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PREFACE. • 
 
 It has been said of our Communion that it could 
 not be a true portion of the One, Catholic, and Apos- 
 tolic Church, for it had not the Note of Sanctity. 
 That it had at least fair semblances of others, was 
 admitted; others, which it lacked, were perhaps not 
 vital ; but this one, preeminent, necessary mark of a 
 true Church of God, it neither had, nor seemed to 
 have. And if to this were added that it seemed not 
 to care for it, nor even to miss it, the statement might 
 still have been, in a large way, and approximately, 
 true. Accurately and destructively true of the Angli- 
 can Church it never was. She has had her Saints in 
 every generation. But, undoubtedly, in habit, for 
 several centuries, the religious genius of English-speak- 
 ing peoples has not tended toward very high expres- 
 sion in personal holiness. This expression has been 
 hindered naturally, by their ruling passion of independ- 
 ence, their curious reserve, their intense practicalness 
 which laid hold on things apparently nearest, and 
 wrought that mighty task of political accomplishment, 
 and enormous physical labour, which is a true and proper 
 
IV Preface. 
 
 glory of our race — a work which seemed prepared 
 and waiting for it, and which God permitted it to do. 
 
 And as, in His marvellous processes which men call 
 slow, seeing them out of relation to the Eternal Now, 
 some things in time must seem to precede others, so 
 even the spiritual nurture and practical religious in- 
 struction of this English race, affected directly by 
 these innate qualities and this preoccupation, and in- 
 directly by them through interference of the State, 
 have long reacted upon and heightened, rather than 
 attempered them. Thus natural aptitudes, and envi- 
 ronment, have kept dormant the immanent spiritual 
 energy of a great people, and the religious life, in which 
 its strong and high powers would find true development, 
 and most noble exercise, has awaited the fubiess of time. 
 
 Now, it appears to be the will of Almighty God to 
 take away this reproach from us, and in an age which 
 we have learned to call pecuUarly one of luxury, ir- 
 reverence, and self-will, the idea of sacrifice, humility, 
 obedience, arises newborn: in the day of tremendous 
 physical achievement and material triumph— as though 
 that work were finishing — it has pleased Him, in the 
 revived life of His Church, to advance with equal foot 
 the Supernatural Wonders of His Grace. *' Howbeit 
 that was not first which is spiritual, but that which 
 
Preface. v 
 
 is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual." 
 The chief purpose of this Memorial is to show the 
 revived life of the Church in the history of one of her 
 members, whose own life, also, was not unique, but a 
 figure and image of many Hves now daily offered in 
 our Communion, which "go from strength to strength, 
 and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of 
 them in Sion." For the issue of saintliness is Saints 
 — not vice-versa — and to know the virtue we must 
 consider men. And, furthermore, as the Rector of 
 Trinity Church, Boston, has just observed,* "popular 
 skepticism being what it is, the main method of meet- 
 ing it must be not an argument but a man; the Minister, 
 in other words, who deals with unbelief most success- 
 fully to-day will not be he who is most skilful in prov- 
 ing truths or disproving errors, but he who is most 
 powerful in strengthening faith in people's lives by the 
 way in which the power of faith is uttered through his 
 own character. * * * if unbelief comes not by 
 the processes of logic, but by the power of Hfe, then 
 it is through change of life that the reHef from unbelief 
 must come, and change of Hfe comes by the power of 
 truth, not abstract, but in and through character." 
 There are other reasons why Louis Schuyler's life 
 
 * Princeton Review, March, 1879, pp. 297-8. 
 
VI Preface. 
 
 should be written. Natural affection would prompt 
 it, with proud and sad regard. Gratitude of the warm- 
 hearted people whom he helped in grievous trouble 
 would prompt it. It is due to the whole Sacred Order 
 of Priests, whose true vocation he illustrated, and 
 whose high fellowship he more exalted. It is due to 
 the great Order of Men, whose brother he is. But 
 the most tender eulogy of him would be a sort of 
 violence done to his sweet humility unless there were a 
 true intent of serving God in it. Then he might even 
 
 ** Suffer himself to be desired, 
 And not blush so to be admired. " 
 
 Therefore the serious design of this history is not 
 to celebrate a man, but the power of Divine Grace in 
 him — to show how entirely feasible (though assuredly 
 not easy) it is for one in our day, and in our Church, 
 to live a life very like to that of Jesus Christ. And 
 if it seem rather a startHng thing, and hardly reverent, 
 to say of any man that he was much like Him, we 
 must consider what a strange, pathetic sign of our 
 essential /nreverence — and of the need of more such 
 lives — that is, after Nineteen Centuries of Christianity ! 
 
 It is simply and Hterally true of Schuyler that he fol- 
 lowed very closely the Pattern of his Lord's life — 
 nearest It when farthest from the usual ways of men. 
 
Preface, vii 
 
 Being such a life, the story of it might well be left 
 to teach its own lessons, without further comment here, 
 yet three things shall be noticed. 
 
 Schuyler's was no "fugitive and cloistered virtue, 
 unexercised and unbreathed." His life was spent in 
 the ordinary work of a Parish Minister, subject to the 
 temptations of that lot, which his brethren know; I do 
 not — ^let them say if they be not many. Had he 
 been a recluse, or even had he joined the Brother- 
 hood which he sought, and gained the support of a Com- 
 munity-Life, something might be allowed for circum- 
 stances, but as it is, nothing in him is beyond attain- 
 ment by any in Holy Orders — at least, by any who choose 
 to be of '* the hundred and forty and four thousand." 
 
 Then, it is most instructive to note that his life, 
 spent solely in unearthly labours, and for unearthly 
 rewards, suddenly brought him, without thought of 
 his, a high prize of earthly fame, in greater measure 
 than is often meted to long lives devoted chiefly to 
 acquiring it. Earthly fame he won in eminent degree. 
 To Uve in all men's speech, and mind, and memories; 
 to have one's name in all newspapers, with ardent 
 praise ; to be celebrated in Sermons, Addresses, in 
 formal Minutes and Records of enduring honour — even 
 to have a Uttle book written about one, like this — 
 
VIII Preface. 
 
 these all are parts of Fame. And they are all its 
 parts — they are Fame. And this reward, for which 
 many men strive with constant and intensest desire, 
 came to Schuyler by the mere operation of his self-for- 
 getfulness and self-effacement. His life of broken 
 effort and apparent failmre issued even in this^ and 
 became, even judged by worldly and temporal stan- 
 dards, a success and a triumph. Seeking "first the 
 kingdom of God, and His righteousness," this thing 
 was added unto him. 
 
 Finally, concerning the quality of Schuyler's deed at 
 Memphis. — We know well the fierce joy which men 
 have in pure courage. We know and exult in the 
 plentifulness of that noble virtue — how it abounds in 
 all human history. But we do not deeply consider the 
 ignoble use we make of it, keeping it chiefly for con- 
 quering savages, or riding Balaklava-fields. We esteem 
 it a fine thing, though put to fatuous or futile employ- 
 ment. Sometimes, as under stress of a great calamity, 
 men Hft courage into higher use, and our hearts thrill 
 with admiration when we see it employed in saving 
 men's bodies instead of destroying them — ^when, as at 
 Memphis, we see noble men and women — the fam- 
 ous Howard Association, the Sisters, and hundreds of 
 others unnamed and unknown by us — steadfastly brav- 
 
Preface. ix 
 
 ing the horrors of pestilence, and calmly yielding up 
 their lives that others may live. This we call " true 
 courage"— with aglow of gratitude, beholding it divested 
 of false lustre and shining with its own inward ray. 
 But Schuyler, with his clarified vision seeing in what 
 we call reaUties the actual phantasms, and discerning 
 the true reaHties in spiritual things, lifted courage 
 still higher, and used it neither for destroying men's 
 bodies, nor for saving them, but to save their souls. 
 This makes the supreme worth and value of his action 
 — its teaching by example the great and needed 
 lesson of the reality — the ^^vraie verite" — of the Su- 
 pernatural, and the power of Faith. 
 
 No preaching of the surpassing importance of spirit- 
 ual concerns could ever reach men's hearts like his 
 calm showing that men's souls are worth at least as 
 much to save them as their bodies, and that there are 
 those who deeply know and act on this. And it has 
 been ordered that no criticism of his act can stand be- 
 fore the known result of it. For Jesus Christ has 
 said that the whole world is not a sufficient price for a 
 single human soul, and by God's grace Louis Schuyler 
 was permitted to save a man's soul in Memphis, and 
 to know that he had done it. Fully believing our 
 Lord's words, he counted not his life a dear price for 
 
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 that one soul, and, unlike the young man " who made 
 the great refusal," he parted with his "great pos- 
 sessions" of youth, and life, and earthly love. Willing 
 to "be perfect," he sold all that he had and gave to 
 the poor, and went and followed Jesus. He shall 
 have "treasure in heaven." And for us remains the 
 Divine comment on his action: — "Whosoever w^ill 
 save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his 
 life for My sake and the Gospel's, the same shall 
 save it." 
 
 J. E. L. 
 Newark, 
 Mid-Lent, 
 A. D. 1879. 
 
LIFE 
 
 The idea of thy life shall sweetly creep 
 Into my study of imagination. " 
 
 OUIS SANDFORD SCHUYLER, son of 
 the ReVd Montgomery Schuyler, D. D., and 
 J Lydia E. Schuyler, was born into this world 
 in the city of Buffalo, in New York, on the 2nd day 
 of March, A. D. 1852. 
 
 His remote ancestor, Philip Pieterse Van Schuyler, 
 came to this country soon after the Dutch occupation 
 from a town of Holland which in still more distant 
 time had either taken or given the family name, and 
 settled himself where is now the city of Albany. " The 
 Flats " first occupied by him is still in the possession 
 of the family, and must be one of the oldest home- 
 steads in the country. There he married (Dec. 12th, 
 1650) Margaretta Van Slechtenhorst, and after the 
 fashion of those days begat sons and daughters in 
 multitude. 
 
 Their third son, Arent, married (Nov. 26, 1684) 
 Jannetie Teller, and removed to the city of New 
 York, having a country-seat on the Passaic River, in 
 
2 A Memorial of 
 
 New Jersey, near to the village of Belleville. The 
 mansion, commanding one of the loveliest reaches of 
 this charming river, still remains, though greatly 
 changed by succeeding owners. 
 
 Casparus, the second son of Arent, who dropped 
 the distinctive particle and gave its present form to 
 the family name, settled at or near Burlington, N. J., 
 where, in 1723, he married Mary Schuyler. He died 
 in Burlington. His only son, Arent, passed his life in 
 Burlington, where (May 19th, 1748) he married Jan- 
 netie Van Wagenen. Their eldest son, Arent, had 
 large estates at Pompton, N. J., and married (Oct. 
 18, 1785) Hester Dey, only daughter of a gentleman 
 whose seat was near to the present city of Paterson. 
 At this gentleman's house General Washington was a 
 frequent visitor, and her living descendants have often 
 heard their grandmother speak of a dinner there, at 
 which she presided, as the only lady present, with 
 General Washington at her right. 
 
 The eldest son of this marriage, Anthony Dey, was 
 bom at a place then and now called Point Pleasant, 
 on the Delaware, a little above Burlington. He mar- 
 ried Sarah Ridge (Oct. 25th, 18 10). He engaged in 
 business in Burlington and afterward in New York, 
 but before the year 1820 was settled upon an estate 
 on the bank of Seneca Lake, in the neighbourhood of 
 Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 His second son, Montgomery, was bom in the city 
 of New York. He entered Geneva (now Hobart) 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 3 
 
 College, but was graduated at Union College, Schen- 
 ectady. He married (Oct. 10, 1843) Lydia E., 
 daughter of Nicholas J. Roosevelt, of Skaneateles, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Many lines of collateral descent have been equally 
 enduring, and the family record of public and private 
 virtue and manly service to society and the State is 
 known of all men. 
 
 Probably no man living cared less about mere social 
 distinctions than the subject of this Memoir. Earthly 
 attractions seemed not to touch him. He made him- 
 self poor for Christ's sake, and was a companion of 
 the poor. Yet, while he completely performed the 
 duty exacted of all men by Chinese law — that by their 
 own deeds they should ennoble the ancestors from 
 whom they sprung — it is probable that he had a just 
 esteem of ancestral worth, and took it for an inherit- 
 ance in trust to him. 
 
 Whether this be so, or not, the effect of much accu- 
 mulated virtue showed in him, and it may have been 
 a necessary preparation of him for the work he had to 
 do, that other men should have wrought well. Per- 
 haps many past deeds of modest, brave achievement 
 matured his perfect courage, and long-forgotten self- 
 denials occultly aided his sacrifice of himself. For 
 though the ways of Almighty Power as observed by 
 men seem sometimes devious, yet even the grace of 
 God, ordinarily, follows the " line of least resistance." 
 
 At the time of Louis Schuyler's birth his father was 
 
4 A Memorial of 
 
 Rector of St. John's Church, Buffalo, and in that 
 church Louis was baptized by the Rev'd Dr. Shelton, 
 of Buffalo, April 4th, 1852. His mother died in 
 October of the same year, and within a month after 
 her death he suffered a very severe illness, from which 
 he was almost miraculously restored; a kind lady 
 of St. John's Parish watching him with a mother's 
 care. But for some time after this he was a delicate 
 child. 
 
 In the month of September, 1854, his father re- 
 signed St. John's, and, having been married a short 
 time before, removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he took 
 charge of Christ Church on the first day of October in 
 that year. 
 
 At the age of six years Louis was sent to a private 
 school taught by a lady of the Parish. She has given 
 her reminiscences of him as a bright, affectionate 
 child, like all of that restless age at times mischievous, 
 yet remarkably conscientious. It was her custom to 
 give the children a lesson in the Catechism, to be 
 recited on Fridays, and Louis never failed to remind 
 her of this lesson, and was always prepared. Once 
 after she had reproved him for some mischief she 
 requested him to take a note to his father containing 
 the quarterly school-bill. Louis at once frankly de- 
 clared that he would not carry it if it said anything 
 about his naughtiness. Even at that childish age he 
 used to talk to her about his wish to be a Priest, and 
 as he grew older the feeling only deepened, and it was 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 5 
 
 his abiding thought that there could be no other 
 choice for him. 
 
 These faint early traits are intensely characteristic 
 — the sweet brightness, the transparent truthfulness, 
 the passionate desire of holy things, the "hunger and 
 thirst after righteousness." These, too, abided and 
 deepened. 
 
 Louis was confirmed by Bishop Hawks on Palm- 
 Sunday, March 30th, 1866, when he had just passed 
 the fourteenth anniversary of his birth-day, and he re- 
 ceived his first Communion on Easter-Day, April 6th. 
 
 His preparation for college was out of the usual 
 course. Though but Httle over fourteen years of age, 
 instead of doing as little work as possible, like many 
 boys in that thoughtless time of life, no one could be 
 more studious and diHgent. To save his father as 
 much expense as possible he took entire charge of his 
 horse and carriage, and drove him on his round of 
 Parochial visits ; but under the seat of the carriage 
 was always laid some book, which Louis eagerly 
 studied while his father was making his visit. For an 
 hour each day he attended an old Professor, and con- 
 ducted the recitation himself by asking the teacher 
 questions on all the points which he could not master, 
 allowing no part of his studies to pass until he had 
 searched it to the bottom. 
 
 He entered the Freshman Class in Hobart College 
 in the Autumn of 1867. He left college to return to 
 his home at the close of the first term of the Senior 
 
6 A Memorial of 
 
 year. While remaining at home he continued his 
 studies, and was enabled to pass the closing examin- 
 ation, and to be graduated with his class. 
 
 The following letter belongs to this period : 
 
 " Skaneateles, May 21, 187 1. 
 
 " My Dear Father : * * * i am very 
 much better, so much so that the Doctor says he can 
 see no reason for my not returning to college and 
 graduating if I will not work too hard, but take things 
 easy. I feel and look very much better. I am mudi 
 stronger since I came to Skaneateles, not two weeks 
 ago. I have gained in that time twelve pounds. 
 When I left St. Louis I was not at all strong, and very 
 nervous. When I reached Geneva I was much weaker 
 and still more nervous, on account of the long, tedious 
 journey. I might, however, have improved by rest, 
 but I went hard to work, and the circumstances were 
 not pleasant or encouraging. The first night I went 
 to my room I turned out the gas and went to bed. 
 * * * * The gas is turned off when- 
 ever the screw, or whatever it is called, is turned 
 half-way— there is nothing to stop it. I turned it till 
 it stopped, as is the case with all our fixtures at home, 
 and in doing so turned on a full flood of gas, and 
 slept in the room all night with that escaping. Had 
 not the thought struck me (and it must have been 
 dictated by God, as I had not the slightest idea that 
 the gas was escaping) of opening the window, I should 
 have been a corpse in the morning. Dr. E. said that 
 that weakened my nervous system very much. 
 
 " Though I only came here two weeks ago, you 
 would not suppose I was the same person, so much flesh- 
 ier, stronger and healthier. To-morrow I intend to go 
 
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 back. P — has kindly offered to take me into his room 
 till Commencement, If I can I shall go and see R — 
 before Commencement, and afterwards start immedi- 
 ately for St. Louis, unless you have changed your 
 mind and decided to leave for the Summer. * * 
 * * * q-j^g Doctor says I must not take a po- 
 sition where I shall be kept in-doors all day. I think 
 that Nashotah, if I can get the position, is altogether 
 the best place for me, as after recitations are over I 
 can take a good deal of exercise. To go on a farm 
 would be all nonsense. I take no interest in farming, 
 and finding nothing congenial in it, would be unhappy. 
 The Faculty have been very kind to me. They will 
 give me my degree if I am not able to work hard. 
 Father, my sickness has done me a world of good, 
 and I thank God for it. It proved to me how little 
 we can depend upon ourselves \ for I thought I was 
 well, and had arranged all my studies, so I could have 
 no difficulty in passing my examinations. When I 
 thought I was strongest, then I was truly weak. I 
 can now see how weak and frail I am j but I also see, 
 the more I depend upon God, the stronger I am. I 
 shall make a much better clergyman. I could not 
 read much while I was sick, but I read the Bible when 
 I could read at all. I received such consolation, 
 nothing could have done me more good. I opened 
 first at the XII. chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 
 and again at the II. chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to 
 the Ephesians. What chapters could have been more 
 consoling ? ' Whom the Lord loveth. He chasten- 
 eth / ' And you hath He quickened, who were dead 
 in trespasses and sins / * For by Grace are ye saved 
 through Faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift 
 of God ;' ' But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes 
 were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.' 
 
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 The chapters are full of consolation, and it almost 
 seemed as if they were picked out for me, as I did not 
 look for them. 
 
 " I did not know how I loved all at home until I was 
 sick. Rev. Dr. R. called on me once and read prayers 
 for me, and from that time I got better. My sickness 
 has been better for me than years of health. I feel 
 how dependent I am upon a Higher Power, and with 
 God's help always intend to acknowledge that de- 
 pendence, and live in accordance with such acknowl- 
 edgment. I can appreciate the truth of Tennyson's 
 idea of a clergyman, and of the good he can accom- 
 plish, when, in the New Year's Eve, he says — 
 
 *' ' He taught me all the mercy, 
 For He showed me all my sin.' 
 
 " I shall expect to hear from you soon. Give my 
 love to mother and all the children. Write to me at 
 Geneva, as I expect to go there to-morrow. 
 " Believe me ever, dear father, 
 
 " Your affectionate son, 
 
 " Louis." 
 
 Of Louis' college days the Rev'd Dr. James Ran- 
 kine says: 
 
 " He was in the college here during my incumbency 
 as President, and I was very much interested in him, 
 both on his father's account and on his own. I had 
 some correspondence with him in regard to his com- 
 pleting his college course and his devoting himself to 
 the sacred calHng, but his letters have perished. Sev- 
 eral times I had serious conferences with him in regard 
 to the call to the Ministry — the obligations and the 
 self-denial involved in so doing. The effect upon 
 myself was a deep impression of his sincerity, con- 
 scientiousness, and generosity and nobility of heart." 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 9 
 
 What is said by Louis' intimate companions in 
 college attests the accuracy of Dr. Rankine's judg- 
 ment, and may be contained in the words of one of 
 them, who writes : 
 
 " He was chiefly remarkable for one thing (a very 
 unusual thing among students) — he faithfully endeav- 
 oured to perform every duty incumbent upon him as a 
 student and as a communicant of the Church." 
 
 But, fortunately for the purposes of this Memoir, a 
 record, made by a dear friend, full of detail and clear 
 delineation, has been offered to illustrate this history, 
 and will be freely used, here and hereafter. It speaks 
 as follows of the College days, beginning in 1867 : — 
 
 " When the Fall term began we took rooms to- 
 gether, about a mile from the College. He had 
 entered as a Freshman, and I was then a Sophomore. 
 And at this time he joined the Secret Society of which 
 I was a member — the Theta Delta Chi. He was a 
 quiet, rather reserved person, with occasional flashes 
 of talkativeness. He was decidedly more devotional 
 than are most young men at that age, and I used to 
 consider his evening devotions portentously long. He 
 had very strong home feeUngs, and one of the sub- 
 jects of which he never tired talking was his father. 
 And I think he was quite miserable from homesick- 
 ness a good share of his Freshman Year. He stood 
 more than fairly in all his studies, but his especial 
 favourite was Greek. In that I beUeve he ranked as 
 high as anyone in his class. But he did not seem to 
 care for College honours, and, I think, never contended 
 for any prize, though all his friends wished him to try 
 for the Greek Essay. 
 
 " Though not the kind of man who leads in College 
 
10 A Memorial of 
 
 politics, he was not devoid of interest in society and 
 class matters, and was chosen Secretary of his class at 
 the first election. At the same time he did not care 
 near as much for College politics as I did, and we had 
 frequent disagreements on the subject. He would 
 accuse some of us of not being quite fair in our 
 methods, and we would retort that he did not care 
 enough about the results. * * * * 
 
 The chief vices among CoUege students then were, 
 what I suppose they always are, drinking, and what 
 St. Paul calls aiaxpokoyia. From both these Louis 
 was free, and in his freedom he was exceptional, for 
 it was complete. There was nothing priggish about 
 him on these points. He sang his song and drank 
 his glass at our little suppers, but I never knew of his 
 even verging upon excess, and his talk was always 
 clean and pure. And in this he exerted a wholesome 
 influence. 
 
 " At the beginning of Louis' second and my third 
 year we took different rooms in one of the College 
 buildings. I think that Louis enjoyed his College Hfe 
 much better after Freshman Year. His interest in all 
 the matters of our little world increased, and while he 
 lost none of his conscientiousness, he got rid of a cer- 
 tain primness, and was less disposed than at first to 
 make things indifferent matters of conscience. I find 
 in the * Echo of the Seneca ' (our College Publication) 
 for that year the following : 
 
 *' * Whist Quartette. 
 
 "*'7o a^t '71. 
 
 « « M et S vs. S et C .' 
 
 And it reminds me of many a pleasant evening. I 
 find Louis' name also in the * Theta Delta Chi Quin- 
 tette,' and in the * Sophomore Glee Club.' And 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. ii 
 
 this suggests his love for music. How much musical 
 ability he had I am not competent to say, but I know- 
 that he worked hard at his music. It was either this 
 year or the next that he used to practice on the piano- 
 forte several hours a day. And it was partly because 
 he wanted his spare time for music that he made no 
 attempt to win College honours. He cared little for 
 the common out-door sports, except saiHng. That 
 he greatly hked. 
 
 "In the Fall term of 1869 Louis and I took the 
 same rooms in the College, and became chums. I 
 look back on that year with much pleasure. We got 
 along very harmoniously, and laid the foundations of 
 a lasting friendship. We were both looking forward 
 to the Holy Ministry, and our talk often took a theo- 
 logical turn. But as neither of us knew much theology, 
 our arguments, for we held different views, resulted in 
 agreeing to disagree. And after awhile we concluded 
 not to talk much upon religious matters. Louis' 
 position then was what would be called High Church- 
 manship, with a leaning toward RituaHsm. I recollect 
 that he got hold of Dr. Ewer's ' Failure of Protestant- 
 ism' and rejoiced in it. 
 
 " In literature our tastes were congenial. We agreed 
 in reckoning Thackeray the greatest of novelists, and 
 'The Newcomes' his finest work. Louis also set a 
 very high value upon ' Esmond,' which I rated much 
 lower than 'Pendennis' or 'Vanity Fair,' and we had 
 many animated discussions over our preferences. But 
 not all Louis' reverence for Thackeray could induce 
 him to grant any honour to Fielding, whom we both 
 began to read on the credit of Thackeray's praises. 
 Louis never finished his first volume. I used some- 
 times to tease him by reading aloud Thackeray's 
 praises of Fielding; but he never wavered, and re- 
 
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 garded Thackeray's criticism on this point as one 
 looks at the sole frailty of a dear master. I remember 
 well the triumph with which he read to me one day 
 what Charlotte Bronte wrote on this matter : — ' They 
 say he is like Fielding. * * * jjg resembles 
 Fielding as an eagle does a vulture; Fielding could 
 stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does.' — Louis' 
 favourite poet in those days was Shelley, and next to 
 him came Tennyson, of whose 'St. Agnes' Eve' he 
 was specially fond. But Thackeray was for him the 
 great name in literature. And in this he never changed, 
 for I remember discussing 'The Newcomes' with him, 
 in our old fashion, a few days after he came back from 
 England."— 
 
 Here ends for the present this just, discriminating 
 comment, and free reminiscence, so 
 
 — "moving delicate, and full of life." 
 
 In the Fall of 1871 Louis became a teacher in St. 
 Paul's College, Palmyra, Mo., and remained in that 
 position for a period of about two years, while prepar- 
 ing for Holy Orders. He was an indefatigable student, 
 and had a critical and extensive knowledge of Latin 
 and Greek, which languages he continued to study 
 with unabated vigour after he left college, that he 
 might read the Fathers and Holy Scripture in the 
 original tongues. Following this purpose, he began 
 the study of Hebrew, and, as his teacher bears witness, 
 made such remarkable progress in this study that in a 
 short time he was able to continue without instruction. 
 
 He was admitted a Candidate for Holy Orders Sept. 
 19th, 1 87 1, just after he began his duties as Teacher. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 13 
 
 These duties he most faithfully performed, and while 
 it was the desire of his heart to be engrossed in theo- 
 logical study, he never slighted preparation for his 
 classes, nor failed to take his full share of the neces- 
 sary care of the students out of study-hours. But late 
 at night and early in the morning he was devoting 
 himself to the preparation for his life-work. 
 
 His whole course of study was pursued under these 
 disadvantages. Yet when he came to be examined 
 for Deacon's Orders he passed the three examinations 
 for the Priesthood, and it was the testimony of the 
 Examiners that in accuracy and breadth of knowledge 
 of the various subjects required by the Canon, he sur- 
 passed every Candidate who had ever been before 
 them. 
 
 Of Louis' Hfe at St. Paul's there is extant a judg- 
 ment of high authority. The ReVd Dr. J. A. Wain- 
 right, President of St. Paul's, has fixed the portrait of 
 that time with firm and delicate touch — in calm and 
 sober, but in glowing, tints. Dr. Wainright says : 
 
 " I remember well my first impressions of him. He 
 manifested that pecuHar kind of enthusiasm which be- 
 longs only to men of highest endeavour, and which 
 gives evidence of a character of no ordinary stamp — 
 brave, manly, resolute, , and of delicate refinement. 
 His connection with St. Paul's College extended over 
 two consecutive years, during all of which time his 
 devotion to the routine duties of the institution, and 
 to his studies preparatory to his future profession was 
 marked by a singular zeal and exactitude which, for 
 the most part only distinguishes minds far more ma- 
 
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 ture than was his, and urged on by far greater expe- 
 rience. 
 
 *' While it is doubtless well to study men in general 
 for the purpose of arriving at principles which underlie 
 universal human action, yet it is only in the fewest 
 number of characters presented for our investigation 
 that we come into contact with that attractive power 
 or element, that peculiar symmetry and beauty, which 
 impels study of the man himself, not in search of gen- 
 eral principles, but as the living example of a more 
 perfect human realization. The mere presence of a 
 lofty character stirs the being. We feel ourselves to 
 be under the influence of a power which of itself gen- 
 erates character, and from the study of which we do 
 not simply gather material for the better management 
 of the practical machinery of life, but at the same time 
 catch a divine inspiration which does its holy work in 
 the higher consciousness. My two years' intimate ac- 
 quaintance and professional association with young 
 Schuyler served but to impress upon my mind the 
 conviction that his was a character thus suited for a 
 model for study in and by itself, not because of any 
 one trait, but because of its symmetrical whole. 
 
 " Conscientiousness was one great secret of his man- 
 hood. His faith in the Master was deep and fervent, 
 and against everything which seemed to threaten it, or 
 that practical life which only is its true exponent, he 
 guarded himself with the most earnest scrupulosity. 
 This spirit grew up with him, and strengthened as it 
 grew. It attended him in the school-room no less 
 than in the Church, at his devotions, and in all his 
 social relations — everywhere. 
 
 " In the two years during which we were associated 
 together I never knew man, or boy, or servant, ever to 
 think of him as intentionally capable of a fault. He 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 15 
 
 was known and felt by all to be an extraordinary — a 
 pattern character. It was no one particular trait by 
 which they were held, but by the whole beautiful and 
 symmetrical manhood. He was noble in his thoughts 
 — ^noble in his aspirations — noble in his ways and 
 work. Taken all in all, as he appeared to me he was 
 one of the best models — perhaps the best model, in a 
 young man, of all that is good and noble and virtuous, 
 that it has been my fortune to meet. I treasure his 
 memory as I would treasure anything hallowing on my 
 own personal character." 
 
 Louis' strenuous labour done at St. Paul's was often 
 in illness and weakness, greatly due to the over-work, 
 and his correspondence of that time reflects periods 
 of great nervous depression. Or, to speak truly, 
 does not reflect them — it gives note of them — speaks 
 of them, frankly, in the freedom of domestic confi- 
 dences — but the natural cry of weariness and gloom is 
 tempered with a constant sweet note of patience and 
 holy resignation. At one of these seasons he says — 
 " I often look at that black clerical coat of mine and 
 nearly cry, as I hardly expect to be ever able to be a 
 clergyman. My life now looks altogether dark before 
 me. I know not what I can do. I feel, though from 
 an altogether different cause, as Newman must have 
 felt when he wrote those beautiful lines — 
 
 *"Lead, Kindly Light,' &c. 
 
