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With our limited understanding, often we do not agree with the time and the place and the manner in which men come and go. We see many live and prosper, who, according to our way of thinking may not deserve to do either. We see many die, who, in our judgment, have earned the right to live and whose presence among us is sorely needed. And if, with our limited perspective and understanding, we were called upon to give an explanation of the pattern of life and death as it daily takes shape before our eyes, we might be led to conclude that in it all there is lack of purpose, lack of justice, lack of consistency.

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Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 - June 10, 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.

Hale was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Nathan Hale (1784-1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser and nephew of Edward Everett, the orator and statesman. His father Nathan was the grandnephew of the Nathan Hale who was executed by the British for spying on their forces in New York during the Revolutionary War. He graduated from Harvard in 1839; was pastor of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1846-1856, and of the South Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, in 1856-1899. In 1903 he became chaplain of the United States Senate. He died in Roxbury, by then part of Boston, in 1909.

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