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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 In flDemoriam 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED 
 1908 
 
flDemodal Service 
 
 For Mr. Richard Hinckley Allen 
 
 in 
 
 THE OGDEN MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY 
 
 Sunbas, 3anuan? 26tb, 1908 
 
 At 3.45 o'clock 
 
 ©roer of Service 
 QtQM prelude 
 
 t)Bmn No. 781 -"For All The Saints" 
 
 psalter — Psalm xxv. 
 
 •fcgmn No. 634-" Peace, Perfect Peace" 
 
 prater by Dr. Macnaughtan 
 
 ©ffertOrB — Solo: "O Best in the Lord" from "Elijah"... 
 
 Mendelssohn 
 Mr. Irving M. Lum 
 
 •fcgmn No. 651 -"How Firm a Foundation" 
 
 IReaOtng Joint Resolution of Session and Board of Trustees 
 
 SODressee — By Rev. J. Macnaughtan, D.D., 
 
 and Rev. W. W. Halloway, D.D., of Dover. 
 
 prater by Dr. W. W. Halloway 
 
 Sntbem — "I Will Lay Me Down in Peace " Choir 
 
 ©rjjan postlufce 
 
BESOLUTION 
 
 r*l (tfzZ& ^ ^ s w ^h sincere and deep regret that 
 the Session and Board of Trustees 
 of this Church— The Ogden Me- 
 morial Presbyterian Church— are 
 called upon to record the death of 
 
 flDr. IRicbart) Ibincfclep alien 
 
 for so many years efficiently and pleasantly asso- 
 ciated with us in the care and supervision of the 
 spiritual and material interests of this congrega- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Allen's death took place on Tuesday, Jan- 
 uary 14, 1908, at Northampton, Mass., where he 
 had gone to attend the funeral of a beloved sister. 
 
 We, therefore, as a Session and Board of Trus- 
 tees, in joint meeting convened, desire to put 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 upon record, in this official and formal way, our 
 sincere and hearty appreciation of the Christian 
 character and manifold services of our deceased 
 brother. 
 
 Resolved : 
 
 1 That, largely to the initiative, unselfishness, 
 the wise counsel, the contribution of personal ser- 
 vice and generous gifts of money, by our de- 
 parted brother, are we now in possession of our 
 present fine property and beautiful house of wor- 
 ship, with its sufficient and satisfactory appoint- 
 ments for religious services. 
 
 2 That the very honorable place accorded to 
 this Church in the Presbytery of Morris and 
 Orange, is due, in a large measure, to the gen- 
 erous contributions of Mr. Allen to the several 
 Boards and other benevolences of our Church, to 
 whose appeals his response was always large and 
 free. 
 
 3 That while recognizing the great loss which, 
 as a Church and congregation, we have sustained 
 in his death, and the increased responsibility laid 
 upon us as officers of the Church in the with- 
 drawal of his counsel and help, we desire also to 
 express our sense of personal and individual be- 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 reavement in the loss of a friend beloved, who, 
 by his genial, kindly personality, and Christian 
 and gentlemanly bearing, had endeared himself 
 to each one of us personally. 
 
 4 That we convey to Mrs. Allen the expression 
 of our profound sympathy with her in the great 
 sorrow that God, in His wise providence has seen 
 fit to lay upon her; and sincerely pray that she 
 may be sustained and comforted by our Heavenly 
 Father. 
 
 5 That these resolutions, of the joint Boards, 
 be spread on the minutes of each body ; that they 
 be read at the memorial service for Mr. Allen on 
 Sunday afternoon, January 26, 1908; and that 
 a copy of the same be forwarded to the widow of 
 our deceased brother, by the Clerk of Session, 
 signed by him in our behalf. 
 
 Guy Minton, Clerk. 
 
ADDRESS BY 
 REV. JOHN MACNATTGHTAN, D.D. 
 
