Memorial papers and reminiscences of Howard Crosby, D. D., LL. D.

I. New York

William Knowles, Publisher.

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COPYRIGHT SECURED 1892.

Printed for Family Distribution.

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Dedication

I dedicate to the youth of our family and their descendants this collection of memorials of my dear brother, Howard Crosby, whose life was a " living epistle " of the grace of God, with the prayer that they may follow in his footsteps, inasmuch as he followed Christ, and become partakers of "like precious faith."

M. C.

CHAPTER V. Miscellaneous, - 374

{Written one hour before his death.}

I write finally ; I know I can never see you again.

I give up my pulpit.

I bid good-by to all.

God is with me.

Yours, faithfully,

Mr. G. E. Sterry,

239 Madison Avenue, New York.

Howard Crosby.

HOWARD CROSBY.

He in his Life built his own Monument : We who remain the Epitaph indite : u A Citizen, chivalric as a Knight ; — His mail — a courage wrought of pure intent That Civic wrong give place to Civic right. A Scholar : he with Plato often trod The Academic groves in quest of light, Yet with a full, clear vision of the God Great Plato dimly saw.

A Teacher, wise, He held God's word as God's : in its defence Stood as a rock. He made no compromise 'Twixt Truth and Error ; and where zeal intense Failed to persuade, he oft with love beguiled, Since in his Faith he was a little child."

A. D. F. Randolph.

March 29, 1891.

Life, Sickness, and Death.

CHAPTER I. [From the New York " Evangelist:" 1 ]

Howard Crosby was born in this city on February 27, 1826. A book of genealogy has been published, which traces the Crosby family back to the time of Edward I. of England. In America the family has long been prominent. One of Howard Crosby's great-grandfathers was Judge Joseph Crosby of Massachusetts ; another was General William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the First Congress. His paternal grandfather was Dr. Ebenezer Crosby, a graduate of Harvard College and of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, a distinguished surgeon in Washington's army during the Revolutionary war, an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and a professor and trustee of Columbia College.

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His father, William Bedlow Crosby, inherited from his mother's uncle a large property, which enabled him to follow his inclination and devote both time and money to works of public benevolence and private chanty. Among the public enterprises which he helped was the founding of the University of the City of New York.

Howard Crosby's education was carefully attended to, and he was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1844, at the age of eighteen. After passing some time in travelling and in continuing his education under private tutors, in 1851 he was called to his Alma mater as Professor of Greek. While holding this chair, he found time to give instruction in the Bible to a large class of young men, and to assist in organizing the Young Men's Christian Association in this city, there being at that time only two others in the country — at Boston and Providence. In the second year of the Association he was its President, and to his personal efforts was largely due the erection of the commodious Association building at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-third Street.

After eight years of devotion to numerous activities, Dr. Crosby found his health was being undermined, and he therefore cut himself loose from overtaxing demands upon him by accepting the chair of Greek in Rutgers College. Lessened duties and quieter surroundings completely restored his health, and, in 1861, he began his ministerial life as pastor of the Presbyterian church at New Brunswick, retaining his professorship. In 1863 he resigned both pastorate and professorship in order to become minister of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church in this city, a connection which lasted until his death.

In 1859 Dr. Crosby received from Harvard College the degree of Doctor of Divinity. This was before he had been licensed to preach. In 1861 President Lincoln offered him the position of Minister to Greece, but he declined it. In 187 1 Columbia College conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. In 1870 Dr. Crosby was elected Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, of the council of which he had been a member since 1864. In 1873 ne was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church which was held that year in Baltimore, and he was in all eleven times a delegate to that body. In 1877 he was a delegate to the first Presbyterian General Council at Edinburgh.

