The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13
THOUSANDS HONOR
DR. HALES MEMORY
Distinguished Crowd Fills
Church to Pay Tribute TO
Dead Chaplain.
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the Loyal Legion Of America. of which
Or. Hale vas once the chaplain, from
the Sons of the Revolution, the Nation
al Institute of Arts and Letters, the
American Academy of Arts and Let
tiers. Harvard University. the Boston
Latin School, and the Roxbury Latin
HYMNS by the deceased's contempor-
aries and friends, Including Our Holy
Church Of God Appears, by Samuel
LOngfellow; The External Goodness,
and Lord Of All Being Throned Afar,
by Dr. Holmes, were sung.
Immediately after the services in the
South Church the cody was removed 10
Forest Hills Cemetery. where a private
burial service conducted by the Rev.
Edward Cummings was held.
Tributes of Respect.
No dea1h IN a generation has called
forth 50 many tributes of respect as has
DIT. Hales. IN almost every church in
Boston ana throughout Massachusetts
today there was a touching reference
in the sermons TO the character OF the
man whose funeral services were in
progress in Boston Throughout the
city hass we're hoating az halt mast
and there were numberleSS embiemS OF
mourning worn by outsiders at the tu-
neral services
DR.. A T. Conrad, pastor of the Park
sided over the simultaneous service held
in his church, and spoke, in part as
follows:
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
was identified with every movement of
real reform and true progress for more
than half a century.
For two generations he has been a
tremendous moral force IN this COM
munity. city Is great only In the
character of her citizens.
He whose life is an appeal to the.
Modest aspirations of men leaves an
influence which is undying There is
an immortality of service. and this
found emphasis in the pure and noble
life of DR.. Hale.
Distinctive Qualities.
Among a multitude OF exalted qnsli-
ties of life which might be named five
stand out conepicuously today az in-
dicative OF the length and breadth and
depth and height Of the life OF Dr.
Hale
First. intellectual poise. lie was
reverently thoughtful and entered into
the depths of life's great truths. de
did not suffer himself to lose his in
tellsctual balance in an age nlled with
new and untried theories, and also of
aSsertiVe neEations. He thought things
out. and thought them through. His
indefatigable, intellectual energy was
protest against the superficial and the
transient.
Secondly his life was conspicuous for
its gracious sympathy. Suffering hui
mainly has found no nObler advocate iii
the last half century. He had q true
passion for humanity. His humanism
was neither sentimental nor imprac-
ticable- Wrongs of every nature were
fearlesslv combaIted and seeing the
multitudes, he had 2Rterest and SYM
pathy Tor them The gospel Of unself-
ISL burden bearing was taught and lived
by him.
His Earnestness.
Third. his life was characterized by
moral earnestness. His ideals were
high. Integrity and uprightness' found
in him constant advocacy.
Fourth. transparent genuineness.
Shams and superficiality were rebuked
by the sincerity the simplicity, and the
reality OF his noble nature.
Fifth loyalty Patriotism of that
heroic type which makes natien great
was manifest always. He was loyal TO
friends with a fervent devotion. He
was loyal 10 his civic trusts and incul-
Gated the highest civic virtues
The Rev. Dillon Bronson, pastor Of
St Marks Church. Of Brookline, said
at the Park Church service
I'VE have come 10 celebrate the cor
OnatiOn OF King rather than shed
tears over the end Of a noble activity.
for DR.. Hale is somewhere sharing stIll
II his Masters work, preacher of
Righteousness forever. No single sect
can claim aim now. as no house in BOs-
ton could hold all this morning. sun
shine. We Methodist EpiscOpalians call
him ours. because from the beginning
or his ministry he Joined with us In Bit
ter protest against the hard teachings
which century ago were thought TO be
the only orthodoxy. His friend, Our
Father Taylor. the sailor preacher, used
10 say that Calvins god was his devil
and / think DR.. Hale would have ex-
pressed himself in about the same
In FeIIoyvsbin
He gladlyspreached in our Methodist
pulpits, spoke in our schools. and fellow
shipped with orr people Some thirty
years ago he strobe into Peoples Tenn
pie. where young John Hamilton, now
BostOn's beloved bishop, was pastor,
and going up the pulpit stairs threw his
arms around the minister before all
the people and said Thank God that
the Methodists have such church on
this corner, and that YOU have been
snointed 20 be their leader Once when
asking for minister 10 preach at Nor
gan, where Methodist society wor-
ships in a Unitarian building ne said.
We want no kfd-gloved dilletante chan
OF our own kind. but a red-blooded.
earnest Methodist who loves folks more
than books. Our EpWOrth Leagues ali
over the world acknowledge their in
oebteoness to him for the motto, Look
~, lift up.
I'VE have reason to thank God that
8snor and appreciation came TO this
great, good man while he was alive, that
the flowers were not all kept for his
funeral. The love bestowed upon him
during the last twenty years dfsproyes
the statement that in a republic only
the dead are praised What greater
. monument could any man have than the
sincere affection OF millions Of our peo-
pie, from the highest churchmen all the
way 10 the Salvation Army Since
Phillips Brooks 10 man has gone out
from us who viii be so greatly missed b
Long before tie doors of the South
Congregational Church Ia the Back Bay