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MEMOKI AL

OF

DAlsriEL LORD

NEW YORK:
D. appleton and company,
1869.

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It is always a subject for deep regret when the lives
of good men are permitted to end in influence, as in
duration, at the entrance to the grave. A symmetrical
character, exhibited in a career of useful labor, is an
object of contemplation far too noble to be suffered to
pass quickly out of sight. And yet for how short a
period are the traits of departed friends kept vividly in
sight, even by those who truly loved them, when their
preservation is intrusted only to the daily relaxing grasp
of memory ! The restless waves of busy human life,
beating unceasingly upon our minds, soon erase, in spite
of us, the most cherished recollections, unless they are
gathered up and crystallized into some more perma
nent and abiding form.
It is for the purpose of thus arresting and preserv
ing the memory of Mr. Daniel Loed, among those
friends who really valued him, that this memorial has
been prepared, and it is now presented in the hope that
some sincere feeling of affection for him may give it, in
the eyes and hearts of the few who will read it, an in
terest which it could not claim on other grounds.

4 MEMORIAL.
Mr. Lord was born at Stonington, Conn., September
23, 1795.
His father. Dr. Daniel Lord, was a physician of fair
professional abilities, but with a mind rather of a con
templative than of an active cast. He had a remark
ably easy and uniform temperament, which nothing
seemed to disturb, and which found expression in a
genial and affable manner. His greatest enjoyment
consisted in reading, and he was rarely without a book
in his hands, a peculiarity in which he was aAerward
closely imitated by his son.
Mrs. Lord's maiden name was Crary. She was a
native of Stonington, but her family afterward estab
lished themselves in New York, where at least two of
her brothers attained influential positions as merchants.
She was a woman of strong character and wartn affec
tions, which latter were all centred in her son, who, on
his part, returned her love with equal devotion.
In 1797, Dr. Lord removed with his family to New
York, where he soon acquired what might have become
a very good practice, had he not voluntarily relin
quished it too soon. He did not, however, withdraw
from the profession until he had shown his high sense
of its requirements, by remaining at his post and ren
dering his assistance fearlessly, ahke to rich and poor,
during the prevalence of the yellow fever, when it
visited New York in 1798. His experience at this
time gave him a knowledge of that disease, and of the
received mode of treating it, of which his professional

MEMORIAL. 5
brethren afterward often availed themselves. His life
was, on the whole, a calm and even one, with no re
markable events to give it prominence. In connection
with his profession, as was not unusual in those days,
he carried on trade as a druggist, having his store in
a part of the house which he occupied, and he con
tinued this business long after he had abandoned the
active practice of medicine. But he seems to have had
no great capacity for affairs, and in his later years
pecuniary reverses overtook him, so that he became in
a measure dependent upon his son, who gladly shared
with him the first fruits of his own well-earned success,
and whose love and devotion cheered his declining
days. He died in 1845, at the age of seventy-nine, and
his wife survived him only two years.
Mr. Lord, the subject of this memorial, was an only
child, and his early life was uneventful, though withal
well fitted to develop the traits which afterward charac
terized him most strongly. His brotherless and sister-
less home was never the scene of those merry sports
which form the substance of most children's hves, nor
did he ever know those .gentle sympathies which often
flow so freely between the younger members of a nu
merous household. He doubtless had companions of
his own age at school, but his chief associates were his
father, and his father's friends — men of years and ex
perience, and sometimes of stirring adventure. The
circle which frequented that hospitable home included
men of many callings — ^merchants, physicians, sea-cap-

6 MEMORIAL.
tains, and others — and, in the winter gatherings around
that cheerful flreside, this young and lonely boy was
always an interested listener. He thus early became
femiliar with maturer trains of thought than most, chil
dren come in contact with, and his reflective mind
found ample food for contemplation, in the subjects
which were discussed, and the opinions which were
stated, in his hearing.
Shortly after coming to New York, Dr. Lord estab
lished himself in a comfortable house on the corner of
Old Slip and "Water Street, where he continued to re
side until it was destroyed in the great fire of 1835.
New York had then just entered upon the career which
has brought it to its present magnificence, and even
the finest dwelhngs were found in the lower streets
near the Battery, which are now wholly surrendered to
business uses. Although, therefore. Dr. Lord made no
pretensions either to wealth or aristocratic station, his
residence was both more attractive and more respectable
than could easily be imagined at the present day ; and
in after-years Mr. Lord used freuqently to look back
with many pleasant associations to that home of his
childhood, of which nothing now remains but the place
which it occupied, and a fading recollection of it in the
minds of the diminishing few who knew it in its former
state. He went to school quite young, and there acquired
the rudiments of an excellent education, embracing
the classical languages and French, then the only

MEMORIAL. 7
modem language usually taught as an accomplishment.
To those who knew him only in later life, it seemed
quite remarkable that he should be so thoroughly
grounded in studies which he pursued only at this
early period. He probably never studied French after
entering college, at the age of sixteen, and during long
intervals he did not attempt to keep up any general
familiarity with the language. Yet even in the last
few years of his life he read French books with great
ease and pleasure, and throughout his whole profes
sional career he was in the habit of consulting freely,
as occasion required, the various French authors whose
treatises have so greatly enriched the body of commer
cial and maritime law.
In 1811, he entered the sophomore class at Yale
College, then under the charge of Dr. Dwight, for whom
he acquired and ever afterward retained the highest
respect. New Haven was then, in point of time, at a
greater distance from New York than Boston is now,
and we may well imagine that in thus leaving home,
and making his first entrance into independent life, he
passed through many sad and lonely hours. Yet it
was here, after all, that he seems to have first found
congenial companions, and before the close of his sopho
more year he had formed at least two intimacies which
were to last through hfe, and be handed down by in
heritance to his children. One of these early friends,
afterward a well-known citizen of Georgia, died but a
few years before him ; while the other, a resident of
Philadelphia, still survives to regret his loss.

8 MEMORIAL
His career at college was highly creditable, and in
1814 he was graduated second in his class. It would
lead us too far were we to enter into the details of this
or any other single portion of his hfe. Indeed, suf
ficient material to do so hardly exists. Yet, among his
papers was found, after his death, a short journal be
longing to this period, which is full of characteristic
traits. It commences with September 28, 1813, five
days after his eighteenth birthday, and continues down to
November 13, of the same year, when, for some cause,
it was abandoned, as appears also to have been the fate
of at least one predecessor, which has not been pre
served. Yet the short glimpse which those few closely-
written and time-discolored pages give of his daily oc
cupations, and of his modes of thought and feeling at
that time, is so vivid, and accords so well with the later
developments of his character, that it fills the little nar
rative with interest. It would be difficult to select ex
tracts where all is so good ; but it may be fairly said
that in this faithful transcript of his life, during the few
months which it embraces — and it bears in itself ample
proof of its conscientious fidehty — there cannot be
found recorded one unseemly action, nor one unworthy
thought, while it abounds in pure and noble sentiments
and just reflections upon passing scenes and persons,
Wosoe tevpsum — " know thyself" — is the motto under
which it is written, and its searching criticisms upon
his own motives and conduct show that the motto was
not forgotten. Considerate toward others, he judged

MEMORIAL. 9
himself severely, and did not scruple to confess to this
confidential journal faults which the mere confession
almost atoned for. He h^re gives us, also, an insight
into his course of reading at that time, which embraced
such books as Campbell's Khetoric, Paley's Theology,
Gibbon's Koman Empire, Ohastelleux's Travels, Homer,
Chesterfield's Letters, and the Yicar of "Wakefield, with
a little of Moore's and Falconer's poetry interspersed.
These he read with discrimination as well as enjoyment,.
and his scattered criticisms upon each show a just ap
preciation of their differing merits. It also appears
from this little diary that, although he had not yet be
come a professor of religion, he already regarded the
.subject with a reverence and consideration that fore
shadowed a heartier adoption of its doctrines at a future
day. He seems to have had no hesitation in the choice of
a profession, for immediately on leaving college he en
tered the law school at Litchfield, Conn., where Judge
Gould was the principal instructor, although Judge
Keeves was still the nominal head of the institution.
Here he spent a year in theoretical study, and then re
turned to New York, where he continued his studies in
the office of the late Mr. George Griffin, at that time,
and for many years afterward; one of the most promi
nent lawyers of the State. He was called to the bar
in 1817, and from that time until within two or three
years before his death, when premonitions of disease
compelled him to relax his labors, his life was entirely
devoted to his profession.

10 MEMORIAL.
On the 16th of May, 1818, he was married to
Susan, second daughter of the late Mr. Lockwood
De Forest, of New York, for whom he had formed
an attachment early in his college course. He there
fore entered upon his life's career, surrounded with
all the great responsibilities — yet supported by all the
still greater encouragements — of married life. The
path that lay before him seemed both rugged and xm-
certain. He had chosen a profession which, though
it accorded entirely with all his tastes, was one re
quiring immense exertions to secure success, and in
which others could help him but little, if at all.
Besides all this, his own circumstances, as well as
those of his father, were such as would not admit of
much waiting for fortune. He was already committed
to the issues of hfe. The future of those he loved de
pended on him, and the consequences of failure would
be very serious. But he gathered up his courage, and,
recognizing fully his exact position, shaped his course
accordingly. Gladly avaihng himself of his father's offer
ot a home with him, he brought his newly-married wife
to the family dwelling. At first his practice was not
sufficiently lucrative to enable him to contribute much
toward the common support, but as his business in
creased he gladly assumed half the burden of the family
expenses, which were very moderate. He remained
thus situated for seven years, when his ovm increasing'
family made it necessary for him to seek an indepen
dent home for himself. After mature reflection upon

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the propriety of making such a hazardous experiment,
and after many a calculation of the cost, he hired a
small house in Laight Street, near Canal, and moved
into it with his fainUy, which then included three chil
dren. This was in 1825. It was while he resided in this
house that he met with the only bereavement in his own
immediate family, which, during all of his long life, he
was called to suffer. A little boy, who was born shortly
after they had moved into their new home, died in the
early autumn of the same year. The loss of one so
young is, perhaps, the lightest form of such a sorrow,
but those only can rightly appreciate its weight who
' have gone through similar trials. Upon Mr. Lord it
left an impression which was never wholly effaced.
In 1828, he moved to another house, in Franklin
Street, which he had bought, and where he lived till
1833. He then purchased a house in Beach Street,
where he continued to reside till the winter of 1851,
when he moved, for the last time, to the house in
Seventeenth Street, where he died.
The house in Beach Street was commodious and well
located in a very pleasant part of the city. St. John's
Park, in front of it, with its well-kept grass and fine
old trees, made it a situation of unusual attractiveness.
The park itself, like many other similar landmarks by
which the city's progress has been noted in its various
stages, has yielded to the all-absorbing demands of
commerce, and its trees have been cut down, its grass-
plots and flower-beds destroyed, and its site covered

12 MEMORIAL.
with a railroad depot. But things were far different at
the time now spoken of, and many of the best famihes
of the city hved in the adjoining streets. Mr. George
Griffin, his preceptor and early guide, hved but a few
houses off; Mr. Eobert B. Mintum, a highly-valued
friend, resided on the same block ; and others of
equal worth and position dwelt in the immediate
neighborhood, and formed a circle of pleasant acquaint
ances. It was chiefly while he lived in these last two resi
dences that Mr. Lord began to realize the position to
which his abilities and industry had raised him. These
were the periods of his best efforts and his greatest pro
fessional achievements, and these were the homes where
his family began, to reap the substantial benefits of his
success in the increased comforts and luxuries which
his now established practice placed within his reach.
Prosperity had no injurious effect upon him. His
habits of hfe never at any time either exceeded or fell be
low the limits of a judicious moderation. He enjoyed to
its fullest extent the freedom from anxiety which comes
with the possession of a competency, but he did not
suffer the withdrawal of the absolute necessity for work
to check the ardor with which he continued his accus
tomed labor. He had taken his profession for better
and for worse, and whatever honors or benefits it pro
cured for him only afforded a fresh stimulus to the
more dihgent and faithful pursuit of it.
It is not intended here to attempt any account of

MEMORIAL. 13
his merely professional achievements. The record of
so many busy years would carry us far beyond our
limits, and the recital would unavoidably be dull and
monotonous to all but professional readers. The life
even of a successful lawyer, in a merely commercial
community, though necessarily demanding and devel
oping abilities of no common order, presents no salient
points of interest which a biographer can lay before the
general reader with acceptance. There are, it is true,
battles fought and victories won ; there is an abundance
of skill and ingenuity and mental alertness displayed ;
and there are moral qualities called forth — sometimes
in striking contrasts — all of which might justly chal
lenge admiration. But those only could rightly appre
ciate such exhibitions of character and ability who
were themselves familiar with the contests of the
forum, and who knew by experience something of the
many unexpected dangers and unhoped-for deliver
ances through which almost every important litigation
makes its way to victory or defeat. It is, therefore,
unwise in a memorial like the present, which, more
over, professes to dehneate personal traits alone, to
enter upon so broad a field, where so few could satis
factorily follow. To those who were his contempo
raries at the bar, their own recollections will supply
the best description of this portion of his career ; and,
for those who shall come after him, the published re
ports of the cases in which he took part will, so far as
any thing can, keep alive his memory in professional
circles.

14 MEMORIAL.
Success came slowly, and the few years immediately
following his marriage were thickly interspersed with
periods of discouragement, if not of absolute despond
ency. He was young, modest, and retiring. He had
no friends to aid him at the outset, when their assist
ance would have been most .welcome. A family
began to grow up around him, and anxiety for their
future support added to the burden on his spirits. Yet
it was not till nine years after his admission to the bar
that his name for the first time appears in the Eeports
of the Supreme Court, in connection with a rather
insignificant motion, and not till thirteen years after
the same event that he made his first argument in the
Court of Errors. This ' long period of waiting must
have been doubly trying to a young man just starting
in life, with no friendly hand to help, nor any bright
prospects to cheer him. But none of these things were
permitted to check for a moment his industrious pursuit
of professional learning. Each morning brought its,
often self-appointed, task, and when the evening came
it found the task accomplished. Every subject which
he investigated was sifted to the bottom, and each legal
principle was carefully traced out in its collateral as
well as in its direct bearings on the subject in hand;:
And thus he went on through those years of patient
though often disheartened labor, steadily growing in
ability for future action, and laying up stores of legal
knowledge, which were afterward turned to good ac
count.

