ings of merchants, shippers and farmers, occasionally making addresses, and altogether "coming out of his shell."

The last year of his life resembled a triumphal procession. He became the fashion, the hero of hundreds of newspapers and magazine articles, a popular, almost a romantic figure. He was lionized, his association was coveted, his was a name to conjure with, he was in demand for great business occasions as a popular artist is for great social entertainments. While his pride would not admit it, at the time he had felt deeply and keenly the flood of slanders and attacks upon his honor, honesty and character, and the severe condemnation passed upon him by public opinion. Though he was too firmly sustained by his conscience and faith for these assaults ever to have caused him to feel humiliated or to hold his head less high, yet he would not have been human if he had not been gratified by the sweeping change in sentiment and opinion regarding him.

There were no longer any enemies to trouble him. The opportunity was now his, at last, to carry out his great plans of constructive work, without, as heretofore, always having to interrupt himself to guard his rear and flanks against attacks or to dash forward and give battle. Having been elected a member of the board and executive committee of the New York Central Railroad, a position which he had long desired to hold, his mind was busily occupied with plans relating to the eastern railroad situation. But his frail, ill body, which had been kept together as it were-by sheer force of will as long as the fight was raging, collapsed when the strain and tension was relaxed.

In the early summer of 1909 he went abroad in search of health. A few months later he returned home to die. Those who were present at his landing from the steamer and who accompanied him on the journey from New York to Arden, his country place, will never forget the superb exhibition of grit, pluck, self-control and self-reliance of which they were witnesses on that occasion.

Mr. Harriman died on September 9, 1909, in his sixty-second year.

I have confined this sketch in the main to matters and con

siderations incidental to Mr. Harriman's business career. I have refrained, among other things, from touching on the important and somewhat stormy chapter of his political activities, as I have little first-hand knowledge regarding them, except in connection with certain episodes which are too recent and of too personal a nature to discuss at present.

There is many another episode, many another manifestation of Mr. Harriman's character and spirit that I might and should like to relate, but that I must pass over because of the limitations both of time and of discretion.

It was my privilege to be closely associated with Mr. Harriman, to be honored with his friendship and confidence, to see him almost daily during twelve years, to gain a close insight into the workings of his brain and soul. The better I got to know him, whom but very few knew and many misunderstood, the greater became my admiration for that remarkable man, the deeper my attachment. I am not blind to his shortcomings, but perfection is not of this world, and I believe it may be truly said of him as it was said of another great man that his faults were largely those of his generation, his virtues were his own.

I have said before that he came to hold a greater power in the railroad world than is likely ever to be held again by any one man. In this remark I had reference not only to the very exceptional combination of qualities in him (I know of no parallel to this particular combination in our industrialfinancial history), but even more to the fact that his death coincided with what appears to be the ending of an epoch in our economic development. His career was the embodiment of unfettered individualism. For better or for worse-personally I believe for better unless we go too far and too fastthe people appear determined to put limits and restraints upon the exercise of economic power, just as in former days they put limits and restraints upon the absolutism of rulers. Therefore, I believe, there will be no successor to Mr. Harriman; there will be no other career like his.

WILLIAM KENT

JENKIN LLOYD JONES

An address given at the Memorial Service held in Chicago on November 17, 1918, at the Abraham Lincoln Center and All Souls Church, of which Dr. Jones was the founder and pastor for nearly forty years. William Kent, born in Chicago in 1864, is well known for his independent and efficient promotion of good government whether in Congress or out, in Chicago or in California.

We are here to commemorate one of the greatest men of the ages, a prophet whose peculiar task it was to adapt religion to our new-found democracy, and to teach to that democracy the need of religion.

His work is done. His voice has joined the Choir Invisible. Not in mourning do we come, but blessed with the solemn privilege of considering what this man has meant to us, and to the world, so that at the call of immanent duty we may go forth strengthened in heart and fixed in our purpose to pass his message on.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones was guide, philosopher and friend.

A rugged pioneer, brave, sure-footed and tireless. The path he blazed leads to a land where men know each other, and therefore cease from mistrust and hatred; an all-inclusive land where every man having broken bread and tasted salt with every other man, is bound by the kindly laws of hospitality.

Clearly to him came the vision of an ordered universe, where creature is related to Creator, and each to all. This was no mystic theory to be absorbed in self. It must be translated into terms of definite duty, into life and living. This man demanded the actual, the tangible, in terms of human welfare. Art for art's sake, thinking for its own sake, yes, religion for self-salvation, seemed fruitless abstractions to him. He held that beauty, truth and faith are in the world that they may

ameliorate the common lot. On him the consecrated, the inspired preacher, teacher and leader, was laid the duty of showing forth their messages.

His respect for the human soul demanded for each freedom of thought and expression-independence in all things-where such independence did not impinge upon the equal independence of others.

He had an honest hatred of shams. In this relative world no one had a keener sense of proportion. He led his life and said his say, regardless of conventions that had back of them no social meaning.

Stoic he was, and Christian. He could not respect himself as a stoic, if heedless of the Master's message concerning the neighbor.

This great city has often paid honor to him as one of its first citizens. He brought a new union of church and state, not a subordination of one to the other, but a realization that the sphere of the church is social, and that the organized state is the legally constituted expression of society-a realization that when the church ignores civics it is false to a great responsibility, and that government bereft of the altruism of religion is a selfish self-seeking failure. In his civic life, as in his religious life, he demanded the search for essentials. He sought a union for the general welfare-a union too often divided and destroyed by the irrelevancies of partisanship.

Of Jenkin Lloyd Jones as a friend I need not speak here. He was loyal and tender. To a mind that sought justice and righteousness there was added a heart full of pity.

His friendship was wide as the race of man-he cherished the friendship of dumb creatures-he was indeed friend of all the world.

The keynote of his life was unselfishness. Such a soul reflects to us the pity, the friendliness of God who gave it.

LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR

CHARLES SUMNER

Eulogy by Lucius Q. C. Lamar, lawyer, United States Senator from Mississippi, cabinet officer, Supreme Court Justice (born in Jasper County, Georgia, September 1, 1825; died in Macon, Georgia, January 23, 1893), delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C., April 28, 1874, on the death of Charles Sumner.

MR. SPEAKER: In rising to second the resolutions just offered, I desire to add a few remarks which have occurred to me as appropriate to the occasion. I believe that they express a sentiment which pervades the hearts of the people whose representatives are here assembled.

Strange as, in looking back upon the past, the assertion may seem, impossible as it would have been ten years ago to make it, it is not the less true that to-day Mississippi regrets the death of Charles Sumner, and sincerely unites in paying honor to his memory. Not because of the splendor of his intellect, though in him was extinguished one of the brightest of the lights which have illustrated the councils of the Government for nearly a quarter of a century; nor because of the high culture, the elegant scholarship and the varied learning which revealed themselves so clearly in all his public efforts as to justify the application to him of Johnson's felicitous expression, "He touched nothing which he did not adorn"; not this, though these are qualities by no means, it is to be feared, so common in public places as to make their disappearance in a single instance a matter of indifference, but because of those peculiar and strongly marked moral traits of character which gave the coloring to the whole tenor of his singularly dramatic public career; traits which made him for a long period to a