The Washington herald., 1907-05-19

graduate Of to-day, and his active career
has now extended over sixty-fve years.
as he was an usher I'm the Latin School
for two years before ne began 10 preach.
To say Of this fine old man that he
comes of good stock would be 20 gid fna
gold HIS father was Nathan Hale. of
the s-me family as his nameSake who
was hanged as "a spy. His mother was
Sarah Preston Everett. sister Of Edward
Everett and Alexander Hin Everett. both
statesmen and diplomstists Of almost the
first water Ia the first half or the last
century. The boy knew the entire New
England coterie Of nineteenth century
literary and philosophic lights. including
LongfellOw. Emerson. AlCOtt. and all the
rest and he also knew nearly ali the
public men Of two or three generations
ago, including Webster. and has told good
stories about some Of them in his re-
markahe book entitled Memoirs Of a
Hundred Years Besides. no has known
nearly every body worth knowing since
their time
He Is extremely proud Of the fact that
his father. in addition 10 being the pub
Usher Of the Boston Daily Advertiser for
nearly half a century. was the promoter
Of one Of New Englsnd's first railroads
and bought its first locomotive.
Or. Hale's most famous book is "The
Man Without a Country" His Lend a
Hand clubs have done rs much real
good. perhaps. as all Of Tolstoy's lurid
writings. He has been the minister Of
the South Congrega tional Unitarian
Church in Boston. fifty-one years. He
learned to write shorthand when a boy.
and still writes H. He believes he could
still do a fair days work as q Journey
man printer In an office that is not too
up-to-date. lie has two children who
have made marks for themselves-Edward
Everett Hale. jr.. a college professor.
and Ellen Day Hale. a successful artist.
salvation Army's Founder.
TWO years under eighty, which means
that he is a year younger than Tolstoy.
William Booth. general" OF the Saliva
ton Army. is puite as striking a man as
any Of those mentioned and as well
known 10 the world in spite of their re-
spectiye literary and imperial prc-emi-
nence He surely has as much initiative
as any Of them. and is second TO no man
living in originality OF method
Gen, Booth is a Nottingham man. At
twenty-one he became a minister of the
Methodist New Connection, an offshoot
Of the regular Methodists in Great Bri-
tain. as they were an offstoot from the
Church Of England. He decided that the
densely peopled slums OF London, where
religion Of any sort was almost unknown
in 1880. needed him most. and there he
began his work
His wife helped him. with all possible
Both saw. however. that
the right tack had not yet been taken.
The Methodist New Connection methods
were hardly more potent IN reaching the
people Of the slums than those of the
older church organizations.
It was Mrs. Booth who got the first
nkling OF the right course. She saw that
L was no more use 20 ask the people to /
90 into her husbands chapel than into
a splendid church Of the established |
faith, with its magnificent music and its
snowy ceremonial. She saw that the only
way to get the people at all was 10 go |
10 them. So she proposed to make a |
noise on the street; this would draw a /
'rOwd about the n0isCmakeT, who would
hen preach the Gospel 10 the crowd |
Booth saw the point. though not as vet
and the first meeting after
he new plan was held on July 2 lSG5
L was not strictly an open-air gathering
however. being sheltered by an old tent
pitched In a Whitechapel burying ground
out the actual open-air meetings came
ater
The idea Of organization along military
ines, OF uniforms and drums. and the
lame, Salvation Army. came still later.
he name not being adopted till Isl,