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IN MEMORY OF 
 
 The Reverend 
 
 John Henry Salisbury, D-D- 
 
 Late Pastor of the 
 
 Fourth Presbyterian Church, 
 
 TRENTON, N. J. 
 
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 Prefatory note. 
 
 The funeral services of the Reverend 
 John Henry Salisbury, D.D.., late Pas- 
 tor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church 
 of Trenton, N. J., were held at half-past two 
 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan- 
 uary 14th, 1 89 1. Prayer was offered at the 
 house by the Reverend Jacob Cooper, Pro- 
 fessor of the Greek Language and Literature at 
 Rutgers College. The services at the Church 
 were attended by a large number of clergymen 
 and others from abroad, as well as by the 
 members of the congregation and other citi- 
 zens of Trenton. 
 
 The next day the body was taken to Cats- 
 kill, New York, for interment, in a special car 
 chartered for the occasion. The remains were 
 
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4 PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 accompanied to the place of their destination 
 by the members of the family and a delegation 
 of fifteen persons from the Church. The 
 committal services were conducted by the 
 Reverend Bvart Van Slyke, D.D., Pastor of 
 the Reformed Church of Catskill. 
 
 Much to the regret of his friends, The Rev. 
 Dr. Salisbury left directions that none of his 
 sermons should be published. The desire for 
 some appropriate memorial of him, therefore, 
 can be gratified only by the printing of this 
 volume. 
 
 It is printed under the direction of a com- 
 mittee appointed for that purpose by the 
 Session and Trustees of the Church. 
 
PROGRAM. 
 
 Invocation, 
 
 Rev. a. C. Titus, a member of the con- 
 gregation. 
 
 Reading of Scripture, 
 
 Rev. John Dixon, D.D., Moderator of the 
 Presbytery. 
 
 Biographical Sermon, 
 
 Rev. John Bodine Thompson, D.D. 
 
 Hymn— "I^ead, kindly Light." 
 
 Address, 
 
 Rev. J. Preston Searle, Pastor of the 
 First Reformed Church of Somerville. 
 
 Address, 
 
 Rev. W. H. Woolverton, Pastor of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Prayer i . . , 
 
 Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D.D., Pas- 
 tor of the Third Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Chant— *• Thy Will Be Done." 
 
 Benediction, 
 
 Rev. F. S. Barnum, Pastor of the Second 
 
 Reformed Church of Coxsackie, 
 
 New York. 
 
SERMO] 
 
 BY 
 
 The Rev. Dr. J. B. Thompson. 
 
 I Corinthians, 13 : 8. Love never faileth. 
 
 Flowers fade. Leaves fall. Men die. Life 
 fails. But Love never faileth ; for Love is of 
 God ; for God is Love.* 
 
 From all eternity the Love which God is has 
 been going forth from the All- Father to the 
 only begotten Son, and in like manner from 
 the Son to the Father in the ceaseless proces- 
 sion of the eternal Spirit ; and it is by this 
 living movement of the divine substance that 
 the Absolute completes the infinite cycle of 
 His self-caused existence. 
 
 •i John, 4: 7, 8. 
 
8 IN M^MORIAM. 
 
 It was by act of the same I^ove that the 
 Father gave a people to His Son, chosen in 
 Him before the foundation of the world, that 
 they should be holy and without blame before 
 Him in I^ove.* It was by act of the same 
 Love that His people were made in His Image, 
 created in Christ Jesus unto good works which 
 God had before ordained that we should walk 
 in them.f It was by act of the same Love 
 that the uncreated Image of the invisible God, 
 (who was in the beginning with God and 
 was God), became partaker of human nature 
 that the created image might become partaker 
 of the divine nature, and thus escape the cor- 
 ruption that is in the world through lust. J It 
 is because Love reigns supreme that all things 
 work together for good to them that love God ; 
 
 *Jer., 31 : 3; Eph, i : 4. 
 t Gen., 1:27; Eph., 2 : 10. 
 
 J John, 3 : 16; Col., I : 15; John, 1:1; Heb., 2 : 14; i Cor., 11 : 7; 
 2 Pet., 1 : 4. 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 9 
 
 that all things are yours, whether the world, 
 or life, or death, or things present, or things 
 to come, all are yours [for your advantage], 
 for ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.* 
 
 These teachings of Holy Writ are exempli- 
 fied in him whose departure we mourn to-day. 
 As divine I/)ve had from the beginning chosen 
 him unto salvation, and separated him unto 
 the gospel of God, so divine providence pre- 
 pared the way before him ; that he should 
 inherit the desired characteristics, be shaped 
 by the designed circumstances, accomplish the 
 destined duties, and inherit the kingdom pre- 
 pared for him from the foundation of the 
 world, t 
 
 John Henry Salisbury was of an honorable 
 lineage. The virtues of a long line of worthy 
 ancestors culminated in him. 
 
 • Rom., 8 : 28 ; i Cor., 3 : 21-23. 
 
 1 2 Thesi., 2:13; Rom., 1 : t ; Is., 45 : 5 ; Mat,, 25 : 34. 
 
lO IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 The family derives from Adam de Salzburg, 
 youngest son of the Duke of Bavaria, whose 
 offspring became knights of the Manor of 
 Lleweny in Wales. Among the relics of his 
 ancestry are a sword bearing date 1544, the 
 family coat-of-arms and a portrait of Queen 
 Anne Boleyn. 
 
 They were brought to this country by Sil- 
 vester Salisbury, who was an officer of the 
 English army that wrested the New Nether- 
 lands from the Dutch in 1664. After the con- 
 quest he was for many years commandant of 
 Fort Albany and the region roundabout. This 
 afforded him facilities for the selection of lands, 
 and, with a single colleague, he purchased a 
 tract some miles in circumference, having its 
 centre at the most fertile spot in the valley of 
 the Catskill.* 
 
 In that vicinity most of his descendants still 
 
 * Henry Brace, Esq , of New'York, who has also furnished other valuable 
 historical information. 
 
or 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. II 
 
 live. The immanent moral life of their ances- 
 tors is ingrained in every fibre of their being. 
 To lose it would be to lose their personal 
 identity. Amid whatever simplicity of man- 
 ners, whatever straitness of poverty, whatever 
 conflicts of adversity in the times that tried 
 men's souls, they have borne their part in 
 both military and civil affairs. But no one of 
 them has lived more nobly, or died more 
 regretted, than he in whom this branch of the 
 family now becomes extinct. 
 
 Of the ancient glories of his clan, how- 
 ever, he knew little, and cared less. He was 
 wholly busied in his work. 
 
 The pedigree of honey 
 
 Does not concern the bee; 
 A clover anytime to him 
 
 Is aristocracy* 
 
 His immediate father was an only son, 
 whose patrimony was wasted by those to 
 
 * EmUy Dickinson. 
 
12 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 whom it had been entrusted during his 
 minority. He died of apoplexy, with the 
 name of the wife he was leaving on his lips. 
 One week later his only child was born.* 
 
 If heredity did much for this posthumous 
 child, environment did more ; and that envi- 
 ronment was made for him by his mother. 
 It was a mother's love that protected and 
 provided for him until he arrived at man- 
 hood. Her tender heart the lyove of God 
 had touched in early youth, while dwelling 
 among her own kin in the quiet of their 
 country home. Afterward vshe became a com- 
 municant in the Reformed Church of Cats- 
 
 * Henry Salisbury (the son of Abraham Salisbury, of Stockport, N. Y.), 
 died at Catskill, N. Y., February 9, 1852. His wife was Susan Elsbree. 
 Their son, John Henry Salisbury, was born at Catskill, February 16, 
 1852. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 1875, and from the 
 Theological Seminary at New Brunswick in 1878. During his first 
 pastorate he was strongly urged for the professorship of rhetoric and 
 elocution in Union College at Schenectady, a position for which he was 
 eminently fitted ; but he preferred to abide in his calling. The degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater in 1890. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. I3 
 
 kill, where I knew her during the later years 
 of her saintly life. 
 
 Perhaps because her son had no father upon 
 earth, she was all the better able to recog- 
 nize him as the gift of our Father in heaven. 
 She called him after his father, that the name 
 she loved might ever be upon her lips. To 
 it she gratefully prefixed that of her family 
 physician, the kindly Presbyterian elder who 
 helped her with his Christian sympathy in 
 the hour of her trial. ^ 
 
 It was the name of the disciple whom 
 Jesus loved; and she hoped (and not in vain) 
 that a portion of that loving disciple's spirit 
 might fall upon her boy. She set before him 
 such an example of faith and piety and 
 devotedness and diligence as we read of only 
 in the lives of the most eminent saints. She 
 sought wool and flax and wrought willingly 
 
 ♦Dr. John Doane, still living at Catskili. 
 
