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Title: Church work among the Negroes in the South
The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2

Author: Robert Strange

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Language: English

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The Hale
Memorial Sermon
1907

BY
THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT STRANGE, D. D.

[Illustration: Seal--Sigillum seminarii theologici occidentalis]

Western Theological Seminary
CHICAGO

The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2

CHURCH WORK

Among the Negroes in the South

BY
THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT STRANGE, D. D.
BISHOP OF EAST CAROLINA

Preached on the Evening of the Fifth Sunday in Lent
at Grace Episcopal Church

CHICAGO
WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
1907

TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
ANNA McK. T. HALE
A LOVER OF EVERY GOOD WORD AND WORK
THE PREACHING AND PRINTING OF
THIS SERMON
WERE PROVIDED FOR BY
HER HUSBAND
C. R. H.

EXTRACTS

FROM THE WILL OF THE RT. REV. CHARLES REUBEN HALE, D. D., LL. D., BISHOP
COADJUTOR OF SPRINGFIELD, _born 1837; consecrated July 26, 1892; died
December 25, 1900_.

[Illustration: Cross] In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

I, Charles Reuben Hale, Bishop of Cairo, Bishop Coadjutor of
Springfield, of the City of Cairo, Illinois, do make, publish,
and declare this, as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby
revoking all former wills by me made.

First. First of all, I commit myself, soul and body, into the
hands of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, in Whose Merits
alone I trust, looking for the Resurrection of the Body and the
Life of the World to come.

* * * * *

Fourteenth. All the rest and residue of my Estate, personal and
real, not in th