Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-11
REV. EDWARD EVERETT
HALE PASSES AWAY.
The Aged Author, Preacher and Phi
|anthropist Dies at Roxbury Home
Had BeenFai|ingto rSevera|months.

/ i'll. A week ago he was present at
! celebration in honor of the 90th birth-
day Of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. his con-
temporary in many of the important
reforms with which DR.. Hale had been
identified for more than so years.
TO the family of the aged man. 1t
had been apparent for some time that
his health was failing. In fact. for
| more than month his children had
been anxious A few days ago heart
| weakness was noticed and his condi-
| ion became alarming. His great age,
| 81 wears, mitigated against him. Yes
terday, however. he was up and about
his apartments. In fact, he had not
been confined to his bed at any stage
of his illness He retired at the usual
time last evening but his physician had
noted evidences that led him to warn
the immediate members of the family
| that the end was not far off.
| On this account he was not left alone
AS the night passed Dr. Hale became
weaker, until the end came, about s
o'clock this morning.
t;rouped about DR.. Hale's bedside
when the last feeble flicker of life
was cxtinguished were Mrs. Hale, his
wife: Miss Ellen Hale, his daughter;
Philip L. Hale, his son, who is we'll
known artist, and the family physician.
| The end came peacefully and quietly
Although a BostOnian and for three
quarters of a century a distinguished
| figure in her streets, DR.. Hale's coun-
try was the world, for he was known
to the uttermost confines. His tall fig
| ure with its wealth of shaggy hair
and bushy beard, was familiar one
on the lecture platform and in the pull
pit throughout the United States
while his numerous literary works and
the famous Lend Hand Society, which
he originated, made his name a
household word in many other coun-
tries.
| His literary career began unusually
early, for six years after his birth on
School street in this city on April 3,
1922. he was studying Latin under the
direction of his father, Rev. Nathan
Hale Ills studies were continued at
the Boston Latin school and at Har-
ward College from which latter insti-
tuition he graduated in 1899. Although
with strong journalistic trait in his
character, he followed his fathers
|
with the inspiration of such instructors
as Rev. S. X. Lothrop and Rev. j. G..
! Palfry.
| Upon entering the ministry he
| preached in a number of small churches
and finally settled at the Church of
the Unity in Worcester, where he be
gan those series of sermons which lat
or continued in Boston. brought him
! fame He remained at Worcester from
1916 to 1856 and numbered among his
congregation George Frisbie Hoar,
whose friendship brought him help and
inspiration. and whose love was like
| that of a brother and was broken on
| ly by Senator Hoar's death four years
ago. The South congregational church
OF Boston became DR.. Hale's ministe
| rial home in 1856 and it was there that
| his most famous sermons were deliv-
| cred
| For more than 40 years he preached
| to OLD and young. and was an active
worker in the social uplift. not only of
the city but the state and nation, and
proved himself one of the greatest
teachers of religion this country has
| ever seen.
| So intense were his activities that i'm
addition to his ministerial work he
found time for literary pursuits. for
the lecture platform, for the organiza
| ton of social clubs, and in addition.
made his influence felt in d large num-
Der of philanthropic movements. Few
men were called more frequently in
social and benevolent circles. and none
| responded with more alacrity to the
call of sympathetic and practical deeds
| of charity than this largc-hearted.
| wise and diligent worker Cooperation
in organization of beneficial enterprises
by DR.. Hale was guarantee of their
worth and success.
Of his literary works the most noted
wore: "Ten Times One is Ten" my
Eoubla and How He Undid Me-" and
The Man Without Country
These books. together with hundreds
Of other articles dealing with many
subjects. were written in Dr. Hale's
picturesque home on the Pudding Stone
heights of RoXbury. 1t was there that
he pursued his historical studies, which
soon made him. a recognized authority
not only as 4 historian. but as an an
tiquarian. and which resulted in the
publication of histories of Massachu-
sets. the United States, Spain, Mexico
and hundreds of such men as Washing
ton and Franklin. 1t was his famous
stanZa:
Look up and not down.
Look forward and not back,
Lcok out and not in. and
Lend a hand
That gave the inspiration for tho
foundation of the numerous clubs de-
voted to public spirit. which are nov
found on every continent of the world
During his college career he became
interested in scientific researches ant
was one of the first to abstract stun