In Memoriam. TABLE WITH NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED DURING THE YEAR. THE LETTERS AT THE END OF EACH NAME HAVE THE FOLLOWING INDICATION: W. C. WITHOUT CHARGE P. PASTOR; CHPN. CHAPLAIN; S. S. STATED SUPPLY; SECT. SECRETARY. Allen, D.D., David O., W. c. Cong'l. Council. Allen, Nathan, P. Cong'l. Council. MEMBER OF Angelica. N. York 3d. Hudson River. Hudson. Utica. Ottawa. Utica. Troy. Athens. Madison. 1827 1863 64 45 Disease of Kidneys. Berkshire Cong. As. Decay of Vital Pow "AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN; FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY."-Revelation xxi. 4. ALLEN, D.D., DAVID OLIVER-The son of Moses and Mehitable Allen, was born in Barree, Mass., September 14, 1799.* While a child, his parents removed to Princeton, Mass., where he spent his youth on a farm, enjoying the usual advantages of a common school education. At the age of seventeen he taught a winter school, which employment he followed very snccessfully several months each year, till he commenced his professional studies. At the age of nineteen, he entered Williams College, Mass., and, after remaining there two years, he removed, with other students, to Amherst College, Mass., where he graduated in 1823, in a class of five-being the second that had left the Institution. It was during his Senior year, at a time of special religious interest, that he first became personally interested in religion, and, in the winter of 1823, made a public profession of the same in Princeton. The year after leaving College, he spent at Groton, *This Memoir is taken from The Congregational Quarterly, Boston, Mass., Rev. I. P. Langworthy, Editor, a most excellent Journal. Mass., having charge of what is now called "Lawrence Academy." While here, his attention was turned to the ministry, and he entered Andover Theological Seminary in the fall of 1824, where he continued till the spring of 1837, when a most urgent call was made for reinforcements of one or more missionaries to India. Newell, Nichols, Frost, and Hall had deceased, and Nott and Bardwell had returned to this country. The dying appeal of Gordon Hall was not to be resisted. On the 21st of May, 1827, he was ordained at Westminster, Dr. Woods, of Andover, Mass., preaching the sermon; and, on the 23d of May, he was married to Myra Wood, daughter of Abel Wood, Esq., of Westminster, Mass. On the 6th of June he embarked from Boston for Calcutta, where he arrived on the 21st of September. After stopping a month here, he proceeded to Bombay, where he labored several years in preaching and establishing schools. He was the first American Missionary to establish a station at Ahmednuggur, in 1831, where he spent several years. After this he was engaged in making extensive tours in Western India, preaching, distributing Bibles, Tracts, &c. In 1843 he took charge of the printing establishment, at Bombay. This constituted for some ten years a very important agency in Missionary operations in Western India. It employed part of this time one hundred persons, mostly natives, and, the number of pages printed increased from one million and a half, in 1843, to near twelve millions, in 1852. The works printed were portions of Scripture translated, religious tracts, school books, &c., &c. Dr. Allen was the author of several very useful tracts in the Mahratta language. He also translated portions of the Old Testament, and, superintended a revised and corrected edition of the whole Scripture into Mahratta, which was a great work. Too close application to these labors, together with the effects of a warm climate, so impaired his constitution and health, that physicians advised him that he must at once leave India, if he would prolong his life. In February, 1853, he sailed for America, making a short stop in Palestine and England-arriving in Boston in June. His health gradually improved, so that after one year of rest, he commenced preparing the History of India, Ancient and Modern, an octavo volume of over six hundred pages, published in 1856. This work was received very favorably by the press, both in this country and in England. Probably no one volume contains so much valuable matter appertaining to India as this. And what is peculiar, no one in reading it would suspect it was compiled by a missionary or clergyman, but rather, by some highly accomplished gentleman of leisure, thoroughly posted in all departments of business and literature, both of India and England. From 1856 to 1860, Dr. Allen preached in different places; one whole year at Westport, Mass., where there was no special religious interest, and nearly two years at Wenham. His style of preaching was plain and practical-more instructive than rhetorical. During the intervals, when not engaged in preaching, he contributed several valuable articles to the periodical press. Few men were so thoroughly informed as to all matters relating not only to India and England, but to the history and present state of our country. Naturally he possessed great thirst for knowledge, excelling both as a mathematician and a linguist, and had a memory so tenacious that he scarcely ever forgot anything. His mind was well balanced, grasping alike great principles of philosophy or the practical details of business. In 1854, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, from Amherst College; at the time he left India, he was a member of the "Royal Asiatic Society,' and for years before his decease, he was an