,
 
 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN 
 
 SEPTEMBER 13, 1817 MAY //, 1888 
 
 Crilwte 
 
 THE PEOPLE OF CUMBERLAND MILLS 
 
 
 
 CAMBRIDGE 
 
 at tlje Ktoersfoe 
 
 1888
 
 Were a star quenched on high, 
 
 For ages would its light, 
 Still travelling downward from the sky, 
 
 Shine on our mortal sight. 
 
 So when a great man dies, 
 
 For years beyond our ken, 
 The light he leaves behind him lies 
 
 Upon the paths of men. 
 
 LONGFELLOW. 

 

 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 INTRODUCTORY 1 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. By MR. JOHN E. WARREN . 5 
 
 PRELIMINARY MEETING 12 
 
 COMMITTEE MEETING 14 
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES 16 
 
 ORDER OP SERVICES 17 
 
 
 
 DETAIL OF SERVICES 18 
 
 ANTHEM, " JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL" .... 18 
 INVOCATION. By REV. M. C. PENDEXTER . . . .19 
 
 SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS. By REV. O. H. WALLACE . 20 
 
 PRAYER. By REV. E. E. BACON 23 
 
 CHANT, " OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN" . . 28 
 
 HYMN, "MY GOD, MY FATHER, WHILE I STRAY" . . 28 
 REMARKS : 
 
 REV. E. M. COUSINS 29 
 
 MR. C. R. GOODELL 34 
 
 MR. H. P. MURCH 35 
 
 MR. HEZEKIAH ELWELL 36 
 
 MR. O. A. COBB 39 
 
 MR. A. W. SHAW .... 43
 
 vi CONTENTS. 
 
 MR. H. K. GRIGGS 46 
 
 MR. H. T. CLARK 50 
 
 MR. FRANK HASKELL 51 
 
 MR. R. H. DEBECK 54 
 
 ANTHEM, "NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE" . . . .56 
 
 REMARKS : 
 
 MR. C. A. MOSES 57 
 
 HON. F. M. RAY 58 
 
 MR. R. H. BLANCHARD 62 
 
 MR. WILLIAM TAYLOR 63 
 
 REMARKS : 
 
 MR. W. P. VARNUM 64 
 
 MR. JOHN HINRICHSEN 66 
 
 MR. C. M. CLOUDMAN 66 
 
 HYMN, " A FEW MORE YEARS SHALL ROLL " . . . .67 
 
 REMARKS : 
 
 MR. C. H. HUNT 68 
 
 MR. C. F. BROWN 69 
 
 MR. C. C. GRAHAM 69 
 
 MR. NATHAN WIGHT 71 
 
 MR. P. S. GRAHAM 72 
 
 MR. I. D. LEIGHTON 73 
 
 MR. C. M. BANCROFT 73 
 
 MR. W. G. GILMAN 74 
 
 MR. JAMES MCCLELLAN 76 
 
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE SERVICES . . . .78 
 
 HYMN ANTHEM, "WE BLESS THEE FOR THY PEACE, O GOD " 79
 
 CONTENTS. vii 
 
 PRAYER AND BENEDICTION. By REV. Q. H. SHINN . 80 
 
 LATER CONTRIBUTIONS 82 
 
 FROM MR. JAMES GRAHAM 82 
 
 FROM MR. CHARLES W. MACE 86 
 
 FROM MR. WILLIAM H. HOLSTON .... 88 
 
 FROM MR. THOMAS WATSON 90 
 
 FROM MR. ELISHA NEWCOMB 92 
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. By REV. EDGAR M. COUSINS . .97 
 RESOLUTIONS OF THE TOWN OF WESTBROOK . . 117
 
 INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 ON the day following the death of Mr. Warren, 
 which occurred Friday, May 11, 1888, a prelimi- 
 nary meeting of his employees and other citizens 
 of Cumberland Mills was held in the Mill Library 
 Room, to determine what united and appropriate 
 action should be taken in recognition of the sad 
 event which so moved the hearts of the commu- 
 nity. The result of the conference is fully recorded 
 in a place assigned it in the body of this volume. 
 It was at that meeting that the idea of a publica- 
 tion of this nature first presented itself, and it was 
 decided to publish for general distribution a record 
 of all that should be said and done at the memorial 
 services to be held on the following Monday, to- 
 gether with any other items relating to Mr. War- 
 ren which might be of general interest. The edit- 
 ing committee have endeavored to give as nearly 
 verbatim as possible the words of those who were 
 called upon to speak at these services. They have 
 been compelled, however, to abridge to some ex- 
 tent much of the material at their disposal, as in
 
 2 INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 its entirety it would have made a larger vol- 
 ume than was considered desirable. It has also 
 been deemed advisable to confine the work as 
 closely as possible to what relates to the inter- 
 ests of Mr. Warren at Cumberland Mills, although 
 fully recognizing that Gardiner, Yarmouthville, 
 and other places were also closely connected with 
 them. An account of this nature, it is thought, 
 will be of especial interest to all who have ever 
 had dealings with Mr. Warren, particularly his 
 operatives, many of whom have been in his em- 
 ploy for an uninterrupted period of more than 
 a quarter of a century. A sketch of Mr. War- 
 ren's life, written by Mr. John E. Warren, agent 
 at Cumberland Mills, will be found particularly 
 interesting to many who, though they may have 
 been long in the employ of S. D. Warren & Co., 
 have but little personal knowledge of the founder 
 and senior partner of the firm. A record of the 
 preliminary meeting held the day after Mr. War- 
 ren's death ; an account of the memorial services 
 at Warren Church, where many of his employees 
 and others, with broken voices and heart-felt sor- 
 row, expressed their feelings at their loss ; the 
 voluntary contributions afterwards presented by 
 those who accepted the general invitation there 
 given ; the sermon delivered on the following
 
 INTR OD UCTOR Y. 3 
 
 Sunday by the pastor, Rev. E. M. Cousins, and 
 many other details make up the contents of the 
 book. Interspersed throughout are views of the 
 mills, the Hall block, residences, etc., indirect ref- 
 erence being made to them by many of the con- 
 tributors. 
 
 For the excellent paper upon which this volume 
 is printed, we are indebted to S. D. Warren & Co., 
 by whose kindness it was made especially for the 
 work, without charge. To the publishers, Hough- 
 ton, Mifflin & Co., who so kindly transformed and 
 multiplied our manuscript into so many beautiful 
 volumes, and at a cost only sufficient to cover 
 their expense, we wish to express our gratitude. 
 And we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to 
 all who in so many ways have assisted in making 
 this volume what it is. 
 
 THE EDITING COMMITTEE. 
 
 CUMBERLAND MILLS, ME., July 10, 1888.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN was born September 13, 
 1817, at Graf ton, Mass. His father had been a 
 trader in the South in former years, although of 
 New England birth and family, but was at this 
 time settled upon the farm at Grafton, still pointed 
 out as the Warren homestead, although the own- 
 ership has passed out of the family. His family 
 at this time consisted of a son, John, and daugh- 
 ter, Mary, by a former marriage, and two sons and 
 two daughters by his second wife preceding Sam- 
 uel, or Dennis as he was commonly called, and 
 three daughters following ; in all, ten children 
 who came to years of maturity, besides four others 
 who died in their early years. Of these, John left 
 home while Dennis was yet a child, going to 
 Texas, which was not then under our flag, and 
 never returning. The other brothers and sisters, 
 in due time, all married and settled in widely scat- 
 tered homes, and nearly fifty descendants of the 
 third generation followed. One brother, Joseph 
 A. Warren, of Wauwatosa, Wis., and two sisters,
 
 6 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Mrs. Susan C. Rice, of Belvidere, 111., and Mrs. 
 Sarah E. Mason, of Boston, Mass., still survive. 
 His mother's maiden name was Susannah Grout, 
 of another New England family not so widely 
 known as the Warrens. She seems to have been 
 a woman of rare wisdom and force of character, 
 and to have had a strong influence over Dennis in 
 his early years. His father died when he was but 
 eleven years of age, and from that time his mother 
 was his sole guide and counsellor until her death, 
 in 1837, when he was twenty years of age. His 
 early education was such as a country village of 
 that day afforded, and as it was his mother's pur- 
 pose that he should acquire a college education, 
 he first attended a Quaker school in Groton, Mass., 
 and later an academy in Amherst. A student's 
 life, however, did not seem to agree with his 
 health, and so it came about that he entered the 
 store of Grant & Daniell, paper-dealers, of Boston, 
 in September, 1832, when just fifteen years of age. 
 For six years he patiently toiled at whatever 
 came to his hand, and at the age of twenty-one 
 was admitted to the firm as junior partner, the 
 style of the firm being changed to Grant, Daniell 
 & Co. This story of his early business life has 
 been told by others better informed than myself, 
 but all will allow that he must have proved him-
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 7 
 
 self of rare value to have been admitted to the 
 firm, without capital and solely on his personal 
 worth, at so early an age. One incident only will 
 I relate which will be of interest to the operatives 
 of Cumberland Mills. The paper for the " Youth's 
 Companion" was then, as now, furnished by this 
 firm, the weekly edition requiring but two reams 
 of paper of small size, weighing, I think, but 
 twenty-four pounds to the ream. I have heard 
 Mr. Warren state that it was his custom to take 
 two bundles of this paper each fortnight in a 
 wheelbarrow to the foot of the stairway, and then 
 carry one bundle at a time on his shoulder up 
 five nights to their printing-office. To those who 
 know what the product of our present No. 5 ma- 
 chine is, and how large a part of it goes to this 
 same publication, this incident will show how Mr. 
 Warren's business has shared with others in a nat- 
 ural and healthy growth. 
 
 On September 13, 1847, when just thirty years 
 of age, Mr. Warren was married to Miss Susan 
 C. Clarke, the daughter of Dr. Dorus Clarke, a 
 Congregationalist minister then residing in Bos- 
 ton. Mrs. Warren and five children, four sons 
 and one daughter, survive him, another son, the 
 first-born, having died when quite young. Four 
 years after his marriage Mr. Warren made his
 
 8 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 first European trip, and two years later, in 1853, 
 he made another trip for the purpose of perfecting 
 arrangements for the importation of foreign rags, 
 a business in which he was the pioneer, and which 
 has grown to vast proportions, but in which his 
 firm was for many years the leading one. The 
 same year the firm leased a small mill at Pepper- 
 ell, Mass., making two tons of paper daily, and 
 thus began the manufacture of paper on their 
 own account, having previously only handled the 
 product of mills owned by other parties, and deal- 
 ing in paper-makers' supplies. In 1854, the year 
 following, he bought on his own account the 
 property now known as Cumberland Mills, of its 
 former owners, Day & Lyon. The mill which then 
 existed was making about three thousand pounds 
 of paper daily, running two machines, the origi- 
 nals of our present Nos. 1 and 2 machines, besides 
 a thirty-six-inch cylinder machine. Mr. Warren 
 added our present No. 3 machine in 1863, and 
 brought the product up to seven tons. His first 
 manager was Marshall N. Fales, whom many of 
 our older residents will remember. In 1855, he 
 bought out the interest of Mr. Daniell in the 
 firm, and Mr. Daniell retired, the style of the 
 firm being changed to Grant, Warren & Co., under 
 which name it remained until 1867. Mr. Grant,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 9 
 
 the senior partner, better known as Deacon Grant, 
 died in 1863, and other partners having at times 
 been admitted to the firm, at the beginning of 
 1867 a reorganization took place, the other part- 
 ners organizing under the name of H. M. Clarke 
 & Co., and Mr. Warren continuing business in his 
 own name, simply S. D. Warren. In 1871, Charles 
 Fairchild was admitted as a partner, and the firm 
 name became S. D. Warren & Co. Mr. Fairchild 
 withdrew in 1880, and Mr. M. B. Mason was ad- 
 mitted in 1883, the firm name remaining un- 
 changed during the interim. The headquarters 
 of the firm were at the first on Union Street, and 
 later on Federal Street, but afterward a more 
 permanent location was found at 91 Milk Street, 
 where they remained until the great fire, in 1872, 
 after which they removed to the present location, 
 220 Devonshire Street. Mr. Warren bought and 
 fitted up a home at Waltham, Mass., soon after his 
 purchase of Cumberland Mills. This was for some 
 years his permanent residence. In 1863 he bought 
 a residence at 67 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, where 
 the family have since found a home, but using the 
 Waltham place at times as a summer residence. 
 In later years he has made frequent trips abroad 
 with his family, for business, health, and recreation, 
 going in one instance to Egypt and the Cataracts
 
 10 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 of the Nile. He also travelled quite extensively 
 in our own country. Mr. Warren was one of the 
 original members of Mount Vernon Church, organ- 
 ized in Boston in 1842, and remained a member 
 until his death, and his eulogy has been rehearsed 
 in our hearing by its pastor, Dr. Herrick. 
 
 Mr. Warren was too well known to those who 
 will read this sketch to need words of commenda- 
 tion from me. My own acquaintance with him was 
 slight until I entered his employ at these mills, 
 in 1867, and although I had even then a high 
 conception of his ability and character, my respect 
 for his many valuable qualities has constantly 
 grown with my acquaintance. His genial and 
 humorous manner has been mentioned by many. 
 What might to a stranger seem like thoughtless 
 banter was to him a screen from which he looked 
 out to take the measure of the man before him, 
 and in this estimate he was rarely mistaken. His 
 loyalty to those to whom he had once allied him- 
 self was constant, and his confidence in them not 
 easily shaken. For my own part I can but think 
 that the grand hope of the future for working 
 men and women is in the increasing number in 
 business life of men possessing in some measure 
 his qualities, men who have the ability, courage, 
 and enthusiasm to lay hold on business, not so
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 11 
 
 much for what they can make as for what they 
 can do. When institutions like our own, with 
 such men behind them, have so multiplied in our 
 land as to absorb the mass of the inadequately 
 and unprofitably employed, and setting a premium 
 upon faithfulness, industry, and sobriety, compete 
 with each other for the labor which must ever 
 form the main factor in all productive enterprise, 
 then, and not until then, will come the time when 
 those who have only their hands to depend upon 
 may find the place for which they are fitted, and 
 obtain an adequate reward for their services.
 
 PRELIMINARY MEETING. 
 
 LIBRARY ROOM, CUMBERLAND MILLS, 
 May 12, 1888. 
 
 ABOUT four o'clock yesterday afternoon a tele- 
 gram was received at the mills, announcing the 
 death of Mr. Warren, which had taken place at 
 his home in Boston an hour before that time. 
 These tidings were not altogether unexpected, 
 and when the workmen saw the flag displayed at 
 half-mast on the mill tower, they at once inferred 
 the sad fact. Later, when further particulars were 
 received and the time and place of the funeral ser- 
 vices were known, a desire was shown by the em- 
 ployees to testify in some public way to the respect 
 in which they held their employer, and their sor- 
 row at his death. The suggestion that a meeting 
 be held to consider the matter was immediately 
 acted upon, and this evening a large number assem- 
 bled in the Library Room. Mr. John E. Warren 
 was appointed Chairman, and Mr. A. A. Cordwell 
 Secretary. The Chairman gave a short account of 
 Mr. Warren's illness and death, and invited those
 
 PRELIMINARY MEETING. 13 
 
 present to give their opinion as to what services, 
 if any, should be held by the people here. All 
 agreed that some service should be held, either of 
 a popular character, in which all could take part, 
 or that some one who knew Mr. Warren intimately 
 should deliver an address of eulogy. After a full 
 expression of opinion, it was decided that they 
 should be of a popular nature, and that they 
 should take place in Warren Church, at the time 
 of the services in Boston, Monday afternoon, at 
 two o'clock. 
 
 It was voted that a delegation from the em- 
 ployees, to consist of E. W. Ayer, S. A. Cord well, 
 James Graham, C. W. Mace, F. A. Cloudman, W. 
 H. Holston, and Joseph Dunnell, be sent to Boston 
 to. attend the funeral. Mr. Elisha Newcornb was 
 afterwards added to represent the citizens not con- 
 nected with the mills. 
 