 It may be I am to be tried by not being allowed to 
 see my hopes realized — not being allowed to enter the 
 Ministry — and yet it seems strange that our Lord 
 would keep one away, when His Church stands so 
 much in need of Ministers. Pray for me. Your 
 
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 prayers, joined with father's and mine, may enable me 
 to say ' Thy will be done.' And yet it is my duty to 
 use such means to recover my health as God places 
 near me. If Dr. C. sees no hope then I must be 
 resigned." 
 
 This letter illustrates the whole development and 
 transition period — the time of waiting and preparation. 
 Even the careless eye may discern in it something far 
 removed from the confused and irrational impatience 
 of the ordinary boy of twenty, disturbed not more by 
 the opening pageant of life than by his own unfold- 
 ings of body and of mind — by turns frightened and 
 confident, flushed with foretastes of impossible tri- 
 umphs, suffused with potential virtues not to be, 
 plunged in abysmal woe by failures never to be begun, 
 centred in self. 
 
 With the early maturity of his spiritual sense Louis 
 had already found a centre outside of himself. " My 
 life now looks altogether dark before me," — yet^ 
 ** * Lead, Kindly Light !' " " It may be that I am to 
 be tried,"^i;<?/, "Pray for me !" it "may enable me to 
 say, * Thy will be done.' " 
 
 But the letter has a peculiar, deep and awful inter- 
 est now, for we know it is the Leitmotiv announcing 
 itself — the " leading- motive " of a noble Tragedy 
 sounding in the Overture — the first intimation of 
 heroic action, obscure and unrelated, then, but now 
 significant beyond expression. And in the climax of 
 it what solemn presaging of melodious grief — " // 
 seems strange that our Lord would keep one away" / 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 17 
 
 The school-life ended with its second year, and 
 Louis was ordained Deacon by Bishop Robertson, in 
 Christ Church, St. Louis, on St. Matthew's Day, Sept. 
 21, 1873, his father presenting him. It is still remem- 
 bered that, as he knelt in snowy surplice, just at the 
 moment when the Bishop laid his hands upon the 
 bowed head, a broad beam of soft yellow light came 
 through the coloured windows and rested like a halo 
 upon it. On this day Louis preached his first Sermon. 
 
 By the Bishop's appointment he was immediately 
 assigned the care of two small Parishes, at Elleards- 
 ville, and Oak Hill, in the suburbs of St. Louis. The 
 churches are about four miles distant from each other 
 and he walked to and fro, serving alternately morning 
 and evening. His first service at Holy Innocents, 
 Oak Hill, was on the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, 
 Sept. 28th. His note is "Present 8 adults and 12 
 children." His first service at St. James', EUeards- 
 ville, was on the succeeding Sunday, Oct. 5th, and 
 the note in this case is "15 persons present." Pre- 
 cisely two months before his ordination Louis had 
 been offered the Rectorship of a church in another 
 city. The letter of invitation was flattering, and the 
 simpHcity of the refusal is characteristic. It runs as 
 follows — 
 
 " I must acknowledge that I feel greatly compli- 
 mented by the contents of your letter. As you say, 
 the influence of your Rector would be felt through 
 the whole State, and it is on this very account that 
 you should be particular in the clergyman you secure, 
 
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 and hence it is that feeling my own inability to properly 
 perform the duties that would devolve upon your Rec- 
 tor, I respectfully decline to undertake the work. 
 This result has been arrived at not only from my own 
 idea but also from the advice of friends who are older 
 and have had more experience than myself." 
 
 In the care of his two Parishes Louis laboured inde- 
 fatigably, spending days at each place, in visiting from 
 house to house, gathering together people who had 
 never known each other, and enlisting them in the 
 work of the Church. At the close of the year at 
 Elleardsville he had filled the church and presented a 
 large class for Confirmation. His private notes of 
 the services, which are continuous and minute, show 
 the rapid growth in attendance on his ministrations, 
 until in the latter half of the year the note is almost 
 always " Large," or " Very large," or " Exceedingly 
 large congregation." 
 
 He had not been so successful at Oak Hill. The 
 population there was in large part of miners, who 
 were very careless in matters of religion, and time was 
 required to win their confidence and to impress them 
 with the conviction of his sincerity and earnestness in 
 seeking their good. At this time he wrote — 
 
 "I have made up my mind to give up Oak Hill 
 when my year is out. I have done nothing here ; and 
 a year ought to prove my ability or inabiUty to im- 
 prove matters. If Elleardsville is not able to support 
 me alone I shall take whatever place in the Diocese 
 the Bishop may assign me. I cannot live in this way; 
 in fact unless our Church can reach the poor and the 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 19 
 
 ignorant I hardly think it has the right ring about it." 
 The people of Oak Hill thought differently, and the 
 few men of means there determined to call him to 
 take the charge of their Parish solely. This exact 
 reversal of his own plan occurred. On Sept. 29th, 
 1874, he received the call to the Rectorship of Holy 
 Innocents, Oak Hill, and on the following 14th Deer, 
 he resigned St. James', EUeardsville. 
 
 A playful letter to his little sister, seven years old, 
 who was his special favourite, and of whom he often 
 spoke as his " little housekeeper," reflects his life at 
 Oak Hill at this time. The date is Sept 4th, 1874. 
 
 " It seems ever so long since I saw you last, and 
 father tells me that you have not grown fat. I 
 thought that while you were away from the city you 
 would eat all the time, and come home red-cheeked 
 and weigh ever so many pounds. I have been disap- 
 pointed in this, but you are well, I hope. You ask 
 
 me what kind of a time I had in S . I had a 
 
 splendid time, and although I was only gone three 
 weeks I gained eleven pounds. I got home in the 
 hottest week of the season, and the heat took off a 
 good deal of my flesh. Father got home last Satur- 
 day morning and preached in his Church Sunday 
 morning. After I got through with my service at 
 EUeardsville I drove down to his Church after him 
 and brought him out to my house. Father preached 
 for me in the evening and stayed all night with me in 
 my little house. Last Wednesday and yesterday I 
 was at home with him, but shall not see him again 
 for nearly a week. If the weather gets very hot I 
 shall go in for him, and make him stay with me in the 
 
20 A Memorial of 
 
 country for awhile. I wish the people would get him 
 an Assistant, so he could build a house out here and 
 live in the country. Don't you ? Then we could see 
 each other every day. I thought I would leave Oak 
 Hill, but the people do not want me to go. I guess 
 I will stay. When you get home you must ride out 
 to see the old Monk." 
 
 Though the salary at Oak Hill was small he could 
 live upon it, and he was willing to make the trial of 
 another year. He occupied a little cottage of two 
 rooms, and there, by himself, with his books ; with his 
 hours for retirement, devotion, and study; and a full 
 allowance of time given to visiting among the poor, 
 the irreligious, and the ignorant, he was happy; for 
 he soon began to see that his work was telling for 
 good. He had his Bible-class for young and old, and 
 the young men, in particular, began to gather about 
 him, seeing that they had a friend who could sympa- 
 thize with them and knew how to meet their doubts, 
 and give them the instruction they needed. 
 
 In the Autumn of 1874 typhoid fever prevailed 
 among the poorer classes of his parishioners and he 
 was unsparing in his devotion to the sick — not unfre- 
 quently watching by sick-beds through the whole night 
 to administer medicines when relatives and friends, 
 from fear of contagion, had deserted the sufferer. A 
 lady of the Parish relates the story of a child which 
 Louis found lying sick in the room of a cabin in 
 which its father had died. He felt assured of its 
 death if it were confined in that poisonous atmosphere. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 21 
 
 He applied to several of the neighbours to have the 
 sufferer removed to their houses — but for some time 
 without avail. At last he found a poor woman who 
 was willing to open her house, but she had no bed — 
 spreading a coverlet upon chairs as the most comfort- 
 able provision that could be made. Louis could not 
 consent to this, and went to one of his wealthy parish- 
 ioners to secure a mattress and proper covering. The 
 request was readily granted, but the man-servant could 
 not be found. Louis procured a wheelbarrow and 
 with his own hands conveyed the bed and bedding to 
 the cabin, where the poor sufferer was comfortably 
 provided for, and in due time was restored to health. 
 
 The power of devotion like this could not fail, and 
 the poor people began to flock around him, and the 
 Church was filled. From this time his private notes 
 of the Services and attendance, attest the success of 
 his labours. From the humble beginning of *' 8 
 adults and 1 2 children," the record is " Most excellent 
 congregation" — "Crowded" — "Not room for one 
 more" — "Large number of men" — "Church full, 
 several not able to enter" — "Twenty or more out- 
 side" — "32 received the Holy Communion" — "35 
 received" — "52 received," — &c., &c. The young 
 men and boys took an interest in the music, and every 
 week met for practice. Very soon they had hearty, 
 plain, music, in which the whole congregation could 
 join. The next year Louis presented for Confirma- 
 tion the largest class in the Diocese. The Bishop in 
 
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 his Address to the Diocese thus speaks — "I might 
 have expected more results in some places, but in 
 others the returns have been surprisingly large. Of 
 these I may instance St. James' Church, Macon City, 
 and the Church of the Holy Innocents, Oak Hill." 
 
 The following extract is from a newspaper of the 
 time: 
 
 "On Sunday, April 25th, the Rt. Rev. Bishop 
 Robertson confirmed thirty-two persons in the mis- 
 sionary parish at Oak Hill, where but a few years 
 ago church-going was the exception, not the rule, and 
 where yet there is ample room for improvement. 
 
 **0n the following Sunday the Rev. Dr. Schuyler, 
 of Christ Church, administered the Holy Communion 
 to fifty-seven persons. 
 
 *'This result speaks volumes for the efforts of the 
 young Rector of this Church, the Rev. Louis Schuy- 
 ler, who by his earnestness, conscientious attention to 
 the duties of his charge, and truly Christian character, 
 has won the confidence, respect and esteem of the 
 entire community." 
 
 This story of successful work, with its apparent free 
 play of native and acquired powers in a chosen field, 
 its pure pleasure of efibrt, and just reward of well- 
 earned praise, pictures achieved content and peaceful, 
 happy days. 
 
 And though so many outward seemings of men's 
 lives belie the inward part, yet in this life, it would be 
 thought, the outward visible sign and appearance, and 
 the thing really to be signified, must be in strict 
 accord. Yet during these days of steady diligence, in 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 23 
 
 which he was so helpful and comforting to others, 
 Louis was himself sorely in need of help and comfort. 
 In his College days he struggled with bodily weak- 
 ness; at St. Paul's, mental depression increased the 
 burden; and here, at Oak Hill, the sgnsitive spirit 
 suffered in unison with mind and body. He con- 
 ceived the gravest doubts touching the things which, 
 of all other things, were dearest and most important 
 to him, and it is quite certain that any possible form 
 of affliction would have been counted light by him, as 
 compared with the distress attending his perplexity 
 over the vital question — " What is Truth?" Being a 
 Teacher, not to know what to teach— not to know 
 that he had not already taught wrongly — not to be 
 siire that he had any right to teach — to think it possi- 
 ble that his service was hostiHty, his obedience, revolt 
 — to feel that his eyes might be "holden" not to know 
 Jesus even in the Breaking of Bread, yet to fancy 
 that he knew Him — not to be sure of the grace of 
 any Sacrament — not to know that his own Offices 
 were not impieties — to tremble over souls which he 
 had won — let any man who has something of Schuy- 
 ler in him say what all this means. No other can, — 
 not the most flexible and sympathetic mind. 
 
 Louis' own treatment of himself displayed the 
 essential robustness of his nature. Doubtless it 
 would have been often easier to give over the battle, 
 and to rest on either side in assumed conviction and 
 content, but his course was stern inquiry, joined to 
 
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 manful diligence in what he had to do. The one 
 day's duty, at least, lay straight before him, always. 
 That he wrought out, utterly, and worked a double 
 task therein. For after many days thus spent in trial 
 and endeavour it pleased Almighty God to give His 
 servant consolation, and on the heights of duty light 
 came to him, and rest, and peace. 
 
 Of this trial the Rev. Dr. Wainright says : 
 
 — "The things that enter in to disturb the faith of 
 many never came before him as difficulties. His 
 faith in the Master as his Master seemed always to be 
 hid away beyond the reach of difficulties. His per- 
 plexities arose in regard to the how and the where his 
 faith might best be realized. Those who plunge into 
 things of the Spirit as most men plunge into things of 
 the ordinary life where less hangs on the direction of 
 mind and hand than on the impelling enthusiasm — 
 such can hardly appreciate the difficulties which spring 
 up in the mind of the more sensitive soul when it asks 
 itself the question where does the Master bid me 
 work — under what banner am I to fight, so that I 
 may neither hinder nor mar the victory? It is not 
 the getting of religion with which the lofty soul con- 
 cerns itself. In the possession of the germs of faith 
 its only question is where is the appointed school for 
 its proper development? In other words, where is 
 the Church, and what are the proper limits of its 
 Authority ? These, and like questions never trouble 
 men of mere surface convictions — but into the higher 
 order of soul-culture they enter as the warp or the 
 woof. It does make a difference with every such 
 soul what it believes and it does make a difference 
 with it where it believes. Herein, religiously, lay 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 25 
 
 young Schuyler's only trouble and how earnestly he 
 struggled to find his rightful position all who knew 
 him have long since learned". 
 
 Another of Louis' friends says — "At one period of 
 his early manhood he had a somewhat narrow and 
 sectarian view of the Church, as a local and individual 
 entity, practically limited to the AngHcan Communion, 
 and bound as to doctrine and worship by the late tra- 
 ditions of the reformation-period, or the still later and 
 more corrupt precedents of the Georgian era. He 
 was wont to identify many ancient Catholic doctrines 
 with Romanism, and inclined to accept the judgment 
 of those who sternly censured aught seemingly tending 
 toward a higher esteem of the Church, her Ministry, 
 Sacraments, and Worship. 
 
 "But study and thought soon overcame this ten- 
 dency. The reading of the Fathers opened his eyes 
 to the truth that many doctrines and practices which 
 he had before assumed to be identified with Roman- 
 ism had been, on the contrary, for ages, the undisputed 
 possessions of the Christian Church. The revulsion of 
 feeling attendant upon the acceptance of these con- 
 victions was radical. The ground of his early opinions 
 seemed to be slipping from beneath his feet. Review- 
 ing the history of his convictions, seeing that he had 
 now to reject as inevitably false many things which he 
 had held certainly true, the suggestion presented itself 
 to him that perhaps, after all, the Roman Communion, 
 which he perceived held many of the ancient doctrines, 
 might be the true Church of Christ. The historic 
 associations of the Roman Church, its arrogant claim 
 to be the Mother and Mistress of Churches, its impres- 
 sive external unity, the devotion of many of its spirit- 
 ual writers, the self-denial and personal holiness of its 
 Religious, the conciseness of its theology, all combined 
 
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 to impel a devoted spirit, ready to sacrifice itself upon 
 the altar of duty, to break every tie and bond, and 
 give itself in perfect submission to that authority which 
 is ever waiting to claim and utilize the devotion of 
 ardent souls. Even the faithful Church teaching which 
 his wise father, a learned Presbyter, had given, was 
 inadequate wholly to counteract the tide which bore 
 him onward. 
 
 " The strongest reactionary influence of all was the 
 attitude of many in his own Communion. He was 
 shocked at the constant denials of truths which had 
 been for ages accepted by the universal Church of 
 God, at hearing the sacred Ministry depreciated, the 
 Sacraments degraded to empty forms, barren of grace 
 and life, and those Clergy who would fain conform to 
 the Primitive rule of doctrine and worship stigmatized 
 as disloyal, before a multitude too ill-instructed to dis- 
 tinguish Catholic truth and practice from Roman 
 superstition and error. 
 
 "The Revd. Dr. Schuyler, though deeply grieved at 
 the condition of his son's mind, rightly judged that a 
 full and wide discussion of the issues would be suffi- 
 cient to make clear the path of duty to one anxious 
 only for the truth, and with this conviction he advised 
 his son to visit Racine College and confer with the 
 accomplished theologian who presided at that seat of 
 learning. This advice was immediately followed. In 
 this conference it soon began to appear to Mr. Schuy- 
 ler that all the doctrines of the undivided Church are 
 maintained and defended by the ablest theologians of 
 the AngHcan Communion, and are parts of that deposit 
 of faith which that Communion holds in common with 
 the rest of Christ's Church. The issue was Mr. Schuy- 
 ler's entire conviction of the truly Catholic position of 
 his own Church, and his resolution to maintain the 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 27 
 
 unchanged and unchangeable Faith within her borders. 
 In this acceptance and action he felt that he was 
 holding inexpugnable ground, and from the stand thus 
 taken, though often saddened and discouraged by- 
 contact with sectarianism in the Church, he never 
 afterward varied." 
 
 Of his conference with Louis the Revd. Dr. De 
 Koven kindly made full notes for this Memoir, in the 
 preparation of which he felt deep interest; and they 
 are given entire, precisely as he wrote them. They 
 are almost the very last work which God permitted 
 him to do in health and strength; and some of his 
 subsequent correspondence on the subject was feebly 
 written in pencil from his bed of suffering. 
 
 Humanly speaking, it was his salutary influence, 
 joined to the wise paternal advice, that preserved 
 Louis to the Church whose dear possession he is to- 
 day. For the human assistance in this time of trial 
 was by no means general or manifold. On the con- 
 trary, some of his own household of faith had assured 
 Louis that things which he knew to be marks of the 
 Church of God were not to be found in the Com- 
 munion to which he and they belonged. Fortunately 
 it cannot be known how much of this method would 
 have sufficed to convince him that the Church of his 
 Baptism is a pretense, for the rude prescription of 
 amputation as a remedy of all disorders found no 
 favour with the better-accomplished and more humane 
 physicians, and the malady which lack of attention, or 
 of insight, or of knowledge, had dangerously height- 
 
28 A Memorial of 
 
 ened, yielded, as it could only 5deld, to the gentle 
 appliances of their rational and tender skill. 
 
 Dr. De Koven says — 
 
 "In February of 1875 he came to see me on serious 
 and important business. The time is more vividly 
 impressed upon my mind, because at that time in 
 every Standing Committee, clergymen and laymen 
 were discussing the soundness of my doctrinal views 
 and in many cases condemning me unheard. It 
 seemed like a curious comment upon the agitation 
 and talk, the ignorance and prejudice which prevailed, 
 that in the midst of it all, he should have come to me 
 to help him in his great doubt and perplexity with 
 regard to the claims of the Church of Rome. 
 
 '' I found him at once gentle and firm, devout, simple- 
 minded, full of earnest purpose, and bent only on 
 following God's will, and in accepting the truth, even 
 though it involved the sundering of many ties. 
 
 " He had fallen into an error, which in matters of 
 controversy is often the error of the generous heart. 
 He was by far too ready to accept the statements 
 made by clever controversialists on the Roman side, 
 because they were against the cause to which his 
 heart and affections were bound. He was afraid per- 
 haps lest the love he bore his father, the ties of child- 
 hood, the education he had received in the Church, 
 might make him too partial a judge; and so some 
 matters which would not bear the test of history, or of 
 CathoUc testimony, seemed to him as more powerful 
 arguments than they really were. 
 
 " He felt too, that which has driven many a devout 
 soul before now to the Church of Rome, namely, that 
 while he beHeved with all his heart what he knew to 
 be the doctrine of the Catholic Church in all ages — 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 29 
 
 (i) The necessity of submitting the individual will to 
 the Authority of the Church; (2) the Sacramental life 
 of the Church, and in especial the blessed doctrine of 
 the Real Presence of our dear Lord in the Holy 
 Eucharist; (3) the power and work of the Priesthood; 
 (4) the necessity of a life of deep penitence, self- 
 surrerfder and sacrifice ; (5) the Communion which exists 
 between living and dead in the Body of Christ ; he 
 nevertheless had heard much of that talk, which says, 
 'if you believe such doctrines, you have no place in 
 the Episcopal Church, you are Roman Catholic at 
 heart, you ought to go where such things are allowed, 
 not forbidden.' 
 
 " I do not mean that this had been his peculiar mis- 
 fortune, on the contrary from those nearest to him 
 few ever had a more loving sympathy, but it was the 
 talk of the day, the burden of Church newspapers, 
 and just at that time especially prevalent. 
 
 " Thus in his case as in that of many others, his 
 very loyalty and honour and sincerity, and absence of 
 guile, were made use of, to drive him away from the 
 Church of his Baptism. It has been an argument 
 alas too prevalent, and many a soul has been wounded 
 thereby in the 'house of his friends.' 
 
 " Besides meeting these two difficulties, there were 
 two arguments which I felt it useful to mention 
 to him: i. The question between the Church of 
 England and Rome if at. all entered into is a difficult 
 one. It involves many questions requiring the careful 
 study of history, the investigation of ecclesiastical 
 antiquity, the decisions of Councils, the testimony of 
 the Fathers and similar points. A person by Baptism 
 a member of the Church of England, or the American 
 branch of it, by education and Providential guidance 
 belonging to it, a Minister at its Altars, (he was at 
 
30 A Memorial of 
 
 that time a Deacon), could not conscientiously aban- 
 don the Church, unless the case were clearly proved 
 against her. The presumption ought to be wholly in 
 favour of the Church God had placed him in, and the 
 case against her should be proved beyond a peradven- 
 ture to make a son abandon his Mother. Mere diffi- 
 culties should only be an incentive to fuller study, 
 more earnest effort, and greater patience. I pointed 
 out to him that as some one has said 'ten thousand 
 difficulties do not make one doubt' Oftentimes the 
 difficulties that one sees in regard to the position of 
 the Church of England when duly considered, only 
 strengthen her claims, and are an argument in her 
 favour, and not against her. I therefore pressed upon 
 him the duty of faithful obedience to the Church of 
 which he was a Minister, until he had ceased to doubt, 
 because he was certain the Church was wrong. In 
 other words a man Providentially a member of our 
 Church could not honestly abandon her, so long as he 
 was in doubt about her. 2. I urged upon him what I 
 beheve to be a profound moral law, which to neglect, 
 is to do damage to anyone's character ; namely, that 
 it is not right to abandon a Church of which one is a 
 member, until one has wholly tried her spiritual privi- 
 leges, honestly sought to live up to them, and found 
 them lacking. To abandon any Church without hav- 
 ing done this, would be in most cases to have followed 
 not the leading of duty, but the influence of the 
 neglect of it. People always under\^alue what they 
 neglect. I especially urged this reason because in 
 deeper realization of what the Church is, in the fuller 
 understanding of her doctrine and practice, in the 
 appreciation of her in her Catholic affirmations, rather 
 than in her protest against Roman error, men are in 
 this country in various stages. Some, too many I am 
 
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Louis Sandford Schuyler. 31 
 
 sure, have never been able to live up to the Catholic 
 life the Church bids us live, because the opportunity- 
 has not been given ; and others who have had the 
 opportunity have neglected it. In the former case 
 Rome has sometimes carried captive the noblest souls 
 because they have thought that CathoHc practice was 
 only to be found in her; and in the other, the poor 
 and the feeble, and the unspiritual, have taken refuge 
 in her because they have failed to serve God and 
 to love Him, and to lead the Catholic life they might 
 have led. 
 
 " Hence two sorts of converts to Rome, those 
 whom we ought never to lose, and those whom we 
 lose only because they are no loss. 
 
 " I felt from his account that he had never as yet 
 fully lived up to the Catholic life of the Church, 
 because he had not been able to embrace it fully, per- 
 haps through no fault of his own. In some such 
 arguments as these the day he spent with me was 
 passed. 
 
 " He was, I beHeve, greatly impressed by the consid- 
 erations presented to him." 
 
 The following letter from Louis to his Bishop is like 
 him in its frank confessions and calm disavowal of any 
 hidden apostasy. 
 
 It is dated "Oak Hill, Feby. 27th, 1875"— a few 
 days after the interview recounted by Dr. De Koven 
 — and completes the record of this period of doubt 
 and grief: 
 
 " Rt. Rev. and Dear Bishop : Having heard that 
 many false rumors are in circulation concerning myself, 
 and knowing that some of them must have reached 
 you, it seems but right for me to inform you of the 
 
32 A Memorial of 
 
 truth. Of course any such notion as that I have been 
 baptized in a Roman Catholic Church, or am a 
 Roman CathoHc is false. How any such story could 
 have arisen is to me a mystery. You know, however, 
 that I have been in doubt as to the claims of that 
 Church, and of the honesty of my remaining in oiu" 
 Church with my belief concerning the Holy Com- 
 munion. 
 
 " Perhaps I might never have thought of the Papal 
 claims, had I not discovered that my convictions of 
 the Sacraments were in accordance (or 7iearly so) 
 with what is authoritatively taught by the Roman 
 Church. I found that the Greek Church in the 
 Council of Bethlehem, A.D. 1672, had taken precisely 
 the same view as the Roman Church. The Church 
 of England, and our own Church, only, disputed the 
 truth of their interpretation. Could I believe that 
 God would allow two hundred and eighty millions of 
 the three hundred and fifty millions to be in the 
 wrong, especially when the seventy miUions were not 
 at one, and had no definite doctrine on this subject. 
 And it occurred to my mind that both the Roman 
 and the Greek Communions were admitted by my 
 Church to be part of the One Holy Catholic and 
 Apostolic Church which we profess to believe in. Had 
 my Church any claim to be the whole Church, or 
 could it be asserted that it was without corruption ? 
 There are some with whom the fact that there was a 
 disagreement concerning the Sacraments would have 
 but little weight. It may be my misfortune to lay too 
 much stress upon our faith in this respect. However, 
 that is neither here nor there. The knowledge that the 
 Roman Church taught what appeared to me the truth 
 on this point had too much weight with me. I 
 seemed to forget the late dogma of infallibiHty in my 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 33 
 
 anxiety to be among those who might sympathize with 
 me. I seemed to argue in this wise — and the fallacy 
 is now apparent to myself — the Roman Church, even 
 with the dogma of infallibiHty, is more CathoHc than 
 our Church. I forgot for the time the Greek Church, 
 without this Papal infallibiHty. I forgot also that it 
 would hardly be right for me to leave a Church that I 
 thought to be in the wrong to join another Church 
 which I also believed to be at fault. This unreason- 
 ableness, however, I endeavored to do away with by 
 bringing myself to believe also in the infallibility of the 
 Pope. All the Church History I had ever read went 
 to favor its utter untruth. But the doctrine of devel- 
 opment came to my aid. By forgetting the discord- 
 ance evident in the interpretations of the Fathers — my 
 mind being full of the idea that a verse might be 
 entirely changed in meaning by the superior wisdom 
 of the interpreters of to-day, /. ^., the developed wis- 
 dom — I almost argued myself into a belief in Papal 
 infallibility from the verses — ' Thou art Peter,' &c. — 
 ' Feed my sheep.' — ' I have prayed for thee.' For the 
 moment I did not perceive that such a development 
 did away with tradition. The strength of arguments 
 afforded by the stand of the Greek Church from the 
 beginning was also lost sight of for the time being. 
 Then again in my hopes of finding certainty of doc- 
 trine I lost sight of the fact that such development 
 would be the foundation-stone of the greatest mtcQi- 
 tainty — for what may not be made a dogma, to-mor- 
 row, inasmuch as the right of making such dogma is 
 now placed in the hand of one man ? I had beHeved 
 in the infaUibility of the Church, represented by a 
 General Council, but now in the Roman Church such 
 infallibility has been placed in the Pope. 
 
 " It seems utterly impossible to make such an idea 
 agree with the history of the past. From these few 
 
34 ^ Memorial of 
 
 pages, — though the sentences may only bring to light in 
 an obscure manner the motive which first induced me 
 to think of becoming a Roman Catholic, and the rea- 
 son which now offers an unconquerable barrier to my 
 going, — you may judge of my present position, viz., 
 that I expect to remain in the Church in which I was 
 bom, and in which through the Providence of God I 
 have been called to the office of Deacon. I do this 
 willingly, and believe I can work heartily because I 
 have been convinced that I need not attempt to 
 destroy my faith in the Sacrament, such a view being 
 lawful. This note may show the working of — you 
 may say — a weak mind, but you must confess of an 
 honest mind. I suppose that I shall be judged, not 
 by what may appear to be the truth to others, but 
 what appears to be the truth to ourselves. I cannot 
 help thinking that I have come to a right decision — at 
 all events I could have come to no other in the 
 knowledge I now have. Undoubtedly the love I bear 
 my father prevented my acting at a time when per- 
 haps otherwise I might have acted, but may not all 
 this have happened in the Providence of God ? 
 
 "I solemnly promise to confer with you — as my 
 Bishop — if any doubt again troubles me, and such 
 conference will of course take place before I allow 
 such doubt to induce me to take any step." 
 
 A letter to an intimate friend says — 
 
 " The Roman Catholic gossip had some foundation. 
 The only trouble was that they counted their chicken 
 before he was hatched. Honestly, if Dr. De Koven's 
 school of thought were not allowable in our Church I 
 should have to leave, for I cannot believe otherwise. 
 My mind is becoming more and more convinced that 
 the old Catholic Faith is the only one that will supply, 
 or claims to supply, what we expect from the Saviour." 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 35 
 
 For more than a year from this time no unusual 
 circumstance disturbed the steady labour at Oak Hill, 
 excepting only an invitation to a field of wider import- 
 ance and greater outward consequence. The answer 
 to this was as follows : (The date is "Aug. 31, 1875") 
 
 "Your telegram reached me last evening and I 
 take this — the first — opportunity of writing to you. I 
 cannot be with you next Sunday, for the same reason 
 that I declined last Sunday. I judge from your letter 
 to me that my preaching would be considered upon 
 ^trialj and that by officiating I should put myself 
 among the number of those who might be called 
 seekers for the Rectorship. It may be prejudice on 
 my part, but I could not make up my mind to do 
 such a thing. I know that your intentions in asking 
 this of me were of the kindest character and I thank 
 you heartily for your kindness. When I received 
 your letter the idea that there was a possibility of my 
 obtaining a good Parish was so pleasant that for the 
 time being I forgot my own unfitness for such a posi- 
 tion and telegraphed an answer which would imply 
 anything but dislike of the idea. But second sober 
 thought and convictions of duty would incline me to 
 change my mind completely. I do not feel as if I 
 could take any step toward causing a favourable 
 opinion of myself in your Parish, both because I know 
 my own unfitness and also because the work I have 
 under my charge at present is doing so well as to 
 make me think it my duty to remain for some time 
 with my little Parish. I am younger, I suppose, than 
 you imagine, and have had but two years' experience 
 in the Ministry, and even that experience has been 
 gained in my present Parish among the very poor, 
 and would be of but little assistance to me in such a 
 
3 6 A Memorial of 
 
 Parish as yours. I cannot help feeling pleased by the 
 thought that anyone should think so highly of me as 
 to mention my name to you." 
 