14 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 with her hands that she might support and 
 educate the son whom she loved as her own 
 soul.* One who knew her well in those 
 days writes : 
 
 "He had a most devoted mother, who 
 made his success her great earthly ambition, 
 and to whose efforts mainly that success was 
 due."t 
 
 Her pastor, when the child grew toward 
 manhood, says : 
 
 ''She was one of my staunchest supporters 
 and most constant callers ; a woman whose 
 heart had two objects in the foreground 
 always : her church and her boy. To the 
 first she gave of her earthly little most 
 freely; to the second she gave her all. Her 
 talk was of her boy, and when he came 
 into the church, as the son of such a mother 
 
 *Prov., 31 : 13. 
 
 f The widow of her Pastor, Rev. Dr. John A. Lansing, in her letter ol 
 December 29, i8go. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 1 5 
 
 should come, quietly, conscientiously, from a 
 sense of the rightness of so doing, her joy 
 was unbounded.'"^ 
 
 While she herself was struggling for daily 
 bread, she adopted a deserted infant, and 
 nursed and fed and trained this child until 
 she became a Christian woman. St. Paul 
 commends a widow, *Mf she have brought 
 up children, if she have lodged strangers, if 
 she have washed the saints' feet."t l^^is 
 sainted woman did more. She lodged way- 
 farers, and washed the feet of tramps whom 
 all men abhorred. For love of Christ she 
 cleansed their loathsome ulcers and bound 
 them up with healing ointment. From the 
 depths of her poverty the riches of her liber- 
 ality abounded unto many, and the blessings 
 
 •The Rev. Dr. Francis A. Horton. See page 22. The records show 
 that John Henry Salisbury was received into the communion of the 
 Reformed Church of CaUkill, May 1, 1870. 
 
 t X Tim., 5 : ID. 
 
1 6 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 of those ready to perish came upon her. 
 Ceaselessly she seemed to be developing God- 
 ward. Diligently she used the means of 
 grace appointed of God for that purpose. 
 I have known her to drop into the meet- 
 ings of the church with her market-basket 
 on her arm to catch spiritual refreshment by 
 the way. Her pastor's piety and zeal were 
 often stimulated by contact with hers. 
 
 But the time came for her labors to have 
 an end. The son (for whom she had so 
 gladly carried such cares) was in his early 
 manhood ; and the consummation of her hopes 
 was reached when, once at least, she heard 
 him preach the gospel. She was ready then 
 to say: *'IyOrd, now lettest thou thy servant 
 depart in peace." * But, — whether for her 
 sake or for ours, who can tell? — two full 
 years yet she was allowed to suffer on her 
 
 * Luke, 2 : 29. 
 
or 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 1 7 
 
 couch, testifying of the faithfulness of Christ 
 to all who came near, making that sick- 
 room the very ante-chamber of heaven to 
 those admitted to its sacred precincts. And 
 so, refined and purified so as by fire, she 
 went to her reward.* It was my privilege 
 to testify then, as now, that there is no 
 amount of grace which the lyOrd ever granted 
 to a saint of old, that He is not equally 
 ready and willing to grant now to any who 
 will receive and live it. He giveth not the 
 Spirit by measure.! We are not straitened 
 in God ; we are straitened in ourselves. The 
 fault is not in Him, but in ourselves, that 
 we are underlings in the religious life. She 
 was no underling; though in her humility 
 she thought herself such. 
 
 Could such a mother have other than such 
 a son? Could such a son other than revere 
 
 *She died with caocer, November 38, 1887. 
 tjohn, 3:34 (revised version). 
 
 2 
 
l8 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 the memory of such a mother? He and she 
 lived in each other's love, unknown and un- 
 noticed by all the world beside. The sweet 
 companionship of father, or brother, or sister, 
 or uncle, or aunt, or cousin, he never knew. 
 But his mother was more than all these to 
 him. On her he bestowed the whole wealth 
 of affection and gratitude of which he was 
 capable. Of her he did well to be proud. 
 Again and again has he been heard to make 
 his boast of her whose cares and prayers 
 had made him what he was. Am I not 
 right in saying that environment was more 
 than heredity to him? 
 
 And the same divine I^ove which had pro- 
 vided both these for him, watched over and 
 guided and guarded and kept him from the 
 cradle to the grave. 
 
 Externally his early life did not differ essen- 
 tially from that of other boys in a country vil- 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 19 
 
 lage, save, perhaps, that he was more neat and 
 quiet and gentle than most. He helped his 
 mother in the work of the household, and, as 
 soon as he was able, began to eani what little 
 he could in various ways to ease her manifold 
 burdens. He was not contaminated by the 
 vices with which village children so early come 
 in contact. He kept himself pure. When his 
 companions boasted of their evil deeds, he 
 thought it mere bravado, and was shocked long 
 after to learn that their foolish and wicked 
 boasting had not been untrue. 
 
 In school he was diligent. His teachers 
 marked his progress and spoke of his bright 
 promise for the future. 
 A schoolmate of those days writes : 
 * ' He was noticeable as a youth for his truth- 
 fulness and honesty in all things, both great 
 and small. As a lad in school, he was singu- 
 larly free from the small vices and deceptions 
 
20 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 which were unfortunately too common in our 
 day, and, while a thorough boy, yet showed 
 at that time the self-reliant nature which carried 
 him through all that he undertook in after- 
 life. He was cheerful, companionable and 
 pure-minded above his fellows. He entered 
 keenly into the sports we all enjoyed in com- 
 mon, but never carried to excess any pleasure 
 or pursuit which might engage his attention, 
 and always seemed to show a self-retiring, 
 thoughtful spirit. He was a good student, as 
 his record shows, and followed knowledge for 
 its own sake. He was not a self-assertive 
 boy at all, but preferred to make his friends 
 quietly, to gain the esteem of those whose 
 praise he prized by careful attention to what- 
 ever he took in hand and to let his supe- 
 riors form their judgment of him without any 
 attempt to establish a bias in his favor. As 
 I can recollect his character now, and the 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 21 
 
 influence that his companionship had on me, 
 the innate truthfulness and self-respecting mod- 
 esty of the boy were his strongest points. He 
 was always careful of the feelings of others, 
 and I never knew him to do a rude, and 
 scarcely ever a thoughtless thing. ' ' * 
 
 At that time he was strongly attracted 
 toward a military profession. But his pastor, 
 recognizing his ethical as well as his intel- 
 lectual superiority, joined with his mother in 
 the wish to have him become a Minister of 
 the Gospel, t 
 
 A Presbyterian clergyman (now residing in 
 Kansas), who entered into the full communion 
 
 ♦Mr. S. W. Green, of Newark, N. J., in his letter of January 7, 1891. 
 
 t Probably but few of his acquainunces are aware that the late Rev. 
 Dr. John H. Salisbury in his youth had a military career under consid- 
 eration. But such is the fact. When Judge Griswold, of this village, 
 was in Congress, in 1869, he offered his young friend an appointment to 
 the U. S. Military Academy, at West Point, The offer came at a time 
 when the martial fire burns in the breast of most young men and, as a 
 schoolmate and friend of Dr. Salisbury, we happen to know that he 
 thought favorably of the offer; bat it was his mother's earnest desire that 
 her son enter the ministry, and in deference to her wishes he declined 
 the appointment.— Gi/xAv*// Recorder of January 16, 1891. 
 
22 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 of i.h.e Church with him, writes that the work 
 of the ministry "was more frequently the sub- 
 ject of his conversation than anything else."* 
 Yet he did not decide without due delibera- 
 tion. While his mother never ceased to pray 
 that he might enter upon the work of the 
 ministry to which she had consecrated him, he 
 wavered as time went on. ''He was balanc- 
 ing between the law" and the gospel." Finally, 
 however, in a conversation with his pastor, 
 (The Rev. Dr. Francis A. Horton, now pastor 
 of the First Congregational Church of Provi- 
 dence, R. I., who has kindly furnished me 
 this information), ''he declared that the matter 
 was settled with him, that he would debate 
 the question no longer, but give himself to the 
 work of the I^ord." f 
 
 *lhe Rev Stanley D. Jewell, in his letter of January 9, i8gi. 
 
 fDr. Horton (in his letter of December 4, 1890,1 says also: "Looking 
 from the earthside only, it seems a thousand pities that a life opening with 
 so great promise of usefulness should be so soon ended He has made rapid 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 23 
 
 Then came his course in College and in the 
 Theological Seminary, of which we shall hear 
 from the most intimate companion of those 
 years.* 
 
 I remember well the evening that he assumed 
 his ordination vows, and became to me a 
 younger brother in the ministry, as he was 
 already in affection, f 
 
 At his request I preached the ordination 
 sermon, as (also at his request) I am now 
 preaching this funeral discourse. After the 
 service, we drove slowly twelve miles from his 
 
 strides towards the front rank, and with time and health would have 
 become one of the foremost men in the church. * * * I rejoice at your 
 statement of the peace of mind which is his portion. God will keep him 
 thus even to the end. His mother will be glad of his coming. And, in 
 better worlds, when the mists are rolled away, we shall see as we are seen 
 and know as we are known, and perfect love will reign. Assure him of my 
 love and give him my parting blessing." 
 
