Outlook. We think it perhaps not inappropriate to print it here as though it came from one who at the time of writing was a member of The Outlook staff. -THE EDITORS.

The White House, Washington,
December 6, 1905.

My Dear Mr. Mabic:

Through you may I present the assurance of my profound regard to Dr. Abbott, and the heartiest congratulations to him on his seventieth birthday? Dr. Abbott is one of those men whose work and life give strength to all who believe in this country, and hearten them in the effort to strive after better things. He has known how to combine to a very unusual degree a series of qualities, all of them necessary but by no means all often developed in the same individual. Exactly as in his writings he stands fearlessly for the rights of the laboring man and yet is equally fearless in his denunciation of any kind of mob violence or of attack on property; exactly as he unsparingly assails every corrupt politician and yet avoids the pit of mere slanderous accusation against all men in public life; so in his private character he combines a good-natured evenness of temper with the power of flaming wrath against unrighteousness, insistence upon adherence to a high ideal with ready recognition of the need of practical methods in the achievement of that ideal, and a serene and lofty hopefulness and belief in the future with a keen appreciation of all that is low, base, cruel, evil, and therefore mercilessly to be warred against in the present. That he may live many years to guide and inspire us is the hope of his friend,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

DR. ABBOTT AT THE GRAVE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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two of his brothers did, if he had not chosen to turn to the pulpit. It was as a preacher that he first attracted the attention of the country to his intellectual powers and the breadth of his great mind. It was no easy task to attempt to take the place of Henry Ward Beecher as the pastor of Plymouth Church, but Dr. Abbott took it and kept it. If he lacked Beecher's magnetism and fire he made up for them in his sermons with the clearness of his logic and the genuine warmth of his friendship for humanity.

It was in literature rather than in the pulpit, however, that Dr. Abbott reached his greatest audiences. As the editor of The Outlook he was able to convey his valuable opinions to the entire intellectual public. Nor were these opinions limited to the field of religion. Lyman

Abbott lived in times of strife. He was no mere scholar, apart from the strug gle of his fellows. He knew that it was impossible to separate religion and human events; social and spiritual things were too closely intertwined for that. He knew how weak and how strong humanity could be, and tried to turn its strength into the right channels.

Christianity was ever uppermost in Lyman Abbott's soul. He saw that the largest need of his day was to make that Christianity applicable to the day's problems, political or otherwise. He was sincere, and he tried to make his world sincere. He was sane and he preached sanity. He was moderate, relying upon the clarity of his fine argumentative powers to convince.

There was no necessary reform t could not rely upon Dr. Abbott f

vice and aid. He was willing always to give his pen or his voice to a worthy cause. He worked for his city, his State, his country, and indeed for the well being of the whole world. And his ability, his personality, his remarkable quality of seeing the right way to do the right thing attracted to him many other men of vision who worked with him in his chosen vineyards. One of these was Theodore Roosevelt, who served on The Outlook with Dr. Abbott and with whose name Lyman Abbott's will always be linked.

The story of Dr. Abbott is one of the finest pages in the history of unselfish endeavor. He worked unceasingly all the life that has just ended in its eightyseventh year. So long as there was some new spiritual problem, some social question at which to direct the clear light of his mind, Lyman Abbott would not rest. But at last the strong hands are folded in sleep and the compelling voice is still. He was like a patriarch who had lingered because the people

needed him.

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NORTH AMERICAN, PHILADELPHIA To fully depict the manifold activities and interests of his long life would take us into almost every field of social progress, and into politics and economics as well as religion.

His ardor for spiritual attainment was matched by his enthusiasm for every cause that aimed at human betterment; at the emancipation of the mind from shackles of ignorance and superstition, and the practical application of the principles and spirit of Christianity to the solution of social problems. These prompting motives could not be better expressed than in the most quoted of his sayings: "He who denies the brotherhood of man is as much an infidel as he who denies the fatherhood of God."

Such a life is an achievement of high and lasting meaning to humanity; an example which glows with hopeful promise through clouds of doubtful portent.

FROM THE KANSAS CITY STAR,

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI The death of Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, will bring a sense of personal loss to a multitude of people. Over a long period of years his life was a wholesome influence that was widely felt through his writings in his books and in The Outlook. It fell to him in marked degree to fulfill the ambition so finely expressed by Andrew D. White, founder of Cornell University, to direct young people into fields of fruitful thought and to guide older people along lines of right reason.

he had that sense of direct communion with God which he expressed in the title of one of his books, "The Great Companion." He needed no argument for the existence of God. He felt he had the testimony of his own experience.

