taking responsibilities,
take them; or of writing a book, write it. Sir
William Hamilton read all the time, but he never
wrote like the schoolmaster in LongfeUow's
' ' Kavanagh. ' '
A man says he is a pantheist; that he is only
a particle here in the great world of being; only
a drop in the ocean of life. He says, "I am noth
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plan. I have no personality." Is it true that
you who will and think have no individuality, no
identity? Are you, who say and do as you please,
a part of the to pan, and have no will of your
own? In the very assertion that you make, "I
am a pantheist," you deny that you are a behever
in that doctrine. The ego will show itself, no
matter how you fix it. I, a particle, run against
another man, another particle, who is a pantheist,
and knock him down. The contact of the particles
is pretty severe indeed, and the pantheist thinks
so, and he goes and has me locked up. If you
steal his horse, he forgets his doctrine and says,
"You are a dangerous man and ought to be taken
care of." So it is with the idealist and the
materialist. I gave the following rules to a young man who
was going into the army as a captain, as abso
lutely essential for him to follow if he would com
mand and lead : 1. Show your men that you know
more about the art of war than any one of them.
2. Show your men that you are morally better
than any one of them. 3. Show your men that
you have more pluck than any one of them.
All men who do good work in any field are re
spected wherever they are. The confused and
wandering condition in which the people of
Arabia and the surrounding country were, caused
them, more than anything else, to accept Mahomet
as a leader. They wanted a leader ; they even ad
vertised for one. It is a rule that a large portion
of the world is waiting for someone to come to
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order to lead. You have seen famUies where the
woman was the acknowledged head ; others where
a Httle chUd five years old was the one who led
the others about.
It is easy for a man to grow down like a cow's
tail, but it is hard to develop upward. It is easy
for a man to be idle; it is easy for a man to be
sensual; it is easy for a man to go to the devil.
The road is easy down hiU; it allures one on and
we all have to exert our powers to the utmost to
keep from going down. We need all the good out
side and inside influences possible to keep us from
becoming as low as many about us. Men in the
large cities who frequent saloons and aU vile
places are men who have got far down the hiU.
They have gotten so low in one generation, some
times in their own Hfe-time. They are as low
as the savages of any uncivilized country. Go
into the poorhouse and penitentiary and ask the
inmates there how it is that they came there, and
they wiU say their ancestors were highly re
spectable people, intelligent, wealthy and re
ligious. They will never say that they are 'on
the road up from lower grades of society, but
are going down from higher grades of society.
This is conclusive proof against those who argue
that we are developing from the monkey. Men
cannot develop up hUl. AU history shows this.
There is probably more of the ancient world
below the ground than there is above it. There
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in Rome, and as you go through the city you see
the different cities cropping out, and as you read
you see it too.
A college can do a great deal for a man, but it
cannot furnish him brains.
There was never any question as to Dr. Ander
son's alert and keen interest in all public affairs.
How wide and deep his interest was, his full and
active life abundantly shows. When the heroic
statue that now adorns the circle in front of
Anderson Hall was ready for mounting, there was
considerable question, because of Dr. Anderson's
large outside activities, as to the most fitting place
for its location — the campus, or the plaza in front
of City Hall. Dr. Anderson's Americanism was
of the patriotic type. He beUeved in American
institutions and labored for their estabhshment
and improvement. He made a careful study of
all subjects engaging the thought and attention
of the people and sought opportunities, if they
did not come to him, of making his views known
through the press, or by letters to prominent gov
ernment officials. He foresaw many of the prob
lems of this later day, growing out of the vast
tides of immigration, the development of the
untold resources of the West, the piHng up of
enormous fortunes, and the abuse of the fran
chise. His practical views appealed to the people.
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68 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
many-sided, broad-minded, and had a vision. He
had large faith in the future of the country. He
would have the men that are charged with the
responsibilities of government and with directing
the thought of the people see to it that our insti
tutions are so safeguarded, and our laws so
framed and administered, as to promote the high
est political, educational and religious welfare of
our growing Republic.
In his church relations Dr. Anderson was a
Baptist, both from training and conviction. He
believed in the principles of the Baptists, yet for
his time he had unusual sympathy and wide fel
lowship with those of other faiths. He was not
so much interested in the theological side of re
ligion as he was in its practical workings. What
a man was, meant more to him than what he pro
fessed to believe. He had a great sense of pride
in what the Baptists as a body of Christians had
done in shaping democratic ideas, and in develop
ing the principles that have been operative in
the progress of the people. He believed that the
great foundation truths for which Baptists stand
have been dominant in our national Hfe and are
destined to control civilization in the future.
While he was president of the University he and
Mrs. Anderson were associated in membership
with the Second Baptist church of Rochester, the
services of which he attended with great regu
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 69
also showed his interest in denominational move
ments and growth by his presence at missionary
conventions, educational conferences, and May
Anniversaries, and by making addresses or tak
ing part in the discussions. He rendered a great
service to his denomination, and in turn was
honored by the denomination. He served as presi
dent of the Home Mission Society and for three
years of the Missionary Union. He was, as he
said, "a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist," and he was
never ashamed of his colors.
Coincident with the commencement exercises of
the class of '76, was the celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the
university. Instead of the usual address to the
graduating class, Dr. Anderson gave an address
of great impressiveness and power on the work
and aim of the university. He made an earnest
plea for a larger equipment and a more adequate
endowment. The movement previously inaugu
rated had already produced tangible results in
the Sibley Library building, which Mr. Sibley
kindly put at the disposal of our class for our
class-day exercises, a unique dedication for a
building of this character. The anniversary was
made the occasion of quickening enthusiasm in
the effort to raise a quarter of a million dollars.
Millionaires were not numerous in those days, and
gifts of hundreds of thousands were almost un
heard of. Dr. Anderson realized that great cour-

70 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
age and persistency would be required to make
the undertaking a success ; but he was invincible
in his purpose.
While strugghng with the problems connected
with the raising of this endowment fund, he was
urged to go to Chicago to save the university
there, which had reached a crisis in its history.
He spent the summer of 1877 in Maine, where he
had such a serious illness that his friends would
not have been surprised to have heard of his death
at any time. He was, however, mercifuUy spared,
but went South for the winter, his health not hav
ing been sufficiently restored for him to take, up
his coUege duties in the autumn, and he did not
resume them untU the following summer. The
nervous strain involved in raising the endowment
proved such a source of anxiety and so heavy a
drag upon his energies that those who stood near
est to him were fearful of a physical and mental
collapse, involving the giving up of his work
altogether. With the assurance that the effort
would eventuate in success, and especiaUy after
the completion of the task in 1881, his health
materially improved, and his spirits became more
buoyant and hopeful.
But the continuous and unbroken strain had left
its mark. Men returning to commencement spoke
among themselves with bated breath of "how he
had aged. ' ' His hair had whitened, his shoulders
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MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 71
could only get about by the aid of two canes. It
was impossible to beheve that this was our
"Grand Old Man" of only a few years before.
"But I forgot, when by thy side,
That thou could 'st mortal be."
Dr. Anderson had the conviction that his work
was nearly done, and was impelled to resign. But
wiser and better counsels prevailed. He did,
however, decline many outside calls, and made
few public addresses. He came to the New York
State Missionary Convention meetings at Rome,
in October, 1884, in response to my invitation as
secretary, and made one of his old-time, inspiring
addresses in opening the discussion on the topic
"Fifteen Years of Baptist History in the State
of New York." This was his last appearance
before the Baptists of the State. A year later he
delivered a series of lectures before the students
of Crozer Seminary, on "Ethical Science," at the
close of which a reception was tendered to him
and Mrs. Anderson by the Social Union of Phila
delphia, which was a notable and fitting testi
mony to the man and his work. This was his last
public appearance before the Baptists of the
country. Dr. Anderson had long Hstened to the persua
sion of his friends and the trustees of the
university to remain in the presidency of the in
stitution. He determined now to do what he had

72 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
strongly felt for some time it was his duty to do —
to resign. His health was enfeebled, his lame
ness had increased, and Mrs. Anderson was very
delicate and unable to bear the rigors of the
Northern winter. Therefore in April, 1888, he
presented his resignation to the Board of Trus
tees, which was accepted with sincere regret, and
he closed his duties as president with the June
commencement following. Gloom pervaded all
the exercises, and the hearts of the older gradu
ates and friends of the University were very
heavy. The alumni dinner was given over almost
entirely to expressions of love and esteem for the
retiring President on the part of the faculty and
students and supporters of the college. Tributes
were also paid to Mrs. Anderson for the quiet,
graceful and cultured way she had supplemented
the work of her husband and aided in aU that
pertained to the welfare of the college and stu
dents. Words of welcome and assurance of
cooperation were also extended to Dr. David
Jayne Hill, for ten years president of BuckneU
University, whom Dr. Anderson had chosen as his
successor. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson spent the winter in
Florida, returning north for the summer. Free
from all care, they both enjoyed a good measure
of health. After a pleasant and happy season at
Fairhaven, Vermont, they returned in October to:
Lake Helen, Florida, where they had spent the

MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON 73
preceding winter. Dr. Anderson had so much im
proved that he continued the work which he had
begun in Vermont in the summer, of reviewing
and preparing his printed addresses for the press.
Before the year closed, digestive disturbances,
from which he had formerly suffered at times,
recurred, occasioning distress and great anxiety.
After a period of relief, other and more severe
attacks foUowed, running into February, causing
great apprehension. While watching by his bed
side, ministering as no other one could do, Mrs.
Anderson contracted a cold that rapidly developed
into pneumonia, which terminated fatally on
February 22, 1890. When the distressing word
was brought to the sick, enfeebled husband, he
was apparently stunned, for he did not manifest
any emotion, nor could he suffer any on the part
of those who ministered to him. He made all the
arrangements for his wife's funeral, selecting the
hymns and giving attention even to the minutest
details. But the greatly weakened and emaciated
body could not long endure under the crushing
load of silent and suppressed sorrow. He failed
rapidly, and four days after the death of his
wife, on February 26th, he yielded up his spirit
to Him who had created him. Together Dr. and
Mrs. Anderson were borne back to Rochester,
their cherished home, and to a host of loving
friends. The caskets were taken to Anderson
Hall, where they stood for two days, amid scenes

74 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
full of tender associations and memories. The
double funeral services were held in the Second
Baptist church, with which they had been identi
fied for nearly forty years, and they were laid
peacefully to rest in Mt. Hope cemetery.
"Nor is this all: for in the lives of those
Por whom with patient love he wrought
He will live on inspiring to high thought,
To noble deeds and sweet unselfishness ;
Memories of him will comfort in distress
And feelings will surge up which words can
ne'er repress,
Yes, even in their children's children's lives
Some trace of him will be that still survives."

II
EDWARD BRIGHT
TWO reasons may be given for bringing to
your attention at this time an appreciative
sketch of Dr. Bright. First, he was presi
dent of the New York State Missionary Conven
tion for ten years, from 1874 to 1884. He reor
ganized the Convention and made it an effective
missionary agency for fostering and sustaining
small and dependent churches, and for bringing
the unchurched and indifferent under the power
of the gospel. Second, he was editor of The Ex
aminer for thirty-eight years, rendering an in
calculable service not only to the Baptists of this
Empire State, but to the whole country. Presi
dent Strong, for so many years the head of
Rochester Theological Seminary, has paid Dr.
Bright this high tribute : "He unified the Baptists
of America." Contemporaneous with WiUiam
Hayes Ward, of The Independent, Henry M.
Field, of The Evangelist, and Samuel Irenaeus
Prime, of The New York Observer, probably no
one of that notable group held a more undisputed
position than Edward Bright.
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76 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
My personal acquaintance with Dr. Bright goes
back to the autumn of 1876, a few weeks after my
enrollment as a student in Union Theological
Seminary, in New York. Landing at the foot of
Barclay Street early on a September morning
and not being expected to report at the Seminary,
located then at 9 University Place, before 9
o'clock, it seemed that the best way to while "the
silent time away" would be to stroll leisurely up
Broadway. No more interesting panorama of
New York life could be had than was afforded at
that time by a walk up this great thoroughfare.
In the throng of keen, eager faces not one
appeared that I had ever seen before, forcing
home upon me the truth of the saying : One is not
more alone in a wood than in the heart of a great
city. Eyeing intently the never-ending stream
of men and women hurrying and pushing by, the
torturing thought flashed over me: "Here you
are alone in New York and you do not know a
soul." Hesitating for a moment and then look
ing eagerly about as if those nearest to me must
know of my sudden feeling of strangeness and
loneliness, I gathered myself together instantly
and quickened my pace uptown.
Nearing the old New York Hotel, a landmark
widely known in those days, what was my sur
prise to see in the never-ending stream of people
the familiar face of Henry C. Vedder, whom I
had known as a student in Rochester Theological
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EDWARD BRIGHT 77
tion he had come to New York to join the editorial
staff of The Examiner and Chronicle. Our greet
ing was like that of long-time friends. He in
quired as to my errand to the city; asked me to
call on him some evening, and to come down to
The Examiner office some afternoon, when he
would introduce me to Dr. Bright. With lighter
step I hastened on to the Seminary.
Some weeks later after classroom work had
settled into a routine, and the sense of strange
ness had given place to a home feeling, I set out
for a call at the Examiner office. In those days
The Examiner and Chronicle was located at 38
Park Row, on the second floor of the Times Build
ing, a central position in what was generally
known as "Newspaper Row," commanding a fine
view of City HaU Park. After a short chat in a
subdued tone with Mr. Vedder, for the presence
of a dominating personality, enjoining quiet and
close attention to duty pervaded the office, he con
ducted me into what was known as the "private
sanctum" and introduced me to Dr. Bright.
I had known from boyhood of Dr. Bright
through his paper which had come as a weekly
visitor into our home. I had seen him at the Uni
versity of Rochester on the occasions of the meet
ings of the Board of Trustees of which he after
wards became President, and had heard him speak
at the alumni dinners. He was then well past
three score years, and had probably attained the
full measure of his power and influence as a

78 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
journalist. He was at that time unquestionably
one of the most conspicuous figures in Baptist
denominational life. The impression I had
gained, however, somewhat vague, yet shared by
many at that time, was that he was unapproach
able, austere, autocratic, somewhat brusque and
quite taciturn. My feeling in consequence was
that of quiet observation and something of per
turbation as I stood face to face with him in
the sanctity of his own private office.
His greeting was cordial, his manner affable
and his interest fraternal. He inquired about the
Union Seminary, spoke of his admiration for
Henry M. Sanders, a recent graduate, and asked
on my turning to leave, if in my visits to churches
to hear the different Baptist pastors, I would
make a news item of anything that might be of
general interest for the paper. More hung on
that brief interview than was dreamed of by either
of us at the time. As a smaU stone may change
the current of a stream, so looking back over the
lapse of years, it is not too much to say that in
those few moments were wrapped up the in
fluences that had much to do in shaping the course
of my life.
Some weeks later Dr. Bright sent for me. On
reaching the office he said: "Dr. WiUiam R.
Williams, the pastor of the Amity church, New
York, is to deliver a course of lectures on Baptist
history, and I would like to have you report them
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EDWARD BRIGHT 79
speaking of his paper. The acceptableness of the
payment for this first newspaper work to a
seminary student can better be imagined than
described. The foUowing spring Dr. Bright asked me to
accompany him to Cleveland, Ohio, to make a re
port for the paper of what was generally spoken
of as the "May Meetings." In June he sent me
to Hamilton, N. Y., to write up the commencement
exercises of Madison, now Colgate University.
In October, at his request, I went to Binghamton,
N. Y., to report the meetings of the State Mission
ary Convention, of which he was president, and a
year later to Rochester, N. Y., to make a report of
the Convention meetings in that city. During
this period our relations were marked by great
civihty and friendliness, but they had in them
nothing that could be regarded as of a close and
intimate character.
When in the summer of 1879, after my gradua
tion, opportunities came for supplying churches
seeking a pastor, he expressed deep interest when
ever any serious consideration was given to the
question of settlement. Finally when it became
necessary to render a decision, without wishing to .
seem to influence me unduly, he suggested that I
wait until something else opened. Seeing my re
luctance at following such a course, he said: "If
you are free in October, the State Missionary
Convention may want you for Corresponding
Secretary."

80 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
The thought of any position outside a pastor
ate had never occurred to me. I questioned seri
ously the wisdom of giving consideration to any
thing in place of my long-cherished plans, and
had grave doubts about the Convention choosing
a young, untried man for so responsible a posi
tion. In my uncertainty I determined in myself to
leave this question, as many former ones, — to the
leadings of Providence. When the office of sec
retary of the New York State Missionary Conven
tion came to me all unsought at the Rochester
meeting, my acceptance was largely due to the
convincing reasons presented by Dr. Bright, and
immediately after the close of the Convention I
entered upon my secretarial duties.
Dr. Bright had been president of the State Con
vention for five years. A part of that time he had
also acted as treasurer. He was re-elected in
succession for five more years, making a round
decade in aU. He positively declined thereafter
re-election. While president he was in a large
sense the Convention. The secretary's desk was
in the office of The Examiner, and all the details
of the work came under Dr. Bright 's personal in
spection and supervision. During the five years
of my secretaryship under Dr. Bright 's admin
istration we were brought into close personal re
lationship. I saw him daily when my duties did
not take me out of town. It was my privilege and
pleasure to be a frequent guest at his home, both
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EDWARD BRIGHT 81
him, a game that he greatly enjoyed, accompanied
him to college and convention gatherings, was
associated with him in church relationship, heard
from his own Hps the story of many eventful ex
periences in his remarkable life, and shared in
an unusual degree his confidence and his friend
ship. In a burst of fraternal, fatherly feeling he
said to me, after an evening spent with him in his
parlor, "I have never spoken so frankly to any
other young man, nor taken one so fully into my
confidence. ' ' When he ceased to be president my
desk and aU the records and books of the Society
were removed to 116 Nassau Street. From daily
intercourse our meetings thus became less and less
frequent, and were more and more of a business
character. After the financial crisis in 1884, in
volving serious differences among leading Bap
tists in the city, Dr. Bright withdrew from the
Calvary church to become a member of the Fifth
Avenue church, thereby severing many long estab
hshed personal and church relations.
Dr. Bright came of pure English stock, of the
generation that boasted that England
"never did, nor ever will
Lie at the proud feet of a conqueror."
He was the son of Edward and Winifred Bright,
and probably the eldest of twelve children, five
of whom died before reaching maturity. Very
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82 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
offended by talking about himself, least of aU
about bis antecedents and childhood. The essen
tial facts of his early life have a special interest
in the form stated by himself in his brief auto
biography written on October 8, 1885, his seventy-
seventh birthday:
This is my birthday. I was horn on this day of
1808, in my father's farmhouse, near to Kington,
a market town of Herefordshire, England. It was
at Kington I went to school and Sunday school,
my father and mother being members of a little
Baptist church at that place. When I was eleven
years old my father came to this country with all
his family. I have found this a pleasant world to
live in and my health is now so good that it seems
like a dream that I should have seen so many
birthdays. "Surely goodness and mercy have fol
lowed me all the days of my life. ' '
• When the father migrated to America in 1819
he found a temporary dwelling place in the old
Richardson homestead at Vernon, Oneida County,
New York. Shortly afterward the famUy settled
in Utica, a flourishing town in the Mohawk Valley.
They were probably drawn to this region because
of its being a Baptist center, as were the Scotch
Covenanters to Galway in Saratoga County.
The boy Edward could not have had much
schooling before coming to this country, and the
only opportunities he had here were limited to the
common school and to a short period at the Cort
land Academy at Homer. He made up largely
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EDWARD BRIGHT 83
and study. He was a careful student of the
Bible, and knew English history and literature.
Few had a wider knowledge of denominational
affairs than did he. While at Homer he probably
was brought under the ministry of "Elder"
Alfred Bennett, who founded the Homer church
in 1807, and remained pastor until 1832, — a year
made notable for Baptists by the organization of
the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Dr.
Bright used to Hke to speak of the spiritual zeal
and piety of this consecrated man of God, whom
he esteemed as one of the most potent missionary
forces in his time in New York State. No doubt
he also formed the acquaintanceship of the sons,
Cephas and Dolphus Bennett, with whom he came
later in close personal relationship. He also
probably became acquainted with Adeline Osborn,
daughter of Deacon Osborn, to whom afterward
he was joined in marriage on January 25, 1830.
When he had attained the age of sixteen, cast
ing about for something to do, he determined to
learn the printer's trade. While serving his ap
prenticeship in the office of the Utica Gazette he
found his ambitions would not be satisfied short
of some opening calling for the exercise of the
business capacity which he knew he possessed.
In the meantime Cephas and Dolphus Bennett had
established a publishing house in Utica, having
among other contracts that of printing The Bap
tist Register, of which Alexander M. Beebee was
editor. In 1828, when Cephas Bennett felt im-

