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Tribute 
 
 to the 
 
 Life and Character 
 
 of 
 
 REV. TEUNIS S. HAMLIN, D. D. 
 
 PASTOR 
 
 of the 
 
 CHURCH OF THE COVENANT 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Printed by the Congregation 
 
 1907 
 
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 From photograph taken in 1886 
 
From photograph taken in 1905 
 
TRIBUTE 
 
 to the 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 of 
 
 Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D. 
 
 HE Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., 
 died suddenly while in New York 
 City, immediately preceding mid- 
 night of Wednesday, April 17, 1907. 
 The remains were brought t o 
 Washington the next day, arriving 
 at the city at 9:25 p. m., and were met by the Session 
 and members of the other boards of the church and of 
 the congregation. 
 
 On Sunday afternoon, April 21st, the remains were 
 escorted by the honorary and active pall-bearers, from 
 the parsonage to the Church of the Covenant, the 
 capacity of which was not sufficient for the attendance, 
 including the members of the congregations of the 
 Church of the Covenant and of Peck Chapel, the pas- 
 tors of different churches, delegations from various 
 organizations of which Dr. Hamlin was a member, and 
 many officials of the Government, and prominent 
 citizens. 
 
 After the services the remains were escorted to Rock 
 Creek Cemetery, the following named persons acting 
 as pall-bearers : 
 
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 HONORARY PALL-BEARERS 
 From the Session: 
 
 Alfred R. Quaiffe, 
 Claudius B. Jewell, 
 Frederic L. Moore, 
 E. Southard Parker, 
 v Stanton J. Peelle, 
 Archibald Greenlees, 
 
 John W. Foster, 
 Henry B. F. Macfarland, 
 Charles E. Foster, 
 Edward M. Gallaudet, 
 Henry A. Pressey, 
 Wilhelmus B. Bryan. 
 
 From the Board of Trustees: 
 
 William S. Carroll, William E. Curtis. 
 
 From the Deacons: 
 
 Russell B. Taylor, Henry M. Le Due. 
 
 ACTIVE PALL-BEARERS 
 From the Men's Society of the Church: 
 
 Frederick A. Fenning, Brainard W. Parker, 
 
 Andrew Y. Bradley, Stanton Canfield Peelle, 
 
 Allan O. Clephane, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, 
 
 Walter M. Gilbert, William H. Baldwin. 
 
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 FUNERAL SERVICES 
 
 AT THE 
 
 Church of the Covenant 
 
 April 21, 1907, 4 P. M. 
 
 An opening organ selection was proceeded by an 
 invocation by Rev. William McGiffert, D. D., as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 O Eternal God; God of our fathers and our God; 
 God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 and our Father, in Thee we live ; in Thee, O God, we 
 do die ; in Thee we live again. Grant, O God, that the 
 faith which was Jesus Christ's faith may be our faith 
 today, and that in this solemn hour, when our hearts 
 are stricken, we may believe and trust in Thee. Grant, 
 O God, that as this Thy servant, our brother, served 
 Thee faithfully during all his life and witnessed a good 
 contention and brought many unto a knowledge of 
 Thee, his Father and theirs, so now in his death may he 
 preach Thy work, and may we, remembering and 
 honoring him, O God, praise and bless Thee. Thou 
 hast given, and Thou hast taken away ; blessed be Thy 
 name, O God, our Father, now and forever more, 
 through Jesus Christ Thy Son, who hast revealed Thee 
 unto us and hath brought life and immortality to us. 
 Amen. 
 
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 Appropriate Scripture lessons were then read by 
 
 Rev. Joseph T. Kelly, D. D., after which prayer was 
 
 offered by Rev. B. F. Bittinger, D. D., as follows : 
 
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 O Lord, Thou only art truly great ; great in Thyself. 
 Thou art also great in the manifestation of Thy power 
 and in the exercise of Thy righteous, sovereign and 
 eternal will, whether in the army of Heaven or among 
 the inhabitants of the earth. Thou art also good, 
 gracious and kind in all of Thy dealings, and when 
 afflicting us, afflicting us not for Thy pleasure, but for 
 our profit. Help us, then, to bring our spirits into 
 willing subjection to Thee, the Father of spirits, and 
 especially in the season of our sore bereavement to 
 yield ourselves with due resignation and patience, being 
 assured that although for the present we understand 
 not the mystery of Thy ways, yet in faithfulness, O 
 Lord, Thou dost afflict us and for Thy mercy's sake, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 And now, drawn together by a common sympathy, 
 and in the presence of death, may we not only be 
 admonished of our mortality, but also may we assure 
 ourselves of the promise of the eternal life through the 
 merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins, 
 rose again for our justification, and who ever liveth 
 at Thy right hand to make intercession for us and pre- 
 pare us by His indwelling spirit for an abiding place 
 in that Heavenly kingdom. Thus believing, we come 
 into Thy house at this time and are saddened by the 
 sudden removal from our midst of him whom we all 
 loved and whose face we shall never again see in the 
 flesh. 
 
 We mourn because he is no longer with us, but we 
 rejoice because he is now, and shall be forever, with 
 Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast taken him. And mourn- 
 ing not as those who have no hope, we cherish the 
 same faith which characterized him during his mortal 
 life, animated him in his ministry; prompted him in 
 labors for the benefit of his fellowmen, and comforted 
 him in his last hours upon the earth. We thank Thee 
 O Lord, for the bright testimony which he departing 
 
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 left behind for our encouragement, that Thy will was 
 his will, and that with resignation he yielded to Thy 
 good pleasure. We thank Thee, then, for what by 
 nature he was in all the excellencies of character ; what 
 by grace he became, and what by Thy promise through 
 our Lord Jesus Chrust he now is, forever free from 
 sin, the beholder of Thy glory and the happy partici- 
 pant in those joys which are in Thy presence and those 
 pleasures at Thy right hand which shall be forever- 
 more. 
 
 And now, most merciful, the consolation of the sor- 
 rowing who dost not willingly grieve or afflict Thy 
 children, listen to our plea, that Thou wilt look down 
 with tender love and pity upon the bereaved and 
 stricken family, that they may not faint in the hour 
 of their distress, but may, with sweet acquiescence, 
 kiss the rod under which Thou, O Heavenly Father, 
 hast caused them to pass, and to lean upon Thee and 
 Thy many blessed promises to be with them in the 
 darkest trial, turn their mourning into joy, and make 
 even this dark dispensation work out for them that 
 peaceable fruit of righteousness which shall be followed 
 by a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 
 May she especially who mourns the separation which 
 has come between her and the husband of her youth 
 be made the object of Thy tender love and support, 
 and receive from Thee comfort, counsel and guidance 
 in every exigency of her new and untried experience. 
 And as she sits apart in her loneliness and grief, may 
 she accept the assurance that the same hand that has 
 smitten can and will bind up her broken heart, and 
 the same promise of Divine record belongs to her, "I 
 will never, no never, leave nor forsake Thee." And 
 lend Thy guiding grace also to the sons just entering 
 upon their life, that they may walk in the footsteps of 
 him whom in life they loved and honored, and, so far as 
 they can, take his place and comfort all who have been 
 bereaved and bind up their broken hearts. 
 
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 And upon this church, largely by Thy grace the work 
 of his hands, look down and bestow Thy richest bene- 
 diction upon it. May the members cherish the faithful 
 pastor's active participation in the gospel of Christ; 
 treasure his words spoken both in public and in private, 
 and, emulating his example, follow him as he followed 
 Christ. Bless, we beseech Thee, Thy ministering ser- 
 vants of the Presbytery associated with our deceased 
 brother in labors for the upbuilding of Thy cause. Give 
 to them a double portion of Thy spirit. Impart to 
 them his energy and earnestness and devotion to Thee 
 and Thy service, and to all who were associated with 
 him in efforts to make the world better, inspire them 
 with a kindred spirit in seeking the good of men and 
 the glory of Thy holy name. 
 
 Now, Lord, we abide Thy good pleasure, heeding 
 the admonition of our Lord Jesus Christ, to watch, as 
 we know not what hour our Lord doth come. We unite 
 in the petition : So teach us to number our days that 
 we may keep our hearts unto wisdom. Hear us for 
 Jesus' sake, and to Thy name we will give all praise, 
 Amen. 
 
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 SERMON 
 By the Rev. Wilton Merle Smith, D. D. 
 
 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and 
 knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judg- 
 ments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath 
 known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his 
 counsellor? For of Him, and through Him, and to 
 Him, are all things : to whom be glory forever. Amen. 
 
 A physician who had a little boy in whom he cen- 
 tered all his heart was asked often by the little fellow, 
 as he looked into his father's face, "What for, oh 
 father? Why?" To many of these questions the father 
 answered, "My child, you can not understand now; 
 you shall know by and by." One day God came and 
 took that little child to Himself, and the father walked 
 to and fro through that home darkened at the window 
 and lightened no longer by the sound of childish 
 laughter, and his heart said : "What for, oh Father, 
 what for?" And God's answer came to him in the very 
 words he had spoken to his child : "My child, thou 
 canst not understand now, but thou shalt know here- 
 after." 
 
 Six year ago I stood at the bier of my friend, Doctor 
 Babcock, that brilliant man taken at the very beginning 
 of his greatest usefulness, and my heart ached as I, 
 too, repeated the question. We had just been through 
 the Holy Land and Egypt together, and I remember 
 well as Doctor Babcock and I went through the tombs 
 
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 of the kings in Egypt that he said to me, "Do you 
 notice how that the Egyptian idea of the other world 
 is full of virility ; how the death conception is all glori- 
 fied service and activity ?" And he said : "Look at our 
 conception of the other world. It is absolutely lacking 
 in virility. It is teaching rest ever, and there is no 
 thought of the glorified service beyond. "Now are 
 they, before the throne of God, and they serve Him 
 day and night in His temple." And do you know that 
 thought was a comfort, that the Lord had need of him 
 in a larger and a higher service, and it conforts me 
 today to know that this man, so useful here on the 
 earth, has gone, as I believe from the bottom of my 
 heart, to a higher and a larger ministry for which all 
 the earth training has peculiarly prepared him. The 
 Lord hath need of him in those activities compared to 
 which the activities of earth are but child's play; in 
 that service compared to which the service of earth 
 shall pale into insignificance, and yet a service that 
 has no weariness and pain, but only constant joy; a 
 service to our God somewhere in His great universe, 
 we know not where, where the training of earth has 
 wonderfully fitted our friend to serve. 
 
 The preparation for service here on the earth began 
 many years ago. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the 
 training of a child should begin one hundred years 
 before his birth. It was so with our friend. His 
 father was from Huguenot ancestry and his mother 
 thoroughly Dutch, with those sterling, splendid 
 qualities that distinguished the Dutch people. With 
 the faithfulness and the brilliancy of the Huguenot and 
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 boy came into the world, equipped by heredity for his 
 work. The training at Union College was followed by 
 the training at the theological seminary in New York. 
 For thirteen years he was a pastor in Troy; lor two 
 years a pastor in Cincinnati, and for nearly twenty-one 
 years he has served God here in this church. It is a 
 monument of his faithfulness and of his industry. 
 
 My own touch with Doctor Hamlin has been through 
 association with him as co-trustee in the United Society 
 of Christian Endeavor; as friends and workers in the 
 alumni association of Union Seminary, and year after 
 year we have met in Northfield where in our friend- 
 ship for Mr. Moody we deeply sympathized with each 
 other. He has preached many times in the pulpit that 
 I occupy and this summer it was my request, written a 
 few weeks ago, that he should be the supply during 
 my own absence. So as I have come to know him the 
 thing that has impressed me more than all things else 
 was that I knew a man. Many men are changed by 
 the vestments that they wear; ecclesiastical trappings 
 or distinctions of one kind or another. Whenever such 
 associations were around about Doctor Hamlin, the 
 thing that shone through them all and beyond them all 
 was the fact of his sterling manhood. He was a man 
 who made men believe in him. He commanded people's 
 confidence. He drew out their affections. He tied 
 them to him. I think you have been impressed, as I 
 have been, by his qualities as a business man. His 
 sound judgment, as I met him in the councils of the 
 church, drew out my admiration many years ago. We 
 leaned on him and all through his life as he came in 
 touch with his brethren we have always felt that the 
 
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 wisdom, sanity and absolute self-control of the man 
 made him a power in men's councils. 
 
 He was a man of such patience, willing to wait until 
 things should work themselves out ; never presumptious 
 or hasty or impetuous, but always to some of us more 
 impulsive, almost discouragingly wise and patient and 
 sane. Then, too, his prodigious industry was some- 
 thing which some of us learned to admire. Half-past 
 eight every morning found him in his study. All the 
 morning until his lunch hour he labored faithfully. 
 Then all the afternoon, from the moment lunch was 
 over, out among his parishioners and friends, doing 
 the things that God had given him to do in this 
 great city, until the very hour for dinner, when 
 his footsteps might be heard on the stoop, and his 
 hand on the latch. And in connection with the larger 
 affairs outside of this city and the great church that he 
 served, his indefatigable industry and patience and mas- 
 tery of detail made him to be peculiarly helpful as a 
 counselor and as an administrative power in everything 
 to which he put his hand. If he had gone into business 
 or a profession, he would have made conspicuous suc- 
 cess. As a minister of some department, as a diplomat, 
 he would have had peculiar qualifications, and those of 
 you who knew him best knew that those business quali- 
 fications worked themselves out in this magnificent 
 church, which is a monument of his splendid abilities. 
 
 But I want to say a little more about the man him- 
 self. He was absolutely true. "To thine own self be 
 true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou 
 canst not then be false to any man." And some one 
 has added : 
 
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 And true to self, 
 
 It follows in a clearer light, 
 
 As surely as the day the night, 
 
 Again, thou shalt be true to God. 
 
 This man was true to men and to God. As a min- 
 ister he was true. No man could hear Doctor Hamlin 
 preach without feeling that he knew the things of which 
 he preached. He never preached beyond his experi- 
 ence one whit or iota. He never preached anything 
 that was false to his experience, and it was the true 
 ring of sincerity that some way commended his preach- 
 ing to men. 
 