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DY. Crosby had a strong reforming tendency, which led him to take the liveliest interest in subjects outside the strict delimitations of his office as a minister of the Gospel, and to perform an immense amount of additional work. The boldness and zeal of this reforming tendency often led him to act in a manner that startled his more timid or conservative brethren. Before the Hartford Congress of Churches he pointed out unhesitatingly the inconsistency and evil of a Christendom divided into hostile camps, and advocated a closer union of all denominations. He rapidly applied his reforming energies to political and social problems, writing and speaking vigorously in advocacy of a restriction of wealth, and contending boldly that the accumulation of great fortunes endangered the welfare and happiness of the community. He held and taught the doctrine of temperance as opposed to the fanaticism of prohibition by legislative enactment, and became the recognized leader in this country of those who would check intemperance by high license. The extreme prohibitionists, however, within and without the churches, bitterly opposed Dr. Crosby on this question, and some of them assailed him with a most unchristian-like virulence. But strength of conviction and immovableness under attack were among his most marked characteristics, and he remained to the end a powerful barrier to the spread of prohibition fanaticism in the churches.

Dr. Crosby was principally instrumental in founding the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1877, and was its President from its organization until his death. The objects of the Society are to put down illicit liquor traffic, to suppress concert saloons and theatres of the baser sort, to purify the criminal courts, and to secure better legislation for this city ; and it has been a potent agent for good from its beginning. In furthering its purposes as a member of the State Commission on the Excise Laws he did yeoman's service. He lent his assistance to the cause of international copyright, and that of the proper treatment of the Indians. He was a very voluminous writer. Besides almost innumerable magazine articles, he published " Lands of the Moslem," written after a tour in the East (1851); " CEdipus Tyrannus " of Sophocles, edited with notes (1851); " Scholia on the New Testament" (1861); " Social Hints" (1866) ; " Life of Jesus " (1870) ; " Bible Companion " (1870); " Healthy Christian" (1871);

"Thoughts on the Pentateuch" (1873); ''Notes on Joshua" (1875) I "Commentary on Nehemiah " (1876); "The Christian Preacher" (1879); " Th e Humanity of Christ" (1880); and "Commentary on the New Testament" (1885). He was also a member of the American Committee on the Revision of the New Testament.

[From the Mail and Express, March 28, 1891.]

CROSBY DYING!

THE DISTINGUISHED CLERGYMAN VERY NEAR HIS END.

ALL HOPE WAS ABANDONED TO-DAY.

BUT HIS VITALITY AND WILL MAY CARRY HIM THROUGH THE DAY.

His Case very much like that of General Sherman — Too weak to relieve the gathering in his throat — A review of his life and work in the pulpit, in politics, and in the cause of Social Reforms.

The friends of the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby are hourly expecting the death of that eminent clergyman and reformer. He has made a gallant fight against the attack of pneumonia which followed the cold which he caught on his trip to Troy to see his dying daughter, but his own strong will and the untiring efforts of Drs. Conrad and Bosch, his attending physicians, have not availed to conquer the disease.

A large number of people have called at his home, No. 116 East Nineteenth Street, since yesterday afternoon to learn the doctor's condition, but have received no encouraging reports. At one time yesterday he was thought to be dying, but his wonderful vitality came once more to the rescue.

His case resembles closely that of General Sherman, and he has been battling in much the same way that marked the last illness of the old soldier. As absolute quiet was ordered by the physicians, a policeman is kept constantly on guard outside the house to answer questions and prevent the ringing of the door-bell.

After 1 1 o'clock last night Dr. Crosby continued to grow weaker steadily. He had lost the power to expectorate, and the choking which resulted weakened his pulse and the action of the heart. At 1 o'clock this morning he was in a state of coma, and the announcement was that he would probably live only a few hours.

MAY SURVIVE THE DAY.

During the morning there was no striking change in Dr. Crosby's condition. His alternating periods of unconsciousness were the only times that he was free from great pain. Drs. Conrad and Bosch took turns in relieving each other at the bedside. Dr. Bosch left the house at 7.45 o'clock this morning. He said the patient's condition was serious, and that he was slowly dying.

The worst symptom was his inability to discharge the rapidly collecting mucus. Like General Sherman, Dr. Crosby's heart was in good condition, and it was thought that this fact would enable him to survive longer than it was at first thought possible.

Dr. Conrad visited Dr. Crosby at 9.30 and remained twenty minutes. When he left the house he said to a Mail and Express reporter :

" Dr. Crosby is very low, but I believe he will survive the day. The only rest he gets is now and then a few minutes, when his great pain leaves him for a short time. He is occasionally conscious, and knows me then."

