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I YHE object of this brief Memorial is not to eulogize our departed Friend (who would have shrunk from any such publicity of her life), but to embalm, for private and personal reflection, the testimonials of valued and trusted friends, which have given comfort and support to those most deeply bereaved. * From the many letters of sympathy and condolence so grateful to our hearts, a few selections are printed (not published), together with appreciative words from her Pasiur, and the Board of Man- agement of the Toronto Home for Incurables — with which she was officially connected from its commencement. As a simple Souvenir we send this compilation in response to many kind requests sve have received for the details of the closing days of our dear Aunt's life. I. G. AND W. G. McG. i IVI E M R I A li . [From "The CitoHE," Toronto, Monday Ai'kii. jkd, 1893. J ¥ISS DICK, who died at the Queen's Hotel, at four o'clock on Saturday morning last, was well known in Toronto. She was the adopted daughter of the late Capt. Thomas Dick, formerly proprietor of the (Jueen's Hotel. She was about seventy-four years of age, and came to this country from Greenock, Scotland, more than fifty years ago. The deceased, who had always been a devout Presbyterian, was a member of Knox Church. Her connection with the Home for Incin-ables will be written on the brightest page of that institu- tion, as she had been the First Directress ever since the founding of tliat noble Home more than twenty years ago. The funeral, which will be private, will take place this morning at eleven o'clock from the Queen's Hotel to the Necropolis. Rev. Dr. Parsons, of Knox Church, will conduct the services at the late home of the deceased. The service at the house consisted of selections from the Scripture peculiarly dear to Miss Dick in the last years of her life. Passages from John xiv., i Cor. xv., i Thess. iv., Revelation xxi. 1-4, and xxii. 7, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21 were read as expressing the living hope, by which she was enabled to triumph over death, and with joy enter into the presence of her Lord. In IVLkmoriavi. I The followint; action was recorded in tiic Minutes of tlie meeting of the Board of Management of Toronto Home for Incurables Ajjril jMtli, uS93,| Moved by Ri:v. Dr. Parsons, seconded by Mk. W. Mortimer Clark,— The removal of two officers of this Hoard by death, within the last two months, has inflicted great loss upon the Home for Incurables. Both were conspicuous for their devo- tion to the great work commenced by tiiem and other earnest friends nearly twenty years since. Appropriate recognition was made at the annual meeting of the character and services of our late honored Secretary, Mrs. Alexander Manning. None listened at that time with a deeper sense of bereave- ment or of more tender sympathy than her tried friend and adviser, Migs i>ick. It is most fitting, therefore, that these two names should be linked together in the respectful and loving tributes to their memory adopted by this Board. Whereas, in the wise providence of Almighty God, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from this life the faithful and honored " r' irst Directress " of this Home, Resolved — That the Managers, in 'grateful recognition of her untiring devotion to the interests of this Trust, record their deep sense of affliction under this Divine dispensation, and their profound sympathy with the inmates of this Home, who are thus deprived of her constant solicitude and tender care. The members of this Board would also tender their personal condolence to the sorrowing family and circle of friends, in which for so many years Miss Dick has been the object of loving attraction and admiration, especially to One who, with more than filial devotedness, has so been connected with her daily life as to feel more keenly than others the sundering stroke. We would also humbly invoke the sustaining grace of God upon the afflicted household and commend them to the consolations of His comforting Spirit. I II •■X''- ■'3¥t?»''" ill pieascii r,t;tiriii which flit iii ■cof;iju object • t v^ho, witli -'dh her (/I lU _J CO •< Oi. U z on O O B o H z O Of O H I [Resolution I'asskd at Annual Mektinc; of the Home, March 28th, 1894. . Moved by Du, Parsons, seconded by Du. Potts, — This Annual Meetinj: being the first gatherinf; of the friends and the supporters of the Toronto Home for Incurables since the lamented death of Miss Agnfs Dick, who was jiresent at the last Annual Meeting, and whose connection with this Institution as a valued officei and adviser is a component part of its history : — Resolved — That we recognizee, with sincere thankfulness to God, the eminent services and the ever-increasing enthusiasm of our Friend, to the end of her life, in behalf of this sacred Charity, and record our earnest hope that the example of her consecrated devotion to this work, may inspire