 ♦The Rev. J. Preston Searle, now Pa.stor of the First Reformed Church 
 of Somerville, who takes part in this service at the special request of his 
 departed friend. 
 
 fl first knew him, as a student in college, after I became Pastor at Cats- 
 kill in 1874. He was ordained and installed at Coxsackie, July a, 1878. His 
 pastorate there ended December 20, 1887. 
 
24 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 parish to mine. It was a beautiful summer 
 night. On our right were the rounded peaks 
 and deep shadows of the Catskill Mountains. 
 On our left, the broad Hudson shimmered in 
 the bright moonlight like a mass of molten 
 silver. The scene was apt for confidences, and 
 he told me all his heart. He opened to me 
 the innermost recesses of his soul, as men are 
 wont to open them only to the eye of infinite 
 Love. From that day forth he never ceased, 
 as occasion served, to pour into my sympathetic 
 ear the story of his hopes, his fears, his 
 troubles and his joys. He knew how I loved 
 him, and he reciprocated that love. He trusted 
 me. 
 
 And now this happy past is all secure ; 
 and, therefore, the future. If death looses, it 
 also binds ; and that everlastingly. 
 
 He had his faults. None knew them better 
 than I. Humbly he confessed them, with 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 25 
 
 contrition and faith in the eflScacy of the 
 blood that cleanseth from all sin. Blessed 
 are they that wash their robes.* Meekly he 
 submitted to the discipline sent in I^ove and 
 learned obedience by the things that he 
 suffered, t Divine grace overruled, for his 
 furtherance in the Christian life, even his 
 errors. They had their origin in an amiabil- 
 ity of disposition that, sometimes, perhaps, 
 bordered on weakness. One of his college 
 professors, who is mourning with us here 
 to-day, writes of him: "There was in his 
 character the combination of 'Sweetness and 
 Light' which makes the world beautiful as 
 the vestibule of heaven. He was emphatically 
 amor et delicice generis humani, — the love and 
 delight (or pet) of the human race."t 
 
 • Rev , 22 : 14 (revised version). 
 
 tHeb., 5:8. 
 
 X Rev. Jacob Cooper, D.D., V>. C. L., in his letter of December 4th, 1890. 
 
26 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 Perhaps he was too amiable. He disliked 
 to give pain. He shrank from stating an 
 unpleasant truth. Adventurers sometimes took 
 advantage of his generous nature. Though 
 not deceived by their fictions, he gave them 
 the benefit of the doubt, preferring to be 
 imposed upon rather than to be unkind. 
 
 Yet, where he was weak, there also, when 
 necessity was laid upon him, he could suffer 
 and be strong. Temptations came to him in 
 such insidious guise as they come to few, but 
 he kept himself unspotted from the world. 
 More than once did the demon of ambition 
 whisper in his ear, and more than once was 
 the temptation repelled with the thought of 
 the tempted One saying : ' * Get thee behind 
 me, Satan ; for thou savorest not the things 
 that be of God, but those that be of men."* 
 
 His love for souls, like his love for Christ, 
 
 ♦Mat., 16 : 23. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 27 
 
 was not boisterous ; but it was deep, sincere, 
 unwavering. And the Lord blessed his work. 
 The Second Church of Coxsackie, in whose 
 presence he was ordained to the gospel min- 
 istry, was his only charge until he came to 
 Trenton. With that church he lived and 
 labored nearly, or quite, ten years, begin- 
 ning his work there before he had completed 
 his course in the Theological Seminary. His 
 successor in that pastorate writes : * ' He 
 was, and he is, greatly beloved by this 
 people ; and his sickness has been watched 
 with an interest and with prayer second only 
 to that of his comparatively new people. And 
 I do not know whether, in the profound affec- 
 tions of the heart for him, my present church 
 really takes a second place to that he now 
 serves. It was a great gratification to his 
 friends here to have him try his new-found 
 strength last September before going to his 
 
28 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 own people ; and, when he showed so much 
 vigor, all greatly rejoiced. I found one emi- 
 nent mark of the faithful pastor," he adds, 
 "in the educated state of the church on the 
 subject of benevolence. For a church of its 
 means, I think the record of benevolence is 
 very superior ; and the spirit with which the 
 people respond to the calls now, shows what 
 good work he did with them. The spirit of 
 harmony seemed to abide in the church during 
 his pastorate ; and his sound teaching, gentle 
 and kindly spirit and conscientious endeavor 
 to fulfil his ministry, left the church in a 
 happy state for his successor.* 
 
 The many in that church who love him are 
 weeping with us to-day. Several of them are 
 here to do honor to the memory of one they 
 
 ♦The Rev. F. S. Barnum, in his letter of November 26, 1890. He adds: 
 " I am distresed that his ministry seems so near its end. But all who love 
 Dr. Salisbury must recognize God's love as well as his wisdom, trusting 
 where we cannot trace. Death will be a liberator to him, and ought to be a 
 teacher to us." 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 29 
 
 SO much loved ; sorrowing most of all that they 
 shall see his face in the flesh no more.* 
 
 To some of them earth will never again seem 
 quite so bright as it has been. But heaven 
 will seem brighter, and nearer, and dearer, 
 than ever before. 
 
 To this church and people he has been per- 
 mitted to minister but three short years, t And 
 the last of these has been more a year of 
 
 suffering than of work. Six months' vaca- 
 tion you kindly gave him, pajdng the chief 
 of his heavy expenses and supplying his pul- 
 pit meanwhile, in the hope that, in answer 
 to your prayers, God would restore him to 
 you. He was so far restored that he took up 
 his work and hoped to go on with it as be- 
 
 ♦The delegates from the Second Reformed Church of Coxsackie, present 
 at the funeral, were the Rev. F. S. Bamum, Messrs. C. J. Collier, A. G. 
 Case, N. H. Rlchtmyer, S. H. Van Dyck, W. E. Winans, Dr. A. V. D. 
 Collier, Miss Heermance, Miss L4i8k, and Mrs. W. E. Winans; Dr. Stewart 
 Reed was present also. 
 
 t He began pastoral work with the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Tren- 
 ton, January i, 1888. 
 
30 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 fore. But a month later he was stricken 
 down again; and it was soon understood that 
 the end could not be very far off. 
 
 The attachment of this people to him is 
 wonderful. It seems like the growth of a 
 life-time. It is not merely that he was an 
 amiable man ; others have been as amiable 
 as he. It is not merely that he had ability ; 
 others have been as able as he. It is that, 
 with these, he has labored untiringly to give 
 his people the very best he could. During 
 his whole ministry he was a diligent student. 
 He obeyed the instruction of the apostle : 
 *' Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which 
 was given thee by prophecy with the laying 
 on of the hands of the Presbytery.* 
 
 He was diligent in these things. For the 
 sake of his people he husbanded his 
 resources of mind and body. He did not 
 
 *i Tim., 3; 15. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 3I 
 
 waste the time and strength which belonged 
 to them in desultory efforts elsewhere. His 
 church was always first in his estimation. 
 While not neglecting other opportunities of 
 doing good, he recognized the church with 
 its families, as the only direct institution of 
 God in the world, and threw himself heartily 
 into its work as God's plan for saving and 
 blessing a ruined world. 
 
 Coming hither with accumulated stores of 
 wisdom and knowledge, with a disciplined 
 mind and a Love that never faileth, he gave 
 himself wholly to his chosen work. 
 
 In his Love for his people he has been privi- 
 leged at times to lift their hearts, with his, as 
 into the very atmosphere of heaven. His own 
 growth in grace has had its proper consequent 
 in theirs. The officers of this church testify 
 that it is better, nobler, its members more 
 united, more consecrated, and their zeal for the 
 
32 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 Master's work more earnest and uniform and 
 steady to-day than at any previous period of 
 its history. His Christly example, his instruc- 
 tive preaching, his wonderful praying, have 
 done their work. 
 