84 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
pelled to give himself to foreign missionary work,
and set sail for Burma, Edward Bright purchased
his publishing interest. The business, enlarged
by the addition of a book store, was continued
under the name of Bennett & Bright. A His
torical Sketch of the Baptist Missionary Conven
tion of the State of New York, issued in 1837,
bears the imprint of this publishing house.
Prior to his embarking in the publishing busi
ness, Mr. Bright 's thoughts had been seriously
turned to religion. After much "exercise of
mind" he professed conversion during a power
ful rehgious awakening in Utica in 1825, and
was baptized in the Mohawk River on August 7
of that year by "Elder" James Clark, then pastor
of the Broad Street church. Soon afterward he
was promoted from the ranks of a pupil to that
of Sunday school teacher, and then to superinten
dent. His efficiency and abihty as superintendent
were so generally recognized that his services
were always in demand, even outside the bounds
of his denomination. When the Broad Street
church established in 1837 a mission in West
Utica, young Bright was made superintendent of
the Sunday school. Out of this mission school
came the Bethel church, which was organized in
Mr. Bright's house on March 31st, 1838. Subse
quently this church exerted a wide influence under
the name of the Bleecker Street church. It is now
known as the Park church.
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EDWARD BRIGHT 85
Sunday school, and his deep conviction of the in
dispensable place the Sunday school held as "the
nursery" of the church, continued with him to the
end. His services were always at the disposal
of the schools, as teacher or superintendent, in
the churches with which he afterward became asso
ciated. When he moved to Yonkers he was active
in founding the Nepperhan Avenue Sunday
school, of which he was superintendent for many
years, and which subsequently grew into one of
the flourishing churches of that city.
Shortly after the organization of the Bethel
church, Rev. L. 0. LoveU became pastor, holding
the position for one year and a half, until Janu
ary, 1840. Mr. Bright had been superintendent
of the Sunday school; he had been one of the
prime movers in the organization of the church;
he had had considerable experience in conducting
meetings and as a lay preacher, and in this
emergency the church turned to him for leader
ship. After much prayerful consideration he felt
that he could not disregard this providential in
dication to give himself to the gospel ministry.
Because of the sacrifice involved in the change for
his family, he hesitated about speaking to his wife
of how deeply this new conviction had taken pos
session of him. FinaUy he summoned courage
and said, "Adeline, I have something I want to
confide in you. ' ' When he told her how the Spirit
had been operating upon his mind, and that he
felt he must give himself to preaching the gospel,

86 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
said she, "Edward, I have been waiting for weeks
for you to teU me of this glad decision." With
joyous trust he accepted the caU of the Bethel
church, extended to him in April, 1840, and was
ordained the following June 3, meanwhile retain
ing his interest in his business to insure the main
tenance of his family. Later convinced that he
should give his whole time to his church, he sold
out his interest in the publishing house to Charles
C. Backus, the firm then becoming Bennett,
Backus & Hawley.
In the faU of 1841 he accepted the urgent call
of the Homer church. There were no reasons why
he should have been attracted away from his
young church in Utica, after a year and a half of
service, except those of the splendid traditions
of the Homer church and the field it afforded for
a wide and useful ministry. Homer, to be sure,
had been the early home of Mrs. Bright, to whom
early associations were tender and precious. He
must also have had dehghtful memories of the
beautiful New England-like town from his school
days at the old academy. It is my suspicion, how
ever, that Elder Bennett had a great deal more
to do in bringing the church he had served so
long and the young Utica Pastor together than
any other influence. The Homer pastorate was
entered upon the first Sunday in December, 1841.
"Elder" Bright was soon recognized as a man of
power, and was in demand as a supply of some of
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EDWARD BRIGHT 87
missionary and educational gatherings. With a
church, substantial, responsive, spiritually alive
and fuU of missionary zeal, in the midst of the
picturesque and peaceful valleys of central New
York, he must have felt that he had an almost
ideal pastorate.
The middle of the last century was a period of
great denominational interest and activity. The
news of the baptism of Mr. and Mrs. Adoniram
Judson, which reached America in February,
1813, had aroused the Baptists to a new sense of
their responsibility for foreign missions. At a
meeting held in Philadelphia, May 18, 1814, in
order to meet this new situation was organized
the General Convention of the Baptist denomina
tion in the United States for Foreign Missions.
This Society came to be known as the General
Convention, or popularly as the Triennial Con
vention, its meetings being held once in three
years. In the early 40 's serious agitation and
division arose in the General Convention over
the slavery question, which finaUy culminated in
their organizing at Augusta, May 3, 1845, the
Southern Baptist Convention. On the ensuing
November 19 a special meeting of the General
Convention was held in New York, when a new
constitution was adopted and the name was
changed to "The American Baptist Missionary
Union." The board of managers at a meeting
held May 22, 1846, elected Rev. Solomon Peck,
D.D., corresponding secretary, and Rev. Edward

88 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
Bright assistant corresponding secretary. Again
the influence of "Elder" Bennett was probably
effective in the selection of the Homer pastor for
this highly responsible post, for his word had
great weight with the board, because of his four
teen years of efficient service as district secretary
of the foreign mission society. A year later the
work of administration was divided into home
and foreign departments, and Dr. Peck was
elected foreign secretary, and Rev. Edward
Bright home secretary. "Elder" Bright had
been pastor at Homer four years and a half when
elected to the secretaryship in Boston. The two
short pastorates at Utica and Homer completed
his active labors in the ministry.
To Secretary Bright was assigned the duty of
providing the munitions at home for the mainte
nance of the men on the firing Hne abroad. His
early business training, his organizing capacity,
his recognized' qualifications for leadership,
coupled with his missionary interest and zeal,
were soon so strikingly manifest as to sUence aU
criticism and to awaken enthusiasm among the in
different. Those were days of change and transi
tion. They were days when the Northern Bap
tists were awaking to consciousness, days when
there was a demand for a broader vision and for
a more exalted endeavor. Secretary Bright was
not a spectator, but an integral factor in the
movement of those stirring days, and to him was
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EDWARD BRIGHT 89
policy on the home field. In recognition of his
efficient services the University of Rochester in
1851 conferred upon him the degree of D.D.
Two events will always make his secretaryship
notable: his earnest plea on behalf of the "Lone
Star" mission, closing the debate on the question
of abandoning the Telegu field and determining
the Union to continue and reinforce the "Lone
Star" station, and his persistent defense of the
deputation sent out by the board to inspect the
mission fields and make such changes as they
should judge to be for the best interests of the
work. Although the authority granted trans
cended his advocacy in the board of sending the
deputation to inquire and report, he defended the
pohcy of his colleague, Dr. Peck, and repelled the
attacks made on him by friends at home and
missionaries on the field. The controversy waged
for some months, and the criticism of the attitude
of the home secretary became so caustic that Dr.
Bright felt that he could not in justice longer
retain the position. He sent his letter of resigna
tion to the board of managers on March 10, 1855.
Although the board requested him to reconsider
his action, he let it be known that his decision was
irrevocable, and he terminated his nine years of
labor as secretary with the close of the Society's
fiscal year, the May ensuing.
WHiile Dr. Bright was home secretary, in addi
tion to his administrative duties, he was largely
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In the publishing of the Missionary Magazine and
Macedonian he found that the early knowledge of
printing, acquired back in Utica, was of in
estimable value, and in his editorial duties he
discovered the gifts that led him into rehgious
journaHsm, his great Hfe work. He also formed
a wide acquaintance among the churches and
pastors in all parts of the country, and among the
missionaries, home and foreign, which proved a
valuable asset in after years. Between him and
Dr. Adoniram Judson there was a tender, fra
ternal feeling growing out of their long and
intimate relationship. So highly did Dr. Judson
esteem Dr. Bright's business capacity that he
made him his executor and probably gave to bis
youngest son the name of "Edward" as a token
of appreciation of the many kindnesses of his
long-time friend.
On terminating his secretarial duties iii Boston,
Dr. Bright came to New York, finding a door
ready to open almost without his knocking. Some
time previously Andrew Ten Brook had pur
chased The Baptist Register, and removing it
from Utica had consolidated it with The New
York Recorder, under the name of The Recorder
and Register, Dr. Sewell S. Cutting, of the
Recorder, continuing as editor. In 1850 Pro
fessor Martin B. Anderson came to New York
from WaterviUe, Maine, to take the editorial con
duct of the paper. In November of that year the
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EDWARD BRIGHT 91
opened for students in Rochester. Two years
later the presidency of the University of Roches
ter was offered to Dr. Anderson, who after care
ful consideration accepted it, entering upon his
new duties with the opening of the faU term of
1853, and leaving the responsible editorial posi
tion again vacant. Dr. Bright purchased an in
terest in the Recorder and Register and became
associate editor and proprietor with Dr. Cutting.
The first issue of the paper under the new man
agement appeared in June, 1855, under the name
of The Examiner. The next year Dr. Cutting was
chosen professor of rhetoric and history at the
University of Rochester, and Dr. Bright became
editor-in-chief of The Examiner.
Eight years after coming to New York Dr.
Bright experienced his first great family sorrow
in the death of his estimable wife, who passed to
her reward March 26, 1863. Besides the husband
she left four chUdren, one son and three
daughters, just entering into young manhood and
womanhood. WThen they began thinking of estab-
Hshing homes of their own, Dr. Bright took unto
himself on October 18, 1865, as his second wife,
Anna Leslie Reid, of Rochester, N. Y., a sister of
the late James D. Reid, widely esteemed in
Baptist circles in this country and in Scotland
and England. Three children were born of this
union, one son and two daughters. Mrs. Bright
was a woman of great force of character, alert
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for leadership in social and religious endeavor.
After a married Hfe of twenty-four years she was
taken ill at their summer home on Round Island,
in the St. Lawrence, where the family had spent
many pleasant summers, and the end came on
August 26, 1889.
In 1865, the year of his second marriage, Dr.
Bright effected a union of The Examiner with
The Chronicle, the other Baptist paper pubHshed
in New York, owned and edited by Dr. PharceUus
Church, and the combined paper thereafter was
known as The Examiner and Chronicle. Dr.
Bright never liked this name, and in the early
80 's he dropped Chronicle, retaining only The Ex
aminer, the name chosen when he associated him
self with Dr. Cutting as editor. Dr. Bright con
tinued as editor and controlling stockholder of
The Examiner until faiUng health in 1893 com
pelled him to relinquish the editorial management
at the end of the long period of thirty-eight years.
He passed away peacefully at his home in New
York, 170 West Fifty-eighth Street, on May 17,
1894, at the age of close to eighty-six years.
Dr. Bright had been eminently successful as a
publisher, as pastor and as secretary, but it was
as editor that he attained his highest success and
exerted his widest influence. In other spheres as
Dr. Eddy was wont to say men outranked him,
but in the world of religious journalism he was
pre-eminent. He Hfted his paper into the very
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made it a powerful weapon to strike down opposi
tion and every form of evil. His abiHty was
recognized in the field of secular journalism, and
Editor Raymond, of the New York Times, en
deavored to induce him to become his associate
in the conduct of his great daily. Under Dr.
Bright's strong hand The Examiner attained its
largest circulation, and exerted the most potent
influence of any Baptist paper. He possessed
great versatility, an indomitable will and tireless
energy. He threw the whole force of his powerful
personality into the paper. Almost never absent
from the office on account of sickness, he in reality
Hved and moved and had his being in The Ex
aminer. He believed that the paper was set for
the defense of the distinguishing doctrines of the
Baptist faith and the influence the paper had in
stimulating Baptist growth — church, educational
and missionary — cannot well be computed. In
thousands of Baptists homes The Examiner was
the main Sunday reading, and was regarded with
almost the sacredness and authority of the Bible.
Dr. Bright was The Examiner. He had in large
measure what is known as "editorial instinct."
He was the head of all the departments. He knew
each day as much about the transactions in the
business and subscription departments as did the
treasurer or the subscription manager. Nothing
of an editorial nature ever appeared in the paper
that had not passed under his inspection and revi
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cogent and compelling. He was forceful rather
than fluent, dogmatic rather than descriptive,
specific rather than speculative, practical rather
than theoretical. He never "juggled" with words.
No one ever had any trouble in understanding
just what his meaning was. He wielded not only
an able, but at times a very sharp pen, and men
inside as well as outside the denomination were
made to feel its sting. He had no patience with
men who were ambitious to tear down "denomina
tional fences," and who had not honesty and cour
age enough to "walk out" of the Baptist brother
hood when they ceased to beheve Baptist tenets.
Although firm, almost adamantine in his attitude,
those who were nearest to him knew that he al
ways had his reasons for any position he might
take, and that he had an open mind if he could
be shown a better and wiser way. He was ex
tremely sensitive to criticism, and set a high value
upon the good-will of his brethren. Dr. Bright,
however, had enough of the Enghshman left in
him to justify Emerson's phrase: "I find the
Enghshman to be he of all men who stands firmest
in his shoes." It is a question whether at any
other time a denominational paper conducted
along editorial and business lines pursued by The
Examiner could have attained a large success. .
Although Dr. Bright's educational advantages
were meager, he set a high value on education,
and was actively interested in promoting it. He
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every effort on the part of young men contemplat
ing the ministry to secure seminary training. In
1867 he became a member of the board of trustees
of the University of Rochester. Five years later
he was elected vice-president of the board, and in
1885 was chosen president, which office he held
untU a year before his death. He was a steadfast
supporter of President Martin B. Anderson, and
believed that his "mark" on a boy was the best
possible passport to higher attainments and use
ful service. In 1872 he was elected a trustee of
Vassar CoUege, serving in that capacity for
seventeen years.
Dr. Bright was always partial to young men.
He sought their companionship; he turned to
them for counsel and advice ; he took them into his
confidence and cheerfully gave them encourage
ment and support, personaUy and through the
paper. This kept him young and gave him a hope
ful and courageous outlook until the last. He had
a deep and special interest in young men contem
plating entering the ministry, and was instrumen
tal in numberless cases in giving them a success
ful start in their life-work. He gave unsparingly
of energy and attention to bringing churchless
pastors and pastorless churches together. His
judgment of men and churches was regarded as
well nigh inf aUible, and pastors knew that a word
from him would go a long way toward securing a
pulpit. A marked instance of his kindness will
never be forgotten. He was present at the coun-

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cil called for my ordination. The subject under
consideration was "The Inspiration of the Scrip
tures." The candidate had stated his views, and
many questions had been asked, so framed ap
parently as to show the superior knowledge of
the questioner, rather than to get at just what
the candidate believed. Dr. Bright rose and im
pressively said: "Why pursue this questioning
any further? We all know what Mr. Calvert's
views are. His father is here present; why em
barrass him by questioning the son in this way
any longer ? ' ' The questioning from that moment
ceased. Dr. Bright was pre-eminently a man of the peo
ple. He knew their attitude of mind, understood
their feelings, and was always their fearless ad
vocate. He had a keen sense of their needs and
knew how to strike a responsive cord in their
hearts. He was at ease in any circle, but in the
years of our intimate association the men of
honest toU were those who had the first claim to
his thoughtful consideration and his warmest sym
pathy. He loved
"Good pleasant men, who loved him."
This was one great secret of his power as an
editor. Of him it could be said, as of his divine
Master: "The common people heard him gladly."
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His massive head, set firmly on his square, rugged
shoulders, suggested the English statesman and
Parliamentarian, John Bright. His erect car
riage, characteristic to the very last, and his pow
erful frame, gave the impression that he was a
larger man than he actually was. He was a man
who would arrest attention anywhere. One could
not pass him on the street, or meet him in any
gathering without the feeling that he was a man
calculated to lead and to command. He was a
man of heroic mould, his strong face looking out
under a crown of heavy gray hair, made him a
fine subject for an artist or sculptor. He belonged
to a type rarely seen in any sphere of activity
to-day. In manner he was serious, intense, deliberate
and dignified. He had reached a point where he
knew success had attended his efforts, yet he
seemed always unduly watchful and concerned,
rarely able to give himself to the joys and pas
times that give light and color to life. He was
always gravely in earnest. He did not know how
to "let go." Once having set his hand to the
plow he knew nothing about looking back. His
serious view of Hfe, and his dogged persistency
contributed, however, to the deep and lasting im
pression he made upon his times.
Extremes seemed to meet in Dr. Bright. Ele
ments of strength and weakness, of self reliance
and dependence, of tenderness and severity, were
so mixed in him that he was often a puzzle to his

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best friends. As often in great men, however,
these contradictory qualities did not nulhfy one
another, but united to increase his force and effec
tiveness. He was an Abolitionist, yet opposed to
all radical measures for breaking the chains of
oppression and bondage. He was loyal and pa
triotic, yet in our day he would probably be
classed as a "Pacifist." He was denounced as a
bigot, yet few men were broader in their sym
pathies, or more reasonable in their views and
practices. He could strike sledge-hammer blows,
and yet a child could not be more gentle or more
easily moved to tears. Those who knew Dr.
Bright intimately through a long term of years,
or sustained close personal relationship with him,
could say with President Strong: "There was a
tender side to Dr. Bright. He was affectionate in
his home, and was often moved to tears by words
spoken in appreciation of his work." His feel
ings seemed to get the mastery of him in times
of great loss, sorrow or public calamity. When
the shocking news of President Lincoln's assas
sination filled the country with gloom, he shut
himself up in his private office and refused to see
anyone the entire day, dull groans now and then
issuing from his room as if he were overwhelmed
with grief.
Dr. Bright was notably domestic in all his tastes
and interests. He loved his office, he loved his
friends, he loved his church, but he loved his home
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home circle that he was at his best, most at ease,
and most free from restraint. He loved little
children. He had great pride in his own children.
He loved to watch them at their play, and to tell
of their pranks and their bright and amusing say
ings. In parting with friends, even though they
were near his own age, he invariably said: "Now,
be good!" instead of "Good-bye," probably from
his habit of speaking to his own children in ex
pression of his fatherly interest and love for them
when he parted from them to go to his office in
the morning. When his son Edward went to
Europe, after his graduation from Columbia Col
lege, Dr. Bright would have a large map of the
continent brought to him each day, and the places
pointed out where Edward was to be, and the
route by which he would travel to reach his next
destination. On the platform of the State Con
vention, when the self-sacrificing love of the
Savior was vividly portrayed, or the story of a
refreshing revival in some of the churches was
told, his eyes would moisten and his lips quiver
with deep and soul-stirring emotion.
Dr. Bright's life spanned almost a century; a
century of amazing change and advancement, the
most notable of all the centuries. He grew with
its growth, and his influence widened as the cen
tury developed. The greater portion of the second
half of the century was spent before the public,
open to their critical gaze, and subject to tempt
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oak against every wind that blew. He had his
faults; every man has. He made mistakes; he
never claimed perfection. He witnessed events
of momentous import, and by his dominant or
ganizing and administrative abiHty he exerted a
compelling influence in directing and shaping the
rapid development of the religious, missionary
and church activities of one of the great denom
inations of the country. He did a great and last
ing service. No history of the Baptists of America
can be written without ascribing a large place to
Dr. Bright in its counsels and its progress.

