When a young man, he founded and named "Calvary Church" (Epis.) on 4th Avenue in N. Y. C. and to help out its slender means, performed menial offices in connection with it. The great work of his life was begun in 1839, when with another, he founded the "Home for Aged and Indigent Colored People" in N. Y. C.; a class he considered the least considered and most neglected of all the unhappy brood of poverty and misfortune. After a few years he relinquished, almost entirely, his city practice, and threw himself wholly into this work, laboring as physician and nurse, at the bedside of the sick and dying, and through terrible visitations of ship fever and cholera. During the last five years of his life he was an invalid, but it is said "a Heavenly light was on his face, and always on his lips, the words of some familiar hymn or divine promise."
When a young man, he founded and named "Calvary Church" (Epis.) on 4th Avenue in N. Y. C. and to help out its slender means, performed menial offices in connection with it. The great work of his life was begun in 1839, when with another, he founded the "Home for Aged and Indigent Colored People" in N. Y. C.; a class he considered the least considered and most neglected of all the unhappy brood of poverty and misfortune. After a few years he relinquished, almost entirely, his city practice, and threw himself wholly into this work, laboring as physician and nurse, at the bedside of the sick and dying, and through terrible visitations of ship fever and cholera. During the last five years of his life he was an invalid, but it is said "a Heavenly light was on his face, and always on his lips, the words of some familiar hymn or divine promise."
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