 Of his devoted piety I had long been aware. 
 Of the intelligence and far-reaching thought- 
 fulness of his preaching I was not ignorant. 
 But when a year ago I began to worship with 
 this church and to follow where he led in 
 prayer, I thanked God and took courage. So 
 helpful were his utterances, so interpretive of 
 the inner exercises of our souls, making definite 
 and giving expression (and, therefore, inten- 
 sity,) to the thoughts half-formed within, that 
 we prayed in the words which the Holy Ghost 
 taught him, as we had never prayed before. 
 
 But even then I was afraid. His prayers 
 seemed so to take hold on heaven, he 
 seemed so at one with God in Christ, so 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 33 
 
 ripe for the Master's use in a nobler sphere, 
 that I feared he might soon be called to **go 
 up higher."* On inquiry, however, I learned 
 that he was more strong and vigorous than 
 ever before. He said that he was well. He 
 was rejoicing in his work, and planning for 
 its extension. 
 
 Then I spoke to him of his prayers, and 
 told him how they helped me, and how they 
 helped others. He was humble ; but he 
 was glad. He said: '* My notion of prayer 
 is simply that of a child talking with his 
 Father. It is complete freedom of intercourse 
 between those who are akin, who love." He 
 was right. All unwittingly he has taught us 
 to pray, as Jesus also taught His disciples. 
 
 I desired that these blessings might be 
 extended more widely. I planned to have it 
 so. I arranged to have his prayers reported. 
 
 ♦ Lake, 14 : 10. 
 
 3 
 
34 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 But circumstances hindered. Of course, he 
 never knew that such a thing was thought 
 
 of. (i^'f- z^-*^ Z' • ^X" 
 
 In February last he told me that he was 
 not well. At my earnest solicitation he con- 
 sulted a physician. Then came anxious fore- 
 bodings, the fearful operation of April and 
 the hopeless one of November.* 
 
 [Thursday, November 13th.] Before the 
 second operation, he said: ''I would like to 
 live a few years yet, to preach the gospel ; 
 but, if this is to be fatal, I only hope the 
 end will not be delayed too long."* 
 
 He was not afraid. Six months before he 
 had faced death under the surgeon's knife, 
 unflinching. His faith had been tested. 
 
 * His disease was cancer, which first manifested itself internally. He 
 rallied from the severe cutting of April fifth, and resumed his 
 work in October. Even then, however, the disease was making its 
 appearance upon the right temple, and after five weeks service he was 
 compelled to desist. The second operation took place November thir- 
 teenth. 
 
 * Elder W. D. Sinclair. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 35 
 
 [Friday, November 21st.] A week later, 
 when told by his physician that his life 
 would be protracted little, if any, beyond 
 the end of the 3'ear, he received the infor- 
 mation with perfect equanimity. 
 
 [Saturday, November 226..'] The next day, 
 he said to me : ' ' It is all right. I am trust- 
 ing onl}^ in Christ and His righteousness. I 
 have no anxiety about the future ' ' ; with 
 more to the same import ; adding : * * I am 
 looking forward to meeting with my mother, 
 and to being with her and with Jesus." 
 
 [November 23d. ] On Sunday he talked of 
 the services in the church, and asked me to 
 come in the next day and read him something 
 that would turn his thoughts toward heaven. 
 
 [November 24th.] On Monday he had so 
 much to talk of that I thought him too tired 
 to listen to reading, and left him after we had 
 prayed together. 
 
36 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 [November 25th.] On Tuesday he was too 
 feeble to talk, or to listen when I proposed 
 to read. But the emphasis upon the "Amen" 
 to the prayer for grace according to his need, 
 told of the firmness of his hold on heaven. 
 
 [November 26th.] On Wednesday I said to 
 him : ' ' While your mind is yet clear, have 
 you anything further you wish to say?" 
 He inquired about the probabilities of life, 
 and of pain, and then said : ' ' My only trust 
 is in Christ. I have no plea but that His 
 blood was shed for me. My trust is in 
 Him alone." Then I asked him if he had 
 any message for his people. He said : ' ' My 
 people I commend to the grace of God, 
 trusting that He who has brought them 
 thus far, will continue to lead them even 
 unto the end." 
 
 After that he added messages of love to 
 individuals and gave directions respecting this 
 service. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 37 
 
 [November 28th.] On Friday he said: "The 
 Master has no further work for me in this 
 world. I am looking forward to service in a 
 better." 
 
 The next day he was heard pouring out 
 his soul to his Heavenly Father as if he 
 already saw him face to face. 
 
 [Friday, December 5th.] A week later he 
 expressed his regret that he was not per- 
 mitted longer to carry on his work here, yet 
 said that nevertherless he was content, since 
 such was the will of God.* 
 
 His was no morbid piety. He loved life 
 with its opportunities for usefulness, and he 
 perceived that he was about to be cut off in 
 the midst of his days. 
 
 [Saturday, December 6th.] The next day he 
 said to me : "I have less pain than I had; 
 but I hope I shall not be left to suffer too 
 long. I have the same trust in Christ alone." 
 
 •Judge w. M. 
 
38 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 [Sunday, December yth.] After the celebra- 
 tion of the I^ord's Supper in the church, at 
 his request the Elders and the Trustees 
 assembled round his bed while he, too, ate 
 the bread and drank, for the last time on 
 earth, the wine which he now drinks new 
 in the kingdom of God. Then he said : "I 
 have only one request to make, that you 
 will all meet me in heaven." 
 
 [Tuesday, December 9th.] Two days later 
 when I saw him his voice was stronger and 
 clearer, and his strength firmer than it had 
 been for a week previous. He spoke of his 
 feebleness on the preceding Lord's Day, and 
 expressed the hope that he might yet be 
 able to send the fuller message which in his 
 own mind he had prepared for those associ- 
 ated with him in the government of the 
 church. He inquired respecting old friends, 
 and repeated the expression of his wishes 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 39 
 
 concerning this service. After that he became 
 much feebler, and I did not see him again 
 until the next week. 
 
 [Monday, December 15th.] It was with 
 evident effort that he then roused himself 
 to express his satisfaction, to speak of the 
 necessity for the constant use of anodynes, 
 and to say (in answer to my inquiry) : "I 
 am just trusting and resting, trusting and 
 resting. ' ' 
 
 [January 5th, 1891.] Afterward, I saw him 
 
 but once, looking through the open doors 
 upon the loved countenance while he slept 
 
 the blessed sleep of rest from pain. 
 
 Thus he lingered, while his people prayed, 
 
 to the very last day of the Week of Prayer ; 
 
 and, on the morning of that day, waked into 
 
 the Day whose sun shall never set. * 
 
 * He died at the Parsonage at half-past eight in the morning of 
 Saturday, January 10, 1891. 
 
40 IN MBMORIAM. 
 
 O happy soul, be thankful now and rest ! 
 
 Heaven is a goodly land. 
 And God is Love. And those He loves are blest. 
 
 Now thou dost understand. 
 The least thou hast is better than the best 
 
 That thou didst hope for. Now upon thine eyes 
 The new life opens fair. 
 
 Before thy feet, the blessed journey lies 
 Through homelands everywhere, 
 
 And heaven to thee is all a sweet surprise.* 
 
 Said I not right that divine I/)ve kept him 
 from the beginning of his life to the end 
 thereof? Indeed, indeed, Love never faileth. 
 It never failed toward him. 
 
 And this Love is of the same nature wher- 
 ever it exists. As it never fails in God, it 
 never fails in the Godman. As it never fails 
 in Christ, it never fails in the Christian. 
 And it exists in every Christian so far as he 
 is a Christian. As it never failed in our dear 
 
 ♦Washington Gladden. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 41 
 
 one in the past, it does not fail in him in 
 the present. This is just the argument of the 
 apostle. Love is * * the greatest thing in the 
 world" because it never faileth. All the bright 
 gifts (which render their possessor so useful 
 to his fellows here) end with life ; but Love 
 never faileth. It continues, as on earth, so 
 also in heaven. He who has now gone 
 before us, has not ceased to love us. He 
 loves us still. He loves us more intensely 
 than ever before ; for now Love is perfected 
 in him. As travelers by sea behold the out- 
 line of the mountains and the headlands of 
 the country to which they are approaching, 
 and greet them from afar, so he saw before 
 him the peaks and promontories of the prom- 
 ised land, bright with the sunlight of the 
 promises, and looked forward to the joys of 
 intercourse with Abraham and Isaac and 
 Jacob, and his own dear mother, and other 
 
42 IN MBMORIAM. 
 
 saints of the Old Testament and the New. 
 
