Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-11
HOLD FUNERAL
OF CLERGYMAN,
/ ALD|NE VICTIM
Tributes Paid to Rev. DR.. A. n.
Young at Services in Gen.
trail Church.

The funeral Of Rev. DIR. Alexander
y Hamilton Young, a victim of the
Aldine apartment house fire, took
place yesterday afternoon. Services
were held in the Central Presbyterian
Church.
As told in the Evening Star on Sat
urday, DIR. Young died Saturday aft
ernoon.
large number of clergymen from
this and other cities attended the
IS funeral. DR.. Young's family left with
y his body today for Cincinnati, where
the interment will be in the Spring
Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Young, des-
pite the injuries and burns she re-
ceived in the fire, went with the body.
Rev. DR.. George Walton King, pas
tor of the Central Church, off,
ciated at the funeral services. He
was assisted by Rev. Lyman
Whitney Allen, pastor of the South
Park Presbyterian Church, personal
friend of DR.. Young; Rev. Robert
Scott Inglis, pastor of the Third Pres
byterian Church, who knew DR..
Young intimately for many years,
and Rev. David r. Fraser, pastor
emeritus Of the First Presbyterian
Church, lifelong friend of DR..
Young. ,e.e
The eulogy was offered by DR.. King.
lie dwelt on the life of DR.. Young as
minister and as a friend.
Study to show thyself approved
unto God, a workman that .needeth
not to be. ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth II. Timothy,
HE.
'These words describe the life of
the Rev. DR.. Alexander Hamilton
Young" said DR.. King His self
directed education was to show him
self worthy of the approval of God.
From the early years of his life he
showed himself to be man of God
in his manner of living and in his
daily conduct He was a man so con-
secrated and lived on such a high
spiritual plane that he was spoken
of as a nobleman and a saint of God.
He lived in daily nearness to his God,
and as very few men in these days
live no matter what their profess
sion.
ITO speak of the life of such man
is a high privilege, and to praise his
life and conduct is an honor and
sweet joy. There are too few men
who so live. 1t is a pleasure to seek
TO honor his name in service to his
memory. DR.. Young was to me one of
he most devoted and excellent of
friends. Not only was he a friend
TO me personally, but he was likewise
TO my family and to those he met in
my home, and to those who called
upon him or saw him in his home.
The intimacy of our friendship was
so great that his family seemed to
be my family and my family to be
5. his. We were as members one of
another From him I received the
sreatest-of comfort in the time when
/ needed comfort. and inspiring en-
engagement in the work that / am
seeking to do.
From his well done declaration
10 me received the greatest of need
ed help in my work, and it was so
with his wife, Mrs. Sarah Young.
His son, Robert Spencer Young, is
associated with me in the work of the
ministry, but to me he is as devoted
brother rather than an associate or
ms an assistant minister
A Power in the Churches.
For forty-one years DIR. Young
was an able and consecrated munster
of God. He was a power in the
churches that he served. He was
power as a preacher of the inspired
word of God, To him the Bible was
the sacred divine Book of God. To
him Jesus Christ was the only be-
gotten Son of God the heavenly APP
pointed IcueeIil6T vi men, tue one anu
only SAVIOR of the world. Thus he
believed. thus he talked and thus he
preached. He was a world preacher,
For in his missionary vision he looked
unto the whole world. desired,
preached and sought the salvation of
men everywhere. In his foreign trav
els he visited missionary fields to
carry inspiration, spiritual and ma
terial, to missionaries on the from
tier in Gods field of salvation
He was a. humanitarian preacher
and in his preaching unto the tenn
poral as well as the eternal good of
men he made provisions for the es
adjustment of d home for worn out
ministers and their families and for
returned and worn out missionaries.
This is the only home of its kind in
the world.
I'm the courts of the church he was
man interested and a man of power.
lie was devoted to the work of the
preSbYtcry and entered heartily
throughout his life in the presbyterial
meetings and business. God called
him to a work Immediately after his
ordination in Ohio. That work he
completed and then he was called
from tile Central States to the work
of the East In Jersey City he estab-
lished church and saw it grow to
work of consequence and power, and
there ne saw c0nlpleIlOn Ill his dC-
compllshment. To Matawan he was
called of God to do special work in
the pastorate and that he did and
completed into n special honor of
Gods name
In Newton he did q work that is
still growing in the hearts and lives
Of the people, not only of the church
that he served, but of the entire COM
munity. Just before his death he
visited these fields and did special
work in them. It had long been his
desire to visit the Southland for a
time of recreation and missionary in
vestigation. This he had, as he said,
a great priv ilege to do a few weeks
ago.
Conscious Until the Last.
Last Wednesday he preached the
funeral sermon of the son of a life
long friend of his family. A part of
Thursday and Friday he spent at the
New jersey lakeside He returned
home Friday feeling a satisfaction
and special happiness III all of the
works of his life and in the recent day
vsitations. Saturday he went home
to his Father in heaven. In all the
intense and unspeakable suffering
from the terrible flames of the fire
he retained his faculties and talked
with his family UP to three minutes
of the time of his death"
DR.. Young was seventy-six years
old. Besides his wife and the above
mentioned son, he is survived by an.
other son, Dr. Harvey Young, of Red
Bank