 Deae Friends : 
 
 JE are holding this service this after- 
 noon in memory of our departed 
 friend, not for any purposes of 
 eulogy. To no one could that be 
 more distasteful, or more heartily deprecated 
 than by our friend himself. He was very con- 
 scious of sharing with us our common human 
 frailties, and shrank instinctively from any as- 
 cription to himself of fictitious merit. But we 
 have all felt that his life has stood for some 
 things of importance and worth that may be 
 profitably pondered by those of us who have 
 known him and worked with him in the Church 
 and community; and it is to these things I wish 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 at this time to call your attention, and impress 
 them upon my own heart and yours : 
 
 1 In the first place, he has always stood, it 
 seems to me, for a very desirable form of piety, 
 and one that is growing less and less common 
 among us, and that to our serious loss and in- 
 jury, I believe. To-day, to say a man is a Chris- 
 tian may mean much or little. It may stand only 
 for a name, or it may stand for a fact. We al- 
 ways want to know the kind of a Christian he is. 
 Our friend was one of the Christians of the old 
 type, whose profession and life stood for certain 
 conspicuous facts. His was a Christian life, for 
 example, that grounded itself in God's Word. 
 He was a student of the Scriptures. He took 
 time to read and understand what God had writ- 
 ten, and strove to make it the guide and inspira- 
 tion of his life. The Christianity of to-day is 
 sadly lacking in this regard. The religious life 
 of so many of us consists in attendance upon 
 Church, and general and respectful attention to 
 the maintenance of the orderly worship and ser- 
 vice of God's House. There is a sad lack of 
 knowledge of the Scriptures, and, too often, a 
 mere perfunctory reading of the Book. With our 
 friend the reading of the Bible from day to day 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 meant the refreshing of his soul with the know- 
 ledge of the divine orders given therein for the 
 guiding and the shaping of his life for the doing 
 of his daily duty. 
 
 Of a like character were his daily devotions. 
 He found time for the observance of the old- 
 fashioned family worship. He was vital in this 
 matter, too. It was no perfunctory performance. 
 It meant something beyond the mere compulsion 
 of dull routine. At these times he laid his own 
 life, and that of those he loved, in the hands of 
 God, and committed them, sleeping and waking, 
 to the care and guidance of the Almighty. His 
 morning and evening ablutions were not felt to 
 be more necessary than this commitment of his 
 affairs to the care and keeping of God. 
 
 He was old-fashioned, too, in his regard for 
 the Sabbath. Its restraints were not regarded as 
 slavish hindrances, and embarrassments to free- 
 dom and pleasure. It was God's day— a price- 
 less, precious gift, to help him to the attainment 
 of the best. Nothing of the world was permitted 
 to enter it that could be kept out. He was glad 
 of it as an opportunity to lay the world aside, 
 and have freedom to remind himself of the things 
 that were above. There is much that is ignorant 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 and unwise in the modern attitude toward God's 
 day. How much the religious life, in its de- 
 fectiveness for the highest uses, is owing to this, I 
 will not attempt now to say. But I do know that 
 the vigor and wholesomeness of the religious life 
 our friend lived could be traced to the right use, 
 the old-fashioned use, of the Christian Sabbath. 
 
 It is well for us, therefore, this afternoon, to 
 thoughtfully and wisely ponder these facts, and 
 lay them with all seriousness upon our own 
 hearts. 
 
 2 But, besides these underlying conditions of 
 his life, he stood for a quality of service that is 
 less common than we have a right to desire. It 
 was service, largely and commandingly, inspired 
 by principle. Mere emotion, occasion or impulse 
 had little to do with the life he lived. His daily 
 conduct was rational and intelligent in its whole 
 character and structure. This explains many 
 things in his career. It was, for example, late in 
 life when he came into the Church. This is not 
 saying that his religious life was late of begin- 
 ning, but that the step, by which he took a public 
 stand for Christ, was one deliberately taken and 
 carefully considered. He waited for the con- 
 viction of duty. Perhaps he may have been, as 
 
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 so many are, and not altogether without reason, 
 over-sensitive in this matter. He saw how many 
 rushed into the Church impulsively and thought- 
 lessly, and soon after forgot the obligations they 
 had so solemnly assumed ; and all this made him 
 hesitate to take the step till his life had been well 
 matured. But when it was made clear to him 
 that it was his duty, he decided quickly, and his 
 life from that hour was consecrated and dedicated 
 to God. There was no halting or hesitation after 
 this had been done. 
 