 And yet, and yet, he felt that even in 
 heaven, without his people, he should not be 
 made perfect.* His Love for them is not yet 
 satisfied. His work for them is as yet incom- 
 plete. 
 
 And it is for yo7i to say, dear friends, 
 whether it shall be completed in you, whether 
 his Love for you shall be satisfied. Do you 
 not feel the unutterable yearnings of his heart, 
 drawing you, more strongly to-day than ever 
 before, to his and your Saviour? 
 
 I appeal, first of all, to those who by his 
 ministrations have come to understand and 
 appreciate, better than ever before, their rela- 
 tionship to Christ, and the blessings which grow 
 out of that relationship. O beloved, since 
 you are partakers with him of the same Love, 
 live the Love, Let it manifest itself in you, as 
 
 *Heb , n : 13, 40. 
 
IN m;emoriam. 43 
 
 it did in him, in devotion, in consecration, in 
 unworldliness, in faith, in hope, in joy. 
 
 I appeal to his young people, in whom he 
 was so much interested, to whom he sent 
 messages of Love from his hospital couch 
 He feared lest by any means the tempter 
 should get the advantage of you. He prayed 
 for you that your faith fail not ; that you keep 
 yourselves in the Love of God by building 
 yourselves up on your most holy faith. Will 
 you not respond to his Love by yielding your- 
 selves thoroughly to the pervasion of the 
 Christ-Love ? 
 
 I appeal to those whom he has received into 
 the communion of the church ; to those whom 
 he has married ; whose children he has bap- 
 tized ; whose sick he has visited ; to whom, 
 under all these circumstances, he has mani- 
 fested the Love which ruled in his own heart ; 
 I appeal to all these to believe, and receive, 
 
44 IN MBMORIAM. 
 
 and exhibit the same lyove constantly in all 
 holy conversation and godliness. 
 
 I appeal especially to those to whom, under 
 the promptings of this unfailing Love, he has 
 appealed so often, so earnest^, and, hitherto, 
 so vainly. Dear friends ! will you not hear 
 the appeal he makes to you to-day with his 
 
 •« Poor, poor dumb lips," 
 
 that shall never speak again ? 
 
 It is said of Samson that those whom he 
 slew at his death were more than they which 
 he slew in his life. O that it might be so, 
 in a higher sense, with this faithful servant ! 
 His desire for the glory of God went further 
 than Samson's. It extended beyond death, 
 even into the spirit-world, as I have said. 
 Shall his desire for God's glory in your salva- 
 tion now be gratified? 
 
 With some of you the Spirit has been 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 45 
 
 Striving while your Pastor lay upon his death- 
 bed. If you do not allow yourself to be 
 properly affected by this affecting death, by 
 the fact that so many are praying for you, 
 if now you ''quench the Spirit," is it prob- 
 able that ever again the kingdom of heaven 
 shall come so nigh to you? Will you not 
 now enter in by yielding yourself completely 
 unto Christ? 
 
 The Sunday-school will miss its Pastor. 
 Both teachers and pupils who have been 
 instructed by his ministrations will miss him. 
 Most deeply have I been touched during his 
 illness by inquiries after him from children 
 of the infant-class. And, when I told him, 
 he was touched by it, too. 
 
 The King's Daughters will miss him, by 
 whose instrumentality they were made all 
 glorious within with the beauties of holiness.* 
 
 * Psalms, 45:13; 110 13. 
 
46 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union 
 will miss him. The roses sent him during 
 his illness (whose fragrance he enjoyed when 
 he could no longer see) have faded ; but 
 the text which told of their sympathy and 
 prayers shall never fade. 
 
 The Young Men's Christian Association, 
 every good cause, will have reason to lament 
 his departure. 
 
 Few will miss him more than his fellow- 
 pastors. His thoughtful essays, his genial 
 companionship, his quiet Christian example, 
 have endeared him to them all. 
 
 To one of them, as opportunity occurred 
 and the Spirit prompted, he spoke recently 
 of what passed through his mind before and 
 after he lay unconscious under the surgeon's 
 knife. At the earnest request of this friend, 
 he consented to write out what he had thus 
 stated, for the sake of his brethren in the 
 
IN MBMORIAM. 47 
 
 ministry. But he was stricken down again 
 before he could perform the promise ; and we 
 shall hear to-day what he would have written, 
 in the words of one, in the providence of 
 God best fitted of us all to enter into and 
 interpret such deep interior experience.* 
 
 Of my own affection for him, I will not 
 trust myself to speak : 
 
 I had a brother once; 
 Brother at once, and son! 
 
 And who shall venture to tell the story of 
 the tie that made for him a home ? As the 
 heart knoweth its own bitterness so a stranger 
 doth not intermeddle with its joy.* Tender 
 and loving as a woman, with his manly love 
 made still more tender by the illness of the 
 one he loved, he had the satisfaction of see- 
 
 *The Reverend William H. Woolverton, Pastor of the Second Pres- 
 byterian Church of Trenton, who has kindly consented to make the 
 sutement, which will be found on page 65. 
 
 ♦ Prorerb*, 14 : 10. 
 
48 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 ing her health grow stronger and better and 
 brighter in response to his loving care, until 
 she was well-nigh as vigorous as when she 
 first gave herself to him with the same 
 abandonment of afiection with which he gave 
 himself to her. Happy the woman who has 
 been the object of such affection! Happier 
 still that she has reciprocated it with a devo- 
 tion that would gladly have given for him 
 the young life given so unreservedly to him 
 during these few brief, gladsome years ! 
 Happiest of all in the anticipation of sharing 
 it again with him in a world where there is 
 no more parting, and no more pain ; where 
 perfected lyove rules everlastingly. 
 
 I charge and entreat you who have 
 rested in your husband's love hitherto, to 
 rest in that love henceforth. Let that 
 love draw your willing soul always nearer to 
 him, by drawing you always nearer to his 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 49 
 
 and your Saviour. So shall you ever be per- 
 fecting holiness in the fear of the Lord ; and 
 so shall you and he and all your dear ones 
 who thus live and die in faith, and hope and 
 I/)ve, be forever with each other and forever 
 with the Lord. Love never faileth. 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 OF 
 
 REV. J. PRESTON SEARLE, 
 
THE REV. DR. SALISBURY'S COL- 
 LEGE AND SEMINARY 
 COURSE. 
 
 BY REV. J. PRESTON SEARLE. 
 
 I SHALi, never forget a bright September 
 afternoon in the fall of 1871. Our college 
 course had begun but a few days before, and 
 that day the young man who had been sit- 
 ting next me on the right in our recitation- 
 rooms, made the first friendly overtures to me 
 which led to an intimacy the closest, the 
 sweetest, and the most stimulating I have ever 
 enjoyed in my intercourse with men. But of 
 the value of that friendship to me, and the 
 sense of loss which burdens my heart to-day, 
 I have not come here to speak — I could not 
 if I would. Nor is it needful that I should 
 
 (53) 
 
54 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 do SO. You who knew him, know how he 
 could bind men to him as with bands of 
 steel. 
 
 Mr. Salisbury entered college with the class 
 preceding ours. He had been, however, but 
 a ver}?- short time in New Brunswick, when 
 home circumstances compelled his return to 
 his native village for a year. The interval 
 was busily employed, and he returned with 
 a preparation for his college work equaled 
 by that of, perhaps, only one or two of his 
 classmates. But he brought back far more 
 than a mere technical preparation. 
 
 He came to his work with well-developed 
 and splendid powers of application. His sur- 
 roundings had no influence upon him when 
 tasks were to be accomplished. No matter 
 what they were, he could separate himself 
 from them all. His room-mates — and he shared 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 55 
 
 his study sometimes with two or three of 
 them — were not always classmates. They were 
 men, moreover, who drew companions con- 
 stantly around them. Again and again have I 
 seen him in the midst of a babel of noisy 
 voices, happy, undisturbed — absorbed in study, 
 as though he was entirely alone. 
 
 Again, he was endowed with a love 
 for the processes of intellectual eflfort — not 
 alone its resulting knowledge, but the very 
 steps by which that knowledge was ac- 
 quired — and this love amounted to a zest. 
 He luxuriated in hard work for what it 
 was to him in itself. A difficult problem, a 
 knotty translation, an abstruse page in meta- 
 physics, roused him to enthusiasm, as the 
 warrior is roused by conflict with a deter- 
 mined foe. He seemed thus constitutionally 
 free from all inclination to mental indolence, 
 and the mental dissipations others of us loved 
 
56 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 to indulge in under the plea of rest, wearied 
 instead of attracted him with their false 
 charms. 
 