 Mr. W. H. Holston was authorized to procure a 
 suitable floral tribute for the funeral. 
 
 A committee consisting of Rev. E. M. Cousins, 
 W. E. Ayer, and James Graham was appointed to 
 nominate an executive committee, whose duty it 
 should be to arrange for the memorial services. 
 The following names were reported : F. H. Cloud- 
 man, C. A. Moses, H. P. Murch, E. B. Newcomb, 
 H. A. Craigie, C. R Goodell, and W. E. Ayer, and 
 those gentlemen were appointed.
 
 14 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 It was also voted that the interior of the church 
 should be suitably draped for the occasion, such 
 decoration to remain for thirty days ; that the 
 school committee of the town be requested to 
 close the schools in the village on Monday after- 
 noon; also that the merchants be requested to 
 close their stores ; that at the close of the services 
 the church bell be tolled seventy times, the num- 
 ber of years of Mr. Warren's life. 
 
 Messrs. F. A. Verrill, C. A. Carleton, and H. G. 
 Starr were appointed a committee to solicit funds 
 to meet any expense that might be incurred. 
 
 The 'committee on memorial services were fur- 
 ther directed to preserve records of what might be 
 said and done at those services, and publish them, 
 with whatever other material they might deem 
 desirable, in the form of a memorial volume. 
 
 The meeting then closed. 
 
 A. A. CORDWELL, Secretary. 
 
 On the adjournment of the preliminary meeting, 
 the executive committee met and appointed sub- 
 committees, as follows : 
 
 To present resolutions: Messrs. H. A. Craigie, 
 C. A. Moses, and C. R. Goodell. 
 
 To arrange for music : Messrs. W. E. Ayer, and 
 F. H. Cloudman.
 
 PRELIMINARY MEETING. 15 
 
 To arrange a list of speakers : Messrs. H. P. 
 Murch, C. R Goodell, and F. H. Cloudman. 
 
 To procure the services of a stenographer to 
 take an account of the proceedings : Mr. H. P. 
 Murch. 
 
 The Chairman, Mr. F. H. Cloudman, was ap- 
 pointed to arrange with Mr. A. W. Shaw, Mrs. C. 
 A. Carleton, and Mrs. A. Barbour to appropriately 
 drape the interior of the church. 
 
 Messrs. H. P. Murch, H. A. Craigie, and E. B. 
 Newcomb were appointed to edit and publish the 
 memorial volume. 
 
 W. E. AYER, Secretary.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 
 
 THE forenoon of Monday, May 14th, was occu- 
 pied by the committee appointed for that pur- 
 pose in appropriately decorating the interior of 
 the church. The auditorium was tastefully draped ; 
 festoons of black and white were hung gracefully 
 about the walls, and, falling in alternating curves 
 across the panel-work, produced most pleasing 
 effects. The pulpit, the organ, and the arch above 
 them were given the most attention. The former 
 was heavily draped in black, and resting against 
 the front of it was a sheaf of wheat tied with a 
 white ribbon, bearing the words "At rest." On 
 the floor in front of the platform was a beautiful 
 
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 hydrangea in full bloom, and vases on either side 
 of the pulpit were filled with callas. The organ 
 was also covered with black, relieved by white 
 hangings. In a frame over the key-board was a 
 large photograph of Mr. "Warren. Above this was 
 suspended a white dove, with wings extended as 
 if flying heavenward. Another large portrait of 
 Mr. "Warren in crayon was placed opposite the pul- 
 pit and on the front of the gallery.
 
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 Long before the appointed time the people be- 
 gan to gather, and when the clock in the tower 
 struck the hour of two every seat was filled. On 
 the platform were the pastors of the neighboring 
 churches, the choir of the Congregational Church, 
 Saccarappa, and Rev. Mr. Cousins, who served as 
 Chairman. A most interesting and affecting ser- 
 vice then followed, occupying nearly three hours. 
 
 The order is given first in outline, and then, as 
 far as possible, in detail. 
 
 ORDER OF SERVICES. 
 
 Organ Prelude : " La Fontaine," Lysberg. Mr. W. E. Ayer, 
 organist. 
 
 Anthem : " Jesus, Lover of my Soul," Emerson. By the 
 choir, Mrs. S. S. Thompson, Mrs. A. E. Stackpole, Messrs. T. 
 H. Snow, and W. W. Cutter. 
 
 Invocation : Rev. M. C. Pendexter, Pastor of M. E. Church, 
 Saccarappa. 
 
 Scripture Reading : Psalms xx., xc., John xiv. 1-14, and 
 Psalm xxiii. Rev. 0. H. Wallace, Pastor of Berean Advent 
 Church. 
 
 Prayer : Rev. E. E. Bacon, Pastor of Congregational Church, 
 Saccarappa. 
 
 Responsive Chant : " The Lord's Prayer," Thomas Tallis. 
 Choir. 
 
 Hymn : " Thy Will be done." Choir and congregation. 
 
 Opening Address by the Chairman, Rev. E. M. Cousins, Pas- 
 tor of Warren Church.
 
 18 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Remarks : Messrs. C. R. Goodell, H. P. Murch, H. Elwell, 
 O. A. Cobb, A. W. Shaw, H. K. Griggs, H. T. Clark, F. Has- 
 kell, R. H. Debeck. 
 
 Anthem : " Nearer, my God, to Thee," W. F. Sudds. Choir. 
 
 Remarks : Messrs. C. A. Moses, F. M. Ray, R. H. Blanch- 
 ard, W. Taylor, W. P. Varnum, J. Hinrichsen, C. M. Cloudman. 
 
 Hymn : " I will wait." Choir and congregation. 
 
 Remarks : Messrs. C. H. Hunt, C. F. Brown, C. C. Gra- 
 ham, N. Wight, P. S. Graham, I. D. Leighton, C. M. Bancroft, 
 W. G. Gilman, J. McClellan. 
 
 Presenting of Resolutions : Mr. H. A. Craigie. 
 
 Anthem : " We bless Thee for thy Peace, God," U. C. Bur- 
 nap. Choir. 
 
 Prayer and Benediction : Rev. Q. H. Shinn, Pastor of Uni- 
 versalist Church, Saccarappa. 
 
 DETAIL OF SERVICES. 
 
 ORGAN PRELUDE. 
 ANTHEM. 
 
 JESUS ! lover of my soul, 
 Let me to thy bosom fly, 
 While the billows near me roll, 
 While the tempest still is high ; 
 Hide me, O my Saviour ! hide, 
 Till the storm of life be past ; 
 Safe into the haven guide, 
 Oh, receive my soul at last ! 
 
 Other refuge have I none ; 
 Hangs my helpless soul on thee ;
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES 19 
 
 Leave, ah ! leave me not alone, 
 Still support and comfort me. 
 All my trust on thee is stayed ; 
 All my help from thee I bring ; 
 Cover my defenceless head 
 With the shadow of thy wing. 
 
 INVOCATION. 
 
 LOED, we look to Thee for Thy blessing to rest 
 upon these sad yet interesting services before us ; 
 and while we as a people gather here because of 
 the memory of one regarded so dear in his life, 
 and whose remembrance rests upon us as a sa- 
 cred halo, we pray Thee, God, grant Thy bless- 
 ing upon what may be said, and may it help us to 
 appreciate the lives of the good, that we ourselves 
 may be better ; and may we be helped by the ex- 
 ample set before us, and inspired to such living 
 as shall bring fruit out of our lives to the glory of 
 God. We pray Thee that Thou wilt so assist, that 
 all these influences that gather around this day 
 and occasion may enable us to appreciate not only 
 in this moment of interest, but in the future, hon- 
 orable service for the cause of truth ; that we may- 
 be helpful one to another, love God, and loving 
 Him, love our fellow-man. This we ask through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
 20 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS. 
 
 THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble ; 
 
 The name of the God of Jacob defend thee ; 
 
 Send thee help from the sanctuary, 
 
 And strengthen thee out of Zion ; 
 
 Remember all thy offerings, 
 
 And accept thy burnt sacrifice ; 
 
 Grant thee according to thine own heart, 
 
 And fulfil all thy counsel. 
 
 We will rejoice in thy salvation, 
 
 And in the name of our God we will set up our banners 
 
 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions. 
 
 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed ; 
 
 He will hear him from his holy heaven 
 
 With the saving strength of his right hand. 
 
 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : 
 
 But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. 
 
 They are brought down and fallen : 
 
 But we are risen, and stand upright. 
 
 Save, Lord : 
 
 Let the King hear us when we call. 
 
 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place 
 
 In all generations. 
 
 Before the mountains were brought forth, 
 
 Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
 
 Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 
 
 Thou turnest man to destruction ; 
 
 And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 
 
 For a thousand years in thy sight 
 
 Are but as yesterday when it is past,
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 21 
 
 And as a watch in the night. 
 
 Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : 
 
 In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 
 
 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; 
 
 In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 
 
 For we are consumed by thine anger, 
 
 And by thy wrath are we troubled. 
 
 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, 
 
 Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 
 
 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : 
 
 We spend our years as a tale that is told. 
 
 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; 
 
 And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, 
 
 Yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; 
 
 For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
 
 Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? 
 
 Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 
 
 So teach us to number our days, 
 
 That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 
 
 Return, O Lord, how long ? 
 
 And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 
 
 O satisfy us early with thy mercy ; 
 
 That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 
 
 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted 
 
 us, 
 
 And the years wherein we have seen evil. 
 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 
 And thy glory unto their children. 
 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : 
 Aud establish thou the work of our hands upon us ; 
 Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
 
 22 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God, believe 
 also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions : if it 
 were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 
 for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come 
 again, and receive you unto myself ; that where I am, there ye 
 may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 
 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest ; 
 and how can we know the way ? Jesus saith unto him, I am 
 the way, the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the 
 Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have 
 known my Father also : and from henceforth ye know him, 
 and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the 
 Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I 
 been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, 
 Philip ? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father ; and how 
 sayest thou then, Shew us the Father ? Believest thou not that 
 I am in the Father, and the Father in me ? the words that I 
 speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that 
 dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in 
 the Father, and the Father in me : or else believe me for the 
 very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that be- 
 lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he do also ; and greater 
 works than these shall he do ; because I go unto my Father. 
 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that 
 the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any- 
 thing in my name, I will do it. 
 
 The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want. 
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 
 He leadeth me beside the still waters. 
 He restore th my soul : 
 
 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's 
 sake.
 
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 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 
 
 I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; 
 
 Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 
 
 Thou prepares! a table before me in the presence of mine 
 
 enemies : 
 
 Thou anointest my head with oil ; my cup runneth over. 
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my 
 
 life: 
 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 OUR Father in heaven, we have come together, 
 and before Thee, this afternoon, drawn here by a 
 sense of a common interest in the fact of a com- 
 mon loss. We feel that it is fitting indeed that we 
 should thus come and bear witness to our esteem 
 of him whose name we thus honor. We would, 
 Lord, thus express our appreciation of the char- 
 acter and work of Thy honored servant and our 
 noble friend, who now at Thy bidding hath laid 
 down his work with us to enter into the possession 
 of his everlasting reward with Thee. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, for his life. We thank 
 Thee that Thou didst preserve him through child- 
 hood and youth, and on into the full flower and 
 force of a strong and fruitful manhood, to a ripe 
 and honored age. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, for the broad and
 
 24 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 various and abundant equipment and furnishing 
 which Thou didst give Thy servant ; for those at- 
 tributes and powers of mind and of heart by which 
 he was enabled to gain for himself the place and 
 station which he did, and to achieve the success 
 which no man grudged to him, and by which, hav- 
 ing such accumulated power, he was able to be 
 influential for the prosperity and good of all in 
 our midst. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, that not only Thou 
 didst furnish him well and send him into the world 
 to do Thy work, but that he, on his part, accepted 
 his work as Thy work ; that he had it in his heart 
 to be faithful and true to the large trust and inter- 
 est that Thou didst thus commit to him : that it 
 was in him, Lord, to use with wisdom and with 
 sympathy and with generous and helpful benevo- 
 lence all the means and opportunities which fell to 
 him ; and that so, Lord, it should come to pass 
 that his abundant prosperity should be felt indeed 
 as the prosperity also of all connected with him, 
 and that his great riches should abound unto the 
 good of others, and that all should feel enriched 
 in him, and that in this whole community round 
 about all should feel, whenever his name is pro- 
 nounced, a regard for him as a personal friend. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, that underneath all
 
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 with him, there was that Christian principle and 
 desire and purpose which was the secret, the key, 
 the motive of his life, in which he accepted all 
 that Thou didst give unto him as from the Lord, 
 and ever regarded himself without ostentation or 
 vanity, simply as the steward of his Lord's treas- 
 ures. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, that on every hand in 
 all our midst we may behold to-day the many and 
 substantial witnesses of his constructive and or- 
 ganizing genius, of his tireless energy and his 
 continued benevolence ; and that we may feel, 
 Lord, that in every way Thou hast wrought 
 through him for the true well-being, the comfort 
 and joy of many lives and of many interests. 
 
 And now, Lord, since it has been Thy thought 
 and will thus at length to take Thy servant from 
 the scenes of earth, to call him away from the 
 relations which he sustained and the associations 
 in which he was so exalted and beloved of all, 
 shall we not also, Lord, with reverence and with 
 solemnity mixed with sacred joy, give thanks to 
 Thee that there remaineth a rest for the people 
 of God ? that after life's work and care and bur- 
 den, that after all the weakness and pain and 
 breaking down of nature, Thou dost give to Thy 
 beloved sleep, and Thou dost take Thy servants
 
 26 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 into their reward where they may enjoy with Thee 
 all that Thou canst bestow upon them of heav- 
 enly blessedness ? 
 
 And now, Lord, what wait we for but for Thy 
 blessing ? We pray that Thou wouldst sanctify 
 this Providence unto the good of us all, yea of 
 this whole region round about. May the memory 
 of Thy servant now gone be embalmed and en- 
 shrined in all hearts. 
 
 We pray Thee that it may be as a blessed her- 
 itage to those here gathered, and to all the homes 
 here represented. And we pray Thee, our Father, 
 in Thy goodness and love, that Thou wouldst so 
 order that in all those important secular concerns 
 and affairs in which Thy servant wrought, and 
 built, and expressed his genius and power so no- 
 bly, and which now shall fall to other hands and 
 the care of others, that in the ordering and man- 
 agement of all these, the same principle, the same 
 spirit of broad manhood, of liberality, of benevo- 
 lence and of Christian wisdom and of goodness 
 may prevail as heretofore ; that so, Lord, it may 
 come to pass that all the thought and hope and 
 ambition of Thy servant that is gone, whose works 
 remain here behind him, shall still be continually 
 realized ; and that this community and this re- 
 gion shall enjoy the privilege of feeling that still,
 
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 so far forth, his life is made permanent, a blessing 
 not to be taken away. 
 
 And Lord, we pray Thee that Thou wouldst 
 now be near and bless those who even at this 
 hour, at the home of Thy servant, are gathered for 
 the solemn funeral services. Be Thou with them, 
 and upon the wife and sons and daughter do Thou 
 pour out in special quality and special measure 
 Thine own heavenly, divine consolation; and 
 upon all relatives and friends do Thou pour out 
 Thy spirit, which shall sanctify and bless this 
 Providence and affliction ; and upon us all, God, 
 do Thou come down with Thy Holy Spirit of wis- 
 dom and light and peace, and do Thou so lead us 
 and guide us in the imitation of the virtues of 
 Thy servant who is gone in his humility, his 
 industry, his patience, his wisdom, his goodness, 
 his sympathy that so we may live our lives 
 nobly and well, and thus honor him truly in our 
 memory of him. 
 
 And at last grant, God, that an abundant 
 entrance may be ministered unto us to the king- 
 dom of Thy dear Son, in whose name and for 
 whose sake we ask and offer all. Amen.
 
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 CHANT. 
 
 OUR Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name ; thy 
 kingdom come ; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 
 
 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tres- 
 passes, as we forgive them that trespass against us. 
 