IH
GEORGE HOWE BRIGHAM
THE news of the passing into glory of
"Elder" Brigham on September 5, 1910,
came to me while abroad as a great shock.
It was a source of deep regret that my absence
in Europe made it impossible to comply with the
request made by my dear friend before his last
illness, and often repeated, that I should be
present and join with others in the last service
of affection and esteem. I feel that the apprecia
tion that would have found utterance then should
have expression now in print.
The thought that is uppermost in my mind now,
and would have been, I am sure, at that time, is
not so much the loss that has come to his friends,
the church and the community — great as that is
¦¦ — nor that of the unceasing, devoted and blessed
service which he rendered through the long years ;
it is rather that of a righteous man entering into
a righteous man's reward.
As my mind has reverted to Mr. Brigham, in
cidents of the many years that I have known him,
the frequent and enjoyable visits that we had to-
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gether, and the saintly spirit that characterized
his entire life have come vividly before me. I
can only think of him as if the very chosen of
God had walked among us, as one in whom the
spirit of the Lord tabernacled, one who, because
of his gentleness and Christliness, was like the
disciple whom Jesus loved; for he lived in daUy
communion and fellowship with his Lord. Like
the Prophet of old he walked with God and is not,
because God took him. He fought a good fight,
he kept the faith, he finished his course and he
has received his crown.
George Howe Brigham was born in Eaton,
Madison county, New York, eighty-seven years
ago. He pursued his college studies at Colgate
University, and his theological course at Hamil
ton Seminary, from which he was graduated in
1853. In that same year he was ordained at Scipio
to the work of the Gospel ministry.
The public life of Mr. Brigham naturally di
vides itself into three periods. The first period
extended from 1853 to 1873, and embraced his
pastorate at Scipio, 1853 to 1856; Manlius, 1856-
1859; Homer, 1859-1866, and Groton, 1869-1873.
Then came his larger and wider ministry of
twenty years, from 1873 to 1893, when he served
as district secretary of the Missionary Union, or,
as it is now known, the American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society, with headquarters at Boston.
This was followed by a third period of seventeen
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ment from official duties and release from over
taxing burdens.
This last period could be called a period of in
activity only as in contrast with the years of
greater activity and wider service that preceded
it. During this last period he made his home for
the most part in Cortland. During the time until
his last illness he was daUy seen upon the street.
He went in and out of the homes ; he preached in
all the churches ; he graced wedding festivals ; he
ministered tenderly in bereavement; he partici
pated in temperance and political campaigns; he
was much sought after as a speaker on all public
occasions ; and he interested himself in everything
that pertained to the social, educational and re-
Hgious advancement of the city. During all this
time he was growing riper, richer and sweeter in
spirit until he came to his grave in a full age, as
a shock of corn cometh in its season.
Mr. Brigham was eminently a preacher of the
Gospel. Like poets preachers are born, not made.
By his very constitution he seemed to have been
ordained for his holy and exalted calling. He was
singularly blessed in disposition and tempera
ment, as weU as in birth and training. His broad
and deep sympathy, coupled with his rare intellec
tual furnishings, combined to fit him in a peculiar
way for the work of the Gospel ministry. I recall,
as many of you do, his quiet and gentle manner,
his slow and measured speech, his intense earnest
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discourses as he warmed to his subject, and above
all the consecrated bearing and almost holy at
mosphere that always attended the man.
Mr. Brigham was an orator in the truest sense
of the term. He was also possessed of the poetic
temperament in large degree. Many in Cortland
and elsewhere, no doubt, have in their homes in
some treasured place, as I have, verses written
by him in honor of anniversary occasions or to
give comfort in the hours of sorrow. A keen wit
and a fine sense of humor were also among his
marked gifts, and often his public utterances, as
well as his private conversations, were lightened
with flashes which were keenly appreciated by his
hearers. Yet no man felt his unfitness for the high call
ing of God more than he. When in his young
manhood he yielded his heart to Christ, that sur
render was not made without a struggle extending
through many anxious days and wakeful nights.
Well do I recaU how he told me with sad regret
how much of suffering in body and mind it had
cost him and how great was the burden of anxiety
that he endured. But when the surrender was
made and the victory won, it was for all time.
From that hour Christ became the inspiration of
his life, the theme of his conversation, the object
of bis adoration and the end of his endeavor.
But his high place as a preacher was not se
cured and held to the neglect of his flock. On the
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combination that gave him his great hold on the
hearts of his people. Mr. Brigham, in the exer
cise of his pastoral duties, was in my boyhood a
frequent visitor to our home. Among the many
incidents which come to my mind, there is one
which I recall with great vividness. My people
at the time were living on a farm at the north
of Homer village. On the afternoon of a bluster
ing winter day Mr. and Mrs. Brigham drove up
to the door. Mr. Brigham loved good horses, and
he was the owner then of a beautiful dappled bay,
of which he was more careful than of himself.
After he had gotten out and helped out Mrs. Brig
ham and had tied the horse to the hitching post,
he unfastened his fur muffler and with it wiped
the snow from the neck and back of his horse be
fore covering him with the blanket. My mother,
who had been watching him from the window by
which she was sewing, called me to her and said :
"I want you to see how kind Mr. Brigham is to
his horse, and I hope you will always remember,
from seeing this act, that a 'merciful man is mer
ciful to his beast.' "
Mr. Brigham was master in his high calling.
He honored the ministry more than he was
honored by being a minister. He believed that
man was not self-called into the ministry, nor
commissioned by men, but called of God. He be
lieved that his commission had reference to all
parts of the field. He had enlisted in God's
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sent him. In the four churches he served — Scipio,
Manlius, Homer and Groton— the same principle
operated whenever a change was made.
In a conversation with him about the frequent
pastoral changes of to-day he told me how prov-
identiaUy he was led to take the pastorate of the
church at Homer. He did not feel qualified to
take charge of a church and to minister to a
people that had been shepherded by such men as
Alfred Bennett, Edward Bright and Dr. Harvey,
and was unwilling to appear before the church as
a candidate. At length Dr. Harvey, his warm
personal friend, who was to retire from the
Homer pastorate in order to accept a professor
ship at Hamilton Theological Seminary, arranged
an exchange without indicating his purpose to his
people or to Mr. Brigham. The earnest sermons
of the young stranger so captivated the people
that he was unanimously and heartily called to
preside over the church that had enjoyed the min
istrations of men who were recognized as de
nominational leaders.
Yet successful as he was in his pastorate, and
devoted as he was to the work, he did not allow
it to restrain him from entering the door of wider
opportunity and usefulness for his church, for his
denomination and for his Lord. It was while
prosecuting his labors as a faithful minister of
Jesus Christ, and while enforcing upon his people
in the Homer church the missionary purpose and
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the lands of darkness and of heathendom, that
he was called, as he had been in his pastoral work
without any aspiration or self-seeking, to the
larger and more important work of district secre
taryship of the Missionary Union, our great
foreign mission society. He loved the cause of
foreign missions, and in the twenty years service
which he gave to it he did the best work of his
life. In this new and responsible position of ur
gent and numerous demands he did not abandon
preaching, and as he traveled from church to
church, and city to city, he found the coveted op
portunity of preaching on what to him was the
grandest theme of the Gospel — Christian missions
• — and of imparting to his brethren something of
the love that thrilled his own soul and impelled
his own Hfe.
There is a remarkable coincidence between his
life and the Hfe of "Father Bennett," whom he
held in the highest veneration and esteem. Both
lived for many years in the country, both served
the Homer church in successful pastorates, and
both were called from the Homer church to the
work of awakening the interest of the churches in
foreign missions, as field secretaries of the Mis
sionary Union. They both showed remarkable
tact, patience, adaptability after weariness from
long traveling, and under the taxing correspond
ence required to be thoroughly efficient in the
service they rendered, which those who have not
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Of the fifty-five years of Mr. Brigham 's min
isterial life, fifty were spent in Cortland county.
From the beginning of his ministry in Homer in
1859 he may be said to have belonged to Homer
and to Cortland. While he was pastor in Groton,
he was not out of reach of his friends in these
two places. He spent so much of his life in Cort
land and in Homer, and helped in so real a way
to make these places what they are, that his name
will always be associated with them. Cortland,
rich in the names of noble men and of honored
sons, possesses no name that will be more cher
ished, more exalted in religious annals and more
honored, than that of George H. Brigham.
Children wiU be told the story of his Hfe and will
learn to love him as we have loved him. Being
dead he will yet speak. Christians will continue
to emulate his example, and his words will be re
peated to coming generations.
For the past seven years, during the greater
part of which Mr. Brigham had been very feeble,
he was most tenderly cared for by his devoted
wife and the faithful nurses who did all that love
could do for his comfort. Neighbors, acquaint
ances, friends in the three churches which he
served, and brother pastors in this and other
States, showed their interest and affection in
kindly offices, thoughtful attention, and tender
messages of affection and esteem. To retain the
love and esteem of all through these long years,
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friends by his estimable character and unselfish
service. Once he rallied and became strong
enough to attend the Sunday worship in the
church, so precious to him, and with the people
he so dearly loved. For many months he suffered
great mental anguish amounting almost to hope
lessness and despair, which is not unusual in the
case of the purest and noblest souls, but which was
a source of great pain to his friends, who knew
how sure his hope was and how large an entrance
would be granted unto him in the home beyond the
skies: "Life's work well done,
Life's race well run,
Life's crown well won —
Now comes rest."
My relations with our dear friend were es-
peciaUy close and intimate through these last
years. I was favored in being a boy in his con
gregation when he was pastor at Homer. To me
in my youth he was the embodiment of all wisdom
and goodness. He was the first pastor to put his
hand on my head and speak tender and encourag
ing words. I loved him first because my father
and mother loved him, and then loved him for his
own sake. From pastor he came to sustain the
twofold relation to me of an elder brother and a
father. He and his dear companion were always
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returned to Cortland, and he was helpful in coun
sel and steadfast in friendship.
" 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time,
Say not, ' Good-night, ' but in some brighter clime
Bid me 'Good-morning.' "

IV
DANIEL CLARKE EDDY
"Large is the hfe that flows for others' sakes,
Expends its best, its noblest effort makes. ,
Devotion rounds the man and makes him whole ;
Love is the measure of the human soul."
MY entrance into the field of religious jour
nalism brought about me many new
friends among whom was Rev. Daniel
C. Eddy, D.D. He was at that time pastor of
the First church, Williamsburg, then known as
the Eastern District, Brooklyn, N. Y. He attended
quite regularly the sessions of the Ministers'
Conference, which met on Mondays at 9 Murray
Street, New York, and was a dependable member
of the Board of the Home Mission Society, with
headquarters in Temple Court. But he was too
much occupied with his own church work and de
nominational affairs in Brooklyn to give any time
to gossiping with a Httle group about brother
ministers and their church problems, or to go to
some coffee-house for a luncheon with a few con
genial spirits. I do not recall ever having seen
him at any pubhc function in New York, nor did
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he have the habit of dropping into The Examiner
office occasionally as did some New York and
Brooklyn pastors. He was, however, generally
recognized as one of the leading Brooklyn pastors,
and was ever ready to take an active part in
everything that pertained to the betterment, so
cial, civic and rehgious, of his own city. My ac
quaintance with him at that time was only casual,
scarcely more than would be expressed by a bow
of recognition as we met on the street.
Sometime after The Baptist Weekly had come
into my hands and had been reorganized under
the name of The Christian Inquirer Dr. Eddy be
came an occasional contributor. He insisted
strenuously on seeing the "proof" of everything
he wrote, for his chirography was much after the
style of Horace Greeley's and not at all legible to
one not f amUiar with it. When it was inconven
ient or too late to send the proof to his house he
would come to the office to make the needful cor
rections. After a time he was engaged as a regu
lar contributor, and then his visits became more
frequent, generally once a week, frequently twice
or three times. Sometimes he seemed to want to
talk. Then he would draw his chair up near to
my desk and would tell me about his newspaper
or pastoral experiences in Boston or discuss with
me questions relating to the work of the denomina
tion, local, national and international. He opened
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relations became close and intimate. As the weeks
went by he became
"To me more dear, congenial to my heart."
I looked forward to his coming and had a keen
feeling of disappointment when he failed to ap
pear. In all my circle of friends there was not
one, so many years my senior, to whom I was
more closely drawn than to Dr. Eddy. He was
genial, helpful, fraternal, inspiring, charitable,
Christian. He was dominated by the presence
and power of the crucified and risen Christ, whom
he loved and eloquently preached. Life had little
of value to him apart from the service he could
render his Master and Lord. He was one of the
notable age that "dared much, suffered much and
achieved much." He was one of that generation
rapidly passing away that now looms so large that
"We are scarce our fathers* shadows, east at noon."
Dr. Eddy was a puritan of the Puritans. He
was born in Salem, Massachusetts, May 21, 1823.
His father died when he was a small boy, and he
was taken to his grandfather's home, where he
grew up amid comfortable surroundings and en
joyed the advantages of early schooling. When
turning fifteen he made his first appearance in
pubhc in a temperance address and immediately
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societies and churches. About this same time he
began to preach and was so effective that he was
much sought after as a supply and to fill vacant
pulpits. He became known in and about Salem
by the sobriquet, "the boy preacher." At the age
of nineteen he was baptized into the fellowship
of the Second Baptist church, of Salem. He felt
impelled to give himself to the gospel ministry,
and after completing his theological studies at
New Hampton Theological Institute, New Hamp
shire, in 1845, he accepted, before the closing of
the year, the caU of the First church, Lowell,
Massachusetts. He entered upon his pastorate
January 2, 1846, and was ordained the same
month. He continued to serve this church as
pastor for ten years, and they were years of no
table prosperity and growth. During this period
there were added to the membership of the church
the large number of 1005, an average of about
one hundred a year. Of this number 637 were re
ceived by baptism. About the middle of this re
markably successful pastorate, in the year 1850,
Dr. Eddy was granted a leave of absence for rest
and recuperation of his health greatly overtaxed
by excessive strain and incessant labor. This re
spite from work he spent in travel in Europe. His
observations and experiences found embodiment
in the book Europa, published in 1851.
While Dr. Eddy was pastor at Lowell the
"Know Nothings," a secret political party hav
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or appointment of aliens to office, came into be
ing. When the question was raised as to their
movements or intentions the members invariably
repHed : "I don 't know, ' ' hence their name. Their
slogan was, "Americans must rule America." In
the elections for a few years the new party showed
surprising strength, but after 1860 it began to
wane, and soon ceased to be a political factor.
In the year 1854 Dr. Eddy was nominated by this
new party as a representative from Lowell to the
Massachusetts Legislature and was elected. On
his taking his seat and on the organization of the
House he was chosen Speaker. He had had Httle
or no experience in presiding over a dehberative
assembly, but he conducted the business with so
much fairness and despatch that the House gave
him a unanimous vote of thanks "for the prompt
ness, abiHty and urbanity with which he had per
formed the duties of the presiding officer during
the prolonged deliberations of the present ses
sion." Dr. Eddy served as Chaplain of the Sen
ate for two sessions.
But a man of Dr. Eddy's abiHty and versatility
was certain to be in demand. From Lowell he
was called to Boston in 1856 to the pastorate of
the Harvard Street church. His ministry in this
great center of culture and commerce was at
tended with continued spiritual growth and large
ingatherings as was his first pastorate. During
the six years that he ministered to the Harvard
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fellowship, a large proportion by baptism. Twice
during this pastorate he went abroad, extending
his travels the second time through Palestine and
Turkey. Dr. Eddy's power and popularity as a preacher
and pulpit orator were not confined, however, to
environs most congenial to himself. In November,
1862, he was called to the pastorate of the Taber
nacle church, Philadelphia. When the Missionary
Union held its jubilee meeting in that city in 1864
Dr. Eddy was chosen to give the address of wel
come. Whether the "Quaker City" faUed to re
spond to his fervid appeals or whether he felt
"out of his element out of New England," he
never said, but after two years he returned to
Boston to take charge of the Baldwin Place
church, then unfavorably located and considerably
reduced in membership. Under his leadership a
new location was secured on Warren Avenue, a
new edifice was erected, and an almost entirely
new congregation was gathered. Great growth
and advancement attended Dr. Eddy's labors at
Warren Avenue. The church under his ministry
assumed a position it has long maintained as one
of the most evangelical and aggressive of the Bos
ton churches, a living monument to its noble
founder and first pastor.
Dr. Eddy's subsequent pastorates were at Fall
River, Massachusetts, again in Boston at Hyde
Park, one of the beautiful suburbs of the city, and
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Dr. Eddy gave fifteen years of the mature judg
ment and ripe experience of a long and blessed
ministry. The church, founded in 1839, occupied
an influential and honorable place in the "City
of Churches." His immediate predecessor was
the scholarly and dignified Dr. Daniel Reed. The
membership at the time of Dr. Eddy's assuming
the pastorate was 543. It was soon manifest that
a new edifice in a more accessible location was a
necessity. Under his inspiring leadership the en
terprise was carried to successful completion.
The new and handsome edifice was dedicated
April 30, 1885. Some few years later the indebt
edness of $40,000 was raised, and the mortgage
was burned amid great rejoicing of pastor and
people. There were continual accessions to the
membership during this pastorate, 188 being
added by baptism.
During Dr. Eddy's ministry with the Williams
burg church he was recognized as a dominant
figure among the Baptists of Brooklyn. His in
terest and spirit of helpfulness went out to all the
churches of the Association, and he was much in
demand for sermons and addresses. He mani
fested intense missionary zeal in the organization
of new churches and in the raising of funds for
building new houses of worship. His advice was
sought at critical junctures, and confidence and
courage were inspired by his leadership. He was
one of the founders of the Brooklyn Baptist Church
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leader in its work. He was recognized as a
"master of assemblies." For four years he
served as moderator of the Long Island Associa
tion. The sermon he preached before the Associa
tion in 1890 on "The Imperiled Foundations,"
produced a profound impression. He was chair
man of the Committee on Missions of the Board
of the Home Mission Society and actively co
operated with the work of the Missionary Union,
the Publication Society and other missionary
agencies. In January, 1896, his loyal and devoted people
of the Williamsburg church united heartily with
their pastor in celebrating the "golden jubUee"
of his ministry. The members with pastor and
friends from neighboring churches and from New
York gathered at a bountiful dinner provided by
the women of the church in the large lecture room
appropriately decorated for the occasion. The
dinner was followed by tender and sincere tributes
of appreciation and affection spoken by pastors
endeared by long and intimate relationship, the
reading of letters and telegrams of congratula
tion from#absent friends, and an hour of social
enjoyment. The occasion was one of gladness
and rejoicing and brought a measurable sense of
cheer and thankfulness to the modest, humble
heart of the man of God in whose honor the cele
bration was held.
Time had dealt so gently with Dr. Eddy that
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was drawing to a close. Few silver threads
showed in his hair, and he was bowed by no in
firmity, yet as the spring drew on unmistakable
signs of the "burden of years" were more and
more manifest in face and walk as well as in lassi
tude of feeling. He felt that they were only in
dications of needed change and rest after the
strain of years, and he did not allow himself to
cherish any apprehension or undue concern. He
believed that after a summer's rest he would be
equal to his pastoral demands again. With the
return of sultry, debilitating days the church he
had lovingly and faithfully served saw with
greater solicitude than did he the need of prompt
and long release from work and voted him a leave
of absence of six months, assuming all respon
sibility for the pulpit and pastoral duties. He
went away to the quiet and bracing air of Cottage
City, at beautiful Martha's Vineyard, dear to him
from long and tender associations and lasting
friendships. For my summer outing I went, as had been
my custom for several years, to Upper Saranac
Lake in the Adirondacks, and while sojourning
there a telegram came to me bearing the sad and
surprising news of Dr. Eddy's death on Sunday
morning, July 26. He " met his pilot face to face ' '
when the choir at the church were singing "Cross
ing the Bar." The telegram also brought the in
vitation to come to Martha's Vineyard to conduct
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known to me, the message was so long delayed
that it was not delivered untU after my friend }iad
been borne to his last resting place. This has
been to this day a source of regret to me. "He
was a good man and fuU of the Holy Ghost and
of faith," and all who ever knew him could join
in pronouncing over him the words:
Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord.
Dr. Eddy was a many-sided man. First and
foremost he was a preacher, and as a preacher
he was the peer of any Baptist of his time.
Preaching was his chief concern. Everything else
he did was subservient to the one great and God-
given privilege of preaching the good news of
salvation. He was by nature specially qualified
for this exalted work. He had a rich, musical
voice. He had great freedom and ease on the
platform. He had the passion and power of an
orator. He possessed that mysterious quality
called "magnetism" so absolutely essential to
an effective speaker. Above all he was richly
endued by the Holy Spirit. He spoke as the
Spirit gave him utterance. He measured well up
to the Apostle's requirement for "a good minister
of Jesus Christ." He heeded the injunction,
"Preach the Word, be instant in season out of
season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suf
fering and doctrine." His sermons -were full of
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breathed out the heart of sympathy and love of
his inmost being. By drinking daily at the foun
tain of truth he kept his theology pure and fresh
as the gospel. He found his topics like all great
preachers in the needs of the people. His style
was simple, fresh, clear, rhetorical. He could not
say anything in a dull, uninteresting way. The
commonplace events took on new interest as soon
as they felt the breath of his spirit and genius of his
personahty. But he spoke not to men's intellects
alone, but to their consciences as well. He held
up Christ as the Saviour and Redeemer of all who
would put their trust in him, — the life as weU as
the light of men.
But he was not a preacher alone. He was also
a devoted pastor. He was pre-eminently a
preacher-pastor. He united in himself in an un
usual degree the rare gifts of presenting the
gospel so as to command a large hearing with the
rarer gift of an inspiriting pastoral care and over
sight. He beUeved a home-going pastor made a
church-going people. He knew not only how to
feed the sheep but how wisely to shepherd them.
His great heart was full of sympathy and he
never turned a deaf ear to any who came to him
for counsel or relief. Like his Master "he came
not to be ministered unto but to minister," and
only that day was well spent which was crowded
full of Christian service for his people, for his
brethren or for mankind.
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author. He published a number of books cover
ing a wide range of subjects, and differing very
widely in character. One of his first books
"Young Man's Friend," published in 1849 had a
wide circulation. His books of travel were also
widely read and favorably considered. The sur
prise is that under the pressure of his first pastor
ate at Lowell, so remarkably blessed by large ac
cessions, he should have been able to pubHsh
seven books in five consecutive years — The Bur
mese Apostle (1850) ; Europa (1851) ; The Percy
Family, in five volumes (1852) ; Angel Whispers
(1853) ; and Heroines of the Missionary Enter
prise, Daughters of the Cross and City-Side
(1854). In 1861 he published Walter's Tour in
the East, in six volumes. After his removal to
Brooklyn he pubHshed (1881) Rip Van Winkle's
Travels in Foreign Lands, in two volumes, under
the nom de plume, Rupert Van Wert. WTien the
copyright of The Percy Family expired in 1882,
the book under a new copyright was pubHshed as
Our Traveling Party. In aU his books the re
ligious element predominates. The aim always
was to teach some vital truth or to impress some
foundation principle of life and character. His
last book, the historical novel Saxonhurst, em
phasizes the importance of building on truth and
righteousness if progress and prosperity are to be
assured. But preaching and authorship did not limit Dr.
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ism a congenial field for his great activity and
energy. Many felt that this was his true sphere
and that if he had given his whole strength to it
he would have been the peer of any of the great
editors of his time. As it was he attained high
rank and exerted a wide influence as an editorial
writer and contributor. When The Christian Era
was started in Lowell in June, 1852, to meet the
demands for a more pronounced anti-slavery
paper, Dr. Eddy gave to it his powerful influence
and his ready pen, promoting greatly its circula
tion and success. He sustained to the paper the
two-fold relation of editorial writer and consult
ing editor. The same year in which Dr. Eddy
went to Boston, in 1856, Dr. A. Webster, a warm
family friend, purchased the paper and moved it
to Boston and became its editor, Dr. Eddy con
tinuing to give it such editorial and advisory sup
port as the growing demands of his city pastorate
would permit.
For many years after moving to Brooklyn
Dr. Eddy wrote the New York Letter for The
Standard of Chicago. Dr. Eddy was an inspiring,
stimulating and compeUing writer for The Chris
tian Inquirer. He was also deeply interested in
the progress and permanency of the paper. When
the proposition of union with The Examiner was
Under consideration he expressed his hope
strongly that the paper might continue to occupy
the large field it had made for itself and said to
me: "If I were ten years younger I would cheer-