MEMORIAL. 15
Such habits of faithful application, coupled with
the mental and moral powers which he possessed, at
length began to win their appropriate rewards. Suc
cess in the conduct of those less important litigations
which fall to the lot of a young lawyer procured him
new clients, whom his personal qualities soon con
verted into friends, and, his abihties proving equal to
each larger trust that- was committed to him, he grad
ually worked his way into the front rank of his profes
sion, at a time when the bar of New York was made
illustrious by the presence of men whose names will
ever be conspicuous in the history of American juris
prudence. In 1826 — ^the same year in which he made his first
recorded appearance in the Supreme Court — ^he argued
there his first reported case, which came before the
Court on a writ of error from the New York Common
Pleas. Mr. John Jacob Astor had sued Mr. J. Q.
Aymar to recover for injuries caused by rats to certain
bear-skins which had been shipped by him in one ot
the latter's vessels from New Orleans to New York.
Mr. Lord defended the case on behalf of Mr. Aymar on
two grounds — ^first, that, by the custom prevailing both
at the port of departure and at the port of destination,
" rats " were ^^ perils qf the sea,^^ and, as such, excepted
in the bill of lading ; and, secondly, that ship-owners
were not common carriers in the strict legal meaning
of the term, with liabilities extending beyond the rule
of ordinary dihgence. The defence was sustained, and,
although a writ of error was again sued out upon the

16 MEMORIAL.
judgment, before the case came up for farther argument,
the controversy was settled. The doctrines established
in this case, at least that embodied ih the second point
of the defence, have been since overruled, and the deci
sion is not now considered good authority. This, how
ever, was the first intercourse of any kind between Mr.
Lord and Mr. Astor. Less than three years after
this — a period in which Mr, Lord had been steadily
growing in the confidence of the mercantile com
munity — Mr. Astor retained him in a matter which
required prompt attention. Thus began a business
connection and a personal friendship between them,
which continued un,til Mr. Astor's death in 1848,
and which it may be fairly said was characterized by
implicit confidence on one side and by tried fidehty
upon the other. By this time his abilities began to be
recognized, and other chents, who were also to become
hfe-long friends, began to come to him. Little by lit
tie his prospects brightened, until his position became
fully assured, and his success 'was no longer a question ;
but it may be safely said that the first ten years of his
professional life was a time rather of preparation than
achievement, and one far more thickly filled with dis
couragements than with successes.
During this period of his early struggle, although
engrossed in the labors of his calling to such an extent
as to leave him little time for domestic enjoyment, his
infiuence was not lost in the family circle. However
much oppressed with the heavy professional respon
sibilities which rested on him, he was always cheerful

MEMORIAL. ir
at home, and his presence was a stimulus to aU health
ful family enjoyment. He had, in a wonderful degree,
the faculty of maintaining a bright and even demeanor,
and his playfulness was often the subject of remark by
strangers, who had formed their estimate of his charac
ter only from a knowledge of its more public exhibi
tions. Yet, playful as he was, and always gentle and
affectionate, his home was the scene of his severest labor
and his most unremitting industry. "Work was as nat
ural to him as play, and his evenings at home, as well
as his days at his office, were spent in examining au
thorities, and drawing papers and preparing briefs for
his numerous cases ; and it was by such exertions — con
tinuous and unfiagging — that he finally attained dis
tinction. The position which he won by thess well-directed
efforts was never lost by inattention or neglect. In
his daily contests in the courts he was often defeated,
but never -unprepared, while the singular uprightness
of his character, ever keeping him from auy attempt to
impose on either court or jury, added to the weight of
his opinions and arguments, and rendered him at all
times a formidable opponent. He was intolerant of all
deception and chicanery either in himself or others. No
one could ever accuse him of attempting to " make the
worse appear the better reason," and he reaped the
legitimate reward of his sincerity in gaining the entire
confidence of those whom he sought to influence by his
logic. He never even condescended to employ any of
2

18 MEMORIAL.
those specious and plausible, but sophistical arguments,
which lawyers so often resort to when they have no
sound ones at command, and both his chents and the
courts soon came to understand that, whatever views he
expressed on any subject, were the result of true con
viction as well as matm-e thought.
He had not the gift of oratory in the usual accepta
tion of that term, but in presenting his cases he fdt and
showed an earnestness which told most powerfully upon
all honest minds, and often kindled into real enthusiasm.
No one could ever listen to him without feehng that
he believed fully in the justice of his cause, and in the
soundness of his own arguments, and he reenforced the
earnestness of his manner with such attractions as a re
fined taste and a finished education could alone supply.
And thus he performed his work — ^implicitly relied upon
by those who employed him — distrusted by none with
whom he came in contact — and known by all men for
a sincere lover of truth and justice.
His public hfe was purely professional, — once only
he was a candidate for the State Senate, and was de
feated. Twice, however, he was invited to a seat on
the bench — each time by appointment to fill vacancies
— one in the Supreme Court in the first district, and
one in the Court of Appeals. On each occasion he
declined the appointment, not from any sordid mo
tives—as all will beheve who ever knew him — ^but
from a deep-grounded distrust of the plan of an elec
tive judiciary, then recently adopted in New- York,

MEMORIAL. 19
and from a consequent unwillingness to be in any
manner connected with the system. His reputation,
therefore, whatever it may have amounted to, was
simply that of a lawyer. It borrowed nothing from
the prestige of conspicuous position or official author
ity. It was bravely fought for and fairly won in an
arena where learning and skill alone could secure the
prize, and dihgence and fidelity alone retain it. The
fact, therefore, that his name was so widely known and
respected, not only ainong his immediate associates, but
in other portions of the land, is a sufficient proof of his
conspicuous talents.
It is not in the nature of things for any private pro
fessional reputation long to survive its possessor in the
minds of men — and this is especiaUy true in the case
of a lawyer, whose best efforts are rarely preserved with
fidelity and are often not even alluded to, in the books
of Eeports, which are intended chiefly to record the
decisions of the court. Yet if there is any truth at all
in the theory of the Bar as a separate body, it is plain
that the arguments of counsel must do much toward
influencing the opinions of the Bench. The influence
so exerted may be afterward forgotten, or left in the
background, yet, in each successive case that is deter
mined, it exists and does its part as a great power either
for good or evil, and helps to give shape and character
to the ultimate decision. Indeed, it often happens that
arguments of counsel, which have passed unnoticed by
the reporter, may be recognized in unmistakable fea-

20 MEMORIAL.
tures shjOwing through the opinions of the court, and
thus, though the ingenious originators of those argu
ments may themselves pass quickly into oblivion, their
work remains in an abiding form. So it will doubt
less be with Mr. Lord. His influence will long outlive
his reputation. Coming to the bar at a time when
American jurisprudence was just beginning to assume
its present independent position, he helped to estabhsh
many doctrines which, though now admitted as forever
fixed, were then uncertain and without authority. In
some departments he was an acknowledged leader, par
ticularly in commercial and insurance law, and the mer
cantile community will long be governed in some of its
most important interests by principles and methods for
which they are indebted to him.
But Mr. Lord's influence as a lawyer was fully
equaUed by his influence as a man. Few men in this
community have ever succeeded in gathering about
them such a circle of friends, or in exerting over them
such power, as he did. Only the pure and the true
found places in that group, and to all such his thoughts
and character and conduct commended themselves with
impressive force. To most of his friends he occupied
the position of confidential adviser, which gave unusual
weight to his opinions, without any assumption of au
thority on his part. Yet his influence came not by
force of assertion, nor did it always operate by direct
methods. He was fearless in defending truth or attack
ing falsehood when occasion demanded, but to those

MEMORIAL. . 21
around him he dealt less in precept than in example.
He led others to do right by showing them in his own
conduct the dignity and beauty of rectitude, and no one,
who had any just apprehensions of right and wrong,
could associate with him without feeling his principles
braced and strengthened by a sort of magnetic sympa
thy. This was particularly observable in his family,
where there would naturally be the greatest opportunity,
as well as the greatest call, for a personal impression
of such a kind. No man was ever more promptly
obeyed, nor more truly loved at home, and the reason
was that he never exercised his parental authority in
any oppressive or irritating way, but sought to make
obedience a pleasure as well as a duty. No little exhi
bitions of selfishness or inconsiderate harshness on his
part ever checked the outflow of affection toward him.
The laws of that household were the wishes of its united
head, and love rose upward, because it had first flowed
down. There were no stern prohibitions, — no peremp
tory commands, — for none are needed where the parents
present to their children studied examples of consider-
ateness and self-control ; and so, thanks in a great degree
to his influence, that family circle was always a happy
one. Warm and kindly feelings circulated freely and
bound all closely together. Each new-comer was heart
ily welcomed by all the rest, and soon caught the per
vading spirit of self-negation and thoughtfulness for
others which he had infused into all hearts. And, as
the circle widened still farther .to admit the represent-

22 MEMORIAL.
atives of a second generation, his love found places for
them all. He had no greater pleasure than to lavish
his affection upon those little ones who must, in the
nature of things, so soon outlive the recollection of him ;
and it would be, indeed, a grateful thing to the writer of
this brief sketch, if it could only serve to keep alive
his memory a little longer in those youthful minds.
But it was not alone toward those who were thus
nearly connected with him that he was thoughtful and
considerate. Every faithful servant and dependant
secured his friendship. He advised them in pros
perity, and assisted them when in trouble, with the
relish of a true benevolence, and, if a fair test could be
applied to the feelings of those who survived him, it
may, perhaps, be questioned whether, outside the limits
of his own family, his most sincere mourners were not
to be found in the humbler walks of hfe. No one ever
knew, or will know, the many acts of kindness and
liberahty which he performed to those who had no
claim upon him ; nor was he in any measure discour
aged, or tempted to forego the exercise of his benevo
lence, by finding, as he sometimes did, that it had
been bestowed on unworthy objects.
He was always a most sympathizing and helpful
friend to the young. There was something highly at
tractive to him in the earnest efforts of a well-meaning
young man, especially one of his own profession. It
was a spectacle which recalled to his memory his own
early struggle, and his time, his experience, and his

MEMORIAL. 23
ingenuity were always at the service of those who in
such circumstances applied to him, . as many did, for
friendly encouragement and assistance. Nor did he
dim the lustre of those friendly actions by assuming
any air of patronage or superiority. On the contrary,
his manner, at once warm and_ sympathetic, plainly
showed the pleasure which he felt in doing the service.
He was extremely simple in his tastes and habits,
and it was one of his most striking traits that he was
unwilhng to have any one do for him what he could by
any means do for himself. He always made his own
minutes of testimony, kept his own books of account,
and of^en copied his own papers, although all of these
services would have been gladly rendered by others, if
he would have allowed them to do so. These peculiari
ties were partly owing to his extraordinary capacity for
attending to details without neglecting more important
matters, but they were also partly due, and perhaps in
an equal measure, to this impatience of being waited
upon. He was systematical in the arrangement even
of trifles. The articles on his library table were never
misplaced ; the papers in his pigeon-holes were always
in order ; his drawer contained for years the same pen
knife, seal, and pencil, and always in the same corner ;
and his little pocket diaries, filled with the brief memo
randa of his busy life for five-and-twenty years, were,
after his death, found carefully preserved and arranged
in succession according to their years. The same habits
of system and order could be observed in all the opera-

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tions of his intellect. His thoughts, instead of floating
at random through his mind, fell naturally into logical
sequences, which aided his memory in retaining them.
And thus whatever he had once acquired was kept
ready for immediate use, and always in ,the most avail
able form.
At the time when he commenced the study and
practice of his profession, the law was still encumbered
with many flctitious and cumbersome forms which have
since been abolished. The old rules of practice, both in
the courts of common law and in chancery, were still
in full use ; the complicated system pf feudal tenures
had not been displaced from the law of real estate ; and
the rules relating to the competency and admissibihty
of evidence had not yet been simplified and curtailed,
as has since been done by recent legislation. Yet, in
all these departments, his habits of discriminating study
and methodical arrangement enabled him to excel. He
was a most expert and accomplished practitioner, and
rarely made a slip in the use of those comphcated forms
through which alone Justice could then be approached.
He was as thoroughly versed in the law of real estate
as in other more attractive branches, and his skill in
handling and applying the rules of evidence is best
illustrated by his success in the trial of cases. '
Although deeply read in the learning of his profes
sion, he believed in fixing the attention chiefiy on a few
comprehensive books, which should be thoroughly mas
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Eemainders, Sugden on Yendors, Blackstone's Com
mentaries, Chitty on Bills, Abbott on Shipping, Parke
on Insurance, Chitty's Pleadings, and Tidd's and Arch-
bold's Practice, were the works on which he most relied,
and with these he was thoroughly familiar. From them
he gathered the general principles which controlled the
subjects to which they related, and which guided him
in forming his first impressions of any case. But, when
nice distinctions were to be drawn, or unusual applica
tions made of ordinary legal doctrines, he was most
diligent and untiring in the search for authorities, and
conscientiously explored every book and examined
every case which could shed light upon the subject
which he was investigating. And thus his clients found
in him at once a safe adviser, and, if occasion required,
a zealous and skilful defender.
But his reading was not confined within the limits
of his profession. On the contrary, it was of a very
wide and varied character. He was familiar with the
ancient classics, and enjoyed them deeply, and there
were few books in English literature, of any value,
which he had not read with care and discrimination.
He almost always had a book of some kind in his
hand, and for nearly thirty years was in the constant
habit of reading for two or three hours- every night
in bed. This custom, which he was at last com
pelled to abandon because of its effect upon his nervous
system, had been forced upon him as the only available
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mind, in those silent hours, from the pressure of his pro
fessional anxieties. But it enabled him to cover an
extensive field of reading which he could never have
found time for in the busy hours of dayhght.
These were some of his most prominent character
istics, but his life would have been incomplete if his pro
fessional career and his amiable personal traits alone
afforded material for eulogy. Such was not the case.
The uprightness and truth which illustrated his charac
ter as a lawyer and a man were the outgrowths of a true
Christian faith, adopted in the prime of early manhood
and matured and ripened with the reflection of advan
cing years — a faith which bore fruit in Christian labors
and a Christian example, and which at the last sustained
him calmly as his end approached. His hfe was governed
by consistent principle, which steadied his course from
its beginning to its end. He shunned even slight devia
tions from the path of duty, however they might be
sanctioned, or more or less excused by worldly custom :
and it is, perhaps, a noticeable fact that, with all the
pressure of his hurried life, he never permitted himself
to labor on the Sabbath — still less to spend the day in
idle or frivolous amusement. Although from boyhood
he had displayed a reverence for sacred things which
betokened a serious and thoughtful mind, it was not
until he was thirty-seven years old that he became a
public professor of religion. But, when he did enter
upon the path of Christian duty, it was with an unfal
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of his new position, and endeavored to meet its require
ments with all the earnestness and fidehty of his nature.
In 1833, he united with the Brick Presbyterian Church,
then under the charge of the Eev. Gardiner Spring,
D. D., and in the following year was elected a member
of its Session, in which connection he continued until
his death, bringing to the discharge of his duties as an
elder a spirit of great conciliation, as well as the best
abilities at his copmiand.
His Christian character was one of mature growth,
such as results from a union of warm feelings with
broad and enlightened views. He took almost equal
pleasure in devotional books and in those which ex
pounded the theoretical doctrines of Christianity, and
thus, while his emotions were always quick and glowing,
he was also ever prepared to defend his faith with solid
arguments. The inevitable absorption of his time in
his professional pm'suits prevented him from taking a
very active part in the current benevolent and religious
enterprises of his day; but, whenever an emergency
arose in which his practical wisdom, or his unflinching
courage in opposing error, could avail the cause of
truth, he stood always ready — and was often called upon
— to do his part. And on all such occasions he brought
to the work a spirit of meekness and moderation which
calmed him even in the heats of controversy. He
never forgot that, while good men might — and often
must — differ in their views, they should never give
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the pride of self-assertion. And thus his coimsels were
not only wise but safe ; and his loss was felt in many
quarters where the weight of his influence had been
relied upon in every time of trouble and perplexity.
For several years before his death, there had been
indistinct threatenings of paralysis which justly alarmed
the members of his family, and which led him reluc
tantly, but gradually, to withdraw from his much-loved
profession. He was not wholly insensible to these
warnings, but he possessed a wonderful faculty of refus
ing to dwell upon evils that he could not avert, and he
succeeded in maintaining his cheerfulness in spite of
many dark forebodings. But his malady made steady
though measured approaches, and he himself doubtless
soon began to realize, what had been from the first ap
parent to all around him, that his disease was a fatal one,
and that the final issue could not long be delayed.
Under these circumstances his spirit became if pos
sible more subdued and gentle, and the graces of his
Christian character gathered even greater lustre than
before. The summer of 1867, which preceded his death,
was one of great anxiety to his family, and they entered
upon the winter with sad anticipations of coming sor
row. All went well, however, until the new year had
begun — a year that to others was to bring its completed
months of chequered joys or sorrows, but only a few
short days of suffering to him. A trifling professional
effort made early in January, which in his years of
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of weariness upon his frame, appeared to give a ncAV
impetus to his then slumbering disease, and from that
time his system seemed to lose its balance, and his
bodily functions began to fail. It was a most painful
thing, for those who so deeply loved him, to see this
physical change come over him, while his mental powers,
with all their" acute perceptions, remained untouched.
But his own courage did not desert him, for it was
founded on never-failing supports. He was deeply
affected at times by thoughts which he could not en
tirely drive away, but he fell back upon the consola
tions of rehgion and they upheld Mm. Those who
gathered with him at family prayers, one Sunday even
ing but a few weeks before his death, will never forget
with what a subdued pathos he read, and remarked
upon the beauty of those verses of the seventy-first
Psalm :
" Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when
my strength faileth.
"Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me
not." They were plainly passages which had been often in
his mind of late, and the force of which he felt most
deeply as his years seemed drawing near their end.
It would seem almost a desecration to dwell much
upon the closing scenes of his life. The deep experi
ences and trying struggles which, even for the pure and
good, hang around the hour of parting from loved ones on
earth, are too sacred to be held up to the gaze of any but