Dr. Conrad said that Dr. Crosby's high temperature was not so dangerous a symptom as the

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difficulty he had in coughing. Both doctors felt that Dr. Crosby could not survive this illness. His wife, his son, Prof. Nicholas E. Crosby, and his youngest daughter, Miss Grace, were at his bedside. His son Ernest, the ex-Assemblyman, is at Cairo as one of the international court, and his eldest daughter, Miss Edith, is visiting her brother in Egypt. Up to the hour of going to press no material change had been reported in the patient's condition.

DOOMED NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO.

In 1844 Howard Crosby graduated from the University of the City of New York. At that time his physicians assured him that he could not live a year. He was informed that one of his lungs was destroyed, and that he would soon die of consumption. But happily for the world this medical prediction did not prove true. Nearly half a century has past since then, and during these many years Dr. Crosby has been one of New York's leading clergymen — robust, strong, helpful. But within the last few years he has been very susceptible to colds.

Last May when attending the General Assembly iS Howard Crosby.

in Saratoga, he went to Troy one week to preach for his son-in-law, the Rev. Arthur Huntington Allen, pastor of the Woodside Presbyterian Church. On his return to Saratoga he caught a severe cold.

He carried on his work at the Assembly — he was one of the seven living ex-moderators present at that eventful gathering — but on his return to Xew York his physicians counselled him to rest for a time. He went to Pine Hill in the Catskills. and a few weeks' rest brought him round.

HIS CAMPAIGN WORK.

It was while at his Pine Hill country house that he wrote the address which he read in the autumn before the People's Municipal League. This gave the initial momentum to the campaign for the "purification of local politics." Many of Dr. Crosby's old Republican friends thought that the movement was ill-advised, and that it could only help the Tammany ring, but no one doubted the Doctor's courage, strength, honesty, and patriotism.

After gaining strength he came back to New York and busied himself with the work of his large church, and with other duties that his high position laid upon him. He was a strong supporter of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and he gave his time and talents to every cause made for the betterment and welfare of his fellow-men.

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The funeral of Mrs. Allen took place last Saturday, and during the services he was ill in bed. On Saturday he rallied, and it was thought that his remarkable recuperative powers would stand him in good stead.

On Monday the hopes of those who watched by the bedside were bright ; but on Tuesday there were unmistakable signs of pneumonia. It was even feared that he would not live through the night. Then for a few days there was a fluctuation of hopes and fears until the sad report of last night.

HIS REVOLUTIONARY DESCENT.

Dr. Howard Crosby is one of the keenest scholars among the American clergy. The New Testament Revision Committee recognized this

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when he was made one of its members. He comes of a good revolutionary family. Ebenezer Crosby, his grandfather, was surgeon to General Washington's guards. Joseph Crosby, his great-grandfather, was an old Massachusetts settler in the early days of the colony, and the old homestead at Braintree was in the family for years. His father was William Bedlow Crosby, the noted philanthropist, who died in this city in 1865. He, in early youth, was adopted by Colonel Henry Rutgers, and it was in this way that the Crosbys became connected with the Rutgers estate.

HIS RAPID RISE.

Howard Crosby was born in this city on February 27, 1826. In 1844 he graduated from the University of the City of New York. He took up post-graduate studies, and in 1851 was made Greek professor of his alma mater. For eight years he held this chair, and then, in 1859, ne was called to the professorship of Greek in Rutgers College.

Early in 1863 he gave up his chair at Rutgers and accepted the pastorship of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in this city. There his best work has been done. The " Old Fourth Church"

has been the center whence his influence has gone abroad into all places.

A ripe scholar, a keen thinker, a bold and honest speaker, he has made an impression on the social life of his time that is in itself a monument. In 1872 he was made Chancellor of the University of New York — the college in which he had studied as a boy, and taught as a man. This position he held until 1881, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. John Hall. Ever since 1864, however, he has been a member of the University Council.

In 1859 ne received a D.D. degree from Harvard, and in 1 871 he was honored with the highest degree that Columbia can bestow — that of LL. D.

WORK FOR SOCIAL REFORMS.