 There was also in all his thinking a 
 certain broad-minded deliberation, very un- 
 usual, at least among those beginning a college 
 course. He never plunged impetuously along 
 lines of study that were untried. There was 
 always something that seemed like hesitancy, 
 to those who did not understand him, in his 
 attitude towards a subject new to his thought. 
 It was anything else but hesitancy, however. 
 He looked at these subjects first on all their 
 sides, and then he sought their heart — just as 
 the bird will often hover for a moment over 
 its prey the more surely to secure it, would 
 he study a question until some line of cleav- 
 age, reaching to its very centre, would be 
 discerned, and then never did wing, with 
 truer, swifter flight, bear bird to its victim 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 57 
 
 than did his mind bear him to the object 
 that he sought. 
 
 But, best of all, he brought to all his 
 work a most conscientious faithfuness. What 
 he undertook to do, must be done by 
 him just as well as it could possibly be 
 done. If he ever shared the common ten- 
 dency to slight some things, at least when 
 we think the process is a safe one, he had 
 educated himself out of it, until carelessness 
 in work had become for him almost an im- 
 possibility. His fraternity and seminary work, 
 in which no question of class standing was 
 involved, evidenced this. The task of the 
 day, or of the hour, completely finished, he 
 regarded as the best foundation he could lay 
 for the possible tasks of the future. And 
 when this spirit animated real abilities, quick 
 perception, retentive memory, discriminating 
 judgment, such as were his, and is a conse- 
 
58 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 crated spirit, the Lord takes care that promo- 
 tion shall be sure. The faithful in the few 
 things always become the rulers in the many 
 when the servants serve Him. This the 
 whole of my friend's career has proved anew. 
 Plonors and responsibilities have been his, 
 but he never reached out a selfish hand to 
 grasp them ; they simply came to him. 
 
 Working thus, Mr. Salisbury was soon recog- 
 nized by us as the probable leader of our class, 
 and the conjecture was fully realized. His 
 leadership was easily maintained in every term 
 and in almost every study of the four years' 
 course. And at the risk of passing outside the 
 limits of the theme assigned me, I must say 
 that all was done with such absence of sel- 
 fishness and self-assertion, with so much of 
 consideration and justice and generosity — and 
 of this last characteristic I wish I could give 
 some of the illustrations crowding upon my 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 59 
 
 recollection — that no one envied him. He 
 was our leader and he was our pride. 
 
 It followed, also, from his methods of 
 work, that he carried forth from college far 
 more than a well-stored memory. He had 
 gained a rarely disciplined mind. His 
 thought, even the most spontaneous, was 
 ordered, correct thought. Here, although 
 joined with gifts of voice and of manner, 
 was the secret of the eloquence which he 
 could make felt even through the medium 
 of the class-room speech, and of the power 
 of which, reaching to his public service of 
 prayer, we have heard to-day. 
 
 His seminary course was, with the excep- 
 tion of two marked particulars, a continuation 
 of his college work. 
 
 It was inevitable that a mind like his, in 
 which accurate thinking had become a habit. 
 
6o IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 when brought in contact with the stupendous 
 themes theology includes, themes, moreover, 
 which must be clumsily handled in the best 
 of human text-books, should be led into 
 earnest questionings. Happily for him his 
 experimental knowledge of the truth was too 
 rich and deep for these questionings to resolve 
 themselves into doubt. In the end with him 
 they only broadened, strengthened faith. 
 
 The other particular distinguishing his semi- 
 nary from his college life was of a very dif- 
 ferent kind. The Lord began to discipline 
 him upon another side than the intellectual 
 one. The same dread disease to which he 
 has, alas, fallen a victim laid its relentless 
 hold upon the mother, to whom splendid and 
 deserved tribute has been already paid, and 
 whose devotion he lovingly, loyally returned. His 
 time for months was divided between his semi- 
 nary duties and ministering to her. Grief at 
 
IN MKMORIAM. 6l 
 
 her sufferings and her loss also threw its de- 
 pressing influence over him. He always felt, 
 I know, although his seminary course was an 
 exceedingly creditable one, that he had been 
 in a measure crippled for its routine work. 
 There were compensations, however, that he 
 and we can see better now than then. 
 Through the experiences of that bitter season 
 he was made ready to minister tenderly, in- 
 telligently, eflficiently, to hundreds of suffering 
 souls, and, in part, doubtless was prepared 
 to face hours of agony and at last death 
 itself with a fortitude whose calmness was 
 like that in which the ordinary duties of 
 daily life are usually approached by any of us. 
 
 And he, the friend, the pastor, the hus- 
 band, has gone forth from us. I,et us re- 
 member, however, that with talents faithfully 
 improved, freed now from the burden of the 
 
62 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 body, from the cares and the clustering ob- 
 scurities which enwrap the earthly life, he 
 serves still, and before the throne of God. 
 He has gone forth from us, by the grace of 
 Him who saves, for a season only. When a 
 few more years, or days, have come, not 
 amid the gathering shadows of some autumn 
 afternoon, but instead amid the bursting 
 glories of an eternal dawn, this old-time 
 intimacy shall be renewed in all its closeness, 
 in all its sweetness, in all its power to uplift 
 and help. 
 
 Thus may it be with you, his people, to 
 whom his heart was given. Thus may it 
 be with her who was dearer, far dearer, to 
 him than friend. 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 OF 
 
 REV. WM. H. WOOLVERTON 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 BY 
 
 The Rev. W. H. Woolverton. 
 
 I STAND in this place to-day because it 
 was my privilege to be taken into the con- 
 fidence of our departed friend and brother, 
 and that with reference to his deepest life. 
 I shall not soon forget a stormy afternoon in 
 November, the occasion of our last inter- 
 view together. Though stormy and dark 
 without, 'twas calm and bright enough within. 
 Most earnestly do I wish that every one who 
 questions the reality of the Christian religion, 
 who doubts its living power, might have 
 been there, too, and heard his honest, hope- 
 ful words, and felt the influence of his de- 
 lightful spirit. 
 
 5 (65) 
 
66 IN MSMORIAM. 
 
 He was indeed an object lesson in trust 
 and patience, peace and hope. And who will 
 say that he was not brought back here a 
 few months ago with that intent ; to im- 
 press his devoted people, his brethren of the 
 ministry, to impress us all, beloved? And 
 who will say that it has not done this 
 already, in the special benediction that even 
 now seems to be resting upon our churches? 
 It did seem as if the very week of prayer 
 was sanctified by his uplifting presence. 
 
 But I must limit myself to our interview. 
 I am merely to echo that. 
 
 The central thought of it, to which he 
 again and again recurred, was ^^ Abiding in 
 Christ/^ how much it meant to him; how 
 much more than ever before. I remem- 
 ber questioning him on this, when with 
 brightened look he said, " 'Tis so much 
 more real and satisfying than it used to be." 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 67 
 
 "Abiding in Christ, in Him we possess all 
 things, pardon, peace and the inheritance." 
 He dwelt especially upon the last. With 
 thoughtful look he would repeat the words, 
 "the inheritance." How rich and real it 
 seemed to him ! He recalled his feelings that 
 Friday morning last spring when he started 
 for New York for the trying ordeal through 
 which he had to pass. It was a trying 
 ordeal, trying alike for him and his These 
 are his very w^ords. Though he had "always 
 had a strong love for life," yet that morning 
 as he took the cars from here, "M^ world 
 had a far-away look'' to him He was per- 
 fectly resigned to leave it. That same Friday 
 night he rested as peacefully as ever, more 
 so, if anything, he said. He had no mis- 
 givings whatever. He was in the Lord 
 Christ's hands, and all was well. When on 
 Saturday morning he received word that every- 
 
68 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 thing was ready, lie walked down stairs and 
 into the operating room without a tremor. 
 Then shaking hands with the four doctors in 
 attendance, he climbed upon the operating 
 table and trustfully committed himself unto 
 the L,ord. 
 
 Thus calmly and with unfaltering trust he 
 faced the end which seemed indeed so immi- 
 nent. And this feeling was not a transient 
 one, but abiding. It followed him all through 
 the spring and summer ; it came back here 
 with him in the fall ; it manifested itself in 
 his preaching, as his discerning hearers no- 
 ticed, and as one of them remarked, * ' he 
 preaches like a man who has been down to 
 the river's edge, and caught sight of the 
 other shore." 
 