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those who have perforce participated in the sorrow, and
whose memories can best recall to them those mournful
scenes. But, were we to lift the curtain for a moment
upon any part of that sad month which preceded his
death, we should find him always, as it were, in a hal
lowed atmosphere, surrounded with all the truest af
fection that faithful hearts could bestow, and upheld
by Christian consolations and Christian hopes. The
dreaded hour came at last. Up to within a few days of
the final moment, his mind was clear, and he was able
to communicate with those who hung around his bed
side. But, as the last drew near, his faculties began to
lose their power, and consciousness succumbed. "Tet,
when the change came upon him, a placid calm seemed
to steal over his features, and peace and rest were
plainly written there. He was in a great measure
spared the dreadful agonies of mind and body which so
often accompany his disease, and at the last life seemed
to sink away from him as quietly as the last sands drop
through an hour-glass.
On the morning of March 4, 1868, it was apparent
that that day would be his last. All remedies had lost
their power, and naught remained but to await in
patient resignation the long - apprehended moment.
Once in the early forenoon he sank very low, but again
revived to nearly his former strength, and continued
through the hours of daylight with but little change,
except that his respirations grew gradually quicker and
fainter. At last the night came on, spreading its cur-

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tain across the sky, and casting its shadows on that
upper room where loving hearts were throbbing in
silence at the thought of the long parting. A little
group, where none were absent whom he would have
wished to see, could his eyes have opened, nor any
present who could not call him " husband " — " father,"
sat sad and sorrowful within the sound of his short,
quick breathings, as he lay motionless upon his couch.
From time to time one of the number would approach
the bed to gaze once more upon his serene but pallid
face, or in helpless affection to render some service
which it was hoped might give him some relief, but it
was evident that all earthly help was unavailing, and
that the King of Terrors was at hand. At about nine
o'clock a few convulsive gasps gave signal that the end
was near. Quickly and silently the little circle closed
around him, and then when all was hushed and still,
save the sobbing which he could not hear, he gave one
struggle more and breathed his last, surrounded by all
whom he held most dear on . earth, and whom he most
would wish to meet in heaven.
Death found him well prepared. His peace had
long been made with God, and when the summons
came, it was to call him from a life of useful toil below,
to an eternal rest above.
New Yoke, December 15, 1868,

Note. — Within less than a year after Mr. Lord's death, his third '
living son, James Oouper Lord, died very suddenly, and it seemed
almost a sacred duty, as well as a sad pleasure, to add in an Ap
pendix, which will be found at the close of this Memorial, some
notice of him in connection with his loved and loving father.

FUNERAL CER^EMONIES ;
MAECH 7, 1868.

On the morning of March 7, 1868, at ten o'clock,
the near relatives and most intimate friends of Mr.
Loed assembled at his residence, to accompany his re
mains to the Brick Presbyterian Church, where the
principal ceremonies were to take place.
The following gentlemen acted as pall-bearers :
Mr. James Brown, Mr. "William B. Astor, Mr.
Eichard Irvin, Hon. Michael Ulshoeffer, Hon. "William
M. Evarts, Mr. Gardiner Spring, Jr., Mr. John Taylor
Johnston, and Mr. J. Treat Irving.
"When the company had all collected at the house,
and before they set forth upon their mournful procession
to, the church, the Eev. Charles Hodge, D. D., of Prince
ton, a warm and highly-valued friend of the deceased,
read a few passages from the l4th chapter of St. John,
and made some touching and impressive applications
of them to the persons present, appropriate to the occa
sion which had brought them together.
The Eev. Gardiner Spring, D. D., also offered a
fervent prayer.
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strictly private character of these ceremonies, no person
was present who could preserve such a record of them
as might do justice to those by whom they were con
ducted. Those who were there and heard what was
said, will feel that this memorial- has suffered mucli
from the omission of that portion of the services ; but,
although an effort has since been made to obtain at
least some outlines of them, the " winged words " have
fled away, never to be recalled.
When the procession reached the church, it was
already crowded from floor to gallery with those who,
in respect for the dead and in kindly (and most grate- ,
fully appreciated) sympathy for the living, had gath
ered to attend the ceremony. As the bier was borne
across the threshold into the church, where the de
ceased had so often listened to the solemn words of
truth and joined with others in public acts of worship,
the choir sang the solemn anthem adapted to those
words from the 14th chapter of Eevelation :
" And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labors; and their works do follow
them." After the anthem, the Eev. W. G. T. Shedd, D. D.,
read from the Scripture, John xiv. 1-21, and 1 Cor.
XV. 35-38 ; after which the following addresses were
delivered by Eev. J. O. Murray, D. D., Associate Pastor
of the Brick Church ; Eev. William Adams, D. D., Pas-

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tor of the Madison Square Church ; and Eev. Gardiner
Spring, D. D., Senior Pastor of the Brick Church.

ADDRESS OF KEY. J. O. MUEEAY, D.D.
Ope Christian faith should not stand— it does not
stand — in the power of men, but in the wisdom of
God. Not many mighty are called. Above all else,
the Saviour exalted the childlike spirit. His gospel
sets its approving seal on the passive virtues. " Thus
saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne and the earth
is my footstool ;" " But to this man will I look, even
to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who
trembleth at my word." Yet it pleases God, in His
faithful care of His Church on earth, to raise up for it
men who bring to the support of Christianity all the
influence of high and commanding intellectual powers
— of high and' commanding position. And when, in
His wisdom and goodness, such gifts in such men are
bestowed on His Churx;h, it is most fitting that their
death be made the occasion of some sincere and grate
ful commemoration of their Christian virtues and use
fulness. It is in this spirit and for such ends, that the
present service contemplates a very brief survey of the
honored and eminent life, which for so many years has
been in the public eye. Especially at a time when the
Church of Christ has fallen on an age of unbelief, in
which many are drifting away from the old moorings of
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example of such distinguished minds as walk in the
ancient paths, and hold their faith in the full exercise
of such mental qualities as have been attributed to one
of the greatest English jurists ; the qualities of a mind
" eager in search, patient of doubt, fond of meditation,
slow to assert, ready to reconsider, careful to dispose
and set in order, not carried away either by love of
novelty or by admiration of antiquity, and hating every
kind of imposture ; a mind, therefore, especially framed
for the study and pursuit of truth."
Daniel Loed was born in Stonington, Connecticut,
September 23d, 1795. He was an only son, of very
slender and delicate frame, remarkable in boyhood for
his filial virtues, which, indeed, throughout the life of
his parents, were always in constant and beautiful ex
ercise. That boyhood was distinguished for thought
fulness far beyond his years. In his father's house, he
was thrown into the society of some of the jDrominent
merchants of the city, then young men. He was accus
tomed to attribute his fondness for important subjects
of thought to the early impressions made on him by
the discussions, of which he was an eager and attentive
hearer. At one time, indeed, it seemed likely that he would
enter upon commercial life; but his native taste for
study prevailed, and he entered on a course of academ
ical training in this city; was admitted to Yale Col-
legCj from which he was graduated, with very high
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too, in 1846, he received its highest literary honors in
the degree of LL. D. Like all the high-minded and
promising young men who were under the influence of
President Dwight, Mr. Lord always spoke most, rever
entially and gratefully of this influence.
The Baccalaureate discourse of Dr. Dwight, preached
to the class of 1814, was a discourse on the " Love of
Distinction." It is full of clear and strong discrimina
tions, and one which, while fitted to stir every noble
aspiration in a young man, was admirably adapted to
guard such against the dangers of a low and false ambi
tion ; to lead him to eschew all false methods of success
in life ; to found all efforts after honorable distinction
on the highest principles of morality and religion. Its
closing appeals to the class to seek the esteem of their
fellow-men ; to seek the approbation of wise and good
men ; to seek the approbation of their own minds and
consciences; to seek the approbation of God, are all
illustrated in the subsequent career of the eminent
jurist. Such testimony to his worth as filled all our
courts when tidings of his death reached them, given
by those who testified what they had seen, that his ser
vices in the administration of justice had been marked
by all of ability, of integrity, which distinguishes the
profession of the law ; that no man ever lived in the
profession of whom it could be more truthfully said
that he never did an act which could in the least bring
a blemish upon him ; that he aimed as much to make
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as for his own fame ; that he reflected honor upon it,
winning for himself the credit of being what he was,
an honest, faithful, zealous, able, and honorable lawyer ;
such testimony to the truth that his eminence in this
city was won by the strictest adherence to the highest
principle of success, would lead us to suppose that the
farewell teachings of his venerated president had never
been forgotten.
His professional studies were pursued partly in this
city, in the office of Mr. George Griffin, and partly in
the law school of Judge Eeeves at Litchfield, Conn.,
then in the height of its fame. During his residence
there, he came under the pulpit teachings of Eev. Dr.
Lyman Beecher, and always spoke of them, not only
in terms of highest admiration, but of deepest gratitude.
He was admitted to the bar in this city in 1817, and,
as we have been publicly assured by one of his students,
himself eminent in his profession, " for fifty years of
distinguished professional life, has done good service to
the interests of justice and the advancement of truth."
In his pocket diary for this year, he had transcribed
from the sermons pf Dr. Eobert South two short sen
tences, which are the key to much of his most useful
and honored life: "Doing nothing, naturally ends in
being nothing," and, with this preface from himself, "I
think a greater truth than this cannot well be uttered,"
he quotes again one of those sententious, incisive passages
which abound in the writings of South, that " never any
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to itself." Not only is his career a most signal illustra
tion of how much wide usefulness and high position de
pend on enthusiasm in the chosen pursuit of life, not
only is it an example of most unsparing and rigorously
conscientious fidelity to every interest, small or great,
intrusted to his keeping ; it is also an example of very
broad and generous culture outside his immediate pro
fessional studies and pursuits.
That he was learned in his profession, his standing
for so many years among the foremost lawyers of the
nation shows. But he was learned on a great variety
of the subjects of human knowledge. All great move
ments in the world of thought arrested his attention ;
especially movements in religious thought. He was a
careful student of Christian theology, and had become
versed in all the modern phases of speculative opinioh.
To the last, Pascal's Thoughts was a favorite volume.
It was to him for theological reading what Archbishop
Leighton was for devotional.
It is, however, ofhis Christian life and services that
it is most becoming in me to speak. Eeligion, indeed,
owes a debt to the legal profession — the pulpit to the
bar — which should be readily acknowledged ; not only
as the high-minded and eminent jurist keeps before tlie
minds of men the great idea of law, a binding msral
force, which the very word religion in its etymology
suggests ; but as such a man helps to preserve the true
order and stability of society, in which Christian insti
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to the Christian Church were far more direct than this,
and were rooted and grounded in a consistent Christian
life. In his early years he was exposed to the influence
of skeptical opinions regarding Christianity. Saved
from these poisonous influences, he did not leave the
teachings of Dr. Dwight without having the strongest
and most abiding religious impressions. These were
strengthened during his attendance upon the ministry
of Dr. Beecher. He examined the evidence of Chris
tianity as other great jurists before him have done, and
has given to the Church his living testimony that these
evidences are such as compel belief When Greenleaf s
Evidences of Christianity was published, he wrote a re
view of it for one of our religious journals, which re
view was afterward prefixed to the English edition of
the book as its best preface and introduction.
It was not, however, till October, 1833, that he
made any public profession of his faith, though for
years before he had meditated taking the step, and
was only withheld from it by that habitual caution
which was a marked trait in his whole Christian char
acter and life. But, hearing a sermon repeated from
the senior pastor of this church, on those most touching
words of Enth to Naomi : " Thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God," a sermon which on its
first hearing had not apparently been followed by any
peculiar thoughtfulness, but which on its second hear
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Spirit, wrought powerfully on his convictions, he came
to a full and immediate decision to confess Christ be
fore men, and was received into this church by Dr.
Spring. He was very soon after elected and ordained an
elder in the church, receiving ordination to this office ,
in December, 1834.
From that time to the time of his death, the session,
and this church through its session, has enjoyed the
benefit of his most wise Christian counsels. The whole
method of his life being conservative, the whole struc
ture of his character, and development of his mind being
built on this as a Christian philosophy of life, he brought
it to bear on all the official duties of his eldership.
To him it is principally owing, that a rule which has
governed the actions of this session for many years, has
come to be recognized as a fundamental principle in its
action. He always counselled postponement of meas
ures which would have been carried through only by a
divided vote ; believing that " they also serve who only
stand and wait ; " he sought earnestly and consistently
for harmony ; held most profoundly that the successful
work of a church was carried on only in a spirit of
Christian unity, and so labored as well as prayed for
the peace of Jerusalem. Very soon after his connec
tion with the church, he engaged in active Christian
work ; was chosen superintendent of the Sabbath-
school ; and brought to his labors there the same con
scientious fidelity, the same laborious preparation,
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During all this period it was his practice to meet the
teachers on Saturday evenings, and in a series of Bib
lical studies to furnish them for their work. These
efforts were only laid aside when the immense labors
of his profession made the rest of the Sabbath absolutely
essential to him. Indeed, this side of Christianity— its
relation to the young in God's covenant with believing
parents — always enlisted all the deeper Christian feeling
in Mr. Lord. Together with Mr. Webster, he recognized
and loved to recognize its power over the Christian
household. His rare kindness of manner, his contagious
cheerfalness, his heartiness of sympathy, at once drew
young people toward him, and made them feel the
power of cheerful Christian life.
On September 20, 1852, when the rooms of the New
York Young Men's Christian Association were opened,
he was asked to deliver the address. " Who that pre
tends to a sympathy with human welfare or progress,
shall refuse to address a society of young men ? " are its
opening words. " Having passed through the trials of
early life, not having forgotten its hopes and fears, its
discouragements and successes, its joys and sorrows,
how shall one refuse his sympathy, and the expres
sion of it, to those who are entering on the same field
of action, of struggle, success, or disappointment?"
Words could not possibly convey a more discerning
appreciation of the perils which beset young men in a
city, nor a truer and readier sympathy with them in
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this Association to attain its ends is expressed as lying
in the open and avowed and professed Christian char
acter of ife aims and methods.
To this church, I need hardly say, he brought, and
for it he cherished, the most devoted attachment. Its
welfare, was always near his heart. A worshipper in
its sanctuaries for half a century, a member of its com
munion for thirty-four years, in its session for thirty-
two, he has left here only the most exalted memories of
pure and growing Christian character and Christian
usefulness.. The sense of our loss is most oppressive
now^ But only the future occasions on which his coun
sels and influence will be needed, will fully make
known to ns the extent of our bereavement. In the
early days of our Presbyterian history in this city,
there was well known what is called the great trium
virate of Presbyterian lawyers, Scott, Livingston, and
Smith, for whose character and fame Mr. Lord always
expressed the deepest admiration. With their fame as
jurists lives also their memory as earnest and devoted
Presbyterians. In these respects Mr. Lord was a wor
thy successor to their position, and he has departed to
join them in the heavenly glory.
Yet he ever recognized a sphere of Christian activ
ity outside his own church, his own denomination ; was
a friend to the great causes of Christian benevolence,
judged always for himself as to their utility ; did not
give them his support till he was well persuaded they
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large ends. Thoroughly devoted to the faith and order
of the Presbyterian Church, he held these convictions
in no narrowness ; was catholic and warm-hearted
toward the whole Christian family. Among his latest
expressions was one which showed that he recognized,
in churches deemed by him as widely departed from
the true faith, the existence of many true children of
God. The daily beauty of his Christian life could be known
only by his most intimate associates, for he was reticent
concerning its inward experiences ; held them so sacred,
and was withal so cautious, that he seldom brought them
to any one's notice. He disliked all display of religious
sensibility, yet when its manifestations were genuine and
appropriate, no heart more warmly responded to it than
his own. Amid the sanctities of his own domestic cir
cle, in Christian influences subtly thrown around the
hearts of his children, and never by any method of di
rect appeal or prohibitions, the power of his serene and
strong faith most manifested itself. His beautiful do
mestic character was all refined and elevated by his
Christian life. Of nothing was he wont to speak with
more feeling than the Divine goodness to him in his
own household, which, for fifty years, had only once
known the sorrows of a death, and that the loss of a
very young infant ; and which had allowed death to
come only once into the circle of his children's children,
all growing up around him. It was to him a delightful
view of the Christian sanctuary that it gathers its con
gregation for the worship of God by households.

