or justice. When men were engaged in the struggle to elevate
the race for the good of their fellow men, no word of discouragement
has ever come from his lips. He has recalled no memory of
old failure in the past. He has never been found outside
the ranks railing at or criticising the men who were doing
the best work, or were doing the best work they knew how to
do. He has never been afraid to tackle the evils that other
men think hopeless. He has uttered his brave challenge to
foemen worthy of his steel. Poverty and war and crime and
sorrow are the enemies with whom he has striven.

"I do not know another living man who has exercised a more
powerful influence on the practical life of his generation.
He has taught us the truth, very simple, but somehow nobody
ever got hold of it till he did, that virtue and brave living,
and helping other men, can be made to grow by geometrical
progression. I am told that Dr. Hale has more correspondents
in Asia than the London _Times._ I cannot tell how many persons
are enrolled in the clubs of which he was the founder and
inspirer.

"But I am disqualified to do justice to the theme you have
assigned to me. For an impartial verdict you must get an
impartial juryman. You will have to find somebody that loves
him less than I do. You cannot find anybody who loves him
more. To me he has been a friend and father and brother and
counsellor and companion and leader and instructor; prophet
of good hope, teacher of good cheer. His figure mingles with
my household life, and with the life of my country. I can
hardly imagine either without him. He has pictured for us
the infinite desolation of the man without a country. But
when his time shall come, what will be the desolation of the
country without the man?

"And now what can we give you who have given us so much? We
have something to give you on our side. We bring you a more
costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though
it came from an Emperor's treasury.

Love is a present for a mighty King.

"We bring you the heart's love of Boston where you were born,
and Worcester where you took the early vows you have kept
so well; of Massachusetts who knows she has no worthier son,
and of the great and free country to whom you have taught
new lessons of patriotism, and whom you have served in a thousand
ways.

"This prophet is honored in his own country. There will
be a place found for him somewhere in the House