And yet, and yet, do I exaggerate one particle, when I say
that Dr. Hale has been all these, and more?
"Edward Everett Hale has been the interpreter of a pure,
simple loving and living faith to thousands and thousands
of souls. He has taught us that the fatherhood and tenderness
of God are manifested here and now in this world, as they
will be hereafter; that the religion of Christ is a religion
of daily living; that salvation is the purifying of the soul
from sin, not its escape from the consequences of sin. He
is the representative and the incarnation of the best and
loftiest Americanism. He knows the history of his country,
and knows his countrymen through and through. He does not
fancy that he loves his country, while he dislikes and despises
his countrymen and everything they have done and are doing.
The history he loves and has helped to write and to make is
not the history of a base and mean people, who have drifted
by accident into empire. It is the history of such a nation
as Milton conceived, led and guided by men whom Milton would
have loved. He will have a high and a permanent place in
literature, which none but Defoe shares.
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