 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for 
 thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever 
 and ever. Amen. 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 MY God, my Father, while I stray 
 Far from my home, on life's rough way, 
 Oh, teach me from my heart to say, 
 " Thy will be done, thy will be done ! " 
 
 What though in lonely grief I sigh 
 For friends beloved no longer nigh ; 
 Submissive still would I reply, 
 
 " Thy will be done, thy will be done ! " 
 
 If thou shouldst call me to resign 
 What most I prize, it ne'er was mine ; 
 I only yield thee what was thine : 
 
 " Thy will be done, thy will be done ! " 
 
 If but my fainting heart be blest 
 With thy sweet Spirit for its guest, 
 My God, to thee I leave the rest ; 
 
 " Thy will be done, thy will be done ! "
 
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 OPENING ADDRESS BY THE CHAIRMAN, REV. E. M. 
 COUSINS. 
 
 THE intelligence of Mr. Warren's death, though 
 not unexpected, fell, I am sure, as a blow upon us 
 as a community. It was felt as something coming 
 very closely home to us all. While we felt that 
 we had a personal and individual interest in this 
 event, there was also a feeling in every heart that 
 there should be some public recognition on our 
 part of the relation which he bore to us and of 
 the respect which we bore to him. 
 
 This sentiment took form in the call issued to 
 those interested to meet to decide upon some 
 course of action in respect of this event. A large 
 meeting was held Saturday evening, and it was 
 the unanimous sentiment that some public testi- 
 monial should be made. Several decisions were 
 reached at that time. One was that this commu- 
 nity, and especially the employees of Mr. Warren, 
 should be represented by a committee at the fu- 
 neral services held in Boston to-day. The com- 
 mittee chosen for this purpose was made up of the 
 seven men who, as foremen, especially in the man- 
 ufacture of paper, had worked for and with Mr. 
 Warren many years. E. W. Ayer, James Gra- 
 ham, S. A. Cordwell, F. A. Cloudman, C. W. Mace,
 
 30 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Joseph Dunnell, and W. H. Holston were selected 
 for this committee. I am glad to add that I learn 
 that another citizen, Mr. Elisha Newcomb, who will 
 well represent our community outside the number 
 of MP. Warren's employees, is also in attendance 
 upon the services in Boston at this hour. 
 
 If the presence of these whom I have named, 
 together with that of Mr. John E. Warren, is missed 
 at this hour, you will understand their absence. 
 In our behalf, as well as in their own, they are 
 showing their regard for him whom we mourn and 
 honor. 
 
 At the preliminary meeting it was also decided 
 that we ought to be represented by floral tributes, 
 those beautiful memorials that, in the hour of 
 mourning, appeal so silently yet tenderly to the 
 eye and to the heart. Our committee was em- 
 powered to procure and forward to Boston such 
 offering of flowers as they thought fitting. Then 
 came the consideration of holding some service in 
 this village, and the only question was whether 
 such service should be held to-day, or at some 
 later time. After free interchange of opinion, it 
 was decided that Monday afternoon, while the ser- 
 vices were being held in Boston, would be the 
 most fitting time to meet, and, as we might be 
 able, to show publicly our regard for him who has
 
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 passed on before. As to the nature of this meet- 
 ing, it was decided that it would be much better, 
 under present circumstances, to let the speaking 
 be done by a number of those who had been here 
 connected with Mr. Warren ; and so we come to- 
 gether not to listen to any one speaker, but in a 
 popular way, by the voices of many, to give some 
 expression to what is in the hearts of all. An 
 executive committee was appointed to make the 
 necessary arrangements for our gathering. This 
 committee, without trying to shape the course of 
 the meeting very definitely, feeling rather that it 
 should be an occasion where the hearts of men 
 should speak, have asked a number of persons to 
 respond as their names are called. In being in- 
 vited to preside and call upon the speakers who 
 are to address you, I was also asked to make an 
 opening address, but as I may take opportunity at 
 another time of speaking to you upon the charac- 
 ter of Mr. Warren and his relations to this peo- 
 ple, I will not take the time now which can so 
 well be given to others. 
 
 So with a single thought or incident which may 
 not come to the lips of others, I turn to the pro- 
 gramme prepared for us this afternoon. Since my 
 residence in this village, Mr. Warren's health has 
 kept him away from here much more, I believe,
 
 32 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 than formerly, and I have had very little oppor- 
 tunity of meeting him personally. The last time 
 he was here he called upon me, and I returned 
 the call, but neither of us found the other. The 
 time before the last he called at the parsonage, and 
 while there related in his own most interesting 
 way the occurrence that I bring to you. He said 
 that a few days before, the Labor Committee of 
 the United States Senate, while going through the 
 country gathering industrial facts and statistics, 
 had visited Boston, and had called him before 
 them. The call was most unexpected by him, but 
 he added, " If I had had the privilege of preparing 
 a list of questions that I would like to answer be- 
 fore such a committee, I could not have prepared 
 anything more satisfactory to me than the in- 
 quiries that they had to make." Still this was 
 their regular list of questions which they had been 
 using in carrying on their investigation of the con- 
 dition of the laboring men in our country. These 
 inquiries had to do with the character and condi- 
 tions of working men and women, and with the 
 treatment given them by employers, as well as 
 the general relations between the two, and the 
 different industrial problems that are arising to- 
 day. They related to wages ; to what had been 
 done for the physical and moral welfare of the
 
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 workman ; whether workmen were paid from a 
 company store ; whether the employer had ob- 
 tained control of land and then made money by 
 selling it to employees ; as to his experience with 
 strikes, with the saloon question, with the pauper 
 question, and with his employees when old age 
 overtook them. 
 
 I need not say to you that Mr. Warren was able 
 to give answers to all these questions that were 
 very satisfactory to himself and creditable to this 
 community, as well as surprising to the committee. 
 At the close of the questioning, which was con- 
 tinued some two hours, I think he said, one of the 
 committee, Senator Pugh, of Kentucky, said to 
 him, " Mr. Warren, there is one question I would 
 like to ask you. It may not be just in line with 
 our work as a committee, and I will not ask you 
 to answer it unless you see fit, but I would like 
 to ask if what you have done for your employees 
 has been done as a business matter alone, or from 
 philanthropic motives ? " Mr. Warren said, " My 
 reply was, ' I hope I have not been without inter- 
 est in the moral welfare of those in my employ, 
 but if with my experience I were to do my work 
 over again I should certainly pursue the same 
 course as a matter of business.' ' 
 
 When the session was over, one of the mem- 
 
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 34 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 bers of the committee approached Mr. Warren, and 
 putting his hand upon his shoulder, said, " Mr, 
 Warren, I want to say to you that this has been 
 a ' red-letter day ' in the work of our committee." 
 
 Without taking more of your time I will call the 
 names given me by the executive committee, and 
 I am sure in doing this no special introduction of 
 the several speakers will be necessary. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. R. GOODELL. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : On this occasion, 
 when all our hearts are sad, we need no studied 
 phrase, no gift of oratory, to express what we all 
 so deeply feel. You may read the depth of our 
 sorrow in the faces of the audience gathered here 
 by a common impulse to honor the name of him 
 who for nearly forty years has been our employer, 
 benefactor, friend. 
 
 Look about you for evidence of his great finan- 
 cial ability. The vast mills, with their thousand 
 and one mechanical appliances used in the fabrica- 
 tion of their product ; the hundred tenements for 
 the use of his employees, all the work of his 
 hands. The church, the halls, the library, his 
 great charities in many directions, place him in 
 the front rank of those who love their fellow-men. 
 He regarded each one of his employees as a per-
 
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 sonal friend, and not as so much bone and brawn 
 to be minted into wealth for his personal aggran- 
 dizement. 
 
 At Mr. Warren's last visit to the mills, accom- 
 panied by his noble daughter, it was my fortune 
 to hear him express, in heartfelt terms, his love 
 and gratitude toward those who, in all these years, 
 had contributed so largely to his happiness and 
 prosperity ; his daughter at the same time ex- 
 pressing her appreciation of the respect in which 
 her father was held by those in his employ. He 
 rounded out in honor and usefulness the allotted 
 time of threescore years and ten, and has fallen 
 no, not fallen, but risen to that higher life where 
 great shall be his reward. 
 
 How appropriate, at the close of a life like his, 
 seem the words of our immortal poet : 
 
 " There is no death ; what seems so is transition. 
 
 This life of mortal breath 
 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 
 Whose portal we call death." 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. H. P. MURCH. 
 
 " KNOW ye not that there is a prince and a great 
 man faUen this day in Israel ? " For in all his 
 characteristics Mr. Warren was a prince. He was 
 loyal to his Master, he was loyal to his family ; he
 
 36 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 was loved by his fellow-men. " When a man's 
 ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies 
 to be at peace with him." He was great, in that 
 he ruled his own spirit, and was the builder of his 
 own fortune. His was a rare combination of dis- 
 position and ability to conceive and carry out 
 plans which would result in helpfulness to others ; 
 and no man more fully recognized the rights of 
 others than he. He was liberal without ostenta- 
 tion, showing by his many acts of benevolence 
 that he considered himself a steward. 
 
 The result of some of his plans can be seen in 
 the social, moral, and material advancement of this 
 growing village. The place he held in our hearts 
 he won by his efforts to establish morality and 
 righteousness among us. His name will ever be 
 held in grateful remembrance by this whole 
 people. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. HEZEKIAH ELWELL. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I am glad that I am able to be 
 present and witness this gathering to-day. I am 
 also glad to have the opportunity of giving ex- 
 pression to the feeling that has long existed in the 
 hearts of so many concerning our friend and bene- 
 factor, not only in the hearts of the men in his 
 employ, but in the hearts of the families they rep- 
 resent.
 
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 We all have lost a friend indeed ; one, to my 
 mind, who possessed one of the greatest of virtues 
 attainable in Christian character, unselfishness. 
 He carried out the injunction of the Scriptures, 
 " Look not every man on his own things, but every 
 man also on the things of others." I think I voice 
 the sentiment of this meeting when I say that 
 while in the performance of the duties of his busi- 
 ness, laborious as they were, Mr. Warren was al- 
 ways mindful of the comfort of others, always 
 ready to listen to any complaints or grievances, 
 real or imaginary, that came to him through the 
 proper channels, and to do the best he could for 
 all concerned. 
 
 Whatever the object of this gathering may be, 
 with its evident love and sympathy, either shown 
 by our presence or expressed in words, one thing 
 is certain, it is eminently proper for us to speak 
 at this time of the many things we have person- 
 ally seen and known in our association with him 
 whose loss we mourn to-day. I would say that 
 my feelings on this occasion would bid me remain 
 silent, for I cannot in words do justice to the feel- 
 ings of my heart. 
 
 My connection here as an employee has been a 
 little over twenty-two years, almost half of my 
 lifetime, and my remarks will be from the experi-
 
 38 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 ence of those years. It is not my intention to say, 
 and I believe no one ought to say, things of a man 
 who is dead that could not truly be said of him 
 while he was living. There will be no necessity 
 for such a course on this occasion, for in the life of 
 Mr. Warren there was enough to inspire us all to 
 try and follow his example. 
 
 It seems to me this meeting will be of great 
 profit to those who were not so directly connected 
 with Mr. Warren's interests as many of us have 
 been, for to my mind it shows that capital and 
 labor can move together without the clash and 
 strife which so often interfere with business else- 
 where. 
 
 While we remember with sadness the loss of so 
 good a friend, let us be thankful that the manage- 
 ment of this vast enterprise falls to men in whom 
 we have the greatest confidence, and that the im- 
 mense business will be carried on in such a man- 
 ner that we will continue to receive the comforts 
 and privileges we have so long enjoyed. 
 
 Let this great Providence of God, mysterious as 
 it is, lead us to that course of life that will bring 
 us safely into the haven of rest where there will 
 be no more parting, and where we hope to meet 
 all who have passed on before.
 
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 REMAKES OF MR. O. A. COBB. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : Unlike many of those who will 
 speak on this occasion, I have had no opportunity 
 to prepare a written discourse, and as my acquaint- 
 ance with Mr. Warren has not been so extensive 
 as that of very many here, I will leave to those 
 better acquainted to extol his excellent qualities, 
 and will confine my brief remarks to the works 
 rather than the words of this, in many ways, re- 
 markable man. 
 
 Though but five years a resident of this village, 
 my home was so situated that I could watch its 
 wondrous development under his wise hand, from 
 the hamlet of half a dozen houses, called " Congin," 
 to the present beautiful village of Cumberland 
 Mills, containing its four hundred houses and two 
 thousand intelligent inhabitants. 
 
 Although my acquaintance with this place ex- 
 tends through not half a century, yet by tradition 
 I have been able to learn of it for many years pre- 
 ceding. By that tradition we are told that the loca- 
 tion, with its excellent privileges, was called by the 
 Indians " Congin," or " Ammoncongin," for many 
 years before there were any signs of the village 
 that should in after years spring into existence. 
 
 A dam was early thrown across the stream, and
 
 40 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 mills were built to manufacture into lumber the 
 sturdy growth which covered the now fertile 
 farms that line this beautiful river and its parent 
 lake, Sebago, a name also given by the Indians, 
 but we can learn of neither bridge nor roadway 
 here until a quite recent date, save the road neces- 
 sary for the removal of the lumber ; and even these 
 improvements temporary in their nature, had nearly 
 passed away when in 1843 the river, as if in mock- 
 ery of man's insignificance, swept away every trace 
 of them, and run its course untrammelled to the sea. 
 Later on, improvements were made ; a dam was 
 built, a saw-mill erected, and a bridge constructed. 
 The road now known as Cumberland Street was 
 laid out and built rather for the accommodation of 
 country travel than for a local improvement. Still 
 later, a paper - mill was erected, a little, low, 
 wooden structure, totally unlike anything now 
 occupying the site. 
 
 After an existence of only a few years and mak- 
 ing only a small quantity of paper, the company 
 gave up the business, and soon after the property 
 came into the possession of the late owner, the 
 death of whom we meet to-day to mourn, and to 
 do honor to his memory. 
 
 It is this hamlet, which he found containing but 
 half a dozen houses, and the little mill with its gen-
 
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 eral appearance of neglect and poverty, brought 
 by this one man to its present condition, that 
 speaks with an eloquence more forcible than words 
 can express of his wonderful power and energy. 
 
 Did time permit, I might enter into the detail of 
 its growth ; how at first the old mill was utilized, 
 how a few cottages sprang up, cautiously at first, 
 and mills were added, ever bearing the motto, 
 " stability." Then I might repeat what old citi- 
 zens often said, " A paper-mill can never build up 
 much of a village." Then I might speak of the 
 moving of buildings from the surrounding coun- 
 try ; how both old and new houses, deserted school- 
 houses, and even an ancient meeting-house from 
 Saccarappa swelled the number of residences in 
 the place. 
 
 How careful people were not to expend money 
 largely because of the belief that there could 
 never be much of a place here ! The works of this 
 man went on, however, with stability marked on 
 every material, from the stone foundation, built on 
 the ledge of old " Congin," to the top of the tower- 
 ing chimneys whose smoky caps indicate to the 
 traveller the immense business carried on at their 
 base. 
 
 I might also speak of the schools, how they 
 have increased; how for several years there were
 
 42 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 none here, of scholars on one side of the river 
 going one way, and those on the opposite side 
 the other, long distances ; how with their charac- 
 teristic economy the people wished to erect a 
 building with one room, thinking they would never 
 need the second, " because you know a paper-mill 
 can never build up a large village." 
 
 There are to-day seven schools in the village 
 with nearly four hundred scholars. Then we ought 
 to speak of the church, and its later addition 
 built largely with his money, and the hundred 
 tenements where the operatives dwell in comfort, 
 prosperity and happiness. 
 
