REMARKS OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D.
I AM
sure that all of us who have come from a
distance,
and listened to so many things, have
been impressed with
the change in things. I for one
recollect perfectly well
that the fathers of one hundred years
ago would have all
gone to bed at nine o'clock at night,
whoever came to ad-
dress them, whether it was a Shawnee
Chief or Mad
Anthony himself. I am quite sure that at the bottom of
the heart of even an Ohio gentleman
there must be a cer-
tain satisfaction existing that this
speech is not to be two
hours and a half long.
I should not say a word more, but that
my friend, Dr.
Sturtevant, has made this excellent
suggestion of what is
a fit memorial to such men as we commemorate
here.
And it is the great good fortune of the
State of Ohio,
that she has succeeded in calling to the
chair a gentleman
whom I will not simply say is one of the
most distin-
guished educators in this country, but
one of the most dis-
tinguished educators known to the world;
I should think
the State of Ohio would be glad fitly to
endow the Institu-
tion over which Dr. Eaton presides.
I do not forget on what day I am
speaking, and that this
is a religious meeting, and the lesson
of the day should be,
as one of us has said, that of being
servants. He has
touched a chord which has vibrated in
the hundred years
gone by and will vibrate in the hundred
years to come.
Men write great volumes, pile up great
libraries about
religion, and yet the whole of religion
may be expressed in
these words: it is the love of man, when
he loves with
God, his fellow man.
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