 I loved him for the power of his friendship ; for the 
 grasp of his hand ; for the genial kindliness of his greet- 
 ing ; for the true heart that leaped to utterance in every 
 friendly word which he said. Dear friends, I believe 
 that it was here that some of you knew him, and 
 that some of you will feel his loss. Some of you 
 will say today, "I lost my best friend on earth." There 
 is a little quotation in Homer, where it speaks of a 
 man who lived in a house by the side of the road who 
 was a Iriend to man. Someone has written a little 
 poem on it, the last verse of which is something like 
 this: 
 
 Let me live in my house by the side of the road, 
 Where the race of men go by ; 
 
 They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they 
 Are strong, wise, foolish, and so am I. 
 
 Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, 
 Or hurl the cynic's ban ? 
 
 Let me live in my house by the side of the road, 
 And be a friend of man. 
 
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 There are hundreds in this city to whom Dr. Hamlin 
 was just that kind of a friend. I glory in the fact that 
 he was my friend. When I was summoned only a few 
 moments after the stroke and hurried down to Wall 
 street to his son's office, his solicitude was very great 
 because he felt that he had put me out. He said that he 
 wanted me there, and as I stood two hours there in the 
 office waiting for the arrangements to take him to the 
 hospital to be completed, he said again and again, "I 
 hope I will not be a burden to you ; do not have me on 
 your mind." His unselfishness was marked in those 
 last hours of his life. It was a distinguishing charac- 
 teristic of the man from the very beginning to the 
 end. He thought of himself last of all. And in 
 all his dealings with you, his parishioners, you have 
 marked the quite unselfishness of the man. Ah, yes, 
 his goodness, not that half-hearted, sentimental good- 
 ness, but great, rugged righteousness and nobility of 
 heart. Dear friends, this was a man that you and I 
 both loved. 
 
 And now, there is just this conclusion. Some way 
 or other it just simply emphasizes my belief in immor- 
 tality when such a man is taken. In the Greek tragedy 
 of Ion you remember a loved one was about to give 
 his life as a sacrifice and he cries: "Shall we meet 
 again"? and the answer is: "I have asked that question 
 of the hills, that seem eternal; and the stars which 
 shine on forever ; of the brooks that never cease, and all 
 are dumb. But as I look upon thy face there is some- 
 thing in it that mantles through its beauty, that can 
 not wholly perish. We shall meet again." 
 
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 I heard Joseph Cook once in an impassioned lecture 
 on immortality use these words: 
 
 "I stood before the last resting place of Elizabeth 
 Barret Browning and put my hand on the cold marble 
 that covered her grave, and I said to myself 'Her sweet 
 faith, her Christ-likeness of soul, her heart, always 
 lifted above the storms of life; are they like this cold 
 marble, to cease their life and be no more ?' My heart 
 said no." 
 
 And so, dear friends, when we stand before a life 
 like this, so fitted to perpetuate itself, it is im- 
 possible to believe that death is the end. Thank 
 God, Jesus has brought life and immortality to life, 
 and we know that this life shall live forever in the 
 service of the King. He died as he wished to die, sud- 
 denly and in the harness, as he had often said. It is 
 a finished life. The church is finished ; characters that 
 have been reared here and trained for God are finished 
 characters. His heart and faith have entered into 
 many hearts and characters here that shall live on the 
 earth and through eternity as monuments of his labors 
 here. 
 
 There is a curious phrase in the epistle to the Corin- 
 thians, where something is said about those who are 
 baptized for the dead. And sometimes the commen- 
 tators have been greatly confused and mystified over it, 
 until someone had suggested that in the early church 
 the candidates for entering the church were put on 
 probation for a year. Sometimes during that year they 
 passed away and then a friend came forward and vol- 
 unteered to be baptized in the name of the one whom 
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 was that they should be baptized into the spirit of the 
 one whom God had taken, and baptized into the labors 
 of the one who had passed on into the unseen. Do 
 you know to me it is a very beautiful thought, that you 
 and I here today can be baptized for the dead; bap- 
 tized into the unselfish heroism; into that fidelity and 
 truth; into that splendid, noble perseverance of the 
 saints that distinguished this servant of God in his 
 ministry here on earth. 
 
 Do you remember that the martyr Stephen was 
 one of the greatest men of the early church? None 
 could gainsay him in the synagogues when he dis- 
 puted ; he was irresistible in his logic, and his loss 
 to the church was absolutely irreparable, and the 
 church could not understand it in those days, as 
 men can not understand such tragedies today. 
 But when the persecutors stoned Stephen to death, 
 they laid their clothes at the feet of a young man 
 whose name was Saul, and Cannon Farrar says that we 
 owe the Apostle Paul to the martyrdom of Stephen. 
 There may be young men and boys in this church today 
 who shall go into the Christian ministry and shall be 
 consecrated to the work that this man laid down simply 
 because the sorrow of this hour has burned this lesson 
 into their hearts. May God grant it. What young 
 men are there here today who are willing to be bap- 
 tized for the dead ; baptized into the heroic labors and 
 into the noble, Christ-like purpose of this man who has 
 gone? May the dear Lord grant that such thought 
 may ring long in our hearts, and that all these officers 
 here; that the splendid, noble workers in this parish; 
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 well, may one and all, in the holy quiet of this hour, 
 be baptized for the dead ; baptized into the spirit ; into 
 the unselfish heroism ; into the noble fidelity ; into the 
 all conquering faith of the one whom God has taken. 
 And then we will give glory unto the Father and the 
 Son and the Holy Ghost for the conquering, victorious 
 life which has ended in the greatest victory of all, and 
 we shall go on to complete in our lives the labors that 
 he has laid down. May God grant it. Amen. 
 
 Remarks of the Rev. Charles Alvin Smith. 
 
 While Doctor Hamlin was abroad last summer with 
 his dear wife, in reply to a letter received from the 
 speaker giving the details of a very sudden death 
 among our clergy here, a beloved Presbyterian minis- 
 ter and friend, he said the following : 
 
 "I have learned of his glorious death." (This brother 
 dropped dead in our meeting of the Presbytery.) 
 "Happy man ! So may I go, if God will. It is wrong 
 to choose, no doubt, and wrong to anticipate, but the 
 sole thing to be dreaded to me is a period of unproduc- 
 tiveness and dependence." 
 
 How much like the words he spoke to his son just 
 after he was stricken in his office this last week, when 
 observing the tears in his son's eyes, he said : 
 
 "Don't cry for me, Bert, I am ready to go if God so 
 will. This is a stroke, and I believe it is the beginning 
 of the end. Don't cry ,for me." 
 
 Back of the loaf is the snowy flour, and back of the 
 flour the mill, and back of the mill is the wheat and 
 
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 the shower, the sun and the Father's will. It may be 
 so, aye, it is so, in the case of our beloved brother. 
 
 In this same letter, when he was informed of the 
 inquiries by the young people, and the noble men and 
 women of this church on his behalf, and how much 
 he was missed — he adds : 
 
 "I am glad we are missed (his wife and himself). 
 The happiest day of this summer for me will be when 
 I again set foot in the dear Covenant. That does not 
 mean any lack of appreciation of Europe, less thought 
 of the dear, devoted people who made this delightful 
 trip possible. Give my love to them all." 
 
 How like the final moments in the hospital when 
 about to lose consciousness he tried to send messages 
 to various ones by name, and with remarkable self- 
 control he realized that consciousness was almost gone, 
 he said, "My love to all— all— to— all." 
 
 Writing to him again in detail of matters here that 
 came to our notice, he states in another letter : 
 
 "Indeed you do not write too much in detail, as 
 you say. You could not do that. I want to know 
 about everybody. I want to know everything, as we 
 have not yet had many letters from home, our mail 
 not being very regular, and I am hungry, constantly 
 hungry, for news from my dear people." 
 
 A Minute among his papers in reference to the death 
 of Secretary Hay, written in his own handwriting and 
 signed by himself, with slight alteration as to name 
 and one or two words, might fit here : 
 
 "Today our church is stricken in his death, a loss to 
 the world so great as about to swallow up our own 
 
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 sense of personal sorrow. May the consolations of 
 God be abundantly with his household. May the 
 nation ever cherish his memory and emulate his 
 example. So we devoutly pray." 
 
 He also read on that occasion two verses of a beauti- 
 ful poem, the copy of which is at hand, and which he 
 spoke of a number of times : 
 
 "I know the night is near at hand, 
 The mists lie low on hill and bay; 
 
 The autumn sheaves are dewless, dry, 
 But I have had the day — 
 Yes, I have had, dear Lord, the day. 
 
 When at thy call I have the night, 
 Brief be the twilight as I pass 
 
 From light to dark, from dark to light." 
 
 Beneath all the gracious geniality you so well knew 
 and that administrative power of such high order that 
 the Doctor possessed, was an intense love for God's 
 cause and a compassion for man's welfare. His 
 boundless charity and commitment of himself in all 
 his virile powers to men in their need for sympathy, 
 for service, were pronounced and conspicuous. One 
 day one applied to him (when I had the honor to 
 be in his company) for sympathy and help and, 
 most of all, friendship, I was surprised to hear him 
 say that he had never met the man before; just inci- 
 dentally heard of him. Upon my remarking surprise 
 he said : 
 
 "I tell you brother, it is our business to help every 
 man in distress. It is our business to give our sym- 
 pathy to every one who asks it, who needs it, whether 
 they express it or not." 
 
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 He had deep piety. Never once was there even a 
 suggestion of forcing piety or putting on appearances. 
 He was a man of God and a man among men. There 
 are some people in this great world of ours — and 
 Doctor Hamlin was conspicuously one — who remind 
 us of fragrant flowers. Whenever they draw near we 
 are glad, but know not always why. They rest us, for 
 they are the embodiment of peace. They inspire us, 
 for they are full of inspiration of the highest order. 
 The perfume of their presence and influence will be 
 wafted to us through the days to come, and we are 
 better men and women for having known them. You 
 and I meet these soul flowers — catch a glimmer of 
 their soul life later on as they, like our beloved friend, 
 drift away on that Heaven-bound vessel. We feel — 
 oh, so strongly — as we watch them out of sight, that 
 what we call death is only transition. 
 
 Was ever a life more ideal in the home than Doctor 
 Hamlin's life? His wife and two noble boys were to 
 him a cherished possession; an exceptional wife of an 
 exceptional husband, as they are worthy sons of a 
 worthy sire. On the 4th of February, 1873, his com- 
 panion said to him in response to the minister, when 
 she became his wife, "I will." The 17th of April, 1907, 
 that same dear wife can say, "I have." Did ever a 
 man more dearly love the partner of his life, and did 
 ever a good wife more merit that love? His affection, 
 his solicitude, his devotion to the minutest detail for 
 her comfort, were most sweet and tender. Shall I 
 ever forget the day when he came to the chapel study 
 and informed me that his wife was about to go to the 
 hospital for a serious operation and how he felt his 
 
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 whole life was hanging by a thread. And when we 
 knelt down together, he said : "My heart is too full ; 
 you pray." So simple, so sublime. 
 
 And he loved those boys of his. No morning ever 
 passed without his writing first of all to his sons. As 
 was said, he would come to his study at eight thirty, 
 when the first thing he would do was to pen letters to 
 his boys, and that he has done for years, as long as it 
 has been my privilege and high honor to know and 
 love him. 
 
 There are, it is true, two immortalities, as one has 
 rightly said, one we take with us when we go hence 
 to the great beyond, and the other we leave here, an 
 immortality of influence that will live and grow and 
 never die. 
 
 As Timothy loved Paul, so I loved him. 
 
 Five separate years in Dr. Hamlin's life stand out 
 conspicuously: 1847, born; 1871, preaching for the 
 first time; 1873, married; 1886, Washington and the 
 "Covenant"; 1907, crowned! What would he say — 
 what does he say — to you and me here today ? Listen : 
 
 "Be strong, we are not here to play, to dream, to drift. 
 We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. 
 Shun not the struggle ; face it ; 'tis God's gift. 
 
 It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, 
 How hard the battle goes, the day how long. 
 Faint not; fight on, tomorrow comes the song." 
 
 Farewell, pastor, husband, father, friend. Farewell ! 
 
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 MEMORIAL SERVICES 
 Church of the Covenant 
 
 Sunday, April 28, 190/, at 4 P. M. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 General John W. Foster, Presiding. 
 
 INVOCATION. 
 Rev. Samuel H. Greene, 
 
 Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. 
 
 O Thou who hast created us and bound us together by- 
 tender and holy ties in families and church and com- 
 munities; Thou who hast taught us to believe that 
 like as a father pitieth his children so Thou dost pity 
 us in the hours of bereavement and sorrow, we be- 
 seech Thee to look with compassion upon us today. 
 An afflicted family, a bereaved church, a saddened 
 community, we bow before Thee and say in our 
 sorrow, "The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken 
 away; and blessed be His name." And our Father, 
 while we seek here in this solemn hour to honor the 
 memory of one whom Thou didst so richly endow and 
 so greatly use for the advancement of Thy Kingdom 
 and the welfare of men, we pray that Thou wilt come 
 and lead us, and may Thy presence be felt and recog- 
 nized by each worshipper today. Behind the face 
 we so sadly miss, may we find yet the One face and 
 hear the One voice and be comforted by the presence 
 of Him who is the resurrection and the life. For His 
 sake we ask it. Amen. 
 
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 Opening Remarks by Gen. John W. Foster. 
 
 One week ago we paid our last sad homage of love 
 and devotion to our beloved pastor in this sanctuary, 
 the scene of his labors; and followed his remains to 
 their resting place in the cemetery. Today we come 
 again into the House of God to honor his memory by a 
 brief review of his work in Washington during the 
 last twenty-one years. This review will be made by 
 those who were associated with him officially and by 
 other of his friends who bring us their loving tribute 
 to our departed brother. 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S RELIGIOUS WORK. 
 
 Mr. Henry B. F. Macfarland, 
 On Behalf of the Session. 
 
 All his work as a minister of God and as a servant 
 of this people can well be called "religious." His 
 thought of all that he did was that it should be to the 
 glory 0;f God and for the good of men. But the Ses- 
 sion, in the division of the subject this afternoon, is 
 to speak of what are commonly called the religious 
 duties of the pastor of a Christian church ; his leader- 
 ship in the spiritual activities — the distinctively spirit- 
 ual activities of the church; in the eternal things as 
 contrasted with the temporalities. It was as a 
 preacher and as a pastor that the Session desire, in 
 these very few minutes, to speak of Doctor Hamlin. 
 