 On the First Sunday in Lent, March 5th, 1876, 
 Louis was advanced to the Priesthood by the Bishop 
 of Missouri, in Christ Church, St. Louis. His father 
 presented him and the sermon was preached by the 
 Rev. Dr. De Koven. He remained at Oak Hill 
 through Lent, when, on account of impaired health 
 arising from overwork — and suffering also from mala- 
 rial fever — ^he relinquished his Parish and left for the 
 East, having been invited by Bishop Doane to a post 
 in the Cathedral at Albany. 
 
 His resignation of the Oak Hill charge was the 
 occasion of the following letter : 
 
 " Parish of Holy Innocents, \ 
 
 " Oak Hill, j 
 
 " Louis S. Schuyler. 
 
 " Rev'd & Dear Sir : The Committee of the Vestry 
 to whom your letter of resignation was referred with 
 the request to express to you in its acceptance the 
 pain and deep regret of the entire Parish at the sunder- 
 ing of the relation of Minister and people enforced by 
 the condition of your health, really feel their inabiHty 
 to properly set it forth. You came to us nearly three 
 years ago and found the Parish without a Rector, and 
 those best able to take an interest in its welfare living 
 temporarily elsewhere. The attendance upon the 
 Services of the Church had almost ceased. Struggling 
 against this condition of affairs, and part of the time 
 in ill-health, you persevered steadily, winning the 
 respect, esteem, and love of all your people. Your 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 37 
 
 presentations for Confirmation have exceeded the 
 aggregate of all before in the life of the Parish. 
 
 "Your influence upon the younger people in the 
 Parish for good has been most extended and its 
 effects will be felt long after you have passed away. 
 
 " Upon the older people no young man ever gained 
 and held to such an extent their respect and affection 
 growing, increasing, and continuing, during your stay. 
 
 " Upon the occasion of your last service the spec- 
 tacle was presented of a Pastor and his people in tears. 
 You go from us with an earnest ^vish in every heart 
 for your health, happiness, and success, wherever you 
 may be called, and the hope that the time may come 
 again when the Parish of Holy Innocents may be 
 under your charge. 
 
 "Very truly, 
 
 G. W. Parker, 
 
 " Chairman." 
 
 His last service at Oak Hill was on Raster-Day, 
 April 1 6th, 1876. 
 
 He served in All Saints' Cathedral Chapel, at 
 Albany, during May and June. The months of July 
 and August were apparently spent in vacation. At 
 least there was a change of scene — for his private 
 notes show services in Christ Church, Pompton, and 
 St. Paul's Church, Edgewater, (New Jersey) during 
 July, and he was, in August, at Watkins, at Kinder- 
 hook, and at Skaneateles (New York). 
 
 The following note gives body and form to one of 
 these visits : 
 
 "For us both it was very pleasant. We strolled 
 about the hills or boated on the Lake during the day 
 
^S A Memorial of 
 
 or talked over our old topics in the evenings. Louis 
 seemed to me to be growing more and more of a 
 Mediaevalist in his theological views, but he had grown 
 very gentle in asserting them. I gave him a copy of 
 Keble's Sermons on the Baptismal Office, and also a 
 volume of Newman's Sermons, and in return he gave 
 me Aquinas' Sacrament of the Altar, of which he 
 spoke highly as a devotional work." 
 
 His health continued delicate. A letter to his 
 mother dated August 3d, after mentioning illness, 
 says: 
 
 " I am better, now, however, than I have been for 
 a long time, and in this climate expect to become 
 stronger and healthier all the while. I do not think 
 it would be right for me to return to St. Louis for a 
 year or two ; perhaps then I may. I want to get set- 
 tled and have a little home and try to help father. I 
 try to be patient. Both my ill-health and my Church- 
 manship have been against me thus far, and perhaps 
 they will prevent my ever succeeding well. I would 
 not worry so much if I thought father could afiford to 
 count me as dead in so far as financial aid is con- 
 cerned j but I do not believe he can, and I feel that 
 he has a right to expect me to repay some of what he 
 has paid out for me in the way of education." 
 
 At the end of August Louis returned to Albany, 
 and was assigned to duty at some neighbouring sta- 
 tions of which he gives an account in a letter dated 
 Octo. 15 th, as follows : 
 
 *' You will notice from the heading that I am at 
 Fonda, a Httle village on the New York Central R. R., 
 about forty miles from Albany. It is a lovely place 
 in the most beautiful part of the Mohawk Valley. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 39 
 
 I can reach Albany in about an hour and can thus 
 attend to my Canonical duties. My services, how- 
 ever, are not only in Fonda, but also at two Mission 
 Stations, — Canajoharie and Fort Plain. They run in 
 the following order : One Sunday, morning and even- 
 ing at Fonda. The next Sunday, morning at Fonda — 
 afternoon, Canajoharie — evening, Fort Plain — three 
 services and a journey of thirty miles. Pretty hard 
 work, is it not ? You must also take into considera- 
 tion the fact that I have to return to Fonda that 
 night, and am not able to retire till the 'small hours' 
 of Monday morning." 
 
 In November of this year his father paid a short 
 visit to Louis. He found his health in great measure 
 restored and soon learned from conversation with him 
 that his heart still clung fondly to his people at Oak 
 Hill j and that he was receiving letters from all classes 
 of his old Parishioners, begging him to return to them. 
 
 The result of this given in the following letter, 
 addressed to the same dear friend to whom the letter 
 describing his work in the Mohawk Valley was writ- 
 ten. The date is Nov. 2 2d, 1876 : 
 
 " I have received a call to return to my old work at 
 Oak Hill — and have accepted. * * * j feel go 
 happy to think of again undertaking and being able 
 to carry on my old work among the poor. Beside, 
 my work there has unfitted me for parish work any- 
 where else. * * * I shall have to fight against 
 two things, i. ^., I am so sensitive that I shall imagine 
 two things — first, that in the West the people will 
 think I return because I did not obtain sufficiently 
 pleasant work in the East, and second, that the people 
 
40 A Memorial of 
 
 here will think that I have acted in a trifling man- 
 ner in leaving so soon. But I have simply Missionary- 
 work, and no parochial ties." 
 
 In another letter of almost the same date he says : 
 
 " My old Parish has called me back again. * * 
 * Bishop Doane has written me that he does not 
 want me on any account to leave his Diocese. I have 
 lived so long in the West, however, — and as I can go 
 back to my old Parish and old friends, and carry on 
 the work begun there, I hardly think that I shall hesi- 
 tate for a moment when the question of health may 
 be decided." 
 
 Bishop Doane's own characterization of Louis is 
 that he was " a man of single-hearted devotion." 
 
 On the First Sunday after the Epiphany, Jany. 7th, 
 1877, Louis began again his work at Holy Innocents', 
 Oak Hill. 
 
 In a familiar letter dated on the 22nd of that month 
 he excuses delay in writing and says — 
 
 " I have called upon seventy families, beside writing 
 sermons and having the regular Services. The people 
 seem very glad to see me back and show their good 
 will by regular attendance upon the Church Services 
 and by coming in large numbers." 
 
 Louis took up his duty with all his wonted energy 
 and devotion. 
 
 The Female Hospital, under the charge of the City 
 Authorities, was about two miles from his house, and 
 had no Chaplain, nor any regular religious ministra- 
 tions. Louis therefore had a Service and preached 
 there on Sunday afternoons, and Fridays he devoted to 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 41 
 
 visiting the sick in the wards after the Litany and a 
 Lecture. He did a good work there, and his visits 
 were looked-for with the deepest interest. At the 
 same time he had Evening Prayer with Sermon during 
 the week at St. Luke's Hospital, in the city, and, not 
 content with a perfunctory service, he sought out 
 individual cases, and was instrumental in engaging 
 many of the patients in religious things. The Sisters 
 at St. Luke's have the most affectionate and grateful 
 remembrance of him. That his own people did not 
 suffer, meanwhile, is clear from his diary and notes of 
 official acts. His Lenten Services for 1877, for 
 instance, are noted as follows — 
 
 Cottage Lectures Tuesday evenings. Litany and 
 Matins Wednesday mornings. Lecture Wednesday 
 evenings. Evensong and Lecture Thursday evenings. 
 Litany and Evensong Friday afternoons. Confirma- 
 tion-class Friday evenings. Evensong on Saturdays. 
 In the Holy- Week, two daily Services, with Celebra- 
 tion on Maunday-Thursday, and the Three Hours' 
 Agony preached on Good Friday. 
 
 The following letter of May 20th, 1877, finds place 
 here. It was written to a dear familiar friend : 
 
 "This morning (Whitsun-Day) I shall offer the 
 Holy Sacrifice and shall have you and your consecra- 
 tion to the Priesthood specially in mind. I say 
 consecration — for what is an Ordination but a conse- 
 cration of our whole selves to God ? Next Sunday, 
 at the time of your Ordination I shall also remember 
 you. Neither shall there be any forgetfulness when 
 the Ember- Day prayers are said. I know that the 
 
42 A Memorial of 
 
 knowledge that these Eucharists are to be specially 
 for you will bring great consolation. 
 
 " Whatever else I might say would be rightly but of 
 little consequence. God bless you ! " 
 
 On the Second Sunday after Trinity, June loth, 
 1877, Louis was at the Church of The Ascension in 
 Chicago, in which Church a Mission was then preached 
 by Brothers of the Order of St. John Evangelist. It 
 has been thought that here he first conceived the idea 
 of joining that Order, but it seems more probable that 
 he had for some time nourished this purpose, and that 
 his meeting of the Cowley Fathers simply hastened 
 his conclusion, for it was but two days later when he 
 wrote the following letter, addressed to the friend 
 whose record of their College days has been quoted in 
 an earlier part of this Memoir : 
 
 " Your kindest of letters was duly received by me. 
 * * * * Since my return I have had an exceed- 
 ingly pleasant time. The people seemed delighted to 
 have me back and have shown their satisfaction by 
 filling ©ur little Church continually. Moreover they 
 have borne very well several new notions {i. e. they 
 seem new to them) on my part, — the wearing of alb 
 and chasuble — weekly Celebration, early, and lighted 
 candles. There was a Confirmation-class of seven 
 adults, three of them lately baptized and all heads of 
 families, presented a short time ago. * * * Nev- 
 ertheless I expect to leave in the Fall, and go to 
 England for two or three years of study and retire- 
 ment, and then, if found worthy, become one of the 
 Order of the Evangelist Fathers. All my thoughts 
 have been tending that way and my theological 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 43 
 
 opinions will find sympathy among them. Their life 
 is my ideal and I know that I should follow it. Now 
 do not write me the most discouraging, lecturing sort 
 of a letter imaginable. Either write me a congratu- 
 latory letter, or let the subject alone." 
 
 (His correspondent says that he did write a letter 
 of congratulation and received a cheerful answer, 
 which cannot now be found). 
 
 It is certain that Louis gave to this subject long 
 and prayerful deliberation. He consulted his father, 
 who would greatly have preferred his remaining in a 
 Parish, as he had shown himself admirably fitted for 
 Parish work, and was most beloved by his people. 
 But Louis seemed so fully convinced that the Lord 
 had called him to a strictly religious life, and that he 
 could thereby more fully consecrate himself to his 
 beloved Master's service, having truly but one thought 
 or purpose — to give himself wholly to his dear Lord 
 — and though loving his parents, brothers, sisters and 
 friends, yet willing to leave them all for the work to 
 which he felt that he had been called — it was not in 
 his father's heart to withhold his consent or refuse 
 his blessing. Louis spent the Summer diligently in 
 his Parish, remaining until after the close of the 
 Diocesan Convention. His last Service at Oak Hill 
 was on the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Sept. 
 23d, 1877. Upon Louis' second departure from Oak 
 Hill his people again addressed him in the following 
 tender letter of farewell : 
 
} 
 
 44 -^ Memorial of 
 
 *' Parish of The Holy Innocents, 
 " Oak Hill. 
 " Louis S. Schuyler. 
 
 "Rev'd and Dear Sir: For the second time it 
 devolves upon me, as Chairman of the Committee to 
 whom was referred your letter of resignation, to 
 express to you in its acceptance the profound regret 
 of the Parish at having again to part with you, — their 
 beloved and esteemed Rector — after so short a 
 reunion. This time, fortunately, it is not ill-health 
 that causes this severance of the relations of Pastor 
 and People, but that at the call of what you believe 
 to be a sacred duty you go forth to a wider and 
 different field of labour. That your ministrations will 
 be productive of great good in the future as they have 
 been in our midst in the past is our earnest wish, and 
 with prayers for your welfare and happiness wherever 
 you may go, we bid you farewell. 
 
 " Very truly yours, 
 
 "G. W. Parker, 
 
 "Chairman." 
 
 The night on which he left his home for the last 
 time can never be forgotten. Just as he was leaving 
 the house he turned and said — " Father, I cannot go 
 without your blessing" — and reverently knelt while 
 that blessing, with choked utterance, was given. 
 
 He sailed for England in the month of October. 
 His early letters home were cheerful and restful, and 
 he seemed to feel as if he had found his vocation. 
 
 But after a brief space his health began to fail, and 
 he went for a time to the Clergy House of Rest, at 
 Malvern. The following letter is from there, and no 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 45 
 
 excuse will be offered for presenting the whole of its 
 vivid detail. The date is Dec. 15, 1877 : 
 
 " My Dearest Mother : You will notice from the 
 heading of this letter that I am not at present at 
 Cowley. The Father-Superior insisted on my taking 
 a three weeks' rest. You can see from my hand- 
 writing that my ordinarily bad chirography has become 
 something abominable. The damp weather has had 
 a very singular effect upon me. My right hand is so 
 numb at times that I can scarcely use three of the 
 fingers at all. You will have as much trouble in deci- 
 phering this note as you would a schoolboy's of 
 eleven, but I want you to hear from me, and I am 
 going to write to-day, though I only promised to write 
 once in two weeks ; and last Sunday I wrote to father. 
 I am at lovely Malvern, staying at the Clergy House 
 of Rest. I am the only invalid at present, however, 
 and can have perfect quiet and rest. The clergyman 
 in charge of the House is a delightful gentleman. 
 Though away from Cowley, I am under obligations to 
 say aU the Offices for the hours, and also have a fine 
 of study mapped out for me ; so I cannot be said to 
 be loafing, and the only advantage in the change is 
 that of the cHmate. The air here is clear and bracings 
 while at Oxford it is heavy and very moist. 
 
 My day's work is as follows : 
 
 5:30 A. M., Rise. 
 
 5:50-6:15, Lauds. 
 
 6:15-7:15, Meditation. 
 
 7:15-7:30, Prime. 
 
 8 A. M., Celebration of B. Sacrament. 
 
 9 A. M, Breakfast. 
 9:30-10:15, Matins and Terce. 
 10:15-11:15, St. Augustine's Confessions. 
 
46 A Memorial of 
 
 11:15-12:15, St. Chrysostom in Hebrew. 
 
 12:15-12:30, Sext. 
 
 1:30 p. M., Dinner. 
 
 2:15-2:30, Nones. 
 
 2:30-5, Walking. 
 
 5:30-6:30, Reading. 
 
 6:30-7:15, Even-Song, 
 
 7:30, Tea — when I have time for study or general 
 reading. 
 
 9 P. M., Compline. 
 
 10:30, Retire. 
 
 "Every day is the same, and I love the very same- 
 ness. I am within a ten minutes' walk of the most 
 beautiful Church in the world, St. Leonard's, at New- 
 land. Unless I am quite wrong it seems to me I can 
 remember you speaking to me of this Church, and 
 saying that Miss P. had been there. I remember 
 your speaking of the fact that there was but one Sister 
 there who composed the whole Order of S. Somebody 
 or other. There is but one Sister here, but she be- 
 longs to a large and influential Order, the St. Margaret 
 Sisterhood of East Grinstead. There is only need of 
 one Sister in the work, or there would be more. I have 
 had the delightful pleasure of Celebrating there three 
 mornings of this week. I can not describe the Church 
 to you, but will only tell you some of the features in 
 it that especially charm me, 
 
 "In the first place, and rightly mentioned first 
 because nearest the Altar, upon the Re-table, there is 
 a large figure of our dear Crucified Saviour, with other 
 figures representing those present at the Crucifixion. 
 The work is perfect, and the representation perfect. 
 Our Saviour's figure is almost life-size. Just before 
 entering the choir, on one side, is a memorial of the 
 Blessed Virgin's obedience^ and on the other. Eve's 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 47 
 
 disobedience. There are many other striking things in 
 the Church. You may be sure you are remembered 
 at the times I Celebrate, or attend the Holy Sacrifice. 
 On my way down I stopped over a train at Worcester 
 and saw the Cathedral. I spent two hours in the 
 building, and walking around the Cloisters, and wished 
 I had a whole day to devote to it. I shall not attempt 
 to describe it. It is simply magnificent, though not 
 considered by Englishmen one of the most beautiful of 
 their Cathedrals. I shall probably be sent the last few 
 days in Advent and for Christmas-Tide to preach and 
 assist a Priest living in a village some little distance 
 from here, and to reach his place, I shall pass through 
 Hereford, and see the most beautiful of all Cathedrals. 
 " The ivy-leaf I enclose is for father, and was picked 
 by me from one of the walls of the Cathedral at 
 Worcester. I forgot to say that the Crucifixion in 
 Newland is not a painting but a piece of carved work- 
 manship. To-day (Dec. 15) the roses are in full 
 bloom, not only in greenhouses but out of doors in 
 the garden. I can open the windows of the room in 
 which I am sitting, and pluck any number of beauti- 
 ful roses. Other flowers are also in bloom. The 
 holly is perfectly charming. I can not attempt to 
 give you any idea of the beauty of this place. In the 
 morning after Celebrating in this heavenly Church, 
 having offered the Holy Sacrifice and having partaken 
 of the Divine Humanity of our Saviour, walking 
 towards the house I lift up my eyes, and find the Mal- 
 vern Hills bathed in a light that must borrow some of 
 its tints from Heaven, for its very brightness melts me 
 almost to tears, and I think of the True Light. My Hfe 
 is very happy. I seem to be very near our Jesus ; 
 though how He can approach me, so sinful as I am, or 
 how He can call me to follow Him, I often wonder. 
 
48 A Memorial of 
 
 " In the afternoon I wander over the hills, but on 
 account of my weakness I have not yet reached their 
 tops. I want to tell Gertie and Sophie and Pat, 
 what I saw the other day. Walking along the street 
 I looked up, and there was trotting along near me a 
 little donkey — there are ever so many of them here. 
 I never remember seeing any in America except per- 
 haps at a circus. Well, the donkey was not all I saw. 
 A nurse was leading the Httle fellow, and in some way 
 two baskets were fastened on his back, one hanging 
 over one side, and the other hanging over the other 
 side, and in the baskets were two little babies, one 
 dressed with a blue cap and cloak, and the other with 
 red cap and cloak. The whole affair was quite pic- 
 turesque. I know if Phil, were walking with me 
 I should have some trouble in keeping him from fight- 
 ing battles for me. Not only children laugh at my 
 habit, but even grown people show their disgust and 
 hatred. But they do not know what it means, and 
 there is One ever near, whose opinion I care more for 
 than for theirs. While wandering over the hills 
 I picked some ferns, which I shall enclose either in 
 this letter, or in my next — also some flowers picked in 
 the garden (not hot-house, but in the open air) only a 
 day or two ago. These will let you know that I think 
 of you very often. How I do wish that you and 
 father might come over for a time. I am so very 
 happy in my life and so glad I had the strength to 
 bear the terrible wrench that it cost me to leave my 
 home and friends, and give myself up to the Religious 
 Life. In my cell I still retain the little picture you 
 gave me, also Rodriguez, and my Prayer Book, that 
 you and father gave me at my Confirmation. 
 
 "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. 
 "Aff'tly and devotedly your 
 
 *' Louis." 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 49 
 
 Though rest and change of air brought some refresh- 
 ment and renewed strength, it became apparent to 
 Louis and to Father Benson, on whose judgment and 
 the matured opinion of a competent Physician Louis 
 impHcitly relied, that his cherished plan of life must 
 be given up. 
 
 There is no record and no suspicion that his sweet 
 patience failed in this sore trial of it. The following 
 letter from on board the "Batavia," coming on shore, 
 is a clear reflection of his mind. The date is Jany. 
 23d, 1878: 
 
 " Dear, darling Father : To-morrow we shall reach 
 New York. Father Benson advises me to give up all 
 thought of the religious life for the present at any rate. 
 I gave way entirely in the Retreat and for several 
 days was quite broken down. The life is very severe, 
 and the cHmate of England did not agree with me. 
 
 " I have the satisfaction of knowing that at the time 
 Christ called me to give up all and follow Him, I did 
 leave my friends and home and all. Now He calls 
 me still to follow Him, but to work for His poor. 
 
 "Father, I do not expect I shall live long, and 
 would like to give up the remainder of my life to 
 Christ's poor. I expect to live an unmarried life — 
 indeed I have bound myself for a time to the unmar- 
 ried state, and it was only because I was advised not 
 to do so that I was kept from making it a life-vow. 
 When I get perfectly strong and well I shall take a 
 vow in your Church where I was ordained both Dea- 
 con and Priest. God indeed grants me consolation 
 at this time (when I am about to give up that life to 
 which I had thought myself called) by again allowing 
 me to work near you and the dear ones at home. 
 
50 A Memorial of 
 
 God is ever merciful to me and blesses me more than 
 I deserve. I feel especially near Him and our 
 Saviour Jesus. I know that in whatever way my life 
 is mapped out for me it will be in accordance with 
 God's will. It has occurred to me to try and form 
 a Society of young American Priests to be called " The 
 Society of the Sons of Jesus " but whether God will 
 give me strength to carry out this intention I know 
 not. I have gained wonderfully by this sea-voyage. 
 I feel quite a different man from the one who came 
 aboard ship at Liverpool. I shall soon be able to be 
 at work again, though I have the belief that it will not 
 be for a long time. 
 
 *' May we meet very, very soon. God bless you all. 
 " Your most aff't. son 
 
 "Louis." 
 
 The following letter of the Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall 
 aptly sums up the history of Louis' connection with the 
 Brotherhood of St. John Evangelist : . 
 
 " I first met Louis Schuyler in June, 1877. Father 
 Maturin and I were preaching a Mission at Chicago, 
 in the Church of The Ascension. Schuyler came 
 from St. Louis, where he had a small parochial charge, 
 and spent the greater part of the twelve days with us. 
 He had long been desirous, from a boy I think, to 
 give himself up to a life of entire dedication to our 
 Lord and His Church, in a closer and stricter way, 
 I mean, than is necessarily involved in the Sacred 
 Ministry. It was, I think, chiefly on account of this 
 desire that the Roman Church, with its numerous 
 Religious Orders, had presented great attractions to 
 him. He had not thought of a life of Religious dedi- 
 cation, in obedience to our Lord's Counsels of Perfec- 
 tion, as being practicable for him in our Communion. 
 
Louis Safidford Schuyler. 51 
 
 He yearned, too, for more freedom and elasticity in 
 teadiing and working, than our Parochial system ordi- 
 narily allows. In a Brotherhood of Mission-Priests 
 he thought he would find (and had his health been 
 stronger I doubt not he would have found) a sphere 
 at once for the realization of his spiritual aspirations 
 and for the exercise of his Missionary zeal. So 
 strongly did he feel impressed with this vocation that 
 at the end of the Mission he resolved to offer himself 
 as a Postulant to our Society as soon as the way 
 should be open to him. The way was opened sooner 
 than he had ventured to expect, by his father's pious 
 and trustful consent to his plans. The sacrifice of 
 parting from his father was keenly felt by Louis, and 
 nothing, I am sure, but a clear conviction that he was 
 acting in obedience to a higher than any earthly claim 
 would have induced him to face the separation. But 
 he would not offer to the Lord of that which cost him 
 nothing. The same spirit of reality in self-sacrifice 
 was shown in his preparations for going to England, 
 when he parted with all but what was necessary, in 
 order to meet his travelling expenses. In September 
 he went to England, to the Mother-House of our 
 Society, at Cowley St. John, Oxford, wdth the hope of 
 being admitted to the Noviciate after a short time. 
 But it proved that his health was not strong enough. 
 In fact the sword was too keen for the scabbard \ and 
 the scabbard had not been properly cared for. Before 
 he came to us, while he was working alone and trying 
 to work out things by himself, he had, I fancy, been 
 indiscreet in ascetic practices, which had overtaxed 
 his physical and nervous strength; so that he was 
 really unequal to the exercises of Community-Life. 
 The disappointment of being obliged to return to this 
 country after a few months must have been severe. 
 
52 A Memorial of 
 
 It pleased Almighty God to accept the oflfering of his 
 life in a different manner. 
 
 " But the lesson remains for the Church, wisely to 
 make provision for such ardent souls ; neither to repel 
 them by indifference, nor in fear or jealousy to cramp 
 them with fetters or restraints ; but lovingly to wel- 
 come and guide their enthusiasm and devotion. They 
 would be Apostolic in life as well as in doctrine. 
 The Church surely has need of their prayers and 
 labours, and they of her guidance and sympathy." 
 
 When Louis reached his brother's house in New 
 York his brother was shocked at his appearance — so 
 thin, and worn, and wan, and feeble in his step. He 
 remained for two months at his brother's house, the 
 object of the tenderest care and devotion, watched in 
 his diet and his exercise, and comforted with unfailing 
 love. The following letter reports the consequence of 
 this affectionate solicitude. The date is March 27th, 
 1878: 
 
 " The two months that I have been in New York 
 have done me worlds of good. In fact everybody tells 
 me that I do not look like the same person. I have 
 passed through a great deal and thank God very 
 heartily for the trial, though it seemed hard indeed to 
 bear. The Rev. Mr. S. of Hoboken has told me 
 very plainly that I had better not attempt to work 
 there unless I am perfectly strong and well. He can't 
 afford to have a half-well man, neither will the work 
 to be done there admit of a sick man's attempting it. 
 I am therefore looking for lighter work, but cannot 
 yet tell whether I shall find it here or not. * * * 
 Last Monday (the Feast of the Annunciation of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary) was a specially joyous day to 
 
Louis Safidford Schuyler. 53 
 
 me, as that Festival, to my mind, is one possessing 
 the very loveliest charms. I offered the Holy Sacri- 
 fice that morning at St. Mary's, a Hospital under 
 the charge of the Sisters of St. Mary. To-day I 
 attended a service very touching indeed — " The Sta- 
 tions of the Cross." Next Monday I shall again Cele- 
 brate at the Hospital. The Feast of the Annunciation 
 is one which should be kept with great joy, and the 
 Octave too, but it hardly seems consistent with the 
 character of the Lenten Season to take eight days 
 away from the forty which should be given to fasting. 
 This does not seem altogether like Lent to me, as 
 Father B. has strictly forbidden my fasting — his 
 words in a letter were, " do absolutely nothing in the 
 way of fasting." On Saturdays I Celebrate at another 
 Chapel of the Sisters of St. Mary. * * * My very 
 best love to all. 
 
 " Your very afif't son, 
 
 " Louis." 
 
 The reference to " the ReVd Mr. S. of Hoboken " 
 shows how soon Louis was wanted for fresh labours, 
 and how little of rest and recreation he purposed for 
 himself. The Rev'd John Sword writes — 
 
 " I asked Louis to come here immediately after his 
 return from England, early in February, I think. He 
 thought he would be well enough by May ist. But 
 when May ist came his coming was indefinitely post- 
 poned, though not abandoned. It was thought he 
 had better first take some Hghter work. I told him 
 I would try to spare him all I could, but he would be 
 sure to find more work than the strongest of men 
 could do, and finding it to be done I feared he would 
 try to do it. 
 
54 A Memorial of 
 
 "When he was asked to go to The House of 
 Prayer it was agreed that he should try his strength 
 there, and after a month report to me. In August it 
 was definitely settled that he should come on Sep- 
 tember I St." 
 
 There is in existence a very gentle, loving, beautiful 
 letter, relating to this time, written by a lady to the 
 Rev'd Dr. Schuyler, and by him now dearly treasured. 
 All of it that concerns this Memoir is here given : 
 
 "After his return from England we first met Louis 
 at his brother's house in New York, where he wel- 
 comed us most cordially and made an appointment to 
 visit us and talk with me on some theological subjects. 
 He came at an early hour. * * * \Ve entered 
 upon a conversation which became a part of my soul- 
 life and which I shall carry with me through the 
 earthly pilgrimage, into the Beyond. He talked of 
 God's love to us and our love for our Heavenly 
 Father, — of the partaking of the Blessed Sacrament, 
 and the preparation to be made before presuming ' to 
 eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup '. He spoke 
 of his life in England, and gave several incidents that 
 had occurred there. Of his entire faith in God's good- 
 ness and his longing to live the highest, truest life for 
 God and his fellow-beings. Of his determination to 
 deny himself all but the necessaries of life, in order to 
 devote his salary to the good and comfort of others. 
 He spoke most lovingly of the home-circle and 
 expressed his earnest desire to visit them all, but said 
 he must wait and have patience — as he felt that the 
 proper time for doing so had not yet come and he 
 must not allow his inclinations to guide his judgment. 
 He asked after various members of his family, and 
 said that his reverence and deep appreciation of his 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 55 
 
 father's goodness and Christian life were such that he 
 considered him one of the best of men, so that he 
 longed always to do what he thought right. He men- 
 tioned the little ones at home several times with 
 tenderest affection, and spoke of his wish to deny 
 himself every luxury in order that he might personally 
 advance their pleasure and improvement. He referred 
 to the great kindness and attention he had received 
 from his brother and sister (in whose house he was 
 then sta)dng) in words of earnest appreciation. 
 
 " He spoke, too, of the deep things of the Gospel, 
 of religion, and unquestioning faith, of the beauty and 
 satisfaction of an inner life of holiness, of the necessity 
 of obedience to God's laws, and of the peace of such 
 self-surrender, — until I looked upon his rapt counte- 
 nance with awe and amazement, for the light upon 
 his face seemed inspiration. 
 