With this confidence he had no shadow of fear as to the teachings of modern science. His "Theology of an Evolutionist" shows how he found in scientific inquiry suggestions toward an understanding of the most profound questions of life and destiny. "By their fruits ye shall know them," was his test. He stressed life rather than formal creed. Underlying his work was the text from Micah that so fully expressed the belief of his close friend, Theodore Roosevelt:

O man, what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God?

But there was another side to Lyman Abbott. He changed the name of the publication he edited from the "Christian Union" to The Outlook, because he desired to emphasize its interest in the whole field of human endeavor. Under his editorship The Outlook has been always progressive, but never visionary. It has stood for a sane Americanism.

When the war came, The Outlook did not permit its neutrality to prevent it from speaking out on the ruthlessness of Germany. Dr. Abbott was for peace, but only for the peace of righteousness. He felt there were evils worse than war. Pacifism was not in his creed.

In considering industrial or political problems he was always vigorously for justice. No one could meet him or attend one of the luncheons that The Outlook staff often gave to men who might have information of interest without understanding that this slight, graybearded man was essentially honest, fair, keen, ready to hear all sides while sincerely seeking the truth.

Such leadership as that of Lyman Abbott's is of immense importance in a democracy. It embraces both the vision and the effectiveness without which the people perish.

FROM THE DAILY JOURNAL,
TELLURIDE, COLORADO

It is refreshing to pause for just a moment or two in the midst of the present political campaign and pay an honest tribute to Dr. Lyman Abbott, noted editor and churchman, whose death occurred on Sunday.

Dr. Abbott carved a niche in American history. A student of public problems, he was competent to purvey to the world through The Outlook his impressions of contemporaneous life. Dr. Abbott was Editor-in-Chief of The Outlook since

1893.

nently engraved in American life through his magazine, and through his contributions to the religious life of the country. The Outlook will be carried on under the competent leadership of Dr. Abbott's two sons, Lawrence F. and Ernest H., a continual memorial to the real heart and greatness of Lyman Abbott.

FROM THE MACON DAILY TELE

GRAPH, MACON, GEORGIA

Few men of the last half of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth have contributed so much to the sanity and moral and social health of the time as has the venerable and lovable Lyman Abbott, who laid down his earth's labors Sunday and entered upon the great venture and quest.

As an editor, author, social leader, theologian, and liberal preacher he has had few equals. He commenced writing very early in life, and in connection with his brother wrote two novels when he was not much more than a boy. He prepared himself for the practice of law, but his interest in things religious was so profound that he decided to become a minister. His first pastorate was in the West, where he early gave evidence of clear-cut and inspirational religious thought of a very high order. Speaking of this early pastorate, he says that he resolved to give his people the enlightenment of Jesus upon the problems of practical life in weekly discourses, and the people heard him gladly.... He was not so brilliant and picturesque and oratorical as Mr. Beecher, but was clearer, more pungent, and more informing.

In connection with his work as a pastor and author and social welfare worker, he took the old "Christian Union," and made of it, under the new name "The Outlook," one of the ablest and most popular journals of enlightened opinion not only in America but in the world. .

On public issues The Outlook has been conservative, fearless, intelligent, and conspicuously fair. While Mr. Abbott was a Republican in leaning, he appeared to be just as ready to praise a Democrat when he saw good in him as if he were a Republican, and just as ready to criticise Republicans for failure to measure to the highest standards. He was Republican in the same independent and constructive way that the "Telegraph" aspires to be Democratic.

Mr. Abbott was among the first popular ministers of America to take the position that the life and teachings and mission of Jesus were just as efficacious under one scientific hypothesis as another. He believed that the evolutionary point of view, if spiritually interpreted and applied, gave new meaning and worth and dignity and hope to human life and added glory to God. In notable addresses before college audiences he argued that God is in his world and in all the fine forces of life,

and that he is still making the world a progressively better home of man. . . .

His general view of history and politics was very similar to that of President Roosevelt, and after Mr. Roosevelt's retirement to private life Mr. Abbott induced him to become associate editor of The Outlook. These two great men worked together with remarkable harmony and with highest mutual regard.