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It was also a marked feature in his Christian life.

that its tone was always cheerful. What he said to the
young men of this city, he had long recognized as his
own rule in life — " Cheerful joy is a sacred duty." He
had very great power of banishing from his mind any
subject which was annoying to him ; yet it was evident
that his habitual cheerfulness, especially in his riper
years, was the fruit of a principle, and that, of rejoicing
always. Blended with this trait was that of the deepest rev
erence toward God. He had eminently the spirit of
adoption. Toward his heavenly Father his tone was
most filial. His spirit here was childlike. He ex
pressed dislike to mural tablets in churches, because
they intruded thoughts of man where should be only
thoughts of God. During the past winter he was en
gaged with others of the session in collating a selection
of hymns for our use in worship. It was evident to
those associated with him in this duty, not only that he
engaged in it with the heartiest zest, but that the two
classes of hymns which impressed and filled his soul
were either those which breathed the profoundest ado
ration for Godin His sovereign greatness, .or those which
breathed the simplest and most absolute reliance in
Christ's atoning sacrifice. To this Christian doctrine
of atonement, and to it in its fundamental character as
a substitution, he not only gave the most absolute ad
herence, but it formed a centre around which, in later
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the sacrament of the Lord's supper with such a meaning
that, whenever he mentioned it, this ordinance evidently
stood as the centre and source of most sacred and ten
der religious hopes and joys. He had the feeling that
the Transfiguration of Christ hardly held in Christian
thought the place it deserved. Yet in this he singled
out as its predominant feature the prophecy of our Lord's
passion, when He spoke with Moses and Elias of the
decease He should shortly accomplish at Jerusalem.
It was, however, in the last few years of his life
that he seemed to be most fully engaged in religious
things. Admonished, several years ago, that his
health required an instant abandonment of the more
onerous duties of his profession, he complied with
the advice. But to turn from the calling he so
deeply honored and loved, cost him a sore struggle.
It was done, however, gradually. He bowed to the
will of his heavenly Father with an unrepining heart,
and entered on what may be called the Sabbath even
ing of his life. He gave more of what he was wont
to call his " enforced leisure " to the service of the
Church ; evinced to the last a deepening interest in her
welfare. From indications gathered from entries in his
pocket diary, it would appear probable that he had
anticipated sudden death. But it came not so. His
last attendance in this place was at a sacramental ser
vice on the first Sabbath in February. A few weeks
previous, he had argued a motion in the Supreme Court
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of a more private nature being performed so lately as
the first day of February — ^but the argument he then
made seemed to precipitate the attack of insidious dis
ease. His outward man perished day by day, but his
mind remained clear and active to the last conscious
moment. He expressed, when to express it cost him
the sorest struggle through weakness of utterance, the
unshaken confidence of his soul in the care of his Sav
iour. " We know," he said to those about him, " we
know we shall not be deserted ; no, not in our last
moments." He was evidently taken by no surprise.
For many months, the text of Scripture which had
been most in his thoughts, which he repeated frequently,
sometimes in wakeful hours when it was to him literally
a song in the night, was, " Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his saints." Taking down his
Bible for family worship not long since, his eye lighted
on that verse of the 71st Psalm : " Cast me not off in
the time of old age ; forsake me not when my strength
faileth." He dwelt on the great pathos and beauty of
the prayer, and then spoke of the Divine goodness which
was so ready and so faithful to answer it.
His last conscious hours were occupied in hearing
hymns read to him. Then a few days of unconscious
ness, all ending in a quiet, gentle subsidence ofthe vital
powers. His spirit passed away at last without a strug
gle, to enter on his immortality of heavenly blessedness.
It would be ungrateful to ask for any dying testimonies
to the reality and power of spiritual things, faith in
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Christ, redemption through, and only through His blood,
when the better testimony of his eminent life is before
us. He was wont to say, when any of his friends died
in faith, "Another victory." His own choice words
are the best expression of our faith, in this hour of sore
bereavement, to his household, to his church, to his
city, " Another victory." Thanks be unto God who
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ !
At the conclusion of the above. Dr. Adams spoke as
follows :

ADDRESS OP EEV. WILLIAM ADAMS, D.D.
When those whom we love are removed by death,
there is an instinct of our nature which prompts us to
recall the virtues of their characters, and collate the evi
dence on which we rest in hope that all is well with
them. "While administering this form of consolation
to others and ourselves, let us not forget — how can we
forget it ? — that the quahties which best fit our friends
for translation to the kingdom of God are those which
make their society and friendship the more valuable
and needful to us upon the earth.
These are the things which make it so hard for us
to part with good men. These are the quahties which
brighten our homes, which cheer our path, sweeten our
companionship, and help us on our pilgrimage. There
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whom the grace of God has prepared for removal to
the skies, are taken from our society and our sight.
" Help, Lord ! for the godly man ceaseth." No greater
loss can ever befall any community than that which is
occasioned by the death of a good man.
When one like our deceased friend, who was an
ornament to a noble profession ; who had always made
the impression throughout this community that he was
a man of transparent honesty, of high integrity ; who,
by his practice and life, has done so much to lift
his profession above all suspicion of sophistry and arti
fice, from the region of chicanery into the serene atmos
phere of pure truth and equity, cherishing for it an
attachment, the secret of his success, bordering upon
enthusiasm — when such a man is taken away from us,
the whole community confesses the loss ; even those
who never shared his personal friendship miss the in
fluence of such a public citizen. His death is like the
fall of a great tree in a grove, bearing other trees and
branches, shrubs and vines, down to the ground.
It was a saying of antiquity, which has come down
these many ages, " Call no man fortunate until you see
how he dies." There is an imphcation in the language
that, so long as a man lives in this " present world,"
he is in peril and exposed to evil. When a man finishes
his course with an untarnished name, with a good hope
of heaven, he is to be congratulated.
We are gathered here to-day to express, amidst all
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ment. We all of us respond to the cheerful tone of
that address to which we have just listened. While
we are still drifting about upon the wreck at the mercy
of the winds and waves, what a pleasure it is to see
one, whom we have loved and honored, safe on the
beach ! All we have to do is to prepare ourselves to
join him, amid that great and glorious company to
which he has gone. So do we come to-day to congrat
ulate these friends, even though, according to the di
rection of the New Testament, " we weep with those
who weep." There is more than resignation shining
through the tears of their bereavement. They are
dignified and comforted by that priceless legacy which
has been left them in the providence of God. Truly
these children can all adopt the words of Cowper, re
peating them with grateful hearts to themselves and to
their children :
" My boast is not that I deduce my birth
Prom loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ;
But higher far my proud pretensions rise, —
The son of parents passed into the skies ! "
Be thankful, my friends, that you have had such a
father ; that he has been spared to you so long ; and
that he has been permitted to see, what he was always
so fond of speaking of to his friends, the great kindness
of God as dispensed to him in his children, and his
children's children.
This hfe of his was not unfinished, or like a broken
pillar: it was rorinded and completed. What, addi-

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tion could have been desired ? He has sustained im
portant relations to society; he has accomplished his
work in the Christian Church ; and now " devout men
bear him to his burial," cherishing and honoring his
memory, and lifting up grateful ascriptions to God for
all that he has been permitted to be and to do in the
world. The best tribute of our affection and respect
for the memory of such a friend is, to be diligent in
doing the very things which he would exhort us to do
if those lips now sealed in death had language.
They mourn the dead who live as they require.
And what would he say to this large company of
sorrowing men who have gathered here from that pro
fession which he honored, and from the walls^ of com
merce, to do respect to his name ?
After all that he has said by his example these
many years, in his private life and public pursuits,
what would he say now but this, " Be ye also ready ? "
What is the value of this life but as a preparation for
the hfe to come ? And how is that preparation to be
accomplished ? Thanks be to God, we are not left, in
framing an answer, to grope our way in dreary con
jecture. " The sting of death is sin." " Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
He, who commits his soul in true faith unto the Lamb
of God for the forgiveness of his sins, has victory over
death, and the life everlasting !
The Eev. Dr. Spring then delivered the following
address :

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ADDRESS OF DE. SPRING, .
As I came from that house of mourning, into this
sanctuary, my thoughts dwelt upon the truth — " The
Lord doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children
of men." As I here look down upon the lovely remains
of our deceased friend, I cannot but dwell upon that
other truth, "All flesh is grass, and the goodliness
thereof as tjie flower of the field." As I listened to
the remarks, so justly commendatory of his character,
it would be superfluous for me to say that, from my
heart, I respond to them all. Yet when I recollect the
fifty years of friendship with him, as a man, a Christian,
and an officer of this church, I cannot suppress the de
sire to utter a few thoughts, more appropriate from me
as his pastor for more than fifty years.
Mr. Lord's mind was deeply impressed with the
importance of the domestic relations, in their influence
upon personal piety. After having attended upon my
poor ministry for several years, at the close of one Sab
bath after listening to a discourse from the words of
Enth to Naomi — ¦" Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to
retum from following after thee, for whither thou goest
I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge. Thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God " —
Daniel Lord took me by the arm and walked with me
to his own dwelhng in Beach Street. When seated
there, he burst into tears. " Dr. Spring," said he, " I
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to-day, strongly influenced me, and it seems to me that
I must make up my mind that ' thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God.' "
I beheve he did so. We prayed together, and I left
him, peaceful in hope and firm in purpose. You know
his life, gentlemen. Amid the pressure of business, the
excitement of litigation, and the sacred duties of the
sanctuary, he was ever the same intelligent Christian.
Death ! oh, what is it ? One of the penalties of pro
longed life is, that we must see so many die. Death
sweeps away whole classes of men, from the shores of
time, by a single wave. A melancholy exemplification
of this mournful fact is found in the history of the New
York pulpit, and the no less sad history of the New
York bar. How true the words of the Psalmist, " Thou
carriest them away, as with a flood ! " I have lived to
see two generations of the New York bar go down to
the grave ; — the last and not the least honored name
among them, that of Daniel Lord.
Gentlemen of the bar, I speak to-day to you. If
our departed friend could occupy this pulpit, his mes
sage would be emphatically to the NeW York bar. I
have a message from him to you, and it is to commend
to you his early resolntion, " Thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God." The gentlemen of
the bar occupy a commanding position in this commu
nity. In this solemn hour you cannot but reahze that,
though frail as the tender grass, you are born for immor-
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but men as individuals, in all their personal responsi
bility to the Judge of the living and the dead. It is a
weighty truth that rehgion is a personal thing, and that
every one of us must give an account of hvmself unto
God. The surroundings of station will be at the Judg
ment-seat unknown : the king will be there, but without
his crown ; the banker will be there, but without his
gold ; the merchant will be there, but without his ledger ;
and the lawyer too will be there, but without his clients
or his brief Soon you will stand with him, who is no
more here, before that bar where you will have no cause
to plead, where the great question will be forever de
cided, whether you have an interest in Him who is the
righteous One, who is the only advocate with the Father,
the all-sufficient Saviour of sinners like you and me !
Oh, the solemnity of that hour when the bar of New
York shall stand before the Son of God, where every
one shall give an account of the deeds done in the body,
and when the solemn Judge shall pronounce the irre
versible sentence !
My dear friends, these are not fancies. You must
realize them, you have thought to realize them, you
have habits of investigation to realize them, you have
the power to analyze the weight of testimony, to dis
criminate truth from error, and to become Christians.
Gentlemen of the bar scarcely khow the influence
they have in this city, in this land, and throughout the
world, and it is a Christian bar which claimed this
man ; next to the pulpit is the bar. It should be the
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At the conclusion of Dr. Spring's address, the choir
sang the hymn :
Servant of God, well done !
Rest from thy loved employ !
Tlie battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy.
The pains of death are past.
Labor and sorrow cease ;'
And, life's long warfare closed at last.
His soul is found in pfeaoe.
Soldier of Christ, well done !
Praise he thy new employ,
And, while eternal ages run,
Eest in thy Saviour's joy.
The Eev. Dr. Hodge offered the concluding prayer,
and dismissed the assembly with the benediction.-

PROCEEDINGS

AT THE MEETING OF THE BAR,

MAECH 10, 1868.