 " Those hours of spiritual converse and instruction 
 were golden hours to me. He remained to luncheon, 
 and said it was like a visit home again. Later we 
 asked him for some music, and for more than an hour 
 he spoke to us in Beethoven's Sonatas and Mendels- 
 sohn's ' Songs without Words '. Upon our asking for 
 a repetition each time we valued the interpretation 
 more. A Largo of Handel he seemed especially to 
 enjoy, and this led to a conversation on organ-music 
 which was very interesting to us. He seemed to be 
 able to read classical composition at sight, and on my 
 expressing my surprise at not having known before 
 that he possessed so rare a gift, he answered, with the 
 humility of a Httle child — ' Did you not know ? I do 
 not pretend to anything especial in music, but it is 
 a great pleasure to me to hear it, and to play, if I can 
 give pleasure to others.' He gave us an exquisite 
 rendering of Mendelssohn's ' Consolation,' and I can 
 
56 A Memorial of 
 
 never again listen to those strains of melody, so full 
 of pathos, without recalling to my mind the picture of 
 that day. 
 
 '* He spoke of his pleasure in anticipating his work 
 which awaited him in the Church of The Holy Inno- 
 cents in Hoboken, and seemed eager to renew his 
 priestly labours. Before he left us he travelled in 
 memory over past years, even to his childhood, and 
 said it seemed so strange that he should have counsel 
 sought from him by those who had known him in his 
 infancy. I told him of my first impressions of him 
 when his curly head could scarcely be seen above the 
 pew of Christ Church, he was so young a worshipper. 
 Yet he had remained always perfectly quiet and his 
 great, earnest, questioning eyes were always riveted on 
 your countenance when you were ministering at the 
 Altar, while the spiritual face of the tiny child was not 
 more strongly indicative of the 'pure in heart' than 
 was the holy countenance of the young Priest of God 
 when I looked upon it for the last time on this earth, 
 as we spoke our words of farewell. 
 
 " Truly that was a ' white day ' in my memory, and 
 when I thought on the gentleness, the strength, the 
 unselfishness, the goodness, the entire uplifting of soul, 
 the living in the very presence of our Lord, the wis- 
 dom and the bravery, the purity and the humility of 
 the life it had been my blessed privilege to know, 
 I felt that all the world was better, and that I had 
 truly been with one of God's Saints — a man in the 
 world, but not of it — a servant of Jesus Christ and 
 'filled va\h the Holy Ghost.'" 
 
 The reference to Louis' musical accomplishment 
 makes it proper to say that many persons who knew 
 him well were ignorant of it — so great was his reserve 
 touching any talent or acquirement of his own. A gen- 
 
Louis Sandf or d Schuyler. 57 
 
 tleman who was much with him, — who is, himself, 
 ardently fond of good music, and likely to know if his 
 friends are so, — affirms that until he read the foregoing 
 letter he had never fancied that Louis knew anything 
 whatever of music. 
 
 At Easter Louis was considering a request to take 
 temporary charge of the Parish at South Amboy, N. J., 
 but the Rector of The House of Prayer, in Newark, 
 being compelled to seek recruitment of impaired health 
 in another climate, urgently desired him to occupy 
 that place during the Summer, and Louis, considering 
 only where he might most be needed and be of the 
 greatest service, accepted the latter charge, at con- 
 siderable pecuniary loss. Meantime, as the departure 
 of the Rev. Mr. Goodwin was delayed until June 19th, 
 Louis served in Grace Church, in Newark, during a 
 brief absence of the Rector thereof, from the 20th of 
 May until about the middle of June, when he took 
 charge of the Parish of The House of Prayer. 
 
 What he was to that Parish, and to individual souls 
 in it, will never be wholly known until the secrets of 
 all hearts shall be revealed. Something of it will 
 appear, here and hereafter, during the course of this 
 Memoir. 
 
 The following letter places him at the beginning of 
 his work there : 
 
 "Rectory of The House of Prayer,) 
 "Newark, June 21st, 1878. j 
 " My dear Father : I have been quite busily occupied 
 and it did not seem possible that so long a time had 
 
58 A Memorial of 
 
 elapsed since I wrote to you. For three weeks I was 
 at Grace Church, while Dr. Harison was away, but 
 now I have come to The House of Prayer for two or 
 three months. 
 
 " Mr. Goodwin has gone to England, and will not 
 probably be back before September. Should he come 
 sooner I should be very glad, for I have accepted 
 permanent work, and shall go to it just as soon as I 
 am free from my engagement here. 
 
 " I shall not have more than I can live upon, but 
 until you have absolute need of my assistance I feel 
 that I must obey God's call and give my strength and 
 time to work amongst His poor. 
 
 "I shall be an assistant in the Parish of The Holy 
 Innocents, Hoboken. 
 
 " My best love to all. 
 
 " Your aff 't son, 
 
 "Louis." 
 
 The following letter shows him looking forward to 
 his permanent work and anxious for its sake. This 
 anxiety is tempered, too, with sweet human affection 
 and innocent desires of friendship — the whole so ruled 
 by a sober and devout will that it is a dear likeness of 
 the man. The letter was written to a familiar friend, 
 in Holy Orders. The date is July 5th : 
 
 " My very dear Brother : I was very happy indeed 
 to receive your letter, for it gives me hopes of your 
 coming. It is not well, however, to urge personal 
 feehngs of friendship, because we should judge accord- 
 ing to what is plainly our duty. Do not, however, 
 choose a work simply because it seems to be the least 
 pleasant in its surroundings, for God gives us plenty 
 of opportunities to deny ourselves even when we 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 59 
 
 expect greater comforts. St. Thomas a Kempis says 
 that we cannot go anywhere where there will not be a 
 cross for us to bear. Please, therefore, do not allow 
 anything to keep you from us if you find it possible to 
 think that God allows you to come. I know it would 
 be the life you long for, and on that account am I 
 principally afraid you will not come — because you 
 might think that you should not gratify this longing, 
 and should choose work less congenial. * * * 
 I know, however, that you will alone be guided by 
 what your conscience dictates, and shall pray that, if 
 possible, God will make it plain (if it be His will) that 
 you may be of great service in carrying out the work 
 at Holy Innocents. ***** And if you 
 come bring with you the banner — or one like it — ^we 
 all so admired — the work of one of your sisters — the 
 banner of the Holy Innocents' Class. * * * 
 Tell your mother that you will be well cared for at 
 Hoboken, because we are going to use judgment in 
 regard to our living. Do come. I pray that it may 
 be God's will. 
 
 " Ever your afFt Brother, 
 
 "Louis S. Schuyler." 
 
 The following letter is the sequel. The reference, 
 in both, to a certain bann^, is preserved for reasons 
 which will appear to a careful reader : 
 
 "Rectory of The House of Prayer,'! 
 "Newark, July 28th, 1878. J 
 
 " My dear Brother : Your letter was duly received. 
 I had not allowed myself to count too much upon your 
 coming, but tried to commit the whole matter into 
 God's Handi Therefore I was not sadly disappoint- 
 ed as I should have been if I had allowed my natural 
 feelings to guide me. You have decided under good 
 
6o A Memorial of 
 
 advisers and after prayerful thought, and I know Got) 
 has been with you. Who may be the third man at 
 Holy Innocents I do not know. * * * xhe hope 
 has been cherished by me that the thought that you 
 imagined your sister had in mind may be reaHzed, for 
 that banner was so very, very appropriate in its con- 
 ception and so very beautiful in its finish. Mr. Betts 
 was with me last Sunday evening. He will be over 
 some time next month to stay a day or two. Remem- 
 ber me kindly to all at your father's when you write to 
 them. We may find our lot cast in the same work 
 (D. V.) some day. 
 
 " Believe me ever 
 
 " Your very aff 't Brother, 
 
 " Louis S. Schuyler." 
 
 Louis' Sermons were quiet, simple, meditative. 
 They were very real and direct, because he never 
 spoke for any effect not proceeding from some true 
 and efficient cause. He saw with the inward eye of 
 Faith, and well discerned, therefore, evidence of things 
 otherwise unseen. The following portion of a Sermon 
 is a fit illustration of his preaching. It is upon " The 
 Communion of Saints "—-from St. Luke xv. 7 — "/ 
 say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over 
 one sinner that repenteth :" 
 
 Speaking of the ^* Dead in Christ," he asks — " How 
 then have they gone from us ? Are they ignorant of 
 our welfare ? Have they, by the change caused by 
 death, lost their love for us, and their anxiety for our 
 reaching that Eternal Life of Peace ? Oh, should we 
 not rather think, that as they have now a truer 
 knowledge of that Glory that is to be given for the 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 6r 
 
 holy — as they know more surely the Son of God — so 
 they would be more sincerely and intensely moved by 
 their love for us, and pray for us the more earnestly ? 
 The Word of God has revealed to us the fact that the 
 dead are not unconscious, that they still remember 
 the living, that they pray for them. What is Death ? 
 It is the separation of soul and body. But this does 
 not affect the ties that bound together the members 
 of Christ's Body. The Communion of Saints is 
 something spiritual ; and that which makes its effect 
 enduring is the fact that Christ sustains it — in His 
 Humanity is this alone to be found — 'As when one 
 member of the Body suffers, all suffer, so when one 
 member is honoured, will all the members rejoice with 
 it ' — ' Ye are the Body of Christ and members in par- 
 ticular.' The Body is united and Grace conveyed 
 from one member to another and from the Head of 
 the Body to those in Heaven and to those upon earth, 
 by the Holy Spirit. The Communion of Saints is 
 that life which they in common derive from Christ. 
 This life is manifested by Love, intercessory prayers, 
 giving of our own, that others may be benefitted, aid- 
 ing in all ways, those whom we can aid, laying down 
 our life for the brethren — these duties concern our 
 fellows — and towards God, devotion, praise, offering 
 the Sacrifice, glorifying Him by the love we bear the 
 brethren, seen, in our praying for them and doing 
 what we can to aid them in attaining eternal Hfe. 
 The holy do not receive grace for themselves alone ; 
 it is given them that they may sacrifice themselves the 
 more for the welfare of the struggling members of 
 Christ. 
 
 " Now this blessed devotion to God's interests and 
 those of others, comes from Christ. That many are 
 joined together in heart and mind because of the 
 
62 A Memorial of 
 
 same devotion arises from the fact that Christ 
 receives into His Holy Humanity, all who are bap- 
 tized, and partake the sustenance necessary for con- 
 tinuing that Divine life, in the Holy Communion. 
 He, therefore, is the source of all Grace, the link 
 which binds all together, the Body which contains all. 
 This Communion, therefore, is spiritual, deriving its 
 strength and endurance from Christ. Can death 
 destroy the spiritual life ? No. Neither does death 
 destroy that Communion which is the blessed privilege 
 of the Christian Church. The spirit is but taken 
 nearer God, is gifted with higher graces, is filled with 
 clearer and brighter light. That true love for our 
 soul's welfare does not die \ but as the soul is enlight- 
 ened by a truer knowledge of God and of the precious 
 reward He has for us, there will be greater love of 
 God, and therefore a greater love of us : the prayer 
 for our soul's salvation will be only the more impor- 
 tunate. 
 
 "And if we love our brethren, knowing that if they 
 have died in a state of grace they will finally be saved, 
 though now they may not have received the unspeak- 
 able joy that God will award them; we shall be 
 moved by the same love that induces others to pray 
 for us, and we shall pray for them, that God's light 
 may shine upon them, more and more brightly unto 
 the perfect day." 
 
 What careful thinki7ig-out for his hearers of all the 
 mystical structure and wondrous working of" the whole 
 body fitly joined together and compacted by that which 
 every joint supplieth," making " increase of the body 
 unto the edifying of itself in love "! What love in him- 
 self, burning, for all souls ! What plainness of speech, 
 
Louis Sa?idfo7'd Schuyler. d-}^ 
 
 reaching after the simplest understandings with this 
 great " prize of the high caUing of God in Christ Jesus "! 
 And what august unconscious prophecy — " This Ufe is 
 manifested by Love * * * laying down our life 
 for the brethren. * * * The holy do not receive 
 grace for themselves alone ; it is given them that they 
 may sacrifice themselves the more for the welfare of 
 the struggling members of Christ"! 
 
 Thus he preached, and thus Hved, and so his living 
 was a preaching, also. The gravest and most serious 
 things of this world — poverty, sin, pain, remorse, grief, 
 — ^were daily known to him, and so were daily about 
 him, and with him, the concerns of the future world, 
 all of which are serious and grave to a man walking 
 in earthly sunlight — yet he was the farthest removed 
 from gloom — the cheeriest and merriest heart imagin- 
 able, full of quick brightness and honest fun ; patient 
 of a weak joke, even, and when a really good one 
 caught him, it seized and shook him with inextinguish- 
 able laughter. 
 
 But the whole man was so attuned by Grace that 
 there were no discords in him ; though this very time 
 of returning health and new freshness of body and 
 spirit — ^when every prospect pleased — dates the follow- 
 ing witness to his inner life. 
 
 That remarkable book, the Biography of Henri 
 Perreyve, by Pere A. Gratry, is filled by Louis with pen- 
 cillings, and one passage to which he would especially 
 direct his own attention is marked by his hand with 
 
64 A Memorial of 
 
 the Sign of the Cross, — and these are the words — 
 speakmg of the Priesthood — '* But the essential, the 
 Sacerdotal purpose to which it should be used, is to 
 die. Such death must be begun in chastity, continued 
 in mortification, consummated in actual death, which 
 is the Priest's final oblation, his last sacrifice." And 
 again — " What if they (Thy Priests) fear it, shun it ? 
 If they dread its foreshadowing, its far-off sound, as 
 though it were a fearful, intolerable vision ? What if, 
 instead of counting death as the most solemn of our 
 festivals, the most worthy sacrifice of our whole life, 
 we fear it?" And again — "And thus, Lord, I pre- 
 sume to ask of Thee grace to love death, and since 
 it is not well to be taken by surprise, by the unfore- 
 seen approach of the grim shadow, I pray Thee that 
 Thou would'st fill my mind with a continual, incessant 
 meditation upon death." 
 
 The following Resolutions were written-out in 
 August, 1878, while Louis was in charge at the House 
 of Prayer ; 
 
 * 
 
 " Resolved : 
 
 To Pause 
 (i.) Before reading, 
 
 (2.) Before speaking on religious topics, 
 (3.) Before instructing, 
 (4.) Before any Office or religious Service, 
 (5.) Before visiting the sick, or, 
 (6.) Before going to talk with one on the subject of 
 
 conversion 
 — and pray that I may go and work in the strength of 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 65 
 
 the Name of the Lord Jesus — forget myself, and do 
 aU for God. 
 
 * 
 
 " To be very cautious and careful in handling the 
 
 Holy Vessels at all times, especially during the Cele- 
 bration and after the Consecration." 
 
 And the subjoined list is given (with many blanks) 
 to show how minute and careful was his personal and 
 pastoral prayer : 
 
 " Those for whom I should intercede. — Father's 
 family — Relations at Skaneateles — Staten Island — 
 New York — Buffalo — Marshall — Miami — Green Bay 
 
 — Sister Sisters of 
 
 Good Shepherd — Sisters of Holy Child Jesus — Sisters 
 
 of St. Mary— The Bishops of- and . The 
 
 Priests of those Dioceses, also of the whole Catholic 
 
 Church, but especially 
 
 — Penitents The 
 
 sick in Female Hospital (especially ) and St. 
 
 Luke's Hospital — For one inclined to embrace the 
 
 Faith, Mr. For the poor, especially for those 
 
 of also in that Parish the rich — The mourning 
 
 Those 
 
 baptized by me — Those presented by me for Confirm- 
 ation — Those who have been fed by me with the Bread 
 
 of Life — My godchildren 
 
 especially at Sext pray for and that they 
 
 may be conquered by the power of Christ's love." 
 
 "With continuing good health and, indeed, in- 
 creasing strength and brightness, Louis passed the 
 heats of Summer in the ceaseless labours of Minister- 
 in-charge at the House of Prayer. Late in August (on 
 
66 A Memorial of 
 
 Tuesday, the 27 th) he left that Parish, followed by the 
 love and respect of every person in it, and attended by 
 the tearful farewells and blessings of his poor. It will 
 long be remembered how the poor people of the 
 Parish, in particular, mournfully beset the Rectory on 
 the day of his departure. Those in whose house he 
 lived while in Newark are used to men of godly ways, 
 and they say that their witness of him may be summed 
 up in the single expression — That he was the holiest 
 man they ever knew. 
 
 He made a very brief visit to some kindred, and at 
 the end of the week was at his post in Hoboken. On 
 Sunday, Sept. ist, he began his service in the Church 
 of the Holy Innocents there. The following letter 
 was written on the next day and reveals the new 7nise 
 en scene — 
 
 " Yesterday was my first day as a Missionary in the 
 parish of The Holy Innocents. The same name, you 
 will notice, as that of my Parish at Oak Hill. The 
 services were very delightful, indeed. Of course I 
 have been here several times before -, but the services 
 never seemed quite so pleasant as yesterday. The 
 Parish is for the poor, and is in a part of the town 
 where the poor live. There will be three of us — 
 Priests — and we are to live together just across the 
 street from the Church. The rooms are quite com- 
 fortable, though of course quite plainly furnished. 
 There will be plenty of work, and yet we shall not be 
 overworked. What is of special advantage is that I 
 shall not have the responsibiHty, as I am not in charge, 
 but an Assistant. 
 
 " There will be some souls, however, over whom I 
 shall have special care. The salary is not large — $300 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 67 
 
 above the expenses of board. We have the two upper 
 stories of a house — the lower is a store. The rooms 
 are (on the second floor) kitchen, dining-room, bed- 
 room for servant, general reception-room, oratory; 
 on the third floor, three small bedrooms, library, com- 
 mon-room, part of which is to be screened-off and a 
 bed placed for any visiting brother Priest. There are 
 no carpets, and the furniture is very plain, neverthe- 
 less the home will be extremely pleasant. We go 
 to our rooms to-day, and shall begin to live there 
 immediately. The third member of our little company 
 has not yet come, but is expected the middle of this 
 month. This work among the poor is the work to 
 which I have always felt myself called, and am so 
 happy in finding that others' opinion agrees with mine. 
 I shall never lament my going to England, but shall 
 ever be thankful for it, and for the illness also that 
 followed. I have the greatest confidence in Father 
 Benson's judgm^ent and would be willing to do what he 
 advises. In a letter which I received from him a 
 week ago he says : ' I have no doubt that your calling 
 is to be a secular Priest.' He therefore, does not 
 advise my looking forward to the Refigious Life, but 
 to active work in a parish. I have received this as a 
 sure expression of God's will concerning me, and shall 
 therefore devote my life to our Lord as a parish 
 Priest. 
 
 " If God should hereafter clearly indicate any call- 
 ing of me to a life of greater denial and self-abnega- 
 tion I should by His Grace follow His Guidance. 
 This is enough about myself, but I feel assured that 
 you and mother and all will be glad to learn how 
 happily my work has been ordered by our Lord for 
 me. You don't know how worried I am about the 
 yellow-fever. If it reaches St. Louis please wirite for 
 
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 me and I will come and assist you for a time. I am 
 sure that I can obtain the time (for I have already 
 spoken of it) and there is no use of your overworking 
 yourself. 
 
 "I should like to have my copy of St. Ignatius' 
 Meditations which I left at the house. I will continue 
 to lend you my Bishop Andrewes' Devotions, for I 
 know that you must like them exceedingly and when 
 I do have the work again it will be so pleasant — so 
 lovingly sweet — to know that you have offered praises 
 in the words I may then use. 
 
 " I hope, dear father, that you will remember my 
 offer of assistance in case the pestilence reaches St. 
 Louis and as I am in excellent condition, and anxious 
 to work, the few weeks I might be in St. Louis would 
 only be blessed for my good and (D. V ) for the good 
 of others. I mention ' my own good ' first lest you 
 should hesitate to send for me thinking that the injury 
 to myself would be greater than the good I might do 
 to others. But besides I fear that there was that 
 longing for personal holiness by acts of this kind that 
 made me forgetful for the moment of what should 
 have been uppermost — the good of others. Tell 
 
 M that on St. Augustine's Day I Celebrated, and 
 
 that she was in my mind and heart as she always is 
 when I Celebrate — but I know that her prayers and 
 those of others have been already answered, for there 
 has been a great deepening in my religious life and in 
 the consciousness of the blessedness of being a 
 Catholic Priest. 
 
 " I cannot after writing so long a letter speak of all 
 separately but they are all ever in my heart — never 
 more really or sincerely than when at the Altar." 
 
 On the day after the date of this letter, that is, on 
 Tuesday, Sept. 3d, Louis went in the evening to 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 69 
 
 Peekskill, N. Y., to supply for a few days the place 
 of the Priest serving at the Altar of the Mother-House 
 of the Sisters of St Mary, at that place. He Cele- 
 brated in the Sisters* Chapel at seven o'clock on the 
 morning of the following day (Wednesday, the 4th). 
 Soon after, at about half-past eight o'clock, the 
 Mother-Superior received a telegram from the Sisters 
 of St. Mary at Memphis, Tenn., saying — "The 
 Rev'd Dr. Harris is dangerously ill, the Rev'd C. C. 
 Parsons is just attacked by yellow-fever, and there is 
 no other Priest of the Church in Memphis." The 
 Mother-Superior took the telegram to Louis. He 
 said — " Perhaps I can go to the Sisters. Mr. Sword 
 has spoken of going — he ought not to go, but I think 
 I might." The Mother-Superior expressed a wish 
 for the advice of the Rev'd Dr. Houghton, and Louis 
 then proposed to go, himself, at once to New York, 
 bearing the dispatch. This being agreed to, he 
 departed by the 9:45 A. M. train. 
 
 He went directly to the Rev'd Dr. Houghton, with 
 whom at that time was the Bishop of Tennessee, and 
 begged to be instantly sent to Memphis. Dr. Hough- 
 ton says — " His heart seemed thoroughly stirred within 
 him. He came to me with the determination to set 
 ofif as soon as possible. Obstacles were put in his 
 way. He was detained against his will twenty-four 
 hours. The yielding to his wish here was not until he 
 said he felt he must go." 
 
 Bishop Quintard says — "When he presented him- 
 self at the Rectory of The Church of The Trans- 
 
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 figuration, and offered his services to me, he wished 
 very much to go to Memphis — to take up the work of 
 Mr. Parsons. Very many Priests tendered their ser- 
 vices — Father Grafton, of Boston, Mr. Wilson, of 
 Michigan, Mr. Milner Jones, of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Jardine, of St. Louis and some thirty others — but 
 I did not think any unacclimated person should ven- 
 ture, while it was possible to secure the services of 
 Clergymen who were acclimated. Mr. Schuyler, 
 however, had made up his mind to go to Memphis. 
 He had evidently consecrated himself to the work 
 before him and was impatient of delay." 
 
 There is not the least doubt that upon reading the 
 telegram at Peekskill Louis formed his unshaken 
 purpose to go to Memphis if no person physically more 
 fit should volunteer. None who knew him well — per- 
 haps none who read this simple story of his life — can 
 believe that any other determination could be possible 
 for him. It is enough on this head to recall the cir- 
 cumstances of the time — Priests of the Church failing 
 and dying, without comfort from any brother ; Sisters, 
 who had ministered unto death, with no Ministry of 
 the Church at the last hour ; those of them who yet 
 lived, working endlessly in scenes of frightful anguish 
 and desolation without the Sacramental Food which 
 is their daily nourishment and strength ; hundreds of 
 all classes suffering and dying without any Offices of 
 Religion. Clearly this was enough to determine such a 
 man, whose profession was Sacrifice, and his business 
 the cure of souls. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 71 
 
 At noon of Wednesday Louis returned to Hoboken 
 to prepare for his departure, that evening, in case the 
 situation should remain unchanged. The Rev'd Mr. 
 Sword says — 
 
 " He came into this house about noon and startled 
 me with the statement, made in the most quiet and 
 simple way, that he was going to Memphis. I begged 
 that time should be taken to consider whether some 
 one could not be found to whom the undertaking 
 would involve less peril — but he was sure there was 
 no one. We had luncheon. I assisted him in pack- 
 ing. Very little was said. I went with him to the 
 ferry and bade him good-bye with a very sad heart. 
 He was going to Dr. Houghton's to learn whether any 
 word had come from Memphis and to get his passes, 
 expecting to start at six that evening." 
 
 It is a most moving and pathetic instance of Louis' 
 devotion to others that, in the hurried hours above- 
 mentioned — a time when, if ever, a man might be 
 pardoned for thinking of himself, and for excitement 
 and mental distraction — Louis was tranquilly employed 
 with the concerns of another person, in whom he had 
 a deep interest. The following letter tells its own 
 story — it is copied from the original MS.: 
 
 " Hoboken, Sept. 4th, '78. 
 
 Dear : I leave this evening for Memphis. 
 
 There is great need of me there. I make a very 
 special request of you. Will you put this letter in 
 's hands ? It must not be spoken-of, as it re- 
 gards her spiritual welfare. I trust you. 
 " BeHeve me, 
 i{i "Aff'tly yours, 
 (" God bless you ") " L. S. Schuyler." 
 
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 Louis learned in New York that there was some 
 prospect that another Priest, used to the fever, might 
 be had at Memphis, and upon this account and by 
 other reasons he was dissuaded from starting that 
 evening, and returned to Hoboken. The Revd. Mr. 
 Sword says — 
 
 " At six I was astonished by his coming in. Louis 
 still thought he had better go, but would wait until 
 the next day, hoping in the meantime to hear from 
 the Sisters. I begged him to use the greatest caution 
 about entering upon this task, as I was certain he 
 would be wrong in going without the gravest necessity. 
 We talked over the matter all that evening and late 
 into the night. What struck me most of all was the 
 humihty he showed. He did not seem to think he 
 was about to do any great thing but simply was follow- 
 ing a call of duty. His great anxiety was that there 
 should be no self-will in his action. He wanted to go, 
 not because it was a heroic action, not because his 
 enthusiasm was aroused, but simply because God 
 seemed to call him. The next morning he Celebrated 
 in the Church at six o'clock, I served him. After 
 he had vested and said the prayer in the Sacristy, just 
 before entering the Sanctuary, he turned to me and 
 said — * Let it be our special intention at this Cele- 
 bration that whatever in this matter is of self may 
 come to naught, and whatever is of God may be 
 prospered.' So with that intention we offered the 
 Holy Sacrifice, and received together the Bread of 
 Life." 
 
 Shortly after this Service Louis went to New York, 
 again prepared to go South. The natural fear and 
 urgency of his kindred had not prevailed with him, 
 and on the night before they had therefore seen Bishop 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 7 3 
 
 Quintard, who telegraphed to the Revd. Dr. Schuyler 
 at St. Louis asking if he would consent to Louis' 
 going to Memphis. Louis found that no answer to 
 this message had arrived, nor to the message which 
 had been sent to the Sisters at Memphis announcing 
 his readiness to go on and requesting information. 
 He waited all day in vain for these answers, and at 
 evening left for Memphis on the six o'clock train, 
 (Thursday, Sept. 5th). 
 
 Bishop Quintard says of this day — "What struck 
 me was his devout collectedness — his concentration 
 of purpose. I am sure that he had consecrated him- 
 self to this special mission at the Altar. Once, while 
 talking with .him, my attention was arrested by his 
 evidently losing himself in prayer. When he replied 
 to some question which I addressed to him he bowed 
 very meekly and signed himself with the Sign of the 
 Cross." 
 
 Just after Louis had left, a dispatch arrived from 
 the Sisters at Memphis deprecating his coming, and 
 also one from the Revd. Dr. Schuyler of St. Louis 
 withholding his consent. Bishop Quintard thereupon 
 telegraphed to the Revd. Dr. Tschififely, at Louisville, 
 requesting him to stop Louis at that city, and detain 
 him there for further instructions. This telegram was 
 received by Dr. Tschiffely on the 6th, and in conse- 
 quence of it Louis spent Saturday, the 7th Sept., in 
 Louisville. Of this day Dr. Tschiffely says — 
 
 " He came to see me in the morning and inquired 
 about the dispatch, which I showed him. He then 
 asked for the privilege of Celebrating the Holy Com- 
 munion in the Church, and I made all things ready 
 
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 for him. After breakfast he went to the Telegraph 
 Office and forwarded messages to Memphis and else- 
 where. He was much of the day in prayer. He 
 seemed to be completely possessed with the idea that 
 his duty lay in going to the plague-stricken city, and 
 all that could be done by others and myself seemed 
 powerless to move him from what he considered highest 
 duty. In the afternoon he received a telegram from 
 his father imploring him to come home and not to go 
 to Memphis. But so firm were his convictions that he 
 wrote a letter to his father in language so reverent and 
 beautiful that when he read it to me I was moved to 
 withdraw further opposition and advance him on his 
 journey with all convenient speed. Immediately after 
 this letter had been mailed he received a telegram from 
 Sister Hughetta, and, about an hour after, I had the 
 following telegram from Bishop Quintard, in New 
 York — ' Mr. Parsons is dead, let Mr. Schuyler go on.* 
 He left this city at midnight of the 7th. When I bade 
 him good-bye I felt very sorry — but he said to me, 
 * Why do you feel so ? I never felt better in my life, 
 and the way seems perfectly clear before me. I feel 
 confident no harm will come to me.' I have never 
 met any one who seemed to be so thoroughly absorbed 
 in the idea of duty and devotion to his Master and 
 Lord, Whose servant he was, and he \vho gave himself 
 for others is beloved of Him. May his soul rest in 
 peace, and perpetual light shine upon him !" 
 
 The telegrams to and from Memphis mentioned 
 by Dr. Tschiffely are given by Sister Hughetta, who 
 says : — 
 
 "From Louisville he telegraphed to me, *I am here, 
 awaiting orders. May I come ?' I did not dare to 
 take the responsibility of saying 'Come.' Yet so 
 great was our need that I could not refuse his offered 
 
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 ministrations. I therefore wrote — 'The Sister-Su- 
 perior and Sister Thecla hopelessly ill. The Revd. 
 C. C. Parsons is dying. We have no Priest.' I can- 
 not remember that he sent an answer to my dispatch, 
 but on Sunday afternoon he arrived at St. Mary's." 
 
 The letter written from Louisville in reply to his 
 father's telegram has been preserved, and is given 
 here : 
 
 "Louisville, Sept. 7th, 1878. 
 