active member of the American Oriental Society. An interesting memoir of his first wife-Myra W. Allen-was published 1 by the Massachusetts Sabbath-school Society, and has had a very extensive circulation. His only child, Myron O. Allen, graduated with high honors at Yale College, in 1852, studied medicine in preference to either of the other professions, on account of a physical inability for public speaking, and, though he commenced the practice of medicine very successfully, he went down to an early grave, greatly lamented by all who knew him. His father outlived him two years, and, though he died suddenly, he had been failing for several years. His labors and residence in India of twenty-six years some eight or ten, beyond the usual average both of missionaries and Europeans in that warm climate-had broken down a strong constitution, and developed disease in several organs to such an extent, that, a little extra exposure might prove fatal. A slight cold in returning from the Commencement of Amherst College, produced a congested state of the lungs, under which he sank, July 17, 1863, after six days illness, in the full exercise of all his mental faculties. ALLEN, NATHAN-Was born in Lansing, N. Y., March 9, 1820. In the year 1842, while engaged in teaching school in Plymouth, Ohio, he was converted, and at once decided to study for the ministry. Entering Western Reserve College, he remained there two years, till 1844, when he entered Hamilton College, and finished the remainder of his college course. In 1847 he entered Auburn Theological Seminary, and spent two years in this Institution. Having completed the theological studies prescribed in the Seminary, he was licensed by Auburn Presbytery and invited to the pastorate of the Congregational Church, in Castile, N. Y., where he spent two years. He was ordained by Angelica Presbytery and was subsequently pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Cuba, N. Y., for six years and a half, where his labors were greatly blessed, and where he gathered a large congregation, and one well-grounded in the faith. His next and last place of labor was Springville, N. Y., in Buffalo Presbytery, where he gathered the harvest of the seed sown by himself and others. Here he was eminently useful. After the morning service, he gathered a large share of the congregation into a Bible-class, which he ably instructed, while the Sabbath-school was carried on by members of the church. While not gifted with all the manners and graces of the schools, the Master and the Spirit had infused into his heart the persuasive power of truth, so that there was a deep eloquence in his earnest, honest face. He was a workman whom, as we believe, the Master approved. His work is finished, and all the dark clouds which surrounded him have passed from his horizon. He died -, 1864, of Typhoid Fever. ARMS, CLIFFORD S.-The son of Samuel and Clarissa (Smith) Arms, was born in Canaan. Columbia County, N. Y., June 4, 1796. He was educated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1824. He studied Theology at the Princeton Seminary, N. J., graduating in 1826, and was licensed by Hudson River Presbytery, and ordained by the same Presbytery in 1827. He was pastor of the Church in Madison, Morris County, N. J., from 1832 to 1851, and at Ridgeberry, Orange County, N. Y., from 1851 until his death. He died, September 25, 1863, of Bronchial and Liver Affection. He was married, April 22, 1829, to Sarah, daughter of Major Forman, of Mississippi, and grand-daughter of Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, of New Jersey. His children died young. He was greatly beloved by his people, and died lamented by the brethren. BARTHOLOMEW, ORLO-Was born in West Goshen, Conn., in 1802. He was educated in Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and studied Theology in Auburn Seminary, N. Y., where he finished his course in 1835. He was licensed by Cayuga Presbytery, and ordained by Oneida Presbytery in 1836.1 * His first place of preaching was at Henrietta, Monroe County, N. Y., but on May 10, 1836, he preached by invitation, with a view to settlement, in the Congregational Church in Augusta, N. Y. Here he was installed pastor, and just twenty-eight years from that day, (May 10,) a long and sorrowing procession followed his remains to their resting-place, near by the grave of a former pastor, Rev. Abner P. Clark, whose brief and faithful labors are still held in honor and affection. In a sermon preached on his 20th anniversary, it is stated that he did not commence his studies preparatory to the ministry until he was twenty-five years of age. He ever regretted the disadvantage he labored under from this cause, and yet it is to be confessed that few of his brethren of better opportunities, or more brilliant talents, have been favored with so successful a ministry. The secret lay chiefly, not in his attainments as a scholar, or his abilities as a preacher, fair as these may have been, and certainly few occupants of a quiet rural parish have been so much sought for in all manner of official services. He was a diligent sermonizer, having written his 1128th discourse previous to his sickness. He was earnest and animated, and never prolix, in the pulpit, his evident aim being, not to preach himself, but Christ Jesus the Lord. But the key to his long and acceptable ministry in Augusta, is found in his character as a Christian pastor. He loved his books, but not better than he did his