 When we view these massive structures which 
 will endure for many, many generations after all 
 of us have passed away, what word can better ex- 
 press Mr. Warren's character than stability ? Then 
 when we reflect upon his character, his greatness, 
 how fitting it seems that we should all meet here 
 at this time and spontaneously offer our tributes 
 of respect. But whatever we may say, we cannot 
 fully express our feelings, as words are ever inade- 
 quate on such occasions as this. 
 
 Eminently, this man was known by his works 
 rather than by his words ; no set phrases were left 
 for us to remember, but his works will endure for 
 many generations. Fittingly, then, to his memory,
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 43 
 
 would I close these hurried remarks with the 
 words of the eminent Dr. Watts, 
 
 " Why do we mourn departed friends, 
 
 Or shake at death's alarms ? 
 'T is but the voice that Jesus sends 
 To call them to his arms." 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. A. W. SHAW. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : When one of the executive 
 committee came and asked me to assist in pre- 
 paring the room for this occasion, and also in- 
 formed me that I should be expected to speak 
 to this audience, I told him that it would be im- 
 possible for me to make any remarks, after work- 
 ing in the church all the forenoon. But I feel 
 that it would not be right, having been in the em- 
 ploy of Mr. Warren for twenty-three or twenty- 
 four years, to sit still and not be ready to endorse 
 all the good things that have been and may be 
 said of him and his character. 
 
 I came here some twenty-three years ago, a 
 boy. This village then numbered less than thirty 
 houses. It was two years before I became ac- 
 quainted with Mr. Warren. From time to time I 
 have had the pleasure of talking with him and 
 knowing how he felt toward the people here in 
 the town of Westbrook, and more especially in 
 the village of Cumberland Mills.
 
 44 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 I suppose a rehearsal of the little things we got 
 direct from Mr. Warren will be of greatest interest 
 to us at this time. A number of years ago, about 
 the time the Block was finished, he came to visit 
 the mills, and was taken through the building. 
 The upper hall had been finished for the Knights of 
 Pythias and the Odd Fellows, and it had been said 
 that he was not in favor of secret societies. After 
 we came out and as we stood looking at the build- 
 ing, he said : " I did not build this as an invest- 
 ment ; I did not expect it would pay me when 
 I built it ; but I knew that the Knights of Pythias 
 and the Odd Fellows were quite large bodies, and 
 I learned that it was their duty to help each other. 
 We have but a little while to live, and it is our 
 duty as men and as citizens to do all that we can 
 to help each other ; and I have built this building 
 more especially that they might have a place to 
 meet, for I believe that one can do better business 
 where such institutions are encouraged." He said 
 considerable at that time about helping and living 
 for one another. 
 
 Later on, the last time but one that he was here, 
 I met him as he came from the mill, and after 
 shaking hands, I told him that I was glad to see 
 him here once more, and that I was not alone ; I 
 had heard it generally expressed by his workmen.
 
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 They were all glad to see him again. As you will 
 all remember, he had been sick and confined to the 
 house the winter before. He said, "Yes, I am 
 glad to be here, but last winter I did not know as 
 I should ever see Cumberland Mills again, yet it 
 gave me great pleasure, as I sat in the house, to 
 think of my friends at Cumberland Mills." This 
 is the way I have heard Mr. Warren speak of the 
 people here a great many times ; not as his work- 
 men, not as his help, but as his friends. 
 
 It is with sadness that we part with him. There 
 have been a great many changes in the twenty 
 years that have passed ; we have met with losses. 
 It is but a short time since we were called upon 
 to mourn the loss of another who was dear to us, 
 William L. Longley, our former agent, and while 
 another has been found who is able and worthy to 
 occupy the position he left vacant, we can hardly 
 expect to find one who can take the place of him 
 who for years has worked, and thought, and spent 
 sleepless nights in bringing this great business to 
 its present perfection. 
 
 We have a great many things to remember in 
 regard to Mr. Warren's life. He did all in his 
 power to make things pleasant for us. During 
 these twenty years we have more than once seen 
 hard times. We could hardly take up a daily
 
 46 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 paper without noticing how people here and there 
 were pinched by reason of financial embarrass- 
 ments, but we have never been called upon to 
 suffer such a misfortune. He has always managed 
 to give his help the best chance possible for them 
 to have. He has not forgotten us now as he passes 
 away ; he has not only provided for us while he 
 lived, but I believe he has made plans for us for 
 the future. He has dropped the burden of life on 
 the shoulders of men whom he has tried and has 
 had confidence in. I know the workmen in these 
 mills feel that he has placed that confidence well. 
 
 I have now said more than I expected to say 
 when I began. It is but a short span before we 
 also cross that river. Let us all seek by our treat- 
 ment of our fellow-men to have our names written 
 as near that of Mr. Warren as is possible with our 
 ability and our position in life. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. H. K. GRIGGS, 
 Chairman of the Board of Health. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : There are but few people living 
 in this town but have been benefited, on the mate- 
 rial plane of life, as the result of the business en- 
 terprise and capacity of him whose name is so 
 familiar to us. As I received this morning a note 
 from Mr. John E. Warren, stating that there were
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 47 
 
 to be memorial services of a popular character 
 held in this house this afternoon, and expressing 
 the hope that I might be present and share in 
 them, I felt gratified, although the time was too 
 short to group any thoughts to be presented here. 
 I therefore decided to depend upon the inspiration 
 of the hour to suggest anything I might have to 
 say. 
 
 It is gratifying to be able to share with others 
 in paying this tribute of respect to one whose de- 
 parture from the activities of the present life we 
 all so deeply feel. I am a firm believer in Divine 
 Providence, or in other words, in the God whom 
 the Bible represents, who created this world, and 
 who has grand, elevated, and high purposes, which 
 are to result from this creation and from its being 
 peopled with sentient beings. These purposes 
 may be hastened or retarded as men cooperate 
 with God, and direct their lives in harmony with 
 the divine plan, or as they run counter to his will 
 and purpose. It is said by some philosophers that 
 we are the creatures of circumstances, in other 
 words, that we are altogether directed by the con- 
 ditions that surround us. 
 
 In opposition to this theory, we have the fact 
 that many men within the circle of our acquaint- 
 ance fall below the conditions that surround them,
 
 48 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 when it would seem that every possible condition 
 as they entered upon the stage of action was favor- 
 able to their elevation and their being a blessing 
 to their race. Others rise above the circumstances 
 in which they find themselves as they come upon 
 the arena of active life, and of these we have a 
 noble example in the life of him whose memory 
 we are now considering. It is wonderful how the 
 Almighty reaches his ends by using men, not by 
 interfering with their choice of action or their 
 free moral agency, but by using their words and 
 actions in life toward promoting the general good 
 and welfare of a whole community, or in some in- 
 stances of the whole people of a nation. With 
 some men, indeed, the motives may be the love 
 of power and the desire to rule, and this in some 
 may be laudable. Some may be provided with the 
 qualities which prepare them to rule and admin- 
 ister government, and through those desires and 
 purposes of men God brings order and stability 
 Others have capacity for the accumulation of 
 wealth. It is said that out of every hundred 
 men who engage in business but ten may be con- 
 sidered successful. I just spoke of the purposes 
 of divine Providence being hastened or retarded 
 as men cooperate with and work in the line of 
 Providence. Now every man can best work in
 
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 that line by directing his energies to do the work 
 in life which his faculties and make-up fit him 
 for ; and when he comes to a right understand- 
 ing of himself, and joins with that a love of the 
 work in which he engages, his life will not be a 
 failure. It does not follow from that that he will 
 accumulate wealth, but that his life will be suc- 
 cessful. And by success in life I mean a useful 
 life. That, after all, is the point at which we 
 should aim. They tell me a man has made a suc- 
 cess in life. I do not ask how much property he 
 has accumulated, but has he been useful to his 
 fellow-men ? Such a life is the highest attain- 
 ment to which we can aspire. Judging from 
 what Mr. Warren has done, I firmly believe he 
 reached that high ideal. He joined with his deep 
 sagacity and business capacity a desire and love of 
 being useful, and that desire and love permeated 
 his whole being, his business life, and all connected 
 with it. That is why his life has been a success, 
 and why he has endeared himself to those to whom 
 he has given employment. 
 
 In closing I would repeat to young and old, that 
 if they choose the right pursuits those pursuits 
 for which their capabilities adapt them, whether 
 they be high or low in the eyes of the world 
 and work in the line of divine Providence, their 
 lives will be honorable and useful.
 
 50 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. H. T. CLARK, 
 Station Agent, Union Depot. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I shall speak briefly from what 
 I have observed during the past eight and one 
 half years in which I have known Mr. Warren. 
 
 Mr. Warren has been a great benefactor to 
 Cumberland Mills. He has appeared to act as if 
 he were a steward of God. Whatever means have 
 been given him he has used for the good of his 
 fellow-men. He has enriched the town, and has 
 caused great blessings to fall on the people therein. 
 There are many men in this village who can 
 say that Mr. Warren has been especially a bene- 
 factor to them. He has erected halls and churches 
 for our use. As long as this church remains an 
 organization we know the name of S. D. Warren 
 will live among us. It will live longer than the 
 names of many men now speaking in the halls of 
 Congress. When they are known no more, his 
 name will live, and shine forth in letters of light. 
 
 I would like to see a monument erected in the 
 square in front of Cumberland Hall to the mem- 
 ory of the benefactor of Westbrook.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 51 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. FRANK HASKELL, 
 Agent of the Westbrook Manufacturing Co. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : After the death of ex-Senator 
 Conkling, of New York, one of his friends who 
 saw the many articles in the papers praising him, 
 words of kindness from those who could say no 
 good thing of him while living, said, " How I wish 
 that Mr. Conkling could have known of these good 
 wishes during his lifetime ! He who was so fond 
 of appreciation, who so desired the praise of the 
 world, could have gone down to his grave with 
 joy if he had heard these words." 
 
 I think this could hardly be said of Mr. Warren. 
 It is given to few men to hear such appreciation 
 of their works while living. Could he come into 
 this place without feeling joyful, without going 
 away feeling that 'he left warm, friendly hearts 
 behind him ? But he must have gone away with 
 renewed joy in his heart because of the words of 
 love from those who knew him best. 
 
 Can there be higher praise for any man than 
 that ? Those with whom he has been connected 
 with ties of business love him. There can be 
 nothing more to be desired. 
 
 His unselfishness has been spoken of, and I 
 think it will be appropriate for me to relate an
 
 52 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 incident illustrating this that came to my knowl- 
 edge concerning him. It is probably something 
 unknown to any one here, and I can repeat it be- 
 cause those things most interesting are those con- 
 nected with Mr. Warren in life. A prominent 
 business man, a competitor with Mr. Warren in 
 paper manufacturing, also with large interest in 
 other business, found himself in pressing need of 
 several hundred thousand dollars. He did not 
 know where to get it, and the only way for him 
 to do was to dispose of his paper business. He 
 looked about for a customer and found one who, 
 aware of his strait, made him an offer of much 
 less than the value of the business, and not know- 
 ing where else to turn, he thought he must accept 
 it. He went to a friend in Boston for counsel. 
 This friend said to him, " Go and see Mr. Warren." 
 "Why," said he, "why should I go and see Mr 
 Warren ? He is a competitor of mine. Of what 
 use will it be to see him ? " But his friend said, 
 u No matter, you go and see him. I know you 
 will be kindly received." 
 
 So he went as directed, telling Mr. Warren the 
 whole story. " Don't you take that offer," was the 
 advice. " That business of yours is worth more 
 than that. I think I can find you a customer." 
 Mr. Warren took pains to see a gentleman, who,
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 53 
 
 he thought, would buy the business, and after- 
 wards it was sold to him for nearly double the 
 sum offered by the first man. 
 
 Now what does that prove ? Is there another 
 man in the whole of New England who would act 
 in the way Mr. Warren aeted on that occasion ? 
 It seems to me you would have to go a long way 
 to find another like him. We are all influenced 
 in a personal way by such a life as his, and when 
 I heard of his death it seemed to come to me 
 like a blow, and I wondered why it should be, 
 why there should be a sense of personal loss, 
 which has been my feeling ever since I heard of 
 his decease. About a year ago a friend of mine 
 had occasion to ask advice of Mr. Warren in a 
 business matter. That advice was given freely. 
 Of course, as I gave little thought to the matter 
 it soon passed out of my mind, but in looking 
 back over the past year I find that I have taken 
 that advice of Mr. Warren home to myself, and 
 I see how he, though almost unknown to me, has 
 influenced my life during that time. Now, if the 
 life of a man like that can influence those with 
 whom he hardly comes in contact, what an in- 
 fluence must have gone out from him to his em- 
 ployees, to all who have been brought close to 
 him in business and family life ! Can we imagine
 
 54 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 how far-reaching such a life is ? We can hardly 
 imagine how far it goes. What will be the end 
 of Mr. Warren's influence ? 
 
 We see the signs of his prosperity. Did money 
 make Mr. Warren ? Did this village of Cumber- 
 land Mills make him? No. Let them all be 
 obliterated, the life of Mr. Warren still remains. 
 The man made these things; they did not make 
 him ; but Mr. Warren, with his mind, with his 
 ability, and with his desire to serve his God, and 
 his desire to serve the world, he made all these 
 things. These things may cease to exist ; they 
 may go out of the world, but if they should all 
 be blotted out, his most enduring monument is 
 that which we shall find in the influence that he 
 has had upon the minds, upon the souls, upon the 
 characters of all these employees, upon every man, 
 woman, and child in this town. 
 
 This shall live and be a more lasting monument 
 than all these other things that we see about us. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. R. H. DEBECK. 
 
 I HAVE been in Cumberland Mills for twenty 
 years. That is a large part of a lifetime. Great 
 changes often take place during that time. Gen- 
 erally, all the experiences that tend to make or 
 confirm one's character can be found within that
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 55 
 
 period. We form lasting opinions of those with 
 whom we have so long been acquainted. It mat- 
 ters not how intimate or how remote the ac- 
 quaintance may have been or what position they 
 may have held in life, our estimates of them are 
 as firm and lasting as character itself. It can truly 
 be said to be a part of it. 
 
 The first opinion I formed of Mr. Warren was 
 the very best, and I am happy to say I never had 
 any reason to change it. There are those here 
 who can remember when this church, which bears 
 his name, was making an effort to gain a place 
 among the churches ; how he often appeared 
 among us, ever ready to help remove any diffi- 
 culty that might arise. It was then I decided that 
 the man had some other purpose in life besides 
 that of mere business. He had a desire to de- 
 velop and promote, as far as possible, the highest 
 principles of manhood. Time has confirmed that 
 opinion, and to-day it stands forth as a fact. There 
 are many of those present who have been inti- 
 mately acquainted for twenty years. Time has 
 dealt kindly with us all. We know, however, 
 from the very nature of things, that sooner or 
 later we too must cross that mystic river and 
 take up our abode in that land where we are to 
 go no more out forever. If the happiness of that
 
 56 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 land in any way consists of the experiences and 
 memories of the past, can it be complete unless 
 we all are there ? It hardly seems that it can 
 be, for among the pleasant memories of the past 
 will be the thought that each has contributed 
 something that no other could have done as well, 
 and that in trouble and sorrow each has nobly 
 borne his part. Prominent among all those expe- 
 riences and recollections will ever appear the name 
 of him we this day commemorate. 
 
 ANTHEM. 
 
 NEARER, my God, to thee, 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 E'en though it be a cross 
 
 That raiseth me ! 
 Still all my song shall be, 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
 Though like a wanderer, 
 
 The sun gone down, 
 Darkness be over me, 
 
 My rest a stone, 
 Yet in my dreams I 'd be 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
 There let the way appear, 
 Steps unto heaven ;
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 57 
 
 All that thou sendest me, 
 
 In mercy given ; 
 Angels to beckon me 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. A. MOSES. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I wish to offer an apology, as I 
 have made no preparation for this occasion other 
 than what I have made since coming into the 
 presence of this audience. 
 
