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 visitor to the Government Hospital for the Insane. He is president of the Board of Trustees of Howard university, and for six months in 1903 he was its acting president. He is president of the Union college alumni association of Washington, and of the Southern Association of Alumni of the Union theological seminary of New York city. He has been university preacher at Princeton, Cornell, Amherst, Vassar, Yale and other institutions. He is a constant writer for the press and is on the staff of the "Sunday School Times." He belongs to the University clubs of New York and Washington, and to the Chevy Chase club of Washington, District of Columbia. He finds his relaxation in wheeling and in golf. He has published "Denominationalism vs. Christian Union," and "Responsive Readings from the American Standard Bible," 1904. Politically he is identified with the Republican party.

Several motives combined to lead him to the choice of his life work—the wishes of friends, his early environment, and his own preference.

He was married to Miss Frances E. Bacon, February 4, 1873. They had two children living in 1905.