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fully take part of your burden of conducting the
paper." When the union of the two papers
seemed, in view of all the circumstances, most ad
visable in expressing his appreciation of the
anxious and laborious effort the paper had de
manded, he said: "You may find that the best
work of your life has been done through The
Inquirer." Dr. Eddy set a high value upon a religious
paper as a means of stimulating religious and
missionary growth and endeavor. He believed
that the religious weekly was the best assistant
that a pastor could have and that churches could
maintain little healthy growth unless the members
kept themselves informed regarding the religious
and missionary activities the world over. But
Dr. Eddy was a loyal defender of American in
stitutions and customs, and the religious paper
afforded to him the channel for the expression of
his intense Americanism. He gloried in New
England, the home of the Pilgrims and the Puri
tans, the land of good manners and steady habits,
the home of the school houses, churches and Bible
societies, of liberty of conscience and of popular
government enthusiastically approved. He loved
to speak of the days when the American people
threw off the yoke of the mother country and
"rose to a great, free, glorious nationality." He
was jealous of all that the fathers had so dearly
purchased and was ever keenly alive to any in
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ing nature. On this account he believed in re
stricting immigration. It was his early conviction
that "we are becoming a nation of foreigners so
fast that the whole future is full of danger." It
was the threatened danger to American institu
tions that made him such a relentless antagonist
to Romanism and the Roman Catholic Church.
He believed Romanism was opposed to American
ism, therefore he opposed Romanism. He held
liberty of conscience as fundamental, that free
schools are an absolute necessity, and that free
speech and a free press should be inviolate and
church and state forever separate.
The prohibition principles which Dr. Eddy
espoused and advocated in his teens controlled him
to the end. If to his deep moral convictions there
is added his intense Americanism reason is
furnished for his stand as ardent prohibitionist.
For him "temperate in all things" would not do.
The only safety in respect to intoxicating liquors
was absolute prohibition. The declaration that
prohibition is not practical and does nothing for
a town or city, to him, was fallacious. The trouble,
he held, is that prohibition is not enforced. It
will do nothing for a community, as no other legis
lation would, if not enforced. Enforce the laws
against gambling and theft and you drive those
crimes out of society; so enforce prohibition and
society would feel the beneficial effect. During
his Brooklyn pastorate there was a division of
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the question of using "Excise money" for the
benefit of ' ' The Baptist Home. ' ' It was arranged
that the question should be discussed and decided
by vote at a pubhc meeting. Deacon W. J.
Richardson, president of the Atlantic Avenue
road, took the affirmative and Dr. Eddy the nega
tive, with the result that Dr. Eddy was supported
by an almost unanimous vote. Dr. Eddy believed
that intemperance was the monster evil of the
RepubHc. No one could estimate what good the
extinction of the liquor traffic would do for the
nation. If there were moral sentiment sufficient
back of a law of that kind it could be enforced
and our cities, homes and young men would be
a hundred fold the better for it. It is remark
able how suited to to-day are Dr. Eddy's thoughts
and arguments. Many of his words might have
been written to-day so applicable are they to the
conditions of our time. He was almost prophetic
in his utterances and had a vision of the day that
has since dawned when a great prohibition wave
would sweep over the country and exert a domi
nating influence in factories, on raUways and in
armies and navies around the world.
Among the outstanding traits that contributed
to Dr. Eddy's remarkable symmetry of character
was his singular poise. It would seem to violate
all reason to think of Dr. Eddy as ever manifest
ing undue feeling or allowing himself to become
at all ruffled or drawn into contention. Never to
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his Hps. He never lent himself to trifling gossip,
to talking about himself or to acrimonious feeling.
He was always dignified, kindly, courteous and
withal cahn and serene under great perplexity or
provocation. The peace of Christ, himself the
Prince of Peace, kept him in perfect peace. He
radiated cheer and hope as a diamond radiates
sunlight. His presence always brought gladness,
courage and resolution into any circle. A neigh
boring pastor and friend truly said of him: "He
was not given to hobbies or to new methods or to
sensationahsm of any sort. The passing popu
larity of some new measure, the apparent power
of some gifted eccentricity did not move him
either to envy or imitation." He moved steadily
forward majesticaUy, Hke a great ocean steamer,
undisturbed by the waves of higher criticism, ra
tionalism or liberty of thought that swept about
him or the winds of popular favor, non-sectarian
ism or denominational preferment that blew upon
him. Dr. Eddy had a keen appreciation of the beauti
ful and was familiar with the most that is best
in art, music, poetry and literature. He had great
pride in and knew personally many of the brilliant
coterie of writers whose names are indissolubly
associated with Boston and Concord, nearly aU of
whom were his contemporaries. He treasured as
among his most precious possessions the letters
sent to him by men whose names are "household
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philosophy. He was cathohc in his tastes and
counted among his friends not only literary men
but those active in the political, educational and
commercial world. He is remembered as always
sharing his interest and fellowship with those
who were either counted unfortunate or unable to
contend against the sterner forces that beat
against them. Much time and effort were spent
in helping his brethren who coveted his influence
and assistance in securing opportunities to sup
ply or a permanent settlement.
Dr. Eddy set great store on the part music
should have in the worship in our churches. He
believed it should be dignified, uplifting, soulful,
worshipful. In reply to the note sent out to
ministers in various parts of the country by a
New York religious weekly: "What is in your
opinion the best hymn in the English language
and why do you so regard it?" he said: "Corona
tion." His reasons are stated in his letter:
"I put at the head of the hymns the old familiar
one of Edward Perronet, 'All hail the power of
Jesus' name!' which bears date of 1780, for the
following reasons:
"1. Its beautiful simplicity and grandeur.
Aside from all sentiment it is a literary gem.
"2. It rises above all individual hopes and
fears, joys and sorrows. Many beautiful hymns
fit only one phase of mind ; one state of experience.
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in that state of mind or frame of thought. This
hymn is as comprehensive as Christianity.
"3. It emphasizes the idea toward which all
human thought is tending, all the events of ages
marching — the enthronement of Christ as univer
sal King. It wUl live beyond all others, because
it holds, as does no other the supreme idea of all
Christendom." Dr. Eddy compiled a hymn book, giving to it
the careful preparation which he bestowed upon
everything he did, but as two books for use in
Baptist churches were issued about the time his
was completed, it was never pubHshed.
Dr. Eddy's marriage had a color of romance
about it. After one of his early temperance lec
tures he urged all who were so disposed to come
forward and sign the pledge. Among the number
who came to the front was a bright-faced girl who
arrested his attention. As she was waiting to
sign her name he leaned over the desk and asked :
"What is your name, little girl?" In a sweet
clear voice she replied: "Elizabeth Stone." The
memory of that face and voice never left him.
Shortly after he had entered upon the pastorate
of the church in Lowell, he was united in marriage
to Elizabeth Stone, of Salem, his native place.
Two sons and two daughters were born to them.
One of the sons died at the interesting age of ten
and one of the daughters when she was only three.
Mrs. Eddy who survived her husband was an
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ideals, exemplified in a beautiful Christian life.
She entered into her rest November 16, 1914. Dr.
Eddy was greatly attached to his famUy and his
friends. He regarded his home as his castle. In
it he found not only a refuge but the loving sym
pathy, mutual fellowship and unity of interest of
the ideal home. He found also the inspiration
and courage that gave him in public a power and
wisdom his adversaries were not able to gainsay
or resist.
Dr. Eddy's last years were enriched by content
ment and peace. The evening of his Hfe was like
that of a rare summer day. He could look back
with rejoicing over a long and blessed ministry,
and forward with confidence and full assurance
of hope. After fifty years of service as preacher,
author, editor, contributor, legislator and coun
selor, he had the consciousness that there was not
a shadow upon his Hfe and that he posessed the
love and confidence of his fellow men in every
circle in which he had moved. He was ready "to
depart and to be with Christ, which is far better."
"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair
And what may quiet us in a death so noble."

WILLIAM ALBURTIS CAULDWELL
IT is a source of regret to me that a previous
engagement to preach at the Baptist Home
prevented my being here through this entire
service, but I am thankful for the privilege of
these last few minutes, for I should not wish to
be thought false to my own feelings, nor indif
ferent to the memory of my friend by not appear
ing here and contributing in some small way to
the chaplet you have been weaving this afternoon
in appreciation of the services of Mr. Cauldwell
as superintendent of the Sunday school and office
bearer in this church.
I am asked to speak of Mr. Cauldwell 's relation
to the church. The story of his life may be briefly
told. He was the son of Ebenezer Cauldwell, a
man highly esteemed in Baptist circles and
recognized as one of the substantial and trusted
members of this church. He was born in this city
May 21, 1827. When quite young he entered
Columbia College but was not able to complete
his course because of failing health. His father,
believing in the efficacy of sea-air, took him on an
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extended voyage which probably not only was the
means of adding many years to his life but was
in itself a liberal education. Although Mr. Cauld
well was never strong he was able by care to
render a varied and valuable service. For many
years he was actively identified with the Sabbath
Committee, the American Tract Society, the Bap
tist City Mission Society and the Home Mission
Society. He entered peacefuUy into rest this past
week (March 13, 1893), at his home 16 West 54th
Street, as one falling asleep.
In speaking of his relation to the church, I
scarcely know where to begin or where to end.
His hfe was so woven into the church and the
church entered so largely into all his life, that to
try to think of one apart from the other would be
like trying to separate the fragrance from the
flower. AU of his Christian Hfe of about twenty-
eight years was passed in the fellowship of this
church. His conception of the church was that
it is the House of God. He believed, as we all
do, that God is everywhere ; that if we should take
the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost
parts of the earth that we could not escape from
His presence, and yet he believed that in a pecu
liar and special sense the church is God's dweUing
place. He accepted as true the teachings of Scrip
ture: "Behold the tabernacles of the Lord are
with men and I will dwell among them, and I will
be their God and they shall be my people. " " The
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in the great congregation. " " Where two or three
are gathered together in my name there am I in
the midst of them." The church, therefore, was
sacred to him. It was a holy place, full of the
glory of him who dwells in the sanctuary.
So Mr. Cauldwell loved his church. As the
church was the earthly abode of his heavenly
Father and of Jesus his elder brother, he loved
it with steadily increasing love. He believed that
the church should appeal to all that is best in
us, and he sought to make it bright and beautiful.
He would have Christ exalted, the services
evangelical, and the people filled with the spirit,
making melody in their hearts with psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs. In this church which
he strove to have meet his ideal, he spent many
happy hours in communion and fellowship with
God's people. Here he saw Jesus take the little
ones in His arms and bless them; here he heard
those, whom he had taught, who had found Jesus
as their Saviour, tell of their new born love and
show their wUling obedience by following Him in
the baptismal waters; here he gathered with
those, who were dearer to him than any outside
of his own household, about the table of the Lord
to partake with them of the last supper. For this
church building he toiled and labored with un
ceasing labor until the capstone was lifted to its
place, just as faithfully and untiringly as he had
labored and toUed through many previous years
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be said of him as it was said of his blessed Master
that "he gave his Hfe for the church." So great
was his love for this building and for aU who
gathered here from week to week to worship, that
I can easily conceive of him when standing in this
place, as superintendent, or sitting in his pew in
the other room as worshiper, as breathing in
silent prayer the words :
"I see Thee not, I hear Thee not
Yet Thou art oft with me;
There is no spot so sweet on earth
As where I meet with Thee."
Cherishing such a love for the church he at
tended all its services as regularly as his health
and strength would allow. Mr. Cauldwell was
never a strong man. When we were together with
him and his family last spring in Savannah he
called in a physician. When the doctor asked him
how long he had been ill, he repHed, in his peculiar
way, "For forty years." And though the doctor
looked a Httle puzzled the reply was the truth. He
had always been a frail, dehcate man, and if ever
anyone would be justified in staying away from
the services of the church he would have been.
But he never made his poor health an excuse for
not filling his place and doing his work in the
church and Sunday school. At the time to which
I have alluded, when he was hardly able to attend
the services of the First church in Savannah, he
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pleasure it had been to hear his old friend Dr.
Lathrop again, and how enjoyable to him were
the services of the Lord's house even in a strange
city. He was trained to go to church when a boy. I
have often heard members of our family tell how
his father would walk in to the old Oliver Street
church with WUliam by his side Sunday after
Sunday. That habit formed in boyhood continued
with him during aU the years of his membership
in Calvary church. He was among the most
regular attendants upon the preaching services on
Sunday. He was among the most energetic in
the Sunday school. He was among the most gen
erous in giving his strength, time and means to
every worthy cause. He was so efficient as an
officer and trustee that in the board he was spoken
of as the "oak" upon whom aU could lean in any
emergency. He was the prince of Sunday school
superintendents. It was given to him to see great
changes in the little more than a quarter of a cen
tury in which he was connected with this church.
In his time the membership increased from 250
to more than 1500; the old church building on
Twenty-third Street gave way to business and
this stately edifice was erected. He saw all the
former pastors and many of the staunch, strong
men who had stood in the forefront of Baptist
circles, not only in this church, but in this city,
pass away.
In the Cathedral of St. Marks, in Venice, cele-

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brated for its beauty and brilliant with oriental
color, are a number of matchless alabaster
columns which are said to have been transported
there from the Temple of Solomon. Although as
hard as granite, they are composed of such
peculiar substance that they appear to the be
holder to be translucent. Those columns it seems
to me are typical of the men of strength and
honored name who were in their day like pillars
in this church, but who have been transported and
translated one by one from the church mUitant
to the church triumphant, where they shine with
increasing splendor in the Temple not made with
hands. Bishop, Bayne, Constant and Cauldwell,
— what great names! How they shine in the
firmament of Baptist church history in this city!
How exalted they are in glory !
While we were worshiping together in the
other room this morning, I could not help think
ing of our dear friend at the same hour wor
shiping with the heavenly congregation on this
his first Sunday in glory. And as I was thinking,
I could almost imagine the waUs expanding and
the congregation extending until it mingled with
the larger congregation around the throne and the
members here joining with the larger membership
over there in the "Song of Moses and the Lamb."
There is a note of sadness in our service this
afternoon, but there is a sweeter note of joy, for
our friend has heard the Saviour say: "Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-

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pared for you from the foundation of the world. ' '
He has joined in worship on this beautiful Sunday
with the Church of the Redeemed, and with all
closely associated with him in the work here who
have gone on before, and "so he will be forever
with his Lord."

VT
JAMES DUANE SQUIRES
MRS. BROWNING on one occasion, it is re
ported, asked Charles Kingsley to tell
her the secret of his Hfe. His simple
reply was : " I had a friend. ' ' Sadly different was
the experience of Mark Rutherford as related by
Dr. Malcolm MacLeod. Rutherford had "a life-
long desire and hope for a friend to whom he
could pour out his deepest and his saddest
thoughts. With wistful eyes he searched for
years for someone who could understand him
and to whom he could unlock and unburden his
soul. But the friend never appeared and Ruther
ford became moody and suUen and glum. ' '
In any enumeration that I have ever been able
to make of my blessings I have placed first in the
list my friends. Among my "host of friends" I
have never found one who appealed to me just as
Duane did, or one who exerted so indelible an
influence upon my life. Our friendship began in
our boyhood days in Cortland. Indeed, as little
boys we were more like lovers, and were always
together. Our homes were on the same street. We
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JAMES DUANE SQUIRES 139
went to school together. We played together. We
attended the same church and were in the same
Sunday school. I was his senior in years as I was
also physically of larger frame. We were unlike
in temperament and in other ways,

'And he supplied my want the more
As his unlikeness fitted mine."

The strong attachment of boyhood grew
through our college days and through the years
of our younger manhood into a firm and mutually
fraternal friendship that continued steadfast and
unbroken to the end.
In the years of our close and intimate associa
tion he was a general favorite and was universally
esteemed. Notable among the qualities that drew
forth admiration and made him the center of
affection and interest were his pure and high
ideals, his resoluteness of purpose, his enthusias
tic interest in people and in human progress, his
alertness of mind, his tenacity of grasp, and his
heroic spirit in meeting rebuffs — all animated and
ennobled by a deeply religious spirit. These gifts,
together with his genial, open-hearted and social
nature, his ready and sympathetic response, his
wise and intelligent counsels, and his ever kind
and generous impulses, kindled in me warm and
continued admiration. In the language of Holy
Scripture I can say my soul was knit to his as
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David. " " Very pleasant has thou been unto me :
thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love
of women."
In Tennyson's immortal song, "In Memoriam,"
which broke out of a heart grieving for the loss of
a devotedly loved friend so ardently admired and
so fondly cherished as almost to be accounted his
other self, I find reflected the sacredness and
significance of our rare, unselfish friendship and
of my eagerness, when oppressed by the great
sense of loss, to penetrate the mysteries of death
and to know what blessedness is his in the world
beyond. Now, after passing years have borne me along
to a new vantage ground, with judgment matured
and mellowed and with a wider prospect in which
men and events can be viewed in truer propor
tions and with more impartial mind, I find myself
affirming the sentiment of my boyhood, while set
ting a new and higher value upon friendships that
have their springs in childhood and their basis in
qualities that are always regarded as sterling
among men. As Gladstone in his later years re
verted to his boyhood affection for Arthur Hal-
lam, cut down in early manhood, than whom he
had found none of greater worth or promise, so
among the many delightful relations and recollec
tions that crowd in upon me at this time D'uane
stands out as in boyhood, definite and distinct,
filling in my thoughts his own large and unique
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tions and in rare perfection, quahties that give
added luster to his character as the years go by;
Duane was the eldest son of James S. Squires,
a leading merchant and banker of Cortland, New
York. Born February 8, 1855, he was one of a
family of eleven half-brothers and sisters, and a
unique place he had in that family. His first
boyish ambition was not to do anything that
would displease his father or mother, and rarely,
if ever, was he reproved for misconduct. He
strove with equal interest to show the spirit of
brotherly helpfulness and affection to his brothers
and sisters. To him, in turn, they all looked in a
peculiar way, and his advice was sought in all
matters of family concern. He loved his home
and delighted in nothing more than in speaking
of the manifold beauties of "old Cortland." In
college he was known as "the Cortland man," and
was more often caUed "Sammie" than Duane by
his intimates, because he had frequently expressed
the wish that his middle name had been
"Samuel," as was his father's. Vacations always
seemed to signify more to him because they were
to be spent at home, in Cortland. His home-com
ing was always a glad and gala occasion. It was
to Cortland that he always turned for his Christ
mas and Easter hohdays. It was to Cortland that
he took his bride for their first summer outing,
which was spent in driving in company with his
brother and sister over the rolling hiUs and
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142 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
to enjoy its bracing air and his sister's hospitable
home, that he journeyed after his first serious ill
ness. And again, at the close, it was to Cortland
with the circle of loved ones there that he eagerly
looked and to which he was speeding across the
plains from California when the summons came.
Probably Duane 's most outstanding character
istic was his deeply religious nature. His pure
and gentle spirit early marked him for another
world than this. WTien as a lad, early in January,
1868, after a serious illness, I consecrated my life
to my Saviour, my first wish was that Duane might
share the joy of a Hke experience. At my en
treaty he accompanied me to special meetings
then holding in the Methodist church. After an
earnest appeal at the close of an awakening ser
mon he went forward for prayer. On going home
he told his mother what he had done and of his
desire to be a Christian. When she explained to
him that he might find his Saviour by just believ
ing upon him and by trusting his aU to him he
committed himself unreservedly to Christ and be
came his loving and obedient child. He began at
once to testify of the love of Jesus and of the
joy he had in His service. His words often gave
evidence of such certainty of faith and maturity
of experience as to excite the comment of his
pastor and of the older members of the church.
His early Christian experience was remarkable
for its simple and childlike trust, and gave
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his Lord. Jesus was always to him a living, per
sonal being of whom and to whom he spoke as of
a loved friend.
In the faU of this same year Dr. Earle, the
eminent evangehst, assisted Elder WUkins, the
pastor of the Baptist church in Cortland, in a
series of special meetings. They proved a season
of peculiar interest to Duane and of great
spiritual refreshing to the church. As they drew
to a close one beautiful Sunday afternoon he, with
fourteen of his companions, was baptized in the
river down by the "stone mill" and afterwards
received into the feUowship of the church. Mean
while, because of my father 's f ailing health neces
sitating a milder climate, my family had moved
to New Brunswick, New Jersey. After an absence
of a year and a half we moved back to Cortland.
During this period Duane 's letters never failed to
bear some reference to the church activities or to
the young people 's or other work in which he was
especially interested. Church membership to him
meant spiritual growth and activity. His subse
quent years were marked by earnest devotion and
faithfulness to all his church obHgations and
duties. In the winter of 1872-73 after graduating with
honor from the Normal School, in Cortland,
Duane took charge of the school in what was
known as the "Gulf District." As a teacher he
was unusuaUy successful, arousing in his pupils
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144 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
deavor. Finishing his teaching in the spring, and
anxious to f oUow my course of the previous year,
he reviewed his coUege requirements at the Col
legiate Institute in Rochester, and was duly en-
roUed in 1873 in the entering class of the Univer
sity of Rochester at Commencement. Throughout
our coUege life in Rochester we roomed in the
same house and sat at the same table. We were
members of the same fraternity.
As a student Duane took high rank, and was
popular ahke with professors and students. Dur
ing his college course he secured several honors,
winning a prize for oratory at the close of his
Sophomore year. He was actively identified with
the First Baptist church, and served frequently
as supply teacher in the Sunday school until
elected assistant Hbrarian, filling the position un
til his graduation.
The faU after my graduation from Rochester
found me in New York as a student in Union
Theological Seminary, and the following faU,
after his graduation, Duane joined me in the city
to study law. Through the kindness of Mr.
Charles R. Leffingwell, of the Bank of North
America, 44 WaU Street, he secured a clerkship
in the large office of McDaniel, Lummis &
Souther, 8 and 10 Pine Street. At the end of
eight weeks Mr. Whitehead, of 59 Waif Street,
engaged him as managing clerk in his office, this
position promising more rapid advancement.
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office of Deane & Chamberlain, 120 Broadway,
one of the largest and most widely known legal
firms in New York. It was with this firm that
effort was made to secure him a clerkship when
he came to the city and he was promised a place
as soon as a vacancy occurred.
In January, 1878, his coUege classmate and
friend, Edmund Lyon, of Rochester, came to New
York to study law, entering, strangely enough as
had Duane, the office of McDaniel, Lummis &
Souther. In the f aU of the same year he enroUed
himself as a student in the Columbia Law School
and went to room with Duane at 77 West Eleventh
Street. As Duane had overtaxed his eyes by close
apphcation and study, making it impossible to use
them steadily at night, Edmund read law to him
evenings and mornings and "quizzed" him at odd
hours in their daily walks about the city. In May,
1881, they were both admitted to the bar, and
shortly afterwards Duane was received as a
junior member into the firm of Deane & Cham
berlain. His advance had been rapid, and with
his widening influence came positions of honor
and trust not only in his professional life, but in
the church and in the denomination. Few young
men gain as large a place and few have brighter
prospects than had he at the time of his entering
into this new legal relationship. In the financial
crisis of 1884 the firm of Deane & Chamberlain
was dissolved, and Duane, with two other junior
members, organized the firm of Thornall, Squires

