The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-08

"Dr. Hale, you yourself have limited at
it, namely, that the worst thing your
friends say about you Is that you have too
many irons in the fire. Do you think that
thereby you have missed an opportunity
in life ?''
Il am glad you asked that question"
Hsreassured me with his most winning
smile. II don't think I have" be said
slowly. 81 might have written better
verses; by the way"-I thought he was
changing the subject-"I am just editing
q collection OF nv verses for Roberts Broth
ers, to be called For Fifty Years On the
title page this quotation from the '1ngham
Papers will be printed IS a motto for the
poems. Read il aloud to me-"
Judge how I was moved Is read the
following words TO him:
Poor Ingham was painfully conscious
that he had no peculiar genius for one
duty rather than another. If il were his,
duty TO write verses. he wrote verses; to
lay telegraph, he laid telegraph: to fight
slavers, he fought slavers: to preach SER
mons he preached sermon4 And he did
one of these things with just as much
slacrity as the other; the moral purpose
entirely Ssntrolling such mental aptness
or physical habits as he could bring 10
bear"
As my voice died away among the vol
umes il flashed across me that in these
X.
and spiritual biography.
"Isthis your epitaphf" / asked very
soberly.
Il am willing to stand by this as nv
epitaph." he repeated after me in his
gravest tones.
Now this scene was not an interview.
but revelation. and / felt that it was
ment called Us TO so out together we
arose.
II wish you could have seen more of
my parish work" he said, a. he walked
in the rain. He required 10 his favor
ite topic eagerly, "for that is my real
life"
"Sermons?n The word started him
off
az have no patience with the idea that
it takes SIX days of grinding to write SER
mon. What nonsensei A sermon con-
sisis of about ? 500 words. take o cup of
coffee before breakfast and write aboDt SIX
pages-that is $50 words. In the morning
| dictate to my emanueusis ]. 500 words. /
am intensely interested in the subject and
this takes only quarter of an hour. In
the afternoon look II over and add 500 or
go words, and the sermon is done. In all,
l haven't put my hand for over two hours
10 paper"
Although have written a sermon or
two myself and had adifferent experience.
/ did not argue the point. l have a faint
suspicion that il would take mos: people
fifty years of experience 10 arrive at such
wonderful facility.
Powerf Where did Dr. Hale get the
strength Tn carry through his hundred
duties f-editIng-wrlting-a public
work and private charities--eorrespond
ence--for he is the busiest man in Boston,
and has business increases upon him week
by week in an appalling ratio.
How on earth do Won do !. allS Where
do you get the powerf What is if7
THE simple truth is" and l quote his
words exactly. shat any child of God who
IN any adequate way believes that he can
partake of the divine nature, knows that
he has strength enough for any business
which looks The right way; thar Is, which
helps 10 bring Gods kingdom into the
world. Wei, II you are working with
A!addin's lamp or with Monte Cris.o's
treasures. you are not apt to think Won
will fail. Far less will You think you will
fail IL you are working with the omuipo-
tence Of the Lord God behind you When
people talk TO ME. therefore, about opfiua-
ism. or good spirits, or expecting success.
il | know them vel enough | sav that
an promised Infinite power 20 work with,
and that whenever / have trusted i. fairly
and squarely, ] have found thai the prom
Use was true"
He stopped. and under the shelter OF a
high steeple- we separated, aud the parish
priest, the author. the eager citizen, the
helper Of poor girls and struggling young
men. the man OF power. he Christian COS
mcpo.iisn stFode down the street. and was
lost IN the mist. / could cot help calling
% mind pretty story told Of him while
be Vas travelling u the West As the
train stopped At some forsskcn hamlet in
California. twenty glrts were seen upon
the platform On hearing that Edward T..
Hale was 20 pass through. they had begged
OF from school in order TO greet aim.
They we're Kings Daughters" and DR..
Hale vas their inspiration and their chief
Eaca girl wss loaded with q difieren.
dover. with wAica she gaslanded her
hero.
sach tender aud rsverentiM free
masonry as this. founded by himself.
creets him daily through the nail and
oveTw helms him when ne travels from his
own home
As TIE author Of 1.-The Man Without a
Country" In His Name" and Ten
Times One Is Ten" he sxays our i'm azin ~
ton and oar hearts Bot let him also be
known as q man content 10 re q PARISH
minister, and ~ one who never fails TO
lend . hand wAen tie chance is gwen 20
hisn- HEKsERr D. wAEn.