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Rh the general convention at Boston in 1904. He is chaplain of the Confederate Veterans in Washington, and of the Sons of the Revolution, in the same city. He was largely instrumental in organizing the diocese of Washington and is president of the standing committee of that diocese. Doctor McKim's greatest public service has been as a preacher of the Gospel, and in the estimation of those who hear him preach, he has that intellectual grasp of divine truth which comes from an experience of it. His illustrations are striking and illuminating. He is a leader in his own denomination, a scholar and a lover of books.

Doctor McKim's publications are, "The Nature of the Christian Ministry"; "A Vindication of Protestant Principles" (1879); "Sermons on Future Punishment" (1883); "Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons" (1887); "Christ and Modern Unbelief" (1893); "Leo XIII. at the Bar of History" (1897); "Present-Day Problems of Christian Thought" (1900); "The Gospel in the Christian Year" (1902); "The Confederate Soldier: His Motives and Aims" (1904). He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity; the Cosmos club; the Sons of the Revolution and of the Confederate Veterans. He sympathizes with the old line Democrats, but repudiated Bryanism in 1896 and 1900. He mentions among the books and authors most useful to him, the Bible, Shakespeare, Butler's Analogy, Bishop Lightfoot's Works, Richard Hooker, Horace Bushnell's "Nature and the Supernatural" and "Vicarious Sacrifice," and Row's Bampton Lectures. He uses the gun and the fishing rod and enjoys horseback exercise. His own personal conviction independently formed when a boy of fifteen, determined his choice of life vocation. He counts among the strong influences of his life an ideal Christian home, and in particular the experience acquired during his service in the army. He says, "the pressure of active parochial work has too much hindered my private reading. My knowledge and culture are far below what they should have been, given my opportunities and my natural gifts. Failure to hold rigidly to certain hours for study has been a great fault. The best recipe for success in life is not to worship at the altar of success. Have a spiritual ideal. Adhere to it, though it entail loss and failure. Aim to secure the approval of God and your conscience. While valuing the approval of good men, never swerve a hair from duty to obtain it. Be true, be brave, be gentle."