Memorial Services

At the memorial aervfcei 1 1- ■ 1 1 at th M. E. iliurch la.st Sunday aiternooi in liuiior of the late Dr. Studle.v, . ver.v ïai-ui' ooogrgaLoo was preseni ibr peopte of all denominatiuiis, au dii .-ïiadi-s of pinion reepected an rcvered tlhr Doblo nian ■ 1 1 wbose mem oiy t'li.'v i'i-i' li-icl. The prograiniii :! srv'il upon 1lH occasion was a llollows : Marche Fimebre, .... Chopll " I'eace Troubled Soul," D, Buck ScHpture, Kov. C. A. Young, Church of the Disclples liijmn 10',,'. Prayer, Rev. A.S. Cnrman. ]st Bsptiët Church ■ I ain the Vine," - - - Jules Jordán MEMORIAL ADDKI Viographtcal. I'rof. Henry S. Carlmrt Al a ('hriütian Man, - - - The Pastor. Relations to this (Jhurch, Prof. V. L. Walter. MUSIC. ' Christian. the Morn Breaks Sweetly o'er Thee," " shelk-y. MEMORIAL ADDBK8SK8. Inlluonce in this Community, Kev. J. M. Gelston, lst Prêsljyterian church. As a Preacher of the Uospel, Kev. J. ff. Bradshaw, lst Cong. Church. Relations to the Dniverslty, President James i. Angelí. llviim 656. BENEDICTION. The práyer offet-od by Bev. A. S. Carinan was fuil of feeliug, and reflected i'iu' kjndly tonpoleea that filis the icart-s of the eople. This was folltowed by a biograifliical sketch by Prof. H. S. Carlvart, of the University, who spoke as follows : It is fitting that we should pauso in the midst of our hurrying life and pass n review the important evento in the career of those who have linished their course aud passed on to their reward. Soswiftly do theoccurrencesof the whole world ]kiss before our eyes in these times oí alniost instantaneous transmissiou of intelligence tliat the uapressions of one day are oveilaid or obUtersted by those of the next. The death of the mightiesl gives but slight check to the unseemly liaste oí tliis breathlese age ; while the disappearance of even intellectual leaders causes only a ripple on the surface wbich the next passing wave obscures. We teel a spasniodic shock at the aewstbatone whom we honor and admire has gone bis unknown way into the unseen bevond, but only the loss of our nearest and dearest ones can recall us for more thau a brief interval trom our absorbing vocations. Perhapa it ia better so. We are all involved in the same inevitable decreeof death, and the work of our lives must not be too seriously interrupted by the departure of our friends in advance of us, lest our task be not tinished when the Master shall cali us. But it will serve to strengtheo our faiiing nerves and quicken our Hagging zeal and stimulate our weakening purposes if we contémplate the successes, the sterling worth, the untlagging zeal, the sustaiued activity, the heroic final struggle and victory of our friends who liave only just finished their course. So I ask you to turn back with me to contémplate again the serene though sorely tried life of our friend, who has so recently entered into his William Sprague Studley was bom in Boston seventy years ago, on the 26th of May next. He was uot precocious as a youth, though with wliat adverse circumstances he may have struggled I do uot know beyond the fact that he learned the printer's art and by its means lielped himself in his edueation ; for after preparatory study at Wilbrahain Academy and his college course at Wesleyan university, he carne forth for his work a mature man at the age of 27. Dr. Winchell, who was his junior by nearly two years, was a senior in college when Dr. Studley was a freshman ; but a close friendship was established. between these two noble souls in those early days which continued till death did them part. How beautifully Dr. Studley told of their friendship at Dr. Winchell's funeral, few of us who heard him can forget. Death which separated them then, has again reunited them after two years alinost to a day. Iminediately after graduation Dr. Studley entered the Methodist ministry and remained in it nearly forty-three years. Near his life's close he said, " Dig my grave deep, and put upon niy tombstone ' W. 8. Studley, forty-three years a preacher of the gospel.' " During those last weeks of his life with periods of intense suffering, he often expreased the hope that he might preach one more sermón, which he had thought out during his illness ; and he more than once gave expression to the conviction that he had wasted many of his earlier opportunities to accomplish lastiug results by preaching doctrinal sermona, as distinguished from those persuasiva appeala to all that is good in os, and by thoee repeated efforts to mpress upon his hearera the conviction of io.l's abiding love and niercy which are still su fresh in our memories. Dr. Stu. Hoy was i preacher, lirat, last