New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-12

on Saturday night he feeling perfectly
well. but awakened In great pain at 3 o'clock in
the morning. One CONFUSION followed another
and in fifteen minutes he passed away. Within
few minutes OF the end he was conscious and
able to say goodby to his wife. who was the only
member Of the family present. DR.. W. B. Win
chell. of Berkeley Place the family physician.
did not arrive until after DR.. Chadwicks death
The trustees OF the church were Immediately
informed and at the church early to tell
the congregation OF the sudden death of their
pastor.
No services were held but the members re-
NAMED in the church for some time talking over
the 1t was arranged that the funeral
should be held in the church tonight at s
o'clock. The services will be conducted by the
Rev. DR.. William C. Gannett. pastor of a Uni
tartan church in Rochester and a college mate
and lifelong friend of Dr. Chadwick He will
be assisted by the Rev. Robert Collyer and the
Rev. DIR. Merle St. Crox Wright, Of the Lenox
Avenue Unitarian Church. both Of this city. To-
morrow the family will take the body to Mar
blehead, Mass, where it will be buried after
brief service on Wednesday.
DR.. Chadwick was born in Marblehead October
10. 1910. His father seafaring man. and young
Chadwick became shoemakers apprentice. Being
ambitious, he entered the Bridgewater Normal
School. at the age of seventeen. While there a
sermon OF tho Rev. Samuel Longfellow. brother
Of the poet, and at the time pastor of the church
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his pastor>1 life. fell into his hands. and had so
powerful effect him that he decided TO be-
Unitarian minister To this end he pro-
pared at Exeter Academy and the Cambridge
Divinity School. On being graduated from the
latter in 1864 he invited in the fall preach
trial for three months in the Second Unitarian
Church. in Brooklyn His first sermon, preached
on Abraham Lincoln. then candidate for
election, powerful and showed such a strong
and fearless personality, that the young minister
DaS ria
Since that day he had ranked among the leading
clergymen OF Brooklyn. For years DR.. Chadwick
had followed the custom of giving lecture or
dissertation. Sunday evening. and the members
Of his congregation were always free to discuss
critcise his statements or reasoning. after the
minister had finished. He of the leading
members of the Brooklyn Philosophical Society,"
in existence He prominent as a
lecturer. and two series, one on American history
as 0tr ~ "a, I tb Tfl - of
characters, attracted great attention at the time
essays, orations. magazine artlcles and book re-
views. Many volumes of DR.. Cnadwick's sermons
have been bound together under serial titles, some
OF the best known being Seeing and Beng" The
Choir Invisible, 'FaIlh on me Earth. u he Pos
s!ble LIE, A Daring aitn,, Bellet and Lie,
The Revelation OF GOD. The Great Refusal
Reason DR.; ChadWlck was also the author OF
The Old and New Unitarian Belief" The Bible
former" The Man. Jesus and George William
Curtis 1t was. however, perhaps a poet that
of prose. HIS Book of Poems has been through
Ten editions 2 and a o Secon f volume entitled IN
sixth edition. In 1891 DR.. Chadwick cOli-bOrated
entitled out Of the Heart A large number Of
the leading American writers in the last quarter of
wick's CORRESPONDENTS Among his friends We're
Ralph Waldo Emerson, George William Curtis.
Mott and John Green4eaf Whittier.
DR.. Chadwick leaves widow, two sons. Stanley
H. Chadwick and Ernest w. Chadwick and one
daughter Mrs. Henry r. Hahn