The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-16
A GREAT LIFE
COMES TO AN END
A Man Who Was Known in Every
Part of the United States.

Part of the United states.
The Brooklyn Eagle, of a recent
date, gives the following article Of
this noted man:
Edward Everett Hale was known
in every part of the United States
and in the colonies belonging to
them. Wherever he was known at
all he was highly respected. Where
ever he was known well he was ad-
mired. Wherever he was known
intimately he was loved. He touch
ed many interests, he affected many
lives, he stimulated reading, think
ing and effort on many lines, all of
them benign.
Comprehensive biographies of Mr..
Hale have shown the distinction of
the stock whence he came, of the
stock into which he was married
and of that which he begat. All
the strains owe their distinction to
public service, to patriotism and to
versatility of talents. Through
them all has run a democracy OF
purpose and feeling which made
them and him brothers of the race
and uplifters of the world. Some
think of him as a teacher, some as
a pastor, some as a lecturer, some
as an orator, some of them as an
organizer of effort, and all of them
as Edward Everett Hale. The role
he probably most cherished was the
one which showed that he was the
pioneer of peace through arbitration
that war might cease between ma
tions and good will abound among
men.
There are Hague and other tri-
bunals. He anticipated them
There is a growing movement with
in religions to emphasize the faith
erhood of God. He exemplified and
magnified it before it was made the
aim and effort of organizations
There are grand endeavors for the
reform of prison management, the
civilization of charities, the pre-
to animals, the preservation of bird
life and bird lore, but he anticipated
them with pen and voice.
He took less than little care of
causes, after they had passed under
the charge of those gifted with the
talent, the leisure and the patience
for minute care. His was pioneer
work in the next new field. The
hackneyed phrase so many years
young we'll fitted the man, who
was never old in aught but years.
Duration he had, but not age, for
he was always young in heart and
mind.
Without detracting from others,
it can be said that he demanded
civil service reform before any re-
formers sought to set it in law.
He started emigration for freedom
to Kansas little before even Lin
coin saw it's value. He dreamt the
dream of go West, young man, go
West" before Greeley wrought it
into words, and parties formed
around it. Gerrit Smith, Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips pre-
ceded him in Abolition, for they
were born before he was, but he
never, as some of them did let go
of the conviction that Union and
Emancipation could be maintained
under the constitution.
He missed the distinction of being
the father of any one great move
ment, by confining himself to none.
He sowed seed that grew to harvests
garnered by others, while he was
sowing other seed. The apparent
volatility of his zeal was due to
the pioneer character of his thought
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and temperament. Anything not
started which ought to be started,
he would project and predict and
promote. Once started toward as
sured development, it would be left
to others by him, while he was on
his way to further moral territory.
He would recur on call to the an
had spiritually launched. He would
give to them blessing, while they
gave to him reverence and saluta-
tion, and then he would commend
to them the next new and needed
thing to be wrought into the life of
the nation or into the lives of the
churches or of cognate organiza-
tions.
His usefulness was diffused, not
concentrated. His sympathies were
not only notion-wide, but world
wide. Humanity was his client.
Everything that brought God to
man or raised man toward God was
his cause. Any well-minded institu-
tion was his helper. None of them
was his master or prison or chapel
of ease. Some of his brethren
thought him a scatterer. Maybe he
was; but he sowed truth only.
Everywhere it fell on good ground.
Nowhere could the thorns or briars
choke it, for where they sprang up
he cast in no seed. He is said to
have not been always profound,
though always confident. Well, he
learned and told enough to be ef-
fective and suggestive and inspiring.
He let the rest go. They say that
he mixed his imagination with his
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