The times., 1901-05-19
OBITUARY.

The Rev. DIR. MaItbie ID. Babcock. pas
tor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in
New York City. and successor there of
the Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke. died in
Naples yesterday from Mediterranean fe-
yer. after an Illness Of only few days.
DR. Babcock had been with a party OF
clergymen touring through the Mediter-
ranean. The news was not wholly unex-
pected to the Brick Church officers, for on
Wednesday last they had received a de-
spateh from Mrs. Babeock announcing
that DIR. Babcock had been taken from
his ship to a hospital at Naples. seriously
I'll from fever. The trip of DR.. Babcocks
companions and their families had not
been without unfortunate incident before
for the Rev. DIR. Wilton Merle Smith. one
of the party, had been seriously i'll in the
Holy Land and was for a time In hos
pital at Jerusalem. Several other mem
bers of the party had suffered slight at
The Rev. DR. Babcock gained a great
reputation as a preacher in his Baltimore
pulpit His selection by the Brick Church
trustees as worthy successor to DR.
Van Dyke, when the latter vent 20
Princeton. served to confirm his reputa-
I tion and give him a vogue even before he
was heard here. His success in the new
preaching field. however much 1t NAV
have been aided by these contributory
circumstances, was almost instantaneous
and his church was thronged with people
each Sunday morning and afternoon.
DR.. Babcock was chosen pastor of the
Brick Presbyterian Church on November
g. 1899. He was the choice. it is said. OF
DR.. Van Dyke. and upon his recommen-
dation the session of the church asked
the congregation to call him. DR.. Bah
cock had been the pastor Of the Brown
Memorial Church. of Baltimore The
resolution offered by Morris K Jesup at
THAI meeting made the salary of the new
pastor $4,000 a year.
DR.. Babcock was graduated from Syra-
cuse University In the class of 1873 After
course tn the Auburn Theological Semi
nary, he was ordained in the ministry in
lSS2- His first DastOrate was the First
Presbyterian Church. Of LOckport. Five
years later he went to Baltimore. to sue
ceed the Rev. DR.. Frank w. Gunsaulus.
In Baltimore, DR.. Babcock attained Il
reputation as pulpit orator. In March,
1891. the West Presbyterian Church in
Vited him to succeed the Rev. John r.
Paxton. at a salary of $4,000 a year. Be
fore that, 1t is said, he had received calls
from two other New York churches. Par
ticularly was he talked of as a possible
successor to the late DIR. John Hall in
the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church.
By the death of the Rev. Able Verreau.
principal of the Jacques-Cartier Normal
School, Montreal has lost a prominent
educator and historian. Hospice An
thelme Jean Baptiste Verreau was born at
LIslet, Quebec, on September s, 1873. He
was educated at the Quebec Seminary and
was ordained priest in 1851. He was ap-
pointed principal Of the st. Therese Col
lege in 1851. He was one OF the founders
of the Societe Historique and first resi-
dent, and had held the chair of Cana Han
history at Laval University since 1851. In
1872 ne was comnntssEc=zsss11 - - the Quebec
Government to make Investigations
among European archives for documents
bearing upon Canadian history. and he
embodied the results of his enquiries in
report, published both in French and Eng
lish. He contributed many historical pa
pers to the Memories de Ia Societe His
torique de Montreal and to the records
of the Royal Society of Canada. He also
published two volumes of Memoirs" re-
lating to the invasion of Canada. His
library of Canadiana was one of the most
cOrnplete in existence