New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
HENRY W. BELLOWS, D. D.

year he has suffered some from lL-healtn' OUT hot
enough to interfere with his pastoral duties or 10
impair his mental vigor. On January Is he onlci-
ated Mt q wedding in Brooklyn; on the following
day he fell i'll and did not leave his house lie was
advertised 10 be in his pulpit on January 81 bnt IN
Saturday he was SO sick that he said he would not
attempt to preach and his family physician. DR..
W H. Draper. was summoned. He was found 10 be
suffering from a serious intestinal Obstruction.
Three days later 4 council of physicians was called
but it was considered nexpedient to perform an OPP
Grafton TO relieve the patient owing to MS age anu
weak condition. The sick man continued 10 lau
gradually until death came to his relief lie re-
manned conscious until within short time before
he breathed his last.
Dr. Bellows was born in Boston, June H. 1914
lie came of an old New-England family his ahces-
tors having been among the early colonIFtS OF
Massachusetts Bay The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale in his notice of DR.. Bellows Published IN me
Harrayd Recister informs that the name is SAID
70 be French in origin and the French spelling to
be Beles-eauxD Tradition assigns the same origin
70 the New-Eneand family Of Balou. Dr. Bellowss
rrrat-prandfather was the Bellows from whom Bel
lows Falls Vermont, takes it's name. John Bellows.
the father of DR. Bellows, an eminent merchant
of Boston. Losing his mother At the age OF seven
years he was sent TO a boarding school az Jamaica
Plains near Boston. subsequently he spent four
wears ut the celebrated school conducted by Dr.
Cocsweu and George Bancroft, at Ronnd HILL Mas.
He embodied his grateful "reminiscences OF thl SEMI
nary IN paper contributed 10 The uGrrard heglSter
lie entered Harvard College III ISIS. Dr. Hale
saws: He was delicate boy. l have heard him
say that he was indsposed to the sports OF boys shy
and timid small for his age, extremely sensitive to
blame rather dreamy and solitary, homesicK at
school and at college" lie was only fourteen when
he entered college but well advanced was he that
he had small occasion for study; and during two
wears he studied very Ittlo, hut passed his days
often in the practical pursuit OF orulthologyn conf
panv with Mr. INITIAL, the naturalist in the neigh
boring fields and marshes. After his entrance uron
his junior year he read more and studied harder.
lilo became also interested IN religious matters Tor
which he had natural procliYlty. 1t Is stated
that when only seven years old nc had resolved TO
be clergyman.
After graduation, Dr.. Bellows occupied year 3
an assistant in school for girls kept by his brother
John. at Coopcrstown. n Y He then entered the
| Divinity School at Cambridge, leaving 1t to % to
| Louisiana rs the tutor OF young gentleman named
Baldwin. Ills father, through commercial rever5es,
had lost his wealth. and he desired to support him
self lie returned 10 Cambridge in 1888, and COM
Melted the course at the Divinity School. supporting
himself by teaching private pupils. After his grad
uaton IN divinity he went to take charge OF con-
rrrgation at Mobile Ala. AS he proceeded TO tins
| station he preached in various Southern cities. At
Mobile his preaching met with considerable success
| bnt DR.. iiaie says that ." the awful shadow oi
slavery frightened linn away" Soon after
his return to tho North, Dr. Bellows was
| invitad 10 become pastor of the
First Conversational Church Unitarian
| in New-York The church was in Chambers-st the
Second Unitarian Church was the more 1ourlshing
under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Dewey The salary
offered 10 Dr. Bellows moi large; yet he accepted
the invitation and went vigorously to his work. lie
| was ordained in 1888. and Kept his position until
tho day of his death, period OF forty-four years
| During tais time the church, always growing. has
removed first to the edifce in Broadway and after
ward to the Church of All Souls. This success was
attained only by hard work, by extraordinary de-
votion 10 the duties Of his calling and by per-
sistence which Oyercame every obstacle. Dr. Bel
lows wa the chief originator OF The Chr'Stdn IN
ourer Unitarian newspaper published in this city
and started in 1916. He devoted himself with great
energy to the establishment of Antioch College in
| Obiu In 1853 he delivered the Phi Beta
Kama Grafton at Harvard College. He also dcliv-
cred the annual sermon before the Divinity School
at Cambridge IT. 1854 Harvard College conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In
1887 he gave a course of Lowell lectures in Boston
ON the Ire atment OF Social Diseases" These were
rpblishcd in 1887 In 1866 he was Editor of The
Christian Examiner. and kept this position until
1871 His "Restatements OF Christian Doctrine
was published in $50. After journey abroad he
published THE Old World III its New Face Y
vols. 1868. He also Published a large number of
pamphlets, of which II is impossible here to give
sufficient catalogue HIS life has been too usefuly
| busy TO permit the production OF many books He
| has ALWAYS done a large work outside of his min
istry.
When the War of the Rebellion broke out it was
| DR.. Bellows who suggested the Sanitary Commits
sion OF this most important and effect
! i've organization, which has not received
the place in the history of that critical
period to which it is entitled. Dr. Bellows
was the President. Al first the Commission
which met with but a tardy recognition from the
Government confined Itself To distributing valuable
| tracts such as Advice as to Camping Rues
| for Preserving the Health of a Soldier" Reports
upon Amputations," Direction to Army Surgeons
on the Battlefield" But the scope of its opera
tions was soon enlarged. II received generous gifts
| from wealthy citizens, while the poor gave their
mite II established hospital transports wagons,
ambulanccs. railway ambulance cars. 1t aided the
transercnce Of the wounded soldier from the battle
field to the hospital. On the railroads II had its
hospital cars kitchens, dispcnsaries and
surgeons cars. II had its sanitary and
! hospital inspectors. l. cared everywhere lOr SICK
| or needy soldiers IN or out of active service. 1t
| had Homes for the wives. mothers and children of
soldiers. II had Feeding stations" where the
tired and hungry soldier could receive gratuitous
meal 1t looked after the payment Of pensions.
back-pay aud bounties. Ii printed hospital dIrec-
tories. Ii supplied. whenever permitted to do 20,
onr prisoners at Andersonvlle, Salisbury and Rich
mond. It's medicines, cordiaIs and provisions were
upon every hag-of-truce boat. In the camps. II
extended its mercies to the Confederate prisoners
of war. 1t expended $3,OO0O0O in