 It was so, too, in accepting the office of Elder- 
 ship. He faced the duties the position involved, 
 and accepted place, not as conferring honor, but 
 as implying service. And he did not let his duties 
 as an elder terminate with the Church with which 
 he was immediately identified. He recognized its 
 duties as lying beyond its pale. His interest in 
 the whole field covered by the Boards of our 
 Church was deep, growing, and practical. He 
 gave largely of his means for the support of 
 these; and of his special interest in the work of 
 evangelization of the foreign population of our 
 own State, through our Synodical Home Mission 
 Committee, of whose Presbyterial Committee he 
 was a member, we shall hear from Dr. Halloway, 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 who is with us this afternoon. And in connection 
 with this, mention should be made of his work, 
 covering more than thirty years, in the Sunday- 
 school at Oak Ridge, where, through his devotion 
 and service, he has been the mainstay of a live 
 and enterprising Sunday-school work. 
 
 Here, again, his life comes to us with lessons it 
 will be well for us to heed. The Church needs 
 to-day more of the quality of conscientiousness, 
 and more of the sense of obligation, which he dis- 
 played. So much of our Church life is conven- 
 tional and formal. So little of it has its roots in 
 a deep sense of soul hunger, and need of being 
 fitted for doing God's will. We may well ponder 
 this phase of the life of the friend who has passed 
 away from us. 
 
 3 To his sense of duty we have to add another 
 trait of the character of our friend, that is less 
 common among us, also, than we could wish, 
 namely, the wise and worthy use he made of the 
 means God had entrusted to his stewardship. He 
 was one of the small number, still surviving, who 
 took this serious view of their relation to their 
 possessions. Few men whom I have known, have 
 been so sensitive to the real obligations of wealth 
 as he. The simple life he lived, severely simple, 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 was not the result of limited income, but of the 
 fear that he should expend upon himself more of 
 what God had given him than he ought. It was 
 not privilege and opportunity for personal pleas- 
 ure and ostentation, that wealth brought to him, 
 but the sense of obligation for its best and wisest 
 use for the cause of God in the world. His con- 
 science had much to do with the regulation of the 
 output of his purse. We know this, in the condi- 
 tions of our own existence as a Church. His large 
 and generous gifts have had much to do, as the 
 resolutions read this afternoon testify, with our 
 possession of this beautiful Church home, and the 
 lovely grounds in the midst of which it stands. 
 Nor is it needful for me to speak of the sub- 
 stantial reinforcement to our means of Church 
 support his gifts have always been to us. We 
 have all recognized this, and been grateful and 
 thankful. 
 
 And since I have been among you, I have been 
 hearing, not from him, for he never spoke of 
 these things to me, but from the causes and enter- 
 prises that have been the beneficiaries of his 
 generosity, how far-reaching and manifold have 
 been his gifts. His stewardship of his posses- 
 sions, the sense of having these things as a sacred 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 trust, was an abiding consciousness of his life. 
 He never put aside an appeal until he had con- 
 vinced himself that God had no duties for him in 
 connection with it. 
 
 There is surely in this something that has les- 
 sons for us all. Wealth, for what it gives of op- 
 portunity for pleasure, for ostentation, for the 
 gratification of our whims and our personal in- 
 clinations, seems to be the ruling thought to-day 
 in the Church and the world. There is no growth 
 in benevolence that is at all adequate to the in- 
 crease of the wealth of our times. If the men 
 with this world's goods in our Churches to-day, 
 were as conscientious as our friend has been in 
 the administration of their possessions, the whole 
 work of the Kingdom would be delivered from 
 the embarrassments with which it is beset. We 
 need a revival of the sense of stewardship in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ to-day more than of any 
 other kind— the feeling that was his, that pros- 
 perity is a larger opportunity for doing good. 
 
