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Rh it worth making, And I am not sorry, for other and better than money reasons,—for having the opportunity along with the many who knew and prized his worth, of adding a stone to the cairn of Robert Carter.”

These are but specimens of many similar testimonies, chosen only because the authors are of world-wide reputation.

In 1848 he took into partnership with him his two youngest brothers, Walter and Peter, and removed to the store No. 285 Broadway, where they remained eight years. The relations between the brothers were always of the most affectionate nature, never shadowed by the slightest approach to a difference. When separated, letters were interchanged every day. When one was sick, the others saw him daily. The relationship between them was like that of father and son added to that of brother.

Mr. Peter Carter, who was associated with his brother forty-nine years, first as clerk and then as partner, and who was nearly seventeen years a member of his family, probably knowing him better than any other man, thus writes of him:—

“My brother was pre-eminently a peacemaker. He greatly delighted in the beatitude of Matthew v. 9, and was always ready to use his influence to heal and prevent division. One day, many years ago, a leading business man of the city, the senior partner of a firm of two brothers, called at our store and said, ‘My brother is about to leave me, not from any dissatisfaction, but because he thinks it is his duty to engage in something else, and he has the most extravagant ideas of the value of his share in the business, What am I to do?’

“My brother thought a moment, and then said, ‘If I were you, I would say to him in the kindest way, “Write on a piece of paper just what you think you ought to have for your