 Most of you know what he was as a preacher. We 
 are standing in the place where he stood Sunday after 
 Sunday, week after week, year after year, faithfully 
 delivering the whole counsel of God, preaching the 
 Word, instant in season and out of season, always 
 with the most careful preparation — there was never 
 any thought of Saturday night preparation for his 
 pulpit service; and always with saneness, always with 
 strength, always with manliness, so that at home, in our 
 own city, and in many of the pulpits of our own country, 
 and in pulpits abroad, he had opportunity after oppor- 
 
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 tunity to speak to many people because of what he had 
 done here. It really seems unnecessary to dwell upon 
 his service as a preacher. It was faithful, it was 
 zealous, it was sincere, and those of us who had the 
 privilege of hearing him oftenest, whether he spoke in 
 this pulpit, in the Sunday School, in the mission school, 
 in the societies of Christian Endeavor or in any of the 
 other meetings of this church, are most grateful for the 
 soldierly, straight-forward, courageous, and tender 
 preaching of our pastor. 
 
 But it was as a pastor that he excelled. It was as 
 the shepherd, the good shepherd, not the hireling, not 
 the one who serves for money or for fame, but the 
 one who serves out of love, and who literally gives his 
 life for his sheep, that he will stand longest in our 
 memory. We may forget his sermons ; we may forget 
 his public services, but none of us shall ever be able to 
 forget his appreciation in time of joy or his sympathy 
 in time of sorrow. There is hardly a home connected 
 with this church which in the past twenty-one years 
 has not known in some intimate way the tenderness, 
 the sympathy, the counsel, the admonition, the en- 
 couragement, of this good man. 
 
 It would not be possible for any of us to speak in 
 public of those things which are deepest in our hearts 
 as related to him. It would not be possible for us to 
 give publicly the reasons for the devotion which we 
 feel to his memory because of what he was to us in the 
 time of our joy or in the time of our sorrow. There 
 was much in his own personality, much in his own dis- 
 position, but most in the love of Jesus Christ in his 
 own heart, to bring us into this close and affectionate 
 
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 relation to him. He came into our homes as Jesus 
 came into the home of Bethany, rejoicing in our joy, 
 constant in our ills, laughing with us, weeping with 
 us, in the intimacy which is only possible to Christian 
 friendship and most possible between the pastor and 
 his people. 
 
 The Session will never forget how he received those 
 whom he had prepared for union with the church, 
 especially those from the Sunday Schools, the girls 
 and the boys whom he loved. We shall never forget 
 how he welcomed them ; how gently and thoughtfully 
 and lovingly he asked the questions necessary to bring 
 out their fitness for uniting with the church. We 
 shall never forget how, in all his ministrations as mod- 
 erator of the session, as its representative, publicly 
 and privately, he spoke with loving tact and with 
 gracious sympathy and with fidelity to the principles 
 and the standards of the church. It seems to us that 
 it was as the good shepherd, the follower, the imitator 
 of the Great Shepherd, that he is best and longest to be 
 remembered. 
 
 As we think o ; f all his gentle ministries throughout 
 these many years, as we think of all his sane and faith- 
 ful advice; as we think of what he was to many who 
 came to this church as to a sanctuary, fleeing from 
 those who threatened their spiritual life, we feel more 
 than ever that we should thank God that we had so 
 long the service of such a man. We may well say of 
 him what Matthew Arnold said of his father, the great 
 Arnold of Rugby, in the inscription that is on the wall 
 of the chapel at Rugby: 
 
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 ______ _ 
 
 "But thou wouldst not alone be saved, 
 
 My father ; alone conquer, and come to thy goal, 
 
 Leaving the rest in the wild. 
 
 We were weary, and we fearful, and 
 
 We fain to drop down and to die. 
 
 Still thou turnedst and still gavest thy hand to the 
 
 weary. 
 If, in the paths of the world stones may have wounded 
 
 thy feet, 
 Toil or dejection thy spirit, of this we knew nothing. 
 To us thou wert still cheerful and helpful and firm. 
 Therefore to thee it was given many to save with 
 
 thyself 
 Oh, faithful shepherd, to come bearing thy sheep in 
 
 thy hand." 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S SERVICES TO THE POOR AND 
 UNFORTUNATE. 
 
 Mr. Charles F. Nesbit, 
 On Behalf of the Board of Deacons. 
 
 When speaking of the superior man we need only 
 attempt to discover the reality, the facts. The superior 
 man grows continually greater as more and more of 
 his life is known, more of his acts are brought to mind, 
 more of his character revealed. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin was a superior man. His simplicity, his 
 repose of manner, his modesty, gave to the casual 
 acquaintance little idea of his ceaseless activity or his 
 enormous accomplishment. 
 
 I am to speak particularly, today, of Dr. Hamlin's 
 services to the poor and unfortunate. The quantity of 
 his ministrations would alone be sufficient subject mat- 
 ter for a long address. Not only was he intimately 
 acquainted with all the work in this church, but with 
 the more extended demands of Peck Chapel. But it 
 is simply surprising the number of outside activities, 
 charities and philanthropies with which he was con- 
 nected, and the amount of service he rendered them. 
 The Central Union Mission, the Hope and Help Mis- 
 sion, Bruen Home, The Homeward Bound Mission, 
 The Florence Crittenten Mission, and the Instructive 
 Visiting Nurses Society, and many others knew his 
 active help and sympathy. It is of interest that every 
 
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 single order for clothing, shoes, etc., issued by the 
 Citizens' Relief Association of the District, bore his 
 name as Vice-President. Mr. Weller of the Associated 
 Charities tells me that Dr. Hamlin called him up as 
 frequently or more frequently than any other pastor 
 in the city to inquire about their work, and especially 
 about specific cases. And that he was most punctual in 
 attendance upon the Directors' meetings of the Citizens' 
 Relief Association. 
 
 It is not with the quantity of his work, however, that 
 we now are primarily concerned. The character of a 
 man is to be found not so much in the quantity as in 
 the quality of his work. 
 
 Our modern, pushing, materialistic civilization has 
 laid its great emphasis on material things. Emerson 
 truly estimated it when he said: "Things are in the 
 saddle and ride mankind." This virus of materialism 
 has attacked even the organized and unorganized 
 charities of the age. It is not unfair to even the Chris- 
 tian portion of American citizenship to say that the 
 great majority of those interested in the organized 
 efforts to aid the poor and unfortunate have not taken 
 seriously the statement of Jesus that "men do not 
 live by bread alone." Dr. Hamlin not only saw clearly 
 this truth, but his service was a continual proof that he 
 gave to people the other and greater necessity, earnest, 
 direct personal sympathy and love. To Dr. Hamlin 
 any and all who needed help of any kind were human 
 beings in distress. He moved easily among the strong 
 and the wealthy, without arrogance, and just as easily 
 among the poor and unfortunate, without condecen- 
 sion. He never assumed that he was his brother's 
 
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 keeper, but saw that greater truth that to be a man's 
 brother is infinitely greater than to assume to be his 
 keeper. 
 
 If ever a man could have avoided easily and with- 
 out criticism the expenditure of much time in ser- 
 vices to the poor and unfortunate, Dr. Hamlin had the 
 opportunity. The pastor of a wealthy and prosperous 
 church, located in the center of the best residence sec- 
 tion, of a city particularly free — among its white popu- 
 lation, at least — from the suffering entailed by poverty. 
 His congregation, almost without exception composed 
 of substantial people, and that congregation sufficiently 
 large to take all of any active man's time and atten- 
 tion ; there could never have been the slightest criticism 
 had he not gone out of his legitimate work, as pastor 
 of this great church. The quality of the man's charac- 
 ter is revealed by the fact that he continually and con- 
 tinuously did go outside. He was ever looking for 
 those who needed help. He hunted them up. I shall 
 give only one instance today, typical and illustrative — 
 but which to any fair mind forever settles any possible 
 question as to the real motive behind any and every 
 act which Dr. Hamlin performed. When I came to 
 Washington in 1886 the Secretary of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association here was Mr. James M. Pugh. 
 Dr. Hamlin knew him and valued his ability and ser- 
 vices, and loved him as a man. The Doctor was out of 
 the city at the time of Mr. Pugh's death. On his return 
 to the city, however, he not only wrote a letter but 
 called upon Mrs. Pugh, telling her how much he had 
 admired and loved her husband, saying how sorry he 
 was that he had not been in the city at the time of 
 
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 his sickness, and begging that if he could ever be of 
 help to her, that she would command him. Mrs. Pugh 
 belonged to another church; was not even a Presby- 
 terian. Some years later, in great perplexity, she felt 
 that she must turn to some one, for counsel and advice. 
 She went to Dr. Hamlin. She has frequently told me 
 how very kind and considerate he was, how much time 
 he gave her, and he wrote about the matter that she 
 had in hand then, three or four letters. After that 
 she not infrequently saw him, always to get the same 
 sympathetic helpful counsel. She always came from 
 him cheered and strengthened, and she never left him 
 without an urgent invitation that she should come to 
 see him again. She felt that in him she had a friend 
 and adviser whose interest was genuine and who had 
 time to take up with her the perplexing questions of 
 her life. This was Dr. Hamlin, always and ever. When 
 we consider a quality of service like this and know 
 something of its quantity, we begin to appreciate the 
 greatness of Teunis S. Hamlin. 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S RELATIONS TO THE TEM- 
 PORALITIES OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Mr. Charles D. Walcott, 
 On behalf of the Trustees. 
 
 From the inception of religious thought men have 
 to a greater or less degree magnified the temporalities 
 of their religion. The spiritualities have often fol- 
 lowed rather than dominated. With Dr. Hamlin 
 there was such a strong sense of the reality and 
 power of his religious belief, and he so clearly mani- 
 fested it, that few fully realized the business sagacity 
 and common sense with which he treated all matters 
 pertaining to the temporal affairs of the church and 
 to the educational and charitable organizations with 
 which he was connected. 
 
 He gave, as was needed, of his time and energy in 
 this direction, and as unselfishly and thoroughly as 
 in his other activities. Throughout his pastorate the 
 members of the Board of Trustees of the church were 
 impressed by the thorough manner in which he pre- 
 pared and discussed the business questions he brought 
 before the Board. Usually, in such a Board, any im- 
 portant matter is referred to a sub-committee for con- 
 sideration and report, but in the business affairs of 
 the Church of the Covenant Dr. Hamlin gave such 
 full consideration to all pending questions that his 
 reports were accepted and he was asked for specific 
 
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 recommendations. He was a safe, sane and wise ad- 
 viser, and the prosperity of the Church is largely due 
 to that fact and to the catholicity which disposed him 
 to welcome and readily accept the views of others and 
 thus to co-operate for the common good of the organ- 
 ization. 
 
 He fully appreciated the great business capacity of 
 Mr. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Mr. James E. Fitch, 
 and others, with whom he worked for years in placing 
 the affairs of the Church upon a sound basis. He 
 was fortunate in having such able support, and they 
 were fortunate in having as a leader a man so broad 
 in all the relations of life that he could be relied upon 
 to carry out effectively all approved plans of an ad- 
 ministrative and business character. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin's keen business insight and unusual ad- 
 ministrative ability attracted and held men to him in 
 the service of the Church. These qualities, in addi- 
 tion to his broad humanity and Christianity, brought 
 him into close touch with all classes and held in the 
 Church men eminent as statesmen, scientists, lawyers, 
 and leaders in business and civic life. 
 
 I asked Mr. James E. Fitch, for many years treas- 
 urer of the Church of the Covenant and a member 
 with Dr. Hamlin of the building committee when the 
 present edifice was erected, his opinion of Dr. Ham- 
 lin's business qualifications. Mr. Fitch wrote as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 "From an intimate association with Dr. Hamlin of 
 nearly twenty-one years I had large opportunity of 
 seeing this side of his character, and was continually 
 surprised at his wonderful combination of professional 
 
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 and business ability. As a business man or as a lawyer 
 he could not have failed of great success. He was a 
 member of the building committee, and it was a de- 
 light as well as a great help to have the assistance of 
 a man so clear headed and yet, while decided and posi- 
 tive in his convictions, always considerate of the 
 opinions of others. The ideas advanced by him at the 
 meetings of the committee were always given glad 
 consideration, and much of his business ability is in- 
 corporated in the stones of our church building. Of 
 his faculty to raise money, the fact that within fifteen 
 years from the commencement of the building of our 
 Church the whole cost ($215,000) was met is suffi- 
 cient evidence." 
 
 My personal experience on a building committee 
 with Dr. Hamlin was slightly different from that of 
 Mr. Fitch. It was in connection with the extension 
 and rebuilding of Peck Memorial Chapel. The com- 
 mittee met for organization and appointed Dr. Ham- 
 lin and Dr. Smith a sub-committee with power; the 
 full committee met again incidentally at the opening 
 qf the new building. Meeting Dr. Hamlin one day 
 I asked how matters were going at the Peck Chapel 
 building; he answered at once, "All right, but I must 
 take my wheel and call on the friends of the movement 
 as money is needed and I do not like a debt." The 
 money was secured. 
 
 Again when the chapel of the Church of the Cove- 
 nant was burned out, it happened that I met our pastor 
 in the entrance hall. He was wet, begrimed with 
 smoke, but cheerful because the damage was relatively 
 
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 small. He was a man equal to the occasion in tem- 
 poral as in spiritual affairs. 
 
 In meeting Dr. Hamlin in the social life of the 
 Capital City, the impression gained was that of a man 
 of the world in the best sense, with a keen sense of 
 humor, an intense enjoyment of life, with broad sym- 
 pathies, business capacity, and sound judgment; all 
 dominated by a deep and spiritual nature that was part 
 of himself and of his daily life. He was broad minded 
 and progressive, quick to catch the spirit of others, 
 and it may be truthfully said of him that he "stood 
 with his face to the East and his mind open to all 
 truth." 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S RELATION TO THE PRESBY- 
 TERY AND THE DENOMINATION. 
 
 MEMORIAL OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 READ BY 
 
 Rev. Charles Alvin Smith, 
 Clerk of Presbytery. 
 
 The Presbytery of Washington City has been startled 
 and saddened by the announcement of the sudden 
 death of our co-presbyter and brother, Rev. T. S. 
 Hamlin, D. D., and desires to put on record its tribute 
 to his exceptional worth and service in this presbytery. 
 