 It is out of these characteristics of which I 
 have spoken, that have come those qualities of 
 life and heart, that make the services this after- 
 noon so fit and proper. It was from these roots 
 those traits of manhood drew their vitality that 
 
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 have endeared him to so many of us— this life 
 with its splendid form of piety, with its mastery 
 of principle, with its consciousness of life's pos- 
 sessions as a sacred trust. 
 
 The results of this scheme of life, as they af- 
 fected the personality of our friend, I can only 
 speak of now in the briefest way. There is, first 
 of all, his faithfulness in every matter that was 
 required of him by his profession, as a Christian, 
 and in his position as an elder of the Church. 
 The claims of the Church did not rest lightly 
 upon him. He gave to her concerns the best of 
 himself, in prayer and in service. He laid her 
 work upon his heart, and life had no pleasure for 
 him that equaled the joy with which he was per- 
 mitted to contribute to her growth and prosper- 
 ity. 
 
 Out of these, too, came that simplicity, so char- 
 acteristic of him. He made no claim to personal 
 honor on the ground of these fidelities. In the 
 face of so much effective usefulness there was no 
 pretense of superiority, or claim to special con- 
 sideration. The flavor of ostentation belonged to 
 no activity of his among us. He was always, only 
 one among the rest of us, trying to do, the best he 
 knew how, the duties God had laid upon him— 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 too glad to be permitted to do God service to 
 have any thought of how that service compared 
 with any rendered by others. 
 
 And, last of all, out of these came that modesty 
 that we all respected and admired. With him the 
 repression of self was not the result of any con- 
 scious effort. In service and in gifts he was 
 rendering to his Lord, not what was his, but what 
 he had received. He was not, therefore, in any- 
 thing conscious of being especially praiseworthy. 
 
 And, dear friends, these are the things that 
 count in life — that are contributing to its en- 
 noblement and exaltation. Our lives are to be 
 measured, not by the place we make for them 
 in the world of business or fashion, but in 
 the work done for the Kingdom of God, in the 
 lives about us kindled with higher impulses, and 
 inspired to higher ideals of duty and destiny. It 
 is for these things we are grateful to our brother, 
 and for which, this afternoon, we give grateful 
 and hearty thanks to Almighty God. 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 REV. W. W. HALLOWAY, D.D. 
 
 FEEL honored in being invited to 
 take part in this service, and glad to 
 be able to bring a single flower to 
 add to the wreath of affection which 
 we place upon the casket of Mr. Allen. 
 
 My relations with him grew out of my work for 
 Synodical Home Missions in the Presbytery. 
 Some years ago, on my return home from Pres- 
 bytery at which I had presented the needs of that 
 work, I received from Mr. Allen a letter full of 
 sympathy and encouragement, and offering prac- 
 tical help. 
 
 Perhaps I should state that the plan of Synod- 
 ical Home Missions provides for the raising of a 
 certain amount of money each year in the Synod, 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 and this amount is apportioned among the Pres- 
 byteries, and by the Presbyteries apportioned 
 among the Churches. Our Presbytery has made 
 the apportionment at thirty cents a Church mem- 
 ber. But as some Churches which are rich in 
 membership are poor in financial ability, if we 
 would raise the quota of Presbytery, some of the 
 stronger Churches must give more than their ap- 
 portionment. The Synodical year ends the last 
 day of September, and the effort to adjust the 
 different amounts required, and to secure the full 
 quota of Presbytery makes a strenuous time for 
 the chairman. Mr. Allen, recognizing this, and 
 being in full sympathy with the nature of Synod- 
 ical Home Mission work, offered to give aid to 
 the extent of $100, so that any deficiency unpro- 
 vided for by the Churches might be met. For 
 several years he has done this, and the result has 
 been that "Morris and Orange" has been able, 
 year by year, to report its full apportionment 
 as raised. The Presbytery, therefore, has been 
 much indebted to him — though he would not per- 
 mit me to make the circumstances known. The 
 chairman also felt a deep gratitude to him for 
 doing that which was a source of relief to him 
 personally, since I knew that, after every effort 
 
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 had been made in the Churches, if any deficiency 
 existed, Mr. Allen would be there to draw upon. 
 