people. He visited and cared for his flock. No one could be sick, or in trouble of any kind, that he was not at hand to serve them. His goodness was transparent and eminent to all beholders. His people knew that his heart was set upon their welfare infinitely more than upon his own ease and emolument, and this fact covered like a mantle every deficiency and fault. His reproofs were sometimes sharp in the utterance, but it was so thoroughly understood by all that he cherished no bitterness in his thoughts, that offence was rarely taken, and never retained. He was singularly humble, meek, and forbearing, following very closely in the footsteps of his divine Master. His liberality to every good cause was ever up to the measure of his ability, and often beyond it, though he was a discreet manager of his own affairs, and a judicious counselor to those asking his advice in worldly things. There was no one in his congregation, and probably not in the whole town, for his diocese was much wider than his immediate congregation, who would not have recognized the particulars in Paul's description of a bishop as fully verified in him: "A bishop then must be blameless; the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour; given to hospitality, not to wine; no striker; not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient; not a brawler; not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. Moreover, he must have a good report of them that are without. His last sickness and death were in beautiful correspondence with his life. His disease was lingering and painful, but his patience and cheerfulness never failed. He was much in the reading of the Scriptures and in prayer particularly for those yet unconverted under his ministry. He read over with special interest the life of the Missionary Stoddard, and found the death-bed experience of that saintly minister peculiarly illustrative of his "Read those pages," said he, "and you will understand how I feel." own. *This Memoir is mostly prepared from a sketch in The Evangelist, Rev. Dr. J. G. CRAIGHEAD & H. M. FIELD, Editors, New York. The text of the last sermon that he wrote was in Psalm xci. 4: "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust; his truth shall be thy shield and buckler." ine. The last sermon he preached was from the text: "Therefore will I look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear Both these passages were signally illustrated in his closing experience. "Ah, that blessed immortality!" said he to his sister. And when the 17th chapter of John was read to him he remarked upon the 24th verse as having a singular preciousness of import" that they may behold my glory. Oh, that glory! how I long to see it.' The immense concourse of people at his funeral testified of the love of all classes of the people for this good man. A large number of the clergy were present. The venerable Pindar Field, an old and tried friend, offering prayer at the house; Rev. Drs. Fisher and Goertner, of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.; Rev. E. H. Barnes, of Vernon Centre; and Rev. M. S. Platt, of Hamilton, conducting the devotional services at the Church. The sermon, by request of the deceased, was preached by Rev. W. E. Knox, of Rome, N. Y. It was a scene to be impressed on the memory as that lengthened procession of carriages wound up the western slope from the Shenandoah valley to lay the remains of the venerated pastor in the quiet hill-side cemetery where he had so many times officiated at the burial of his parishioners. There shall his precious dust mingle with theirs in hope of a common and joyful resurrection. He died at the Manse or Parsonage belonging to the congregation, on Saturday, May 7, 1864, of Diabetes. BUSHNELL, CALVIN*-The son of Reuben and Martha Bushnell, was born at Saybrook, Conn., in 1781. He was graduated at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1809, and remained another year as Tutor. He studied Theology privately under David Porter, D.D., of Catskill, N. Y. He was licensed by a Congregational Association, at Durham, N. Y., in 1810, and ordained by Oneida Presbytery, in 1812. He entered upon his Master's work as a Domestic Missionary, being a pioneer in Western New York, setling at Vernon, Oneida County, and remaining there nearly twentyfive years. In 1835 he went to the West. There he also labored as a pioneer, first preaching for the church at Big Grove, afterwards assisting at the organization of the church at Lisbon, and united with Presbytery of Ottowa in 1840. In consequence of feeble health his labors as a minister were not long continued. He died at Lisbon, May 15, 1864, aged eighty-four years, of no particular disease; he simply ceased to live, conscious to the last. He was a man of strong convictions, and of rare consecration to Christ. His labors were blessed with several remarkable revivals of religion, the fruits of which were benign and enduring. During the years of his seclusion from public life, and from society, his cheerful piety and his patient waiting on God's will, exerted a quickening influence that extended beyond the circle of his family. These qualities shone in him to the last, and irradiated the severe sufferings through which he passed. He died as he had lived, trusting wholly in Christ. He married Miss Polly Williams, daughter of Ezekiel Williams. He had four sons and six daughters. *This Memoir was prepared by Rev. NAHUM GOULD, of Somonauk, Ills. |