Early in the morning of March 5, 1868, the fact
of Mr. Lord's death became generaUy known among
those who had been associated with him in his profes
sional life ; and, when the several Courts of Eecord
in the city opened, motions for an adjournment in
token of respect to him were made in each by different
members of the bar, and were in every instance granted
with considerate readiness.
The warm and kindly expressions which fell from
the lips, both of the gentlemen who made those motions
and of the judges who allowed them, have not been,
and will not be, forgotten by those to whom they came
so gratefully in a time of deep sorrow ; but the short
limits to which this Memorial must be restricted forbid
their insertion.
A formal meeting of the bar, for the purpose of
giving some more public testimonial of feeling, was
called for Monday, March 10, 1868, and was held on
that day in the United States District Court-room.
After the meeting was called to order, on motion
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Supreme Court, was appointed to preside. Judges
Daly, Eobertson, and Blatchford, and Mr. Marshal S.
Bidwell, were appointed Yice-Presidents ; and Mr. S.
G. Courtney, United States District Attorney, and Mr.
S. P. Nash, were appointed Secretaries.
Mr. Edgar S. Winkle then offered a series of resolu
tions, in presenting which he spoke as follows :
" Me. Peesident, — I have been requested by the
Committee of the bar, under whose auspices this meet
ing has been assembled, to present to its consideration
the resolutions, of which I hold a copy in my hand. I
shall confine myself simply to that duty, pleasant as it
would be to me to speak of Mr. Lord as I knew him,
and shall leave to others to speak more at length of
his virtues and acquirements. I now read the reso
lutions :
" Resolved, That in the death of Daniel Lord the members of
the bar of New York have suffered a great bereavement, and that
they deeply deplore the loss they have sustained.
" Resolved, That we are grateful his life was spared so long,
and that he was able to fill its annals with so much useful labor,
so many professional achievements, so many good deeds, and such
bright examples of what an eminent lawyer and good citizen
should be.
" Resolved, That his long and honorable professional careei',
extending over half a century, his prominent position at the bar,
his extensive legal learning, his skill as an advocate, his devotion
to the interests of his clients, that devotion always being concomi
tant with honesty and truth, his uprightness, his integrity, and
his Christian life, constituted a character, and won a reputation,
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" Resohed, That we sincerely sympathize with the afflicted
family of our departed associate, and, without wishing to intrude
on the privacy of their grief, would, nevertheless, kindly ask to he
allowed to mingle our sorrow with theirs, because he belonged to
us as well as to them.
" Resohed, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by tbe
officers of this meeting, he transmitted to the family of the
deceased."

ADDEESS OF HON. WILLIAM M. EVAETS.
Hon. William M. Evauts, in seconding the motion,
said :
I am sure, Mr. President, and gentlemen of the bar,
that in our assemblage to-day, upon the occasion of the
death of an eminent lawyer, an honorable citizen, an
upright and excellent man, we shall not at all feel that
we are acting only in obedience to custom — a custom
which, it has sometimes been alleged, assumed too
much the importance of the pubhc relations which the
bar held to the community ; for I am quite sure that
there will be found to be nothing of mere pride of our
profession, nothing of mere effort, or of honest disposi
tion, to advance its claims as a public profession on the
attention of the community, when the occasion of our
assemblage is, within the knowledge, and by the con
fession of this entire community, the death of a most
distinguished citizen. Mr. Lord, more I think than
almost any other of the eminent menabers of our pro
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was a lawyer of this city and of this State ; was a law
yer through the whole course of his life, of this city, — in
his birth, his early education, his first admission to the,
bar, and the whole progress ofhis professional life down
to the moment of his death, being of this city. We
may very briefly note the principal dates of this dis
tinguished career.
Born in the year 1795, he was graduated at Yale
College,, in as rapid a course of age to complete his in
struction as was then habitual. In the year 1814, at
the age of nineteen, he entered upon his professional
studies, completing them, partly at the celebrated law
school at Litchfield, and finally in the office of an emi
nent lawyer of the generation of the bar preceding his,
and yet who hved to be known to all of us so well,
George Griffin. As soon as was permitted, in the course
of years after graduation, he had completed his profes
sional studies, and in the year 1817 he was admitted to
the bar. In 1818 he took that step in life which fixes
the domestic character of a man, by marriage ; and in
the year 1868, now before our eyes, his life, professional,
social, domestic, public, has terininated.
If we recall, as I have been led to do, by a some
what hasty glance, the series of causes of the most ex
citable character, which, in the Federal or State Courts,
have engaged the attention of Mr. Lord, we shfiU see
how large an area they covered, and how extensive a
number of the most important professional employ
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his charge. In the State Courts, just before my own
personal acquaintance with Mr. Lord commenced, the
celebrated Fire causes, which were new in principle,
striking in character, weighty in import, vast in their
pecuniary interests, had been conducted successfully to
a close by him. Then the Dutch Church case, one of
the largest questions of title to property held under
charitable use, came soon after. The case of Wake-
man and Grover, a leading case on the most important
subject of trust assignments; the American Life and
Trust cases, containing in so many forms questions of
usury, and of corporate action, arising in the transac
tions of that large institution ; the case of the Leake
and Watts charity, embracing questions of wills, and
of charitable uses ; the Mason will ; the Phelps will ;
and, running through all the same period, a series of
insurance causes, of mercantile causes in every form,
of revenue cases, either in the forfeiture side of the
Federal Courts, or involving the question of duties and
their exaction, combined to fill up, year by year,
month by month, day by day, the course of his prac
tice, embracing these important topics of jurispru
dence. In the United States Courts, the case of
Carver and Astor, known as the Putnam County
Land case, and finally argued in the Supreme Court of
the United States, in the year 1830, by Attorney-Gen
eral Bronson and Mr. Webster on the one side, and
by Mr. Ogden and Mr. Wirt on the other, was the
termination of a great and important controversy be-
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tween the title made under the statutes of forfeiture
following the Eevolution, and the title under a private
conveyance, resulting in the maintenance of the supe
rior title of the private conveyance. This is understood
to have been a case in which Mr. Lord was the respon
sible and managing lawyer on the side of Mr. Astor,
although the principal, if not the whole, forensic
display, at least, was in the hands of the very eminent
lawyers, on the one side or the other, whose connec
tion with this case is historical. Then, soon after the
disasters of 1837, in which the downfall of the credit
system of this country had induced a large series of lit
igations on the part of foreign bankers, and foreign
merchants pursuing their debtors here, there came
the celebrated case of Bell and Grant against Bruen,
in the year 1843, resting upon questions of commercial
guaranty ; and the case of McCalmont against Lawrence
on the law of suretyships and commercial guaranty. A
little later, in the year 1850, the well-known insur
ance case of Barnard against Adams, in the Supreme
Court of the United States, tried first in the circuit here,
involving the question of the contribution in general
average, to make good the loss of a ship voluntarily
stranded under peculiar circumstances of apparently
hopeless perU — an interesting and novel question upon
which Mr. Lord was successful in supporting his views.
The case of Jasigi against Brown, a little later, in the
year 1854, was a case of considerable magnitude, in
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mendation or representation, parties who were involved
afterward in debts for which suit was brought. The
Methodist Church case followed — one of those notes in
the prelude of the great storm which finally ended in
the armed revolt and in a threatened dissolution of the
country ; this great controversy arose on the partition
of the Methodist Church between the North and South,
and I remember the case as almost the only one which
as an observer, an interested listener from beginning
to end, I have been enabled to attend since I have
been at the bar ; a case discussed here on the one side
by Mr. Choate, of Boston, and Mr. George Wood, of
New York, and on the other, by Mr. Lord, and Mr.
Eeverdy Johnson, of Baltimore ; a case, the splendor
of whose debate astonished as it delighted our bar, and
in which Mr. Lord's pecuhar traits and powers, con
trasting so much as they did with the brilhancy in one
way and another, or the solidity of these eminent law
yers, nevertheless left the impression upon the court and
upon hearers that Mr. Lord's mode and style of dealing
with forensic questions within the region of practical and
sensible estimate and decision was as marked, as use
ful, and as distinguished, as any of the more brilliant or
more imposing forms of forensic power which his oppo
nents or his associates presented. Then came the series
of Bank tax cases, the prize causes in the courts of orig
inal jurisdiction, and finally the argument in the Su
preme Court of the United States, of the principal and
test-prize cause, that of the Eiamatha, in which the doc-

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trines ot the war, as bearing upon public law, of prize,
and of submission to the laws of blockade, growing out
of the first emergency in which our civil war had
placed the Government toward the revolted States,
were the topics of discussion. In the case of the Savan
nah privateers, involving an interesting question of
criminal law, in which these same questions came up,
Mr. Lord appeared for the defendants.
Now, Mr. President, this very cursory statement,
leading us, who know all about him, only to dwell for
a moment upon the wide extent, the varied forms,
weighty duties, and the constant occupations of Mr.
Lord's professional life, shows that, in view of fifty years
of such professional effort and of such professional dis
tinction, we cannot but feel that the gap made in our
body and in our community by his removal is a wide
and a deep one.
In regard to his personal life, Mr, Lord, in his do
mestic affairs, in his social relations, presents a career
of prosperity and of happiness which, in the changeable
nature of our society, is certainly quite agreeable.
Losing one child out of eight, in mere infancy, as I am
told, all his other chUdren have grown up to manhood
and womanhood in this city, all worthy of their father's
character and of his name, and all were suffered to
stand by his bedside at his last moments. No dis
asters of any kind, no disappointments, no unsuccessful
efforts in any direction of life, seem ever to have awaited
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cannot fail to do, that, with all this prosperity and all
this distinction, he was as quiet and as simple, as honest
and as straightforward, and as constantly laborious and
faithful as if work was all that there was of life that
was worthy to be done — worthy work, for worthy ends,
and by worthy ineans — we cannot but confess that the
life of our deceased friend and brother presents as agree
able a picture for us to look back upon as could have
been enjoyed by him ; one that we could wish to be
filled up in some measure for our own lot, and one that
in any estimate, although he never held judicial or offi
cial station, or was honored by political distinctions, we
must feel has been a life as worthy to be lived, as useful
and as influential, as any of those lives which have been
more elevated in the career of public influence, however
distinguished and however useful they too may have
been. ,
It happened to me, Mr. President (and for this
reason, more than any other, am I permitted to make
these remarks), to become acquainted with Mr. Lord,
the first among the lawyers of New York that I ever
knew. During my college residence at New Haven, I
had become acquainted with his person, which had been
pointed out to me in some of his occasional visits to
that city, the seat of his college education. Some cir
cumstances of family connection led me afterward, when
a student at Cambridge-*-upon the casual suggestion of
a comrade there, that I should turn my attention to the
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to do, in Boston — to think, as a possibUity, that my
acquaintance, or the means that I had to make an
acquaintance with Mr. Lord, then eminent in his posi
tion at this bar, might give me an introduction to his
care and attention, and might afford me opportunities of
education under circumstances that required me to be
very careful in regard to expense and risk in any step
that I should take, which might lead me to venture to
become an aspirant for the distinction and successes of
the profession in this great city. I may, therefore, feel
that Mr. Lord was reaUy the reason, the occasion, the
opportunity, the means, by which I was permitted to be
introduced to any degree of professional labor and pros
perity which may, in my own sense, or in that of any
one about me, have attended me. I remember very
well the kindness with which he received me, and the
willingness which he expressed to receive me into his
office ; and when, at the appointed time, the succeed
ing summer, that of 1839, 1 presented myself, he said
— " WeU, Mr. Evarts, you have come to commence
your studies and be a lawyer in New York," and I
replied doubtfully, perhaps as I supposed modestly,
" I have come to try " — " Well, sir," said he, " if you
have only come to try, you had better go back ; if you
have come to stay, we shall be glad to receive you ;"
and when I amended my answer by the information he
gave me, that it was possible far me to stay, that I had
come to he a lawyer, he received me cordially ; and from
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my supporter, and my guide. It has, of course, in the
nearly thirty years of my residence as a student and as
a lawyer in this city, come to me to be more or less
acquainted with, or more or less an observer of, not only
the personal character, traits, and careers of the eminent
lawyers, so many of whom have passed away, so many
of whom are yet left, but also to have some general
knowledge of the course of the profession, and of the
business of the bar ; and, in looking back upon that
thirty years, I cannot but think that Mr. Lord, then
about forty-five years old, held relatively to the law
business of the city, and relatively to the other lawyers
who were his rivals, his competitors, his equals, a better
position, in regard to his hold upon the business of the
city, not only than any lawyer at that time, but, I think,
than any lawyer that has followed him. Not but that
there have been, perhaps, larger connections of employ
ment since, more brilliant presentations of forensic and
other professional success, but the city became so large
that it was utterly impossible for any one lawyer, how
ever great his power and his reputation, to occupy the
position toward the community of clients and the gen
eral course of professional business later, which Mr.
Lord occupied at that time. During the two years
that I was a student in his office, there being a consid
erable increase of law business from the necessary se
quence of the great disasters of 1837, it seemed to me
as if almost all the great commercial houses, as if almost
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almost all the foreign agents, as if almost all the casual
litigants having causes of great magnitude, came to
consult Mr. Lord. I kno-\V I saw then what I have not
been in the habit of seeing in my own or in any other
office since — an habitual attendance every morning, as
if upon a levee, of a very considerable number of clients
awaiting his coming to the office, to take his opinion
on matters of importance, or of more solemn considera
tion, and awaiting their tum to be received into his
inner room. From the circumstances of the arrange
ment of the office, it was pretty full of students ; and I,
being the last-comer, had the privilege of occupying
the same room with himself, and, excepting often being
required to remove during a confidential inter view^
with other counsel, or between him and his clients,
I enjoyed the advantage of seeing and noticing the
every-day habits of intercourse, professional conduct,
and professional demeanor, of this distinguished lawyer.
Promptitude was the great trait of Mr. Lord in his per
sonal dealings with his clients and with his causes. A
most fortunate, a most wonderful capacity of economizing
time, a ready control of his own attention to every
piece of business as it came along, so that whatever his
fresh and instant attention to it communicated was
preserved and laid up in the first few hours or days of
the introduction of the business in a permanent shape,
so that when, after a long period of time, it came on
for trial or for argument, he did not need to go over
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he had once examined. His opinions, which were
brought down morning after morning, and were gener
ally not very long, but always very much to the point,
were delivered to the students to copy, and then handed
to the clients. And although there were not so many
courts by far as there now are, yet he was sure to be
occupied during the day in court either in argument
or iri trial, and occasionally was withdrawn to Albany,
and, during the winter, also to the Supreme Court in
Washington. I was able, therefore, Mr. President, to
gain what was of incalculable service to me, or might
have been if I had had the strength and patience and
industry to get all the good out of it that I might — of
incalculable importance to any young student, to any
young and expectant lawyer — a knowledge by actual ob
servation, how it was that great and numerous and con
stant affairs could be handled and disposed of satisfac
torily, useftdly, faithfully,' successfully, triumphantly,
by a lawyer in the very concourse of the courts, and of
causes. He displayed great quickness of apprehension,
great firmness and intrepidity in the prosecution of the
views that he had espoused, great confidence in them,
and these were the prevalent traits of Mr. Lord's foren
sic conduct of business.
Now, Mr. President, I shall not trespass much longer
upon your time, but in all these years of my observa
tion of Mr. Lord, of my respect and affection for him,
I can truly say that I have never known any particular
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habit or principle of life, professional or personal, that
I could not honestly esteem as of the best example, and
honestly commend to all who sought the best example.
I do not seek to put a tint or color upon his life and
conduct that is more than human ; I do not say that
there were not faults and blemishes in the casual inter-
com'se of the bar, or of society, that in him, as in every
one else, may have excited some resentment ; but I do
mean to say that there was no purposed and deliberate
act, there was no settled and adopted principle of con
duct, which was not of the highest character and of the
most important influence in the conduct of his affairs,
and such as every member of the bar might well wish
to have been an observer of.
Mr. President — Mr. Lord dealt with one subject,
not always easy to be managed by prosperous members
of any liberal profession, in a manner which it seemed
to me was as imexceptionable, as high-minded, as any
course that could be adopted, and I cannot but think
that in the great crowd of business, and in the very
large increase of professional emoluments which we now
see about us, it may be worth while to refer to the fact
of the moderation of Mr. Lord's professional charges.
He never overlooked the fact that the profession of the
law was not in, and of itself, the pursuit of gain. He
never failed to recognize that the profession was a lib
eral one, and that its rewards were in the service of the
public, in a general interest in the care of men's affairs,
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advocate of justice and the defender of the wronged ;
and I think that throughout his whole life he very con
scientiously and very thoroughly adhered to the rule
and principle that the compensation of the lawyer should
be proportioned to the service he performed in every
case, and yet never upon any other standard than what
would furnish a suitable support, according to the cus
toms of society, and give an opportunity to provide
against want in the possible misfortunes and vicissitudes
of life. I think, Mr. President, that there has not always
been an observance of this rule, and I think that we all
feel, and believe, that that is the true rule of our pro
fession, that we do not live to make money, and that
all we can recognize in regard to making money is,
that we make it that we may live. Our duties, our
obligations, if we are fitly described as a liberal profes
sion, do not admit us to regard the profits of our pro
fession as the principal object, nor the amount to which
they can be carried as a safe and just guide open to the
lawyer in this regard. Mr. Lord also seemed to me in
all his dealings with questions of expense, of money —
not an easy question to manage in the affairs of life —
to be governed by as sensible views as any man that I
have known ; never ostentatious, never profuse, yet
always liberal, always generous, always honest in the
externals of hfe, he seemed to me, in this matter of deal
ing, to present a spectacle to be imitated by us all ; and
now, when the few last years have reminded us that his
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yield to the touch of time and to powers of decay, we
have noticed how readily he accepted the conditions of
withdrawing gradually from employment, and we have
been glad to see how apparently he was enjoying the
cheerfulness, the comfort, the full possession of his
intellectual faculties, and the great enjoyments which
his social and domestic happiness furnished so freely to
him ; and it is only within the last fortnight, that we
have felt that even this beautiful life, with all its strength
and aU its charms, when touched finally by the finger
of decay, passes away hke a garment fretted by the
moth. But it is only in this natural decay that we
know or admit this change His example, his life, is
not affected by any decay, nor fretted by any corrosion.
It is complete, it is secure ; it is the possession of us all ;
and mourned as he is by the profession of the country,
by the community, by the public, who knew and hon
ored and admired him, I may be permitted, in my own
personal attitude to him as my master and my guide
and friend, both to feel and to say that personal and
private grief justly attends my relation to his loss.