and all the time. He had 110 anibition for official place and power. It would liave been simply impoasible for him to adopt the methods of a politician, alas! too common even among clergymen, for the l)ur]ose of securing the election of liimself as agent of the.book concern, or as editor otan official paper, or as general secretary of some great department of cburch work, or even as bishop, graating that be had a desire for bocii official position. He held steadily to the work to which he at first devoted hiniself, without wavering, without wearineas, and with a buoyancy of interest and a keenness of relish that always kept him younger tlian his years. In a re('ent letter to me, Professor i Van Vleck, of Middletown, Coon., a classmate oí Dr. Studley, saya: "I can't think of Studley as anythJDg but a ' vouthfnl man. Such he has ahvays ■ been when I haveseen him." . The churches which BOUgüt him as pasturare among the Btrongest in the denomination. Six years at Malden, 1 Charlestown, and Loweil, [ass.; nine i years, in all, in Boston, within which ime he was one of the overseers of Harvard university ; nine yearg at s int periods in 'Brooklyn; again at I jOWell, New Bedford, " and Newton; c then at Cineinnati, Buffalo, Lock)ort ind Detroit; and flnally in Aun Arbor tnd Evanston, such service c strates that he was distinctively a g reacher and stood in the foremost rank. Dr. Studley was twice married- once it the time of )iis first paatorate to Miss 'ranees A. Collins, of Boston, who E ived a little over a year afterwards ; and {1 igain to Miss Mary Irene Smith, of Charlestüwn, Mass., who survives him and for whom we all have an 1 ionate regard. Seldom does death pass v lear one so often as in his case. Of c, our daughteis and two sons only two aughters remain. The two Bons were e tricken down during the last year of b lis own life. And ypt lio bJmself carne of a lmij; lived stock. It is said that his mother and grandmother, and nine of his grandlothar's sisters, all lived to be over 70 eara of age. One of the adoramenta of hia parlor was a photograph of Lis grandmother and her sisters all in a group and all beyond tliree score years and ten. Can we ever forget liis magnificent voice? Sliall we ever hear our bymns ind Scripture lessons so read again? is no dsparagemeat to others to reall these qualities, for alniost no other jreacher ever had sucli a voice- so full, nd deep, and rich. Nature had gloriusly endowed him ; grace had sweetly oned him ; and his own manly, sterling ml spnke to ns in his mellow voice. It niost reinakable that tbia rich, strong oice survived his long illness and reïsed to yield to his physical weakness. One of the last heautiful incidents of his life illustrates this fact. At the morning service of his church on the day of his departure, the congregation passed the lollowini? resohitinn : "We desire as a congregation to express to our beloved pastor, Dr. Studley, our gratitude to hint for all the blessings and UBpirations of his teachings and example, and our great love for him. We can not teil him how full our béarta are of Bympathy with him and prayer for him. We tliank God for the grace which enables him with such faith and patience to awáit God's lioly will, and even from his sick room to preach to us a sermón we can never forget." In tJie afternoon as he aroused from his stupor his son-in-law said to him that he liad some words from the congregation addressed to him. Dr. Little was in the parlor down-stairs and he heard the words full, and olear, and 3trong as Dr. Studley replied: "Kead it !" When Mr. Gray had fmislied readmg he replied: "Thanks be unto God For his unspeakable gifts. Lord let now thy servant depart in peace." He then pronounced a tender, touchiug, benedic:ion upn the family group gathered round him, relapsed into unconciousness tor two or three hours, and passed away ivithout speaking again. It was my privilege to attent! the funeral and to look upon the calm, serene face of our dead friend. The serenity, so characteristic of him in life, seemêd stamped upon his brow in death. Many incidents of his last days were recited to me which it would not'be ppropriate to repeat here. But all go to show that he retained his calm, unruffled temper of mind to the end. No complaiut ever escaped his lips; and if pain caused a groan to escape him, he excused him self to his watchers for his weakness kvery detail of his funeral was arrangei by himself in advance, in order tha eyerything might be conducted in the simplest manner and without ostenta tation or display. Exquisite flowers which he so Ioved on account of his poetic