He was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1873, and both before that time and since has been many times a delegate to the assembly. In 1877 he was a delegate to the first Presbyterian General Council at Edinburgh. In addition to his church work, and the official duties that his ecclesiastical prominence imposed upon him, he has been active in social affairs and a prominent supporter ' of all

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movements that made for good government. For many years he has advocated the principle of temperance as distinguished from total abstinence. The Moderation Society was a direct outcome of his teachings.

In 1877 he took a leading part in establishing the Society for the Prevention of Vice, and he has never hesitated to lend it every assistance in his power. He has done much to influence legislation, and the municipal government of New York owes the inception of many of the regulations it has made in relation to intemperance and crime to Dr. Howard Crosby.

He has also been actively interested in the welfare of the Indian wards of the nation, and all writers owe him a debt of gratitude for his efforts for the passing of the International Copyright law.

AS AN AUTHOR.

As an author Dr. Crosby has won distinction, and long after his deeds are forgotten his published books will keep his name living among men.

His " Lands of the Moslem," written after an extended tour in the East, was published in 1851. In the same year he edited an edition with notes of the " CEdipus Tyrannus " of Sophocles. Ten years later appeared his well-known and scholarly " Scholia on the New Testament."

Then came these books: " Social Hints" (1866), "Life of Jesus" (1870), "Bible Companion" (1870), "Healthy Christian" (1871), "Thoughts on the Pentateuch " (1873), "Notes on Joshua" (1875,) ''Commentary on Nehemiah" (1876), "The Christian Preacher" (1879), ''The Humanity of Christ" (1880), and the " Commentary on the New Testament" (1885).

As a theologian and a social reformer Dr. Crosby has writ his name large on the annals of his time.

He has been bold and fearless — a man of brains and well-defined purpose — a man of fine culture and with a large love for humanity — and such a one as the world can ill afford to lose.

[From the "Mail and Express'" March 30, 1891.] death! where is thy victory? O grave! where is thy sting?

CROSBY— Of pneumonia, at his residence. n6 East Nineteenth Street, the Rev. Howard Crosby, aged 65 years. March 29, 1891.

Funeral on Tuesday at 2 30 p.m.. at the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street

CROSBY AT REST!

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE DEPARTED CLERGYMAN.

PRIVATE SERVICES AT THE RESIDENCE.

Followed by Public Services at the Church — The Latter Building to be elaborately Draped — Pall-bearers not yet selected.

After a short illness the Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D., the oldest settled pastor in the New York Presbytery, passed quietly away at 5.30 yesterday afternoon. All his family, with the exception of his oldest son Ernest and his daughter Edith, who are now in Egypt, were at his bedside and received his last messages.

This afternoon the body lies in the back parlor on the second floor, the features wearing a calm serene smile, and the handsome face surrounded, as with a halo, by the snowy white hair, beautiful even in death. Very few flowers, except the Calla lilies, sent yesterday by the Rev. Henry Mottet and other friends, are to be seen. The sexton and undertaker of Dr. Crosby's old church, the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian, Mr. William Lumsden, is the funeral director.

The casket, in which the body will be placed this afternoon, is covered with black broad-cloth, with oxidized silver trimmings, and bears a silver plate with the simple inscription, " Howard Crosby, born February 27, 1826. Died March 29, 1891.

The services will be held first at the house, No. 116 East Nineteenth Street, at two o'clock to-morrow afternoon, and then at the church, half an hour later. The first will be strictly private, and at both the Rev. Dr. John Hall and the Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., will officiate. These clergymen, it will be remembered, conducted the funeral of Dr. Crosby's daughter, Mrs. Allen, which occurred only a short time since.

At the church, at 2.30, the services will be public, and all will have an opportunity of viewing the remains. The building will be draped regardless of expense, and a great profusion of flowers will be seen. A quartet from either the Madison Square

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church or Dr. Paxton's church will render appropriate musical selections. The pall-bearers are yet to be selected, but they will probably be chosen from the officers of the church. All these details will be finally settled at a meeting of the session which will be held to-night in the pastor's study.

A cast of the face of the dead pastor will be taken some time to day. After much persuasion the consent of the family was at last obtained, and a committee was appointed to select the sculptor. Mrs. Crosby, who has had scarcely any rest during the past week, is much broken down, but is bearing the blow bravely. Telegrams of condolence have been received from various friends, and Officer Britton, who is stationed before the house, is kept busy handing in the cards of interested visitors.