 The Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin was born in Glenville, 
 N. Y., May 31, 1847, was an alumnus of Union Col- 
 lege, N. Y., and received his theological training at the 
 Reformed (Dutch) Theological Seminary, New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., and at the Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York City. He was ordained by the presbytery 
 of Troy in 1871. 
 
 After a pastorate of thirteen years in Troy, New 
 York, and one of two years at Mt. Auburn, Ohio, he 
 came to this presbytery to assume the pastorate of the 
 young Church of the Covenant, which proved to be his 
 life work of unusual usefulness and distinction. He was 
 its first and only pastor. Its infancy, its location and 
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 which during two decades he proved himself strong, 
 capable and resourceful, so that the church, both in its 
 material and spiritual building stands in this commu- 
 nity his beautiful and enduring monument. 
 
 He was well furnished for the multiplied and com- 
 plex demands of the modern pastorate. His fine en- 
 dowments of intellect and spirit had equipment of a 
 physical health and strength that enabled quick and 
 constant response to his increasing and varied duties. 
 A student, and a man of affairs well poised and cul- 
 tured, wise in counsel, patient in perplexities, positive 
 in decision, fertile in expedients, courageous in convic- 
 tion, indefatigable in labors, keen yet fraternal in his 
 fellowships, genial, ready and sympathetic in our varied 
 relationships, he was efficient and successful in leader- 
 ship and action, and, with an abiding sense of the Di- 
 vine Presence, and an unswerving loyalty to his own 
 convictions of truth and duty, he revealed himself a 
 good minister of Jesus Christ. 
 
 He was a faithful presbyter, ever ready with time 
 and labor for the smallest demand of the humblest 
 need and counting the service of the Church the im- 
 perative and supreme call upon his best gifts of intellect 
 and soul. 
 
 He was catholic in his interests, recognizing any- 
 where the kinship of right and justice, responsive 
 cheerfully to the interests and needs of good citizen- 
 ship and especially welcoming every opportunity for 
 inter-denominational fraternity and expression, and 
 evincing in word and prayer his constant yearning for 
 the visible unity of the Church of Christ. 
 
 We sorrow most of all that we shall see his face no 
 
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 more. We can scarcely realize his departure. His 
 last words spoken on Tuesday in presbytery were 
 characteristically tender and appreciative of two of 
 our deceased brethren, and still echo in our hearts. 
 We shall miss his faithful presence, his valued judg- 
 ment and co-operation, his fellowship and devoted ser- 
 vice. Until the day dawn and the shadows flee away, 
 farewell, brother. Faithful unto death, thine is the 
 crown of life. 
 
 We invoke for the Church of the Covenant and for 
 the beloved household so sadly bereaved, the promised 
 rod and staff in this valley of the shadows, and com- 
 mend them lovingly to the Father of Mercies and God 
 of all Comfort who comforteth us in all our affliction. 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S RELATION TO THE CHURCH 
 AT LARGE. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, D. D. 
 Bishop of the Diocese of Washington. 
 
 I gratefully appreciate the privilege in being invited 
 to speak here at this service and to pay my tribute of 
 respect, reverence and affection to our departed friend, 
 in whose memory it is held. 
 
 And perhaps the fact that I belong to another Chris- 
 tian body, enabled me to see a side of his character 
 which others closer to him in Church relations could 
 not see so well. 
 
 These differences in various Christian bodies are 
 founded upon honest and religious convictions to which 
 each one has to be true; but behind the convictions 
 themselves, there is the deep religious consciousness 
 shared by all, that Christianity is, first, last and always, 
 a personal religion founded upon the person of Jesus 
 Christ. And consequently those who share and ifeel 
 that consciousness are drawn together in a close bond 
 of sympathy which death itself can not sever. 
 
 Doctor Hamlin, all through my intercourse with 
 him, manifested that type of superhuman character 
 which our Lord himself describes in His own criterion 
 of discipleship : "By this shall all men know that ye 
 are my disciples, that ye love one another as I have 
 
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 loved you." And beneath this love and this sympathy 
 there was the balance. It was not an intemperate sym- 
 pathy ; it was not an undisciplined love. God had given 
 him the spirit of power, of love and a sound mind, and 
 those of other Christian bodies who were brought close 
 to him felt more and more as we listened to his coun- 
 sels and depended upon them, that if he had a warm 
 heart he had also a cool head. 
 
 I suppose both of us were drawn very close together 
 in that which is an ardent hope and expectation of the 
 far future, the reunion of Christendom. But it is 
 not for us to know the times and the seasons. There 
 are difficulties in the way, and he always faced these 
 difficulties with such soberness of judgment that I often 
 conferred with him regarding them. When we met 
 together, as we did once every three months in our 
 little clerical association where we discussed the points 
 of Union and points of difference between Christians, 
 as Doctor Greene, who was one of us, well knows, 
 Doctor Hamlin's sympathies were always more on the 
 side of points of union than the points of difference. 
 
 When the news came so suddenly that he was gone, 
 I personally felt that kind of pain which one experi- 
 ences when a cord of our life is snapped asunder, bind- 
 ing us with the past. I felt that a friend was taken 
 away, whom we could ill afford to lose; a friend who 
 was standing at our side and at my side, as we en- 
 deavored together to be witnesses for Jesus Christ in 
 the complicated religious conditions of this city. 
 
 He is gone. But thank God he has left his mark on 
 this community, a mark more indelible than that graven 
 upon stone, in witnessing for Christ, and showing us 
 that— 
 
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 "Life, with all it yields of joy or woe, 
 Of hope and fear, 
 
 Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love" — 
 Even the love of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Yes, he is gone. It seems a strange anomaly that 
 when one is Christlike, the nearer he approaches God 
 in his character, the harder it is to part from him. It 
 seems a stranger contradiction to the outer world, that 
 a man should be taken away in the very zenith of his 
 strength and manhood's power, but to us Christians 
 there is no contradiction here, for we know that he is 
 called up to a higher sphere of service. Death is not the 
 end. Where the earthly ends, the Heavenly life begins ; 
 and it is the letting out of our human life to its full 
 freedom, its full power, its full completion in Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. 
 
 "Beloved, it does not appear what we shall be, but 
 we know that when He shall appear we shall be like 
 Him ; for we shall see Him as He is." And thank God 
 today we know also, that under the shadow of His 
 love, the friendships that are begun here will last 
 through eternity. 
 
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 DR. HAMLIN'S SERVICES AS A CITIZEN. 
 
 Mr. Justice Brewer, 
 
 Of the United States Supreme Court. 
 
 The gentlemen who have preceded me have pre- 
 sented Doctor Hamlin's life from several points of 
 view. I want to add my testimonial to his worth and 
 speak of him as a citizen. That he did his work well 
 in this church, this building felicitous in all its appoint- 
 ments, and this congregation strong in its devotion to 
 his memory, fully attest; but he never forgot that he 
 had other work to do than that inside these walls. He 
 saw that this city, this nation, called for wise and 
 faithful service and he freely took his part in the public 
 life of both city and nation. He rendered unto God 
 the things which were God's, and at the same time 
 unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's. 
 
 Let me notice a few of his activities outside the 
 church, for lack of time forbids mention of all. He 
 recognized that education is one of the pillars upon 
 which society must rest, a part of the foundation on 
 which must stand an enduring government of and by 
 the people, and he gave no little time and thought to 
 its promotion. The last time I met him — and it was 
 but a few days before his death — was at a gathering of 
 citizens interested in an effort to secure a site for the 
 George Washington University. He there made an 
 earnest appeal and before the evening was over sup- 
 plemented his faith by his works. 
 
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 Nor were his interest and efforts limited to his own 
 race. His spirit caught the echo of the Master's 
 words, "Unto one of the least of these my brethren; 
 unto me." He realized a great national danger in 
 race prejudice and dense ignorance, and strove to 
 soften the one by removing the other. He was for 
 years the President of the Board of Trustees of How- 
 ard University, that institution, located in this capital 
 city, devoted to the education and elevation of the 
 colored race, lifted up as a light of inspiration and 
 hope to the ten million descendants of enfranchised 
 blacks who dwell within our borders and are destined 
 to become a mighty ,f actor for weal or woe in the fu- 
 ture of this nation. He believed that service to his 
 country in these directions was duty to God and that 
 by as much as he was promoting the cause of Chris- 
 tian education he was doing the work of both a good 
 citizen and a good Christian. 
 
 Nor were his activities limited to the cause of edu- 
 cation. He appreciated the significance of the Mas- 
 ter's declaration, "The poor always ye have with you." 
 He did not stand surrounded by parlor comforts and 
 with indifferent eyes gaze through the window upon 
 the great mass of want and suffering in the cold and 
 rain outside. He believed in the Good Samaritan. 
 He was an active and interested Vice-President of 
 the Citizens' Relief Association, that organization in 
 this city designed to lend a helping hand to those in 
 poverty and distress. As one of the Board of Visitors 
 to the Government Hospital for the Insame he helped 
 to discharge a sacred duty of the community to its 
 afflicted members. 
 
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 He saw the great danger which gathers about the 
 young in our large cities through their association with 
 the vile and vicious, and so he gladly acted as a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers of the Washington 
 Playground Association, seeking to provide places 
 where those children who cannot escape from the con- 
 fines of the city may find ample opportunity for amuse- 
 ment under influences which are free from taint and 
 which will tend to uplift the boy and girl into useful 
 and capable manhood and womanhood. 
 
 Nor did he, while giving time and strength to these 
 varied efforts for bettering the conditions of life in 
 city and nation, ignore, as his labors in the Memorial 
 Association of the District of Columbia and the His- 
 torical Society attest, the blessings which come by 
 treasuring the rich memories of our short but glorious 
 past. 
 
 In still another direction was his activity as a citizen 
 shown. He was not what is sneeringly called a so- 
 ciety man; that is, he was not reveling in the cheap 
 gossip of pink teas. At the same time he was a social 
 man, a welcome and frequent guest at those gatherings 
 where ladies and gentlemen of culture and refinement 
 meet and converse about matters of real worth, and 
 where is constantly developing the true social spirit 
 which is one of the bright, sweet unfoldings of human 
 nature, and which leads up to the inspiring truth of 
 the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. 
 More than that, in public gatherings where questions 
 of general interest were discussed Doctor Hamlin was 
 a conspicuous and welcome presence. He was em- 
 phatically and in the best sense of the term one of our 
 
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 leading citizens, one of whose work and worth we 
 were all justly proud. 
 
 I do not say that his work in these various direc- 
 tions was more valuable than as a Christian minister. 
 I would not in the least disparage that. At the same 
 time it does me good to be able to say of any Christian 
 minister, as can be said of Doctor Hamlin, that his 
 sympathies and activities reach out into the great 
 problems of life and the needs and the means of help- 
 ing and blessing the community at large. Doctor 
 Hamlin was no politician, not mingling in the strife of 
 party, but as a citizen he felt and showed by his life his 
 interest in the affairs of city and nation, and both city 
 and nation have met with a distinctive loss in his de- 
 parture from earth. 
 
 Do not think, my friends of this church, that you 
 have a monopoly of the precious influences of his life 
 and memory. We of this city who are not of this 
 church share in them. He was our fellow-citizen. 
 Thankful for all the teachings of his life, we come to 
 testify our appreciation of the man and express our 
 sense of our loss in his departure. And I add in clos- 
 ing that it is a great thing for any one to be able to 
 say, as Doctor Hamlin could say : 
 
 "I live for those who love me, 
 
 For those who know me true, 
 For the heaven that smiles above me 
 
 And awaits my coming, too. 
 
 For the cause that needs assistance, 
 For the wrong that needs resistance, 
 For the future in the distance, 
 And the good that I can do." 
 
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 MINUTE ADOPTED BY THE THREE BOARDS 
 OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 READ BY 
 
 Mr. Charles Henry Butler. 
 
 For over twenty years Dr. Hamlin was the leader 
 of this church. He was proud to be known as a ser- 
 vant of God and a servant of the people, "servant of 
 the servants of God," but we all gladly acknowledged 
 and followed the leadership which is inherent in the 
 true servant of all. 
 
 All of his service was religious. He knew no dis- 
 tinction between what are commonly called religious 
 and what are commonly called secular things in the 
 work of the church. 
 
 Gifted with unusual business ability he led in the 
 business affairs of the church, doing a great and price- 
 less duty which was not properly obligatory upon him. 
 In the erection of this edifice, and in the paying of the 
 debt, as in the construction and extension of the Peck 
 Memorial Chapel building he led, with the Board of 
 Trustees, wisely and efficiently. He was equally suc- 
 cessful in every other financial effort of the church and 
 never spared himself in the work, not always agreeable, 
 of soliciting money contributions. In a very real sense 
 the church building and the chapel building in George- 
 town are his material monument. 
 
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 The Deacons testified in deep and constant apprecia- 
 tion to his incessant and intelligent co-operation with 
 them in their special care of the poor of the parish. 
 Not only did he make public and private appeals for 
 the necessary money, and in frequent attendance upon 
 the meetings of the Board of Deacons provide sensible 
 and generous counsel, but his personal visits to the 
 needy recipients of church aid, always marked by per- 
 sonal sympathy as well as tactfulness, were supple- 
 mented by personal gifts which only became known by 
 accident if at all. 
 
 And the King may well say unto him, in the great 
 day of accounting, "Come, blessed of my father, inherit 
 the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation 
 of the world : ,for I was a hungered, and you gave me 
 meat : I was thirsty, and you gave me drink : I was a 
 stranger, and you took me in : naked, and you clothed 
 me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, 
 and you came unto me." 
 
