York, stopped at New Bedford to comfort a
broken-hearted mother, whose little child was dying, and then
came to the city, and in fifteen minutes after crossing the
threshold of his home passed on to God.

"His death affected the ministry and churches as when 'a
standard-bearer fainteth.' His familiar face was ever welcome.
His resolute bearing, his unswerving fidelity to Christ, to
truth, to the church at large, and his own denomination in
particular, and his life-long service as a philanthropist, his
devotion to the interests of the negro, to whom he was linked by
ties of consanguinity and of sympathy, made him a felt power for
good in our State and in our entire country. No man among us was
more sincerely respected or more truly loved. His departure,
while it came none too soon for the tired warrior, impoverishes
us with the withdrawal of an all-embracing love, and leaves God's
poor to suffer to an extent it is impossible to describe.

"_Resolved_, That the death of this good minister of Jesus Christ
imposes heavy responsibilities upon his surviving brethren. The
interests of the race of which he was an honored representative
are imperilled. Their noble champion has gone up higher; but no
waiting Elisha saw the ascent, and cried, 'My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof'; so who can hope
to wear his mantle and continue his work?

"_Resolved_, That we tender to his afflicted widow, and to the
church he had so long and faithfully served, this poor expression
of our sympathy, and this truthful evidence of our love.

"_Resolved_, That the good of his race, just passing from the
morning of emancipation into the noonday radiance of a liberty of
which they have dreamed, and for which they have prayed, demands
that a permanent record be made of this noble man of God."

The ministers' meeting adjourned after the reading of the foregoing
resolutions, to attend the funeral services, which were to take place
in Charles Street Church. At an early hour in the morning the body was
placed in front of the altar in the church of the deceased, where it
lay in state all the forenoon, and where appropriate services were
conducted by Drs. Cheney, Fulton, and others. Thousands, of every
grade and hue, thronged the church to have a last fond look at the
face so ful