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discourage him. When he had resolved on the desired end, no course was too 

 laborious, and scarce any process too costly, for his self-denying adoption. 

 Witness his organizing work in the Sanitary Commission of the Civil War ; his 

 guidance of the great plan of Young Men's Christian Associations ; his part 

 in the development of the Stvidents' Volunteer Movement; his furtherance of 

 the cause of Arbitration between his country and Great Britain ; his promoting 

 of the Federation of Churches and Christian Organizations in this city ; his 

 service in connection with the Peabody and Slater Funds ; his quiet, effective 

 advocacy of ' ' sound money ' ' ; his labors as Chairman of the Committee of One 

 Hundred on India Famine Relief ; his unmeasured and priceless devotion to the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museinn of Natural Histor}', and the Botan- 

 ical Garden ; his practical interest in all matters of civic and social betterment ; 

 his influential place in nearly all the great movements of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, in his day ; his carrying forward of the notable Conferences held b)^ his 

 Alliance ; to say nothing of his successful control of his own varied and impor- 

 tant business undertakings. 



And the same writer adds this appreciation : 



Though not scholastic after the manner of the schools, he was truly widely 

 cultured. Notwithstanding his unremitting preoccupations as a man of affairs, 

 his reading was extensive, and what he read became his own through compre- 

 hension and remembrance. Those who knew him best most wondered at his 

 real acquaintance with the noblest books. Nor was his acquaintance with noble 

 men and women less ample. Here, and abroad, and in every walk in life, he had 

 friends whom it was well worth while to know. His home was hospitable to 

 the wise and good from far and near. With the worthiest he had exalted friend- 

 ship. He was a good writer. He was a good critic of writing. He was an ac- 

 complished speaker. 



Though the inheritor of wealth, and himself the creator of added wealth, he 

 was his own master. His abundant possessions found him, and left him, free. 

 His soul lost no freshness, no grace, by reason of wealth's vain-glory. He felt 

 the obligation and the honor of Christian stewardship. He gave gifts quietly, 

 joyfully, like a prince. His benefactions were constant and large. The law of 

 the tithe was not enough for him. He measured his privilege by the greatness 

 of the need and the extent of his resources. With his gifts he gave himself. 



After a long illness, the death of Mr. Dodge occurred at his sum- 

 mer home in Bar Harbor, Maine, August 9, 1903. 



Marcus Baker. 



Marcus Baker, the Assistant Secretary of the Carnegie Institution, 

 performed his last work in editing the present volume. He had 

 been in failing health for some months, and the end came while the 

 book was on the press. He was a scholarly man, of broad culture, 

 and talented in many fields ; he was a conscientious, painstaking, 

 accurate man, doing thoroughly and well that which he undertook ; 