 It is a fitting time at this memorial service to 
 speak of the virtues possessed by our employer, 
 Mr. Warren, and I fully concur in the sentiments 
 which have been presented by the speakers who 
 have preceded me. On reviewing the life of our 
 friend and employer, there is one fact which 
 comes to my mind very forcibly ; it is the oppor- 
 tunity that this country affords to the ambitious 
 young man to achieve success, as has been dem- 
 onstrated by the life which we commemorate by 
 this service. With others, I take patriotic pride 
 in our citizenship, where the opportunities are so 
 grand, as is also perfectly illustrated by the history 
 of this gentleman's life. The robust health, the 
 two willing hands, and the great natural ability 
 possessed by Mr. Warren mark his entrance into 
 a successful business life. Please look at the re- 
 sult; it teaches us a practical lesson.
 
 58 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 The title of philanthropist truly belongs to him. 
 He sought not wealth for his own exaltation, as is 
 evident from the expenditures which have been 
 so liberally bestowed, not only here, but through- 
 out the entire country. We appreciate the fact 
 that he was interested as well in our individual 
 prosperity. I honor a man who is so thoroughly 
 unselfish, and for such I entertain the greatest ad- 
 miration and respect, admiration for such abil- 
 ity as he has shown, respect for his sterling integ- 
 rity and goodness. 
 
 I feel thankful, with others, to have been asso- 
 ciated with such a man as an employer, such a 
 true man. He has erected his own monument in 
 my memory. May his blessing rest with his pos- 
 terity, and with us forevermore. 
 
 REMARKS OF HON. F. M. RAY, 
 Formerly Judge of Municipal Court. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : Perhaps the evidence that I can 
 give on this occasion will be of a cumulative na- 
 ture. I have lived all my life in the vicinity of 
 this village. I remember it before it was a vil- 
 lage. I remember it when the paper industry was 
 first planted here. I remember it in the early 
 years of Mr. Warren's administration, and to 
 gratify my own curiosity I looked a few years ago
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 59 
 
 at the valuation books of the town, and I found 
 that in the year 1855 the tax paid by Messrs. 
 Grant & Warren was a little in excess of $300. 
 For several years past it has amounted to thirty 
 per cent, of the entire tax of the town, and all this 
 business, gigantic now, has grown up under the 
 business management, the superior tact and skill, 
 of Mr. Warren. I had prepared something to say, 
 on paper. Others have said it, or at least all the 
 sentiments that had come to me I find were the 
 sentiments of the community. And why should 
 they not be ? As a citizen of the town, I, with 
 others, feel that the sorrow which calls us to- 
 gether here is a common one. Words of eulogy 
 spoken in the presence of those whose sorrows 
 are fresh may not always be just, however sincere 
 they may be at the moment of utterance. 
 
 In the awful presence of death a discriminating 
 analysis of the character of the deceased is not to 
 be expected. The sad event which calls us to- 
 gether on this occasion, however, is in my own 
 experience, at least, an exceptional one. There is 
 no danger that the words of praise that we shall 
 speak here will be extravagant or unmerited. We 
 say truthfully, a good man has gone, and in his 
 death the world has sustained an irreparable loss. 
 The much that might be said here of his early
 
 60 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 struggles and of his later triumphs will be more 
 appropriately said elsewhere, and by other lips. 
 The sorrow which I voice is the common sorrow 
 of this large community, made large because his 
 energy and enterprise planted it, and because with 
 a generous hand he fostered it. On all sides we 
 behold the evidences of those business traits and 
 characteristics which went to make up his well- 
 rounded and perfect manhood. Not only the great 
 manufacturing establishment from which the life 
 of the village springs, but public structures about 
 us are the results of his munificence and of his 
 large and comprehensive enterprise as a business 
 man. He was rich. For years the fact that he 
 was a rich man has been uppermost in our minds 
 when we have mentioned him. But his wealth 
 was of his own acquiring. He illustrated with his 
 life the possibilities that are open to every willing 
 and industrious boy in our land. And from first 
 to last he remained democratic in the true sense 
 of the word. When he entered the counting- 
 room in Boston, more than half a century ago, he 
 brought from his rural home a high moral stand- 
 ard. That standard he never debased to a lower 
 level, to adapt it to the wants and wishes of others, 
 but he always strove to bring others up to it. He 
 believed in the church, not simply because it pre-
 
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 pares us for that future state of existence in which 
 he with the rest of us devoutly believed, but be- 
 cause he regarded it as an educator. And he 
 believed, too, in the common schools, and though 
 for years he has been paying more taxes than any 
 man in town, his influence has always been in the 
 line of liberal expenditure that the children of this 
 town might sit in school-houses which the poten- 
 tates of the old world would regard as palaces. 
 He was trained in the counting-room. At the age 
 when the boys and girls of this village are in the 
 schools, he was doing the hard labor of an office- 
 boy ; but education is not derived from books 
 alone, but from natural intelligence enlightened 
 by observation as well. His culture was broad, 
 and that he had taste of a high order is apparent 
 in the liberal outlay he made in beautifying this 
 village. And as a result of this the standard of 
 the town in that regard has been elevated. Be- 
 cause this liberal-minded and far-seeing business 
 man found in the waters of the Presumpscot the 
 motive power that he sought, the uncouth saw- 
 mill has disappeared, and in its place more noble 
 structures have been erected. Blessed is the man 
 who brings no regret to the living till the hour 
 of his death. We bless his memory because liv- 
 ing his life was a blessing to others, because hav-
 
 62 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 ing wealth he used it with discreet generosity. It 
 is the office of cant to affect contempt for the 
 things of this world. To-day we honor a man who 
 made his life illustrious by right living. Living 
 well, he died well. Let us perpetuate his memory 
 by emulating, so far as our circumstances will 
 enable us, his noble example. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. R. H. BLANCHARD. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I feel it to be a privilege we all 
 have, at this time, of giving expression to our 
 grief at the loss of him who has done so much for 
 us in this place and community, and whose death 
 we now so deeply mourn. 
 
 While I find it impossible for me to express my- 
 self as I desire, yet I can say, the words that have 
 been spoken are also the sentiments of my own 
 heart. Truly a great and good man has gone, but 
 while he has been taken from the scenes of earth, 
 and while those who loved him will see him no 
 more in bodily form, yet his spirit and his works 
 are still with us. 
 
 I thank God to-day for his noble manhood, his 
 benevolent spirit, and above all, his Christian char- 
 acter and influence. My prayer is that his life 
 and character may be an incentive to me, to all 
 the young men of Cumberland Mills, and to those
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 63 
 
 who knew him best, in striving to reach a higher 
 and nobler state of living. 
 
 " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. 
 . . . Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from 
 their labors ; and their works do follow them." 
 
 REMARKS OF MR, WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 I WILL say, Mr. Chairman, that I have no written 
 address to make. I have been here eighteen 
 years, and it has been my pleasure to meet Mr. 
 Warren many times. He always impressed me as 
 a man of very high quality. I do not think he 
 was what we would term a money-getter for the 
 sake of money-getting. I think money-making 
 was only a side issue with him ; he accumulated 
 wealth in order to do good with it. He believed 
 that everything was ruled by a divine Providence. 
 He considered himself a means, in the hands of 
 that Providence, of doing the useful work which 
 he has done. 
 
 No words that I can offer can be too high in 
 praise of a man of his character. I think he, in 
 recognizing his station, filled it as well as he could ; 
 and the best tribute I can pay him is, God made 
 no mistake when he placed in the hands of Mr. 
 Warren the trust he so nobly fulfilled.
 
 64 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. WM. P. VARNUM. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : I feel that I can say 
 to you but little that will express my feelings on 
 this occasion, as I have come wholly unprepared to 
 do so. It is safe to say there is no one present 
 but who has at some time lost a friend. 
 
 It has been my experience since being with 
 you to have passed through deep sorrow, and to 
 have lost from my home a friend who was dear 
 to me. To-day we meet because we have lost 
 one who was dear to us all. "While we think of 
 these losses which have been of a personal nature, 
 and which we have deeply mourned, we must not 
 overlook the fact that we have now lost one of 
 the best friends we ever had in this world, Mr. 
 Warren. 
 
 But his friendship does not stop with death ; I 
 believe the influence of it will continue many, 
 many years. I think all that St. Paul could say 
 in regard to his own life can be truly said of our 
 employer : " I have fought a good fight, I have 
 finished my course, I have kept the faith : hence- 
 forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous- 
 ness." 
 
 As I said, I cannot express to you my feelings. 
 I feel that enough cannot be said in praise of him 
 who has gone.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 65 
 
 It was my privilege to be on the train with those 
 who were delegated to attend the funeral at Bos- 
 ton, and as Mr. Holston had spoken of the floral 
 tribute, I asked him, on our arrival at Portland, if 
 I could see it if I should go over to the other 
 depot. He said he thought I could ; and I walked 
 across the city for that purpose. I felt well repaid 
 for so doing. I have never seen a finer thing in all 
 my life. In fact I have never seen, grouped to- 
 gether, so many beautiful flowers as were there. 
 It was a piece called " The Gates Ajar." It was, 
 I should judge, about three feet in height, or 
 about as high as the tops of these pews. There 
 was an arch at the top covering the whole, and in 
 the centre were two small gates, made of the 
 whitest and purest flowers. In the centre of each 
 gate was a panel made of darker flowers, and all 
 around the border were some of the most delicate 
 white roses I had ever seen. On the arch and base 
 there appeared, in darker flowers, the inscription, 
 " Our Employer." 
 
 I thought how tender and appropriate a token 
 that was to be sent by the employees of these 
 mills, and I also thought, as I looked upon it, how 
 truly it could be said that the gates were ajar for 
 him, and that he has passed not only gates ajar, 
 but gates wide open, the beautiful pearly gates
 
 66 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 of glory, where he is to reign forever and ever 
 with our Saviour. 
 
 I will not detain you further, but will say that 
 the memory of Mr. Warren will always be fresh 
 in my mind ; and I think his name will, in future 
 years, live as a bright jewel in the history of our 
 commonwealth. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. JOHN HINRICHSEN, 
 In behalf of the Danish People. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : We have met here 
 to-day in honor of Mr. S. D. Warren, whom we re- 
 spect for his kindness to us as a people. 
 
 Coming from another country, without friends, 
 we found in him one who was a good friend to us, 
 in every way. He was ever ready to help his em- 
 ployees, and we feel thankful to him for what he 
 has done for us, the Danish people. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. M. CLOUDMAN. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : Owing to the late- 
 ness of the hour, and feeling my inability to add 
 anything to what has already been said, I will de- 
 tain you but a moment or two by any remarks I 
 may make. 
 
 At this hour in Boston, appropriate services are 
 being held over the remains of our late employer,
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 67 
 
 and it seems fitting that we assemble here at this 
 time, and show by this act of ours the high esteem 
 in which we held him. 
 
 We all loved him ; we all respected him. We 
 are all deeply indebted to him for his kindness and 
 generosity. I feel that we have indeed lost a 
 friend. A great and good man has gone from us. 
 May Heaven give him the blessing and reward 
 which he so justly deserves. 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 A FEW more years shall roll, 
 
 A few more seasons come, 
 And we shall be with those that rest 
 
 Asleep within the tomb ; 
 
 A few more storms shall beat 
 
 On this wild rocky shore, 
 And we shall be where tempests cease, 
 
 And surges swell no more ; 
 
 A few more struggles here, 
 
 A few more partings o'er, 
 A few more toils, a few more tears, 
 
 And we shall weep no more ; 
 
 Then, O my Lord, prepare 
 
 My soul for that blest day ; 
 Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood, 
 
 And take my sins away.
 
 68 SAMUEL DENNIS WAEREN. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. H. HUNT. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I do not feel like attempting to 
 say anything before this audience, as I can add but 
 little to what has already been said. 
 
 S. D. "Warren has done a great deal for this com- 
 munity. He has done much for me personally as 
 well. I have been here about twenty years, and 
 can say that during that time I have never seen 
 a man who has in any way been ill-treated at his 
 hands. That is something that cannot be said of 
 many men situated as was Mr. Warren. 
 
 I am glad to see that all others who have 
 touched upon the subject agree with me that Mr. 
 Warren was a friend. If a stranger should go 
 through this village to-day, and some one should 
 describe to him its condition in 1853, and say to 
 him, " Do you not think we, as a people, have 
 great cause to mourn ? " I think his answer would 
 be, " You have indeed lost a friend, and one whose 
 equal you are not likely soon to find." 
 
 It will not be long before we too shall be called 
 to leave this world. We do not know who may 
 be the next to go. If, when my turn comes, I can 
 feel that I have done my duty one half as well as 
 Mr. Warren did, or even one tenth as well, I shall 
 certainly be happy.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 69 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. F. BROWN. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : It seems almost out of place for 
 ine to attempt to add to the words already spoken. 
 I have been in the employ of S. D. Warren nearly 
 twenty-one years. He has always been a friend 
 to me, and it has always been a pleasure to see his 
 genial face and hear his pleasant words. 
 
 It makes me feel sad to think we shall see him 
 no more. He has been a faithful steward. He 
 has rightly used the talents which were given him ; 
 and for him are the welcome words, " Well done, 
 good and faithful servant : . . . enter thou into the 
 joy of thy Lord." 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. C. GRAHAM. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : Though I feel in- 
 capable of making any lengthy remarks before 
 such a large audience, I think it my duty to say a 
 few words to show my respect for that noble- 
 hearted man, S. D. Warren. I have known him 
 since 1856, at which time I first came to Cumber- 
 land Mills, and he has always shown himself to be 
 a friend to every one who worked for him. I may 
 say that he was more like a father to us than a 
 mere friend. We soldier boys used to sing and
 
 70 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 speak of " Father Abraham," and we had for Abra- 
 ham Lincoln that reverence and respect which 
 sons should have for a father ; but I think the 
 love and respect the people of Cumberland Mills 
 had for Mr. Warren were just as strong and last- 
 ing. Mr. Warren was always ready to give a 
 kind word or a pleasant smile, whenever he came 
 among us. I remember how, one day in 1861, 
 just after I had enlisted, and was about to join 
 the army, he stood near the old covered bridge 
 above the mills, as I passed, and called to me. I 
 crossed the roadway to where he was, somewhat 
 surprised that he should speak to me, a mere 
 boy. He said that he understood that I was going 
 to the war. I answered, " Yes, sir." " Well," said 
 he, " do your duty." He said much more, and gave 
 me good advice, but that sentence remains in my 
 memory. It has had an influence for good in my 
 life that I can hardly measure. 
 
 After leaving the army, I went West to work at 
 my trade, which was, as you all know, paper-mak- 
 ing. In looking for work, I found that if I men- 
 tioned that I had worked for S. D. Warren, I was 
 asked no more questions ; having worked five years 
 for him was recommendation enough. 
 
 I have very feebly expressed what I wished to 
 say. I think every man in this audience should

 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 71 
 
 say a few words, at least, to show the respect for 
 him which I know they all feel. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. NATHAN WIGHT. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : My heart was saddened upon 
 hearing of the death of Mr. Warren. The thought 
 that so noble and good a man has been taken from 
 us, one who had done so much for this and other 
 places, is enough to sadden the hearts of the whole 
 community. 
 
 I desire at this time to say a few words in re- 
 gard to the character of Mr. Warren. I do not 
 think it possible to utter words that will speak too 
 highly in his praise. He was at the same time a 
 business man and philanthropist. He built this 
 vast manufactory, around which has grown our 
 beautiful village. We can truly say that in all 
 these years he has been a great friend to his work- 
 men. He will be missed not only here in this 
 community and State, but, I believe, also in the 
 whole United States, and, I might say, in all the 
 world. 
 
 Although we mourn his death, we feel that he 
 has passed to a better land. We should all try and 
 live such a life that, when we shall be taken away, 
 we shall meet this dear friend where death shall 
 never, never come.
 