146 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
& Constant, which enjoyed growing prosperity.'
On the withdrawal of Mr. Constant some years
later the firm was changed to Thornall, Squires
& Pierce.
On his coming to New York Duane identified
himself with the Calvary Baptist church, Dr. Rob
ert Stuart MacArthur, pastor. Mr. WiUiam A.
Cauldwell was then the superintendent of the
large and weU organized Sunday school. He had
no superior and few equals as a superintendent.
During his fourteen years of service Mr. Cauld
well had gathered about him a choice band of
teachers, who held him in warm affection, as did
all the officers and scholars. Because of failing
health he was obhged to resign in December, 1881,
and Duane, who had served as assistant super
intendent for one year, was chosen as his suc
cessor. When he was elected to this responsible
trust he was only twenty-six years of age. But
he had already given evidence of his abiHty as a
leader and organizer. He was in every way
singularly qualified for his new and important
task. His constant aim was to co-operate with
his pastor and all associated with him in their
endeavor not only to sustain but to advance the
interests of the school. On New Year's Day he
called upon every teacher, by no means a small
task, as there were sixty-five teachers then active
in the work. He gave himself from the outset
without reserve to the Sunday school. He studied
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best methods of deepening the interest and mak
ing it fruitful in every good work. The ideal Sun
day school to him was "the church at study," and
by establishing normal and adult classes for Bible
study he sought to bring the Calvary school up
to this high ideal. He visited other prosperous
schools and prepared and introduced an order of
service which greatly promoted reverence and
spirituahty. He was deeply solicitous about the
school at the time of the removal of the church
from Twenty-third street to the new and attrac
tive edifice on Fifty-seventh street, but instead
of a falling off in numbers or a diminution of
interest, as had been feared, there was notable
advance in all departments. In the new and well
appointed chapel the school, under his supervi
sion, grew to have the largest enrollment in its
history. But numerous and insistent as the demands
were upon him as superintendent his Sunday
school interest was not confined to the Calvary
school. The Memorial Baptist church in Cortland
is the outgrowth of a Sunday school which had
its inception and inspiration largely from his let
ters and visits to his former home. At his ear
nest suggestion cottage prayer-meetings were
first held in a new and rapidly growing section
of the city, then a canvass was made for a Sunday
school, resulting in the attendance of 115 the first
Sunday. From the first the blessing of God
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steady, healthy growth, requiring the buUding of
a commodious chapel a year and a half later, at
an outlay of $2500. This attractive chapel was
erected upon a lot formerly owned by Duane, situ
ated at the corner of Duane and Tompkins
Streets. He had great joy in all the early de
velopment of the work but was not permitted to
see the school housed in the new building. At the
dedication it was my privilege to have a share in
the exercises and to make the announcement that
the $1000 which Duane had left to me by his will
should be appropriated to the cost of the chapel,
in harmony with his subsequent request that so
much of the amount as in my judgment seemed
best should be devoted to the chapel. In appreci
ation of his deep interest and helpful encourage
ment to the very last the friends in great sponta
neity and affection largely consecrated the chapel
as a memorial to him. The large handsome
Gothic window in the front is a memorial gift
toward which all contributed and bears this
inscription : In Memory of
JAMES DUANE SQUIRES
Born, Feb. 8, 1855 Baptized, Nov. 14, 1868
Died, Sept. 12, 1893,
CHRIST HIS LIFE
In 1896 the Memorial church was organized
from this devoted company of Sunday school
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and aggressive service in this growing section of
the city.
During the period, while the Calvary school
was making large demands upon his thought,
strength and sympathy, never grudgingly given,
for he loved the school as he loved his life, he
gave much energy and time to denominational
movements in and out of the city, in the progress
of which he had a keen interest. He was one of
the managers of the Baptist City Mission Society
and was actively identified with the work of the
State Missionary Convention. He served as
treasurer of the Baptist Social Union and as sec
retary of the New York Alumni Association of
the University of Rochester. He was also a mem
ber of the University Club of the city.
Intellectually, Duane possessed rare versatility,
keen perception, and unusual rapidity of decision.
He loved fun and pleasure, but he loved books,
pictures and music more. He was ambitious as
a student, not only to excel in his studies, but to
store his mind with the best things. He was re
fined, almost fastidious in taste. Inartistic decora
tion or arrangement as well as want of harmony
in color caused him positive distress. He reveled
in the best in literature and found great delight
in the famous statuary and celebrated paintings
to be seen in the great galleries of Europe. He
had a pecuhar fondness for etchings and had
gathered quite a collection of some of the best
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150 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
begun a collection of autographs and of letters of
authors and of the world's great leaders, to the
examination of which he had given considerable
attention and study. Music had a singular charm
for him, almost an enrapturing influence. As the
cords respond to the most dehcate touch so
readUy would his emotions respond to sad or joy
ous strains. This susceptibihty gives some indi
cation of his sensitive and impressionable nature.
In one environment every spring of his being was
full of joy and exhilaration, and in another there
would be only feeble or indifferent response. He
shrank from contact with those who indulged in
passion, heated controversy and harsh or vulgar
speech. United in him was a singular mixture of the
sentimental and poetical with the practical. There
was also a large element of the mystical in his
nature. He loved in certain moods to stroll away
alone over the hills and into the woods where he
might commune undisturbed with his imagination
or dweU for a time in a realm peopled with gentle
and congenial spirits. There seemed to come to
him moments of ecstasy or rapture when his
spiritual apprehension was very keen and when his
sense of the Infinite Presence was very real and
near. In the broad expanse of ocean, in the tower
ing mountains, and in all the wonders of nature,
he found an exaltation and a manifestation of
power that filled his soul with adoration and wor
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a, Kempis' "Imitation of Christ," and Phelps's
"Still Hour" were his daily companions and in
them in times of depression or sorrow he found
great consolation and spiritual refreshment.
Physically Duane was sinewy, quick of motion,
fuU of energy and nerve, but never robust. With
the exception, however, of a severe illness from
pneumonia, when he was only seven, he was al
most never sick. He was full of vivacity of spirit,
yet he knew his limitations and paid particular
attention to the care of his body. He loved all
kinds of games and athletic contests, and gen
erally excelled in his sports as in everything he
undertook. As a runner he was very fleet, few
being able to outstrip him in a fifty-yard dash. His
fondness for travel amounted almost to a passion.
To be going was the very acme of Hving. For
one in his early prime he had traveled extensively,
thereby adding much to his enjoyment as well as
to his knowledge of customs and peoples. He
visited Europe three times, journeying not only
to the points usually visited, but through Norway
and Sweden, to the North Cape and through Rus
sia, to Moscow. In his own country he traversed
the vast stretches from Nova Scotia to Alaska,
and from Florida to California. WTnle abroad
he gratified his taste for art and architecture by
gathering a coUection of photographs, etchings
and curios. He contributed letters of travel to
The Christian Inquirer, The Examiner and The
Christian Union which attracted wide attention

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and gave him high rank among the best news
paper correspondents.
Duane had an engaging manner. His energy
and versatility, his passion for activity, his com
plete self-mastery, his extremely courteous and
gentlemanly bearing combined to make him a win
some and unique personality. He was gifted as
a conversationist, was graceful and fluent as a
writer, and was a forceful and magnetic speaker.
"He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially alive
And he was always quietly arrayed
And he was human when he talked.
But still he fluttered pulses when he said :
Good morning ! And glittered when he walked."
He was very fond of children and always enjoyed
their pranks and sayings. Nothing gave him
greater pleasure than to be able to minister to
their happiness or to have a share in their "good
times." He was always very attentive, thought
ful and considerate, especially of those feeble in
strength and burdened with years as he was of
those who found life fuU of toil and hardship.
Nothing enlisted him quite so fuUy as the en
deavor to make the way smoother and the burden
Hghter for the weary and the oppressed.
When success was crowning his efforts and
bright prospects were opening before him he was
joined in marriage to Miss Alice Stewart Macin
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as a member of the Calvary church and a faithful
and beloved teacher in the Sunday school. Re
fined, cultured, beautiful, she was much admired
and loved by their large circle of friends. Their
happy married life was scarcely more than begun
when it was sadly terminated by her sudden death
on the fourth of the following December. This
crushing blow called forth a remarkable expres
sion of tender sympathy for the stricken husband
and brought close about him the comforting
presence and help of many true and tried friends.
Through it all he bore himself with a heroism that
was only born of a trustful and loyal faith, as
"One who never turned his back but marched breast
forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
Wrong would triumph.
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to Wake."
True and brave and soldierlike as he was he
never afterward was the same. He sought relief
in change, in travel and in the companionship of
his friends, but nothing could completely di-pel
the cloud of sorrow that hung over his heart und
home. In the summer of 1891 he formed one of
our family party in our journey to the Yellow
stone, to the Pacific Coast and northward to
Alaska itself. New scenes, new interests, the
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enthusiasm. He was so full of brightness and
cheer that we had the feeling that nothing we
could have done for him would have given him
quite so much pleasure as this trans-continental
trip. On his return to New York, when overtaxed
with work and many cares, he took a severe cold
that developed into pneumonia. He made a brave
fight and overcame the dread enemy, but his ill
ness left his lungs weak and his strength depleted.
To hasten his recovery he sought the balmy air
of Lakewood and later of Florida. He spent the
summer in the Adirondacks and the winter follow
ing in the genial sunshine of Cahf ornia. Not find
ing the benefit he had anticipated in the mountain
retreat above Pasadena he started homeward
early in September in company with his brother,
Vernon, who had been his close companion and
comforter during the summer, as he had been in
the previous summer in the Adirondacks. WTiile
on their homeward journey, midway between
Kansas City and Chicago, September 12, 1893,
Duane was overcome by extreme weakness. Sud
denly his strength faUed altogether, when the
spirit made its escape and on triumphal wings
mounted heavenward to God.
In the hour when the eager anticipation of soon
greeting him again was about to be realized it was
hard to believe that the wires had brought a true
message. It was hard to think that one who had
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had passed out of sight forever. As I tried in
thought to follow his spirit in its flight upward
through the skies, another message seemed to
come back to me : "I have only gone on before, I
wUl await your coming."
"So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be,
How know I what had need of thee,
For thou wert strong as thou wert true?
"The fame is quench 'd that I foresaw,
The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath:
I curse not nature, no, nor death ;
For nothing is that errs from law.
* * * # # *
"So here shall silence guard thy fame;
But somewhere, out of human view,
Whate'er thy hands are set to do
Is wrought with tumult of acclaim."

vn
HENRY WHITMER BARNES
IT is in response to the cherished wish of my
honored and esteemed friend that I am here
to-day to share in this service. In attempt
ing to speak of my long-time associate in "the
care of all the churches," I feel that I do not
speak for myself alone, but for the pastors and
churches, missionaries and missionary societies,
home circles and friends in every part of this
wide State, whose thought will turn sympathet
ically to this place, when they hear of this service,
and who wiU share in the deep sense of loss that
comes so closely home to this community, to this
noble church and to this stricken famUy.
My personal acquaintance with Henry W.
Barnes goes back to the time when he was pastor
at Ogdensburg, New York. He was then widely
recognized as one of the solid, substantial pastors
of the State. He was soldierlike in form and bear
ing, as I found him afterward to be in courage and
spirit. A few years later he was appointed dis
trict missionary of the new central district. On
my resignation as secretary of the New York
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HENRY WHITMER BARNES 157
State Convention in October, 1886, Dr. Barnes
was chosen as my successor, while the Convention
advanced me to the presidency. From that time;
we were brought into close and intimate relation
ship, and the more intimately I knew him the
more I learned to appreciate his character, to
treasure his friendship, and to esteem his Chris
tian manhood.
Dr. Barnes came of sturdy stock. He was born
of noble parentage. His father was Horace
Barnes, the eldest son of Joel Barnes, who mi
grated from New England in the last decade of
the eighteenth century to the almost unbroken
wilderness region of northern Pennsylvania, set
tling at Orwell, Bradford county. His mother was
Polly C. Woodruff, a woman of rare sagacity, in
domitable energy and great neighborly helpful
ness. The middle one of three children, Dr.
Barnes was born August 5, 1832. An elder sister
died more than fifty years ago, and a younger
brother, Reed A. Barnes, now resides at Owego.
His paternal grandmother was Ruth Grant, a
descendant of PriscUla and Matthew Grant, from
whom also was descended Ulysses S. Grant. On
his father's side Dr. Barnes, therefore, was a
descendant of the Grant family in the same gen
eration as President Grant.
With no great stretch of imagination we can
easily picture that primitive home in the slightly
broken wilderness, and the privations and hard
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Hving and furnishing means for the education of
the children in a community of strict economy and
meager advantages. Henry was early put to hard
tasks, and as a lad he often had to do a man's
work. But the clearing away of the forest, the
f eUing of trees, the cultivating of the virgin fields
resulted in the upbuilding of rugged manhood,
heroic courage and masterful energy and self-
control. The story of Dr. Barnes's conversion forms
one of the most stirring yet pathetic chapters in
his varied and active Hfe. Because of the un
christian and un-Scriptural sentiment prevailing
widely among our churches fifty years ago that
chUdren were too young to give serious attention
to religion or to be received into the feUowship
of a church, for more than ten years he was left
to grope his way in the dark, Ms boyish heart at
times filled with doubts and fears, and at other
times almost crushed with the overwhelming
sense of loneliness and helplessness because of the
apparent indifference of those who loved him
most. His father and mother were strict about
his education and his rehgious training. As a
boy he attended the Presbyterian Sunday school,
and committed to memory the catechism and
many passages of Scripture. His thoughts were
first seriously turned to religion when as a lad
he visited his grandfather, Joel Barnes, who was
a deacon in the Baptist church at Rome, six miles
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in his eighth year he was impressed by the death
of a Httle playmate, and again by seeing others
confess Christ. He would have gladly given his
heart to Jesus at any time during his boyhood if
anyone had spoken kindly to him and encouraged
him to foUow the Spirit's leadings. Some years
later he was profoundly stirred when he found
that his father and mother were attending
"special meetings," and subsequently by their
baptism and reception into the church. He then
determined to make it his first duty to settle the
question of his salvation. While walking one
morning in the orchard adjoining the Le Raysville
Academy, where he was a student, and commun
ing with himself, he determined in spite of all his
doubts and fears to cast himself completely upon
God's mercy. Suddenly there came an experience
of great rapture — a Hght as from heaven shone
about him, and supreme joy filled his soul. From
that hour "he knew whom he had believed." He
spoke of his new-found joy to his cousin, Wilham
Barnes, with whom he roomed in the Academy,
and together they instituted meetings among the
students, and had the joy of leading six into the
Hght. Two years later, in the summer of 1852,
he was baptized and received into the feUowship
of the church at Rome, of which his father and
mother had previously become members.
Despite this almost Pauline experience Dr.
Barnes told me when recounting the painful
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160 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
flection and settled judgment had convinced him
that the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in
his heart took place on that early chUdhood Sun
day when his Httle playmate was laid away in the
sUent grave.
When Dr. Barnes left the Academy he took up
teaching, but he cherished the secret hope of some
time entering the ministry. Toward the close of
his fifth year as a teacher the pastor at East
Waverly invited him to supply his pulpit. The
result was that Dr. Barnes returned home with
the intention of beginning special study to qualify
him to enter a theological seminary. While study
ing at home he also served as principal of the
school in Warren Center. This was in 1856. Be
fore the year closed he supplied the pulpit of the
Warren Center church for a Sunday. As a result
the church engaged him to fill the pulpit untU they
were able to secure a pastor. In February, 1857,
he was ordained as pastor of the Warren Center
church. There he remained for six years, declar
ing the Word with great faithfulness and training
and establishing the people in truth and
righteousness. In October of the same year he was married to
Frances M. Camp, of Owego, New York, a woman
of decided character, of unquestioned sincerity,
of generous impulses, and of warm attachments.
On their wedding journey they attended the an
nual meeting of the New York State Missionary
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Converted during special meetings conducted by
Jacob Knapp, she was baptized into the feUow
ship of the Warren Center church by her husband.
While at Warren Center two children blessed the
home, a Httle boy James, who was taken away at
the attractive age of eighteen months, and the
little daughter Anna, who has been graciously
spared to be an unspeakable comfort to her father.
Shortly after Dr. Barnes had become pastor of
the church at Marathon, New York, a crushing
bereavement came to bim and his wife in the death
of their second Httle boy when nearly six months
old. At the time of the death of their Httle son
James Mrs. Barnes had a long and severe Ulness.
Under the strain of this second sorrow she suf
fered a complete nervous breakdown, seriously
unbalancing her mind. She never thereafter was
really strong. She entered peacefully into rest
on April 20, 1906.
The pubhc ministry of Dr. Barnes covered a
period of thirty years, embracing pastorates at
Warren Center, at KiUawog and Marathon, at
Niagara FaUs, at Ogdensburg and at Spencer.
Probably his most notable service was with the
church at Ogdensburg, where his name is cher
ished as a fragrant memory. Under his leader
ship the church edifice was practicaUy twice re
built, first because of longfelt and greatly needed
improvements at an outlay of $20,000, and second
after a fire which left the walls standing and the
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162 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
whom he baptized and welcomed into the feUow
ship of the Ogdensburg church was Dr. WaUace
Buttrick, now secretary of the General Education
Board, who always held his spiritual father in
warm affection and esteem. At Niagara FaUs Dr.
Barnes succeeded Henry L. Morehouse, then a
student supply whUe in the Rochester Theological
Seminary. Here he did a large upbuilding work,
putting the church on a firm financial foundation.
During his ministry at Spencer 125 persons were
added to the membership, among them being Rev.
S. S. Vose, pastor of the Tabernacle church,
Ithaca, N. Y., and Rev. Ira W. Bingham, now of
Portage, Wisconsin.
But eminent as were Dr. Barnes's services in
the ministry, probably the crowning work of his
Hfe was done in the twenty-one years of his secre
taryship of the New York State Missionary Con
vention. Under his leadership the Church Btuld-
ing Department was organized, whereby many
new churches were generously aided and burden
some debts were paid. The meetings of the Young
People's Union and of the women's missionary
societies were given a place in conjunction with
those of the State gatherings, largely increasing
their interest and efficiency. The contributions
for the work were increased, a hundredfold, and
the number of missionaries were largely increased
year by year. Dr. Barnes instituted associational ¦
conferences, for the conduct of which he had
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pastors and churches perplexed by local problems
as occasions of peculiar interest and profit. He
did a large service in bringing pastorless churches
and churchless pastors together. He self-sacrific-
ingly gave himself body, soul and spirit to the
pastors and churches, thereby greatly widening
and strengthening the work and endearing him
self to aU church and missionary circles.
In addition to his manifold duties as secretary,
Dr. Barnes contributed with more or less regular
ity to The Examiner, The Watchman and The
Standard. His articles were always of a nature
to awaken thought and to elicit attention. He
also was in demand as a speaker at our national
and other religious gatherings. In recognition of
his large and significant services the University
of Rochester conferred upon him in 1903 the de
gree of doctor of divinity.
When Dr. Barnes resigned his duties as secre
tary in 1907 he was made associate secretary to
Rev. C. A. McAlpine, in which capacity he served
for three years. Failing strength compelled him
at the ripe age of seventy-eight years to relin
quish that position. After that time, choosing
rather to wear out than to rust out, he carried
on a helpful correspondence with churches and
pastors, and frequently supplied vacant pulpits
in and about Binghamton.
Dr. Barnes was a man of marked personality,
a personality all his own. He would be singled
out in any group of men as possessing notable

164 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
qualities of leadership. Probably his most out
standing characteristic was his sohdity of char
acter. Notable also were his alertness of mind,
his Christian fortitude, his broad sympathy, his
laudable ambition and his steadfast loyalty to aU
that was best in religion and in Hfe. The impres
sion he made upon everyone was of manifest
sincerity and genuineness, of singular self-poise
and of exalted and steadfast purpose. The
thought that was always uppermost and that
dominated his conduct and his speech was the
settled determination to do the wiU of his Master
and to render the largest service possible to his
fellow men.
Moreover Dr. Barnes was pre-eminently a man
of prayer. He was given much to prayer, to
meditation and to the study of God's Word. He
set apart an hour for prayer in the middle of each
day which he rehgiously observed for God's bless
ing and guidance to rest upon every effort of the
Convention and every form of Christian endeavor.
He read widely and thoughtfuUy and assimUated
what he read. He had a weU thought out system
of theology, and took delight in studying the pur
poses of God as manifested in his providence and
in the history of nations and of men.
Without qualification I may say Dr. Barnes was
one of the noblest men I have ever met. I saw
him in almost every variety of relation and posi
tion in Hfe. I saw him at home and away from
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study and in his garden, in the hour of sore trial
and in seasons of gladness and rejoicing, in the
presence of large assemblies and in conference
with a friend or a group of friends. He was often
in my home, and frequently I was a guest in his.
We exchanged letters for more than a quarter of
a century. He was always the same true, stead
fast, unperturbed, unshaken friend because his
faith reached into the great beyond and took hold
of the eternal verities. Among my pleasantest
recollections are the hours we spent together talk
ing over the great questions vital to this life and
the life to come. "He was a good man, fuU of
the Holy Ghost and of faith."
Truly Dr. Barnes was one of God's noblemen.
He was cast in a large mould. Had he acquired
in youth the thorough training he so eagerly
coveted he might have presided over one of our
great institutions of learning, for he was a born
teacher, or he might have occupied an eminent
place in the counsels of the nation. Dr. Barnes
was one of that sturdy pioneer stock that has
almost passed away. He was one of those rare
men of whom Pope sang :
"Of Soul sincere,
In action faithful and in honor clear,
Who broke no promise, served no private end,
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend."
My good friend has come to his end at a full
age, "like a shock of corn cometh in its season."

