carriage, ran over and kissed her and then the procession moved again.

During the summer of 1905 amidst heavy duties he stopped for a day and visited a children's hospital dedicated to the cure of tubercular bone disease. He then broke a very rigid rule and issued an appeal for financial aid for the institution. The same summer he accepted the vice-presidency of the Public Schools Athletic League and wrote the president, General G. W. Wingate, that the systematic athletic drill given the boys was "a service of utmost importance not merely from the standpoint of the physical but also from the standpoint of the ethical."

It was as natural for him to glow with friendliness as for the stars to shine, and he was as true. He cultivated his human nature to be sensitive to the needs of humanity as the artist does his æsthetic nature to be sensitive to beauty. He responded to appealsexpressed or unexpressed-as readily and as satisfyingly as the mountain-fed springs do to the thirst of the traveler. He poured out helpful fellowship in the full confidence that God was humanity's Father and he felt that therefore no kindness fell on unproductive soil. He was a friend to man because man was a member of his Father's family.

CHAPTER VIII

THE BROTHER OF HIS PEOPLE

"The rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensable prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive."-Theodore Roosevelt.

They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.-Isa. 41. 6.

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RS. CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON,

the sister of Mr. Roosevelt, in a brief address at the exercises when the corner stone was laid for the restoration of the old family home in New York, said:

As Washington was known as the father of his people, and as Lincoln was known as the saviour of his people, so my brother will be known as the brother of his people.

That was an apt and inspired title to give Mr. Roosevelt, and it completely fills the Christian ideal. Washington proclaimed the doctrine of man's equal brotherhood by establishing the republic, Lincoln settled its sincerity by freeing the slaves, and Roosevelt applied it practically by banishing the practice of giving special privileges to favored folk.

Henry W. Stoddard, editor of The Evening Mail, New York, said to me:

The biggest thing Mr. Roosevelt did for his nation was to establish the equality of all before the law. He asserted

and confirmed the right to regulate capital and to allow neither rich nor poor, high nor low, as such, any special and peculiar privileges. Wealth felt itself to be supreme and had secured special consideration and was exerting abnormal power. The ability of the government to rectify this condition had been established by John Marshall, but the truth was sleeping and the masses seemed helpless. Mr. Roosevelt began the fight early and won, the signal victory, that settled the matter, in the Northern Securities case. He set the nation free for further development by thus fixing in a practical way the native equality of all citizens of America.

The next greatest thing he did was to awaken the sense of responsibility and the ideal of man's brotherhood in all the world by steady and sane appeals that finally put the spirit of war into the nation. A large part of the people lacked it because rocked to sleep in a selfish security which admitted no responsibility for the world's condition.

He did not believe that God was a respecter of persons. He refused to be counted as different from his fellows; he was in all matters very much like other people. He always minimized his native gifts. In refusing to aid Mr. Richard Watson Gilder gather material about his boyhood he admitted that he always shrank from having a sketch of his "younger days" prepared. "Perhaps my reason is that . . . they were absolutely commonplace. . . . It was not until I was sixteen that I began to show any prowess or even ordinary capacity." To Julian Street he disclaimed being a genius either as a writer or an orator, and added, "If I have anything at all resembling genius, it is a gift of leadership." Then he added, with a serious air: "To tell the truth, I like to believe that, by what I have accomplished

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