 He told me of the delightful seasons of 
 communion that he had upon his bed last 
 summer ; not at regular, recurring intervals, 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 69 
 
 as morning and evening, but whenever he 
 felt like praying. How characteristic this was 
 of him ! There was nothing forced nor stereo- 
 typed about him. There was utter absence of 
 all pretence and cant. *He could not say one 
 thing and mean another. When he prayed, 
 he prayed, his heart was in his prayer. If 
 he could not pray, he would not make 
 believe ' 
 
 In speaking of his suflferings, and of their 
 effect upon him, he brought up one of Henry 
 Ward Beecher's striking pictures in which he 
 portrayed two kinds of storms : the win- 
 ter storm, which is chilling, wasting and 
 devastating in its effects ; and the storm 
 of summer, which is refreshing, beautify- 
 ing and life-giving. In applying the figure 
 to himself (and I well remember his expres- 
 sion and the deep impression he made upon 
 my mind; I try to recall his very words'^. 
 
JO IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 ' * I am devoutly thankful, ' ' said he, ' ' that 
 my sufferings have been like the latter, — like 
 the refreshing summer storm. They have 
 certainly done me good." He somehow felt 
 he was closer akin to the Man of Sorrows 
 in consequence of them. For right out of 
 the midst of them he writes: "My gratitude 
 to God for His goodness to me knows no 
 bounds. His hand has saved me from death, 
 and has brought me triumphantly through my 
 sufferings. Surely there is no God like unto 
 ours'^ 
 
 What a magnificent spirit this. And it fol- 
 lowed him all through. In some respects the 
 like of him we shall not see again. Such 
 patience, gentleness, goodness, faith ! He 
 was indeed a master to us in all of these. 
 But the Lord has taken him from our head 
 to-day, taken him in a chariot of fire — cer- 
 

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 IN MEMORIAM. 71 
 
 tainly of fire ; taken him to the better land ; 
 taken him to Himself. And as we fondly, 
 feelingly think of him, think of his rare 
 gifts and graces, of his devoted life and 
 well-crowned work, words like the bereft 
 Klisha's leap longingly from our lips: Our 
 brother, our brother, the chariot of Israel 
 and the horsemen thereof! May a double 
 portion of thy spirit rest upon us all ! 
 
RESOLUTIONS, 
 
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CATSKILL 
 CHURCH. 
 
 The Consistory of the First Reformed 
 Church of Catskill, N. Y., at a late meeting 
 unanimously adopted the following preamble 
 and resolutions : 
 
 Whereas, God in His inscrutable provi- 
 dence has released from his work the Rev. 
 John H. Salisbury, D.D., a child of this 
 Church, who was reared and once had his 
 home among us ; therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved^ That in the recognition of the 
 Divine Hand in the strange movement of 
 His work, we bow in humble submission to 
 the will of Him "who doeth all things 
 well." 
 
 Resolved, That this Church here record 
 their high appreciation of the character of 
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76 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 Dr. Salisbury, the noble work he has done 
 in the field in which God had placed him, 
 and express their most hearty sympathy with 
 the stricken widow and Church. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 
 be sent to Mrs. Salisbury, be put upon the 
 minutes of the Church and published in The 
 Christian Intelligencer and the Catskill papers. 
 
 By order of Consistory. 
 
 K. Van Si^ykk, President, 
 W. R. Post, Clerk. 
 
 Catskill, January ii, 1891. 
 
RKSOI.UTIONS OF THE COXSACKIE 
 CHURCH. 
 
 At a meeting of the Consistory of the 
 Second Reformed Church, Coxsackie, N. Y., 
 held January 19th, 1891, the following action 
 was taken by a unanimous vote : 
 
 Whereas, God, our Heavenly Father, in 
 His inscrutable and all-wise providence has 
 called unto Himself our very dear friend, the 
 Rev. John H. Salisbury, D.D., who for nine 
 and a half years was the beloved Pastor of 
 the Second Reformed Church, Coxsackie, N. 
 Y. ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That we, the Consistory of that 
 church, in behalf of ourselves and the mem- 
 bership, do spread upon our records the fol- 
 lowing minute: 
 
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78 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 I. The Rev. J. H. Salisbury was called to 
 this pastorate while still in the Theological 
 Seminary, and was ordained to the Gospel 
 ministry in this church, which he served 
 from July 2d, 1878, until December 20th, 
 1887, when he was regretfully dismissed to 
 accept the call of the Fourth Presbyterian 
 Church of Trenton, N. J. His ministry with 
 us was full of the ardor of consecrated young 
 manhood, and marked with a rapidly ripen- 
 ing judgment, as well as an increasing intel- 
 lectual and spiritual power. Every year wit- 
 nessed a substantial addition to the church 
 on profession of faith, and a greater indoc- 
 trination of the membership in the blessed 
 truths of the Bible. He greatly stimulated 
 the benevolent interest of the church, and 
 wisely conserved the various departments of 
 church activity. The years of his pastorate 
 were years of uninterrupted harmony in the 
 
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 church, and of his increasing influence and 
 regard in the community. We greatly re- 
 spected him for his ability as a Christian 
 teacher, and rejoiced "in the things new and 
 old" he so earnestly presented out of the 
 treasure house of God's Word. We greatly 
 loved him for his Christian spirit and for his 
 counsel, sympathy and prayers in times of 
 trouble and sorrow ; and we feel that his 
 death, even after more than three years' ab- 
 sence and service to another church, is a 
 personal bereavement. 
 
 2. We tender to his bereaved wife our pro- 
 found sympathy in her overwhelming sorrow, 
 and commend her to the sustaining love of 
 our Heavenly Father, who responds to our 
 broken-hearted questionings with His most 
 comforting love, and who also says, ''What 
 I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt 
 know hereafter." 
 
8o IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 3. That this minute be published in The 
 Christian Intelligencer^ and a copy be trans- 
 mitted to Mrs. Salisbury. 
 
 F. S. Barnum, President, 
 
 S. H. Van Dyck, Clerk. 
 
RESOLUTIONS OF THE FOURTH PRES- 
 BYTERIAN CHURCH OF TRENTON. 
 
 ADOPTED SUNDAY, JANUARY IlTH, 1891. 
 
 Whereas, It has been the will of our 
 Heavenly Father to remove from us, by death, 
 the beloved Pastor of this church, the Session 
 and Trustees desire to present the following 
 resolutions for your acceptance : 
 
 Resolved, That we desire to express our 
 sense of gratitude to God, that He provided 
 for us such a Shepherd to feed and oversee 
 this flock, and that it has been our privilege 
 for three years to enjoy his precious ministry. 
 
 Resolved, That we hereby bear testimony 
 
 to his deep devotion to his people, his 
 
 earnest spirituality, his high intellectual gifts, 
 
 his noble aim and sanctified ambition to make 
 
 full proof of his ministry in building up 
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82 IN MKMORIAM. 
 
 Christ's people in their most holy faith and 
 in bringing the unconverted to a knowledge 
 of the great salvation. 
 
 Resolved^ That we will ever remember the 
 power and earnestness of his prayers, the force 
 and fervor of his sermons, his prudence and 
 faithfulness as a pastor ; and will gratefully 
 cherish his walk and conversation amongst us 
 as an example to lead us to greater consecra- 
 tion to the interests of this church and to the 
 great work to which he devoted his life. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee be appointed to 
 acompany the remains to the place of burial, 
 and that this church be draped in mourning 
 for thirty days. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 
 be entered on the minutes of the Session and 
 of the Board of Trustees, and that a copy of 
 them be sent to his wife, to whom we hereby 
 desire to express our deepest sympathy and 
 our affectionate regard. 
 
RESOLUTIONS OF THE PRESBYTERY. 
 
 At the Intermediate Meeting of the Pres- 
 bytery of New Brunswick, held in the Second 
 Presbyterian Church of Trenton, January 27th, 
 1891, the death of the Rev. Dr. John H. Salis- 
 bury was announced, and the following minute 
 adopted : 
 
 This Presbytery desires — 
 
 1. To thank God for His covenant faithful- 
 ness as exhibited again in his dealings with 
 our departed brother. 
 
 2. To express our appreciation of the worth 
 of him who has been called away and of 
 the consequent loss to us. 
 
 3. To make known to the sorrowing widow 
 and to the widowed church our deep sympa- 
 thy with them in their bereavement. 
 
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84 IN MBMORIAM. 
 
 4. To pray that tliey and we may be 
 comforted with the comfort with which the 
 God of all comfort alone can comfort his 
 bereaved ones. 
 
 5. To send copies of this minute to the 
 bereaved widow and church and to enter it 
 upon our records for the benefit of those who 
 come after us, that they, too, may learn to 
 put their trust in God. 
 
