BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ROBERT STRANGE, D. D. Western Theological Seminary CHICAGO...

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 . Cross 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 Cit

I take as the South the eleven old slave states, which stood at one time in armed array against the rest of the United States, which are to-day as loyal and true to the General Government as any other states in this great and favored land of ours. They are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. These states make up one-fourth of the area of the United States, and their population is about one-fourth of that of the who