Mr. Abbott was among the first leaders of America who insisted that America should vigorously protest against the German march and the German methods of warfare. . . . He favored large and generous co-operation of America with the rest of mankind, and was finely sympathetic and co-operative with all efforts to feed the hunger, heal the wounds and repair the breaches made by the World War. He also favored generous COoperation of the nations to prevent future wars and to promote common world good. He contended that the World War, as much as it cost to win it by the Allies and America, was worth and would be worth to the human race even more than it cost. His high courage, intelligence, and purpose, as well as ability to work, increased rather than diminished with age. Though very frail of body, he was one of the busiest workers of the time. In some of his writings he tells the interesting story of how he learned to turn insomnia into a blessing. He says he remembered the beautiful verse in the Psalms to the effect that the meditations of the Lord during the nightwatches are sweet, and from that hour on he got more rest and refreshing from these sweet meditations than he did from sleep. It is not surprising that one who turned insomnia into a blessing succeeded in making his own life an unusual benediction to his generation.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES One of the gentlest and most widely beloved of Americans, Dr. Lyman Abbott had the fire, fearlessness and vision of a prophet. He did not put much emphasis upon creeds, but his preaching and writing dwelt on the essentials of a Christian life. Though blown upon by every wind of doctrine, he was not blown about by it. He maintained a serenity which had a physical illustration in the mountain at whose foot he lived for many months at a time during his later years-Storm King, on the Hudson. He sought and accepted the last word of science. He even wrote a book on the theology of evolution, but what science had to bring to him only assisted in the evolution of his Christianity, which was a way of life rather than a philosophical or theological opinion.

His great ardor was for spiritual achievement, but he was prominent in every good work for the bettering of the physical life of those about him. As an editor he had not only a gift for clear, persuasive statement, but a reasonable optimism that refused to be dis

couraged or defeated. As a preacher he had to meet the severe test of succeeding Henry Ward Beecher. The voice of the orator is hushed, but the influence of this prophet of man's brotherhood will be felt long beyond the years of his long life.

FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
NEWS, DENVER, COLORADO

Dr. Abbott took interest in all that pertained to the betterment of the human race. He was always found on the side of the oppressed. He was an Internationalist before the word was much in use and before the doctrine received any. thing but ridicule from the bulk of the people who associated it with the Red Flag of Marxianism. His biographer calls Dr. Abbott a "rational optimist." The phrase fits him.

FROM THE NEW YORK SUN

The full and useful life of Lyman Abbott, who has just died, constitutes a wonderful record of intellectual, political and spiritual service to the American people. He belonged to a race eminent alike for its energy in action, its brilliancy in intellect and its high principle; the race that produced the old New England ministers. In him joined the best of their qualities, for he had not only the strength of understanding and the firmness of principle that were theirs, but the tireless, enterprising energy that kept him active all his life in the advancement of America.

To Dr. Abbott the country's advancement was a matter above all of the

spirit. While other men of his day worked manfully to make the country more prosperous, to settle its waiting Western fields, he served especially the ideal of uprightness and high thinking. He lived in a time when his spiritual elevation was needed to right the balance in a nation necessarily absorbed in its material affairs. That America today thinks not simply of the dollar, but past the dollar to great fundamental things without which prosperity would lose its value, we owe to Dr. Abbott and to men like him; but in remarkably large part to Dr. Abbott himself.

America has produced other men who combined spiritual and mental preeminence a long line of them, from Jonathan Edwards to Emerson; but its scholars have few of them possessed Dr. Abbott's gift of applying the high forces in them with full effect to practical matters of the moment. For him principle was no abstract thing, religion was not a matter to lock up in the meeting house with the hymn books, between Sundays. He believed in applied religion; as indeed others did. But he possessed the rare talent actually to apply it.

Fortune added to his gifts that of literary and speaking ability. His power of expression enabled him to reach the American world through the pulpit, by his numerous books and articles, and

perhaps most potently of all, as an editor, shaping and inspiring the utterances of publications which went through all the country. By all these means he preached the application of conscience to the public problems of the day. It was characteristic of him and perhaps the most outstanding of his applications of principle, as well as of his keen and sound instinct for the best, that he pinned his faith and friendship in Colonel Roosevelt. He saw early what not all could see-that this man was destined to play the great part at Washington in a critical phase of American progress.

