New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27

night When he reached home. at I o'clock
% st!d he was i'll, and DR.. Johnston was
called in.
The patient gradually grew worse. and
Friday night he was put 10 bed almost un-
conscious and Mrs Devins called from
Mortified Mass She did not arrive in
time 20 see her husband alive. Dr. Devins
died at o'clock yesterday morning.
Born in New York on September 25, 1856,
Dr. Deyins received his primary education
in the public schools. and afterward worked
his way through college as a reporter on
The Tribune Assigned 10 cover the Fresh
Air work. he found homes FOR numberless
children among the green trees. followed
them 70 the places he had chosen and sent
back touching stories Of their happy times.
Graduated from the New York University
IN 1852. he entered the Union Theological
Seminary. working on The Tribune's copy
desk AZ night 70 pay for the instruction
he received during the day. In the spring
Of 1887 he was placed in charge Of Hope
chapel. the East 4th street branch Of the
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
whose rastor. the Rev. Or. Howard Cros-
bv. was chancellor Of New York University
vben Or Devins was a student there.
For ten years the young preacher and
his wife IN whom he was married in 1888,
r,inistered 10 the sick and well In their
crowded parish. Particularly we'll remem-
bored is his work during the trying win
for ~ 1872 81. when he served as chairman
Of the subcommittee on sanitation or the
East side Relief Work Committee. Forty
thousand dollars OF the $4,000 raised 20
rive work 10 men who would have starved
7-itbo,It II went through his hands, and
hundreds Of cellars along the Bowery anu
in the neighboring alleys were cleaned ana
whitewashed under mis- direction.
During this same period also ne rounded
and became first president Of the red
Grafton OF East Side Workers. when
so-,.od as \ rnod,l for tho state and ma
,ional declarations Of Church and chris
-, -rorzers He started. too. q free
Thor bureau. which he brought TO nigh
..,+a Of efficiency az q manager or the
W, YORK Association for Improving me
ro,dition of the Poor. He was for long
- oditor of Christian Thought, the
organ Of the American Institute OF ~, Il
So, philosophy. and was honored Tor MS
charitable work by election 10 -.3 VIZ
,or,, Institute Of Great Britain.
ON January I. 1895, the New YORK MIS-
zion and Tract Society invited Ut. De MS
80 ,al,e charge Of the English work Oh lhe
Rroono street Tabernacle Nooul '"s
- time he became managing editor OF
.'T,re Now York Observer periodical!
,l,,.dod IN 1893 by sidney f. and Richard
-, Ne In MAY. 1905. ne became pro-
..,o.o,. ~ the magazine. shortly before
,,.. his book. AN Observer IN the FhlHP-
-, 81" u~itton after a visit 20 the ISLANDS
.t,o oficial representative Of his cnurch'
.....a,od II contained foreword from
,.-l.t,Io,t taft and was we'll received. An
r.. product Of the same Journey was ON
tho way TO Hwai Yuen,' which described
tho mission station in central emma sup
rorted bv the Central Presbyterian Cnurch
u this city. ,.--,-
Two Years after his purchase ~ Inc
orsa-ver" Mr.. Devins began his Work as
,,,o',ager Of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
..,ocoedinr the Rev Willard Parsons, VINO
It,. ,.ears before had started the work III
l.,,or,,,on Penn. bv taking sixty chIdr
-. +,o c,t,, ~ the cool seclusiol o. his
rural pari y. -,o.-,-,,
Among other offices held by Dr. Deyins
-. The time OF his death were those OF
,-,,steo NJ the Industrial Christian All
a,co - the Evangelical Alliance for the
1-nitad states 81 America. and Of the
American seamen's Friend Society; chair
-,.- ~ the committee o. literature anu
od,,c,tion of the Federal Council Of
Churches Of Christ i'm America; secretary
aud treasurer Of the Presbyterian Union
~ Vow York. and honorary secretary %
tho Frvrt Exploration Fund FOR New
1-orir ID. was the first frateihHi delegate
~ the New YORK Prcsuytery TO the Cen
trail Federated Labor Union In 1904
srcol,er of the international sunday School
committee AZ Jerusalem in the same year
and a member AZ various other boards and
societies doing religious and philanthropic
uorl, et different times in his eventful hfe.
lie held membership in the Nationa.
Geographic Society and in the Delta Phi
Fraternity. re was also for several years
rv aopointmcnt Of Governor Higgins a
trustee of the Raybrook State Hospital for
the Treatment Of Incipient Pulmonary
tuberculosis.
The degree 81 Doctor OF Divinity was
conferred upon him by Centre College
Danville. Ky. in June. 1901. and that OF
Doctor of Laws by Huron College i'm 1903.
lie was also honored with the degree OF
Il. a.. Iv his alma mater In 1908