tically all these were unknown in the Boston of forty-
five years ago in the systematized form given them
by Mr. Baldwin. This was the note of the Bishop of
Massachusetts. It was not so much, he said, that
Baldwin was so good a man, he was a man rich in sug-
gestive power. The new education for young men at
the Union is now a splendid commonplace. It has
become with vast improvements an integral part of
that immense moral force already working through
the Young Men's Christian Associations in every
part of the nation. The younger Baldwin found these
associations indispensable and powerful agencies for
good among railroad men.

He told me when starting his own railroad libraries
at points where no Christian Association existed that
they saved thousands of the men from "saloon hab-
its." They can touch, he said, but a portion of the
men, but it is the very portion which we want most
to keep straight. As I listened to Bishop Lawrence
at the memorial service in honor of the father, the
picture of the son came before me. It was one of the
last public addresses that young Baldwin ever gave.
It was to an audience in a Young Men's Christian
Association in Jamaica, Long Island. With the fear-
less candor that was always his, he stated his own
different religious faith, but hastened to add his belief
in the great solvent of social service; that men bound
together in helping their fellows were made brothers
in spite of intellectual differences expressed in creeds.

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