Few men have influenced more people in this country than Dr. Abbott did. None perhaps have influenced so many for so long a term of years. Sanity went hand in hand with earnestness in him. He remained to the end what he had been throughout, the clear, brave and convincing spokesman of what was best in the American spirit.

FROM THE EVENING NEWS,
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

With all his long study and erudition, Dr. Lyman Abbott is best remembered as a man who found God in the street and the market-place. He was not of the race of great theological controversialists, but a preacher of the Christian life. From the very beginning of his professional career he viewed religion in relation to social and civil problems. It was for him a way of life, and he devoted all his energies, in the pulpit, as editor and as a citizen, to a Christian solution of the practical problems of living.

FROM THE

BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

If any man ever deserved the commendation, "Well done, good and faithful servant," it was Lyman Abbott, who has entered into rest after more than eighty years of fruitful living. Nowhere will he be mourned so widely or more deeply than in Brooklyn. His eleven years' pastorate of Plymouth Church, where he succeeded Mr. Beecher, was a period of religious illumination and growth for the whole world, and more especially for Brooklyn, where his lucid, frank and honest preaching was reinforced by his personality, which inspired a warm affection among all who knew him.

Dr. Abbott was a beacon light of honest and frank thinking among the orthodox churches at a time when they were profoundly stirred by the higher criticism. Dr. Abbott said at his eightieth anniversary here that he learned to accept the truth of evolution from Mr. Beecher, but the consequence of that acceptance was far wider than either man could have dreamed. Dr. Abbott became pastor of Plymouth in the very year that Mrs. Humphry Ward published "Robert Elsmere," and a few years later

he preached a series of sermons on evolution from that pulpit which stirred opposition among the more narrowly orthodox, but was a powerful factor in leading the churches to a faith which learned to worship God as revealed through natural law as well as through revelation.

Dr. Abbott did a great service through teaching men to see science as the servant of religion rather than its enemy, at a time when the "higher criticism" had made impossible for intelligent and honest minds the earlier belief in the literal or verbal inspiration of the Bible, and was weakening the faith of many brought up in that simpler faith. But he was much more than a great leader of religious thought. He was an editor as well as a preacher, a work which came to its full fruition as editor of The Outlook. There he was a friend and supporter of progress in all good causes except only woman suffrage, which he always regarded as a danger to the home. He was a national figure as an advocate of higher political and finer social living and of better education. An incident which illustrated the sanity of Dr. Abbott's thinking was that he was dropped from the American Peace Society in 1913 because he also belonged to the Army and Navy League and because he supported preparedness in The Outlook. When the atrocities in Belgium came he insisted that Christianity justified the strong in protecting the weak, and he strongly supported the war, although he had done much to promote the ideal of world peace.

At the time of the Plymouth celebration of Dr. Abbott's eightieth birthday The Eagle urged that it be followed by a national assemblage to pay tribute while he still lived to the exalted character of the man and to the great influence he had exerted in the growth of honest thinking and a higher plane of conduct in both public affairs and private living. Such a memorial tribute was not made, however. Now that the tireless worker has gone to his reward, such tributes will no doubt come from many parts of the country. If they serve to emphasize and continue the influence of this great and good man, they will do something to continue the fine work to which he gave his long life freely and without stint.

FROM THE

SMITH COLLEGE WEEKLY, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS In the shifting succession of vesper speakers who appear out of space on the platform of John M. Greene Hall, leave their message, and vanish into space again, we had grown to look forward each year to our visit in the fall from Dr. Abbott as a sort of "St. Martin's summer." ..

Besides the many endowments which had given him fame, he brought us two things especially dear to a college audince, youth and age. We are not so

irreverent as we seem-if we really have something worthy of reverence. The spare, ascetic figure, the white patriarchal beard, made a setting from which the counsels of ripe experience came worthily and were welcome. But the spirit of youth in him was indomitable and as cheerful as indomitable. Perhaps the greatest gift he gave us was a fresh sense of the normal relation of religion to life. He had a natural gift for spiritual things. He could perhaps have been a mystic. His manhood was spent in the midst of the keenest intellectual ferment the religious world has ever seen. In that intellectual arena he had been a champion. But religion in him was neither intellect nor emotion. It was the strong, fresh breath of his life. It made him at home in any assemblage of men-they were all the children of God. It will make him just as simply and naturally at home with "the spirits of just men made perfect." But we shall miss his message.