others to similar 2eal and sympathy in maintaining this Home, for the comfort and blessing of its unfortunate inmates. We desire moreover to acknowledge gratefully her wise counsels and personal efforts in co-operation with the Board of Management, and would express our heartfelt sympathy with tlicm, and also with her afflicted family under this great bereavement, praying that the God of all comfort may support them under the painful memories of ti.is hour, and cheer them with the brighter hope of an eternal re- union in the Home of the Blessed. [From the Topp Auxiliary ok the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.] Dear Mrs. McGaw : Wednesday, April 12th, 1893. The members of the " Topp Auxiliary " desire to express their loving sympathy with yourself and Miss Gordon in the loss you have sustained by the death of Miss Dick, a member of our Auxiliary and a warm friend of every good cause and work. We pray that He who sympathized so tenderly with the mourning family at Bethany may solace and comfort you in your deep bereavement. Yours sincerely, Elizabeth Bell, Secretary. Ol^ITIIARY. [From " Pkesbvtkkian I^kvikw," Tokonto, Ont.J THE death of this most estimable woman removes from the circle of Christian a tivities one whose memory will long be cherished by those who knew her worth and admired the gracions ([nalities of her mind and heart. Miss Dick was born in Scotland and was ever loyal to her native land. Deprived early in life of her own pax'ents, she fonnd in the late Captain Thomas Dick and his wife, their dearest friends and neighbonrs, a father and mother who cherished and loved her as their own child. Deeply attached to these adopted parents, she ever manifested the strongest filial affection and devotion to them. In her youthful age she was the life and charm of the social circle in which she moved. The cares and sorrows of late years somewhat tempered this vivacity, but to the end of her days she was exceedingly interested in all important changes affecting the world in its interests, and especially bearing on the approaching end of the age and the manifestation of " the kingdom of the heavens." Her Chi'istian life covered a period of half a century in Knox Churchj Toronto, of which she was a consistent and honoured member. She enjoyed in succession the Christian confidence and appreciation of Dr. Burns, Dr. Topp and the present Pastor, and was always actively engaged in promoting the interests of the congregation and support- ing the Schemes of the Presbyterian Church by devoted labour, and in later years by regular attendance on all its services, as her health permitted, and in systematic support by liberal contributions. ^ J i Her mind was clear, her jiulf^iiient K^od, and lier faeiUties well balanced throiifjhoiit a long and faithful life. Her knowledge of books, of history, and of the general progress of the world, was most accnrate and comprehensive; her acquaintance with Scottish litei'a- ture and ICnglish authors was wide and minute. In the last ten j'ears she had increasing interest and delight in religious writings, both devotional and experimental. Her facility in conversation, and opportunities for acquaintance, brought her into life-long friendships with many worthy persons eminent in society and in the Church. She was deeply interested in every thing which gave her more light on the Bihle; and for this reason, at much expense, she invited the " Conference for Bible Study," for the last ten years, to meet in the beautiful park of the "Queen's Royal," at Niagara-on-the-I.ake. Ever constant in her attendance on these yearly services, she was looking forward to the meeting in July with unusual expectation, because the truth of the '"coming of the Lord" is to have special prominence in the series of studies. But Miss Dick manifested her benevolent spirit most steadily in her thoughtful sympathy for the suffering and her constant efforts for their relief. In every rank of life the influence of her kind and loving heart was felt. Not only her friends, and those whose cir- cumstances came under her eye, but the stranger in the hospital, the victim of sudden accident — coining to her knowledge, would elicit her sympathy and receive attention and kindness in many delicate ways, from herself or through those whom she sent. Among the first to plan and found that noble charity of our city, the Toronto Home for Incurables, will be found the name of Agnks Dick, As First Directress in this Home she was well known and loved by all the inmates, and from its inception she laboured incessantly to establish, ecpiip and complete the present edifice in Parkdale. The past year was a jubilee year to her, in the removal of the last lien upon the new building. She rejoiced greatly in the pro- gress of this Christian enterprise, and though saddened at the last annual meeting — a week before her death — in the memories of departed friends, and especially of the late Mrs. Manning, who im I were