 " My dearest Father : Your dispatch was just 
 received. I am truly sorry that you sent it, because 
 I firmly beUeve that I am only doing right in going to 
 Memphis, in case I am needed. When I offered my 
 services, I was certain that, so far as I could judge, 
 I was only doing what God demands of me. I started 
 from New York fully intending to go directly to Mem- 
 phis. A telegram however was put in my hand before 
 I reached Louisville, informing me that Bishop Quin- 
 tard wishes me to wait here for news from Memphis. 
 I am now waiting. I shall not be called upon until I 
 am needed. If there be need, I feel assured that I am 
 only doing my duty, and in accordance with God's 
 will, if I go. It will be very painful to act in opposi- 
 tion to your command, and nothing but the conviction 
 that I must obey God would at all satisfy my mind in 
 not heeding your command. God's will cannot be 
 but right. I have not been ordered by any one to go 
 South, but my services have been accepted. God's 
 blessing will therefore go with me. I am not going 
 rashly, but if there be need God will have permitted 
 the need, and then He will only bless me in filling up 
 the ranks He has allowed to be thinned. 
 
 " Therefore, dearest father, I think I am only receiv- 
 ing the words of the Lord Jesus ; ' Whosoever loveth 
 
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 father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me,' 
 in obeying His call to do the work of a Priest in Mem- 
 phis, if He puts it into the hearts of His servants there 
 to call upon me for assistance. God may not ask me 
 to go. He may call me to that duty and preserve me. 
 But, if He calls me and I go and die it is not a self- 
 willed act, but an act of obedience to God. 
 " Love to all. 
 
 " Ever your dear son, 
 
 " Louis." 
 
 Here is the motive of sacrifice — full-sounding, and 
 climbing to its utmost height of expression — " if He 
 calls me and I go and die it is not a self-willed act, 
 but an act of obedience to God." Strange if in his 
 mind were any remembrance of the earlier letter — 
 " It seems strange that our Lord would keep one 
 away when His Church stands so much in need of 
 Ministers"! That had been the ruling thought of 
 his life. It was the only thought or feeHng of his 
 mind and heart and soul, this day. The letters lie 
 together, now, commenting each on each, with deep, 
 mute eloquence \ and he who wrote them has learned 
 (with what rapture of exquisite bHss and grateful 
 adoration) that he was in no manner kept away. 
 
 As soon as his father received the letter of the 7 th, 
 he answered — '* You have my full consent, and my 
 blessing". This reached Louis at Memphis, and it is 
 told of him that his countenance was radiant, as he 
 read it. 
 
 When Louis reached Memphis he was much fatigued 
 with his journey, but went straight to the Sisters' 
 
Louis Satidford Schuyler. 77 
 
 House, ready for any labour. There he was urged to 
 take a thorough rest before beginning any work. He 
 said — "I do not care to rest. I want to do my 
 utmost." He was not taken up to the Sisters' rooms 
 on that (Sunday) evening, for both Sisters and Miss 
 Gray had received the Blessed Sacrament that morn- 
 ing, the Rev'd Dr. Dalzell having arrived from Louis- 
 iana on the day before. But he exacted a promise 
 that they would send for him in the night if he were 
 needed. As he left the Sisters' House he met the 
 Rev'd Dr. Dalzell. 
 
 Dr. Dalzell says : 
 
 "That day I shall never forget. The Sister Con- 
 stance lay dying, and Sister Thecla hopelessly ill, in 
 St. Mary's House, while another member of the 
 household was just rallying from a severe attack of 
 the fever. After hours of labour in different portions 
 of the city, and witnessing scenes that filled me with 
 horror, and made me realize that we were breathing 
 an atmosphere of the most deadly poison, I had gone 
 to the Sisters' House to pay a last visit there for the 
 day. It was near seven o'clock, when, as I stepped 
 from my buggy, a young Clergyman came hurriedly 
 from the residence of Dr. Harris, and, with a very 
 gentle manner and winning smile, extended his hand, 
 with the words, 'This is Dr. Dalzell?' ' Yes,' I said; 
 'and, my dear young brother, who are you, and 
 where have you come from ?' His reply, given in a 
 low tone, while his hp trembled with emotion, was, 
 ' My name is Schuyler; I am from New Jersey, and 
 have come to render such assistance as I can in this 
 dreadful time ; I have seen Dr. Harris, and he tells 
 me to see you, and do what you say.' I asked him if 
 
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 he was related to my friend, Dr. Schuyler, of St. 
 Louis. 'He is my father,' he replied, and a tear 
 started to his eye as he gave the answer, * and I am so 
 glad that you and he are friends, as it will be a com- 
 fort to him to know that I am with you.' I then 
 asked him if he had ever seen Yellow-Fever, and if 
 he realized the risk he ran in coming to Memphis. 
 To my dismay I found that he was utterly unaccli- 
 mated, and that he had come, not as many others 
 had come, with the hope, if not assurance, that he 
 should escape, but as the brave soldier leads the for- 
 lorn-hope, knowing that all the chances were against 
 him, but with a burning desire to help the suffering, 
 to work while his strength lasted, and then give his life 
 cheerfully for Christ's sake and the Church. This, 
 my first conversation with him, impressed me with the 
 conviction that he had come to die, and that he knew 
 it ; but had come in a spirit of the noblest self-devo- 
 tion, counting the cost, and cheerfully willing to pay it. 
 He seemed to be filled with a holy enthusiasm ; an 
 ardent desire to begin his work at once ; and a readi- 
 ness to endure all that the situation called for. Espe- 
 cially was he exercised about the Sisters, and anxious 
 to minister to them. 
 
 "As he was fatigued by his journey, and required 
 rest, I insisted that he should undertake no duty that 
 night, but get refreshing sleep and be ready for such 
 work as might present itself next morning. His reply 
 was characteristic — 'But you are more tired than 
 I am, and you ought to let me help you to-night* 
 Mr. Parsons had been buried the day before, from Dr. 
 Harris' house ; the Dr. himself was still confined to 
 his bed after a very severe attack of the fever ; and 
 Major Mickle was in the house in the first stage of 
 the disease. It was, therefore, thought advisable that 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 79 
 
 he should take quarters with me at the Peabody 
 Hotel. But he begged so earnestly to be allowed to 
 remain near the Church and the Sisters, that a small 
 bed was prepared for him in the parlour. Before leav- 
 ing for the night, I told him that he must be satisfied 
 for a few days to minister to the Sisters alone, and 
 that I could not consent to his visiting the Infirmaries, 
 or going into the more deadly portions of the city, 
 until his system had become measurably accustomed 
 to the poison of the atmosphere. The next morning, 
 however, I found that after an early Celebration he 
 had answered several calls to houses conspicuous for 
 the number of cases of fever in them; and in the 
 afternoon he went into the very thick of the pestilence, 
 in the lower portions of the city, and to one of the 
 largest and most densely-filled Infirmaries. I saw it 
 was useless to attempt any restraint upon his zeal; 
 that he had come to work, and would work at all 
 cost; and that I could then only advise how to work, 
 what precautions to observe, and to be careful in the 
 matter of getting some sleep every night." 
 
 After Celebrating the Holy Communion at seven 
 o'clock in St. Mary's Cathedral on this day (Sept. 9th) 
 Louis wrote to his father a letter, from which the fol- 
 sentences are taken: 
 
 " I am so very glad that I came, for I can be of 
 good assistance. It was God's will, and He will keep 
 me. Do not worry about me, for I am in God's hands. 
 
 * * * I believe I was obeying God speaking 
 through the Bishop and the Sister who telegraphed me 
 after Mr. Parsons' death. I shall exercise all prudence. 
 God will only allow what is best for me to happen." 
 
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 He also wrote the following letter on the same day : 
 Memphis, Sept. 9th, '78. 
 
 "Your letter reached me at a time when my mind 
 was anxiously engaged, first in getting settled in my 
 work at Hoboken, and then in getting ready to come 
 South. I remember with the greatest pleasure my 
 short time of work in Newark ; and your kindness in 
 calling to say good-bye to me I shall not soon forget. 
 I am very glad to receive your photograph. 
 
 " You can imagine how anxious my mind is now, 
 but for a day or two I shall not be allowed to do much 
 running about in doing general work. Therefore I 
 have time to spare for these few lines. I shall bear 
 you in mind. Please remember me in your prayers. 
 " BeHeve me ever 
 
 " Yours, very truly, 
 
 " L. S. Schuyler." 
 
 During the night of Sunday, a few hours after greet- 
 ing Louis, Sister Hughetta was stricken with the fever. 
 She says : 
 
 " Mr. Schuyler came to my bedside on Sunday morn- 
 ing, said prayers for me and gave me the Church's 
 Absolution. During the days that followed I saw him 
 but once, when he assisted in the Celebration of Holy 
 Communion on Thursday morning in our Chapel, 
 bringing the Cup to Sister Thecla (then dying) and to 
 me. Dr. Dalzell had taken charge of my case both as 
 physician and Priest, and thought it safest to have me 
 kept perfectly quiet and unexcited. Mr. Schuyler sent 
 me a kind message every day, and I learned from my 
 nurse how untiring he was in his work. Among those 
 to whom he ministered was a gentleman, a friend of 
 the Sisters, a patron of our School, but an infidel. 
 Mr. Schuyler converted and baptized this man, whose 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 8i 
 
 death was followed by the death of his three children, 
 leaving the widow inconsolable in her loss but for the 
 comforting thought of her husband's salvation." 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Dalzell relates this fact in his narra- 
 tive of the succeeding days. Dr. Dalzell says — 
 
 " From Monday afternoon to Wednesday morning 
 the weather was very bad, raining incessantly and 
 very raw, and the streets were in a frightful condition, 
 while the number of deaths was greater than at any 
 other time during the epidemic, and the calls upon the 
 Clergy incessant. 
 
 " I very well remember that as we were on the way 
 to the Cemetery with the remains of Sister Constance, 
 he in one buggy and I in another, the rain pouring 
 down, a request came to us to visit a sick man, and 
 he ran on until he overtook me and excused himself 
 from further attendance at the funeral, as he wished 
 specially to visit this case, having already seen and had 
 some conversation with the sick man, besides minis- 
 tering to several sick children in the same house. 
 That man had long been known as an infidel, one who 
 gloried in his infidelity. He died the day our brother 
 was taken sick, and died humbly penitent, brought to 
 a sense of his sin and danger by dear Schuyler's 
 ministrations, and being baptized by him. During 
 those three dreadful days his labours were abundant, 
 and I was struck with his cheerfulness, and the hope 
 he began to express that after all he might escape and 
 continue to be of service. 
 
 " I saw him on Thursday morning and he seemed to 
 be quite well, and spoke of his intention to visit sev- 
 eral of the Infirmaries that day. He did so. In the 
 afternoon, about four o'clock, I again met him in Dr. 
 Harris' room, and instantly discovered that something 
 
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 was wrong. In fact, he then had high fever, with other 
 symptoms of the prevaihng epidemic. Dr. Green, one 
 of the resident physicians, who had come in about the 
 same time with myself, agreeing with me in this opinion, 
 I told him that he had Yellow-Fever. Then, and then 
 only, did his spirit waver; and then it was evident that 
 the burst of emotion that overcame him was occasioned 
 by regret that he must stop work. * I had so hoped 
 that I should be spared long enough to do some good 
 for the Church, something for the glory of Christ.' 
 When we had taken him down stairs, he begged me 
 not to misconstrue his emotion; assured me it was 
 not for himself he wept, and that after a httle while 
 he would be calm, and show that he was resigned to 
 God's will, which had put a stop to his labours, and 
 had probably called him to die. Here his work ended. 
 In less than four days from the time he reached the 
 plague-stricken city he was lying in the throes of the 
 deadly disease. But they were days of glorious work 
 for Christ and the Church : visiting the sick, praying 
 with, instructing and directing them, administering the 
 Holy Sacraments to the dying, burying the dead, and 
 ministering hope and consolation to the bereaved. 
 
 " He was ill from Thursday to the following Tues- 
 day, from the first hopelessly so, as I thought. But, 
 most mercifully, his brain was not affected until within 
 two or three hours of his death. So I am enabled to 
 say, that his death was no less glorious than his short 
 term of labour. He was naturally of nervous temper- 
 ament, and the excitement of the fever made him 
 inclined to talk, which, of course, had to be checked. 
 But he would not be restrained from speaking of his 
 dear ones in his father's home at St. Louis, of the 
 comfort he felt in the possession of a letter from his 
 father, received after he reached Memphis, consenting 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 83. 
 
 to his coming, and giving him his blessing; and of the 
 most comforting reflection that he was being remem- 
 bered by many, brother-Priests and others, at the 
 Altar and in secret. Several times a day I ministered 
 to him, every day Communicating him, and each day 
 more and more impressed by the unspeakably noble 
 motive of self-sacrifice that had brought him to this 
 end. The Christian heroism that at first found utter- 
 ance in those few quiet words spoken to a brother 
 Priest, ' I am going to Memphis,' never forsook him. 
 He showed not the slightest sense of fear, or appre- 
 hension for his personal safety; never alluded to it, 
 indeed; and was eager to go to the bedside of cases 
 that would make even the experienced physician shud- 
 der. If there ever lived a Christian hero, Louis 
 Schuyler was one. If ever Priest of the Church gave 
 his life, and gave it cheerfully, for Christ's sake, and 
 the suffering members of His Body, Louis Schuyler 
 gave his, and gave it cheerfully. I shall always hold 
 him in sacred memory as a Martyr in will and in deed." 
 
 Dr. Dalzell omits saying that he and Dr. Green 
 gained admission for Louis into the Infirmary opened 
 only the day before for the exclusive use of physicians 
 and nurses. Dr. Dalzell himself took him there, and 
 remained with him most of that night, notwithstanding 
 there were in attendance a resident physician, and a 
 special nurse who gave all of her time to Louis. 
 
 It seems a peculiar mercy that Louis' brain con- 
 tinued clear almost unto the end, since, in the words 
 of one of the Sisters who survives, " the disease is so 
 rapid in its course, so prostrating from the first hour 
 of its attack, that the patient seldom speaks, or shows 
 any interest in aught." 
 
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 The Good Lord delivered Louis from this " sudden 
 death," and granted him the priceless blessing of clear 
 sense and thought through days and nights of solemn 
 preparation. 
 
 He knew that he could not recover, and begged 
 that his Cross, which he always wore, might be buried 
 with him. He desired that his ring might be given to 
 his sister; and his Prayer-book, which had been the 
 gift of his parents at the time of his Confirmation and 
 first Communion, he left to his beloved mother, in dear 
 remembrance of many years of tender confidence and 
 affection. " He prayed much during his illness, fre- 
 quently making the Sign of the Cross." 
 
 Shortly before his death his mind wandered. He 
 began speaking in a high voice, as though delivering a 
 Sermon. His nurse quieted him gently. Then he 
 said to her — "Please tell me whether I am in Mem- 
 phis, or whether I am in my little Church at Hoboken." 
 " You are in Memphis. I was afraid you would dis- 
 turb the others who are ill," she answered. "Gentle- 
 men, forgive me, if I disturbed you," he said sweetly. 
 Then, with this gleam of his old, exquisite courtesy in 
 his last-recorded words, he composed himself; and at 
 half-past two o'clock, in the morning of Tuesday, the 
 seventeenth of September, A.D. 1878, he joined the 
 Church Expectant, and his soul was with the Saints. 
 
COMMEMORATION 
 
 ' The man that with me trod 
 
 This planet, was a noble type 
 Appearing ere the times were ripe, 
 That friend of mine who lives in GoD." 
 
 N indescribable cry of grief and admiration 
 arose in every quarter of the land. Its 
 many voices, secular or religious — private 
 and tender, or public and official — blended into the 
 one deep tone of proud regard with which mankind 
 everywhere greets undaunted courage, and with a 
 grateful sense of its own kinship applauds a man 
 who dies for men. 
 
 A few of these voices are given expression in the 
 following pages. Most must remain unvocal here — 
 though not less true and dear in higher regions where, 
 if there be joy over one sinner that repenteth, we may 
 weakly imagine the triumph over a Saint who has 
 finished his course. 
 
 The whole range of newspaper comment is ex- 
 cluded. Collection of it would amount to a catalogue 
 of all American journals, and many foreign ones, for 
 the latter days of September, 1878. For it may, most 
 likely, be literally true that no newspaper in this 
 
86 A Memorial of 
 
 country failed to print and honour Louis' name and 
 work. Selection also being very difficult, — and, in 
 fact, the laws of space inexorable — it has been deter- 
 mined to omit every newspaper reference, though 
 many were very just, beautiful and precious. Some 
 small selection out of a mass of private letters and 
 memoranda has been made. Of these the things 
 here printed are for some special reason fit. 
 
 The following was written to the Editor by a man 
 of ripe years, versed in affairs and men, clear-thoughted, 
 impatient of pretense, and, as the phrase is, not in 
 sympathy with all of Louis' views. It is in effect a 
 summary of the best Lay judgment of the whole 
 matter — 
 
 "No doubt you judge your friend Schuyler rightly. 
 Such are rare, but can be found if we search for them 
 and have the capacity to recognize the character 
 when found. * * * They have been such men 
 as he — of like faith with him — who have done all that 
 has been done in propagating the Gospel^ 
 
 The following letters or parts of letters were written 
 to Louis' father — 
 
 "St. Mark's Church, 
 
 "Paw Paw, Mich., 
 
 "Oct. T5, 1878. 
 " Permit me to add my tribute of sympathy to the 
 very general expression you have received from the 
 Faithful, both Clergy and Laity, throughout the Church, 
 in the day of your sorrow and bereavement. * * * 
 Shall I tell you, my dear brother, of my deep and 
 loving sympathy with you and all of yours, and how 
 
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Louis Sandford Schuyler. 87 
 
 this becomes a bereavement to the whole Church, and 
 not, also, with you, as with her, praise and thank God 
 for the precious example of His faithful Priest in his 
 noble example of self-sacrifice and eminent Christian 
 heroism even unto death? His is a name that will 
 not be forgotten in the annals of our American 
 Church, and his example such as will nerve many in 
 the ranks of the Ministry to more faithful devotion to 
 its dear, though awful, responsibilities. 
 
 " May the dear, loving Jesus send to you the full 
 comfort of His Grace and Benediction. 
 
 "Affect'ly yours in Xt, 
 
 "Geo. p. Schetky." 
 
 } 
 
 "St. John's Cathedral, 
 
 "QuiNCY, III., 
 "Sept. 28, 1878. 
 
 " My dear Brother : On coming here two or three 
 days ago I had the intelligence of the glorious death 
 of your son. 
 
 "A walk to Jordan, and a translation — but at the 
 beginning of the Prophetical career ! 
 
 "Even amid the undisturbed hopes of the early 
 Priesthood, surely 'to die is gain', and such a de- 
 parture leaves a record which the laboured patience 
 of years might not have written. May our Lord 
 continue and increase the comfort which He has 
 already brought to you ! 
 
 "As your son has the almost curious interest of tens 
 of thousands of Christian people so have you their 
 sympathy and their prayers. 
 
 " May you and I, who have been set apart to the 
 Lord's most sacred service and have served through 
 a generation at His Altar and among His sick and 
 afllicted brethren, at last attain such honour as your 
 
88 A Memorial of 
 
 son already has, after his short, suddenly-closed minis- 
 trations. 
 
 "With warmest heart, 
 
 "Yours in the Lord, 
 
 "Alex'r Burgess." 
 
 "QuiNCY, III., Sept. 23d, 1878. 
 
 " My dear Dr. Schuyler : I hardly know whether 
 in writing to you just now I am to rejoice with them 
 who do rejoice or weep with them who weep. At any 
 rate I cannot help saying a word of sympathy with 
 you in this time of your great trial. * * * 
 
 " It is a loss to the Church here in the work that 
 your son would have done. For that we all feel like 
 weeping. But what a heritage has the Church in the 
 martyrdom he has wrought. His life has not been 
 lost or thrown away. Far from it ! He will live, and 
 his bright example will be cherished in many a young 
 heart which will seek to emulate it. 
 
 "While then I am sad with you in your natural 
 tears I rejoice with you in the high and overmastering 
 joy you must feel as you contemplate the resplendent 
 record your son has left behind him— for while it is 
 the possession of the whole Catholic Church it is yet 
 yours in a pecuHar sense and no man can take it from 
 you. 
 
 "Most faithfully 
 
 "And affectionately yours, 
 
 "Wm. B. Corbyn." 
 
 The ReVd Edward A. Larrabee, also of Quincy, 
 wrote: 
 
 "I need not tell you of the value I set upon the 
 books you sent me, especially those notes in his own 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 89 
 
 handwriting of meditations in which it may be God 
 the Holy Ghost was speaking to him of that heavenly 
 wisdom which he exempUfied in counting not his own 
 life dear unto himself. As I read, yesterday, in the 
 first of these meditations, the words written by his own 
 hand, and underscored — '•We are what we do' — I 
 could not but connect the meditation with the Priestly 
 and heroic action in which his earthly life ended." 
 
 *' Chicago, Oct. 30, 1878 
 "Rev. and dear Sir: Permit me to express my 
 tenderest sympathy with you in the recent death of 
 your heroic and devoted son. His life was pure and 
 beautiful as a Saint's, but the story of his death is the 
 record of a Martyr. Secular motives and self-seeking 
 have a deeper hold on the Clergy than I can beUeve 
 if his example does not lead us all to a more real con- 
 secration to the service of the Blessed Lord. 
 "Sincerely yours, 
 
 "W. E. McLaren." 
 
 J 
 
 " Mission House of St. John Ev., 
 
 "22, Staniford St., Boston, 
 
 "17 Sept., 1878. 
 
 " Reverend and Dear Sir : I venture to address you 
 on account of the affection I have for your son, of 
 whose death at Memphis early this morning I have 
 received an announcement by telegraph. It was 
 during a Mission in which I was engaged at Chicago, 
 in the June of last year, that I first saw your son, and 
 it was at that time that he offered himself to our Soci- 
 ety. He told me of the peculiarly strong affection 
 which bound him to his father, and I know. Sir, how 
 grievous this sudden blow must be to you. But I am 
 sure that in the midst of your grief you will be able to 
 
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 rejoice at the really noble end of a life which I believe 
 he earnestly endeavoured to make noble throughout. 
 God Almighty we may feel has accepted his dedica- 
 tion of himself entirely to His service, in a better way 
 than if his health had allowed him to continue in our 
 Brotherhood. Our Superior wrote of him with much 
 affection when it was decided that he could not 
 remain at Cowley. I only saw your son on one occa- 
 sion since his return — in New York, in the Spring; 
 but I had heard from others of his faithful and suc- 
 cessful work at Newark during Mr. Goodwin's absence. 
 When I heard he had gone to Memphis — I thanked 
 God for his generous courage — and I hoped his life at 
 St. Louis might have prepared him to withstand the 
 fever, but I felt that if he were to have a severe 
 attack he would not be able to rally from it. And so 
 it has proved. But he has had part in a really glorious 
 work of Christian charity and heroism. And I doubt 
 not for a moment that such a death voluntarily faced 
 and accepted is a true fulfilment of his Priestly min- 
 istry, and a most efficacious witness to the power of 
 our Lord's Name. Pardon me. Reverend and dear 
 Sir, if I have seemed to intrude upon you, and let me 
 assure you of the sympathy and prayers of my Brethren 
 — and of many others — in this time of affliction. 
 " I am with great respect 
 
 "Very faithfully yours in Christ, 
 
 "Arthur C. A. Hall." 
 
 "Cowley St. John, \ 
 
 "Oxford, Sept. 30, 1878. j" 
 
 "My dear Sir: I have just received the tidings of 
 
 the death of your dear son. His offer of himself to 
 
 the work at Memphis was an act of religious heroism, 
 
 which one values all the more because it was no 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 91 
 
 strange impulse but in perfect accordance with the 
 previous devotion of his life, longing to give himself 
 wholly to God. And now God has accepted him ! 
 He held him back from the slower processes of disci- 
 pHne in our novitiate, that he might take him to Him- 
 self as one whose heart He had already inspired with 
 the fulness of love. Such an end as his must rather 
 waken our emulation than our grief. Especially when 
 we think of the life of weakness which would have 
 probably been a continual burden to him amidst minis- 
 trations of earthly service, one cannot but be thankful 
 to think that it has been exchanged for the joyous ser- 
 vice of expectant praise amidst the Choirs of Paradise. 
 " I am quite thankful to have had the privilege of 
 knowing him, although our intercourse was of so 
 brief a character, and mingled with anxiety and sor- 
 row. Yet his deep love for his Saviour was full of 
 teaching to all who witnessed it. The acquaintance 
 of the greatest of men in the paths of earthly life is 
 not to compare with the knowledge and love of God's 
 great Saints, however brief and however compassed 
 with the sorrows of outward infirmity. The weakness 
 of earth passes away from such friendships. The joy 
 of Heaven remains as a link between our souls for- 
 ever. Indeed I am thankful to feel that he is almost 
 a link between our Society and the noble work at 
 Memphis. It is almost as if one of ourselves had 
 been there, for he was thoroughly one with us in 
 heart, besides being an Associate of the Order. Yet 
 I know that the death of a son must be grief to a 
 father's heart. Accept then my dear Sir, at once my 
 sympathy in your sorrow and my congratulations upon 
 the glory which enshrines it. 
 
 " I am yours, 
 
 "Very truly, 
 
 " R. M. Benson." 
 
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 92 A Memorial of 
 
 "Trinity Church, 
 
 " Lincoln, 
 
 "Sept. 20, 1878. 
 " My dear Dr. Schuyler : I am unable to express my 
 sadness at the intelligence of your son's death in 
 Memphis. His volunteering to take the place of the 
 Rev. Mr. Parsons was a grand act, his fall is immortal 
 heroism. You have the unspeakable privilege of call- 
 ing him your son, and the whole Church the splendid 
 example of one of her children willing to go down into 
 the grave for the sake of his Master and humanity. 
 There is a grandeur in the Incarnation as he believed 
 it, and since he fell I have seen it as never before. 
 In the future men will speak of him, and will believe 
 even as he believed. The last interview I had with 
 your son was at the Convention of 1875. He then was 
 all on fire. He reminded me of F. W. Robertson, as 
 I had learned to think of him. His difficulties regard- 
 ing certain questions were settled. The Church was 
 all-glorious to his view, and he seemed to be almost 
 transfigured by the sight. I have not met him since, 
 and did not know he was in New Jersey until I saw 
 he had volunteered for Memphis. Every day I prayed 
 for his safety. His death was a shock, a sudden sur- 
 prise, as cruel as sudden. Oh, I cannot write you 
 the anguish I felt. My thought has turned to you. 
 May God strengthen you to bear this sore bereave- 
 ment and give you a sweet peace as you lean upon 
 Him. 
 
 " Faithfully and affectionately, 
 
 " Joseph E. Martin." 
 
 " I am glad to hear that his friends are preparing a 
 tribute to the memory of our dear friend and brother, 
 Mr. Schuyler, and esteem it a privilege to add my 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 93 
 
 little offering of honour and love. The news came to 
 me in a foreign land, almost at the same moment, of 
 his starting for the post of dangerous duty, and of his 
 •dying at it. I cannot speak of the distress which I 
 feel at the loss of his life and example out of the 
 Church on earth. And yet I was not surprised at the 
 impulse which caused him to offer his services m the 
 South. It was of a piece with the self-forgetfulness 
 and devotion of his character. To others will be left 
 the duty of sketching-out the features of his life. My 
 own more particular acquaintance with him began 
 when, after his College course was ended, he apphed 
 to be admitted, in September 187 1, as Candidate for 
 Holy Orders. His course from the first was marked 
 by that scrupulous conscientiousness, and that anxious 
 self-discipline which characterized him to the end. 
 I remember the emphasis with which his Examiners 
 reported his examination as being particularly satisfac- 
 tory. His work at Oak Hill was remarkable. He 
 entered into the life and interests of the humble 
 miners, who formed the greater part of his Parish, 
 with an absorbed enthusiasm. I recall the conversa- 
 tions which we had when I made my visits to his 
 Parish, how he was all engrossed in the joys and 
 household anxieties of his people. The natural result 
 followed. His people, not easily aroused to rehgious 
 duties out of their hard, anxious life, gave him their 
 confidence and love without measure. Then followed 
 a Confirmation, the Candidates for which were from 
 the gentler and from the more humble families of his 
 Parish, which in its size and import, considering the 
 numbers of the Congregation, is without parallel in the 
 history of this Diocese. And the deep, spiritual im- 
 press of his teachings and his life remains with that 
 people to this day. WhUe engaged in this work there 
 
94 ^ Memorial of 
 
 came to him a period of anxiety and doubt which will 
 have mention at other hands. It was the occasion of 
 many anxious conferences between us. The result 
 for him was a regained confidence in the Church's 
 Faith and Authority which never afterward faltered. 
 The ascetic severity of his life told upon his health ; 
 and this at length compelled him to resign his work, 
 and he left the Diocese to go to England, although 
 he remained canonically resident until within two 
 months of his death. The fact that our birthdays 
 coincided as to month and day was the occasion of 
 several interchanges of remembrance between us, and 
 the last note I had from him was one recalling this 
 coincidence, last Spring, and sending me a flower 
 plucked at Malvern, in England, on the previous 
 Christmas-Eve, with a loving note. A brave, loving, 
 patient, self-denying Priest, his next birthday will be 
 spent in Paradise. 
 
 "C. F. Robertson." 
 
 The following letter is from a Unitarian Minister — 
 Chancellor of the Washington University at St. Louis : 
 
 " My Dear Sir : Will you permit me to express my 
 deep and sincere sympathy with you under your severe 
 bereavement \ and further, to say that, in common 
 with all right-minded persons, I hold in honour the 
 spirit of self-sacrifice in which your son gave his Ufe 
 in the Master's service. There may be some who call 
 it imprudence, but so is all martyrdom and all heroism 
 if measured by a worldly standard. He who stops to 
 consider profit and loss when duty calls, has never 
 leaned upon the Cross of Christ. As the soldier goes 
 deHberately in the face of death, under the word of 
 command, so did your noble son in a grander service 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 95 
 
 and in obedience to the Captain of our Salvation. It 
 is not a lost life. Out from such losses come the best 
 gains of humanity. We feel ennobled and strength- 
 ened for our daily work when we see such complete- 
 ness of self-surrender, and I feel that there is some- 
 thing enviable in a death which is thus sanctified. 
 May He to Whose service your dear son gave himself 
 comfort you with all the blessed influences of Christian 
 faith, that you may be able to submit yourself to His 
 Divine disposal. Pardon me for thus intruding on 
 your grief, 
 
 " As your sincere Friend, 
 
 "W. G. Eliot." 
 "St. Louis, Sept. 18, '78." 
 
