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, any man now living. And the son inherits his father's fine presence and massive physique; a large, sturdy, strong man—fit for great and protracted labor with mind, and nerve, and will, and every faculty. Rothschild said it takes great courage to make a fortune; and ten times as much judgment and courage to keep it. Many times undertakings of vast magnitude have depended upon the judgment and nerve of this one man. But no one ever heard of his not being equal to every demand. A weak, timid, or unhealthy man could never have done what he has done. He would have broken down by fifty. But Mr. Morgan bids fair to even outlast his famous father's seventy-seven—possibly to control all the railroads in America besides. Not a month, hardly a week, passes but the press tells of some new and mighty combination of capital involving tens of millions, and putting the control in a few hands; and almost as invariably you find the brains and financier of the project, and almost a sure guarantee of its success, the name of J. Pierpont Morgan. The duties of the Secretary of the Treasury would be light beside what this American Rothschild performs self-imposed. And he finds time to think of others, too, giving a million dollars for a hospital with as little ostentation as if he was buying a newspaper.

Out of Dutch stock; was born at Kelvedon, England, in 1834; a Baptist; at seventeen he began to deliver cottage sermons; at eighteen had a church at Water Beach; at twenty pastor of New Park Street Chapel, London, where he preached so well that in two years the building had to be greatly enlarged; then Surrey Music Hall was engaged; then his people built the well-known Tabernacle, in 1861; the evangelistic and philanthropic agencies