A touching incident occurred this morning about 9.30. A little fellow, probably one of Dr. Crosby's Sunday-school scholars, came up to the officer and asked, with childish interest, " How is Dr. Crosby this morning?" Officer Britton looked at the boy for a moment, and then, with a kindly smile, said, " He is dead, my boy."

The little fellow's countenance fell, and, looking as if he would cry, he turned and sadly retraced his steps. This showed, in a simple way, the popularity of Dr. Crosby with old and young. This will be further attested by the large delegations which will be present from the various societies and organizations with which he was connected. These include the Society for the Prevention of Crime, of which he was the founder, and the University of the City of New York, of which he was formerly the Chancellor.

At the University Vice-Chancellor McCracken spoke feelingly this morning to the undergraduates of the dead clergyman, touching upon his various connections with the institution as an undergraduate, an alumnus, a professor and chancellor. He characterized him as, perhaps, the most distinguished among all the departed graduates of the University, and dwelt upon his continued readiness to put his services at the command of the youngest student who wanted counsel and help in getting an education.

He further emphasized the fact that Dr. Crosby had been continually the chairman of the committee on the granting of honorary degrees by the University, and as most patiently, courageously, and impartially performing this delicate office, which has imposed upon him not an inconsiderable

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amount of labor and responsibility. Dr. Crosby was also, at the time of his decease, the chairman of the committee upon the undergraduate department, on which devolved the reports as to all the courses of study in the college proper, and also the recommendations of professors to vacancies in the college faculty. He presided over the last meeting of the Council, by virtue of his office as vice-president of that body. This was the meeting which approved the proposed advance steps of the University, in which Dr. Crosby showed a lively interest.

THE UNIVERSITY TO BE REPRESENTED.

Vice-Chancellor McCracken has communicated to Mr. Ralph Wells, who has charge of the funeral services on behalf of the family, the desire of the Council to accompany in a body the remains from the house to the church, which is only a few blocks away ; and at a meeting, which will be held to-night at 8 o'clock, Mr. William Allan Butler will present a paper embodying the action of the university. Mr. Butler was a college mate of Dr. Crosby, graduating the year before him.

The Society for the Prevention of Crime, of which Vice-Chancellor McCracken is one of the vice-presidents, will also hold a meeting to-night to consider what action shall be taken by it in regard to the death of its distinguished founder. Judge Arnoux, who is the other vice-president, will preside, and this society will also doubtless attend in a body.

Some of the prominent callers at the house this morning were Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Treasurer Scott, of the Methodist Book Concern ; Mrs. C. F. Watson, Mr. Norman J. Rees ; Miss Denio, of Wellesley College ; Mr. Trimble ; Secretary Gildersleeve, of the Society for the Prevention of Crime; ex-Judge Arnoux, Warner Van Norden ; Mrs. Salter, cousin of Mrs. Crosby ; General Van Rensselaer, Mr. George B. Colby, of New Rochelle; Mr. Ralph Wells, Mr. George F. Betts, Dr. and Mrs. S. Beach Jones, and Mr. John Watts Kearney.

[From tht •' New York Tribune,'" March 31 T 1891.]

TRIBUTES TO DR. CROSBY,

INSTITUTIONS RECOGNIZE THEIR LOSS.

THE FUNERAL TO BE HELD TO-DAY IN THE FOURTH AVE- NUE CHURCH. DR. JOHN HALL AND DR. WILLIAM M.

TAYLOR TO BE ASSISTED BY SEVERAL OTHER CLERGYMEN. THE PALL-BEARERS.

Owing to the shortness of time between the death of the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby and the funeral, the arrangements for the services were not completed until late last night. There will be a private service at the house at 2 p.m. to-day, at which Dr. John Hall and Dr. William M. Taylor will officiate, followed by the public service at 2.30 p.m. in the church at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street. The burial will be to-morrow morning at Woodlawn.