 Yet it was not alone for his generosity in giving 
 that I grew to love him. He became a member 
 of the committee at my request, as soon as a 
 vacancy occurred, and from that time till his 
 death was faithful in the discharge of his duties. 
 His active sympathy with the work, his inquiring 
 spirit, his wise counsels, his genial society, made 
 him a valuable addition to our number. Indeed, 
 I have known him, in his faithfulness, to attend 
 a committee meeting, when he was in physical 
 pain all the time, and, if he had followed the dic- 
 tates of prudence alone, would have remained at 
 home. 
 
 But it is hard to portray a man by the brush of 
 the artist or the words of the preacher. After all, 
 it was the man himself that counted most, his 
 genial and attractive personality. I would apply 
 to him that misused but ever pregnant word— 
 ' ' gentleman. ' ' He was the best type of a Chris- 
 tian gentleman. And I recall Buskin's words, 
 "A gentleman's first characteristic is that fine- 
 ness of structure of the body which renders it 
 capable of the most delicate sensation; and of 
 structure of the mind which renders it capable of 
 
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 the most delicate sympathies— one may say 
 simply, fineness of nature. This is, of course, 
 compatible with heroic bodily strength and men- 
 tal firmness; in fact, heroic strength is not con- 
 ceivable without such delicacy. Elephantine 
 strength may drive its way through a forest, and 
 feel no touch of the boughs, but the white skin of 
 Homer's Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, 
 yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and be- 
 have like iron." 
 
 So Mr. Allen, with his frail health, was yet 
 keyed to indefatigable labors, and painstaking 
 sacrifices, and consecrated devotion to his Mas- 
 ter. This high breeding as a gentleman showed 
 itself, both in his delicate sensibilities and his 
 heroic service. 
 
 Again, I think of him as a Chosen One. I be- 
 lieve that God selects men with reference not so 
 much to their eternal condition as for special 
 service. That was the election of Israel— to be 
 the servant of Jehovah, and as servant to hand 
 on to the nations of the world its oracles, its holy 
 secrets, its coming and radiant Saviour. Christ 
 elected His disciples, He told them, "that ye 
 should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit 
 should abide." To Paul He said, "I have ap- 
 
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 peared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a 
 servant and a witness." I account for the mar- 
 velous work of some men in special fields— for the 
 achievements of men like Moody and Brooks and 
 Spurgeon, for example— by this doctrine of elec- 
 tion. God chooses some men, I believe, to be 
 special channels of His grace and power to their 
 fellows. They may be no better equipped in the 
 ordinary sense than multitudes of their fellows ; 
 but God selects them out of His infinite wisdom, 
 and, by their absolute yielding to Him, they be- 
 come the instruments in His hands to work a 
 great work. Electricity will be conducted by 
 some substances better than others. I do not 
 know why some substances are conductors and 
 others non-conductors. Perhaps even the elec- 
 trician cannot explain it. All we know is that 
 electricity chooses some substances through 
 which it will convey its power for the service of 
 men. So God chooses some men for special con- 
 veyance of His blessings, now in one direction, 
 now in another; here in one form, there in an- 
 other. I think of Mr. Allen as thus chosen by 
 God to manifest to men the power of a conse- 
 crated life. Mr. Allen yielded himself to God to 
 become this instrument. He recognized his 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 stewardship of his wealth, and held it subject to 
 his Master's command. He made his will sub- 
 servient to the divine will. He let God use him, 
 and was happy to be His servant. He was a good 
 man, "the ripe fruit which earth presents to 
 God." 
 
 Finally, such a life is an argument for immor- 
 tality. We cannot believe that God would raise 
 up and endow such a life, and then utterly ex- 
 tinguish it. Even men do not build just to de- 
 stroy. Surely God does not disappoint all our 
 hopes, blast all our expectations, crush all our 
 faith, annihilate all our being by any such pro- 
 cess. This life, ended on earth, must go on some- 
 where. This character, so beautifully developed, 
 must have opportunities further on. This ser- 
 vice, so cheerfully and efficiently rendered, must 
 have its fruition somehow. 
 
