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regret from Her Gratious Majesty the Queen-Mother 

 Queen Alexandra : from a band of Finnish journuHsls ; 

 from the Committee and Con\ention of " Men and 

 Religion Forward Movement " of the United State? ; 

 from the Bulgarian Premier ; from Prince Omar 

 Toustoun and tlie ICgyplian Committee ; from many 

 friends and admirers in [ohannesliurg ; from General 

 Botha, the Prime Minister of the Union of South 

 Afrira ; from President Steyn ; from the Maharajah 

 the Gaekwar of Baroda, India ; and many otliers. 



And now I conclude with a word of faith and hope. 

 First, we know that our departed friend's work remains, 

 and will i)e reproductive for ever more. I>ife passes ; 

 good deeds endure. Our comrades are called home, Init 



MEMORIAL SERVICE OF THE 



MOVh 



More than 2,000 persons attended the memorial 

 meeting of the Men and Religion Forward Moxement's 

 Conservation Congress at Carnegie Hall in honour of 

 William 'J'. Stead, the English editor and reformer. 



']"he platform and boxes of the big hall were draped 

 with entwined English and American flags, and the 

 reading desk in the centre of llie stage was hung with 

 a mourning wreath, in the centre of which was a large 

 picture of Mr, Stead, a small original photograph 

 having been obtained from the American Revieiv nj 

 Reviejvs and enlarged. 



The Rev, Dr, Newel! Dwight Hillis. of Plymoutii 

 Church, Brooklyn, said : — " We are here to celebrate 

 the life, character, and especiall\- the death of a man 

 so brave and chivalrous that he gave his life and 

 indeed would hav'e gi\'en all he had in this world to 

 have saved his fellow-passengers, lie was horn in a 

 minister's house and was brought up in a parson's 

 library. He had the training of a clergyman, but he 

 became a great journalist. Melville Stone, head of 

 The Associated Press, told me only the other day that 

 Stead carried a newspaper man's instinct to the point 

 of genius. The founding of a great inagazine was only 

 one of many of his achievements. He consecrated this 

 magazine to social reform. Now every magazine in 

 tlii-; country is pursuing his methods. 



HIS SOCIAl. .SKiniCK. 



"He flung himself like a knight against the social 

 ei'il. Men in Parliament had been trying to j)ut that 

 particular traffic down for thirty years. In his Pall 

 Mall Gazelle, Stead openly denounced the rich and 

 influential men who were growing still more \vealth>- 

 by this traffic. He accused them ]Hiblicly of living and 

 amassing wealth from the bodies and souls of girls. 

 They had him thrown into jail. P.ut nov. their names 

 are in the mud and Stead is in Heaven. 



" He founded the great I'jiglish ki:vih\v of Reviews 

 and started the American Rc'inv vj Revincs and also 

 the Auilralian Rcvieio oj Reviews. We praise him 

 iiecause lie was a very great editorial writer. He 

 was also especially interested in publishing low-prioed 

 literature for the masses of the people. He had a real 



the seed they have sown is not lost ; it appears in 

 successive and ever-increasing harvests. What thci 

 have done continues to renew the life of the work). 

 Some of the results we see, but much, though present 

 and operative, escapes our sight. The Criminal Law 

 Amendment Act is on our Statute-book, and its pro- 

 visions will be enlarged and made more effective. It 

 pioneered the way for further defences of the imperilled 

 in this and in other lands. The impact given to move- 

 ments for larger freedom, widespread and universal 

 justice and "brotherhood is still felt. A voice is heard 

 saving, " Write, Blessed are the dead who die in thC; 

 Lord from henceforth : they rest from' their labours, 

 and their works do follow them." 



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passion for Christ's poor. Because he loved Christ's 

 ]ioor. he published his penny biographies. He worked 

 lor the betterment of the men on the docks, for 

 shortening the hours of labour. Pie joined in the 

 international movement against war. He went to 

 St. Petersburg and published an appeal for what he 

 called the ' United States of Europe.' He said once 

 that he got his universal peace idea from the little 

 volume of James Russell Lowell's poems which, with 

 the copy of the ' Imitation of Christ ' which ' Chinese " ■ 

 Gordon had lent him, he always carried in his coat 

 po( ket. 



TUE INFLUENCE OF LOWELL. 



" When he was an eighteen-year-old boy and w^as 

 tr\ ing to memorise some of Lowell's poems he walked 

 jjasi a poorhouse, its windows aflame with the setting^ 

 sun. He thereupon dedicated himself to bear the 

 burdens of Christ's poor. Stead had the genius of a 

 wonderful \ ision. He was a particularly skilful artist in 

 portraying the characters of his generation. He was 

 remorselessly and pitilessly right. His passion for 

 justice, however, made his blade heal again almost 

 as soon as it cut. Some of vou xrnxy not have liked 

 him because he was interested in psychic research 

 Death is so terrible a problem that if a man lost faith 

 he might be led back by a study of psytjiic phenomena 

 We don't need ps)chic phenomena to make us believe 

 in God and immortality. But the last day Stead 

 spent in this country he had luncheon with Mrs, Hillis 

 and myself and prophesied that he would die, not in 

 his bed, as we expected to. l>ut in a crowd and I' 

 violence. 



" ' I had a vision of a mob. 1 believe 1 shall n( 

 die as you expect to, but that 1 shall be kicketi i< 

 death in the street." was the way he put it. 



"I congratulate Stead on his' death. The Uniten 

 States will always be on a' higher s[)iritual (ilane 

 because of the way that Stead clicd on the Tilaiiic. 

 The imaginations of 90,000,000 have been captured 

 and transformed. I loved the man Stead. As a 

 journalist he was not surpassed. His name will be 

 inscribed among the great editors of the world. He 

 owed it to Christianity. He was a busy man. But 



