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HALE, CHARLES REUBEN: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Cairo, Ill.; b. at Lewiston, Pa., Mar. 14, 1837; d. at Cairo, Ill., Dec. 25, 1900. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1858), was ordered deacon in 1860, and advanced to the priesthood in the following year. After being curate of Christ Church, Germantown, Pa., and of All Saints', Lower Dublin, Pa. (1861-63), he was chaplain in the United States Navy until 1870, being also professor of mathematics in the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., for a part of this time. He was then rector of St. John's, Auburn, N. Y. (1871-73), a missionary among the Italians of New York City.(1873-75), rector of St. Mary the Virgin's, Baltimore, Md. (1875-76), curate of St. Paul's in the same city (1877-85), and dean of Grace Cathedral, Davenport, Ia. (1886-92). In 1892 he was consecrated bishop of Cairo (coadjutor to the bishop of Springfield). He took a prominent part in the negotiations of the Protestant Episcopal Church with the Orthodox Greek Church and the Old Catholics. He wrote:

List of the Sees and Bishops of the Holy Eastern Church (Philadelphia, 1870); List of all the Sees and Bishops of the Holy Orthodox Church of the East (New York, 1872); An Eastern View of the Bonn Conference (Utica, N. Y., 1876); The Mozarabic Liturgy and the Mexican Branch of the Catholic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ Militant upon Earth (New York, 1876); Innocent of Moscow, the Apostle of Kamehatka and Alaska (1877); Russian Missions in China and Japan (1878); An Order for the Holy Communion, Arranged from the Mozarabic Liturgy (Baltimore, 1879); An Office for Holy Baptism, Arranged from the Mozarabic and Cognate Sources (1879); Mosarabic Collects, Translated and Arranged from the Ancient Liturgy of the Spanish Church (New York, 1881); The Universal Episcopate: A List of the Sees and Bishops in the Holy Catholic Church throughout the World (Baltimore, 1882); The Eucharistic Office of the Christian

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Catholic Church of Switzerland. Translated, and Compared with that in the Missals Romanum (New York, 1882); A Visit to the Eastern Churches in the Interest of Church Unity (1886); and Missionary Relations between the Anglican and the Eastern Churches (1894).

Bibliography: W. 8. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 339, New York, 1895.

HALE, EDWARD EVER=: Unitarian; b. at Boston Apr. 3, 1822; d. at Roxbury, Maws., June 10, 1909. He was educated at Harvard College (A.B., 1839), studied theology privately and was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1846. From that year until 1856 he was minister of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, Mass., and from 1856 to 1899 was minister of the South Congregational (Unitarian) Church, Boston, retiring as pastor emeritus. He was chaplain of the United States Senate for many years, and also prominent in general philanthropic work. He edited LZrary of In spiration and Achievement (10 vols., New York, 1905), while among his numerous writings particular note may be made of his Man without a Country (Boston, 1861); Ten Times One is Ten (1870); In His Name (1874); What Career t (1878); If Jesus came to Boston (1895); Memories of a Hundred Years (New York, 1902); and Prayers in the United States Senate (Boston, 1904). He wrote also several works on historical subjects, and published a number of volumes of sermons. His collected works appeared in ten volumes at Boston in 1898-1900.

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