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from 1928 to around 1938. The subject of his talks could be education, personal development, literature, folklore, history, psychology and topics of the day, in all of which he had an abiding interest. The works of
Dickens was a popular topic. Despite (or because of) his avoidance of religiosity, he
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If any listening to me are disposed to make a similar stand, let them pause and consider the cost. I think it will be very high. The deliberate downright pacifists will, along with the soldier, have much to suffer, but he will be sustained with the thought that, as God lives and the way of Christ is
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This then is where I stand and why. I know how fateful is my decision. It is quite possible that by some I shall be judged a fool, by others a knave. I may fall very far short of my ideal, but at least I shall try. I shall seek to love everybody and remember that a man in uniform may be as true to
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and a pleasant voice, slow and deliberate (an asset in such a large space with no acoustic treatment) and rising in pitch for emphasis. His sermons would have been taxing for the uneducated but deeply satisfying for the academically inclined, as he assumed some knowledge of
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Hale opposed participation in the war of 1938–1945. Pacifism was not a tenet of the
Unitarian denomination, and many men from the Wakefield Street church were posted overseas, more than a few losing their lives. His sermon of Sunday evening 8 October 1939
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Optimists' Group as a social club, reading plays, planning events and general discussion, and also helping the church in small ways: fundraising and property maintenance. Each year they hosted a banquet for Church
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He ran a well-attended Bible class, which was held at 4.30 every Sunday afternoon, at which a member would present a paper, whose contents formed the basis of subsequent discussion.
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Podcast commentary on Hale's pacifism by Rob. MacPherson, current (2018) minister of the Adelaide Unitarian Church
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