 Some one puts it this way: You stand by the 
 shore and witness a vessel sailing out to sea. 
 Gradually, it draws farther and farther away, 
 becomes less and less an object of vision. By and 
 by, it disappears behind the horizon, and you ex- 
 claim, "There, it 's gone!" Gone where? Out 
 of sight, only. But it is still making its way on 
 the deep, still continuing its voyage. And on the 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 farther shore are those who wait to greet its com- 
 ing, as here there are those who watch its going. 
 We say of our friend, ' ' He is gone. ' ' But it is 
 only from our sight. We believe that he still is, 
 and that he will continue his work on larger fields 
 and with grander results than ever. 
 
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N the village of Manitowoc, Wiscon- 
 sin, as far back as the thirties, Rich- 
 ard L. Allen had bought a large 
 tract of land, in the development of 
 which he took a deep interest. He and his son, 
 who succeeded him in its management, were al- 
 ways hopeful of the prosperous future of the 
 place. 
 
 The religious interests of the town appealed to 
 them both, and to their families, and the follow- 
 ing resolutions bear witness to this : 
 
 Our Heavenly Father having called from earth 
 the late Richard H. Allen of Chatham, New Jer- 
 sey, a constant and long valued friend of this 
 Church, we, the elders and trustees in joint ses- 
 sion, desire to extend our heartfelt sympathy to 
 the family of our departed friend. 
 
 We remember with appreciation the many ex- 
 pressions of interest by the deceased in and for 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 the welfare of this Church, as well as the sub- 
 stantial assistance which he has so many times 
 rendered on occasions of special need. 
 
 We commend the bereaved companion and 
 family to our God and to the word of His grace, 
 and we pray that He may be to each of you a 
 "God of all comfort," and "The Father of 
 mercies, ' ' at this time. 
 
 (Signed) Oliver C. Johnson, Pastor. 
 
 H. F. Hubbard H. F. Hubbard 
 
 J. L. Smalley J. F. Pritchard 
 
 C. H. Sedgwick G. P. Houghton 
 
 J. E. Plumb J. E. Plumb 
 
 P. A. Erickson E. M. Kapitan 
 
 J. C. Barrie R. E. Hempton 
 
 Elders. Walter Green 
 J. F. Reardon 
 G. H. Dickson 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Done by order of the Elders and Trustees of 
 the Manitowoc Presbyterian Church. 
 
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From "The Envoy," of February, 1908, the monthly paper pub- 
 lished by the Presbyterian Church, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. 
 
 An flDemoriam 
 
 ALLEN 
 
 'HE name of Allen will always be a 
 tender memory to those who have 
 had a part in the struggles of the 
 earlier days in our Church. Early 
 in the history of this city Richard L. Allen, a resi- 
 dent of New York, made considerable purchases 
 of real estate, part of which is now within the city 
 limits. He was an elder in the Reformed Dutch 
 Church, and so naturally became interested in 
 the struggles of our Church at that time. Two 
 memorial windows, one in the Church and one in 
 the Manse, bear their silent testimony to the gifts 
 of this large-hearted man, who time and again 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 responded to the cry of need from this congrega- 
 tion. This characteristic generosity is illustrated 
 by a memorandum found after his death, which, 
 after mentioning certain gifts, which he desired 
 made for benevolent purposes, added, "I es- 
 pecially recommend to my wife and heirs a spirit 
 and acts of beneficence, imitating in this their 
 blessed Master, our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
 Christ, 'who went about doing good,' and who 
 suffered every privation with patient self-denial, 
 that he might benefit mankind and minister to 
 their necessities." 
 
