The Washington times., 1903-04-27
REV. EDN. EVERETT HALE
At ALL SOULS CHURCH
breaches on Need of Religion in
the Schools.

A sermon both interesting and in
stTuctive was delivered in All Souls
Church, Fourteenth and l. Streets north
west. last evening by the Rev Edward
Everett Hale, of Boston. who has been
paying annual visits here for the past
ffty-nine years. Every bit of available
space in the church was occupied
Dr. Hale took his text from ST. John
With: If any man will do His will. ne
shall know of the doctrine. whether it
be of God. or whether I speak OF my
self"
The speaker confined his sermon al
most exclusively 10 religion in the
schools. He began by saying:
"A gentleman of large opportunities
of observation said to me not long ago
that the young people of cur time
think they have no duties to perform.
he said they are not educated TO the
sense CT duty" The speaker declared
he was of the belief that it had been
put too strong. and that a bad over
statement had been made Or. Hale
said he did not think, however. that the
idea of such training as the fundamental
part of education vas as central as it
was a century ago.
"A hundred years ago" he said, the
central idea was that children should
be trained to obey God and not to
strive only to be at the head of their
class. Nowadays we hear that such
and such 2 boy is at the head of his
class Is 1t because he does his duty to
his fellow students OF because he Is
kind to the younger boys, or is it be
cause he is a bright boy and can re
cite the eleventh power of the multiple
cation table in one-third of the time it
requires the boy at the foot of the class
to recite it:
"CoHege-bred men are graduated with
honors and given diplomas 1t is be
cause they have passed examinations in
Greek, Latin, mathematics. philosophy
and other studies; but there has been
no examination as TO character, duty,
and other things which a college
graduate should have
We are told now not to read the
Sermon on the Mount In the public
dices Of a pupil just from Arabia, who
took the examinations at the begin
ming of September. All the same it
would be a pity if the Arabian OF the
Bulgarian should grow up in the pub
lie schools or in any schoolless home
without knowing what took place in
Palestine in those years when the we'll
beloved Son of God went about doing
good.
Today We hear a great deal Of self
culture I hate those words When a
man talks Of self-culture. without con
sideTfng that he must better himself 81
order TO be of service and help to MS
fellow men. he talks as the pagan and
the heather talks.
As you walk across bridge you slip
and fall into the mire. and every effort
you make to extricate yourself sends you
deeper into the mire A man walks near
the bank, and you think he viii lend you
assistance He reaches spot oppo-
site you, and says, Really, my friend
you are in bad plight and I would
like 10 assist you, but I am on my way
to attend a lecture. where / hope TO
learn something and be considered a
child OF God That is one of the hun
dreds Of instances of self-culture which
come under our observation yearly
On Thursday afternoon at 4.I5 O'Clock
Dr. Hale viii read The immortal Man
Without Country" at the New Ma
tional Theater for the benefit OF the
Junior Republic at Annapolis Junction.