"I knew very well a beautiful woman, left widowed, and childless,
and solitary, and forlorn, to whom, after every other consolation
seemed to have failed to awake her from her sorrow and despair,
a friend of her own sex said: 'I thought you were one of
Edward Hale's girls.' The appeal touched the right chord
and brought her back again to her life of courage and Christian
well-doing.
"He has ever been a prophet of good hope and a preacher of
good cheer. When you have listened to one of his sermons,
you have listened to an evangel, to good tidings. He has
never stood aloof from the great battles for righteousness
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.
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