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Peace Tour round European Capitals in 1907. 



of the liible that had influenced him most, it would be 

 the first (liapter of Joshua, with its oft-repeated exhor- 

 tation to l)e stron;,' and courageous ; and if o»e verse 

 had to hf ( hosen, it would be that wiiich he was taught 

 when a l)o\\,and which he saw on the walls of Gordon's - 

 room at Southampton: "Trust in the Lord with all 

 thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. 

 In all thy ways acknmvledge Him, and He shall direct thy 

 paths" 



He was the soul of generosity. He was intrinsically 

 magnanimous. His deepest joy sprang from doing good. 

 In him the enthusiasm of humanity was incarnate. 

 To him the trouijled turned with the assurance that he 

 would be their refuge. Men and women who had lost 

 faith in themselv&s regained it as they felt the throb 

 of his sympathy. Worthy and unworthy alike told 

 their tale of grief in his ear, and always found a 

 willing and eager listener. I have been with him in 

 earnest talk, when Nuddenly he has raught sight of a 

 weary woman carrying a heavy carpet bag, and in a 

 moment he has taken it from her and carried it for her 

 to the station. 



Certainly women never had a braver knight. All 

 women in all lands were his care ; but chiefly women 

 in sulTering, crushed by the tyrannies of men. No 

 movement that gave promise of help to woman called 

 in vain for his chivalry and devotion. One of the 

 supreme aims of his life was to lift her to her true plane 

 in life and to kindle within her a sense of the greatness 

 of her responsibility and of the need there was for the 



whole-hearted dedication of her powers to the welfare 

 of mankind. It is asserted that he was one of the first 

 editors to engage a woman on his staff at the same 

 terms as to work and wages as men. 



That generosity characterised his judgments as well 

 as his acts. To a friend who was vehemently indignant 

 with those who put him in the criminal dock he wrote, 

 " Pray do moderate your wrath against those who 

 have been prosecuting me. Remember wc must be as 

 charitable to a judge as to a harlot, and we must be 

 just even to those we judge to be unjust." P'ew men 

 have blended together in such perfect harmony, in 

 such sane proportions, strong denunciations of wrong 

 with just and generous judgment of individuals. He 

 saw the sordid and ignoble in life, knew the selfishness 

 and baseness, but he was always ready to make allow- 

 ances for the pressure of temptation, the inlluence of 

 education, and the weakness of man. He entered into 

 luuiian nature in its whole compass. 



The breadth of his interests was made manifest in 

 his prolonged efforts for the fusion of the whole Knglish- 

 speaking race, in his keen s\mpathy with small 

 nationalities, in his patient and persistent work on 

 behalf of international and universal peace, and in all 

 the organisations which forward universal brotherhood 

 and goodwill. Hence it is not surprising that of all 

 those whose loss we so deeply mourn in this sad hour 

 the civilised world should think first and foremost of 

 our (le:ir friend. 



*liN. Stead has recei .ed messages of sympathy and 



