Church work among the Negroes in the South / The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT STRANGE, D. D.
Western Theological Seminary CHICAGO
BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT STRANGE, D. D. Bishop of East Carolina
Preached on the Evening of the Fifth Sunday in Lent at Grace Episcopal Church
CHICAGO WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 1907
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ANNA McK. T. HALE A LOVER OF EVERY GOOD WORD AND WORK THE PREACHING AND PRINTING OF THIS SERMON WERE PROVIDED FOR BY HER HUSBAND C. R. H.

From the Will of the Rt. Rev. Charles Reuben Hale, D. D., LL. D., Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield, born 1837; consecrated July 26, 1892; died December 25, 1900 .
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
I, Charles Reuben Hale, Bishop of Cairo, Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield, of the City of Cairo, Illinois, do make, publish, and declare this, as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
First. First of all, I commit myself, soul and body, into the hands of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, in Whose Merits alone I trust, looking for the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to come.
Fourteenth. All the rest and residue of my Estate, personal and real, not in this my Will otherwise specifically devised, wheresoever situate, and whether legal or equitable, I give, devise, and bequeath to The Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, above mentioned, but nevertheless In Trust , provided it shall accept the trust by an instrument in writing so stating, filed with this Will in the Court where probated, within six months after the probate of this Will—for the general purpose of promoting the Catholic Faith, in its purity and integrity, as taught in Holy Scripture, held by the Primitive Church, summed up in the Creeds and affirmed by the undisputed General Councils, and, in particular, to be used only and exclusively for the purposes following, to wit:—