nly, when you come to think of it, carrying the
genius for private and personal friendship into the man's
dealing with mankind. I have never known anybody in all
my long life who seemed to me to be joined by the heart-
strings with so many men and women, wherever he goes, as
Dr. Hale. I know in Worcester, where he used to live; I
know in Washington, where he comes too seldom, and where
for the last thirty-three years I have gone too often, poor
women, men whose lives have gone wrong, or who are crippled
in body or in mind, whose eyes watch for Dr. Hale's coming
and going, and seem to make his coming and going, if they
get a glimpse of him, the event they date from till he comes
again. To me and my little household there, in which we never
count more than two or three, his coming is the event of every
winter.

"Dr. Hale has not been the founder of a sect. He has never
been a builder of partition walls. He has helped throw down
a good many. But still, without making proclamation, he has
been the founder of a school which has enlarged and broadened
the Church into the Congregation, and which has brought the
whole Congregation into the Church.

"When he came, hardly out of his boyhood, to our little parish
in Worcester, there was, so far as I know, no Congregational
church in the country whether Unitarian or of the ancient
Calvinistic faith, which did not require a special vote and
ceremonial of admission to entitle any man to unite with his
brethren in commemorating the Saviour as he desired his friends
and brethren to remember him by the rite of the last supper.
Until then, the Christian communion was but for a favored
few. Mr. Hale believed that the greater the sinfulness of
the individual soul the greater the need and the greater the
title to be taken into the fellowship and the brotherhood
of the Saviour of souls. So, without polemical discussion,
or any heat of controversy, he set the example which has been
so widely followed. This meant a great deal more than the
abolition of a ceremonial or the change of a rubric. It was
an assertion of the great doctrine, never till of late perfectly
comprehended anywhere, that the Saviour of men came into the
world inspired by the love of sinners, and not for an elect
and an exclusive brotherhood of saints.

"We are not thinking chiefly of another world when we think
of Dr. Hale or when we listen to him. He has been telling
us all his life that what the theologi