The Washington times., 1904-06-26
An Authority on Spanish-Amercan History,
Powerful Preacher, an Author With
a Great Following, and Chaplain
of the Senate.
A Man Who Has Given His Life to Patriot
ism, Religion, and Common Sense,
and Has Labored Day After Day
Without Ceasing

his support from the first. He gave
everywhere what ne had 10 ,-lye-to this
movement money; to this. open support
from h!s pulpit: 10 this magazine arri-
Gle Now and then ne used perry with
effect. At one time he was leading a
campaign against Boston vandals for
-the rescue Of the Old South Church. and
when the fight was won and the notable
cid structure opened as a permanent
museum he wrote:
To hide the tirne-stains on our wall.
Let every tattered banner fan.
The Bourbon letters. green and old.
That Haunted once in garnished gold;
The oriIiame Of France. that fell
That day when sua-buraeo Peppereu
His shattered salvos fired 50 well
The Fleur de Lys trailed sulky down
And LoulS-burg was Georges Town
AS these lines suggest, history has
claimed almost as much of his busy
time as patriotism and religion. At one
stage II his career II expected to be
made clerk TO Prescott. the historian.
and gave himself up to an extraordinary
preparation for that work he knew the
authorities on the story OF Spanish
America from cover to cover. He read
everything on the subject he could find
When ne could not undertake that post
ne contentsd himself with discovering
the origin Of the name California; and
unfolding almost an entire chapter IN
our early relations with Spain which
had never been even half-fatbomed be-
fore.
Working on To the End.
This bent toward history has occupied
DR.. Hale's mind particularly OF late
He has written a sort Of autobiography
which by means Of his links with the
past dates from the Revolutionary war
of 1776. and covers the war with Spain OF
1888 1t is filed with the humanity
which historians omit with care. As
when he writes Of Boston as he first
knew il. the town has not so many
thousand inhabitants with an annual
trade of so many thousand dollars; but
It is a large country town run OF
green and open spaces, while Washing
ton Street fn the neck was a quiet
country road lined with thirty or forty
homesteads" IT have sailed my boat,
he says in another place, ION the salt
waters. where 1 can now sit IN the
parlors OF my Practitioners nave
studied botany on the marshes where
I can now sit in my own study TO pre-
pare the notes which read TO YOU
rode in triumph on the locopotive
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/ five miles that were ready Of that high
way to the west. where now she might
run 5000"
| So the years have run on. finding him
always busy and always fighting for
patriotism and religion. In 1888 he re-
| tired from his charge at the New Old
South Church He was then seventy
seven years old. and he had earned a
respite. But voice, mind. and spirit
/ have all CONTINUED strong. and the ma
! ture which made him look on idleness
/ with horrible disgust and terror
| while a boy was not content with rest"
in the man. The tasks have gone on.
/ accordingly, marching triumphant over
/ all his resolutions to go slow. Recently
THE Outlook" published a series OF
papers written since DR.. Hale's retire
ment, and they awOke the readers or
that magazine to the call Of church and
! state. exactly as Ten Times One Is
Ten awoke their fathers thirty years
: before. 1t will be so until his ink all
dries NJ
States Senate, and brought his impress
sive. stopped. rugged ngure 10 the Na-
tons Capital Every day the Congress
sits he Is 10 be found at his post. in the
simple impressive gown he wore IN MS
church His mind IS Sisanuc, ever
among the most powerful minds n thal
T. fassemlJly. Assuredly, his influence IS MOI
! less. And IN every word he utters there
7 as in every word he has ever Spoken
I or written. the same central purpose Z
, help. and the same Dominant 1II ehord o.
compassion, are in control
This Is the record OF Edward 6ale
n fight to prove himself worthy or III
c opportunities. Who among his fellow
u / Americans, shall say ne mas not won
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