The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-07
DR.. EDWARD EVERETT HALE
Large congregation at All Souls
Church TO Hear Him.
FOLLOW YOUR LEADER"
The subject Of His Morning Dis
courSe-The Venerable Preach
cr'S Words of Wisdom Listened
to With Marked Attention super
stitionS and Uses of Lent.

DIR. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston.
preached to two large congregations at
All Souls Unitarian Church yesterday in
the morning and evening and the venera-
BILE preachers words of truth and wis
dom We're listened to with great atten-
ton. IN the morning he selected as his
subject Follow Your Leader" finding
his text i'm Matthew X, 5: These twelve
Jesus sent forth and commanded them,
saying. Go not into the way of the Gen
tiles. and into any city of the Samari-
tans enter We not" DIR. Hale said:
NO address preserved in history has
been followed by such effects as this. To
read il now recalls the Duke of yelling
tons short answer to a doubtful mission
AIRY The man asked the duke, in Phil
istine way. if he did not think that the
church must wait in its aggressive cam
paign until further preparations mad
been made? Did not the world need as
an introduction to Christianity more edu-
cation. or more commerce, or better in
ternattonal law? Might it not be well for
the church to wait for such preparatory
agencies?
And the duke said TO this calculating
youngster:
What are your marching orders, sir?'
The young mans business was
not to make reply,
His not to reason why.
''The marching orders are to go to all
the world to preach the gospel to every
creature.
Il think the story is true and / think
therefore that that youngster got a les
son which he remembers to this hour.
What is this gospel? 1t is this, that
the kingdom Of God is at hand. God
rules here and now. We do not live I'M
der the rule of any viceroy. Our king is
here. His kingdom is at hand, When a
question of duty turns up, or If you
please a question of enjoyment, l have not
to telegraph to any distant stack of law
books or tell boy to take down some
black letter statute from shelf III and
send il to me on a cart from which at
some time or another it shall be placed
upon my reading desk No! / am in my
Fathers arms / ask him about my duty
or ! tell him Of my plans and | have my
answer. He isl am
1.-The truth is that as we go and come
in the clear bracing air of the nineties of
this century. we wholly forget the dead
carbonic acid in which men went and
came one hundred years ago / said in
public the other day that no one now
living, not even theologian or stu
dent in history. could recollect or repeat
| five consecutive words which We're writ
ten by any clergyman in Boston between
100 and 1890. / made the exception of
possibly few lines from one of Mat
thew Boyle's hymns, of some political
appeals from Cooper and Mayhem, and
a few rules which some of US remember
from DR.. Popkin's Greek grammar.
II was very much touched not long
ago, when a student in one of the older
theological schools spoke to me with en-
thusiasm of the great sermons of
Claiming, which he was preaching IN
Boston between the years of 1915 and 1888
The particular school of thought to which
this young man is attached has just now
got round to Claiming. His fresh words
have the new joy of new life for them
just as they had for his hearers in the
wooden meeting house in Long Lane
eighty years ago.
For the simple truth of God is indeed
fresh every morning and new every even
ing. Channings biography IN those early
days Of the century is TO me more inter
esting than any of his sermons. young
man Of such insight as he of such sim
plicity Of character as he. leaves college
with an intense eagerness for truth and
with the simple passion which is to do
right and speak truth as a part OF the
doing. And for this poor fellow, the
creatures who have made what they ca!
theology, have devised an intricate sys
tenn made up partly from history, partly
from phiioiogy, partly from artificial
logic. as to the way in which men shall
seek God and serve Him. The history Of
Channing's young life is the history of
ten years striving in such intrcacies
He is TO walk and his feet are fettered
lie is 10 write and he is handcuffed. He
is 10 speak and his tongue has been tied
In the horror of such bondage
COD speaks to him. Here am L.
In the ecstacy OF this revelation he an
swers it in the echo. Here am l. and
from that moment Father and Son work
together His word is Gods word. God 5
word is his work. His deed is Gods deed
what God wills he does. He enters the
service which is perfect freedom.
- recent French critic. a man of some
distinction / believe in his rather insig-
uilicant line. calls Channing's word
commonplace. Thank God ii IL, II is
utterly commonplace and when in
Heaven Claiming knew that this man
said this. ! think he thanked God too
You and l may even take personal