Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds—all they have
had, all they have not, and all they expect to have.
-Edward Everett Hale[1]
[1] Edward Everett Hale was born in Boston in 1822, son
of Nathan Hale, proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser;
nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and statesman; and grandnephew of Nathan
Hale, the martyr spy of the American Revolution. He graduated from Harvard in
1839; was pastor of the church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts, in
1846-56, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in
1856-99; and in 1903 became chaplain of the United States Senate.
Hale’s forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology, together with his deep interest in the anti-slavery movement (especially in Kansas), popular education (especially Chautauqua work), and the working-man’s home, were active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He was a constant and voluminous contributor to the newspapers and magazines. He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in founding in 1869; in 1875 it was merged into Scribner’s Magazine), Lend a Hand (founded by him in 1886 and merged in the Charities Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand Record; and he was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history.
Hale’s forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal practical theology, together with his deep interest in the anti-slavery movement (especially in Kansas), popular education (especially Chautauqua work), and the working-man’s home, were active in raising the tone of American life for half a century. He was a constant and voluminous contributor to the newspapers and magazines. He was an assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New (which he assisted in founding in 1869; in 1875 it was merged into Scribner’s Magazine), Lend a Hand (founded by him in 1886 and merged in the Charities Review in 1897), and the Lend a Hand Record; and he was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history.
Hale first came
into notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story My Double and How He Undid Me to the Atlantic
Monthly. He soon published in the same periodical other stories, the most
noted of which was The Man Without a
Country (1863), which did much to strengthen the Union cause in the North,
and in which, as in some of his other non-romantic tales, he employed a minute
realism which has led his readers to suppose the narrative a true story. He
gained a prominent position among the short-story writers of America. Hale died
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1909.
(Source: nndb.com)
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