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FROM THE EVENING MAIL, NEW YORK CITY Dr. Abbott worked in no groove. He knew the world. He strove always to make it a better world for all to live in. He realized that it could not be made better by the power of prejudice, mutual antagonisms, or inflexible dogmatism. In all that he said and did the spirit of a wise charity was uppermost. He broadened the minds that came in contact with his, and grew broader and deeper himself through his desire to give a fair hearing to all.

FROM THE BUFFALO EXPRESS,

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

With the broadest knowledge of men and affairs, both of the past and present, he combined a deep interest in humanity and an instinct for news, which was perhaps the most important factor in his mental equipment. He knew how to select for discussion subjects in which people were interested and thereby he won readers and influenced thought where a more monastic type of man would have failed.

FROM THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, CINCINNATI, OHIO Dr. Abbott was an optimist, but he saw clearly the difficulties and obstacles in the way to success. He was a man of faith and of vision. Strong men, like Theodore Roosevelt, were attracted to him. Because of his great length of life, his vigor to the end, and his deep interest in every important movement for the betterment of men, he became one of the best-known characters to the general public.

FROM THE EDMONTON (CANADA) JOURNAL

Dr. Lyman Abbott, who died in New York on Sunday, was a wonderful old man who over a long period of years

had exerted strong influence on American life. The last issue of The Outlook, of which he has been editor-in-chief since 1893, contained an article over his signature in which there was no sign of any abating of his old-time vigor. It is only an occasional man who, on approaching his eighty-seventh birthday, is so much alive as he has shown himself to be in all that he has said and written in recent weeks.

FROM THE DALLAS, TEXAS,
MORNING NEWS

As an editor he made of The Outlook a distinctive publication. As a preacher he followed his profession for the good that he hoped to do to others and not for the furthering of his own reputation. As a writer on religious subjects he showed both learning and moderation. In all things he displayed prodigious industry, and everywhere he was accorded the respect which sincerity inspires.

FROM THE LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, TRIBUNE AND LEADER-PRESS Many men were attracted to Mr. Abbott's leadership by some of the numerous other qualities with which he was endowed besides his active and militant Christianity. But his was none the less an ennobling influence because it was often his personality rather than his principles that first drew men to him. From him must have been reflected and radiated upon those about him something of his own clear and serene faith. So Lyman Abbott leavened the lump of more or less ignoble and thoughtless men and manners of his times.

FROM THE JEWISH TRIBUNE,
PORTLAND, OREGON

Dr. Abbott was fearless, and because of the breadth and depth of his learning he did not hesitate to speak the truth as he saw it and to preach the evolution of human thought as demonstrated in the progress of religion. Personally he was among the most lovable of men, with the great dignity which was the natural sequence of his power; a fine democracy that marked the recognition of human fellowship, and a broad humanity which found room for aiding every worthy endeavor for the uplift of the oppressed.

Is there a finer sentiment in all our literature than that sentence in one of his sermons: "He who denies the Brotherhood of Man is as much an infidel as he who denies the Fatherhood of God"? And he not only preached this doctrine-he practiced it.

FROM THE BROOKLYN TIMES, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Singular combination of prophet and preacher and scientist and sage, Lyman Abbott had a clear vision of the world around him, and a sublime vision of the world beyond, that made him eminent

in an age of great American churchmen and publicists. He was as clear an analyst of the material progress of his time as any thinker, but science did not shake his faith. Instead, all that he learned of the material world and its contacts strengthened in him the belief in a hereafter cleansed of the dross and wrong of the universe that is apparent to the mind in the flesh....

Brooklyn remembers the great clergyman and scholar as the successor of Henry Ward Beecher in the pulpit of Plymouth Church. . . .

There are many who recall Dr. Abbott as he stood on the plain and severe platform of the historic church, preaching his great sermons on the higher criticism and his Pauline sermons. Spare in body but with a towering forehead and a flowing beard, he looked the prophet. His lectures attracted the attention of scholars and churchmen, because of their keen intellectual quality, their

convincing power, and the clarity and strength of the mind that formed them.

