Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1909 — HALE'S “LEND A HAND” MOTTO [ARTICLE]

HALE'S “LEND A HAND” MOTTO

“Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a hand.”

Boston, June 11.—It was announced today that the funeral of Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale will be held at the South Congregational church on Sunday at 2 p. m. The officiating clergyman will be Rev. Edward Cummings, who succeeded Dr. Hale as pastor of the church, and Rev. James de Normandie, pastor of the First Christ of Roxbury. The burial will be In Foreßt Hills cemetery. The venerable chaplain of the United States senate died at his home in Roxbury. News of the death of Dr. Hale shocked Boston to an unusual degree because comparatively few knew that he was ill. A week ago he was present at a celebration in honor of the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, his contemporary in many of the reform movements with which both had been identified for more than forty years. Born in Boston in 1822. To his family it had been apparent for some time that Dr. Hale’s health was failing. A few days ago heart weakness was noticed, and his condition became alarming. His great age, eighty-seven yeare, militated against him. Grouped about Dr. Hale’s bedside when he died were Mrs. Hale, hia wife; Philip L. Hale, his son; Ellen, his daughter, and the family physician. • Dr. Hale had been chaplain of the United States senate since 1893. His selection at that time to fill a vacancy was generally regarded as a high tribute to his accomplishments and intellectual ability.

Dr. Hale was born in Boston, April 3, 1822, of a lineage famous for its good deeds. His father, Nathan Hale, was the editor and proprietor of the Boston Advertiser, the first daily newspaper in New England, and was a member of the club that established the North American Review. Bome of Dr. Hale’s Works. Dr. Hale’s first charge was at Worcester, where he preached ten years, his second was the South Congregational church of Boston, which despite its name is the principal Unitarian house of worship in the city. For nearly fifty years Dr. Hale preached from this pulpit. Among the literary achievements 01 Dr. Hale are the novel, “A man Without a Country,” “The Sunday School Gazette," “Ten Times One Are Ten” and "In His >Jsme." In 1886 he became editor of the magazine, Lend, a Hand, and three years later was coeditor with Edwin D. Mead of the New England Magazine. In 1898 he undertook to rejuvenate the old Boston Commonwealth. In 1852 Dr. Hale married Miss Emily Baldwin Perkins, of Hartford, Conn.