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must be done to meet the emergency. Fortunately, just the right man was
found. Rev. S. B. Halliday had seen considerable service in mission work
in New York City, was a man of genial character, great sympathy,
kindhearted, and painstaking in the performance of his duties. He came
to Brooklyn in 1870 and remained there in pastoral duty until after Mr.
Beecher's death. His work was chiefly among the poorer class, but there
were many families of means that welcomed him to their homes. Perhaps
the one word that best expresses the impression that he left on those
who knew him best, is--godly. He was a good man, one who in life and
thought lived near God. Mr. Beecher thoroughly appreciated him, and he
idolised Mr. Beecher. It was scarcely surprising that when Mr. Beecher
died he should find it hard to adapt himself to changed conditions. He
had hoped that Mr. Berry would accept the call to the pastorate, but
when that failed, he resigned his position and went into East New York,
then on the outskirts of Brooklyn, where he took charge of a weak
Congregational Church. It was due to him that the name "The Beecher
Memorial Church" was given to it, and it was significant of the honour
in which both Mr. Beecher and Mr. Halliday were held that men of every
form of faith, Christian and non-Christian, and from many different
countries, contributed toward the building which was erected a few years
later. When Mr. Halliday died it was like the severing of another link
of the chain binding Mr. Beecher to the Christian life of Brooklyn.

When Dr. Abbott became pastor the question of an assistant came up
again. At first Dr. Abbott was unwilling to have one, but as the
necessity became more apparent, and also as there appeared one who
seemed in every way fitted for the work, Rev. Howard S. Bliss was called
and commenced his duties soon after Dr. Abbott was installed. The son of
the well-known founder of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut,
Syria, a man of pleasing ways, tact in dealing with people, and a fine
speaker, he won the most cordial regard and affections of the church
people. He remained for many years, through Dr. Abbott's pastorate,
leaving Plymouth only to take the pastorate of a flourishing church
in New Jersey, whose traditions made it easy for one naturally
sympathetic with and trained in the liberal yet practical and aggressive
atmosphere of Plymouth Church, to develop a vigorous church life. Mr.
Bliss has since b