The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
DIR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

n Cosmopolitan, OF New York, for
the month Of March, contains a we'll writ
ten and highly entertaining sketch of the
life and labors of the above named rev.
erend gentleman, who is recognized to-
day as one of the most prominent and
conspicuous characters among the hterati
of America. The article referred to is
from the graceful pen of Mrs. Bernard
Whitman, who appears to be well fur
nished with all the facts relating to the
early as well as the latter years of his
brilliant and useful life. She informs US
that DR.. Hale was born in the city of
Boston, April Sd, in the year 1922.
The biographer says, referring to DR..
Hale's more youthful days, that he was
pre- eminently a Boston "boy," and that
d" there was not a nook or corner of old
and it's legends and traditions are clear to
him from the very foundation" She
adds: "In the younger days of his
ministry in Boston it was his delight to
guide a groupe of boys from his parish in
long tramps to places of historic interest,
and nc one can transform the Boston of
to-day to the Boston of a hundred years
ago so readily and sc clearly as can he in
a half hours talk. Those boys of his
parish, now men of middle ge, date their
interest in the welfare of their native city
to those walks so trimming full of anec-
dote and Renaissance. The pastor was
lost sight of in the friend and companion
During his successful pastorate of ten
years in the city of Worcester, DR.. Hale
was married to Miss Perkins, Of Hartford,
who is still living. From this charge he
was called to Boston by the South Con-
gregational church of that city, and served
it most faithfully and successfully. During
the wal his extraordinary talent for writ
ing was first brought into requisition,
(although he had frequently written for
his fathers paper) by becoming a regular
and as associate editor of the Christian
Examiner. His first effort at story writing,
however, was undertaken in the summer
of 1862, the title of his story being GA
Man Without a Country which was
published in the old atlantic Monthly.
The story of itself was of absorbing in
terest and powerfully written, but no one
could calculate the deep impression itmade
at such a time. This story has been trans
lated into several languages and number
less editions have been issued. Since this
publication, with remarkable rapidity he
has been sending out his stories, magazine
and sermons. It is impossible to
touch upon them ALL "My Double. and
how he Undid Me-" has a depth of humor
shows a new side in every perusal.
In 1870, DR.. h. wrote the story of "Ten
Times one is Ten" About this time the
Unitarian Conference, wishing to direct
the publication of; a literary reviews
him as the editor: The magazine
was called Old and Ned0, and for six years
he retained the editorship. At the, end
of that time it was united with; Scr6basr's
Monthly. 1T so happened that this maya
zine lacked a serial. Dr.. Hale had often
sketched the, life, of, Frederick, Gfeenleaf
to hisfFoung friends and he was urged to
Writevn at length for Ola and Nev. This
he did calling the hero "Harry Wads-
worth, ," and in this book he introduced
the now famous Wordsworth notices: r1'
49, Look up and not down
: oLook forward and not back;
Look out and not in; -
- Lend a hand.'
The story is one of the possibility of
One pure, good life in
ten, the ten n hundred, and
so on. In twenty-seven years the whole
world had accepted the notices, and the
of God had come.
DR.. Andrew Peabody said, "Every
man must have a vocation and an avoca-
DR.. Hale's vocationis the ministry,
and literature is his avocation; and he
likes to say it would be hard to find a
story or an essay of his which has not the
purpose of a sermon, SO completely do
the two work together.
This eminently distinguished author
and divine is writing for The PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER a new serial story, the pub
.ication of which will begin with our next
The title of the story is "East and
West" and it will depict frontier life in
Ohio a hundred years ago. The charac-
start in a New England village and
20 to the far West. through MANY adyen-