temperament, were provided by loving friends in riuh prolusión. The prevailing feeling was not that of poigiiant grief for one suddenly stricken down in early life, but rather of submission to the departure of one vvho had rounded out a weil-spent life- the shock of well-rounded corn gathered into the granary. His unruffled temper, his sunny disposition must ever remain both a reproof and an example to many who have had the good fortune to share his friendship. Dr. Canuten XI. Cobern spoke of "Dr. Studley Aa a Christinn Maa." Amoiïg othr tliangs hc &aid : ' To follow in a pastorate such a man as Dr. Studley is a stimulous and a bleasing. There are not maiiy men in the church as symmetrical as he, as good, as pure, as wise, as intellectiially invigorating, as inflexible in conviction and as loyal to the truth, and yet so judicious in speech, so broad in sympathv, so tolerant and gracious as he. " Perhaps above evcrything else that whfch always impressed me most in Dr. Studley was nis absolute manliness. He needed uo herald to go before him to cry this is a man. Men kuew him hen they saw him. Diogenes woul have stopped when he met him and blown out h s caadle and said,' Here he is. I have found him, This is the man.' It was uot llmply hla pnysique.it was hlmself that impressed i'uelf upon all that saw him, and the louger aud better one knew him the more clearly he recoguized his manliuess and strength. He was so stroug that it never seemed an effort tor him to say the right thing in the best way. He never seemed to strive, he never did strive to preach great scrmons. What he said was the frank outflowing of the every day thoughts of his rich, full life. The common people heard him gladly and said: ' How plaiu he talks, I understaud every word.' And the thoughtfui scholar went out saylug ' How profound.' He had found the secret of strength. He never spoke much, I thiuk, of his personal religious experienM. He believed in power of truth aud reasou to conquer and lead men, f think a stranger to those bursts of sudden impulse and those gusts of fervor which so many confound with pure and undeflled religProf. E. I,. WalU-rs dwelt upon -'His RelationB to this rhuivh." The life of Dr. stuii-, vu.s peculiar lo that it hnpreseed every ma by lts cbeerfoiness. Thi:s twu'yant feeling preraded all bCB worka and acta : in [act he did iiot remember m sánele sermón ever pceactaed by ln'in that did not plalaly iiKlictite it. He reg-arded ,arrows as eveaitiiiiUly bleestogs, but hc sympathi'aed wlth thioae In trouiip, and was OM of fflw KbkdMt of friends. He batd Min bot loved tbe sinner. ■As ;i Preacoer of tihe Gospel," Ber. J. W. Bradabaw reiïnrded hini as a man f great h?trenirt.li and iover. H ■l'l a wxmderfa] fat-ulty of iniiiart.iiir (Ma kiKiwidiji;' and goodsem to otlwis. No ooe could listen to h;m witJiont belng cbwrmed iy hia wonls anü Impre8d with liis tlnoiiirlits. President Angelí iviVrrcd to tihe relataone of Dr. stmücv bo tiie UniverBttjjr. ilc sail it 'liad irot been lii .nood ftii'tniic totUTe luid that iiei-gonalLintercoiiiise witli Dr. studley whicb would iKTiinit hiin Ki Bpeak of him jth thiat fnlliicss of knmvledffe that ■he ourfii!. a.ml he houid hesUate to sixak f t ere not to testify to hia Iirrsi.nnl itrcm for tö Who liad SUCh a aobía cbaracter. i'mv peoplo posse.setMl.tlie saniie fcMdtxnifl coniliination of good quant rs. }[!■ nerrer mot Dr. Sruilli'.v but it seenicd like a burat i" su.nsiii'iH'. iir wi 11 recollected a 'I'l'ia.nks.u;.-, iin; dHBCKMOWe wliioll WB9 ÜKteed one. of tlvonliBgilving, and sent all hoarers to tbétr homos with heartfl owrllowiinisi witlli liapplincss and gratitudi TJne uympattoy, tn whleh he was ri ■!h, the broadness of mind, and catihol'v spirit o) tlw man OHeltod general arimïnitiun. H KXM alxivc tlio barriera oí demominaitlon and communcd :n CSjrlBtiam rallowahip wlth the wortd. To .viiuii.u: men iily appealed, and never grew so oll timt lie ccuiil 1,0 1 aee thrmurh young p iopleVeyes. H-e tíeath woalibe mournöd al! .v;r uk. world, few yOnog men and youmg wonnen who bad ltetened töhJïn :ci-i' had ,u":i" torth to try i., oninlai,' r . gcod example in tli'-ir bat tl" 01 lifc. "■■i-e uttiniiiy cloeed i s:ag th.-:t familiar hymn, the ïavur:;" ot Dr. Studley, "Jesius l.iv.-r oí 111 y Soml." Uve Howiil Reputaban (flves Um following stiuisttela : Onere arc 1,422 church mem 1 era in tbat city dlvlded as foilows : M. K. ( ii -h 4Ö2 ; l'resbyfcertam 85Ö ; 280; Baptist 205 ; Germán Evaog. 70 ; Eptecopalion 40 ; Advent 25. Tl;o Sinulny Schools of tihe city are nttended by ctolldren ae Jo'Iowb : M. E.,410; Presbytrtan 850; Ba.ptú8t, 225; Germen 75. total. 1060.