The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-08
On HALE IN MS STUDY.


for the offics of "interlocutor" is not very
fam liar TO me. asked Dr.. Hale:
What do you consider the best thing
you ever cid7" He did not seem an
moved or perpleIed by the question. He
thrust his arms behind his head. extended
himself the full length of the lou nge, and
regarded me with his deep-set eyes.
II think" began DR.. Hale thoughtfully.
shat in His Name rs a bit of literary
work, Is to be regarded IS the best book
I ever wrote. The story of The Man
Without Country has circulated in much
larger numbers. 1t Was forged in the fire.
and think its great popularity is due TO
the subject"
And what is your best literary work at
PRESENT."
After some hesitation Dr.. Hale an
swered:
81 think my sermons are the best"
This serious answer caused no little
astonishment, for one naturally thinks of
DIR. Hale IS an author rather than as q,
hard working minister.
~ attach great deal of Importance to
the weekly printing and circulating Of
sermons" he continued. 1t Is more than
fifteen years since began printing them
for our people. Ii keeps . man 1T his best
work Ii does away with slipshod care
lessness. I should advise every minister
TO print his sermons. The fact of it Is"
he continued with increasing vivacity,
''hve-sixths Of my work in this office is
parish work. / am q person who has
never lost sight of my profession. People
complain that my books always carry
moral. ! wouldn't write if they didn't"
How did you come TO write--as an
author. I meant"
~ tn ISL | was only known in Boston
as an energetic minister of an active
church. / didn't want anything else. I
believe now. as then, that If anything is
going TO be done. IL Is 20 be done through
that agency. Then the war came along.
/ was in the Massachusetts, Rife corps.
and" he said this with a pardonabie
twinkle OF pride, II have drilled a major
general. Then was on the sanitary COM
mission. To save the country-that
brought me into public life, and / have
never got back into simple, parish lif.
again. Then came The Man Without a
Country In 1871 Ten Times One Is Ten
vas published. From that book came a
popularity of my life. Ii brought me into
close contact with all parts OF the world.
from u hiig the lscnI mana ana sAe
Kings Daughters, and q dozen such work
ing societies, and indirectly the Epworth
League and the Christian Endeavor They
copied the idea with MANY OF my notices |"
The doctor stopped while the writer
pondered how many girl. from east to
west and north TO south, carried upon her
throat plain silver cross lied with a
purple ribbon, her proudest ornament II
Is an inspiring pictlre and comes quickly
II IA q n in tk-es .
surrender, To girile the world with I'M
selfish crosses. 20 hammer high purposes
into young souls, that Is 4 better life than
10 have written the best novel of the de-
eade.
.'Yes." said Dr. Hale with the authority
oil his three score years aud eleven, ''ihe
parish - at the basis Of NV Lille and takes
fve-sixths Of my time. All this would
have teen impossible without il"
In these DAYS when some OF our eminent
critics consider q moral purpose detri.
mental TO the literary value Of a story. il is
refreshing to learn from the mouth OF one
Of our most popular authors th.t his sue
cess - due entirely 20 the inspiration a. a
Christian Ideal. Ii takes the modern
school OF critics 10 pa, the Lord Jesus
Christ uron the back. Charles klngzley
and Dr.. Hale viii not be snufied OUT BY
them because they hare chosen 10 Chris
tsSnlxe their literary work.
Ill sH-I r Hale regards ths ministry "a
the most practical business IN the world.
The theory that the minister spends his
mornings reading Hebrew. aad his after
Moons praying with dying old women. IS
exploded IA bis career. He knocks about
in the most aesiye of city life. IL cane
oct that the day before | called he went
% 10 ths state house 20 argue Ia favor cs
an honest bal of some kind. He then
signed the lease Of the MONDAY Rest" n
e.ao where working girls are 10 get coed
food. lie made himself responsible for
1880 year. because the poor gTl had 70
he cared tor, and he knew if would come
back 10 him al right Then the duties
of vice president Of the Industrial AID
ct business" he SAID. With flashing eyes.
or such are the charities OF hts life.
kyen whsle the writer was sitting in the
char taat Dean Stanley occupied and re-
so4ysng the problem whether DR.. Haze
sumno1e1 from some other planet the
tine an which 20 write bis sermons, we
we're interrupted bv = Ynesseu ger from
the Society Tor Prevention of Crss.ty to
Animals. no came Ser about fllEy rounds
al stores u ascA Dr. Hale had read 10 &C.
tsrrasne The foGr winners OF prizes.
i Sas ltst1s taken in. F" he sad with =
hoy'Sn laugh alter Eas messenger. stunned
dumb BY the kindly recepslaa OF ~.
HAts's (which - denied 20 no onel had
departed staggering: Il thought fsev were
80 he snoEt stories aa3 they turned ont "a
Re ~. aoo word books"
pE. EAle's study. vhsch Re calls his Of
fee was once used IS the school room fsr
car scholars and had piazza ca ons side
CT ~ THIS Mr.. Haze has boarded Up ana
uses the kpace-saree feet wiae-far his
thousands Of pamphlets. | STEPPED n