DR. SALISBURY'S MEMORIAL. 
 
 HIS PRAYERS. 
 
 To the Editor of The Christian Intelligencer: Before 
 your readers can see these words the little volume " In 
 Memory of the Reverend John Henry Salisbury, D. D,," 
 will be on sale at the rooms of the Board of Publication. 
 The substance of certain historical notes, which should have 
 been printed with it, I have sent to the Catskill Recorder. 
 
 After the funeral services it was discovered that the re- 
 porter (whom I had engaged for the purpose) had steno- 
 graphic notes of two of Dr. Salisbury's prayers of October 
 19, 1890. They are fair specimens of his usual prayers at 
 public worship, and will be valued by those who loved him, 
 I therefore send them to you for publication. 
 
 John B. Thompson. 
 
 Trenton, N. J., March 31, 1891. 
 
 MORNING PRAYER. 
 
 We thank Thee, O God, our Heavenly Father, 
 for the privilege of coming again to Thy courts 
 that we may pray, and praise, and worship. 
 
 We are glad to know that we can come, not to 
 the mountain that burned with fire, into the storm 
 and tempest, unto the voice of a trumpet and the 
 voice of words, a sight so terrible that Thy servant 
 Moses said: "I exceedingly fear and quake." We 
 
S6 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 are glad that we rather can come to the mount 
 assigned for those who worship Thee in spirit and 
 in truth, that has been made secure by the pres- 
 ence of our dear Saviour. 
 
 We are glad for the privilege of sitting once 
 more at His feet and listening to the holy words 
 that proceed from His mouth. We have read in 
 Thy word that the secret of the Lord is with them 
 that fear Him. We have read that the secret 
 things of God are hidden from the wise and pru- 
 dent and revealed unto babes. 
 
 We bless Thee, O God, that we can come into 
 such nearness unto Thyself that we can hear Thy 
 precepts, that we can feel the touch of Thy hand 
 upon us; and we are glad to be instructed by such 
 wisdom as only Thou canst bestow upon Thy 
 waiting people. We are glad to be encircled by 
 Thy love. O, Father, grant that we may this day 
 come very near to Thee; and may we feel that 
 Thou art present to bless us according to our needs. 
 
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 We thank Thee for the rest that Thou dost give 
 our bodies. May we receive it as Thou dost give 
 it to us, and in our acceptance of it may we be 
 better prepared for the days to follow, knowing 
 that to-morrow soon will come with its toil and 
 burdens; that soon again we will be confused by 
 all its manifold tumult. May it make us more 
 quiet, more at rest, and more blessed in all things, 
 and more useful for all time to come. 
 
 We thank Thee also for that rest of soul which 
 Thou dost give Thy people. May it be a rest in 
 our hearts, a benediction in our inner life; and by 
 these saving and healing influences may we be, on 
 earth and in time, lifted up into the very presence 
 of God, our Father. 
 
 We are glad that we can come to this sanctuary. 
 We come to it to-day as to a place of refuge, as to 
 a place of shelter from the beating storms of every- 
 day life, as to a place for the perplexed in the 
 affairs of this life, a place for the poor and needy 
 
88 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 in heart; and, O God, may no soul that waits upon 
 Thee in the true spirit this morning go away from 
 this place without receiving the blessing that we 
 are waiting for Thee to bestow. Give large re- 
 plies to our prayers; and even while we pray may 
 our souls be filled with the blessed assurance that 
 Thou dost answer the prayers of Thy people. 
 
 We thank Thee to-day above all things else for 
 our Saviour, Jesus Christ; we thank Thee that He 
 once came to this earth and died to save us, a 
 sacrifice for sin, by whom and through whom all 
 things have been accomplished in us. 
 
 Hear the promises we make to-day to be true 
 and loyal, promises to give Thee the undivided 
 love of our hearts; and grant that, as the days 
 come, Christ may rule in our hearts and fill our 
 lives with holier and nobler influences. Hear us 
 to-day as we promise Thee to live better than we 
 have done in the past. We have sinned; but, O, 
 Jesus, help us to sin no more against Thee. 
 
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 Direct us in business engagements; in domestic 
 and commercial perplexities; make us useful 
 among men. Help us, Father, to live honest lives 
 in the sight of all men. Prosper that which we 
 undertake, so far as Thou seest is profitable for 
 us, so that prosperity, which is of itself useful, 
 may be sanctified to us as coming from Thee who 
 giveth all things. Grant us Thy strength; and 
 may we look to Thee in our weakness. May we 
 give Thee our life, our entire life, unbegrudged. 
 
 And now, wilt Thou be kind unto all, the old 
 and the young, the strong and the weak, and those 
 bowed down under heavy burdens. Send messages 
 of salvation to bless those who are perplexed and 
 in trouble of any kind. Speak to those who are 
 tried and borne down by poverty. Bless them in 
 their need. Speak words of comfort and cheer to 
 the grief-stricken ones in whose presence we are 
 dumb. 
 
 Father, hear us in behalf of the prodigals who 
 
90 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 have wandered from their heavenly Father's love. 
 Hear us in behalf of the murderers of fathers and 
 mothers, and hear us in behalf of the evil and the 
 unfaithful ones. O God, let Thy benedictions fall 
 upon the hearts of all men. 
 
 Bless our Church in all her interests. Be with 
 the ministers of the Gospel all over the world to- 
 day as they stand to proclaim messages of salvation 
 from Thy holy word. Let Thy grace fall into the 
 hearts of those who rule, and Thy love into the 
 hearts of all people. And Thy Name, Father, Son 
 and Spirit, shall have all the praise forever. Amen. 
 
 EVENING PRAYER. 
 
 Our Father who art in heaven, we come once 
 more to Thy house to worship Thee, who art a 
 Spirit, in spirit and in truth. We, to-night, join 
 with the church of all times and of all lands and 
 give praise unto Thy great and holy name, because 
 of Thy grace and Thy truth. We are a part of 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 9I 
 
 the church of God, the whole of which Thou alone 
 canst see; and we would to-night add our voices 
 to those that are continually coming up before 
 Thee, in personal thanksgiving. As we assemble 
 here, we pray Thee, touch our hearts; and, if they 
 be hearts of stone, make them hearts of flesh. We 
 wish to be in the spirit of worship. O God, give 
 us the open ear, the attentive ear, with a desire to 
 listen to the words of Holy Writ. We fear that 
 our ears are so filled with the noises of the world 
 that we do not hear the callings of the divine voice, 
 which should be the sweetest music to our ears. 
 
 Do Thy work in us. Enable us to say: "Lord, 
 what speakest Thou ?" and help us to answer: 
 " Speak, for Thy servants hear." We wish to hear 
 Thy voice. We desire to be in all things as Thou 
 wouldst have us be; and we would have our hearts 
 inflamed with a desire to know Thy will and do It. 
 
 Our Father, give us a great and large answer to 
 our prayers. Hear us as we pray for ourselves, 
 
92 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 for our dear ones, for our homes and for all the 
 interests that are dear to our hearts. 
 
 We hope to give Thee a better life in the future 
 than we have given Thee in the past. Turn the 
 page for us and witness for us, especially in our 
 vows, that we may be constant in Thy service and 
 watch daily and hourly unto prayer. Help us to 
 devote all our energies to the Lord's work. Oh, 
 do Thou help us to honor Thy dear name among 
 men. 
 
 O God, we thank Thee for our Saviour's death. 
 We thank Thee that He rose from the dead, and 
 are glad that He now sits at the right hand of 
 God, the Father, where he ever liveth to make in- 
 tercession for us. Cleanse us by His blood. Sanc- 
 tify us by His Spirit. May we know the peace of 
 forgiven sins. And may we know what is that 
 sweet and blessed fellowship through the Eternal 
 Spirit. 
 
 And now, our Father, all things are known unto 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 93 
 
 Thee. All things concerning us are known unto 
 Thee; and, we pray Thee, still look down upon us 
 as Thy children. 
 
 Bless our church in all her interests. Bless our 
 Sunday school. Bless our prayer meetings. Bless 
 our missionary endeavors. Bless all who desire 
 to do Thy work. Bless all Thy people together. 
 Grant us such a revelation of Thyself to-night that 
 we shall be satisfied that we have come here for a 
 blessing, and have received it. 
 
 O God, send us back an answer to our prayers, 
 an answer of pardon, of assurance and peace 
 through our Lord Jesus Christ. And Thy name. 
 Father, Son and Spirit, shall have the praise for- 
 ever. Amen. 
 
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