 All the people know what Dr. Hamlin was as a 
 preacher. They know that he preached only the truth 
 as he saw it and always with sincerity, earnestness and 
 solicitude. They know that he prepared for the pulpit 
 with the same conscientious fidelity which marked all 
 his service and gave his hearers the best he had to give. 
 They know that his preaching centered in Jesus Christ, 
 whom he exalted as the friend and saviour of sinners. 
 Dr. Hamlin was sought to supply many pulpits in the 
 principal cities of this country, and last year preached 
 in London and other cities abroad, and everywhere with 
 the same acceptance. At the Northfield Conferences, 
 at the conventions of the International Society of 
 
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 Christian Endeavor, of which he was a trustee from 
 the beginning, as well as in the General Assembly, the 
 Synod and the Presbytery, his addresses were known 
 for their saneness and strength. Dr. Hamlin gave 
 every distinctive department of the work of the church 
 at home and abroad its proper place before his people. 
 He was alike the intelligent friend and devoted advo- 
 cate of missionary effort, home and foreign, and of 
 every other cause of Christ. He gave time and thought 
 especially to the service of this church, through Mr. 
 and Mrs. Paul Dolts, in the Philippines; Miss Mary 
 Pierson Eddy in Syria and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alvin 
 Smith, in Georgetown. He had an affectionate regard 
 for them all and never failed to support them with wise 
 counsel and inspiring encouragement. He gave him- 
 self unsparingly to the varied activities of the Peck 
 Memorial Chapel and was a welcome attendant at its 
 Sunday school and every other kind of meeting which 
 it held. Naturally, the Societies of Christian Endeavor 
 in the church had a peculiar hold upon his affections, 
 but his interest in all other organizations was constant 
 and inspiring. The Sunday school claimed a large 
 place in that interest and his preparation of the teach- 
 ers and others for the next Sunday's lesson had become 
 one of the features of Sunday morning. He took the 
 greatest pleasure in the celebration by the two Sunday 
 schools of Children's Day in the Church of the Cove- 
 nant, with all its beauty of youth and flowers, and was 
 grieved that he had to miss the celebration last year. 
 
 The Men's Society of the Church of the Covenant 
 owes its existence and largely its success to Dr. Ham- 
 lin, and the Society of the Covenant had his continual 
 
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 support by advice and his frequent presence, and every 
 other organization knew his quickening touch and 
 appreciative gratitude. But his heart was not limited 
 by his own church or church denomination, even in 
 their world-wide interests. He was a brother to every 
 man. He was the friend of every church and spoke 
 frequently in pulpits outside of his own denomination, 
 and in general religious gatherings. He was honored 
 as one the leading supporters of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association, of the Salvation Army, and of 
 the city missions, and of every other organization for 
 good. 
 
 He took the part which a minister of God should 
 take in the civil affairs of his city. He was proud to 
 be a citizen of the National Capital and glad to give 
 his best endeavors, where his regular duties permitted, 
 to its upbuilding, especially in its intellectual and spirit- 
 ual aspects, and in its care of the unfortunate members 
 of the community. He answered every appeal of the 
 District Government for civic service of citizens' com- 
 mittees counsels as valuable and effective as those 
 which he gave to his own church. He was a zealous 
 advocate of education, public and private, elementary 
 and collegiate. He rendered notable service to Howard 
 University and through it to the whole colored race, 
 besides doing what he could for the other institutions 
 of learning here, and his work as a member of the 
 board which looked after the Presbyterian colleges and 
 academies of the country was admirable. As a member 
 of the Board of Visitors of the Government Hospital 
 for the Insane and as a founder of the Memorial Asso- 
 ciation to preserve and mark historic places, which 
 
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 saved the house where Abraham Lincoln died, he 
 showed the breadth of his public interest. 
 
 But Dr. Hamlin was pre-eminent as a pastor. It 
 was as a shepherd who was not a hireling, but who day 
 and night looked after the sheep, that he will remain 
 longest in memory. In the preparation in private con- 
 versation of those who were thinking of uniting with 
 the church, in their examination before the session, 
 in interviews with doubting, troubled, and repentant 
 people, in the faithful and systematic correspondence 
 with absent members of the congregation, in his per- 
 sonal visits not only at the time of bereavement or 
 other great sorrow, but upon the anniversaries of those 
 who had passed away, at the sick-bed, or other places 
 of sore affliction, at the funeral ; and no less at the 
 wedding or other time of joy, Dr. Hamlin was at his 
 very best and gave to his people the very life of his 
 life. In sympathy, in appreciation, he was comfort 
 and courage, and when necessary he was a faithful 
 friend in admonition and encouragement to better liv- 
 ing. He was as systematic in this as in all his labors 
 or he would not have been able to accomplish in this 
 respect, day after day, week after week, what of itself 
 would have been enough to fill the day for any other 
 man. This he did through all the years, filled with 
 sorrows and joys, triumphs and defeats, of his min- 
 istry to this people, and through this people to the 
 Great Shepherd. And more than this can not be said 
 of any man. 
 
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 PRAYER AND BENEDICTION. 
 
 Rev. Robert M. Moore. 
 Pastor of Foundry Methodist Church. 
 
 Almighty God, thou knowest how our hearts are 
 filled with a sense of loss and loneliness in this hour, 
 and as we think upon the life and record of our trans- 
 lated friend, our loss seems all the greater. And to it 
 there is added something of perplexity for those of us 
 who still stand in the ranks. We do not exactly know 
 who shall wear his armor, or who there is to assume 
 the leadership that he has surrendered. But, Almighty 
 God, in spite of the loss that settles upon us; in spite 
 of the tears that may be in our hearts as well as our 
 eyes, we give Thee thanks for this life. We thank 
 Thee, O God, for his love for humanity; we thank 
 Thee for the deepening consciousness that was ever 
 with him that he was about Thy business in the world 
 and that he was very insistent upon the consummation 
 of the things that Thou hadst given him to do ; and we 
 thank Thee today that the life which he lived is for- 
 ever beyond the touch or shadow of time — that it has 
 been finished and that the crown is on his brow. 
 
 Moreover, we thank Thee, dear Lord, that there 
 comes to us today a deeper realization, a better real- 
 ization, of the path in which our reluctant feet have 
 been so slow to go. We thank Thee for the example 
 that he has set before us as to how life might be good 
 
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 and true in the midst of adverse conditions ; as to how 
 life might be gentle and yet not have compromise in it ; 
 as to how life might be strong and yet not be repellant. 
 And we give Thee thanks that the life of the sons of 
 God seems more reasonable for us, for our friend who 
 has lived it in our midst and whose character and 
 whose record of life we pray may not be lost out of 
 our consciousness. And we give Thee thanks, O God, 
 that the mysterious land that is just before us seems 
 more real today, for we know that such as our brother 
 and friend cannot be dead. And therefore we expect 
 to find him again. 
 
 But, O God, we must needs take the way of life. 
 We who yet remain must needs gather up the bur- 
 dens. We who yet stand in the ranks must yet go 
 forth to warfare. Command Thy blessing to rest 
 upon us that we may be faithful as he was; that we 
 may be true, as was he, even unto death ; and upon that 
 inner circle of his life, those who know intimately 
 those relations that love hath set; those who watched 
 for his coming and listened more keenly even than we, 
 his comrades. O God, wilt Thou cause the south 
 wind to breathe through the lonely home, and wilt 
 Thou give those who mourn the spirit of comfort and 
 the spirit of assurance; and wilt Thou keep us all faith- 
 ful unto the high ideals that we have seen wrought out 
 in actual life, in the living of our brother and friend. 
 Grant Thy blessing to this church which has lost its 
 pastor — to this flock, that hath lost its shepherd; and 
 Iceep them, we pray Thee, as Thou wilt keep us all, 
 tinder Thy continual care and protection until the night 
 is passed and God's day shall break. 
 
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 And may the peace of God, which passeth all un- 
 derstanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowl- 
 edge and the Love of God and His Son, Jesus Christ, 
 and may the blessing of Almighty God, Father, Son 
 and Holy Spirit, rest upon you and abide with you 
 forever, Amen. 
 
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 TRIBUTES TO THE 
 
 REV. TEUNIS S. HAMLIN, D.D., 
 
 BY DIFFERENT BODIES. 
 
 Temple Baptist Church, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 Whereas, It hath pleased our heavenly Father sud- 
 denly to remove from the scenes of an honored and 
 active ministry, Rev. Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, pastor of 
 the Church of the Covenant, and 
 
 Whereas, His unexpected death has come as a keen 
 sorrow upon his loved family, on the church which 
 he has served so efficiently since its organization, the 
 great denomination of which he was a distinguished 
 member, but also upon the whole Christian community 
 of the District of Columbia, and 
 
 Whereas, The Temple Baptist Church of this city 
 share in the loss experienced by this decease, 
 
 Be it Therefore Resolved: I. That the death of such 
 a servant of God concerns people of every creed and 
 church, and makes us realize in a peculiar sense that 
 in the fellowship of the saints all gifts and graces of 
 ministry are a common blessing to Christendom, and 
 hence we all suffer when any are withdrawn or cease 
 to be operative. 
 
 2. That his truly catholic spirit, the breadth of his 
 sympathies, the extensiveness of his influence, and his 
 willingness to respond to calls outside of his own parish 
 bounds to which we can gratefully testify, made him 
 
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 prominent as a force for righteousness in Washing- 
 ton, and will make his place exceedingly difficult to fill. 
 
 3. That as at such a time consolation and hope 
 cometh alone from the God of all comfort, we would 
 assure especially those most immediately affected by 
 this dispensation of Providence, our participation in 
 their sorrow, and our prayers that they may be graci- 
 ously sustained. 
 
 4. That to his sorely bereaved family and to the 
 afflicted church we tender expressions of sincere regard 
 and sympathy, and desire that all grace may richly 
 abound toward them. 
 
 5. Resolved further, That a copy of these resolu- 
 tions be forwarded to the family and church as a 
 slight tribute of esteem for Dr. Hamlin, and our solici- 
 tude for their highest good as God speaks to them amid 
 present shadows. 
 
 Done by order of the church, April 18, 1907. 
 
 J. J. Muir, 
 William Fletcher, 
 C. N. Richards, 
 E. T. Fenwick_, 
 Fred Beall, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Church of the Epiphany, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 Whereas, our Sister Congregation of the Church of 
 the Covenant o : f this city, has been suddenly deprived 
 of its beloved pastor by the stroke of death, 
 
 Resolved, That the Vestry of the Church of the 
 Epiphany, on their own behalf, and on behalf of the 
 congregation of the church which they represent, desire 
 to express their heartfelt sympathy with the Session 
 and the people of the Church of the Covenant in their 
 
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 sore bereavement, praying that the God of all comfort 
 and consolation may support them in their affliction. 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of the Rev. Teunis S. 
 Hamlin, D. D., we recognize that, not his own flock 
 only, but our whole city has been bereaved, for his 
 interests and his labors as a man and as a minister 
 extended far beyond the limits of his own congrega- 
 tion and his own communion, reaching out to the 
 community at large, and to the upbuilding of our com- 
 mon Christianity. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be trans- 
 mitted, with fraternal greetings, to the Session of the 
 Church of the Covenant. 
 
 Randolph H. McKim, 
 Rector. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 M. E. Miller, 
 
 Registrar. 
 
 New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church has 
 heard with sadness and profound regret of the sudden 
 death of Rev. T. S. Hamlin, D. D., pastor of the 
 Church of the Covenant, and desires to put on record 
 our high appreciation of his ability, his devoted, wise 
 and .faithful service to the church of Christ in this com- 
 munity and his intelligent and zealous interest in the 
 varied activities of our common Presbyterianism. 
 
 We extend our tenderest sympathies to this daughter 
 of our church in the loss of one who through these 
 many years had won their love by his devotion their 
 
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 discipleship by his wisdom and their success by his un- 
 remitting and consecrated labors. 
 
 And we pray for the bereaved church and stricken 
 household the presence and comforting grace of the 
 Shepherd and Bishop of souls. 
 
 Wallace Radcliffe, 
 Mod. 
 Washington, D. C, April 18, 1907. 
 
 Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 To the Session of Church of the Covenant: 
 
 Dear Brethren : At a special meeting of the Ses- 
 sion of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, I was 
 directed to express to you and through you to the 
 church our deep and sincere sympathy in the loss which 
 has come to you and to the entire Christian communi- 
 ty in the death of Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin. 
 
 Our earnest prayer is that the great Head of the 
 church may bless you and keep you and cause His face 
 to shine upon you and be gracious unto you and give 
 you peace. 
 
 For the Session, 
 
 Albert Evans, 
 
 Mod. 
 
 From Peck Chapel. 
 
 The women of the Missionary Society and the 
 Mothers' Meeting of Peck Chapel, wish to express, by 
 
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 their signatures, their affection for Mrs. Hamlin, and 
 their sincere sympathy in her great sorrow. 
 
 Agnes Swinnerton Smith, Susanah Kettens, Mar- 
 tha Gosnell, Margaret Culver, Ellen Smith, Margaret 
 Meyers, Sarah Dondolson, Mary Louise De Vaughn, 
 Ada King, Naomi Hickerson, Lillie M. Milstead, 
 Annie E. Imlay, Nellie Fowler, Maud Perkins, Wil- 
 helmina Shaw, Mary Mobly, Lula Meyers, C. D. Cole- 
 man, E. S. Rowley, Kate R. Waters, Rosa Taylor. 
 
 Christian Endeavor Society. 
 
 Washington, D. C, April 19, 1907. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Hamlin : 
 
 The Christian Endeavor Society of Peck Memorial 
 Chapel sends sympathy to you and your family in your 
 sudden bereavement. We feel the loss of Dr. Hamlin 
 more deeply than we can express. 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 Charles Thaden. 
 
 Westminster Church, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 At a meeting of the congregation of Westminster 
 Church Memorial, held Friday April 18, 1907, the 
 following resolution was unanimously passed : 
 
 "That the Secretary be instructed to extend to Mrs. 
 Teunis S. Hamlin the sympathy of this congregation 
 in her hour of sorrow and bereavement, caused by the 
 sudden death of Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin." 
 
 J. W. McKericher, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 Woodside Church, Troy, New York. 
 Dr. Hamlin's First Pastorate. 
 
 The Session of the Woodside Presbyterian Church 
 of Troy, N. Y., having heard with great sorrow of the 
 death of Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of the Covenant of Washington, D. 
 C, and formerly the pastor of the Woodside Church, 
 desire to extend their sincerest sympathy to his family 
 in their sorrow and loss, commending them to the 
 grace of God in this hour of their bereavement. 
 
 We record with gratitude the faithful and efficient 
 ministry of Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., as pastor of 
 the Woodside Church, the blessing of God having been 
 upon his ministry here, as it has been continued to him 
 in the churches to which God in His Providence had 
 called him. 
 
 His pastorate in Troy is held in grateful remem- 
 brance by a people who will always treasure the mem- 
 ory of his Christian life, his wise counsels, his faithful 
 warnings and his zeal for the cause of Christ. 
 
 We are fully persuaded that while many will mourn 
 because of his death, yet the gain is his, for "Blessed 
 are the dead, which die in the Lord." 
 
 It was moved that a copy of this minute be sent to 
 the family of the deceased and that the same be placed 
 upon the records of the Session Book. 
 