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He passed away at his home in this city on
September 29, 1914. His fourscore and two years
were filled to the full with loving, self-sacrificing
service for his fellow men. A cherished desire to
live to a great age that he might have the satisfac
tion of looking back over a long period of time
and noting the changes wrought in the rehgious,
political and industrial world was graciously
granted to him. And how marvelous these
changes have been in the past eighty-two years
and how sympathetically he entered into their
progressive spirit!
The churches of this Empire State, the noble
brotherhood of pastors, this church and a large
circle of friends have sustained a great loss. We
shall not look upon his kindly, finely chiseled face
again. We shall not be heartened again by his
reassuring words or gladdened by the friendly
grasp of his hand. But while our good brother
has finished his earthly course his work and the
noble impress of his character abide. He will con
tinue to live in all the lives that have felt the
influence of his godly personality, in the churches
that he so faithfully and conscientiously served,
and in the strong and wide reaching service that
he rendered to the small and dependent churches
throughout the Empire State. He will have the
immortality that is vouchsafed to the good and
great in this life. He wiU continue to Hve h:
glory. Freed from the bondage and burden of
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and increase with the increased knowledge of
God. "When the good and true depart,
What is it more than this ?
That man who is from God sent forth
Doth yet again to God return?
Such ebb and flow must ever be,
Then wherefore should we mourn?"

VIH
CHARLES WESLEY BROOKS
IN response to the "long cherished wish" of
our dear friend, and prompted as well by
love and esteem for him, I have come, as a
friend with other friends, to pay a brief tribute
to the noble man who has gone home, and to ex
press my sincere sympathy for those who are
bereaved. Returning from a visit to New England I found
a premonitory letter from the son awaiting me,
teUing of his father's serious illness, of the
periods of sinking and rallying, of encouragement
foUowed by loss of hope. This message came as
a shock to me for in a letter received before my
going away in August our friend had given no
intimation of any material change in health. Then
shortly after the son's letter came the word that
the end had come peacefuUy, and inviting me to
be present to-day.
As I journeyed here by train yesterday my
thoughts were occupied all day with our dear
brother. As I reviewed the more than thirty
years of our friendship and feUowship in the
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CHARLES WESLEY BROOKS 169
Bervice of State mission work many incidents of
a personal and tender nature came vividly before
me. Our frequent meetings since the first in
troduction in Binghamton in 1878 ; our continued
correspondence, often daily and as a rule semi-
weekly or weekly; our deliberations regarding the
general interests of our State Convention, or of
some particular church or pastor, resting then
as a special burden upon his mind and heart; or
the needs of Cook Academy and the progress of
the endowment movement — all of these were re
called and Hved over again. His hearty and cheer
ing words, his cordial handshake, his warm and
sympathetic personahty, his high purpose, his en
thusiastic spirit, his extreme care and cautious
regard for the feelings of others, and his eager
ness always to do Christ's wiU — aU these things
passed vividly before me as in the days of
frequent feUowship and friendly intercourse. It
seemed impossible to reahze that he had gone
from us forever. It rather seemed to me that I
must be travehng to meet him, that he would wel
come me as I stepped off the train, and in his
cordial and hospitable manner conduct me to his
home where the best he had was provided for me,
while we conferred together upon State Conven
tion or Cook Academy matters.
The story of Mr. Brooks's life is brief and sim
ple, like that of the majority of men in the minis
try, spending itself that others may live a larger
and richer hfe. It can all be told in a few words.

170 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
Born in Solon, New York, in 1836; baptized at
East Pharsaha in 1852; ordained at Triangle in
1862; pastor at KiUawog, Triangle, and East
Cameron and Woodhull, 1862-1869; district mis
sionary of the Baptist Missionary Convention of
the State of New York, 1869-1910.
That is all, and yet it is not aU. That is only
the faint outline sketch, the crayon drawing. The
colors must be filled in, the light and shadows
must be distributed in right proportions if the
picture is to glow and Hve and be in any real sense
a true Hkeness of the original.
In his early Christian home and in the noble
character of his father and mother we find the
groundwork of Mr. Brooks's earnest Christian
manhood and the inspiration for his active
evangelical endeavor. His father and mother,
Samuel and Dorothy Leonard Brooks, were faith
ful and devoted members of the Baptist church
in Solon, of which the father served as deacon for
many years. They were Christians of the old
type. They loved God's Word; they maintained
famUy worship; they regarded the Sabbath and
kept it holy. We are not surprised that the son
was named Charles Wesley, an outstanding name
in rehgious history, that he sought and found
Christ as his Saviour at the age of fourteen, or
that he had it borne in upon him soon afterward
that he should give himself to the Gospel minis
try. His baptism subsequently, in August, 1852,
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the missionary pastor, Rev. Lewis Lawton, had a
deeper and more determining influence upon the
special form of service he was to render than he
or any of his friends could foresee.
Mr. Brooks 's inflexibility of purpose, which was
one of the basal traits of his character, was mani
fested in his eager efforts to secure an education.
He began the study of Latin, Greek and Algebra
without a teacher, at odd times while working on
a farm. After attaining the age of eighteen he
was able by hard work in summer and by teaching
in winter to get a few months each year in the
high school and at Norwich Academy, until he
completed his last term four years later. Finding
it impossible to realize his hope of going to college
he considered the question of entering at once
upon the work of the ministry, and was licensed
to preach on July 10, 1859. His ordination took
place three years later in confirmation of his hav
ing given good proof of his ministry.
After ten years of pastoral work, in which he
served three churches, he was, as he believed,
divinely called to the responsible duties of district
missionary of the State Missionary Convention,
and was duly commissioned on March 2, 1869. In
order that he might be located at a central point
of his field he moved to Watkins, and in connec
tion with his new duties assumed the pastoral care
of this church, which was then in a weak and dis
heartened condition. Five years later, when the
church had become self-supporting, he resigned

172 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
the pastorate in order to devote his whole time
and energies to the State Convention — a work in
which he firmly believed and to whose support he
gave himself unreservedly, soul and mind and
strength until October, 1910. He laid it down then
only because he felt that he must seek release
from his burdensome cares and secure the rest
and freedom from responsibility to which his long
years of faithful and fruitful service entitled him.
Mr. Brooks's active ministerial Hfe embraced
more than half a century, in the most important
period of all the centuries in the world's develop
ment. It was a century specially notable in
Baptist annals for the rise and remarkable
growth of our great educational, church and mis
sionary interests. In the last fifty years a man's
life counted more for the service of God and his
fellowmen than in any similar period since Christ
came. What a privilege to have lived in this time, and
what a glorious record is his! Fifty years of
preaching the Gospel of the blessed Lord ! Fifty
years of winning souls to Christ and of teaching
and training them in the way of life ! Fifty years
of founding churches and Sunday schools, of
counseling and advising pastors and aiding in
their settlement, of conducting and assisting in
evangelistic meetings, of gathering scattered
members and of uniting and inspiring divided and
discouraged churches ! Fifty years of presenting
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ing churches and prayer meetings! Fifty years
of traveling over the State, of being away from
home, of weariness, loneliness and utter discom
fort! Yet fifty years of making the Hfe count
for the most in the home, of helping boys and
girls to make something of themselves, of visiting
the sick, of comforting the sorrowing, of follow
ing dear friends to their last resting place ! Who
can sum up what it has aU cost of self-sacrifice,
nervous strain, heartache and wear and tear on
body, mind and strength !
We give great honor, and rightly too, to a pas
tor who has served one church for forty or fifty
years. A pastorate of that length is a rare thing
in our Baptist history. We do right to make
much of it, to give large space to it in our de
nominational papers, and to honor with tributes
and gifts the man who has given his Hfe to one
people. But after ten years in the pastorate our
friend was for more than forty years district mis
sionary of the Missionary Convention of this
great Empire State. Like the great Apostle he
had "the care of aU the churches." He was pas
tor of pastors. He was overseer; bishop of a
large diocese. Like Paul, too, he was "in weari
ness and painfulness, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
nakedness." Only eternity will reveal what fifty
years of such faithful and devoted services as
Mr. Brooks rendered can mean to humanity, to
the Baptists in this State and to God.

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At the annual meeting of the State Convention
held in Rochester in 1894, the annual report of
the board, submitted by the secretary, Rev. Dr. H.
W. Barnes, contained a summary of Mr. Brooks's
labors as district missionary for twenty years.
This summary showed that Mr. Brooks was the
only district missionary up to that time whose
services covered all that period. On entering
upon his missionary duties Mr. Brooks's first
work was to hold evangehstic services in
Rochester, with what was then the Lake avenue
mission. There were but two organized English-
speaking Baptist churches in the city at that time
with a membership of 1279. Eochester has now
ten English-speaking Baptist churches with a
total membership of 4464. Dr. Barnes further
reported: "During the early years of his work
Mr. Brooks was corresponding secretary for his
district, and during some of the time acting corre
sponding secretary and general manager for the
whole State. He was evangelist and general care
taker on his field. No man ever rendered more
devoted, earnest, prayerful or valuable service in
such a position than he, and he endeared himself
to thousands in his work. He assisted or presided
at the organization of the churches at Moravia,
Canisteo, Addison, Genoa, and Bloods in New
York ; and Coudersport, Eoulette, Oswayo, Sabins-
vUle and Sayre in Pennsylvania, which afterward
became connected with Pennsylvania Associa
tions. He was measurably instrumental in the

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restoration of the Wolcott and Lyons churches,
and apparently under the blessing of God saved
many others from dying. For the first twenty
years of his connection with the Convention he
served at 672 stations, preached 4805 sermons,
attended 5650 prayer meetings, made 7042 re
ligious visits, and baptized 762 converts."
The "Appreciation" adopted by the Mission
ary Convention at its meeting at Schenectady last
October, is so discriminating and comprehensive,
and altogether just and true, that it deserves a
place in any tribute to his life. The appreciation
reads as foUows:
In the retirement from the district missionaryship of
Rev. Charles Wesley Brooks we lost from our active
force one of our best known and most valued workers.
Receiving his appointment in 1869, his service covers a
period of over forty years. In all that time he has lived
among us a life of singular grace and beauty. He has
been modest and self-sacrificing in spirit and equally
quiet, painstaking and faithful in his method of work.
His purity of character has commanded the admiration,
and his gentleness of spirit has enlisted the affection of
all. In addition to his faithful service as a missionary
he has been the historian of the Convention, and has
thus multiplied our obligations to him. The Convention
desires to express the profound gratitude that God has
spared to it for so long a time this good man — as eminent
in character as he has been in service.
In the year 1894 Mr. Brooks was laid aside by
a severe attack of the grip. While he was re
cuperating at Clifton Springs I stopped to see
him on my way to the State Convention meetings

176 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
in Eochester, in October. To cheer him and to
arouse him from his depression, which was very
marked, my suggestion to him was that he take
upon himself the task of revising and amphfying
the series of articles he had written for The In
quirer on "Baptist Beginnings," and pubhsh
them in book form, a much needed work, as there
was no adequate history of the Baptists of New
York State. This idea seemed to give him a new
hold on hfe. He threw himself into his new under
taking with his usual enthusiasm. After much
research and painstaking labor he published in
1900 a history of the State Convention, under the
title A Century of Missions in the Empire State.
In addition to his abundant labors as district mis
sionary, as was more than hinted in the "Appre
ciation," he was the historian of the Convention.
The book was creditable to himself and to the
subject. It wiU keep him in remembrance for
generations. The first edition was soon sold and
1000 copies more were pubHshed. In 1907, the
one hundredth anniversary of the Convention, a
second edition bringing the history down to that
date, was published. It has had interested readers
round the world. By men qualified to speak this
book has been pronounced almost unique among
histories of State Conventions. It has a vitahty
and a readableness that seem to belong to no other
book of its kind.
Another interest that had a large place in Mr.
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confidence of Colonel Cook, shared in his counsels
and was from the first a member of the board of
trustees, and for many years chairman of the
executive committee. Probably it was his deep
interest and strenuous advocacy, more than any
thing else, that saved the institution in several
crises of its history and won to it the substantial
support of some of its best friends. His constant
prayer was that God might save the Academy to
New York Baptists. It was Mr. Brooks who se
cured its largest endowment gift. More than any
body else he was instrumental in holding to the
Academy the cooperation and endorsement of the
State Missionary Convention. His name will al
ways be accorded a high place in the annals of
Cook Academy.
Mr. Brooks was not primarUy a preacher or
pastor. He was first and last an evangelist. He
had a large heart glowing with love for souls,
and he would not be satisfied with anything short
of winning men to Christ. He was willing to make
any sacrifice to that end. He Hterally abandoned
himself to his work. He was ready to respond
to any service. He did not know what it was to
shrink from duty. No church was so torn by dis
sensions or scattered by neglect that he did not
yearn to save it. No man had wandered so far
away, but he longed to bring him back. He re
joiced greatly when he found his spiritual children
walking in the truth.
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two sons, Charles and WHHs, gave themselves to
the Gospel ministry. Although he had walked
through "the valley of the shadow" many times
no sorrow was quite like the sorrow he felt when
he surrendered his son WiUis to the summons of
the Master a few years later. He found consola
tion and comfort, however, as the months went
by in the knowledge that one son and a beloved
son-in-law would carry on, after he was gone, the
blessed work to which he had given his Hfe.
Mr. Brooks was a loyal friend. He early
learned the great law, if one is to have friends
he must show himself friendly. In his heart he
cherished only the kindest feelings for his
brethren, neighbors and friends. Alert, enthusi
astic, responsive, he was sensitive, easUy exalted
and as easUy depressed, indicative of his noble
ness of nature. He was ever ready to show to
others the same spirit of kindness and friendli
ness which he wished manifested toward himself.
He was warmhearted, social, sincere and open.
He loved his feUowmen and was in turn loved by
them. He loved this community in which he spent
the best years of his life. He loved this church to
which he ministered as pastor, and in which for
many long years he was a devoted member. He
loved bis home, and in the narrow circle of those
who were dearer to him than his life he found
inspiration, courage and strength for any task.
If I may venture to say a few words to the dear
friends, the widow, the sister, the sons and daugh-

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ters and grandchildren who ministered to him so
tenderly and lovingly in his last illness and who
feel this bereavement most keenly it would be
these: You have this certainty that this life has
not gone out. Our sorrow is not as those without
hope. We know if Christ be not risen from the
dead then is our faith vain and we are yet in our
sins. But now is Christ risen from the grave and
become the first fruits of those that slept and
afterward those that are Christ's at his coming.
When Dr. Hague passed away our beloved Dr.
Smith, author of America, wrote a sweet little
poem, one verse of which was :
"We weep as one by one we lay
Our friends with the garnered host,
But gratefully the ages say
No saintly life was ever lost."
This place is fuU of the fragrance of the life
of our dear brother. He lives in the churches in
which he has preached and with which he has
labored. He lives in the hearts of his friends and
brother ministers by whom he is honored and be
loved all over this Empire State and wherever his
name is known. He wUl continue to Hve in earnest
words, noble example and exalted hfe and
character. He was ready and eager to go — "to depart and
be with Christ which is far better. " His last mes
sage to the Chemung Eiver Association at its
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triumph: "TeU the brethren not to hold me on
earth by their prayers."
As we turn on this beautiful autumn afternoon
from earthly scenes and foUow the flight of his
spirit into the heavens and through the pearly
gates we can almost hear the echo of the words
of welcome that must have f aUen like music upon
his ear: "Well done, good and faithful servant,
'enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." May we
all so Hve that we may also be accounted faithful,
so that an entrance shaU be ministered to us
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