ADDEESS OF WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, ESQ.
In discharging the part which the committee have
devolved upon me, I shall forbear to speak from those
personal associations, or from that sense of respect and
reverence, far more than professional, scarcely less than
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haps unsuited to this occasion. In the freshness of a
grief caused by such a loss as this, we are apt to look
at the object of our regard rather in the softer lights
reflected from whatever was most attractive and beau
tiful as it appears in our own recollections ; but the
discriminating review which has been already given of
Mr. Lord's career reminds me that, in these commemo
rative gatherings of the bar, we are to place the subject
of our praise in the clearer and sharper hght of the
high calling which we profess ; the light which now, as
from some fixed and permanent orb, falls upon this fin
ished work, and this new-made grave.
To me, sir, and to those whom I address, I have no
doubt that the chief, perhaps I might say, the severe
charm of this occasion, springs from the fact that Mr.
, Lord was so exclusively, in respect to all those traits
which we are now gathering up for commemoration, a
lawyer. The tribute which we pay borrows nothing
from political distinction ; it borrows ' nothing from
public place — :a seat upon the highest bench in this
State, proffered to him, was dechned, from a strict
sense of duty — ^it borrows nothing from literary successes
or inspirations; it borrows nothing from those arts,
more kindred to our profession, of popular eloquence
or oratory. Nor is this one of those instances in which
Nature was so prodigal of her gifts that, when we come
to survey the finished life, we almost doubt whether
the eminence which it attained was the result of indus
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native genius. No, sir, Mr. Lord's career bears this
impress upon it, which every member of our profession
should feel to be a personal encouragement to duty,
that from first to last what he acquired of reputation, of
social standing, of weight with this community, which
judges and weighs men and things by a true standard,
he acquired by patient industry, by the severest toil,
and by the faithful application of those mental gifts
with which he had been endowed. Perhaps as much
as any man who ever toiled in the same direction, he
gained distinction by slow and diligent steps. Starting
with the rudiments of legal science, and mastering its
principles by dint of the most thorough mental disci-
phne, in his professional training and development
patience had her perfect work. His assured position
and his high repute, woven long ago into the very frame
work of our social organization and of our American
jurisprudence, he gained against odds, in the face of
sharp rivalries; by hard work, and by superior talent.
He ran in the race, and so ran that he obtained ; and
remembering with whom he competed for the prize, he
might in the retrospect have said of all this wealth of
professional fame which he left behind him, as the patri
arch of old said of the portion, above his brethren, which
he gave to his chosen son : " I took it with my sword
and with my bow."
The secret of Mr. Lord's success as a lawyer it is
not difficult for us to solve. It resided in his clear intel
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should say, by an equally clear moral perception of
truth. It resided in the facility with which he could
apply great principles to facts as they presented them
selves. It resided in great part in his peculiar power
of conveying to the minds of others the precise idea
which lay in his own mind. If eloquence, among the
many definitions which have been given of it, is prop
erly defined as "the power of transferring our own
thoughts to others," there was this about Mr. Lord's
forensic efforts which, I think, every one will bear wit
ness, brought them clearly within this definition — I
mean his remarkable power of transplanting the root of
the matter from the native soil of his own mind into
whatever was kindred in the minds of those whom he
addressed. This is a wonderful faculty. Looking at
Mr. Lord, as many of the younger members of the pro
fession have done with me, in reference to his ability
to discover and to present the vital points of his case,
how often we have been struck with this peculiar
power! The words that he used were simple, his
phrases were homely ; he struck the nail on the head
and drove it home. There was nothing that was ornate
in his discourse. There was a certain lack of style in
it which was more vigorous than style. There was a
certain absence of ornament in it which was more
powerful than ornament. It came from his own intel
lect ahd conscience and heart, and it went where it was
intended to go, to the intellect, and the heart, and the
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told in that most appropriate discourse delivered on the
day of the funeral by his pastor, that in Mr. Lord's
diary for this year were found two brief sentences trans
cribed from a sermon of Dr. South. They were cited
in thQ hearing of perhaps most of us who are now as
sembled, brief, sententious, and weighty. Doubtless,
Mr. Lord had not for the first time during this year
made the acquaintance of South, that master of a style
so terse and vigorous that, next to Swift, he of all others
could put upon our English tongue its keenest edge,
and I am reminded of another brief sentence of the
same divine, which I will take the liberty of quoting,
as it comes aptly in connection with this incident, and
as it seems to me to contain in a few words the leading
characteristic of Mr. Lord's power as an advocate:
" The principles of things," says Dr. South, " lie in a
very small compass, if the mind can be so fortunate as
once to light upon them." Now, it was the felicity of
Mr. Lord's mind that he lighted with such ease upon
the principles of things, that he applied them so read
ily, and that he conveyed them so forcibly to the minds
of others. Another characteristic of Mr. Lord, to which I may
be allowed to allude, was his faith in the weight of
evidence. There are many members of our profession,
there are many incumbents of the bench, who seem to
approach each case, as it presents itself, with some pre
conceived theory which it is their effort to support.
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did in his estimate of every case according to the evi
dence upon which it depended, and in view of the con
flicting weight of authority bearing upon it which he
labored to control, and from which he sought to elimi
nate the just principle of decision. He applied these
tests not only to the questions which arose in the course
of his professional practice, but also to the gravest ques
tions which can occupy the human mind. In reference
to the inspiration of the Scriptures, this was his short
and simple method of solving the difficulties which are
apt to environ that subject. He placed the whole argu
ment upon the testimony of the Son of Man. He said
to a friend, intimately associated with him, as related to
me in a recent conversation : " I believe this witness ;
I believe what He testifies upon the subject. There
with me is a solution of the whole problem." This
was his way of approaching this great subject, as well
as every subject which came within the province of his
duties as a lawyer and a jurist.
Mr. Lord was a man of very positive qualities, rap
idly developed in his course at the bar, and prominent
in his professional life. It could hardly have been
otherwise. He was born in the decade during which
Lord Mansfield died ; one-third of his career ran paral
lel with the career of Chief-Justice Marshall ; fuUy one-
half of it with that of Chancellor Kent; nearly the
whole of it with that of Chief-Justice Oakley, and he
was trained in a school which very soon developed all
that was positive in his character. He was an advocate,
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tenacious for the cause of his client, ready always to
stand in the breach, and we all know, for it has been
known and read of all men in our profession, with what
alertness, with what epergy, with what persistency, and
with what success he occupied the place of the client
whom he served. We know very well, too, for he has
left it on record, how easily he brushed away the sophis
try of the casuists who would seek to raise questions of
difficulty in regard to the moral aspect of our profes
sion and our professional life, and to turn the business of
the jurist into a sort of insurance against errors of judg
ment, or against the confiicts of testimony. And here
I may be permitted to read a few brief sentences from
the only public address of Mr. Lord which has fallen
into my hands, which I have preserved for many years,
and wliich bears upon this question so often discussed,
¦and of so much practical importance.
He says, in refuting the common prejudice that the
lawyer can only advocate the cause which coincides
with his own convictions :
" It is not difficult to show that this is an unjust
prejudice, and not a true judgment. All questions not
resting on demonstration, like those of the mathemat
ical, and some in the physical sciences, depend on a
balancing of arguments, a weighing of probabilities, a
comparing of considerations of contrary tendencies.
To decide these questions truly, the arguments, the
probabilities, the considerations on each side must be
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the more is a just conclusion aided. Now, in this pres
entation, a wise division of labor, if not a necessity for
equalizing the mental powers on each behalf, has dic
tated the forensic discussion, the committing of the
argumentation on each side to different minds, as con
ducive to greater completeness. This mode of discus
sion calls for no falsification of principles, for no per
version of reasoning. It simply demands the statement
of those true principles and views, modes of reasoning,
«nd authoritative precedents which conduct to one ofthe
. opposite conclusions ; that the opposing considerations
are not produced by the same person, does not render
those which are produced insincere, since it is the very
rule of the discussion that they are to be produced by
another. And it will be found, so far from deadening
the sentiments of truth and fairness among the bar, that
to state imtruly a fact, a principle, or a precedent, is
by them held as unprofessional as in fact it is dishonor
able and immoral.
" Besides, the open representative character of the
bar, personating their clients almost as in the drama,
relieves this subject from even an apparent insincerity.
Their persuasions are presented as those of the party ;
they are to be weighed as such, and so are received and
considered, according to their intrinsic force, and not
to the personal consideration of the advocate. So long,
therefore, as all difficult, social, and moral questions
have two sides to be looked at, have truths on each side
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discussion, like every other division of labor, shaU lead
to greater perfection, so long will the forensic labors of
the bar be intrinsically free from dishonor or just im
peachment. Truth, although simple, is not always
easy to-be discovered. Justice is still oftener concealed
in dark recesses. It is a noble and elevating office of
the bar to seek for both."
I shall not detain you, Mr. Chairman, with any ref
erence to the details of Mr. Lord's career, for the full
review which we have had of the various aspects of his
professional, personal, and social life, renders it unneces
sary that I should touch upon those topics. For fifty
years he has been actively engaged in the pursuit of
our profession in this metropohs. He was called to the
bar in 1817, a year specially crowded with commercial
activities, springing from the fact that, after the brief
pause which followed the peace of 1815, the commerce
of this country then began to develop its resources, and
to take the initiative in its march around the world.
In 1817 steam navigation on the North Eiver was, for
the first, regularly estabhshed, the first line of ocean
packets connected this city and Liverpool, and the first
regular mail communication of a frequent character
was organized between New York and Philadelphia.
It was a period full of enterprise and public spirit.
Mr. Lord at once connected himself with the most
prominent of these increased business activities, and
entered upon that professional career which has been
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city from its commencement to its close. And now,
as we look at its completed course, it seems to us like
some massive arch, its two extremes at a great dis
tance from each other, resting with an equal poise, al
ways aspiring upward, covering a vast space, and yet,
by its continuity and firm grace, giving form and
substance to the entire circle which it describes. It
commenced fortunately — fortunately it has ended. It
seems to me as if every element of fehcity which the
mind has ever conceived in reference to a human career
is blended here. The old classic ideal, bounded as it
was by the horizon of Time, embraced nothing nobler
or more satisfying — an active hfe in the forum ; the
companionship of the wise ; the respect and reverence
of children; the charms of domestic life; the confi
dence of the State ; at death, the public funeral and
the homage of the good. Certainly it realizes the beau
tiful description of the Old Testament where the
Heavenly Wisdom is represented as having in her right
hand length of days, and in her left hand riches and
honor. And surely around this bier we may claim the
fulfilment of those better pledges and promises of the
Later Dispensation, which assure to godhness the prom
ise not only of this life but of that which is to come.
And so, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the bar,
he has left us, with all that weight of learning which
he wore so lightly, with aU that wealth of esteem
which we loved to lavish upon him, and, as we watch
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scenes, we perceive that it does not vanish in the dis
tance or the dark, but, only higher advanced, it is de
tained for us by memory, it is transfigured by faith ;
calm and sedate as the image of that Justice in whose
courts'it ministered, all its imperfections lightly brushed
off by the wing of Death, robed in those antique vir
tues which it wore so well, and radiant now with that
shining light which, illumining the path of the just,
shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
ADDEESS OF HON. WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE.
Me. Peesident : It was only this moment, in enter
ing the hbrary in the adjacent room, that I learned
that there was to be a meeting here this morning, for
the purpose of rendering homage to the memory of the
most eminent of the jurists of this city — to the memory
of one to whom I was personally bound by the strongest
obhgations that gratitude can create.
My early recoUections of Mr. Lord may, perhaps, be
an apology for asking you to go back with me not only
as far as the leamed gentleman (Mr. Evarts), who first
addressed you, went, but to go back to the very com-
,mencement of his career ; for it was, at the same time
that he opened his office in Pine street, that I entered,
as a student, the office of William Slosson, then the first
commercial lawyer of this city, and who filled toward
the community, toward the rich men, toward the banks
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well our own citizens as foreigners from every coun
try whose business in this metropolis required the advice
of counsel, the position which was afterward so worthily
occupied by him whose loss we now deplore.
I find, among the gentlemen here, scarcely any of
my generation, of those with whom, on my admission to
the bar, I was connected by professional associations.
At that time the young lawyer had unrivalled opportu
nities for the attainment of forensic eloquence, and ac
quiring instruction for the pubhc exercise of his pro
fession, by listening to those who were masters of their
art. I have nowhere, in any country, seen two advo
cates more remarkable for the soundness of their logic,
the accuracy of their learning, and the elegance of their
diction, than John Wells and Thomas Addis Emmet,
who, during my novitiate, occupied the foremost places
at the bar of this city ; nor were much behind them,
George Griffin, David B. Ogden, Josiah Ogden Hoffman,
and other gentlemen, whose names you will all recall,
from tradition, if not from personal recollections. More
over, arguments at that day were made before such men
as Chief-Justice Spencer and Chancellor Kent.
Following Mr. Lord very closely at Litchfield, the
school at which so many of the leading lawyers and
statesmen of the last generation obtained their legal
education, I found that he had made his mark there,
and given indications, by his talents and industry, of the
ability to attain that rank at the bar which he so hon
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It was not, however, till a period long subsequent
to that to which I have referred, that I was brought
into personal connection with Mr. Lord. It was after
my return from Europe, where I had passed some
years in the diplomatic .service of the country, that
I became acquainted with him as a friendly adviser
and as a lawyer ; and I can bear ample testimony to
to the truth of every thing that has been said of him as
chamber counsel, by the gentleman (Mr. Evarts) who
had the advantage of being his confidential student.
From the first, I have never known any instance,
whether I consulted Mr. Lord as associate coimsel, or
addressed him as a client, that I had any reason to
doubt the correctness of his advice. He had, as Mr.
Evarts has just remarked, the power of impressing you
thoroughly with his views ; not only was that true, but
I do not recollect a single instance, going through a
period of several years, in which I had any reason to
regret having implicitly followed his advice ; nor do I
know of any case in which he did not well, ably, and
fully sustain those views which he had expressed in his
office, when he came to discuss them before the court.
I have again and again declared, whenever allusion was
made to the professional character of Mr. Lord, that
though others may have equalled or surpassed him as a
mere advocate, as an advising counsel, as a lawyer and
a friend to be consulted in an emergency where a chent's
whole fortune or reputation for life might depend on
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on whose judgment I should so implicitly rely as on
that of Mr. Lord ; and I may add that, in following his
counsel, no one could have any reason to fear that he
was doing any thing that was not both just and hon
orable. With regard to the character of his attainments, they
have been passed on in review by Mr. Evarts, in con
nection with the many great cases in which he was
engaged in the State and National tribunals. So far as
I am capable of judging from my own personal expe
rience, from consultation with him in cases in which I
was either personally interested or in which I repre
sented others, I am sure that Mr. Evarts has only done
Mr. Lord justice, when, in alluding to his management
of those cases involving immense pecuniary interests,
which resulted from the speculations to which the State
Legislature some thirty years ago gave rise, he bears
witness not only to the extent of his resources as a pro
found lawyer, but to the excellence of his judgment in
their adjustment.
The advantages which I had enjoyed, by attending,
when abroad, lectures on the Eoman law and its appli
cation to the existing legislation of Europe, and in fre
quenting the tribunals of justice in foreign countries,
led me, in my intercourse with Mr. Lord, to appreciate
his knowledge of the French code, which not only gov
erns France, but, more or less modified, continues the
law of those countries which were embraced in the em
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merely resorted to for illustrating our own, but his at
tention was drawn to the conflict of laws in their direct
practical application. As a New York lawyer, and
especially as the great commercial lawyer of New York,
he was necessarily obliged to inquire into and examine
the laws of those countries with which his clients had
business relations, and I have reason to know that he
was learned beyond his contemporaries in the jurispru
dence of Continental Europe.
I may also be permitted to state 'in this connection,
that my last correspondence with him was on a matter
requiring learning of a still different character. It
arose from his having sent me a copy of his argument
in one of the prize cases to which the hostilities between
the North and South gave rise. It was the basis of his
argument before the Supreme Court in the " prize cases,"
the decision in which settled the status of the inhabit-
*ants of the seceding States toward the United States ;
and though a majority of the court did not adopt all his
views, it is not irrelevant to state that they were sus
tained by, among others. Judge Nelson, who delivered
the opinion of the minority of the court, and by the late
Chief-Justice Taney.
I may, perhaps, after the remarks made by Mr.
Evarts, as to Mr. Lord's appreciation of his profession
as an honorable and dignified pursuit, and not merely
as a means of making money, allude to a fact which
goes to confirm his statement. I recollect on one occa
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very considerable amount of property, and to argue
which he was compelled to go to Schenectady, where
the Court of Appeals then sat, he returned one half of
the fee which his chent had thought appropriate, saying
that it was too much.
So far as regards Mr. Lord's career, aside from his
profession, you who are familiar with it for the twenty
years which have elapsed since my connection with
New York ceased, are much more able to speak than I
am ; but at the time that I knew him, and was in famil
iar intercourse with him, there was no moneyed insti
tution in this city which required the advice of counsel
in whom imphcit confidence could be reposed, that did
not send for Mr. Lord, and where that was practicable,
did not deem it most important that he should consti
tute one of the governing Board. His name from a
very early day was connected with the most important
of the public charities.
So far as regards all the various relations of life, it
is sufficient to say that his character is perfect, so perfect
that I certainly shall not venture to diminish the effect
with which it has been presented to your notice in the
eloquent addresses to which we have just listened, by
off'ering any unpremeditated observations of my own, as
I remarked on rising. I have had no opportunity for
preparation, no opportunity for putting in language
more worthy of the occasion, and of any httle reputation
that I may enjoy, these sentiments which have been
uttered as the spontaneous effusion of my feelings.