 Wm. E. Marden, 
 
 Moderator. 
 Troy Woodside Church, 
 
 New York, April 22, 1907. 
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 Baptist Minister's Conference. 
 
 The Baptist Ministers' Conference of Washington, 
 recognizing in the very sudden death of the Rev. Dr. 
 Teunis S. Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the Coven- 
 ant, a sorrow which has fallen upon the whole Chris- 
 tian community of the District of Columbia, desire to 
 record their sense of loss and to pay a slight but sin- 
 cere tribute to his memory. 
 
 By his honored and efficient ministry in this city he 
 endeared himself to many beyond his parish and denom- 
 inational bounds, and contributed in no small degree 
 to the moral and religious betterment of the national 
 Capital 
 
 It was our privilege at times to enjoy his presence 
 among us, and to hear words of wisdom and inspira- 
 tion from his lips. We always found him to be a 
 Christian gentleman, a brother beloved, and a faithful 
 minister of Jesus Christ. 
 
 His geniality, his catholicty, his devotion to the inter- 
 ests of Christ's Kingdom, impressed and attracted us. 
 From his ministry we would learn earnestness and 
 fidelity and from his death vigilance and expectation. 
 
 Be it Resolved: I. That this Conference tenders its 
 sympathy to his sadly afflicted family, and we pray 
 that the God of the widow and the Father of the father- 
 less may graciously sustain and comfort their stricken 
 hearts. 
 
 2. That we assure the church bereaved of their first 
 and only pastor, of our regard and offer to them our 
 condolences, trusting that the Great Shepherd or Bishop 
 of their souls may ere long provide them with a worthy 
 successor to him whose loss they now so keenly feel. 
 
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 Be it further Resolved, That a copy of this action 
 be forwarded to Mrs. Hamlin and to the Church of the 
 Covenant. 
 
 Joseph J. Muir, 
 Charles F. Winbigler, 
 Samuel H. Greene, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Presbytery of Newcastle. 
 
 The following action was taken by the Presbytery 
 of New Castle, on the death of the Rev. Teunis S. 
 Hamlin, D. D. : 
 
 Whereas, the Presbytery of New Castle, now in ses- 
 sion at Pocomoke City, Md., April 19, 1907, having 
 heard of the sudden death of their beloved brother, 
 Rev. Teunis S, Hamlin, D. D., in New York, Wednes- 
 day, April 17th, 
 
 Resolved, That this Presbytery bears record to the 
 Christian character of the Rev. Teunis Hamlin, as well 
 as to his loyalty to the church in which he has been an 
 honored minister for so many years, and that this 
 Presbytery expresses its deepest sympathy with the 
 family of our beloved brother, and also with the Session 
 and congregation of the Church of the Covenant. 
 
 (Signed) W. H. Deckins-Lewis, 
 
 J. R. Milligan, 
 
 Committee. 
 Attest: J. R. Milligan, 
 
 Stated Clerk, Presb'y of New Castle. 
 St. Georges, Del., May 1, 1907. 
 
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 Lutheran Ministerial Association. 
 
 Washington, D. C, April 23, 1907. 
 
 To the Session, Church of the Covenant, City: 
 
 Brethren : At a meeting of the Lutheran Minis- 
 terial Association yesterday, the secretary was in- 
 structed to convey to you and Mrs. Hamlin and sons 
 the expression of our sincerest sympathy in the death 
 of Dr. Hamlin. We recognize the immeasurable loss 
 sustained not only by Dr. Hamlin's family, but by the 
 Church of the Covenant, the Presbyterian denomina- 
 tion, the church of Christ at large, and the cause of 
 good citizenship and patriotism. 
 
 Our prayer is that God may comfort you and over- 
 rule for good this inscrutable ordering of His will. 
 I have the honor to be, Sincerely yours, 
 
 C. H. Butler, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Methodist Preachers' Meeting. 
 
 We, the members of the Methodist Preachers' Meet- 
 ing of Washington, hereby voice and record our deep 
 sense of loss in the sudden removal by death of the 
 Reverend Doctor Teunis S. Hamlin from the ranks 
 of the Christian ministry and from the body of citi- 
 zens at the National Capital. Beyond the bounds of 
 his own confession he proved himself, to all who fol- 
 low the common Master, a brother in spirit and in 
 deed. While definite in his aims and ever bent on 
 practical results, he was broad in his outlook, sym- 
 pathetic with those engaged in any good cause, and 
 
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 in hearty personal alliance with many forms of phil- 
 anthropic endeavor. He sought to bring both the 
 poor and the rich into the possession of the treasures 
 of the gospel. 
 
 Doctor Hamlin was a man of large native endow- 
 ments, and by his industry and concentration disci- 
 plined his powers for high and noble service. He 
 wrought wisely and intensely in the field of his assigned 
 pastoral care. He was a faithful shepherd of souls. 
 His message was ever freighted with love and for the 
 most part was a call to the approximate realization of 
 lofty ideals; yet sometimes when needful it took the 
 form of stern rebuke even to those in high places. Con- 
 science was an active and ever present factor in his ser- 
 mons. His piety was of the robust and sturdy type. 
 
 Born and educated in the valley of the Mohawk, he 
 gave splendid proof while in the Empire State of his 
 adherence to the best traditions of his combined Dutch 
 and French ancestry; his career on the banks of the 
 Potomac shows these same qualities of strength, 
 courage and culture, potential in a positive Christian 
 influence over and upon men and women in all circles 
 of civic, military and social life; and his decease in 
 the great city at the mouth of the Hudson, while attend- 
 ing an international assembly, becomes a signal mark 
 of his breadth of vision and his desire to help the whole 
 race. Himself a lifelong messenger of the Prince of 
 Peace there was a singular and providential fitness in 
 the close of his earthly labors in that it came while he 
 was on a cosmopolitan errand at a congress called 
 in the interests of universal peace. 
 
 With our heartful sympathies in their sorrow and 
 
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 bereavement, to his stricken family and to the Church 
 of the Covenant, we tender also our sincere congratu- 
 lations upon their precious legacy — his spotless name, 
 his successful ministry and his enshrinement in the 
 hearts of thousands whom he has helped to higher liv- 
 ing by the inspiration both of his words and his 
 example. 
 
 S. Reese Murray, 
 
 President. 
 Wm. H. Chapman, 
 J. Edwin Amos, 
 Robert M. Moore, 
 Albert Osborn, 
 
 Committee. 
 Chas. O. Isaac, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Washington, D. C, April 29, 1907. 
 
 Society of Christian Endeavor, Church of The 
 Covenant. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Hamlin : Among the many messages 
 coming to you, may a word from the Christian En- 
 deavor Society find a place? Dr. Hamlin has meant so 
 much to us in our Christian Endeavor meetings that 
 we all want to tell you how his influence has helped us 
 to be better, and how we shall always hold his memory 
 as our most blessed heritage. Our hearts are too full 
 of sorrow and sympathy for any but the simplest ex- 
 pression of grief and love. To us, individually and as a 
 society, Dr. Hamlin was far more than the warmest 
 
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 words can express. We are just beginning to realize 
 how much we depended upon him. His wise counsel, 
 his ready sympathy, above all, his warm, loving per- 
 sonal touch and his dear presence have been our stay 
 and inspiration. We mean, God helping us, to make 
 the work of the society better and more consecrated 
 than ever, because he would have had it so. We thank 
 God for the precious years of association and for the 
 bright memories that nothing can take away. 
 
 We long to show you, in some way, how full our 
 hearts are of love and sympathy for you, dear Mrs. 
 Hamlin. That God may comfort you, as He alone 
 can, is our constant and most earnest prayer. 
 
 Isabella Campbell, 
 Edith Ridout, 
 
 For the Society^ 
 May 7, 1907. 
 
 Presbyterian Church College Board. 
 
 The Board records with deep sorrow the sudden 
 death of Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., on April 18, 
 1907. The life of Dr. Hamlin needs no eulogy; for 
 his conspicuous ability as a preacher of the Gospel, as 
 a pastor, as a writer and as an executive, his praise is 
 in all the churches. 
 
 The College Board sorrowfully records here the loss 
 of a loved and honorable fellow-worker. Dr. Hamlin 
 was active in the work of the Assembly at Buffalo in 
 1904, that led to the reorganization of the Board and 
 the widening of its field of operations. He was natu- 
 rally chosen as one of the members of the reorganized 
 
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 Board and served upon it faithfully and efficiently. 
 His vision of the field was comprehensive, his judg- 
 ment as to methods was calm and wise, and his ideal, 
 unwaveringly, an always advancing Kingdom of Jesus 
 Christ. The members of the Board record their per- 
 sonal sorrow in the loss that they, and the Church they 
 serve, have sustained in the death of a wise, strong, 
 pure-hearted fellow-worker. 
 
 College Board. 
 
 Society of the Covenant. 
 
 Resolved: That the Society of the Covenant extend 
 to our beloved president, Mrs. Hamlin, our deepest 
 sympathy in this time of bereavement. 
 
 In the death of our pastor, Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, 
 who served with such unswerving fidelity and patient 
 love for nearly twenty-one years the Church of the 
 Covenant has suffered an irreparable loss, and the So- 
 ciety of the Covenant will constantly miss the wise 
 counsel and staunch support of a true friend. , 
 
 But, in the home circle, the lack of the tender love 
 of husband and father will be most deeply felt, and 
 our hearts reach out in loving sympathy with that 
 stricken househould. 
 
 Resolved further: That this resolution be spread 
 upon the minutes of the meeting and that a copy be 
 .sent to Mrs. Hamlin. 
 
 Woman's Presbyterial Society. 
 
 At a called meeting of the Woman's Presbyterial 
 Society of Home Missions, Wednesday April 24, 
 1907, representatives of the auxiliary societies of the 
 
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 Presbytery of Washington adopted the following reso- 
 lutions : 
 
 Resolved: That the profound and loving sympathy 
 of the officers and members of every auxiliary society 
 is extended to our beloved President in her hour of 
 sorrow, and that we share her grief and feel in her 
 personal loss a loss to the whole church. 
 
 That our earnest prayers are offered to Him that 
 "healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their 
 wounds" to comfort her, and that the loving Saviour, 
 who, when he broke the bonds of death, left its terrors 
 behind in His empty tomb, may help her to triumph in 
 His victory, and that she may be upheld in her lone- 
 liness by the faith so joyfully preached by her dear 
 husband, who while on earth helped many to realize 
 the truth of that glorious immortality upon which he 
 has now entered. 
 
 Lilian Burritt Brock, 
 Mrs. Daniel W. Skellinger, 
 
 Mrs. H. P. Viles. 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Union Theological Seminary Alumni 
 Association. 
 
 The Alumni Association of Union Theological 
 Seminary desires to record its deep sense of the loss 
 sustained by the Seminary and the Church of Christ 
 in the sudden death, on the seventeenth of April, 1907, 
 of the Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., a member of 
 the class of 1871. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin was a man of strong convictions and 
 broad sympathies, of sober judgment and devotion to 
 the interests of God's kingdom, of large mental grasp 
 
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 and quick and tender appreciation of his fellows, of 
 faithful friendships and commanding influence. 
 
 He loved this Seminary as he loved his Church. He 
 represented it with courage, and supported it by word 
 and deed. He was rarely absent from the meetings 
 of this Association — never unless the hindrance was 
 absolute. His words to us were always words of 
 loyalty and good cheer. We counted on him and de- 
 pended on him. We had expected to see him with 
 us this day. 
 
 We give thanks to God for such a serviceable life. 
 We rejoice on his behalf that he has entered into the 
 greater glory of the divine presence, and we pray 
 that the undying Friend, whom having not seen he 
 loved, and in whose service he lives forevermore, may 
 comfort with His strong consolations those whose sky 
 is darkened and whose hearts are heavy, until they 
 also obtain the fulness "of salvation through our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake 
 or sleep, we should live together with him." 
 
 Southern Alumni Association, Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary. 
 
 It is with feelings of profoundest sorrow that we 
 learn of the sudden death of our friend and fellow- 
 alumnus, Dr. Hamlin, on April 17, 1907, while on 
 business in New York City. 
 
 The sad event is so recent that our minds are in a 
 condition of shock and panic, for he himself had ar- 
 ranged for our meeting this day and was expected to 
 
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 preside. Truly, indeed, says the Scriptures, "In the 
 midst of life we are in death." 
 
 Dr. Hamlin was the founder of this Alumni Asso- 
 ciation, as he was its first and only president, serving 
 in this capacity with his customary ability and fidelity. 
 Into this Association he brought together the alumni 
 of his beloved Seminary residing in Southern States 
 and the District of Columbia. At all of our gather- 
 ings he was our inspiring leader. What a loss we 
 have sustained. 
 
 By nature, Dr. Hamlin was richly endowed. A 
 virile heredity fixed its indellible stamp upon him. His 
 intellect was alert, vigorous, far-visioned. In his af- 
 fections he was warm, true and steadfast. His will 
 was serene and finely poised. Self-control he had to 
 perfection. Justice and generosity, frankness and a 
 dignified reserve, delicate courtesy and an inflexible 
 firmness in all he believed to be right, were intermin- 
 gled in ideal proportion. He abhorred the policies of 
 indirection, detraction, self-aggrandizement. Selfish- 
 ness, even in thought, was foreign to him. A scholar 
 of deep learning, he knew his Bible and its interpreta- 
 tion, and loved the sacred Book with all his soul. 
 
 We mourn today with his church, which he loved 
 as his very life, and with his household, who are in 
 such desolation at this hour. 
 
 "But whilst the waves of time may devastate our lives, 
 The frost of age may check our failing breath ; 
 They shall not touch the spirit that survives 
 Triumphant over doubt, and pain, and death." 
 
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 Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Alliance. 
 
 With profound regret and a deep sense of grief and 
 loss, the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Al- 
 liance record the sudden death on the 17th of April, 
 1907, in the city of New York, of Rev. Teunis S. 
 Hamlin, D. D., Pastor of the Church of the Covenant. 
 
 For twenty years Doctor Hamlin has been one of 
 the leading pastors and foremost citizens of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, a force making for righteousness 
 not only in his own congregation, but in the com- 
 munity at large. Indeed, his name and fame and in- 
 fluence for good have not been confined to this Capital, 
 but have extended throughout our land and to foreign 
 parts as well. He preached to thousands of prominent 
 visitors to this city from all parts of the world, and 
 responded to many calls from distant places where his 
 services were esteemed of special value. He was 
 prominent in the best social life of this capital and 
 identified himself helpfully with every conspicuous 
 movement for the public good which has been under- 
 taken here in the last twenty years. 
 