co-workers with her from the hef;iniiinK, she yet was filled with joy at the conipletion of the cherished work of her life. The evening of her days was cheerful and mellowed with the sunliglit of the "blessed hope" of the Gospel. Once she said to me, " I have great fear of death." It seemed like a dread, an instinctive physical shrinking from his icy touch. Again she said : " I so long to live till the Lord appears." Her departure was according to her jM-ayer. Having watched her dearest friend and mother through the helplessness of paralysis for several years with the utmost filial tenderness and care, and having witnessed recently' the departure of several (jld friends, who lingered for some years under this afiliction, she often said in the last weeks of her life, " I would rather go at once than remain to be a burden, or to lose my senses." The last Sabbath in March she sat at the Lord's table, where for fifty years she had been fed and nourished in her spiritual life. Her mind was clear and most elevated in her con- ception of the risen Lord. She came from the service with a jubilant and almost triumphant glow of hope. Her spiritual dis- cernment of the great truths exhibited in the sacramental emblems had never but once before, she said, been aroused to such an extent. In this heavenly mood, I'eturning with her loved ones to their home, she continued till the close of the afternoon. The summons came in a moment, and she fell beneath the stroke of the messenger. Everything was done by the best medical skill and the most careful nursing that could be for her relief. For six days, with calm consciousness of her state, with unfaltering trust in her Redeemer, without a murmur, and with confident hope in the "resurrection of the just," and ministered to by her best loved relatives and friends, she gradually declined in strength, and in the early dawn of April ist she rested from her labours. Her life was long and active, having commenced in the " Queen's year." Her sympathies, strongly enlisted to the last for all sufferers, were attended with a devout, humble and simple trust in Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life. Her self-judgments were at times severe, but her humilitj' and confidence in the Divine promises, sensibly increased as the light and the glory of God, in ► the face of Jesus Christ, sliiiietl into her heart daily, dispersing the mists of unbelief and at last ushered her spirit into the presence of the cloudless day. Her body, surrounded with beautiful white lilies, which her dearest friends had provided before her illness for her l':aster ^i^t, reposed in her earthly dwelling over the Lord's Day. On Monday, after brief and simple services conducted by her Pastor, and attended by a few personal friends according to her desire, her remains were laid by kindred dust in the Necropolis, to rest until the morning dawns. The many beautiful floral gifts from friends near and distant, mutely testified to the strong and endearing attachments which bound them to her loving heart. The pains of death are past, Labour and snrrow cease, And life's long warfare closed at last, Her soul is found in peace. Sister in Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And while eternal ages run. Rest in thy Saviour's joy. H. M. P. ^ Hkk Cih:wlii T^ii^^K. I iy /I ISS DICK, diiriny tlu« niaturo years of lur life, was active ■iy 1 in every ^'ood wuvk. Deoply attached to her first Pastors, Dr. Biinis and Dr. Topj). she was ever mindful of tiieir influence npon her hfe, and often recalled with keen appreciation the distinctive and noble traits of their characters. Her active and most capable j^'ifts were often exercised freely nnder the wise susKestions of those eminent men, and, with the increase of years, there came a deeper and more solid interest in the vital trnths of the Gospel. This made her ever loyal to the Chnrch of her choice, and a firm and unceasing,' sujiporter of the Sclwmes thronKii which the Gospel is dispensed to the world. Her devotion to her adopted mother, dnrinj,' a lonj^ period of helpless illness, was the fniit of this reli','ions traininf,% and, withont doubt, led her insen- sibly into that abounding sympathy for the sufferings of the Incurables, which constituted the crowning work of her life. Her last thoughts were so fully given to this great beneficent trust, that at the Annual Meeting, when surrounded by her admiring friends, and congratulated upon the completion of the great task for which so long she had laboured— the entire release of the Home from its lien— she seemed for the time to be in rapt com- munion with the sainted benefactors, who, from the walls, looked down upon her, and greeted her as the sole survivor then present, of 'hose who laboured and struggled to bring forth to glorious completion the work of twenty years. (J ri iiiil J i (J ri CORRESPOXIJENCE. [Skli-ctions 1-rom Letthrs Addressed to Mrs. McGaw AND Miss Gordon.] These selections from a larf