 72 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. P. S. GRAHAM. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I can add nothing to what has 
 been said, yet I desire to offer, with others, my 
 humble tribute of respect to the memory of him. 
 whose death we mourn. It is often remarked that 
 all the good things concerning a man are said after 
 he is dead and gone. This is not true of the man 
 whom we mourn to-day. I have never heard him 
 spoken of except in terms of highest praise ; and 
 as I look back over the thirty years I have known 
 him, it seems almost like a dream. Though he 
 will be remembered by the works he has left be- 
 hind, yet we shall think of him most kindly for the 
 interest he took in our personal welfare, the 
 sympathetic words and pleasant smiles. It was 
 for these that we looked forward to his coming 
 with pleasant expectancy. 
 
 I know it is impossible for us to fully express 
 our feelings, but it seems to me the simple fact of 
 this gathering here this afternoon speaks louder 
 than words, and is more eloquent than any eulogy 
 that can be given. We are not here as a mere 
 matter of formality, but from a common impulse, 
 sincerely feeling that we as a people have suffered 
 a great loss. We trust that our loss will be his 
 gain.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 73 
 
 Let us live to emulate his virtues, that we, like 
 him, may be remembered for what we have done. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. I. D. LEIGHTON. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : I feel that all has been said that 
 can be said. I cannot find words to express my- 
 self on this occasion. 
 
 I have been here a great many years. I came 
 here when a boy, and was brought up under Mr. 
 Warren's management. I can say that he was al- 
 ways warmly greeted by the operatives. Every 
 one was glad to see him. His face was never 
 clouded, but with a nod of the head, a pleasant 
 smile, or some happy manner of greeting the men, 
 he gave them to understand that he had an in- 
 terest in them. 
 
 All that I could say further has already been 
 said. I am glad to attest that our employer was 
 a noble man, a man worthy the praise that has 
 been given him. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. C. M. BANCROFT. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN : While 
 I have been listening to the remarks of others, I 
 have recalled the time when the news flashed over 
 the wires that our noble President had been shot
 
 74 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 by the assassin Booth. Well do I remember the 
 time ; what deep sorrow the people felt, how they 
 mourned and grieved at the sad news ! Then in 
 later years, when another President, James A. Gar- 
 field, lay sick unto death from an assassin's bullet, 
 how many prayers were offered to God that He 
 would stay the hand of Death ! Yet the prayers 
 were not answered. Many said the reason was 
 that God's will was otherwise. But be that as 
 it may, earnest prayers have for months been 
 ascending to God, from many hearts, for the res- 
 toration to health of our employer. Yet it pleased 
 the Divine Ruler to allow Death to remove one 
 who was a noble man. 
 
 I have been employed in the mills nearly six 
 years. I can say that I feel the loss, though not 
 perhaps as keenly as others who have known him 
 longer. 
 
 A noble man has fallen ; may his memory be 
 perpetuated ! I would second the suggestion of 
 Mr. Clark, that a memorial monument be erected 
 in front of the Hall at Cumberland Mills. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. W. G. OILMAN. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN AND FRIENDS : I will not attempt 
 to add anything to what has been said, as I am 
 wholly unable to express my feelings. I have not
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 75 
 
 perhaps so much reason to mourn the loss of our 
 friend as a great many who have been here longer 
 than I, and who have enjoyed the privileges of the 
 place, the schools, the church, and the mills. But I 
 learned to love and respect Mr. Warren even be- 
 fore I saw him, and I can well remember the first 
 time I was favored with a sight of him. I think 
 all in his employ would say here to-day, if they 
 had an opportunity, that they loved him, and were 
 filled with joy whenever he came. We always ex- 
 pected him to come through the mills, and I used 
 to look for him in my room. If it was my " tour 
 on " in the morning, I would begin early to look 
 for him. I was seldom disappointed, for he gen- 
 erally came, and with a kind and cheerful look 
 upon his face. 
 
 We have lost not only a benefactor, but one who 
 was almost a father to us. I shall teach my chil- 
 dren to love and respect his name. I was asked 
 this very day if I thought there would be any 
 change in the business here on account of liis 
 death. I replied, " Perhaps not ; but in S. D. 
 Warren's removal Cumberland Mills has lost its 
 best friend."
 
 76 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 REMARKS OF MR. JAMES McQLELLAN. 
 
 MR. CHAIRMAN : With due respect to the memory 
 of Mr. S. D. Warren, I consider it my duty to ex- 
 press, briefly, my feelings on this sad and event- 
 ful occasion. 
 
 We all know that he was looked upon with 
 great respect and esteem by his employees and 
 by all who knew him. In all the years I have 
 known him, I have never heard a disrespectful 
 word concerning him, but many a good word have 
 I heard in his behalf. 
 
 It has always been conceded that he had the 
 interest of his employees at heart. He was ever 
 ready to listen to their requests, never refusing to 
 aid them if it was in his power to do so. The 
 feeling always prevailed that he could be trusted : 
 straightforward, honest in his purpose, a good 
 employer, a true friend, a generous giver in all 
 Christian enterprises ; in fact, a man in every sense 
 of the word. It was those good qualities in his 
 character that cemented our mutual interests so 
 strongly together. 
 
 Love and kindness are the strongest ties that 
 unite the human family. Such ties can never be 
 unloosed so long as we observe the golden rule, to 
 do unto others as we would have others do to us.
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES. 77 
 
 This, I believe, was his motto, which should also 
 be the motto of every man. 
 
 His death is only another example of the un- 
 certainty of life ; that in the midst of life we are 
 also in death. 
 
 But few could be better prepared, for he was 
 upright in his dealings, genial in manners, and 
 Christian in spirit. He has doubtless gone to a 
 better country, where he will receive the rich re- 
 ward of a well-spent life. And while his loss will 
 depress us, we hope that whoever receives the 
 mantle of responsibility may also be endowed with 
 wisdom, so that all things will move on in the 
 peaceful manner in which he left them. 
 
 While we deeply sympathize with the members 
 of his beloved family in the great loss they have 
 sustained, we earnestly hope the blessing of Heaven 
 will cheer and comfort them in this their sad hour 
 of bereavement. 
 
 Thus may his exemplary life be a lesson to all 
 of us, that our lives may be such a benefit to 
 humanity that there will be mourning and lamen- 
 tation on earth, and rejoicing among the angels of, 
 heaven, when we pass over to the land of delight 
 from whence no traveller ever returns.
 
 78 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE SERVICES. 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His 
 inscrutable wisdom, to remove from us our em- 
 ployer and friend, Samuel Dennis Warren ; 
 
 And whereas, We, employees of S. D. Warren 
 & Co., and residents of this village, are met to- 
 gether to express our sorrow at the loss of him 
 who for nearly forty years has been our benefac- 
 tor, and to honor his memory: Therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That while we deplore the removal of 
 him whom we have all learned to revere and love, 
 we recognize the hand of a God who doeth all 
 things well, and humbly submit to His will. 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Warren his 
 employees in this place and elsewhere, and this 
 whole community, have lost a friend whose place 
 in their hearts can never be filled. 
 
 Resolved, That we recall with admiration the in- 
 fluence and supremacy of his talents in the com- 
 mercial world ; that we record as worthy of per- 
 petual remembrance the sterling integrity of his 
 character, the generosity of his impulses, and the 
 esteem in which he was held by all. 
 
 Resolved, That we express our deep sense of the 
 noble Christian character and many charitable 
 traits of Mr. Warren, both in his dealings with his
 
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 employees, and in all his relations throughout a 
 long and well-spent life. 
 
 Resolved, That we express our heartfelt sym- 
 pathy for the family of our departed friend, and 
 pray that the Great Father, who has supported 
 him during his long life of honor and usefulness, 
 may be their Guide, Comforter, and Friend in this 
 their great bereavement. 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 H. A. CRAIGIE, 
 C. R. GOODELL, 
 C. A. MOSES. 
 Committee on Resolutions. 
 
 HYMN ANTHEM. 
 
 WE bless Thee for Thy peace, O God, 
 
 Deep as the soundless sea, 
 Which falls like sunshine on the road 
 
 Of those who trust in Thee ; 
 
 That peace which suffers and is strong, 
 
 Trusts where it cannot see, 
 Deems not the trial way too long, 
 
 But leaves the end with Thee ; 
 
 That peace which flows serene and deep, 
 
 A river in the soul, 
 Whose banks a living verdure keep, 
 
 God's sunshine o'er the whole.
 
 80 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Such, Father, give our hearts such peace, 
 Whate'er the outward be, 
 
 Till all life's discipline shall cease, 
 And we go home to Thee. 
 
 PRAYER AND BENEDICTION BY REV. Q. H. SHINN, 
 Pastor Universalist Church, Saccarappa. 
 
 THOU whose love and mercy enfold all Thy 
 children, we desire to recognize Thee always, amid 
 the bereavements and sorrows of life as well as in 
 the time of joy, as the one great Fountain from 
 whence flow all the blessings and all the consola- 
 tions of life ! 
 
 May this people, whose lives have been im- 
 proved, uplifted, encouraged, and strengthened, 
 whose homes have been blessed, by the indus- 
 try, the exertions, and the generosity of the one 
 whom Thou hast taken from earth, by remem- 
 bering his example and by cherishing the influ- 
 ences of his life, strive to emulate all the virtues 
 to which he gave expression in the noble, faithful 
 life he lived. 
 
 May Thy richest blessing and the consolation of 
 Thy great love come to all who mourn to-day, to 
 the kindred, and to those of his household who 
 stood so near his heart, and who were a part of his 
 life ; may they be sustained in this hour of be- 
 reavement.
 
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 May Thy blessing and benediction come to all 
 this people ; and as they remember how his life 
 has contributed to the material prosperity of this 
 community and to the moral welfare of this place, 
 may they show appreciation of what his life has 
 been to them by living better and nobler lives 
 henceforth. 
 
 And now may the peace of God, which passeth 
 understanding, keep your minds and hearts for 
 evermore. Amen. 
 
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 LATER CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 FROM MR. JAMES GRAHAM. 
 
 As I look back over the past thirty-three years 
 since I first came to Cumberland Mills, a perfect 
 stranger, and entered the employ of Grant, War- 
 ren & Company, which was then the name of 
 the firm, and as I think of the many excel- 
 lences in the life and character of our departed 
 friend and employer, Mr. S. D. Warren, I recall 
 many things I might truly mention concerning 
 him and his endearing qualities, but I will call 
 attention to only a few which have most deeply 
 left their impress on my mind. 
 
 Some seven years ago I passed through a season 
 of severe domestic affliction. One day while I was 
 in deepest sorrow, Mr. Warren met me. His ex- 
 pressions of sympathy for me in my trouble, his 
 kind words of comfort and cheer, I can never for- 
 get. How they helped me bear the burden which 
 rested so heavily upon me, and quickened me to 
 new courage and hope for the future !
 
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 Mr. Warren not only had a personal interest in 
 his employees, but he also had in view their gen- 
 eral welfare. An incalculable blessing which one 
 of his early business transactions brought to them 
 was the purchase of the spring of water which has 
 proved to be so abundant and pure. Although 
 the primary object of Mr. Warren was to secure 
 clear water for supplying his customers with uni- 
 form clean white paper at all seasons of the year, 
 yet I believe, in his large foresight, he estimated 
 the value of having pure drinking-water for his 
 employees at the mills. There is no doubt that 
 the general good health of the large number now 
 employed is in a great measure attributable to 
 this constant supply of pure water. 
 
 The relation of Mr. Warren to the interests of 
 the people of the village in regard to their moral 
 and spiritual welfare is evidenced by what he has 
 done for the church and parish which bear his 
 name, by the financial aid which he has so gen- 
 erously bestowed. That Mr. Warren took a special 
 interest in them is shown by his effort to promote 
 the growth of the social element in the church, 
 and among the people generally. After the com- 
 pletion of the church building in 1869, there was 
 a small indebtedness, and the ladies of the society 
 were making an effort, by means of fairs and en-
 
 84 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 tertainments, to raise the amount. During one of 
 those fairs, held on a very stormy evening in 
 March, Mr. Warren was present, and assisted by 
 exhibiting a beautiful automatic Swiss singing- 
 bird, which was a delight to both old and young, 
 and added greatly to the financial success of the 
 evening. On another occasion, a large part of the 
 books, toys, and other things exhibited were pre- 
 sented by him. He was present at the sale, and 
 purchasing the greater part, distributed them 
 among the children. Such acts were characteris- 
 tic of him, and are worthy of imitation. He well 
 knew it was much better for the people to make 
 the effort, and he to assist only, as at all times he 
 was so ready to do. 
 
 I feel constrained to make mention of the rela- 
 tion of Mr. Warren to the Anglo-American re- 
 vision of the Bible. There are probably very few 
 who knew how deeply interested he was in the 
 cause of his dear Master, in promoting the spread 
 of the gospel, and in giving aid and encourage- 
 ment to many of the colleges and institutions of 
 learning. Concerning his interest in the great 
 work of revision, I learned from a conversation I 
 had with him on the subject in 1879, two years 
 before the work of revision was completed. It 
 was at that time I received from him a small book
 
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 which had just been issued by the committee, giv- 
 ing a statement of their progress in the work. I 
 have since learned that the expenses of the Amer- 
 ican committee were paid by voluntary contri- 
 butions, under the direction of a committee of 
 finance consisting of eighteen liberal friends of the 
 cause, of which number Mr. Warren was one. 
 
 " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
 from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they 
 may rest from their labors; for their works fol- 
 low with them." When a good man dies, those 
 who have known him just begin to appreciate his 
 true worth. Those who knew Mr. Warren best 
 loved him best, and will sorrow most. Yet how 
 glad we are that we ever had the honor and bless- 
 ing of his acquaintance and friendship ! Let us 
 cherish his memory, that our own lives may profit 
 by his noble example. His work is done. He has 
 gone to his reward. His wise counsels have been 
 given. His guiding hand has been withdrawn 
 from this great enterprise which he has built. 
 Those who remain will reap the reward of his 
 labors. We will only cherish the hope that they 
 to whom large responsibilities have come may 
 seize the mantle which has fallen from his shoul- 
 ders, and be able to wear it with equal honor and 
 sagacity.
 
 86 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 FROM MR. C. W. MACE. 
 
 MY recollections of what is now Cumberland 
 Mills village extend back to June, 1852, at which 
 time my father moved here for the purpose of tak- 
 ing charge of the paper-mill, then under the man- 
 agement of R. L. L. Day, of Portland. There were 
 no brick structures as now, but only two or three 
 small wooden buildings were necessary for the busi- 
 ness. Although small, the mill was considered a 
 first-class one. It contained three machines, known 
 as the " sixty-eight," the " sixty-two," and the 
 " thirty-six inch." The product was about 3,000 
 pounds per day, and consisted of first quality 
 news, manilla and brown, or wrapping papers. 
 The principal market was Boston, for the finer, 
 and Portland and the surrounding towns for the 
 coarser grades. All of the rags, coal, and other 
 supplies, as well as the manufactured paper, were 
 hauled by a four-horse team, making daily trips to 
 Portland for the purpose. 
 
 The village was known as Congin, and consisted 
 of nine houses and a store on the easterly side of 
 the river, and five houses on the westerly side. 
 Ten of these buildings still remain. Where Seavey 
 and the adjacent streets with their many pleasant 
 homes now are, were then woods where we gath-
 
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 ered beechnuts and shot gray squirrels; where 
 Reservoir Street now is, we hunted rabbits ; where 
 the church and storehouse are, were large corn- 
 fields under the care of Mr. Winslow, who at that 
 time was just beginning the experiment of pack- 
 ing sweet-corn. 
 
 Little did the people of that day think that some 
 of them would live to see almost a city grow up 
 here in their midst, through the efforts of the new 
 proprietor of the mill, Mr. S. D. Warren. When 
 he bought the business a change came over the 
 place : then commenced the rebuilding, remodel- 
 ling, and all the improvements for which the Cum- 
 berland Mills have attained such a world-wide rep- 
 utation. The machines were moved from the base- 
 ment to the first floor, new engines were added, 
 tall chimneys were built, in fact then began the 
 healthy growth which, under the successive super- 
 intendence of Marshal N. Fales, George W. Ham- 
 mond, William L. Longley, and the present agent* 
 John E. Warren, has continued through these 
 years, until as a result there stands one of the 
 largest and best equipped mills in the world, which 
 with ten machines and a full complement of other 
 appliances now produces nearly forty tons of 
 paper daily. The village has kept pace with the 
 mills in rapidity of growth, and contains the homes
 
 88 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 of at least 800 men and women whom the mills 
 employ, and who represent a population of over 
 2,000 people. 
 
