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146 “Let me take this opportunity to express my personal grief, as well as my deep sense of the loss sustained by this Seminary and by the Church at large in his death. He was for thirty-three years a Director of this Seminary, and there was no one whose counsel and friendship were more highly prized. His wide influence as a Christian publisher has been extensively and powerfully felt for good, and will continue long after he has entered upon his reward. In all the spheres of Christian evangelical effort in which he held so conspicuous a place he will be sadly missed. My own past intercourse with him is one of the delightful memories which I shall continue to cherish.”

Another member of the Board, Rev. W. C. Cattell, D.D., thus writes:—

“Yes, I loved and honored Robert Carter. It is a delight to me to recall his precious memory. Though much younger than he I was next him in seniority among the directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, We were associated in the Board nearly thirty years. It was always like a benediction to look upon his face, dear precious blessed man. Few men have I loved so much, and so did all love him who knew him.”

Mr. Carter was one of the founders, in 1857, of the New York Sabbath Committee, a society which has done a great work for the consecration of our Christian Sabbath. For years he did yeoman’s service in this admirable institution, and at his death left but one survivor of the original Committee.

Indeed, it would be a difficult matter to give a list of all the benevolent institutions to which he belonged. A year or two before his death, one of his grandchildren jocosely remarked, “It seems to me Grandpa attends an annual meeting of some society every week