Among the many callers at the house yesterday were Cyrus W. Field, ex-Judge Gildersleeve, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Superintendent Scott, of the Methodist Book Concern, Coroner Levy, Ralph Wells, Judge Arnoux, Norman J. Rees,

Mr. and Mrs. Salter, Dr. S. Beach Jones, S. C. Sherwood, W. J. Squires, C. F. Watson, the Rev. Dr. John W. Brown, Dr. Octavius White and Mrs. White, George F. Betts, Thomas Philip, Miss Maude Byron, Mr. and Mrs. Marion H. Henderson, John Watts Kearney, the Rev. Henry Mottet, Oscar Egerton Schmidt, Duane S. Everson, ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, Robert G. Remsen, S. I. Bacon, John W. Smith and Mrs. Smith, the Rev. Jacob Freshman, Clarence W. Bowen, Miss Carlotta Nicholl, Deputy Coroner Jenkins, Archdeacon Mackay Smith, C. F. Schuyler, the Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, Warner Van Norden, Dr. Livingston Williams and Miss Williams, and the Rev. Dr. John Hall.

The body lay yesterday in the rear room of the second floor, the room in which Dr. Crosby died. A committee asked the permission of the family to have a cast taken, and F. Edwin Elwell, the sculptor who made the bust of Vice-President Morton, took a mould of the face in the morning. In the afternoon he made a cast. When Professor Nicholas E. Crosby saw it he remarked at the striking likeness. The face has taken wonderfully and has Dr. Crosby's peaceful, half-smiling expression, with the firmness and strength of the mouth. Dr. Conrad remarked, after Dr. Crosby's death, that the sufferer had lost remarkably little flesh, and that in death he was the perfect image of life. The sculptor has reproduced this effect exactly. It is proposed to have a bronze statue made.

DRAPING THE CHURCH.

The Fourth Avenue Church was heavily draped last night. The two large tablets bearing the Ten Commandments, and the one between them bearing the Lord's Prayer, all of which are behind the pulpit, were covered with black ; the pulpit itself and the entire galleryrailing were also covered, and the memorial tablets on either side of the pulpit were draped. The draping was under the supervision of William Lumsden, the sexton.

The coffin is of cedar, with black broad-cloth covering. The plate bears this inscription : "Howard Crosby; Born February 27, 1826; Died March 29, 1891."

Last evening a meeting of the elders, deacons, and trustees was held in the church study. It was decided to reserve all the pews on either side of the centre aisle. The first two pews will be held for relatives of the family. Six pews behind these will be occupied by the elders, deacons, and trustees. The officers of societies and institutions which have applied for positions will have sixteen pews behind these, while the ministers of the city will have twenty pews directly behind the delegations. The pews on both sides of each side aisle and the galleries will be open to the public. The order of exercises will be :

INVOCATION.

Hymn, " Rock of Ages Cleft for Me."

READING OF SCRIPTURES.

Remarks, ....... Dr. John Hall.

Hymn, . . . . . "I Love to Tell the Story "

Remarks, ..... Dr. William M. Taylor

Hymn. . ... " When I can Read my Title clear. **

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BENEDICTION

The Rev. Dr. John Hall will have charge, and Dr. Taylor will assist. The following clergymen have also been asked to represent their various denominations in the services : the Rev Dr. Robert A. McArthur of the Calvary Baptist Church; the Rev. Dr. James M. King, of St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church; the Rev. Dr. YV. S. Rainsford, of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. Talbot W. Chambers, of the Collegiate Reformed Church. Dwight L. Elmendorf. the •organist of the church, will play music which Dr. Crosby has spoken of from time to time as being particularly pleasing to him. Among the selections will be "Look Down, O Lord!" "Lift Thine Eyes," and '" Be Not Afraid," from " Elijah," and " I know that my Redeemer Liveth," from "The Messiah." The singing will be led by the quartet choir of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, and the hymns are all special favorites of Dr. Crosby's. At the close of the services Mr. Elmendorf will play the hymn "The King of Love My Shepherd Is," which Dr. Crosby has given out in the church services more often than any other this year.

The public will have opportunity to view the body after the services and during the afternoon, for the coffin will not be moved from the church until 10.30 o'clock to-morrow morning, when it will be taken to Woodlawn for burial in the family plot.