 This vast business with its environments is an 
 evidence of the enterprise, the ability, the indom- 
 itable perseverance, of an employer who with all 
 these qualities combined a Christian spirit of gen- 
 erosity and a kindly interest in all who served him. 
 
 FROM ME. WILLIAM H. HOLSTON. 
 
 THE occasion which calls for these testimonials 
 is a sad one. We have united as a large family to 
 pay our tribute of love and respect to one who for 
 many years has been, as it were, the head of this 
 family, and who has now been taken away. Those 
 who have been here longest know best his fatherly 
 traits of goodness and generosity. Some of us 
 have been members of this family for over thirty 
 years. It was a source of satisfaction to Mr. War- 
 ren to feel that his men were contented to remain 
 in his employ. I remember the last time he was 
 here, how he shook hands with one of these older 
 ones, at the same time inquiring how long he had 
 worked in the mills. " Thirty- three years/' was 
 the answer. Mr. Warren turned to his daughter 
 and a lady friend who accompanied her, and ex- 
 claimed, " A long time for one man to work for
 
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 another ! " He passed along, shaking hands and 
 speaking pleasantly, while the beaming faces of 
 the workmen showed their pleasure at his kindly 
 notice. I met him shortly afterward. He re- 
 marked that he had enjoyed his visit very much, 
 and he noticed that all the men seemed glad to 
 see him. I assured him such was the case, and 
 that they wished he would come oftener. He re- 
 plied, " I am glad to have them feel so. I want 
 them to know I am their friend, and willing to aid 
 them in every way I can." We well know Mr. 
 Warren was sincere in what he said. The pleasant 
 homes he has provided for many of his workmen 
 are an evidence of it. In how many ways he has 
 ministered to their comfort and well-being ! 
 
 It was my good fortune to have once lived in a 
 Western town where two brothers of Mr. Warren 
 resided. Occasionally he went West to visit them. 
 The villagers looked forward with pleasure to his 
 coming, for he not only made himself quite at 
 home among them, but took considerable inter- 
 est in their affairs, having more than once given 
 them substantial assistance. Those of us who had 
 the privilege greatly enjoyed his jokes and story- 
 telling. His genial ways will long be remembered 
 there. 
 
 I recall what one of these brothers once told me
 
 90 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 concerning his own early years : how he desired 
 a situation with Grant & Daniell, after Mr. S. D. 
 Warren had been with the firm a year or two, and 
 had received promotion. He asked his brother to 
 intercede for him, which he agreed to do, but said, 
 " If they will give you work, you must take my 
 position, and I will begin again at the bottom, for 
 you are two years older than I, and should be in 
 advance." The brother would not consent to this 
 plan, but went to Wisconsin, and, entering another 
 business, became there an influential citizen. 
 
 Such acts of Mr. Warren show what an exem- 
 plary character he possessed. He was thoroughly 
 unselfish, and believed that others had as much 
 right to prosper as he. He was honorable in every- 
 thing, and led a life which for uprightness, integrity, 
 and all Christian attainments is a worthy pattern 
 for all to follow. 
 
 FROM MR. THOMAS WATSON. 
 
 I DO not know that I can add anything to what 
 has already been said and written in regard to 
 Mr. Warren, but I feel as though I ought to write 
 a word or two in behalf of one who, as our friend, 
 has done so much for us. I have been one of his 
 employees for nineteen years. Although not per- 
 sonally acquainted with him, having only seen
 
 LATER CONTRIBUTIONS. 91 
 
 him from time to time, as he has been here on 
 business, yet I feel that through his death we have 
 lost not only a good man, but a dear friend to us 
 all ; for he was always ready and willing to help 
 us in any way which was for our good and welfare. 
 We have never called on him for help in any way 
 but he has cheerfully given it. His death has cast 
 a gloom over the entire place. He is one who will 
 never be forgotten by any of his employees, for 
 we have too many of his good works around us. 
 I do hope we shall have a monument erected in 
 front of Warren Block, in memory of him who 
 stood by us not only when business was flourish- 
 ing, but when times were hard, when it was al- 
 most impossible to get work elsewhere, on account 
 of other mills being shut down or running on half 
 time. I well remember the winter of 1874-5, when 
 Mr. Warren kept us all at work, while at the same 
 time we were satisfied in our own minds that he 
 was not making a dollar. I hope those whom God 
 has chosen to fill his place may ever follow his 
 example, and may they ever be as prosperous and 
 successful as he.
 
 92 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 FROM MB. ELISHA NEWCOMB, 
 Roadmaster of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway. 
 
 MY acquaintance with Mr. Warren covers a 
 period of over thirty years. My first experience 
 with him in a business way dates back to the time 
 when Mr. Fales was agent of the mill. It was, 
 I think, about the year 1858 that they engaged 
 me to superintend the laying of an aqueduct of 
 logs for supplying the mill with spring-water. The 
 spring being located over a mile away made it 
 necessary to lay the pipe across several farms 
 owned by various individuals. These people, of 
 course, had rights that should be respected ; but 
 the fact that Mr. "Warren had every claim, however 
 exorbitant, satisfactorily adjusted, convinced me 
 that he could and did see both sides of the ques- 
 tion, and by his manly and generous dealing dis- 
 armed all opposition. Thus early in his career at 
 Cumberland Mills did he establish himself in the 
 hearts of the people as a man worthy of all honor, 
 as his subsequent acts and dealings most fully 
 demonstrated. 
 
 At that early date there were but a few houses 
 here, hardly enough to be worthy the name of 
 a village. There was at first no apparent enter- 
 prise among the people ; but they quickly received
 
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 an inspiration from Mr. Warren, arousing them to 
 a new life of activity which was soon manifest on 
 every hand. The mill was renovated and enlarged ; 
 a large number of cottages were built for the em- 
 ployees, which, with a rental extremely low, were 
 readily occupied. Individual enterprise felt the 
 new life, and before two years had passed such 
 progress had been made in building and popula- 
 tion that there was good cause for the belief that 
 Cumberland Mills would at no distant day become 
 a large manufacturing community. 
 
 The first matter of importance, outside the mills, 
 in which Mr. Warren figured conspicuously, was 
 the building of a school-house to supplant the old 
 one, which had become entirely inadequate for the 
 accommodation of the scholars. At that time the 
 district system was in vogue, and the taxable prop- 
 erty in the district was holden to pay for the 
 structure. About one half of this expense would 
 therefore fall upon Mr. Warren. Notwithstanding 
 the fact that he was a non-resident and had no 
 children to be educated here, when the question of 
 expense was brought before him, he said without 
 hesitation, " Secure a good location ; put up a sub- 
 stantial building ; plan for the future ; expense is 
 secondary." Furthermore, he gave us his most 
 hearty support and cooperation until we had com-
 
 94 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 pleted the substantial two-story brick school-house, 
 which was by many considered too large and ex- 
 pensive for the place. Time, however, revealed 
 the wisdom of the enterprise. 
 
 In the course of a few years it became evident 
 that we needed a house of worship in the village. 
 Being about a mile from Saccarappa, with no side- 
 walk and poor roads, a very small portion of the 
 people felt inclined to attend the churches there. 
 A large percentage of the children were growing 
 up without the restraining influence of the sanc- 
 tuary, and the Sabbath was held in light esteem. 
 Our situation was a peculiar one. Very few felt 
 the importance of immediate effort. Building a 
 house of worship was considered a problem for the 
 distant future, for the greater number of the oper- 
 atives thought they had all they could do in sup- 
 porting their families. Only a few persons outside 
 their number were able, or felt inclined, to give 
 much aid in such an undertaking. Mr. Warren 
 very readily comprehended the situation, and came 
 to the rescue. He made a proposition in effect 
 that whenever we were ready to build, and would 
 raise $5,000, he would give a sum equal to that 
 amount, together with any lot which might be 
 selected in the village for the building, Such a 
 generous offer could not go unheeded, without a
 
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 corresponding effort on our part. So we entered 
 upon the work with new courage and zeal, and 
 soon succeeded in raising the amount required. 
 We selected the lot, Mr. Warren bought it, as he 
 had promised, and in due time our house was com- 
 pleted. In the mean while the "Ladies' Sewing 
 Circle" had been hard at work raising funds to be 
 used in furnishing the church. Again Mr. Warren 
 entered the race, with the magnanimous proposi- 
 tion that he would put a dollar by the side of every 
 dollar the ladies could raise for that purpose, until 
 the church should be thoroughly furnished and 
 complete. This promise was wholly fulfilled in the 
 spirit and to the letter. The wisdom of the course 
 which he adopted was at once apparent. The peo- 
 ple were set at work, and in such a way that they 
 felt it to be their own and for their own good. 
 
 The same beneficent policy has been continued 
 through all these years, and the result is manifest 
 on every hand, not only in the stately mills, the 
 beautiful residences, and public hall, but also in 
 the character of the people. Most truly can he 
 be called our benefactor. He was not one of those 
 who sound a trumpet to attract attention ; but in 
 the spirit of Christ his ear was alert to hear, his 
 heart responsive and sympathetic, and his hands 
 were willing servants in bestowing all needful help
 
 96 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 to the unfortunate or distressed. Those who knew 
 him best loved him most. I esteemed him as one 
 of my best friends, and his name will ever have a 
 sacred place in my memory.
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 
 
 BY KEV. EDGAR M. COUSINS. 
 
 Delivered May 20, 1888, the Sunday following the Memorial 
 
 Services. 
 
 " But Ms bow abode in strength." GEN. xlix. 24. 
 
 IN another pulpit to-day, and probably at this 
 hour, a Christian pastor stands to pay his tribute 
 to the memory of one who for seventeen years 
 has been to him a sympathizing friend, a wise 
 counsellor, a generous supporter in every good 
 work. 
 
 That pastor is permitted to speak to a Christian 
 church of which this loved parishioner was one of 
 the founders, and for forty-six years has continued 
 a strong and honored member. 
 
 Under these circumstances there might seem 
 everything to inspire the speaker and to prepare 
 the hearers for a message worthy, in some degree 
 at least, the memory of the man who has been 
 taken from earth.
 
 98 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 In the presence of this fact it might seem like 
 presumption for another to attempt to add to the 
 tribute which we may believe shall be so tender 
 and discriminating, so worthy the sad event which 
 calls it forth. Still the relations which Mr. War- 
 ren sustained to this church and congregation 
 and community are of so peculiar and unusual a 
 nature that it has seemed not inappropriate that 
 your pastor, in his own and in your behalf, should 
 add, as he may be able, to the words which have 
 already been so well spoken in this place, and 
 which may be uttered elsewhere. 
 
 When the aged Jacob calls his sons about him 
 for his dying blessing, with prophetic insight and 
 discrimination he dwells upon the characteristics 
 of each, and speaks the wise words of warning 
 and encouragement that come to him. As he ad- 
 dresses Joseph, the father remembers that this one 
 has passed through experiences both of adversity 
 and of prosperity more trying than any or all 
 of the others, and that in every position he has 
 preserved an integrity honorable alike to himself 
 and to the Lord Jehovah whom he served. The 
 dying patriarch describes this noble characteristic 
 of his favorite and most successful son in the brief 
 but striking summary read as a text, "But his 
 bow abode in strength."
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 99 
 
 The figure is that Scriptural one of the bow as 
 the symbol of that power of high purpose and 
 achievement which is the crowning attribute of 
 man as distinguished from the rest of our heav- 
 enly Father's earthly creation. The bow abiding 
 in strength brings the thought of that high pur- 
 pose carried resolutely and unswervingly onward, 
 its elasticity and force unimpaired by the flight of 
 time or the changes of circumstances. As applied 
 to Joseph, his father's utterance must have meant 
 that during all his life he had retained those early 
 traits which had been the joy and pride of his 
 fond parent ; that the opposition and injustice of 
 enemies, the discouragements of adversity, the 
 temptations of prosperity, or the false or mis- 
 taken course of friends had failed to warp, or 
 break, or impair the strength of that early pur- 
 pose and high endeavor. 
 
 And it seems to me, friends, that this sum- 
 mary of character may not inappropriately be ap- 
 plied to him whom we mourn to-day. His was 
 the bow of manly strength and Christian char- 
 acter, continuing unimpaired, elastic, vigorous, 
 through an onward growth of usefulness and 
 success. 
 
 I ask you, then, to consider some of the ele-
 
 100 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 merits of abiding strength which marked the life 
 of this good man. 
 
 1. And first, I may say he was strong to labor. 
 
 From his rural home he brought to his business 
 life a physical sturdiness and stamina which may 
 safely be said to be the basis of his achievement. 
 His capital, as he entered upon the business to 
 which he gave his life, was laying aside for the 
 moment his moral and spiritual qualifications his 
 capacity for labor, physical and intellectual. And 
 well he guarded that it might not be taken from 
 him, but might rather be developed to its fullest 
 power, that he and all others who had to do with 
 him might realize the extent and worth of this 
 possession. It is a form of capital and endow- 
 ment more valuable than all others to the young 
 man starting in life, and it is the capital that is 
 most neglected and most often squandered. Given 
 to the young man two hands and a brain to direct, 
 let him understand that these are to be the foun- 
 dation of all that he may expect to be in this 
 world, and we might hope to find those hands 
 trained to be as skilful, as strong, as enduring, as 
 possible ; we might hope that that brain would 
 be kept as active, as ready, as wise, as possible, 
 that head and hands together might make a 
 strong and valuable combination for their master ;
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 101 
 
 we might hope that the wise young man or boy 
 would avoid those careless or indifferent methods 
 of labor which rob the laborer of his skill and 
 usefulness, that he would avoid those courses 
 of recreation and dissipation which should reduce 
 the power of hand or brain, as well as those as- 
 sociations which only leave him weakened and 
 enervated for his tasks. He would avoid these 
 things as carefully as he would shun the presence 
 and power of any body of men, if his business 
 capital were in gold and silver, and he knew that 
 those men were banded together, plotting by all 
 means to plunder him of his treasures. 
 
 This young man made no mistake in this 
 direction. He was faithful in the use of what 
 he had, when his possession was simply health 
 and strength. He preserved the one, and gained 
 a good percentage of interest by his investment 
 of the other. With all the faithful men that he 
 had in his employ, and whom he himself hon- 
 ored, no man ever worked harder for him than he 
 worked for himself. It is the testimony of those 
 who know, that no man in his office labored so 
 many hours, and no man was more capable of such 
 labor, and of bearing the long-continued strain that 
 comes at times to the business man. 
 
 A gentleman said to me within a few days,
 
 102 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 " Yes, Mr. Warren has been very fortunate. He 
 entered upon his business at a time when there 
 was a growing demand for his products and very 
 little competition." Granting all that fortunate 
 circumstance and occasion may have done, recog- 
 nizing fully that the blessing of the Lord has 
 rested richly upon all that he has put his hand 
 to, let it still be borne in mind, and held before 
 the minds of the young and the ambitious, that 
 without the strength and power of continuous abid- 
 ing labor, no circumstance, or, it may be said rev- 
 erently, no blessing of the Lord, could have given 
 the success and honor that we consider to-day. 
 
 2. But further, this man was strong to plan 
 and to execute. In this respect he stood forth 
 among his fellow-men. This great business that 
 has grown up under his administration is the 
 proof of his ability in this direction, and shows 
 the possession of qualities which give to him an 
 honorable place among the leaders of men. 
 
 The same strength turned in other directions 
 would have brought him to the front and distin- 
 guished him above the mass of his fellows. In 
 this he may not be so much an example to men 
 of less ability as in respect of the power of labor 
 and application, but we honor him as one who, 
 in the use of his talents, found himself endowed
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 103 
 
 highly, and who humbly and wisely accepted and 
 used what had been committed to him. 
 