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ADDRESS OF CHARLES O'CONOE, ESQ.
Me. Peesident : It would not be easy, and perhaps
not possible, for the best judgment and the greatest
ability, to add any thing to the exceedingly just and
appropriate remarks already made in reference to the
career, the character, and the disposition of our lamented
friend Mr. Lord. Certainly, I should satisfy my own
feelings, and no doubt would satisfy all others, by leav
ing these topics in the hands of those who have so ably
spoken to them. Still, a single consideration impels
me to make a few observations. One of the speakers
was Mr. Lord's pupil ; another was bound to him
by family ties, and influenced by the associations
which such ties naturally produce ; the third was
a client, who through business relations and iden
tity of interests, was long his intimate friend. I
happened to occupy toward Mr. Lord a relation
different from any of these ; and, consequently, I had
opportunities of witnessing his acts and contemplating
his character from another point of view. This circum
stance may justify me in engaging your attention for a
few minutes. While indicating my views of Mr. Lord,
my remarks will serve the purpose of impressing upon
the record of these proceedings a variety that cannot
impair its interest. They will exhibit the testimony of
another witn ess differing in material respects from those
who have spoken. It will be the testimony of one who
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professional brethren of Mr. Lord ; his contemporaries in
the struggle of life, his peers in occupation, in opportu
nity, and also in desire — if not in ability or public
esteem. Mr. Lord was eminently just and conscientious.
From the outset ofhis career, the dictates of conscience,
of honor, and of duty, as a man, as a Christian, as a
member of the family, and as a member of society, were
his guiding principles. And with the most precise and
exact fidelity, through the whole course of his hfe, did
he keep them in view ; never — I have no difficulty in
saying it, nor wiU any man contradict me — never, in
any instance, or even in the slightest degree, deviating
from their observance. His course was marked by sin
gleness of purpose. At the outset of life, he chose for
his employment the pursuit of our arduous and toU-
Bome profession ; from that hour until the close of his
career, he knew no change. The same sentiments, tastes,
and feelings which dictated his choice marked the whole
of his subsequent life. Prepared by a complete course
of appropriate studies, he entered the arena of pubhc
contest and of rivalry with his fellow-men, and during
his half century of professional life he was never known
as a politician, as a speculator in any gainful pursuit, or
as a candidate for any public office, or as wilhng to
accept one. Outside of his own domestic circle, he was
known only as a man exclusively engaged in the pursuit
of a highly honorable and useful profession, who was
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studies and hne of action best suited to insure the exact
and perfect performance of his duties. That in this
one single department of human exertion he should
have become a highly useful member of society, is not
surprising. His object was not to accumulate great
wealth. This has been amply proven by circumstances
already recited, and, if desirable, I could add many facts
in confirmation of it. He was a faithful counsellor, and
a firm champion of the coimsel given. His advocacy
of whatsoever cause he espoused was always able and
effective. As his examinations were very thorough, and
his opinions consequently well considered, he never
wilhngly relinquished their vindication until the final
and authoritative judgment was pronounced upon them.
One cannot well employ many words in exhibiting
the character of one whose whole career was marked
with such uniformity and with such absolute propriety.
With all the powers of his mind, with all the strength
of his intellect, and with the utmost fidehty of heart, he
gave himself to the perfonnance of his duties ; and,
when this is said, perhaps the eulogium should end.
The nearer such a character approaches perfection, the
more difficult it is to amplify descriptive details.
In ordinary times, such a man is not designed by
Providence to be a participant in stormy scenes, in
violent altercations, or in those actions or controversies
which excite the passions of men and leave a vivid im
pression on the minds of his surviving contemporaries,
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describes his hfe, conduct, and manners. It was, there
fore, with great propriety that the first speaker observed
a certain chaste and calm simplicity in his eulogium. It
reached the precise limit of propriety and truth ; it sac
rificed nothing to mere show or ostentation. Mr. Lord
was an extremely modest man, and, although he had
many facilities for so doing, if inclined, he did not at
the outset become at once engaged in very active prac
tice. During the few years that intervened between
his admission to the bar and my own, he was not very
extensively engaged in contested causes ; and whenever
we were called into the same case, during forty years
or thereabouts of my professional hfe, it almost invaria
bly happened that we were placed on opposite sides. I
found him an exceedingly formidable contestant. Noth
ing that diligence could discover, no agency that truth
and honor could employ, ever failed to present itself
upon his side. There was something remarkably uni
form in his laborious fidehty to his chents. I remember,
durmg the first or second year of my professional life, be
ing engaged to prosecute a wealthy merchant for a hum
ble mechanic. It was in a justice's court, and the sum in
controversy was five-and-twenty doUars. The merchant
would probably have paid thrice the sum rather than
enter upon the contest ; but pride often governs in these
matters : he determined to resist, and the merchants'
favorite of that day, Mr. Daniel Lord, was his chosen
counsel. The six-men jury, assigned by law to such
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I can confidently affirm that Mr. Lord as earnestly and
diligently devoted himself to the trial of that case as he
ever applied himself to any similar duty when ten
thousand times as many dollars depended upon his ex
ertions. I think I can say with perfect confidence that
greater zeal, more unwearied effort, more absolute abil
ity so far as the case called for it, were not exhibited in
his greatest cases than in that very small one. Mr.
Lord's observance of duty was of the most uniform cast.
He never failed in responding efficiently to any call
which was honorable and just, or in any thing wliich
constituted a part of his duty as a professional man.
Amid the haste and excitement of our conflicts at
the bar, the best-regulated tempers will sometimes faU
to preserve their equanimity. Though the instances
were rare indeed, yet truth requires the admission that,
occasionally, while Mr. Lord and myself were contend
ing at the bar, words have been elicited from eabh of us
which might seem not to have been conceived in entire
kindness, and which were not at the moment accepted
with perfect amenity. Yet I firmly believe that there
never existed on his part, during the long period marked
by our intellectual combats, the slightest rancor. I know
that upon mine there never were any feelings but those
of the most cordial and respectful nature. It has been
said that Mr. Lord was a sincere Christian. His course
in this branch of our mutual experience and intercourse
afforded a strong proof of it. I perfectly remember an
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contending at the bar, when contemplatively reviewing
the past, I recalled the fact that every sharp passage
between us had been promptly reconciled by a first
advance on his part. Considering that he was full ten
years my senior, and that doubtless I was not unfre
quently the offender, this reminiscence very justly ex
cited emotions akin to self-reproach. It imparted addi
tional depth and earnestness to my habitual respect for
him, and it led to a resolution on my part never again
to utter a word in reference to him which could provoke
a retort or need an explanation. That was a silent, and,
until this hour, unpublished tribute to his worth. Eest-
ing on substantial foundations, the resolve had a just
claim to observance, and I can affirm that it was faith
fully kept.
Let these few unpremeditated remarks stand as my
simple testimony to the high qualities and great moral
worth of Mr. Lord. To the warm eulogium of his
attached friends, and the classic tribute of his eminent
pupil, it may not be amiss to append, in the record of
these proceedings, the testimony of a hfe-long compet
itor at the bar, that he never knew a more pure, upright,
and honorable lawyer than Daniel Lord.
At the conclusion of Mr. O'Conor's address, the
resolutions were adopted, and the meeting adjourned.
7

MEMOEIAL OF JAMES COUPEE LOED.