 After his death, September 22, 1869, his son, 
 Richard H. Allen, became the manager of his 
 father's estate, continuing in that capacity until 
 his death, which occurred January 14, at North- 
 ampton, Mass., whither he had gone to attend the 
 funeral of his sister, Mary Isabel Allen, whose 
 death preceded his but six days. He had been 
 long in the service of the Chatham, New Jer- 
 sey, Presbyterian Church as an officer, and for 
 thirty years had acted as Superintendent of a 
 union Sabbath School near his home. The same 
 spirit of generosity which had characterized the 
 father was continued in the son. He seldom came 
 to the city on business but that he visited the 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 Manse, and became acquainted in turn with each 
 of the pastors, always revealing his great inter- 
 est in the welfare of this Church. He was the 
 first person outside of the congregation to order 
 ' ' The Envoy. ' ' And now that he and his sister be- 
 loved have passed on to the General Assembly of 
 the Church of the first-born in Heaven, we can the 
 more fully realize that we have been the gainers 
 through a friendship of two generations with the 
 Allen family. The widow, formerly Miss Mary 
 C. Wallace of Chatham, N. J., and one brother, 
 the Rev. Arthur H. Allen, with his daughter, Miss 
 Agnes Gr. C. Allen, are the surviving members of 
 the family. 
 
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IMMORTALITY: WHAT IS IT? 
 
 ; MONG the men and women whom we 
 meet on the highways and byways of 
 life's journey, there are some whose 
 eagle eyes have pierced through 
 earthly matter, and solved problems too difficult 
 for the mass of mankind ; many whose ears have 
 heard music too faint for us to catch, and others 
 whose knowledge of the workings of nature is 
 profound and deep. But too seldom is this 
 knowledge a step to higher and better things. 
 Too often it leads to conceit and vainglory, and 
 not, as it should, to humility before the great God 
 who has created all these mysteries, that we may 
 feel our littleness in His sight, and bow adoring 
 at His feet. 
 
 Richard Hinckley Allen's love of nature led 
 him to study her mysteries from boyhood, and 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 while his knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and 
 of birds great and small, was far superior to that 
 of the average man, his modesty was such that 
 only a few kindred spirits discovered how varied 
 and deep had been his investigations. He saw 
 greater harmony and beauty in a glorious sunset 
 than was revealed to our eyes; there was an in- 
 tensity in his gaze that showed how his soul was 
 absorbed in the sight, and, like a prophet of the 
 night, when the light of day had vanished, he 
 would name star after star, and planet after 
 planet, speaking of their relations to one another 
 and of the meaning of their names, as if he were 
 more at home among their glories than most men 
 would be with the persons and things of their 
 daily environment. 
 
 An earnest Christian, his first and best thoughts 
 were given to the things of the Kingdom, to the 
 Church to which he belonged, denying himself, 
 that he might promote her interests at home and 
 abroad ; and not even those nearest to him knew 
 how many needy ones had been gladdened by his 
 ministrations. 
 
 And now he is no longer with us ; but who can 
 think the thoughts and live the life that he did, 
 without being better prepared to enjoy the ser- 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 vice and the blessed employments of the Home, 
 which he has now entered? 
 
 "Master, he whom thou lovest is dead!" 
 ' ' Yes, my child, truly dead to the pain and sor- 
 row and gloom of earth, to all partings and temp- 
 tations, and to the suffering which he bore so 
 patiently on his journey to the better land. But 
 the life that he is now living is more full of sweet- 
 ness and beauty and joy than earth can offer. He 
 is learning more than he could ever have learned 
 on earth. Does he not love more tenderly? Is he 
 not immortal?" 
 
 S. W. 
 
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ISABEL AND RICHARD 
 
 Mary Isabel Allen died at Dansville, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1908, and 
 Bichard Hinckley Allen, at Northampton, Mass., Jan. 14, 1908. 
 
 "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their 
 death they were not divided." 
 
 SABEL and Richard, over threescore 
 years on earth, and but six days apart 
 in entering heaven. On earth in 
 point of seniority it was Richard and 
 Isabel, but into the light of heaven she entered 
 first, and there the senior saint is Isabel. They 
 were born in the same house on the banks of the 
 Niagara River below the growing town of Buf- 
 falo. Both of them were literary in their tastes, 
 and as a child he loved the stars, and grew to love 
 them more and more with all his scholarly mind, 
 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 which made him when a young man a walking 
 encyclopedia, as his classmates called him. His 
 " Star-Names and Their Meanings" is the fruit 
 of years of research and ripe learning ; you might 
 call it a literary history of the stars. Can we, in 
 our boldest fancy, imagine what he now sees of 
 those myriads of worlds, in whose existence and 
 names he took such keen delight 1 He passed with 
 honor through one year at Yale College in the 
 class of '60, but then his eyes forced him to with- 
 draw for a year, and, yielding to his father's 
 longing, he went into business with him. There 
 was often a wistful, hungry look in his eyes when 
 he spoke of his college. Yet in mental culture he 
 outranked how immeasurably many a graduate. 
 