 3. Again we may say that Mr. Warren was 
 strong in holding before himself the high ideals 
 with which he had entered upon his career. 
 
 Coming of Puritan ancestry, early led to take 
 his stand as a professed follower of the Lord Jesus, 
 thus he may safely be said to have received the 
 godly instruction and to have formed the ideals 
 of life which made his course so uniform and con- 
 tinuous in its development and growing influence. 
 This it was that kept him as a boy and young 
 man amid the temptations of the city, and saved 
 him from the things that weaken hand and head, 
 and bring disaster upon the many that suffer ship- 
 wreck in every centre where business attracts the 
 masses" of men. 
 
 His may be said to be the honorable outgrowth 
 of that Puritan soil from which he sprung. This 
 word Puritan is not used in the narrow, hard, re- 
 strictive sense in which some like to use it, because 
 in that sense it would not have an application to 
 him whom we are considering, but in the true 
 sense of the term ; in the sense in which Puritan 
 seed and training and character have given New 
 England her preeminence, not only over the rest 
 of our own country, but over the remainder of the
 
 104 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 world ; in that sense which, on account of the Pu- 
 ritan presence, makes Massachusetts what she is 
 in history, character, and influence ; in that sense 
 in which Puritan means fearing God, loving one's 
 country, respecting the rights and opinions of 
 others, strong to labor, to plan, to execute, ac- 
 cepting responsibility as from the Lord, and gen- 
 erous in the use of the gifts bestowed as a reward 
 for such character and faithfulness : in that sense 
 of the word, this man may be taken as a notable 
 outgrowth of Puritan soil and culture and oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 Perhaps in no one way does strength of char- 
 acter show itself more than in meeting the tempta- 
 tions which wealth brings, especially when wealth 
 has been acquired by the gradual, persistent effort 
 of its possessor. One danger is that the possessor 
 shall become absorbed in its acquirement ; another 
 is that, seeing it come as the direct result of his 
 own endeavor, he shall forget his responsibility in 
 its use, shall feel that he has only to consult his 
 own personal desires or selfish ends in its disposal. 
 
 Nor is this an imaginary danger. We see its 
 triumph too often. The foundations of worldly 
 success are laid with Christian principles and a 
 regard for the rights and welfare of others, be- 
 cause as a rule these things must be among the
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 105 
 
 foundation stones of any successful career. But 
 as cares increase and as success appears, how often 
 do there come temptations which change the high 
 ideal ! The bow does not abide in strength. The 
 strength of noble principles and generous impulse 
 is weakened, and the world is little, if at all, bene- 
 fited by the great accumulations which have come 
 to the control of its successful ones. Not so in 
 the case of him whom we honor. Great wealth 
 did not make him worldly or unmindful of the 
 source of all his prosperity. He possessed an 
 abiding sense of the responsibility which his pros- 
 perity had brought with it. He considered him- 
 self a steward, and tried, as we may well believe, 
 to make a conscientious use of his stewardship. 
 Not only his acts, but his words spoken to friends, 
 bear testimony to this honorable fact. 
 
 4. And this sense of stewardship made him 
 strong and generous in support of every good 
 cause. He gave largely and freely ; and his giv- 
 ing was not simply because he had much that he 
 might give, not simply that he might escape the 
 calls of those who plead in behalf of needy causes. 
 He was willing to listen to applicants, and when 
 worthy gave from a personal interest and heartily 
 as unto the Lord. His manner of giving made a 
 rich gift doubly rich.
 
 106 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 And testimony ought to be borne as to his be- 
 neficent interest in our State of Maine and her in- 
 stitutions. To how great an extent that interest 
 was made manifest by gifts your preacher is not 
 prepared to say, as indeed there may be very few, 
 if any, who can declare the extent of that unos- 
 tentatious benevolence in any direction, but we 
 know of more than one institution of learning in 
 our own State, representing more than one body 
 of Christians, generously aided in time of need by 
 this Christian benefactor. 
 
 And in his own city and commonwealth, he 
 could be counted upon in support of every good 
 cause and effort, while all those regular channels 
 for the spread of the gospel with which we, as a 
 congregation, are familiar, found in him a warm 
 and open-handed supporter. His was that best 
 basis for Christian benevolence, be the amounts 
 large or small, a consideration of the needs and 
 Christian principle in the use of what God has in- 
 trusted to our care. 
 
 5. Another element of strength in him was the 
 strength of his faith in his fellow-men. 
 
 He felt that men could be trusted, and we are 
 told that nothing gave him greater satisfaction 
 than to feel that he was not disappointed in this 
 matter. He had faith in those whom he called to
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 107 
 
 labor for him ; he enjoyed placing responsibility 
 upon them, and then finding them able to bear 
 worthily and successfully what had been so placed. 
 It need not be said in this presence that he did 
 not cast off the faithful servant, or that he did not 
 withhold honor or personal esteem from the man 
 who did his duty. 
 
 But his faith in men was wider than the confi- 
 dence that he could rely upon those in his employ 
 to do their best work in his behalf. He had faith 
 that generous treatment on his part would find 
 generous response and appreciation on the part of 
 those with whom he had to do. All that we see 
 around us, all that distinguishes this village and 
 community in its present standing, or in its indus- 
 trial, social, or moral history, from too many manu- 
 facturing communities, may well be said to be the 
 result of this faith that Mr. Warren cherished, that 
 he could trust the men and women in his employ. 
 
 Let us allow, as he sometimes affirmed, that 
 what he did was done simply from business mo- 
 tives ; there still remains the fact that it requires 
 large faith in men to conduct business according 
 to such methods. It requires a faith that is far too 
 often found wanting in those who control large 
 business interests. The presence of the library, 
 the church, the schools, the halls, the attractive
 
 108 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 tenements, the neat grounds and streets, and the 
 electric lighting, together with the generous inter- 
 est in all town affairs, if these be simply busi- 
 ness matters, we may well pray that more business 
 men may have the strength of business sagacity 
 and faith which shall lead them to give their sup- 
 port to such institutions. 
 
 And, I may say, he had an honest pride in the 
 success of these business methods. As we may be 
 sure nothing would have been more sorely disap- 
 pointing than to have discovered a failure in this 
 respect, so nothing gave a deeper or more contin- 
 uous satisfaction than to know that he possessed 
 the confidence and esteem of those in his employ. 
 This satisfaction must have been deepened for him 
 as he saw amid the industrial disturbances of the 
 past few years so many sad evidences that the 
 bond between employer and employee, under dif- 
 ferent systems, is so brittle and unreliable. 
 
 Call his motive what we may, call it simply 
 business or call it benevolent, call it interested or 
 disinterested, look at what he has done as the out- 
 come of a sagacious mind alone, or of a sagacity 
 prompted by a tender Christian heart, we may 
 still affirm that he was strong in an abiding regard 
 for the welfare of his fellow-men. His great and 
 modest benevolences toward missionary and edu-
 
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 cational objects, whence certainly self-interest must 
 be eliminated as far as possible in any transaction, 
 these gifts go to show that he had a broad and 
 disinterested care for the welfare of his fellow-men, 
 and also to create a strong presumption that his 
 business methods were permeated by the same 
 benevolent spirit. 
 
 Do not understand me to intimate that Mr. War- 
 ren conducted his business as a benevolent institu- 
 tion, in any sense. Some have seemed at times to 
 think that as a good man he must do so, and to be 
 disappointed in some degree to find that there was 
 nothing in his business itself to be bestowed, simply 
 because somebody was poor and needy. No ; the 
 success of his efforts was that he helped those who 
 recognized the identity of their own highest in- 
 terest with faithfulness toward him and his inter- 
 est. The peculiarity of his method was that he 
 thought his own interest so closely bound up with 
 the mental, moral, and spiritual development of 
 the community of which so many persons were in 
 his employ. Under these circumstances, such a 
 spontaneous and heartfelt tribute to his effort and 
 memory as was presented in this room last Mon- 
 day must have been a result most gratifying to 
 him. Whatever may have been his own feeling 
 or the feeling of those most closely connected
 
 110 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 with him as respects the more formal tribute and 
 eulogy, such a demonstration of regard a dem- 
 onstration which, while he lived, could hardly in 
 any way have found expression we may safely 
 conclude was in perfect keeping with the relation 
 which he had aimed to cultivate between himself 
 and those who dwell in the village for which he 
 had done so much. 
 
 And it may be said further, that the abiding 
 strength of such a character has made its impres- 
 sion upon this community. His spirit speaks to 
 us in everything that he has put his hand to here, 
 and speaks in no uncertain or conflicting tones. 
 One message, that is constantly borne to us is, that 
 whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. I 
 am sure it has been an education to any man to 
 work in yonder shops or mills, and to feel that 
 first of all the requirement is thoroughness ; that 
 nothing that is to be done is in any sense to be 
 neglected or slighted. Along with this, perhaps, 
 I may mention a kindred thought that comes to 
 us ; that any work, needing to be done, will wait 
 the time when it can be rightly or well done. 
 
 Strength, and permanence, and the beauty 
 which seems almost inseparable from this method 
 of doing labor, these, as his works have been 
 speaking to us in the past, have shown the char-
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. Ill 
 
 acter of the man ; and whatever other monuments 
 may arise, these will continue to be a noble monu- 
 ment for the future. 
 
 I have said that Mr. Warren rejoiced to learn 
 that his faith in those with 'whom he had to do 
 here was not misplaced. I might add yet more, 
 and that is, that he was gladdened by every evi- 
 dence of growth in the character of this people 
 as a community. As he learned of the young 
 coming up here and showing that they had been 
 benefited by the institutions to which he gave 
 his support, it was a source of deep gratification 
 to him. 
 
 We are to see this good man and generous friend 
 of ours no more. Are not the lessons of his life, 
 and especially the desires that he cherished for us 
 as a community, brought home to us most emphat- 
 ically and solemnly by the sad event which takes 
 him away from earth ? Could we desire anything 
 more for ourselves as a people than that we should 
 seek to develop the seeds which he planted, to per- 
 petuate and make more effective those institutions 
 which he fostered ? Could there be a greater bless- 
 ing to ourselves, or a greater honor to his mem- 
 ory, than to let the influence of his life and aim be 
 continually more manifest through all the life of 
 this community ?
 
 112 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 Apply his thought in our every-day work, and 
 we should still have men seeking to do their work 
 faithfully, doing work that shall be substantial, 
 and shall combine the enduring and the beautiful 
 in one harmonious and attractive whole. These 
 mills and shops will be places where men can still 
 be trusted, and where there will be a mutual confi- 
 dence between employer and employee ; and light 
 shall still shine forth from here upon the great in- 
 dustrial problems that are before our country for 
 settlement. 
 
 So in the care of our village, in making it out- 
 wardly attractive, we shall seek to carry out his 
 thought, and work together to preserve what we 
 already enjoy, and to add as much as possible to 
 the attractions and good name of our community. 
 At the same time we shall not forget that it is 
 character, moral, intellectual, and spiritual, that 
 gives worth to any people. We shall be more 
 careful to foster those institutions to which Mr. 
 Warren, in his wisdom, gave his earnest support, 
 and in the giving of which he may have differed 
 from many who possess some of his opportunities 
 in this direction. 
 
 It is not difficult to apply his strong ideal to 
 these individual institutions. Take the use of the 
 library yonder, a silent but by no means unim-
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 113 
 
 portant factor in the development of the life of 
 this community. The books drawn from those 
 shelves will be those that attract by their worth 
 and add to the strength and beauty of the reader's 
 minds, rather than those that minister to a weak- 
 ened mind or an appetite for the sensational. The 
 right use of what is there provided will make us 
 all stronger and wiser. 
 
 Toward our schools we shall still cherish that 
 liberal policy which shall add to their thoroughness 
 and efficiency, and shall enable them to lay broad 
 foundations and inspire ideals capable of holding 
 our boys and girls against the temptation of turn- 
 ing their backs upon the schoolroom for the labors 
 that shall furnish the more immediate cash return. 
 Our teachers should need no better inspiration 
 than is furnished by what is seen about us, and 
 laboring in material more plastic and yet more 
 
 
 
 enduring than wood or iron, than brick or mortar 
 or stone, should seek to lay the foundations upon 
 which, in every life, may rise the structures where 
 strength and beauty shall stand in symmetrical 
 union to bless their possessor, to attract and cheer 
 in the lives of others. 
 
 So of other associations and institutions of our 
 village : all, either public or private, must be made 
 up in large measure of the men and women who
 
 114 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 have come directly under the influence of the life 
 of him whom we honor and mourn to-day. Every 
 such organization ought to be stronger, purer, 
 more substantial, because of what he has been to 
 us all, and ought to cherish his memory as one of 
 its best legacies toward the attainment of any 
 worthy endeavor. 
 
 If these things be true of other organizations 
 and institutions, how much more true ought they 
 to be of the distinctively Christian organizations 
 here planted, and which bear the honored name 
 Warren Church and Warren Sunday School. 
 His character was entitled to our respect because 
 it was most of all a Christian character. Other 
 men have had his opportunities, but have failed 
 of his results because they have lacked a sense of 
 responsibility to God in the use of possessions 
 and opportunities. This one did not fail, and if, 
 as a body and as individual members of Warren 
 Church, we, in our humbler spheres, follow him as 
 he followed his Master, we shall not fail in our 
 work, and that work will add to the respect due 
 the name we bear. 
 
 What would his example suggest to us as a 
 Christian body ? To me it seems the lesson is not 
 far different from that applicable to other bodies. 
 Lay broad foundations, and seek to do work that
 
 MEMORIAL SERMON. 115 
 
 shall be enduring. Let the beauty and strength 
 of Christian living and achievement be combined 
 in a harmonious and attractive whole. A lesson 
 from his business life would be, that we seek a 
 steady advancement, and that every success prove 
 but the stepping-stone to a wider outlook and in- 
 fluence. A lesson from his personal life would 
 be, that we cultivate a broad sympathy with all 
 the different agencies for promoting the Master's 
 kingdom in the earth. Every soul saved, every 
 life reformed, every child trained aright, every 
 spiritual gift brought to this community through 
 the blessing of God upon Christian effort among 
 us, shall bring new honor to the wisdom and the 
 generosity of him who fostered this church in its 
 early days, and who has been so firm and consis- 
 tent a friend during all its history. While we feel 
 that his mantle has fallen upon worthy shoulders, 
 and that the father's work will be carried forward, 
 we may yet feel that we, by reason of our relation 
 to him and of the name we bear, are granted pecu- 
 liar privileges in honoring him and perpetuating 
 his memory. Whenever Warren Church or War- 
 ren Sunday School shall be found engaging in any 
 good work, either near at hand or farther away, 
 we shall cause, in some degree at least, that this 
 one, being dead, shall yet speak, and that men
 
 116 SAMUEL DENNIS WARREN. 
 
 shall rise up to call him blessed. The abiding 
 strength which he so honorably illustrates in 
 meeting life's duties shall be our best preparation 
 in accepting and using the opportunities which 
 may lie along our humbler pathways.
 
 RESOLUTIONS OF THE TOWN OF 
 WESTBROOK. 
 
 AT a special town meeting, held on Saturday, 
 the 12th of May, Hon. F. M. Ray announced the 
 death of Mr. Samuel D. Warren, and introduced 
 the following resolutions, which were unanimously 
 adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That it is with profound sorrow that 
 the citizens of the town of Westbrook have heard 
 of the death of Mr. Samuel D. Warren. Not alone 
 the model village that has grown up and pros- 
 pered, under his fostering care, upon the banks of 
 the noble river that flows through the greenest 
 of our valleys, but the whole town, has cause to 
 mourn his loss as that of a personal friend and 
 benefactor. 
 
 Resolved, That in token of the enduring nature 
 of our respect for the memory of the deceased 
 and our own sorrow for his death, the clerk be 
 directed to spread these Resolutions ,. upon the rec- 
 ords of the town.
 
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