The writer of the foregoing Memorial little thought,
as he wrote the last few pages, that, before they should
reach the printer's hands, death would again invade that
family circle. Up to the time of Mr. Lord's own death,
but one member of the family had died, and that was a
little son, who, in comphment to one of the college
friends referred to in the above narrative, had been
named James Couper Lord. He was born June 25,
1825, and died September 3, of the same year.
OnMarcli 17, 1827, another son was bom, to whom
the same name was given, and who grew up with great
promise, exhibiting at a very early age unusual amia-
bihty of temper, and a disposition full of generous im
pulses. As a lad, he was remarkable for the strong
individuality of his character, which showed itself in a
spirit of independence and self-rehance, which led him
in his earlier days into many boyish blunders, but
which, when tempered by age and experience, aided
the development of his later years. Although he was
not of a decidedly studious habit, yet, when his interest
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almost by intuition ; and, while still quite young, he had
made considerable progress in several branches of scien
tific study. Circumstances, however, led him to enter
upon a commercial hfe, in which, by virtue of care
ful training, and the exercise of a good judgment, en
larged by a constantly growing experience, he met with
considerable success, and secured the respect of all
who knew him in business connections. But prosperity,
which so often contracts instead of expanding the char
acter, did not close his heart against any human sym
pathy, or check the generous impulses which were so
natural to him. From such a fate he was preserved by
the power of a true Christian faith, under the ennobling
influences of which, aU his better qualities attained a
StiU wider development as his life went on, so that, when
his father died, there was not one of the family who
seemed to have the promise of a longer or more useful
life than he. He was in the prime of early manhood,
with a young and interesting family growing up around
him, whose future seemed dependent on his care and
affection. His character had got its growth, and was
thoroughly braced by principle — a broad field of ser
viceable labor lay before him, which he had abeady
entered upon with a noble desire to do his whole duty —
and to all earthly appearance he seemed like one whose
work had but begun. But God, who often exalts His
own great power by showing how little need He has
even for the best of human agencies, had other things in
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which had started so well should behe its early promise,
or have its usefulness diminished ; but the limits which
had been assigned to it, and which seemed to stretch
far away into a bright and happy future, were to be
greatly shortened. After the death of his father, James,
with characteristic affection and earnestness, applied
himself to the discharge of every filial and fraternal
duty, and seemed to feel, as did all the members of that
bereaved family, that the loss of their loved and honored
head should only draw each closer to the other. He
redoubled his already devoted attentions to his mother,
and at the same time sought by every means in his
power to deepen and strengthen the current of warm
affection which had always flowed so freely through
that circle. He gave kind brotherly advice whenever
it was needed, seized eagerly every opportunity to lend
assistahce where he thought it would be of service, and,
in short, endeavored to substitute a brother's love
whereyer the loss of a father's might be most deeply
felt. And thus it happened that, in the short year that
followed Mr. Lord's death, James had become, perhaps
more than any other, the one whose counsel was most
sought for, whose affection was most relied upon, and
whose presence was everywhere most welcome.
But this was not to last. His health, though not
robust, was still never seriously threatened. His close
attention to his business, and to the various enterprises
in which he was engaged, together with the pressure of
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true, begun to affect his nervous system, but, until within
a week of his death, there were no premonitions which
could alarm either himself or his friends.
On the 3d of February, 1869, he started on an errand
of business to visit some iron-furnaces at Bethlehem and
elsewhere in Pennsylvania. At the time of liis depart
ure he felt a httle unwell, but not sufficiently so to make
him abandon his joumey. During the day, however,
he grew worse, and, after having spent a night of great
distress and pain in a cheerless country inn at Bethle
hem, he started the next morning to return home, ap
prehending an attack of inflammation of the bowels.
He reached New York the same afternoon, suffering
intensely, and immediately sent for his physician. Dur
ing the night his symptoms became more violent, but,
in the haoming, the disease, whose actual character was
not yet suspected, seemed to yield to the remedies em
ployed. This was Thursday, February 5th. From that
time, although greatly prostrated by the effects of the
attack, he appeared slowly to improve. On Sunday, he
spent a comfortable day, which was followed by a night
of refreshing sleep, and on Monday morning he began
to look forward to his complete recovery as not far dis
tant. Alas ! what different things Providence was pre
paring for him. At about three o'clock in the afternoon,
suddenly and with no appearance of any sufficient
cause, he was again seized with a most violent attack of
pain, which continued for several hours in spite of every
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more easy, and the doctor left him for a little while,
supposing tha tall was going well. But, when he re
turned, after a short absence, a sinking pulse and quick
ened breathing, with other unmistakable symptoms, at
once indicated to his experienced eye that a serious
change had taken place, and that some intemal injury
had been sustained which gave to the disease a new and
most dangerous character. Stimulants were immedia,tely
administered, and at once — almost without a moment's
warning — the sufferer was informed that 'his life was
despaired of, and that he had probably but a short time
for preparation.
How few, even of those who are truly Christians,
can receive such an announcement without deep agita
tion and alarm ! Death is a dreadful enemy to meet,
even when his coming has been long expected, and the
nerves have been braced for the encounter. But how
much more dreadful is it when he appears suddenly at
the bed-side, almost unannounced, and summons us in a
moment to relinqtdsh aU that we have held most dear
on earth, and to enter with hiin upon the dark pathway
that leads through the tomb ! At such a time, naught
but the special and abounding grace of God can avail
the soul, and, if the sting is taken away and the victory
given, it is a token of His infinite mercy granted as a
crowning blessing on a well-spent life. Such a victory
was given here. The startling news, which drove the
blood back to the hearts of those who stood beside him,
awakened no alarm in him. Entirely alive to the grav-

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ity of the crisis, he nevertheless addressed himself calm
ly and thoughtfuUy to the duties which such a moment
caUed for, and turned his mind to the contemplation of
those things which alone can cheer a dying bed. By a
most merciful providence aU pain seemed at once to
leave him, and the clearness of his mind was thence
forth unaffected by bodily suffering. His first act was
to seek support for the trying hour from Him who
has said, to each trusting soul, " I wUl never leave
thee nor forsake thee." As his thoughts turned to
the desolation which his death would bring to that
household where his presence and continued care were
so deeply needed, he prayed earnestly that, "if it
were consistent with God's will, he might be restored
to health;" but even then he was given grace to
add the petition "that, if it were His will that he
should die, he might be prepared to meet Him trust
ing in the merits of His Son." It was wonderful to
see with what a spirit of heavenly resignation he
committed himself to the goodness of his Maker,
and surrendered himself to the disposition of His holy
will. Being warned that his time might be very short,
he turned to the diflierent members of his family, one
by one, as they gathered round him, and, in clear
and unfaltering though saddened tones, he addressed
to each some words of affectionate remembrance or
Christian counsel which will never be forgotten by those
who heard them. Such words are too sacred to be
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into the soul when it has been softened and broken by
sorrow, and are treasured up as inspired messages direct
from heaven. "Whatever falls from dying lips is sure
to be sincere, and, if at that solemn moment the soul is
peaceful, and a Christian hope finds utterance in cahn-
and holy words, it is a proof that God's Spirit has been.
an habitual dweller in the heart. And thus it was withi
Mr. Lord, His parting admonitions breathed a true
spirit of faith and love — a faith which supported him.
in this time of his great need — and a love which led
him to urge all within hearing to secure for them
selves the comfort of a trust' in God, and the peace
and happiness which can only come with submission to
His will.
The sorrowful but impressive scene was not to be
of long duration. The hours of night rolled on, and
morning dawned. He had at times found great satis
faction in the exercises of devotion, and had Ustened
with eagerness to many words of promise and encourage
ment which had beeh repeated in his hearing by his
faithful pastor ; but his strength had gradually faUed,
until, as dayhght began to come in through the win
dows, he lay quietly, and apparently without pain,
waiting for his release. It would be unwise to dwell
upon the sad details of his departure, or to expose to
ordinary sympathy the bitter sorrow which darkened
the hearts of those who witnessed it. It is sufficient to
say that whatever of grief can come from the loss of those
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ever of consolation can be given by the assurance of a
well-grounded hope of heaven.
At nine o'clock he breathed his last, and, while weep
ing friends hung sadly round his earthly clay, his spirit
rose to join, amid the throng around his Saviour's throne,
that aged father whom he had so truly loved, and that
little unknown brother, who had been gathered there
before him. The struggles and sorrows of this sin
ful world could distress him no more, and he had ex
changed the poor, unsatisfying joys of earth, which at
the best can never fill the longings of the soul, for those
heavenly raptures which "it hath not entered into the
heart of man to conceive.
" Why do we, then, their loss deplore, that are not lost? "
If aught can soften such bereavements, or avail to
shed a fragrance that shall never faU around the tender
memories of the departed, the friends of James Coupee
Loed should be comforted ; for, having lived a life of
humble faith, he was permitted to die the death of the
righteous, and to leave behind him an unsulhed record
and a bright example. Cut down at the early age of
forty-two, he had yet filled a large place in the commu
nity ; and, as the crowd of mourners assembled at his
funeral, each one absorbed in the depth of his own sor
row, the universal feehng among them all was one of
astonishment that virtues so unobtrusive should have
made so deep an impress on so many hearts.

FUNEEAL SEEVICES,
The following brief record of the funeral services of
Mr, Loed wiU, perhaps, form the most fitting conclu
sion to this tribute to his memory, and will show the
estimation in which he was held by those who knew
him outside of his own family.
"Wlien the mourners had assembled at the house,
after a short prayer of invocation by Eev, John Hall,
D. D,, the portion of Scripture beginning 1 Thess, iv,
13, to the end, was read.
Dr. Hall then added as follows :
And what other words' can give comfort here ? We
are gathered in a house of mourning, from which the
Lord has called away an affectionate husband and a de
voted Christian father. They who were wont to lean
on him will miss him here ; but this Word presents an
undying Father on whom to rest, and a personal Ee-
deemer, who is husband to all who trust Him, "What
comfort is there outside this Word ? "When we miss
the familiar form, and the tones of the well-known

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voice, what remains but to remember whither he has
gone ? And when the desolate heart raises the ques
tion, " Shall we meet again ? " whence can come any
reliable answer but from this volume? It unfolds
Christ as " the resurrection and the life." His people
live in Him ; and when He comes again — as He will —
they come with Him. It will be long before the sor
rowful human heart can take in all this comfort. While
the blow is yet recent, and the sorrow yet fresh, it is
hard to think calmly of all the higher aspects of a provi
dence like this. One has to be still and submit to the
Lord's hand, and look for that good Spirit who becomes
the comforter for Christ's sake, and who gives strength
and peace by showing the fulness, nearness, and grace
of Jesus Christ. "God grant such comfort in this dwell
ing, and to all here on whom this sudden and unlooked-
for bereavement has come ! God help them to transfer
the love and trust that reposed upon an earthly father,
to the " Father in heaven," to whose holy keeping we
can, in our sympathy with them in their sore affliction,
but commend them, through Jesus Christ, their Lord
and ours !
Prayer was then offered by the Eev. Wilham
Adams, D. D., after which the procession moved to the
vchurch, which Was occupied by a full congregation.
After the reading of Psalm 90 and 1 Cor. xv. 51,
ito the end, Dr. HaU proceeded to say :
Dear brethren, it is only about eleven months since

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many of us now assembled here were gathered together
elsewhere, with such solemnity of feehng as belongs to
the last eervices over the dead. Then we met to ex
press the regret and to leam the lessons appropriate to
the removal of an eminent citizen and valued Christian
— ^the father of him whom we mourn to-day. Then one
was cut down as corn fully ripe. His day had reached
its eventide. Here is one whose sun has gone down
while it is yet noon. Both providences are right.
Just and true are all God's ways, and He hath done it.
His will be done !
Were we all without exception to reach the " three
score years and ten," it is not difficult to foresee the re
sult. As it is, when there is no uniform rule as to the
time of our removal, we are all too ready to postpone.
How much stronger would the temptation become, did
we see men regularly reach this utmost hmit ! As it
is, God removes us at irregular periods, some in the
dew of youth, some in early or middle hfe, and the few
only in old age. Could He more impressively say unto
us, " Be ye therefore also ready ? " My beloved brethren,
gathered from respect for the dead, and in sympathy
with the hving, let this be the voice of God to you from
this solemn and touching providence — " Be ye also
ready ! "
If it eould avert death to be a good and most useful
member of society, an enterprising and just man of
business, a trusted member of Christ's Church, an affec
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father — then he would not have been taken. But not
one, nor all of these graces, can guarantee continued
life. He who gives those graces that make a man a
blessing, a gift to those connected with him, recalls the
gift when and as He will ; and shows us that He can
carry on the affairs of His great kingdom without the
instrumentahty which to us seems needful for its ad
ministration. But the substance of the graces that en
riched and adorned the gift remains. That which made
him, whom we bury to-day, useful in hfe and dear to so
many, cannot die. The fruit of the Spirit abides. The
likeness to Christ, wrought in God's servants on earth
by the power of the Holy Ghost, remains to be per
fected and maintained forever. Let it be our great care,
my brethren, to be " meet for the inheritance of the
saints in light." The qualities most esteemed in heaven
most tend to render us useful on earth.
The lessons of this day are emphatically to the
vigorous and strong, to the diUgent and active young
men of business. Dear friends, do not calculate on long
life as a matter of course. Keep your business in man
ageable form. Be the masters of it, not the slaves. Do
not make too much of it. "What shaU it profit you
though you gained the whole world and lost your own
souls ? " But," one of you says, " I han}e believed ; I do
not prefer business to my soul's salvation." Be thank
ful, then, and go a step farther. Do not prefer it to your
soul's growth. Do good in your common life. The
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removal saddens you, respected his plans for the moral
and spiritual good of the work-people with whom he
was brought in contact as an employer. " Do good to
all as you have opportunity." Many times has he men
tioned to me, with lively satisfaction, his share in an
effort, down-town, to aid the young and friendless to
education and self-supporting effort. " With such sac
rifices God is well pleased."
Nor is this providence without solemn admonition
to parents. Care for your children ; above all, for their
spiritual welfare. Their welfare is most closely linked
with your happiness. The time for influencing them
may not b.e long. It may be abruptly terminated.
Try, therefore, to be true and faithful to them. Never
did I khow a man more conscientious and earnest and
painstaking than he was regarding the children whose
voices he shall hear no more on earth. God grant that
his care, and prayers, and personal teaching, may attend
them in hallowed influences and blessings from above !
So, dear brethren, do you, where God has given you
children, seek for them fi/rst the kingdom of God and
His righteousness.
And now the earthly life that was so busy and so
full of activity is over'. The place that knew him s'hall
know him no more. Yet is not the real life quenched.
It survives. On what did he rest his hope? What
encourages us ? The " righteousness of Jesus Christ."
On Him he rested. Dear friends, who weep here,
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again. See that you trust in and cleave to the Ee-
deemer. Be His wholly — His in life and in death.
And whenever or however your earthly career closes,
at home or abroad, you shall be — whether you feel it or
not — safe, quite safe, for " He is able to keep that which
is committed to Him." Could I have counsel from our
brother who sleeps in Christ, as to what I should here
and now urge upon you, sure I am he would turn my
words away from him, and to you, and bid me exalt
Christ before you, his Lord and Saviour, and ours.
Let me ask Dr. Adams, whose life of labor and
manifold experience gives weight to his words, to add
what is proper on an occasion so solemn and so
touching. After a most impressive address by Dr. Adams, and
concluding devotional exercises, the congregation slowly
passed from the church; and all that was mortal of
James Coupee Loed was reverently consigned to the
grave. Note. — An effort was made to procure also from Dr. Adams
sorne outhne of his address, but it had been so entirely extempo
raneous, and had sprung so spontaneously from the circumstances
which led to its delivery, that he found, it impossible to recall it in
a form that would do justice to its merits.

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