 " Chicago, Sept. 19, '78. 
 
 " Dear, Dear Doctor : My eye has just caught the 
 telegram of Louis' death. I know how your heart is 
 bleeding, yet, my dear friend, it is a great thing to 
 have a Saint and Martyr in one's family. It is a splen- 
 did jewel in the family crown, and, believe me, every 
 Priest in the whole world will feel lifted up and 
 strengthened and exalted by the record of that self- 
 sacrifice. Young as he was, his noble death will work 
 a greater work than if he had lived a hundred years. 
 1 know that just now you cannot think of this, but you 
 will. Just think how near he will be to his Saviour, 
 how effectual his prayers will be for you and for us all ! 
 I will pray for his rest and peace, though I feel he 
 needs but small purgation. His soul was very white 
 and clean. 
 
 " With all our love to you, and my earnest prayers 
 for your strengthening, I am 
 
 " Affectionately your friend, 
 
 "Clinton Locke." 
 
96 A Memorial of 
 
 *' Racine College, ) 
 
 *' Advent, 1878. f 
 
 ****** 
 
 " You know, my dear sir, far better than I, how 
 earnestly and devotedly, with a full, deep appreciation 
 of the Catholic life of the Church, your son went on 
 in his Ministerial life and work. I can never forget 
 the impression produced upon my own mind by the 
 fact, that while he might have lived at home, and still 
 continued to do his work in that mining population 
 near St. Louis for whom he was labouring, he insisted, 
 until his broken health compelled him to do other- 
 wise, in lodging as his people lodged, and being fed 
 with the same fare, that he might the more fully sym- 
 pathize with their sorrows and cares. I felt very 
 thankful during Lent, 1876, to be called upon, in 
 your own beautiful Church in St. Louis, to preach the 
 Sermon on his Ordination to the Priesthood. From 
 this time forward, heightened by the effect produced 
 by a mission conducted in Chicago by the Rev. Mr. 
 Hall of the Evangelist Fathers, he ever gave his whole 
 life to God. It has seemed to me as if God in His 
 goodness had accepted what was the deep burden of 
 his soul, that he might utterly and wholly give himself 
 to our Lord Jesus Christ, not as he himself wished 
 and planned at first, but as God in His wisdom willed. 
 I hear every now and then people say that * it was a 
 useless sacrifice of a noble life ;' ' that had he lived 
 longer he might have done so much more good;' 
 that it was * unwise,' * imprudent,' and the like. 
 No one, I think, could know his character, the long- 
 ings of his soul to surrender all things, even his 
 own life, for Christ \ his efforts that way, his spirit 
 like that of the two Apostles, (I think I may say 
 so) who, when they were asked, ' Are ye able to 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 97 
 
 drink of the cup that I shall drink of?' answered, not 
 counting the cost, ' We are able,' and were taken 
 at their word; without feeling that God accepted 
 his self-sacrifice, called him to a short, brave struggle, 
 and crowned him as the Martyrs are crowned. 
 
 " It seems as if life were made better and more 
 glorious by such an example, as if he had placed 
 before us a higher and better ideal of priestly life ; as 
 if in his own life, having once been doubtful of it, he 
 had shown that in the calm and sober and chastened 
 system of our own Church, the fairest fruits of God's 
 grace are every day to be found ; and in her deepened 
 life, of which every day She herself is becoming more 
 conscious, are more and more being manifested. 
 
 " I am, with deep sympathy and affectionate re- 
 gard, my dear Dr. Schuyler, 
 
 " Ever faithfully your friend, 
 
 "James De Koven." 
 
 "New York, Sept. 19. 
 " My dear Cousin : Louis' death, which was first 
 announced here by a private despatch, came with a 
 sudden shock, though his sickness had been tele- 
 graphed, and the worst was to be feared from the 
 first. In what I have seen of him, it always seemed 
 to me that his chief characteristic was his spiritual 
 seriousness, and his absolute loyalty — beyond even 
 the possibility of disobedience — to his own conscience. 
 His life since he came to be a man, as I heard and 
 saw and should have felt from my knowledge of him, 
 had been one of many struggles with himself, but they 
 must all have been struggles to see his duty. After 
 that I cannot conceive of any further struggle in him, 
 except to do it, not counting the cost, even if the cost 
 were to be, as it has been, his life. 
 
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 "All deaths are tragical, but how few are inspiring 
 tragedies like his ; and all bereavements are sorrow- 
 ful, but this sorrow must be touched with gratitude 
 that by his short life and its brave ending, he has done 
 more to kindle, in all who hear his story, high thoughts 
 of service and sacrifice for others, than most men do 
 who live out their threescore years and ten, and made 
 us of the same name and blood proud that we share 
 them with a martyred hero. Can such a death be 
 called untimely ? And is it not of such a life most of 
 all that we can say that he who loses it for Christ's 
 sake shall find it ? 
 
 "Accept the earnest sympathy of 
 
 " Your afiectionate Cousin, 
 
 " Montgomery Schuyler." 
 
 The Rev. H. D. Jardine says : 
 
 " Immediately upon my arrival in St. Louis, in Aug- 
 ust, 1875, Mr. Schuyler, then a Deacon, called upon 
 me, and the frequent intercourse which from that 
 time forward strengthened and cemented the friend- 
 ship which religious sympathy at once evoked, gave 
 me the fullest opportunities of knowing intimately the 
 disposition of heart and mind characterizing one of 
 the purest and most devoted spirits ever known to the 
 Church's history. 
 
 " Together we discussed passages from the Fathers, 
 questions of Moral Theology, points of Doctrine and 
 Ecclesiastical History, with whatever concerned the 
 dissemination of the truth as held by the Church in 
 this land and nation. Together we laboured, watched 
 and prayed for the upbuilding of the Zion of God, 
 and hailed the signs of coming triumph for the Cross. 
 After my ordination to the Priesthood, a new and 
 more sacred relation was established between us, 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 99 
 
 when I became his spiritual guide and adviser. In 
 all my intercourse with him I was constantly impressed 
 with that deep devotion, sensitive conscientiousness, 
 purity of thought and life, which, combined with an 
 eager desire to minister salvation to dying souls, and 
 stimulated by a zealous longing to tread in the foot- 
 steps of his suffering Lord impelled him, first to 
 choose a life of special self-denial, and offer himself, at 
 length, for a service of terrible danger, to be crowned 
 after a brief period with the wreath of Martyrdom." 
 
 The ReVd John Sword, Louis' superior at Hobo- 
 ken, says : 
 
 " He had often visited me during the Winter and 
 Spring and had preached and officiated in our Church, 
 and I felt that I knew him quite well. But when he 
 came to live with me in our Clergy-house, though it 
 was only for five days, I became amazed at the depth, 
 fervour and earnestness of his piety. I felt that I had 
 never before been near so holy a man, so humble, so 
 simple, so gentle, so loving, so entirely devoted to his 
 Lord. He seemed to have no thought or wish for 
 himself." 
 
 The Rev'd Dr. Wainright, who has furnished notes 
 of Louis' earlier life, says : 
 
 " The alacrity with which he dropped all and hast- 
 ened to the field of suffering and death, shows very 
 conclusively that he had found some firm foothold, 
 where authority was something other to him than im- 
 pulse. It appeared to him no less than a voice from 
 Heaven commanding — and like every obedient soldier 
 he had no question to ask. He had little opportunity 
 
100 A Memorial of 
 
 to administer either to the physical or spiritual neces- 
 sities of the suffering ones. Death struck him too 
 soon for that. And that was not his mission. He 
 thought it was — but through his faith and love and 
 sense of duty, God would make him, young as he was, 
 a perpetual sermon — such as no living hand can write 
 — for all who shall read and hear the grand story of 
 his life. Herein lay his mission. This act of devo- 
 tion to duty was the ground-principle in young Schuy- 
 ler's character. It was in no freak of passionate long- 
 ing to exhibit himself as a Martyr that he went forth. 
 He was of the genuine stuff of which Martyrs are made. 
 He did not see, nor think of death, but of duty done." 
 
 The following note is by the Rev. Cameron Mann, 
 a dear, familiar friend of Louis : 
 
 " When he returned from England, I chanced to be 
 in New York, and saw him several times. His health 
 was sadly broken, but he was confident of building it 
 up. His intention was to engage in work so soon as 
 he should be able, and the kind of work he desired 
 was among city poor. His theological views were of 
 the most ' advanced ' type, and in them he took great 
 comfort. He seemed to me to model himself after 
 the pattern of which glimpses are given in Froude's 
 Remains, though I believe he had never read that work. 
 But there was a peculiar gentleness about him, and 
 much as his opinions might provoke controversy in those 
 who thought differently, his was not a polemic spirit. 
 
 " Whether he would have had what is called 
 * ministerial success,' had he Hved, of course cannot be 
 told, but I think he would, for character, abiUty and 
 devotion such as his could scarcely fail in time to im- 
 press any community, whatever might be its religious 
 atmosphere. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. loi 
 
 " It has pleased God to give him success of a very 
 different kind, and I, though I sorrow at a personal 
 loss, cannot regret it. For him there can be no re- 
 gret, he has gained the light toward which his whole 
 life grew, and the Church, though she has lost the toil 
 of a faithful Priest, has gained the glory of a noble 
 Martyr. While for all who knew and loved him here 
 St. Cyprian's words are full of helpful meaning — 
 ^fratres nostras 7ion esse lugendos accersitione dominico 
 de sceculo liber atos cum sciamus non eos amitti sed 
 prcemitti recedentes prcecedere.^ " 
 
 One who loved Louis as a son is loved by his 
 mother writes from Oak Hill, " to aid in the perpetu- 
 ation of his memory :" 
 
 " His first people — and O, how dear to us is his 
 memory ! Zealous, sympathetic, meek, gentle, faith- 
 ful and Christlike — truly I fear we shall never see his 
 like again. Would that my pen could express the 
 language of my heart, for then I might hope with it to 
 do him justice. 
 
 " He came to us to find a Church without a con- 
 gregation and ere a year was passed it was regularly 
 filled to overflowing — so much was he loved in the 
 households he visited, and so earnestly had he laboured 
 in his Father's vineyard. To the sick and afflicted he 
 was a constant friend and benefactor, and attended 
 personally to all their wants both spiritual and tem- 
 poral. 
 
 " He presented to the Bishop at one time thirty- 
 three persons for Confirmation — a larger proportion 
 of the entire congregation, said the Bishop, than he 
 had ever before confirmed. 
 
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 "In all good works he was zealous. As a result 
 of his labours in the neighbouring City Hospital I 
 know of several persons led to devote the remainder 
 of their wasted lives to God — brought back from a 
 living death to life by his gentle hand. 
 
 " Like his Lord who steadfastly set his face to go 
 to Jerusalem where he knew a painful and shameful 
 death awaited him, he set his face to go among the 
 fever-stricken people of the South — strangers to him, 
 but brothers and sisters — children of his Father, who 
 might be dying without hope. He left all and went 
 to them if perchance one soul might be led to Christ. 
 
 " He will live in the memory of his people here as 
 long as they live, and the Httle ones growing up will 
 be taught to reverence his name. 
 
 " May we all meet him at the last day, and may he 
 shine as a bright Star in Heaven — for surely he won 
 many souls to Christ." 
 
 Mr. G. W. Parker, of this Parish, writes — 
 "I knew him intimately and confidentially. Al- 
 though much older than he there seemed to be no 
 reservations on his part in our intercourse, and I be- 
 lieve his most secret thoughts were laid before me for 
 advice and counsel. A nobler, purer, and better man 
 never lived, and the circumstances attending his death 
 form the fitting ending of such a life. Somehow, I 
 have never fully realized his death. I have never felt 
 that sorrow for it that I have felt for some far less 
 dear to me who died under ordinary circumstances. 
 It seems as though he were simply gone somewhere, 
 and is doing good there, and after a while we shall see 
 him again. 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyle?-. 103 
 
 " In this Parish, in every humble cottage and com- 
 fortable house whose inmates he has visited and minis- 
 tered to — with them and their descendants his memory 
 will ever be fresh and green, and the story of his saintly 
 life and heroic death will be handed down from gener- 
 ation to generation — the imperishable . record of a 
 noble and good man." 
 
 The following is an abstract of a letter written to a 
 friend in Holy Orders by the Rev'd A. L. Wood, 
 Assistant-Minister of The House of Prayer — 
 
 ** ' Such have I seen ; and as they pour'd 
 Their hearts in every contrite word, 
 How have I rather longed to kneel 
 And ask of them sweet pardon's seal ! ' 
 
 "Newark, N. J., Sept. 19th, 1878. 
 " My dear Brother : Last evening, at prayer-time, I 
 was very deeply affected by the audible grief of the 
 Congregation, for the first news of our dear Louis' 
 blessed translation had been but just received. At 
 the close of the Office I tried to make a few remarks 
 on the sad intelligence. By a singular and most 
 beautiful coincidence the second Lesson afforded an 
 appropriate and impressive subject. It was about the 
 anointing by Mary, of Bethany. In commenting 
 upon the act of this devoted woman, I could not fail 
 to see a very striking parallel with the offering just 
 made in Memphis. That precious life was not 
 wasted. The whole Church of Christ will be filled 
 with the fragrance of that action. For the goodness 
 of any act lies in its motive^ and not in its usefulness. 
 The motive of this woman's act was a fervent love, 
 and that love made it a good work in our Lord's 
 sight. And the sacrifice made by our dear friend was 
 
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 only a natural and not altogether unexpected result 
 of the same devotion to the same Master — ' Greater 
 love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his 
 life for his friends.' No, the precious ointment was 
 not poured out in vain, for ' Verily I say unto you, 
 wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout 
 the whole world, this also that (he) hath done shall be 
 spoken of for a memorial of (him).* Our Saint per- 
 fectly believed our Lord's words, in the same chapter 
 which we read yesterday — * Ye have the poor with 
 you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them 
 good.' He was constantly seeking them out, and his 
 favourite recreation was in ministering both to their 
 spiritual and temporal necessities. The sum that he 
 received for his labours here was mostly expended for 
 house-rent, and food for the hungry, and medicines 
 and delicacies for the sick. Like the Blessed Master 
 Himself, he was constantly going about doing good, 
 but always quietly, and without the least knowledge 
 that he was doing any more than his duty. A brief 
 outline of the way in which his time was spent, during 
 the three months he was with us, may interest you, 
 and perhaps others, whom we cannot comfort, nor 
 even perfectly sympathize with. For their grief can 
 only be assuaged by the Divine Love that throbs in 
 the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 
 
 " Usually he arose at about 5 o'clock, and spent an 
 hour or more in prayer and meditation. He then 
 went into the Church for the Celebration of the Holy 
 Eucharist, which was offered four times a week, and 
 on Saints' Days. The morning was passed in study. 
 In the afternoon he visited the sick, the poor, and any 
 who required especial help. Once or twice a week his 
 evenings were occupied with hearing Confessions. 
 Those who had the privilege of receiving the Ministry 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 105 
 
 of Consolation at his hands speak with great thankful- 
 ness and deep reverence of his wonderful power as a 
 Director. He seemed to have an almost intuitive 
 knowledge that was of great service in deaHng with 
 many difficult cases. All who were brought into inti- 
 mate relations with him were deeply impressed with 
 his genuine sanctity. He was, in the fullest meaning 
 of the term, a holy man. The one comfort I have 
 been able to give his penitents is the reflection that he 
 is still living ; still has a full recollection of earthly 
 associations; and in that glory which 'eye hath not 
 seen,' amid the triumph-songs which, as yet, * ear hath 
 not heard,' his prayers are going up for all who were 
 dear to him here. Another abiding source of consola- 
 tion is 'the contemplation with assured hope, of a soul 
 so remarkable for a clear and noble Christian sim- 
 plicity' as our dear friend's was, 'passing into that 
 region of peace, where all is pure, noble, simple, and 
 Christian, and welcomed thither by the myriads of 
 kindred spirits' (including his own patron Saint, John 
 Keble), ' which are there waiting for the remainder of 
 those with whom they are to be made perfect.' 
 
 " It seems to me that Louis* influence upon souls 
 in our Parish will always remain. His supernatural 
 life and vaHant death, cannot fail to impress not only 
 our own people, but many others in this community 
 who did not even know him. 
 
 " The tone of public opinion may be gathered from 
 the leading article in one of our local papers which I 
 mailed to you yesterday. It is decidedly one of the 
 best secular editorials I have ever read. The writer 
 is not even a Churchman, nor does he have any par- 
 ticular affection for our school of thought. He might 
 have listened to a thousand sermons on self-oblation, 
 but he never could have learned the true meaning of 
 
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 the term until it was brought home to him by the 
 example of this devoted servant of Christ and His 
 Church. 
 
 "On the morning of Tuesday, August 27th, our 
 dear friend offered his last Eucharist at our Altar. 
 I afterwards breakfasted with him at the Rectory, and 
 then helped him get his things together. He left 
 quite early for Hoboken, and we parted for the last 
 time in the R. R. station. 
 
 " I am certain that his departure for the South was 
 not remotely dreamed of at that time, for we fully 
 expected to meet again very soon, and it may be that 
 our happy anticipations will be realized, ' For a thou- 
 sand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday'. 
 
 " I only wish that I could speak comfortably to our 
 dear Louis* father. But with so many better comfort- 
 ers any words from me would, perhaps, seem almost 
 presumptuous. There is One alone Who can afford 
 true consolation at such a trying time as this. It is even 
 He Who when He saw a dead man carried out, the 
 only son of his mother, had compassion on her. Hk 
 is even now touched with a feeling of the sorrow of 
 heart which has fallen upon poor Dr. Schuyler and 
 his family, whom may God bless and comfort for His 
 sake. 
 
 "My own feelings are far too deep for words to 
 express. You know that I loved dear Louis, and I 
 cannot say more." 
 
 The following lines, which have been treasured in 
 MS. by Louis' kindred, are fitly here preserved in the 
 security of print. They conclude the present series 
 of selections from the many existing tributes of pri- 
 vate, personal love and veneration : 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, toy 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 " When some great deed of sacrifice is wrought 
 Ever will rise the thought in human hearts 
 Alas, what waste ! Into how many parts 
 Could that have been divided, which now, one 
 Wild gift of love, is almost careless thrown 
 Down at the Master's feet. Thy death but starts 
 The censure, * Those thy sympathetic arts 
 Could cheer and help, thou leavest to their moan.' 
 Yet not in vain the lesson once was taught 
 That lavishness is sometimes duty's claim, 
 When Christ declared a good work had been wrought, 
 Coeval with His Gospel in its fame — 
 Thy brief yet lasting service was to show 
 The Church that still her Martyr Spirits glow." 
 
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 It is naturally difficult to learn how many Memorial 
 Celebrations or other Commemorative Services were 
 held throughout the country. Doubtless there were 
 some — perhaps there were many — intelligence of 
 which hardly passed beyond the bounds of the Par- 
 ishes in which they took place. 
 
 The following are known to the Editor : 
 
 In the Parish to which Louis was attached — the 
 Church of The Holy Innocents, at Hoboken — there 
 were Memorial Celebrations on Sept. 24th, and on 
 Oct. 17 th. 
 
 There was a special Commemoration in the Chapel 
 of Racine College — a place justly sacred and very 
 dear to Louis. 
 
 So, also, at the Church of The Good Shepherd, at 
 Quincy, 111., on St. Matthew's Day. 
 
 At St. Ignatius' Church, New York, there was a Me- 
 morial Celebration at seven A. M. on Oct. 24th, the 
 Rev. Dr. Ewer being the Celebrant, at which an unu- 
 sually large number of the Faithful were present. On 
 the preceding Sunday the Rector had delivered a 
 Commemorative Address upon the Memphis Dead 
 with special reference to the Rev. C. C. Parsons, to 
 Louis, and to Sister Ruth, who was a God-child of the 
 Reverend Preacher. 
 
 The following memorandum is from one of the Rev. 
 Clergy of the Church of The Advent, in Boston. It is 
 
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 of peculiar interest to note that the three days spe- 
 cially marked were the three well and active entire 
 days granted to Louis in Memphis : 
 
 " We did not have any special public Requiem for 
 the Priests and Sisters at Memphis. They were in 
 our prayers all the time. During that week we 
 observed in Church Three Days (Sept. 9th, loth, 
 nth) of Special Intercession. We said each day at 
 noon the Seven Penitential Psalms and the Litany, 
 preceded by a short bidding-prayer to this effect : 
 
 ** Let us pray for all who are suffering from the fever; 
 
 " For the removal of the pestilence ; 
 
 " For the Sick — Patience and Recovery ; 
 
 "For the Bereaved and Destitute — Comfort and 
 Provision \ 
 
 " For the Dying and Departed — Mercy and Peace ; 
 
 "For the ministering Clergy, Sisters, Physicians, 
 and Nurses — Protection in soul and body ; 
 
 " For the whole people — Repentance and the Fear 
 
 of God — and especially our Prayers are asked for 
 
 [I copy from a Paper of notes for one day which I 
 
 happen to have in my office-book] — 
 
 " Sister Constance — Entered into Rest ; 
 
 ^'ReVdGeo. C. Harris,) 
 
 " Sister Hughetta, )■ Sick ; 
 
 " Sister Thecla, ) 
 
 « -D »^ T-k -Tk 1 n ^ Who have volunteered to take 
 " Rev d Dr. Dalzell, f ^, , r -n • ^ i. i. 
 «-D ^^T COT, 1 r the place of Priests who have 
 Rev'd L. S. Schuyler, I ^g^jj^^,, 
 
 At the Church of The Transfiguration, in New York, 
 there was daily remembrance, at the Celebration, of 
 Louis during his illness, and on the morning after 
 
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 tidings of his death were received the Celebration 
 there was with special reference to him, his name being 
 introduced at the usual place, as had been the names 
 of those who had entered into rest before him. 
 
 The ReVd Dr. Houghton has transcribed for this 
 Memorial from his Thanksgiving Sermon the following 
 passages relating to Louis : 
 
 " In the Sacristy of this Church he knelt for Abso- 
 lution and Benediction, and from thence he went forth 
 as resolutely and cheerfully as if there had been no 
 pleasant er journey for him to take, and elsewhere no 
 pleasanter duties for him to perform than at its end. 
 Soon after his arrival in Memphis he telegraphed to 
 me the death of one of the Sisters, and added : * The 
 Holy Sacrifice is daily offered.' 
 
 " Until his arrival there had been no one for quite 
 an interval to celebrate the Holy Communion. A 
 week passed, and another Priest — all honour to him ! — 
 the Rev'd Dr. Dalzell, who, leaving wife and children 
 and Parish, had gone up from Shreveport for the 
 Lord's and the brethren's sake to minister, as Priest, 
 physician, nurse, almoner, friend, and in whatever 
 other way mortal could, and who for more than six 
 weeks continued so to minister to the people of Mem- 
 phis — telegraphed : ' Dear Schuyler is very ill.' Then 
 followed the daily dispatch, now with a word of 
 encouragement — then of his desperate condition — 
 until, on the tenth day after his reaching Memphis, 
 came the telegram : * Dear Schuyler entered into rest 
 at half-past two this morning. He was rational, re- 
 signed, and Received shortly before he died.' 
 
 "A letter written soon after says : * Dear Mr. Schuy- 
 ler's work here was short, but full of blessing. He 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. iii 
 
 baptized General not long before his death, 
 
 and great indeed must have been the earnestness that 
 won such a skeptic.'" 
 
 There was a Memorial Celebration at St. Clement's 
 Church, Philadelphia, shortly after Louis' death — but 
 the exact date is not remembered. 
 
 At St. James' Church, at Watkins, N. Y., on All- 
 Saints' Day there was a special Commemoration of 
 Louis at the Celebration, with reference in the Ser- 
 mon to his life and work. 
 
 By reason of the absence of the Bishop of Albany 
 until Christmas there was no Memorial Service in the 
 Cathedral there, but in the Bishop's Address, at the 
 Eleventh Annual Convention of the Diocese, the Rt. 
 Rev. Dr. Doane said: "Schuyler has gone, too; 
 dead at his place of duty \ not from this Diocese, but 
 after long enough residence in it to make me know 
 how earnest the consecration of his every aim and 
 thought was to the Master's service ; in Whose * for- 
 lorn-hope ' he fell, I am quite sure without a thought 
 even of any special sacrifice or peculiar honour." 
 
 An account of the Service held at Fonda, in the 
 Diocese of Albany, where Louis once was stationed, 
 is contained in the following extract from the Mohawk 
 Valley Democrat^ dated September 27, 1878, pub- 
 lished at Fonda, Montgomery Co., N. Y.: 
 
 *''' In Meinoriam. — On Sunday, the 2 2d of Septem- 
 ber, there was held at Zion Church a solemn Memo- 
 
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 rial Service for the Rev. Louis S. Schuyler, a victim 
 of yellow-fever. As upon former occasions, every- 
 thing was done in a quiet, unostentatious manner; 
 but upon entering the sacred building, one was deeply 
 impressed with the appropriate decorations. Upon 
 the Lectern an anchor of immortelles spoke of hope 
 beyond the grave ; while in the Font a beautiful Cross 
 of white dahlias and purple verbenas told of the faith 
 that grows brightest at death. 
 
 " Covering the Altar from whence his hands had 
 dispensed the Bread of Life, hung a purple cloth on 
 which rested a white cross and the inscription — In 
 Memoriam — bringing first to our minds the remem- 
 brance of the one great Sacrifice of our dear Lord, 
 and with it a tender remembrance of him who gave 
 himself a willing sacrifice, that he might minis- 
 ter to the spiritual njeeds of those who were passing 
 by hundreds into the dark valley friendless and alone 
 but for the faithful servant of Christ, who, holding 
 the Blessed Cup to parched lips, repeated the precious 
 words, * The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which 
 was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto 
 everlasting Life.' 
 
 * An appropriate and impressive sermon was deliv- 
 ered by the Rev. Chas. H. Vandyne, after which the 
 Holy Communion was celebrated, in which that por- 
 tion of the Creed, — */ believe in the Communion of 
 Saints^ — was beautifully illustrated." 
 
 The following letter is an instance of Services held 
 in places where Louis was personally unknown : 
 
 "Detroit, Mich., ) 
 "5th Feby., 1879./ 
 " My dear Sir : The Requiem Celebration for Fr. 
 Schuyler took place on Thursday, Sept. 19th, at 9:00 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 113 
 
 A. M., and was attended by a large number of the 
 Faithful. We at Holy Trinity beUeve in the Com- 
 munion of the Saints ; and during those fearful days 
 offered the Sacrifice continually for those who were 
 fighting the pestilence, and for the dying. When 
 word came to us that dear Fr. Schuyler had gone, 
 I said to the people in a Sermon, *the dear young 
 brother deserves the Martyr's Crown.' And when he 
 received it we gathered round the Altar, offered the 
 ' Venerable and Tremendous Sacrifice ' for his repose; 
 and at the same time our glad thanksgiving for his 
 *good example.' None of us had ever known Fr. 
 Schuyler personally, but he was as dear to us, and his 
 grand work and Martyr's death as precious, as if he 
 were our own flesh and blood ; for we think we know 
 that he was with our Lord Jesus Christ ' bone of 
 His bone, and flesh of His flesh.' And so we had 
 fellowship with him in Christ. Thus was he more to 
 us than he could have been by the accident of birth. 
 On the following Sunday at Vespers I made an 
 address in which the above thoughts were expanded, 
 and I told the people what I knew of Fr. Schuyler, 
 and exhorted all to seek such union with our Lord as 
 Fr. Schuyler so evidently had, and so bring to perfec- 
 tion the fruit of Holiness. 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 "W. R. TiLLINGHAST." 
 
 At the Church of The Holy Innocents, Oak Hill, 
 St. Louis, a Memorial Service was held on the even- 
 ing of Sunday, Sept. 2 2d, 1878. The Church was 
 filled to overflowing. The Rector, the Rev. A. Batte, 
 in a eulogy described as "in accord with the feelings 
 of all present" depicted Louis' "noble, self-sacrificing 
 
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 and devoted Ministry and his heroic death — amid the 
 tears of the whole Congregation." 
 
 The following account of the Service at Trinity 
 Church, St. Louis, is taken from a newspaper report : 
 
 "A Celebration of the Holy Communion took place 
 at Trinity Church, comer of Eleventh street and 
 Washington avenue, yesterday at 7:30 A. M., com- 
 memorative of the Rev. Louis Schuyler, who so nobly 
 laid down his life while ministering to the sick in Mem- 
 phis. 
 
 *' The Altar was draped in black, the frontal bear- 
 ing the text ' He hath borne our griefs.' The Rev. 
 George C. Betts was the Celebrant and the Rev. H. 
 D. Jardine acted as Deacon, both of whom were inti- 
 mate friends of the deceased Priest. 
 
 "After the Creed the Rev. George C. Betts deliv- 
 ered the following eulogy : 
 
 " ' In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and 
 of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 " * The Reverend Louis Schuyler has entered into 
 rest. From the work of his Priesthood in a plague- 
 haunted city his pure soul passed into Paradise on 
 Tuesday morning last at half-past two o'clock, in the 
 twenty-seventh year of his age. I tried to tell you 
 last Sunday, when I besought your prayers on his 
 behalf, how dearly I loved him; and now that he is 
 no longer with us in the flesh I love him still, for he 
 still lives ; 
 
 ** ' There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; 
 This life of mortal breath 
 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
 Whose portal we call death. 
 
 " * His steadfast faith in God, his ardent love of our 
 dear Lord, his intimate communion with God the 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 115 
 
 Holy Ghost, his devout life, his gentleness, purity 
 and amazing courage were conspicuous to those who 
 were most intimate with him, while at the same time 
 his sweet humility made him quite unconscious of how 
 radiant an example of piety he was to us. 
 
 " ' I dare not now trust myself to tell the memories 
 that crowd upon me of his short ministry; indeed, many 
 of them are of too sacred a nature to bear repetition. 
 There are scenes that rise before me in which heart 
 bared itself to heart, and prayers and tears of love were 
 mingled, and blessed sacraments and earnest vows 
 made up a friendship which cannot be sundered by 
 any cause ; for as we often prayed with and for each 
 other on earth, so now I still bear him in my heart and 
 on my lips before God, and I know that he remembers 
 and prays for us who await the coming of the Lord. 
 