 The Church of the Covenant, erected and paid for 
 largely through his efforts, stands as a monument to 
 the zeal, wisdom, energy, faith and courage of Dr. 
 Hamlin, and will witness for him in the days and 
 years to come, as will the congregation of godly men 
 and women gathered there, and to whom he ministered 
 with conspicuous fidelity and acceptance. The bene- 
 ficent influence of his life and teaching in this body of 
 believers will long be felt. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin was one of the founders of this Alli- 
 ance, and we are witness to the promptness, intelli- 
 
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 gence and good judgment with which he performed 
 every duty and rendered every service incumbent on 
 him. We deplore his loss not only as a valued co- 
 worker, but as a loyal and true friend and brother, 
 and this loss to the Alliance will be irreparable if we 
 who are left to carry on his work do not properly 
 learn and apply the lesson of his life and example. 
 
 In recognition of Dr. Hamlin's most valuable ser- 
 vices to this Alliance and as an expression of our ap- 
 preciation of and love for him, it is directed that this 
 paper be recorded in our minutes and one copy be sent 
 his family, and one to the session of the Church of 
 the Covenant, and that the President, the Vice-Presi- 
 dents, the Secretary and the Treasurer, as the repre- 
 sentatives of the Alliance, attend in a body the memo- 
 rial service to be held on Sunday the 28th instant. 
 
 Brainard H. Warner, President. 
 
 Chas. Lyman, First Vice-President. 
 
 Danl. McFarlan, Second Vice-President. 
 
 James B. Lambie, Third Vice-President. 
 
 Irwin B. Linton, Secretary. 
 
 Chas. B. Bailey, Treasurer. 
 
 George Washington University. 
 
 "Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the George 
 Washington University receive with profound sorrow 
 the announcement of the death of Rev. Teunis S. Ham- 
 lin, D. D., and hereby place upon the records of the 
 Board its high estimate o,f the Christian character and 
 the professional attainments of Dr. Hamlin. He exerted 
 a wide and beneficent influence as a Christian minister, 
 was a citizen devoted to the highest interests of this 
 
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 city, and was a patriotic citizen of the nation. In the 
 death of Dr. Hamlin the city has lost one of its most 
 influential, high-minded and self-sacrificing men. 
 
 "Resolved, That the Board desire to express publicly 
 the obligations of this University to Dr. Hamlin for 
 his active and sympathetic co-operation and for his 
 many valued services to the University. In his death 
 this University has lost an esteemed friend, whose 
 ideals of educational work and the needs of this com- 
 munity for higher education were true and noble in 
 every respect. 
 
 "Resolved, That the President is hereby requested 
 to send a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Hamlin, to 
 the Official Board of the Church of the Covenant, and 
 to the press." 
 
 The above is a true copy. 
 
 Chas. W. Needham, 
 President. 
 John B. Larner, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Board of Trustees of Howard University. 
 
 The Trustees of Howard University, in special meet- 
 ing held in the office of the President on the 22d of 
 April, 1907, desire to place on record an expression of 
 their sense of the irreparable loss which they have sus- 
 tained in the death of our late President of the Board, 
 the Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D. 
 
 Elected to membership on the Board on May 28, 
 1895. Dr. Hamlin has continuously and with rare 
 fidelity and devotion served this institution to the day 
 of his lamented death. When the organization of the 
 
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 Board was modified a few years ago, he was spontane- 
 ously chosen (May 26, 1903) to the Presidency of the 
 Board, and when, a little later, the Presidency of the 
 University fell vacant, he was unanimously selected by 
 the Board to serve as Acting-President, in which office 
 his wise, constructive leadership, his large powers of 
 organization and his firm and kindly administration 
 of the University in a great crisis so challenged the ad- 
 miration and confidence of the committee appointed to 
 find a President, that they unanimously tendered him 
 the nomination to the Presidency of the University, 
 which office he declined with thanks. 
 
 As President and member of the Board, Dr. Hamlin 
 was untiring in his labors for the University and gave 
 his valuable time and strength without stint to its ad- 
 vancement. His counsel and advice in matters of busi- 
 ness and administration were invariably sane and saga- 
 cious, and his quick insight into the bearings of a sub- 
 ject, with his powers of unerring analysis and lucid 
 statement, was of incalculable value in the deliberations 
 of the Board. In debate he was ever the courteous gen- 
 tleman, as when presiding he was the soul of fairness 
 and impartiality. His accessibility to the instructors and 
 students was a marked characteristic of his administra- 
 tion, both as President of the board and as Acting- 
 President of the University, and his genial wit and 
 refreshing humor immediately put everyone, whether 
 of high station or low, at his ease and won for himself 
 a friend. 
 
 In addition to these larger and more responsible 
 powers, he was also a special lecturer in the School of 
 Theology and as such his instruction was not merely 
 
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 learned and scholastic, but fresh, stimulating and in- 
 spiring, the generous fruit of wide and varied reading, 
 evincing a scholarship touched with the modern spirit 
 and informed with all that is best in literature and life. 
 
 Touching the University so variously, so vitally and 
 so helpfully, it were a commonplace to say that we 
 mourn his loss and shall miss so large a force and so 
 strong a personality in our life and deliberations, and 
 yet we can but accept the mysterious dispensation 
 which has so suddenly called him hence to a larger 
 service, and we can but pray that God will raise up in 
 his place one who possesses so many rare and mani- 
 fold gifts and powers. 
 
 In this bereavement, in which we share, we would 
 not be unmindful of the Church which he served with 
 his large gifts o,f mind, body and spirit, or of his gra- 
 :ious wife and sons who have been thus stripped of their 
 earthly stay, the light of their home and the joy of 
 their hearts. And as we share in the loss, so we ex- 
 tend to them the assurances of our deepest sympathy, 
 with the prayer that the Father of Mercies and the God 
 of all comfort may be very near them in this hour of 
 bereavement and sorrow. 
 
 Resolved, That this minute be sent to the devoted 
 wife of our late colleague, the President of the Board 
 and a copy be sent to the Church of the Covenant and 
 that it be spread upon the minutes of this Board. 
 
 Stanton J. Peelle, 
 W. P. Thirkield, 
 Francis J. Grimke. 
 
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 Howard University Faculty. 
 
 For many years Rev. Dr. Hamlin was a lecturer in 
 the Theological Department of Howard University. 
 He gave three courses of lectures — one each year — on 
 as many practical and important topics, so that each 
 class had the benefit of all the lectures. To the stu- 
 dents of the Department he gave freely of the fruits of 
 his matured thought, and of his rich experience in the 
 gospel ministry, and in the Christian life. While he 
 gave freely, he gave wisely with due regard to the 
 special needs of the young men. While he came to 
 them from the advanced position of long and eminent 
 service, he spoke sympathetically with deep interest in 
 them and in their work. While he was pleased to call 
 what he said "talks" rather than lectures, his talks 
 came home to his hearers with power and persuasive- 
 ness not only because of their practical wisdom, but 
 also because of the grand and genial personality en- 
 tering into them. Amid his many and great respon- 
 sibilities, his engagement here was not forgotten. A 
 letter under date of April 17th, and in all probability 
 written or dictated just before the fatal stroke, was 
 received by the Dean the morning of April 18th. 
 
 So planning future service here and elsewhere, he 
 fell. 
 
 We desire to express our high appreciation of the 
 value of Dr. Hamlin's instruction, and influence, and 
 personality to the students, and to gratefully acknowl- 
 edge the worth of his constant and helpful interest to 
 the Department. While we who were brought into 
 closer contact and association with him recall with 
 mingled pleasure and pain the charm of his personal 
 
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 friendship, and the strength and cheer which came to 
 us from his abounding life. We join the great com- 
 pany whose sense of loss in the death of Dr. Hamlin 
 gives some power to sympathize, and extend to those 
 most sorely bereaved such sympathy as we can, and 
 assure them that we earnestly pray the God of all com- 
 fort and grace that he will sustain them, and enable 
 them to trust where they cannot explain, and wait in 
 the confidence that all things do work together for 
 good to them that love God. 
 
 This brief appreciation was adopted by the students, 
 and then at a special meeting by the faculty of the 
 Theological Department. 
 
 In behalf of the faculty, 
 
 Isaac Clark, Dean. 
 
 In behalf of the students, 
 
 J. R. Walters, 
 President of the Class '07. 
 
 Board of Visitors of The Government Hospital 
 Fof the Insane 
 
 For the third time in the course of a year death has 
 stricken the Board of Visitors of the Government Hos- 
 pital for the Insane. This time it has deprived the 
 Board in the death of the Reverend Doctor Teunis 
 Slingerland Hamlin, of a member who was in the 
 fullness of his usefulness with a promise of many years 
 of life before him. 
 
 Doctor Hamlin took an earnest and conscientious 
 interest in the affairs of the Hospital and the Board 
 recall with high gratification his especially able co- 
 
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 operation on several occasions in matters of adminis- 
 tration in which the well-being of the Hospital was 
 deeply concerned. Therefore; 
 
 Be it Resolved : First. That the Board of Visitors 
 of the Government Hospital for the Insane do deplore 
 the removal by death of their beloved and admired 
 colleague, the Reverend Doctor Teunis Slingerland 
 Hamlin and hereby express their gratitude that he has 
 left behind him an example that will live long and be 
 an incitement to the present and future members of the 
 Board of Visitors to follow him along with the many 
 good works he has done in the flesh. 
 
 Secondly. That the Board of Visitors of the Gov- 
 ernment Hospital for the Insane tender their heartfelt 
 sympathy to the family of the deceased; and the Sec- 
 retary of the Board is hereby directed to transmit to 
 them a copy of these Resolutions. 
 
 Fendall Cadets. 
 
 We the members of the Fendall Cadets, Peck 
 Chapel, desire to express our deepest sympathy for 
 Mrs. Hamlin in he/ bereavement : 
 
 Wm. C. Ballantyne, Captain; Geo. W. Johnson, 
 Lieutenant; H. M. Stumph, D. F. Cummins, E. L. 
 Franklin, W. L. Perkins, J. Mutchler, W. H. Copper- 
 thite, Joseph Mclntyre, Millard Ulrich, A. Dixon, First 
 Sergeant; J. Stewart, Sergeant; K. E. Smith, Ser- 
 geant; J. A. Donaldson. 
 
 Theta Sigma. 
 
 Theta Sigma has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the sudden death of our brother and fellow-member. 
 Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., who for twenty years 
 
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 has been in the National Capital an honored minister 
 of the Presbyterian Church and a brother beloved by 
 the Church of Christ for his strong manliness, his 
 sympathetic interest and cheerful devotion to the best 
 ideals of our civic and social life, his catholicity and 
 charity, and his faithful and intelligent service in the 
 ministry of Jesus Christ. His departure is mourned 
 by the membership of Theta Sigma as a personal loss. 
 He was one of its founders, and until his death its one 
 permanent executive officer. His wisdom, poise aud 
 courage summoned our confidence ; his Christian grace 
 and service compelled our honor; his genialty, consid- 
 erateness and brotherly fellowship won our love. He 
 is not, for God has taken him. 
 
 Wallace Radcliffe, 
 Secretary. 
 Washinton, D. C, May 6, 1907. 
 
 National Society Children of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 It having been the Divine Will to remove to his 
 heavenly home the Reverend Teunis S. Hamlin, D.D., 
 we, the officers and members of the National Society 
 of the Children of the American Revolution, desire 
 to offer to his widow, Mrs. Frances B. Hamlin, who 
 has so long and so loyally served the National Board 
 as chaplain, our most loving sympathy in this, her 
 supreme sorrow. 
 
 And, whereas, this removal of one who was the 
 only pastor of the Church of the Covenant since its 
 foundation in Washington, D. C, and who was a 
 
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 power and a beacon light in the community, and of 
 widespread influence; stricken as he was in the midst 
 of his active duties, being a delegate to the Interna- 
 tional Peace Congress convened at New York City, 
 and dying as the great workers for a righteous cause 
 have ever died, sacrificing health and strength to his 
 duty, 
 
 We, therefore, the National Society of the Children 
 of the American Revolution bring our tribute to his 
 memory, who has so often served our patriotic cause; 
 and we herewith express our love any sympathy that 
 no words can adequately convey, to his widow and 
 family, to whom a copy of these resolutions will be 
 sent. 
 
 Harriett M. Lothrop, Founder; Evelyn M. Dubois, 
 National President; Eliza Colman Tulloch, Secretary; 
 Caroline C. Little, Anna Ingersoll Rich, Evelin Bache, 
 Myra B. Tweedale, Violet Blair Janin, Julia Ten Eyck 
 McBlair, Mary E. P. R. Phelps, Lucy M. Osgood 
 Marsh, Susan Riviere Hetzel, Henrietta J. W. Bond. 
 
 Washington, D. C, April 22, 1907. 
 
 Woman's Army and Navy League, 
 washington, d. c. 
 
 Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin. 
 Dear Madam : 
 
 The members of the Woman's Army and Navy 
 League assembled at their monthly meeting do hereby 
 express to you the most sincere sympathy in the loss 
 of your esteemed husband. 
 
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 We feel that in the death of Dr. Hamlin the League 
 has lost a kind friend and one always to be relied upon, 
 a loss not soon to be replaced. 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 Anna P. White, 
 
 Secretary. 
 The Concord, April 28, 1907. 
 
 National Society Daughters of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 Whereas on the 18th instant, Rev. Teunis S. Ham- 
 lin, a servant of God, whose reputation as such was 
 not confined to our city and nation, but whose good 
 works and name were known as well in foreign lands, 
 was taken from us by that Master whom he had so 
 long, faithfully and with such great distinction served ; 
 And Whereas he was the husband of our sister 
 and Chaplain-General, Mrs. Frances Hamlin, who has 
 with rare fidelity and marked ability discharged the du- 
 ties devolving upon her as a D. A. R., and an officer; 
 Therefore, be it resolved: That we extend to our 
 beloved sister and her children the most earnest sym- 
 pathy of this organization, at this time when their 
 hearts are bowed with sorrow in their great affliction ; 
 Resolved that this action be spread on the records of 
 the Society and that a copy hereof be properly en- 
 grossed and sent to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Frances F. Ballinger, 
 
 Chairman of Committee. 
 Esther F. Noble. 
 Ellen Mecum. 
 