IX
LEMUEL MOSS
MY recoUection of Dr. Moss goes back to
the great Bible Convention at Saratoga
on May 22, 1883. The question of Bible
translation had been a burning one for more than
a third of a century. In April, 1882, a meeting
of representative pastors and laymen interested
in seeking a solution of this long controverted
question was held in the Calvary church, New
York. There was animated discussion and resolu
tions bearing on different phases of the question
were adopted. FinaUy the whole subject was re
ferred to a committee of nine, consisting of W.
W. Everts, Alvah Hovey, Thomas Armitage,
Lemuel Moss, H. M. King, Ebenezer Dodge, S. W.
Duncan, J. W. Sarles and E. B. WUHams. At the
Anniversaries held in the First church, New York,
the May following, the evident demand was for a
speedy settlement of this disturbing and divisive
issue. Many leading pastors and laymen had the
feeling that the controversy had waged long
enough and later joined in a petition that a Con
vention be caUed to settle the question of Bible
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translation and distribution. The Convention was
held in the First Baptist Church, Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, in May, 1883. The gathering of
delegates appointed by the several State Conven
tions, comprising the foremost men of our de
nomination, was a notable one. The interest was
very intense and wide-spread, and the f eehng of
expectancy was not unlike that which dominated
the great denominational meeting in Buffalo in
the spring of 1903, when the Committee of Fifteen
submitted its report. The central figure at
Saratoga, as at Buffalo, was Dr. Lemuel Moss.
The large auditorium was crowded. Everyone
was eager to hear every speaker, and to follow
the discussion to the end. Drs. J. B. Thomas, W.
W. Everts, Thomas Armitage, W. B. Griffith,
Edward Bright, George C. Lorimer, P. S. Henson
and others, had participated in the heated debate,
which continued through two days. Feeling had
risen to fever heat. Dr. Moss was looked upon as
the leader of the movement to commit all the work
of Bible translation and distribution to the Pub
lication Society. What he had to say would have
great weight in turning the scale to his side. I
remember just how he looked when he stepped
upon the platform and recall the whole scene of
that notable day for Baptists in this country.
Every eye was centered upon the speaker, and
every ear was strained to catch every word.
Thrills of emotion and enthusiasm swept over the
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proceeded with his argument. When he finished
he was greeted with tumultous applause. His ad
dress was one of great impressiveness and power.
Yet how simple and translucent it was. He op
posed a separate Bible Society because it was (1)
unnecessary, (2) it would be a source of division,
and (3) it would be a source of disunion. As Dr.
Moss spoke, it seemed to me that he measured
up in considerable degree to Dr. Anderson, my
ideal of a pubhc leader, the greatest and most
inspiring speaker I had ever known. The Con
vention by vote sustained with great unanimity
the position advocated by Dr. Moss.
Before the meetings of the Convention ad
journed, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Moss,
but I had no thought then that our pathways
would ever cross again, or that I should be thrown
into so close personal relationship with him as
during the three closing years of his life. Dr.
Moss was at the time of the Saratoga Convention
the President of the Indiana University, and
probably exerting his widest influence as a
teacher. Shortly afterward he went to Minneap
olis, where he was for five years (1885-1890),
the editor of a newly estabhshed paper, known
as the Ensign. He made it a bright, breezy, read
able sheet which was regarded in The Examiner
office as one of our ablest exchanges. He was for
four years (1868-1872), prior to being chosen
President of the Indiana University, editor of the
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from the West to PhUadelphia he was for a time
editor of the Commonwealth, estabhshed after the
National Baptist had been incorporated in The
Examiner. Shortly after coming to New York he
became a regular contributor to the editorial and
literary columns of The Examiner. He was also
the New York correspondent for The Watchman.
During all his public Hfe he was a frequent con
tributor to the secular and rehgious press.
It was not until Dr. Moss came to New York
that I knew him at all intimately. But during the
three years that he contributed to The Examiner
I saw him, as a rule, three times a week and often
daUy, and was drawn closely to him by his large,
generous nature, his spirit of helpfulness and
cheerfulness, his timely words of counsel, and his
unswerving faith. He had grown meUow and ripe
in the sunshine of God's redeeming grace and
love. Dr. Moss was an eloquent preacher, he was
an inspiring teacher, he was an interesting and
instructive lecturer, but he was foreordained to
be an editor.
I think it is not too much to say that in the
twelve years which he devoted to religious jour
nalism of the forty-four of his notable life, he
made a deeper and more lasting impression upon
his time, and did a larger work for the cause of
truth and righteousness than he did in any other
line of work in the same period, or possibly in
the whole of his life put together. It was cer
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ties his editorial relationship afforded for attend
ing the State and National Anniversaries and
for shaping our denominational polity and Hfe.
He was singularly quaHfied, both by inheritance
and by training for the editorial conduct of a
paper. Like Dr. Bright, he was a printer by
trade. He knew all about the mechanical make-up
of a paper from the setting of the type to its
issuance from the press. He could write, set up,
and print his own paper, so thorough was his
knowledge of every detail of the work. He had
rare persistency and power of apphcation. He
was a born leader of men.
Then he had marked business abiHty. This was
manifest very early in his career, otherwise he
could not have fitted himself for coUege and main
tained in part himself, his wife, and chUd while
pursuing his college and seminary studies. When
at the close of the war he was superintending the
pubhshing of the report of the U. S. Christian
Commission of which he was Secretary, the head
of the pubhshing house said to him, "If, when
through with this work, you wUl come with us as
manager, we will give you $10,000 a year."
To these basal, fundamental quaHties, which
are all important if there is to be a sohd and
abiding superstructure, there were added editorial
and literary qualifications of the highest order,
good judgment, keen perception, broad scholar
ship and commanding leadership.
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the courage of his convictions. He believed and,
therefore, spoke. He was a Baptist from convic
tion, and the great and distinctive truths for
which Baptists stand always had in him an able
and earnest advocate. His voice never gave an
uncertain sound, nor did his pen make a false
stroke. He was not sectarian in a narrow and
bigoted sense, but he was ever loyal to his de
nominational principles, because he beheved that
the Baptist position conformed more closely to
the teachings of Scripture than those of any other
Christian body. He did not hke controversy, but
if the fight was on he wanted a hand in it, and
wanted to turn it to some advantageous account.
He never needed the admonition "the business
of the leader is to lead. ' ' He was master of what
ever he undertook. He put the whole strength of
his character and abiHty into the structure of his
paper. He was glad to Hsten to counsel, but he
aUowed no one else to dictate the pohcy of his
paper when he was editor. He told me of an ex
perience he had once when he was editor of The
National Baptist in Philadelphia. He had ex
pressed his judgment in regard to certain articles,
but his judgment was overruled. The owners of
the paper felt it would be to their interests to
have the articles pubHshed, and sent bim word to
that effect. He said: "My resignation was on the
table in fifteen minutes." The matter was patched
up and he was never interfered with afterwards.
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man. He was not a man of one idea. He did not
belong to that large class to whom Pope's words
apply: "One science only will one genius fit
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ' '
He had many sides, and they were aU remarkably
developed. Few men attain eminence in so many
directions as did he. If I may use the figure he
was not like a triangle touching life only on three
sides, nor a square with only four sides, but he
was rather Hke a sphere with infinite points of
contact, sympathetic with life in all its phases,
and qualified to discuss questions most complex
and profound. He was a scholar in the largest
and broadest sense of that term. He loved his
books to the very end. They were always standard
works by the best authors and covered a wide
range of subjects.
He would come to the office time and again to
talk over a book he had just read, or to take home
one obtained for him, when any other man would
not have thought it prudent to venture out. Fear
ing he might meet with some accident I often went
down to the street with him and conducted him
safely to the car or over the crowded thorough
fare. When I spoke with his daughter about the
danger of his coming downtown when his health
was so precarious, she said she believed that her
"father would die if he were kept away from his
papers and his books."

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Dr. Moss had marked abiHty as a terse and
vigorous writer. He was full of wit and anecdote.
He was a keen observer of human nature. He
enjoyed teUing of interesting sights he had wit
nessed on his walks about the city, illustrating
the spirit of true heroism or of unselfishness, or
of sweet and beautiful generosity and charity on
the part of some humble man or woman. Nothing
escaped his attention. Everything had in it for
him some useful lesson.
He loved all men, especiaUy his brethren. He
was a brave man. Many of his friends know how
brave and cheerful he was in the midst of his
trials and under his heavy burdens. For the last
ten years he never was able to sleep more than
an hour to an hour and a half at a time. Much
of his work during these last years was done
under acute physical suffering, yet how seldom
did he complain, how Httle did anyone know of
his bodily ailments.
With aU his superior abihty and attainments,
Dr. Moss was an extremely modest man. He was
not full of himself. He was not aU the time talkT
ing of his plans and of what he had accomphshed,
or could do if he had the opportunity. He
possessed to a remarkable degree that beautiful
grace of humUity which is to the character what
the blush is to the peach or the bloom to the grape.
Yet he was not lost in his work. He was always
a master figure and stood out in bold outline.
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"I don't know," when asked to do any unusual
service, and yet what he was asked to do was al
ways done and well done, and his spirit was al
ways that of willingness to do more.
It seems hardly necessary to affirm of such a
man that he was a Christian and that the spirit
of Christ breathed through all that he wrote and
said and did. The love of Christ filled his heart,
impeUed his action and irradiated his Hfe. The
mainspring of his hfe was love — love to God and
love to his f eUowmen. He lived as if his constant
prayer was:
"0 grant that nothing in my soul
May dwell, hut Thy pure love alone;
0 may Thy love possess me whole,
My joy, my treasure, and my crown ;
Strange fires far from my soul remove,
My every act, word, thought, he love."
He walked in close fellowship and communion
with God and was conscious of his sustaining
power and comforting presence at all times and
everywhere. Among my most precious memories
of him are the times when he opened up his heart
to me about God's beneficent guidance and
presence in aU the minute affairs of his life. He
had unfaihng faith in the onward progress of
God's kingdom in the world and in the ultimate
triumph of truth and righteousness. He knew
whom he had beheved and he knew that He would
keep that which he had committed to Him against
that day.

190 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
He loved God's word. He was an earnest
student of it and hailed with joy any new light
that could be thrown upon it, but he wanted to
be sure it was light and not a gleam from some
falling meteor or dazzling searchlight. He stood
securely and firmly on the "Bock of Ages," and
was unmoved by any wind of "higher criticism"
that blew. He had great faith in men. He saw
the best of them and appealed to the best. He
did not deal in negatives. His desire to help men
furnished all the ideals for which he toiled and
struggled. No one was more conscious of his im
perfections and failings than he and yet his suffi
ciency was in Christ. He himself was nothing;
Christ was everything. To Christ belonged all
the glory for all that he did. Daily contact with
such a sweet gentle Christian spirit was an in
spiration and a benediction.
So he lived through more than forty-four years ;
not as a recluse, not selfishly for himself, but
self-sacrificingly for his fellowmen; not among
the stragglers and camp followers at the rear, but
in the forefront of the battle and in the thick of
the fight. He filled a large place and those who
knew him best will miss him the most.
Dr. Moss was a member of the illustrious class
of '58 of the University of Eochester — one of the
most famous that has ever gone out from that
institution. It is quite remarkable that two of his
classmates, Dr. H. L. Morehouse and Dr. H. C.
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LEMUEL MOSS 191
of their old time coUegemate and friend to-day.
Among the most precious memories and associa
tions of Hfe are those of coUege days. The re
union of classmates and alumni is most enjoyable
and delightful. No one prized these relations and
fellowships or did more to promote them than the
friend whose memory we honor this morning.
But more precious and enduring than these
coUege ties to him were the feUowship and re
union of the ministers of the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The ranks of this noble company
are often and irreparably broken. How sadly at
this time no one better than the members compos
ing this Conference know. The places of two of
the foremost leaders, Dr. Moss and Dr. Lorimer,
are now vacant, yet if we possess their faith and
spirit our feUowship and communion with them
may remain precious and unbroken until we shall
greet them again beyond the skies, where
"Perfect love and friendship reign
Through all Eternity."

THOMAS OAKES CONANT
RAEELY have the words: "In the midst of
life we are in death," been borne in upon
me with more impressive force than in
the sudden passing on of my long-time associate
and friend, Thomas 0. Conant. He was at the
office on Wednesday, January 28, 1914, apparently
in his usual health and in fine spirits. After chat
ting about several matters relating to local
religious and church interests, he left to take
luncheon with his daughter, who, he told me, with
a noticeable feeling of joy and gratitude in his
expression, had sufficiently recovered to come to
the table after a serious and debihtating attack
of influenza. As was his custom he remained at
home Thursday writing and reading. In the late
afternoon he went out for a walk and incidentally
to mail some letters and to get an evening paper.
Suddenly his walk terminated on earth and was
resumed on the streets of the New Jerusalem.
Like the Patriarch of old, "He walked with God
and was not, for God took him."
Under the stress of this sudden loss I hardly
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THOMAS OAKES CONANT 193
know how to speak of one with whom I had been
so closely associated for so many years, or how
to gather up what is most significant out of the
flood of memories and experiences that now come
rushing into my mind. My acquaintance with Dr.
Conant began in the late 70 's, when he had super
vision of one of the departments of The Exam
iner, and my desk was in The Examiner office.
When a few years later I became identified with
The Christian Inquirer, our paths diverged, and
when in 1894, at the solicitation of a representa
tive of The Examiner Company, The Examiner
and The Inquirer united forces, we were brought
into close personal relationship which continued
in unbroken harmony and fraternity for eighteen
years. Thomas O. Conant was the third son of Eev.
Dr. Thomas J. Conant, the great Hebraist and
Bible translator and interpreter. He was born
in Hamilton, N. Y., October 15, 1838, and was
one of a famUy of ten children, comprising four
sons and six daughters. His mother was Hannah
O'Brien Chaplin, daughter of Dr. Jeremiah Chap
lin, President of WatervUle, now Colby College.
She possessed rare Hterary abUity, and was the
author of several popular books. She also edited
for some years the Mothers' Magazine. All the
children inherited in some degree the scholarly
taste of their parents. His brother next older,
Samuel Stillman Conant, was editor of Harper's
Weekly at the time of his mysterious disappear-

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ance in 1884. This was a living sorrow to the
entire family, but especially to Thomas, who had
for this brother special admiration and attach
ment. Although a literary atmosphere pervaded
the home and his father was for many years
professor at Hamilton and afterwards at Eoches
ter, Thomas never availed himself of the ad
vantage of higher scholastic training, mainly be
cause his health would not permit of the confine
ment and apphcation required. He studied for
a time at Millbury Academy in Massachusetts, the
Collegiate Institute in Eochester, New York, and
the Polytechnic Institute, Borough of Brooklyn,
New York. He loved books and read widely and
understandingly. He was more familiar with the
classics and with secular and sacred history than
many who had been through college. In the last
busy years he took up the study of Spanish and
made such attainments that he found much enjoy
ment in the new world that had been opened to
him. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon him by Mercer University, Macon, Georgia.
When he had attained his twenty-fourth year
he was joined in marriage to Martha Wilson, of
Eochester, N. Y., on January 29, 1862. After a
happy married life of forty-five years she entered
into rest at their home in New York, on December
28, 1907. Three children were born to them; one
son and two daughters. The year previous to his
marriage, in 1861, Dr. Conant was appointed to
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States Assay office, New York, which he held until
1893, the long term of thirty-two years. From
1872 to 1893 he was a regular contributor to The
Examiner, virtually having supervision of the
Agricultural Department of the paper. In 1893
he resigned his position in the Assay Office to be
come assistant editor of The Examiner, which
position he held for one year, when after the
death of Dr. Bright and the acceptance by Dr.
Henry C. Vedder of the chair of Church History
in Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa., he
became editor-in-chief. The union of the Exam
iner and The Inquirer, effected in 1895, brought
me in close association with him as co-editor, un
til my resignation in 1910, to make an extended
trip abroad, still retaining my interest In the
paper. Two years later when Dr. Curtis Lee
Laws purchased The Examiner, Dr. Conant was
retained as consulting editor, which position he
held until his sudden translation.
Mrs. Thomas J. Conant, the mother of Dr.
Conant, died in October, 1865, and eight years
later, in October, 1873, his father married Esther
Church, of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York,
an intimate friend of the first Mrs. Conant and
closely related to Dr. J. H. Eaymond, head of the
Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute
and later of Vassar College. She was, however,
no relation to Dr. Pharcellus Church of The New
York Chronicle. Dr. Church was related to the
Conants through his wife, who was Clara Emily

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Conant, sister of Thomas J. Conant, chUdren of
John Conant, of Vermont. Dr. Church, the editor
of The Chronicle, therefore, was uncle to Thomas
0. Conant, and Colonel W. C. Church, editor of
the Army and Navy Journal, a son of Dr. Phar-
ceUus Church, was Thomas's cousin. Some seven
teen of the Conant-Church relations held positions
as editors of or contributors to rehgious or sec
ular pubhcations. By association and kinship as
well as training, therefore, Dr. Conant was sin
gularly qualified for his work as a journalist.
During aU the long period of Dr. Conant 's con
nection with The Examiner the amount of work
and energy he gave to the paper was without
precedent. In the discharge of his exacting and
ever recurring duties he seemed absolutely tire
less and was apparently as oblivious to physical
strain as he was indifferent to recreation or social
enjoyment. His powers of endurance were
phenomenal, and few men could equal him in the
number of hours he could work, and the amount
of copy he could turn off. He had a very f acUe
pen. "This one thing I do," was his ruling pas
sion, and it was so dominant that he never turned
aside or hesitated when other calls came, however
urgently presented.
The demands of a paper like The Examiner
would seem to be sufficient to tax aU the energies
a man possessed, but besides his manifold duties
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other pubhcations. He was for two years the
New York correspondent of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. He served on the Board of Education of
Ehzabeth, N. J., for two years, and as member
of the Board of Directors of the Executive Com
mittee of the Tract Society for many years. He
was president of the Baptist Social Union during
1900-1901. WThen he moved into the city from
Elizabeth he united with the Fifth Avenue Bap
tist church, faithfully filling the office of deacon
for several years.
Dr. Conant was a self-made man, and early
learned to depend upon himself. In fact, so thor
oughly had this habit of self-dependence become
a part of his nature that he would rather per
form a task himself than to put any burden upon
another. He was versatile to a notable degree.
He possessed a vast fund of information, due to
his careful training in a refined and scholarly
atmosphere, to his studious habits, and to his in
herited taste for the best in art, music and Htera
ture. He shrank from pubhc responsibility, and
preferred above all else the companionship of his
books and the quiet of his home and family life.
He had the poetic temperament in a large degree,
and poems on a variety of subjects are to be found
in the pages of The Examiner and in other
periodicals. In congenial circles he was given to
story-telling and to repartee, showing a keen wit
and a fine sense of humor.

198 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
In theology and religion he was a representa
tive of the "old school." His creed was, "Ask
for the old paths, " and " Walk therein. ' ' He held
tenaciously not only to the old doctrines, but to
the old forms of expression, and The Examiner
was known as the bulwark of Baptist faith and
practice. His deep convictions always commanded
the respect of those who differed with him.
Dr. Conant bore a striking resemblance to his
father, Dr. Thomas J. Conant, for whom he cher
ished the tenderest affection and regard. He
loved to speak of him, and followed closely his
rendering of Scripture, and was largely guided
by what he believed would be his father's attitude
toward any question or line of action. A dutiful
son, he was also a devoted husband and father.
He never spoke of his wife, his son and daughters
without a smile lighting up his face and a gentler
tone showing in his voice. Nothing concerned him
more deeply than their happiness and prosperity.
Dr. Conant was devoted to his church. He was
loyal to his pastor, faithful in his church attend
ance and in the discharge of his covenant obliga
tions and duties. Probably his most outstanding
characteristic was his Christian integrity. His
faith in God and in his wise supervision in all the
larger affairs of life, as well as in the bestowment
of daily mercies, was implicit. He had no doubts
as to the realities of the future world or the hap
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To his bereaved family and friends he speaks
in these assuring words in his Easter song of six
years ago: "Nay cease thy faithless weeping!
They are not dead but sleeping
Who die in Jesus: They
But wait in bliss supernal
Till dawns that morn eternal,
The last glad Easter Day."