 "'I say with the fullest conviction of its simple 
 truth that his life, his work, and what men call his 
 death, were worthy of a Saint. Many there are in this 
 vicinity, where, for a time, he executed his Office, who 
 owe their peace and salvation under God to his min- 
 istry, and who with others in more distant places will 
 in the last day rise up and call him blessed. 
 
 " ' Indeed he had but one object on earth — to glorify 
 God in the salvation of souls. Christlike he went 
 about doing good, wise to win souls, keeping the Cross 
 of Jesus ever before his eyes, and faithful in prayer, 
 constant in devotions at the Blessed Sacrament, he 
 was by the Grace of God utterly lifted out of himself 
 and seemed to live day by day in the very presence of 
 our dear Lord. 
 
 " ' It is just one year ago that he left this city for 
 England, purposing to devote his life to a more inti- 
 mate union with our Blessed Redeemer. In the 
 Parish that he served while here, the memory of his 
 
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 labours is still fragrant and sanctifying. Ill-health, 
 however, preventing the immediate accompHshment 
 of a design that was very dear to him he returned to 
 this country and when sufficiently recovered he took 
 duty at The House of Prayer, in Newark. There it 
 was my delight to visit him frequently this Summer 
 and renew an affectionate intimacy that always 
 strengthened and encouraged me. Once having 
 asked me to Celebrate at the Altar there, he put his 
 arms about me and said : ' you must esteem this a 
 great favour, for I do not like to give up this Service to 
 anyone.' He anticipated with great joy his settle- 
 ment at the Church of The Holy Innocents in Hobo- 
 ken, to which place he removed on the first of this 
 month. It was from this Parish that the Rev. Mr. 
 Parsons went, who recently offered up his life to God 
 while caring for the sick and dying in Memphis. 
 There I last saw him, and the very last conversation 
 that we had together was relative to the peaceful 
 close of a poor man's earthly life, in whom I knew 
 him to be spcially interested. 
 
 " * From thence, on hearing that Mr. Parsons was 
 stricken with the yellow-fever, he went to Memphis 
 with the bravery, aye, with the joy of the Christian 
 Martyr, '• who counted not his life dear unto himself;' 
 he was impatient of a single day's delay that was 
 forced upon him at Louisville, thinking only of the 
 souls that were passing away without the Blessed Sac- 
 ment or the ministrations of a Priest, and when he 
 heard of Mr. Parsons' death he would be detained no 
 longer, but gladly took up from Jesus' feet the burden 
 which that faithful Priest laid down, and so entered 
 upon his last earthly work. 
 
 " '■ He said : 'Why do you regret my going ; God 
 calls me ; I am safe in His hands ; He will do what 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 117 
 
 is best for me.' And so he did. God accepted his 
 work for a little while, and oh, what a work that must 
 have been ! and then took him to Himself, vouchsafing 
 to him all his faculties to the last, graciously permit- 
 ting him to send loving messages to his friends and to 
 receive for the Viaticum the Blessed Sacrament. 
 
 " * While he was yet with us we mourned for him and 
 besought God to spare him, but He had some better 
 thing in store for him, and now — now I adore the 
 Infinite Love — and bless and praise the mercy and the 
 grace that has crowned His faithful Priest with ever- 
 lasting joy and that will reward him with all His Saints 
 by opening to him the Beatific Vision at the last. 
 
 " ' Oh, think ! in that blessed Paradise he has already 
 met those whose last hours on earth were made peace- 
 ful by his ministry, whose aching heads his hands 
 were the last to touch ; to whose parched lips but a few 
 days ago he carried the most precious Body and Blood 
 of Christ, whose ears, closing to all earthly sounds, 
 heard his sweet voice commending their souls to a 
 faithful Creator and most merciful Saviour; whose 
 eyes, just opening to the sights of another world, saw 
 as the last of earth the tender face of this young 
 Priest, full of compassion, bending over them, and his 
 hand signing them with the Sign of the Cross. 
 
 " * Grant to him. Lord, eternal peace, and let light 
 perpetual shine upon him. Make him to be num- 
 bered with Thy Saints in glory everlasting, and give 
 us grace so to follow his good example that we, with 
 him and all Thine elect, may have our perfect con- 
 summation and bliss, both in body and soul, in Thine 
 eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ, 
 our Lord. 
 
 " * I will not,* said our blessed Lord to His chosen, 
 * drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I 
 
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 drink it new with you in My Father's Kingdom.' 
 What mystic Eucharist is our dear brother sharing and 
 Celebrating now! What grand choirs are bearing 
 upward his strong love and blissful adorations in that 
 land which no mortal may know ! And how with us to- 
 day, with Angels and Archangels and all the Company 
 of Heaven, he lifts up his voice in that song always 
 one and always new, in which day by day we praise 
 and magnify God's glorious Name ! 
 
 " * Yes ! God has joined us together in one commu- 
 nion and fellowship in the Mystical Body of His Son, 
 and looks, as I trust and believe, in loving commen- 
 dation upon our act to-day, when in spirit we unite 
 earth and heaven in this Blessed Sacrament of His 
 love, and long for that time when the sorrows and the 
 partings of earth will be exchanged for the joyful 
 meetings and the glad greetings in the ineffable peace 
 and the undimmed glories of Heaven.' 
 
 " During the delivery of the address the congrega- 
 tion (among whom was the venerable father of the 
 deceased) was visibly affected. To many, if not all 
 of them, the young Clergyman was known, and the 
 evident emotion with which they joined in the remain- 
 der of the Service and in the reception of the Eucha- 
 rist was a testimony of their sympathy and affection 
 that must have been gratifying to his afflicted father 
 and more immediate friends. 
 
 " The Rev. L. Schuyler was a true hero, a faithful 
 Christian soldier, and he met the approach of death 
 with a calmness and, as a correspondent said, with a 
 happiness that would have graced a Christian Martyr. 
 
 " May he rest in peace ! " 
 
 The following account of the Memorial Celebration 
 at the Cathedral in Memphis, on Sunday Dec. 2 2d, 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 119 
 
 1878, and abstract of the Sermon of the Very Rever- 
 end Dean, are from a newspaper of the time : 
 
 " Memorial Services of Priests, Sisters, Laymen of 
 St. Mary's Cathedral and members of the Bluff City 
 Greys, were held in St. Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. 
 The two companies, Bluff City Greys and Chicka- 
 saw Guards, in full-dress uniform, with side-arms, 
 moved in column down the centre aisle and occupied 
 seats reserved for them on either side of the Chancel. 
 The body of the Church was densely packed from *an 
 early hour, and many retired, unable to procure stand- 
 ing room. At eleven o'clock the clear, ringing voices 
 of the chorister-boys were heard from the Sacristy, and 
 the white-robed procession advanced to the Chancel 
 singing the 202d hymn. After Litany, said by the 
 Rev. Mr. Lynn, of Mississippi, the Memorial Celebra- 
 bration of the Holy Eucharist was begun, the Very 
 Rev. Dr. Harris, Dean of the Cathedral and Chaplain 
 of the Bluff City Greys, being Celebrant and Preacher. 
 
 " The text was from Hebrews xi. 2 1 : 
 
 *' * By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed both the sons 
 of Joseph, and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff'. 
 
 " ' In the first verse of this chapter, which has no 
 other hke it in all Holy Scripture, St. Paul makes 
 abstract statement concerning the reaUty of subjective 
 Christian faith, and proceeds in the subsequent verses 
 to fortify the statement and illustrate its meaning by 
 exhibiting, one after another, instances of it taken 
 from the previous history of the Church, and preserved 
 in the records of the ancient people. He would have 
 us understand that faith is that which makes real and 
 actual before the time, that hope which reaches out 
 and grasps the Invisible and the Infinite. 
 
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 "'Christian faith is the substance or realness of 
 things hoped for. This is that by which Patriarchs 
 and Prophets took into their hearts the yet unfulfilled 
 promises of God — received beforehand the things 
 promised to be given. I cannot help thinking there 
 is much in the faithful life and faithful death of the 
 Patriarch Jacob reproduced in our own day, and enter- 
 ing largely into the practical Christian life of our own 
 time. The life was a long one, but the story of it is 
 quickly told, so simple was it and so blessed of God. 
 Almost at the beginning of it, as we may say, he goes 
 forth from home, as Ms father Abraham had gone 
 before him, not knowing whither or for what, only 
 burdened and weighed down by an incommunicable 
 sorrow. Reduced to the poverty which knows no shel- 
 ter, and having no place where to lay his head, like still 
 another Who went the same way long after, he lays 
 himself down to rest upon the lap of Mother Earth 
 and commends his life and way of Hfe to God. He 
 little knew then how very near he had come in his 
 desolation to Almighty God, nor how the emptying 
 of the heart of all earthly joys had but opened the 
 way for higher and nobler and purer. It is then the 
 angelic vision is opened to him, it was then he saw 
 with his soul's bright eyes the very Angels of God 
 ascending and descending. It might be too much to 
 say that to every Christian man is vouchsafed the 
 angelic vision. The varying degrees in which differ- 
 ent men seek to come into the Divine presence, the 
 varying degrees in which they give up themselves and 
 their selfish schemes for the love of God and the ser- 
 vice of man makes it impossible we should look 
 always to find the same results. But this may be 
 truly said that to any Christian man God comes, one 
 way or another, even though the human eyes 'be 
 
Louis Sand/ord Schuyler. iILt 
 
 liolden that they do not know Him.' It may be it 
 would bring you real comfort to be sure of this in 
 your case — to know that the very detachment of soul 
 from earthly joys which your hard lot brings you is 
 from the loving hand of God — and that the purpose 
 of it all, so far as it relates to you, is the opening 
 through the sombre shadows of a glorious vision. 
 I know there is many a Christian here to-day who 
 needs the comfort of this thought, for there could be 
 no comfort in the blinding mystery of life and death 
 did they have no faith in God. You have come to 
 realize what was not in all your thought. You stand 
 to-day beside the grave of many an early dream. 
 You have learned, as it may be nothing else could 
 have taught you, to eat and sleep with disappoint- 
 ment; or sleepless, to watch by the couch of many a 
 hope, and you have seen it fail and die. I do not 
 underrate such trials of human strength. I know 
 myself as well as any one can know, how hard it is for 
 men who are to stay here to say farewell ; to unloose 
 the clasp of undying friendship and affection ; to 
 see a dear love sail away in its purity and sink its 
 white sails in the sea, regardless of the outstretched 
 hands, regardless of the beseeching voice and the 
 panting, yearning heart left behind on the sandy 
 beach. But I know also this one thing more, and 
 some of you know it better than I — that the dear 
 Lord was very near to us then. He knew we should 
 feel the blow. He knew that on the promotion of 
 the Chosen ' sorrow would fill our hearts.' We have 
 grown famiHar with the thought of the world's sympa- 
 thy. All of us have faith in that and appreciate it, 
 but we do not sufficiently grasp the other and higher 
 thought. If human sympathy flowed out like a great 
 river towards us, what, think you, would be the simili- 
 
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 tude to whi'ch we should liken the sympathy of the 
 great loving heart of Jesus Christ? The spoken 
 words, * I will not leave you comfortless : I will come 
 to you,' come falHng on the heart Hke April showers 
 on parched earth. True as God's eternal Word, we 
 shall look again, you and I, into those dear faces — 
 bright and cheerful here — but there radiant with the 
 very light of Heaven. Meantime they leave with us 
 their benediction. As Jacob, when he was dying, 
 blessed both the sons of Joseph, so these the beloved 
 leave behind not only the legacy of a precious memory; 
 this would be a great deal — but also their loving fare- 
 well, which is real, their blessing and benediction, 
 which do not require mere words to make them real 
 things. And who can doubt that their faithful love in 
 Paradise still embraces us and still prays for us who 
 are waiting and struggling mid the trials of life. Who 
 can doubt their desire that we should continue to 
 cherish our love for them and to pray for them, the 
 same as when they were with us. Our danger cer- 
 tainly in this day does not lie in the direction of too 
 much faith. If we thank God, as we must, for the 
 good example of heroic life and not less nor more 
 heroic death, we have yet another thing to do, and we 
 do it — instinctively we do it. The true memorial of 
 those whom we have personally known and who were 
 faithful unto death, is very much more than a memory 
 of qualities however excellent, or of examples however 
 deserving of emulation. In the prayer for the Church 
 Mihtant we bless God for them, themselves, and not 
 their qualities or their virtues only. 
 
 " ' But there is something to be daily done by you 
 and me, which rightly done shall help us on to the 
 loftier Vision of the Son of Man in His glory. By 
 old tradition it is said that the Patriarch Jacob, rous- 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 12^ 
 
 ing from the slumber in which he had realized as 
 never before the presence of his God, found on the 
 ground by his side a staff, the same staff which he 
 carried always after, and leaning on which he wor- 
 shipped God *when he was a-dying.' The vision was 
 extraordinary and was to be never more repeated, but 
 the staff was at once the memorial of it and also the 
 emblem of a Divine Presence continually abiding. 
 It meant to him God's providence — that which he 
 could lean upon every day and hour and find support 
 and strength. This same staff has been the support 
 and strength of many another since then. The 
 mighty company of faithful ones, growing ever larger 
 and now calling in its roll many a name we once our- 
 selves were wont to call, have leaned all, and no doubt 
 lean to-day, in life and worship on this staff. Espe- 
 cially strong did it seem in the day of danger, the long 
 drawn out day which tried men's souls and tried their 
 faith in God, and tried their love for man ; which put 
 the utmost tension on the strongest nerve of Priests 
 and Sisters and people, civilians and soldiers ; which 
 also brought to so many the death unto which they 
 were faithful. I know of many little incidents in the 
 latter life of many whom we commemorate to-day, 
 which would well illustrate their strong faith and their 
 great trust in the loving providence of God, and at 
 the same time their entire willingness, and even great 
 anxiety, to have God choose for them the issue of it 
 all. Time would fail me to speak now of these inci- 
 dents as under other circumstances I should be glad 
 to do. But I must not forego the mention of one 
 such incident which seems to be a typical one, and 
 wherein expression is given in words to thoughts 
 which were in many another heart. A man said one 
 morning to a woman: 'You are attempting too 
 
124 ^ Memoriai of 
 
 much. You must desist. If the fever strikes yOu in 
 this condition you will be sure to die. Go home.* 
 And the woman said slowly, and with deep feeling : 
 * No, I shall go on as I am. I shall do my duty, and 
 I would do it if I knew certainly the result would be 
 as you say. I would gladly die to save the patient's 
 life.' The patient lives to-day, and that tireless 
 daughter of the Divine Love is in Paradise. Dear 
 brethren, I know no words in which to tell the deep 
 admiration, the affectionate reverence with which I 
 look upon such saintliness, for what is this but the 
 perfection of heroism, which is sanctity — self-denial 
 unto death. As we look over the long roll of our 
 dead, not of this Church only, or of this military com- 
 pany, but of the five thousand who, within the four 
 months last past, have laid down their lives, we can- 
 not resist the conviction that there is among them 
 many a heroic Martyr, true as any in the Noble 
 Army. And no doubt the happy Vision of Peace has 
 come to many a soul to whom a human judgment 
 would not award it. Their number is larger than we 
 think. There are few things the love of God will 
 not pardon in a man who dies for men. The Church 
 has always recognized and honoured the Baptism of 
 Blood, even when there was no other Baptism. Espe- 
 cially has it always been her custom to commemorate 
 her dead in connection with Eucharistic worship. It 
 is there she keeps in mind the great body of the Faith- 
 ful departed, there keeps fresh in our minds and 
 hearts the Christian teaching of the Communion of 
 Saints. You, my brethren, are bold enough to use 
 the word, dare also to believe it, and to act upon that 
 faith. Dare to take those dear names upon your 
 heart, and offer them in intercession to your God, 
 who is also their God. Who knows and who can say 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 125 
 
 whether your own salvation may not come to be the 
 result of a reciprocated intercession? Our Blessed 
 Lord Himself prayed even for the unborn, for such 
 as had no existence out of His own heart. ' Neither 
 pray I for these alone, but for all them also who shall 
 believe on Me through their word.' 
 
 "* Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and 
 
 LIGHT perpetual SHINE UPON THEM ! ' " 
 
 Shortly after the date of this Service Louis' father, 
 the Rev. Dr. Montgomery Schuyler, of St. Louis, 
 visited Memphis and there in St. Mary's Cathedral, 
 on Sunday, Jany. 19th, 1879, ^^ preached the follow- 
 ing Sermon on " The Doctrine of the Communion of 
 Saints": 
 
 Hebrews xii., 23: '**To the general assembly and church 
 of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the 
 Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.' 
 * ** ***** 
 
 " The words of the text present us with a statement 
 of the fact, which is indeed one of ineffable value, 
 that there is a community of feeling and interest 
 between the members of the Church on earth and in 
 Paradise. Those on earth are represented by the 
 designation of 'The General Assembly and Church 
 of the first born,' whose names are registered or en- 
 rolled in Heaven, 'because by the introduction of 
 their names into the Book of Life, they are registered 
 as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, with the 
 assured prospect of the Heavenly inheritance.' 
 
 " In the words, ' the spirits of just men made per- 
 fect,' we are presented with the declaration that as 
 members of the same Church there are those who 
 have cast off their mortal habiliments and stand 
 
126 A Memorial of 
 
 complete in the enjoyment of an inheritance, upon the 
 fulness of whose possession, after the Resurrection, 
 there can rest no contingency. 
 
 "This is a subject which must have been often in 
 your thoughts, and dwelt upon with comfort in your 
 reflections ; from the fact that of late so many of your 
 number have been passing from earth to Paradise. 
 As we think of the Sainted Dead, must not the ques- 
 tion arise, Have they lost all thought and interest in 
 us ? and can we no longer reach them with our sym- 
 pathy? There are certain great and fundamental 
 truths which are de fide; which are essential to the 
 integrity of the Faith, and which are required of all to 
 be believed, who would be in fellowship with the 
 Catholic Church ; and there are matters of opinion, 
 which have not been dogmatically defined, and about 
 which there may be a difference of interpretation. It 
 is well for us under all circumstances to be humble 
 and modest in venturing beyond the simplest deduc- 
 tions of any Article of the Creeds, or in giving an in- 
 terpretation not borne out by the literal meaning of 
 their language. 
 
 " ' The Communion of Saints ' is a Doctrine specifi- 
 cally stated in what is termed the Apostles' Creed ; 
 and though not introduced until the latter part of the 
 Fifth Century, it has always been received as taught 
 in God's Holy Word. What is implied in this doc- 
 trine can only be deduced in its fulness and details 
 from the teaching of the Bible and the interpretation 
 of the Church. Bp. Pearson, in his great work on the 
 Creed, thus speaks: 'Indeed the Communion of 
 Saints in the Church of Christ with those who are 
 departed, is demonstrated by their Communion with 
 the Saints alive. For if I have Communion with a 
 Saint of God as such while he liveth here, I must still 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 127 
 
 have Communion with him when he is departed hence ; 
 because the foundation of that Communion can not 
 be removed by death. The Mystical Union between 
 Christ and His Church, the spiritual conjunction of 
 the members to the Head, is the true foundation of 
 that common union, which one member had with 
 another, all the members living and increasing by the 
 same influence which they receive from Him. But 
 death which is nothing else but the separation of the 
 soul from the body maketh no separation in the Mys- 
 tical Union, no breach of the Spiritual conjunction; 
 and consequently there must continue the same com- 
 munion, because there remaineth the same foundation.' 
 St. Paul, in writing to the Galatians, says, 'There 
 is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor 
 free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one 
 in Christ Jesus.' We are 'baptized by one Spirit 
 into one Body ' — and that Body, as you know. Breth- 
 ren, is the Church of Christ, and that Church is the 
 same, whether tossed upon the waves of this trouble- 
 some world, or at anchor in the haven of Eternal Rest. 
 
 "And St. Paul in illustrating the intimacy of the 
 relation between husband and wife, has given us still 
 more clear and explicit definitions of the intimacy of 
 the relation which subsists between Christ and His 
 children through His Church, when He says, ' For no 
 man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and 
 cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church : for we 
 are members of His Body, of His Flesh and of His 
 bones.' There can be no stronger expressions by 
 which to illustrate our union with Christ the Head; 
 and through Him, of our union with one another. 
 
 "But the question here arises — Can there be any 
 expression of this Communion between the Saints on 
 earth and the Faithful Departed in their Home of 
 
128 A Memorial of 
 
 Rest and Felicity. Bp. Pearson remarks — ' That we 
 communicate with them, in hope of that happiness 
 which they actually enjoy, is evident \ that we have 
 the Spirit of God given us as an earnest and so a 
 part of their felicity is certain. But what they do in 
 Heaven in relation to us on earth particularly consid- 
 ered j or what we ought to perform in reference to 
 them in Heaven beside a reverential respect and study 
 of imitation is not revealed to us in the Scriptures.' 
 
 "And yet, Brethren, there are, it seems to me, inti- 
 mations and legitimate deductions, which justify the 
 entertaining and the practicing them as opinions which 
 can not fail to give us comfort, and to lighten the 
 heavy burden of sorrow which the bereavements of 
 this life so often impose. It is generally conceded 
 that death, which is but the separation of the soul 
 from the body works no moral change. Men, women, 
 or children do not lose thereby the characteristics of 
 heart and mind which constitute their identity in this 
 present state of being. They are men, and women 
 and children, in all their intellectual faculties and 
 moral qualities and heart affections, when disrobed of 
 the material body. The body does not give shape to 
 the mind, or mould the qualities of the heart. It is 
 the soul which constitutes my identity ; for according 
 to the teachings of physiology, I have a new body 
 every few years. When, then, the soul leaves the 
 body and starts on its journey to the Spirit Land, it 
 goes with its present faculties and affections. 
 
 "And if it be true, as I think will not be ques- 
 tioned, that there is no change of character in the 
 article of dying ; then, when the Dead in Christ are 
 at rest in Paradise ; they are there with their memo- 
 ries and loves ; and though their affections are pmified 
 and there is no taint of carnal lust, yet, the bonds and 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 129 
 
 ties of a Saintly affection, are as quick and strong as 
 when mingling in the intercourse of earthly friendships. 
 And in this fact we have a practical illustration of 
 what constitutes the Communion of Saints, or the 
 ground of communication between the Saints in Para- 
 dise and their brethren in the world. Now, when 
 those who are bound together here by the nearest 
 and dearest ties, are absent from each other; are 
 separated perchance by the broad ocean, and the 
 wonted Communion of Spirits is necessarily inter- 
 rupted ; they are yet one in all the precious memories 
 of the Past ; in bright anticipations of a speedy re- 
 union, and in the burning flame of love which glows 
 undiminished, despite the distance which separates 
 them from each other. 
 
 "It is true, as the achievement of Modern Science, 
 the Ocean has been spanned, and from either side we 
 m-ay now talk as if face to face with one another; but 
 across the dark waters of Jordan there has been no 
 telegraph, and yet the soul's communion is not inter- 
 rupted. It is the province of Faith, grounded upon 
 legitimate deductions from the Word of God, and in 
 conformity with the teachings of His Holy Church, to 
 beHeve that we are remembered and loved by the 
 Faithful Departed in Paradise. Like the temporary 
 separation on earth of those whose hearts are united 
 in Christian Love, as there is no change in them in 
 consequence of such separation, so, in crossing the 
 narrow sea which divides this Heavenly Land from 
 ours, the bonds are not sundered which link together 
 the living and the dead — 
 
 " 'And ever near us, though unseen, 
 The dear immortal spirits tread ; 
 For all the boundless Universe 
 Is life — there are no dead.' 
 
130 A Memorial of 
 
 It is said of Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, 
 when she saw that her death was at hand in a strange 
 country, Navigius, her other son, expressed a wish 
 that she might die in her own land ; but her one care 
 was that she might remain, body as well as soul in 
 the Communion of Saints. * Lay this body an)rwhere,' 
 said she : ' let not the care for that in any way dis- 
 quiet you; this, only, I request, that you would re- 
 member me at the Altar of the Lord, wherever you 
 may be.' 
 
 " While just on the verge of Eternity and about to 
 be separated from all earthly intercourse, as she hoped 
 to remember them, she would wish to be remembered 
 by them, whenever at the Blessed Eucharist they 
 should come up to sup with their Lord and share the 
 Life-giving Food of His most Blessed Body and 
 Blood. 
 
 " And so, Brethren, the Church has provided that we 
 should remember the Faithful Departed, whenever we 
 would call to mind Her Great Head ; whenever 'with 
 Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Hea- 
 ven we laud and magnify His Glorious Name.' 
 
 "Practically, we none of us appreciate this privilege 
 as we ought. How many of you, and how often, 
 when you come to kneel at the Chancel, where 
 Brethren and Sisters beloved in the Lord once gath- 
 ered ; where those nearest and dearest to you, year 
 after year, knelt by your side, but are now, as we 
 humbly trust, resting in Paradise — how often, as you 
 wait in the presence of your Lord, do you bear them 
 on your heart before Him, and seek an intercom- 
 munion of the choicest blessings of His Grace ? 
 
 "We may not doubt but that they remember us 
 and pray for us ; and so it is our privilege to recall 
 them to memory, and in the prayer of Holy Church 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler, 131 
 
 give utterance to our grateful longings — *And we also 
 bless Thy Holy Name for all Thy Servants departed 
 this life in Thy Faith and fear ; beseeching Thee to 
 give us Grace so to follow their good examples, that 
 with them we may be partakers of Thy Heavenly 
 Kingdom.' 
 
 "And, dear Brethren, let me say, in this age of Ma- 
 terialism, in this day of the discovery of the secrets of 
 Nature and of development and progress in the Arts 
 and Sciences, which minister to intellectual pride, or 
 physical comfort and luxuries, we need to have our 
 thoughts spiritualized, and our minds directed to com- 
 panionship with themes of a more ethereal nature 
 than the gross occupation of mere money-getting, or 
 even the higher sphere of scientific investigation. It 
 is true, the contemplation of the Divine Character of 
 His infinite attributes and of the marvellous economy 
 of Grace in the work of human Redemption, are 
 themes worthy to engage the highest powers of the 
 sanctified intellect ; but we need as it were, stepping- 
 stones to these heights, and we find it in the contem- 
 plation of the Spirit World j and of such a nature as 
 to enUst our interest and affections. It is well for us, 
 while our thoughts and cares are engrossed with pro- 
 viding for the family on earth and aiding in their cul- 
 ture and advancement, to remember that there is 
 another family in a better home in whom we have as 
 deep an interest, and that as one by one, they are 
 gathering together there^ they are thinking and caring 
 and praying for us, and that it is our privilege to inter- 
 change kindly offices with them — we are to live for 
 both worlds and to bear in mind the denizens of both 
 — and thus shall we be daily growing in meetness for 
 *the inheritance of the Saints in Light.' * * * 
 We are to remember that this present life is but as the 
 
132 A Memorial of 
 
 Porchway to another, where Life in its true nobility be- 
 gins ; and where alone, immortality is written, on every 
 aspiration and every engagement of the soul. * * * 
 "' Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about 
 with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every 
 weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and 
 let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 
 looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our 
 Faith.'" 
 
 A very solemn and impressive Service was held in 
 The House of Prayer in Newark, on the morning of 
 Saturday, September 28th, 1878. Although eight 
 o'clock, the hour appointed for the Service, was early, 
 yet the Church was well filled with members of the 
 regular Congi^egation and many who had come from a 
 distance to show their love and reverence for him who 
 had laid down his life for the brethren. 
 
 Among the Clergy present were the ReVd Dr. Morgan 
 Dix, the Rev'd Dr. Anthony Schuyler, the Revs. J. H. 
 Smith, J. N. Stansbury, W. T. Webbe, T. J. Danner, 
 S. P. Simpson, John Sword, G. B. Johnson, Samuel 
 Hall, and John Rice. 
 
 The Altar and Sanctuary were hung with purple. 
 Upon the Re-table was a vase of white flowers. A 
 number of glowing tapers illumined the Holy Place. 
 The Font was filled with evergreens surmounted by a 
 beautiful Cross of flowers bearing the motto — "Asleep 
 in Jesus." 
 
 At the beginning of the Service the Bishop, Clergy 
 and Choir, preceded by a Cross-bearer, entered the 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 133 
 
 Church and moved slowly up the aisle, while the organ 
 breathed soft and sweet music. After the procession 
 reached the Chancel the Hymn 
 
 " For all Thy Saints who from their labours rest" 
 was sung. 
 
 The Celebration of the Holy Communion followed, 
 with the Rev. H. Goodwin, Rector of the Parish, as 
 Celebrant, and the Rev'd A. L. Wood as Deacon. 
 
