But
every one deems it private and confidential to him.
"This is only, 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.
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