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 The Men's Society, Church of The Covenant. 
 
 In the death of Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., late 
 pastor of the Church of the Covenant, this Society has 
 suffered sore bereavement and irreparable loss. 
 
 In the organization of this pioneer Men's Society 
 Doctor Hamlin was the creative and moving spirit, and 
 gave to it the stamp of his own personality and the 
 form and set suggested by his trained and sane judg- 
 ment. That the Society was wisely conceived and 
 organized is shown by its own history and by the fact 
 that it has been the model on which many other similar 
 societies have been patterned, not only in our own, but 
 in other denominations. 
 
 Doctor Hamlin's conception of the Church was an 
 organization not for worship only, but for work as 
 well, or worship through work, an instrumentality for 
 the cultivation of all civic and social virtue as well as 
 Christian graces, a school of character based on the 
 highest standards of perfection conceivable for men 
 and women in this world. Such a Church is a unit 
 expressing its own message through various agencies 
 for the accomplishment of one purpose, the training 
 of men and women in service and worship for worship 
 and service in the Kingdom of Christ here and here- 
 after. 
 
 To the work of the Church in this Society Doctor 
 Hamlin, as we all know, gave himself without stint 
 or measure, and manifested those qualities and charac- 
 teristics of mind and heart which made him great. 
 Here he was not only Pastor, but friend and comrade 
 and brother, and we can pay no greater tribute to his 
 
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 memory than to resolve to maintain the Society on 
 the high plane on which he placed it and to fulfill his 
 ideals for it. 
 
 We sorrow at his departure, but we can not but re- 
 joice that our present loss is his great gain and that 
 our dark night of sorrow is the bright morning of his 
 eternal day. 
 
 A portion of a poem quoted in a sermon preached by 
 Rev. Dr. Hamlin on Sabbath morning, March 24, 
 1907: 
 
 "I know the night is near at hand, 
 The mists lie low on hill and bay, 
 The autumn leaves are dewless, dry, 
 But I have had the day. 
 
 Yes, I have had, dear Lord, the day : 
 When at thy call I have the night. 
 
 Brief be the twilight as I pass, 
 
 From light to dark, from dark to light. 
 
 When my last hour grows dark for me 
 
 I shall not fear 
 Death's dreaded face to see, 
 
 Death's voice to hear, 
 I shall not fear the night 
 
 When day is done ; 
 My life was loyal to the light, 
 
 And served the sun." 
 
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 Trustees of the United Society of Christian 
 Endeavor. 
 
 Whereas, The late Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., was 
 for more than eighteen years an honored and beloved 
 member of the Board of Trustees of the United So- 
 ciety of Christian Endeavor, representing the Pres- 
 byterian denomination; and whereas, he was a promi- 
 nent figure in most of the International Conventions 
 in that time, both as a presiding officer and a speaker; 
 and whereas he was a trusted counsellor and a brother 
 much-beloved in all the meetings of the Board of 
 Trustees, wise, genial, courteous, full of the spirit of 
 Christ, and held in the highest esteem in the ranks 
 of Christian Endeavor throughout the world, there- 
 fore, 
 
 Be It Resolved: That the Trustees of the United 
 Society of Christian Endeavor hereby express their 
 sincere gratitude to Almighty God for the providence 
 that gave Christian Endeavor so stanch and valuable a 
 friend and so strong a champion, and for the long 
 years of devoted service which he gave so unstintedly 
 and cheerfully. 
 
 That we feel keenly his removal as an irreparable 
 loss, while we bow submissively to the will of our 
 Heavenly Father, and cherish the consoling hope that 
 the splendid example of Dr. Hamlin will be a stimulus 
 to younger Endeavorers, and that he, being dead, will 
 still live in the works that he has wrought and the 
 influence of his Christlike, useful life. 
 
 That we sympathize deeply with the bereaved family 
 of our brother, and express to them our sense of pro- 
 
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 found appreciation of his noble character and his beau- 
 tiful, consistent life, and our hope that the Lord of 
 all, at whose hands he has received his crown, may 
 afford them the consolation of His Spirit, and sustain 
 them until the reunion, at His appearing. 
 
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 Class of 1867, Union College. 
 
 At a meeting of the Class of 1867, Union College, 
 held at the College on Alumni Day, June 11, 1907, 
 being the fortieth anniversary of the graduation of the 
 class, Hon. Archibal L. Van Ness presided, and Wil- 
 liam H. Murray, M. D., acted as Secretary. Rev. 
 Alfonso R. Olney, D. D., and Rev. S. K. Doolittle, 
 were appointed a committee to report to the class 
 proper action to be taken with reference to the death 
 of Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin. Dr. Olney, on behalf of 
 the Committee, reported the following minute, which 
 was unanimously adopted, and J. Newton Fiero, 
 LL.D., of the committee for arrangements for the 
 reunion, was requested to transmit the same to the 
 family of Dr. Hamlin : 
 
 In the Class which graduated from Union College 
 in 1867, there was one man whose absence today from 
 this reunion, has cast a gloom about us and has 
 tinged with sorrow our otherwise delightful fellowship. 
 
 The Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., whose ,fond anti- 
 cipations ran forward to this reunion with great 
 strength and joy, who first suggested that we plan to 
 make it a large and delightful gathering of our surviv- 
 ing Classmates so widely scattered, and who found it 
 a labor of love to render it attractive and to appeal 
 with irresistible power to the hearts of the men of 
 "67," is not here because the Lord hath taken him. 
 
 We remember him as a student in Union College. 
 And a student he really was — a hard worker — a youth 
 with a great purpose, with a high ideal, manly, faith- 
 ful, true, of a jovial disposition, but at the same time 
 with a serious purpose to make the most of himself and 
 his opportunities. Most diligently and faithfully he 
 
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 labored to prepare himself for the largest and noblest 
 success in life, and those who knew him best were not 
 surprised to see him rise step by step into real promi- 
 nence and power, and conquer a place for himself 
 among the .foremost in his calling. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Hamlin was born at Glenville, N. Y., May 
 31, 1847, an d died in New York City, whither he had 
 gone to attend the sessions of the Peace Congress, in 
 May of this year. 
 
 At the time of his death he was in his sixtieth year. 
 From 1 87 1 to 1884 he was pastor of the Woodside 
 Church in the City of Troy, N. Y. 
 
 He early showed ability as a scholarly and eloquent 
 preacher of the Gospel, and gained a reputation that 
 made him widely known as a man of great force of 
 character and of real and growing power. 
 
 From Troy he was called to a Presbyterian Church 
 in Cincinnati, where he remained for two years, when 
 he was called in 1886 to the Church of the Covenant 
 in Washington, D. C, of which Church he was still 
 pastor at the time of his death. 
 
 In 1886, Union College conferred on him the hon- 
 orary degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in the Church 
 of the Covenant, many distinguished men sat under 
 his preaching with great profit and satisfaction. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin was married at Ypsilanti, Mich., to 
 Miss Frances A. Bacon, February 4, 1873, and she 
 survives him, as also do two sons, E. B. Hamlin, an 
 attorney in New York City, and Francis Hamlin, a 
 student in Yale University. 
 
 "Servant of God, well done, 
 
 Rest from thy loved employ ; 
 The battle fought, the victory won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy." 
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 MEMORIAL SERVICE. 
 
 April 28, 1907. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Hall's Tribute to Rev. Dr. Hamlin. 
 
 At the Woodside Presbyterian Church Sunday 
 Morning a memorial service for Rev. Dr. Teunis S. 
 Hamlin, a former pastor, was held. The edifice con- 
 tained a large congregation. The hymns sung during 
 the service were those which were rendered at the 
 funeral at Washington, D. C, and included "When the 
 Mists Have Rolled Away" and "Now the Day is 
 Over," rendered by Mrs. Hector Hall, and "For All 
 the Saints" and two others by the choir under the di- 
 rection of Organist William H. Ranken. Rev. Wil- 
 liam E. Marden read letters of commendation on the 
 work of Rev. Dr. Hamlin during his pastorate from 
 Rev. Dr. Johnson of Cohoes and Rev. Arthur H. Allen, 
 a former pastor. He also read a letter from Mrs. 
 Hamlin, tendering her sincere thanks to the Wood- 
 side Church ,for the sympathy and kindness shown. 
 Rev. Dr. Hector Hall delivered the sermon. He took 
 for his text Psalm xviii, 35, "His gentleness has made 
 me great." He said : 
 
 I trust that many of you can feel the appropriateness 
 of these remarks to the lamented event which our as- 
 sembling this morning desires to signalize, as having 
 a place in the records of this church not soon to be 
 forgotten. 
 
 For it was here that Dr. Hamlin acquired those high 
 qualifications for the important position, inferior in ex- 
 
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 tensive influence to none, which for so many years he 
 afterwards filled, and with notable acceptance, too, in 
 the national capital. For, it is not beyond the fact 
 to say that a minister's first charge is of more account 
 to him than any seminary training in fitting him to be 
 a genuine pastor and an efficient preacher and teacher 
 of the Gospel. Dr. Hamlin was never reluctant to 
 admit that here he learned more from you than he 
 taught you. He found among you not a few men and 
 women of large experience, disciples of Christ — who, 
 while appreciating his honest worth, were yet cog- 
 nizant of his immaturity and youth, and showed him 
 all the gentleness of God and spoke kindly of his some- 
 times juvenile prelections. They saw that the fine lad 
 had growth in him and a rich future before him. It 
 was the loving co-operation with him of men of large 
 observation and knowledge of affairs that helped much 
 to make him the man he became. 
 
 This was fully witnessed by himself in after years, 
 by the warm and grateful affection with which he often 
 spoke of you. The memory of your kindness never 
 died out of his heart; and when sad occasions in your 
 homes called for its expression, his sympathy was 
 never lacking. 
 
 Summoned to one of the most prominent pulpits in 
 the Church, it is only the truth to affirm that his influ- 
 ence ever extended as the years went on, and was never 
 greater than when his career came to its sudden close. 
 "The path of the just is as the shining light, which 
 shines more and more unto the perfect day." 
 
 Assuredly, he is no ordinary man whose ministry in 
 one place, extending through a period of twenty years 
 
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 and more, makes its power felt in an ever-increasing 
 ratio until it is acknowledged to be one of national 
 significance. To be sure, his opportunity was excep- 
 tional, and the constituency of his Church was in great 
 measure exceptional, owing to the circumstance that he 
 was at the seat of the highest legislature of the land, 
 where gather also some of the finest intellects of the 
 nation ; but all that only enhanced and demonstrated 
 the superior quality of the man, as possessing the 
 capacity, the tact, and the knowledge of men which 
 enabled him to meet the severe demand which such con- 
 ditions exacted. 
 
 It was my privilege on more than one great deliber- 
 ative occasion to meet and co-operate with Dr. Ham- 
 lin. We were members together of the Lake Mohonk 
 conference on international arbitration. That is an 
 annual gathering whose discussions are now accepted 
 as of far-reaching value. The great question of de- 
 bate is how to obviate war, how best to promote fra- 
 ternal relations between nations, how to render national 
 dueling as infamous and despicable in the estimation of 
 all the peoples of the civilized or semi-civilized world 
 as private dueling has become in the estimation of all 
 the English speaking people of the world. Among 
 the three or four hundred invited guests are many of 
 the foremost legislators, judges, editors, philanthropists 
 of the nation — citizens of the highest repute for devo- 
 tion to the best interests of their fellow-men. From 
 his wide range of practical knowledge, and his inti- 
 macy with the best thoughts of the best minds of the 
 day, as well as from his long experience in not a few 
 of the largest of our national benevolences, and his 
 
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 own deep and well-reputed sympathies, Dr. Hamlin's 
 counsels at these Mohonk conferences were of acknowl- 
 edged authority and worth. 
 
 But, I should omit the largest influence of his life, 
 earlier and later, if I did not refer to that which he 
 recognized as the tenderest of all and the most decisive 
 on his choice of his vocation — the influence, namely, of 
 his mother. It was to her he attributed his earliest 
 impressions of the Faith of Christ upon his heart. It 
 was she who guided his thoughts toward the ministry 
 of the gospel as the work of his life. It was her gen- 
 tleness that moulded his youthful spirit and gave form 
 to his whole character. The work which he ever 
 labored to achieve through thirty-six years of continu- 
 ous ministry was largely the harvest of his mother's 
 sowing. There, before this pulpit stands a beautiful 
 baptismal font, itself a tender memorial of a beloved 
 son, suddenly removed in the prime of a promising 
 youth ; from it not a few of you, now grown yourselves 
 to parental years, received through his hands the water 
 of infant baptism. Many of you, again, can recall the 
 warm-hearted words he spoke to you when with the 
 right hand of welcome you were received into the 
 fellowship of this Church, and in all his other pastoral 
 duties and kindnesses, you ever found him the same 
 loving and gentle brother. How much of it all was 
 his mother's ! From such a mother such a son himself 
 can never free. The touch of her vanished hand, the 
 sound of her silent voice, her gentle presence itself 
 though long departed from his view, are ever present 
 with and felt by him as the power next to the Saviour's 
 own which moves his soul onward and upward to all 
 
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 that is purest and noblest and best in the achievements 
 of heaven. 
 
 You will not judge it unbefitting that I should close 
 this brief testimony to the worth of our departed friend 
 with a few words of loving sympathy for his beloved 
 wife, yours as well as mine, yours indeed more than 
 mine, for to you she was so much more intimately 
 known. How closely she was associated with him in 
 spiritual sympathy and Christian activity; how entirely 
 she was one with him in all his work, some of you can 
 still well remember. And what she was in the early 
 years of their united service she continued until his call 
 upward came, growing with his growth and rejoicing 
 with his joy. It is becoming that you let her know 
 that as you shared with her in the blessings of those 
 happy years when she was one of you, so now she is 
 not alone in the sorrow of her great bereavement. But 
 the day will break and the shadows will flee away; and 
 the path of the just is as the shining light which shines 
 more and more unto the perfect day. With our de- 
 parted brother it is now and always "perfect day." 
 
 Dr. Hamlin became Pastor of Woodside Church 
 when he was only twenty-three years of age and was 
 its Pastor for thirteen years. 
 
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