FROM THE CORNWALL PRESS,
CORNWALL, NEW YORK

This week newspapers and periodicals all over the United States will commemorate the passing of Dr. Lyman Abbott, but here in Cornwall it is our sad privilege to commemorate the passing of a neighbor.

Dr. Abbott came to Cornwall as a young minister and became pastor of the He Canterbury Presbyterian Church. became very fond of the town and of the surrounding country; and after he had left the pulpit to devote his time to editorial work and authorship, he made Cornwall his home, building the hospitable white house which has long been a landmark in the lower village. . .

Every one who knew Dr. Abbott will remember his interest in young peo

ple. This was because he himself had kept a youthful spirit. . . .

For a great number of years past, practically all boys in Cornwall-on-Hudson have come to know Dr. Abbott intimately through the Garden Club, which had access to his home with the same freedom that his family enjoyed. They learned what his great library was like; they enjoyed the friendship of his kindly voice as he read to them grouped about the open fireplaces; they partook of every form of true hospitality; they learned to love good books, and they have gone out, many of them into trades, through college, into the larger business world-some lawyers, U. S. officers, doctors, and every one indelibly stamped by close contact with an indefinable something, which was the soul of Dr. Abbott. . . . There is an overworked phrase, "Christian first, denominationalist second." Dr. Abbott was the living embodiment of all that is good in the idea.

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From the Rector of All Angels'

Church, New York

I can recall among his contemporaries no life richer or happier than his own. He has gone to his rest and reward with the reverence and the love of all those who are seeking the truth in all sincerity. To me he seemed to be the preeminent expositor of the simplicity of religion. When others became confused and lost the path or were perplexed by the multiplicity of paths, he shed the radiance of the simplicity of that truth which was always so clear to him, and the perplexity was dissolved. Never in all his ministry did he needed than in these days-and yet one is thrilled by the thought of what joy is his, and how peculiarly prepared for it he is! S. DELANCEY TOWNSEND.

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From Plymouth Church, Brooklyn

In behalf of the officers and members of Plymouth Church, I am sending you this message of deepest sympathy and affection in the hour of your great loss that has touched Plymouth Church and our entire city. We shall all be glad to have you make any use of Plymouth Church you desire. The official Board wished me to say that each individual member joins in this message of deepest sympathy. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS,

From the Executive Secretary of the Roosevelt National Memorial Association

To have Dr. Abbott go is like having a mountain removed at whose base you

have lived all your life. It isn't only that you miss the mountain, but that the whole landscape is changed. The American people will sorely feel your father's going. He was in the truest and highest sense a guide, philosopher, and friend to thousands who never saw him, and the mourning that is in thousands of American homes to-day will not be the usual passing emotion which we feel when a great man takes his place among "those who bear the stars," as Barrett Wendell called them.

HERMANN HAGEDORN.

From a Jewish philanthropist

In the passing of your illustrious father this Nation has lost one of her very great men; one of her dependable assets; one of her most resourcefu! minds; and it therefore shares your loss. JULIUS ROSENWALD.

From the Superintendent of the

Bowery Mission, New York

Over thirty years ago I saw the funeral of the good Earl Shaftesbury in

London, the principal feature of which was that it was as largely attended by the very poor as it was by the nobility and gentry of the land. I am in a position to assure you of a similar attitude with regard to your father. Whilst those in other circles will pay glad tribute to his superb inteilectual gifts, and to his extraordinary value as an educator, patriot, and philosopher, thousands of men down here will just as en

thusiastically bear witness to his beautiful, helpful, Christlike spirit in ministering to them in their dire need. We all feel we have lost a great and true friend. JOHN G. HALLIMOND,

From Senator Glass

Please accept a very earnest expression of sympathy on the death of your venerable and distinguished father. His objectives in life revealed the nature of the man-his objectives and courageous strivings. These things counted for large value while he wrought-and will be remembered to his high distinction now that he is dead. CARTER GLASS.

From Senator McCormick

Deepest sympathy to you in the loss of a devoted father; to The Outlook in the loss of a courageous and far-sighted guide; and to his fellow-citizens in the loss of a great American.

MEDILL MCCORMICK,

From Colonel House

A great loss has come to our country in the death of your distinguished father, and there will be widespread sympathy for you and yours throughout America. EDWARD HOUSE.

From General Booth, of London, Commander-in-Chief of the Salvation Army

I am mourning with you in the loss of one of the world's greatest citizens.