 After the Creed the Rt. Rev. George F. Seymour, 
 D.D., LL. D., Bishop of Springfield, delivered the 
 following : 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Dearly Beloved Brethren: — We are met to- 
 gether this morning under pecuHarly solemn and touch- 
 ing circumstances, to reproduce in some of its leading 
 features a service identical with those which were 
 almost daily held, for a time, sixteen hundred years 
 ago, in a distant quarter of the globe, and by a people 
 differenced from us by almost everything, save com- 
 munion in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic 
 Church, of which both they and we are members, and 
 by fellowship in sufferings like those which now deso- 
 late our land. The Christians of North Africa were 
 the victims of oft-repeated persecutions, and yielded a 
 glorious testimony to their Crucified Lord in their 
 noble army of Martyrs. Day by day as the malice of 
 their heathen enemies decimated their numbers, the 
 survivors met in the early dawn to celebrate the Holy 
 Mysteries, and in sweet communion with their Lord 
 to animate their courage, and sooth their sorrow by 
 thanking Him for the good examples of those, their 
 
134 -^ Memorial of 
 
 Brethren, who a few hours before, had poured forth 
 their blood in the Amphitheatre a witness to Christ. 
 When persecution ceased, pestilence filled the air with 
 death, or rather pestilence stayed the hand of persecu- 
 tion, and Christian and heathen alike fell beneath its 
 stroke. Those whose faith sustained them before the 
 Roman Praetor, and in prospect of torture, and the 
 teeth of wild beasts, did not quail in the presence of 
 the unseen destroyer; the Christian aroused himself 
 to the urgency of the awful occasion; he was seen 
 everywhere, nursing the sick, burying the dead, com- 
 forting the bereaved, sheltering the helpless and the 
 orphan. His sv/eet charities of care, and self-sacrifice, 
 were not confined to his fellow Christians, but his love 
 went out to his bitter, and relentless foes, and many a 
 parched lip, that had cried, *'the Christians to the 
 lions," was moistened by the hand, that was famihar 
 with the Sign of the Cross, and many a fevered brow, 
 that had lowered with cruel rage at the defenceless 
 beUevers before the tribunal of Caesar, or amid the 
 phrensied mob, was pillowed on the breast of a follower 
 of Jesus Christ. Those too, who thus took their 
 lives in their hands to minister to the sick, and the 
 dying, were the special objects of the Church's pray- 
 ers, while living, and of her loving commemoration 
 when dead. Often, and often must the Christians of 
 Carthage, and the neighboring towns have met, as we 
 are assembled this morning, to commemorate the vir- 
 tues, and thank God for the heroic courage, and self- 
 sacrifice of their Brethren, who had laid down their 
 lives, in ministering to the victims of the pestilence. 
 St. Cyprian regards such, as worthy to be ranked with 
 those, who shed their blood for Christ. Their death 
 was a quasi martyrdom, and bequeathed a legacy of 
 which the Church might well be proud. It is meet 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 135 
 
 and right that we should come together, as we have, 
 this morning, to imitate the Christians of the Cyprianic 
 age amid experiences very similar to our own. In these 
 days we had much reason to fear that faith was grow- 
 ing weak, and love was waxing cold. But pestilence 
 visits our land, and the sufferings and distress of the 
 fever-smitten regions call for noble endeavour; for 
 generous self-sacrifice of all that men ordinarily hold 
 dear, in behalf of the afflicted, and one and another 
 responds to the appeal for help, and goes forth to min- 
 ister to the sick, to comfort the bereaved, and celebrate 
 the holy offices of religion, and in so doing, one and 
 another yields up his or her life a testimony to the love 
 of Christ. My heart is lifted up in gratitude to God 
 for His mercy in giving us such witnesses of the power 
 of the endless life, as have been afforded within the 
 past few weeks in the devotion of the heroic men, 
 and women, who have laboured and suffered, and in 
 many instances, died, for the sake of others. I sorrow, 
 as few beside can sorrow, for the Sisters departed, and 
 for our Priests, who have laid down their lives in loyal, 
 dutiful obedience to the Master, who called them to 
 be His servants. But O I would not bring them back 
 again to earth -, for with their best exertions, they could 
 not, in the course of a long life, do one tithe of the 
 good which they have already done, and are now doing, 
 and will continue to do for you and for me and for 
 this whole nation. They have left behind them a rich 
 legacy, a splendid endowment. They have taught us 
 the beauty and value of self-sacrifice. By sacrifice I 
 mean the surrender of all that is most precious to self, 
 for the good of others. To do this requires moral and 
 spiritual power of the grandest kind, and when done, 
 it exerts an influence upon those who witness it, which 
 amounts ahnost to a fascination. In these degenerate 
 
136 A Memorial of 
 
 days of self-seeking and devotion to ease and pleasure, 
 the record which has been made within the past few 
 weeks by brave men and women in confronting dan- 
 ger, battling with infectious disease, and daring to die 
 for others, comes like the breath of Paradise to brace 
 us to higher and better things than we have hitherto 
 known or dreamed of. Conspicuous among those who 
 have thus offered themselves in this crisis of trial and 
 suffering is he, whose precious memory is in the mind 
 and heart of every one of us this morning, and whom 
 presently, we will consciously bring before ourselves in 
 thought, when we 'bless God's Holy Name for all 
 His Servants, departed this Hfe in His faith and fear,' 
 and again, when we blend our voices 'with Angels, and 
 Archangels and with all the company of heaven,' in say- 
 ing, * Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts.' Young 
 in years, goodly in person, of honoured parentage, en- 
 dowed with excellent natural gifts, enriched with elegant 
 and liberal culture, life was before him bright with the 
 promises, and the hopes with which youth is ever full. 
 Yet richer gifts were his, and they called him early to 
 the reward of the Saints at rest, and he was not dis- 
 obedient to the divine voice. Duty, he thought, sum- 
 moned him to Memphis, and he went, not hastily or 
 rashly, but calmly, deliberately, and with full knowl- 
 edge of the extreme peril in which he placed himself. 
 What is remarkable in his case is the value which he 
 set in deed as well as in word upon the mysteries of 
 God, of which by a commission from on high he was 
 made a steward. He did not go to Memphis to nurse 
 the sick, or feed the hungry, though these things, and 
 such as these, he was ready, and glad to do, but he 
 went ,to minister the Word and Sacraments to those 
 who prized them as he did, and to all who would re- 
 ceive them. It was for this chiefly that he took his 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 137 
 
 life in his hand, and ventured himself in the pestilence- 
 stricken city. On the banks of the Hudson, amid the 
 romantic Highlands, he received the tidings, that one 
 Sister was sick unto death, and that the Clergy were 
 all down with the fever. The lovely scenery around 
 him, we may imagine, lent its charms to hold him back 
 from going to the Southern City in its agony of desola- 
 tion and despair. He saw it not, or cared not, if he 
 did see. The next train hurried him to the City, and 
 after consultation with experienced and well-tried 
 friends, he started the day following for Memphis. 
 Arrested at Louisville by the telegrams of those who 
 strove by the promptings of earthly love to keep him 
 back, he lingered until he heard that one of the Rectors 
 at Memphis was dead, and the other very ill. Then 
 he could not longer stay. The sick and dying were 
 without prayer, and the comfort which comes from the 
 presence of the Minister of Christ; above all they 
 were without the Bread of Life. He was speedily in 
 Memphis, and from that hour until he breathed out 
 his own precious life in the fever ward of the Hospital, 
 he was instant in season out of season, by night and 
 by day, in performing the holy ministries of his Sacred 
 Office. Abundant were the fruits of his incessant 
 labours during the few days which God granted him 
 to live. He soothed and blessed the dying hours of 
 Sister Constance with the Celebration of the Holy Com- 
 munion, and the Commendatory Office for the depart- 
 ing soul. He brought from the darkness of unbelief 
 into the glorious light of Christian faith and hope on his 
 death-bed a prominent infidel of the State ; he poured 
 the oil of consolation into many a wounded spirit, and 
 was busy, after he himself was sick, in giving his min- 
 istries of counsel and spiritual help to others. It is 
 necessary to nurse the sick, to feed the hungry, to 
 
13^ A Memorial of 
 
 clothe the naked, to shelter the orphan. The world 
 recognises these needs, and taught by Christianity, 
 generous, and lavish even, has been the response which 
 it has made to the demands which have come with 
 pathetic voice from the South. But the Gospel, which 
 has inspired this noble generosity in caring for the 
 wants of the body and the natural life, makes special 
 provision for the cravings of the soul, which are more 
 sensitive and essential than any appetites of the flesh. 
 It is to satisfy these spiritual needs that the divine 
 Lord has commissioned his Priesthood to minister the 
 Word and Sacraments. In seasons of health and 
 prosperity we often tax our rhetoric to exalt the value 
 of the offices of the Minister of Christ, and in doing 
 so we are not to be censured, for either those means 
 of grace are of priceless worth, or else the Ordinal is 
 worse than mockery. Young Schuyler has shown us 
 that our words are not mere sound, and our claims a 
 pretence. Having no prior duties resting upon him 
 to hold him back, he put his life in peril, and went 
 down into the Valley of Death, that he might enjoy the 
 privilege of ministering in holy things to those who 
 else would die without the Sacraments. What a 
 splendid testimony, this, to the reality of his faith in his 
 own commission, and in the value of the things of 
 which he was put in trust. 
 
 " Brethren, this is the eve of the Festival of St. 
 Michael and All Angels. A peculiarly fitting time it 
 is to remember, as we are doing, our departed Brother 
 in the Faith. Angels lead up to the Saints. Angels 
 have the custody of childhood, 'their Angels,' says 
 our Lord, *do always behold the face of My Father 
 which is in Heaven.' They care for God's chosen 
 ones all through this mortal life, for the Angels are 
 sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation. In 
 
Louis JSand/ord Schuyler. 139 
 
 death the Angels carry the souls of the redeemed to 
 Abraham's bosom. And in the resurrection at the 
 last great day, the Angels will gather the good and 
 precious seed, and store it in the eternal garner. The 
 Angels lead up to the Saints, and on the threshold of 
 their Festival, we are met to commemorate the love 
 the devotion, the heroic faith of a Saintly Priest of 
 God. You knew him well. For a time he went out 
 and in among you, and his blameless walk and con- 
 versation, his holy fervour, his intense zeal, gladdened 
 and strengthened your hearts, and made you better 
 for his presence. You have yoiur part and lot in him, 
 and it is therefore right and proper that we should 
 hold our service of Commemoration in this holy place. 
 But now his last days, his closing hours have made him 
 known, in the beauty and excellence of his character, 
 to the whole Church, and the whole Church has its 
 share in the legacy of his precious example. Such 
 deaths as Schuyler's speak peace and love to all, draw 
 men's hearts together, and silence their differences in 
 the emphasis with which they proclaim the power of 
 that faith, stronger even than death, which we all pro- 
 fess to own. Such deaths as his enrich the world, 
 they tell the busy throng that there are better things 
 to live for and die for than pleasure, or gold, or the 
 prizes of ambition. Such deaths as his introduce us 
 to the company of the Saints, for instinctively we feel 
 that when any one goes out from among us, as he did, 
 it is because the divine Master would no longer allow 
 him to remain in the lower room, but bade him, 'go 
 up higher.' Cherish his memory, dear Brethren, as an 
 inspiration to a higher and holier life, as a witness to 
 the unspeakable value of God's appointed means of 
 grace." 
 
140 A Memorial of 
 
 The Bishop's Address was heard with profound 
 emotion. At its close the Hymn, " The roseate hues 
 of early dawn," was sung as an Offertorium, and the 
 Divine Office proceeded. A great number of the 
 faithful partook of the Sacred Mysteries. 
 
 After all had received, the Hymn, "Jerusalem the 
 Golden," was sung in place of the Gloria in Excelsis. 
 
 Bishop Seymour gave the Benediction, and with the 
 Clergy and Choir then left the Church in the order of 
 entrance, singing " O, Paradise !" 
 
 Thus ended one of the most beautiful and appro- 
 priate Services ever held in The House of Prayer. 
 
 Surely we may piously believe that he who was 
 there commemorated joined his prayers with those of 
 his brethren that they with him might have their "per- 
 fect consummation, iand bliss, both in body and soul, 
 in God's eternal and everlasting glory." 
 
 A Memorial Celebration of the Holy Communion 
 was held in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin, in New 
 York, on the morning of November 5th, 1878, at 
 eleven o'clock, according to formal votes taken at 
 meetings of two Societies of that Congregation — " The 
 S. Cecilia Society" and "The Burial Guild,"— the S. 
 Cecilia Society offering its services in the musical 
 part of the Celebration, and the Burial Guild ordering 
 
 Note. — The abstract of Bp. Seymour's Address (which was 
 ex tempore), is compiled from notes taken during its delivery by 
 a member of the Congregation. 
 
Louis Sdndford Schuyler. 141 
 
 the funeral decorations upon and before the Altar. 
 The ReVd Thos. McKee Brown, Rector of the 
 Parish, was Celebrant, assisted by the Rev'd McW. B. 
 Noyes, Assistant Priest of the Parish. 
 
 The following account of this Service was written 
 by the Rector: — 
 
 " There were present in the Chancel, of the Clergy, 
 the Rev'd Morgan Dix, S. T. D., Rector of Trinity 
 Church, the Rev'd Chas. W. Morrill, Rector of S. 
 Alban's Church, the Rev'd Edw. H. Van Winkle of 
 this City, and the Rev'd James C. Kerr, Assistant 
 Minister of this Parish. Also, the Rev'd John W. 
 Shackelford, Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, 
 who preached a most eloquent eulogy of the Holy 
 Dead, who laid down their lives in ministering to others 
 during the terrible scourge of the yellow-fever in the 
 South. The Clergy, Sisters of Mercy (S. Mary's 
 Sisterhood), and their Assistants in Memphis, were in 
 our minds ; and the several names of Clergymen who 
 were reported to us as victims elsewhere than in 
 Memphis. But preeminent in our remembrance were 
 the Revs. Chas. C. Parsons and Louis S. Schuyler, 
 with whose history and heroism we were most familiar. 
 The Reverend Preacher, in an ex tempore Address, 
 applied to us the lesson of the Life of Faith^ showing 
 that this Life is one in which Almighty God asks us 
 to do that which He would have us do, — not counting 
 the cost, nor even minding what the results may be. 
 For results are with Him, duty and faithful obedience 
 with us. Results may seem inadequate to the labor 
 expended and risks run, but it is altogether His work, 
 and we are called upon to do simply what He directs 
 in implicit faith that it is right. 
 
142 A Memorial of 
 
 "The impression made upon us all — and we were a 
 large and devout congregation then gathered together, 
 — was most profound, and I have no doubt that every 
 one spent two holy hours in that sacred time, went 
 away refreshed, and felt that the prayers of the Faith- 
 ful had risen to God's Throne, acceptable and blessed 
 to the Living and the Dead, in union with that ador- 
 able Memorial of His dear Son. I might add, that in 
 the Church of S. Mary the Virgin, we had extra Low 
 Celebrations on every Tuesday and Friday at 8 o'clock, 
 from the middle of September until the end of October, 
 in all thirteen; besides this last Celebration which was 
 a High Service thus conducted by the two Guilds." 
 
 The following abstract of his Address on this 
 occasion has been kindly furnished by the Reverend 
 Preacher. It is due to him to say that owing to some 
 miscarriage he was first requested to preach when in 
 the Sacristy, a few minutes before the Service. His 
 Address, was of course entirely impromptu^ and he 
 felt, at the time, was unworthy of the occasion. Being 
 now requested, after a lapse of four months, to make 
 notes of it from memory for publication, he knows 
 that they must be very incomplete. 
 
 Following are these notes of the Rev. J. W. Shackel- 
 ford's 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 ** THE UNKNOWN POWER OF HEROISM, IN THINGS SPIRITUAL." 
 
 " * Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face ; 
 now I know in part.' — i Cor.xiii, 12. 
 
 " The principle of our life in this world is faith, and 
 so long as we are trammelled by the flesh, it must be 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 143 
 
 so. It is the characteristic of Christianity that its 
 followers are to take God on trust ; they are to walk 
 by Faith, not by sight. Our prayers are to be offered 
 because He says, * Ask and ye shall receive,' and we 
 ask, not knowing how He will answer, whether 
 directly or indirectly, or whether He will answer at 
 all, so that we shall know that it is an answer; and 
 yet we are to go on asking. We are to work, doing 
 the duty before us, be it great or small, in the simple 
 spirit of obedience, not murmuring if it be a small 
 work, not exulting if it be a great one, or seemingly 
 great j not knowing anything of results, but leaving 
 them all with God. He works by human means ; He 
 uses us j but He works in His own way, and we cannot 
 tell how He is using us, or what the end is to be. 
 
 " This applies to the life of the ordinary Christian 
 in the world. The life of faith and trust is the only 
 life which can save from despondency and bring rest 
 and peace. 
 
 " And, if this be true, my dear brethren, of the 
 ordinary Christian, in how much higher a degree does 
 it apply to those who are called to a closer contact 
 with spiritual things, in the life of a Religious, or in the 
 Priesthood. Their work must be purely a work of 
 faith. They can prove at best but very little of the 
 results of their labours, and yet they are to fulfil the 
 appointed task as though it were a work with a 
 definite visible end in sight. If we were to look at 
 Christian work from a worldly point of view, as at 
 something done for an end here, which was to redound 
 in some way to our glory, this principle would make it 
 most discouraging. But if we can put aside all per- 
 sonal feeling, all thought of self, except that we are 
 God's agents, it becomes a source of highest comfort 
 and encouragement to us. Comfort, because we 
 
144 ^ Memorial of 
 
 know the end is God's glory, and what work can be 
 more exalted than that which by its faithful accom- 
 plishment adds a ray to His ineffable effulgence! 
 Encouragement, because no matter how the work may 
 appear to us, so imperfectly done, so barren of results, 
 we know that what is really accomplished is known 
 oi^y to Him who is omniscient, and can be revealed 
 only on the day when we shall see face to face, and 
 know as we are known. 
 
 "This thought must dignify all work done for 
 Christ, and stimulate the heroic element in us, to do 
 and suffer for Him and His. 
 
 "My beloved! a short time back some devoted 
 priests and holy women, moved by the love of Christ, 
 and pity for His suffering children, took their lives in 
 their hands, and in obedience to a bitter cry for help, 
 went into the fever-stricken districts of the South to 
 minister to the sick and dying. It was an act of true 
 heroism, which nothing but the holiest of motives 
 could have prompted. * They counted not their lives 
 dear unto them,' and God accepted the sacrifice, and 
 they are lying now in honoured martyr-graves. It is 
 our privilege to-day to remember them before God's 
 holy altar, and to pray, ' Grant them eternal rest, and 
 let perpetual light shine upon them.' 
 
 " But what shall we say of the work accomplished 
 by this rare and marvellous heroism ? ' Now we know 
 in part.' A wave of sympathy swept over the Church, 
 when the last blessing was pronounced, and these de- 
 voted ones had gone on their mission of love, and per- 
 haps, as many felt at that time, gone to receive the 
 martyr's crown. The ripple of this wave was felt be- 
 yond the Church's pale, and we dare not doubt that 
 such complete self-abnegation, must in its measure 
 arrest the world, and convince it of the reality of our 
 holy Faith. Such examples cannot be lost. 
 
Louts Sandford Schuyler. 145 
 
 "But at best we know only in part. *We see 
 through a glass darkly.' The real effect of such a 
 work we cannot know. It extends into the realm of 
 things spiritual, and can never be fully known while 
 we walk by Faith. Rest assured the work has not been 
 in vain ; no tears, no prayers, no service of sympathy 
 there has been lost. The widening circle of such 
 loving sacrifice extends into the infinitude of God's 
 presence, and will only be known in that day * when 
 He maketh up His jewels.' " 
 
 The music of this service was — 
 Marche Funebre, - - - . - - Chopin. 
 Processional. 
 
 "When our heads are bowed with woe." 
 
 Kyrie Eleison, - - - - Verdi's Requiem. 
 
 Dies Irse, . . - . Mozarfs Requiem. 
 
 Offertory, - - . . Inflammatus. 
 
 (From Rossini's Stabat Mater.) 
 Sanctus, ) ^^^.^ , „ 
 
 Benedicts, ]• - - - " W^lcoxs Requum. 
 
 Agnus Dei, . - - - Mozart s Requiem. 
 
 Libera Me, - . - . VerdHs Requiem. 
 
 " I heard a voice from heaven," - - Jackson. 
 
 Recessional, - - - - " <^, Paradise / " 
 
 Funeral March, - - - - Beethoven. 
 
 The list of official actions concerning Louis' memory 
 is probably incomplete. The following records are 
 accessible to the Editor. 
 
1878.) 
 
 14^ A Memoriat of 
 
 " Parish of the House of Prayer 
 " Newark, N. J. 
 "September 20th, a. d. 1878 
 
 ** To the Rev, Montgomery Schuyler^ D. Z?., St. LouiSy 
 
 Mo.: — 
 
 " Rev. and Dear Sir, — When it was known that it 
 had pleased Almighty God to take out of this world 
 the faithful soul of your son, the Rev. Louis Sandford 
 Schuyler, lately ministering in The House of Prayer, 
 the Authorities of that Church, being convened, di- 
 rected us to address to you a letter in their behalf, and 
 in behalf of the whole Parish, setting forth the love 
 and honour in which your son was held among us when 
 living, and the extraordinary mingling of pride and 
 grief with which we contemplate his valiant death. 
 
 " We are bidden to cause a copy of this letter to be 
 recorded upon the minutes of the Vestry, in lasting 
 memorial, and to be printed in the public journals as 
 a necessary tribute to the most exalted virtue. 
 
 " Your son's ministry in our Parish through the last 
 Summer, in the temporary absence of the Rector, was 
 full of unsparing labour and generous devotion. 
 
 " In all holy offices he was constant. His work among 
 the sick, the poor, and the afflicted was unceasing and 
 full of Divine comfort. No duty was ever left unper- 
 formed, no cry of distress ever unheeded by him ; — 
 no pains unsoothed which he had power to allay ; no 
 griefs unstayed, nor penitents unshriven. 
 
 " He went about doing good. His beautiful and 
 gracious life was a humble imitation of Jesus Christ. 
 He taught us by example the Divine precept, " love 
 is the fulfiUing of the law." Now he has perfectly 
 wrought out the Divine ideal and authoritative defini- 
 tion of Love, — * Greater love hath no man than this, 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 147 
 
 that a man lay down his life for his friends.' May he 
 rest in peace, and perpetual light shine upon him ! 
 
 " Sir, we cannot approach you with ordinary terms of 
 condolence. The grief and loss are uncommon, but 
 the assuagement and consolation are uncommon also, 
 and it is impossible for us to treat as a mere affliction 
 the issue of that splendid courage and high devotion 
 which have made your son's life and death memorable 
 and illustrious. We pray God to have you in His 
 holy keeping. 
 
 " We are, reverend and dear sir, 
 " your most obedient, 
 
 " most humble servants, 
 " J. E. Learned, 
 " J. L. Crockett, 
 " Wardens of the Parish of The House of Prayer." 
 
 } 
 
 ** Christ Church Rectory, 
 "81, Congress Street, 
 "Newark, N. J., Sept. 25, 1878. 
 
 " Reverend and Dear Doctor : — At a meeting of 
 St. John's Union, held in Christ Church Rooms, last 
 night, I was authorized to send to you the following 
 minute. 
 
 " We, as Churchmen of Newark, venture to express 
 our heartfelt sympathy with you, to assure you of the 
 high esteem in which we hold the memory of your son, 
 and to say that his heroic conduct will continue to 
 live among us in Holy Influences through all time. 
 
 " It was also resolved that a representation of S. J. 
 U. attend the Memorial Services at The House of 
 Prayer, on Saturday morning next. May I not add 
 that while this whole community mourns with you in 
 
14^ ^ Memoriat of 
 
 your passing sorrow, it rejoices with you in giving a 
 son, whose name and services will have an unbounded 
 effect in this Church, so that we may almost say, that 
 Schuyler has only begun to live and work. 
 
 " Again with assurances of oxu: best feelings and 
 holiest wishes, 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " J. Nicholas Stansbury, 
 " Rector of Christ Church, &c., &c. 
 "The Reverend Dr. Schuyler, 
 
 " Rector of Christ Church, 
 " St. Louis." 
 
 " Holy Innocents' Church, \ 
 "Oak Hill, Sept. 24, 1878. j 
 
 "At a large meeting of the Parish of Holy Inno- 
 cents, held in the Church this day in consideration of 
 the death of the Rev. Louis S. Schuyler, former Rector 
 of this Parish, Messrs. G. W. Parker, John Toll, Chas. 
 S. Russell and Geo. Eckels were appointed a com- 
 mittee to prepare an address expressive of the sense 
 of the meeting. 
 
 "They presented the following paper, which was 
 adopted, ordered to be spread upon the Records of the 
 Church, to be published in The Church News, to be 
 properly engrossed, framed and placed in the Church, 
 and a copy to be sent to the family of the deceased : 
 
 "IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 " rev. LOUIS S. SCHUYLER. 
 
 "Louis S. Schuyler was bom March 2, 1852. He 
 received his education at Hobart College, and was 
 ordained to the Diaconate Sept. 21, 1874, in Christ 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 149 
 
 Church, St. Louis, taking charge of Holy Innocents' 
 Parish, Oak Hill, Sept. 29th of the same year. In 
 character and disposition he was gentle, faithful and 
 sincere, having cheerfulness without levity, and dignity 
 without coldness. He had a kindly word and greeting 
 for all his people. He was modest and retiring, not 
 at all self-asserting, but was self-sacrificing in the 
 highest degree, and untiring in his efforts to do good. 
 Religion was a passion with him, and his whole soul 
 was absorbed in the duties of his Priestly office. In 
 sickness, sorrow and distress he responded without 
 delay to every call, and became the faithful watcher, 
 the kind adviser and sympathetic friend. 
 
 " While in charge of the Parish he was, on the 5th 
 of March, 1876, advanced to the Priesthood, and his 
 happiness seemed complete when authority was given 
 him to consecrate the sacred elements which it was 
 his privilege to administer to his beloved people, and 
 to partake with them in the Holy Communion. 
 
 " He loved his people and was universally beloved 
 by them. He left this Parish a year ago in obedience 
 to what he deemed a duty, and went to England for 
 preparation, intending to devote his life to missionary 
 work. His health faiUng, he returned to this country 
 and was associate minister at Holy Innocents' Church, 
 Hoboken, New Jersey, when the cry for ministerial 
 help from stricken Memphis reached his ears. 
 
 " No clergyman was there to perform the Offices of 
 the Church, all either being sick or having fallen. 
 Without hesitation, although he must have believed 
 from his physical susceptibility to malarious disease 
 that escape for him was impossible, he hastened to the 
 plague-stricken city and deliberately laid down his life 
 in the execution of his duty. No more heroic death 
 has ever been recorded. 
 
150 A Memorial of 
 
 ** Just one week ago to-day he entered into rest in 
 perfect consciousness and resignation, sending at the 
 last moment loving messages to his friends. 
 
 " His memory will ever be fresh in this Parish, and 
 will be associated with those of the Saints and Martyrs 
 of the Church. 
 
 ** Edward Mead, 
 " Chairman of the Parish Meeting. 
 
 " G. W. Parker, 
 " Secretary of the Parish Meeting." 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Vestry of the Church of 
 The Holy Innocents, Oak Hill, Diocese of Missouri, 
 held on the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1879, the fol- 
 lowing Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously 
 adopted : — 
 
 " Whereas, an elegantly wrought banner has, through 
 the hands of the Rev. Dr. M. Schuyler, Rector of 
 Christ Church, been presented to this Church by Miss 
 Larrabee, of Chicago, as a Memorial of the Rev. 
 Louis Sandford Schuyler, deceased, late Rector of this 
 Parish, therefore, be it 
 
 " Resolved, That we gratefully accept the same, ap- 
 preciating its artistic skill and beauty, but in a greater 
 degree the delicate remembrance of one who was so 
 much esteemed, while with us, and lamented, now 
 that he has been taken from us. 
 
 *■*" Resolved, That the same be cherished by us and 
 displayed in or near the Chancel on all occasions of 
 the Celebration of the Holy Communion, and on all 
 Saints' Days. 
 
 ''Resolved, That the Clerk of this Vestry be re- 
 quested to enter these Resolutions upon the Minutes, 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 151 
 
 and forward a copy thereof to Miss Larrabee with 
 assurances of our highest regard. 
 " A true copy of the Minutes. 
 
 ** (Signed) John Oxnam, 
 
 "Clerk." 
 
 Extract from Proceedings of th£ Joint Convocations 
 of Newark and Jersey City. 
 
 HoBOKEN, N. J., December i6th, 1878. 
 
 " Whereas, We, the Clergy and Laity of the Convo- 
 cations of Newark and Jersey City,- assembled in joint 
 meeting, in the City of Hoboken, N. J., Dec. loth, 
 1878, hold in reverent and grateful memory, C. C. 
 Parsons and L. S. Schuyler, (formerly Priests of 
 this Diocese) who counted not their lives dear unto 
 themselves, but at the call of their Master, did their 
 duty so nobly and heroically during the late visitation 
 of yellow-fever in the City of Memphis, and have 
 left us an example of faithfulness unto death, which 
 we pray that we may have grace to follow ; therefore 
 
 ^'-Resolved, That we communicate our warmest 
 sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased. 
 
 ''''Resolved, That a committee, consisting of our 
 Deans, two Clerical and one Lay members of these 
 Convocations be requested to solicit subscriptions for 
 *the Charles Carroll Parsons Scholarship,' to be 
 founded at * The University of the South.' in memory 
 of that heroic Priest of God, who gave his life to the 
 Master's work, in the plague-stricken City of Memphis. 
 
 " Resolved, That we request the authorities of the 
 * University of the South' to add the name of the 
 Reverend Louis S. Schuyler to the same founda- 
 tion." 
 
152 A Memorial of 
 
 On the day of his death the body of Louis was 
 buried by Dr. Dalzell in the Cemetery of Elmwood. 
 He rests there, by the side of his gallant fellow-soldier 
 of the Cross, the Rev. Charles Carroll Parsons, (late 
 Colonel Parsons, U. S. A.) 
 
 Between the sleeping forms of these heroes the 
 people of Memphis have reared a Monument of pure 
 white Italian marble, in grateful memory. 
 
 Upon a solid base a broad plinth sustains a pedestal 
 of three members, which bears a plain Latin Cross 
 about nine feet high. On opposite sides of the plinth 
 are engraved deeply the names "Parsons" and 
 '' Schuyler." 
 
 Upon the four sides of the die are the following in- 
 scriptions : — 
 
 " i{f Charles Carroll Parsons, ifi 
 
 Priest. 
 
 Died of Yellow-fever, 
 
 Sept. 6, 1878." 
 
 ** ^ Louis Sandford Schuyler, ^ 
 
 Priest. 
 
 Died of Yellow-fever, 
 
 Sept. 17, 1878." 
 
 ** i|i Lovely and pleasant in their lives, in death 
 they are not divided, ifi " 
 
 '* ^ Greater love hath no man than this, that a 
 man lay down his life for his friends, ifi " 
 
Louis Sandford Schuyler. 153 
 
 And underneath, around the base of the pedestal, 
 is carved the ancient prayer — the *' sincere desire" — 
 of the Church for her Holy Dead. — 
 
 " ifi Requiem ceter7iam dona eis, Domine ; et lux 
 perpetua luceat eis. ^ " 
 
 With these solemn mortuary records ends the 
 earthly history of Louis Sandford Schuyler. 
 
 — Necesse est tanquam immaturam mortem ejus 
 defleam : si tamenfas est autflere^ automnino mortem 
 vocare^ qua tantijuvenis mortalitas magis finita quam 
 vita est. Vivit enim, vivetque semper^ atque etiam 
 latius in memoria hominum et sermone versabitur^ 
 postquam ab oculis recessit. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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