the Christ who gave himself for them. Paul was beheaded in Rome. John
was tortured in Patmos. Andrew and James were crucified in Asia. The
rest were mobbed, or stoned, or tortured to death. And as years sped
on man kept giving. Multitudes went forth, burning for him in the
tropics, freezing for him in the arctics; threading for him the forest
paths, braving for him the swamps, that they might serve his little
ones. He gave himself for the world, and the world, in a passion of
love, will yet give itself back to him.

Recently the officials of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and the
noblest citizens of Boston assembled for celebrating the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of George Peabody. For a like purpose the
citizens of London came together in banquet hall. Now, the banker had
long been dead. Nor did he leave children to keep his name before the
public. How shall we account for two continents giving him such praise
and fame? George Peabody received from his fellows, because he first
gave to his fellows. To his genius for accumulation he added the
genius of distribution. His large gifts to Harvard and Yale, to Salem
and Peabody, made to science and art as well as to philanthropy and
religion, secured perpetual remembrance. When the public credit of the
State of Maryland was endangered, he negotiated $8,000,000 in London
and gave his entire commission of $200,000 back to the State. He who
gave $3,500,000 for founding schools and colleges in the South for
black and white, could not but receive honor and praise. Therefore the
eulogies pronounced by the legislators in Annapolis. As a banker in
London he was disturbed by the sorrows of the poor, and for months gave
himself to an investigation of the tenement-house system, developing
the Peabody Tenements, to which he gave $2,500,000, and helped 20,000
people to remove from dens into buildings that were light and sweet and
wholesome. Therefore when he died in London the English nation that