XI
HENEY LYMAN MOEEHOUSE
THE circumstances under which men are
accidentaUy brought together often deter
mine the nature and character of their
subsequent relationship, resulting frequently in a
firm and lasting friendship. My acquaintance
with Dr. Morehouse began under happy condi
tions. I had heard him preach in the East Avenue
church, Eochester, N. Y., of which he was pastor.
I had often seen him walking in company with
President A. H. Strong in friendly converse on
the avenue. I had even met him at one of the
University of Eochester alumni gatherings. He
was a young, vigorous preacher and made a
strong appeal to the students. Among the college
men active in his church and Sunday school was
A. Gaylord Slocum, of the class of '74, who had
become engaged to my eldest sister. Whenever
she visited Eochester she attended the East
Avenue church. When finaUy, July 14, 1875, was
settled upon as the wedding day, Dr. Morehouse
was invited to perform the ceremony. He came
to our house in Cortland, N. Y., on the morning
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train, and the duty of entertaining him until the
hour of the ceremony in the late afternoon was
intrusted to me. We drove along the maple-lined
highways, traversing the beautiful vaUeys. We
stroUed through the business and residential
streets. We stretched ourselves on the lawn
under the overarching trees while we discussed
coUege Hfe, churches, the ministry, denomina
tional affairs and incidents of personal interest
and experience. It proved to be a notable day,
for in addition to gaining a brother I had made
a valued and Hfe-long friend.
Henry Lyman Morehouse came of sturdy Scotch
and EngHsh stock. He was a descendant of
Thomas Morehouse, who moved into Connecticut
about 1640. His father, Seth Seelye Morehouse,
was married to Emma Bentley and settled on a
farm in Fairfield, a small agricultural community
now known as Stratfield, located about five mUes
north of Bridgeport Center. Later the family
moved to Stanford, Dutchess County, N. Y, where
Henry was born, on October 2, 1834. He was the
eldest of two sons, the only chUdren born of this
union, the other son named Ezra, being about two
years younger. The parents as weU as the grand
parents were thrifty farmers.
WTien the boy Henry was about eleven years
of age the famUy moved to Avon, N. Y, settling
upon a rich productive farm in the Genesee Val
ley, about twenty mUes southwest of Eochester.
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so great curiosity to see the locality where his
ancestors had settled and the farm on which his
father and mother had begun housekeeping, that
he made the journey to Stratfield to famiHarize
himself with the family traditions. He found the
old homestead situated in a deep, fertile vaUey,
in fact more of a basin than a valley, shielded on
all sides by encircling hills. The old original
house, as he found it, is stiU standing. There is
now only one other house in the valley. On the
Morehouse farm was a fine, large spring of cool,
delicious water. Some fifteen years ago the
waters of this spring became quite celebrated as
the Mohegan Spring Waters. The company, how
ever, that financed the putting of the waters on
the market failed, so no one got "rich" out of the
venture. In his boyhood Henry showed marked ability
and force of character. Although his help was
needed on the farm his parents at considerable
sacrifice encouraged him in his desire to gain an
education. It was the old story of the value of
spare moments, pine-knots, late hours and stead
fast purpose. He prepared for college at the
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, a Methodist school
located at Lima, about five miles from his home.
As a boy he was a "live wire," full of pranks and
jokes that made him the admiration of his com
rades and kept his teachers guessing. He spent
his "week ends" and summers at home, as he did
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farm. He entered the University of Eochester at
the age of nineteenj graduating with the class of
'58, probably the most notable class that ever
went out from the University. In college he was
a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and was
class poet. He became a Phi Beta Kappa man,
was chosen Alumni poet, served as president of
the Alumni Association, received from his Alma
Mater the degree of D.D. in 1879 and LL.D., in
1908. Because of the death of his father in 1859, at
the age of fifty-two years, now regarded as a
man's prime, Henry was unexpectedly obhged,
with the assistance of his younger brother, Ezra,
to take the oversight of the farm in order to
provide for his widowed mother. While in col
lege his thought had been seriously turned to the
matter of personal religion. Having yielded his
heart to Christ, near the close of his junior year
he united with the Baptist Church at Avon, into
the fellowship of which his father and mother had
been baptized in 1850, only some seven years be
fore. Their sympathies and affiliations had prob
ably always been with Baptists, as the grand
father was a member of the Baptist Church at
Bangall, five miles from his home in Dutchess
County. In addition to the heavy responsibilities en
forced upon him by the death of his father, Henry
was never free from anxiety and uncertainty as
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education obtained at so great a cost? His deci
sion to give himself to the Christian ministry was
made in the field one day early in 1861. He had
cherished for some time the desire to enter the
army and had obtained a commission from the
Governor of the State to raise a company. Alumni
and undergraduates of the university had re
sponded to the country's call. He was eager to
join them, but was restrained by the unwillingness
of his aging mother to have him leave her.
The story of how he was led to decide for the
ministry reads like that of one of the Fathers.
One bright day as he was plowing in the field he
looked up into the deep blue of the sky above him
and around upon the beauty of the trees and the
fields on every hand, and then in his quiet but
serious meditation he said to himself : in a world
so divinely ordered he believed he was capable of
doing something of wider service to humanity
than farming. Turning aside from his plow in
the furrow he went to a nearby tree where he
sat down in the shade to reflect and to pray.
When he got up the decision had been made. He
would be a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ. By
divine grace he had righted the angle of his Hfe
about from aU worldly pursuits towards God and
toward Christian service.
After an interval of three years of laborious
and never-ending work on the farm he entered
the Eochester Theological Seminary. In college
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sonahty, the stimulating intellectuality, moral and
reHgious, of President M. B. Anderson, now he
came under the clear, incisive but no less power
fully quickening and uphfting influence of Presi
dent EzeMel G. Eobinson. WhUe a seminary
student he supplied the church at Niagara FaUs
where he rendered effective evangehstic service,
and where he is stiU remembered with apprecia
tion and affection. Immediately after his gradua
tion he entered upon the work of the Christian
Commission for Christian Workers in the Army
of the Potomac, serving during the summer in
connection with the battles of the WUderness,
Chickahominy and about Petersburg in Virginia.
In the fall of 1864, after a summer of unre
mitting and exacting toil, he accepted the caU ex
tended to him by the First Baptist church at East
Saginaw, Michigan, where he labored with in
creasing abiHty and effectiveness until January,
1873 — a period of nine years. When Dr. More
house went to East Saginaw the place was liter
ally a home mission field. It was a pioneer town
in the strictest meaning of the word. It consisted
of a collection of rambling frame houses with here
and there a brick structure. It had sprung up
as by magic in the midst of a wUderness, because
of the salt and lumber interests, and had attracted
to itself rough elements from everywhere. Sun
days were like other days, with saloons wide open.
Stumps stood in the streets, which were often so
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forming excellent breeding places for mosquitoes,
with which the place abounded. There were no
pavements and no flagstones. Planks laid end to
end formed the only kind of sidewalk.
The church itself was a small and primitive
affair. It had been depleted by divisions and
dissensions until it only numbered twenty-five
members, who worshiped in a hall, as they had
no property. As the rear of the hall extended
over a bayou, in the summertime the frogs often
made music to the amusement of the young people
and the annoyance of the older f oik. But the hard
field and the helplessness of the church attracted
the young preacher. He went upon the field as
a missionary of the Home Mission Society and
labored for three years on a salary of $600. For
the first two years he gave back to the church
all of his salary but what he needed for board
and clothing. At the end of that period the salary
was increased to $800. He did not confine his
labors to his own church, but went into the regions
to the north, east and west establishing preaching
stations, Sunday schools and bringing men under
the influence of the gospel. The work was very
strenuous, but "he enjoyed it," for he was laying
foundations for substantial work to come. In the
short space of five years his little church had
greatly multiplied in numbers and had acquired a
property valued at $25,000 in the heart of the
city. The purchase of a bell completed the building
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The dedication of the new edifice was followed
by a revival and a large ingathering. The in
fluence of the pastor and church now became a
stimulating evangelistic force in a widely extend
ing region. For three or four years Dr. More
house preached every alternate Sunday at South
Saginaw, where a church was organized. He also
preached occasionally in what was known as the
Brooks's district. One of the many experiences
of those days of which, when in a reminiscent
mood, he enjoyed speaking, was an ordination at
a town about fifty miles to the northeast of Sag
inaw, to which he rode in a wagon. At night he
had to sleep in a haymow, because there was no
room in the houses of the settlers. The young
pastor became known throughout the State as an
able and aggressive leader and was called to the
front in many departments of endeavor. He be
came actively identified with aU Michigan State
denominational activities. He was elected a trus
tee of Kalamazoo College and was chosen presi
dent of the State Missionary Convention. He was
also actively interested in the movement to found
a Theological Seminary in Chicago. He ac
quainted himself thoroughly with all forms of
pioneer-mission work, no problem presenting it
self that he did not endeavor to find for it a solu
tion. Little did he realize then of what in
estimable value these years of frontier service
were to be to him.
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1873, to the pastorate of the East Avenue church,
Eochester, afterwards known as the Park Avenue
church, now consolidated with the Second church,
in its new location on East Avenue. The East
Avenue church at the time Dr. Morehouse as
sumed the pastoral oversight had only been or
ganized two years and had, Hke the East Saginaw
church, aU its history in the future. The house
of worship was a plain wooden structure neither
architecturaUy attractive nor adequately supplied
with needed equipment. He soon became recog
nized in the city as a man of force and leader
ship and was accorded rank with those of wide
reputation and influence. He gave himself unre
servedly to the up-buUding of his church, attract
ing to it among others many of the students and
professors of the coUege and seminary. He was
elected a member of the board of trustees of the
Theological Seminary, and for three of his six
years in Eochester he served the board as corre
sponding secretary. His relations, as well as
those of his church, to the Seminary during his
pastorate were of a delightfully friendly and
fraternal character.
Probably no one was more surprised than him
self when, in May, 1879, he was chosen Corre
sponding Secretary of the Home Mission Society,
the great national society under whose auspices
he had labored as missionary in Michigan. He
decided after much consideration to accept the
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the foUowing July, as the successor of Dr.
S. S. Cutting. He had scarcely settled in his new
office and adjusted himself to his new relations
by September, so it was not strange that his
presence in the city did not occur to me, when I
came in the faU as a student to Union Seminary.
But shortly afterwards I looked him up, and the
friendship began at Cortland was renewed to con
tinue to the end.
It was as corresponding secretary of the Home
Mission Society that he did his great life-work,
covering a period of thirty-eight years. With
great tactfulness and wisdom he re-organized,
vitalized and broadened the work of the society.
Almost immediately the denomination felt the in
spiration and devotion of the new leader, and the
response of churches and individuals was prompt
and generous. He organized the Church Edifice
Gift-Fund and "More-house" was the slogan by
which funds were secured for church buUdings
throughout the great west. He was in constant
demand for sermons and pubhc addresses. He
was fruitful in plans and suggestions. He at
tended State Conventions, he linked up local and
State societies to the Home Mission Society, he
arranged conferences, he made friends of finan
cial and industrial leaders. As he went forth on
his trips across the country and through the far
west he was likened in the enthusiasm and interest
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dubbed the "Plumed Knight" of the Baptist de
nomination. But the wind and tide were not always favor
able. The panic of 1884 brought him many
anxious, wakeful hours, because of business de
pression and of the heavy losses that had come
to many of the most generous supporters of the
Society. With the return of good times and the
enlistment of many new friends the Society en
tered upon another era of wide expansion and
growth. Again by over-persuasion he extended
substantial aid to a friend and associate who
failed to appreciate the kindness shown him and
he passed through another Gethsemane. Like his
Master he drank to the bitter dregs the cup of
injustice and ingratitude. Though exonerated by
the board he felt so keenly any criticism that
might come to the Society through any act of his
that he resigned the secretaryship in 1892, against
the wishes of his brethren, but consented to con
tinue in office for a year until his successor was
chosen. When Dr. Thomas J. Morgan had com
pleted his term as Indian Commissioner he was
elected Corresponding Secretary and Dr. More
house was pressed by the board into the office of
field secretary, as the work had grown to such
large proportions as to make two secretaries
necessary. In the new relation his duties took
him Out among the churches most of the time. He
traveled from the lakes to the gulf and from
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dispirited by the needs of the field and the in
ability of the society to meet them. His poem
"Let about," based on Exodus 13:18, "God led
the people about," written probably under great
mental and physical exhaustion after a long and
wearisome journey, shows how great was his
tumult of soul and depression of spirit as he
viewed the problems of his work or the trials and
defeats he had to face.

"LED ABOUT"
Here I wander, while I wonder
What the Lord's ways mean for me; —
Forward, backward, thither, hither,
Misty maze of mystery !
Round and round upon my circuit,
Painful progress, if at all;
Travel-wearied, weather-beaten, —
Lord, my strength, my faith is small.
Marching now to martial music,
Mourning over sore defeat,
Numb, hut "dumb because thou didst it,"
Fall I, fainting at thy feet.
Upward to the heights elysian,
Down to depths all dark and drear,
Vivid contrasts vex my vision,
Pain, perplex, and fill with fear.
Thus of old "thy flock thou leddest;"
Murmured they, as murmur we; —
Hush, my heart! The shepherds' secret
May be half revealed to thee.

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"Led about," — through storm and sunshine,
Elim's palms and scorching sand, —
Thus He chastens, cleanses, fits us,
Bring us to the Promised Land.
On the death of Dr. Morgan in 1902, Dr. More
house was recaUed to the office of corresponding
secretary, and Dr. E. E. Chivers, of Buffalo, was
elected as his successor as field secretary. The
remarkable growth of the society from the day
Dr. Morehouse became secretary in 1879 to his
death in 1917 may be seen in the fact that the
receipts had increased from $122,419.21 in 1878
to $987,611.46 in 1917 and the number of mission
aries from 277 to 1,274.
In addition to the vast work of supervision and
re-adjustment to meet new conditions his extended
correspondence and his duties as editor of the
Home Mission Monthly, Dr. Morehouse found
time in 1882-3 to write the history of the Home
Mission Society in commemoration of the So
ciety's JubUee Meeting in New York. He also
contributed frequently papers and articles to our
denominational weeklies. He indulged occasion
ally his poetic taste and many of his poems found
their way into the pubhc press. In the interest
of the Society he traveled extensively in the
United States, in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico,
Hawau and Alaska. By what he saw and heard
"across the border" his sympathies were greatly
stirred in behalf of the people of Mexico. Their
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utter subjection to the Romish Church seemed to
haunt him and to harass his spirit. His Httle
poem "Prayer, Means, and Men for Mexico,"
voices the depth of his feeling for this benighted
people.

PRAYERS, MEANS AND MEN FOR MEXICO
For kindred, Country, Church, we pray,
For distant lands in sin and woe —
Prayers rise hke incense. Yet, to-day,
Where are the prayers for Mexico?
For fields at home, for fields abroad,
The streams of Christian giving flow —
Most blessed streams ! But, 0 Lord God,
Where are the means for Mexico ?
From papal night, turned toward the light,
Souls, disenthralled, the truth would know;
The hour has come! "The fields are white!"
Where are the men for Mexico?
Here is our neighbor. Pass not by,
Like priest and Levite long ago ;
Have pity I Help ! Ring out the cry ;
Prayers, means and men for Mexico!
Dr. Morehouse did not confine his travels to
his own country. He made two visits to Europe.
On his second trip he represented the society in
an address before the Baptist World Congress
and served on the committee that drafted the con
stitution. In the summer of 1900 Mrs, Calvert
and I found him indulging in a brief rest at the

214 MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
Thousand Islands and enjoyed exceedingly a
day's excursion in his genial company.
No summary of his work as Corresponding
Secretary of the Home Mission Society would be
complete without reference to the great influence
he exerted in organizing and promoting other
undertakings along kindred lines of endeavor.
The subject of education always lay near to his
heart and the Freedman schools in the South, the
maintenance of which was a large part of the
work of the Society, had in bim a warm advocate
and steadfast supporter. He had no greater de
light than providing new buUdings, better equip
ment and needed funds for an increased endow
ment. But he was not content that the cause of
education should be a department merely of the
Society and confined to one section of the country.
He would establish a National Baptist Education
Society to found new educational institutions and
to promote the welfare of our academies and col
leges already established. In the carrying out of
his ideals he had the co-operation and support of
other leaders but he was really the father of the
organization that discovered Dr. Harper and that
called into being the University of Chicago, one
of the marvels of the educational world.
As the representative of the Baptists of the
North he had deplored the division caused by the
civil war and had sought to bring about by ex
change of delegates and by cooperation in mis
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fraternity between the Baptists of the North and
South. Quietly but persistently he advocated a
larger brotherhood of feeling and fellowship on
the part of all our churches. Twelve years ago
the movement in this direction crystallized into
the General Convention of the Baptists of North
America. His last great achievement, and one which had
its seeds in his own early self-sacrificing, self-
denying experiences, was the organization in 1911
of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board.
He was too f amUiar with the privations and hard
ships of pastors in rural districts and on the
frontier to rest content until some provision had
been made for their needs in their declining years.
He Hved to see the youngest of our beneficent
agencies expand until the invested funds amounted
to $900,000 sufficient to extend aid to 425 minis
ters, missionaries and widows. The proposals to
add $1,000,000 to the fund as a memorial tribute
to the founder would only be such an expression
of gratitude as the denomination should be glad
to make and would perpetuate bis influence where
he would be most desirous to have it felt for un
told years to come.
In appearance and manner Dr. Morehouse was
military in his bearing. He had the air of one
born to command. Self -poised, dignified, resolute,
reserved yet he was always affable and approach
able. His fine head, with open frank countenance
was set firmly upon his broad shoulders. Above

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medium height, well proportioned, he stood erect
to the end. He was almost never iU and never
had to seek rest from overwork. His strong
sinewy body, made more strong by hard work on
the farm, was a priceless heritage. He never suf
fered from indiscretion in eating or from want
of habits of regular exercise. He often said, "my
stomach wiU take care of everything put into it."
In such a body one would look for a great soul,
a courageous heart and a sound, weU-balanced
fruitful mind. He was master of others because
he was master of himself. He was never im
patient, never gave way to passion, never spoke
a harsh or unkind word, and never appeared
ruffled or heated in conference or debate. He was,
however, given to introspection, to caprice, to
severe censoring of himself, yet he maintained so
universaUy the same even temper and genial atti
tude that those nearest to him could not guess
what was going on under that cahn exterior. He
never indulged in gossip and when tales were told
him about his brethren he would look intently into
the face of the speaker whUe he asked inquiringly
in subdued tone, "Is that so?" Loyal, unassum
ing, ever helpful and companionable, with him
once a friend always a friend.
Equal to any occasion, Dr. Morehouse was at
his best in large assemblages or at our great de
nominational gatherings. Among the leaders he
was a commanding figure. His gifts of leader
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knowledge of denominational affairs, his states
manship, his broad vision, his dry wit and his
ready speech aU had here opportunity for mani
festation as he sought to clarify discussion, to
re-state the matter at issue, or to set forth some
constructive plans for larger unity or far-reach
ing endeavor.
His outstanding characteristic probably was his
capacity for work. His motto "Whatever ought
to be done, can be done," was suggestive of the
faith of a Carey or a Judson. He could "toU ter
ribly." He was "zealous in every good word and
work." He was as regular at Ms office as clock
work, often being the last to leave and rarely
availing himself of the Saturday half-holiday.
He was besieged with appeals of aU kinds — from
churches for pastors, from pastors for churches,
for advice in church difficulties, for introductions
to Hberal givers, for assistance in raising debts
or endowments and for financial aid for destitute
ministers, widows and orphans. Instead of his
office being a "private sanctum" it was more like
an attorney's counsel room. Pastors, laymen,
delegations, committees, rich and poor, friends
and strangers felt free to break in upon him and
always found him ready to Hsten to their story
and to help as far as it was in his power to do so.
When it is remembered that there were monthly
board meetings, frequent directors', trustees' and
committee meetings, besides the enormous de
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be had of the vast amount of work that had to be
turned out by bim every twenty-four hfrurs.
Dr. Morehouse was a Baptist from conviction.
He held as tenaciously to Baptist tenets in his last
years as he did when he took upon himself the
covenant obHgations in the Httle church at Avon.
He had little patience with those who advocated
an "open-church membership" or were disposed
to be more Hberal than those of other faiths. He
beheved in Baptist principles, Baptist polity,
Baptist institutions and in Baptist progress and
his highest ambition was to found Baptist
churches in every part of this broad country and
to fortify and promote those already estabhshed,
with the hope that their influence would leaven the
whole world. WThile such a stalwart Baptist he
was removed as far as possible from being
illiberal, bigoted or narrow minded. He was
broad in his sympathies, charitable and most un
selfish. Dr. Morehouse never married. When he was
of the age when "a young man's fancy Hghtly
turns to thoughts of love" he felt the great ob
ligation devolving upon him to provide for his
widowed mother and when he entered upon his
life-work he became wedded to that. At first only
by the strictest economy could he provide a home
for his mother and himself on his meager salary.
When he entered upon his duties as Correspond
ing Secretary he brought his mother to Brooklyn
where he maintained a home until her death in

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1892 at the age of seventy-seven. The rumor that
found wings in Rochester that the young lady to
whom he had become engaged, died before circum
stances would permit of their marriage, persisted
after he came to New York, but his own state
ment that there never was any foundation for
such a report ought to put it forever at rest.
After his mother's death the demands of his work
were so numerous and urgent that he never could
give any thought to what might promote his com
fort or pleasure. With Paul he believed that "he
that is unmarried careth for the things that be
long to the Lord, how he may please the Lord."
He threw himself unreservedly into the task of
promoting the interests of the Home Mission
Society, giving to it his whole mind and soul and
strength. Most fortunate was the Home Mission
Society to command a man of his talents who was
foot-loose and free to travel, to go and come, with
no home ties and no home demands. He was not,
however, without kindred and friends upon whom
he centered his interests and affection. He al
ways cherished a tender, fraternal feeling for his
only brother, who made his home in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, in 1890, but who returned East in
1912 and has since resided in CresskUl, N. J. His
love for his brother's four chUdren, two nephews
and two nieces, could not have been greater if they
had been his own. He watched over them in child
hood, assisted in their education and had joy in
their advancement and settlement in Hfe.

MEN WHO HAVE MEANT MUCH TO ME
When "by reason of strength" Dr. Morehouse
had attained his four score years he wrote a
vesper song, to which he gave the modest title "A
song at eighty." He read it to me in manuscript
and when he had had it printed in attractive form
for distribution among a few friends he gave me
a copy. It breathes so much of his cheerful
courageous spirit and is such a beautiful epitome
of his life told in his own characteristically
modest, simple style that his friends wUl always
cherish it as one of the choicest httle poems that
ever came from his pen.

A SONG AT EIGHTY
At fourscore years my soul breaks forth in singing:
The vesper bell t
Of life's long day in mellowed tones is ringing:
"All's well; all 'swell."
This length of life with strength for tasks appointed,
And still a place
In fellowship and work with God's anointed,
Are all of grace.
In early life goes forth a sower, weeping:
He waits, believes;
In later life he comes rejoicing; reaping;
With golden sheaves.
With powers preserved, I covet not inaction,
To rest and rust;
The spirit finds a higher satisfaction
In toil and trust.

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As duty calls, through clear and strong conviction,
My race I run:
Enough, at last, the Master's benediction:
"Well done. Well done."

Though shadows deepen, With the sun declining,
And clouds arise;
A heavenly glory often marks the shining
Of evening skies.
My cup is filled with goodness, mercy, sweetness,
Full to the brim:
The past, with all its sins and incompleteness,
I leave with Him.

To fellow workers rapidly completing
Their long careers,
A veteran sends his Christian love and greeting
At fourscore years.
Sublime our task! With joyful consecration
Our best we bring:
Supreme event! Creation's coronation
Of Christ as'King!

In a long, active, serviceable Hfe, like that of
Dr. Morehouse's crowned at the close with sudden
glory, faith finds satisfying fruition. As pastor
and corresponding secretary he "labored more
abundantly than they all," for more than half a
century and as the evening of life drew on, Hke
the prophet of old "he was caught up as by a
whirlwind into heaven," without any warning or
any painful and wasting illness. In order to avoid

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the return of a grippe attack, in an aggravated
form, with attendant nervous depression, from
which he raUied with difficulty the previous win
ter, he went to Florida in January, where he spent
a pleasant, re-invigorating season, building up his
general health and greeting friends congregated
there from the North. He returned to New York
on Thursday, May 3, 1917, apparently much re
juvenated and greatly cheered in spirit, eager to
enter into the final preparations for the Cleveland
anniversaries. As was his custom, after an
absence, on Friday he made the rounds of the
Home Mission Rooms, greeting each of his as
sociates with a cheering word and then caUed at
the offices of the other societies and of the Watch
man-Examiner with a friendly salutation for all
and the assurance of pleasure at being back. The
one word expressive of his deepest feeling was:
"I am tired of loafing, I had rather be on the
job." On Saturday afternoon in the quiet of his
own room at home, without warning, without any
signs of suffering he sank quietly to the floor and
expired. His work was done. He had finished
his course and had entered into his reward. What
more beautiful and fitting ending to a weU-
rounded, richly ripened life than to pass at once
from the turmoil and uncertainty of Hfe here into
the world of peace and of eternal reahties ! There
was no wasting away from fever and racking pain,
no long and weary weeks of watching, no im
patient longing for the end to come. He went

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away as one who passes from his Hving room into
his sleeping room:
"Think of
Stepping on shore and finding it heaven,
Of taking hold of a hand and finding it God's hand.
Of breathing a new air and finding it celestial air,
Of being invigorated and finding it immortality.
Of passing from storm and tempest to an unknown calm,
Of waking up and finding it Home."

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