without a particle of superstition, I can attribute to nothing but the especial providence of God."

The effort once made to induce Dr. Anderson to become a candidate for the presidency of Brown, will be remembered by many. The suggestion was a tempting one, but was soon waived aside in vigorous terms. "Rochester University invested in me when I was new to such a position, and is, therefore, entitled to whatever gain has resulted from the investment," was his characteristic decision. And the decision was, doubtless, a wise one. A transfer, for the last few years of his life, to the headship of the older and wealthier college, might, in a sense, have won for him higher distinction. But in a sense, only. In another sense, and in most senses, the change could really have added neither to his fame nor his usefulness. On the contrary, it might have marred both. His name, his personality, his life even, had become so wrapped up in Rochester, and Rochester had become so wrapped up in him, that separation would only have been another name for dismemberment. Such a process would have been little short of a mutilation, not to say vivisection. The event proved that it was well for him and well for the cause of good learning that he remained with the college which had become to him as the child of his fondest love.

While broad and catholic in spirit, Dr. Anderson never wavered in the matter of his religious

beliefs and sympathies. In the words of the Rev. R. S. McArthur, D. D., an eminently distinguished pupil of his, "He was a leal-hearted Baptist. In the bottom of his soul he loved the interests of the denomination to which he gave the enthusiasm of his youth, the strength of his manhood, and the ripe wisdom of his later years. He knew that the scholarship, the art, the history of the world, are on our side; he knew that the Word of God is the foundation stone in our denominational structure. The prominence of his position, the wide relationships he had with the leading men in other denominations, never hindered him from using an opportunity, when such words could be appropriately spoken, to emphasize our fundamental principles as in harmony with the Word of God, the best interests of the religious life, and with the largest and highest culture. He did not think that the institution he loved would be benefited by silence or ambiguity on his part as to his denominational convictions. He did not crave any modifications or concessions in our denominational policy. He was satisfied—he was proud to be and avow himself a 'through and through Baptist.'

To all which it may be added that if he was satisfied, and more than satisfied, with his denomination, his denomination appreciated, trusted, and honored him. He exercised a commanding influence in its counsels, was repeatedly chosen President of its great national societies, Home and Foreign, and,

in every way, labored effectually to make it a mighty power in the land.

And then he put his hand to many great questions that no church lines could embrace or limit. Both his pen and his voice were potential during those terrible years of bloody strife, when the Union was in such sore peril. Many a soldier enlisted and hastened to the rescue because of what he wrote and said. He was often summoned to service on boards composed largely of the more eminent men of the times, and entrusted with the shaping of policies whose effect would be to mar or mend whatever they touched. To economics and sociology, in their relation to the family and the state, he gave much thought, and his counsels bearing upon their application to practical life, were highly prized.

His published writings, though never taking the form of hard-bound volumes are numerous, and indicative of great versatility. His range of subjects was very wide, as will appear from the mention of a portion of them. Thus: "The Origin and Political Life of the English Race;" "Language as a Means of Classifying Man" "Sir William Hamilton's Lectures;" "Berkley and His Works;" "Growth and Relations of the Sciences;" "The Arabian Philosophy;" "The Ends and Means of a Liberal Education;" The Study of the Fine Arts;" "The University of the Nineteeth Century;" "The Doctrine of Evolution;" "The Right Use of Wealth ;"

and "Out-Door Relief.” To Johnson's Encyclopædia, of which he was an associate editor, he contributed articles on Ethnology, Philosophy, Esthetics, and Baptist Church History. As one has well and tersely said, "All these writings are characterized by rhetorical vigor and directness, and by the appropriation of a wide range of knowledge for the purpose of ciearly illustrating and of giving weight and significance to the special subjects treated."

To Dr. Anderson, the marriage state proved very happy and greatly promotive of his usefulness. There is a real touch of nobility as well as pathos, in the tribute he paid his wife upon his retirement from the presidency of the University. In a public address on that occasion, he testified that to her more than to any other human cause, he owed whatever of success he had achieved in life. Her maiden name was Elizabeth M. Gilbert of New York City, and her antecedents were of the best. They had no children. The University was more than children to them, and to it they bequeathed their joint estate, amounting to forty thousand dollars. There is something beautiful as well as pathetic, in the fact that their deaths were so nearly simultaneous that the same funeral services and the same grave sufficed for both.

As illustrative of the immortality and pricelessness of the service rendered his race by President Anderson, I quote the following words of Henry

C. Vedder, with which this sketch shall close. "Nothing is so permanent among human institutions as a seat of learning. The University of Salerno has an uninterrupted history from the ninth century, the University of Bologna dates from the beginning of the twelfth century, and the University of Paris from the thirteenth. The oldest dynasty in Europe can boast no such antiquity. Revolutions have swept over the continent, wars have devastated, empires have risen, flourished and decayed, the map of Europe has been reconstructed times without number, but the great institutions of learning have been left undisturbed. The names of their founders and faithful servants have been gratefully pronounced, while oblivion has buried cotemporary princes and prelates. There is nothing in which man can make investments, either of his fortune or his life, with such certainty of permanent results, as in the making of a university."

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