 Her love of literature was as great as her 
 brother's, and as wide-reaching. French, Ger- 
 man, and Italian she read with ease, and spoke 
 with fluency. She had a good style, and wrote 
 some beautiful verses, which have been printed, 
 besides translations and papers for private clubs. 
 One of her best she herself thought was this little 
 poem, which she sent to this paper two Christ- 
 mases ago : 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 THE FIR-TREE 
 
 I am like a green fir tree ; from Me is thy fruit found. 
 
 Hosea xiv 
 
 The wondrous babe on Mary's breast 
 
 Closes His wistful eyes in rest. 
 
 He does not know there will be drest 
 
 For Him a tree, 
 
 Where men shall see 
 The fruit of God's great love. 
 
 To man 's estate at last He came, 
 
 He healed the sick, the deaf, the lame— 
 
 Men heard the blind man, cured, proclaim 
 
 ' ' I once was blind, but now I see, 
 
 Christ is the tree 
 
 That bears for me 
 This fruit of God's great love." 
 
 And when they hung Him on the tree 
 
 That fearful day on Calvary, 
 
 The women wept and moaned, ' ' Ah, me ! 
 
 That such a tree 
 
 Should bear for me 
 The fruit of God's great love." 
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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 Since then, a sound of joyous mirth 
 
 At Christmas-tide rolls round the earth, 
 
 The children stand beneath a tree, 
 
 And through its gifts the Christ-child see. 
 
 They hear him saying lovingly, 
 
 ' ' This is the tree 
 
 That bears for thee 
 The fruit of God's great love." 
 
 Best of all, in their religious life they were not 
 divided. She came into the visible Church at an 
 earlier age than he. He was past thirty, when 
 he united with the Presbyterian Church of Chat- 
 ham, of which he later was elected trustee and 
 elder, but he had already been teaching a class 
 in the White Oak Kidge Sunday-school. After he 
 joined the Church, they elected him superinten- 
 dent, and kept him in office year after year until 
 he died. His prayers at the family altar were 
 humble and reverent, touching in their beautiful 
 simplicity. In public prayer he had the same 
 natural diffidence as his beloved father. 
 
 She was a manager of the Woman 's Union Mis- 
 sionary Society, and there, as officers of the so- 
 ciety bear witness, it was uplifting to listen to her 
 prayers. One of them says, "I never heard her 
 
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RICHARD HINCKLEY ALLEN 
 
 fervent petitions, but that the conviction came to 
 me of a definite answer. ' ' 
 
 In their love for others they were united. They 
 had too keen an insight into human nature not to 
 see and sometimes to criticise the faults of others. 
 But their goodwill was far-reaching. They both 
 were most generous. Gifts large and small made 
 glad the hearts of missionaries and obscure work- 
 ers for the Master in many quarters of the globe. 
 Many a heart they made to sing for joy. There 
 is a chorus of harmonious praise from those 
 whose lives were brightened by their kind 
 thoughts and substantial gifts, some of whom 
 have welcomed them into their heavenly home. 
 For we have no doubt, according to the promises 
 of Jesus, that they are with Christ, which is far 
 better. This beautiful Sunday, his first and her 
 second in the City of Light, they walk with Him in 
 white, for they are worthy. HI health and weak- 
 ness, distress and pain are over. She sleeps in 
 historic ground at Northampton, he by the banks 
 of the Passaic in Newark, but they, their noblest 
 and best, their true selves whom we loved, are 
 safe within the gates of pearl, and they beckon us 
 to follow. A jj a. 
 
 — From "The Christian Intelligencer," January 29, 1908. 
 
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